somebody edited that GREAT icke radio appearance down for you

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It's only fifteen minutes now, with no blather in between bits. The music is a little obnoxious, but overall, a great job. DON'T MISS IT. Listen to him. THINK ABOUT IT.

PLEASE.

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palestinian version of hatfields and mccoys

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They're every bit as susceptible to mindfucking as we are. Clearly.

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DON'T give me that innocent look.

One of the things that shocks me the most about this kind of thing is how willing everyone seems to be to bend over and just take it. We’ll carry guns to rallies and have a genuine freak-out if someone suggests raising the top marginal rate a point, but there are honest to goodness abuses of authority and prosecutorial misconduct every single day, and only a few people really speak up about it. Hell, even at this website, where the commenters mainly identify as center to center-left, when allegations of misconduct and abuse by our government are put forward, the reaction among a fair number of people is to get their panties in a bunch about the blogger who mentioned it, or to simply swallow the government line. It’s insane. WikiLeaks is a perfect case in point — I know when I find out that my government is lying to me, my first reaction is to get really mad at Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and Glenn Greenwald, and to spend several months talking about whether or not Assange’s ego is too big or if Glenn uses too many words.

Just craziness.

Your ass is grass as long as you keep letting your default settings run you. YOU did NOT set those defaults. THEY did. YOUR responsibility is to get rid of them, to wake up.

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AND DON'T BE DISTRACTED.

[O]ne of the more noteworthy developments is an accelerating campaign to remove the mojahedin-e khalq, or MEK, from the U.S. Government’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. Over the last few months, a number of prominent Republicans—including John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former White House homeland security and counterterrorism coordinator Fran Townsend, and new House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen—have been publicly agitating to delist the MEK. But this effort has now gone bipartisan and big time, including engaging the services of a Washington, DC consulting firm.

To document this last point, we link here to the video of an event held in Washington last week, clearly designed to build public support for delisting the MEK as part of a U.S.-led campaign for regime change in Tehran. The event was organized by Executive Action, LLC, which describes itself as “a McKinsey & Company with muscle, a private CIA and Defense Department available to address your most intractable problems and difficult challenges”. (Exactly who engaged Executive Action’s services for this event is not clear.) Featured speakers included not only Republican figures like Mukasey, but also retired U.S. Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni; former New Mexico Governor, Clinton Administration cabinet officer, and Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson; former Democratic New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli; and retired Marine Corps General James Jones—who just stepped down, in November 2010, as President Obama’s first national security adviser. [And particularly scary, go to video hour 1:16 and see for yourself.] All of the speakers argued for bringing down the Islamic Republic and forging a new political order in Iran—and for embracing the MEK as the foundation of a new Iranian “opposition” capable of bringing about both of these objectives.

If this action doesn't help convince you of the error of your conditioned partisan identification, nothing will.

History DOES rhyme. And we KNOW this drill.

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if at first you don't succeed, drum louder

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Sheesh.

I'm pretty sure China ain't letting North Korea make another move... no matter WHAT the provocation because if they force China to have to take South Korea, there ain't gonna be no North Korea left standing... or South. Fwoosh, seventy-five million people vapor. Immediately. I am living testimony that things ain't the same as they were in 1953... OR in 2009.*

Nope. Far better they keep choking us to death financially than let us start WWIII.

Everybody in their right mind knows that we might start it, but we aren't going to finish it. Nobody prosecuting this action intends any such a thing as a country, a people, coming out on top. At best, the Chinese and the Russians could go on to crow about stopping the Great American Menace, get fat and sing about killing fascists....**

* Al Jazeera, and others, are making much of this cable, implying it actually means China is happy to let Korea reunify, and that would seem lucid, on its face, but most Westerners have no idea that nothing about China, or Asia for that matter, should be taken at face value. They are never direct when indirect works so much better. And you should worry when they effusively praise your virtues. North Korea staying a focus for U.S. troops stationed in South Korea suits China extremely well. They won't give that up easily. Maybe they would assess any possible advantage to letting it go in the short term if they are assured we cannot sustain any menace there, but, well, I do not think they are in a mood to put up with our perfidies much longer. There's nothing left to gain from it.

** I could be completely naive and China's gangsters are as anxious to shave a few billion off the global population as our gangsters are, but... well, I don't think they want to do it that way. It appears to me they prefer birth control to wholesale slaughter. Damn odd how those totalitarians end up being more humane than us democrats, ain't it?

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Oh. Well. Now. THIS IS PSYCHEDELIC. The chances of "a strong ROK-Japan relationship" ever developing are NIL. Nothing in all Japan is reviled more thoroughly than a Korean. Legendary for their racism, in general, NONE of it is as severe as it is toward Koreans. Even someone unfortunate enough to be half-Korean and never having set foot in either Korea—even in a Zen monastery, where things like racism are outright NOT DONE—catches it mercilessly from the Japanese. OMG!

No wonder our diplomats are such idiots! If they're getting this kind of treatment day-in and day-out, they cannot help but stay completely out of touch with reality.

I mean, no, really, this business about never being direct or genuine—at least not with mere acquaintances or in political situations—and I even suspect half the time not really with each other either—has driven me nuts from people all my life. Asians and Middle Easterners find me entertaining as hell. I hate it about them, but I know it comes from millennia of cultural conditioning and so have had to learn to endure it where I don't have the ability to get in there and sock them in the teeth over it. My decades of studying the ancients has helped immeasurably, but, dudes, please, believe me when I tell you, This Is Psychedelic.

Babes in the woods, our diplomats to the Chinese.

They won't ever know what hit them.

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It occurs to me, unbelievable as it might seem, that while I know about the SCO, never invited and not allowed even to audit meetings, maybe our diplomats don't know about it... or didn't when these cables flew out of their offices.

Maybe now that Russia and China aren't using the dollar on each other anymore they're starting to get the picture.

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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This is making me so sick:

With North Korea promising retaliation of its own, the US looks poised to further escalate the tensions in the region with the addition of an aircraft carrier. The US retains some 28,000 troops along the border between the two nations and President Obama has promised to cooperate in whatever retaliation South Korean President Lee Myung-bak sees fit.

Did anyone ever check to see if he was any good at being a community organizer?

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And this is just flat out humiliating. Maybe I'm completely deluded, but I feel sure that our entire legislative branch would have been lined up and shot for this sort of thing a hunnert years ago....

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Don't go blathering nothing about Hillary going to be any better than Bozo the Laureate either.

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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not unrelated

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The piece at the image link was posted immediately after THIS ONE... and I'm telling you, they are not unrelated. I don't understand why people are so willing to just sit back and let our "leaders" get us into this shit. I just don't. Maybe just too many of us too inhibited to don the tinfoil suits to combat the pacification waves, but this is seriously not funny for us, man. It isn't like WWII, when nobody had weapons capable of inflicting damage here, but the sheep don't seem to be getting that idea.

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Tangential, but also probably not unrelated:

Japan spots Chinese vessels near disputed islands: report
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese coast guard has spotted two Chinese vessels attempting on Sunday to enter waters near islands in the East China Sea that are disputed by the two countries, Kyodo News reported.

Two Chinese fishing patrol ships were sighted around 7:45 a.m. on Sunday (6:45 p.m. EST on Saturday) repeatedly trying to enter waters 44 kilometers off a group of islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Kyodo reported, citing the Japanese coast guard.

Relations between Asia's two biggest economies soured in September after Japan detained a Chinese skipper whose fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels off the disputed islands, which are near potentially rich maritime gas reserves. He was later released.

Think about kissing someone or something.

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we better be kidding

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Because they're not.

Expats recalled as North Korea prepares for war
By Shaun Walker in Moscow
Saturday, 27 November 2010

A mass exodus of North Korean workers from the Far East of Russia is under way, according to reports coming out of the region. As the two Koreas edged towards the brink of war this week, it appears that the workers in Russia have been called back to aid potential military operations.

Vladnews agency, based in Vladivostok, reported that North Korean workers had left the town of Nakhodka en masse shortly after the escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula earlier this week. "Traders have left the kiosks and markets, workers have abandoned building sites, and North Korean secret service employees working in the region have joined them and left," the agency reported.

Russia's migration service said that there were over 20,000 North Koreans in Russia at the beginning of 2010, of which the vast majority worked in construction. The workers are usually chaperoned by agents from Kim Jong-il's security services and have little contact with the world around them. Defectors have suggested that the labourers work 13-hour days and that most of their pay is sent back to the government in Pyongyang. Hundreds of workers have fled the harsh conditions and live in hiding in Russia, constantly in fear of being deported back to North Korea.

"North Korea's government sends thousands of its citizens to Russia to earn money, most of which is funnelled through government accounts," says Simon Ostrovsky, a journalist who discovered secret North Korean logging camps in the northern Siberian taiga. "Workers are often sent to remote locations for years at a time to work long hours and get as little as three days off per year." Now it appears that some kind of centralised order has been given for the workers to return home.

Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok is thousands of miles and seven time zones from Moscow, but only around 100 miles from the country's heavily controlled border with North Korea. In 1996, a diplomat from the South Korean consulate in the city was murdered with a poisoned pencil, in what was widely believed to be a hit carried out by the North's secret agents. There are even two North Korean restaurants in the city. It is not known how many of the workers in other Russian towns have been called back to their homeland this week, or whether the exodus is permanent or temporary.

I am appalled and ashamed. I mean, there's no doubt in my mind we started this.

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past is prelude

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Just let go... stop thinking what you think and watch what is....

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eyebrows sprouting

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A rational man will say
electing mass murderers
to commission professional murderers
to commit genocide in our name
does not mean that we are innocent.

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You probably think you're going nuts by now.

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And you've probably seen THIS and THIS everywhere already, but, well, good job all around.

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I could not face pitching a hissy about the bullcrap on the AP and numerous groupthink outlets across the tubes "reporting" how docile everyone was at the airports yesterday, and still can't. But would like you to see at least the counter-propaganda so you don't lose heart from that filthy blather.

TSA turns off naked body scanners to avoid opt-out day protests
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
24 November 2010

(NaturalNews) — Anticipating a nationwide grassroots surge of protests against naked body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, the TSA simply turned off its naked body scanners on Wednesday and let air travelers walk right through security checkpoints without being X-rayed or molested.

All across the country, air travelers are reporting that the TSA simply deactivated the naked body scanners and let people go right through without a scan. "Backscatter scanners are off. No scan. No patdown." reported a traveler from the Seattle airport. "Backscatter machines aren't being used at LAX," reported another traveler. "They're all roped off."

Much the same story is being reported all across the country.

The TSA is desperate to avoid protests

Shutting down the "National Opt-Out Day" by turning off the machines is the only logical move for the TSA, of course: The agency needed a way to defuse the growing grassroots resistance to its criminal violations of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights. So instead of facing what was sure to be widespread protest, the agency simply decided to turn off the machines for a day.

This action tells us all sorts of fascinating things about the TSA and its fabricated security excuses. Perhaps most importantly, it proves that the naked body scanners are not needed for air travel security in the first place. When it wants to, the TSA can just turn the machines off and resort to baggage X-rays and metal detectors. That's worked for years, and it apparently worked today, too.

And yet, up until today, the TSA has insisted that the naked body scanners are absolutely essential to detecting hidden bombs, and that "travelers won't be safe" unless they use the naked body scanners. So all of a sudden today it's okay for the TSA to put air travelers at risk of being blown up?

The TSA can't have it both ways. Either the naked body scanners are vital for air security and they need to be running 24/7 to keep everybody safe, or they're just another security con game being played out for the financial benefit of Chertoff and others who profit from the sale of such machines.

How can the TSA — with a straight face — say that naked body scanners are vital for air security but not on the busiest air travel day of the year?

As you can see, there are some serious holes in the TSA's mythology, and interestingly, this National Opt-Out Day indirectly exposed them by getting the TSA to turn off the naked body scanners. This is effectively an admission that they aren't important to air security.

Trying to avoid any challenge to its power

This action by the TSA also shows that the TSA is desperately trying to avoid being publicly embarrassed by the national-opt-out day protests. Lots of local and national news film crews were out at the airports today, hoping to catch something interesting on camera. But by turning off the naked body scanners, the TSA was able to stage a "calm looking" day at the airport.

As soon as the TV cameras leave, however, they can turn those machines right back on and start molesting people once again. This is classic behavior of police state tyrants: They present a calm, professional image to the media, but once the cameras leave, all of a sudden their hands are back down in your pants.

I predict the TSA will have the machines turned right back on by Friday, and more reports of sexual molestation and inappropriate pat-downs will continue to emerge.

Many people just skipped the airports altogether

The other big travel news today was that lots of travelers decided to simply skip the airports altogether. NaturalNews received emails from several travelers who described major U.S. airports as "nearly empty."

Meanwhile, traffic was terrible on the freeways. The Massachusetts Turnpike played host to a 30-mile traffic jam today.

A new Zogby poll indicates that 43% of the American public will seek alternatives to flying due to the TSA's aggressive pat-downs and naked body scanners. That's going to add up to a huge financial hit for the air travel industry in the months ahead. The TSA could end up destroying much of the air travel industry altogether!

Learn more about freedom, security, American history and the Bill of Rights

For a full discussion of the issues that really matter here, check out my new commentary audio/video about the Don't Touch My Junk song. The first 13 minutes or so are about the song itself. After that, it's mostly a discussion about freedom and the Bill of Rights. You can watch that video commentary for free HERE.

Thank you to all who participated in the National Opt Out Day. In getting the TSA to turn off its naked body scanners, we exposed the TSA's "big lie" about air travel safety.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving and travel safely, no matter what method of transportation you choose.

I even bothered to strip out all the visual impediments and bogus links for your convenience and serenity....

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For the stout-hearted, Peter Dale Scott holds forth at length on continuity of government and the Constitution... gobble, gobble....

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NO SHIT SHERLOCK....

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FIRE THEM ALL NOW....

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ONE OF THESE STINK BOMBS HAS GOTTA BRING 'EM DOWN....

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YA THINK...?

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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I DON'T!

US diplomatic offensive tightens strategic encirclement of China
13 November 2010

Washington’s aggressive diplomatic campaign in Asia over the past two weeks has amounted, in the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to “a full court press” against China, with the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean emerging as potential future theatres of war.

President Barack Obama’s visits to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan, and Clinton’s trips to Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia, sought to either strengthen existing alliances or create new partnerships for a US-led strategic encirclement of China.

Obama fervently courted India, China’s regional nuclear-armed rival. He urged New Delhi to become a “world power” and backed its bid to become a UN Security Council permanent member. Clinton twice reiterated that Washington could invoke the US-Japan Security Treaty to militarily support Japan against China in the conflict over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea. Vietnam announced it was ready to hire out its strategic Cam Ranh Bay port in the South China Sea “to naval ships from all countries”—with Washington the most likely client. Canberra agreed to provide greater US access to its military facilities, especially those in northern Australia.

The American offensive aims to prevent China from controlling the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and key connecting waterways, such as the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda/Lombok straits of Indonesia. Since China depends on ships to transport one third of its oil consumption and 70 percent of its foreign trade, these sea lanes have become its “lifelines”. Some 60 percent of the ships passing through the Strait of Malacca every day are Chinese.

Since World War II, retaining the ability to cut off vital oil supply shipments to rival powers by controlling such “choke points” has been a key US naval strategy. This task looms ever larger for Washington today, with the accelerating decline of American economic power and the rapid rise of China, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Since the China-Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) free-trade zone came into effect last January, Sino-ASEAN trade has increased by nearly 50 percent, whereas rising protectionism in the US is stalling any free trade agreement with Asian states.

Far from accepting a diminishing role, the US is determined to retain its dominant position in Asia through its residual military might. In an interview with the Australian newspaper on Monday, Clinton recalled that when Chinese officials first told Washington, earlier this year, that Beijing viewed the South China Sea as a core Chinese interest, “I immediately responded and said, ‘We don’t agree with that’.” What followed was Clinton’s aggressive announcement at the ASEAN meeting in July that Washington would intervene into disputes between China and ASEAN members, such as Vietnam and Philippines, over the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. China angrily responded by warning that “outsiders,” i.e., the US, should keep out of South China Sea affairs.

Clinton’s subsequent statement that the US had a “national interest” in “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea was even more provocative. More than 40,000 ships freely pass through the sea each year. The “freedom of navigation” that Washington demands is the freedom of American surveillance vessels and warships to sail the waters near the Chinese coast, and to collect intelligence on Chinese military operations, including the deployment of submarines, in the region. If China likewise were to send spy ships to international waters just off the coast of Hawaii or San Diego to monitor the US naval bases there, the American media and political establishment would respond with outrage over what would, legitimately, be interpreted as acts of provocation.

By establishing or strengthening military ties with Vietnam, India, Australia and Indonesia, the US is seeking to counter China’s “string of pearls” strategy. The aim of this strategy is to build port facilities in Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the deployment of Chinese warships into the Indian Ocean in order to protect the shipping lanes that carry oil and raw materials from the Middle East and Africa to China.

Herein lies the importance of Indonesia, which was the second stop on Obama’s trip. The US think tank Stratfor noted: “It [Indonesia] straddles the Strait of Malacca, a global shipping choke point, as well as the Sunda and Lombok straits, making it critical for sea-lanes between the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and the Pacific, and Australia and China. These sea lanes supply China with critical raw materials; any power controlling this area accordingly has enormous leverage over Beijing.”

These considerations also apply to East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, which sit astride other vital sea lanes. There is concern in Washington that over the past decade, China has established economic and even military ties with Pacific island states, and the Obama administration is determined to reassert US “leadership” in the region.

Thus Clinton visited Papua New Guinea and discussed the Asia-Pacific region in her meetings with key officials in Australia and New Zealand.

The centrality of the South China Sea in Washington’s thinking was expressed by Robert Kaplan, who wrote recently in the Washington Post: “The geographical heart of America’s hard-power competition with China will be the South China Sea, through which passes a third of all commercial maritime traffic worldwide and half of the hydrocarbons destined for Japan, the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China. That sea grants Beijing access to the Indian Ocean via the Strait of Malacca, and thus to the entire arc of Islam, from East Africa to Southeast Asia.”

Kaplan is among those within US ruling circles who have criticised the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq for diverting the focus of the former Bush administration, and allowing China to expand its geopolitical influence throughout Asia. Kaplan’s basic ideas can be seen in the Obama administration’s “back in Asia” policy.

The anti-China coalition being assembled by the US directly conflicts with China’s quest to build a blue-water navy to protect its sea lanes and oil supplies. A bestseller published in China last year, China Sea Power by Zhang Wenmu, summed up Beijing’s view of the present great-power struggle for global hegemony. Zhang wrote: “All players are focusing at one aim, the control of the Indian Ocean.”

Beijing will not allow Washington to undermine the gains it has made in Asia. Just days after Clinton told Cambodia not to become “too dependent” on a single country—i.e., China—the Chinese government gave Cambodia $1.6 billion for infrastructure projects and announced a $590 million loan for the development of mobile phone services. Less than a day after Obama arrived in Jakarta, a Chinese delegation came with $6.6 billion in infrastructure projects. In the words of the New York Times, Beijing “laid down a not-so-subtle challenge to Mr. Obama: Show your Indonesian hosts the money”.

Driven by the deepening global economic crisis, the escalating rivalry between the US and China is yet another sign that the world capitalist system is hurtling towards a major catastrophe. Unless the international working class intervenes to overthrow the profit system and the outmoded system of rival nation-states, these great-power tensions must inevitably lead to a new world war.

John Chan

"Full court press" indeed. We're liable to get our full court pressed pretty damn good here any minute, my pretties. Yessir. Things are not looking good.

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Or did they slip it under your radar?

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road to wwiii

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Better take note.

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the road to wwiii

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This will give you lots to chew on. If you haven't been keeping up with this series, you really, really, REALLY should use the links and come up to speed. There are MOUNTAINS of authorities for all the assertions and you will be a swatted fly, a squished bug, if you just go about your life not bothering to inform yourself enough to even have a prayer of stopping it. Pay attention! Your life is at stake.

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you asked for it

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You got it.

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paving the road to wwiii

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Stand up.

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how many of us take david degraw's words to heart?

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Not enough, far as I can tell. Not anything like enough. I think the individual megaliths he erects on the internet are barely grazed if they are seen at all. So few seem to have sat down with his stuff and tried to digest it. I, for once, do not blame this on you.

It's too much. It's good for some alien explorers in the distant future when earth might finally have stopped being too radioactive to explore. It will be good for some galactic library, but who's hearing him when he communicates this way? I mean, getting on with Max is a prime way to get some more eyeballs on his transcendentally good work, but—let me be generous—let's say 95% percent of this population will give it a light skim, maybe take a sample of the comments and move on. Another 3% will give it a hard skim and click some of his links. 1% might read it and skim his links and get blown away and make a comment and then end up with a conviction that bad juju has gone into our present state of affairs. The last 1% might have done all this and taken something from it that moves them to discuss it with someone else, or make part of it form part of their own work.

In this interview, he states he thinks we might have two years before all hell breaks loose. I think that is too long. He might be right, but that is too long. Do the math.

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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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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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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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