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The American Dream: "You Have To Be Asleep To Believe It"
"It's never gonna get any better, be happy with what you got... because the 'owners' of this country don't want that. The 'real' owners of America - the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions - got you by the balls... What they don't want is a population of well-educated people capable of critical thinking."
Three minutes of uncomfortable truth...
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You have a point.
They will rotate between fiats.
Then they will promote combining fiats.
This can go in till the SDR....
Then explosion....
Bout time ZH
Given that today is the press release day for the IPCC AR5 WG4 report thereby concluding the AR5 which has been six years in the making, I would have thought Zero Hedge would have put up this George Carlin video:
George Carlin On Global Warming Scamhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9igjsojobNE
So much for global warming, this is shaping up to be what I term a convergence of crises.
Global Cooling Coming IMO.
Keep Prepping and stay warm.
http://drsircus.com/world-news/cold-climate-disaster-coming-way
http://drsircus.com/world-news/cooling-fast
With Cali in drought and Fukedshimad as well, and a possible shorter growing season means cold frames, greenhouses, and perhaps this. The Walipini Underground Greenhouse
http://www.offgridworld.com/walipini-underground-greenhouse-grow-your-own-food-year-round/
Your next home?
http://www.offgridworld.com/bulletproof-fireproof-house-made-from-used-p...
We will need to learn alot and MacGyver solutions to all of this crap at some level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver
I agree with the convergence concept scrappy. That's why I keep saying ALL roads lead to Paris. As for Global cooling you can opine as you wish but please note that the AR5, based on some 30,000 PUBLISHED relevant science items takes the opposite view. This is what I consider the highlight from the press release today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7tA31Q9cUY&feature=player_detailpage#t=3280
Dr. Michell Jarraud, SecGen of the World Meteorological Organization, the co-sponsor of the IPCC
I was amused when Dr Pachari leaned back and gave Jarraud the thumbs up after the comment!
I thought I was clever "prepping" 20 years ago when I did a 180 and went farming. No regrets but there is a reality to it all I never anticipated.
MacGyver? What, you trying to make me feel old? lol
When did Americans become so spineless? Every other generation has had to fight for democracy or protest in the streets, there has never been a time when you didn't have to fight the powerful . But up until now there was always some kind of grass roots organization whether it was the Grange, the unions, the anti war protesters, the ban the bomb groups, tea party or occupy, what have you.
Could abuses be rectified if enough Americans organized and got involved politically? It worked before but now it doesn't even seem to be worth talking about.
those americans didnt have 50K+ of student loan debt and a job market that was growing- with part time low paying jobs.
its all a scheme
Sometime during the last quarter of the 19th century, mass marketing and advertising to masses began to develop. Although many understood the potential of controlling the mass of the population through clear repetitive messaging at the time, limitations in media technology and the diffusion of media ownership limited the ability of one idea -one movement- to capture the minds of the masses. The American, French and Russian revolutions were perpetrated by a small minority of each country's population: less than 100,000 in each case.
The Civil War in the United States was a singular exception in that century. One idea -the abolition of slavery- took hold of a significant portion of the country's population. To counter that, one idea -that white men had a right to own slaves and no power on earth has a right to stop them- galvanized another large part of the population. Credit both the powerful story put forth in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and the wave of Christian evangelism that had swept the nation.
But beginning with the First World War, newspapers -through the influence of merchant advertisers- began to convey a consistent message across a broad spectrum of the population. They papers were faced with a loss of advertising revenue if the major advertisers didn't like the way the news was reported, or if the newspaper owners didn't produce stories that the advertisers wanted.
Also, there was also a new and powerful medium that had captured the excitemnt of the people just the way that Apple's I-pod/pad/phone did recently. That medium was the motion picture. Movie theaters were given short reels depicting news the way that the owners of those movies wanted it, along with leaders promoting local products and merchants.
Just think: at the beginning of the 20th century, we were clearly a nation of immigrants The largest immigrant group were of German ancestry. The second largest were of Irish ancestry. Both of these groups had a clear preference for the German side. The majority of the rest were largely indifferent to either Britain or Germany. Woodrow Wilson had to campaign in 1916 on the promise that he would keep America out of the war. Yet between October 1916 and April 1917, popular opinion had shifted eneough to allow Wilson to declare war on Germany. How? Propaganda pushed through movie theaters and newspapers changed popular perception.
Over the course of the 20th century, rado and TV were added, and the motion pictures themselves were used to shape public opinion. Mass media's control over the minds of the masses became ever more powerful and ever more predictable. But, as long as ownership of media was diffused there was always the potential for opposing views to get to the attention of the general populace. Laws put into effect in 2 stages, during the '80s and '90s, allowed for the consolidation of media ownership. Today, 4 corporate entities control almost 80% of the media exposures that Americans get. Add the next 2 in size, and that percentage rises to 95%.
While these entities compete against each other for the attention of the people and for the advertising dollars and access fees that drive the communications business, they are generally of the same mind when it comes to the one controlling issue that they all agree on: Zionisnm is supreme. It is unassailable. The American people must never be allowed to scrutinize the consequences that this ethno-supremicist ideology has wrought upon our government, our economic and foreign policies, and upon our daily lives.
Americans can hate or love the Clive Bundies and the Zimmermans, or the Ferguson Missouri cops or rioters, or the Democrats and Republicans all they want, as long as these storeies can get and keep their attention. But the "mainstream media" will never allow them learn the extent of the power behind everything in this country, norbring to their attention the ways it controls how we think. That would be revolutionary!
What a random post considering this video is posted to every fucking thread at least once a day as it is...
The primary campaign strategy that most Democrat candidates are using for the mid-terms is to place “the people” as being maligned by the corporations. Almost nowhere is the truth revealed that it is the large investment banks, the international financiers, who control the Federal Reserve and most all U.S. politicians, who pull the strings for big business.
It is wrong and misleading to characterize America’s problems as “business.”
What Carlin needed to explain is how these “big business” interests are able to buy and sell judges and politicians and control most aspects of our society: media, education, healthcare, culture, borders, politics and foreign policy.
Does he think that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates can control the country? No, they are merely benefactors from the money trust, that’s why Gates has to lobby his banker masters to keep his business model functioning.
The bottom line is that poor people vs. rich people is a well-exercised Marxist mantra, and we have to stop using it, especially on the weekend prior to election.
“Ever since Occupy Wall Street popularized the terms, many people have divided themselves into two overly-simplistic groups, the so-called 99% and the 1%. However, this isn’t the real struggle. I was always against the 1% label, because the true cancer, the true problem comes from a much smaller slice of the population. It comes from what I call the ‘oligarchs,’ the 0.01%, and the politicians that do their bidding. -- Mike Krieger
Hell yea; JR.
RICO all banksters, politicians, lawyers, govt bureaucrats of the top 10 levels for the past 15 years.
Outstanding, JR. You spotted the stupid blindness in the excerpt of Carlin at the head of this article: The 'real' owners of America - the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions - got you by the balls. In the Obama era, big business, finance, and Wall Street are all subservient to gov't.
Just to double-check my research, the Mike Krieger you quote is not the Michale Krieger who co-founded Instagram, right?
Right. This Mike Krieger is the creator and editor of Liberty Blitzkrieg and originally is from New York City. The video that accompanies his bio is worth the watch, particulary his firm's reaction upon his discovery of the inverse correlation between the dollar and oil and commodities, in general.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/about-2/
Briefly, Michael took a job at Lehman Brothers upon graduation from Duke University and worked with the Oil analyst in the Equity Research Department. In 2005, he joined Sanford Bernstein as the Commodities Analyst on the trading floor.
As Mike says, he “started to educate himself about how the monetary and financial system functions and what he discovered disgusted him. He resigned in January 2010 and hasn't turned back since.”
The Krieg quote you cited in your post is excellent, but his article Wall Street Spends Record Sum in Midterm Election (Betting on Republican Puppets This Time) sucks. For proof, see my 8 posts to the above ZH-posted article, in which the libertarians on ZH attacked them and me like Obama attacking Beyonce's body.
A confession. I fucked up. Normally, when I read ZH articles, I don't notice the author's name. Why? Well, I am so fucking anti-narcissistic that I couldn't care less who wrote an article but care only what they say. Intentionally, I dismiss the subjective and personal; ie, the author. We have far too much of the subjective and personal; eg, supermodel Obama.
Words should stand on their own.
I was surprised that ZH has posted a number of Krieg articles. Maybe I am getting brain dead. I only noticed this happenstance right before writing this post.
In any case, I perused Krieg's site to determine who and what he is. I skimmed the first 7 or so pages, examining his blog entries. Here's what I think I found: (1) He's a libertarian, in and of itself, not a bad thing, but not a good thing, either; and (2) Sure, he decries the shit we're in, but none of his articles posits an affirmative; ie, I have no idea what his solutions are. If they're the classic libertarian ones, they are no solutions.
Naturally, he may have written dozens of articles outlining his solution, but, if it isn't immediately obvious, I'm not spending precious time. If he has a solution, that solution should jump out like a jack-in-the-box made from a suddenly-erect brontosaur's dick.
I'm afraid I concluded what I usually conclude about libertarianism in general: Libertarian solutions might work in fantasy utopias, but not in the real world.
In the real world, the elections of 1980, 1994, and 2010 were conservative victories. In each case, the positive effects were dramatic (yea, 2010 not so much because the Republican establishment hates the Tea Party more than Progressives). If 2014 heralds the election of more conservatives, we stand a chance of REALISTICALLY fixing things.
Krieg suffers from 2 blindnesses: (1) He's libertarian. Sorry, but Libertarianism is pie in the sky; (2) He's not old enough to have experienced the upside of conservative Republicans winning elections. His world view is shaped by what he's experienced of the world, which seems to be limited.
Sorry. Didn't watch Krieg's 20-minute video. If there ain't no transcript, fuck it.
I overused "I" in this post. Sorry. It's a little-known fact that we Hippies believed in suppression of the ego and egotism. not just via drugs but emotionally or philosophically; iow, when we were not high.
Fanstasy utopias are traps, whether they're Progressive or libertarian.
I decided to do a analytical investigation of Krieger.
Methodology: Examine 50+ articles (53 was my final tally) and categorize them, in 2 ways: (1) By subject; and (2) By tone, negative or positive.
Results re tone: The only positive article was basically an advertisment, where Krieger touted his partnership with Goldbroker.com re selling gold and silver bullion. The rest of the articles were negative in tone.
Results re subject:
10: Anti-Wall Street/Crony Capitalism
7: Anti-Cop
6: Anti-NSA
6: Anti-Suppression of free speech
6: Miscellaneous
5: Anti-Rich
4: Anti-CIA
3: Anti-War
2: Anti-Republican
1: Anti-Democrat
1: Anti-Obama
1: Anti-MSM
1: Advertisement
Possible flaws: (1) About 10 or so of the articles were somewhat difficult to classify as to subject; ergo, grain of salt re the above list; (2) Perhaps the "suppression of free speech" articles can be considered to have a positive tone; (3) The "Anti-Wall Street" and "Anti-Rich" subjects could be consolidated.
Intermediate Conclusions. Krieger comtemptously criticizes, but offers no solutions. Even his one anti-Obama article only indirectly criticizes Obama. Except for a few isolated articles, his interest are: anti-Crony Capitalism/Rich, anti-Cop, anti-War, and anti-Supression of free speech.
Conclusion. More than likely, Krieger is within the top 200,000 bloggers blogging today.
More on Krieger.
It seemed odd that, of the 53 articles I perused on Krieger's blog, only one was (mildly) anti-Obama. So, I searched his blog for "Progressive". Here are some cites (no URL's; if you care, the search is easy:
(1) Personally, I would have preferred the issue that united libertarian and progressive activists to have been the Federal Reserve
(2) Considering that most mainstream media watching Americans had no idea how out of control the police militarization had become ... this is hopefully one of those issues libertarians and progressives can find common ground on
(3) Although we are now starting to see libertarians and progressives unite in Congress on some very important issues such as domestic surveillance
(4) According to a study by the Center for Progressive Reform (My note: said study cited favorably)
(5) This is where he gets into the rapidly emerging and “unstoppable” left-right activist alliance. I have personally been pushing for such an alliance for quite some time. Most recently, I wrote about it in my article from last year: #StandwithRand: The Filibuster that United Libertarian and Progressive Activists
Of course, Obama being the Prime Progressive, Krieger functionally seeks an alliance with Progressive activist Obama.
So, Krieger champions the Progressive POV. No big deal. Many libertarians are radical leftists in disguise, or they are blind to hypocrisy of championing bedrock libertarianism (belief in individual liberty and small gov't) and Progressivism (belief in suppressing hate speech and big, undemocratic gov't run by experts)
"What they don't want is a population of well-educated people capable of critical thinking.""
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx
They got it, a majorty in Oct '12 with cognitive dissonance.
George Carlin was so far ahead of his time and he was right. I have another one of his videos in which he covers some of the same in the video above "It's a big world and you aint in it", very much of what was said above.
We have a technology war going on out there with data and quantitated justifications and/or madness being used against those who cannot defend themselves which I call the Attack of the Killer Algoirthms. I startec my blog series 3 years ago when the Occupy Movement started and basically said this what what it was all about and at the time the Occupy movement didn't have that understanding but they do now wiht many off shoots that have grown since then. I tried to explain what I meant 3 years ago to the then editor of Forbes and he didn't get it and had a few folks from the Park even email me to learn more when it was all going on.
It's nice to see those offshoots which you talked about here buying up both consumer debt and studen debt and getting rid of it..that's the best and sad they don't get enough PR from those efforts as the main media won't do it, so we have places like Zero Hedge and my little blog that bring it to the attention of readers. I tell people all the time that if you are soley dependent on watching the major media or reading for your news, you are screwed. Read Zero Hedge, my blog or some of the other good ones out there, like the Daily Koz for another example and see the "real word".
We seem to have a lot of broken models out there right now and the health insurance business is developing way too many parallel models of the financial world and I saw that developing about 5 years ago but it's here in the masses now. Health insurers hiring quants by the grove, some of which used to work for hedge funds and be sure to see their 3rd quarter profit results, still setting records as the quants at health insurers have mastered the same math models used in the financial industry. There's only one problem though is that we as humans don't work like algorithms and there's the big problem that's going to really bite back with some of their quantitated madness. CMS quality models, failing all over the place as they end up penalizing the very hospitals that take care of the poor, duh?
On top of that the #2 person at CMS is a former United Heatlhcare subsidiary CEO, the one that was sued by the AMA for short paying doctors and patients for 15 years by using an algorithmic risk fiddler that Cuomo found. How's that make you feel? You should also know that since Hillary appointed Lois Quam from the then United Healthcare company that was just given a huge derivative fine, HHS has had a very close working association and mentorship with United, beyon what you can imageine. I have two former CMS employees that have told me some information that would make your hair stand on end and I have to be careful of what I tell and where of course too.
United owns tons of subsidiary companies and has been growing that way in plain site and now is a very scary entity to deal with by all means and they do quite a show to protray themselves as the good guys and a lot of it works.
Truth of the matter is HHS/CMS is stuck and there's nobody else I think on the inside already that can understand modeling. Look at the United annual reports and all their documents on how they view the world and your health, you won't like it and don't forget Zeke Emanueal who's a walking talking United commerical. Remember he's the guy that thinks at 75 we have no purpose anymore and you covered it here too. HHS is hardly writing any healthcare policy anymore and it comes from the Cernter for American Progess, where Zeke resides, so there's a big wake up and he recently wrote a paper telling HHS to hire a Czar for the Exchange, and Burwell followed his directions and did just that.
Again those who have the code are in charge today and the pawns in Congress don't care as they are taken care of welll with money so they basically choose to stay stupid if you will. In the meantime this huge probelm of folks living in virtual values keeps haunting us and we have broken models, like the Bloom berg Big Gulp still shoved down our throats when it's a failed proof of concept from day one, but look what money does. To borrow a short phrase from Emanuel Derman "people don't work that way" and here's that post:) Look him up if you don't know who he is or watch him in the the Quants of Wall street video in my footer, he wrote black box code for Goldman for over 20 years and started in the beginning and now teaches at Columbia, lot of wisdom there as he's a realist and studied physics too so you don't get the code hosing effect from him either that we all see today.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/people-dont-work-that-way-world-o...
And that is why Eternal Anusocracy will continue as a means to control the population.
I think I once read an article or saw a comment about how the "American Dream" was a creation of Madison Ave in the 1930's or so. Any ever seen anything about this or have any kind of link regarding it?
perfect reminder, just before a voting day.
Carlin's observation serves at the very least to help temper expectations regards voting, chasing money to buy happiness, etc. The owners have created an Illusion of choice where in fact, by following their set of rules, there is no choice.
At this phase of Empire (and I suppose this is always true), the choice to not follow the rules established by the owners is the only way to exercise one's freedom. Come what will. Fortunately, perhaps, this Empire is in a phase of rapid decline so the choice to abstain is akin to staying out of the way of a train-wreck in action.
These are the interesting times we've been warned of.
This is the future that has been looted for the last 100 years.
George is the best!
If he was alive today he'd be....... scratching at his coffin to get out!
Vote this November!
J/K it won't make a difference.
I have enjoyed zh for many years, but what the fuck does a site run by hft hedgies, based in bulgaria or hungary or whatever east block country, with swiss servers, know about the fuckin' 'murcan dream.? We don't 'specially 'preciate criticism from furrners out here in da heartland, where the tyranny hits the pavement. Carlin's legacy is all on youtubes, but there ain't shit of him left in our collective psyche, and no amount of preaching to the choir is gonna change dat, y'all. The fluoride has won.
Come on, we all know that fast food is unhealthy, but you still have the choice between cheeseburger and french fries.
Over the last two generations "The American Dream"has been -with increasing rapidity-turned into "The American Nightmare" with no sign of America waking up.
long, but well worth watching:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20su5f_the-power-of-nightmares-1-the-r...
The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.
The true "utopia" is moral human action in a truly fair system that J would appove of.
http://schalkenbach.org/on-line-library/works-by-robert-v-andelson/henry...
Simplified Model, just scroll down a bit.
http://geoeconomics.wordpress.com
This site has a lot of research on this approach.
http:///www.wealthandwant.com
The 1% does not care whatsoever if we can think critically. They only care if we can act critically. They care about _behaviour_ and not 'critical thinking skills'. They monitor _behaviour_ that manifests against their interests. If one does not scale their criterion for monitoring they will simply just pass over the 'critical thinking' part. Governments and the 1% do not have the knowledge or knowhow to protect themselves from the 99% onslaught of inroads they will make into the 1%. The 99% are self-radicalized enough to know when the time is ripe to take back our wealth, rights, and land en masse. The 1% are running out of time and strategy.
Time itself is onside the 99% as opposed to the 1%. End game approachs
by the minute rather than by the hour back in 2008. Zero sum games
always end with one sum equal to zero. Soon the 1% will be absorbed by the 99% and the 99% will form the basis of judgement upon the 1%.
The 1%. who also control government, very much care that the majority of Americans do not develop the ability to think critically.
They insure this by virtually absolute control of the main stream media and the American educational system.
There is a reason that The U.S. ranked 17th in an assessment of the education systems of 50 countries-a report that accompanied the rankings suggested that promoting a culture that is supportive of education is more important than the amount of money invested.--The curent culture in American government most emphatically does not support any education that can contribute to critical independent thinking; any education that is well funded is limited to what is of benefit to the Military Industrial Complex, while liberal arts and philosophy that teach independent thinking are being rapidly defunded and cut from curricula.
This an orratory for the ages. Better than Winston Churchill, JFK, Ronald Reagan or any other of the so called great orators. Hard to believe this guy was once a drug addict.
But the best line was about elections..... "to make you think you have a choice....YOU DON'T"
I contrast, today we have light weights who read from teleprompter left, teleprompter right.
GC was great and so very right about so many things. The point he made about critical thinking spot on. Please throw off the shackles of what you have been taught. Take a new dirrection based on what you have learned in life. It will serve you instead of serving the ones that have mislead us all.
Do your own thinking. Make up your own mind.
I find it interesting that only comedians are permitted to speak truth on the boob tube. Just goes to show how unbelievably clever the ones running this shitshow truly are. What a mind job. No? The truth is only shown as a joke.
GC was that kind of clever too. Not only did he spot it he taught it to us. For that I thank him. That seed has been planted in so many minds its day will come. GC one sharp man. R.I.P. friend.
Zero Hedgers, it's best to avoid despicable America at all costs and head over on the earliest flight possible to Mother Russia.
There you'll be greeted by sky-high unemployment, a life expectancy almost a decade less, a vibrant state-controlled media, a failing currency, rampant police corruption and the gulag threat if you don't knuckle under.
And because most folks are trying to flee Russia, you can even earn generous ruble incentives if you stick around and help grow the population!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/9739678/Vladimi...
There is also a program for men 180CM or taller who consent to be Judo-flipped to a mat on live TV by the diminutive Putin.
Come one, come all and help Russia rectify the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century by rebuilding our beleagured state, one land confiscation at a time!
We'll stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our comrades, break bread over borscht and enjoy a hearty Siberian winter without that infernal Obama lording it over us!
And while the ruble is sure to be worth less at the end of winter than it was at the start, we don't need no damn Audis, BMWs or Mercedeses polluting our pristine Russian roads, anyway!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJCObmm66Y0
Come!
In America, no need to go to old Soviet Union.
Old Soviet Union comes to you!
Which former Soviet paradise are y'all Zero Hedgers meeting up in - Belarus?
Tashkent or Almaty work for me.
Perhaps the centralized authority paradigm isn't so bad, you may think we have centralized authority but we actually don't, now do we?
AmerikanP
It is obvious to me that your relentless and purposeful stupidity helps serve to discourage anyone who might make a reasonable and critical comment of Russia or Putin from doing so at ZH, since that would associate themselves with an auto-licking bunghole like yourself. You also help build the contrary momentum against any such critical views, a sort of piling on momentum as best exemplified by AnAnonymous and MillionDollarBonus and their ilk.
It is unfortunate that most folks seem to fall for it.
I hear the ad hominem attack, Bob, but unfortunately no analysis. Zero Hedge caters to, among other contingents, folks who exalt Putin and Russia.
I've lived and worked in Putin's Russia, so I realize it's not the paradise strongly implied on these pages, nor is Putin anything other than a calculating strongman running another authoritarian regime.
Unfortunately, Russian state-controlled media like Russia Today don't allow an alternative point of view in which either Putin or Russia is at fault. I point that out here as often as time allows. What I get in response more often than not are insults - but certainly not reason. I challenge you to find even one article or story in the Russian state-controlled media that is truly critical of Putin or his policies.
America is certainly imperfect, but life in Russia without rule of law and under a regime whose Duma dutifully rubber stamps Vlad's every recommendation makes American life look like paradise! Hundreds of journalists haved died in Russia because they told the truth about the post-Soviet government. How many have died in America for doing that?
Now, carry on with your epithets and I'll continue with logic and reason. :-)
>>>Zero Hedge caters to, among other contingents, folks who exalt Putin and Russia.
Some of what you wrote above is accurate enough - Russia is not paradise, and the strong exploit the weak. But what else is new?
Many, including myself, find the current Russia-Putin position attractive for one major reason: it rejects the globalized, homogenized world system under "banker leadership" that the West's elites have been diligently promoting for generations. Russia in particular is a US target, since only Russia (under non-subservient leadership) has the military muscle to deter an overt US-led dictatorship over the entire planet. Whether a poly-centric, non-hegemonic economic world system can ever emerge is an open question, but I'm more than willing to give Russia, Putin and the BRICS the benefit of the doubt.
With the existing "Anglo-Zionist" system, we already know what we've got... and it stinks.
It's got to be some powerful hatred indeed that allows an otherwise able thinking person to endorse an authoritarian strongman with virtually total control over his country's media, a country with zero rule of law and rampant corruption.
Even the US, with all its flaws, is far preferable to a country whose leader openly laments the passing of the Soviet Union.
Far better to criticize America and work constructively towards a more perfect/less imperfect union than to take the implicit Zero Hedge stance that nothing is fixable or even worth an attempt at fixing.
My personal hope is that the coming currency crisis and loss of reserve currency status will force the US to make some painful but necessary changes.
Yeah and keep up the fashion trend, big dick cars, reality shows and the materialistic world. They want you to obsess on those things, so you don't have time to look back.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison
http://www.themoneymasters.com/the-money-masters/famous-quotations-on-ba...
We are our social security number, and according to this woman, we are born into this country as a money producer (taxes) and that we are responsible for debt our country carries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgH14gCBfeA
If this woman is a gate keeper or a whistle blower is irrelevant. The point is that the debt will be paid, and we are human resources and nothing more. We have no rights to a life called the American dream. We were to mine the resources of this country, and now they are finished with America and moving on, adn we are useless other than what they determine us useful for (debt slaves, prison slaves).
No we do not. Period. EOS.
Sry dude, it was tried. The 99% aren't as smart as ZH and the like, in fact they don't even log in. Maybe with brain implants or something, that's the way these things go.
George was an optomist.
Yeah because "big wealthy business interests" are our enemies. Not politicians, nooooo. Business is the enemy.
People need to put down the hippie when searching for insight on the American dream.
Money talks. Big wealthy business interests have the ability to bribe, extort, pay assassins, buy politicians, and change the laws.
The politicians who died for their country are few but they are the heros who should be worshipped, not the evangelical ministers, or the bankers in castles.
When these men died for their country, the people should have picked up where they left off.
Burn down the media corporate offices, surround local TV stations and shut them down and get the news to the people should have been done years ago. But the sporting events, and TV shows took precedence. And people took the path of least resistance, and shopped. So we deserve what is coming. Most of us anyway. The rich Americans who rode this wave are going to be in the gutter with the rest of us, and that is the upside. Wealth confiscation is just around the corner.
Big corporations got us by the balls? You bet they do! Starting with Microsoft, the epitome of success by perfection through monopoly, not by innovation or any better working products, as I see no meaningful improvement in Word or Windows in the last 15 yrs, yet they have forced me to buy the same thing over and over again as they stagger one shitty system like Vista, in between Windows 7, and then back to Windows 8. It's like having to buy a new car because the tires wear out and the replacement tires don't fit your car.
I was doing fine with Windows XP, the problem is, Microsoft couldn't come up with any new innovation (everyone else did) so they keep screwing people like me up the ass. Of course, now Apple has learned the ropes.
My new years resolution: hello Linux.
A while back I stumbled upon a blog on WordPress .com written by Gerry Spence who was born and educated in the small towns of Wyoming where he has practiced law for almost fifty-five years. Spence has spent his lifetime representing and protecting victims of the legal system from what he calls The New Slave Master: big corporations and big government.
Below is part of a post Spence published, he uses the line, "With its endless propaganda the Moneyed Master has caused its slaves to believe they are free." I agree with him, and also contend that while the military-industrial complex is still massive and evil we must now focus on our new worse enemy, in a nut shell we must also watch out for the "Government-Financial Complex".
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-are-all-slaves-interesting-thought.html
Robert Townsend, who wrote the book Up the Organization, once commented that: "the tiny oligarchy that is America's ruling class loots the national treasury, treats the country as its personal whorehouse, and considers presidents and politicians their towel boys.".
Carlin played car hop waiter "Herbie" in the great movie "With Six You Get Egg Roll" starring Doris Day and Brian Keith. Carlin must have been barely 30.
The public gets captured through the poisoning agenda of our hidden rulers.
This is how sheeple are created with a predisposition to accept the party line from the dis-information from schools and media. Healthy unpoisoned people are critical thinkers that seek out truth and reject dis-information.
Few understand there is a conspiracy by our hidden EU Organized Crime rulers through their Jesuit, Masonic and Zionist who stole the Vatican’s gold 200 years ago and have secretly acquired nearly half the worlds wealth and 43,000 corporations.
This secret organized crime syndicate is masquerading as a religious order, but they are not religious and in fact have poisoned four Popes who opposed them in 1773, 1939, 1958 and 1978.
They captured America 100 years ago with the 1913 Fed Act and have engaged in a conspiracy to poison the public in order to handicap and control them. I believe if you follow the big money, the motive is to disable the clear and critical thinking abilities of the public in order to safeguard their Fed banker scams through toxic injury. This produces states of anxiety, depression and a blind allegiance to the establishment.
The capture of the public occurs because of toxic injury. Just try getting any of this message across to a typical sheeple that make up 95% of America, and you will encounter a blind allegiance to the party line.
These people are'nt interested in the truth - only comfortable information that all is well - because they have been toxically injured which produces anxiety and depression and the truth is just too disturbing.
This toxic injury agenda chemically dumbs down the public and protects the far more lucrative banking scams than say pesticide or the drug profits of their Monopoly Quack Medicine. This suppression campaign is far larger than just industry profits.
To understand the Organized Crime - Jesuits who are behind this massive control scheme, see this video from protestant historian Eric Jon Phelps. Copy & paste into your browser address window if the link doesn't connect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU