Showing posts with label starvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label starvation. Show all posts

14 March 2011

the punchline is 'niagara falls'

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In the US living standards for some 16% of the population is already at poverty levels equal to the 1930s. Can you imagine where it would be without food stamps and extended unemployment, etc? This is caused by the wages of debt, accompanied by the disparity and inequality between the rich and the poor. That 16% is a total of some 45 million Americans.

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The US government, which is profligate in its wars, profligate in tax cuts and bailouts for the mega-rich, and profligate in giving unlimited monopoly power to unregulated financial institutions, blames the resulting financial crisis on “handouts” to the poor and “entitlements” to the elderly. Such deception needs more than exposure. It cries out for a 21st century Orwell.

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love, 99
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10 February 2011

got food?

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Eat gold... you may soon be envying all those brown people we've been vaporizing.

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06 February 2011

oh, man, it's odd i should come across this today

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I was back trying to pull together my sidebar again last night. Deleting or replacing dead links, etc., and finding myself miffed about that damn unemployment chart I keep faithfully updating every month, and which increasingly feels wrong to me. Kabam and kablooey! Pft! This now finds my eyeprints today.

Cosmic.

So. Since it now feels wrong, starting to feel as understated as the official line—and, yes, I know I clearly do like to err on the side of overstatement, but gimme a break, the country is comatose—I think I'm going to take that Shadow Stats graph off my sidebar. It ceases to say something meaningful to me....

For those of you on the feed, I don't know if you've noticed the updating on the matter of Egypt today. I think you should notice now.

Okay. Right. Off to nix the annoying graph.

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26 December 2010

call me over-cautious

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But I think this is well worth your time.

I wasn't interested in the first in this series because it was about the aboriginal Australians, and the foods to be found in the outback, but it occurs to me you might be Australian and want to know... enduring all the mandated pseudo-appreciation for those considered lowly but in fact are more worthy.

If this grabs you, here's Part Three, Part Four and Part Five....

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24 November 2010

we'll be starved while eating

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Just making certain we're too weak to rise up whenever we FINALLY get the idea to DO it.

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19 November 2010

ignore paris hilton's pink bentley on the sidebar

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Just focus on the people paying for it.

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17 November 2010

values

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What interests you and why?

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03 October 2010

damned food

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

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02 August 2010

this is angel this is angel

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"Let Them Eat Cake"
A handful of oligarchs are becoming billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain
by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, July 31, 2010

It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding. But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress or the flowers.

When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 2006, their wedding cost $250,000. This large sum hardly counts as a celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1,000,000.

The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed up the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2,000,000.

Now comes the politicians’s daughter as celebrity. According to news reports, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. The additional $2,000,000 apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon.

Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud where a poor boy who became governor of Arkansas and president of the United States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.

The American people did not take up a collection to reward him for his service to them.

Where did the money come from? Who was he really serving during his eight years in office?

How did Tony Blair and his wife, Cherrie, end up with an annual income of ten million pounds (approximately $15 million dollars) as soon as he left office?

Who was Blair really serving?

These are not polite questions, and they are infrequently asked.

While Chelsea’s wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and admire $250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, whose financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job offshoring, and unaffordable wars. The Americans dependent on Lisa Roberts’ food pantry are living out of vans and cars. Those with a house roof still over their heads are packed in as many as 14 per household according to the Chillicothe Gazette in Ohio.

The Chilicothe Gazette reports that Lisa Roberts’ food pantry has “had to cut back to half rations per person in order to have something for everyone who needed it.”

Theresa DePugh stepped up to the challenge and had the starving Ohioans write messages on their food pantry paper plates to President Obama, who has just obtained another $33 billion to squander on a pointless war in Afghanistan that serves no purpose whatsoever except the enrichment of the military/security complex and its shareholders.

The Guardian (UK) reports that according to US government reports, one million American children go to bed hungry, while the Obama regime squanders hundreds of billions of dollars killing women and children in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Guardian’s reporting relies on a US government report from the US Department of Agriculture, which concludes that 50 million people in the US--one in six of the population--were unable to afford to buy sufficient food to stay healthy in 2008.

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that he expected the number of hungry Americans to worsen when the survey for 2010 is released.

Today in the American Superpower, one of every six Americans is living on food stamps.

The Great American Superpower, which is wasting trillions of dollars in pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population unemployed and almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to stay alive.

The world has not witnessed such total failure of government since the final days of the Roman Empire. A handful of American oligarchs are becoming mega-billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain.

And the American sheeple remain acquiescent.


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30 April 2010

'degenerate pigs and freaks'

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Sing it, Ames.
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And... for a reader who popped in the other day to display icy credulity.... I mean, I've been beating my brains out to bring figures and stats and proofs of the numbers of Americans dropping off the radar, and some "progressive" comes in to shrug about not seeing anyone starving. WHAT? Do you think they're being beamed up?
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05 April 2010

it's really not complicated

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It all comes flying at you so fast-and-furiously. You can't keep the proper level of outrage over each insult in tune AND walk around... when... all along... it's really this easy.
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30 March 2010

biggest financial fraud in history

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And are you hearing a word about it on CNBC? Well? Are you?

You are not.
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25 March 2010

he's only the face

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Obama is the current frontman for the real rulers of the world. So we can paint him any way that suits our mood. It can be anyone. It might as well be Sarah Palin. There is no power to the office at all, unless you count the power to deceive billions of people. If you do not shake off the conditioning to see things through a certain lens and look at what is actually there, you will continue to flail angrily in abjection for the rest of your life.

Herein directly below is Paul Craig Roberts saying good-bye for this very reason. He is not too hypnotized to fail to accept that things are as they are. He’s turning seventy-one in a few days and so is pretty unlikely to now turn to the streets with a pitchfork, and too much of a gentleman to demand it of you who are fitter for the task. He seems to be treating you as an adult who can decide for yourself if you will live in this tyranny whose major weapon against you is to keep the politics so psychedelic you can’t get up off the spinning floor. If you look at what they are generating it is like a scene from The Prisoner, and continuing to look at it through the filter of your upbringing, your whole life full of conditioning to be who you are and where you are, will be the time you do in that same prison.

How many times do I plead with you to step out of what you already think? What do you fear about that? Why do you cling to it as though it IS you? It isn’t. It’s only what you’ve been told, and what you’ve made of what you’ve been told, and how you think it is best to position yourself in relation to these things. None of it needs even to have been a lie, though certainly a lot of it has been exactly that. Even the most innocent bits of it are only approximations, thin slices of wholes too big to be usable for walking around inside a society. Being born in these times is entirely too much like being incarcerated for life. If you cannot learn to drop the conditioning—something that can take a spontaneous instant or decades of ceaseless practice and study—to look at actuality, you are in prison. There are cruel prison guards tormenting you from cradle to grave. There is an endless procession of wardens. And they are all invisible to you.

The only release is in nature, and you never know why, and it never lasts, and it grows more unbearably cruel as you age... not to mention the global steaming garbage patch we’ve made of it, and are not even slowing.

The single most pernicious manmade thing in the creation of this prison planet was the invention of monetary systems... all of them. I think I identified this when I was a teenager and first started really trying my hardest to articulate it when I was twenty-six—to my Yale MBA best friend—and being such a happiness-generating, love machine babe, never got anything for it but patronized. An IQ does not get recognized for its contributions when it’s packed that way.

Believe me.

And believe me about the monetary systems, too. What evil could ever make a human think it fitting to charge people for their existence? And those who have mastered the art of profiting off your birth, your incarceration, the incept date for which they condition you to celebrate with cake and candles every year, have also mastered the means to keep you making them richer and more powerful without bothering with things like bars and locks and razor wire. They broadcast it over the air and in the publications and down this intricate network of tubes.

You get to line up on your favorite side! You get to be a renegade! If you manage to make it to celebrity, you get to make money at being used to keep us so conditioned we never stop making our owners richer, even when we are penniless bumps under bridges! It’s gorgeous! It’s so elegant! It’s so simple! It’s so dirt simple and, at the same time, so intricately baroque no one can ever find their way out of it. No. Seriously. That’s elegance incarnate. No wonder they can think less of you than a used toothpick after a meal.

Think! What could make a creature who will throw itself into a roiling ocean to save a drowning stranger also make its living dropping bombs on sleeping civilians innocent men are tortured to perpetuate? That same human will do both.

The other, equally crucial, error in human civilization is the unwillingness of humans to die or to kill to keep peace. It is impossible to have world peace and plenty for all when there will ever be some who will exploit our love of these things for gain. Nothing will stop those people, as long as there is gain from it, except brute force. Short of that, the best ever accomplished was to detour them temporarily. They cannot be stopped short of your willingness to die to stop them, to kill to stop them, and your unwillingness to do either of these is WHY they exist, is WHY your life is this hard and WHY so many lives are blasted off the face of the earth, when they are lucky enough not to be maimed or tortured or starved to death. The true pacifist will kill—NOT, you pussy, each other: THEM—and will die willingly for peace.

And the President of the United States is as UTTERLY helpless against this as YOU are. Until one will die or will kill to stop it, not an infinity of sophistry changes this.

We have right now a president every bit as ludicrous and dangerous as Sarah Palin.

It is a complete waste of life to even think about these people. Yes, you cannot be ignorant of what’s going on, but you can prevent it from keeping you prostrate with a kaleidoscope spinning in your head by just registering it and dropping your reactionary howling and puffing and videoing and snarking, so you can move about in a field clear of psychedelics and function as an ADULT, formulate the ways to bring this to a halt, and PERFORM on them. You can do that.

I started laughing when I saw the headlines about the death threats coming at Congress over this “healthcare reform”. I did. Pathetic. If they start getting killed by pissed-off Americans... GREAT. I don’t care why. I don’t care, because they are in the midst of prosecuting lethal harm on sentient beings in ANY case, and whatever it takes to stop that is DEFENSE OF LIFE. If it starts happening and you don’t get behind it, YOU are calling the police state down upon yourself.

And, I consider the current fad for painting the Joker’s face on these people a big step up from the Hitler mustaches of old.

It’s more fitting.
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21 March 2010

12 March 2010

listen! you fuckers!

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This isn't funny. This isn't just an oh-ain't-that-a-kick-in-the-head kine bit of information. You gotta take it in. You gotta absorb it. You gotta treat it as though it were reality... because it IS reality... not an abstraction. This kind of macro information stuff seems to be permanently located in a little theater box in your heads... your inner tv sets....

THIS IS SERIOUS SHIT.

Serious, serious shit....

I'm serious.
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