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The Inconvenient Truths Of Dictators

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Via Jim Quinn's Burning Platform blog,

“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

 

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”

 

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”

 

 

“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”

*  *  *

“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.”

Michael Parenti

 

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Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:15 | 5240831 NoPension
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Leopard skin cap. You know, to honor his roots.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:55 | 5240765 TheReplacement
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Obama will never make it to that point.  He'll be replaced by "election" or put down by a dictator in a uniform.

Why would anyone want to be a dictator for life these days when you can do it for 4-8 years and then live richly the rest of your life?  The party will still roll on and you will be taken care of.  The best part is you don't have to worry about coups or being hung from a streetlamp.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 20:00 | 5241545 FeralSerf
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In Barry's case his Peace Prize should be worn anally.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:36 | 5240574 tongue.stan
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Forward.

Hope.

Change.

 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:43 | 5240585 6th of May
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Before us lies Germany, within us Germany is stirring, behind us all Germany is following - Adolf Hitler.

 

In Germany we lost all nationalism. We fight for many foreigners and accept IS flags ... people preaching about jihad ... but if one person is spottet with a Black,White,Red flag... see the police arristing that man

 

We preach about equality but its not happening. Politicians lie to us, there's nobody there to believe in.We believe what Snowden says is correct and right, but if our politicians open their mouths we know it's just crap. Many should be replaced

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:01 | 5240634 JR
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NATO’s first secretary general, Pug Ismay, once said: “NATO was formed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

Germany is occupied territory. After WWII, no peace treaty was signed and Germany has no constitution.

To tell you who has ruled Germany since 1945, there currently are 21 US military bases in occupied Germany.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:18 | 5240843 NoPension
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And we had to pull out of eye-rack, because we there too long!

Germany
Italy
S. Korea
Japan... Are we still in Japan?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:22 | 5241189 tarabel
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And all of them were much improved by our visit.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:19 | 5240847 rwe2late
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 Germany does have a Constitution.

However, I believe you are correct that no peace treaty has been signed.

It may therefore be plausibly argued that Germany is still militarily occupied and subject to NATO policies after having unconditionally surrendered in 1945.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:38 | 5241072 JR
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Article 146 [Duration of validity of the Constitution]

This Constitution, which is valid for the entire German people following the achievement of the unity and freedom of Germany, ceases to be in force on the day on which a constitution adopted by a free decision of the German people comes into force.

Germany doesn't want a new constitution.

"Germany (read: the banker shills who make up Germany's government) is just playing the role assigned it by the bankers upstairs.” --John Wilmot, ZH blogger

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:14 | 5241169 Brit_Abroad
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Sorry, gave you a red one there.

1. Germany is an occupied country

2. Germany doesn't have a constitution (Verfassung), it does have Basic Law (Grundgesetz).

The Grundgesetz (Artikel 146) states very clearly that following unity and freedom for all Germans, the German people should freely decide on a new constitution.

So, either Germany hasn't reached full unity and freedom or someone didn't allow them to choose a new constitution.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:57 | 5241131 optimator
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Before us lies Germany, with us marches Germany, and after us come Germany.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:19 | 5241186 tarabel
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signed:

V Putin

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:42 | 5241237 JR
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Wish we could say that in America.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:41 | 5240592 Michigander
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War is when your government tells you who the enemy is...REVOLUTION is when you figure out, for yourself, who the enemy is.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:54 | 5240771 The9thDoctor
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Virtually every revolution in history has been a top-down movement and never an organic uprising against the power structure.

Point being:
The freemasons were behind the French and American revolution.
Jewish people from New York were behind the Bolshevik Revolution.
The CIA Was behind the overthrow of Iran in 1953
And more recently Google was behind the Arab Spring. Look up "Wael Ghonim"

I highly recommend this book about Revolutions written by the longest serving Librarian of Congress, appointed by Reagan and still in charge to this day, James Billington:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Minds_of_Men

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:43 | 5240922 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, The9thDoctor.

All thinking can be considered to be some sort of "fire in the mind." My notions regarding revolution, as a re-evolution where previously diverging streams of evolution reconverge, are based on a series of intellectual revolutions in the philosophy of science.

In my view, human realities are always systems of organized lies, operating robberies, because as soon as we perceive human beings as separate from their environment, so that it is possible to tell stories about them, then they necessarily are entropic pumps of energy. Hence, I assert that nothing exists but the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. From time to time, in place to place, there are the rise and fall, and then perhaps the rise again, of such systems.

The I Ching hexagram "Revolution" outlined some of the basics, as perceived long ago:

http://www.ichingfortune.com/hexagrams/49.php

Since any real, radical, revolution must eventually end up becoming some new system of organized lies operating robberies, it would be better if the "revolutionaries" understood that. However, paradoxically, those who fight revolutions appear to burn hotter when they do not understand that, which is a facet of the general feature that conflicts tend to select for fanatics to become more successful in the short-term.

In my view, superior revolutions would be greater reconvergences of branches of evolution. The most important feature that is driving conditions to change was the science and technology which enabled the industrial revolutions. I do not believe we will be able to survive that unless we can achieve a greater synthesis of post-modernizing science with ancient mysticism.

Revolutions tend to turn things around, but then, they keep on spinning. I believe that the most important concept is SUBTRACTION, after which follows ROBBERY. Perceiving those concepts basically backwards to the ways we were taught to in the established systems are what I regard as the primary source of guidance for any real, radical, revolution in the future.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:48 | 5240604 eddiebe
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At least those dicktaters had something truthful to say. Obama, not so much. 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:51 | 5240608 vegan
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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." - Adolf Hitler

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

And, compare and contrast these two quotes...

"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are." - President Harry Truman

"I don't care what the facts are." - President George H.W. Bush, 1988

 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:55 | 5240619 kridkrid
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Fuck. Harry Truman. He was no less evil than the 4 included here.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:34 | 5241221 Oldrepublic
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You are right about Truman, he signed the National Security Act of 1947, changed the Department of War to Department of Defense, created the CIA!

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:08 | 5240649 JR
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“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
  --George Orwell, 1984

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:57 | 5240622 Inthemix96
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Totally off topic my friends but something worth looking at.

You know those 'Georgia Guidestones'?  The ones that have all that bollocks wrote on them to keep the population of earth under 50,000,000, and all that jazz?  With a few used languages on them and a few ancient ones as well?

In 2009 someone, or some group cut a chunk out the top right corner of the 'English' block, and at some point in this month of September of this year, someone, or some group has put a nice new block in said cut owt space.

And engraved in it, is 2014.

Dont take my word for it though, go have a look.

Does it mean owt?  Dicktaters?  EEbowla?  Ukraine?  ME?  ISIS?  Scotland?  Catalonia?

You get the picture.

;-)

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:01 | 5240629 marriedgeordie
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"There are no Russian troops in the Crimea. Those APCs and kalashnikovs have been bought at the army surplus store by the locals." Putin
"Ukrainians shot down MH17" Russian defence minister

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:28 | 5240873 vyeung
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here little fascist fascist!! Come to papa, time for meds.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5241174 tarabel
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Dear "useful idiot #38", our current propaganda campaign requires you to call everyone who disagrees with the Russian invasion of a neighboring country a tool of corporate America rather than a fascist. Please keep the story straight or we will have to demote you back down to the level of Assistant Internet Troll for a period not less than a week. Also, we are docking your mother one of the shoe ration coupons she is normally entitled to in the Gulag.

Best Regards

I Djugasvilli  

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:02 | 5240635 intotheblack
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The Mussolini corporatism-fascism quote is bogus, yo. Il Duce never said it, and "Corporatism" has first articulated by Pope Leo XIII revised later by Fascist theorists has nothing to do with "corporations" in the sense that Exxon or IBM are corporations. The root word of "Corporatism" is corpora, as in body, as in social body, as in society organized in terms of classes, estates, professions, urban workers or agrarian peasons, and so forth.

So not only did Il Duce NOT say what you claim that he said he said when a simple google search would have confirmed that he didn't, even if he HAD said what you claimed he said he would have meant something different by it. "Corporatism"--a doctrine once propagated by the Catholic Church and the innovation of a single Pope first articulated in his Encyclical on Capital and Labour--doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

But, hey, as the first commentary pointed out, "It's not really a lie if you believe it" - George Costanza. Right?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:02 | 5240973 Radical Marijuana
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Indeed, intotheblack, I have found that many of my previously favourite quotes turned out to have been misattributed. C'est la vie!

I believe Mark Twain can take credit for writing something like:

"The best liars believe their own lies."

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:15 | 5241179 TheReplacement
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Besides all of that, is the saying any less true?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:04 | 5240641 ebear
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Love means never having to say you're sorry!

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:14 | 5240670 sessinpo
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And hate also means the same thing. Strange, isn't it? Indifference also can mean that.

For me, morality, right and wrong, suggests I admit my mistakes and if necessary, apologize.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:03 | 5240644 q99x2
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Mao had the best quote.

You forgot to include Obama but his quote would have been a lie anyhow.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:36 | 5241223 JR
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“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” – Mao Zedong

Mao's Communist hammer was used to destroy up to 70 million lives and China’s family culture. The worst being the three years of the Great Leap Forward in which anywhere from 16 to 40 million lives were lost. The total amount - making this one of the worst genocides - is at minimum 45 million. This amount varies up to 70 million since new death records uncover more details.

Mao’s hammer blows of revolution destroyed most of what remained of China’s vestigial civilization.

Clarence B. Carson wrote in his book, The Welfare State 929-1985, that "Mao’s cultural revolution was a disaster; it worked by destruction, and it could only destroy. Other forces in China eventually succeeded in restoring order.”

Sadly, the victory of Mao’s communist forces over Chiang Kai-Shek, aided and abetted by the United States, added a huge population block to the communist column.

“If America’s press,” wrote John  A. Stormer in None Dare Call It Treason, “had rejected official State Department press ‘handouts’ and ‘briefings’ and dug out the known and documented backgrounds of Castro, Ben Bella, and Mao Tse-Tung, these communist dictators wouldn’t [have been] in power in Cuba, Algeria, and China."

A soft attitude toward Communist, i.e.,

“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”

will destroy us.

American no longer has a free-market system of capitalism (free from corporate monopoly; what we have is anti-capitalism imposed by a financial dictatorship of money-lenders who control all commerce and social life through ownership and pollitical control of the medium of exchange.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:13 | 5240669 Cautiously Pess...
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I am pretty sure to be a LEGIT dictator these days, you have to have some real moxie.  Take for instance the late Kim Jong Il.  That guy picked up of golf club for the first time and had like 10 or 12 hole in ones on an 18 hole golf course!  Now that just smacks of true leadership and should impress even a scratch golfer like Obama.

Not to toot Kim's horn to loudly, but he rountinely bowled 300s as well.  That dude got GAME YO!

 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:15 | 5240675 jacship
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um UM hu HU I I i  Thats all FolkS

" The war on terrorism is over, alQaeda is decimated "

" I am sending 3000 us troops to Africa to HeLp with Ebola "

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 14:47 | 5240738 jubber
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Barry needs to get hold of old Gadaffi's hat ....now that was a nice bit of head ware https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmgzUD7fAlc11bjQzO...

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:49 | 5241107 optimator
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Barry's head is too swolen for that cap.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:21 | 5240854 Inthemix96
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Dicktaters?

At least in them days there was some premise the folk had no idea what was going on.

Today we have no excuse.  Look at that skinny necked, malnutritionally challenged cunt that bombs folk all over Africa, with 'No Consent', and we fucking know about it.

Fuck this, Mixy has withdrawn his 'Consent', I want no part of this, and not in my name.

Call a draft, try it fuckers.  You lot at NSA and GCHQ will know without a shadow of a doubt the western world says no.

No fucking chance.  Hang the lot, all of them, from Sotero on down, Cameron and his co-horts get the fucker on top, so does Hollande, Merkel the whole fucking lot of insane criminal cunts.

Cunts

:-)

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:53 | 5240948 McCormick No. 9
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"The moment we engage in confederations, or alliances with any nation we may from that time date the downfall of our republic."

-Andrew Jackson

Thu, 09/25/2014 - 01:01 | 5254602 gallistic
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"It has been a trail of tears and death"

      -Nitikechi (Choctaw)

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:26 | 5240866 vyeung
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What is the common denominator of all the above dictators?????

They were all finance and supported by the Rothschilds / NWO crowd via its cartel networks and puppets.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:38 | 5240890 limacon
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Beware the Librarians !

They are thekeeper of memes .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Minds_of_Men  Librarian of Congress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive  Librarian of KGB

The Mitrokhin Archive is a collection of handwritten notes made secretly by KGB Major Vasili Mitrokhin during his thirty years as a KGB archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the First Chief Directorate. When he defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 he brought the archive with him.

Memes (like propaganda) influences human behaviour ..

"Laws are but the Propaganda of the Elite "  

"Property is theft"

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need "

"LibertéÉgalitéFraternité,"

"Forgiveness is free"


These are a memes . some extremely destructive , laying waste entire continents .

See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2012/01/genghis-khan-and-ostrum.html

 

Memes survive and propagate a long time .

See the Roman Lost Legion of Zimbabwe:

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/09/aquila-of-zimbabwe.html



Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:42 | 5241240 Oldrepublic
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The Library of Congress censors Wikileaks!

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:46 | 5240934 SquadronVBF94
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The truth is all dictatorships are fascist, even the ones that call themselves communists.  Have yet to find anyone who can deliniate the functional difference between one where the state tells the business owners what to make, how much to produce and through taxation how much profit they keep (as a function of "party loyalty"), and one where the state (i.e. party loyalists) determine what is made, how much is produced and after graft and corruption any "excess capital" goes to the state (essentially a100% tax going to another batch of elitists).

In both cases those operating the business who fail to meet the goal sent for them, regardless of how unrealistic they may be, are subject to execution or deportation to whatever gulag or concentration camp is in fashion.

National Socialist or International Socialist dictatorship, within economic reference it a difference without any true distinction.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:55 | 5240942 Radical Marijuana
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Regarding concluding quote of Parenti:

4 hours on the history of plutocracy.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/power-principle/

The Power Principle

Part 1: Empire

Part 2: Propaganda

Part 3: Apocalypse

In Part 1, the segment that impressed me the most was
starts about 1:24, where historian Michael Parenti says
that "fascism" was another tool used by the plutocracy.

"... Much of politics is

the rational use of irrational symbols ..."

MURDER SYSTEMS KEEP MONEY SYSTEMS GOING!

THE ABILITIES TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF NOTHING
MAKES THAT PLUTOCRACY THE SUPREME POWER!

The organized lies operate the organized robberies,
which in turn keep those organized lies in business.

Refusals to face those fundamental facts
results in false fundamental dichotomies.

Which then delivers the irrational symbols,
that were rationally used to control others.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:58 | 5240962 willy wonker
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized

adolf hitler

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:10 | 5240991 bigkansas
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Shark jumping.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:10 | 5240997 vegas
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Take the word "Dictator" and replace it with "Central Banker" or "Politician" and it would have the exact same meaning. Sorry Chalky, words aren't going to solve the problem; eventually blood in the streets of Amerika will come and change things. Until then, more worthless platitudes.

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:41 | 5241081 Perimetr
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Why did you leave out Obamanation?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 16:47 | 5241101 Son of Captain Nemo
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“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”

You were an evil SOB to your people but your words in this quote were more than prophetic of what the U.S. became after WWII.

Disappointed that you didn't have a picture of the 37th, 41st - 44th President(s) of the United States to go with the rogues gallery here.

All treasonous fucking bastards!

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:02 | 5241146 barre-de-rire
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banksters cunt coins' ammoed.

 

no more gun, only words and papers.

 

need to offgrid to let reel men express themselves.

dont worry without power you 1st on the list... you wont even feel the pain.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:30 | 5241213 Fuku Ben
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Who's next on the Grand Masonic Plan's masters of the universe hit parade?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:37 | 5241228 BouncyTheWonderbunni
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What the fuck is up with anti-semetic fucking freaks?? I just don't fucking get it. I will bet the majority have never known a Jewish person.

 

I worked for a Jewish run company for over 15 years we an extremly ethical company and was very fucking well compensated if our employee's including our janitors

 

took advantage of all the stock options and other benny's we offered even they would be a fucking millionaire when they retired.

 

We also gave fucking millions to charity every fucking year.

 

The other thing I've noticed you never hear in person sombody ranting about how evil jews are they do it in secret at night spray painting swastikas on elderly jewish neighborhoods

 

or posting their shit online you know why? because their fucking little fucking pussies.

 

So you anti-semetice little fuck sticks I a proposal for do some research and make a list of all the medical discoveries Jew's have made that have saved millions of lives and deny yourselves the medical treatments.

 

After all you might become somewhat Jewish yanno.

 

Anyways...................I have to go my Zionist Overlord's are calling and I have to get it.

 

Bounce,Bounce,Bounce

 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:57 | 5241269 Swave
Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:57 | 5241271 Rockfish
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They must blame some one. It is the human thing to do. 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 18:26 | 5241338 nick howdy
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Where is the anti- Semitism in this article..There is a difference between people who are against Zionism and those that are anti-Semetic..

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 21:32 | 5241833 SquadronVBF94
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Total bullshit.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 21:58 | 5241884 nick howdy
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Of course it's a BS since world Zionism have been so good for everyone.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:49 | 5241251 Lea
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” (Mussolini)

Sounds like America to me.

“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.” (Mao)

Who would have thunk I'd agree with Mao one day?

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 17:52 | 5241259 orangegeek
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one liners from animals of the past

 

I'm sure ganghis khan had a few too

 

technology prevents the scale of damage that reprobates such as these can cause

 

if you think the US is dealing a hard hand, you haven't traveled the world - nothing like a train ride through Yugoslavia with some fuckwad with a machine over his shoulder - and this was during peace time

 

pick your poison folks - I still choose the US over those leftover socialists in europe and communists in asia - africa and south america goes without saying

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 20:06 | 5241393 acetinker
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The Big Lie is that 'the people" can be trusted to govern themselves.  They won't. Democracy is a plague.

The Founders even doubted their Democratic Republic would stand the test of time.

They were correct.

The only form of government which has lasted for more than 200 years is dictatorship.  Disagree?  Look the shit up!

You can say what?  The US has existed for almost 250!  That's a rounding error, and besides, I'd say the ideas the Founders put forward died on 12/23, nineteen fucking thirteen.

There's a handful of us, who will not take from society that which is not freely offered, but we are a minority.

The vast majority will clamor for legislation to make them 'equal'.  They haven't the faintest clue that their 'equality' is entirely dependent on their level of effort.

Thus, .gov will make every effort to create an equal but lesser class.

And we all circle the drain.

On the other side of the rubicon, the bankers are sustained, no matter what.  Is this not just another form of welfare?

Why yes, yes it is!

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 20:01 | 5241546 TheGreatRecovery
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The scum always rises to the top.  Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.  Power consolidates.  Monopoly wins.  The winners write fairy tales about how honest it all was, and how nice things would be everywhere if they were just allowed to rule everywhere.  Machiavelli said it all.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 20:30 | 5241648 Dre4dwolf
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When you refine metal, the slag (or garbage) floats to the top, and the craftsman scoops the garbage away leaving behind the perfected metal soup.

 

The world works the same way, government is a test, the slime and garbage rises to power, and the people (craftsman) have to scoop them away like the garbage that they are.

 

;)

 

You can never have a perfect society, or anything close to a perfect society when a few individuals try and dictate the lives , requirements and prohibitions for the masses.

Such a system is chaos and doomed to fail, no matter what title you give it, democracy, dictatorship, there is no difference.

 

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 20:59 | 5241738 Notsobadwlad
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I don't know anyone who likes the US (so called) leadership. Some day, one way or another, perception and reality will merge.

If the so called leaders reverse their course and start working for the benefit of the people then it will end one way and if not then another way.

Sun, 09/21/2014 - 22:30 | 5241963 homiegot
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"Yes, we can." -- Barack Obama

"You didn't build that." -- Barack Obama

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 00:03 | 5242169 22winmag
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Only a military coup can save our asses.

 

Not to mention it's the just right thing to do.

 

 

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 01:36 | 5242275 ReligiousAtheist1
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Excellent piece

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 05:07 | 5242375 The Abstraction...
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Lenin needs to be in that picture as he killed as many as Stalin. And Trotsky was an advocate of Bolshevism extended into the entire world, which if successful, would have ramped up the killings a hundred fold.

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