he'd be seventy tomorrow and he'd be married to me

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Do you doubt it?

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is this their final word or do we get ANOTHER explanation?

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I mean, how many times does Colony Collapse get diagnosed before someone treats it?

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consider carefully the implications of this report

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Not pretty. Not pretty at all.

No really. Stop everything and think about this for a moment.

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max making up to us for a rather blaring error in today's keiser report

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A decent compromise, all told, everything considered....

I am practicing no-handed smoking. This is the harder because I've switched to longer cigarettes. I can get them from the rez much more cheaply than the old Camel straights and they don't have the toxins added to them. But if my wimpy lips don't tune up, here, pretty soon, I may have to resort to cutting these puppies in half. I can't get used to it. Plus, it'll save even more $$$ if I smoke half a cigarette at a time. On top of this, I have ceased smoking on my front porch only because I can get more than enough air flow in here to carry the smoke out immediately... things don't get stanky and yeller when the smoke wafts right out, but when it gets too cold to do this and I have to go back out on my porch, I'm going to be feeling really sorry for myself.

In fact, I am considering trying to make it through the winter without turning on the heat at all, just wearing all kinds of clothes and toughing it out. If I do that, I might just leave all the windows and doors open on the lee side of the storms and smoke and shiver my way through adversity. OR go to El Cajon for a couple months, take up my second cousin on her invitation for me to spend the time down there with her. Southern California gives me nightmares. I might not be able to stand it. We'll have to see how things shake out.

I'm not in a very good mood. I'm bummed about my friends. They're watching tv. They're talking about how maybe it's time for bugs to inherit the earth. Pissing and moaning about the climate nazis blowing up school children in their propaganda. Deciding they like the way Andrew Bacevich thinks. Busying themselves in the garden or with their sundry family hassles and commitments. Reminding me that recessions and depressions ALWAYS spring back. Letting all the flagrant indicators of open fascism roll off as though they were invisible molecules of toxins or water rolling off a duck. The ones who recognize we have a fight in front of us won't fight. The others just flat out won't recognize it.

They're fussing over Prop 25 gonna wipe out Prop 13 and no amount of reminding them that it expressly states it won't, and how anyone who tried to wipe it out would be lynched, seems to settle their hash. I think Prop 25 is a TINY move in the direction of more power to the people but nobody seems to even think about that anymore, just squabble like maniacs over who and what will get their vote, even as their positions on the issues scream that they already know their votes don't make fuck-all in the way of a difference.

I just got a flier from some broad making an oath to yank teachers' medical benefits to save the County $9,600 should she be elected to the school board... spend that money on the KIDS. That's about a buck and a half per kid. Oh, right. I'm so gonna vote for this bitch... the only one of the bunch who could afford fliers. If I were famous, I'd start a drive for everyone to vote for Martin Luther King for all offices until the revolution has yanked everyone from them and we start again.

But, no, nothing will be done, and so long to the unlucky....

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the road to wwiii

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Preventing it is up to us.

Gerald Celente, 21 minutes....

Give Us All Your Money....

No, really, all of it....

Would that it would stay a mere currency war....

Lining up to save their homes....

Forty three million people on food stamps....

Pakistan finally provoked into defending its people....

Helpless Democratic-Fascists clean your clock....

And the not-so-helpless ones....

Bailing, bailing, bailing....

No, really, and indeed it's shocking....

Your moment of supreme levity... savor it....

Buck up!

More to come....

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Yeah, well, bully... what version of this shit will be acceptable to him?

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Obama is sending a newly passed bill back to Congress to be fixed because the current version has "unintended consequences on consumer protections." The bill would loosen the process for providing a notary's seal to documents and allow them to be done electronically.

Obama will not sign a bill that would allow foreclosure and other documents to be accepted among multiple states. Consumer advocates and state officials had argued the legislation would make it difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure documents prepared in other states.

The White House said Thursday it is sending the bill back to Congress for revisions, and that the administration would work with lawmakers on it.

O. Max Gardner, a consumer lawyer in Shelby, N.C., said the bill would have made the problems with foreclosure documents worse. That's because mortgage companies would have been able to mass-produce documents and affix a digital version of a notary's seal rather than one on paper.

"They could process more foreclosure cases with improper and invalid documents and make it more difficult for consumers to try to fight," he said.

Obama used a rare "pocket veto" — a tactic for killing a bill that can be used only when Congress is not in session. It essentially takes effect when the president fails to sign a bill within 10 days. Obama has yet to issue a traditional veto during his presidency; he has used a pocket veto once before, in December 2009, to address what amounted to a technicality on a defense spending bill.

Anybody had the mental space yet to consider how DIZZYINGLY fast this bill got spit out of the legislature and into the White House? DO YOU THINK THE CREEP IN THE OVAL OFFICE WILL DO ANYTHING BEYOND MAKING IT LOOK AS THOUGH, OH, NOW THE BANKS HAVE IT RIGHT?

You do? Are you NUTS?

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i'm NOT going to stay up all night again

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I will get in bed and pretend to be asleep.

Dream of cashing out here and moving into Google Housing... or maybe they have a rest home for Bloggers....

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i'm just exasperated

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That's all.

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what do you think?

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I am thinking the able-bodied need to spend a little more energy getting themselves heard... that perhaps our self-destructive love for spectator sport might be cracked if the people being throttled to death by our broken government could somehow get through to us....

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i'm not that big on linking glenn anymore

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Not that I don't think he's wonderful, but generally not wonderful enough to go through the ad bullshit and clickage necessary to discern precisely the level of hypnosis at work on several issues. He gets very clear and very tough in spots, and that makes me very happy, but he has not pulled the gloves all the way off... probably even could be said to be prudent and more effective for it, but the glacial pace too many seem resigned to enduring does not cut it. It just does not.

All the fuckers taking refuge in how long it takes to turn the ship of state should be balls to the wall coming up with one that turns on a dime.

Or we're toast.

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a little teaser of justice after years and years

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Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Bagram, black sites, how many secret bases, Argentina, Central America, everywhere... what do we care?

US judge bans Guantanamo witness
Court delays start of the first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee citing irregularities with state witness.
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2010 16:04 GMT

The first civilian trial for a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been delayed after a judge told prosecutors they cannot call their star witness.

Lewis A Kaplan, the US district judge, blocked the government on Wednesday from calling a man who authorities said, sold explosives to Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the defendant.

Defence lawyers say investigators only learned about the witness after Ghailani underwent harsh interrogation at a secret CIA-run camp overseas between 2004 and 2006.

"The court has not reached this conclusion lightly," Kaplan wrote. "It is acutely aware of the perilous nature of the world in which we live. But the constitution is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not when it is convenient, but when fear and danger beckon in a different direction."

The government immediately asked for a delay of the trial, which had been expected to begin with opening statements on Wednesday, so that it has time to appeal the ruling, should it decide to do so.

The judge sent a pool of 66 jurors home until Tuesday, but not before warning them to avoid following the case on the news or discussing it with anyone.

Ghailani is charged with conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa.

The attacks killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.

The judge issued his written three-page ruling after a hearing three weeks ago in which Hussein Abebe, the witness, testified about his dealings with authorities.

"The government has failed to prove that Abebe's testimony is sufficiently attenuated from Ghailani's coerced statements to permit its receipt in evidence," Kaplan wrote.

The defence had asked the judge to exclude Abebe's testimony on the grounds that it would be the product of statements made by Ghailani to the CIA under duress.

On that point, Kaplan said, "Abebe was identified and located as a close and direct result of statements made by Ghailani while he was held by the CIA. The government has elected not to litigate the details of Ghailani's treatment while in CIA custody. It has sought to make this unnecessary by asking the court to assume in deciding this motion that everything Ghailani said while in CIA custody was coerced."

The judge noted that he had previously rejected defence motions to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that Ghailani was deprived of a speedy trial and that his treatment by the CIA was so outrageous as to require termination of the charges.

How much of this does it take?

I guess we can set our stopwatches on the prosecution's appeal.

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OR JUST WAIT FOR THEM TO COME FOR US....

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THEN try to stave it off....

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in stone

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Wrong kine social, kidz, wrong, wrong, wrong. When do we stop being spectators and perform?

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the eternal, the incomparable, the beautiful farrakhan

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My hands are stinging from slapping my desk. I think my contacts may have floated away. I love this guy to itty bitty bits. He's a thousand times more man than our president could hope to become if he lived for a thousand years.

[He was singing it fifteen years ago, this that so many of us are screaming at the tops of our lungs now... before that. You wonder why they are so careful to smear men like this every time they open their mouths? BECAUSE THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.]

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at first i refused to believe this was legit

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But then I checked.

OMG, OMG, OMG....

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globalization involves much more than merely finances

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The police state must accompany it, or it can't be pulled off. It seems cops everywhere are about as avid as ours to show off their prowess with gizmos and special training and authority over worthless pieces of shit. The dumbing down has not been limited to the United States. Oh. Nossirreebob. It's not just here. Here is just where the power to pull it off originates. The lives of everyone, everywhere are being poured into the coffers of a tiny minority who very seldom bother to interface with the public. They have their goons for that.

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is this getting any coverage on any mainstream outlet?

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I never catch it on my infrequent forays to survey Groupthink and, except for Dahr sticking like oil on pelican, I think that about covers the national or international coverage, no?

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don't let it slip away

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Keep this in mind. Keep it in mind.

Ecuador Coup Attempt Engineered by the CIA
TOP STORY | NIKANDROV Nil | 03.10.2010 | 23:25

Ecuador's police forces played the key role in the coup attempt which shattered the country on September 30. The passing of a law affecting the police officers' bonuses and job benefits became a pretext for the rebellion which erupted in the capital city of Quito and the Guayquil seaport town. Actually, the law was not supposed to entail pay reductions, but those who masterminded the coup managed to convince the police that it would and thus provoked the uprising.

The subsequent developments followed the traditional Latin American pattern: rebels created bases, set up roadblocks, and had all flights to and from Ecuador suspended. The country's air force counting scores of US-trained officers partially sided with the police, while pilots from Venezuela who served in Ecuador in the framework of the military cooperation program were isolated. President Rafael Correa barely escaped death when he approached the police barracks to explain the reforms personally: shooting was audible around, he was sprayed with tear gas, and, moreover, several combat grenades exploded nearby. The president and his bodyguards took refuge in a military hospital which was promptly besieged by the rebel police forces and armed civilians evidently furnished by the opposition. The siege continued for several hours until special forces arrived and escorted Correa to the presidential palace.

Over the past several years the police of Ecuador was courted by the US Embassy which no doubt had its own interests in mind. Money from funds run by the FBI, the CIA, the DEA, and other US agencies was routinely poured into bonuses for the police top brass and operatives, equipment for various police divisions, etc. The cooperation became so cordial that occasionally the US intelligence community used Ecuador's police and army intelligence service to keep under surveillance the country's politicians, journalists, and others regarded as potential opponents of the US. Ecuador's intelligence services rushed information to their US partners during the crisis that hit the country's relations with Columbia after the latter bombed FARC camps in the territory of the former, leaving their own government blind to details of the situation.

The January, 2007 advent of Correa's patriotic administration largely put an end to the abnormal arrangement as the Ecuadorian government started to regain control over the country's agencies. Among other things, Correa forbade them to maintain unofficial ties with the US Embassy or get on its payroll. The efforts predictably angered Washington which, in one instance, demonstratively demanded that the Ecuadorian drug enforcement agency return the computers formerly supplied to it by DEA. The relations between Ecuador and the US saw another chill when Correa closed the US airbase in Mante. In response, Washington slammed Quito over its friendship with Venezuela and Nicaragua, diapproval of Plan Colombia, and the implementation of an original model of socialism.

The success of the operation which led to the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya in Honduras inspired the US hawks to put similar schemes to works elsewhere in Latin America, Washington's eventual goal being to isolate Hugo Chavez and remove his allies from power across the region. The US Administration reckoned that Ecuador was the easiest target on its political hit list. Correa's reforms meet with staunch resistance mounted by the local oligarchy, pro-US elites, and the army officers corps zombied in the notorious School of the Americas to fight communism which under present-day conditions circulates as a bracket term for whatever political movements Washington frowns upon.

The subversive activity targeting president Correa is coordinated by Heather Hodges who was appointed as the US ambassador to Ecuador in August, 2008.She did a job in Guatemala during the reign of its bloody dictator Rios Montt and served as deputy director of the US State Department's Cuban division which is known to be tightly interwoven with the CIA. Mrs. Hodges also worked with USAID in several countries and served as the US ambassador to Moldova where her mission was to alienate the country's leadership from Russia and to organize a color revolution with the help of pro-western NGOs and the energetic youths from the US Peace Corps. At the moment her trainees are employed by the CIA stations in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

US Secretary of State H. Clinton visited Quito last June to assess the situation from within and to probe into the possibility of reorienting president Correa from Chavez to the US, but failed to exact any concessions from the Ecuadorian leader. As a result, Hodges was instructed to launch the operation aimed at weakening Correa's positions and – in the longer run – toppling him. USAID alone made a $40 mln financial infusion into the cause, former president Lucio being the key figure in the plot. Gutierrez's disastrous presidency ended with his escape from the country. Following an amnesty, he challenged Correa in the 2009 presidential race which he explainably lost.

According to the coup blueprint drafted by the CIA, Gutierrez was to announce the removal of “dictator” Correa and the transfer of authority to a provisional government in a televised address. The plan additionally included the disbandment of Ecuadorian parliament and the organization of snap elections. The conspirators, however, were dispersed by the defenders of the legitimate president and failed to clear Gutierrez's access to TV. Besides, the Indian organizations from the PACHAKUTIK group chose not to partake. The coup therefore collapsed.

Currently Ecuador is under emergency rule. Correa plans to purge the country's law enforcement agencies and to find out who – including the army officers – was involved. Charges are already being pressed against Gutierrez and his Sociedad Patriotica.

Causes of the unrest in Ecuador and the steps necessary to prevent the recurrence of coups in Latin America were analyzed during the UNASUR emergency meeting which convened in Buenos Aires on October 1. Attention should be paid to the fact that Washington chose not to condemn the perpetrators of the coup in Ecuador.

No way was this not our doing.

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o'tutankhamun

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Hear all about the Irish boy king... contemplate the mindfucking that has gone into everything we only think we know. Time-consuming, but could prove transcendental....

Note well: even recent news not only doesn't mention his Western-European DNA but mentions things that lead one away from that covered up discovery. Think, indeed, of all the truth tellers whose righteous information has been kept from reaching the masses. Think of how out of it this makes the masses. Think how tricking us becomes progressively easier, how we might as well be chimps when it gets to this point.



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love, 99
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the playbook

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There is a manual. It works.

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the taxes you won't pay turn into fines

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And the fines you can't pay turn into jail....

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oh, right

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That ought to save them a tanker or two per year. Since I know they have scalar weapons, ergo also limitless free energy, they don't really need that fuel at all. Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if Afghani stubbornness were the thing that finally made this apparent to everyone?

Hardeeharharhar, I know....

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kids in candy stores

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We gotta fight the kids in candy stores aspect of all these gizmos and special arts they're giving the cops across the globe. I know these fellows won't be nearly as gleeful about displaying their talents when they get to do it for real, but, clearly now, since we've seen the avidity with which the fun stuff is applied by troops who know they're the bad guys and their victims are innocent but won't ever admit it, it's not going to be easy talking them out of their candy stores. They're going to have to see awfully big showings by their fellows before they will have the courage or the selflessness to resist their masters, and all that power.

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the impediment to wisdom?

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Since coming across this image last night, I have been pondering what would possess someone to bring it into the world. First thing I thought of was the set of all scrawny men who are hot for the vastness of pulchritude, but there's that little open book back off there in the distance, behind the mounded flesh on a platter. So I'm thinking, being as how it is today and Sam and I are wondering what to do about the specter of the masses not critically thinking because they were not taught how to do it as children, maybe it's saying something better.

I'm still reeling from the information read onto that podcast, the printed authorities for terms like new world order and The Trivium and dumbing down.... I mean, it has been apparent forever that masses of humans are not bright, but I've managed to run across many, many people I can tell are very smart indeed and yet, and yet, they continually shock me by settling into covertly self-interested advocacy when it is plain as day that is genocidally greedy... which IS also suicidally greedy... and just plain dumb. You hear me wailing about bad faith actors all the time. I keep seeing that the only way society in any form works is when it is peopled with good faith actors. I've been at it for years and it always boils down to this, and I can't find any of those anymore, even among those who occasionally give a good imitation of good faith. This platter of luscious pulchritude stands between them and good faith action, between them and using their heads for something beside hat racks. There were goddam books written about it I never heard of before! It's a plan! This was planned.

It was planned by people whose critical thinking did not arc toward enlightenment. THAT appalls me probably the most. They resented human stupidity so much it made them callous, nihilistic, sociopathic... and stop-you-in-your-tracks narcissistic.

I guess, put like this, with that lovely creature separating man from enlightenment, the contemplation of it can only be seen as good, though it took me a good twelve hours and fitful dreams to get over my revulsion enough to see the beauty in putting out such a crass depiction.

Note the scrawny guy is a hick. Note he's using his head for a hat rack.

Torpid and fat sexuality is served to him on a platter, blinding him to the goal.

This is an image of his enslavement, the way he has been tricked into thinking he's free.

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the world teaches

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And we don't learn.

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i know, i know, i know

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Just declare everyone the owner of the house they live in and quit all the campaign ads....

Right? No?

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progressive democratic-fasists of america

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Drooping pansies amid creeping snapdragons.

Utterly reprehensible excuses for leadership earning their paychecks by blathering terrified liberals to the voting booth.

Better than running a McDonald's for minimum wage, or waiting in line for a job at Starbucks, or getting chipped to work at Wal-Mart, or joining the military to maybe keep alive... but not as honorable as the most dishonorable of these.

Things continue downhill because politicians do politics. Politicians don't give a fuck about policy, don't know quantitative easing from a bread line, don't see ANYTHING in terms of right and wrong, but only in terms of how it spins. Beside all the other egregious insults to our nation, people squabble relentlessly over what utterly unqualified narcissist whore to elect, and THESE people make a living at herding yer battered brian cells toward one or another utterly unqualified narcissist spinning whore. It all adds up to bubkes, except for these twits' paychecks, but you can't SEE that if you cannot float up out of the fray to get a bead on it... and you can't... can you?

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And, you know, I linked something last night in counterpoint to my hero's dismissal of the term new world order that you might not have caught. Or you might have started to listen but lost interest in its slow and somewhat aggravating start, but if you hung in, I think you might agree it was damn well worth the investment of time.

I was just waving in the cosmic breezes over the notion that "normal" people need to be TAUGHT how to think critically. That seems absurd to me on its face, but then I look at the face of the masses of "normal" people and wonder if this might not in fact be the crux of the matter. It means the controllers have been spot on in their assessment of us, and there is no chance of beating them until the masses are so abused that even in their oafishness they just and only want to kill. It may be a sort of inculcated false "human nature" we've been suffering for centuries, millennia, this ceaseless warring and suffering the onslaughts of plutocratic profit-taking... a feature of the Iron Law of Oligarchy it seems clear not so many contemplate... but only don't because critical thinking doesn't come naturally to them, that the best they can do to keep a front in this arena is to have an opinion and fiercely defend it with whatever amount of sophistry comes to hand... spinning for the masses.

I think having to face this information and what it does to my world view has made me cranky again.

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monday piñata

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Candy....

Woulda been nice if HOLDER did this....

Whoopee, chumps....

Pulled the rug out from under Michael Moore....

Bush³....

Rise up or give up....

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i am crestfallen

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This ruins my romantic notions all to smithereens....

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he's all wrong for me

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And only nine months younger than me, but I'm still mad for him. He sounds so sick and/or tired here, and I'm desperately hoping he's glowingly healthy now, vigorous, renewed, brimming with vitality, despite the unbearable drag of this work turning into his life's work. How could I dream of marrying this guy when I can only endure this in fits and blasts? How could he have any of those wonderful qualities I so fervently wish upon him while engaged in this battle against relentless evil for so damn long? I mean, meditating on the courage is contagious theme tonight, I went directly about thinking of Norman, whose courage is incandescent and vastly more communicable than any few hundred others on this theme.

Norman Finkelstein is a damn anomaly. Men as manly as he is are generally not scholars... or don't stay scholars. Scholars are generally not very courageous. Tony Judt definitely qualifies as a courageous scholar, rest his gorgeous soul in a cosmos of love. And there are some others way up there, but in the vast populous of scholarship, far fewer than 1% qualify in this magnitude.

He's a city-dweller. Anathema. But maybe he retreats to the sanity of pastoral bliss, or I could get him to. I feel he needs trees to hug, dirt to dig, a nice long bathe in the pounding negative ions of a waterfall or the sea, a crackling fire, clean air, weather bouncing off completely natural surfaces, perhaps a side trip into the thought experiments of the great propounders of Out There. Norman needs shaking out, a dip in a vat of health, a glimpse at the vastness of inner space, reminding of aliveness, of all the beauty... or he might just die of unremitting disappointment. Maybe he doesn't get caught up in the auditoriums full of young things who surely think he's practically God.

Right?

Oh. Right. Sure.

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love, 99
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oh, natch

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I get stoked it'll be coming out in a month or so, and, no, it won't be coming out until mid-January. Uh-huv course.

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corbett asks how to defeat the new world order

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The responses are generally pretty bleak, but they do bring up unity and dissidence, which doesn't totally suck if you overlook the part about how many won't go there.

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Bottom line, if you don't listen, is the same as the Wikileaks' motto:

COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS.

We need to be seeing courage for a damn change.

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colonel kwiatkowski

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if it were ACTUALLY possible to make it better from inside?

How many times have you heard that excuse for doing wrong? How many times has it been viable?

[In case you need reminding who she is....]

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worse than a twilight zone episode

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THE most aggravating puppet in American history....

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bear in mind those poker players and who invites them, please

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I can't make up my mind if I admire this guy's focus on the local responsibility to withstand the psyops seeking to dupe them, or revile that he's skipped an opportunity to awaken comatose Norte Americanos to their poker dealers. I think I'm leaning toward admiration because he's gotta know there's no waking this beast to this stuff and he's putting his energy where there is more hope of influence, but it doesn't escape me the sort of luxury of that little outpost of lucidity he gets to inhabit.... The determining factor, everywhere, will be The People, and it's almost a copout such a brilliant kid would not spend his talents on the hardest nut to crack.

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not as though it isn't beyond the pale already or anything

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And... that so ain't all... but, heck, we have literally billions of useless eaters to take out....

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no tellin' how mixed up you can get until they try

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Let's just put a lump of history's most dangerous route and a dollop of nice fresh terror-mongering into our evening cuppa OBL and see if we get anywhere close to ayahuasca, shall we?

Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be 'buried'
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (AP) – 15 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West, but in a speech Sunday he went a step further using a deeply offensive insult in response to U.S. statements that the military option against Iran is still on the table.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," he said using language in Iran reserved for hated enemies.

Several top U.S. officials including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have said in recent months that the military option remains on the table and there is a plan to attack Iran, although a military strike has been described as a bad idea.

The crowd of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd just west of the capital chuckled at the president's insult and applauded.

The speech was broadcast by both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but the latter glossed over the insult in the simultaneous translation.

Ahmadinejad's remarks come in sharp contrast to ones he made to Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel in August in which he offered the U.S. Iran's friendship.

In Sunday's speech, Ahmadinejad also questioned once more who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. and said they gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the region and plunder its oil wealth.

During his speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said a majority of people in the U.S. and around the world believe the American government staged the attacks, drawing a strong rebuke from President Barack Obama.

Ahmadinejad often resorts to provocative statements to lash out enemies. He has already compared the power of Iran's enemies to a "mosquito," saying Iran deals with the West over its nuclear activities from a position of power and he has likened the United States to a "farm animal trapped in a quagmire" in Afghanistan.

Iran also condemned the latest U.S. sanctions slapped on eight Iranian officials Wednesday, saying they show American interference in Tehran's domestic affairs.

Washington this week imposed travel and financial sanctions on the eight Iranians, accusing them of taking part in human rights abuses during the turmoil following Iran's June 2009 presidential election.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," sounds damn reasonable to me.

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more doom-saying to ignore

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At your peril.

I think you might gain quite a lot from listening to it, though. Seems some of those we don't agree with do agree that we all stand to lose everything if we do not unite. That is what is impeccable about taking the time to listen to this.

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love, 99
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lots to learn here

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And remember, and bear in mind....

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love, 99
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there's only one answer

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And it cannot be stressed strongly enough:

The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durrão Barroso, has offered one of the few utterly honest arguments for European integration. The reason we need the EU, he suggests, is precisely because it’s not democratic. Left to themselves, elected governments might do all sorts of things simply to humour their voters:

Governments are not always right. If governments were always right we would not have the situation that we have today. Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

This was, in large measure, the original rationale for European unification. The founding fathers had come through the Second World War with – perhaps understandably – a jaded view of democracy. They fretted that, left to themselves, electorates might fall for demagogues. So they deliberately designed a system in which supreme power was wielded by appointed Commissioners who didn’t need to worry about public opinion. It would be going too far to describe the Euro-patriarchs as anti-democratic: Robert Schuman had a sincere commitment to the ballot box, even if Jean Monnet hadn’t. But it is fair to say that they believed that the democratic process sometimes needed to be guided, tempered, constrained.

...now, can it?

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badluck jonathan

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While a man could only find his wife's shoe as evidence of her demise in the carnage, the celebrations carried on only a block away... but some, I guess, must have an inside track to the cosmic ESP.

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why don't humans laugh NATO off the face of the earth?

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I do NOT understand it. Why do so few question the patent absurdity of the maintenance of this organization? WHAT function does it serve? It broadens the base of slaughters for fascists. Forget what they told you its function was, it CLEARLY isn't that anymore.

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damned food

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Can't live with it and can't live without it.

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we all already saw this, right?

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The Corbett Report has made it into an mp3 for you to put on yer whatever, too.

Possibly, as an aside, you do a short meditation on the meaning of austerity while yer mulling this stuff.

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what is contained in everything you discount?

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How many possibilities are lost in the shorthand you use to navigate your waking hours?

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i guess they've even made a movie about it to get you MORE interested

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No one listens. Space lizard researchers are plenty mad.

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ire

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I have wanted to move to Iceland for a long time.

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woe

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It doesn't have to be this way.

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you are going to love this to bits

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I guarantee you will love it. Even if you've already seen it, you will love it over again. Guaranteed.

[Or try it at this link....]

[If all else fails, use this playlist....]

[I can never get over how much this snow monkey looks like Dubya. It throttled me the first time I saw this, and has every time since. Dead ringer.]

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the truth hurts

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But it is the most beautiful thing in life. It is the only thing that works.

You are supposed to be angry!

Just not at the wrong people... to include—but not limited to—the master deluder, of course....

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unenforced rules are not observed

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The only reason to mention this in a fascist regime like ours is to score points with idiots.

Are you one of them?

I have not looked in over twenty years, but at last count the rules on muds, et cetera, were so tight as to all but outright prohibit offshore drilling.

There IS no enforcement of ANY rules against oligarchs... unless it is adjudged to further or protect other oligarchs and impress the population. This has meant the complete destruction of the United States as laid out by the founders. If, now, not even The People will enforce the Constitution, we're done.
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