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America where are you?
Ask any one of your fellow citizens about leadership in America and the answer is always the same. What leadership? Currently, congress has an approval rating of less the 14% and the President's approval rating is below 40%, a new low for his term.
We were supposed to be a country built on laws, but in today's society in America, just as there are the haves and have nots, there are two sets of laws. One for the rich and another set for the rest of us. Why haven't any bankers gone to prison for nearly bankrupting America? The answer is none. But if a desperate parent looking to feed a child is caught shop lifting food, your thrown in jail.
Is it any wonder that the American populace is fed up with business as usual when the highest court in the land declares that corporations are people and can freely dump millions of dollars into political campaigns as dictated by Citizens United? Without question, if you have money you have access. There was a time in America when lobbying was considered illegal. Now it seems to be the accepted Quid Pro Quo in getting things done. Not for the American people, but rather for the powerful and well connected and invariably, these favors do little to help people. It only helps to line the pockets of those that hold the reigns of power.
Americans today are constantly being bombarded by issues such as Ebola, ISIS, Ferguson, Iraq and Syria which are without question important issues that require addressing. However, these issues like the current national dialog on same sex marriage are only used as diversions to keep voters at each others throats while the real theft going on in Washington continues.
Have you ever wondered how banks such as JP Morgan can afford to pay 16 billion in fines for wrong doing? It's pretty simple, you as their depositor actually help to pay that bill for the banks. Congress allows banks to sweep a depositors accounts every evening and places your funds into overnight trades which in turn net the bank on average, 25 to 30% per month. But as a depositor whose money is being used to add profits to the banks bottom line, you as the depositor never see a dime of that profit. Again, it is Congress that writes these laws and why now the banking lobby pours hundreds of millions into political campaigns.
Markets are manipulated as well as the blatantly false figure regarding unemployment. We're constantly being told that inflation is tame and yet the cost of energy as well as food continue to rise and to add insult to injury, the cost of food and fuel don't even figure into the equation when it comes to reporting inflation via the Federal Reserve.
What many should be doing is asking the following question. If things are so wonderful in America, why do nearly have of Americans require food stamp assistance? How much more pathetic can America get when seniors have to go dumpster diving looking for bottles and cans for their five cent deposit return, so they can supplement what Social Security doesn't cover. Why after having funds deducted from our pay checks all our lives, does the government require taxes to be paid on Social Security? Isn't this a double tax on seniors?
The sad fact remains that unelected bureaucrats write the very laws that they are never held accountable for and these same people live off a continuous gravy train of dollars that are in turn used to sway political favors that do nothing for the general population other than burden them further with higher taxes as well as fees.
America today is sick. The patient is on life support and failing quickly. If you care anything about where our once great country is headed, now is the time to speak up. We no longer can afford to be the policeman for the world with military bases in foreign countries that serve no purpose other than to bleed us dry of tax dollars that could be put to better use.
Politicians are quick to jump on the illegal drug campaign that has been in place since the Reagan administration, yet with the greatest army in the world in Afghanistan where 90% or the worlds heroin is produced, we seem unwilling to burn the poppy fields down. Just who is making billions on seeing this drug produced?
The list of grievances is endless America, but now the time has come to take a stand.
America where are you?
Ask any one of your fellow citizens about leadership in America and the answer is always the same. What leadership? Currently, congress has an approval rating of less the 14% and the President's approval rating is below 40%, a new low for his term.
We were supposed to be a country built on laws, but in today's society in America, just as there are the haves and have nots, there are two sets of laws. One for the rich and another set for the rest of us. Why haven't any bankers gone to prison for nearly bankrupting America? The answer is none. But if a desperate parent looking to feed a child is caught shop lifting food, your thrown in jail.
Is it any wonder that the American populace is fed up with business as usual when the highest court in the land declares that corporations are people and can freely dump millions of dollars into political campaigns as dictated by Citizens United? Without question, if you have money you have access. There was a time in America when lobbying was considered illegal. Now it seems to be the accepted Quid Pro Quo in getting things done. Not for the American people, but rather for the powerful and well connected and invariably, these favors do little to help people. It only helps to line the pockets of those that hold the reigns of power.
Americans today are constantly being bombarded by issues such as Ebola, ISIS, Ferguson, Iraq and Syria which are without question important issues that require addressing. However, these issues like the current national dialog on same sex marriage are only used as diversions to keep voters at each others throats while the real theft going on in Washington continues.
Have you ever wondered how banks such as JP Morgan can afford to pay 16 billion in fines for wrong doing? It's pretty simple, you as their depositor actually help to pay that bill for the banks. Congress allows banks to sweep a depositors accounts every evening and places your funds into overnight trades which in turn net the bank on average, 25 to 30% per month. But as a depositor whose money is being used to add profits to the banks bottom line, you as the depositor never see a dime of that profit. Again, it is Congress that writes these laws and why now the banking lobby pours hundreds of millions into political campaigns.
Markets are manipulated as well as the blatantly false figure regarding unemployment. We're constantly being told that inflation is tame and yet the cost of energy as well as food continue to rise and to add insult to injury, the cost of food and fuel don't even figure into the equation when it comes to reporting inflation via the Federal Reserve.
What many should be doing is asking the following question. If things are so wonderful in America, why do nearly have of Americans require food stamp assistance? How much more pathetic can America get when seniors have to go dumpster diving looking for bottles and cans for their five cent deposit return, so they can supplement what Social Security doesn't cover. Why after having funds deducted from our pay checks all our lives, does the government require taxes to be paid on Social Security? Isn't this a double tax on seniors?
The sad fact remains that unelected bureaucrats write the very laws that they are never held accountable for and these same people live off a continuous gravy train of dollars that are in turn used to sway political favors that do nothing for the general population other than burden them further with higher taxes as well as fees.
America today is sick. The patient is on life support and failing quickly. If you care anything about where our once great country is headed, now is the time to speak up. We no longer can afford to be the policeman for the world with military bases in foreign countries that serve no purpose other than to bleed us dry of tax dollars that could be put to better use.
Politicians are quick to jump on the illegal drug campaign that has been in place since the Reagan administration, yet with the greatest army in the world in Afghanistan where 90% or the worlds heroin is produced, we seem unwilling to burn the poppy fields down. Just who is making billions on seeing this drug produced?
The list of grievances is endless America, but now the time has come to take a stand.
The worlds always been fucked.
Its the type of fucking that is going on that has changed.
Meh, ... old news, nothing to see here, move along... but thanks for the laughs WB7
The difference is "in 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue", he didn't know about germs and infectious disease. Barack Hussein Obola knew.
Unfortunatly the indians did not know about germs and infectious disease either.
We're all fucked now. This goes out to Janet Yellen.
Dead Flowers -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_yyRk_dj8
LOL - Thank you William. :-)
Colloidal silver and oil of oregano. Believe it.
Nice camel toe on Obarecrack's super-ebola-man costume.
Columbus didn't discover America.
He merely detected it.
--Oscar Wilde
Just waitin for the next person who was suspected of having Ebola, but got tested and released, to come back to the hospital again with the real deal. The CDC even admits that the test only works if the victim has a high enough level of Ebola and that Ebola takes up to three weeks to manifest itself. Are they simply 'missing' these early warnings shown by these patients?
"Just waitin for the next person who was suspected of having Ebola, but got tested and released"
While it can certainly happen, I'm not familiar with any case here in the US where someone tested negative, and then later tested positive for Ebola. Not many labs are equipped to test for it; CDC selectively accepts samples only with prior consultation, and a couple of state labs have test capability. In other words, unless things have changed since Duncan, most hospitals have no in-house or local testing capability for Ebola, such testing would only take place if several symptoms were present, more common ailments were ruled out, and or unusual circumstances reported.
Damn wireless mouse playing tricks on me this am. Cool as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVRfXeQ7V4
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-health-ebola-usa-nurse-idUS...
... "You don't scapegoat and blame when you have a disease outbreak," said Bonnie Castillo, a registered nurse and a disaster relief expert at National Nurses United, which serves as both a union and a professional association for U.S. nurses. "We have a system failure. That is what we have to correct."
More than 4,000 people have died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record that began in West Africa in March.
In recent months, the CDC has published detailed guidelines on how to handle various aspects of Ebola, from lab specimens and infectious waste to the proper use of protective equipment.
How that information gets communicated to frontline workers, however, varies widely, Castillo said.
In many cases, hospitals "post something on a bulletin board referring workers and nurses to the CDC guidelines. That is not how you drill and practice and become expert," she said...
...LEGAL RECOURSE
Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, an expert on public health preparedness at Pennsylvania State University, also disagreed with the talk of a breach of protocol, saying it just puts the onus on the nurse.
"I think that is just wrong," said Macgregor-Skinner, who helped the Nigerian government train healthcare workers when a traveler from Liberia touched off an outbreak of Ebola this past summer.
“We haven't provided them with a national training program. We haven't provided them with the necessary experts that have actually worked in hospitals with Ebola," he added in reference to U.S. hospital staff.
Legal experts said the Dallas nurse may be entitled to compensation if the hospital carries workers' compensation insurance. If it doesn’t, she would have the right to sue the hospital for damages under Texas law, said Jay Harvey, a lawyer in Austin, Texas.
Her ability to show that the hospital was negligent by, for example, not providing proper training, would be key to winning such a suit, Harvey said....
Questions:
Can they decontaminate the car enough that she will ever have it returned to her?
What about all the stuff in her house...is she allowed to keep it if a certain number of days have passed, say ten, so they think/know/believe that all the virus would be dead? Wasn't a piece of smallpox blanket found in some podunk museum a few years ago ago, causing an absolute uproar?
Viruses...they think humans are there dinner.
Ebola is a BioSafety Level 4 Pathogen (BSL4).
Is Texas Pres. a BSL4 facility? Clue: It's not on the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level
Protocols are protocols. Practitioners be aware.
These are research labs not treatment centers. Do you see many hospitals on the list? I don't.
"The World is Fucked". While I for sure would not propose the case of the world being Eden on Earth, recently I was reading a very conservative basher of US democrats pointing out that in a way, the biggest ideological divide in the US is between two cultures (hence Culture Wars) or "political religions":
Premillennialism and Postmillennialism
on one side
Premillennialists being utterly convinced that support of Israel and Zionism is important because so the Saviour can come. In short, things have to be fucked up beyond recognition before they finally - and please asap - can be be resolved by Jesus setting them right
on the other side
Postmillennialists arguing for the advancement of a "Kingdom of God" now, and practically saying that first we need Paradise on Earth, and then Jesus will come
sometimes both dubbed pessimillennialists versus optimillenialists
on the Premillenialist side, you find Christian Zionists, many Evangelicals, all kinds of Tribolationists, and several megachurches explaing how the Rapture works
on the Postmillenialist side, you find the US Social Gospel, Christian Reconstructionism, but also all kinds of this peculiar kind of US "Christian Socialists" (not called so)
What I'd like to say to that to our dear American Cousins: note that this conflict of minds, hearts and views is essentially American
You won't find the rest of the world slotting like this in the narrative of "The World is Fucked, let's get over with it" or "Let's Build A Better World, Now, And If You Don't Join Us..." (ok, you will, in some countries of the English-speaking world, for example Australia and New Zealand, and in small part in the UK)
both views are essentially scary, to most of the rest of the world, which is more engaged in a classical political discourse, a multidimensional one, with several paradigms, like Left/Right, (Classic-)Liberal/(Classic-)Socialist/(Classic-)Conservative, Authoritarianism/Anti-Authoritarianism, Elite/Bourgeois/Worker, and many others, including those in India and China which are even more complex, or the even more classic Great Game Of Conflicting Empires
in short, 2% of the world's population is scary because they wish the world to end now, and 2% of the world's population is scary because they wish to "fix" the world, while both are in favour of strong intervention in bringing a New Age, a New World Order, and As Soon As Possible. They just differ on if the world has to be fucked or saved, first
I really don't know which one is really scarier, and yet I think I'm taking here the view of that part of 95% of the world's population that gazes in wonderment at America and tries to understand what this bright civilization is fighting itself about, and where is this supposed to lead us, Armageddon or A Boot Stamping On The Face Of Humanity Forever
in short, the Old World generally disagrees on All Things Can Be Resolved Soon. Between this kind of Extreme Pessimism and Extreme Optimism, you'll find Tentative Realism, nestled in some historic patterns that are many millennia old, with the general belief that history has further millennia to write, yet, with many rhyming chapters yet to be written
It'll take a can opener to open their minds, Ghordius. You obviously didn't need one.
If you want to understand politics in America, then you needn't look further than George Carlin and Frank Zappa. The two of them nailed it and I don't see much evidence that the situation has changed substantively since their demise, except that it has gotten worse. Trust me, I have looked around plenty and they nailed it but good.
The cherry on top is Ron Paul. He is still alive and able to call it in real time.
What the rest of the world needs to worry about is why their leaders are so keen to dance the tune played by the motherfuckers those two learned and street smart gentlemen spent the better part of their lives calling out.
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I agree. With your title today, with Carlin, and well...Ron Paul has successfully been labeled as a Nutcake by the MSM. So there you go.
the world is 'just a ride', like in an amusement park. The late, great Bill Hicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrKW7fh_Bo
You seem to have put some thought into your assertion aht in America it all comes down to Premillennialism vs. Postmillennialism, but I see little or none of that affecting American politics these days. What is seen on religious TV in America may seem to make a big deal of it, but I find no evidence it has invaded the political realm to any meaningful degree when I attend church every week. Further, I've never seen anything (particularly in the New Testament) that would suggest that Christians can cause Jesus to return sooner rather than later. I have heard, although I can't definitively prove, that at least some Muslims believe they can induce the return of their twelfth Imam (or someone like that) by human actions. Can you point me to passages in the Bible that would suggest Christians can accelerate the return of Jesus or the establishment of the millenium?
Obama, Bush, Clinton and Bush (I'll stop here, since Reagan is dead and Carter is brain-dead) all ignored the 'great divide' you seem to see. American politics/culture/society are post-Christian for the most part, for better or worse. Any pretentions these four have exhibited suggesting that they are devoted Christians is contrived, merely an effort to fool those sheeple who claim to be Christians. (Clinton was really good at misquoting the Bible to make himself look 'religious'; Obama came up with those posters suggesting his head was surrounded by a halo. Bush II claimed to be a compassionate conservative, but was not a conservative and showed no compassion in Iraq or Afghanistan.)
Personally I think the US would be a much better place if all those claiming to be Christians would act in accordance with the teachings of Jesus, but that's just my opinion. Meanwhile, I see no evidence that the power elites pay any attention to what you perceive as 'the biggest ideological divide in the US...)
Well which part of the world has the smartest people, that doesn't elect the stupidest, vainest, most corrupt egomaniacs from among themselves, to make every decision from the largest to the smallest for the majority because thats the place I want to move to? ;-)
I think you're talking about Switzerland nmewn...
possibly one of the best answers you your question would be Switzerland, where most people can't even name all members of their government... not because they are ignorant, but because it matters least then anywhere else in the world. and yet they have the biggest participation to politics of the common pop than anywhere else
"possibly one of the best answers you your question would be Switzerland, where most people can't even name all members of their government... not because they are ignorant, but because it matters least then anywhere else in the world. and yet they have the biggest participation to politics of the common pop than anywhere else"
That's cute. You're so worried about Christians that you ignore agnostic bankers and elites who pour their money into Switzerland for safe keeping. Money used to "Change the world" or to "bring on Armageddon" through manipulations of countries and to fund militaries."
Naivete mixed with ignorance. Now THAT's winning !! LOL !!
wonderful. now I'm worried about Christians? first, I'm myself Catholic. second, this pessimism versus optimism is cultural. Yes, it's roots might be religious, and Christian to boot, but those two camps are cultural nevertheless, with reverberations everywhere. And yet... American to the core
Regarding Switzerland, can't a country have sane politics while being an offshore financial center at the same time?
"wonderful. now I'm worried about Christians? first, I'm myself Catholic. second, this pessimism versus optimism is cultural. Yes, it's roots might be religious, and Christian to boot, but those two camps are cultural nevertheless, with reverberations everywhere. And yet... American to the core
Regarding Switzerland, can't a country have sane politics while being an offshore financial center at the same time?"
Utter CRAP !
It's only American to the core because we are also the media capital of the world and we like to wear our "Freedom of Speech" on our sleeves and our Twitter and Facebook accounts. But the entire rest of the world shares these same feelings and desires. The entire world wants to reshape it into a "Utopia" of their own making and imagination......even if it is one where everyone and everything is "chic-ly and cooly detached and laissez-faire".
As to regards to Switzerland or any country for that matter being able to have sane politics while being an offshore financial center......in a word......NO. There is NO SEPERATION of politics and finance. It took Swiss politrix to set up the havens for the financiers, the bankers and the elites.
Ergo....the financial world IS the world of the insane. And you have to be insane politically to allow them safe haven in your country.
"But the entire rest of the world shares these same feelings and desires. The entire world wants to reshape it into a "Utopia" of their own making and imagination"
You seem to be a victim of your media, and several myths it propagates. Can you in any way substantiate this?
Meanwhile, have a look at my avatar. Not very Swiss or CHF-like
Sure....no sweat.
Every country, every culture, every tribe has a leadership. Whether it be a tribal elder, a council of "wise" men, a president, prime minister, a king, a strong man, a dictator, a technocrat, etc. etc. etc.
Why? To be the force to shape, control, and rule their own particular space, for the collective prosperity and safety of the group.
The world and nature wants to eat us. Has been from the beginning of time. We humans (as well as most animals) collect together and form under a leader or governmental structure to combat nature in its quest to kill us. We higher order animals through our desires to control random events in our lives, to promote safety and security and to increase our comfort against the at many times uncomfortable nature, empower our leaders as well as ourselves through the use of law, force, science and finances to reshape and reorder a chaotic, dangerous world into one that is less so.
This is a universal human desire and action. Even the animal world shows some of these desires and attributes as well.
There is no myth to it. It is scientific fact.
P.S. I don't give a damn about your avatar. Means nothing to me.
Ha---sounds like it's ripe to be fucked by big money and im sure it's in the works.
possibly, yes. and possibly his very question is related to: "Where is Eden On Earth, I want to get there, now", possibly related to "How Do We Bring Heaven On Earth, But Please Fast", which possibly brings us back to "The World If Fucked, End It Now", possibly related to your "Country XYZ is ripe to be fucked"
I don't think it's about who has the smartest or the stupidiest people. I'm writing about culture, and culture wars
my message, even shorter: the New World has a sense of urgency that the Old World does not share. Don't even ask Europeans, ask Indians (in India) and Chinese (in China) about that, and listen what they answer
Ha ha ha, I used to think that about our own southern brethren's sense of urgency. I would be standing on the floor of a facility and watch them all quit work at 14:30 and go fishing. But since a lot of major manufacturing has moved down south, I watch them working overtime and hustling to make the boat payments.
I realize you are an outside observer, but a more direct analogy is Problem vs Solution. Historically, humans are solution oriented, as solutions = survival and problems = extinction.
You can unfold the metaphor from there. Civilization is the path to extinction as it creates more existential threats than man vs wild.
Your problem is wrapping your head around existential threats to 6 or 7 billion people simultaneously. (Nukes, Ebola, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse etc.)
You and your brethren of the Paris Salon cannot fathom how wood panelling and game trophies on the wall translate into extinction of the human species.
This naivete has now spread to my country where solutions used to be our specialty, now it's problems.
We are indeed, all fucked, but it is the lack of urgency of our global neighbors that has infected us, not the lack of solutions.
We are indeed, all fucked.
Well, in defense of some of my "southern brothers" not all of them are scrambling to make debt payments. Around here hunting season is only interupted by fishing season and they plan their lives accordingly.
Most employers here know not to depend on Billy Ray during hunting season (even after they screwed up their projections to Wall Street, its not his fault) as he will tell you to go pound sand (he has no debt and his house is paid off) but otherwise he's an excellent worker, just don't screw with him in the fall.
There are exceptions to the rule of course and my observation is as narrow as the geographical area you're talking about but as southerners, life doesn't revolve around work...whats the old saying...work to live not live to work?
There is a balance, everybody finds their own balance and everyone else just has to deal with it ;-)
Cardinal Fang, our solutions - or at least tentative solutions - are often hijacked in your politics by one side and then ridden to death, in haste, while the other side opposes them until they are no solutions anymore
Meanwhile, some problems don't have a quick solution, and aren't going away, and yet aren't riding on a Horse of Immediate Apocalypse
The world is SO F*ucked !
Facked?
Fecked?
Ficked?
Focked?
Fycked?
Oh, I give up. What is it then?
Not every day I get an opportunity to be this silly, I had to go for it.
Foacked?
Foocked?
Foicked?
...
Gruff Rhys - Christopher Golumbus
I dream of freedom,
See no rhyme,
In your reason to resist,
Resist the power,
By the hour,
Ask the people to assist,
In isolation we were beautiful,
Cultured and content.
Civilization bought diseases,
Now we breathe your devil scent,
And just like Christopher Columbus,
After 1492,
And just like Christopher Columbus,
You had a lot to answer fortunately,
Me and you are through.
Hope over reason,
The last bastion,
Of division and dissent,
Rebuilding bridges,
Climb the ridges,
Declarations of intent,
If we could harness all the firepower,
Turn it on itself,
We could shine brightly
Phosphorescent,
Seize the life upon it's shelf.
And just like Christopher Columbus,
After 1492,
And just like Christopher Columbus,
You had a lot to answer fortunately,
Me and you are through.
And just like Christopher Columbus,
After 1492,
And just like Christopher Columbus,
you had a lot to answer for.
And just like Christopher Columbus,
After 1492,
And just like Christopher Columbus,
You had a lot to answer fortunately,
Me and you are through.
No, we are not fucked...this is the calibre of the actors who 'front' the cabal...the facade is falling off and they know it. Supebola at the gym: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEgqZYehpbw
Zbigniew Brzezinski Still Admits The Global Political Awakening Proving Very Difficult For The Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHknL5z8f6kShort of the Samson option, there is still time. Who would do such a thing? Why, Yahweh - God of the New World Order & The Synagogue of Saturn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELest_s9sI0
And follow some of the links in the side bar for thought provoking info. Like Red Ice Radio - Joseph Farrell - Yahweh The Two-Faced God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObA0_usuMhM
Check out the twisted history of the 'elites who would rule you, should you chose to consent, or consent by your silence.
Stay strong team...when the going gets tough, the tough get going..
Peace
This man is a Nobel Prize winner ffs, show some respect!
Why the camel toe?