don't tell me, because i'm not looking, but i bet they're using it

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George has the jump on it, man. Don't go there.

Don't let Wisconsin divide us.

Conservatives and liberals actually agree about the most important things.

In fact, most Americans — conservatives and liberals — are fed up with both of the mainstream Republican and Democratic parties, because it has become obvious that both parties serve Wall Street and the military-industrial complex at the expense of most Americans.

In reality, all Americans — conservatives and liberals:

— Want to break up the unholy alliance between big government and big banks
— Want to break up the giant banks
— Agree that the Wall Street criminals who committed fraud should be thrown in jail
— Agree that the Federal Reserve should be audited
— Are against corporate socialism
— Are against rampant inequality
— Want to stand up to the ruling class
— And are against unnecessary imperial wars

The powers-that-be try to divide us and demonize the "other side" so that we won't realize how much we all agree on.

Don't let them.

He gives a few million links, as usual, to back up his claim. And here I am to back up his claim as well. Don't be a dolt! Don't let them get us raging Hatfields against McCoys again. We're starting to wake up, some of us, and—be a goddam true human now for once—we all need to be fighting them, not each other. It is NOT only Republican Fascists doing this! What was that bullshit about the Republicans pulling off the vote in the Wisconsin Assembly before the Democrats were awake enough to tell the debate had suddenly turned into a vote? HORSESHIT. They are desperate for us to fight each other and not them. And they would be, because THEY are the ones doing the filthy stuff for which everyone should be breaking crockery over their heads.

Go over and read George's links if you need more convincing. He's nicer. I'm just screaming for you take your head out of your ass and stop being a jackass, or worse. Do NOT even mention to me what "progressive" blogs are making of this shit. THEY are AS guilty as the Koch brothers. PERIOD. Don't give me any lip. Just, PLEASE, make some space for sense and then let the sense in, and let's talk how we ALL deal with it.

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here's yer sign

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Each and every one of those nonprofit "progressive" sites that fly up in response to constitutional crises and election fraud and gun control and financial meltdown and torture and illegal wars and toxic planet and wilderness preservation and wildlife preservation and forest preservation and water preservation and feeding starving people and treating AIDS in Africa and watershed reparations and you goddam name it are going for THIS. This is what they are about.

Sean Penn recently came out and quite nearly said as much... trying manfully to get the point across without sounding like a foaming conspiracy theorist bliss ninny lefty... and HE would know... in case you are skeptical of my bona fides in this matter.

WHAT does it take to open people's eyes that they can't simply throw money at things? That this world is up to us?

A cast iron frying pan upside the head?

Wait! Wait! I have one of those!

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They make it so damn easy for us to be ignorant—and we snatch at that chance, it being such a relief from the constant pressure from fear and outrage and unease and opprobrium and struggle to get from outta bed in the morning to back into it at night.

And I do mean whether they are progressives or arch conservatives.

LISTEN to her. The only way to get power is to take responsibility.

No excuses.

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There actually is one good organization to support. Can't accuse Watson of just paycheck-mongering, and then playing dirty politics to increase it instead of performing on your trust. I wish we had a couple billion more like him.

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i was poking my nose out the window to look for snow

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While trying to catch up on the Keiser Reports I missed while off to family and friends, when instead of snow I spied a most rotund little bird of transcendent hoppitude hopping with the utmost in springiness all over my yard. Still, springy or not, he had to be too fat to fly. While contemplating this problem in aerodynamics I was thoroughly enjoying Max and Stacy's banter here, but the Palast interview NAILED me. A number of things are going on here. While I keep waiting for it to dawn on them that not only are all these fraudulent instruments, etc, about which they endlessly complain, based on thin air, but so is the exchange more traditionally considered worth something. These are VERY smart people, but they're not grasping that there is no such thing as actual worth in any exchange system, that none of it is based on actuality, that just as we called the whole mess into being, we can zap it out of being, with no loss whatever. But I digress.

Max interviews Palast here. Palast fries Max's synapses. I honestly believe EVEN Max Keiser was SO flummoxed by what Palast was saying to him that he could not come back with any measure of his famedly-snappy ripostes. Must see TV.

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Today's Keiser Report is also good to hear. It puts a rather fine point on my thing about social media and manufacturing the appearance of consensus... and you get to hear Glenn Greenwald talking about the bullshit surrounding WikiLeaks.

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parasite capitalism

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Or should we call it cannibalism?

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TURN OFF THAT MOTHERFUCKING TV!

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The only people on the street right now are pre-teen girls and new mothers with strollers—not necessarily the same females—and a seriously shiny crunched up cherry red Accord EX full of gang bangers who aren't EVEN as stupid as you are! No. Really. LISTEN TO ALEC.

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Oh, and STAY OFF TWITFACE TOO!!!

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I must remind you that comedy is the BEST way to deliver the unbearable truth... second best is Hallmark mushy....

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They were goddam calling the game over the pharmacy and grocery store PAs. I almost screamed for them to goddam declare it a motherfucking HOLIDAY and spare me this crap. The Point Lobos Creamers are ahead of the Pigglyville Crankers by 98 points. You can watch the damn commercials on YouTube. Pickle yerself for five minutes and stop being so ever-lovin' EASY.

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we're all jackasses on climate change

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Beside cleaning up our act being turned into a wedge issue so we will continue to slime the planet until the humans of Earth go extinct, having dragged countless other species with us, everyone on both sides continues to ignore that we will never be able to do anything about it, one way or the other, as long as we allow those in control to control. And I don't mean you can vote them out... or in.

People persist in bleating about peak oil when, in fact, we also have no idea of the veracity of such a claim. Maybe we can postulate that what we know about seems to be drying up, but that excludes the abiotic oil theory that really does have merit and some recent maybe-not-completely-persuasive evidence to back it up. And it ignores the irrefutable fact that the use of hydrocarbons must be curtailed to the greatest extent conceivable whether or not we're running out of it. It's filthy. There is NO doubt it hurts living things.

People identify themselves with this wedge issue, just like they do with abortion and guns and gay marriage and God. We have seen countless times how damaging to effectiveness this identification unerringly is. We have experienced the utter defeat of our very best wishes for humanity and for the planet over and over and over and over and over BECAUSE we have allowed ourselves to be divided from our fellows by our own psychological need to line up behind those who seem to be our fellows. The controllers, the power elite, the space lizards have been using it on us for centuries and it's bulletproof.

Don't be a jackass! You don't KNOW if global warming is anthropogenic, and some of the bogus science that has popped up to take advantage of the increased funding for coming up with a good model to prove it has actually set back any ability to ever prove it. There are legions of extremely intelligent and loving people who INSIST all the planets in the Solar System are warming. I repeat: You don't KNOW. And neither do the deniers. They know that this stuff is being pushed hard by those whose mission in life it is to enslave us. They have UTTERLY no evidence that it is a ruse concocted solely to squeeze more "taxes" out of us, but they are NOT going to think of another thing for the rest of their lives until the threat and reality of ever-increasing taxation and mandatory expenses is GONE.

NO ONE KNOWS.

Everyone knows we are poisoning the planet and ourselves. Nobody disagrees on that. The only disagreement comes in over the expense of turning that around, and THEN we get right back to shit-slinging for fun and profit over THAT.

You're a selfish venal evil fuck to begrudge the money to clean this up! No, no, YOU are the selfish candy-ass airy-fairy evil fuck to begrudge me and mine the ability to EAT!

You will never be free as long as you can't stop making the same mistakes. You have no business denigrating anyone on the other side when you are every bit as guilty as they are, and when you can be shown over and over and over and over the error of your ways and STILL you prefer continuing to err—and whining that you have no choice—to facing the goddam monster inside who you would rather the planet turn into a ball of cyanide than ever face.

If you wonder how I can like Michael Tsarion going on about energy vampires and the pernicious effects of the "we" mentality, it is because I can see it is his way of urging you to DROP your addiction to forming an identity around the pace setters of consensus trance. You are hotly engaged in contributing to your own helpless hypnosis for as long as you cannot BREAK that vicious cycle, as long as you continue to surf that evil tide.

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i'm not getting over the latest outburst from the reprehensible snail

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To coin a phrase my sister uses to death, it "gripes my cookies" that this scummy nutrient-sliming garden pest just keeps growing out of the once righteous good offices of the SPLC. That organization has been turned into a tool for fascism. One of the nonprofits that became so famous that the bad guys came in with all kinds of money to buy off another outlet for their malign intensions.

You know I have been griping about Chris Hedges' sanctimony and the psychedelic mindfuck of calling Tea Partiers "Brown Shirts" when, whatever you think of them, they have been out there in furtherance of freedom from fascism. Well, while going after this image of the foaming snail I found that he and Hedges have been at least once out there lecturing together on an extremely DHS-friendly subject. Because people think Hedges is righteous from his many years protesting wars and badmouthing fascism, and because people still think SPLC = representing the downtrodden against downtreaders, this is a big problem for humans who want sanity to poke its head up out of this psychotic mess we are forced to call our world.

Somewhere in my bookmarks—lost in the dark fuzzy rooms of what's left of my mind for the moment—is a page full of Antiwar's Scott Horton's interviews with people about the Oklahoma City bombing. You can't listen to them without becoming certain the SPLC was not merely weighing in on domestic terrorism: THEY WERE INVOLVED IN IT. —[FOUND IT.]

But all that aside, the monster in the domestic terrorism shtick, even though hardly anyone likes skinheads, is the threat to our freedom it poses. It is the perfect tool for clamping down, and that is what the House is doing even as we speak. So we must be wary of everyone who purports to be on our side but furthers alarm in the public about domestic terrorism. Maybe it is hard for you to see the justification here, but I must impress upon you that very bad people DO take over very good organizations and either turn them completely useless for improving the world, or turn them into tools for actually helping to make things worse. The enemy preys upon everything you think is decent.

In fact, they troll for everything you think is decent so they can use it to point them toward what to coöpt. You think doing stuff like running in to attach ourselves to the Tea Party is reprehensible, consorting with the enemy, when it could have prevented assholes who don't care about any of us from doing it, and could have rendered our society already stronger against the bastards using us to pick their teeth.

I don't think Hedges is beyond redemption, but for sure Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow—as long as they keep their jobs—and Mark Potok are irretrievably poison to a better world. So you should be working on Hedges to take his head out of his ass and actively working to convince others to close their ears to the Fox News of the "left".

[I need to train myself not to try to post anything while also trying to keep up with my puttering. It really messes with the SENSE of things I'm trying to convey. I think I have now cleaned up most of the ambiguity in here....]

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you keep thinkin', well that's just nuts

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It isn't possible to ever pay it all off. This can't be. They wouldn't incur or allow limitless debt because it could never be paid. Max is being hyperbolic again. He has to be. Limitless debt is completely wrong. People don't lend it never to be repaid.

THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF DOING IT!

It's like all those credit cards they lavished on you, dudes. As long as you have been fooled to think your money was worth anything, and that the people who have it have ever had anything more than bubkes, just PRETENDING there's money in their banks, you're going to keep falling into the bottomless pit. If you can't EVER pay what you owe, you are a SLAVE. Capice? Do you comprehend it YET? I know people have mentioned this a lot over the past couple years but I don't think it has YET sunk in.

You are a slave and this will get worse.

Over NOTHING whatsoever. The monetary system is a complete ruse, from start to finish. ONLY you thinking it isn't has kept it serving those who made it up to begin with.

You gotta wake up or you're dead.

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they hate him for his staunch antifascist position

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And don't mind propagandizing the living snot out of everyone in the Western World to vilify him. I have turned into such a Putin fan, not just because I know it's the opposite of what they want me to think, but because he has shown very real indications that he means business, and will sit on any oligarch who attempts to actually oligarch. It was beyond fair to let them know they could keep their ill-gotten gains if they stayed the hell out of politics, and IF he is having people assassinated for trying to dupe the public, which has not by any means been shown, even if they are dupes themselves, that is clearly in defense of the Russian people, as opposed to The Laureate having people assassinated in furtherance of our terrorization and enslavement.

Cablegate has just occasioned a reiteration of the single thing that helped me out of my media-induced trance:

It refers obliquely to a meeting in 2000 when Vladimir Putin, then still president, met Khodorkovksy and 20 other oligarchs and reportedly warned them to stay out of politics in return for their businesses being left in peace.

One of the most statesmanlike moments in world history. And it contrasts sharply with the filthy collusion, back room deals, in which President Hopey Changey Shit Not Working Out For Us regularly, unerringly, engages.

No. Really. Wipe the sleeping powder off your expanding girth. This is no time to be an all-American jackass.

The truth is: Russia has convicted a couple of their most corrupt sociopathic fucks and the PTB don't want us realizing it because we might get ideas about demanding some of ours suffer similarly.

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he's too young for me

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But I want to marry him anyway.

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making it look really good

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Those shifty Mossad guys are really pouring it on....

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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oh, definitely bogus, planted, state department cables, suuuure

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Someone mentioned how good propaganda is always mixed in with a healthy portion of truth to give itself more credibility. Well, then, they've seriously outdone themselves this time....

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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