"Look here there is no present to the structure of the you. All that is there is the past which is trying to project itself into the future. You can think about past, present and future but there is no future, there is no present, there is only the past. Your future is only a projection of the past. If there is a present, that present can never be experienced by you because you experience only your knowledge about the present and that knowledge is the past. So what is the point in trying to experience that moment which you call now?" -- U.G. Krishnamurti
Supreme Court Justice Scalia expressed indignation at the proposition "the enemy, in war
time," (my quotes) should be given due process of law. The court 5 to 3, decided (see
6/30/06 entry below) against the government in the related precedent setting case,
while Scalia maintained his opinion, and Justice Thomas strongly dissented -- yeah, sure.
Lock 'em all up. Constitution? What constitution? -- If there's no war outside
of the abstraction, "terrorism", and no enemy outside the abstraction, "terrorist", then
there's no basis justifying any extrajudiciary presumption of enemy combatant status.
The People's Republic
of Virginia -- "How interesting that the cover of this document contains Thomas Jefferson's
classic quotation: "the price of freedom is vigilance." But to Jefferson, vigilance was a quality
that free men and women had to maintain against the state. The State of Virginia has
twisted his words into a justification for the state maintaining vigilance against "the people of
Virginia."
But baby, I've got ta protect the home land!
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~ Benjamin Franklin
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
~ Samuel Adams
"He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better."
~ George Orwell, from 1984
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."
~ Frederick Douglass
"If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
In light of Iran election protests and government response.
CNN reported today, there are no working
or lower classes involved in Iran election
protests.
If these protests encourage a United
States attack on Iran, the protestors
will most likely move to higher ground,
leaving the lower classes to suffer it --
so the protestors don't have as much at
stake as it might appear.
"Trace elements of the Poisoned Dwarf's influence – or, at least, a toxin very similar in composition – can be found in the Pentagon's claim that political protests are a form of "low-level terrorism."
Echoes of Yezhov's claim, and the Soviet doctrine of dealing pre-emptively with "socially dangerous persons," can also be heard in demands for federal action to imprison "haters" even in the absence of overt criminal acts.
Bonnie Erbe, who has afflicted public television for decades and now scribbles the occasional cyber-screed for CBS News, recently gave full-throated expression to the Soviet perspective on "pre-emption.""
The web site (henrymakow.com) of Scruples board game inverntor, Henry Makow,
the subject of an "anti-semitism" tribunal in Canada.
"That I, the son of holocaust survivors, would foment hatred against myself, my family and other
Jews is nonsensical. But, in our increasingly Orwellian world, I stand accused of this absurdity.
This is their lame pretext for crude political censorship and persecution."
"Monstrous evils are being committed on the Palestinians by the Israelis — who do everything possible to get Christians to believe “End Times” Evangelists and support “the people of the Old Testament” (they are NOT the Israelites of the Bible). They wine and dine — possibly even bribe and threaten — these preachers in the US to keep up this non-stop EVIL charade. You think Jesus would want you to keep silent? [INCOG]"
The complaint will note that - on October 22, 2007 - Beck suggested that those identifying themselves as associated with the 9/11 truth movement are "dangerous" "anarchists" who deny the Holocaust, and are "the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from."
“If Obama does not understand the difference between them, perhaps he will
understand it better when he visits the Buchenwald concentration camp in
the comings days. And if he doesn’t understand it even there, then Islam
will once again teach it to him, just as it taught his predecessor on 9/11.”
"...then Islam will once again teach it
to him, just as it taught his predecessor
on 9/11."
Yeah, I guess. If by Islam, you mean
Zionist Israel. Americans already
routinely replace the term Al Qaeda,
with Mossad, and if there's another
"lesson," like 9/11, perhaps you can
get a job as a glass blower, 'cause
that may be all that's left of your
swarthy little piss ant country
when school lets out. Maybe later,
you can branch out into optometry.
"The shameless and illegal targeting of political opponents, business competitors, dissidents and even Christian ministries stands as a testament that if we are to remain free, we must bind these intelligence systems and those that operate them with the heavy chains of transparency and accountability to our elected officials. But the fact that the ECHELON apparatus can be quickly turned around on those same officials in order to maintain some advantage for the intelligence agencies indicates that these agencies are not presently under the control of our elected representatives.
That Congress is not aware of or able to curtail these abuses of power is a frightening harbinger of what may come here in the United States. The European Parliament has begun the debate over what ECHELON is, how it is being used and how free countries should use such a system. The US Congress should join that same debate with the understanding that the consequences of ignoring or failing to address these issues could foster the demise of our republican form of government. Such is the threat, as Senator Frank Church warned the American people over twenty years ago: At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology…"
What even some of the most "paranoid" among us don't
know is, the government can (and has for
decades) spy on us just about any time, any
place, any where.
They'll steal your ideas and use information
gleaned in most unscrupulous ways.
So if your decades old private conversations
appear as material on a late night talk show,
don't worry. You're not crazy. The show's
writers are moonlighting government spooks.
"Sotomayor’s ruling ran to the left of even the reliably liberal San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which ruled in the April 2009 case Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment did, in fact, apply to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, heavily citing the Supreme Court in Heller."
Apparently, the woman not only does not understand the 2nd amendment. She doesn't understand the
14th amendment either. She appears to be a consequence of living in a left, reverse discrimination
bubble, where coddling sycophants laugh at her stupid jokes and encourage overlooking statements like
those about her superior Latino qualifications and, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, making law from the
bench.
Oh, well hey, if little miss genius
thang says it, it must
be true.
"But, new reports coming from the United States show that they are fast adopting the tactics used by the German Nazis to disarm their society prior to the installation of fascist rule and martial law by first rendering all private guns useless by eliminating and restricting the ammunition they use. And from new reports coming from the United States we can see that this ‘plan’ is already being instituted with ammunition shortages being reported in Idaho, Georgia, and Louisiana, and a new law just introduced in California which would..."
"Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him. Unlike the Republicans who backed Bush, I won't follow a terrible leader just because I voted for him. Obama has revealed himself. He is a monster, and he should remove himself from power."
"The study, still unpublished, shows that conspiracy believers displayed
a greater propensity than nonbelievers to jump to conclusions based on
limited evidence."
An article telling us how everyone failing
to believe government bullshit is crazy.
It's not published, because it's psychobabble,
on a par with Stalin's Russia and the
Salem witch hunts.
Not to mention, contrary to the article,
which basically says "conspiracy theorists"
are paranoid, because they're paranoid, the
actual evidence disputing official 9/11
dogma abounds.
How ya doin' with issues such as this, there, O'man?
I submit an honest look at the actual work
associated with H1B visa related jobs will
show H1B advocates are severely uninformed
or outright crooks.
The same government that destroyed this
nation's manufacturing base starting
in the 1970s, and urged technology
jobs training as the remedy, is now,
and has been for decades, helping
US companies steal those jobs too.
Note, of all the articles stating how
foreign workers are better skilled than
local counterparts, there's never any
supporting evidence for it -- never any
mention about what these mysterious skills
are as relates to the specific jobs stolen,
these foreign workers have over their local
counterparts. Even self described "code
slinger," whatreallyhappened.com's,
Mike Rivero chimes in affirmation with
statements such as:
"Behind that fraudulent displacement of American workers lies an uncomfortable fact; the foreign workers are often more qualified."
What the fuck do you know about it Mike?
We're not talking about rocket scientist or
military grade artificial intellegence here,
but rather, good computer program design and
implementation skills jobs for which there are
thousands of available United States programmers
to fill. Not to mention, Americans usually can't
understand a fuckin' thing these foreign workers
say.
"The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods. In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk’ and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects’ and that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.’ The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world’s leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides."
As a related aside, consider, some scientists think the genetic code for every life form on the
planet once existed in a single cell, a single organism, or system. This once monolithic
system would have undergone a process of modularization, expressing, if you will, into separate
species. According to the theory, each species carried with it, the full code of the monolith,
but used only the subset necessary to express the species (conventional theorists still do not
understand how cells are expressed differently according to their function -- finger cells, eye
cells, etcetera). The theory's subscribers believe the unnecessary parts of the code eventually
evolved, eroded, or degenerated out of most species though salamanders are thought to be an example
where this is not so -- of all species, this relatively simple organism has the most complex genetic
code, much of which is not used to express the organism. It would not be a leap to think the system
of species resulting from this modularization process would be interrelated. Serious consequences
associated with seemingly harmless tinkering would not be surprising. This appears true regardless
of the monolithic theory's accuracy.
Googling such as, "gmo [brand name, etc]" is a handy way to get more info about your food's relation
to GMO.
I'm not so much watching what Obama has
done (which is little) as what he has
not done.
For that matter, you can do nine hundred
ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine things right, and one calculated
wrong can render everything worthless.
Very early on, there are too many indications
of a lack of hard deviance from the course
set by the previous administration. Feel
good rhetoric doesn't mean much.
Nevertheless, I get the feeling many
are interested only in seeing Obama's
presidency heroically memorialized without
too much regard for what he actually accomplishes.
If in the process of duty he achieves this, then
great. But heroic memorialization is not
why we elected him.
Today, Obama told us how he was going to legitimize
"preventive indefinite detention". For the moment,
I'm speechless, but I've been clear what, so far, I
think of President Obama. I'm concerned. I want you
to be concerned too. You should be.
Col. Wilkerson: Cheney Orwellian, frightened; psychologists could have field day
"Once again, the FBI identified a disparate group of men that shared the majority of the country’s opinion that the war on terror was wrong, radicalized them, offered them cash incentives for following the lead of the FBI informant and then finally, after a year, got them to accept fake weapons. As in every other case, Without the involvement of the FBI informant, there would have been no “terror plot” to speak of."
So the gov'ment must protect us from the terrorist attacks it instigates or allows to happen.
The United States is engaging in war crimes against its own people. Mainstream media --
all your friendly talking heads -- are complicit. Virtually every face you see on your favorite
news channel is a United States war criminal.
Obama: We're not, "all in this together." But you are.
"By 1900 government people realized what a vast opportunity they were missing and have not looked back since, in the urgent work of stealing an ever-growing agricultural surplus--so that now, even though it costs even less to feed the population, the degree of freedom is smaller than it was in the 19th Century; a smaller fraction of our decisions, and dollars, and minutes in the day, are ours to enjoy now than they were then. One simple proof: in 1910, US taxes took less than 10% of what people earned, in total. Today the grab is just under 50%. Government quintupled, in less than a century."
Free time among a society's people was
once a commonly known measure of a
society's success. Without free time
you can't think. You can't properly
raise your family. You can't control
your government, your child's education
or anything related to what kind of
future your children or theirs might
have.
Sounds familiar.
Even if you make a million dollars or
more a year, if you've no free time,
what do you have? Say you're okay with
that -- as long as you've got yours
what should you care, right? What you're
really saying is, as long as you've got
yours, you don't care if the very society
in which you live, is a cesspool. In
essence, our rulers are the sort who don't
mind living in a cesspool.
The point is, without free time, we've
got nothing, or at least stand on the
brink of nothing, and this is exactly
what we have today. It's the way
our rulers have designed things.
"Thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy remarked that the GDP "measures everything ... except that which makes life worthwhile" and noted we have for too long "surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.""
"Yes Corporate America wants a central bank. Yes the Federal Government wants a central bank. But the citizens of America do not need a central bank, nor should they desire one. Central banking, unlike a gold standard, over time will destroy the society and leave it in ruins, perhaps for centuries. Is it a coincidence that all Anglo-Saxon societies have embraced central banking? And is it therefore a very strange coincidence that each of these societies has the same set of ideals and predicaments? Anglo-Saxon societies each embrace a form of Socialism. And through the system of credit and debt that a central bank provides, they are able, at least for a short while, to prop up an entourage of benefits and safety-nets."
A bunch of scum bag bankers not worth
the bullets it would take to kill them --
but it's a price we should nevertheless pay.
The only good banker is a dead banker. Bankers with extra head holes. Where blood flows, free
to escape the body and lubricate the streets so as to increase the ease with which they may be dragged.
Be careful to avoid getting a ticket for improper banker dragging.
A man once came upon two bankers.
One banker was dead.
The other was alive.
The dead banker was pleasing to the eye.
The alive banker was not.
A citizen asked, Teacher, what does it mean.
The man answered, The only good banker, is a dead banker.
And the citizen was happy.
"Such is the spirit of government-provided schools. Ask any child what he knows about Shays’ rebellion, and he will answer, “Oh, some of the farmers couldn’t pay their taxes, and Shays led a rebellion against the court-house at Worcester, so they could burn up the deeds; and when Washington heard of it he sent over an army quick and taught ’em a good lesson” – “And what was the result of it?” “The result? Why – why – the result was – Oh yes, I remember – the result was they saw the need of a strong federal government to collect the taxes and pay the debts.” Ask if he knows what was said on the other side of the story, ask if he knows that the men who had given their goods and their health and their strength for the freeing of the country now found themselves cast into prison for debt, sick, disabled, and poor, facing a new tyranny for the old; that their demand was that the land should become the free communal possession of those who wished to work it, not subject to tribute, and the child will answer “No.” Ask him if he ever read Jefferson’s letter to Madison about it, in which he says:..."
Advertising executive Donnie
Deutsch gives torture the thumbs
up. Now that's authoritative
(wink, wink)!
This is about slowing prosecution of
Bush administration torture, war crimes.
Suddenly, our superman of principle is a
self described super-pragmatist, as constituents
watch in horror at Obama's inconsistency on everything
except betraying those by whom he was elected.
Other terms for "ruthless pragmatism", include spineless,
unprincipled, con man, shifty. Obama, do you even
know the meaning of the word, principle?
Obama, you are not a diplomatic statesman. What you
are is exactly what you appear to be: A worthless
fucking schmuck.
George Washington University Law Professor, Johnathan Turley:
Withholding photos obscures systemic abuses
So military brass went to Obama and his administration,
and cried releasing the photos would hurt the troops (or
so the story goes). Shouldn't they have thought about that
before
they created the culture in which the abuses took place?
They don't want to take the heat for their actions, but they
have no problem releasing the amoral scourge on the American
public, psyche, every man, woman, and especially the children
learning torture as an American value. No problem plaguing
American society with this -- the very society the military
is supposedly so forthrightly protecting from the terrorists.
There is no nobility in our military. If there were, they'd
have put the likes of torture champion, Dick Cheney out of our
misery a long time ago. No. Instead, from our military we get,
'Please! You must protect us from the wrath of those bad ol'
Afghans! I don't care if it encourages parents to beat their
children! You must save us! You must!' The strongest military
in world history can't stand up to its leaders, or even take
responsibility for its actions, cowardly passes the buck to
the citizens it's supposed to protect, and what's next? Oh
yeah, a bumper sticker that says, "Support The Troops!"
Hurry up and get the fuck out of office Obama. I'm
already sick of seeing your laughing dumb ass.
I think the presidency is a bit beyond your
pay grade, oh testicularly deficient one. Do
the country a favor, and stand down come 2012.
We'll understand, and respect you for knowing
when you've bitten off more than you can chew -- it's
not your fault -- we know you didn't invent
affirmative action yourself. You're just a victim
of it. You were suckered just like you suckerd all
of us. Just step down. We'll all understand.
As for any contention around Dick Cheney's
motives, memo to the Pat Buchanan and
Chris Matthews Bush administration apologist sorts out there,
the name of Cheney's game is, "cover your
ass." There's nothing noble going on here.
Cheney, the neocons, et al had an agenda,
and now they're desperately fighting to
defend some of their indefensible means.
The likes of Chris Matthews' and Pat Buchanan's
highly suspect related apologist, and
defensive posture is remarkable.
The Dr. Stranglovian, Dick Cheney is engaging in the same
sort of upside down, ironic, Orwellian
propaganda he and his ilk engaged in
during the Bush administration. The
upshot is, they've learned nothing, and
have opted for unreptant defiance. It is much
to the shame of the country that this fuck
witted psychopath ever made it to the vice
presidency. Cheney is a repugnant anathma,
and a disgrace to the country. My biggest
lament regarding Cheney's recent prolific
television appearances is that the shows'
hosts do not, as a rule, carry guns.
"But if Barack Obama’s role as president is not to dismantle the oppressive and destructive
policies of the Bush administration; and if his purpose, in getting elected, was to satisfy
the "anybody-but-Bush" sentiments, and to become the first black president, then is it not
clear that he has accomplished his agenda? There is no more for the man to do! He fulfilled
his tasks the day he took office. Is it not, therefore, timely for him to resign and enjoy
the judgment of history as America’s most successful president: a man who carried out, as
he was being inaugurated, the agenda for which he had been elected?"
If this government does not renounce,
rescind, and punish, outlaw torture,
and the patriot act,
it is the duty of every citizen to
view the government as its enemy and
whenever possible, covertly, passively,
or otherwise, act accordingly.
The government claims it's afraid
of terrorists. We know the government
is full of shit. We know
the government are criminals. We know
the government is afraid of us.
"In his column for D Magazine CBS Golf Analyst David Feherty made the outrageous claim that the
troops all love George W. Bush to the point where if a solider had two bullets and was in an
elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Bin Laden, the soldier would shoot Pelosi twice."
"Israel is getting away with its blatant use of the American government to silence its critics despite the fact that the Israeli press and Israeli soldiers have exposed the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the premeditated murder of women and children urged upon the Israeli invaders by rabbis. These acts are clearly war crimes."
"Exhausted by their 24/7 calls to expunge the stain of torture from America’s conscience – which is to be accomplished, supposedly, by trying Bush, Cheney, and the Republican gang for war crimes – the liberals have no moral energy to take on Obama’s wars."
If not the stain of the past, then at least the shadow cast over the future.
And speaking of shills, here's an oldie, but a goodie...
"Realization of the goals as formulated in the policy paper Clean Break, as
well as the realization of the goals of the Project of the New American
Century. It all comes down to the strengthening of the American global
supremacy by creating an excuse for obtaining a larger military presence
in the Middle East where some 60 percent of the global oil reserves are
located (PNAC-goal), as well as improvement of the geostrategic position
of Israel by eliminating its most important enemies (Iraq, Iran, Syria –>
Clean Break-goal). The link with oil explains why people like Dick Cheney
were on-board, somebody who made his career in the oil business and perfectly
understood that oil was becoming scarce in the near future ('peak-oil'). For
the rest it would be a mistake to perceive a too-big-a-difference between the
American and Jewish/Israeli interests, since the Jews constitute without
competition the dominant class in the US, who hold all the levers to power:
the visual and written media, the FED, Wallstreet, think tanks (AEI for
instance), Hollywood, plus a large amount of organizations that cement the
power of the Jews (AIPAC and ADL as important examples). The circumstance
that de facto American politics (Dems plus Reps) is controlled by the Jews
was until recently only said aloud by the extreme Right, now this insight
starts to be realized by the Left as well, mainly because of the work of
Mearsheimer and Walt (in the Netherlands brought under the attention by the
leftwing broadcasting organization VPRO, see the English spoken 'Tegenlicht'
documentary 'The Israel Lobby'). That the Iraq-war was initiated by the
(Jewish dominated) Neocon-movement, is so obvious that almost nobody denies
that anymore."
Resulting from prank calls, caller i.d. spoofing and zero evidence, in a middle of the night raid,
this 16 year old boy was
renditioned from his home in North Carolina, to a federal detention facility
in Indiana where he's been held without due process for the past two months. And where the fuck
is the national mainstream media? Oh yeah, that's right. They're sucking congress' dick, and
selling us the idea it's okay if we don't prosecute over torture.
"This isn't America – not the America I knew, the one I grew up in," Annette told Pro Libertate. "This is like something out of a Third World dictatorship where the people in power just do whatever they want to anybody they choose. I want my son back, and I'll do anything I can to free him. But people need to know that if this isn't stopped now, any of us at anytime can be treated the same way. The next time it will be your house they visit in the middle of the night, and your children they take away."
This is exactly what everyone claimed
the patriot act would not
do.
Contrary to neo-right opinion, laws actually
matter. Go figure.
As the Justice Department
releases a report giving a thumbs up, a
wink and a nod to that new, modern, post 9/11
"everything changed", ethics and morality that
includes novel, new and improved, "enchanced"
interrogation techniques including torture.
And former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's
television show, "24" like
doomsday fright scenario justifying torture, is woefully desparate and pathetic
fantasy -- no surprise she was selling this tripe to
fourth grade elementary school students (with appologies
to fourth grade elementary school students).
What? Was she hiding from Al-Qaeda? In addition
to war crimes and treason, this disgusting crazy little troll
should be charged with child abuse. Stay the fuck
away from the children Condi.
Watch this video to see Rice, at Stanford, exhibit classic sociopath strategy
as she waves her finger in her accuser's face and rakes him about
minute points of knowlege, with the implication being that if her
accuser can not answer her stupid little question, then he must
be wrong.
Don't worry though. None of this torture business or patriot act stuff will ever affect
US citizens or anything.
Pat Buchanan, your limitations are showing. As is your loyalty -- hint: it's not to "freedom
of the press," or the American people. Go home Buchanan.
Somewhat understandably, folks have a difficult
time getting their heads around making
distinctions between bombing, killing
people in time of war, and torture as a
matter of policy. Obviously neither of
these is a good thing. People are inclined
to take the attitude, 'All's fair in love
and war.' (This is one reason this nation's
founders made the US a republic
and not a democracy.)
But, to try to simplify the distinction,
the general idea is, a human being has honor and
dignity even in the heat of battle which sometimes
has the unfortunate side effect of collateral damage.
We don't throw the baby out with the bath water, and
say, 'Screw it. We may as well sink to the level of
pond scum (with apologies to pond scum), and abandon
all pretense of humanity whatsoever.' There is a slippery
slope from there to a total break down in humanity, civility,
a reduction to animal savagery and lawlessness, e.g., the Bush
administration.
It is not hypocritical to on the one hand, kill and maim in time of
war, and on the other, oppose torture. To the contrary, it is
hypocritical to sign treaties banning torture; to prosecute,
execute as a part of WWII fallout, and then turn around and
commit (and even seek to legitimize) the exact crimes for which
we prosecuted and executed.
We generally don't go to war, even
ostensibly, on emotional reasons or vengeance, misplaced anger,
erroneous and pretentious rationalizations, e.g., the Bush
administration. It's no surprise such mentality is closely aligned with
the misguided edicts of such as torture. Torture is
stupid. It is beneath the United States of America.
These are some of the principled reasons we don't torture, let alone,
institute torture as a matter of policy. Not to mention,
torture does not work.
"Large-scale trials involving the addition of lithium to drinking water supplies may then be feasible, although this would undoubtedly be subject to considerable debate. Following up on these findings will not be straightforward or inexpensive, but the eventual benefits for community mental health may be considerable."
Translation:
When we do decide to
poison your drinking water with lithium,
we'll charge you an arm and a leg to
study it first.
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:29:54 -0400
Muddying the waters on torture -- Thematic, seems to be the claims that if it's not done
for sadistic pleasure and/or it results in saving lives, then it's not torture. Both claims are
wrong. Both claims are stupid. And the second claim, is a lie.
US jails man over Hezbollah channel -- The United States continues its phony war on terror without
missing a beat. Fuck you Obama. Fuck you, and your Israeli spy buddies too.
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:17:33 -0400
VIRUS REPLICATES HUMAN NEURONS: HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE!
"It was a hybrid strain created from human, swine, and bird flu from North America, Europe, and Asia. It was created in a laboratory. This doesn’t happen in nature."
"Zarlenga makes a compelling argument that most of the world's economic problems are heavily rooted in the inherently corrupt nature of debt-based, privately-controlled money systems. Under these systems, private banks are allowed to extract enormous amounts of wealth from the global and national economies in exchange for the nothing out of which they create the money they loan.
As a solution, Zarlenga advocates a three-pronged approach to monetary reform:..."
Not only for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
But for the patriot act, their dictatorial,
authoritarian power grabs; their willingness
to put your face between a jack boot and
the dirt. And quite possibly, for their
conspiratorial involvement in 9/11.
This is not about banana republic style
retribution. It's about punishment and
deterrence regarding an administration
that by executive fiat, called legal that
which was by any objective standard
illegal.
And Cheney jus' keeps talkin'.
Cheney is a massively suck shit fuck witted
horses ass who tries to exude an air
of authoritative respectability. He deserves
to die bloody, face down in a fuckin' dirty
scum laden sewage ditch.
The idea behind the anti-torture
Geneva Convention is that prisoners of war
should be treated with dignity and respect,
in recognition of their humanity. Water
boarding does not fit with that description.
And the evidence appears to show the
Bush administration used torture to get false
confessions.
A nation without respect for basic humanitarian
precepts, has no foundation upon which are built
the human fundamentals of respect, dignity,
civility. It's pathetically impotent,
schizophrenic, and insulting to say we should
look forward and forget about it. The implication
is a little too reminiscent Rumsfeld's "deadender,"
proclamations; that those who would seek justice
are living in the past, too weak to embrace an
optimistic future, needlessly opting instead to
hold on to a cynical pessimism. Not so.
The Bush administration was wantonly
wrong. Those responsible, and those who
would follow in their footsteps need to learn
this lesson.
"One of the requirements apparently is localities
need to be prepared to provide mass inoculations
to the entire population in 48 hours or less."
Wanna charge people for water? Pollute
it all, then charge for cleaning it.
Charge for air? Do the same thing.
Charge 'em for their very existence?
Poison them, and charge them for
antidote. You could require regular
updates jus' like a drug dealer.
Think it can't happen? I'll bet there's
a lot of things that have happened
the last decade you never imagined
possible.
These reckless assholes are subject
to do shit even they themselves have
yet to conceive as within their capacity.
The psychopaths are real. They're here.
They're not going away.
"Realization of the goals as formulated in the policy paper Clean Break, as
well as the realization of the goals of the Project of the New American
Century. It all comes down to the strengthening of the American global
supremacy by creating an excuse for obtaining a larger military presence
in the Middle East where some 60 percent of the global oil reserves are
located (PNAC-goal), as well as improvement of the geostrategic position
of Israel by eliminating its most important enemies (Iraq, Iran, Syria –>
Clean Break-goal). The link with oil explains why people like Dick Cheney
were on-board, somebody who made his career in the oil business and perfectly
understood that oil was becoming scarce in the near future ('peak-oil'). For
the rest it would be a mistake to perceive a too-big-a-difference between the
American and Jewish/Israeli interests, since the Jews constitute without
competition the dominant class in the US, who hold all the levers to power:
the visual and written media, the FED, Wallstreet, think tanks (AEI for
instance), Hollywood, plus a large amount of organizations that cement the
power of the Jews (AIPAC and ADL as important examples). The circumstance
that de facto American politics (Dems plus Reps) is controlled by the Jews
was until recently only said aloud by the extreme Right, now this insight
starts to be realized by the Left as well, mainly because of the work of
Mearsheimer and Walt (in the Netherlands brought under the attention by the
leftwing broadcasting organization VPRO, see the English spoken 'Tegenlicht'
documentary 'The Israel Lobby'). That the Iraq-war was initiated by the
(Jewish dominated) Neocon-movement, is so obvious that almost nobody denies
that anymore."
