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Guest Post: All I Want For Christmas Is The Truth

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Via Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,

“Eyes blinded by the fog of things
cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things
cannot hear truth.
Brains bewildered by the whirl of things
cannot think truth.
Hearts deadened by the weight of things
cannot feel truth.
Throats choked by the dust of things
cannot speak truth.”

 

Harald Bell Wright – The Uncrowned King

 

I consider myself a seeker of truth. It isn’t easy finding it in todays’ world. In an alternate version of the famous scene from A Few Good Men, I picture myself telling Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner that I want the truth and his angry truthful response:

Son, we live in a world that has Wall Street banks, and those banks have to be guarded by puppet politicians in Washington D.C. with lobbyist written laws and Madison Avenue PR maggots with media propaganda. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Representative Paul? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the average middle class American family, and you curse the ruling oligarchs. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That the death of the American middle class, while tragic, probably saved the bonuses of thousands of Wall Street bankers. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, increases the wealth of these same bankers who destroyed the worldwide economic system in 2008. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about in the food bank line, you want me on Wall Street, you need me on Wall Street. We use words like derivative, fiscal stimulus, quantitative easing. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent syphoning off the wealth of the nation. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very debt that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up 1000 shares of Apple, and hope our high frequency trading supercomputers can ramp the market for a while longer. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”

I find myself more amazed than ever at the ability of those in power to lie, misinform and obfuscate the truth, while millions of Americans willfully choose to be ignorant of the truth and yearn to be misled. It’s a match made in heaven. Acknowledging the truth of our society’s descent from a country of hard working, self-reliant, charitable, civic minded citizens into the abyss of entitled, dependent, greedy, materialistic consumers is unacceptable to the slave owners and the slaves. We can’t handle the truth because that would require critical thought, hard choices, sacrifice, and dealing with the reality of an unsustainable economic and societal model. It’s much easier to believe the big lies that allow us to sleep at night. The concept of lying to the masses and using propaganda techniques to manipulate and form public opinion really took hold in the 1920s and have been perfected by the powerful ruling elite that control the reins of finance, government and mass media.

Peddlers of Propaganda

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

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Adolf Hitler understood the power of the big lie over the ignorant masses who want to believe:

“All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true within itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” – Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf

We are all liars. We lie to friends, family and co-workers. We convince ourselves they are only small lies and just protect others from being hurt. We would rather be lied to than face the blunt truth about our deficiencies, shortcomings and failures. Willfully believing mistruths allows a person to become dependent upon those promulgating the mistruths. It relieves them of their responsibility to act upon the knowledge that something is wrong and must be fixed. It is a cowardly path to ultimate servitude and destruction. The German people chose this path in the 1930s and the American people have chosen a similar and ultimately destructive path today. The United States Office of Strategic Services prepared a psychological profile report during the war describing Adolf Hitler’s method for controlling the minds of the German masses: 

“His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.”

America’s corruptible politicians, greedy corporate chieftains, criminal banking overlords, and despicable media manipulators all learned the sordid lessons of mass propaganda from the masters. Our willingness to lie and be lied to set us up to be manipulated by those who understood the mass psychology of a nation. Goebbels and Hitler were heavily influenced by the father of propaganda – Edward Bernays. He and his disciples are professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of public foolishness and ignorance, and never allow truth to interfere with a good story. What master manipulators realized is that it is easier to change the attitude of millions than the attitude of one man. By analyzing and understanding the process and motives of how the group mind works, the invisible government has been able to manipulate and regulate the masses according to their will without the masses knowing they are being managed. Bernays described this elitist view of the world in 1928:

“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda

The super-rich elite believe they are more intelligent, more capable of managing the affairs of state, masters of the financial world, and chosen to decide what is best for the masses. In reality, they are egocentric, psychotic, power hungry, myopic, self-serving ravenous vultures, feasting upon the carcass of a once great nation. Truth is inconsequential and irritating to their plans for world domination and control. Therefore, no truth will be forthcoming from any organization or person that is associated with the existing political, economic, financial or social order. Every bit of information that is permitted into the public realm has been vetted, manipulated and spun for public consumption. The public does not like bad news. They do not like hard facts. They do not like to think or do math. They want to be spoon fed mindless sound bites and happy talk. The oligarchs need to keep the masses sedated and subservient while they continue to plunder and pillage, so all data is massaged to provide a happy ending.

This is where I deviate from the ideologue one-trick ponies that refuse to see both sides of the issue. The ruling oligarchs are wealthy, influential, psychotic, amoral, and few. The masses are relatively poor, easily influenced, willfully ignorant, and many. The ruling oligarchs are most certainly evil, but the masses are not the hard working, stoic, downtrodden portrayed by liberal ideologues. One just needs to walk down the street in one of our urban enclaves, saunter through a suburban mall, or click on People of Wal-Mart to witness the tattooed, pierced, butt crack showing, slovenly, obese, and ignorant, attached to their electronic iGadgets, to understand how far our society has deteriorated.  Every individual born into this world has the capability to become educated, think critically, not follow the herd, live beneath their means, and not be influenced by propaganda. Aldous Huxley understood in 1931 that those in power could use material goods to invoke passivity and egotism among the populace. He feared that truth would be obscured by an avalanche of irrelevance (500 Reality TV shows), cultural trivialities (Lady Gaga, Lindsey Lohan), distractions (Professional sports), and pharmaceutical enhanced escape (Prozac). He saw the possibility that we would grow to love our servitude as the pleasures of life provided by our controllers overwhelmed any desire to think or question authority.

“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”  ? Aldous Huxley

By 1962 when Huxley wrote his last book, he was certain that his worst dystopian nightmares had been unleashed. His description of Western society fifty years ago could have been written today and accurately reflected our current economic paradigm. War, debt and consumption still make our world go round, but the end is nigh.  

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are over-consuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”Aldous Huxley – Island

The pillars are crumbling. The $1.4 trillion wasted on two worthless wars of choice in the Middle East, the trillions wasted and liberties sacrificed for the never ending unwinnable War on Terror, the Keynesian spending frenzy that has driven the National Debt from $9 trillion to $16.3 trillion in the last five years, the looting of the American taxpayer by Wall Street and their co-conspirators at the Federal Reserve and in Congress, and the belief that ramping up the debt driven consumption that drives 71% of our GDP is our path to prosperity is absolutely freaking nuts. The pillars will not be abolished willingly. The ruling class depends upon their continued existence and expansion. There is the rub. The math doesn’t work. We’ve reached the point where continued expansion of debt and money printing no longer works. With a national debt to GDP ratio of 102% and a total credit market debt to GDP ratio of 350%, we have passed the Rogoff & Reinhart point of no return. This time is not different. A country cannot run trillion dollar deficits indefinitely and expect to not suffer the consequences. This is why those in power are increasingly resorting to propaganda, data manipulation, and outright lies to convince the masses of their omnipotence and brilliance in managing the fiscal affairs of the state.

    

 “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Through decades of mass media messaging the masses have been conditioned to believe whatever those in power want them to believe. To our invisible government rulers we are nothing but rats to be manipulated through food pellets and shock therapy. Pleasure and fear of pain are the drivers of our warped society. The ruling oligarchs truly think they know what is best for the masses and believe any means is worthwhile as long as the ends support their agenda. This is blatantly obvious to anyone with their eyes open and their brain functioning. Sadly, the government run educational system produces mostly drones that are barely able to tie their own shoes, spell Cat, or make change from a one dollar bill. Only 20% of all high school seniors score high enough on the SAT test to get a B minus in college and most of these kids come from private and parochial schools. This is exactly what those in power prefer. They want non-critical thinking, mindless consumers, who don’t understand the criminal nature of Federal Reserve created inflation or their enslavement in the chains of debt at the hands of their Wall Street slave owners. They certainly don’t want the masses to understand that real median household net worth is lower today than it was in 1969. Luckily for the oligarchs, 95% of the public couldn’t define the terms: real, median or net worth. Math is hard.  

 

The average person is inundated on a 24/7 basis with pabulum from liberal network media talking heads, CNBC Wall Street shills regurgitating whatever their sponsors desire, Fox News blonde bimbos and neo-con war mongers programmed to spew Rupert Murdoch talking points, MSNBC tingling leg faux journalists, NYT intellectually corrupt Nobel prize winners, NAR nitwits repeating “best time to buy” on a daily basis for the last 12 years, and government agencies whose sole purpose is to manipulate data in a way that supports the agenda of those in power. The intellectually lazy and willfully ignorant masses are no match for those who control the message and the media. How else can you explain their ability to convince millions of drones to line up for hours in front of a store and stampede like crazed hyenas to grab a $5 crockpot, the Chinese produced gadget of the moment or a designer top made by slave labor in safety conscious Bangladesh factories? How else can you explain a population willing to be molested by government TSA dregs in the name of security from phantom terrorists, the passive acceptance of military exercises in US cities, unquestioning submissiveness as Presidential Executive Orders allow the government dictatorial powers based on their judgment, the monitoring of internet and voice correspondence of all citizens, and believing that FBI agents luring clueless teenage Muslim dupes into fake terrorist plots, providing the fake explosives, and then announcing with great fanfare how they saved us from another 9/11?      

But, the prize for boldest, most outrageous, blatant use of propaganda and misinformation to cover-up their criminal looting of America goes to Ben Bernanke, his cronies at the Federal Reserve, and the Wall Street banks that own and control our Central Bank. Having the gall to portray themselves as the stabilizer of our economic system over the last 100 years is a putrid joke on the dying and broke middle class. Their mandate has been stable prices, full employment, and avoiding financial crisis. It is a tribute to Bernays and the rest of the public relations swine that the average American actually believes inflation is a good thing and it is under control despite the FACT that 96.2% of their purchasing power has disappeared since 1900, with the most rapid decline occurring since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971.

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The average American actually believes Ben Bernanke saved us from a Great Depression when in actuality he saved the owners of the Federal Reserve from accepting the losses they generated through the greatest financial fraud in history. His “solutions” have zombified our economic system, just as the Japanese Central Bank did 20 years ago. He has destroyed the concept of saving, while rewarding the indebted and profligate with his QE to Infinity money printing policies. And the ignorant masses have been convinced by the corporate media and their corrupt government lackeys that Ben did this for them. Kyle Bass knows otherwise. He knows how the Fed and their backers have preyed upon the masses through their understanding of human psychology:

Humans are optimistic by nature. People’s lives are driven by hopes and dreams which are all second derivatives of their innate optimism. Humans also suffer from optimistic biases driven by the first inalienable right of human nature which is self-preservation. It is this reflex mechanism in our cognitive pathways that makes difficult situations hard to reflect and opine on. These biases are extended to economic choices and events. The primary difficulty with this train of thought is the bias that most investors have for the baseline facts: they tend to believe that the central bankers, politicians, and other governmental agencies are omnipotent due to their success in averting a financial meltdown in 2009.

Central banks have become the great enablers of fiscal profligacy. The overarching belief is that there will always be someone or something there to act as the safety net. The safety nets worked so well recently that investors now trust they will be underneath them ad-infinitum. Markets and economists alike now believe that quantitative easing (“QE”) will always “work” by flooding the market with relatively costless capital. Unlimited QE and the zero lower bound (“ZLB”) are likely to bankrupt pension funds whose expected returns happen to be a good 600 basis points (or more) higher than the 10?year “risk-free” rate. The ZLB has many unintended consequences that are impossible to ignore.

Our belief is that markets will eventually take these matters out of the hands of the central bankers. These events will happen with such rapidity that policy makers won’t be able to react fast enough. The fallacy of the belief that countries that print their own currency are immune to sovereign crisis will be disproven in the coming months and years. Trillions of dollars of debts will be restructured and millions of financially prudent savers will lose large percentages of their real purchasing power at exactly the wrong time in their lives. Again, the world will not end, but the social fabric of the profligate nations will be stretched and in some cases torn. Sadly, looking back through economic history, all too often war is the manifestation of simple economic entropy played to its logical conclusion. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.” Kyle Bass

What’s Normal in a Profoundly Abnormal Society?

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited

No sane person could honestly say that what has happened to our society over the last forty years, and particularly in the last five years, is normal. But somehow those in power have convinced the masses that $1.2 trillion deficits, 0% interest rates, declining real wages, the highest average gas prices in history, pre-emptive wars, policing the world and buying rubber dog shit produced in China with a credit card is normal and beneficial to our economy. It seems that I and a few million other people in this country are the abnormal ones. We choose not to be led to slaughter by our masters. The seekers of truth have turned to the alternative media and are able to connect with like-minded critical thinking individuals on websites like Zero Hedge, Jesse’s Americain Café, Of Two Minds, Mish, among many other truth seeking blogs. This is dangerous to the powers that be and they are using their political clout and extreme wealth to try and lock down and control free speech on the internet. If this is accomplished all hope at disseminating truth will be lost.

Abraham Lincoln once said that he believed in the people and that if you told them the truth and gave them the cold hard facts they would meet any crisis. That may have been true in 1860, but not today. The cold hard facts are available for all to see:

  • A $16.3 trillion National Debt
  • 47 million people on food stamps
  • Over $222 trillion of unfunded Federal entitlement liabilities
  • Over $5 trillion of unfunded State entitlement liabilities
  • True unemployment above 20%.
  • True inflation above 5%.
  • A stock market at the same level as 1999, with a 10 year expected annual return of less than 4% – Stocks for the really, really long run. 10 year bond returns of 0% will be a miracle.
  • A savings rate of 3.7% and with Bernanke’s ZIRP, no incentive to save. Real hourly earnings continue to fall.

 

  • Baby Boomers within 10 years of retirement have saved an average of only $78,000, and more than a third of them have less than $25,000. More than half of U.S. workers have no retirement plan at all.
  • A crumbling, decaying infrastructure, with 150,000 structurally deficient bridges, bursting water mains, and an overstressed electrical grid.
  • Horrific government public education producing millions of low functioning morons.
  • Rotting social fabric, with 40% of children born out of wedlock (72% of black children) and a 50% divorce rate.
  • An energy policy based upon unicorns farting rainbows and press releases about green energy and the miracle of shale fracking, as average gas prices in 2012 and 2011 were the highest in U.S. history.

As the pitiful excuses for statesmen in Washington D.C. pander and posture about the dreaded fiscal cliff which was purposely created by the oligarchs as a show for the masses, none of the true issues above are being addressed. The dramatic compromise that will ultimately be reached between the equally corrupt parties will be hailed by the corporate media and Wall Street shysters and an HFT supercomputer engineered stock market rally will ensue. The cowardice of these politicians is revolting. As Huxley knew in 1958, politicians and propagandists prefer nonsense and storylines to truth, knowledge and honesty.   

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”Aldous Huxley – Brave New World Revisited

We want to be lied to because the truth is too painful. Hope and denial with a dash of delusion is the recipe the mindless masses prefer. The average person doesn’t want to understand the chart below. They want to believe the U.S. will dominate economically and lead the world for decades to come. We are still the bright shining beacon of democracy on the mountaintop. Even though the facts unequivocally reveal a declining empire, the masses desperately grasp at straws in the wind. The United States share of world GDP will be vastly lower in 2021, as the hubris of declining empires never allows them to take the necessary steps to reverse the decline (Rome, Great Britain).  

 

It is fitting that during this magical Christmas season of fantasy, delusion, debt fueled material over-consumption and fairy tales, we look at the biggest fairy tale of all – the great jobs recovery. I know from the two thousand Obama campaign commercials I was forced to watch in the last few months and 500 robo-calls at dinner every night that we’ve added 4 million jobs due to Obama’s wise economic policies. The magical journey from a 10.3% unemployment rate to a 7.9% rate is a humdinger. I stumbled across a myriad of charts on those truth-telling websites that I had previously mentioned.

 “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” ? Aldous Huxley

The first chart that grabbed my attention shows the historical relationship between the U3 unemployment rate reported to the masses versus the U6 truer picture of unemployment, along with the percentage of people unemployed for longer than 15 weeks. A funny thing happened shortly after the election of Barack Obama. From 1994 through 2008 the gap between the U3 and U6 rates consistently ranged between 3% and 4%. Suddenly, the gap surged to 7% and currently sits at almost 8%. The figure reported to the masses of 7.9% is so much easier to digest than the 15% to 17% that captures the truer level of unemployment. If the gap between these two figures had remained at the levels of the previous 14 years, the unemployment that should be reported to the masses would be 11%. That is unacceptable to those in power, so the data is massaged and the propaganda machine spins the storyline necessary to confuse and mislead the masses.

 

 

The next two charts from Mike Shedlock again reveal truths the existing social order doesn’t want you to know. Even though the working age population has grown by 10 million people since 2008, the BLS expects critical thinking people to believe the labor force has only grown by 1.3 million people. You see, the unemployment rate is calculated using the labor force. If your economic policies don’t create jobs, just adjust the labor force dramatically lower based on nothing. In desperate economic times, people do not voluntarily leave the workforce. Only a non-thinking drone would believe that 8.7 million Americans voluntarily left the workforce since 2008, when only 4 million left the workforce from 2003 through 2007. It is not a coincidence that student loan debt, which was taken over by the Obama administration in 2009 rose by $300 billion. Those in power have doled out these billions with no concern for credit risk or academic credentials in order to reduce the number of people in the labor force. Unemployed union Twinkie workers seeking a new career in lesbian studies can get a $20,000 loan from the American taxpayer to sit in their basement along with the 500,000 other University of Phoenix enrollees. The future $300 billion taxpayer bailout was worth it to keep the unemployment rate low enough to insure Obama’s re-election.      

The Obama PR machine never fails to expound upon the fact that the economy added 4.9 million jobs since January 2009. In the same timeframe, uncovered employment rose by 6.6 million. Inquiring minds might want to know what an “uncovered” job entails. Selling your accumulated Chinese crap on Ebay is an uncovered job. Calling yourself a consultant while sleeping until noon is an uncovered job. Day trading Facebook and Apple stock is an uncovered job. Trash picking is an uncovered job. The truth is that real jobs are 1.7 million lower than they were at the depths of the recession, while bullshit jobs paying virtually nothing and offering no benefits have surged by 6.6 million. These facts don’t make a great campaign commercial. The number of employed Americans is at the same level as mid-2005, even though the working age population has grown by 18 million. Since 2008 there are 3 million less full-time jobs and 3 more part-time jobs. This trend is accelerating as small businesses react rationally to the oncoming Obamacare train, resulting in aggregate work hours declining and wage growth stagnating.      

Zero Hedge reveals more truth about our glorious jobs recovery with the following two charts. They obliterate the false narrative spun by liberal ideologues that the reason for the increase of those not in the labor force is due to Baby Boomers retiring. The truth is that while those in the 55-69 age brackets have gained nearly 4 million jobs under President Obama, everyone else has lost just over 2.5 million jobs. Is this a positive development or a sign of extreme desperation among older Americans who have seen their interest income vaporized by Ben Bernanke and there food, energy, and healthcare expenses skyrocket?

 

Those in their prime earning years of 25 to 54 still have a net cumulative loss of 2.2 million jobs since 2009. Recent college graduates, with their billions of student loan debt, have nabbed 400,000 TGI Fridays jobs, singing happy birthday to 3 year olds, with their newly minted college degrees. This is the “normal” healthy jobs market sold to the American public by the propagandists and politicians.

 

The final jobs chart that portrays the truth of what has been a decades’ long spiral downward paints a picture of a country that once created wealth through producing goods from the 1940s through 1970. Since 1970 we’ve degenerated into a debt creating country that consumes foreign produced goods and makes entitlement promises it can never keep. Selling houses to each other, peddling crap on Ebay, and eating out three times a week has shockingly failed to propel our economy. The jobs picture has deteriorated rapidly since 2008 and is not improving, despite the best propaganda money can buy. There is absolutely no chance of any substantive improvement over the next four years based on the policies in place and refusal to acknowledge the economic realities that we face.

 

The accumulation of material possessions through the use of consumer debt, peddled by bankers and reinforced through relentless corporate marketing propaganda has left the country’s citizens weary, miserable, greedy, indebted and sick. Our obsession with technology has merely provided another means of distracting ourselves from confronting the dire challenges that must be addressed. We can ignore the facts but that doesn’t mean they do not exist. The abnormality that grips this nation is breathtaking to behold, as the status quo cheer on and encourage consumers to buy more things with money they don’t have in order to support an economic recovery that is dependent upon zero interest rates for Wall Street banks, QE to infinity, and the delusional desire for a miraculous return to the good old days when getting something for nothing was possible. We can no longer deny reality. If we want to add 30 million people to Medicaid, it must be paid for. If we want to wage never ending wars and police the world, it must be paid for. If we want a Federal government to spend $3.8 trillion per year, it must be paid for. Nothing is free in this world, but more than 50% of Americans seem to believe that to be true.     

“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.” Philip Elliot Slater

We are seen by those in control as nothing more than common house flies caught in their web of lies. Your owners don’t care about you. They only care about their own wealth and power. They want to control and manipulate you. They want to keep you enslaved in debt and running on the treadmill of consumption. They want passive, non-critical thinking drones to do the menial service jobs that remain in this country, while they use their control of our financial, political, tax, and legal systems to ransack and pillage the wealth of the dwindling middle class. The truth is the continuation of our current economic system is mathematically impossible. Your owners know this. This is why the use of propaganda, misinformation, fake data, and false storylines has taken on astronomical proportions. The time for passivity and accepting the deceitfulness of our leaders is coming to an end. While you’re waiting in line this Christmas season at Wal-Mart to purchase a fabulously priced shirt that only required the deaths of 112 Bangladesh slave laborers, try to figure out how we got here. Your owners think they have you by the balls.

“They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want—they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interest. You know something, they don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around their kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. Because the owners of this country know the truth, it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” George Carlin

How many Americans are awake enough to handle the truth?

All I want for Christmas is the truth.

 

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Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:35 | 3030841 WTFx10
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Well if she miscarries it will be one less royal welfare reciepiant for the dumb fucking english who glorifiy these useless humans.

English why do you put up these inbred turds ? Is your kingdom any better handing these useless fucks your fiat for being born?

This is the 21st century, strip these inbred turds of their wealth and make them work for a living. WTF Oh right no jobs in the UK either.

Now back to the discussion on how and why they lie to us. Hey does that lying keep the Royals wealthy too?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:18 | 3030571 lyras
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Obama seems to be following Adolf's rules for controlling the minds of the masses to a T.  And it is working.  Just add a pinch of dope and a sprinkle of celebrities behaving badly (in the absence of squirrels)  and it is dictator heaven.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:42 | 3030658 surf0766
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Hitler's professors

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:20 | 3030579 bobthehorse
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Here's the truth.

Mom, is there any hope?

No, son.  We're all completely and utterly screwed.

Shit.  What a drag.

Better luck next time.

Bernanke's tits!

Peace on Earth.  Good will to man.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:22 | 3030580 LongSoupLine
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The truth?...

 

 

We are all fucked due to a global multi-player and tiered ponzi parasitic virus so large that nothing but a huge fucking collapse will kill the fucking wealth sucking mass of stinking fucking slime that feeds upon us.

Fuck all the players as well as the stupid fucking sheep who suck their fucking Starbucks and vote for the best singer screaming out of their cable and satelite lemming boxes weekly.  Stupid fucking assholes.  May ZH rise from the ashes of the coming global fuckfest, and may CNBC get their balls hit harder than Tiger Woods on meth.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:26 | 3030601 oddjob
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Shame you had to glorify a low life such as jack Nicholson.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:28 | 3030610 Joe moneybags
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The author made some great points, but many of those are applicable to us ZH'ers. There tends to be a group-think here, at least as strong, as any that one finds on a bullish site.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:19 | 3030787 flattrader
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>>> ...pabulum from liberal network media talking heads,...<<<

...or the crap coming from the consevative media talking heads...

There.  Fixed it for him.

Yeah, group-think is a big problem here.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:19 | 3030789 Cathartes Aura
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it's a voting thing.

group-think is promo'd with ups 'n' downs. . .

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:31 | 3030620 Henry Chinaski
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Truth is treason in the empire of lies. - Ron Paul

Both the illusion and the reality are true, disregard either one at your peril. - Henry Chinaski

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:32 | 3030629 SmittyinLA
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Lincoln was a fascist dictator and war criminal

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:35 | 3030636 malek
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Looks like the present handout will be another big disappointment.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:37 | 3030644 Tombstone
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Most excellent.  I'll give you the truth: As long as the Kommies are running America, you can forget about ever hearing the truth again.  Then again, when has any politician been truthful to Americans?  Face it, the corrupt government cannot control us without expounding lie after lie and propagandizing the real reason they exist, and that is to control the slaves who no not that they are in bondage.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:20 | 3030794 flattrader
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Kommies?

You mean corporate fascist fucks, don't you?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:25 | 3031298 Vendetta
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he did mean that, just doesn't know it yet.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:40 | 3030655 IridiumRebel
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Did you order more QE? DID. YOU. ORDER. MORE. QE?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:45 | 3030672 Fix It Again Timmy
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Here's the truth as most AmeriKan's understand it:

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Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:45 | 3030677 woggie
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the beast is on the gobble
and all that matters is we're all headed for it's belly
http://youtu.be/ntmthFyaYzY

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:15 | 3030778 IridiumRebel
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This is becoming annoying. At least make a sentient video with a steady camera. You posting this on every thread minimizes your clout. Durdens can you deal with this guy please?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:42 | 3031224 A Middle Child ...
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Hickory dickory dock,
Out slithered Woggie from under his rock
To post anew on an article or two
The same tired and worn out schlock.

Woggie/Woggieford/Will Ling/etc., likes to post the same shit on about half a dozen other sites under multiple aliases. Some of us actually have to earn a living and do not have the luxury of that kind of free time. But I am going to hound this moron wherever he appears until he disappears.

Go slither back under your rock asshole...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:46 | 3030681 Treason Season
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Excuse the length but this is personal.

The next Young Turk up for review is the one who went on to become arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation, Mr. Jack Nicholson. The following is a biographical sketch of Nicholson as presented by Wikipedia: “Bundy was born at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. The identity of his father remains a mystery … To avoid social stigma, Bundy’s grandparents Samuel and Eleanor Cowell claimed him as their son; in taking their last name, he became Theodore Robert Cowell. He grew up believing his mother Eleanor Louise Cowell to be his older sister. Bundy biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth state that he learned Louise was actually his mother while he was in high school. True crime writer Ann Rule states that it was around 1969, shortly following a traumatic breakup with his college girlfriend.”
    Uhhm … hang on a minute … I think I might have screwed up. Something doesn’t seem quite right, but I’m not exactly sure what …. Oh, shit! I see what I did wrong! I accidentally cut and pasted ‘serial killer’ Ted Bundy’s bio instead of Jack Nicholson’s. Sorry about that. This is how Jack’s bio is supposed to read: Nicholson was born at some indeterminate location to an underage, unwed showgirl. The identity of his father remains a mystery … To avoid social stigma, Nicholson’s grandparents John Joseph and Ethel Nicholson claimed him as their son; in taking their last name, he became John Joseph Nicholson, Jr. He grew up believing his mother June Francis Nicholson to be his older sister. Reporters state that he learned June was actually his mother in 1974, when he was 37 years old. By then, June had been dead for just over a decade, having only lived to the age of 44.
Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:24 | 3030803 WTFx10
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Who the fuck cares asshole?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:39 | 3030858 Ignatius
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I guessin' you didn't like the song 'Harper Valley PTA', either, am I right?  /sarc

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 01:01 | 3031690 Treason Season
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For the record MK ULTRA/MONARCH programing is arguably the biggest unreported story of our times and George Washington/Tyler Durden have refused to help expose it.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:00 | 3030930 bunnyswanson
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During the early 1920s, children born out of wedlock were hidden for several reasons.  Shame is one of them.  But there were consequences to be paid by the mother of these children.  These women were deemed mentally ill, a threat to the soundness of the community.  If they were unable to be shipped to a distant relative in an attempt to live in obscurity, they could be placed into asylums.  And they were placed into asylums "to protect them" as they were considered feeble minded.

 

The children who weren't accepted into their families homes were placed in orphanages where an entirely new nightmare unfolded.  Child labor is just one of them.  Abuse of every kind took place in dark corners when no one watched.  Bullying took on a whole new meaning as well.  Theft was rampant.  The orphans who had no parent alive were treated far better than those who had been given up due to the Great Depression or out-of-wedlock status.

My father was born in 1927 to a woman who fell in love with a man whose wife refused to divorce him.  He was raised by his grandmother after being told his mother was his sister as well.  When he was told the truth at the age of 15 by a loose-lipped mean-spirited brother/uncle, he left home and rode the tracks until he was accepted into the Canadian army as a paratrooper.  He then became a blaster in the nickle mines and succeeded at his skill, becoming an expert in the field and sought by the mining industry on an international level.

It was not something we talked about but I could see my father was deeply hurt and I believe this was why.  He was her only child.  Being betraying by the family for years, realizing it was all a charade turned him bitter and cynical.  It was a cruel existance for an innocent child who paid the price for his parent's decisions but also the decision bu society  to paint children born out of wedlock as freaks and misfits and their mother a wanton woman who was possessed by sinful thoughts and evil ways.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:43 | 3031333 Cathartes Aura
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culture makes the rules, people enforce those rules - all of this is intentional steering of the great nationstate in a direction favourable to those at the helm.

once this is realised, the story can fade away, along with the attendant emotions/responses, the individual can heal.

appreciate your sharing that bunnyswanson, these stories are ubiquitous, and rarely considered.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:44 | 3031335 forwardho
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Overshare dude, perhaps we could stick to the thread. I have heard Opra has a new interactive blog.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:46 | 3030683 Aurora Ex Machina
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Anyone want to take a shot at simulating a mind? It's open-source you know.

The NEF Algorithm.

 

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Emergencies Minister faced an emergency of his own when his plane lost power to one of its engines. Vladimir Puchkov was flying Friday to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk aboard a Yak-42, a mid-range passenger jet with three rear-mounted engines. The pilots were able to land the jet safely at Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo Airport, ministry spokeswoman told the Interfax news agency. There was no immediate indication of what caused the engine failure.

A day earlier, Puchkov was quoted as denying speculation that the world will come to an end on Dec. 21, as many people believe the Mayan calendar predicts. He told the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta not to expect "serious cataclysms" on that day. [Source randomly picked, it's trending all over]

Planes; so apt to suffer engineering issues, in times like these.

Mitzi Adams, a heliophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, agreed. "The greatest threat to Earth in 2012, at the end of this year and in the future, is just from the human race itself," Adams said.[source]

How very true. The question is who is pressing the buttons, and for what reasons. 

Groups of human beings, left free to each regulate themselves, tend to produce spontaneous order, rather than the meaningless chaos often feared. This has been observed in society at least since Chuang Tzu in ancient China. A classic traffic roundabout is a good example, with cars moving in and out with such effective organization that some modern cities have begun replacing stoplights at problem intersections with traffic circles [2], and getting better results. [source]


Aldous Huxley was a smart thinker, he was just a little over-concerned about the levels of control required. People will dose themselves with pills ("25% of [American] Women take mental health drugs") rather than pausing to consider there are other ways to be in this world. Fear; that's always a place to start. Examine the causes, examine the pressures it's putting on you, and examine how it influences your actions. Then remove it internally, not externally (The Other again). Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.Lao-Tzu.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:19 | 3030775 GoinFawr
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"Stronger than reason. Stronger than lies. The only truth I know, is the look in your eyes."- Big Al Jourgensen

Anyone want to take a shot at a stimulating mind? It's open season you know.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:14 | 3031167 Aurora Ex Machina
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Given that he's the lead in a band called "Revolting Cocks", I'm a little wary of stimulating, shooting and so forth here.

Nothing personal, just not how my bread is buttered.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:30 | 3030825 Cathartes Aura
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what's the frequency kenneth?

resonance.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:47 | 3030881 GoinFawr
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I like my waves standing, thanks.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:44 | 3031030 Cathartes Aura
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lol @ that "professor of engineering" going for a walk. . . pretty extraordinary footage, thanks.

round, fluid.

what percentage of the human body is water?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:35 | 3031215 Aurora Ex Machina
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Everything is fields interacting, or is it turtles all the way down?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:30 | 3031309 tip e. canoe
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welcome to the machine

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:35 | 3031005 Overflow-admin
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Great! How about Genetic Programming?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:14 | 3031171 Aurora Ex Machina
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I need an upgrade to understand the majority of those papers. Thanks though.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:46 | 3030685 DUNTHAT
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SOME MORE CHART PORN FOR THE EDUCATED----

WE ARE IN A RECESSION NOW, AND WILL ONLY GET WORSE--ESPECIALLY IF WE GO OVER THE CLIFF

PREPARE ACCORDINGLY

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B16Nxp5pgJBzdW5UUnVlZVhiWnc

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:08 | 3030744 odatruf
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I think we will be better of going over the cliff (i.e. reduce spending and increasing taxes, especially on those who pay no to little taxes now).

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:56 | 3031050 forwardho
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Since going over the cliff will in the long run severly lower the surplus population, I must agree with your logic.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:52 | 3030697 frenchie
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me thinks Adolf was essentially talking about the yid lies imho

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:03 | 3030715 Shizzmoney
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Already the cracks are showing: consider that 88% of the S&P 500's profit growth this year came from just ten companies and four of these companies alone accounted for half! It gets worse, half of this top ten are current or former problem-children banks who essentially live off the retiree-punishing financial repression interest rates at the Fed.

If that sounds like a bullshit economy, well, it is because it IS one.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:29 | 3031308 Vendetta
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+1000

Fun facts to know and tell

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:04 | 3030720 NEOSERF
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We don't want the truth and if you try to tell us what it is, I will choose the blue pill.  Before I take the pill though I will tweet and facefart all my friends to vote the truth-tellers out to ensure the Twinkie providing party continues to allow me to sit in my basement playing videogames...On a serious note, given how bad things are in Spain, why aren't the 50+% unemployed male youth in the streets?  Why are violent crime rates in most major cities lower than they have been in decades...me thinks earbuds, facebook, iphones and xbox are the true opiate of the masses.  Had these things not occurred to keep them in the basement, would we see much more "concerned action" from this group world-wide?  One wonders...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/index.html

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:04 | 3030721 odatruf
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Can we please stop with the Nazi analogies? There is nothing similar about any of it and all it does is undermine an important message and the messenger.

Sure, the NAZIs and Hitler lied and used propaganda. I get it.  But so haven't many other regimes, kings, religions, and even that guy at the end of the bar hoping to get into the hot girl's pants by closing time.

Make your case and move on.  Forget the bogyman for fuck's sake.

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:04 | 3030722 SheepDog-One
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Yea well the problem is is the people were given the facts and the cold hard truth, they'd beat the politicians to death....so they definitely can't do that.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:06 | 3030732 odatruf
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I wish, SheepDog. There is zero evidence that the people would do any such thing. There is plenty of truth, but most work assiduously to avoid it.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:07 | 3030738 eaglerock
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All I want for Christmas is a plot of land, some seeds, and a gun.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:40 | 3031019 AynRandFan
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I have a woman and a dog.  Bring over some food and I'll trade you something for the gun.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:30 | 3031103 FeralSerf
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How can you be sure that the woman referred to doesn't have a dog and a poorly trained primate instead?

I thought I owned a cat once. . . .

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:09 | 3030748 Bastiat009
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The truth is that Tyler Durden is a fictitious character and hiding behind a persona may not be the best way to promote truth. The relevance of an information depends, among other things, on its source.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:38 | 3031015 jomama
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i notice you didn't use your real name, either.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:38 | 3031017 AynRandFan
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The relevance of information depends on its context.  The credibility of information might depend on its source.  The truth of information basically depends on nothing but itself, i.e., "the world is round" doesn't turn out to be wrong even if Jim Cramer says it.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:49 | 3031038 forwardho
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B, The truth is that the tyler brothers have to hide. Powerful people would like nothing better than to shut down every site that does not conform to the template provided. In the end the tylers are irrelevant, since the percentage of people that "get it" are inconsequential. Truth is truth= unchanging fact. It matters not who delivers it, and the source has no bearing on the facts presented.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:34 | 3031318 Vendetta
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Its a test whether one can discern the truth from propaganda without having to rely on what commonly passes as a 'credible source'.  Take it or leave it is a choice.

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 05:54 | 3031832 Peterus
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Artifical persona is valid identity.

Whatever his "real" name could or could not contribute has little meaning here. Tyler Durden of ZH "is born" with starting of the blog and whatever his reputation is - needs to be built up from there. Posting BS would ruin Tyler Durden, even if it had no impact on reputation of his human "controler". What would be gained if he "revealed himself" as some econ professor, or 20 year old student or whoever else?

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 10:55 | 3032351 slackrabbit
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Tell the to Julian Assange and wikileaks.

Oh dear, more truth...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:12 | 3030767 MedicalQuack
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This is a good post and lies it is and I call it the Attack of the Killer Algorithms...where formulas and code change the world to follow the direction that they want..you can do anything with software but not in the real world...the dirty formulas and codes seem to have a jump on us consumers...

Algo Duping 101 below...

http://www.ducknet.net/attack-of-the-killer-algorithms/

The extremely profitable business of data selling with code that is not even checked for accuracy, combined with formulas by quants that contain fiction, doing us in.  Watch the videos and you see what I mean.  The one quant with what he has done "apologizes to the planet"...and these guys don't normally talk as they would be fired, but this is a lot of it and more flawed data out there.

Tax the data sellers who make billions in profits with those algos that sometimes twist the truth, and how will devices companies enterain paying their new excise taxes that start next year?  Easy, they willl sell your data so you can't get it but you know the dollar comes first in corporate America and if there's any error in the billion dollar data selling business that nobody audits, you are on your own dime to fix corporate data flaws..not fair.  That's the reason right now why as consumers we need to become bed partners with the medical device industy to stop the tax or we end up breeding a new bunch of sellers for profits. 

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2012/11/one-more-reason-to-repeal-medical...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:36 | 3031010 AynRandFan
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You and the chem-trails guy should get together.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:15 | 3030777 dolph9
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I can always count on Jim Quinn to give me a good laugh and brighten my day for a bit.  He is a reminder of what paranoia and pessimism can really be, taken to extremes.

I personally get much more valuable information from James Kunstler.  I think his take on the nation is, for the most part, spot on, even if I disagree with his proposed solutions. 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:27 | 3030815 Jim in MN
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Needs more Zappa and Hunter S. Thompson.  And I bet he never even read Society of the Spectacle.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:28 | 3030819 muppet_master
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LIES U CAN BELIEVE IN !!

says odummernomics-QEorganizer-RAPE-O-ganizer of the 99%

wow !! the research work and historical digging that ZH (Tylers) do is VERY IMPRESSSIVE.

and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:40 | 3030857 muppet_master
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RAPE-O-NOMICS

QE-organizer-kenyanomics-kenysianomics says:

"GIMME UNLIMITED DEBT CEILINGS, I WANT TO ZIMBABWEAN THE HECK OUT OF THE USA...HEY, ITS NOT MY COUNTRY"

And his advocate the rapist mainstream media say: "GOP, if you don't let the RAPIST ODUMMER BANKRUPT the USA, we will call you RACIST !!!!!"

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:38 | 3030851 buzzsaw99
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ZIO-NAZIS

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:41 | 3030864 Pumpkin
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The governments of the world are only really good at one thing, and that is hiding the truth.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:43 | 3030868 metaforge
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Coincidence that shortly after closing the gold window the Department of Education was born?  Hmmm...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:43 | 3030871 Yes We Can. But...
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Extreme truth avoidance leads inevitably to extreme pain.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:44 | 3030874 Dr.Engineer
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The burning platform has done well in this post.  Many threads are woven together for a stronger thesis.  Alas,  it is true.  Share with others.  Prepare and do not despair. 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:45 | 3030876 evolutionx
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Obama: Dollar just an Illusion

In a sensational interview  President Barack Obama provided some deep insight into the monetary system: "The dollar is just an illusion" - the US currency was actually not worth anything.

Specifically, Obama explained that the trigger for the financial crisis - the subprime crisis - wasn't actually a US-specific problem, but was a problem of the monetary system itself. This system involved compound interest effects that caused more and more debt, which in turn made it necessary to search for ever more debtors. The logical consequence therefore was that even people who were not credit-worthy were being lent huge amounts of dollars. Literally, Obama said: "Our money is an illusion."

 

http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/english-news/7593-obama-dollar-just-an-illusion-

 

 


Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:54 | 3030910 Bansters-in-my-...
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Most people are still in the dark about aerosol geoengineering....aka...Chemtrails. All yous all get for christmas is sprayed with aluninum and barium. And your going to like it..... Oh...look at the pretty clouds.....all in a straight line like that.....cool..... !!Look....

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:14 | 3030960 Uncle Remus
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Everybody needs a hobby I guess...

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:26 | 3031194 Mike in GA
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Yeah, I guess you're right, Uncle Remus, nothing wrong with a harmless hobby.

I just hope someone reminds the chemtrail crowd to close their mouths when it rains.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:55 | 3030915 Die Weiße Rose
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Most people don't really want to know the truth -

they much rather believe in pretty lies -

the truth is being born young and strong,

then losing it all to the reality of life, day after day, year after year,

you grow old, weak and frail, until one day your entire world collapses

and then you die, alone, unloved in madness and destitude.

Cold and alone.

the truth is the death of all dreams and the end to all nightmares -

that's why most people avoid the truth like the plague,

and prefer to live their Lives in fear.

Death and Fear are much more powerful than the Truth !

because in the end only death is the ultimate truth.

wr;)

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:58 | 3030921 akak
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You are probably correct.

I mean, if most people actually wanted the truth, and NOT pretty fairy tales, then religion would be widely seen as the mental illness that it actually is.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:37 | 3031014 Die Weiße Rose
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every human has their own Religion -

everyone is on a path to the truth and self-discovery -

that is the natural human way of life...

however there are those who believe

that only their Religion can discover Truth and therefore create reality

that only theirs is the true religion and the true faith.

that only they are the true believers...

most will take a lifetime to learn,

that all they believed in blind faith -

the wars for freedom, the patriotism without questions -

it was not for the Truth or for their Religion and believes,

it was not for their God or their Country -

that they all had to die -

it was all just a lie -

and in blind faith they believed in nothing else -

they gave their life for a lie -

wr;)

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:39 | 3031327 WAMO556
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PROBABLY,,, however crossing swords with you, I have seen a lot of assholes who didn't have religion either. And yes, they were fricking psychopathic sociopaths. I would rather deal with someone who believes in the absurd then someone who would want to turn me into SOYLENT GREEN. There is a NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:56 | 3030917 earleflorida
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" Sui`generis" 

Bravo, Mr Quinn!!!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:04 | 3030931 q99x2
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Nice article. The colleges in Southern California seem to have very informed and intelligent students. Most of the students are the children of immigrants. Although in a speech class you would expect more foreign students, in the class I'm in, 4 were born in the US. But not one of them has an accent as bad as someone from Pittsburgh, PA. I'm very impressed with the students in the classes I've taken this century compared to last century. It may be that the students that don't cut it in the first two years have already dropped out so I'm not getting a very good sample of the students entering from high school. I will say this, I have not yet met a single student that appeared as stupid as our last President George W. Bush.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:32 | 3030996 AynRandFan
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Why bother to embellish a simple-minded insult?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:46 | 3031022 akak
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If you were referring to the former poster's mention of the Pittsburgh accent, I would agree with you.

Besides, if one REALLY wanted to make fun of a grating, mind-rotting American accent, one could do no worse than bring up the speakers with the West Coast accent, with their staccato, rapidfire, machine-gun-like nasal delivery, and their inability to differentiate between "Don" and "Dawn", among many other annoying features.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:34 | 3031319 WAMO556
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WTF!!!! Can't you F@&?sticks EVER get over George Bush???? You do know that there is a new guy in the Whitehouse? Just as bad as the former occupant. I only point this out, because you seem slightly out of touch with current events. Just saying.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:14 | 3030958 Uncle Remus
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"I am not a crook." - Every POTUS from Nixon to date.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:30 | 3030984 AynRandFan
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We just voted in the party of unlimited spending.  So, does the truth matter anymore, or is the only thing that matters getting what you can get while it lasts?  Maybe the latter.

My point is, that if you are trying to teach math (or responsible self-government) to a bunch of idiots, you're wasting your time.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:28 | 3031305 WAMO556
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As opposed to the PARTY OF JUST SHY OF UNLIMITED SPENDING. And the difference is what???? The R or the D. You pick.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:28 | 3030985 robnume
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Touche, LongSoupLine. I love your tag; you are absolutely on the money - pun intended - . I read "The Burning Platform" regularly and this is one of the best essays they've published, like, ever. I have a lot of sheeple on my dad's side of the family and they are such obnoxious assholes! It's getting hard to even sit through a dinner with these people anymore because they've got their fucking e-gadgets out, even at the table, and don't even talk politics with these sheeple. They worship Obama and they think that the truth is whatever comes out of Best Buy! They don't want to know about drones or endless war or slave and/or prison labor. They just want more "gadgets" to distract themselves with and I can't even believe that I am immediately related to these sheeple. I'm going to make a T-shirt with Huxley's ' They shall know the truth and the truth shall make them mad". That'll show 'em! Right? Right? right? OMG!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:34 | 3031003 Titus Flavius C...
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It's going to be all debt and lies until Hillary gets in.

 

But then, Hillary will be the best president for Israel ever, and will complete the Zionist Occupation of the American Government.

 

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/america-and-israel-are-in-it-together-clin...

 

 

...So we have that going for us, anyway....

 


Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:35 | 3031006 seek
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Epic rant, I'd been wishing to write something like this for friends, now I just have to email a link.

Permafucked indeed.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:37 | 3031012 Blazed
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The big lie. Oh you mean like the Shoah business!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:44 | 3031020 michael_engineer
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How's this for some startling economic truths that are hard to handle :

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/observations-engineer

Written a few years ago but showing itself now in ways to be spot on.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:55 | 3031025 stockscooter
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The Truth is, the California Muni bond market just ended it's bubble with a blow-off top of sorts.  Maybe the Armageddon begins there.  It doesn't look pretty.  Do you think they have something to hide? They may be hiding nuclear warheads there:-)     ETF chart posted here...    http://stockscooter.wordpress.com/                  Maybe Tyler could do a piece on this sector.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 18:42 | 3031026 midtowng
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I love the Aldous Huxley quotes.

I only saw two problems with this article:

1) the term "liberal news media". There is no such thing. There is only "Corporate News Media", and it nothing to do with liberal politics.

2) You used Mish - a known asshole.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:02 | 3031058 ImnotPOTUS
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"I WANT THE TRUTH!!!!!"

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"

"DID YOU ORDER CTRL-P?"

"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS PAUL"

"DID YOU ORDER CTRL-P?"

"YOU SNIVELING GOLD BUG"

"DID YOU ORDER CTRL-P?"

"DID YOU ORDER CTRL-P?"

"YOU GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:10 | 3031065 Likstane
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"you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad" Aldous Huxley(just another drug addict)

"If you continue in my word, then you are disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" Jesus(Son of God)

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:10 | 3031067 R_J
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There are words that don't say what they mean and there are words that say what they don't mean” - - - Candia McWilliam

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:17 | 3031079 Turin Turambar
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Lincoln?  Yeah, good ol Honest Abe.  He told the truth.  He told people to do exactly what he said, or he'd send in the troops and enforce his edicts via the aggressive use of force. That was certainly the truth!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:16 | 3031177 bunnyswanson
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You want perfection?  Do you want your leaders to walk on water?  Will acts of great men be subdued because every act is not viewed as acceptable?

This isn't a movie.  There are so few presidents worthy of any prize or notoriety that when one is brought to the forefront, you have the nerve to critique him.  This is why good men do nothing.  They are pecked to death for any deviation beyond what you and people like you find unacceptable.  Who would devote their lives to a country under these circumstances?  Only the greedy pathological tyrants who promote propaganda to tarnish the reputations of the men who would stand above cashing in on the misfortune of their country.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:34 | 3031212 Mike in GA
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You are right, Bunny.  This is why Ayn Rand had Atlas shrug. 

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:23 | 3031293 WAMO556
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I would say that the nail that stands up is quickly hammered down...willingly. There is nothing that doesn't happen to us that we don't first give permission to. Just saying.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 22:30 | 3031445 bunnyswanson
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The tyrants know to instill fear in the minds of uneducated desperate souls at the bottom of the pyramid - terrorizing them into believing exactly what they want.  The town crier is relaying misinformation.  People are inherently good, they realize right from wrong. 

Without a town crier that is giving the correct message, you can count on what we have today.  People are being terrorized with the fight against terrorism and now are being told obedience will be needed for their survival.  This of course is a lie.

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 16:17 | 3036924 Turin Turambar
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"People are inherently good,"

 

You are more than a bit naive.  You're basic view of humanity is based on a lie.

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 16:50 | 3036867 Turin Turambar
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Perfection?  Yeah, considering the fact that the southern states VOLUNTARILY joined the compact of the united states and, therefore, had the right to VOLUNTARILY leave according to the sovereign free will of the people of each state, I'd say sending in an army to murder the seceding "offenders" falls a tad shy of perfection.  I'm not asking for perfection, but is it too much to ask for something less than authoritarianism and a penchant to mass murder those who don't bow down to the unlawful, immoral, and unconstitutional dictates of the state?  Not according to you, it seems.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 19:18 | 3031081 HardAssets
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I will pass the link to this article to others.  Of course, most of them won't read it. Charts and numbers make them do a 'sad face'.  Makes their heads and tummys hurt.

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:07 | 3031152 rsnoble
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This entire planet is one huge POS.  And if the human race were to leave all the assholes behind and move to another planet........that planet also would soon become a huge POS.  This species should just go extinct including myself.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 22:18 | 3031413 bunnyswanson
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Envy is promoted by media - I think this is one of the 7 deadly sins because it divides us from our neighbors.

 

Media is the problem.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:13 | 3031170 steelhead23
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I like this piece - and mostly agree, but the whole story isn't there.  Of course Bernays, Huxley, and Hitler were correct - we are easily manipulated and that manipulation has consequences.  What is missed is where is our future and what is the true nature of man.  Are we, as the Aristotlean's would have us believe, appropriately hierarchical in our social structure?  Herein lies the rub.  Getting along in socieity requires a bit of self-subordination, but taken too far and we become slaves.  So, between the absolute necessity of social conformity and the ultimate subordination of the self there has to be a place to be an individual.  I happen to believe that place is work.  Yes, work.  If we could manage how society values an individual, I would argue that high on that list if not highest would be work, not wealth.  Allow me to quickly make my point.  Everyone has heard of a Stradivarius violin - they are works of art that make great music.  Does anyone know who owned those instruments?  Who was it that funded Stradivari's shop?  Who owned him?  Through his work, and the wonderful technology of audio recording, we all do.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:11 | 3031271 forwardho
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Through work freedom. Yes, I have seen this written before. Did not turn out so well if you were on the wrong side of the gate

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:18 | 3031283 WAMO556
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Arbiet macht frie???

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 13:58 | 3032919 steelhead23
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Aargh.  You are right.  My point stands, but a society ordered around work could be corrupted to serve the interest of the few.  Preventing this has proven difficult.  There is no utopia (Huxley's Island shows the futility of utopian thinking).  Suffice it to say that while I may be a bit of a Calvinist, I am not a Nazi. 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:15 | 3031172 Never One Roach
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Kim Kardashian's G-string sold on Ebay for $1,957.00 rumor has it.

 

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:40 | 3031219 grunk
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Syria has chemical weapons.

No, really, I mean it this time.

I swear, they got them from Saddam Hussein.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:46 | 3031233 Everybodys All ...
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The left wing media will not care if he does or doesn't this time my friend.

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 10:48 | 3032338 slackrabbit
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Who got them from the UK, US, Russia, Germany and China...much to the annoyance of the CIA when the US core of Engineers found in the bunkers holding them.

And yes they did actually have 'Mad ein the XXX' on them.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-continue...

 

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:42 | 3031223 lakecity55
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Now I know why Hunter Thompson killed himself: he saw this coming.

He warned us about Tricky Dick.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 21:15 | 3031278 WAMO556
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Cowards think others are cowards..... And.... Liars think others are liars. You know... The old saying about: IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE. Not every one tells lies, there are those of us who live lives of honor, courage and commitment and find being anything less the honorable is despicable and not becoming of a gentleman or gentlewomen.

Those who are liars, cheats and thieves have no honor... And God is watching.

And Don't give me any crap about their being no God.

Those of us who have been in combat didn't pray to some lieing, cheating, thieving banker. Providence, grand Architect, Allah, God.

Go figure!

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 22:46 | 3031474 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Shit, Punkin', ifs all you wanted was the truth, why didn't y'all say so?

 

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dFVFJ0iRRA

 

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCs1FNCuzF4

 

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaaciMNHUKA

 

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhkUYvjQoVM

 

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0m6Sy7DTrY

 

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLGOMQH3hk

 

Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arp4xMbt5Rw

 

Part 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvIu8IcAvA

 

Ann Barnhardt's been dishin' that shit out fer a while. Now you may not like it, but that's a different conversation, ain't it?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 23:14 | 3031550 Cathartes Aura
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uh huh, Anne "who I am doesn't really matter, all I'm relating to you is Objective Reality, Objective Truth" Barnhardt.

first two minutes should do it for some.

though I'll give her this, she does also state she's aiming for the "Average American" - bless her Koran burning, pink AK totin' er, heart?

to each their own.  literally.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 23:39 | 3031592 Blazed
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She's the weather girl wearing an extra long tie, or the girl from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, not sure.

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 16:13 | 3036905 Joseph Jones
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I stopped following Warren Polack when he displayed his spiritual and physical alignment with Ann Barnhardt, a Rabbinical tool from top to bottom. 

Also, Warren, in his apparent Jewish tribal Zeitgeist, just can not get himself to ever bring up the Judaic aspect to modern Western tyranny.  I lost respect for him on this count.  He's either blind to Judaic/Rabbinical tyranny or he fears it and makes believe it does not exist.  Another Rabbinical tool, unfortunately. 

Warren also associates and gives platform to John Zenakis, another boot-licking or fearful Judaic tool.  He presents himself as just another brilliat (Harvard or Yale grad, can't remember) person, another truth teller unnassociated and not holding to any geo-political stripe.

After reading Zenakis for some time, I emailed this little fearful piece of crap the most simple and innocent question, the purpose of which was to understand to what extent he carries water for Rabbis:

Me to John "chicken poop" Zenakis:

"Dear John,

Is the modern state of Israel the fulfillment of the Old Testament?"

Is this an aggresive, hateful question?  Is this a confusing question?  Is this too hard for a Harvard grad to comprehend?  Is this gray or hidden?  You tell me.

John's reply to me:

"They think so."

No!  You're kidding!  They do?  I'm shocked!  I never thought of that!  Brilliant!

Why would John not reply "yes" or "no?"  Simple:

"Yes" = every syllable I utter is directly planned to protect and defend Rabbinical tyranny.  I am a Zionist Rabbinical sycophant who craves Rabbincal mammon. 

"No" = to the extent possible and convenient, the Rabbis will directly and urgently ruin you personally and professionally.

Go ahead and ask this innocent question of persons holding power in the West.  I doubt you'll get a straight reply unless they are an outright naked Zionist. 

 

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 03:36 | 3031782 Joseph Jones
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What I find putrid about Ann Barnhardt:

She never heard of a Muslim she didn't want dead.

She promotes a common, incredibly false lie promulgated by the Rabbis whose boots she licks daily: Every Scripture vs. wherein Christ and other authors declare that the Pharisees/Rabbis "are a brood of vipers" (the spiritual offspring of demons) Anne lies and says, no, these words are not directed at the Pharisees (men who present them self as Hebrew scholars but rather they make others "twice as fit for hell as themselves") but rather, the Rabbis and their slaves like Anne tell us that we goyim are to read ourselves into these versus.  When Jesus directs hateful language at the Hebrew Pharisees of the 1st CAD, Anne says, no these words are directed at herself 2k years later in the USA, and others like herself.   

Frankly, Anne is just a tool, another liar sold out to and  wholly owned by the Rabbis.

 

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 05:05 | 3031815 resurger
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One of the Deadliest posts by the deadliest pens..

+5 to JQ and ZH

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 07:21 | 3031865 Cosimo de Medici
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Here is a truth not everyone wants to accept:  most everything is exactly as it seems.

Many people want, even need everything to be more complicated and nefarious than it appears.  Perhaps existence is not sufficiently stimulating to provide eight decades of joy, so a little (or a lot) of mysterious machinations have to be invented by the idle mind.

Many around here speak of "truth", most often suggesting that anyone who really reveals it is likely to be "deaded".  Well, take a walk through any of the few remaining major bookstores in the US.  In the sections oddly called "History" and "Current Affairs", one can find dozens of books---many already in paperback, which shows they are seasoned---that purport to reveal the "truth" about Freemasons, 911, Rothschilds, Bilderbergers, "chemtrails", etc.  To the best of my knowledge, their authors and their publishers, not to mention the owners and staff of Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc., are still walking around enjoying the royalties from said books and have not been "deaded".  Indeed, books of this ilk are so common and widespread one could fairly call their readership "sheeple", albeit sheeple led by a different Pied Piper.

On TV one can view an embarrassingly bad production called "Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory", which elevates the worst MSM yellow journalism to Pulitzer status in comparison.  Jesse seems to be roaming free despite revealing what must surely be "deadable offences".  (Somebody built a large and tasteless house in Arkansas, therefore that is the command center from which the Illuminati will ride out the nuclear war which they will start.....okay, Jesse.)

Even the truths which Quinn addresses, which are genuine truths, are out there for all to see, some even detailed by former government employees such as Neil Barofsky, in both print and broadcast form.  Barofsky has yet to take a black helicopter ride.  All of the anger and resentment in Webland stems from the fact that while all this is in plain site, neither Jim Quinn nor any of us has the courage to do anything about it except belly-ache or try to make a buck blogging about it, or else get sidetracked in the kind of delusion now so well "documented" on the shelves of Barnes and Noble.

And that's the truth.

 

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 07:28 | 3031870 Ghordius
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+1 though I'd say most people want, even need everything to be more simple and nefarious than it appears. This simplicity is reflected in the need for "Evil Black Hats" and "Good White Hats" - nobody ever sees himself as "evil". The Colonel played in that movie does not see himself as evil, he sees himself as a hero, and he is not alone in this

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 10:38 | 3032286 slackrabbit
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I think you have confused 1984 with Brave New World.

Of course the truth is out there, as is Lady Gaga.

You don't hide it, you drown it out.  You don't need to kidnap people off the street, you just surround them with straw men and turn up the sound.

But if they do decide to do something about you, there's always kiddie-porn...

 

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 19:33 | 3037253 Joseph Jones
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Kiddie porn: ask Bernie Ward about it, ex-KGO talk radio host.  (Not saying Bernie didn't do the crime, just rather saying the woman who finked on him was way over the top too perfect a witness for the prosecution). 

Or if the truth teller is US Congressman James Trafficant, R-OH, you order then-US attorney Michael Chertoff (dual-Israeli citizen, member of the most murderous branch of Judaism Chabad Lubavitch) to suborn perjury to send Trafficant to prison for seven years. 

Then Bush obeys his Rabbi masters and appoints Chertoff to first Chief of Homeland Security.   Then Chertoff "retires" to sell his ex-golf buddies at TSA hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cancer-causing body scanners (banned in Europe).  

BTW, how many books can you find at any western book store that accurately portray the "truth" about Judaism's holiest book the Talmud?  Little gems like the daily prayer of Judaic males:

"Thank you g_d I'm not a slave, a gentile, nor a woman."   How do you naive women like that vs?

and...

"Even the best of the gentiles deserve only death." (Rabbis admit this vs. and justify it by saying it applies only during time of war.  Oh, that's nice: during time of war every gentile deserves only death, including civilian babies suckling their mother's breast.  Sweet.  And tell me when Rabbis were not warring with gentiles?  Never.  Warring and faux claim of victim hood is the very DNA or as Michael Hoffman says, the "psychodrama" of Judaism...without victim hood there is no such thing as Judaism.)

And you wonder why the Talmud was banned for a short time?  Wonder no more.

And how did Rabbi-sycophant lover of mammon Judaic Steven Spielberg get away with the following lie? In his peaon to Rabbis, Spielberg alleges the following Talmudic vs:

"If you save one life, you save the whole world."

Spielberg's ass was kissed up and down the street, awards honored, and more ass kissing for his birilliant, glorious, poetic film.  One problem.  The actual vs. goes like this:

"If you save one Judaic life, you save the whole world."

Certainly, sir, you are lying or extremely misinformed.  I presume the latter. 

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