Whenever I read the words of an obviously well-educated, intelligent and cock-sure poster such as yourself, who expounds wisely on the virtues of one religion and the evils of competitor religions, I wonder only how much money they are pulling in annually through sales or services to the adherents of that particular religion - because it is patently obvious that nobody that smart could be fooled by the dogma and promises of any religion, and just as obvious that they are receiving some form of abundant gratification/reward in this life, from their religious association.
However, since I consider it irresponsible and silly to ask for truth about a unanimous poster's personal life, or life style, I won't attempt to make you lie about such associations or incomes.
2015 Shkreli arrested for mulitple security fraud and ponzi scheme crimes.
2015 Shkreli released on 5 million dollar bond.
2016 Shkreli security fraud ponzi-scheme case goes to court.
2016 Shkreli found guilty on all charges and fined 8 million dollars, (which is the government's 10% cut of his 8 billion dollar security fraud and ponzi-scheme profits), and 200 hours of community service.
2016 Shkreli goes back to life of crime and price gouging, none the worse for wear. Raises prices on 5 other life-saving drugs to replace the government pay-off lost in court case, and to pay off the hundreds of rich screaming suckers he defrauded in his many ponzi schemes.
2016 Shkreli completes 200 hours of community service in 2 days by hiring 10 vagrants to hand out aspirin to other vagrants.
2018 Public short term memory limit reached.
2020 Shkreli wins Nobel Peace Prize for his life-saving pharmaceutical goodmanship. When asked what lesson he learned form the whole situation, the billionaire philanthropist replied;
"Always cut the government in for a piece of the action because they'll take you to court and squeeze their cut out of you anyway if you don't, and that's just embarrassing."
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I mean, really, like anyone expects the DOJ to drop a real poop-bomb on any corporate crook. Shkreli will walk away from this debacle virtually unscathed, unrepentant, and a very rich man.
Re: Re: Make it useless and nobody will care if it goes away
"You forgot "Basement dwelling pud pullers"..."
Didn't actually leave them out ... I just assumed the CIAF BIN SADOJ had already hired all the 'basement dwelling pud pullers' for the (public-surveillance) Hydra, (create-a-terrorist) Wizard of Oz, and (drone-assassination) Chicken Little programs.
Make it useless and nobody will care if it goes away
Methinks this "trend" is simply a way for some web-companies to
a. phase out their comments section and the need for moderation, "naturally", by making posters identify themselves first, which will quickly eliminate any meaningful comments and thus make the comments section redundant and pointless...
b. eliminate the threat of hostile demands by government spies for identification of posters suspected to be drug dealers, terrorists, dissidents, child molesters, conspiracy nutters, hoarders, intellectuals, bed-wetters, or any of the government's myriad bad-guys known to be hiding out among the American Public, by preventing posters without the means of creating a false id, from posting anything.
Revolution is a ride upon a circle. One always ends up in exactly the same place where one began the ride.
There is absolutely no better excuse for legal tyranny, than to pretend to defend the nation against internal insurrection.
In fact, it is extremely likely that the current spate of obviously anti-constitutional laws and fascist actions by government and Corporate America, is specifically designed to foment dissent and pave the way for an easily controlled "popular" insurrection.
Once established in the minds of the general population, the government can easily play dress-up and become the "rebels", putting some apparently real teeth on the War against Terrorism, and thereby, legally wage war upon the US population, while airing a continuous stream of false flag "terrorist" acts on CIA-TV to prove the need for even more freedom killing laws.
Methinks we are being played.
Better than a revolution, is a nation-wide walk out.
Store up a month's supplies and just stop going to work.
Fascism is simply business-as-usual without restrictions.
Cut off the only thing that the wealthy care about - money - and it dies of starvation.
I think we will eventually find that the only government that represents the people, is the one that is composed of the people being governed.
As long as the government is composed of citizens whose wealth places them outside and above the laws that govern the rest of the population, you will always end up where we are today - with the rich eating the poor and the middle class, because they can.
Another day, another lie, another dollar and another fool born.
Can't say as I'm at all surprised by this.
After all, a fascist government listens only to its board of directors and their concerns as relates to their stockholders, and the American Public is neither a stockholder, nor a voting board member of AmeriCo Inc.
The American Public is indeed, the national resource; the very feedstock, upon which the profits of AmeriCo depend.
The Federal Fascist Government of the USA has clearly and plainly stated with this legislation, that you, the American Public, are the enemy and that they are going to watch your every move and listen to your every word and they are going to hang your ass out to dry and destroy your life and your family, if you dare step out of line.
Oh yeah, and that you, the American Public, are going to pay for the entire process and for the salaries of the assholes that are building the Fourth Reich upon the land of the 'thought they were free'.
You have no voice under a fascist government.
Do cattle vote on what the rancher might choose to do?
For those of you who remain willfully blind to reality because its not the pretty picture you desire, and who continue to support your federal government because maybe some day the billionaires that make up its roster might become honest and start doing the job you thought you hired them to do, know that you have nobody to blame for the downfall and dissolution of your nation, other than yourselves.
Fascism thrives where apathy and fear rule the people and fascism is a death sentence for every nation it infects.
Perhaps it is true. Perhaps you really do get the government you deserve.
One afternoon, while walking in the park near my house, I set down a sheaf of sketch papers on the bench next to where I was sitting, so I could peel back the opening on the lid of my coffee, and a seagull shat upon my sketch paper.
At first I was disgusted, but then I noticed that the dropping had miraculously formed a very obvious picture and after a few minutes I determined that it looked exactly like Jesus, dancing in a row boat.
Should I get a copyright for this image on behalf of the bird, so that no unscrupulous persons can steal the resulting "image" and profit unfairly thereby, depriving the bird of his/her fair return?
As a rule, I like to think the unthinkable at least once a day.
Today's Think:
Perhaps the FBI isn't just setting up wanna-be terrorist morons for photo-op sting operations.
Maybe they're recruiting for the CIA and only bust the ones that prove to be too stupid to actually be sent up the ladder for further training in the use of real weapons and bombs by the CIA.
The FBI stings would then be just preliminary recruiting for the real job of CIA-bred home based attacks, like San Bernadino and Boston.
While the process used by the FBI for its phony sting ops is always disclosed shortly after the "bust", as being 100% phony, the viable recruits would get a clean skin CIA make over of their history, current and past activities and communications and ideological statements, to insure that they are perceived as real Islamic terrorists once they've served their purpose.
You 'sound' like you're absolutely certain of that 'fact'.
Could you explain why you believe this to be true?
To my logic, when two or more secretive enterprises discover that their separate activities are mutually beneficial, some sort of collusion naturally occurs between the parties, and eventually, a partnership - often discrete and at arm's length - is achieved, simply to increase and maximize the beneficial aspects of their separate activities and decrease or eliminate the expenses and mistakes that arise through duplication and interference.
"The point of terrorism is to frighten people into taking (or not taking) action."
Really?
I thought the point of terrorism was to allow governments the freedom and public support to change laws in order to inhibit civil freedoms and increase taxation levels - generally the same purpose as prohibitions, wars and other state manufactured "fights" against "threats".
Oh wait. by "taking action", you actually mean the public "takes action" by demanding protection, from government, against the perceived threat, and the politicians "take action" by eliminating laws that protect civil rights and freedoms and increasing taxes to generate more funds for the "fight" against the threat.
I think you have already got your wish on that count. Suicide by cop is alive and well in America today.
All that remains to be done now, is to get the rest of those legal weapons out of the hands of the US public so that all the "shootings on sight" will be done by duly authorized LEOS against unarmed civilians, wielding only wallets and cell phones.
A few more mass shootings on American Soil, by "suspected" members of the 5Is mercenary ISIS army should be all that's needed to get that part done.
Then, once all Americans are unarmed, the wealthy can remove the kid gloves and really get down to some good old fashion fascist decadence.
Its not really something that "we the people" allowed to happen, as it is something that is absolutely inevitable in any capitalist - money equals power, prestige and position - society.
As with all capitalist states, the most ruthless and opportunistic people are the ones who will get wealthier, and eventually they get together and combine forces to create a world where their cash-based power can flourish and profit even better, by simply buying the favors of those who are in position to make their dreams come true, and; when necessary, paying folks to eliminate financially or physically all of those who stand in their way.
While a flourishing capitalist society will have over time enacted numerous rules and laws to specifically prevent this sort of thing, once the wealthy become powerful enough, these rules and laws are simply eliminated, or "re-interpreted" to favor the wealthy.
There is absolutely nothing that "we the people" could have done to prevent this process from taking its natural course.
All legal controls that are used to keep the wealthy from utilizing their combined wealth to control society for their own benefit are simply and quietly brushed aside once the wealthy gain enough power to bribe and coerce those holding the reigns of state, and change the rules from within through standard trickery such as false flag operations, terrorism and prohibitions that allow the rewriting of the laws of the land to take place.
It is - fascism - the cancer that heralds the final death throes of a civilization, and like cancer, is invisible until long after its too late to stop - long after it has spread throughout the "system" into all the vital organs.
After all, fascism is always the chosen weapon of conquest by the very people that the general population look up to and admire - the wealthy members of the Ownership Society.
Fascism survives and thrives upon a premise that has proven absolutely true throughout history -
You cannot stop them as long as you just want to be them.
Soon we will have weekly terror attacks, bombings, mass shootings and 'see and tell' marathons and all the other fine trappings that were used to put the nazis into power before WW2.
And as Rapnel above noted, all "official" efforts will be to "fight" the symptoms and effects, and the root causes will remain intact and flourish - because those root causes are the very thing that lets the asshats in power continue to screw the public legally and profit from the chaos.
Its all just hollywood now, so let the show begin.
"The truth is there is nothing we the people or our "representatives" can do about it"
Absolutely correct.
Our "representatives" no longer take orders from "we the people".
Thus, there is no-one in a position of power, who is willing or able to "shut down" or "raid the offices of" the people dismantling the Constitution and rewriting the laws of the land.
The Fascists are in control and they no longer give a shit who knows it.
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However, since I consider it irresponsible and silly to ask for truth about a unanimous poster's personal life, or life style, I won't attempt to make you lie about such associations or incomes.
I'll just use my imagination. :)
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On the post: Merry Christmas Internet! Turing CEO Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud
Time Line
Shkreli arrested for mulitple security fraud and ponzi scheme crimes.
2015
Shkreli released on 5 million dollar bond.
2016
Shkreli security fraud ponzi-scheme case goes to court.
2016
Shkreli found guilty on all charges and fined 8 million dollars, (which is the government's 10% cut of his 8 billion dollar security fraud and ponzi-scheme profits), and 200 hours of community service.
2016
Shkreli goes back to life of crime and price gouging, none the worse for wear. Raises prices on 5 other life-saving drugs to replace the government pay-off lost in court case, and to pay off the hundreds of rich screaming suckers he defrauded in his many ponzi schemes.
2016
Shkreli completes 200 hours of community service in 2 days by hiring 10 vagrants to hand out aspirin to other vagrants.
2018
Public short term memory limit reached.
2020
Shkreli wins Nobel Peace Prize for his life-saving pharmaceutical goodmanship. When asked what lesson he learned form the whole situation, the billionaire philanthropist replied;
"Always cut the government in for a piece of the action because they'll take you to court and squeeze their cut out of you anyway if you don't, and that's just embarrassing."
---
I mean, really, like anyone expects the DOJ to drop a real poop-bomb on any corporate crook. Shkreli will walk away from this debacle virtually unscathed, unrepentant, and a very rich man.
Guaranteed.
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Re: Re: Make it useless and nobody will care if it goes away
Didn't actually leave them out ... I just assumed the CIAF BIN SADOJ had already hired all the 'basement dwelling pud pullers' for the (public-surveillance) Hydra, (create-a-terrorist) Wizard of Oz, and (drone-assassination) Chicken Little programs.
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Make it useless and nobody will care if it goes away
a. phase out their comments section and the need for moderation, "naturally", by making posters identify themselves first, which will quickly eliminate any meaningful comments and thus make the comments section redundant and pointless...
b. eliminate the threat of hostile demands by government spies for identification of posters suspected to be drug dealers, terrorists, dissidents, child molesters, conspiracy nutters, hoarders, intellectuals, bed-wetters, or any of the government's myriad bad-guys known to be hiding out among the American Public, by preventing posters without the means of creating a false id, from posting anything.
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On the post: DEA Loses Big Drug Case, Thanks To Illegal Wiretap Warrants Prosecutor Calls 'Procedural Errors'
nuff sedd
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On the post: Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into A Full On Surveillance Bill
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Time
There is absolutely no better excuse for legal tyranny, than to pretend to defend the nation against internal insurrection.
In fact, it is extremely likely that the current spate of obviously anti-constitutional laws and fascist actions by government and Corporate America, is specifically designed to foment dissent and pave the way for an easily controlled "popular" insurrection.
Once established in the minds of the general population, the government can easily play dress-up and become the "rebels", putting some apparently real teeth on the War against Terrorism, and thereby, legally wage war upon the US population, while airing a continuous stream of false flag "terrorist" acts on CIA-TV to prove the need for even more freedom killing laws.
Methinks we are being played.
Better than a revolution, is a nation-wide walk out.
Store up a month's supplies and just stop going to work.
Fascism is simply business-as-usual without restrictions.
Cut off the only thing that the wealthy care about - money - and it dies of starvation.
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Re: dis is bullshit
Where you been mun?
Cameras in yer house... got a smart TV, cell phone?
Cops circling yer house... drones are flying, spying, prying into everyone's daily routine.
And yer helping pay for it all through yer taxes.
What a hoot eh.
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Re: Re: Never Waste a Crisis
ISIS is US us.
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On the post: Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into A Full On Surveillance Bill
Re: Time
As long as the government is composed of citizens whose wealth places them outside and above the laws that govern the rest of the population, you will always end up where we are today - with the rich eating the poor and the middle class, because they can.
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On the post: Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into A Full On Surveillance Bill
Another day, another lie, another dollar and another fool born.
After all, a fascist government listens only to its board of directors and their concerns as relates to their stockholders, and the American Public is neither a stockholder, nor a voting board member of AmeriCo Inc.
The American Public is indeed, the national resource; the very feedstock, upon which the profits of AmeriCo depend.
The Federal Fascist Government of the USA has clearly and plainly stated with this legislation, that you, the American Public, are the enemy and that they are going to watch your every move and listen to your every word and they are going to hang your ass out to dry and destroy your life and your family, if you dare step out of line.
Oh yeah, and that you, the American Public, are going to pay for the entire process and for the salaries of the assholes that are building the Fourth Reich upon the land of the 'thought they were free'.
You have no voice under a fascist government.
Do cattle vote on what the rancher might choose to do?
For those of you who remain willfully blind to reality because its not the pretty picture you desire, and who continue to support your federal government because maybe some day the billionaires that make up its roster might become honest and start doing the job you thought you hired them to do, know that you have nobody to blame for the downfall and dissolution of your nation, other than yourselves.
Fascism thrives where apathy and fear rule the people and fascism is a death sentence for every nation it infects.
Perhaps it is true.
Perhaps you really do get the government you deserve.
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Re: Dancing in a row boat!
Of course that should have been "sitting" in the park near my house...
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On the post: The Selfie Monkey Strikes Back: Lawyers Claim Of Course Monkeys Can Sue For Copyright
Dancing in a row boat!
At first I was disgusted, but then I noticed that the dropping had miraculously formed a very obvious picture and after a few minutes I determined that it looked exactly like Jesus, dancing in a row boat.
Should I get a copyright for this image on behalf of the bird, so that no unscrupulous persons can steal the resulting "image" and profit unfairly thereby, depriving the bird of his/her fair return?
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On the post: Former Bush Press Secretary Says The Answer To Mass Shootings Is... More Domestic Surveillance
Re:
Today's Think:
Perhaps the FBI isn't just setting up wanna-be terrorist morons for photo-op sting operations.
Maybe they're recruiting for the CIA and only bust the ones that prove to be too stupid to actually be sent up the ladder for further training in the use of real weapons and bombs by the CIA.
The FBI stings would then be just preliminary recruiting for the real job of CIA-bred home based attacks, like San Bernadino and Boston.
While the process used by the FBI for its phony sting ops is always disclosed shortly after the "bust", as being 100% phony, the viable recruits would get a clean skin CIA make over of their history, current and past activities and communications and ideological statements, to insure that they are perceived as real Islamic terrorists once they've served their purpose.
Food for thought, perhaps.
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Re: Re:
You 'sound' like you're absolutely certain of that 'fact'.
Could you explain why you believe this to be true?
To my logic, when two or more secretive enterprises discover that their separate activities are mutually beneficial, some sort of collusion naturally occurs between the parties, and eventually, a partnership - often discrete and at arm's length - is achieved, simply to increase and maximize the beneficial aspects of their separate activities and decrease or eliminate the expenses and mistakes that arise through duplication and interference.
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Re: Fleischer is unclear on the concept
Really?
I thought the point of terrorism was to allow governments the freedom and public support to change laws in order to inhibit civil freedoms and increase taxation levels - generally the same purpose as prohibitions, wars and other state manufactured "fights" against "threats".
Oh wait. by "taking action", you actually mean the public "takes action" by demanding protection, from government, against the perceived threat, and the politicians "take action" by eliminating laws that protect civil rights and freedoms and increasing taxes to generate more funds for the "fight" against the threat.
Silly me.
Never mind. :)
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I think you have already got your wish on that count.
Suicide by cop is alive and well in America today.
All that remains to be done now, is to get the rest of those legal weapons out of the hands of the US public so that all the "shootings on sight" will be done by duly authorized LEOS against unarmed civilians, wielding only wallets and cell phones.
A few more mass shootings on American Soil, by "suspected" members of the 5Is mercenary ISIS army should be all that's needed to get that part done.
Then, once all Americans are unarmed, the wealthy can remove the kid gloves and really get down to some good old fashion fascist decadence.
---
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Re:
Its not really something that "we the people" allowed to happen, as it is something that is absolutely inevitable in any capitalist - money equals power, prestige and position - society.
As with all capitalist states, the most ruthless and opportunistic people are the ones who will get wealthier, and eventually they get together and combine forces to create a world where their cash-based power can flourish and profit even better, by simply buying the favors of those who are in position to make their dreams come true, and; when necessary, paying folks to eliminate financially or physically all of those who stand in their way.
While a flourishing capitalist society will have over time enacted numerous rules and laws to specifically prevent this sort of thing, once the wealthy become powerful enough, these rules and laws are simply eliminated, or "re-interpreted" to favor the wealthy.
There is absolutely nothing that "we the people" could have done to prevent this process from taking its natural course.
All legal controls that are used to keep the wealthy from utilizing their combined wealth to control society for their own benefit are simply and quietly brushed aside once the wealthy gain enough power to bribe and coerce those holding the reigns of state, and change the rules from within through standard trickery such as false flag operations, terrorism and prohibitions that allow the rewriting of the laws of the land to take place.
It is - fascism - the cancer that heralds the final death throes of a civilization, and like cancer, is invisible until long after its too late to stop - long after it has spread throughout the "system" into all the vital organs.
After all, fascism is always the chosen weapon of conquest by the very people that the general population look up to and admire - the wealthy members of the Ownership Society.
Fascism survives and thrives upon a premise that has proven absolutely true throughout history -
You cannot stop them as long as you just want to be them.
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Re:
Soon we will have weekly terror attacks, bombings, mass shootings and 'see and tell' marathons and all the other fine trappings that were used to put the nazis into power before WW2.
And as Rapnel above noted, all "official" efforts will be to "fight" the symptoms and effects, and the root causes will remain intact and flourish - because those root causes are the very thing that lets the asshats in power continue to screw the public legally and profit from the chaos.
Its all just hollywood now, so let the show begin.
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Re:
Absolutely correct.
Our "representatives" no longer take orders from "we the people".
Thus, there is no-one in a position of power, who is willing or able to "shut down" or "raid the offices of" the people dismantling the Constitution and rewriting the laws of the land.
The Fascists are in control and they no longer give a shit who knows it.
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