no, fucking way, he's not alone: *I'M* with him, as a LOT of people i'm proud to call fellow citizens are, too...
let's see: approval rating on millionaire kongresskritters ? about on par with used car salesscum or pedophiles...
approval rating of snowden around the WHOLE PLANET, about 100 times ANY of those traitorous slimeballs...
dog damn, you've got to figure The They (tm) don't want to see the handwriting on the wall, even though it is written big enough to see from the moon...
i'd sooner snowden, manning, kiriakou, browning, holland (sp?), or basically ANYONE being persecuted by Empire be in charge, than ANY of the slime who are in kongress or the white house...
uh huh, *exactly* the purpose the infotainment machine is to be used for...
in *some* ways, it is *not* that faux news, msnbc, etc are big fat liars (though they can resort to that), and its not only that their reportage is bullshit he said/she said idiocy (although that is a problem), it is what they DON'T cover that is the biggest problem...
if you are a 'normal' citizen and semi-rely on tee vee news to get an idea of what is what, you will be SEVERELY crippled in that goal by the near total lack of substantive and salient news that affects your life...
celebrity bullshit ? ? ? tons... disaster stories ? ? ? no prob... cat-stuck-in-a-tree ? ? ? we'll have a news chopper there... sports, gossip, and moronic, 'funny' chatter among the newsdroids ? ? ? all there...
but serious, ongoing, dogged, actual REPORTING that has meaning to us ? ? ? not in the lamestream media, bunky...
at this knife-edge of his story, we are poised to either throw off the shackles of incipient fascism, or we are doomed to 1984-on-steriods...
...and while *my* comment was posited in the form of black humor, the bleakness of its blackness is that it strikes too close to the truth...
and the truth is: we can NOT trust 'our' (sic) leadership to tell us the truth under virtually any circumstances...
so, sure, there may very well have been some formal briefing, etc... so what ? that still doesn't obviate the factoid that they COULD and -GIVEN the few EXPOSED examples- probably *DID* do some extracurricular spooking to get the behind-the-scenes activities...
you still are not getting the systemic implications of all this shit: we have established both rationally and empirically that the hoovering up of *EVERYTHING* has NOTHING to do with fighting terrorism, etc; so what does that leave ?
it leaves a HUGE SYSTEM which is an abomination against the constitution, but serves the information, surveillance, korporate spying, and blackmail purposes of the power elites... PERIOD.
that hasn't just been going on since nine one one, it has ALWAYS been thus: the powerful, rich, connected use that power to subjugate the majority and steal their labor, land, and bread...
smedley butler tried to tell us, even one of the ultimate insiders -eisenhower- tried to tell us; not to mention all the 'krazies' and k-k-k-konspiracy nuts who turned out some of them were not so nutty after all...
(*and* as someone who railed about ECHELON/TEMPEST/etc for DECADES, i can tell you it feels damn good to FINALLY give the well-deserved mid-finger to the non-thinkers and status-quo pearl-clutchers who vilified like-minded accurate speculators... *raspberries* to you nimrods!)
now that dog-ordained royalty, and booga-booga religious bullying won't work, they have to go full authoritarian to keep the rabble in line... and now? The They (tm) have the technology to make it stick...
do you get it ? ? ? they have EARNED the RIGHTFUL mistrust all amerikans should feel about Empire...
they have ALL abrogated their constitutional duties and betrayed their charge to bring about the greatest good for the greatest number...
they serve only one master: mammon... we are squealing sheeple to be placated with bread and circuses...
when will the sheeple stop chewing their soma-cud and bare their fangs at Empire ? ? ?
Empire is destroying our society, our planet, and our small-dee democracy, but we are too busy struggling to survive and sucking the glass teat, that we're letting fascism not just creep in on little cat feet, but it is stomping and trampling in on hobnail boots, and yet we look away...
if someone shoots a little white girl wearing a guy fawkes mask, will that set this thing off ? ? ?
gee, you think he had either a plant in the committee, or had -oh i don't know- some super-secret agency turn sauron's eye on them to find out the bad news ahead of time ? ? ?
here's the thing, IF you analyze the actions of 'our' (sic) gummint leaders by superficial rationality and logic, it DOES NOT 'make sense' (ie to provide the greatest good for the greatest number)... however, IF you analyze their actions in context of serving the interests of the 1%, then it makes perfect -if sociopathic- 'sense'...
so which is it: EVERYONE in washingtoon is so-o-o-o freaking stooopid they don't realize the evil shit they are doing ? *OR*, EVERYONE is in service to the wants/needs of the 1% and act that way while averring otherwise ? ? ?
when you take off your rose-colored glasses and look at events objectively, then you come to the unfortunate conclusion: 'our' (sic) 'representatives' are representing the 1%, NOT the 99%...
remember: power NEVER devolves voluntarily... NEVER...
(except for the 55 million 'babies' thing: does a person own their own body or not ? if they do, then fuck off if i want to excise MY blob of MY protoplasm from MY body... and, no, it is NOT a 'person' until it gulps its first breath, but realistically, not until they are 18/21...)
make no mistake, even though we may disagree vehemently on the above factoid and its implications, we must ALL band together to defeat our common foe: the USG...
yes, if only po' persecuted xtians had some PLACE, some fancy building that sits empty 99% of time, some untaxed shelter where they regularly gathered together locally with like-minded xtians and they could meet up that way... ...if only such a place existed... *snort* po', po' xtians, no wonder they have to resort to such desperate and disreputable means of meeting on the inertnet tubes ! !!
1. it wasn't a scam, it was tithing... (um, wait a minute, let's think this through...) 2. it may have been 'here' or at slashdot where i saw an explanation for the obviousness of the 'nigerian prince' type scams: they WANT to quickly weed out the 95-99% of the semi-aware human beans who would immediately dismiss this widely known scam technique, and ensnare the noobies, and mentally impaired oldsters, etc who *MIGHT* get caught up in the scheme... they are simply playing the odds: they send out 1 million emails, it doesn't matter 99.99% of the people delete them immediately, the .01% = 10 000 potential marks who have been 'pre-qualified' to be clueless, naive and/or otherwise mentally impaired...
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acting alone ? ? ?
*I'M* with him, as a LOT of people i'm proud to call fellow citizens are, too...
let's see: approval rating on millionaire kongresskritters ?
about on par with used car salesscum or pedophiles...
approval rating of snowden around the WHOLE PLANET, about 100 times ANY of those traitorous slimeballs...
dog damn, you've got to figure The They (tm) don't want to see the handwriting on the wall, even though it is written big enough to see from the moon...
i'd sooner snowden, manning, kiriakou, browning, holland (sp?), or basically ANYONE being persecuted by Empire be in charge, than ANY of the slime who are in kongress or the white house...
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Admiral Ackbar says...
i say: DON'T trust those fuckers, Edward!
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Re:
in *some* ways, it is *not* that faux news, msnbc, etc are big fat liars (though they can resort to that), and its not only that their reportage is bullshit he said/she said idiocy (although that is a problem), it is what they DON'T cover that is the biggest problem...
if you are a 'normal' citizen and semi-rely on tee vee news to get an idea of what is what, you will be SEVERELY crippled in that goal by the near total lack of substantive and salient news that affects your life...
celebrity bullshit ? ? ? tons...
disaster stories ? ? ? no prob...
cat-stuck-in-a-tree ? ? ? we'll have a news chopper there...
sports, gossip, and moronic, 'funny' chatter among the newsdroids ? ? ? all there...
but serious, ongoing, dogged, actual REPORTING that has meaning to us ? ? ? not in the lamestream media, bunky...
welcome to korporate-kontrolled media, citizen...
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Re: Re: Re: Impressive
at this knife-edge of his story, we are poised to either throw off the shackles of incipient fascism, or we are doomed to 1984-on-steriods...
...and while *my* comment was posited in the form of black humor, the bleakness of its blackness is that it strikes too close to the truth...
and the truth is: we can NOT trust 'our' (sic) leadership to tell us the truth under virtually any circumstances...
so, sure, there may very well have been some formal briefing, etc... so what ? that still doesn't obviate the factoid that they COULD and -GIVEN the few EXPOSED examples- probably *DID* do some extracurricular spooking to get the behind-the-scenes activities...
you still are not getting the systemic implications of all this shit: we have established both rationally and empirically that the hoovering up of *EVERYTHING* has NOTHING to do with fighting terrorism, etc; so what does that leave ?
it leaves a HUGE SYSTEM which is an abomination against the constitution, but serves the information, surveillance, korporate spying, and blackmail purposes of the power elites... PERIOD.
that hasn't just been going on since nine one one, it has ALWAYS been thus: the powerful, rich, connected use that power to subjugate the majority and steal their labor, land, and bread...
smedley butler tried to tell us, even one of the ultimate insiders -eisenhower- tried to tell us; not to mention all the 'krazies' and k-k-k-konspiracy nuts who turned out some of them were not so nutty after all...
(*and* as someone who railed about ECHELON/TEMPEST/etc for DECADES, i can tell you it feels damn good to FINALLY give the well-deserved mid-finger to the non-thinkers and status-quo pearl-clutchers who vilified like-minded accurate speculators... *raspberries* to you nimrods!)
now that dog-ordained royalty, and booga-booga religious bullying won't work, they have to go full authoritarian to keep the rabble in line... and now? The They (tm) have the technology to make it stick...
do you get it ? ? ?
they have EARNED the RIGHTFUL mistrust all amerikans should feel about Empire...
they have ALL abrogated their constitutional duties and betrayed their charge to bring about the greatest good for the greatest number...
they serve only one master: mammon...
we are squealing sheeple to be placated with bread and circuses...
when will the sheeple stop chewing their soma-cud and bare their fangs at Empire ? ? ?
Empire is destroying our society, our planet, and our small-dee democracy, but we are too busy struggling to survive and sucking the glass teat, that we're letting fascism not just creep in on little cat feet, but it is stomping and trampling in on hobnail boots, and yet we look away...
if someone shoots a little white girl wearing a guy fawkes mask, will that set this thing off ? ? ?
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Re: Impressive
surely not...
*snort*
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Re:
now, after this report ?
persona non grata, is who...
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Re:
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Re:
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space age windows ? ? ?
where's my flying car, damn it ! !!
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Re:
no...
psychopathic ?
possibly...
here's the thing, IF you analyze the actions of 'our' (sic) gummint leaders by superficial rationality and logic, it DOES NOT 'make sense' (ie to provide the greatest good for the greatest number)...
however, IF you analyze their actions in context of serving the interests of the 1%, then it makes perfect -if sociopathic- 'sense'...
so which is it:
EVERYONE in washingtoon is so-o-o-o freaking stooopid they don't realize the evil shit they are doing ?
*OR*,
EVERYONE is in service to the wants/needs of the 1% and act that way while averring otherwise ? ? ?
when you take off your rose-colored glasses and look at events objectively, then you come to the unfortunate conclusion: 'our' (sic) 'representatives' are representing the 1%, NOT the 99%...
remember: power NEVER devolves voluntarily...
NEVER...
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Re:
(except for the 55 million 'babies' thing: does a person own their own body or not ? if they do, then fuck off if i want to excise MY blob of MY protoplasm from MY body... and, no, it is NOT a 'person' until it gulps its first breath, but realistically, not until they are 18/21...)
make no mistake, even though we may disagree vehemently on the above factoid and its implications, we must ALL band together to defeat our common foe: the USG...
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Re: Re:
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Re:
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Re:
good one
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Re: Re: ???
yes, the whipping and beatings will continue until morale improves ! ! !
and THANK YOU, Mr. King...
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Re: Re: Re: If I was in the Senate...
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Re:
...if only such a place existed...
*snort*
po', po' xtians, no wonder they have to resort to such desperate and disreputable means of meeting on the inertnet tubes ! !!
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(um, wait a minute, let's think this through...)
2. it may have been 'here' or at slashdot where i saw an explanation for the obviousness of the 'nigerian prince' type scams: they WANT to quickly weed out the 95-99% of the semi-aware human beans who would immediately dismiss this widely known scam technique, and ensnare the noobies, and mentally impaired oldsters, etc who *MIGHT* get caught up in the scheme...
they are simply playing the odds: they send out 1 million emails, it doesn't matter 99.99% of the people delete them immediately, the .01% = 10 000 potential marks who have been 'pre-qualified' to be clueless, naive and/or otherwise mentally impaired...
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Re: This is bad
and a copper hat ! ? ! ?
i *am* impressed...
dog damn, i just might have to upgrade my steel colander and wrap copper wire around it...
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