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Fear Of Terror Attack Soars to 9/11 High

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The recent scaremongery of the plebeians is complete (most recently by NY Rep. King's CNBC appearance proclaiming "I'm not trying to scare people, but..."). In an apparent Bush deja-vu-ism, as Obama prepares the nation to accept the need for another war this evening, an NBC News/WSJ poll finds a stunning 47% of Americans believe the country is less safe now than before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Despite billions of dollars and 240,000 Department of Homeland Security staff, the level of fear across America also is up substantially from last year when 28% felt the same way. Furthermore, this is now a populist war as beheading videos and comments like "all threats are imminent threats" find more than 60% believe that taking military action against ISIS is in the nation’s interest. Mission Accomplished, military-indutrial complex.

As NBC News reports,

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll exclusive poll reveals that 47% of Americans believe the country is less safe now than before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That’s a significant increase from even a year after the twin towers fell when in September 2002 just 20% of the country said the nation was less safe. The level of fear across America also is up substantially from last year when 28% felt the same way.

 

In fact, just 26% of Americans now feel the nation is safer than before 9/11.

 

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And a whopping 94 percent of Americans say they have heard about the news of the beheaded journalists – higher than any other news event the NBC/WSJ poll has measured over the past five years.

 

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According to the poll, 61 percent of American voters believe that the United States taking military action against ISIS is in United States’ interest, versus 13 percent who don’t. (Another 24 percent said they don’t know enough to have an opinion.)

 

That’s a significant change when a similar question was asked last year about the U.S. taking possible action against Syria’s government after its reported use of chemical weapons.

 

Back then, only 21 percent said action was in the nation’s interest, while 33 percent said it wasn’t.

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Finally, we leave it to Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger to discuss the utter failure of The Department of Homeland Security...

Regular readers will be intimately familiar with my feelings on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Long before it became obvious to millions of people, I wrote about how the DHS was never intended to prevent terrorist attacks, rather it had always been intended to suppress the American citizenry. Over the past decade, it has become a dangerous behemoth of fascism under the guise of the fraudulent “war on terror.”

Going back to 2010, I wrote a piece titled: The Dangers of a Failed Presidency, in which I wrote:

There is clearly a power elite that consists of a union between big corporate and financial oligarchs and career bureaucrats in Washington D.C.  These are the folks that pull the strings of all administrations.  All you have to do is look at the trends that have been in place since George W Bush and continue under Obama to see what these players want.  Bigger government and thus more Federal power, more wealth for the oligarchs (thank you Federal Reserve) and an erosion of the middle class, and reduction of civil liberties in the name of the 1984-like never-ending “war on terror.”  I believe in a war on terror of my own.  A war against the terror that Washington D.C. is constantly trying to inject into your head so that you sheepishly give away all you rights and power to them.  That’s my war on terror.

That was written over four years ago, and the power structure since then has been able to push forward its agenda with very little resistance. Indeed, the average citizen is too busy simply trying to feed his or her family, or completely bonked out on tireless propaganda, to tell the difference between truth and fiction, let alone fight back. All the while, the DHS has been a key oligarch tool utilized in order to surreptitiously implement a police state. As Trevor Timm so eloquently points out in the Guardian:

For three weeks and counting, America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones – it was all enough to make you wonder whether this was America at all. But as Congress returns to Washington this week, the ire of a nation should also be focused on the federal government agency that has enabled the rise of military police, and so much more: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

 

The 240,000-employee, Bush-invented bureaucratic behemoth that didn’t even exist 15 years ago has been the primary arms dealer for out-of-control local cops in Ferguson and beyond, handing out tens of billions of dollars in grants for military equipment in the last decade with little to no oversight and even less training on how use it. “From an oversight perspective, DHS grant programs are pretty much a mess,” a congressional aide told the Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman the other day.

 

There is now so much attention on the paramilitary pipeline that the White House has reportedly ordered a comprehensive review of the sprawling grant programs of both DHS and the Pentagon. But the problem with DHS is much larger than just combat gear: Homeland Security is also transferring tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in high-tech spying technology to local police through a sprawling backroom operation surveilling your neighborhood, much of which may be unconstitutional.

 

DHS has its own fleet of Predator drones roaming the US border and far beyond, which it has loaned out to police over 500 times for myriad unknown reasons. They don’t have missiles like America’s killer drones in Pakistan and Yemen, but they come decked out with all the surveillance equipment you can imagine – and more may be on the way as President Obama tasks DHS chief Jeh Johnson, who once helped justify the military drone program, as his pointman on the border. Homeland Security is also handing out millions of dollars to local police to “accelerate and facilitate the adoption” of smaller drones that police can fly themselves. Cops claim they want these “middleman” drones for “emergencies,” but in places like California’s Alameda county, documents show they’ll end up using them for “crowd control” and “intelligence gathering”.

 

Local police have also received millions of dollars in grants for Stingray surveillance devices, the invasive and controversial spying tool that police have been using to secretly suck up cellphone data from entire neighborhoods – then covering it up. As USA Today’s John Kelly reported, “Applications justify the purchases as an anti-terror tool, but records obtained from many police departments show the devices are being used to pursue more routine local crime.” That pattern – intended for “terrorism” but used for everything – repeats itself with virtually everything local police agencies receive from the Department of Homeland Security. Even local politicians who approve the continuation of funding rarely know what it’s being used for.

 

A Congressional report in 2012 found that so-called DHS “fusion centers” – the surveillance money pit that funnels all sorts of mundane personal information into databases that can be used and abused by countless local, state and federal agencies – produce “predominantly useless information”, while “running afoul of departmental guidelines meant to guard against civil liberties” and are “possibly in violation of the Privacy Act”. They’ve failed to uncover a single terrorist attack.

Not only is the DHS an enormous waste of money, it is also a cancer on the American soul. It has absolutely no place in a free society.

 

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Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:27 | 5203144 CH1
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Fear: The great destroyer, and the greatest tool of politicians.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203157 Divided States ...
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the only 100% guarantee is that if nothing happens tomorrow....markets are gonna soar to new highs...because we are all safe now that 9/11 went by with a whimper.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:38 | 5203205 Pinto Currency
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Financing and traing terror groups like ISIS then bombing them will make America safe.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203218 Vampyroteuthis ...
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Have we not been invaded from south of the border already?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:40 | 5203224 Xibalba
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I'm still stayin' in tomorrow.  

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203231 Pinto Currency
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I might add that financing, training and arming al Qaeda worked out so well that might as well do it again.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:45 | 5203256 pods
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Well as many bombs as we are dropping all over the world you are bound to have someone get pissed.

As to the poll, I couldn't give a squirt of piss about what most Amerikans think.  
Mindless zombies mostly.

pods 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:50 | 5203273 James_Cole
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/dick-cheney-is-still-right-1410305068

Dick Cheney, noted pathological liar famous for being wrong on basically everything he claimed during his (vice) presidency, is officially declared 'still right' about something by the WSJ. The re-emergence of those crazy mofos is something to be afraid of. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:00 | 5203324 krispkritter
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Big Dick is just fanning the flames.  They should stop installing spare parts into this pyscho and just let him die already.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2751065/Threat-ISIS-far-dangerou...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:35 | 5203475 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Mission accomplished, now Reggie can penetrate Obama and have all his attention.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:38 | 5208183 mkkby
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Ask yourself just one question -- is the border secure yet?  If not, then the terrorist threat is either a false flag or grealy exaggerated.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:36 | 5203480 zaphod
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I am much more afriad of my sons eventually being drafted to die 5000 miles away to further the interests of the government/banker class, than I am of any attack in the US.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:53 | 5203562 Bananamerican
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"Less safe" = all the terror $pending doesn't mean jack....
That's how I read it
The Amerikan people may have bought it, but they don't buy it

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:36 | 5203775 TheFourthStooge-ing
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"War on terra,
that's the game,
you just flush that money
down the drain."

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 19:15 | 5204165 BringOnTheAsteroid
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All the power the US government wields could be rendered impotent over night if US citizens withdrew consent. A great start would be not enlisting in the army or navy. Unfortunately though the greatest weapon the government has over the people is not fear, it's people's stupidity.

Humans are easily lead and it convinces me more every single day that free will is an illusion and we are instead biological automatons.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:32 | 5205189 jeff montanye
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do stupid, evil stuff for thirteen years and you can increase the risk of a terrorist attack.  question is by whom?  mossad?

 

best of its kind, imo: http://smile.amazon.com/JFK-9-11-Years-Deep-State/dp/1615776311/ref=sr_1...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:18 | 5203679 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

I am much more afriad of my sons eventually being drafted to die 5000 miles away to further the interests of the government/banker class, than I am of any attack in the US.

So then why would let any son of yours comply with a draft notice?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 19:17 | 5204175 BringOnTheAsteroid
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You must have missed the word "afraid".

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 00:34 | 5205193 jeff montanye
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not sure -ing was around for the last draft.  like much else you had to be there to know.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:23 | 5203691 Muh Raf
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This is just one big pantomime.

 

"Oh no it isn't!... Oh yes it is" ad nauseum

 

Not to forget "He's behind you, he's behind you."

 

Did you enjoy that kids?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:56 | 5203569 venturen
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Yep and the current liar in chief is so much better. Obama just lies and no one does anything. The whole Cheney thing is from the same NYT that tells you Obama is helping the poor, taking from the 1%, Obamacare is good for you, that militarizing the police is good. 

You my friend are SO PLAYED. Given that Bush and Cheney were left to deal with the Clinton disaster....

They cleaned up Iraq...Obama gave it to new terrorists. Libya was in good shape...Obama gave it to the terrorists. Bush was deal the first internet bubble, which the FED pushed into the next bubble. Now Obama doesn't even bother helping the 99%...he goes right to cronies and the 1%

So you think Saddam was a good peaceful guy? That Osama was a nice guy? Really? Save the whining for the Daily KOS! 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:01 | 5203589 James_Cole
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They cleaned up Iraq...

^ easy on the bottle or you'll wind up as brain damaged as cheney..

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:19 | 5203687 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Typical party pussy.

Your television beckons, don't keep it waiting.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:58 | 5203874 CH1
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So you think Saddam was a good peaceful guy?

Let it go, son. Really.

Politicians - all of them - are filthy liars and thieves.

Red/Blue is just a game to keep you cheering for one side or another.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:51 | 5203282 RaceToTheBottom
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Tomorrow is the safest day to travel....

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:17 | 5203387 economessed
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Wait, you just said "...most Amerikans think."  What?  They think? Come on.  Nobody's done that since the '60's.  And from what I understand, that new Apple watch will completely remove the need to think ever again.  You just stare at it and stuff happens around you and to you.  BRILLIANT!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:50 | 5203279 Taint Boil
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More Americans Killed by Bees and Wasps or Falling Televisions than by Terrorists

 

Link

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:13 | 5203371 pods
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Cops are more dangerous to more people than terrorists.

pods

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:25 | 5203431 tonyw
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"by far the biggest threat to Americans is themselves"


Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:54 | 5203302 forensicator
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screw the Religion of Peace 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:25 | 5203712 TheFourthStooge-ing
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That's it, keep trembling in fear and stay glued to the television for further instructions.

Land of the free, home of the brave.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203228 Pinto Currency
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Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:52 | 5203549 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen. I liked your comment but let's not elaborate. I also think that your USSA "HOMELAND" is "FUCKED" but "NOT" "BY" "MUSLIMS".

OH!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:42 | 5203233 bobnoxy
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''Have we not been invaded from south of the border already?''

They're just patiently taking back what was taken from them. All's fair.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:49 | 5203259 Gringo Viejo
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Long as I got Vodka & Tonic, I really don't give a shit.

Have at 'em McCain. And try not to shit yourself.

Daddy's dead. No transfer to another Carrier this time. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:50 | 5203277 Dr Strangemember
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As a member of the Mohawk Nation, it's fun to watch the rest of the US population wake up and recognize the US Governement for the true organization it has always been.  "

...for the people."  YEAH, RIGHT??!!  

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:13 | 5203368 Gringo Viejo
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You're a member of the mohawk nation? Ask me if I give a shit. You're nothing more or less than the next guy. I'm a member of the VFW. So fuckin' what?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:16 | 5203380 pods
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Well I have a member (or am a member, depending on who you ask).

pods

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:19 | 5203399 Gringo Viejo
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+10 pods.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 20:11 | 5204333 roadhazard
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Lucky dude, getting that casino money.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:21 | 5203407 free_lunch
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Kinda like breaking windows..

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203172 McMolotov
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Fear is the mind-killer.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:34 | 5203181 IridiumRebel
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” -Frank Herbert

 

...on that note, I will be under my bed, marinating in my urine.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203192 McMolotov
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Don't forget the scissors!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:48 | 5203267 Dr Strangemember
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Iron Maiden said it best with "Run for the hills, run for your life"!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:06 | 5203349 quasimodo
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Classic, love that song. The white man is still pulling the same shit that they sing about, of course it's not just the Native Americans he's after this time.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:54 | 5203300 WillyGroper
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And a shitgum.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203184 Chupacabra-322
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Fear is the greatest ally of the Pure Evil Psycopathci Criminal CIA.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:42 | 5203508 Blues Traveler
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nothing to fear, they are already in the whitehouse.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:47 | 5203265 Sudden Debt
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For all who even thinks about this should be slapped like a little girl.
Man, I hate people who live in fear of everything. Just look to America at how scared and coward people look like.
Army in the streets, more scanners at entrances of public buildings than there are in hospitals, paranoia...
Talk about a farce.
Today I had to take public transport to go to the city and I took the subway. I saw a group of muslims sitting there so I decided to walk to them, and sit next to them because it was the only place where there was a bit of space left.
And guess what....
I didn't get robbed or killed.
No drone had to kill people so I felt safe.
I didn't needed a spy agency like e NSA to feel safe.
I didn't need a X ray at the door to feel safe.
It just was... Normal.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:41 | 5203509 TheSecondLaw
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It's rather sad that you feel the need to explain that you sat next to some Muslims.  It's like, "I once spoke to some blacks and it wasn't so bad".  Don't read this as an attack. I just mention it to mark the power of the Corporate/State propaganda machine.

I met some Americans once.  They were actually quite nice.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:20 | 5203694 No Quarter
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How about this one: " Yeah, and he was really well spoken"? Caught myself saying that the other day and thinking about how fucked up that statement really was. Institutionalized superiority at work from the back of the brain.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203235 Dr Strangemember
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I am now indeed skairdd!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:34 | 5203466 WhackoWarner
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Just as a casual aside here.  What is cause of this fear?  or is it created by self action?

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list-of-u-s-regime-changes/5400829

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:38 | 5203484 WhackoWarner
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And as I look down this long list of USA interventions for global health and freedom I take away an understanding of why it is that the backlash will be so fierce.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:41 | 5203504 WhackoWarner
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And the LOL  moment in this shame list is:

 

 

Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because there’s no American embassy there.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:41 | 5203507 sgt_doom
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"Despite billions of dollars ..."

Excuuuuuuuussse meeee?

I believe you mean trillions of dollars, since that is what has gone missing, since our present head of Department of Homeland Security (Der Homelund!)  was chief counsel at the Department of Dense (also, for some freaking reason, referred to as Defense???), and has assured us that Americans have nothing to worry about from ISIS, who have been seeking to weaponize the bubonic plague, have a whole bunch of American and European passports at their disposal, have well over one-half billion dollars of funds, and have their very own small air force with those Syrian fighter jets (and pilots) they have captured.

Now, personally, I don't fear them, and am fully confident the Obama Man will continue to arm those Syrian rebels, whose arms continue to fall into the hands of ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State or whatever those douchetards are calling themselves as of five minutes ago.

'Nuff said .....

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 19:27 | 5204199 Pie rre
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Does that include the trillion dollars that went missing at the Pentagon when the 9-11 attacks occured?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:48 | 5203811 The Wizard
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1776 - Thoughts on Government, John Adams
"Fear is the foundation of most government."

 

Did the survey define which "terrorists"?

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:29 | 5203153 ebworthen
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ISIS is under your bed!

Quick!  Surrender your liberties if you want to live!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203161 john39
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glad we spent billions for 'security'.    a classic protection racket by the worlds ugliest criminal enterprise.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:35 | 5203474 Frank N. Beans
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yeah, thanks TSA for going through my wife's underwear (in checked in luggage, that is). 

Great work

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203177 IridiumRebel
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Can you think for me?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:44 | 5203251 Cognitive Dissonance
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I think I can, I think I can, I think I can't, I think I can't, I can't think, I can't think.

<Mommy!!>

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:43 | 5203516 WhackoWarner
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This is way beyond most people's understanding.  Can be go back to ME ME ME ?  MISUNDERSTOOD BY ALL?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:29 | 5203154 laomei
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anyone else planning to dress up as isis for halloween?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:32 | 5203170 john39
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with a mannequin to recreate the bullshit beheadings on the front lawn.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203196 IridiumRebel
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A good accessory for it would be a briefcase with CIA painted on side and bills hanging out.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:33 | 5203269 pods
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Big letters on the front that say "ISIS" and on the back that say "CIA."

pods

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:40 | 5203495 Frank N. Beans
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no, I think I'll dress up as a Washington Redskin.

or a Ferguson cop

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:34 | 5203186 Cognitive Dissonance
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Prepare to be arrested for terrorist threatening.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203194 Yen Cross
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  I'm dressing up as Ebola patient and sitting on my porch with a bowl full of the best candy... I'll bet those little rascals won't even bat an eye when they see those mini Snickers and bag of gum balls. ;-)

 James O'Keefe shows how Ebola-infected ISIS jihadi could sneak in from Canada | Mail Online

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203236 Lendo
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In 2005 me and a friend dressed as suicide bombers and hit the DePaul bars.

The Middle Eastern people seemed to get the biggest kick out it, which was awesome.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:44 | 5203248 Dr Strangemember
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Hey cat!  Quit looking a me with those eyes!!!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203155 Four chan
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i fear religious missionary nuts bound and determined to deliver the rapture to america.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203165 takeaction
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I really hope you are being sarcastic....if not then the main stream media has done its job on you. OOOGIE BOOGIE

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:54 | 5203299 Four chan
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im not. their religious meddling in faraway lands is what will bring this scourge to the usa.

its what they prey for, religion its always been the problem.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:31 | 5203460 LFMayor
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Yeah, that Mennonite Foreign Legion is out there right now, making ear necklaces with home spun sisal cord.  Killers, stone cold killers, every one of them!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 18:29 | 5204012 StupidEarthlings
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I up arrowed you..and replied....if for no other reason than to look at your avatar again.

 

Now ill go read what you said.

:)

Keep posting please..even if its just for a +1 or something.

;) 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 19:33 | 5204213 Pie rre
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That reminds me of the missionary doctor in Africa that was infected with Ebola.  It appears after 9 days he received the special sauce and recovered hours later.

Miraculous recovery since most people are dead by then.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203158 dontgoforit
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Terror?  We laugh in the face of terror.  Fear?  We fear nothing but God.  (Now, alimony, that's a different story.)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203162 NoDecaf
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CODE YELLOW!!

CODE YELLOW!!

BLUE 42

BLUE 42

hut hut hike

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203243 dontgoforit
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2-32, 2-32 Omaha! 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:04 | 5203346 spieslikeus
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Omaha!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203163 Bossman1967
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what a bunch of shit if people feel any more scared or safe than they have. these freakin politicians havnt changed since 9/11 and they wont. nothing gonna happen untill they are ready for it too. do I feel safe and secure well thee markets up and my precious metals are down yes I feel comfy.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:30 | 5203164 Yen Cross
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  That must be why the dow is currently up 56 points on absolfuckingutely nothing.

  BTFA > Buy The Fucking Armageddon

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:52 | 5203552 Eyeroller
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Just think of the rally tomorrow at 3:45 when no attacks happen...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 23:06 | 5204945 Oliver Klozoff
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We have a winner!

Two huge (X-class flares) CMEs headed straight for Earth.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

If these don't send us back to the dark age here's hoping they will wipe out cell phones and the stupid ear binky.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:31 | 5203166 Billy Sol Estes
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Walk, Hop, Skip, Jump for the Hills.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203167 Cognitive Dissonance
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The oldest profession is not the prostitute, but the propagandist. Wait....aren't they one in the same?

<Oops......I think I just insulted the prostitutes of the world.>

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203173 IridiumRebel
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presstitute prostitute...lets call the whole thing Fraud.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203169 PTR
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Well, duh. It's an NBC poll.

 

 

PS- #WageLove

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203171 krispkritter
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To be honest, I'm scared shitless...of this government and it's owners.  And Obama? Don't get me started, the guy's about as useful as a drum set was to Anne Frank.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:39 | 5203216 p00k1e
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It almost makes a person desire to join the U.S. Military just to ‘accidentally’ launch a nuclear missile. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:42 | 5203229 p00k1e
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O/T - Was Anne Frank that deaf dumb and blind kid who sure played a mean pinball? 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:45 | 5203252 dontgoforit
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Nah - that was Geitner.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203174 Honey Badger
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I don't fear a terror attack, I fear a false flag attack.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:57 | 5203309 RaceToTheBottom
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What, precisely, is the difference?

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:33 | 5203178 Chupacabra-322
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Let the PsOp's, False Narraives, Propaganda & Fear Campaigns commence!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:40 | 5203182 ekm1
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Bank lobby out, Neocons back in.

 

Neocons win again. 

Bank lobby about to be decimated

 

Neocons and military want strong USD which is basically a margin call on insolvent bank lobby

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:47 | 5203263 Bay of Pigs
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The Neocons never left, and I think you underestimate the power of the Banksters and who is actually in charge of the US gov't.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:55 | 5203294 ekm1
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Bankers are in power. Neocons never left but they were pushed over and many of them cleaned up.

 

This is the turnaround, in my view

Anything may happen. 

This was about to happen in october 2011 with MF global planned implosion and the subsequent mind change then in May 2013 when ust yields allowed to go up then pushed back down

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:34 | 5203183 Al Huxley
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'Homeland' security?  Seriously?  I've been pissed about this since they introduced it right after 9/11.  What a fascist piece-of-shit bit of propaganda terminology - gotta protect the 'homeland'.  What's the matter boys - too big a pussies to go straight to 'Fatherland'?  Why not go all out - use the fucking German, sounds way cooler, especially if you don't actually speak German. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:11 | 5203355 crazybob369
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Hey Al.

Don't know German so I had to look it up. 'Vaterland Sicherheit'. I like the sound of it. Much more 'manly' sounding.

We're vit Vaterland Sicherheit and vee vant to grope you to keep you safe.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203187 oudinot
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WHEN YOU DUMB YOUR PEOPLE DOWN AS MUCH AS THE US HAS, IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO TURN THE HERD AROUND, EVEN IF THEY GO OFF A CLIFF.

BTW; AMEICAN PLAINS INDIANS-CHEYENNE, SIOUX ET AL- HUNTING BUFFALO, THEY DIDN'T START HUNTING THEM WITH HORSES TILL THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY.  BEFORE THAT THEY HERDED THEM, STAMPEDED OVER CIFFFS .  THOUSANDS WOULD DIE (WE KNOW THIS FROM ARCHEOLOGICAL RECORDS)BUT ONLY A FEW HUNDREDS  WOULD BE USED BY THE NATIVES;BASICALLY  ALL THAT THEY COULD CARRY WITHOUT HORSES.

SO THIS IDEA THAT THE INDIANS WERE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY IS A HUGE BUNCH OF HOGWASH.

THEY WERE THE SAME AS US.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:37 | 5203201 krispkritter
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I think yer volume's stuck on HIGH...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:42 | 5203237 Ralph Spoilsport
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Excellent threadjack attempt.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:49 | 5203270 rum_runner
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THANK YOU FOR THE IRRELEVANT HISTORY LESSON!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:36 | 5203189 himaroid
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May the bastards know real horror on their way out.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:36 | 5203190 p00k1e
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At least we were warned this time -

Heartless prank caller threatens 1 World Trade Center with nuclear bomb The caller phoned in the threat to the city's 911 system around 7 p.m. Friday, claiming a device was placed next to the building near Vesey St. in lower Manhattan.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/prank-caller-threatens-fre...

 

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:38 | 5203206 IridiumRebel
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...yeah its not like it was known before by intelligence agencies who commanded everybody to stand down. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:46 | 5203257 p00k1e
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U.S. Army Report Urges Preparations For Troops to Occupy NYC, Other “Megacities” "Army could be called to act in one of these places tomorrow"

 

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-report-urges-preparations-for-troops-to...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:35 | 5203193 Lumberjack
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I'm still going fishing anyway. If I see anything unusual, I'll beat the living shit out of em with my fly rod! Then crack their fucking skulls open with an empty bottle of really good scotch. No motherfucker is going to ruin my vacation I've waited years to go on so be forewarned.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:36 | 5203195 JuliaS
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Heil to the commander-in-chief.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:37 | 5203198 rum_runner
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Whatevs.. just goes to show people are sheeple.  Vastly more likely to die from their doc pulling out his prescription pad than from terr'ists but they're still quaking every time they get on a plane and are relieved to have their balls squeezed by the TSA.  Because freedom.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:01 | 5203325 crazybob369
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Heck, more people die getting out of the fucking shower than are killed by terrorists. If they want to fear something, fear their car. You're about a million times more likely to die in it, than at the hands of a terrorist.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:38 | 5203208 nobodyimportant
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As long as the IRS and Fed exist terror alert should remain high

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:39 | 5203212 djsmps
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The propaganda machine is working overtime. Couple that NBC poll with this:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/10/i-am-a-14-yea...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:50 | 5203275 p00k1e
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7 Charged in Gruesome Machete Attack at Train Station

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/video/7-charged-gruesome-machete-attack-130256587....

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:39 | 5203215 Ralph Spoilsport
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Somebody should release a real-time Threat Level App so everyone can monitor how scared they should be. The App should constantly update the location of the concerned system while sending out their contact list and efficiently draining their battery.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:42 | 5203238 i_call_you_my_base
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We could just have shock collars and the shock could increase in intensity as the threat level increases, so we can instantaneously know when we should be scared and to what degree.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203246 Ralph Spoilsport
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The iClock can probably do that.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 19:52 | 5204262 Pie rre
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That will be an add on.  It'll save money on that I've fallen and can't get up gizmo.

 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:42 | 5203217 Jayda1850
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The complete 180 degree turn in public opinion about airstrikes on Syria in the past year has proven that, even though most americans have free access to the true information, they are just too lazy to find it. The obvious propaganda pulled off by our government would make Goebbels blush.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203222 i_call_you_my_base
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Polling psyops.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203223 Pimp Daddy
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SCARED = WINNING

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203226 kevinearick
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Transport, Propulsion, & Motorization

We want the universe to transport us, but until we can see the transport mechanism, we need transportation, to learn to navigate, education. Building transportation to comb every inch of the planet, to kill every living thing on it, and compete for the spoil of natural resource exploitation, on a one-way trip, under the guise of human social justice, or capitalism, in a closed system that can only result in short-term thinking and a quick return to the DNA churn pool, is not the goal.

The journey is the adventure, not the destination, but there has to be some level of graduation, and money is obviously not a reliable measure of value. Currency proffers to provide information as the basis of decisions, as a common denominator for ‘modern’ society, but fails the majority every time, because the purported means becomes the destination, in a public education system built for the purpose, by civil marriage with civil law.

Each iteration of empire begins with a noble and scientific quest, and each ends in complete and utter disaster, because the originators ignore the works of nature, assuming natural resources to be exploited, and their societies compound the error assuming that human labor, in the form of capital stock, can be pitted against human labor on the margin, leaving the empire with only exploitation of diminishing return to support sunk costs as the remainder.

The social ruins of nearly every ‘civil’ society in History can be seen evaporating to this day, as memorials to their stupidity, based on the assumption that humanity is somehow a superior species, yet the assumption persists. Whether all the resulting connections in the human brain have been busy work remains to be seen, but assuming infinite do-overs is certainly not a path to the future.

A global fiat currency without independent community economies trading surplus can only fail, for all the reasons being discussed, which all amount to a gravitational gradient in favor of the past, repeating itself more efficiently. With the best education and healthcare its money can buy, for legacy, by the upper middle class, all that remains of the exceptional edifice, America finds itself always at war, always on the brink of world war, playing defense with offense and cajoling Russia for doing the same – so much for higher education on a Bell Curve, feeding incorporation into the global city, again.

You have to aim a bit higher, and the longer the zombies persist, the higher you have to aim, to avoid the gravity of stupidity. That’s just plain physics. But fortunately for you, as an individual, gravity can be levered against itself, giving you propulsion, even if all you do is cut the string. The critters have bid propulsion up to $50T already, with no end in sight, which is just a relative number, but it tells you how far in the hole they are. The real question is where do you want to go.

The empire majority pits itself against nature, appearing as a damsel in distress in the middle of the street, making alcohol for a drunk serving as the scapegoat. Pay it no mind. Because America has found a few hundred million ways to grow debt against its children’s future, like its predecessors, does not make it the leader of the free world, and you its slave. That is History. Your future is yours.

There is plenty of capital stock to recycle, and natural resources per capita are increasing on demographic bust. Focus on your development and the economic motor will present itself, as the empire is recycled.

Let me get this right; the women doing the jobs of sidelined men, for far less pay, are going to support the women doing make-work, so they can make as much as men doing make-work. That should work, after it has failed for fifty years.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 17:17 | 5203674 itstippy
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Awesome post.  I'm saving this one.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:41 | 5203227 crazybob369
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But...But...We declared war on terror over 10 years ago, how can we be less safe? I mean, there are less drugs since we declared war on drugs...right? And less poor people since we declared war on poverty...no? So, how come there are still terrorists? I'm soooooo confused.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:10 | 5203360 SaCalobra
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Next: The War on Debt

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:43 | 5203239 SaCalobra
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I have not seen any signs of terror attacks on US soil the past few years except from Boston Marathon. So why are people feeling threatned? I believe they do because they feel guilt. They know that the US is a very aggressive country and suppose that some kind of retaliation is coming their way. Someone is tapping in to these fears, feeding them with rumors and news about enemies and terrorists. McDonalds probably kill more americans every day than terrorists have done the past decade. 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:51 | 5203284 p00k1e
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Space Aliens live off fearmones.     

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:06 | 5203345 SaCalobra
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Death toll the past 10 years: Obesity 3.000.000, Islamic terrorism 3. But nobody is afraid of a burger with fries...

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:53 | 5203244 Duc888
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.........more likely to be smoked by a cop.

 

But hey, never let facts get in the way.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:47 | 5203258 Dr. Engali
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What in the fuck do the pussies in this third world police state want? They are already getting anal probes, beat up, tased, and disappeared by the Gestapo. What othe freedoms of mine are they willing to surrender all in the name of 'safety'.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:46 | 5203260 IED
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Less safe .. war on terror .. job done 

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:46 | 5203262 Inthemix96
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Its not working no more CNBS or whoever you are, and fuck right off with those made up polls.

The vast majority see whats going on here, as in the here and now and dont trust the government, nor you lying cunts in the MSM.

And a fair few folk of who I work for, and know sociably have umpteen claw hammers that are not afraid to be used.

The bullshit worked its way lose after 9/11, and the glue come unstuck in 2008.  And now the prolitariat are looking at vengence.

I've done my little bit.  The bullshit peddlers, of which this bunch of cunts is one, will be fucked first.  And then we can move onto you bastards in the political leagues who need your fucking heads removed.  To be fair though, most the folk I know would just like to kill you cunts outright, seriously, but not Mixy, not me.  I would without blinking keep you alive for as long as is humanly possible.  After I had skinned you alive, rubbed salt in the wounds and cut bits off for a laugh.  A keep sake so to say eh?  Tony B.Liar first mind, and I would do everything in my Dog given power to keep this war criminal alive for as long as his filthy depraved body could take.  At least fifteen minutes then?

Cunts

:-)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:20 | 5203403 smacker
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On Tony B.Liar...this is what Simon Black today says the English did to William Wallace:

"Anyone who’s ever seen the movie Braveheart has heard of William Wallace, one of the original heroes of Scottish independence.

Though Mel Gibson’s highly fictionalized account was one of the most historically inaccurate movies in modern cinema, Wallace did, in fact, lead Scottish rebels against English invaders. And he died for his cause.

Wallace was severely tortured after being convicted of high treason against King Edward I; he was dragged by horses, hung nearly to the point of death, revived, relieved of his manhood, ritualistically disemboweled, made to watch his entrails set ablaze… then finally beheaded."

I think 15 minutes wouldn't be nearly long enough for B.Liar to go thru all that.

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:35 | 5203473 Inthemix96
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Smacker,

Its all the fucking false war mongering prick could take.  Could you see this piece of shit standing up for and believing what he stood stood for then?  Just like Bush?

You think these pieces of shit even understand the pain and suffering they have caused millions of others never mind their own?

Dont answer that mate, as I know fully well you do, but some on this board dont.

Tony B.Liar should be burned as slowly as a gas gun can allow, toast this cunt to the realms of hell would suit me just fine.

After the cunt was peeled alive.

And I mean it, I would do it for free and enjoy every minute.  I despise that cunt with every single fibre of my being.

Utter, filthy, cunt.

Call that a service to humanity.  And boil his family in oil, especially that cunt of a wife, not that it would bother him, seeing as in his younger years he was called 'Miranda', the dirty filthy cunt what he is.

;-)

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:39 | 5203498 smacker
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I wonder if they'll televise it or even make a film out of it: "Justice for Tony B.Liar".

Or how about: "You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide"

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 18:02 | 5203897 TheFourthStooge-ing
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After the cunt was peeled alive.

With a tattie peeler, I would hope.

And then sprayed down with lemon juice.

Cheers, mate!

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 16:31 | 5203456 JR
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Some opinion polls in the past have shown that a significant number of people cannot locate even major countries on a map and are unable to identify any politicians; some not even being able to identify the current vice president. So why should these people be allowed to register their opinion on whether or not we will be attacked by terrorists?

It’s just the warmongers push-polling us farther into a police state.

The journalism industry, recently showcased on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, is the creator of opinion polls. And that pretty much says it all; they are biased; they cheat; they lie about facts, and they ignore fundamental common sense.

IOW, the companies that sent some of those reporters to Ferguson sit back and make up opinion polls to back up their own opinions. There are two perpetratorshere: (1) the people who make up the polls and (2) the people who use them.

In How Ignorant Are Americans?Andrew Romano wrote: 

“They’re the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president; 73% couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War; 44% percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6% couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.”

And now I should be alarmed that these people's "fear of a terror attack is soaring?"

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:49 | 5203276 Salsipuedes
Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:53 | 5203288 somecallmetimmah
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Is this like pumpkin futures peaking just before Halloween?

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:57 | 5203292 Duc888
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I BOMB think evevyone ISIS should just have SEMTEX the last laugh EBOLA and just fuck ANTHRAX with TNT them a little bit ALA AKBAR for the MILITIA next SOVERIGN few days / text and email.

 

;)

 

....basically we're paying for this stupid shit, we might as well se 'em come unhinged and earn their money.

 

 

 

pew, pew, pew.....hahahahahaha

Wed, 09/10/2014 - 18:27 | 5204007 TheFourthStooge-ing
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I hear what you're saying, bro, and if

Booz Allen airliner Kolomoisky phencyclidine PRISM tax evasion Christopher Stangl bath salts Yatsenyuk sniper Stellar Wind raw milk Jon Corzine radioactive contamination Donna Dasher gyrotron Scarlett Johansson water supply ISIS sarin Hooterville Monkey-Racing Track semtex Emile Autouri homeland Edward Snowden gulag Signals Intelligence Directorate dioxin Julie Newmar derail Fort Meade shitgum Sunnyvale Trailer Park iodine crystals Chuck Barris thermobaric Hedy Lamarr terror Tim Osman bomb Farrah Fawcett mercurochrome Suzi Quatro anthrax Guantanamo shopping mall AIPAC gloryhole NATO spastic colon SWIFT polonium Charles Nelson Reilly claymore mine Dirty Sanchez grenade launcher lutefisk IED assassinate Studebaker hijack Al Qaida trigonal bipyramidal Joyce DeWitt ricin SMERSH electromagnetic pulse Wink Martindale undetectable Hezbollah hidden compartment Federal Reserve containment CIA border Mossad Lady Gaga remote detonator Lemmiwinks Santorum calutron June Foray plutonium Juarez Bank for International Settlements clandestine Google evil Monsanto Cayman Islands contaminate Netanyahu buttplug MANPADS nuclear trigger Cleveland Steamer crop duster Howard Cosell Forex Myrna Loy borax Comex default Jim Lahey parrot and parakeet training tape International Monetary Fund carbuncle RPG clostridium Olde Frothingslosh ebola Joey Heatherton smuggle Dimona roachclip Butthole Surfers bongwater National Reconnaissance Office Don Rickles Vanessa Chase Backstreet Boys jimsonweed Edward G. Robinson steganography Lily Langtry Captain Beefheart 27B-6 Lee van Cleef kaopectate Victoria Nuland

oops, I think I hit the wrong key.

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 01:22 | 5205251 Intoxicologist
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^I'll have what he's having!

Awesome....

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