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The Biggest Threat To America

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Q: "Who is going to defend the country without the Army?"

Zappa: "From what? The biggest threat to America is its own federal government... Will the Army protect anybody from the FBI? The IRS? The CIA? The Republican Party? The Democratic Party?... The biggest dangers we face today don't even need to sneak past our billion-dollar defense systems... they issue the contracts for them."

 

Source: The Burning Platform

 

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Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:32 | 5369585 Tall Tom
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I only got to see him once...with Papa John Creech.

 

Great show.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:36 | 5369306 Theta_Burn
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I seen Zappa Halloween night 1978 at the Palladium in NY (closed for yrs now)

That train ride to and from the show from the Jersey shore was as mystikal as the show was.

We watched in horror as somebody fell over the railing from 2nd floor, the show didn't miss a beat..

To this day, can't find anything about that guy..

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:55 | 5369407 chunga
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:37 | 5369607 Tall Tom
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No..That is the song Suicide Chump...

 

Here is the entire 10-31-78 Halloween Concert

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDNNJZ1TdaA

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:53 | 5369678 chunga
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I've been a Zappa nut since I was a kid and never heard any of this conspiracy stuff.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:21 | 5369808 Tall Tom
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Neither have I heard about any conspiracy crap...

 

I have enjoyed his music, from pre adolescense, and was made aware.

 

I am listening to that concert as I write this...I am listening to a terrific jazz riff in City of Tiny Lights as I write.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:45 | 5369910 chunga
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I downloaded it! Here is an acoustic tune to check out. Maybe somebody can confirm this but I think a young Steve Vai is playing the other guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_kuDyuBwo

Love him or hate him, there isn't anything like Zappa these days. The conspiracy probably was started by Lou Reed...he was a Zappa basher and said anybody could play guitar like him with a little practice. (just kidding but reed did trash talk him something he likely regrets unless he's dead?)

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:01 | 5369986 Tall Tom
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In four days Lou Reed will have been dead for a year.

 

I will check out your link. Oh I love Zappa.

 

His best material was his Classical Music. He composed some good classical music on 200 Motels. But after that in the eighties he released some really cool stuff.

 

My best friend was surfing the web and stumbled on to some of those cuts on an Abu Dhabi Website.

 

So he thought he could stump me.

 

When I correctly identified all of the compositions as Zappa he became irritated and asked me why I had not to him about Zappa.

 

I exclaimed that I had....which...I had.

 

He replied, "Yeah, Don't you eat that yellow snow stuff..." (whch apparently he did not like the lyrics).

 

I asked him, "Well do you think that I can mimic an entire orchestra with my voice?"

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:05 | 5368780 Phat Stax
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Always seemed to be a really smart dude.... now confirmed.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:06 | 5368784 CosmicDebris
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Pretty sure he was onto something from an early age. Most geniuses are.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:06 | 5368785 FlyinHigh
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Still Stoned.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:09 | 5368795 Jack Sheet
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....Ram it up yer poop chute
*Fist f**k*
Ram it, ram it, ram it
Ram it up yer poop chute
*Wrist-watch; Crisco*....

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:09 | 5368797 Peter Pan
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When a nation is defined by its agencies rather than by its constitution, by its politicians rather than its people and by the interests of the 1% rather than the 99%, then it is time for the "Zappas", Snowdens and others like them to speak and act in concert, because individual acts of defiance can only wound rather than slay the beast.

Unless there is a broad awakening, we are in danger of turning our rights and freedoms into nostalgic memories and nothing more.

If humanity cannot unite to clear the dung heap then let Ebola do it for us.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:12 | 5368816 Everybodys All ...
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Obama is the biggest threat that I've seen in my lifetime to liberty in the US. The president on his own by executive order is looking to bring in 34 million illegal aliens and simply give them amnesty and rights of a citizen. No matter what side you agree with there is absoulutely no way that one man should make this decision in America.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:20 | 5368839 John Law Lives
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"No matter what side you agree with there is absoulutely no way that one man should make this decision in America."

Consider the Fed Board Members with the authority to (at times drastically) alter the value of virtually every asset class with their decisions whilst opposing the notion of being audited.  Talk about power...

FedFUBAR.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:43 | 5369354 MrSteve
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He can pardon them for breaking the law, he can not waive laws and declare them to be citizens. They gotta take a test!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:52 | 5370182 Tall Tom
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LMAO...

 

No. He can do as he pleases.

 

Without Congressional approval he just waived the Employer Mandate law of his Affordable Healthcare Act. There was absoltely no provision written with that law which allowed him to delay it. Yet he did.

 

You have not ever heard of an Executive Order?

 

Currently the Carrot is suiing Obama about that. But that is just a farce suit as Boehner wants the Supremes to declare that EO's are Constitutional...which they will and usurp all last reamaining vestiges of Congressional Authority.

 

WE HAVE NO CONSTITUTION. The Government is CRIMINAL..ALL OF THEM. THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS.

 

WAKE UP.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:17 | 5368844 Heffer
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One day music will be a religion and Frank Zappa will be God.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:20 | 5368859 I am on to you
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"I am the slime", all you need to know!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:21 | 5368860 GIABO
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Hate to rain on your parade all you hippie lovers... but the Laurely Canyon/ Hippie movement was all controlled by the CIA.... references below...

 

Frank Zappa: Son of Francis Zappa, a mathematician and a chemist, working for the U.S. defense industry[2]. Frank himself, although one of those who was in the frontline of creating the Hippie Movement, never made it a secret that he had nothing but contempt for this culture. He was also a great supporter of the Vietnam War[3]. Frank was married to Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who comes from a "long line of career Naval officers, including her father, who spent his life working on classified nuclear weapons research for the U.S. Navy. Gail herself had once worked as a secretary for the Office of Naval Research and Development (she also once told an interviewer that she had “heard voices all [her] life”). Many years before their nearly simultaneous arrival in Laurel Canyon, Gail had attended a Naval kindergarten with “Mr. 'Mojo Risin’” himself, Jim Morrison (it is claimed that, as children, Gail once hit Jim over the head with a hammer). The very same Jim Morrison had later attended the same Alexandria, Virginia high school as two other future Laurel Canyon luminaries – John Phillips and Cass Elliott."[4].

"Papa" John Phillips of "The Mamas and the Papas": Son of  a retired Marine Corps officer (Captain Claude Andrew Phillips)[5]. "John attended a series of elite military prep schools in the Washington, D.C. area, culminating in an appointment to the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis...John married Susie Adams, a direct descendant of ‘Founding Father’ John Adams. Susie’s father, James Adams, Jr., had been involved in what Susie described as “cloak-and-dagger stuff with the Air Force in Vienna,” or what we like to call covert intelligence operations. Susie herself would later find employment at the Pentagon, alongside John Phillip’s older sister, Rosie, who dutifully reported to work at the complex for nearly thirty years. John’s mother, ‘Dene’ Phillips, also worked for most of her life for the federal government in some unspecified capacity."[6]

Stephen Stills of "Buffalo Springfield" and "Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young): Born to a Military family[7]. Stills was educated primarily at schools on military bases and at elite military academies.[8]

David Crosby of "The Byrds" and "Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)": "...the son of an Annapolis graduate and WW II military intelligence officer, Major Floyd Delafield Crosby. Like others in this story, Floyd Crosby spent much of his post-service time traveling the world. Those travels landed him in places like Haiti, where he paid a visit in 1927, when the country just happened to be, coincidentally of course, under military occupation by the U.S. Marines. One of the Marines doing that occupying was a guy that we met earlier by the name of Captain Claude Andrew Phillips"[9] (father of "Papa" John Phillips. Small world, Wes Penre's comment).

"Suffice it to say that the Crosby family tree includes a truly dizzying array of US senators and congressmen, state senators and assemblymen, governors, mayors, judges, Supreme Court justices, Revolutionary and Civil War generals, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and members of the Continental Congress. It also includes, I should hasten to add – for those of you with a taste for such things – more than a few high-ranking Masons. Stephen Van Rensselaer III, for example, reportedly served as Grand Master of Masons for New York. And if all that isn’t impressive enough, according to the New England Genealogical Society, David Van Cortlandt Crosby is also a direct descendant of ‘Founding Fathers’ and Federalist Papers’ authors Alexander Hamilton and John Jay."[10]

Jackson Browne: "...the product of a career military family. Browne’s father was assigned to post-war ‘reconstruction’ work in Germany, which very likely means that he was in the employ of the OSS, precursor to the CIA. As readers of my “Understanding the F-Word” may recall, U.S. involvement in post-war reconstruction in Germany largely consisted of maintaining as much of the Nazi infrastructure as possible while shielding war criminals from capture and prosecution. Against that backdrop, Jackson Browne was born in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany."[11]

Gram Parsons of "The Flying Burrito Brothers": "...was the son of Major Cecil Ingram “Coon Dog” Connor II, a decorated military officer and bomber pilot who reportedly flew over 50 combat missions."[12]

Jimi Hendrix of "The Jimi Hendrix Experience": "Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, USA, while his father was stationed at an Army base in Oklahoma."[13]

 

Michael Jeffrey, Jimi Hendrix' Manager: Michael Jeffrey admitted to being an Intelligence Agent. Information was uncovered by Hendrix' biographers Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebeek in their book, "Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy; from rock historian R. Gary Patterson in his book, Hellbounds on Their Trail: Tales from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Graveyard"[14]; and from John McDermott and Eddie Kramer in their book, "Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight"[15]. The following is a summary of their collective findings:
 
* Jeffrey often boasted of "undercover work against the Russians, or murder, mayhem and torture in foreign countries." Jeffrey’s father said his son had been stationed in Egypt years earlier and could speak Russian. 

* Friends of Hendrix suspected Jeffrey was crooked and they (the friends) confiscated documents from his office which indicated he was embezzling large amounts of money from Jimi’s concert performances. The friends gave the documents to Hendrix, who reportedly took legal actions to recover the embezzled money. 

* In July 1970, two months before his death, Hendrix broke all communications with Jeffrey. At that time, Hendrix told film director Chuck Wein: "The next time I go to Seattle will be in a pine box."89

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:28 | 5368902 Uncle Remus
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And this changes FZ's music how?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:12 | 5369162 Ralph Spoilsport
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Exactly.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:41 | 5369337 MrSteve
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Zappa made maple syrup manufacturing into the cult hero trade it continues to be! Even his kids made us all proud to be real 'Mericans!!Billy was a mountain, Frank was a range of light and trooth which none of these Lang Lee troll-wannabees would ever unnerstan! Last year was it (?) there were news stories of organized gangs stealing many tank cars of maple syrup. Frank would've gone medieval on 'em!!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:25 | 5370079 nmewn
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There's one in every crowd Unc.

And Frank's daughter went on to found midgetsexwithdonkeys.com! ;-)

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:48 | 5369008 Pickleton
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all controlled by the CIA

 

You are aware that being related to someone that worked for the govt in one form or another in no way lends credence to 'controlled by the CIA' dont you?

And that's aside from the fact that you're talking about people borne to 'the greatest generation' where it's more likely to be related to someone in the military than not.  Right?

 

That's the cretinous thinking of low-info Info Wars trolls.

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:57 | 5369074 TheMeatTrapper
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It is funny how the fact that somebodys daddy was in the Navy and they later got a job as a secretary at the base makes them a controlled CIA asset and proves that an entire class of people are phony frauds.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:52 | 5369390 SheepDog-One
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Yea this kind of stuff is what the 'Coast to Coast AM' audience comes up with. And didja hear Frank Zappas mom was actually an alien from Mars!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:55 | 5369687 KuriousKat
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I don't think it was the hippies put the heroin in the body bags coming back home. 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:57 | 5369072 Ludwig Von
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Maybe your references just explain why they all turned away from the system... . 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:08 | 5369743 Tall Tom
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You are correct. They saw it. They saw the evils done to the most important people in their lives...their parents...while being raised. So they decided to expose what they have experienced.

 

Most lyricists are writing...FROM EXPERIENCE.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:17 | 5369199 Sorry_about_Dresden
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Gonna have to give you the down arrow.

Anyone coming of age in the late sixties or early seventies was spawn by a veteran.

The question is: Did the draftees know they were fighting and dying to make dividends for I.G. Farben, the Bank of International Settlement, the Dulles Brothers, Union Bank, Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman?

Some how everyone in my family fell through the cracks. The last Veterans in my family served in the war of Northern agression. My GGG-Grandfather and GGG-Uncle both served and were decorated. My GGG-Grandfather was at Appomatix and we still have his papers issued by the Union when he was paroled.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:18 | 5369205 Vooter
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You're not really saying that because many rock stars and counterculture figures (like many people, period) were raised in military families that they were therefore CIA spies, now, are you? LOL...please tell me that you're not saying that...

Frank Burns: "But colonel, that's just my copy of 'Reader's Digest'!

Col. Flagg: "Take out the "a," the second "e" and the second "r" and that's RED'S DIGEST, comrade!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:46 | 5369363 dondonsurvelo
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You give way too much credit to the CIA.  They tried a lot of shit and failed at most.  Only thing they were really good at was spying from space until Boyce exposed them.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:56 | 5369695 Tall Tom
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Hate to break it to you but these artists, while having military backgrounds, intellegence backgrounds, were more than understanding of the potential threat by our MIC Oligarchy and EXPOSED THEM and their TACTICS.

 

There is an old adage which one must keep in mind...

 

Keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer. Knowing the enemy is the key to finding the weakness, exploiting the weakness, and following through with victory.

 

As Sun Tzu in his epic and historic, "The Art of War" has counseled, that a victor does not attack an enemy's strong point. The victor determines the weakness and directs the attack there. (paraphrase)

 

BTW...Frank Zappa despised the Hippie Movement.

 

I may not like warfare. (I do not.) War, after all, is the absolute enemy of mankind.  But I understand the difference between the tactical and the strategic. I have studied it. Know the enemy.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:15 | 5369773 astroloungers
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while exceptional intelligence and /or talent can pop up randomly, it tends to be genetic. talented or skilled people will often have talented or skilled offspring. breeding is the same for cattle as it is for humans. i will assume that you have never owned stock(hooved not paper)

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:51 | 5369938 mendolover
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What's with the down arrows?  Wake up fools!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:22 | 5368865 crzyhun
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Frank was a true mother of invention.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:22 | 5368869 nosoeawe
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arguing over who or what is the biggest threat to america is like arguing which one is the bigger and filthier lying cunt - hillary, yellen, boxer, feinstein, obolo, rahm, bush.

i feel a massive shit coming on, hope one of these ill-bred degenerates dies so i can take a dump on their grave

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:10 | 5368879 whoopsing
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.... A tiny light from a window hole

a hundred yards away

is all they'll ever get to know

'bout the regular life in the day

And it stinks so bad , the stones been chokin'....

  The man was a genius,... RIPS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCmOIv4bGR4            Are they zero's ?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:45 | 5368894 steelrules
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With estimates of an IQ as high as 200, I'd say Zappa had a good idea we would be where we are today.

Zappa Quotes .http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frank_zappa.html

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:35 | 5368907 NuYawkFrankie
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He was that good they even named a lighter after him.

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:23 | 5369545 Kirk2NCC1701
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LOL.  That would be a ZIPPO, not a ZAPPA.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:58 | 5369977 Uncle Remus
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Frank had a brother by another mother?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:30 | 5370100 nmewn
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Say da secret woid, da boid comes down and ya win a hundred dollah's...lol.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:37 | 5370126 Uncle Remus
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Eggsactly.

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 04:58 | 5371337 SAT 800
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Whoa, Frankie; crackin me up heah. funny shit, dat.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:31 | 5368928 GIABO
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Doesnt it seem funny that the head of the counter culture movement i.e Jim Morrison's father was Pacific fleet admiral. Only second in command to John McCain Sr. of all naval forces in Vietnam?  Jokes on you America!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:30 | 5369269 Vooter
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No, it doesn't seem particularly funny or strange at all. Admiral Morrison was a career Navy man, while his son, Jim, was a rock singer. Is the concept of a father and a son doing completely different things with their lives somehow too complicated for you to get your walnut-sized brain around? What's the difference? Happens all the time.

Here's a great interview with Morrison's father and sister about Jim. It's clear that he didn't understand much about the Doors or rock music, but it's also clear that he loved and admired his son:

http://youtu.be/Kz63-q8otYM

You people need to get out more...

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 12:15 | 5372562 Livermore Legend
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Well Put....

Jim Morrison was a Man with Real Talent....

As his Father said..." I never had any idea of the Talent he had...."

And why we are talking about him today, again from his Father:

"He was True to His Ambition"......

Indeed.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:34 | 5368941 GIABO
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Uncle Remus... it changes his music cause he was an inteligence agent working for the government. They are not who they say they are.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:55 | 5369050 Overfed
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Well, either way, it seems like his warnings to us have been largely ignored.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:06 | 5369134 Uncle Remus
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LOL

 

Look at your list again and tell me which one is not like the others?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:37 | 5368954 anachronism
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When I did my service time, it was a draftee army. The President, the Generals, nor the  officer corps would even imagine that the Army could be used to suppress civilian dissent. The bulk of the Army saw themselves as "citizens in uniform", fulfilling an obligation to our country; but not "married" to the Army. Our leadership knew that ordering the Army to put down an insurrection would be unthinkable. That would have to be done by police forces and -worst case- by the draft dodgers and slackers that comprised the National Guard.

The draft has been gone for 40 years now. The army of today is isolated from most of the citizens, and -from what I can surmise- carries a belief that they are under-appreciated by the majority of the citizenry, and believe that many citizens advocate political beliefs and moral values which are very different from those in the military and their immediate families.

I can envision that today's military would view their countrymen as "the other", and would readily follow orders to impose martial law over Americans, no matter how obvious that such an act would be a clear violation of the Constitution, and that their oath to defend the Constitution should impel them to mutiny against the government that ordered them to do so.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:51 | 5369022 teslaberry
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the oss/cia has always been the brains of the military and the armed forces the 'body'. the body is a hammer and anvil. it is the tool of the brains. 

 

the real power in any military organization is the intelligence appartus. they are the ones who agitate to have generals fired and hired behind the scenes, the ones who can sink a major corporation or breath life/money into a dying defense contractor. 

 

what the average man in the military experiences as military 'culture' is a default cultural characterisitc of the body of the hammer and anvil. it matters not what the military culture is so long as the fresh bodies are holding guns and doing what they are told by the higher ups, who themselves are being told what to do by the intelligence wing----by way of their nexus of control over the entire internal political system of the country.

 

in many countries there is not even a formal distinction between the military and the corporate sector of the country comprising the inner upper class of connected families.

 

 

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:20 | 5369207 Fuku Ben
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PP2- Doesn't compute based on the alleged number of Ron Paul supporters in the ranks before the last election

PP3- In spite of the comment above is probably accurate. Most soldiers will just follow orders. Either too stupid or too power hungry, like cops, to care about their oath or what they are allegedly supposed to fight for and against. There's a good video on YT somewhere where some Nat. Guard are deployed on the streets in MS, I think, and someone interviews them. They're honest at least. But all of them fit the two things I mentioned about why they will not likely save you from your own implosion when the time comes.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:41 | 5368972 the grateful un...
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seems to me he had a house built on a mountain top somewhere, with a recording studio. he was an early prepper, and i think he would say if he was here, that if you want to live correctly that's what you have to do, but if you want to join the middle class, and climb the corporate ladder, and get your kids vaccinated, and health insurance for your pets, then the army should be alright with you.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:41 | 5368978 dexter_morgan
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A man ahead of his time. RIP

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:01 | 5369101 bpj
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He was ahead of his time, Zappa circa 1983

"We propose to acquire the rights to digitally duplicate and store THE BEST of every record company's difficult-to-move Quality Catalog Items [Q.C.I.], store them in a central processing location, and have them accessible by phone or cable TV, directly patchable into the user's home taping appliances, with the option of direct digital-to-digital transfer to F-1 (SONY consumer level digital tape encoder), Beta Hi-Fi, or ordinary analog cassette (requiring the installation of a rentable D-A converter in the phone itself . . . the main chip is about $12). 

All accounting for royalty payments, billing to the customer, etc. would be automatic, built into the initial software for the system. "

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:52 | 5369037 Froman
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"Just keep your nose to the grindstone, they say
Will that redeem us, Uncle Remus
I can't wait till my Fro is full-grown
I'll just throw 'way my Doo-Rag at home.

I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up I'll be knocking
The jockeys off the lawn"

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:59 | 5369095 Uncle Remus
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Love the piano in that tune. And no, not that Steinway.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:12 | 5369173 Vooter
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Great tune...

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 16:58 | 5369084 bpj
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Joe Pine to Zappa,"I suppose that long hair makes you a hippie" Zappa to Joe Pine, "I suppose those wooden legs make you a table"

That quote alone makes a life well lived.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:00 | 5369086 Paracelsus
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"Just pumping everyone of them with a bagfull,of Illinois enema bandit juice".

Brilliant man....Sorely missed.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:27 | 5369245 Uncle Remus
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.

"Must be just what they all needs.

[That's right]

Must be just what they all needs."

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:04 | 5369122 GIABO
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You people are funny.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:11 | 5369163 Vooter
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Let's mine the harbor...

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:15 | 5369185 GIABO
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Pickleton... What made you want to join ZEROHEDGE 6 months ago?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:18 | 5369197 Son of Captain Nemo
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A guy that was way, way ahead of everyone elses "curve" when he made those remarks...

Very intelligent, politically incorrect (when and where) it was most needed and above all witty.

Along with Bill Hicks and George Carlin, they broke the mold(s) when they made you.

RIP!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:26 | 5369240 SheepDog-One
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Frank Zappa knew all about 'The Central Scrutinizer' long ago.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:32 | 5369279 Uncle Remus
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And L. Ron Hoover.

"...also programmed for conversational English."

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:52 | 5369393 Son of Captain Nemo
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A horny little Jewish Princess

My all time favorite!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:30 | 5369254 samsara
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"The illusion of freedom [in America ] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

 

Frank Zappa


Best zappa quote ever

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:06 | 5369448 Son of Captain Nemo
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Ditto.

His best.  So good in fact I think much of Carlin's was inspired by it!

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 21:41 | 5370440 Bemused Observer
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"Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In petal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains...

Arf she said"

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 05:04 | 5371338 SAT 800
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Yeah, it's all right; but I would have told you the same thing if you asked me.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 17:31 | 5369274 wmh_ZH
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"Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible." -F. Zappa

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:06 | 5369457 TrustbutVerify
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"Do you love it.  Do you hate it. There it is the way you made it." 

Mothers of Invention

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:42 | 5369624 Implicit simplicit
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Dont eat that yellow snow                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Qw3Foa_XE

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 18:54 | 5369670 Downtoolong
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"Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?"

I would love to hear Zappa speak about the world today, and the things that make Dynamo go Humm.

Is that a real market or a Fed market?

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:29 | 5369846 T-NUTZ
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Zappa was a master

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 19:41 | 5369865 q99x2
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I saw Frank and the Mothers at least 5 times and there ain't nothing wrong with Frank other than he's dead. But his words live. Dude was ok from the time he met Captain Beefheart as a fellow student in in class I think high school. And anyone that looks like Uncle Remus can't be all bad either. Had a black Labradoodle looked just like him. The trouble with people today is that they don't realise they are a culmination of electro-chemical impulses interacting simultaneously at any given moment. Many of the impulses are misunderstood if even ever noticed. The next freaking second and whatever you thought you were has changed and on top of that those fuckers are all at war trying to claim possession of a sign so they can tell the other poor fuckers that they know what something means; because they arrived there first. Meanwhile you just realize that you forgot to take your keys out of the ignition before you closed the door and all those claims to the signs that makes you think you know something go belly up. With the military it is a bit different because their impulses cause impulses insides of the heads of people all over the fucking place to want to stop them from destroying all their thoughts even though they are mostly aggravating. So the impulses fight one another across telephones, spy satellites financial systems and so on until one of these gray bastards finally has had enough and says fuck it. Instead of being locked out of a car and calling AAA he pushes the doomsday button because of emotional interference and only then he realises that  he did the wrong thing. So Frank was right you have to stop the machine because people aren't going to change.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:01 | 5369942 cameldojo
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Amazing that he lived in, and met Capt. Beefheart in Landscater. 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:36 | 5370041 Uncle Remus
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Barking and growling as singing technique.

 

[Idiot running the mixing board I think] EDIT: Just saw note it's audience recording. Nevermind.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:09 | 5370012 Uncle Remus
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 21:18 | 5370311 samsara
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Saw him in '73  GREAT show.  

He was in a class by himself(or small group)

 

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you            

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set           

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold          

That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial

 

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

Read more: Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:10 | 5370018 Bogdog
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knirps for moisture.

Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:20 | 5370065 Uncle Remus
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 20:34 | 5370123 Uncle Remus
Fri, 10/24/2014 - 00:55 | 5371075 semperfi
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One of his nephews is part of my family by marriage.  Nephew looks just like him.

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 10:18 | 5372049 chunga
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buy him a strat

Fri, 10/24/2014 - 11:08 | 5372330 iAmerican
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We came here to escape the "Ancien Regime" Old Sectarian Order of king and pope, in covenant with God's "New Secular Order," ruled only by Truth, Justice, Reason, and Honor (viz. "Novus Ordo Seclorum") enunciated prophetically by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah's vision of "Zion" ("perfection" in Hebrew), the restored "Israel."

The Great Seal of the United States of America, enshrines the three tenets of American Exceptionalism's credal civil religion: The Great Seal of the Covenant of the People with God which establishes our divine right of Individual Sovereignty protected and effected by the Bill of Rights the papists and false Jew Talmuds on the SCOTUS seek to expunge.

Mr. Jefferson, whose life and writings prove him to also be a prophet of God, our named Sovereign the Creator of the universe, identified the Entity whose Hitler-financing, JFK-assassinating, Waco-innocents-slaughtering, OKC-bombing, 9/11-committing, Sandy Hook-staging, Ebola-spreading false Jew Talmud/pedophile papist Organized Crime Fifth Column now controls Capitol Hill and the NY/LA "Sodom and Gomorrah Axis," as "the real Anti-Christ" "engine for enslaving mankind."

Hitler was Rome's catspaw/sacrificial pawn, financed by the Roman Catholic Church's American collection plates through Knight of Malta Prescott Bush, and the Presbyterian Dulles brothers, one of whose sons, Avery, became Cardinal-in-charge at "the West Point of the FBI," Jesuit-run Fordham University.

The Knight of Malta-led, Roman Catholic CIA, abetted by the Opus Dei, Roman Catholic FBI, is convicted of the assassination of President Kennedy (viz. 'Hunt v. Marchetti'), to restore Rome's banker-intermediaries' Fed Scam (now bankrupting America), and, reversing JFK's military withdrawal order, NSAM263, to send us to die for lies shedding the blood of innocents in Indochina as papal catspaw on behalf of the five percent colonial false-elite Roman Catholics who owned 95% of Vietnam's wealth - against America-loving, Jeffersonian whig Ho Chi Minh.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marty Dempsey, by his own admission "a Catholic kid from New Jersey," is a member of the Knights of Malta; and the Bilderberg Movement is nothing but the Roman Anti-Christ's backers and heirs of their Hitler Gambit yet seeking to fulfill Rome's ancient, pre-"Christian" motto "Urbis et Orbis," "City and World."

Multiple papal bulls proclaim Rome's "ownership" of the world and all on it. The same families, with the same Coats of Arms, which run the Vatican yet live in the same castles, on the same hills of Europe they've occupied, descended of caesars and popes, for two and three thousand years. 

The false Jew Talmud "Synagogue of Satan," manifest in Godless rabbinical Talmudism now joined to atheist Herzl's anti-bibical, anti-prophecy, anti-God Zionism, has been Rome's "good cop/bad cop" partner since their Khazar ancestors formed impalement teams accompanying lictors and magistrates, for gold, impaling tens of thousands of Christs for twice denying Caesar was the Creator of the universe, and are now ensconced in "Guadian of the Vatican Treasury" Rothschilds' "State of Israel," which in not a singular aspect satisfies a single one of Isaiah's half-dozen interlocking prophesies by which the actual "Promised Land" is to be recognized. 

America meets every single one - now usurped by Satan, Rome, Rothschild, Rockefeller, and their identified, cohesive Talmud/papist Organized Crime faction. Pelosi's father's and brother's being known Mob frontmen as mayor of Baltimore is but one of numerous examples.

Do the "math" and, with repentant hearts, call on God, our named Sovereign, that by grace, as did our Black and White "whig" ancestors in 1776, the Beast now upon be cast down in full expropriation and judicial execution.

Death for Treason 

God's Truth: 9/11 was an inside-job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8UK6DL4kk0

Whig v. tory is Capitalism v. Fascism is God v. Satan

Satan's slaves, or Free: the Children of God in holiness and righteousness? 

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