Just A Quote. . .

The following quote is by Joe Conason at Truthdig.com”.
It pretty much states the GOP’s current hypocracy.

“Across America—and particularly in the red states that have rejected gay marriage—divorce rates are continually rising, along with teen pregnancies, out-of-wedlock births and single motherhood (which somehow afflict gay-friendly blue states far less).  Gay rights obviously isn’t the cause of marital strife and separation in those places where hostility to same-sex relationships is considered a religious duty.”

[The linked article is the source of the quote, and is very important to understand.]

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I know that this article is a statement of what is ‘good old USA’ reality.

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Why Do You Keep Allowing?

“Last Call at the Oasis”
by Tara Lohan - May 11, 2012

“There are 1,200 Superfund sites the EPA can’t deal with, the government won’t save you.

For all our clean water laws, we aren’t very good at enforcement.  From 2004 to 2005 an investigation found that the Clean Water Act was violated more than half a million times.  It’s not just industry, but pesticides like atrazine, which we learn can be detected in the rain water in Minnesota when it’s being applied in Kansas.  In Michigan we see another awful side to Big Ag, the liquid waste from factory “farming,” known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.  These CAFOs threaten drinking water with chemicals, antibiotics and growth hormones.”

[The linked article is the source of the quote.]

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As always with Alternet, this article is a damn good read,
and an excellent perspective of our shared Pax Americana reality.

Have you noticed how many articles I link from Alternet?
It's because they do an excellent job of allowing truth to be authority,
rather than like FOX, where authority is manipulatively displayed as truth.

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Excellent Quote. . .

“How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane”
by Chris Hedges - April 30, 2012

“When civilizations start to die they go insane.  Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt.  Let the temperatures rise.  Let the air, soil and water be poisoned.  Let the forests die.  Let the seas be emptied of life.  Let one useless war after another be waged.  Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation, fraud and theft.  Reality, at the end, gets unplugged.  We live in an age when news consists of Snooki’s pregnancy, Hulk Hogan’s sex tape and Kim Kardashian’s denial that she is the naked woman cooking eggs in a photo circulating on the internet.”

[The linked article is the source of the quote.]

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As always with Chris Hedges, this article is a damn good read,
and an excellent perspective of our shared Pax Americana reality.

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Just A Quote. . .

The following quote is by Bob Dylan in “Jokerman”.
It pretty much states our current status as a nation.

“Steal a little, and they put you in jail
Steal a lot, and they make you king.”

[The linked article is not related to the quote, but is very important to know.]

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I know that this article is a warning of what has already come to be reality.

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As A Retiree. . .

I Went Back To College.  I Know This Article Is Accurate.
by Noam Chomsky, Apr. 4, 2012 via Alternet.org

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey

“The EPI study observes that the “Failure of Design” is class-based.  For the designers, it has been a stunning success, as revealed by the astonishing concentration of wealth in the top 1 percent, in fact the top 0.1 percent, while the majority has been reduced to virtual stagnation or decline.

In short, when they have the opportunity, “the Masters of Mankind” pursue their “vile maxim” all for ourselves and nothing for other people,” as Adam Smith explained long ago.”

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I know that this article is dead on accurate, as I went back to college in the fall of 2011.  It is more than just an article, it is a warning of what has already come to be reality.

Oh - While you are at it - You should also read this related article from Commondreams.org. . .

The Best Congress the Banks’ Money Can Buy
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship - April 6, 2012

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ACT 13 - Nice Name, Right?

But - What It Does. . .  Is Not At All Nice.
by Steven Rosenfeld, Mar. 12, 2012 via Alternet.org

Fracking Democracy:  Why Pennsylvania’s Act 13 May Be
The Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway

“Now I know what it feels like to live in Nigeria,” said recently retired Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields.  “You’re basically a resource colony for multi-national corporations to take your natural resources, take them back to wherever they are at, add value to them, and then sell them back to you.”

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I live in the south-central mountains of Pennsylvania, and know that this article is dead on accurate.  It is more than just an article, it is a warning.

Oh - While you are at it - You should also read this related article from Commondreams.org. . .

Peaceful Anti-Fracking Activists Pursued by FBI as ‘Eco-Terrorists’
by the Commandreams.org staff - March 11, 2012

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Wacky... Wacky I Tell You!

An Excellent, And Needed Perspective of a Sane and Honest Man.
By Glenn Greenwald - March 10, 2012

Dennis Kucinich and “wackiness”

“Forced to name the “craziest” policy favored by American politicians, I’d say the multibillion-dollar war on drugs, which no one thinks is winnable.  Asked about the most “extreme,” I’d cite the invasion of Iraq, a war of choice that has cost many billions of dollars and countless innocent lives. . . .

I hardly expect the news media to denigrate the policies I’ve named, nor do I expect their Republican and Democratic supporters to be labeled crazy, kooky, or extreme.  These disparaging descriptors are never applied to America’s policy establishment, even when it is proved ruinously wrong, whereas politicians who don’t fit the mainstream Democratic or Republican mode. . . . are mocked almost reflexively in these terms, if they are covered at all. . . .

[I]s it not just as extreme that President Obama claims an unchecked power to assassinate, without due process, any American living abroad whom he designates as an enemy combatant?  Or that Joe Lieberman wants to strip Americans of their citizenship not when they are convicted of terrorist activities, but upon their being accused and designated as enemy combatants? . . . [C]razy, kooky, extreme actions are perpetrated by establishment centrists far more often than by [those typically derided in mainstream circles as crazy].”

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I hope Mr. Kucinich "never gives up". . .  As we need men of his courage, sanity, and honesty.

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Best Article Of The Week...

Hard To Accept - But - Not Hard To Understand
An Interview with Morris Berman By Nomi Prins - March 7, 2012

“Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse”

“...all of the data over the last 20 years show that Americans are not very bright, and not even the bright ones are very bright—it’s not merely a question of IQ.  A Marist poll released on July 4, 2011 showed that 42 percent of American adults are unaware that the U.S. declared its independ- ence in 1776, and this figure increases to 69 percent for the under-30 age group.  Twenty-five percent of Americans don’t know from which country the United States seceded.  A poll taken in the Oklahoma public school system turned up the fact that 77 percent of the students didn’t know who George Washington was, and the Texas Board of Education recently voted to include a unit on Estee Lauder in the history curriculum, when they don’t have one on the first president.  Near- ly 30 percent of the American population thinks the sun revolves around the earth or is unsure of which revolves around which.  Etc.  etc.  How can such a population grasp a structural analysis of American history or politics?  They simply aren’t capable of it.”
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I’ve watched this decline, and posted about it for some time, and like Morris Berman, et al, I know it is past the nation's ability to recover from its own destruction - When the realization finally sunk in, last year, I couldn't post anything, for what turned out to be a full year - The realization of my nation's failure to see the denial of its failure just was too much to handle.

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I Know You Won't Do Anything...

Since You've Done Nothing So Far - But one Can Hope - Right?
By Rachel Tabachnik via Alternet.org

The Religious Right's Plot To Take Control Of Our Public Schools
The people who brought you "Jesus Camp" are moving into your neighborhood school.
And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

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I have no doubt, with all that you so called citizens have allowed so far, that you'll also allow this to go unchallenged, therefore allowing another part of this once great democracy to be destroyed, simply because you couldn't be bothered, or don't actually believe it.

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Read, Please Think.

Not Much To Add To The Following Photo - Enjoy The Linked Article.


Photo by David Shankbone.

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Just curious...  Why the fuck do you keep “allowing”,
(without any fight... nor even any real protests,)
your own, (and the rest of ours,) destructions?!?

Seriously - Why?!?

Is it simply that you lack the courage?

Or - Have we truly become a nation of cowardly allowers?

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Nothing Has Changed...

The “Allowing” Just Continues To Get More Insanely “Allowed.”
And The-So-Very-Few Are Laughing Their Asses Off At You For Their “Allowed” Theft.
It doesn’t matter how bad it gets, the allowing just continues to get worse - It is so in-the-face of us Americans, and yet you simply do not react with courage nor conviction, or even rationally.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

The lying about the lies just continues to be allowed by "patriotic Americans" to this day, without protests, without true outrage, without revolt. Nothing has changed since my last posting, other than more GOP/MIC/1%'ers ass kissing by the selling-out Obama. And nothing has changed in your cowardly allowing of the continued and purposeful destruction of the American democracy. It is only getting worse, and you are allowing to it to get worse.  [50% of American adults can not read above an eighth grade level. - Source Link]  Because of it, and much more, the corporatists can no longer even pretend to hide their sneering disdain of you...  We have become “a nation of cowardly allowers.”  As I have often said. . .

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us, is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

And we definitely deserve what is coming, for - “Allowing” it - To get as bad as it has.

Maybe you haven't noticed yet, but it is going to be allowed to get much worse for us, but not for the successfully sneering so-very-few allowed corporatist thieves.

Do you think they, the-so-very-few successful and allowed corporatist thieves, are going to now allow you to take the money back?!?  Are you really that naïve?!?

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If you haven’t watched the following, then you simply don’t know... Do You?

“Home”


“Blue Gold:  World Water Wars”


“The World Has Divided Into Rich And Poor”


“The Story Of Bottled Water”

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What Does It Mean. . .

When All Destruction Is Caused By Your Allowing, And You Don’t Stop?
Because The “Allowing” Continues To Be “Allowed,” And I Fear That, More Than “Them”.

“2010 Was The Hottest Year On Record”  [It was you who allowed it.] The Big Con Continues  [You ‘cowardly allowers’ just continue to allow it.] WikiLeaks, Ideological Legitimacy And The Crisis Of Empire The Very Serious People Are At It Again...  [And you allow them.] Lies Our Teachers Are Telling Us  [. . . That you keep allowing.] Off The Rails:  The Year In Fox News Misinformation We Are Global Warming:  71 Months And Counting...

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A “Below The Fold” Bonus, from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service

You allowed America to become the most incarcerated nation in history, by raw numbers,
and by percentage of population. . .  You allowed it.  Now, aren’t you proud?

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Wake Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

You Can’t Say; “I Didn’t Know” . . . Not Anymore.  Can You?
You Have Proven, In The Face Of Your Own Self-Destruction, To Be Cowardly Allowers.

“2011: A Brave New Dystopia”  (Both Orwell’s "1984" and Huxley’s "Brave New World" were right.) America In Decline: Why Germans, Think We're Insane  (The whole of the E. U. actually.) 2010: The Big Con Continues  (“We, the people” have lost the power to rein in the excesses of capitalism.) Pharmaceutical Industry Fraud  (Congress likes it ... as it continues to cash corporate campaign checks.) The Perfect Storm Of Plutocracy May [Is] Drown[ing] the Working Class in 2011  (The bottom has dropped out of our manufacturing sector, and there is no reason to believe that is going to improve.)

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Cynical?  You Bet ya.  Could anyone who is sane, today, be any other way?

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You Ignored, You Allowed. . .

Corporatists Do Sneeringly Laugh Their Asses Off At Your Allowing!
Because Your Denial Of Your Allowing... Is Destroying Our Lives, Nation, And Planet.

News Black-Out In DC: Pay No Attention To...  (This can’t be happening) Beyond The Insanity Of “Free-Speech Zones”  (And you‘re allowing it.) Net Neutrality Is Officially Dead.  (Another Obama sellout you’ve allowed.) 1 In 3 Working American Families Near Poverty.  (Merry Christmas) Net Neutrality A ‘Threat To Internet Freedom’  ( WTF?!? ) “Waiting For Superrich-Man” “The Wail Of The 1%”

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The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...

They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.  Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.

Or stupidly pay the price.  Oh, wait... We already are.

Right?

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Wake Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

The “Allowing” Just Continues To Get More Insanely “Allowed.”
And The-So-Very-Few Are Laughing Their Asses Off At You For Their “Allowed” Theft.
It doesn’t matter how bad it gets, the allowing just continues to get worse - It is so in-the-face of us Americans, and yet you simply do not react with courage nor conviction, or even rationally.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

Some articles say so well what is felt and known by so many that synopsis is not needed, just read the article by Chris Hedges linked below, and you will understand. “Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail” Not that you care, but... The largest wealth gap in our nation’s history exist right now. We are the most incarcerated nation in history. Bottom of the list of 1st world nations in health care. Top of the list for cost of our ‘health care.’ A military budget higher than all other nations... combined. Not a few of “our” elected state and federal representatives state publicly they believe the Earth is only 12,000 years old.

Because of it, and much more, the corporatists can no longer even pretend to hide their sneering disdain of you...  We have become “a nation of cowardly allowers.”  As I have often said. . .

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.[50% of American adults can not read above an eighth grade level. - Source Link]

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us, is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

And we definitely deserve what is coming, for - “Allowing” it - To get as bad as it has.

Maybe you haven't noticed yet, but it is going to be allowed to get much worse for us, but not for the successfully sneering so-very-few allowed corporatist thieves.

Do you think they, the-so-very-few successful and allowed corporatist thieves, are going to now allow you to take the money back?!?  Are you really that naïve?!?

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If you haven’t watched the following, then you simply don’t know... Do You?

“Home”


“Blue Gold:  World Water Wars”


“The World Has Divided Into Rich And Poor”


“The Story Of Bottled Water”

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Are You Going To Allow It?

Not Much To Add To The Following Toon - Enjoy . . .



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Just curious...  Why the fuck do you keep “allowing”,
(without any fight... nor even any real protests,)
your own, (and the rest of ours,) destructions?!?

Seriously - Why?!?

Is it simply that you lack the courage?

Have we truly become a nation of cowardly allowers?

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Best Quote Of Mid-Term Elections...

Maybe We Should Just Call This “The Fox Election”?
by David Neiwert at Crooks And Liars

Everyone keeps saying the coming election is a referendum on President Obama.  I beg to differ.  I’m beginning to believe that it’s actually a referendum on Fox News.

Because, well, let’s be honest: The Republican Party would be dead in the water right now were it not for Fox and its ceaseless efforts -- primarily through lying and propagandizing 24/7/365 -- at reviving the conservative movement brand.

Voters aren’t voting for Republicans or a GOP agenda.  They’re voting for the Fox agenda.

I was thinking about this while watching our fearless fearmonger in chief Glenn Beck waxing apocalyptic yesterday on his Fox show -- which, as Media Matters points out, Beck is using as his own Get Out The Vote operation.  Beck’s show was full of warnings about the dire threat posed to the Republic by progressives, and how this election will reverse that course and refudiate progressivism.

But the best part was the little promo that ran near the end of the show, with the following script:

Narrator: On November 2, 2010, you have a choice.  You can stand up for freedom and liberty.  Or sit back and let the American Dream become a nightmare.

It’s way too late for politics.  Instead, vote as if your way of life depends on it.  Because it does.

Vote for government by the people, of the people, and for the people.  Vote Democrat, Republican, or Independent.  But whatever you do, vote for Honor.  Restoration.  The Consti- tution.  Vote for America.

This is just about the endpoint of the campaign that Fox has been waging for the past two years -- beginning the day after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008.  Think about it:

-- The engine of their comeback, the Tea Parties, is almost wholly a Fox concoction.  Without Fox’s endless promotions of the various Tea Party events -- and Tea Party figures, including its corporate overseers like Dick Armey -- the “movement” would have been nothing, a brief blip on the screen.

-- Congressional Republicans managed to maintain their discipline in uniformly voting “No” on every Obama proposal that came down the pike because Fox was there as a threat to anyone who strayed.  And Fox’s ceaseless propaganda against every Obama proposal certainly gave PR sustenance to anyone who stayed within the fold.

-- Every Republican candidate on the planet -- with the exception of the truly execrable Dan Maes in Colorado -- has gotten lots of free airtime on Fox to promote their campaign.  Their opponents -- not at all.  And what’s been interesting is how these candidates have been able to use Fox to get airtime while refusing to speak to their local reporters at all.

-- The entire narrative of this coming election has been dictated by Fox.  Is it any wonder that the conventional wisdom now perfectly reflects what Fox has been dictating?

Maybe it's just me, but I’m not quite there yet.  I’m especially not ready to hand over governance of the country to a propaganda news network.

But it’s obvious that we don't really have a Republican Party anymore.  It’s now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox News.  And that’s who this election is really about.

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But have you also noticed how many commercial public places, like doctor's offices, restaurants, bars, etc... seem to have, at an unusually high occurrence rate, Fox on their TV sets, not to mention the obvious ploy of it being the only cable news available on the Comcast Basic Rate lineup?  You have noticed that - Right?

And you thought they were the ‘most popular’ because they were actually, (rather than corporately created,) ‘popular’ - Right?

It continues to get worse, and you just keep allowing it.

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The Videos. . .

If You Haven’t Watched Them...  You Simply Can’t Really Know.
Because These Videos Aren’t Opinion, They Expose The Facts Of Our Shared Reality.

“ZEITGEIST - The Movie”  (Suggestion: Get the “Study Guide” - Here -) “ZEITGEIST II - ADDENDUM”  (Don’t pass it up, and please, share it.) “The Power Of Nightmares” (Part I) - also - (Part II - and - Part III.) “BLUE GOLD:  World Water Wars” “HOME”  (Narrated by Glenn Close)

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The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...

They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.  Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.

Or stupidly pay the price.  Oh, wait... We already are.

Right?

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A Few More Reality Quotes. . .

Not Much To Add To The Following Quotes - Enjoy . . .

“What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth.” – Robert Scheer

“... you have the Obama administration essentially defending the cover-up and the lying that took place, primarily, during the Bush years.” – Michael Moore on Larry King Live, July 27th, 2010

“The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the US Department of Defense is unable to account properly for 96% of the money. - Out of just over $9bn (£5.8bn), $8.7bn is unaccounted for, the inspector says.” – Gabriel Gatehouse at the BBC

“The minions of the corporate media seem to be even more upset than the administration over the release of the Wikileaks documents, and I think I know why: They just can’t bear the thought that they are no longer the gatekeepers.” - Susie Madrak, at Crooks And Liars

“Instead of discrediting Andrew Brietbart for being a lying liar that hurts people, CNN's Kyra Phillips thinks the Shirley Sherrod story means we need to attack anonymous bloggers for their indiscretions.  WTF?  If a liberal blogger had released a phony video that targeted a Republican in the same way as Breitbart did, the outrage that would have followed from the media would have been cataclysmic.  But when it’s done by a conservative hitman ... crickets.” - John Amato, also at Crooks And Liars”

Op-Ed toon below; by Jim Morin, Because Sometimes ‘Jest’ Just Really Exposes Reality.



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Just curious...  Why the fuck do you keep “allowing”,
(without any fight... nor even any real protests,)
your own, (and the rest of ours,) destructions?!?

Seriously - Why?!?

Is it simply that you lack the courage?

Have we truly become a nation of cowardly allowers?

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Best Quotes This Week. . .

Not Much To Add To The Following Quotes - Enjoy . . .

“... not everybody is hurting.  While the middle class disappears and poverty increases the wealthiest people in our country are not only doing extremely well, they are using their wealth and political power to protect and expand their very privileged status at the expense of everyone else.” – Sen. Bernie Sanders

“As we stand here today we don't have one Republican vote.” – Sen. John Kerry on Senate Democrats' decision to abandon climate change bill

“Foremost among those realities is the extraordinary militarization of this nation in the post-9/11 era, and the skewing of public debate such that options that don’t involve massive uses of force are essentially disregarded -- actually dismissed as dangerous, when in fact it is war that is dangerous.  This goes a long way to explaining so many of the poor decisions made by our leaders that individually, but only briefly, get the attention of the mass media.” - Dan Froomkin, on Tom Englehart

“Once everybody realized they'd been duped by Breitbart and Fox News - and a hat-tip to CNN and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for doing the heavy lifting to expose the story for the bag of crap that it was - everybody backpedaled and apologized to Sherrod...everybody except Breitbart and Fox, that is.  They pretty much said the whole thing was the fault of the NAACP and Obama for promoting reverse racism in America.  Yeah, they actually did, which makes you wonder what one has to do to lose credibility in the realm of right-wing news.  Andrew Breitbart and Roger Ailes could bend over double and take a dump on their own faces in the middle of the Washington Mall, and they’d still have plenty of people who treat their swill as if it were holy writ.” - William Rivers Pitt, in “The Dog Whistles”

Op-Ed toon below; by Jim Morin, Because Sometimes ‘Jest’ Just Really Exposes Reality.



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Just curious...  Why the fuck do you keep “allowing”,
(without any fight, not even any real protests,)
your own, (and the rest of ours,) destructions?!?

Seriously - Why?!?

Is it simply that you lack the courage?

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Best Article Of The Week...

The Only Perspective I’ve Read That Clearly Exposes Our Reality...
by Chris Hedges at truthdig.com

“Calling All Future-Eaters”
[As usual with TruthDig.com, the ‘Comments’ are as enlightening as the article itself.]

After reading the article... Waste one and half hours out of your life - Watch the following...

“The Age of Stupid"

Who knows?  You might actually learn something about the “allowing” I speak of.

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Also “allow” yourself to watch the following, then you might “know”...  Right?

“Home”


“Blue Gold:  World Water Wars”


“The World Has Divided Into Rich And Poor”


“The Story Of Bottled Water”

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You Just Don’t Get It - Do You?

We Spend More On ‘Our’ “Military Industrial Corporations”. . .
Than All Of The Other Nations On The Planet Do... Combined!
It’s Also More Than We Spend On Every Other Need Within ‘Our’ Own Nation!
More Than Half Of ‘Our’ Entire Budget Goes To The Military Industial Corporations!
by Jim Morin, Because Sometimes ‘Jest’ Just Really Exposes Reality.



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Just curious...  Why the fuck do you keep “allowing”,
(without any fight, not even any real protest,)
your own, (and the rest of ours,) destructions?!?

Seriously - Why?!?

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Wake Up! (Oops - Too Late.)

The “Allowing” Just Continues To Get More Insanely “Allowed.”
And The-So-Very-Few Are Laughing Their Asses Off At You For Their “Allowed” Theft.
It doesn’t matter how bad it gets, the allowing just continues to get worse - It is so in-the-face of us Americans, and yet you simply do not react with courage and conviction, or even rationally.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

I wanted to be less cynical, but you just can’t stop the “allowing” of your, and our, destructions by the corporatists that have successfully been “allowed”, by you, to take over the whole of what use to be “our” government, for the sole purpose of their profits in wealth and power. Not that you care, but... The largest wealth gap in our nation’s history exist right now. We are the most incarcerated nation in history. Bottom of the list of 1st world nations in health care. Top of the list for cost of our ‘health care.’ A military budget higher than all other nations... combined. Not a few of “our” elected state and federal representatives state publicly they believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old. Because of it, and much more, the corporatists can no longer even pretend to hide their sneering disdain of you...

We have become “a nation of cowardly allowers.”  As I have often said. . .

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.
[50% of American adults can not read above an eighth grade level. - Source Link]

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us, is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

And we definitely deserve what is coming, for - “Allowing” it - To get as bad as it has.

Maybe you haven't noticed yet, but it is going to be allowed to get much worse for us, but not for the successfully sneering so-very-few allowed corporatist thieves.

Do you think they, the-so-very-few successful and allowed corporatist thieves, are going to now allow you to take the money back?!?  Are you really that naïve?!?

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If you haven’t watched the following, then you simply don’t know... Do You?

“Home”


“Blue Gold:  World Water Wars”


“The World Has Divided Into Rich And Poor”


“The Story Of Bottled Water”

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Do Be Afraid. . .

“Fact After Fact”  Of Our “Allowed & Divided” Reality, Clearly Stated
Found At The Oak Creek Forum.

Max Blumenthal goes inside the Tea Party from Ram Bam on Vimeo.

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Why the fuck do you keep “allowing” your own, (and the rest of ours,) destruction?!?

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What Does It Mean. . .

When All Destruction Is Caused By Your Allowing, And You Don’t Stop?
Because The “Allowing” Continues To Be “Allowed,” And I Fear That, More Than “Them”.

Now The Truly Unbelievable!  [And You’ll Obviously Allow It... Again.] Democrats Face A “Pay Cut” From The Wall Street Thieves. “Blue Gold: World Water Wars”  [Reprised, in case you missed it.] Too Big To Jail?  [Well, for a nation of ‘cowardly allowers’...  Yes.] No, He Won’t... End the ‘Global War on Terror’. “If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil” “America’s Tragic Descent into Empire”

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A “Below The Fold” Bonus, from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service

You allowed America to become the most incarcerated nation in history, by raw numbers,
and by percentage of population. . .  You allowed it.  Now, aren’t you proud?

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July 4, 2010

Hope Yours Is “Allowed” To Be Happy.
It’s My 62rd Fourth, And It’s My Most Worried-About-The-Future One So Far.



My “worried-about”?  The fact that you allowed this, and are still allowing much more than this, and you will continue to allow. . .  Without any real effort to punish anyone.  Not one person has been fired or punished in any way what-so-ever for any of the destruction of the last 10 years.

Not one - Think about it - You are a nation of cowardly allowers.

The corporatists know you better than you do.  Why do you think they don’t even attempt to hide their bored disdain of you?  Seriously - Think about it, (since obviously you haven’t so far.)

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Please, Just The Facts. . .

“Fact After Fact”  Of Our “Allowed & Divided” Reality, Clearly Stated
by The Kind People At Democracy Now!.



Here’s Another Fact For You...  “No Austerity For The Rich”

Oh, And Here’s Another ‘Fact’...  “Myths Of Austerity”

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Why the fuck do you keep “allowing” your own, (and the rest of ours,) destruction?!?

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Hard, But Necessary, Reading...

Not Easy Reading, But Definitely Necessary, To Be Able To Understand...
by The Old Hippie Because So Many, Way Too Many, Are Still, Insanely, “Allowing” It All...

-  The Tea Party Is Dangerous: Dispelling 7 Myths. . .       It may be fashionable to dismiss the Tea Party, but we do so at our peril.   -  “We Can’t Afford War”       Cut the war budget?  Don’t confused “war budget” with defense budget.           -  “The Michael Hastings ‘Hanging out’ Theorem”       And MSM wonders why we have such a dim view of their credibility.

Never forget, never doubt, stop denying...  That. . .
Our “allowed” wars are only for the purpose of corporate profits... and nothing else.

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The following is reprised, because it needs to be emphasized, over, and over again...

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

40% of American adults are functionally illiterate, and can not read above a 4th grade level.  Almost one-half of our adult citizens.  With this singular fact in hand, you should be able to begin to understand how the “allowed” manipulative theft, by the-very-few among us, has been able to continue to succeed.  How FOX is still able to continue it’s ongoing and allowed propaganda of lies and distortions.  How the corrupt corporatists “were allowed” to take-over our government.  And how the Separation of Church and State is in their way. Just simple, but profitable, manipulation of the 40% of us who are ignorant.  That have been manipulated into believing that truth is “liberal bias,” and have been manipulated into “proudly and patriotically” voting against their own health, freedoms, liberties, securities, and needs.

As I have often said. . .

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us, is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves, as they were programmed to do... is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...  They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant.  Or stupidly pay the price.

Oh, wait...  We already are.

And one last thing, just for you proudly ignorant Christians out there. . .

“The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests.  It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.  Today Christians stand at the head of our country.  We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit.  We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of LIBERAL excess during the past years.”

— Adolph Hitler - Taken from The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1, Michael Hakeem, Ph.D. (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 871-872.

Seriously - What the fuck are you going to do about It?

Fox is simply a propaganda outfit for the corporatists, manipulating, and misinforming the people of America at a level unseen in our Constitutional Democracy's history - Blatantly - Sneeringly.

The-very-few are on a buying spree, as the majority of Americans are going under - America has gone under before, but not with the robber barons being so openly and sneeringly blatant about their take from their “allowed” successful theft, and the thieves, the-very-very-few, purposeful, but profitable to them, destruction of “the American Dream.”

Goldman Sacs is giving out over $30-Billion dollars in bonuses to just a few of the-very-few.  Can't get more blatant - It is so blatant that even some of the staff are arming themselves in fear of a retaliatory uprising.

Climate...  The denial is impossible to deny.  The danger inherent in the denial is undeniable also.  The ability of the corporatists to openly manipulate the fodder-units into supporting their own self-destruction is also undeniable, and the danger of that manipulated self-destructive denial is beyond blatant - All for the very short-term profits to the-very-very-few among us.

Yet, America continues to “allow” it all, and much more that is destructive to our own needs...  But extremely profitable to the-very-very-few among us.

Seriously - What the fuck are you going to do about it?

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Best Article Of The Week...

The Only Perspective I’ve Read That Clearly Exposes Our Reality...
by Oliver Stone (Responding to New York Times Attack)

Oliver Stone Responds to New York Times Attack
[As usual with TruthDig.com, the ‘Comments’ are as enlightening as the article itself.]

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Nothing else at this time, just read it.

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Umm. . .

What Part Of - “No One Has Been Punished” - Do You Not Understand?
Because Your “Allowing” Has, *Long Ago*, Gone ‘Incomprehensibly’ Beyond The Surreal.
For Instance:
- Wall Street 'Reform' in a Nutshell: The Politicians Lied, Media Applauded, and We
   Americans Will Suffer.  [And not one sneering corporatist banker thief has yet been punished.]

- BP - The 2 time felony convicted sneering polluter-for-profit corporation, does not
   care that you know that they don’t care.  [No corporate officer has ever been fired, or jailed.]

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Why am I still wasting my cyber-breath?

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