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1 Feb 2008 @ 17:11 by jazzolog : One Good Thing 1 Feb 2008 @ 19:02 by vaxen : It's... the 'rich' what's paradin the puppets, jazzolog! Or do you really think the president is anything but a CEO of the biggest Corporation on the planet? Presidents do NOT make policy. That's hacked out in dark chamber all night 'sessions' that 'We The People,' another 'Corporation,' are not 'privy' to. Mind your P's and Q's and forget about the made for Television bullcrap you seem so wont to discuss. Dictator means 'speaker.' I guess you had delusions that good old USA was, first a Republic (Res Publica) then a Democracy (Collectivism) but in reality it is neither. It is truly a Fascist Oligarchy pretending to be a Democracy. 14th Amendment citizens don't vote for anythiing. Voting is simply a 'practice' instantiated to make you 'feel good about your indebtedness. And where is our Ambassador Wanta today? The guardian, for the 'people' of all that money. $25.7 Trillion dollars in banks all over the world: A trust fund, set up ostensibly by R. Reagan and his hiiligans, for us, for a rainy day in Helljas bougher. Honest? You talk about honest? get honest adn you'll see through the multifiltered petri dish of fantastic lies being told by all the runners in the 'race.' Race is no issue? What race did you say it was? The 'Great Game' perchance? No one cares about these global clowns anymore for anyone with a lick of sense is fast ridding their hearts and minds of this hill of beans! And everyone knows what the Romans thought of beans. Obama? "The Golden Ass of Apuleius" - Robert Graves Maybe you could benefit from a deep perusal of Brzezinsky's "The Grand Chessboard." Oh, I do have a rather interesting revelation as to who Obama san really is it comes in the form of a pdf and is called "Obama Revealed." Any takers? Nah, I don't suppose there are. Too many well delusioned satraps among us. "Wage War by Deception." Gee, who's motto is that? Obama will do what he is told to do. EOF PS: For your information Eisenhower was a collectivist. The collective rules your country, your pocket book, and your life. Collectivism is one stage beyond communism and democracy, which is used to usher in communism which is used to usher in collectivism which is where you're at right now. Collectivist mania. The hive mind. The TV hive mind. Same old Hegelian game. Delphi Technique anyone? Know what that is? 1 Feb 2008 @ 19:58 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : WARNING I would like to remind anyone addressing anyone else on this page to do so in a civil and thoughtful manner, with a display of simple rudimentary respect. Such terms as "delusions" "sattrap" "hive mind" and other insulting and thoughtless putdowns will result in the imposition of the dread 86. 2 Feb 2008 @ 01:12 by bushman : Hmm, Truth, is a put down, truth, is a put down, truth, is a put down. Now theres a twist of collective reality? lol, Orwell loling, saying, "I told you so" under his last breath. Soma, anyone? 2 Feb 2008 @ 01:39 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Yes, yes thank you. For reminding us truth discomforts some people. A truly novel observation. But on this site I hope at least to maintain a civil and rational conversation. If this basic rule is too much for some of you then please go elsewhere. That is those of you who find offending anyone you disagree with necessary in order to make your point. As if that somehow proved your superiority. Orwell may have understood that too. 2 Feb 2008 @ 06:10 by bushman : Ah Well I do understand your point of view, diolog should be in the old style dialect that us younger folk just don't use. My point is these elections are just like that Cherios comercial, where everything in the store is a box of Cherios, yet you see people trying to choose, I want that one , no I mean that one, ya that one , thanks. Its Soma man, what ever makes you happy. And yet your main post is not a wink different in the put downs of the Chimp who runs this country, you want us to react as someone born in the 40s, where is the rationality in that? How is this election going to brighten our kids kids future, or is it all about health care that people born in the 40s need so desperatly that they would sell out their kids kids for it? This, the vote you vote, not the future for the kids, but your future. Your Soma. 2 Feb 2008 @ 17:10 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Soma. in my world means South of Marker, a neighborhood in San Francisco. What's Soma? I repeat (for what I hope is the last time) that so long as I have any say in the matter disparaging, ugly, and needlessly insulting comments of other contributors here will not be accepted. And the reasons why should be understandable to any generation. 3 Feb 2008 @ 15:46 by jerryvest : Quity, I like your posts and logs and am feeling much like you about my vote. My wife and I are eager to see a new face in our Administration and on tv. I believe that other leaders in our world, especially our enemies, and that is about everyone, will wish to listen to Barack as well. 3 Feb 2008 @ 16:50 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Yes, Barack has dignity. A stark contrast to what we have seen at countless news conferences for the past seven years. Some may say this quality is minor in a president. Well, if smirking and smiling at death or even violently beating your chest for more death and destruction (the way McCain did last night) is a promising begining then we are surely up the creek. I think you're right. I know you're right since signs of optimism and hope about Obama in foreign parts have already made the news...... 3 Feb 2008 @ 16:53 by vaxen : Quinty san... I was going to post a piece here for your edification about how your boy Obama Rama was winning (Thanks Diebold) in many States, the - ah - "dignified one - but, on second thought, the Delphi Technique obviously has you by the proverbial 'balls.' So be it, then... With your world going to Hellja in a handbasket you wish to mince words? No problem... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech: Which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it he does not hurt and controul the Right of another; and this is the only Check which it ought to suffer, the only Bounds which it ought to know. — Cato’s Letters No. 15 [February 4, 1720] The Future of Freedom Foundation invites you to attend Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties: Andrew J. Bacevich · James Bovard · Alexander Cockburn · Bruce Fein · Bart Frazier Glenn Greenwald · Anthony Gregory · Gene Healy · Robert Higgs · Jacob G. Hornberger · Stephen Kinzer Karen Kwiatkowski · Joseph Margulies · Joanne Mariner · Justin Raimondo Sheldon Richman · Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. · Jonathan Turley · Laurence M. Vance June 6-8, 2008 Hyatt Regency Reston 1800 Presidents Street Reston, VA 20190 — (800) 233-1234 The conference runs from Friday morning through Sunday evening. Plan to arrive at the Hyatt Regency Reston Thursday evening with a departure Monday morning. www.fff.org/conference2008 WAR ON TERRORISM The New Crime of Thinking [link] by Gary D. Barnett Future of Freedom Foundation Don't Even Think About It [link] by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella TORTURE Tortured Testimony [link] Editorial Washington Post Mukasey's Radical Worldview Is Now the Norm [link] by Glenn Greenwald Salon.com Mother Jones PRIVACY Our State Collects More Data than the Stasi Ever Did. We Need to Fight Back [link] by Timothy Garton Ash The Guardian -- It should be noted that those Nations who have dared to decouple the US Dollar from their oil trade, Iraq, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, have come under withering attacks from the Americans, and their Western Allies; none worse than the Iraqis who are reported to have suffered over 1 million deaths since being invaded by the US in 2003. But, as these reports state, the ‘worst nightmare’ of the Americans appeared to be coming true this past week when their Saudi Arabian allies were reported to have begun the decoupling of the US Dollar from their oil trade with the intention of replacing the rapidly declining American currency with the European Euro. American War Leaders, though, have had previous warnings of the Saudis growing fears of being the holders of trillions of declining US Dollars with Saudi Arabia, for the first time, refusing to drop their interest rates in ‘lock-step’ with the US Federal Reserve, and leading to fears of a ‘stampede’ by other Middle Eastern Nations out of US Dollar backed assets. Under such a threat, and with the Saudi King growing closer to Iran’s President Ahmadinejad [both pictured top left 2nd photo], Russian Military Analysts state in these reports that the United States invoked one of their so called ‘nuclear options’ by severing the three major undersea cables connecting the Middle East’s major banking centers to their Western, and Global, counterparts. The significance to the severing of these cables is the Middle East Banking Centers being denied access to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), based in Brussels and which carries up to 12.7 million messages a day containing instructions on many of the International transfers of money between banks, lies in Saudi Arabia, or any other Middle East Nation, being unable to change their previously, before loss of communication, encoded currency instructions from being changed. Moscow’s actions against the West, in the severing by the United States of these cables, was swift as President Putin ordered Russian Air Force Fighters and Bombers to take immediate action to protect the Russian Nations vital undersea cables in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. To some of the Russian Air Force assets used we can read as reported by the Reuters News Service article titled "Russia sends bombers, fighters to Atlantic, Arctic", and which says: "Air force pilots will carry out practice in the areas involving reconnaissance, missile-bombing attacks on a navy attack force of a hypothetical enemy, air-to-air combat and refuelling and patrolling," an air force spokesman said. The bomber group included two Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers, codenamed "Blackjack" by NATO, two turbo-prop Tu-95 "Bear" strategic bombers, and eight Tu-22 "Blinder" bombers. MiG-31 and Su-27 fighters were also sent to the region." [link] 3 Feb 2008 @ 20:39 by celestial : My take on it For what it's worth (about two cents). America is headed for a black man as president and a white woman as vice president; that's about as integrated as it can possibly be! As far as the U.S.A. cutting under sea cables, that is yet another act of war; the day of reckoning for America is approaching rapidly. 3 Feb 2008 @ 21:18 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Stranger thiings have happened. Obama shouldn't be anywhere in this race. Hillary had it sewn up. Though I would prefer not to see another Clinton in the White House. And would Bill be coming over, bugging Obama? My guess is that Edwards is waiting to see who comes out on top before backing anyone. That he wants to continue to be a player, and he won't antagonize the winner by having opposed him or her at one point in the race. This is pure conjecture and perhaps unfair to Edwards. But if he backs the apparent winner then there may be something to this idea. Stranger things have happened. 4 Feb 2008 @ 00:19 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Toni Morrison backs Obama..... New York Times “This is one of those singular moments that nations ignore at their peril...” There those who mock Barack's “transcendence.” But Morrison, an artist, can relate, which she has in her endorsement. She can see that he sees. For there are many similarities. It may all sound like mumbo jumbo but if anyone believes in the transcendence of art and philosophy then he or she should pause. Yes, if Barack is not the real thing we are in for a crash. A spectacular crash, one only the Devil could have organized, grinning. And, of course, there is the question of experience. But who can be fully experienced and prepared to be the President of the United States? Lincoln, after all, served only one two year term in Congress. 4 Feb 2008 @ 01:18 by vaxen : Fascism... is fascism regardless of the colors of it's face. It doesn't matter which one of these boobs wins the fixed race. Those who pull their strings will continue on with the charade of American Democracy and the American people can rot, and will, but they'll foot the 'bill.' The Traitors in the White House will continue selling State Secrets and torturing those who disagree with their criminal actions. There is no opposition to this madness yet in view and the dish will run away with the spoon...so what? 4 Feb 2008 @ 03:13 by vaxen : Appropos... of nothing we don't know about these two imposters (poseurs)...and a bit more. Hillary Clinton Again Lies about Iraq By Stephen Zunes In Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton lied again about Iraq. [link] Hot Democratic Properties By Alexander Cockburn From Hillary's Whitewater Deal to Bill's Uranium Mine to Obama's Ba'athist Ties. [link] Hacking Democracy Video This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers - which count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either. [link] Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions : Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event of geopolitical proportions may be just around the corner. [link] === Ships did not cause Internet cable damage: Damage to undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean that hit business across the Middle East and South Asia was not caused by ships, Egypt's communications ministry said on Sunday, ruling out earlier reports. [link] 4 Feb 2008 @ 04:50 by mortimer : I Refuse To Vote I only have somewhat solid understand of philosophy, not gov. or law and certainly not understand war or politics. I do take my responsibility serous; and my Voting would only further fuel and support a corrupt system (American Incorporated) that is doomed to fail. The Western World View (colonial) is inherent in design to fail. Dot period. I Refuse To Vote 4 Feb 2008 @ 19:54 by celestial : Vax, Fascism doesn't know color...you're quite right but the masses don't and the big thing is integration. I've noticed local news broadcasts have a black man with a white woman on the screen and it's a media thing to subliminally mix the races. Martin Luther King was executed (from on high) because he said "Mix the blood, mix the blood, mix the blood." In George Bush's first run for president, he used to end his ads with "I'm George Bush and I approved this message." It is understood that he approved it or it wouldn't be on the air waves. Ever since then, a lot of other politicians have followed his example. When I hear ANY of them say that, I will not vote for them; I figure they're in the same camp with Bush! Too bad for the public we did not figure it out that when the kid got in the white house that it was a rigged deal; now, there's "NO WAY OUT." Ever see that movie? 5 Feb 2008 @ 05:24 by vaxen : No... I haven't seen that movie, celestial. The MSM is full of subliminal messages and the so called candidates are just so much packaged meat. Eventually the 'Nation State' must die. Not Hillary, not Obama, none of these tools, in short, are other than useful idiots in a dirty game rigged long ago, try 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve Act when Americans becasme debt slaves to a new financial order hell bent on bankrupting everyone and stealing their very souls. The fools in governments worldwide know that their time is limited and that people world over are waking up thus new draconian laws are being cranked out every day by those who think they own us! AS for MLK? He should have stood up for individual sovereignty not 14th Amendment indentured servitude. I've heard a lot of reasons why he was taken out but, in my opinion, that's the real one and I'd look to his own people for the real killers. Not that I supported the man in any way but he was...just a man and in that deserved at least a little respect not the martyrdom of an eidolon. I would suggest the erection of a whole new system outside the District of Columbia. A One recognising the original Republic and the difference between a Democracy and a Republic and why this nation was founded as a Republic and not a Democracy! The only Democracy in this jaded land is the District of Columbia and the private Corporation calling itself the UNITED STATES which functions there as a legislative democracy but in truth is a totallitarian dictatorship of the Oligarchy...in other words...a Feudal system of Oppression. No amount of Obamas will change that. The dumbed down, read mind controlled from cradle to grave, people of America (Whatever that is) will go along with the 'dictates' of the MSM till the day they die. The fourth world war has been going on for sometime now. It is called the 'battle for the minds of men (Inclusive term referencing human kind).' It won't be easy to get free of it but there is a way though I'm told that there is really no time left for the way is a process and we are simply quite out of time. It's too late so...we'll deal with that as best we can. Good luck celestial and thanks for your comment here... [link] 5 Feb 2008 @ 19:59 by celestial : Vax, Yes, they're packaged...like BAIT! A proverb...The borrower is SERVANT to the lender. The Constitution provides for slavery in the form of indentured servitude. Is it any wonder they want to arrest everyone on something? "The dumbed down, read mind controlled from cradle to grave, people of America (Whatever that is)" is the population addicted to and mesmerized by the greatest mind control tool ever invented...the TELEVISION (TV). Government and big corporations use Pavlov's Dog principles in their propaganda and advertisements to effectively control the masses. The TV is a mass hypnosis tool. Stop watching it and start thinking!!! TIME is an intangible commodity; it can be bought and sold. Cost? What ever the market will bear! 18 Feb 2008 @ 18:18 by Quinty @72.195.137.102 : Jazzolog An interesting discussion on this is taking place over at Jazzolog: [link] 30 Mar 2008 @ 19:54 by quinty : The Reverend Wright has returned. Not in shame and ignominy, afraid to show his face, but to the standing, cheering ovation of the guests and parishioners at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Sabina in Chicago. And did its pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, kick Wright out? No, instead he greeted the Reverend Wright with hugs and loving slaps on the back as did the President of Chicago’s School Board, Rufus Williams, and Maya Angelou, whose birthday they were all celebrating. Watch it here on local TV if you don’t believe me: http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=43317@wbbm.dayport.com For what perhaps most disgusted me about this singular event was that CNN’s newsman, who reported it last night, actually appeared surprised that Jeremiah Wright was greeted in this manner. For the Reverend Wright is supposed to be covered in shame. And no good god fearing American would ever cheer or embrace him. Perhaps if the TV news weren’t such a shallow superficial hybrid of entertainment and salesmanship some of its newscasters would be a little more worldly? And less likely to believe their own BS? What an opportunity was lost by Hillary’s distancing herself from the Reverend Wright. If she had gone at least as far as Obama (rather than take her response from the right’s playbook) and had decently asked for understanding then a necessary dialogue on race in America may have begun. And that “newscaster” on CNN may not have been so astonished by Wright’s enthusiastic greeting. Here’s the story in the Chicago Sun-Times: [link] And Maya Angelou appeared overjoyed by the Reverend Wright’s arrival too. She’s for Hillary you know, and has been close to the Clintons for many years. She read, if you recall, a poem at Bill Clinton’s first inaugural. She also wrote one for Hillary..... State Package for Hillary Clinton You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits’ end, but she has always risen, always risen, don’t forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends. Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her. There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you’re born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies. Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to be what it can become. She declares she wants to see more smiles in the family, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. She is the prayer of every woman and man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy. She means to rise. Don’t give up on Hillary. In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country the wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety and without crippling fear. Rise, Hillary. Rise. 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31 Jan 2008 @ 19:53, by Paul Quintanilla