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10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer
Submitted by Michael Synder of The Economic Collapse blog,
It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling. Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix. Everywhere around us we can see evidence of the social decay that is systematically eating away at the foundations of our society. It can be found on the streets of our inner cities, in dark basements in extremely rural communities, in the most prestigious boardrooms on Wall Street, and definitely in the halls of power in Washington. Bringing in an entirely different crop of politicians or printing gigantic mountains of money is not going to solve this problem, because it exists in the hearts of millions of ordinary men and women. The truth is that we really need to take a good, long look at ourselves in the mirror, because we need to take a 180 degree turn as a nation. What we are doing now is clearly not working, and the longer that we take to address this problem the worse it is going to get. The following are 10 examples of the social decay that is eating away at America like cancer. Individually, they could be dismissed as isolated incidents. But I could have easily listed 100 examples or 1000 examples. Every single day, we are inundated with reports like these. The symptoms of the decay of our society are all around us. We just have to be willing to look at them…
#1 It seems like many of the most horrific crimes these days are happening in middle America. For example, a woman was recently hit over the head, raped and set on fire in a park in Wichita Kansas…
Wichita police say a woman was sexually assaulted, hit on the head, and set on fire Monday night in Fairmount Park.
According to police, the woman was on the ground, almost in a crawl, barely moving, and naked.
The woman was helped by a neighbor – Johnnye Marshall woke up her boyfriend Deon McPherson when she heard somebody scream for help.
“What if that was my daughter? I’d want somebody to go in and get her,” McPherson told The Wichita Eagle. “Where there wasn’t blood, there was a burn.”
The flames from the fire were about 2 to 4 feet high. McPherson stayed with the woman until firefighters arrived.
#2 I have repeatedly written about how the United States is the most obese of all the major industrialized nations. Well, now we are using our extreme obesity to try to hide things that we have stolen…
A 350-pound Wal-mart shopper was arrested yesterday after he was found sitting atop five stolen rib eye steaks in the seat of a motorized scooter that he was riding around the South Carolina store.
Rodney Fowler, 43, was spotted Tuesday afternoon placing the steaks in his scooter by a Walmart loss prevention officer, according to a police report.
“Suspect sat on the steaks and exited the store passing all points of sale, without attempting to pay for said merchandise,” cops noted.
The 5’ 5” Fowler was then confronted by the Walmart worker and escorted back into the store, where he was later arrested by police for shoplifting. “Due to his size, the suspect was cuffed using two pairs of cuffs,” investigators noted.
#3 What would you do if a police officer pulled you over for a traffic stop and exposed his private parts to you when he came up to your vehicle? Well, this actually has been happening in New Jersey…
A Newton police officer was arrested Monday on accusations that he unzipped his pants and exposed himself to young male drivers during “numerous” traffic stops.
Jason R. Miller, 37, of Hampton Township, a patrolman since 2001, turned himself in at the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office and has been indefinitely suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal case, according to a statement issued by Sussex County Prosecutor Francis Koch and Newton Police Chief Michael Richards.
Miller was charged with two counts of official misconduct, one count of a pattern of official misconduct and one count of lewdness, the statement said.
Miller would expose his genitals to motorists “to satisfy his prurient interests” and then let them leave without issuing traffic summonses, according to a police complaint.
#4 If someone was planning to “accidentally” kill his wealthy wife, you would think that he would be smart enough not to put an “X” on the map where he planned to do it. But that is apparently precisely what one man in Colorado foolishly did…
A suburban Denver man charged with pushing his wife to her death off a cliff in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park could not explain to investigators why he had a park map with an “X” drawn at the spot where she fell.
Newly unsealed court documents say Harold Henthorn denied using the map during the deadly September 29, 2012, hike.
But he told friends that he scouted out the park’s steep and craggy terrain at least six times, trying to find the perfect place to take Toni to celebrate their 12th year of marriage.
It also turns out that his first wife died in a “freak accident” too.
Some coincidence, eh?
#5 It is one thing to kill someone. It is another thing to hack the dead body up with a saw and cook it. I don’t know what in the world has happened to the state of Florida, but a lot of really weird stuff has been going on down there lately…
Angela Stoldt told officials she took a hacksaw to her neighbor’s body last year and tried to cook away evidence of James Sheaffer.
One leg went in the oven. Other parts went into pots.
Stoldt’s house in Deltona smelled of burning flesh, but she assured her daughter it was just a rat broiling in the oven, according to details made public last week after a grand jury charged her with first-degree murder.
“Thursday is when I was cooking him,” Stoldt told investigators. “Friday is when I was dumping him.”
The 42-year-old Deltona woman is accused of killing Sheaffer, 36, a limousine driver, in April 2013.
#6 In recent years, it seems like there has been a constant stream of news stories about twisted men locking up women in their basements and forcing them to be sex slaves. The latest example comes from Cincinnati…
A man pleaded guilty Friday to locking multiple women in his Cincinnati home and forcing them into prostitution.
Christopher Hisle, 45, was arrested on April 8, 2014, in Louisville, Kentucky after authorities said he drove a young woman from Cincinnati to Louisville to engage in prostitution at a nearby Red Roof Inn.
An FBI investigation later revealed Hisle was involved in forcing and compelling the women to engage in commercial sex for at least two years. He held the women at his Avondale home at 908 Lexington Ave., documents state .
It is unknown how many women Hisle held at one time and what their ages were. Authorities said at least 12 women are victims of his human trafficking operation.
#7 Why would a grown woman want to have sex with a 10-year-old boy? You would have to be incredibly sick to try to do such a thing, but that is reportedly what one 25-year-old babysitter in Connecticut is charged with doing. In fact, she is accused of doing this multiple times…
A babysitter has been accused of repeatedly having sex with her friend’s 10-year-old son while she was looking after him and his other siblings.
Marybeth Rataic is facing 10 felony charges after allegedly having sex three times with the boy at his home in Meriden, Connecticut.
Police say that in one instance, the 25-year-old from Willimantic, had sex with the boy while his siblings slept in the room after creeping into the child’s room, which he shared with his brothers.
She is also accused of having sex with the 10-year-old while his mother was giving birth in hospital.
#8 A minor scuffle between two girls at a California high school erupted into a melee when a 400 pound police officer slammed his fist into the face of one of the girls. Other students began to swarm the officer, and at that point things got wildly out of control…
A lunchtime fight at a Central California high school Wednesday ended with police swarming onto campus, closing the school and putting six students under arrest, authorities said.
However, Ernest Righetti High School students say the initial fight was relatively minor, and that it was a Sheriff’s deputy striking one of the girls involved in the brawl that sparked the mass violence on campus.
That shocking moment was filmed by a bystander and has since been posted online by the Santa Maria Times.
The video shows the officer trying to break up a fight between two girls, only to hit one of the young women and drag her away. Students watching the altercation appear outraged by the act, and start to swarm the officer.
#9 When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone watched the Cosby Show on Thursday night. Bill Cosby was “America’s Dad”, and he was universally respected. Well, it turns out that now he is being accused of rape by 15 different women. How is it possible that such horrific crimes could be covered up for so long, and what does that say about our society? The following comes from Time Magazine…
In Cosby’s story we find accusations of women being silenced for decades by threats, lawyers, fear and a generally defensive public, who until now were uninterested in being awakened from sweet dreams of their TV father.
The NPR audio interview released last week showcases Cosby’s clearly pre-determined response to the softest, almost nervous questions about the rape allegations: deafening silence.
This should not be viewed as the mature response of a well respected, integrity filled man (and in the case of his wife, a beloved, regal woman) attempting to maintain dignity and stay above the fray. It should be seen as what it is: A power move by a someone so arrogant that he thinks he shouldn’t even be asked about the fact that 15 women are accusing him of a horrific crime.
#10 As I have written about previously, the violence that we have seen in Ferguson, Missouri this year is a perfect example of how the streets of America can descend into chaos. And now the upcoming grand jury decision threatens to rekindle that violence.
Instead of sober deliberation about this case and sincere attempts at peaceful reconciliation, both sides are preparing for mass civil unrest. If the grand jury reaches “the wrong decision” we could see even more rioting, looting, violence and police brutality than we saw the first time around.
And this time, it may not be limited to Ferguson. As the Daily Sheeple has pointed out, protest organizers have put up a Tumblr page for something called “The Ferguson National Response Network“. According to that page, “planned responses” are being organized in 82 cities throughout the United States. In addition, protest organizers have released a list of 19 “Proposed Rules of Engagement” for confrontations with law enforcement authorities. Needless to say, all of this sounds quite ominous. The following are the 82 cities where “planned responses” are currently being organized…
Albany, NY
Albuquerque, NM
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Baltimore, MD
Bangor, ME
Beavercreek, OH
Blacksburg, VA
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Carbondale, IL
Chapel Hill, NC
Chattanooga, TN
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
Columbia, MO
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Des Moines, IA
Detroit, MI
Durham, NC
Ferguson, MO
Gainesville, FL
Grand Rapids, MI
Greensboro, NC
Greenville, NC
Grinnell, IA
Houston, TX
Indianapolis, IN
Iowa City, IA
Jackson, MI
Kansas City, MO
Kennesaw, GA
Lawrence, KS
Lexington, KY
Longview, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Louisville, KY
Meadville, PA
Memphis, TN
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis, MN
Mobile, AL
Monpelier, VT
Monroeville, OH
Nashville, TN
New London, CT
New Orleans, LA
Newark, NJ
Northampton, MA
NYC, NY
Oak Ridge, TN
Oakland, CA
Olympia, WA
Oshkosh, WI
Phoenix, AZ
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Portland, OR
Providence, RI
Raleigh, NC
Rochester, NY
Rocky Mount, NC
San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle, WA
South Hadley, MA
Spring Valley, NY
Springfield, MA
St. Paul, MN
St. Petersburg, FL
Stroudsberg, PA
Tallahassee, FL
Tampa, FL
Toledo, OH
Toronto, Canada
Tucson, AZ
Washington, D.C.
West Hartford, CT
West Palm Beach, FL
Williamsburg, VA
Worcester, MA
Police in Ferguson are warning citizens that they better buy guns because they “will not be able to protect you or your family“. And CNN is reporting that gun sales in Ferguson are indeed surging.
Hopefully this grand jury decision will come and go and peace will prevail in Ferguson and elsewhere.
But without a doubt, the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is disappearing.
The foundations of our society are steadily rotting and decaying, and our underlying problems are getting worse with each passing day.
How long will our nation be able to remain stable if this continues?
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It's been happening for years my friend, not a new thing, just like a bubble it will eventually burst at some point.
"The fish stinks from the head." The USA is run by dope dealers who own Presidents (Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ronald Reagan). The FBI has hit squads to murder people who could be problems. Navy SEALs are murdered by the score to cover up the fact that an Osama double was killed. 343 firefighters died on 9/11 and the only thing the FDNY top brass did was to tell surviving firefighters at the scene to not mention the explosive demolition blasts they felt and heard within the World Trade Center. The USA is on the fast track to disintegration.
Judging by the downvotes you've received there must be a few TV viewers reading the comments tonight.
Evolution is not a one-way street.
Those who possess a low level of cerebral control are more likely to reproduce and more likely to have more offspring when reproducing.
Your premise is that a subset of an identical group can take over, and thats evolution. Thats not evolution. Evolution is when a dissimilar paradigm takes over your food supply and there is nothing you can do about it.
Show more imagination, you normie.
Evolution is adaptation to change, successful or otherwise. The upcoming reset will be node in the evolutionary tree.
Genetic bottleneck.
The point of the article is that society in the US is devolving, not evolving... And it is not only the US, but the entire planet... Odd how this phenomenon appears to be correlated to pace of technology advancement...
What would you expect from us...There are over 3,000 abortions in America every day, but we spend billions looking for signs of "LIFE" on Mars.
"Evolution" consisting of a loss of a function is devolution or degeneration.
Which is what is happening.
We don't spend enough on space exploration. Mere billions are spent on the cosmos, meanwhile trillions are spent on "DEATH" from bullshit wars that are always based on lies.
And the concurrent relentless global march of neoliberal economics.
One of the biggest contributing factors to the West's current plight is its disappearing homogeneity. When different races and cultures are thrown together and expected to live in harmony "as one big happy family", social unrest, mental instability and chaos are inevitable - for ALL of its inhabitants.
The definition of a "nation" is - "a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory".
It is basically an extended family. Family implies blood... blood implies race... thus race implies nation.
Alienation abounds in our country. There is no longer an innate culture. There is no longer an innate spiritualism. Therefore, there is no longer any sense of purpose or morality for many people.
Above all, the people who create popular fads, norms, and "culture" through the brainwashing power of their media empire - are of the utmost alienage - carrying out a program of purposeful destruction. Divide, conquer and finally enslave... that is their modus operandi and ultimate goal. So far, it's all humming along swimmingly for them.
Yes when you are a sociopath who can print money you want chaos so no one looks your way.
We have been defining deviency down and breeding for stupid for a few generations now, so once more The Gods of the Copyook Headings must step forth.... http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/gods_of_copybook_headings....
OT, but if you have any thoughts on it, seems the article points to the general populace...
I suggest it's us Vs. them.
They suggest it's them Vs us.
We're both correct on that part, but I say that we'll win in the end!
If your Blood Pressure's a bit low today (not likely) take a look at this shit. Can you spell target, hope so, they can.
http://www.sott.net/article/289310-Why-on-Earth-are-police-going-to-a-cl...
Grossman Refers to himself as "World's Leading Combat Authority."
I stand in awe, and to think of all that time the army wasted teaching me how to kill people and break things I never had a class on Killology. Tsk, all that time wasted.....
Thank you Mr. police officer for punching that girl in the face. I know a lot of ZHers rage at police and think high school students should be able to mob and brawl and strike police officers and kill people and not get jobs and be Obamunists and be leaches on society and learn nothing about the real world... but they are idiots.
Good job.
Judging by the downvotes you've received there must be a few TV viewers reading the comments tonight.
Bollixed....
No. He insulted the Republican's DemiGod Ronald Reagan by calling him a Drug Dealer.
These people are funny. While they claim to support limited Government and Fiscal Responsibility their ACTIONS betray their words.
For instance when Reagan took office the National Debt was $994 Billion (which is currently the size of a YEARLY DEFICIT and added to the debt.).
When Reagan left office his spending spree left a National Debt of a whopping $2.6 Trillion.
Now Reagan did not just double the Debt...He increased it by 2.7 times.
Hell that Obama asshole would have to leave office with a National Debt of $27 Trillion to match that feat.
But you can hold out some hope that Obama just may pull that off yet...
Reagan was the most spendthrift of all of the Presidents.
And that is an indisputable and documented fact.
But we have a bunch of Republicans from Drudge Report over here on ZH. They are not too interested in facts.
And they just cannot understand that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES AND ANY "DIFFERENCES" ARE JUST THEATER.
Thus they get a really bad dose of cognitive dissonance when confronted by these inconvenient truths.
Since they cannot intelligently respond as their minds have gone berserk, at the point on the onset of cognitive dissonance, they cannot promote any rational argument which disputes the facts presented. Then they become so full of rage at the presenter of the facts (because they made them think), and they react by clicking on a downarrow.
And that is why.
Really Tyler needs to get rid of the arrows as the SOCIALISTS posing as Republicans, or otherwise, are so dependent on CONSENSUS, and seek out confirmation through validation from their fellow socialists. They are not capable of independent thinking.
And Tyler enables them to continue onward in this fashion. It does them a horrible disservice.
Without the arrows then perhaps an honest discourse and discussion will be the result.
Most regulars on ZH see through the false left-right paradigm. New truth seekers benefit from healthy discussion. Fight Club also attracts a contingent of trolls with an agenda. One wishes at times that Fight Club came with an IGNORE button, but then it wouldn't be Fight Club anymore. Caveat lector: reader beware.
lordy I'm kinda liking the 'won't ignore' button the 4th stooging has these days, know what I mean?
One wishes at times that Fight Club came with an IGNORE button
In a perfect world....it would have a FIGHT button.
You rang??
+1 Before I was a member on Zero Hedge, I used to just read the comments all of the time. I didn't realize until after I had an account that they had a down vote up vote system. Screw democracy, I want a Republic!
The up vote / down vote system influences people's perception. Instead of reading your post and coming up with their own opinion to rebut or agree with you, if they see a bunch of downvotes, they instantly think you are wrong. This groupthink has been studied extensively. It's called Asch Conformity.
I have very unconventional opinions (which become more conventional as years go on I notice), and instead of having rational debate with me, I get "downvoted" or someone replies "You're wrong" without having actual discourse.
It's easy to click a button and vote. It's hard to actually come up with a rebuttal. This is why the 2 party system also doesn't work either. The sheeple vote every 2 to 4 years and the status quo continues. There is more to politics than just voting, just like there is more to fight club than down arrows!
I get your drift The9thDoctor but the more crucial problem here is the lack of a simple notifier from this website so that when one logs in, they are automatically notified that there was a reply to your comment. It ain't rocket science LULZ. Talk about a conversation killer : ( And even upon notification should the reply not be answered at least the next time one sees a comment from that person (or bot lol) then we know that person was logged in and simply chose not to continue the conversation...
For example, I left you a reply a couple of days ago and never heard back from you. With a notifier I would at least know that you were made aware that there was a reply to your comment because here you are logged in commenting. Without the notifier, I have to keep checking back to see which is a pain in the ass and these days I don't even bother after about 24 hours. Will you ever see this comment?
As for arrows I once suggested to Tyler Durden that they give away a small quantity to each member each day and then offer arrows for sale. free market capitalism in action! LULZ
"closing comments" is equally inane as far as I'm concerned regardless of how silly it might seem to reply to a comment or article that was published long long ago...
here's my reply 5461453
"...if they see a bunch of downvotes, they instantly think you are wrong."
Speak for yourself. I base my response on what I read, not what others think about it.
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Actually, you've just given me an idea. From now on, I'm going to upvote everyone I disagree with, and vice-versa. Anyone who's tired of this up/down BS, feel free to follow my lead.
Hail Eris! (or something)
In a perfect world GetZeeGold would realize that the 'won't ignore' button is "a FIGHT button". Thanks for coming out : )
Lore wrote: Most regulars on ZH see through the false left-right paradigm.
Sorry Lore, NOT most; FEW do.
I wish Zero Hedge would attract more women and more intellectuals, so we can go at it.
Also, I can’t wait for Zero Hedge to have 1 million readers and less of endless repetitive messages.
I wish Zero Hedge would attract more women and more intellectuals
Ask for a raise of hands in any 7-11 for a show of hands of those who consider themselves to be intellectuals......it will be all of them.
We have lots of women on ZH.....but they don't make a big deal of it.....cause what does that matter?
First: That's why you don't ask stupid people
Second: People with intellect (Patzek, Hedges, Chomsky, and many others) posses the critical thinking, vocabulary, and honesty to speak the truth.
Third: Women matter because:
a) Women are horrible on moral issues. Women are very engaged in biological terms
b) Women will be the biggest losers at the coming societal breakdown. Also, women are, biological, the least prepared
I wish you would dry up and blow away !!
Or just blow up and dry away!!
Either one would help.
Because you’re an analytical person, most likely… You place trust in data.
You’re incapable of seeing real issue as is.
Attracting intellectuals....
I'm posting this link, expecting massive down votes, to see if ZH deletes the post or drops my account. Readers will just have to take.me at my word that I'm no troll, an earnest truth seeker, and that I have occasionally wondered exactly what is claimed in the below article...
http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=8947
thank you for the link
Yeah, Okie. To keep things above board they should have gone right in and first thing, created a new central bank, like they did in Libya.
Hey Okie, Alex Jones is accused of the same thing all of the time of being a "Russian Agent"
If you criticize neocons, and make any kind of report that sounds positive toward Putin, you are instantly labeled as a Ruskie KGB fellow traveler.
I am a truth seeker myself. I don't worship Putin, but at the same time I give him props for taking on the NWO.
This notion that US = bad, Russia = good, or vice versa is pretty juvenile. Most people on Zero Hedge are against government period (until Drudge-reading neocons started infesting the site). I joined because I agree with the libertarians that the State has to much influence on our lives, but my main criticism with libertarians is that they ignore how the corporate world has more dictatorial power over us than the State could ever dream of.
One gets more orders from their boss in a week, and they have to plan out their lives based around the boss' schedule, than the police have given them orders in the past decade. It would be nice to resign, then what? Vagrancy is illegal and so is squatting so one has to work for "the man". If one where to start their own business, they effectively become a government employee because of the myriad red tape involved just to do a startup. If said entrepreneur hires employees, the entrepreneur becomes an informant for the State, or the business is shut down and fined.
That's my big beef. We live in a society quickly automating to the point where we will hopefully have close to 0% employment, yet society clings on to "morals" of "work ethic" which is incompatible to an advanced system. If one grows crops with hand tools to provide subsistence, work ethic would be important. In an automated, on-demand, post-industrial world, work ethic becomes "immoral" because working for "the man" wastes time that one could use to pursue their own dreams.
American schoolchildren are raised to think slavery of blacks in the 19th century is evil, yet there is not a mention of the wage slavery going on in the north in the factories. How convenient.
The way slavery and sharecropping is looked down upon today, hopefully wage work is looked down upon in the future the same way.
Professor, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I am not part of any conspiracy or any type of foreign intervention.
Agree that are many unnecessary, and bigots comments here, at Zero Hedge, but, that is a small price to pay for a free press and be able to be part of it. Can’t say the same about our sham massmedia.
Agree that are many pro Russia here, at Zero Hedge, but, that too doesn’t bother me. Lots of it has to do with anger at our current US nonsense, I believe.
Anyway, what bothers me, and drove me to blog at Zero Hedge, was the homogeny of the commentators. And the wrong labels giving by many of the commentators about our current situation.
I don’t expect every bit of information, here or anywhere, to be 100% correct. And, when that’s the case, we should correct that. I see that happen at Zero Hedge quite often.
By the way, I just browsed through your link (your site) and to be fare to you I can’t comment because:
a) I don’t know
b) I don’t care about gold and conspiracy. Both are overused and heavily manipulated.
"fare" is what you pay to trave in a cab
"FAIR" is what you are when you are impartial.
You crap me up with your fair grasp of being an intellectual. In that sentence fair was use as being average.
:)
Fair criticism, because I know both words but they sound the same.
By the way, I am not an intellectual, I am just very curious about some things.
Second: English is my second language. I learned English by living in America. Never went to school to learn English.
But, thanks to point that out… Always good to meet an English language intellectual... Because I love the language.
I'm stating to hate spelling and grammar Nazis! FFS who cares! Everyone understood what was meant!
You could easily ask the same questions of your link: how would anyone know whether "Streetwise Professor" is a US sponsored propaganda outlet intended to discredit sites like ZH? ZH and most of its content is a direct threat to the political elites, Fed, etc. Plenty of motive.
What does your Streetwise Professor have to say about why we still don't know what the black box from MH17 says, or what no release of the tapes from the airport tower at leading up to the crash?
What does he say about Victoria Nuland's speech last December when she exposed the fact that the US had spent $5,000,000,000 on efforts to destabilize Ukraine and support a coup?
Oh tell me, please, Streetwise Professor, cause I really want to know.
"ZH is as much a part of Putin’s information warfare as RT. If you follow closely enough, it’s as plain as the nose on your face. "
It could not possibly be because most people here are capable of critical thought and can see through your MSM propaganda war, could it?!! No this place is full of Russian agents hey? Pathetic!
Chomsky? Really? Uh, ok.
At least you’re not a loon; I have to give you that.
What am I missing here? You get downvoted piled on for whatever you write, even when I see perfect sense in a lot of your comments.
Is that you Gruber? That's a slippery slope. Who defines stupid people?
Again, who defines people with intellect, because if you chose Hedges and Chomsky, you ain't it bubbles. Unless you consider an intellect just a loud mouthed rabble rouser who lives extremely comfortable on the system he rails against. Hell, we're all intilecktuals here on the Hedge. So what's your problem.
I have no idea what your thesis is with regards to women. Must be too intellectual for me to understand.
Have you been to a Seven Eleven full of intellectuals?
Maybe the P Street (in Georgetown, DC) Seven Eleven local writers, that go play tennis on O Street.
The comment about the women has to do that they are more unrealistic than the men.
Here’s an example:
In the US, in any election day, there are between four and seven million more women voting than men.
So, if any of you believe government lies and manipulation will stop, nothing could be further from the ‘female’ evolutionary truth.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cawp.rutgers.edu%2Ffast_facts%2Fvoters%2Fdocuments%2Fgenderdiff.pdf&ei=7d9wVKWMIfjLsATRoICYDA&usg=AFQjCNGEoI1LHnXpze-UCT1U9Qliy01Dsg&sig2=6S0druElskgc1JAIuYT_yA&bvm=bv.80185997,d.cWc
"I wish Zero Hedge would attract more women and more intellectuals"
are they mutually exclusive ?
Only your comments!
Any ZH regulars remember "Fat Albert"? Hey Hey Hey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WT-fxBNKs8
Fuck off, and you are the Dali Lama?
Tall Tom - Agree Reagan wasn't much of a conservative. I don't agree with your opinion on arrow voting. Some people like what I say and some don't. The arrows demonstrate a general consensus of a crowd, that can be educational.
Like how I downvote you when you talk about making homeade bombs and blowing up movie theatres full of innocent people. Or stating how you will instruct cons and homeless to do the same.
Then you quote Jesus Christ like some baptists minister in the next commentary.
I can't tell if your undercover law enforcement or a bona-fide nut job. Stll, I can up arrow when you state something intelligent but downvote you for threating violence to innocents.
That ZH lets you threaten making bombs and blowing up theatres while having a "boot for rascist hate comments" is fucked up all on its own.
Re: "I can't tell if your undercover law enforcement or a bona-fide nut job."
I've had the same thought. Something seems off.
quick! to the hatmobile!
But it's TallTom the flakfrau bomb!?! compute 'er Lore?
All that I did was to expose her as a woman.
It destroyed her persona.
(She ignored all of the other insults which Klink threw at her and only took offense to him calling her a cunt.)
She was no longer able to put up her front.
Yes I was relentless.
Flak is/was a dreadful human being. But she's entitled to anonymity... and on a male-dominated website, pretending to be male is part of that.
She exposed her anonymity in a public post.
(If it was in a private communique then I would be very wrong as I would have violated a confidence. But it was NOT.)
You may believe that pretending is acceptable. I do not.
Pretending is a farce. It is dishonest.
Regardless if this website is male dominated, or not, pretending (lying) is immoral...period.
I read people. I make it my business to read people, gather information, and then use that information in order to intelligently respond. People expose their underlying attitudes with the written word.
You have, for instance.
You believe that it is justified to utilize deceitfulness in certain situations....this one in particular...if one is a female.
If you support deceitfulness, for wiomen, in an unimportant place as this, then, will you support women's practice for deceitfulness when the stakes are increased?
Just where do you draw the line. It seems like a pretty fuzzy line, doesn't it?
Well if I detect dishonesty then I will be relentless. I am not sexist about it.
I am definitely not here to make friends. If that happens then I will be happy about it.
I am definitely not here to make enemies. If that happens then I am saddened by it.
But I am here to expose the truth however inconvenient that truth may be.
And I expect that people will call me out for my own bullshit and inconsistencies.
In that way I become a better person...refined by the fire of Fight Club.
(That is why I do not like the arrows. If a person does not like what I write then write a response to what I post...as you have.. I will consider the criticism as constructive if valid. If it is ad hominem bullshit then I will disregard it.)
Not for everyone. I stand proud of who I am and will be myself no matter what the demographics happen to be. We should all try to be more open and honest in this world of pretense. Just my opinion.
Miffed
Crap, I amost posted my real name! ;-)
@Tall Tom you say "All that I did was to expose her as a woman." You may well believe that but in fact you didn't expose anything except yourself. Flak was on the verge of throwing in the towel on Zero Hedge and I'd guess your "relentlessness" was the straw that broke the camel's back. Tyler will have the evidence that clicks took a marked drop after that. You're "welcome" freak that published his name and address on ZH. not. not that i don't mind some of your comments LULZ tell us again how we need more research LULZ
And when the Flakman shows up what ya gonna do? Your premise was that because "Flakfrau" AR5 is invalid ROFL.
At least Miffed Microbiologist showed up here to put some distance between.
More research? LULZ (h/t to Pods for "LULZ", I'll be using it frequently from now until Paris)
re Lore: something seems off. What's off is describing how to make bombs and describing how your property is booby trapped and not being arrested.
You can teach anyone how to do it.
I have taught Physics at two Universities.
Is the Defense Department interested in weapons and weapons manufacture? Do Defense Contractors go out of their way to hire this type of talent?
It is not against the law to instruct people that things can be done and how to accomplish it.
Isn't Freedom of speech wonderful?
There are currently no Booby Traps or bombs on my property or in my possession. Of course that does not mean that I am not capable.
When have I ever threatened to blow up a theater? There is no tactical advantage to that.
I have exposed previously that NOBODY IS IMMUNE TO TERRORISM and that Government is absolutely unable to protect anyone from it.
I have used the poison gassing of a Movie Theater as an example of that. I do not recall ever suggesting that bombings can be used. But, thinking about it, now that you have mentioned that, yeah..it can be done.
I have also exposed that Aircraft arriving and departing International and Regional Airports can be shot down.
I have exposed that any security measures which Government sees fit to impose upon the citizenery is a FARCE and ABSOLUTELY INEFFECTIVE.
So in fact I have used those examples to demonstrate that the terrorist threat is a HOAX. If it were not a hoax, meant to manipulate the people by fear, then all of these can be accomplished with relative ease and minimal expense.
So that is a Strawman Argument and DISHONEST...
However in the case of violent revolution... Airports and Oil Refineries and Pipelines are strategic, tactical and viable targets. In any war operation a Fuel Dump is a primary target.
If enemy forces do not have fuel then they cannot mobilize.
As for harming innocents? When have I suggested that?
Bankers and Lawyers? Judges and Politicians? Are they innocent?
I inform people about the manufacture of unconventional weapons in order to give them a fighting chance against the overwhelming force of a Oppressive and Totalitarian Government.
In a violent revolution the people without ample artillery will be Cannon Fodder against the APCs and other instruments of death of the militarized and weaponized Police Forces.
And yes I will instruct homeless and "convicts" in those methods as well as I will instruct anyone else.
When 80% of what you call "convicts" have been incarcerated for minor Drug Offenses, "Disturbing the Peace", "Drunk in Public" or "Illegal Camping", then that does not mean that they do not have the right to protect themselves.
Since Government sees it fit to deprive them of their rights of Gun Ownership...well... Whom needs a gun? There are other alternatives and a lot more deadly than any gun can be.
Violent Revolution is an option to end the corruption.
And if the Government continues with their malfeasance then violent revolution will become an eventuality.
Knowledge is power. Do not forget it.
So in fact I have used those examples to demonstrate that the terrorist threat is a HOAX. If it were not a hoax, meant to manipulate the people by fear, then all of these can be accomplished with relative ease and minimal expense.
I couldn't agree more. I think anyone with a modicum of tactical training and a half-logical mind can see that terrorism is a construct designed to cow the people for the benefit of governments. It's obvious, isn't it? Besides the blatant benefits to government that every attack yeilds (more money, more guns, more power, more laws, more overreach, more "agencies"), all one has to do is ask why the "terrorists" never attack decision-makers, bureacrats, banksters, or heads of industry ... or their families? These are the people who embody everything we're told they "hate" about us - and the very ones who ultimately directly benefit from every "attack." These "people" (and I use the term loosely) aren't impervious or impossible to find - and as John Malkovich's character in "In the Line of Fire" said, "Anyone can be gotten to - all you have to do is be willing to trade your life for theirs" - and the last time I checked, it seemed that "terrorists" were lining up to trade their lives for .... well .... aparently to benefit the very "evil" they say they're fighting against. One would think that they'd figure it out at some point and change tactics ... if they weren't useful idiots/patsies, that is.
To be clear, I'm not advocating violence against anyone, just pointing out that the narrative we're sold doesn't make any sense.
I should also point out that I'm talking about "domestic terrorism." You'll notice the distinction between "terrorism" here and, say, in Iraq. In Iraq, the "terrosts" DO attack bureacrats, police, etc - those that are cooperating with the imperialists. That's why bureacrats generally just land over there, poke their heads out of their planes for a photo op, and take off again ..... they don't want to get picked off.
Besides the blatant benefits to government that every attack yeilds (more money, more guns, more power, more laws, more overreach, more "agencies"), all one has to do is ask why the "terrorists" never attack decision-makers, bureacrats, banksters, or heads of industry ... or their families? These are the people who embody everything we're told they "hate" about us - and the very ones who ultimately directly benefit from every "attack."
I guess that it is the same reason that ISIL, the Levant, never attacks Israel.
As to Lore...who cannot figure me out...Maybe this will help.
I have a Personality Profile, like everybody else.
My psycholgist friend tells me that people with my personality are drawn into four basic occupations in life.
We become schoolteachers.
We become psychologists.
We become preachers, ministers.
Or we become Police Officers.
Now I have been a schoolteacher.
You admit that I am a preacher.
I do practice a bit of psychology on this forum.
But I have not yet been a cop.
But we hate injustice in all of its forms.
I hope that this gives you some clarification.
Case in point...51 years ago today JFK was shot in the head. It all went downhill from there.
Tall Tom - Why would you use an example of poison gas at a movie theater? Sorry, guess it may not have been a bomb but you just made your point for me without extensive searching. Other ZH'ers saw the same when you posted them I am sure.
As to disruption of the supply chain, can't you accomplish the same goals with using organized labor to do that without bombs?
If one was to use bombs would 't one use it on leadership at CFR or BIS that rules this world instead of a theater full of innocent people?
Last if I had such plans for CFR or BIS (I don't) do you really think I would publish it in advance?
Since you like to quote the bible, Christ disrupted a small moneychanging supply chain by overturning tables. He did not use a sword and start stabbing them and advised his disciples to only carry swords for self-defense.
You respond to my accusation with repeating concepts of justice people relate to but then suggest violent tactics that as history proves only causes larger loss of life by providing fire for police states to validate criminal behavior.
Your are too clever by half pal and certainly someone advocating actions that Christ himself did not advocate.
You see, predators go for the weak. That used to be foreign countries until enough wised up. Then they preyed on its own citizenship, the next weak target. Now that we'll pillaged such will seek a new weak group. People can check out and wise up to robberies so they don't become lunch.
The violence you advocate only prolongs the false justifications of why a police state is needed.
However, calling out criminal behavior at the top is a useful brake to slow the robberies and educate for personal posterity, that is called adding value. Bloodying the nose using a targeted approach of certain individuals should always be the last step when right now, a small minority is just starting to call the criminals what they are which is step one.
Using Strawman arguments will not score you points.
As I wrote beforehand it is an EXAMPLE of what a potential terrorist can do. That target would be of minimal strategic value. Terrorism is small and short sighted.
Because events like that do not happen then one can infer that there are no terrorists in the USA. Thus the threat is a HOAX.
All of the security measures are unnecessary. All of the illegal suspensions of US Citizen Civil Rights are unnecessary. All of those privacy incursions are unnecessary.
They will be ineffective....TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE.
You post a strawman argument.
I will continue to expose the malfeasance of Government.
I will continue to expose the terrorst threat hoax.
I will continue to educate people.
Besides I am not out to put the brakes on. The brakes on this runaway freight train have failed long ago.
When the brakes fail and the only control device left is the accelerator then it is pedal to the metal.
There is no fixing it. THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS. You serve to demonstrate that.
I prefer peaceful revolution. In fact I advocate that people withdraw and opt out.
But violent revolution seems to be inevitable. Thus people need prepare for that eventuality too.
Good day.
Tall Tom - I am not calling you out for exposing corruption of encouraging people to opt out. I am calling you out for mixing in commentary on how to blow up infrastructure or poison theaters.
I stated what tactics I would use to stop predation. It is called withdrawing labor and making the wolf find a new lunch. Tactics are not "straw men".
You also were bitching about the arrow voting system because you said it discouraged debate. Well here I am mister 'blow up a theater but preach the gospel' fucktard.
Tall Tom is talking about last steps. I don't hear him ADVOCATING violence. I don't advocate violence, but do believe in self defense if violence does break out. I also understand and appreciate how effective guerrilla warfare can be. Let's hope it never comes to that, but the Scout motto comes to mind - "Be Prepared"
Any student of history soon learns that violence is ultimately required to overthrow tyrants. Those with power do not surrender it until forced to. With every new election, the U.S. seems to move closer to tyranny. If you don't feel the screws tightening, you aren't paying attention.
11b40 - You must have missed Tall Tom's previous comments in other threads about blowing up or poisoning a movie theater. He makes lots of liberty minded commentaries, mixes in the bible and then every so offen talks about murdering civilians.
The CFR and BIS run the world. They have lots of events and opportunity to use guerilla warfare on them. Tall Tom doesnt suggest that at all. Tall Tom posts incidental comments on blowing up civilians and that is what I am calling him on.
Violent revolutions have zero chance of success in this age. Ghandi, Christ and the Soviets had it right. When you cant get ahead because your leadership have become bandits you pretend to work, work part time and pursue other interests so the wolves find a new lunch. So Tall Tom responds and does say he encourages people to opt-out on THIS thread.
But as stated, he pops up with a 'blow up civilians' statement every so often. It wasnt a one time incident either. The user Lore noticed as well and others I am sure and those who have should also speak up!
Raging Debate;
"I can't tell if your undercover law enforcement or a bona-fide nut job."
Or both.
Anyone who actually cares about the ratio of up or down arrows on any comment is a child. Its the information content that matters and whether reading it is just a polemic and thus a waste of time.
The military spending during the Reagan adminstration was the best investment ever made: it ended the cold war and led to the freedom of Eastern Europe. The people of East Germany, Poland etc. would not agree with you that this was wasted spending.
I hope people know enough about the roles of the branches of government to evaluate the spending in any presidents term by who controls the budget (hint: its not the president-its the party in charge of the house). The president can only sign or veto a budget. Pelosi et al get full credit for Obama's deficit, while Tip O'Neill's house that of Reagan.
The military spending during the Reagan adminstration was the best investment ever made: it ended the cold war and led to the freedom of Eastern Europe. The people of East Germany, Poland etc. would not agree with you that this was wasted spending.
Not to be a dick, but....... It was not military spending by the US that led to freedom. It was the spending (or not, depending on where you were) that led to the fall of the soviet empire, which led to the freedom of the Eastern States.
Nailed it. It was Soviet spending.
With respect to Reagan, people forget the sequence of events of his early presidency:
1) Reagan crafts a plan of tax cuts and budget cuts.
2) he is told that the best way to pass this plan is to split it into two pieces; get the tax cuts passed first, then submit the budget cuts and get them passed.
3) Reagan gets shot by the son of a Bush family friend
4) Reagan, during his recovery from gunshot wounds, suddenly gets amnesia about the budget-cut half of the plan
5) The tax cuts pass congress and get signed into law, and everyone forgets about the budget cuts that were part of the original plan.
Reagan the man, was a real conservative. Unfortunately his presidency was hijacked right from the get-go.
6) The Bush White House, with Reagan as the acting President, abandons all of the Economic Reform Campaign promises, including a return to the Gold Standard.
No sir. I did not forget that...any of it.
But while that may mitigate Reagan's complicity, and I am certain that a bullet to the chest would have been found evidence enough for an acquittal of that complicity...as he was forced under the pain of death to comply...there was another alternative.
Knowing what he knew after that point...Reagan needed to resign after he was shot and not run for a Second Term. That would have exposed the assasaination plotter, Bush...you know...one heartbeat away from the Presidency...the one with the motive as he stood as the one with the most to gain...you know???
But Reagan did not and so the fraud was continued to be imposed upon the public. Junior was just declared Mentally Ill and "obsessed" with Jodie Foster. Bush walks scot free and able to run the White House in secret.
(John Hinckley Senior was not just a Bush Family friend but an Oil Magnate. And Junior...He was a student at Yale actively dating Jodie Foster.)
Maybe Reagan should have resigned, but it wouldn't have accomplished a thing, as Bush simply would have even more power. If he had claimed that Bush had had him shot, the media would have made him look like a lunatic.
Reagan learned then what we all know now: you can't change the system from the inside.
I suppose if he had resigned he would have retained his personal integrity, but the argument could be made that he did more good at that point by staying where he was. Or, maybe not. We can never know.
Yes. I will agree with that.
This is just so sad.
One could make that argument, but that absolutely flies in the face of small government fiscal conservatism, that the righty-tighties constantly peddle.
This is why I have no respect for people with this ideology, because they are hypocrites and full of crap.
They decry "socialism" all day long 'til the cows come home, yet when their demigod does it, it's for freedom on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
The right tighties brag about freedoms in Eastern Europe, meanwhile their boy Bush and his cronies literally hired Markus Wolf of the East German Stasi as a consultant to help set-up the Zionist ran and controlled DHS. The Republican Neocons brought the Iron Curtain here after 9/11. They are such hypocrites and liars that they make me sick.
"One could make that argument, but that absolutely flies in the face of small government fiscal conservatism, that the righty-tighties constantly peddle."
You're confused, Doc. True conservatives (your so called "righty-tighties) have no problem with federal spending that is authorized by the US Constitution. Defense spending is one of those allowances. If the federal government limited its scope and resulting expenditures to what the Constitution allowed, then the size of the US government would never be a problem.
The real problem is almost every president the US has ever had since Teddy Roosevelt has been, to one degree or another, a statist-loving liberty-hating leftist (regardless of whether they're identified as an R or D). Ronald Reagan was the closest president we had since then to being an exception to the rule.
The military spending during the Reagan adminstration was the best investment ever made: it ended the cold war and led to the freedom of Eastern Europe.
So you are telling me that it had absolutely nothing to do with the Soviet Incursion into Afghanistan and the Saudi move to flood the World with Oil?
Of course the former Soviet Economy was just as dependent upon Oil income as the Russian Federation Economy is today
(That is why Oil Prices are declining. The Saudis have flooded the World Market to put strain on the Russian Federation's main source of revenue. It is the same tactic at a different time for different means.).
So you mean to tell me that the Soviet Insolvency and subsequent Collapse was not due to their own misallocation of funds and the Economic Flaws inherent in that Socialist system?
Sorry. People are personally responsible for what they do. That includes the Soviets.
The president can only sign or veto a budget. Pelosi et al get full credit for Obama's deficit, while Tip O'Neill's house that of Reagan.
Sorry. As you wrote the President can either sign the budget or veto it. Ronald Reagan decided to sign Tip O'Neil's budgets. He is just as culpable.
Again people are personally responsible for that which they do. Only a socialist will suggest otherwise.
The US santized version of the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union is taken at face value
here on ZH. I don't know why.
Its no more true than the 'history' of Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, or 9/11 being accepted at face value.
The Soviets were goaded into that imperial graveyard by the US, who then made exactly the same mistake
with their own hubris not long after.
There is a lot more to the real story.
That the Soviet were goaded into Afghanistan by the USA? No. I do noy buy that.
The USA was very weak in late 1979. Gold was soaring to its January, 1980 peak. We were in a deep financial crisis. The Oil Shortage of the summer of 1979 had left the public demoralized. The takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran happened in Novenmeber, 1979. So they took advantage and invaded in December, 1979.
I think that the Soviet Union's leadership saw a veru weak and ineffective President in Jimmy Carter. They saw a great opportunity to take Afghanistan without NATO resistence.
No. Taking Afghanistan was an attempt to seize the Natural Resources of Afghanistan. It is a Mineralogical Paradise. It has Rare Earth Metals and raw materials in abundance, all pristine and not that exploited. Mining Interests alone would make a jewel thief's heart drool with unabashed greed. (Actually some of the finest Gem Tourmaline and Beryl come out of Afghanistan. I own some of that wealth.)
No...The Soviets saw an advantage. They took it. They failed. We saw the same advantage with a weakened and bankrupt Russian Federation in 2003. So we took it, for the same reasons, and we failed.
(Actually it is kind of funny that these backwards people defeated Superpowers using asymettrical warfare. That just gives me some hope that the Oligarchy can be defeated.)
Yes there is quite a bit to that saga.
Hope I filled in some of the missing pieces for you. NATURAL RESOURCES.
Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. Alexander the great got his ass kicked there too. Why don't people learn. And, it also gives me hope that the oligarchy can be defeated. If mud hut dwellers with aks can do it, redneck hunters with 30-06s can do it too.
According to Reuters President Peace is ramping up Afghanistan now too.
The problem is, is that those redneck hunters are typically Christian Zionists with neocon political beliefs. They would defend the oligarchy and MIC, not fight it. Heck they probably even worked for it too.
>Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.
The only reason any place becomes a graveyard for an empire is that you didn't kill off the native population. If this upsets you that I might mention genocide so casually, it's because it works. There are no future generations tocome back to fight you for the next ten generations. This is not rocket science, but historical fact.
168 grains @ 2850fps = Freedom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
Notice the chart, and how low production was just prior to US invasion. Cleary, Prez Dope and Strange doesn't want production to fall off again. The Muslim Taliban banned it when they were in power.
This is how the Soviets were taken down and 9/11 was the culmination of that story according to this researcher (it rings true).
"911 was the culmination of many years, almost a decade, of dismantling the Soviet Union and crashing the Soviet economy which required a great deal of money and a great deal of money laundering. This money, 240 billion dollars, created by the Federal Reserve as Brady Bonds, better known as bearer bonds, became due on September 12th, 2001. The events of 911 allowed the Federal Reserve, for the first time in history, to disregard US federal securities laws for just ten days, from September 12th until about September 22nd. During this time ALL securities trades were ANONYMOUS for the first and only time in US history, allowing the $240 billion in fraudulent bonds to clear.
For more on this see:
Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Working Paper 03-16, December 23, 2003."
https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-prager/quotes-you-havent-heard-related-to-911/499845364837
That is a fascinating post. Thanks!
Reagan did veto 3 spending bills out of the box in his first term. The first two of these were not overturned as he hadn't been in office that long and there used to be a bit of a honeymoon period when a new president would be granted some deference to the mandate of their election (and the GOP narrorly held the Senate).
The third veto was overturned, meaning Reagan couldn't stop it from happening. After that, the writing was on the wall and his administration tried to work with O'Neill and the Senate to keep spending lower than it would have otherwise been. You can see this by comparing the budget submitted by the President with what the House passed as their version and then with what was enacted.
Subsequent elections didn’t help his position at all in these early days. In fact, O’Neill went from having a 50 vote majority in that first term to having a 103 vote majority in the very next term.
The truth is more complicated and nuanced than this, of course, but Reagan was never going to be able to draw and hold a hard line on social / domestic spending if he wanted to get the military projects and foreign policy he wanted. If you don’t remember the early 80’s and feeling that the Soviets were an evil people who wanted to invade and nuke us as soon as they could, then all of this is hard to understand. And yes, without question, some of the people in Reagan’s inner circle are responsible for us feeling that way.
The soviets were the terrorists of the early 80s. I was in my early teens then and ate that shit up. The soviets were no more capable then than al cia da is now. And, this time I know where to place my fears.
Oh I agree. I remember movies like Red Dawn and Rocky 4 and loving kicking Commie ass, too.
Reagan was loved because he was a spendthrift.
He increased Defense Spending and cut taxes which endeared him to his Republican Base. He allowed Government to grow and Social Programs to grow unabated which endeared him to the Democrats.
He borrowed $1.6 Trillion over 8 years to accomplish that. It ensured his 1984 re-election.
He abandoned his small government ideology. David Stockman, Reagan's OMB Director, resigned in disgust.
Yet he is Lionized as a DemiGod.
I first watched this in the 70's(made in '66).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/?ref_=nv_sr_1
And don't forget that small detail of an almost successful assassination attempt on Reagan fairly early in his presidency, most likely carried out by the same folks that did the Kennedys.
IMHO Reagan was a true blue conservative but discovered early on that the Presidency is a puppet post.
Paul Craig Roberts high opinion of Reagan as a person would tend to confirm this view...
John_Coltrane
Russia does not have the 'Global Reserve Currency' (debt/counterfeited money) called US dollar.
Russia, and pretty much the whole world, has to earn these dollars, by selling their resources and/or labor.
You need to stop drinking the propaganda that brainwashes and the education that indoctrinates.
The military spending during the Reagan adminstration was the best investment ever made: it ended the cold war and led to the freedom of Eastern Europe. The people of East Germany, Poland etc. would not agree with you that this was wasted spending.
It expanded the US MIC and accelerated the slavery of ZATO vassals everywhere.
"And that is an indisputable and documented fact."
BS, Tall Tom. If you believe that, then you know nothing.
There are no "facts' anymore. All data, historical and current is manipulated, obscured, and spun into lying statistics and statistical lies.
The ruling class has perfected the art of Spin to such a degree that solutions to any/all issues work or don't work because of, messaging, not best practices.
All political parties are just different gangs, brothers to the cartels; interested in feathering their nests and protecting only their own and those with the feathers.
Americans know there is only one solution. We are afraid of the destruction it will bring here, and everwhere else.
Those that rule will not go peacefully; into the night.
what is the biggest historical distortion according to you ?
Well Tortuga the only clue that I have is that I have not a clue.
While I will agree that today's numbers are fiction, yesterday's numbers were not as much of a fiction as today's.
They may spin today's numbers but they have not yet totally changed the historical database. Books in the past were written including the same data. Those numbers have not changed.
So I disagree that ALL data, historical and current is manipulated. This does not mean that some is. Today's Government does manipulate much more data than it has in the past but you can still dig out the truth in some of today's data. (That is how we know that they are LYING.).
I agree that the major Political Parties are two wings of one vulture. That is a point which I make. It was the same 40 years ago as it is today. But there are the disenfranchished parties which are loose knit and beheld to nobody. Of course they are insignificant in the scheme of things. But they do exist.
And what one solution do you have in mind? I do not fear the inevitable. I can see it as clearly as you. If you have read anything which I have wrote then it is clear that I believe that THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS.
Violent Revolution is not a solution but a capitulation and resignation to the fact that there are no solutions...Yet I do not fear it. I will, in all liklihood, be one of the first casualties.
So I refuse to live in fear...of both Government and the Hungry Hordes.
I have been writing that a solution for yourself, which might work, is to take care of yourself and opt out as much as possible from this madhouse. There are no guarantees and the warranty is somewhat limited.
Reagan went into office promising to slash spending. Then Bush family friend John H. put a bullet in him. He changed his tune after that. CIA has been dealing drugs since Vietnam(early 60's).
What was the maximum % of GDP consumed by government under Reagan? Is it as high as Obama? Thought not.
Reagan at least gave a shit about freedom and America, President Pimp hates both. If you really think there is no difference between the parties, why not move to a liberal state and city? There's no difference. Oh, it's only the same nationally? Like where the left wants to disarm all non-criminals, but the right doesn't (not even a hint of it?)
here we go with the myth of evolution. considering this planet has supposedly been around for a few billion years and life walking the earth for hundreds of millions, can someone show me one, just one piece of hard evidence showing a species "evolving" into another species? many on here don't buy the lies those in power foist why should suck on this one?
I don't buy into the whole intelligent design vs. evolution debate, because I think both sides are wrong.
As complex as a question of "Where did it all come from?" why are humans reduced down to only two tents of thought?
It sounds just like the American political system. Humans cling to dualities.
My girlfriend a just a little bit pregnant....
Either she is pregnant or she is not.
Sometimes dualities are quite valid.
On the other hand an Intelligent Designer may have used evolution as a mechanism for selection of the fittest. That is not mutually exclusive.
Many times dualities are not valid but are employed as a setup for the False Dilemma Logical Fallacy.
here we go with the myth of evolution. considering this planet has supposedly been around for a few billion years and life walking the earth for hundreds of millions, can someone show me one, just one piece of hard evidence showing a species "evolving" into another species? many on here don't buy the lies those in power foist why should suck on this one?
How's that.
I evolved your red zero, to a red 1.
And, all knowledge and science is myth, until one has a toothach.
We Are Devo: D E V O
There is the larger context of the debasement of the US currency. The steady erosion of purchasing power slowly pushs people to and over the edge of hopelessness: lacking any incentive other than living for today, they do just that. One of the fundamentals of a stable society is the preservation of a stable unit of trade/commerce.
This is completely lost on people who think they are smart enough to debase a currrency without any effects on society. They are wrong.
These same people failed to realize that shipping jobs overseas on a wholesale basis didn't simply increase their profits - it destroyed the foundations of the society they lived in.
They know full well. It's just not in their nature to give a damn.
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
I disagree. They knew, They don't care. They got theirs.
Finally..... an intelligent post on this thread.
But another poster above was right also, these sorts of crimes are hardly new and statistically no worse now than say the 70s.
Bingo non left right paradigmers
"Those who possess a low level of cerebral control are more likely to reproduce and more likely to have more offspring when reproducing."
Only if a culture allows that to happen and all healthy cultures have built-in safeguards to prevent it.
That healthy (evolutionarily speaking) culture was deliberately dismantled from the 1920s onwards.
Nothing like a bit of eugenics to straighten out society eh.
As I understand it, natural selection operates at the level of the individual organism. So far as I know, Darwin never discussed any other level of operation. You guys are all talking about it operating at the level of society. Congratulations on your humanities degrees.
"As I understand it, natural selection operates at the level of the individual organism. So far as I know, Darwin never discussed any other level of operation."
Wrong!!
Read Origin of species and Descent of Man. Evolution is a group thing, not an individual thing.
11. A relatively benign group of muscle-less weaklings in expensive suits swarmed together in lower Manhattan. What started as simple petty theft has metastasized into a pulsating tumor of criminal activity that bankrupted the country and ruined millions of lives.
12.
Developers in cities sold houses that people insisted on being standardized. They had no front porches, but fenced in back yards. No one gave a goodly shit about knowing their neighbors. The seeds were sewn.
TV ended the front porch, just as radio and recording ended the piano.
It was a developer named John F Long who implemented that cookie cutter system. The irony is, his ultimate development Maryvale (which is now part of Phoenix, AZ) is now one of the most crime ridden areas of the country.
It went from an upper middle class area to a very low-income area in less time than it takes to pay off a home mortgage.
Urban sprawl has been such a disaster, I don't even know where to start on that topic, so we'll do that another day.
That's just a symptom. Here's the root cause. The beginning of the Welfare State.
Shelley vs. Kraemer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer
In collusions with the .01% in DC and it's suburbs.
RICO all banksters and their hores in politics, past and present.
...ruined billions of lives.
FIFY.
That, and it should be #1, not #11.
You got me.
No cerebral control and I "reproduce" at every opportunity.
Especially when Uncle Sugar pays them! That should have been first in the above list. Those other things are directly descended from this Welfare State.
Well folks that believe in ACA as a cost-free panacea will believe anything. Literally anything they are told.
Fact of matter is that you have already passed take-off sped and the wheels are off the tarmac ...so you (as a collective) will have to try to fly the damn thing , execute a go-around and land again. Tricky.
Make no mistake: IMHO in a world were a reputable alternative view to the MSM official line of what is going on is very scarce, ZH is important enough to gain the attention of Modor.
I do not doubt that the Deep State has been assigning more and more paid trolls to hijack and steer threads, turn them into personal grudge matches and all the other tricks of the misdirection trade.
To the trolls, please FOAD and may your death be a painful one.
Junction: I know that for many Amerikans it is still a shocker and they cannot accept that 9/11 was done by our own traitorous people and "Allies".
But after Veterans Day, when we supposedly honor veterans, I cannot believe that people are not more curious about why almost all the Seals who were involved in the Bin Laden strange assassination and body dumping have been killed--especially the ones who were all loaded into a 1960s era Huey and flown against all regulations straight over our "enemies" known location:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/10/families-fallen-navy-seals-in...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/09/lies-and-deceit-see-what-the-...
Why they can´t accept...?
Hate to repeat myself - but here it is again
Well folks that believe in ACA as a cost-free panacea will believe anything. Literally anything they are told.
Fact of matter is that you have already passed take-off sped and the wheels are off the tarmac ...so you (as a collective) will have to try to fly the damn thing , execute a go-around and land again. Tricky.
Cyber,
Have you heard groups of (or even a few) navy Seals, or Marines, or any troops sitting down in front of cameras for interviews in which they point this out? Have any of these brave heros fought back against tyranny.
They cannot and/or will not step out of line to defend or seek justice for their own, they will not assist the US citizens against tyranny either. They keep their heads down, their mouths shut and kill anyone they are told to kill. They would go door to door commiting genocide if ordered as long as it was not filmed.
Junction: I know that for many Amerikans it is still a shocker and they cannot accept that 9/11 was done by our own traitorous people and "Allies".
But after Veterans Day, when we supposedly honor veterans, I cannot believe that people are not more curious about why almost all the Seals who were involved in the Bin Laden strange assassination and body dumping have been killed--especially the ones who were all loaded into a 1960s era Huey and flown against all regulations straight over our "enemies" known location:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/10/families-fallen-navy-seals-in...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/09/lies-and-deceit-see-what-the-...
I found it really strange watching the "shooter of Bin Laden" the other evening. He was one cool customer for sure. Spoke like a politician - never quite answering the question; deflecting the question; downplaying his role. Is there a reason he wasn't on the downed helicopter?
Its clear to me he was trotted to reinforce the narrative that BIn Laden was actually killed in the raid.
Lie upon lie, all reinforcing themselves until you start seeing the inconsistencies and the supports on the fake Potemkin village.
Looks like you’ve got your mind right. Yes, one can never have enough chemicals sloshing around inside that orb, especially when doing “research” on the modern Gospel known as the internet, aka The Infallible Streaming Lame Media.
Can always count on Chindit to defend the old order. What do they give in return? First access to the latest pool of kidnapped children?
The dope dealers are in the White House. Both Clinton and the Bushes and probably Obama are drug kingpins bringing in drugs and then laundering the profits through the big "too big to fail" banks.
Rock on to the high school students. Rock on!
Absolutely. This shit is nothing new.
Progressivism waxes, civility and morality wane. If it feels good, do it.
..democraps are disrespectful, mean, nasty and outright liars to the extreme...
Why?
"For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12
That's why.
Is it that? No. It is much more than that. There is an endemic lack of TRUTH-FULL-NESS in our society. (I have just lost a ton of respect for Michael Synder. He is practicing truthiness...where the entire truth was not exposed.)
On #1... Did you know that Macpherson was ARRESTED by Witchita, Kansas police for assisting that rape victim? Do you know why?
His skin color. That man was VIOLated. It was an act of VIOLence
Yes shooting an unarmed petty thief for stealing candy (Twizzlers) is justice served as long as the skin color is off. In our social structure it is.
Violence waged against someone because of skin color is just a violation of another human being.
Of course violence begets violence. (Then many wonder why that rioting happens. They believe it to be an excuse to steal.
Of course when the Social Order breaks down and chaos happens THESE SAME SNOW WHITE PEOPLE plan to rob the stores around them. They will not call it stealing. They will call it "scavenging" in order to justify taking what does not rightfully belong to them.
Their hypocrisy is amazing. They are just as evil as the thieves in Ferguson. They are just as evil as that kid who stole a Twizzler bar.
They are so blind to their own evil....just like the cops whom arrested a good samaritan because of his skin color.
But even the meanings of words have been distorted in order to bring about the PR lie.
What you wrote is applicable to those whom know Christ. Many do not.
Man is inherently flawed and subject to the bondage of the sins of dishonesty, corruption, and even murderous hatred.
THe Christian is freed from that bondage and thus wages war against those authorities of unseen worlds.
But the reason why, which you seek, is that men, all men including Christians, are inherently flawed. All are deserving of death...even the Christian.
LOLz
Sophist...A practitioner of deception.
So you must be sophisticated. Well my musings just expose you.
Enjoy your look in the mirror.
"Sophists. Jerks for 2500 years and counting.
Empiricists. Being lynched yet ago for pointing out an actual piece of data to support a substantive claim."