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“It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.” --Ron Paul
To those who served honourably: Happy Veteran's Day 2013
WB7
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Thanks WB for all your good work and for the honest comments here, unlike what our fearless leaders spew.
The U.S. protecting opium fields in Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56XpRyNkf6w (2:01)
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FKN Newz... Deek Jackson...
US HARVESTS HOPIUM IN AFGHANISTAN
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSk8yhCPzs (7:41)
dad 7th armour ww2 korea, father inlaw. 1st and 6th marine ww2
Thank you for your service to our masters.
Back then we were young and did not understand the system.
United States Army of Occupation, C94th Artillery, Berlin Germany.
Playing hostage along the nuclear trip wire back in the day and winning the same campaign ribbon my father earned in WWII.
And the beat goes on!
A short story of how a country can default in a few days
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/a-short-story-of-how-country-...
America has a HAPPY Veterans day. America IS modern day Rome. America has a CULTURE OF DEATH!!!
They put theire super patriotic names on these wars and killings they do...."Operation Liberty" That's where they go in and slaughter men women and children for my "freedom". Or "Operation Aide" That's where they go in and give starving people gruel and then shoot them if they try to eat it. How about the American people have an "Operation" Like "Operation FUCK YOU" to the Fed, government AND the military. Try that bitchez.
Someone will start it up.
Fucking babykillers. I wonder how much of a bonus the Fed pays for every baby incinerated or shot. And if you get the Mom too that's gotta be a plus. Yeah it sounds harsh, but THAT'S THE FUCKING REALITY!! Deal with it.
hangemighigh77, you mistakenly posted three times in a row as one of your troll handles. Nice work but you need to be more random and remember to switch identities. Incendiary stuff, that's good, should bring out responses we can put on the NSA list.
they believe military spending is also technology R & D, a guy i know from way back when used to work on highly classified crypto gear, and he said to me, if only i had understood what it was they were doing, they were digitalizing the voice signal so they could scramble it. it was the first cell phone technology. still it seems as though there should be a better way of figuring out useful inventions without conjuring up this stuff in the fog of war. and technology is the essence of militarism, or rapid social change.
That guy might have been me. No one else would spend the money on R&D then. Sad, but true. Still all about the next quarter, only super big rich companies could/can research an idea that might not pay off, and there weren't that many then that were interested. Like zero. It cost more than regular phones (a heck of a lot more, then), who would want it at that price?
My grandfather served 4 years on the Destroyer USS-Wilson 408 all throughout the war in the Pacific. The stories he has are incredible. Ship battles, kamikaze dive bombers crashing into the ship, bombing islands day and night. And he lived through it all and is 91 years old this month. He and my grandmother are even still together married for 71 years just the other day! She's going to be 90 soon.
Here's a color photo of the ship from LIFE magazine: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XM-CMc86CsI/Tt_0zjupc1I/AAAAAAAAATI/0mNEcxEVp9E/s720/uss-wilson-1941.jpg
Gramps was even finally awarded the medal of honor about 10 years ago for his actions during a major sea and air battle where the ship took huge hits and some of his ship-mates were blown overboard. He and a few other guys jumped into the ocean in the middle of the battle to save those guys and they all made it back on board alive.
It took nearly 20 years of my aunt writing to the Navy about the incident and proof from the captain's logs of what happened that day for the Navy to finally acknowledge his actions and award him the medal of honor after all these years.
We never understood why the Navy ignored it for so long, but it took a lot of writing to them and to representatives for them to finally come through. Very odd.
Anyways...Happy Veterans Day to all and especially my grandparents still going strong after all these years. They don't make 'em like that anymore, that's for sure! :-)
"Happy" Veteran's Day? Really?? I wonder how "Happy" the people our veterans have SLAUGHTERED are?? My kid did three tours in Iraq, he has the Bronze Star w/ valoe and the Purple Heart, he's a firebreathing motherfucker. he was THERE and has seen it ALL. You know how "Happy" he is? He wants to kill himself for the shit he had to do over there. he says Iraq is a FUCKING CRIME SCENE. There ain't no "HAPPY" about it. Nightmares every night. This is a guy who worked with Delta Force, the Army won't even admit they exist. He crys when he thinks about the shit he's done. FUCK your Happy BULLSHIT!!
Don't give up hope, your son can and will be helped. You may find a little consolation in the following words by a dead dude who had a notion of life and was in the know: "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance."
@HH77 "He wants to kill himself for the shit he had to do over there. he says Iraq is a FUCKING CRIME SCENE."
I'm so sorry for your son. If I could tell him one thing, it would be that he was duped like most of this country. Killing himself would alleviate his pain, but the ripple effect the bag of shit he would leave his loved one's holding is just as immense. My son thought this was what he wanted to do. He said he could find a war easier than a job. A millenial, he was accepted to WP. There was no talking him out of it. The offer was rescinded. And he did end his life at 18.
Ask your son if he'd leave you and your family no choice but to carry the same bag of shit agonizing pain for the rest of your life. My guess is that he would not want to hoist this upon you. He might rethink it.
Hey Hangemhigh77...
fuck off
How about you fuck off instead. Leave the man alone.
that's sorta the point: good men, bad missions.
the tension is bout to resolve itself...SSRIs don't work; opioids don't work; it's time for a real-deal catharsis.
some call it revolution.
but, in point of fact, it's far more than that; it's the New Age.
many who've long thought they were masters are terrified; knowing, as they do, that this nation is littered with young men like your son (firebreathers one and all), ready and more than willing to recompence evil the wages it's due.
there's a sorta triple-cross that's been in the works for a long while -- oh-so very close. and on that note, thank you DHS for delivery of equipment and training of local law enforcement -- betcha a sawbuck shit don't work out like you figured (mwahahahaha!).
perhaps it never occured to the sodomites and sorcerers that things are not what they seem...
fools!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXqQjJPcqQ
remember, evil cannot exist lest it preys on good; evil is auto-inimical.
now for wrath; now for ruin & the red door!
and so the men of this age, sons of middle earth, shall cast their gaze east to the dawn of the Rising Son.
so it is written/
so let it be done,
janus
As Hoover observed, FDR's “continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten,” but if ever there was a war of necessity, it was WWII.
Too bad you weren't able to stop your kid joining up for a war of choice, though. That must sting... no wonder you're angry :-(
Too bad you weren't able to stop your kid joining up for a war of choice...
that must sting indeed...
Snark and the lack of nose punching when a snark line is crossed is one of things wrong with this culture.
Do you think it is easy to keep a young guy from joining up if they have their mind set on it?
Right after 9/11 most of us were drinking the MSM kool aid. We had our TV's and radios blaring to catch the latest "breaking news". Many people enlisted for the right reasons, only to find out they were the man's bitch doing the dirty work for multinational corporations. This is a big reason vets are coming back from duty depressed and suicidal. They simply cannot justify the violence that was done.
After 2003, and the revelation that the Iraq War was based on intentional deception, only idiots enlisted then. When it is public knowledge that your commander in chief has the morals of a crack whore, you deserve what you get.
Lot of idiots there.
The Bush regime lied and fabricated "evidence" that was used to deceive Congress, the American people, and the United Nations. At the time that these absurd claims were being made, only experts knew that they were false.
Today everyone knows that the claims were lies.
I wonder why everyone has forgotten how much hate France got for NOT wanting to contribute in the second Irak war. The whole dumbass "french fries" , the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” things - kind of silly jokes still continuing, even in ZH - etc ….
more americans were opposed to the us entry into ww2 than the war in iraq. ww2 was a global scrum caused by economic depression, which was eventually marketed as a war between good and evil, for the benefit of the sheeple back home. (pearl harbor was false flag #1) we betrayed the german fascists, after we supported them. there was a large american nazi party, but it was promptly banned. ww2 was of the same magnitude as the american civil war, in terms of creating a nation out of independent states, ww2 created a single world goverment, the soviets and the us fought together to (betray) defeat the fascists (america then pursued fascist notions of government and economic policy) essentially tying production to military output (the soviets gave us something to aim at, they were a popular foil until they went bankrupt as we are or will be) at the time of ww2 most americans were of german descent, they were the largest minority, so when it came to dropping the bomb naturally the japanese got the honor. we never cared about communism except to serve the profit motives of the mics forever war. we do business with a human gulag today because its profitable, and we'll betray them too probably, if we dont turn our own country into prison first. despite the economic problems in the us prior to ww2 there was a healthy diversity of political points of view, and social diversity was well, ww2 transformed us into a superpower and an authoritarian government changing from checks and balances to corrupt assholes who declare themselves to be the decider and such megalomaniac thoughts. we have jerks for presidents because we built a system that rewards jerks and liars. and it all happened after eisenhower landed at normandy with a bunch of allies, and ranting about good and evil. what crap, only the same story repeated for 50 plus years has made it all seem better in retrospect.
"...so when it came to dropping the bomb..."
......Not to overlook the punishment firebombing of Dresden, etc......
... or Clinton's 'Monica missiles' on Africa, or Bush's 'mission accomplished' missiles on Baghdad, or Barry's 'Obamacare missiles' on Pakistan.
And so it goes in our decaying, murderous empire.
And let us not overlook all the ordinance flung around in the myriad of undeclared wars...the under the table conflicts.
The idea that we are the offically appointed NWO cops is starting to wear very thin and with it, our reserve currency.
Thanks WB...
Goodness knows the VA is not helping much. I served during the old Operation Southern Watch period, honorably discharged. If anyone cares to help out a struggling vet (that's me) it'd be most appreciated if you read my story here: http://lilyslist.com/members/zandra/
(opens in new window)
Missed a payment last month and Citi sent a bill to my deceased dad who was the cosigner. Classy. I haven't had any help yet, but I hope the way the Lily's List system is set up I get a chance to express my thanks in a letter to you. Forwarding this link along is also appreciated!
(the name "zantoka" is my WordHero handle.)
were you ever in or around al jabar?
southern watch was fun...no 9/11; freely touring arab bazarres late into the night (sp?); a mitsubishi montero and open gates for all GIs curious and free of spirit. the constant fuckin chem/bio scud-attack sirens were more than tiresome, though.
we (20th SOS) and all its members are forever banned from ali asaleem...stole some shit from an effeminate prince, we did. fuck em -- we break eggs, hearts and wills for a living.
zantoka, gold and silver have i none; but i've got something better for you. you seem bored; sounds to me like you need an adventure. firgure one out, sever all ties to whatever moorings are tethering you to this prosaic life, and set sail on a grand voyage. i promise you won't regret it.
special delivery from athens, georgia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzuqZEbFHQ
life is for the living.
let the dying bury their own dead,
janus
Janus, thanks for the song, sorry for the late reply! Listening right now on my lunch break...
I passed through Gerbil Alley, did a truncated tour on the Stennis and enjoyed a cat-shot off the boat once my enlistment ended. I was a squadron swabee launching jets, thank goodness I didn't have gate duty/patrol like you.
Dude. Don't steal stuff.
You are almost dead-on in your assessment of my need for adventure! I did decide to move to Japan a few years ago, had a great time roaming, as you suggested in song! Came back to the 'States after the '08 crash, took me more than a year to find a job even though I speak Japanese...not exactly a great adventure ending.
Barring any further family emergencies, I'll finally pay off my student loans in another 4/5 years >sigh<, I think we'll start on our next adventure, maybe have a kid or two! ;)
Does that double barrelled cannon still point north?
it's more angled to the Northeast -- that place where there is no Light (esoteric stuff), a place of penetration and passage.
but, yes, still aimed and anxious...i'm gettin trigger-happy these days; strange for one patient as me.
i'm thinking of giving in and up & down arrowing...maybe i was wrong.
and to that effect, i will say i owe you lots of greenies, wisehiney. you've come up with a few bon mots worthy of an up-arrow.
but i'd feel dirty if i did it right now.
and i make a solemn promise to all ZHealots. i will never, and have never, up-arrowed my own shit. but i may red-arrow if i'm displeased with janus.
but i'm gonna be judicious about my voting...none of this capricious arrow casting for me.
i was just viewing some clockwork scenes...can't wait till my kids are like fifty so i can watch it with them...and so i'm in the mood to share some ludwig van:
b'burg #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq2WTXtKurk
allegro-addagio!,
janus
I think the NSA correlates all of our up and down arrowing then runs it through their simulator G+.
it goes way past that, WB. you know that accelerator out in switzerland? that was designed to create sufficent computing capacity such that they could conjure the anti-Hedge. yup, we are the great and mighty 'existential threat'...terrorists, bosh! what a bunch a punks; leaden bullets are nothing to our satire.
this makes IBM's watson look like a toaster oven; this goes to the very heart of the vortex...they're breeding an humonculous, a demon spawn; something capable of competing. i say bring it on...bernake and all the rest of the acamadicians bore me to distraction.
it might interest you to know something, WB...and this is T-S (that means top secret) -- so it's gotta stay between you and i. absolutely entre nous; kapeesh? well, here it is: i once drove bernake's psychiatrist round boston in my cab.
interesting conversation (to say the least). i started off instructing him in the formative basics of meta-psycho-analysis...he was quick on the up-take, and so i got a bit more advanced. and all of this would'a gone-off with little to no consequence had not he confessed (in truth he was sorta boastin about it) his prize client to janus. he really had no idea who was scootin him round town; and how could he'v?
what do you think i did next? i hypnotized him, of course...then tested a few cues to see what his inner-most was hidin viz. his pet patient and desperately twisted project -- ben bernake.
you wanna know what the phrase-cue was that unlocked his 'vault'..."daisy dukes"; craziest thing, i know. what's more, it just sorta came to me...i tried everything up to then, "piranna liver", "the book of ruth" "wire hanger" ...nuthin seemed to phase him.
so now he was just goo in my palm. "tell janus the bernak's most closely guarded vices", i'd say. he'd answer in this rediculous mechanical voice: "midget porn, video poker, the novels of danielle steele, copulation with aquatic mammals, foot fetish (heavy on the cankers)..." "enough!" i had to stop him...i was still digesting falaffel (a very delicate thing indeed).
then i got him to catalog the twerp's deepest fears..."Tyler Durden, WildBill Banzai, George Washington, Max Keiser, Kreiger, Simon Black (yup, janus is pro simon...fuck y'all haters)...ohhh the Hedgers, The ZHealots (he repeated it about 5 times). ohhh, the fiat humanity!" and then he fell silent; for the fear of the Hedge was in him also. well, not to brag or anything, but he did mention janus by name -- i admit i found this most satisfactory.
"what does he intend to do about it?" i logically ask. and this is where we bring it full circle. i kinda gave away the ending -- what, with the whole haldron collider thing and the homonculous.
i then returned him to default state with the phrase "who let the dogs out?" (it's the complement of the "daisy dukes" key), right after i convinced him to tip me 4000% of the fare. sucker!
it's the classic mind-fuck, WB, works like a charm...no demon-spawn can match it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHMZ9ez9Vg
fear the Hedge,
janus
Love it, Banzai ... perfectly captures the essence of it.
Veterans Day: Honor the Soldier … Scorn the Chickenhawk
This is not easy, but let's be honest... being used by the banker empire is nothing to be proud of. I am, however, not blaming the men and women who did serve in foreign wars, unknowingly serving the banker cabal. they, like the taxpayer, have been duped. but perpetuating the lie, that serving in the military is honorable, no matter what role you played, isn't a great idea.
time for some truth in the USA. we have a lot to fix, and our tax dollars and labor have been used to do an awful lot of harm. sometimes real courage is admitting that you made mistakes or were fooled. most of us fall into that catagory at one time or another.
most of us? shit, man...all of us. that's what this enterprise we call life is all about: figuring this self-same shit out. the salient question is: are you a man of good will?
your reasoning can be extended to cover a whole host of things: if you have a bank account; pay taxes; vote; watch television; read newspapers; for fuck's sake, if you contribute to a blue-haired baptist bake sale...if you rise and endeavor in anything whatsoever, you're in some tangental fashion benefitting this empire you speak of.
but the truth of things is not so binary as you'd have it...human beings function according to their best interest, and they more often than not consider how their actions affect others. now, the important thing to observe is that those two interests are not mutually exclusive ('selfish' persuance and altruistic concern).
the way i understand it, communism was (and will remain) the great and dreadful enemy of human liberty.
wwii and what has followed since:
grateful (dr. greg house avatar) made some great points above. but it wasn't so much a betrayal of fascism; more a process of conversion to 'liberal' democracy for germany. {side note: germany was 'designed' to be a religious nation. they seem to be weary of humanism...which has no sacred texts and does little to comfort granny all weepy at her dying kin's bedside...and God help the world if that nation ever experiences 'revival' (actually, it's quite near over there).} anyway, communism and the war against it is more a matter of 'hearts and minds'. the nations where the experiment was permitted were thusly sanctioned as such because they didn't, at the time, matter so much...and the dangers assocatied certainly weren't worth it (do you bitchez have any idea how hard it is to secure land masses the size of russia and china?). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWW6aDpUvbQ
they (the reds) were to provide, by virtue of their eventual collapse, a teachable moment for all the world. but we forgot that russians are russian first and 'communism' was simply incidental to the patriotic flavor du temps. we have been infiltrated, and thoroughly so.
we were trying to do good...but, as they say, que sera sera...it's like socrates said: all men do that which they esteem as 'good'. the kind of 'good' and 'bad' to which you refer are relative to an individual's highly subjective perspective, and it amplifies by orders of magnitude the closer you get to that individual's 'god', family and country.
i love america. and, for good or ill, i recognize all that this entails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nb4EHY_2bI
the ashes fall/
the wine spills,
janus
What's done has been done. When the true history of post 9/11 America is written, words like "genocide" and "Islamophobia" will be frequent. At this point we're trying to stay on the right side of history, and wondering what the fuck we'll tell our grandchildren when difficult questions are asked.
As much faux Patriotism I have witnessed today, a large majority of Americans are on the wrong side of history.
"The walls of Auschwitz we're lined with indifference."
yeah, man, i chuckle when i read shit like, '9.11 was the american reichstag fire...'; the reichstag was a fuckin sulfer strike-on-box compared to the twin-tower conflagration...the effects of that lil ruse were contained within the world of the fledgling german republic. 9.11 was goddam global -- the most earth jarring event in all of history, ever. and it was all a hollow sham.
i will admit, it was hard to not believe at first...what with the magnitude and all. that was a one-shot deal, though. everybody knows what's up; which is why all the recent stuff is relatively bloodless (or should i say totally bloodless) -- unless, of course, you submit to questioning by the FBI without counsel. what the fuck...shot seven times and once in the head? during questioning? and now we're supposed to believe a 'signed' statement from him? that's some justice department you got there, holder.
i do, on the other hand, try and maintain some balance. all of our agencies are -- believe it or don't -- still staffed by many first-class americans. but if there's some expectation that they come out and declare their paycheck submitter a fraud, you can all stop holding your breath. go do some research on whatever company you work for (not necessarily you, blood splatter; almost any and everyone), find out what holding company pays you...then write them a firey letter in defiance of some far off no-goodnickery they're up to in some remote corner of the globe. then march, picket in hand, out on the curb.
it's a mad, mad world and snowdens are far too rare...there'll be more -- you can bet your bottom dollah.
here's one for edward...true patriot...maybe by now a bit homesick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opw8I6UTpGo
stay safe, snowden...godspeed, brutha.
in my life/
i have learned some things worth tellin,
janus
Yes, even Major General Smedley Butler was fooled for many years.
VA-65 Flying Tigers (Medium Attack Squadron) onboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower...Eastern Med Ops. RIP My brothers who went down in Beirut.
Terribly disturbing how these days our REAL treasure is used and misused by the Fiat-driven thugs.
Hang tough.
Thanks, WB7
Banking 101.........kill the messenger
Knowing the origins of why we remember is also important.
http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
And to tie together the quote
“It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.” --Ron Paul
From the article
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
As we can see the symmetry of exactly what Ron Paul said implementation of the Federal Reserve and IRS along with the origin of Veterans Day (originally Armistice Day) all happened while Wilson was President.
' ... because of the thing from which it has freed us ...'
Meaning the 'barbaric relic' of gold.
While the barbaric relic of war was made permanent.
You too Mr. Snowden.
...and of course, PUCK YOU BERNANKE!
"To those who served honourably: Happy Veteran's Day 2013"
Thanks...USCG 1967-71 ET1
WMEC-622 Cutter Courageous
Governors Island
Miyako Jima
When you really consider all the damage the U.S. empire has wrought since the war of Northern Agression I find it silly to "honor" the tools of the empire over its victims, Consider the destruction of a generation of Southern men, Indians from the Indian wars, Pillipino's from the Spanish American War and follow it through to all of MENA today. Pity for being tools of the empire, no greater that pity for its other victims.