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Martin Armstrong: "At What Point Does Revolution Take Place?"
Submitted by Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics,
Reuters has published the result of what is being touted as the Ignorance Index. The one question as an example: “Guess how many U.S. girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Go ahead, guess. If you calculated the number at 3 percent you’re correct; if you guessed 24 percent, you’re American.”
I rarely watch TV. If I do, it tends to be national news – never local that think a burning house is news or some guy shot his wife in a domestic dispute. I was at dinner and the TV was on. I could not believe the TV advertisements for the elections. They are all NEGATIVE calling the other a liar or misrepresenting the facts on everything. One said the candidate cut the number of police, made the streets more dangerous and then shows a picture of ISIS and then said she raise taxes. Then the very next advertisement flips and calls the other a liar for something or another. There was ZERO advertisement about anything other than vote for me because I lie less that the other liar.
It seems that the Ignorant Index may be more tied to the bias and lack of integrity of the media. They focus on sensationalism to gain readership and in the process focus of one thing and create false images in the minds of the average person.
A classic issue is immigration and Muslims. Americans, according to the Ignorant Index, “significantly miss the mark on the proportion of the population that is comprised of immigrants, guessing 32 percent against the true number of 13 percent. Americans also overestimate the number of Muslims in the population, 15 percent versus only 1 percent in reality, and underestimate the number of Christians, 56 percent to 78 percent. ”
It seems as if the problem is not that Americans are ignorant, they are being fed nonsense by the media to sell newspaper and TV advertising. We have fallen into a cycle of Yellow Journalism that was begun by Pulitzer. It was Pulitzer for created the Spanish-American War by making up shit to sell newspapers. The famous Pulitzer Prize given by Columbia University is named after the father of Yellow Journalism – go figure!
One good place to start is OUTLAW negative advertising. COMPEL political candidates to state what they stand for rather than calling their opponent a liar. Then if they do not vote for what they profess and knuckle under to party rule, that should be FRAUD and time for a vacation in the “Big House” (Penitentiary named after a place you were supposed to be silent and do penance).. We seem to elect people for no reason and then wonder why nothing changes. Obama’s vote for me for real change has been a joke – he kept the same people Bush had in place. This is why polls place politicians at 7% trust factors. The days of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Maggie Thatcher who at least stood for what they believed in regardless of what people thought, are over. They were at least ethical.
At what point does revolution take place? It does not appear to be a percentage in our review of history, but the economic trend. In other words, turn the economy down and the percent of discontent rises exponentially. So beware – not ghosts and goblins, but politicians 2015.75-2020. So perhaps Americans will wise up only when the economy turns down and the Internet provides a greater proportion of real news compared to mainstream media. Indeed, the younger generation under 40 rely on the internet and those who subscribe to newspapers or watch the TV news are diminishing rapidly. This in itself will be a dynamic shift that restores freedom of the press and only then perhaps we will see Americans rise in the Ignorance Index.
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@ Joe Tierney:
I always suspected that this business is iPh ..... whitey thing fagot!
hehe.
Hates pop culture.
Knows everything about it.
What?
The author condemns the negativity of an ad then advocates for the negativity of another .gov law.
Why not advocate for the positivity of your fellow human education and enlightenment? Might not be very realistic but it isn't a hypocrisy.
I just realized something about this total piece of shit article, and the "Ignorance Survey" it cites. Here are the questions the survey asks:
What Percentage of Girls Age 15-19 Give Birth Each Year?
What Percentage of People Are Muslim?
What Percentage of People Are Christian?
What Percentage of People Are Immigrants?
What Percentage of People Voted in the Last Major Election?
What Percentage of People Are Unemployed and Looking For Work?
What Is the Life Expectancy of a Child Born in 2014?
Sorry, but I'm going to force you to think. What is the common characteristic of these questions. They are almost all about demographics.
Authoritarian Progressives prime focus is identity politics: White vs black, men vs women, Rich vs poor, etc. Therefore, Progressives immerse themselves in demographics.
What is an alternate descriptions for the "Ignorance Index", then? A "Progressive Index". Thank God the US is 2nd on the Progressive index. Since Progressives are total fucking pieces of shit, it shows we still have hope in this country that we haven't succumbed to Progressivism.
Note they didn't ask the percentage of Jews. You know, the ruling class.
I like the amalgam of Authoritarian and Progressive and its implications for those ar the other end of the fulcrum : Anarchist and Regressive.
So in this binary type of reasoning all progressives are authoritarian and all conservatives (or regressives, as immobility means you move backwards relative to others) are anarchists... and love to maximise entropy.
Maximise entropy in an "every man for himself" Ayn Randish world and wadhya get for the 99% ? : another day older and deeper in debt!
You can huff and you can puff but you can't blow away the house of Oligarchs since time immemorial, all built on the foundation of useful idiots thinking first the Pope then "free markets" and "invisible hands" make little red riding hood immune in her wanderings to the big bad wolf !
The Pope's office--like all other obscurantism top down rants-- went viral in greed and ideological regression of awesome magnitude and so did his pragmatic and secular son who only believed in "I want to do it may way 'cos I'm the MAN, and for u its the highway if you don't do it MY way."
That aint the Republic that is land of the Tarquins. Not saying the Republic is easy; but its the least worst.
Anybody who thinks he can live like Robinson Crusoe, an island unto himself, in an urban environment, is a useful idiot.
We need balance and perpetual movement from one logic to the other, preferably without revolution. What we do need is a more educated citizenry and a separation of powers that is enforced in rule of law.
Our fourth estate, the Main stream free press, is totally "buggered" in an oligarchy pen.
I like the amalgam of Authoritarian and Progressive and its implications for those ar the other end of the fulcrum : Anarchist and Regressive.
Just a niggle: You can't invert everything; eg, "Affirmative Action" to "Negative Inaction".
You can huff and you can puff but you can't blow away the house of Oligarchs since time immemorial, all built on the foundation of useful idiots thinking first the Pope then "free markets" and "invisible hands" make little red riding hood immune in her wanderings to the big bad wolf.
How will historians a millenium from now typify the USA? The explosive growth of the middle class. Now, think.
Good question : how will History typify the US century since 1900.
Lets put it this way : the US was created on the basis of an ideal inherited from the Enlightenment. An extraordinarly provocative ideal-- life, liberty and "pursuit of happiness"-- to say the least. No divine rights of kings !
Since 1900, under the impulse of unfettered capitalism and industrial revolution; thanks to a nation the size of a continent, where all indigenous population has been "cleasened out"; where slave labour imported from Africa has planted the seeds of cotton and tobacco agriculture; the Greatest Nation on earth lost its soul in the pursuit of Greed, fed on the "sky is the limit and we be exceptional" hubristic meme. (Whence the birth of a middle class in that process based on Lincoln's Gettysberg speech heralding an age of free men under DEMOCRACY).
Not saying that the implosion of the European model, from 1914 to 1945, as in Japan, did not fuel that US hubris of "exceptionalism", as evident saviors of the modern world.
But becoming top dog of Universe, like Charles V of spanish Habsburgs, had the same effect on the US elites : they shoved their ideals down the toilet!
And this disease has now been spread to the rest of the world, just like it did during the religious wars of the Habsburgs.
We are into a paradigm invented in Capitalist/industrial USA which is now hitting an asymptote. And no amount of "more of the same" is gonna resolve that issue.
We need a new paradigm and its not the one promoted by Pax Americana.
And its not the vision of the Ayn Rand meme so prevalent as a cherished Miserly dogma here on the Hedge.
Think back to the origins of western civilization and you may find a better answer.
History repeats.
PS : If you want to read a good essay on "exceptionalism" throughout the ages here is a good place to start :
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175911/
Thanks for the time and effort you put into your post. It deserves a similar post in response.
Fuck you!
Seriously, a joke. The best humor is the unanticipated kind.
Groveling continues apace about the joke. It was merely a joke. Smile. Please. (I don't regret it, though).
The unbridled Progressive attack on the concept of "American exceptionalism" compares to any of our military's "Shock and Awe" attacks post-911. Yes, I'm congratulating Progressives for their "No quarter" attacks on the US.
I read your linked article. Sorry, but it failed to move me viscerally, and appealed not at all cerebrally. It seemed more a mish-mash of disconnected quanta of historical facts and weak tea than a reasoned essay.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
The finest words ever written.
Progressives deplore American exceptionalism. Even though the reverse is not true, imo, if we poll all those who deplore American exceptionalism, I think the majority would call themselves Progressives.
What do Progressives (eg, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, Obama) want? A gov't run by experts; ie, some super bureaucrat like Obama appoints experts to gov't, and these experts make all the decisions.
Goodbye, our Republic. Goodbye, our Democracy. The reason that the USA is exceptional is our committment to the above-cited phrase from the D of I. When the US stops paying fealty to those sentiments, it certainly isn't exceptional. If the US is transformed into a Progressive Wet Dream, it will become exactly the same as all other dictatorships and tyrannies which have existed throughout history.
To Progressives, it's self-fulfilling: "American is not exceptional because we'll do every fucking thing we can to make sure the US in not exceptional!!"
Finally, Colin Powell in 2003: We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in...
btw, Capitalism is the greatest economic system ever created. Capitalism alone enriched hundreds of millions of current and past US citizens, as it's doing to billions worldwide.
At last a guy appears in lucid piece!
hehe.
The founding fathers of USA, Lincoln and FDR were all progressives and they made the USA what it is.
I don't buy your religious devotion to a model that is now based on a quarterly report horizon.
But keep up the jokes, its a good trait in all men.
Astrogator in Urdu, huh? The founding fathers of USA, Lincoln and FDR were all progressives and they made the USA what it is. Sillyly wrong. Extravagently wrong. Elephantly diarrhealy wrong.
Good read of the situation! NOT being the king of the world is hard to swallow. As is to have no more land to pillage. We are in the midst (start?) of the great worldwide equalisation, where western civilsation, that plundered the riches of many others over the years is in the decline, and many others are on the rise.
I can only imagine the reaction of those less "fortunate" around the world to watching American media entertainment and wondering just where do Americans get the riches presented on the tube and in movies. Well it was somewhat (a lot?) on the back of others, and they want it too!
So as China's middle class develops, as does India's, the USA declines. Limited resources are a bitch.
I totally agree a new paradigm is required. Getting there is a different story as all the different people' in the world's timelines are different. Perhaps one day, and likely not in my lifetime, the world will become one (and no - I am not talking about NWO). Why is it that the Nordic countries seem to be much more able to have relatively stable, socialist leaning economies and still are able to welcome refugees.
Yes, I also agree the Ayn Rand paradigm is not going to help us progress. But when we are used to being Kings, it is difficult to change - and we would like to go back to the "good old days". Those days are gone.
On more personal level, I have realised (finally at 58) that happiness does not come from "stuff" and riches. In fact, the weathiest friend I had over the years, who was a very successful institutional commodities broker and had to leave Canada quickly as the tax men (federal and provincial), were after him. He bought a renovated chateau in France, had a cook and groundskeeper, and died alone, and without love.
I have shed an awful lot of stuff, married 3 years ago, work at a job that is interesting enough (but at less money than years ago), have bought a little hours in the 'burbs, and am happier than I have ever been. The "west" and especially a lot of Americans need to seriously reevaluate what birngs happiness. And it is not being Kings of the World.
You want not being Kings of the World? Let Progressives win. We'll all be serfs.
Does it always have to be a competition? Does there always have to be a winner and loser? Can there not be some collective give and take? Good luck with that! You may win - but it will be a hollow victory in terms of what is really valuable - and that is happiness.
Martin Who?
Taking Carlins advise. Grab a chair and watch the shit show and how they fuck it up. With favorite beverage
Hedgeless, remember that inside every fat woman is a thin woman crying to get out---or to get more Hagen Daz.
And welcome back to MDB. Haven't seen you since the, um, incident. All is forgiven. The important thing is that no one was hurt, and the nuns aren't going to sue.
Finally getting a little stability on PMs aa the 'month end take down gang' covers... They rreally had to dig deep this time to take out enough stop loss orders.
One good place to start is OUTLAW negative advertising.
That is the case in Germany.
Result is that a company cannot even point out (in an ad) much less criticize a competitor's misleading or completely false advertising!
free speech ? oh oh guess that is only in the story books of old days
don't outlaw anything, rather let them entertain the mob in the arena ( thumbs up or thumbs down )
Agreed. What we need are REAL prospective leaders who can articulate the finer points of being a jackass and posting negative ads. Don't pass laws to restrict, but rather take the fight of reason and critical thinking to the streets. To wit, Ronald Reagan's "Government isn't the answer to our problems, government IS the problem" are just simple and honest in breaking the paradigm.
Leaders?
The people are seeking a leader?
If they just lead thier own damned lives then we'd not be in this predicament in the first place.
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Just the solar flare bs .gov keeps pushing so that when it finally all shuts down due to revolt they can blame it on nature.
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@ Malek:
I can not see your text.
Try to write in your language, translate with Google Translator, copy and paste in the comment box, is what I do.
Write in Portuguese, is translated into English and I copy and post here, going by me.
Ideas are independent of translation.
:-)
Martin,
While I always listen attentively to what you have to say, in this case I'm afraid that the America we knew is no more. In days past we could be certain that Americans would only take so much, but 50 years of brainwashing has created two generations of kids that actually think that collectivism is not a bad thing.
The powers-that-be have won that battle just as they won the battle to take over our courts. I'm no longer sure that there's a way out. The only logical method to reassert out Constitution is for States to stand up and say, "enough!", and nullify all the unauthorized fed govt crap. But States don't seem to have the balls anymore.
All we have left is our guns and Bibles, and they're not much competition for DHS with billions of rounds of ammo waiting for us.
"50 years of brainwashing has created two generations of kids that actually think that collectivism is not a bad thing."
No...50 years of brainwashing has created an entire generation of people with NO IDEA what these terms mean...
Which is why they are such easy bait for the divide and conquer crowd.
"The" revolution isn't coming...what is coming is the thousand cuts of individual resistance. There will BE no need to fight...the system grows weaker if people withdraw. At some point the system will collapse under its own unsupportable weight.
The REAL scary question is what comes next?
This.
Yep.
People don’t want this system to collapse.
I’m in this subdivision. There is a retarded kid who lives across from my house.
Every morning I watch the retard get loaded into the school bus by the driver, a 15-minute exercise. I guess it takes 15 minutes to unload at school and another 15 minutes to reload and then another 15 minutes to unload back at home after school. About an hour in just transport.
The bus driver is handling ‘special needs’ and is probably certified to handle these types. The average bus driver in this area earns $600.00 a week, special needs is probably more.
Parallel to this, everyone in this subdivision pays county taxes for winter snow removal. However, the snow does not get removed. Each household in this subdivision must pay an additional $40.00 annually to a makeshift HOA for snow removal. The ‘taxation without representation’ is accepted.
Every weekday morning I witness the retard across the street consuming our snow removal resources. The parents of the retard have off-loaded their responsibility onto the community. I started to describe this scenario to one of the other members in this community. Whoa! I will not do that again.
Down arrows embrace the status quo.
I hear ya pookie. There are so many that do not seem to understand that resources are being consumed at an unprecedented and increasingly unsustainable level. Healthcare, education, you name it. If granny never worked a day in her life, how can she get new knees every 10 years, cataract surgery, 15 prescription meds, hearing aids, etc.
Something has to give. Less and less people work and more and more pile onto the wagon of freebies. My wife is a nurse and has some stories. There is a retarded woman who comes in every few months. She will swallow a rock or a bolt or a pencil trying to kill herself. She is one of many regulars that consist of drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. who are spending the nation's future labor and wealth.
:-)
"Parallel to this, everyone in this subdivision pays county taxes for winter snow removal. However, the snow does not get removed."
Sorry, but that sounds like your county is retarded, not the kid across the street...
Common sense is going by the wayside.
In looking for real estate in Jackson Hole, WY, a few years ago, I had a chance to review the realtor’s package of information on the area. I discovered that the school system had employed a full-time teacher exclusively to instruct one Hispanic student, newly arrived, because he did not speak English.
Needless to say, I crossed Jackson Hole off my list of prospects.
Fuck you, you fuck. Thank fate that you never had a special needs relative. You know... the ones you call "retarded" repeatedly. I'm not in favor of using taxpayer dollars to support those with such needs, but I'm all in favor of kicking the shit out of assholes like you who label genetically damaged human beings as "retarded."
Mental retardation is a clinical term still in use by the WHO.
It replaced prior classifications of mental disability in medical use such as idiot, imbecile and moron according to IQ function.
The condition is subject to 'treadmill terminology' where new generations see the older terminology as disparaging and demand the terminology change.
Of course they are retarded! I've found the mildly retarded people, to be some of the best people I know. At our large plant , we use a community organized group of them to supplement our janitorial staff. They are moved around as a group, performing their tasks in an area and whenever I run into them, they are so enthusiastic with their greetings. They shout Hello and Good Mornings and I am caught up, and respond likewise. It makes my day.
After work, my buddy and I have a shop in an industrial center, where we work on vintage cars and there's a young black man, about 35, who is mildly retarded. Mike lives across the street and his entertainment is going around to the shops,and seeing what's going on. He loves old cars, fast cars and people in General and all of us at the industrial center enjoy his excitedness and rampant enthusiasm for our crafts! He loves seeing a burn out and he'll hoot and holler, heck, I've given him rides (as others have) in my '74 Corvette Stingray and he'll. Be in the passenger seat, expertly imitating the clutch and gear shifting action and just loving the experience!
I think the best part of retarded people, is their innocence, their carefree outlook and as mentioned, their enthusiasm. I like retarded people.
@ Minge:
My mind can not conceive how a human can be as belligerent asshole and be like you!
A human being can be democrat, republican, fagot or dyke, can be bankster or sheep, but never, ever, be one who kills other people who are at the top of the food chain.
Minge, I do not blame him, I do not think your parents raised you right.
I'll tell you a story, you my grandfather on my mother's side had a tattoo on his left forearm, he hated it, he obliged because he fought the IWW.
When IIWW burst, my Austrian uncle wanted to fight for Hitler, my grandfather drove a 7.65mm pistol in his mouth and said:
- I do not want a dead son, if it is to die, to be here for my hands.
My mother witnessed the scene.
Minge, I do not think you're a bad guy demon.
I think you just did not assimilate what is part of a larger group.
A group of humans who like to live and let others live.
Come to Brazil in the city where I live and I live, I will give you that Iranians have PetChop and care for cats and dogs, I will present you with several comeércios Jews, Syrians introduce you, many Syrians Aleuítas, many Shiite and Sunni Muslims mutos.
Aside from this multicultural ethnic mosaic, you will find black, white Caucasians like me, people from the south to the north of Brazil without trauma.
The cool thing here is to see Muslims and Jews drinking beer eating pork, no one rejects crackling! Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
Minge, south of the equator things happen otherwise, believe me.
Having sex is normal to have families is normal, abnormal is man with man and woman with woman.
Abnormal is the insanity that there is in the world today!
Life is much simpler than it sounds!
hehe.
You have means. Buy a snowblower.
Exactly. As I said in another post, anyone who still votes in this country is a fucking idiot. It's one thing to get fucked in the ass--it's another thing entirely to beg for it...
I have three ex-wifes. They were all revolting. I don't know why.
Next time find some bitch you can't stand to look at and give her half your shit. Much less stressful.
Collect Hoodrats on Section 8 instead of marrying them. LOL
When food/gas inflation gets so high, that people will not be able to buy food for their children with 8 days to go until their next paycheck/EBT refresh, that's when you'll see people wake up.
But not before then.
No reason to, when you can buy chips and go to McDonalds with your EBT card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk
Reagan and Thatcher were "ethical?" Get the fuck out of here!
"It seems as if the problem is not that Americans are ignorant, they are being fed nonsense by the media to sell newspaper and TV advertising."
No one's forcing them to pay attention to the media.
One good place to start is OUTLAW negative advertising.
When the solution is to make a law, it's time to stop reading. How would we ever find the law amongst the 40,000 other laws they make "every" year.
Maybe the "barbarian" foreigners know more about the US than natural.
I would read Indians, Germans, Russians, write about what they perceive the US as I will below.
Anyone with half a brain that knows how to interpret statistics, read and have known who regularly travel to the US at least presents a framework of a decadent society and confusing.
North ameircanos I met lifelong do not help much, extremely arrogant majority, were few who made ??friends here in Brazil.
A nation of fat? Everybody knows that.
A belligerent nation full of psychopaths patriotic and religious extremists? Everybody knows that.
A people who can not survive without an enemy because it is focused on the war and is afraid of everything and everyone that they are different - perhaps unconsciously know the shit that their government does in the world with other people? Everyone knows!
I've said it once and I will repeat:
Who gets slapped in the face never forgets.
The US Government since IIWW gave many "slaps in the face" for countries and populations, killing many innocent people.
You live in fear and this is the result of this insane attitude of his government in search of money, natural resources and power.
Concept of equality, one miss another win or a draw occurs does not exist in the mind of North America, the loser is a loser, no tie, only those who win are idolized.
Other people in other countries with much older cultures exhibit humility a sign of weakness before the current Empire but common sense for the coexistence of humans.
It is the largest number of troops you have scattered around the world that will give you peace internally.
What will bring you peace and prosperity is fair trade.
Wisdom is restraint.
I am a middle class Brazilian guy graduated in Geography and almost finished University School of Law; Former military, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman, just to clarify, 52 year old, heterosexual, three marriages, two children, and University Professor at private schools.
The thing is simple.
hehe.
add shmuck to your description
@ Didthatreallyhappen:
Could you describe "shmuck"?
I am not circumcised, you know ....
hehe.
I liked your answer, you're smart.
:-)
Thanks for the update on the state of your penis. Assclown.
@ Minge:
Do you think a troll like you who can barely talk fool?
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
With all due respect, fuck you!
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
Sorry, I don't speak Portugese. Could you say that again in English?
@ W. M. Worry:
The day you speak Portuguese (Brazil), German or Russian, I might talk to you in English, asshole.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, my stomach hurts from laughing moron! Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
hehe.
Get bent, assclown.
@ Minge:
I have repeated several times here that I have the syndrome cow, I'm shitting and walking negatives.
I come here to have fun, see burn in hell some guys who are masters of the world - in your case, I believe that is a Jew, I never saw such a brave face as I spoke of circuncidação.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
@ Minge, stinky feet off my foot!
You are very annoying!
hehe.
@Karaio, thank you for sharing your perspective.
@ FredFlintstone:
You're a guy that I respect in my concept a decent guy.
:-)
"A belligerent nation full of psychopaths patriotic and religious extremists?"
You mean, like Brazil?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government
If you're really 52 and served in the military, then you know about this and have no place telling anyone of any other nation how to conduct themselves. Frankly, you sound like you're 12 not 52, especially with your stupid cartoon kkkkkkkk and little girl hehe's at the end of every post.
Grow the fuck up, and face up to the shit in your own backyard before telling others to clean theirs.
You can start here:
"To date, not one member of the government has been punished for human rights violations, because of the 1979 Amnesty Law penned by the members of the government who stayed in place during the transition to democracy. The law grants amnesty and impunity to any government official or citizen accused of political crimes during the dictatorship. As political prisoners were persecuted and in most cases committed no crimes, the amnesty means little. Because of a certain cultural amnesia in Brazil, the victims have never garnered much sympathy, respect, or acknowledgement of their suffering.[10] Work is underway to alter the Amnesty Law, which has been condemned by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. A National Truth Commission is attempting to help the nation face its past and honor those who fought for democracy, and to compensate the family members of those killed or disappeared. Its work will be concluded in 2014.
The number of deaths probably measures in the hundreds, not reaching but could be nearing one thousand, but more than 50,000 people were detained and 10,000 forced to go into exile.[11]"
It'll never happen. We are all too apathetic.
When the revolving doors of crony capitalism lose their lubes and start to screech like Rosemary's baby in its cradle.
Having said that the examples of ethical leaders given by the poster make me scratch my head.
At least Carter admitted he was within a hair's breath of bombing Iran for the embassy sequester incident but decided against it for ethical reasons. So that is a fact.
As for the Catholic Kings of deregulation (Maggie and Ronnie) and their supply side mayhem; aka the Oligarchy rampage; I doubt if their motives were ethical.
They were definitely ideologically motived and deemed that to the victors (the Oligarchy) belonged the spoils. And to Gorby the broken down Berlin Wall, to be replaced in NWO hubris and Oligarchy ramp up by the NSA spy network, enuff to make the Stasi drool with envy in its rotten grave.
Now DAT is not an example of the libertarian mores of "pursuit of happiness", nor of the ethics as defined by Aristotle; the father of western logic.
"American" culture?
Americans don't have culture. That's why they are being abused the most of all non excisting cultures.
True. No multicultural society has culture. Unless violence can be considered culture.
I upvoted you, IJ, but isn't it true that America HAD a culture, say, before 1960, or so, but lost it on the alter of multi-culti?
Long ago, the culture was a generic, diluted Protestantism, one big enough for Catholicism, Jews and atheists, as long as Protestants remained in the forefront. Everyone shared, or at least understood, the dominant values. Dissent was allowed, as long as it was quiet, or closeted.
Not a bad culture. Strong and tolerant.
American culture has a history of tolerance? WTF kind of conservative revisionist drivel is that. America was and still largely functions around levels of wide segregation (self and imposed by economics) and functions on a level of violence among its own communities and especially to the external world since the late 19th century.
It ain't an election, it is another complete shitshow, once again.
If there is ever another election in the US, it will be too soon.
Word of the Day: Ennui.
Ennui. Why we were just talking about a popular saying, that has only been around for a few years and now I even see bumper stickers with it.
"It is, what it is."
Doesn't that sum up perfectly, the apathy, the ennui of our current state? It is acknowledgement of the uselessness of action, against a huge, all invasive State and an acceptance of that condition.
Revolution, basically bullshit and not needed.
A Nationwide work strike would catch the attention of TPTB
TPTB makes money off of your production, halt production and they can't skim.
Halt production and also the Government cannot collect taxes...
They lose REVENUE as a result of people not working.
They can not care less about you having a job, or not, except only in self interest.
A revloution would be unfortunate for this website as all the paranoids would have no where to go..
A revloution would be unfortunate for this website as all the paranoids would have no where to go..
These kind of general breakouts to these questions supply you with no insight. To even begin to validate this author's point, it would have to be true that elderly people (by far and away the biggest consumers and watchers of TV news of all types espeically local news) were the most informed about basic questions.
Answer:
When gutless, selfish "shit for brains" lose everything they covet that either doesn't belong to them in the first place or that they feel they can't do without!
And that would be teevee and the EBT,
"The days of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Maggie Thatcher who at least stood for what they believed in regardless of what people thought, are over. They were at least ethical."
LOL!!!!
We dont need no stinkin revolution. We need justice. Throw the moth,,,
Whatever the proportion of Muslims is it's too high. They should be in their own backward hell holes, not building up a state-within-a-state here.
And the immigration numbers are constantly played down by the MSM. What planet is the writer living on?
That Pulitzer looks so Bolshevik. And speaking of those revolution devils; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuW-vNQsQI
This is why polls place politicians at 7% trust factors. - Who are these 7% maroons? It should be lower but i know the FSA is more than 7% so someone is lying to themselves.
The days of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Maggie Thatcher who at least stood for what they believed in regardless of what people thought, are over. They were at least ethical. - Bwah ha ha. Right. Iran Contra, economical hitmen, Regime change in Iran, Project Monarch, etc. blah blah blah.
At what point does revolution take place? - NEVER. I'll believe it when i see it. Revolution takes a majority and as I see it the majority has slept through all this and therefore i have no reason to suspect they will wake up.
It does not appear to be a percentage in our review of history, but the economic trend. In other words, turn the economy down and the percent of discontent rises exponentially. - Majority of 'mericans don't even know what the economy is. If it hits their wallets they will simply vote in the other party, which we all know won't do any good. Need proof? Look at the last 50 years.
So beware – not ghosts and goblins, but politicians 2015.75-2020. - I'm sure these puppets are really scared. Shaking in their boots, pissing their pants kind of scared.
So perhaps Americans will wise up only when the economy turns down and the Internet provides a greater proportion of real news compared to mainstream media. Indeed, the younger generation under 40 rely on the internet and those who subscribe to newspapers or watch the TV news are diminishing rapidly. This in itself will be a dynamic shift that restores freedom of the press and only then perhaps we will see Americans rise in the Ignorance Index. And what percent of those under 40 are going to internet sites such as Huffpost? My nieces and nephews, most in their 20's have no clue. Mostly because they've been indoctrinated in school. Plenty of manipulation and lies on the internet as well. Not to mention if one brings up alternative theories or facts they are labelled as KOOKOO for cocoapuffs. It's a nice thought, I don't see it.
Revolution. Right.
HA HA HA HA
Revolution NEVER requires a majority.
Go watch Madame Secretary and dream of Hillary.
Revival is what we need.
Junk away.
Another "Great Awakening".
At some point.
Revolution, Evolution or Revolutionary Evolution?
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/revolution-evolution-or-revol...
As long as kids attend school, humans will remain stupid, ignorant and clinically insane.
It'll start with the gov't unions since they won't fear losing their job protesting cuts then it'll snowball from there.
Got to hand it to Marty... he was right on gold and the dollar... so far... but wrong on muriatic acid being a good skin cream.
Lennon was right too... imagine no mythology... er... religion. Even you hardcore nutrolls would ahve to admit things would be a mite more serene... eh?
The day the banks close.
Nothing left to lose is going to set off some bad mofos.
Carter? Thatcher? Reagan? Puhhlease!
Who's yer (sugar) Daddy? Hmmm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He_4IGDNZU4
If you're not on the payroll honey, you're not employed!
‘Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.’
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9 (Personal Studio Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWYcMkSSqPs
Ideally not soon enough. Realistically never.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhJ5wlPl4k&feature=youtu.be
Neil Young - Standing in the Light of Love (Live at Farm Aid 2014)
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http://harryallen.info/?page_id=5
Rap Canterbury Tales – part 1
Next album Neil will cover the marvels of nuclear power on our oceans.
Me and Pocahontas by the river with Neil on guitar is the answer! And one big ass solar array (in Winnepeg?) so he can go electric. That's livin'!
EASY----when it is too late to make a difference. Face it folks, it's over---the bad guys win! Accept it and move on! We got change---we lost our country---the United States exists now in name only. The globalists control us and we are their slaves. They will likely continue the facade of flag waving and "freedom pimping" for a bit longer, but one only need to look at what needs to do to make a living to recognize that we don't work for ourselves, we work for them. We are all just cogs in an evil machine destined to work ourselves to death for the benefit of the criminal elite. What else needs to be said!
Cathartes Aura- Had to log in just to up vote you. Too bad i cant do it more than once on an individual post. I've had my run in with HH and his hypocrisy on his stances and his posting priviliges.
Like this fucknut Armstrong who writes his article about revolution or not revolution and it turns into a big shitshow about stop negative ads. Revolution is when "Smooth Charlene" the guillotine is used for the purpose it was designed for.
Putting politicians in their mother fucking place.
Hey Tylers can i have a guest post to document actual relevance to the title of my article and so i can have posting priviliges to show pictures of the food i make, pictures of morbidly obese women only Phonestar would fuck and pictures of burned civilians of strikes by the US military to blame america but forgets to show the pictures of these peaceful people strapping bombs onto the bodies of their precious children who wouldn't hurt a fly.
Rock on Cathartes.
Never go full retard. I think you just did Effluent69.
Oh and Anusocracy who said the following-
Seventy-eight percent so-called Christians and the most evil country on earth.
Jesus would be as proud of that outcome as the Founding Fathers would be.
What does that tell you? That %22 of the evil controls the media and the entertainment culture in this country, because if you think the Christians control the MSM you are more retarded than your posts prove you to be.
Huh?
Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto:
1. Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
What a load of horse shit.
So, what is your point? Is this a list to be added to the grievences on the next Declaration of Independence? If so, it's a good start. If not, then you are just another pessimist, a loser, as Ace Ventura would say.
Oh, and the Revolution hasn't even started yet!
No more Injuns to shoot, no more black niggas to bully; no more land to be stolen from Guatemala to Chile-- to Cape Horn.
Pretty depressing for the land of the free and home of the brave.
Buffalo Bill he shot up all the bisons and T Bone is shooting up all the Texas longhorns in fracking galore plays.
What America needs is another burning Bush; Jeb style, stetson n all.
I like my pooooetri...as we celebrated the other day : the rumble in the jungle when Ali was king of ring and poetry.
Dear False k Premises,
your posts on ZH continue to be an embarassment to the human mind and your family's heritage. Really, you should confine yourself to posting on the WaPo site and spare us on ZH all your scrambled, banal ramblings. They are not poetic, they are pathetic.
right. Drown your sorrows in good wine. And have a good laff from time to time.
As for false premises that IS a tall order. So kindly display your wisdom for me and family, to whom you graciously make reference (what a thought!).
It will happen when the electricity goes out, there is no gas, food or cold beer for 4 weeks straight.
It's sort of rich to see an article that complains about "yellow journalism" on THIS site.
In addition to which, probably plenty of readers here also read Drudge, the most infamous Yellow Journalist of the New Media.
Heck, if it weren't for yellow journalism, there wouldn't even be a right wing.
double post“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
? David Rockefeller Your Junk is Showing. As well as your bias.Perhaps not Mr. stopthejunk. What if we were to read someone such as say, Albert J. Nock? What if some of us have already done so? Would we then qualify to be so blessed with your presence and intellect?
Over on the left sidebar of ZH you can find the Mises institute link. I suggest you might read some of the work done there. Before you label us I suggest that you read the following by Mr. Nock. It is quite impressive.
http://mises.org/daily/2892
Is it irresponsible to tell the truth or to tell a lie.
Like.....An asteroid is going to totally obliterate all life on the planet in 12 months.
Do you tell people or not, if you do nobodys going to do any real work, companies go broke, and then the asteroid misses. If the people are not told, it doesn't matter if it hits or misses.
Same here for the US Finaicial System. So being Irresponsible is only true if it's 100% certain and other number and there is chance it may not happen. In both cases it can only be 100% certain hours before it actually hits.
In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
The charade
when I kissed my first girlfriend it was real
the emotions were deep and what I could feel
when I rode my motorbike that was no lie
the experience the feeling made me fly;
when you talk of gold it ain't worth a dollar
in the Wall street bullshit encased in a collar
the golden collar of shame is controlled by a select few
the emperor with no clothes who are to big to sue
So when my dear friends you think of the truth
look beyond the fantasy and reflect on your youth
Because when the walls of Babylon collapse as they will
the people will rise up and gold and silver will once again rule.
What a stupid article.
First the vote is only a placebo -so changes you make to add campaign are irrelevant as is your vote - you are only promoting the charade.
Go and spoil your ballot if you like or stay at home.
With a party based system you can't get a democracy. All reps need to run as indepents.
In the USA the corporations buy the politicians and they do as their owners tell them
e.g - give preferred trading status to China (1990) so we can shaft the USA worker and the environment of the planet to increase our bonuses and options.
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You can't ahve a revolution anymore because the repleal of your civil rights under the ("patriot act) and homeland security has better guns and bullets and war toys.
I love the smell of junking without a rebuttal in the morning. When we arrived at the top of that hill there wasn't one stinking troll body left. But the smell you know that pussy smell. Smelled like....victory.
Some day this war is gonna end.
War won't end until the pussies gone
Armstrong, although he sounds a little whacky from time to time, is generally on the right track, and you Aquarian, are partially correct. At least about the voting part. I stay home and let Diebold do the voting for me. Like, if I actually went to vote, Diebold will still do the voting for me, so why go? It's a waste of time. Besides, all there is to vote for is a choice of 2 politicians/liars vetted by TPTB. No choice there.
As for TV news, Armstrong is right. I stopped watching the National Industrial Strength Propaganda Networks (NISP-TV) a long time ago. 100% of my news is from different sources on the net (I'm 56 y.o., BTW, so Armstrong's range of ages is wrong about me, so he should do a little more homework).
Does DHS have better guns than we do? Yep! But we outnumber them by millions. DHS may be able to push us around a little, but as for control, forget it. Like ISIS, we'll pick the superior weapons from their cold dead hands should the time ever come. So, you should do a little more homework Aquarian.
We all agree that a bad time is coming, due to an economic catastrophy. Call it Judgement Day, or just call it a good day for the majority to wake up and smell the coffee, it doesn't matter. After that bad time, things will get better, they always do. Central Banks won't exist, the new owners of Goldman Sachs and JPM will be walking that fine line as the old owners are hanging from lamp posts, and politicians will actually fear the people. Public schools will only exist locally, and hopefully the United States will consist of a confederation of 1000's of City-States, each responsible for themselves and their future. We may all chip in, for interesting US projects like NASA and other scientific agencies that use our money (gold/silver) wisely. Welfare will be left in the perview of the the churches and community organizations which will only care for the truely needy. As for the rest, it'll be almost biblical...if thou shall not work, thou shall not eat.
I could ask for your vote, aquarian, but I don't want the job. I'm happy designing I&C Systems, so I'll stick with that. As for the gist of your comment, I believe you to be a pessimist. I'm an optimist, waiting for the time of change.
Half of my blood is Slavic, other half is Austrian.
Honestly, I'm Brazilian, I was born here.
I'm very proud of that and I thank God that my ancestors were not for the US.
I do not mind living with niggers - black people - Northeast - mixture of Indians with a number of Indians, French, English, Dutch, Portuguese etc.
We are all Brazilians, there is a connection with these people that you will never understand!
It may be the worst guy in the world but if Brazil, the guy should come back here.
Here justice will be done.
The guy dies.
hehe.
brazil is the most racist nation. you are a fucking fool.
Says he's 52 and was in the military. The dictatorship ran from 1964 to 1985, so he'd have served during the dirty war, and who knows? Maybe he's dirty too?
http://www.surjournal.org/eng/conteudos/getArtigo13.php?artigo=13,artigo...
"Here justice will be done
The guy dies."
Well, that just about says it all, doesn't it?
Capital punishment for all non-military offences was abolished in Brazil by the 1988 Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Brazil
Sounds like something I heard a Guatemalan soldier say many years ago when asked what happens to people with no identity papers.
"they die"
If our little Brazilian friend was really in the military, he's either got a lot on his conscience, or he's a rat bastard without one.
Either way, we'll never know until justice is actually done, and until that time, everyone's a suspect, right Professor?
Israel would like a word...
brazil is the most racist nation. you are a fucking fool.
I have to pay how much because of Obamacare???!!
End of story
I have to pay how much because of Obamacare???!!
End of story
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuiLJHejKM
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Why does Zerohedge put this guy's articles up? He's ten steps on the ladder below Gerald Celente.
Because you have to make a decision.
Bullet to the head or support the United States Constitutional law which created the USD Universal currency under FX market. Kissenger and OPEC Oil Cartels.
See how confusing this jacked up market has become? Obama rainbow stimulus will rain down on the last day of senate voting Halloween tricks or treats.
The Vancome Lady Halloweenhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0GlBt_tjo
On Voluntary Governance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcWaCsvpikQ&feature=player_embedded
This 2 minute excerpt from HBO's John Adams production illuminates Jefferson's view of no government at all and is the basis of my view that revolving is absurd and only linear evolution will do.
At what point does revolution take place?
Andre Willers says…
Enough ! Market saturation in a demand driven economy with Maslow Hierarchies | Andre’s Why
31 Oct 2014
Synopsis :
“Enough!” Limiting feedback loops kick in . In humans , and their creations , economic systems
Discussion:
1.Humans have satisfied most Maslow Hierarchies .
2.The cost has affected the lower hierarchies .
3. Feedback systems are kicking in .
4. Demand is lessening .
5.The economic system optimized on demand . This is now changing to sustainability .
6. The essence of the present Economic crisis : Humans just don’t want to consume more .
A real effect . And instead of catering to it , the Elite think they can change it .
Like canute . The more fool , they . They merely go ahead , not lead or force .
7.And no amount of stimulus is going to change that , because it is below conscious motivation .
8. They want to stuff the Golden Goose , but it does not want to eat anymore .
9. This will end badly .
Sheeple being treated like stuffed geese .For their livers .
Sheeple are actually were-sheeple .
They change and bite your head off .
10 . Well , I warned them .
Now , sic ‘em !
Being savaged by a dead sheep is nothing at all like to being mauled to death and beyond by a were-sheeple .
They bred special hounds to sniff and run away from were-sheeple .
Vampires fly a mile to get away from a were-sheeple woollen cloak .
Black holes get constipation if a super were-sheeple is even in the neighbourhood .
You get the drift .
As I said ,
Charon is on Uber .
When sheeple are pursuing , the other side of dead seems attractive .
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/
The Revolution has already started and is well underway .
The mainstream media are too full ofthemselves to notice what is going on under their noses .
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-quiet-revolution.html
https://www.academia.edu/8942403/The_Hysterical_Focus_is_your_friend_
https://www.academia.edu/9031355/The_Were-Sheeples_Almanac
AMERIKA = saturated-fat laden / lazy / stupid / ignorant / parasitic dolts
MILITARY COUP or RACE WAR is more likely than a "revolution"
HOWEVER IN THE EVENT OF EITHER...politicians will pay the price.......
I love the smell of a PsyOp in the morning. Smells like ZH.
Excellent assessment.
A good article to measure discontent among the dissidents.
CIA stooges conducting intel analysis.
I had submitted the September 26th news-report to all U.S. and UK major ‘news’ media and to almost all of both countries’ ‘alternative’ news-media, including all of the well-known ones, and including both liberal and conservative news-sites. (I do that with each of my news-reports.) The only ones that published it were the usual few that publish my news-reports about U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, and about the English-language press-coverage of Ukraine, these being the following seven general news-sites:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/ukraine-government-officially-int...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/09/ukraine-government-officiall...
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Ukraine_Government_Officially_Introd...
http://www.infowars.com/ukraine-government-officially-introduces-sl...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ukraine-Government-Officia-by-Eric...
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/eric-zuesse/58555/ukraine-gover...
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/News.php/2014/09/26/ukraine-gov...
Someone submitted that September 26th piece at reddit, but an administrator there removed it.
Was it submitted to Zero Hedge? I don't see Tyler on the list?
Unfortunately I think America is physically too big for a revolution. The only thing I can imagine working in the US is local secession - on an individual, small group and hopefully political basis - which if it spreads enough might bring the old order down but which even if it doesn't might provide a refuge from the flood. If it works the individually seceded chunks could get back together again after.
This article lived brightly while it did, but its vital signs are probably experiencing an exponentially downwards curve. No matter. Free speech is what matters.
To the author's contention that being offended by some political ads means we must shitcan our fealty to free speech, this quote from the article "No Offense: The New Threats to Free Speech": In short, a public culture that used to be liberal is now “progressive”—which is something like liberalism minus its commitment to freedom.
Progressivism is Authoritarianism. 'Progressivism' is also a one-word oxymoron; ie, we've progressed throughout human history from being enslaved to being free (eg, the Bill of Rights), yet Progressivism wants to instititutionalize a gov't which will take care of everything but which must be given unlimited power to do so. This is progress? Sorry, slavery is not freedom.
The revolution from an armchair:
Withholding payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government
Mahatma Gandhi
I would be JUBILANT if civil war broke out in the USA between the socialist parasites & the earners that the parasites feed upon. Then we earners could cleanse America of the vermin hordes of aliens & entitlement tit-sucking parasites & thieves.
Very disappointed that it has not happened yet.
Wondered why not. So I made an intensive study of the USA Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people, from diaries, letters, etc, to find out what finally made them willing to go kinetic, and I made an interesting discovery:
While there are always practical headline reasons or justifications for the outbreak of civil war, eg ending slavery, preserving the union, etc, the actual commitment by individuals to taking up arms in live fire civil war CANNOT occur unless and until the two major factions have built up intense unreconcilable unbearable burning HATRED of each other, ie they need to go FULL emotional.
Genuine Americans, especially the earners, the productive, the creators, the entrepreneurs, have not been insulted, robbed, ignored, subordinated, lied to, cheated, betrayed, invaded and over-voted enough yet for these pussies to get emotional enough to go kinetic.
When the "Tea Party" first emerged, I was hopeful that they were going to be the "verbs" that got the revolution hot, but they were usurped by loonies & religious fascists and have become mostly about acting as the american christian taliban, turning people off rather than on.
I am hoping that the inevitable hillary witch bitch in the White House will finally tip the scale.