Sunday, February 28, 2010

Not That It Matters Anymore. . .

The Ramifications Of Your “Allowing” Become Clearer Each Day. . .
To All You Allowers, Who Rebel Against Rebellion, In The Face Of Destruction... Fuck You.
News? 
The Great American Bank Robbery.
(Bankruptcy is a key feature of capitalism.)

It Is Happening Here.
(...and why it repulses so many Americans.)

The Scarlet Child.
(“And then there was Bob Marshall.”)

A Refuge for Cowards:
(Senate Extends Patriot Act.)

No Banker Left Behind.
(They do have a license to steal.)

Where Is the Outrage?

by Mr. Fish

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

by Rex Babin


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Monday, February 22, 2010

Finally. . .

This Explains The How & Why Of Us Still Going From Bad To Worse...
by George Lakoff, via CommonDreams.org


A longish article, but worth the time to read it...
“A Good Week For Science — and Insight into Politics”

As is often true with CommonDreams, the comments are as enlightening as the article.


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Nothing else.  Just - Please - Think, as you read it.


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Friday, February 19, 2010

Perspective. . .

A Devastatingly Realistic Perspective That Does Not Allow Denial.
by The Good People of GoodPlanet.org


A 1-1/2 hour movie called...
“Home”

Proof of the complex simplistic truth of...
“It's too late for pessimism” - is now a shared reality for us all.


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Nothing else.  Just - Please - Watch the movie.


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You Do Allow . . .

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

Read 
Totally Corrupt TV: Corporate Lobbyists Are Disinterested Experts?
‘Oh My F*%#@ing God!’  (With all you’ve allowed, think this can’t happen?)
Fighting The Corporatists’ Court.  (80% against Citizens United vs FEC.)
‘Say on Pay’ Won’t Prevent Corporatist Gluttony.  (“It won’t work.”)
Crackdown on Credit Card Provisions Begins Monday.
“We've Got Fox News”  (A Crooks and Liars video report.)
Our Founders Were Not Fundamentalists.

by Rex Babin


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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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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Corporatists Rule, You Allow...

Why Do You Continue To Insanely, And Unapologetically... Allow?
Because The “Allowing” Continues To Be “Allowed,” And I Fear That, More Than “Them”.

Patriot 
Parts I & II of “The Economic Elite Vs. People Of The USA.”
1984 in 2010: Hijacking Democracy To Spy On Americans.
Americans Fear Corporate Control of Public Policy.
America’s Global Weapons Monopoly.
Wall Street Moves In For The Kill.
Obama's Nuclear Boondoggle.
The Information Super-Sewer.

by Clay Bennett


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A “Below The Fold” Video Bonus, via Book Tv On C-Span...  Enjoy...

Sam Harris, At Book TV on C-Span, Author of “The End of Faith”

Sam Harris, who is currently completing a doctorate in neuroscience to research the neural foundation for belief, talked about his first book The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, published in a new paperback edition by W.W. Norton and Company.  Mr. Harris argued that religion played a major role in an increasingly dangerous world.  He criticized the influence of religion in both the United States and across the Muslim world, saying that for peace to exist, reason must replace faith as the driving force in society.  Following his remarks, Mr. Harris responded to questions and comments submitted by members of the audience.  Ms. Jacoby moderated the program.  The talk, presented by CFI-Metro New York and cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture, is the second in the 2005 - 2006 Voices of Reason series.




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Saturday, February 13, 2010

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...

  -  “Goldman Accused of Rigging ‘Robin Hood Tax’ Vote”           
      It’s really unbelievable.  The way that Goldman Sachs keeps sticking its...

  -  Trying to Infuse Schoolbooks with Ultraconservative Ideology. . .
      “We are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles.”  (Uh... No we’re not.)

  -  It Would Not, Could Not, Happen In Any Other Industrialized Nation.
      Because their healthcare is not controlled by corporatists’ greed, like ours is.
 Read

by Joel Pett
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...
Hacker
{-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 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 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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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Oh.  My.  God.  Obama Clueless

“We’re Doomed.”
by Paul Krugman, Feb. 10, 2010

I’m with Simon Johnson here: how is it possible, at this late date, for Obama to be this clueless?

The lead story on Bloomberg right now contains excerpts from an interview with Business Week which tells us:

President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay.

The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is “an extraordinary amount of money” for Main Street, “there are some baseball players who are making more than that and don’t get to the World Series either, so I’m shocked by that as well.”

“I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday.  “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth.  That is part of the free- market system.”

Obama sought to combat perceptions that his administration is anti-business and trumpeted the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies.  He plans to reiterate that message when he speaks to the Business Roundtable, which represents the heads of many of the biggest U.S. companies, on Feb. 24 in Washington.

Oh.  My.  God.

First of all, to my knowledge, irresponsible behavior by baseball players hasn’t brought the world economy to the brink of collapse and cost millions of innocent Americans their jobs and/or houses.

And more specifically, not only has the financial industry has been bailed out with taxpayer commitments; it continues to rely on a taxpayer backstop for its stability.  Don’t take it from me, take it from the rating agencies:

The planned overhaul of US financial rules prompted Standard?&?Poor’s to warn on Tuesday it might downgrade the credit ratings of Citigroup and Bank of America on concerns that the shake-up would make it less likely that the banks would be bailed out by US taxpayers if they ran into trouble again.

The point is that these bank executives are not free agents who are earning big bucks in fair competition; they run companies that are essentially wards of the state.  There’s good reason to feel outraged at the growing appearance that we’re running a system of lemon socialism, in which losses are public but gains are private.  And at the very least, you would think that Obama would understand the importance of acknowledging public anger over what’s happening.

But no.  If the Bloomberg story is to be believed, Obama thinks his key to electoral success is to trumpet “the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies.”

We’re doomed.

© 2010 New York Times

Paul Krugman is professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and a regular columnist for The New York Times.  Krugman was the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.  He is the author of numerous books, including The Conscience of A Liberal, and his most recent, The Return of Depression Economics.

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Perspective is an evil task-master - Right?

Yes - Reality does truly suck sometimes, way too many times of late.


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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

On And On It Goes...

And Where It Will Stop. . .  No Body Knows.
by The Old Hippie Because The-So-Very-Few Among Us Are Still Allowed To Be Allowed.

Hacker
{-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.


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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned...  And I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' fodder-units of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists.  I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself.  All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.


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Monday, February 08, 2010

Not That It Matters Anymore. . .

The Ramifications Of Your “Allowing” Become Clearer Each Day. . .
To All You Allowers, Who Rebel Against Rebellion, In The Face Of Destruction... Fuck You.
News? 
(Ala the Supreme Court’s Decision:)  Wealthy CEOs Conspire to Influence Elections for GOP

In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to GOP  (Duh.  The GOP Are Corporatists.)

Poll: Two-Thirds Of Americans Unhappy About Citizens United Ruling  (“Unhappy”?!?)

The Terror-Industrial Complex  (Warning:  May Be Too Strongly Truthful For Allower’s In Denial?)

Bush, Cheney And The Great Escape. . .  (Disgraceful As It Is To Say, Don't Hold Your Breath.)

Democrats Still Running Scared. . .

by Mr. Fish

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

by Jim Morin


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Friday, February 05, 2010

Corporatists Rule You. . .

They Sneeringly Lie, MSM Backs Their Lies, And You Insanely Allow It.
Because The “Allowing” Has Not Been “Allowed” to be Stopped - I Fear That, More Than Them.

Patriot 
Corrupted Corporatist “Elites” Are Destroying The Democracy.
Big Banks Are Parasites You “Allow” To Feed On Our Money.
The Corporatist Borg GOP Revives Privatizing Social Security.
A “Corporatist Connection” That Explains So Much.  (Reprised.)
Who Is Actually Killing Financial Reform?  (Hint: “Corporatists.”)
CIA Agents To Moonlight For Wall St.  (What Could Go Wrong?)
America, Inc. Is Here.  Get With The Program!

by Jim Morin


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A “Below The Fold” Audio (Vermont Public Radio) bonus...  Enjoy...

Interview: Journalist Chris Hedges, Author of “Empire of Illusion”

Journalist, (and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute,) Chris Hedges says we live in two separate Americas.

In his new book, Empire of Illusion, Hedges argues that the country is divided.  On one side is a minority that lives in a literate world, able to discern deception from truth.  On the other is a detached majority, coasting on the distractions of celebrity, spectacle and simplistic thinking.

Vermont native Chris Hedges lives in Princeton, N.J.  He spoke by phone with VPR's Neal Charnoff.




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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

You Ignored, You Allowed. . .

Now, View The Results Of Your Ignoring, Of Your Allowing. . .
Because Our Denial, Our Allowing... Is Destroying Our Lives, Nation, And Planet.

Read 

Murray Hill Incorporated, (A Corporation,) Is Running For Congress.
This May Blow You Away?  (Or You’ll Just Ignore It, Like Everything Else.)CEO To Take $100 Million Bonus In Defiance Of Obama All Of Us.
44 Countries Have A Lower Infant Mortality Rate... Than America.
Only a Wave of Democratic Participation Can Save This Country?
Obama & The Fading Of Hope.  (A Lot Of People Fooled Themselves.)
Who Will Be The New Global King Of The Hill?

Jim Morin


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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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Monday, February 01, 2010

This Proves It. . .

America Is Insane, And Lost, If You Doubt It, Read The Following...
by Ed Pilkington of the Guardian/UK, in New York


Fox Most Trusted News Channel in US, Poll Shows


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Kind of says it all - Doesn’t it?


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