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Looking For The Spark Of World War 3? Start Here
Submitted by James H Kunstler of Kunstler.com,
Any American influence left in Iraq should focus on rebuilding the credibility of national institutions.
– Editorial, The New York Times
Gosh, isn’t that what we spent eight years, 4,500 lives, and $1.7 trillion doing? And how did that work out? The Iraq war is just like the US financial system. The people in charge can’t imagine writing off their losses. Which, from the policy standpoint, leaves the USA pounding sand down so many rat holes that there may be no ground left to stand on anywhere. We’ll be lucky if our national life doesn’t soon resemble The Revenge of the Mole People.
The arc of this story points to at least one likely conclusion: the dreadful day that ISIS (shorthand for whatever they call themselves) overruns the US Green Zone in Baghdad. Won’t that be a nauseating spectacle? Perhaps just in time for the 2014 US elections. And what do you suppose the policy meeting will be like in the White House war room the day after?
Will anyone argue that the USA just take a break from further operations in the entire Middle East / North Africa region? My recommendation would be to stand back, do nothing, and see what happens — since everything we’ve done so far just leaves things and lives shattered. Let’s even say that ISIS ends up consolidating power in Iraq, Syria, and some other places. The whole region will get a very colorful demonstration of what it is like to live under an 11th century style psychopathic despotism, and then the people left after the orgy of beheading and crucifixion can decide if they like it. The experience might be clarifying.
In any case, what we’re witnessing in the Middle East — apparently unbeknownst to the newspapers and the cable news orgs — is what happens in extreme population overshoot: chaos, murder, economic collapse. The human population in this desolate corner of the world has expanded on the artificial nutriment of oil profits, which have allowed governments to keep feeding their people, and maintaining an artificial middle class to work in meaningless bureaucratic offices where, at best, they do nothing and, at worst, hassle their fellow citizens for bribes and payoffs.
There is not a nation on earth that is preparing intelligently for the end of oil — and by that I mean 1) the end of cheap, affordable oil, and 2) the permanent destabilization of existing oil supply lines. Both of these conditions should be visible now in the evolving geopolitical dynamic, but nobody is paying attention, for instance, in the hubbub over Ukraine. That feckless, unfortunate, and tragic would-be nation, prompted by EU and US puppeteers, just replied to the latest trade sanction salvo from Russia by declaring it would block the delivery of Russian gas to Europe through pipelines on its territory. I hope everybody west of Dnepropetrovsk is getting ready to burn the furniture come November. But that just shows how completely irrational the situation has become… and I stray from my point.
Which is that in the worst case that ISIS succeeds in establishing a sprawling caliphate, they will never be able to govern it successfully, only preside over an awesome episode of bloodletting and social collapse. This is especially true in what is now called Saudi Arabia, with its sclerotic ruling elite clinging to power. If and when the ISIS maniacs come rolling in on a cavalcade of You-Tube beheading videos, what are the chances that the technicians running the oil infrastructure there will stick around on the job? And could ISIS run all that machinery themselves? I wouldn’t count on it. And I wouldn’t count on global oil supply lines continuing to function in the way the world requires them to. If you’re looking for the near-future spark of World War Three, start there.
By the way, the US is no less idiotic than Ukraine. We’ve sold ourselves the story that shale oil will insulate us from all the woes and conflicts breaking out elsewhere in the world over the dissolving oil economy paradigm. The shale oil story is false. By my reckoning we have about a year left of the drive-to-Walmart-economy before the public broadly gets what trouble we’re in. The amazing thing is that the public might get to that realization even before its political leadership does. That dynamic leads straight to the previously unthinkable (not for 150 years, anyway) breakup of the United States.
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The Fed, always wrong, but never in doubt.
It's come to this.
The world's only super power, can't run a coup in a third world shit hole.
Now , that's incompetence.
"what it is like to live under an 11th century style psychopathic despotism"
Not to worry. The US is knee deep in good old 20th century fascist totalitarianism.
"The experience might be clarifying."
My how short some memories are... Can anyone say Pol Pot?
Kuntsler is a Zionist cunt. who listens to this guy?
Buy the dip
Well then, I guess we're arrived about here:
My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the road warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time. When the world was powered by the black fuel, and the desert sprung great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. Suddenly their machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting and a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.
On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, waging war for a tank of juice. Good brave men were battered and smashed. Men like Max, who ruled the highways in the name of the law. Who became a lover, husband, father. And with the roar of an engine, he lost everything, his woman, his child, his world. He wandered out into the wasteland, and here he would learn, amid the dark wreckage, that the fire which burns in the heart of man, will endure.
Don't quote me on that. I did it from memory. (No, not really.)
ISIS is the best thing that ever happened to the MIC.
Don't forget to send your kids to this humanitarian war.
I take it Kuntsler still doesn't understand the IS situation is funded by US dollars... and NeoCon assholes.
Breaking OT news: Robin Williams found dead of apparent asphyxiation.
Will WWIII make it to the top 10 deadliest wars list?
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/07/10-deadliest-wars-in-history/
"Most of us know by now that the Crash of ’29, as well as the Great Depression that followed, were the main events of an intricately engineered financial and economic armageddon calculated as a necessary prelude to the real Armageddon known as "WWII. Historically speaking, a man without a job, or prospects for employment in his homeland, is much more likely to hire himself out to hisguvment as a mercenary fighting in a foreign land. Hasn’t this been their (TPTW)* formula for both war and wealth creation for eons?! Although it has always worked like a charm, wethinks the charm has finally worn out. Yes, that old fashioned Hegelian dialectic based ‘problem – reaction – solution’ MO has seen its final days. We also think theirmisbegotten plan to foist WWIII upon us has somehow been thwarted by the real TPTB. Yes, they’ve finally been snoockered!"
*The Powers That Were
^ ^ ^
Special Message to the Market Oracles and Money Masters of the Universe
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The nazi's are the fascist socialists. The conservatives are the ones who want to stop nazi's. Get your nomenclature corrected..
Another blame Bush asshole, 6 years after things have changed. Are you fcuking brain dead? A zombie?
You forget NAZI's were facist/socialists/nationalists.
All Conservatives want is for people to get off their lawn.
When you become old enough to vote make sure you vote for the individual and not just along party lines. Better yet, stop believing altogether in that Red team - Blue team bullshit.
Don't forget your leaders to this humanitarian war.
Scarlett "ISIS is the best thing that ever happened to the MIC."
100% right, girlfriend!
Allot of us were caught in 2008 asleep and learned some good lessons. Ive had time to prepare for whats coming. It turns out them fucking me over and stealing my house was the best thing that could have happened.time to prepare and am I I just left my wife cause she refuses to listen about how things in this world are and wont tell her miserable son NO. These kids are a tragedy in themselves. So whether it be a crash tomorrow or 10 years from now the Y generation is gonna try to kill all who have anything cause they have been taught that my generation and later are greedy and selfish and they will just steal instead of work . No ethics no morals no hope. So who cares about shit head ISIS our kids will be the death of this nation. You heard it here first and if you don't believe just have a talk with your teenager on how they think. You'll be scared and shocked what they have been taught. I wish I had an answer other that no run but when your spouse is asleep and wont listen and your step kid is on psychotropics as most now are i was facing an Adam Lansing and nobody would here my cries for this kid.
I won't argue that my generation (I'm 29) isn't populated by a lot of useless people, but saying those of us aware enough to think the entitlement programs you guys voted yourselves are greedy and selfish are wrong and somehow immoral because of it is pretty selfish itself. And that's not what kids are taught. Kids are taught that these glorious old fart entitlement programs will be there forever as long as we keep paying ever increasing taxes like good little serfs. Does that mean I'm going to try to steal all your stuff because I feel entitled to it? No. But my generation is going to have to work our whole lives to find your retirement entitlements until the whole system collapses. Even if nothing bad happens to disrupt the status quo, and no one on here feels that's likely, those entitlements would STILL bankrupt us. If you were awake and aware as you claim, you would know that. Forcing us to participate in obvious Ponzi scheme is flat out wrong. Just because you were forced into it doesn't justify us being forced to pay for it.
1 Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.
What they are saying here is that Ebola is airborne. Previously they said it could only be transmitted via direct contact with body fluids of infected people. This is a big and very unsettling change. But on the bright side, should you survice the new plague, you want have as many people to support with you taxes... on the not so bright side, there will be fewer tax payers too. We'll see how it balances out.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
I give Ebola 28 days.
Social Security is one of the biggies, and that was created in the 1930's. Then the Nixon govt decided to use it to balance the budget - a violation of law.
It's funny how we, the little people, always blame other little people, never the .gov, never the corps.
Oh I know the govt get a huge share of the blame. But the people who elected this govt and went along with these programs are not blameless. What you just said is the classic defense used by people trying to defend indefensible programs like social security. If you really felt that way, you wouldn't expect unborn generations to pay for the retirement benefits of the boomer generation with programs that won't be around for them. I sure as shit don't want my children or grandchildren forced to pay for mine.
Andre - Yes. Blame shifting is as old as human language itself. Start to evolve and prosper by looking into the mirror then correct perspective, followed by actions to improve your lot in life.
People now have the Internet, the great information leveler to being dealt a tough deal of cards in life. But most choose to use it for entertainment and atttention-seeking only.
Greenskeeper_Carl wrote: "my generation (I'm 29)"
Consider these quotes:
We were being lied to from cradle to grave by family, religion, government, technology, business, and media. If we could only stop this rot” -- George Harrison
“Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple” -- Mark Rowlands
actually, the lies begin with... Santa Claus. Now, if you find out that your parents lied to you about Santa Claus, wouldn't that be the wonderful start in a journey of understanding double standards? Like "you are not supposed to tell this to grandpa, even though it's true"?
One of the hardest lessons in childhood, that truth is very relative and seldom understood or welcomed?
Seriously, this (often Anglo-American) obsession with "he lied! he lied!" is sometimes a bit hard to bear
Politicians don't get elected by saying the whole truth. Even dictators can't hold power and say the whole truth. Advertisers can't tell the whole truth. Your parents were not willing to tell you the whole truth, and pray that your spouse and children won't tell you the whole truth
Why can't people at least grow up enough to judge them according to what they do, instead of what they say?
Take the lies that brought us to Iraq, for example. Telling the lies is one thing, starting a war based on them the real crime. And... renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries in the US Congress Cafeteria because France was calling out the lies...
NO SANTA!?????????????!!!!!!!
at least 15 zionist cunts.
Correction, 7th Century.
Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) put an end to things as far as Muslim advances at the Battle of Tours in 732AD.
That's 8th century not 7th century.7th century is something that happens in the 600's.
And for the record Muslim expansionism wasn't stopped in 732; the Muslims took over Constantinople/Istanbul in 1453.
The Muslim expansionism was stopped in 1571 by a naval military victory in the Meditteranean at the Battle of Lepanto. The Genoese admiral Andrea Doria was rhe western leader.
Actually, Iraq was far better off under Saddam.
The US turned it into a third world shit hole.
It takes a shit hole to make a shit hole.
No, it only takes someone to come along and shit in it.
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
—Calgacus
http://www.seesharppress.com/warquotes.html
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Protocols of Zion state destruction of all Nation States, especially in Mid East. US Zionist press perpetuates the phoney "Marshal Plan 2.0" doctrine which insinuates that "rebuilding" will take place, here, there and everywhere, yet the Zionist US can't rebuild Detroit.
You can keep asking the same question(s), as Kunt(s)ler does, or you may consider this a plan. A plan for a "greater Israel" I just don't know, but none the less, A PLAN!
While eating Christian babies.
Fail to plan or plan to fail?
I don't know if Oded Yinon or the Zionist Jews in PNAC ate babies, but they sure aimed to use American blood and treasure for Greater Israel.
Short pig?
Hey kaiserhoff - third world shit hole 'R' us
and you can thank the last 3 presidents, who progressively turned us into one.
Yep, and that shows that we are on the way out. And I agree with the last sentence of the article, the US will break up into smaller countries.
The US is not the world's only superpower
jb
The "spark" is really in all the tinder of the derivative trash of the central bankers-regardless of where they may be trying to point their media hounds.
Yadda. Yadda, yadda. Doom n gloom, doom n gloom... excyse me while u get in my 12mpg mega SUV to go to my a/c trophy house to watch my 70m" flat screen ::
Odd that we once again find ourselves here...
"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."
Otto von Bismarck
Have to agree, but to get WW III going, you need some real contenders.
I hear farm land is for cheap in the Ukraine. Now there's a wild card.
Will anyone argue that the USA just take a break from further operations in the entire Middle East / North Africa region? My recommendation would be to stand back, do nothing, and see what happens — since everything we’ve done so far just leaves things and lives shattered. Let’s even say that ISIS ends up consolidating power in Iraq, Syria, and some other places. The whole region will get a very colorful demonstration of what it is like to live under an 11th century style psychopathic despotism, and then the people left after the orgy of beheading and crucifixion can decide if they like it. The experience might be clarifying.
Absolutely SPOT ON !!!
I see a couple of neocons voted me down.
Good for you. I'm sure you're children are over there bringing democracy to the Middle East.
Or maybe....they're doing you proud by hoisting up a few heads on a pike.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2721230/Thats-boy-Australian-jih...
The neocons feel it is their right to say grace over the sovereignty of every country on the planet... This is your brain, this is your brain on a lifetime of nationalistic propaganda... USA USA USA... Go Team!!!! Makes me want to puke...
It appears I have a stalker... I must be doing something right...
It's Karl Rove....or Darth Cheney
Yes dick cheny and karl rove are still running things.
the neocons were mostly Zionist Jews.
Obviously.
Only in the NYT...
"Any American influence left in Iraq should focus on rebuilding the credibility of national institutions."
I still remember the day their little front page aphorism changed from "All the news that's fit to print" to "All the news that fits"
yeah......no shit........guess when the shitstorm comes they'll still be thinking anyone gives a rats ass about their rag.....hell they'll be using it to sleep under in the West End
gotta agree ... as predicted .... massive unsustainable debt will make any nation-building bully look pretty pathetic.
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"News for birds that shit on print."
I couldn't make this shit up, knucks.
This week's New Yorker had a longish article about the running dispute between radical feminists and the transgendered over "who is a woman?" HOLY FUCK. Only in Jew Yawk, or maybe Lawn Guyland;)
As the Italians say about the Pope and sex, he no playa the game, he no maka the rules.
Oh my....
Oh my oh my....
Oh my...
(Kaiser... I gotta admit that I just erased a smug smart-ass line about how a real man can tell by the quality of the blo.... but decided that that's just even way too wierd for me...)
Oh no... oh my goodness gracious....
(I'm actually at a loss, not quite sure let alone about what to say, but where did that even come from... like not this planet... out here that would be looked upon as if they were crazy because everybody knows that they ain't the same... just go to SF... and ... oh my.... oh Lordie....)
The whole place has gone mad! Mad I say! Mad
Preposterously insane!
We're really on the crazy train!
And death is the only way off!
That is a fitting example of how stupid and self absorbed the average American is. All this shit going on, this farce of an economy and TRYING to provoke wars all over the world, and we have morons arguing about transvestites vs feminists. I know this is reality, because you just couldn't make this shit up.
That would be transgendered-tranvestite-intersex-and-questioning versus ye goode olde fashioned wymyn.
Cage match!!!! Two persons enter, one person leaves!
"This week's New Yorker had a longish article about the running dispute between radical feminists and the transgendered over "who is a woman?"
You can pump that swinging dick to the hilt with hormones....and you can install fun pillows and make a ham pocket.
But DNA don't lie baby.
Hopefully ISIS comes to the Empire State. Let the Yanks figure out how to fight fire (instead of hide behind fraud-money and other people's children).
Pee Wee
if they make it past commie country they'll get an explosive reception.
As long as America is armed foreign domination is unlikely. The vast majority of US citizens have little interest in playing with firearms...but they keep them handy for special occasions.
If ISIS leadership calls out drones, put a swarm in his bedroom.
It's really all the news that reinforces the editorial page.
Or has Hemingway said about them: All the news that's print to fit.
Wow - that world map is chilling. I didn't know the Republicans and the Democrats had invaded and overrun so many other countries.
We are all well and truly fucked if that map is for real.
Is there a link for that map?
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120220162735/military/images/7/75/World_war_3.jpg
Not sure about the whole article but, I will say this:
I do believe that if we're not careful, This ISIS does have the possibility to re-map the ME.... if that begins to happen and for whatever reason oil goes up... way up... the economy will implode and war will follow.... it always does.
This administration will watch while the whole thing shapes up and do nothing until it's too late to avoid.
The US does mostly the bidding of the Saudis... The Saudis are against The Shias which are in Syria and Iran, Iraq... They're also against ISIS since they're a threat to the Saudi government too.... Israel may pivot to Iran after Hammas, Hesbolla (sp?)... ISIS taking advantage where they can as they pick up money, warriors and strength.... If or when they're strong enough... or Saudi and allies are strong enough, if our oil goes past 140/barrel because someone takes over enough oil fields and is not friendly to us that the markets get spooked... it's game over.... Obama will read about it in the news.
Kunstler.....the mother fucker voted for Obama twice. lmao. Seriously folks......that alone is good reason to never listen to another word coming from his lib pie hole. Better buy up a copy of A World Made by Hand for all of your friends and relatives. Kunstler. Peak Idiot.....just for the Obama thing.
He's stated that he regrets that decision.
And I'm sure he's not going to vote for Hitlery. He despises her more than Obama.
yeah no shit I guess the only thing dumber would have been to vote for GW twice......now that would be fuckin stupid........get a clue dumbfuck......they own your stupid ass BOTH PARTIES
I'm sorry but lick my fucking ass, cunt.
I made the mistake of voting for W. against Gore when I was still in the Matrix.
I got myself out of that after 9/11.
Never voted since....not even for dog catcher.
So fuck off.
You are absolutely dead-on right. Voted for president (doesn't matter which one, really) and regretted it. I'll never vote again either...after I upvote you.
LOL !! And a vote back atcha' I.V.
As a fresh off-the-boater, I thought Billy was a disaster. But then W happened and I naively thought that the bottom is in. And now O. Everytime I think we can not do any worse, a new POTUS comes around and proves me wrong. I am scared shitless of 2016.
Hi....my name is Hillary....and I'd like your vote. Here's my qualifications. Shadow President for 8 years. Senator from New York and Secretary of State under Obama.
And I've eaten more pussy than Bill.
Everything would have been better had you voted for Gore? He was going to lower the sea levels and lower temperature of the earth with tax dollars, right after he invented the internet. Oh wait, the global warming idiots just realized the last 15 years global warming was postponed. So now they call it climate change.
He can be counted on to vote for the Zionist motherfucker.
His shameless pro-Israeli penchant is his huge blind spot. I think he was ahead if his time ten years ago predicting collapse, but erroneously thought it would look like pastoral sweat on the brow rural living, not like The Road. Wrong on that one.
Kunstler understands peak oil and much of what he writes on that subject is worth reading BUT never lose sight of the fact that he is a Cultural Marxist Jew who is a sworn enemy and would be destroyer of the European people.
I'm sorry....but seriously.....what we know now.....is a Cultural Marxist Jew any worse than a WASP Global Crony Capitalist or a 7th Century Muzzie Conquistador ?
Or is it just and only about the Jew thing ?
It is not a question of better or worse just about recognising an unwholesome thing and avoiding it. Jews do what they do - it is in their nature - they have no free will about it.
Same as WASP Crony Capitalist and 7th Century throw back Muzzies
Wow... that's some heavy duty analysis right there. I am aware of a lot of nasty shit Isreal and Zionists everywhere pull, but wow... No free will...?
A clear and dispassionate look at the history of the Jews in the last thousand years will reveal a pattern of behaviour that has not changed (no collective free will) . Their group survival strategy of parasitism works and the collective weakness of the Europeans enables it to be so.
You know, it is almost comical, if it wasnt so sick, to see all the Jews bashing and Jewish conspiracy talk here. What you all fail to grasp is that it makes you look stupid. Jews are a tiny fraction of the US and Europe, right? But the Goyim just arent smart enough to collectively stop them? Arent smart enough to learn a lesson 1000's of years old? Just not smart enough to keep the banking and finance in WASP hands? I would be embarassed to call myself a goy and bitch about the Jew.
And historically, it was the church, who forced the Jews into banking since it was not a "church-like occupation". Fact. And Jews were prevented....PREVENTED....from traditional occupations and various trade guilds. So, yeah, your ancestors set up the Jewish people to work out a survival strategy. Stupid goyim!
Say the guys who have never met anyone jewish. The picture of the annoying New Yorker aside most US jewish people lean liberal but aside from Isreal seem to support US policy about like other citizens. Bashing the religion only makes ZH look like a bunch of mouth breathers. references to 'Protocols' makes it seem like a bunch of KKK mouth breathers. Lots of areas for discussion but this one size fits all 'It's All the Zionist Bankers Fault' is not very deep and is wrong.
Who's bashing the religion? They're wackos like many other religions, but as long as the leave everyone else alone, who gives a fuck?
Most of the bashing I see is against the Tribe. Lots of people rightfully bash the Mafia too. They're also killers and thieves. One only needs to understand the real history of Palestine to confirm this.
Does any other tribe find the need to have all powerful terrorist organizations like the ADL and Mossad? Do the Muslims have an equivalent to the ADL or Mossad?
Protocols were a forgery, there's no real doubt. But uncanny, none the less.
More doom and gloom... (but probably close to the mark).
And I'm kinda lookin' forward to the "breakup of the United States". Ethnostates are both desirable and inevitable.
There is no need to invent a false flag. There are numerous distracting tragadies, emergencies, unrest, and diseases to pick from. Ukraine, ebola, aids, fukashema, Obamas golf score.
Yes, and 9 out of 10 of them were created by the US... Just how many ways can the US screw the pooch, let me count the ways...
Don't give them any more ideas, dude! (As in screwing pooches... Way the fuck too Biblical... Don't need Revelations verified...)
I tried to explain to my neighbor why his kid died for absolutely nothing, but then I wasn't Invited to the next bar-be-que... thems the breaks
Lol, that's some balls right there, gotta respect a person who could have that conversation.
not for nothing - for his government. Or rather, the shadow government of neocons, bankers, and war profiteers.
the US is no less idiotic than Ukraine.
And no one is more idiotic or a bigger fucking liar than you, James Howard Kunstler:
I regard the 9/11 conspiracy theories as a fantasy and a distraction from the real problems we face.
http://kunstler.com/mags_diary15.html
The characters who infest their comment section (of Zero Hedge) are some of the worst vermin in trolldom.
http://kunstler.com/blog/2012/07/salutes-to-the-homeys.html
Kunstler knows that the Zionists are involved in 9/11 up to their eyeballs. That's why he will deny any evidence that 9/11 was anything but what the official propaganda claims.
Kunstler is a Zionist Ashkenazi Joo.
Zionists lie, and they cheat, and they steal, and they kill.
Look no further than Chomsky who denies 9/11 involved the US Govt. Abdiel's command of English surpasses that of Kunstler which is a great achievement:
http://abdielsroom.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00:00:00-0...
Bah, that pisses me off about Chomsky. Just read his book, "Necessary Illusions" and it was an absolute disassembling of the US propaganda system where-by the most egregious crimes were covered up mostly by not talking about them in the media and providing simple (but repetitive) stories to distract the public. 9/11 is precisely the type of operation Necessary Illusions discusses.
Reading his book however, I was thinking about how he was able to publish and to what extent he was a honey pot and a distraction himself. Now I guess I know. Perhaps he was told to get on board with 9/11 or all of his family would end up comitting suicide in a hot tub...
O/T RIP Robin Williams
It is hard to plan for the unimaginable.
I think that would be the "unknown unknowns".
Except by those that plan the unimaginable...
Tyler, your American readers don't give a shit. They voted for Iraq countless times!
Bring on the violence and war - it's someone else's kids!
Quit assuming your American readers have a spine, let alone a brain.
Just another hippy malcontent who hates everything about Merica, and the troops.
Love it or leave it hippy! I don't have time to sit around all day complaining about the greatest country in the goddamn world.
And get a goddamn haircut!
...and take a bath! Slow motion eagles are understandably repelled by the scent of patchouli.
So, we have Red and Blue teams. Is Grey the Ebola team?
No... it's the Confederacy rising from the ashes.
HALFTIME IS OVER!
These guys fought Sunni to a draw last time. Millions killed on both sides. Stay out and let 'em have at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Guardians_of_the_Islamic_Revolu...
Not this time. After the Caliphate takes Saudi Arabia, I expect the IS Caliphate to defeat Iran in an epic nuclear war before beheading all the Shiites.
I'd pay big to see that.
If we ask nice, they will use tactical nukes?
Meanwhile, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has now gone full monty re. the plane shootdown.
"Washington’s Ukrainian Stooges Shot Down The Malaysian Airliner" – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=195139
Yes, Dr Paul Craig Roberts adds a snippet of support to this but the link is to an article using the Straits Times as source.
Still, I am fairly convinced that the story is true: MH17 was attacked with 30mm cannon and an air-to-air missile by Ukie SU-25 fighter jets. And that was not an accident or mistake. Everything since has been a gigantic criminal conspiracy by USG/UKG/EU/NL/MSM to cover it up and blame Putin/Russia.
Its not a green zone but an artillery range
JK just can't bring himself to do it...
Funny how JK can wax lyrical on a whole host of reasons for our demise - but ,somehow, never gets around to mentioning that "sh!tty little country in the Middke East" (to quote a French Govt Official) and its 5th Columnists that DICTATE USSA Foreign Policy
It just wouldn't be "kosher" - would it JIm?
That would be Saudi Arabia....right Frankie ?
Nope. Zionist Jews and R2P faux liberal hyperinterventionists.
And their useful idiots - like you, ya sordid old fruit!
Cut into the book 'n' lecture income fer sure.
ISIS is a massive geopolitical danger to all of civilization. It is worse than you think.
The Caliphate can import the oil techs it needs from China or Russia. That is not a problem for them. And caliphates existed before oil, and do not need oil to be successful. If they cannot produce the food they need, they can change their business model to straight up nuclear extortion. Forcing richer countries to pay tribute is a tried and true business model. And they can simply conquer more territory. I expect the IS Caliphate to eventually take most of Eurasia, and quite possibly the whole planet. If the USA collapses as you suggest, it is almost certain they will take the whole planet.
I found this interview with a (well spoken) jihadi to be interesting:
http://www.syrianews.cc/isis-the-bombshell-interview-to-impeach-obama/
He goes over the history of US involvement with Al Queda and a plan called operation Clean Break which was to use agents to keep the Sunni and Shia fighting each other.
The guy also goes into detail about Takfir. This is a muslim who accuses another muslim of being a non-believer. Apparently ISIS uses this as a major strategy and justifies it's killing based upon this. Supposedly death can only be decreed by certain judges but ISIS has given itself that power. He says they use the terror strategies of Genghis Kahn.
You can see, even if his information is wrong, how unlikely it is that muslims could unite. They use this 'holier than thou' ideal and fight like Catholics and Protestants did in the 1600s. Sounds like they are a few hundred years away from finding resolution .It must be a hard road though because if you are a good muslim you are religiously bound to kill kaffiri (those who don't have or have given up the faith. Bummer cuz that will take up most of you day.
Again...
Grew up during the dispute between my father [Protestant] & Mother [Catholic] Walked away unscathed on religious differences. They co-existed. Lost my mom in my twenties, breast cancer. If she was alive today, they would still be bickering over religion and be comfortable in co-existing the marriage.
My family suffered the Catholic Luthern wars. Forced to pray for poor grandfathers conversion nightly. Fortunately for him he died before they got to him.
I hope you realize Central policy, US Foreign policy, Federal Reserve all create new war's that are based on religious differences. Without this Central Planning mechanism, GDP would be deflationary.
Hold on, err, we are in that state. ISIS, boot up and start blowing up shit .We need a new war to bail out the financial petrodollar banking system.
/ sarc
thansk - that was a great read
a new day
a new kunt
just another jew view
from the new york yid times.
even if the times headline said jews behind adolf hitler adolf hitler was fully jewish.anne frank love child of adolf hitler i would not believe a word these cocksuckers said.
fuck all back inside the cube to talmudic saturn hell
Hey look...it's Tony Teabagger. What's up Honey Joo Joo Hater?
Hey guess what.....Israel still exists.
ROTFLMAO !!!!
Once we defund them, how long will they exist? Start using your shekels to invest in genocide. Watch how quickly you run out of money.
This kid is typing laughter but dripping anger, what did you guys do to this little bastard?
Hey kid, we have a small contingent of Jew fans here, don't let them get your blood pressure up. You should be used to it from your history and such. Have a matzo or a knish and just relax, you're coming off as an asshole.
I'm not a kid. I'm 50.
And I'm not coming off as an asshole.
I AM 100% Grade A Asshole.
No apologies....especially to the Jew Haters on this site. Every time I get a chance to throw it in their face, I'm going to do it.
Every time you get a chance to shit in your own panties and tell other people they stink, you'll do that, too.
this amalgam anti-zionist = jew hater is another common hasbara disinfo tactic
Is it the Americans and their foreign policy that we should be concerned about or is it religion that is at the root of all of it? Fundamentalists wallowin in decrying THIS world in favour of the NEXT world. So if a whole religion and the millions of folks who follow it feel that this world is nothing but a "shithole", full of "evil", and "sin", and "blasphemy", and that the only hope of personal salvation is to fight this evil, which takes the form of "the infidel" or whatever catchy 5th century term you wish to use, then how do you get folks to begin to appreciate THIS earth, THIS life, and sanctify it as it stands? As long as this is a place that needs destroying before the gates of heaven reveal themselves, those whose total lack of personal responsibility - those who have abandoned (if they ever possessed it in the first place) critical thought, decency, and human rights in favour of their brand of radicalism and who are in possession of weapons and able to foment destruction without challenge - will ensure that there will be no hope for peace. Instead we have fifth century ideology pointing 21st century weapons everywhere with the promise of "Paradise" as their clarion. There is no greater danger than ignorance coupled with military power.
Of course, as Nietzsche said; "Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Reading Nietzsche makes you dumber.
Overrun the Green Zone - call Matt Damon!
"There is not a nation on earth that is preparing intelligently for the end of oil"
This is true. Obama's greatest failure - apart from all his other failures - is not even to have attempted to fulfil his first election promise "to get America off oil". The whole Western world political elites are living in denial.
it's even more than denial. Obama is just one of many presidents talking about the same. I remember when Bush Junior talked about oil addiction
short and medium term interests make a lot of efficiency... for the short and medium term interests. meanwhile, those very interests obfuscate mightily the whole picture for long term interests
meanwhile, imho this WW3 "thing" is an obsession. a cultural obsession fuelled by a few religious strains, and concentrated in one (meta-) culture
Around 10 years ago I'm on record suggesting that the US should lead a global R&D programme to develop new, clean, green energies to replace oil. I had in mind a 10 year crash programme along the lines of "get a man on the moon in 10 years" back in its day. The world's best brains could have been brought together to achieve this.
Sooner or later something like this will have to be implemented or global society will collapse.
The great benefit of such a programme is that it would not only solve the global energy crises but also get the nanny-state eco-lefties to STFU and go find some other cause to bellyache about.
Sadly, instead of that, we see "oil wars" breaking out all over the world. Exactly as predicted by a few well known authors. Little energy R&D going on, so mankind is sleep-walking back to the pre-industrial age.
WW3?? I think it is a serious possibility based upon what I see happening. Worse, I believe there are numerous powerful factions in Western countries who actually want it and are pulling the levers in the shadows. Presumably, they don't want it to go nuclear, but will they lose control?
"End of oil"? You need to read "The Deep Hot Biosphere - The Myth of Fossil Fuels" by geologist Thomas Gold. He asserts that, far from springing from one-time deposits of organic material millions of years ago, that petroleum is constantly being manufactured within the earth's mantle. He adduces an impressive list of empirical observations from his career as proofs.
Here's proof.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtvTE3m5jpM
the russian look for oil following the abiotic theory and they find plenty of it
an empty oil well in north america was abandonned & found full again just a few year later
(sorry too lazy to re-look for the sources)
the dino stuff is just bs for the sheeple to keep the rates high. but try to share the info & you're labeled as crazy immediately (they're good at what they do/ ptb the brainwash of the credule)
"an empty oil well in north america was abandonned & found full again just a few year later"
It's called seepage, dumbass.
one post to ridicule, one post to insult,
you'd be a shill or a sockpuppet you wouldn't do better.
or is it that the abiotic theory make you really angry ? if that's so i wonder why
i have to add that i have no idea how you could write what you wrote while calling people stupid unless obviously it is disinfo tactic; like if they were pumping the oil at the seep rather than the source.
so i restate :
there is no multiple layers of fossile sources on top of each other that they didn't see.
when the source is empty, the source is empty, there is no magical refilling of the source... unless it is abiotic & come from the core of the planet.
Abiotic oil production has been investigated and debunked.
Move on the Bigfoot sightings. As least there is some money to be made with that hoax
says who ? jumbotron ? the feds ? the zionists ? mossad ?
hasbarah ? (or whatever those zionists psychopaths disinfo fuckers are calling themselves.)
ps: russian oil magnat are lol at this assertion (also trheir interest the credule believes those lies)