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What a rude thing to do, to make such a movie in the first place. Hollywood seems to get ruder every year. Hollywood seems to have a privileged-rich-kid frat-boy, back-slapping, "well we got away with maliciously treating yet ANOTHER guy or group of people HA HA" mentality. And its twin-brother, MSM, touts to the max every rude Hollywood movie that teaches people to act meanly, selfishly, stupidly, irresponsibly, and even recklessly, as if life was just a big joke, because your rich daddy's lawyer can get you off if you get in trouble.
well SONY has had a lot of dirty laundry exposed, and you could say they have been satirized, made the subject of a movie about a dictatorial entertainment empire. (the news is the movie screen last time the news was the story) but its Citizen Kane redux, Orson Welles classic was a critique of Hearst (and it was also the War of Worlds radio broadcast hysteria, people thought it was real, when it was entertainment). Welles was a johnny come lately to the film industry tacking on to his counterpart in the older newspaper industry. he was charles foster kane (newspapers, films, its all entertainment to me), he kept his producers in the dark, Welles and the crew had a baseball and they all started playing catch when the producers came on the set. hacking is another way of digging up the dirt on someone, and now potus is involved, but FDR was never going to come to Hearts rescue to finish that thought. and besides Barry likes his yellow journalism (did you see anyone from Cuba in that press annoucement saying they were ready to reestablish diplomatic ties with the US?) remember the Maine. meanwhile Yellen is the general in the american leaders continuing use of economic warfare, mostly against the lower classes. the new cold war is government against the people. the sooner we all admit we love vlad putin and we are communists at heart the sooner this cold war can get going, (huge profit machine for the 1% connected) have a find holiday, and if your own sentiments about impeaching the president are constantly frustrated by a lack of any reasonable chance of that happening, assuage them with alcohol, in the holiday spirit.
I don't know who you are WilliamBanzai7, but I love you for your expression in this deceptive human delusion. YOU ARE THE BEST. Every winter solstice cheer to you. Master.
Whenever I see headlines like this, somehow, WB7 artwork pops in my head. The following back to back headlines appeared at Breitbart...
President Obama: Sony ‘Made a Mistake,’ Should Have Called Me First…
…Sony: Um, We Did-------------------
I can see a Sony light projecting the 'O' logo on the clouds over Gotham City!
From Cryptome:
Sony Pictures Presents: the Propaganda Model
The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On
By Bill Blunden, December 19, 2014
A few days ago both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal cited anonymous officials who
claimed that North Korea was responsible for the recent cyberattack on Sony. These agenda-setting
elements of the press conveyed the information without question, despite the fact that the evidence
provided has been (as journalist Kim Zetter put it) flimsy. Contemplating the corresponding headlines is
instructive. Check them out below:
As I wrote in the Times back in September of 2014, sophisticated anti-forensic technology is actively
being developed by both American intelligence services and private sector companies. To think that
other countries aren't doing the same is naive. False flag attacks are standard spy tradecraft.
Furthermore high ranking, ostensibly credible, national security officers like Keith Alexander, James
Clapper, and John Brennan have demonstrated the tendency to lie to the American public. Not small
innocent lies but rather colossal brazen lies. Lies regarding essential constitutional rights. Why, pray tell,
should we trust what we've been told by officials?
Your author contacted Zetter to offer the proverbial high-five and she voiced her frustration about the
complete lack of skepticism by reporters like Sanger and Perlroth. Blind acceptance is part of the miracle
of modern propaganda. As Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman described in their classic text
Manufacturing Consent the large multinational corporations that constitute the mainstream press are
able to frame debate and control the acceptable boundaries of public discourse by leveraging an
impressive messaging apparatus which burns through literally hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Of course this isn’t the only instance in which the stalwarts of the corporate media have botched their
job as society’s watchdogs. Anyone following what’s happening over in Ukraine will also notice an
astounding groupthink on behalf of the press corp. What’s painted as Russian expansion is also a NATO
expansion. Putin is responding to Western incursion. Even an establishment figure like Henry Kissinger
admits as much (and when a guy like Kissinger starts making sense it’s a sign that something is seriously
amiss).
All of this underscores the role of modern propaganda as an incredible tool of social control, a textbook
application of the science of coercion. The public is so distracted with celebrity gossip, mindless
entertainment, wildly inflated alleged national security threats, and empty consumption that they fail to
recognize the unraveling of our social fabric. Officials hyperventilate over an obscure contingent of
jihadists while disregarding far greater, but less spectacular, threats.
Sadly the countervailing ideologies and organizations that served to keep capitalism in check in the
aftermath of World War II have dwindled. Hence the plutocrats who funded the neoliberal revolution
have a captive audience and they’re free to kick and beat the rest of us with relative impunity, while
sanctioned policies like Quantitative Easing and offshoring allow them to swallow up nearly all economic
gains.
And to think that former NSA director Keith Alexander had the audacity to claim that Chinese cyber
espionage entailed the greatest transfer of wealth in history? Never mind the trillions spent on the selfperpetuating
military conflict in the Middle East.
As inequality grows and the global climate becomes less habitable, the immiseration of the average Joe
will inevitably lead to mobilization. The ruling class is well aware of what happened to French aristocrats
in the eighteenth century. To save themselves from a similar fate they will switch the cogs of the Mighty
Wurlitzer into high gear to give voice to popular discontent and subsequently co-opt emerging
movements. That’s how fascism normally works. Mass interception will also be employed to identify
activists and independent thinkers who see through the deluge of clever propaganda. Likewise a
militarized police force guided by programs like Garden Plot will be waiting in the wings as a last resort.
When this juncture is reached, where a critical mass of people are angry enough to take action, the
likelihood of a positive outcome will depend in part upon people acquiring access to alternative sources
of accurate information. In this way organizations can foster accountability and properly apply the
sustained pressure necessary to alter large systems. Looking out over a media landscape flooded by
corporate money and an endless series of murky deep-pocketed foundations, a modest self–funded
outfit at 251 West 89th Street is an encouraging sign: Season’s Greetings Cryptome.
Bill Blunden is an independent investigator whose current areas of inquiry include information security,
anti-forensics, and institutional analysis. He is the author of several books, including The Rootkit Arsenal
and Behold a Pale Farce: Cyberwar, Threat Inflation, and the Malware-Industrial Complex. Bill is the lead
investigator at Below Gotham Labs.
As much as I dislike the idea of anyone's privacy being hacked, the complacency and/or complicity of the entertainment industry in promoting spy agencies, copyright fascism and people like DoucheDodd and Fuckstein, lead me to say to Sony Entertainment et al: Go Fuck Yourselves
+1000 Lumberjack.
You are absolutely correct.
This wisdom has been true before written history...it is timeless and applies very much to today.
A lot of people are rootin for Putin and the Brics gold standard.
My instinct is it is a trick of the globalist elites...a manufactured fall back.
Problem - Crisis - Solution - Classic Bait and Switch.
Don't fall for this folks, the gold standard has been used AGAINST the common people throughout history.
Let me explain, it is about WHO controls a currency and the QUANTITY of it.
Let me illustrate.
Talley sticks worked very well for over 700 years, NO GOLD was involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
History of Central Banks and why we must End the Federal Reserve
Part 1 (48 B.C. - 1791)
http://whispersfromtheedgeoftherainforest.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-of-central-banks-part-1-48-bc_11.html
Part 2 (1791- 1865)
http://whispersfromtheedgeoftherainforest.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-of-central-banks-part-2-1791.html
Part 3 (1865- 1913)
http://whispersfromtheedgeoftherainforest.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-of-central-bankers-part-3.html
This award winning film explains our true monetary history.
Bill Still “The Secret of OZ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyGn7F6tmg
DO NOT WORSHIP THE GOLDEN CALF.
That means central bankers, and countries that have the gold, such as russia, china, india, middle east countries, etc. If we willingly go along with this we are Fukishima-ed.
“The Federal Reserve is now a government within a government. It is totally out of control. Congress doesn't control it. It's funded by the banks and we either have constitutional government or we don't."
I believe this distinction about gold is the Key to our true freedom Lumberjack, WB7. -ZH'rs don't want to hear it, and that tells me that the propaganda is working...
End debt money.
Scrappy
Scamdolf is now actively seeking the ring, with all of her powers.
Sauron is also seeking it. Who these players are in the real world is up to you to decide.
Frodo is fucked.
The ring is gold, he who controls it...
on the feat jag.
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zh5oMJo3co
Fat Man in The Bathtub - Little Feat LIVE
Little Feat?
Live album Waiting for Columbus
Mercenary Territory for me.
(can't do links)
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8
.
Easy Money - Lowell George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcW8eruxhbc
.
all the scams, as old as the hills,
never sounded so sweet as from lowell george.
.
"..easier it looks, the harder it hooks,
there ain't no such thing as easy money." l.g.
The United States' a non-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs, no women, unless, of course, you're married. No guns, no foul language, no red meat.
No growing your own.
Easy To Slip by Little Feat (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAtYCDKWrvA
.
this is how i take my temperature.
.
Little Feat "Rock and Roll Doctor" 1977 Sound Check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLFkSJr-PBE
Dr Bernankes inserts, 401K hurt? try these self leviatating stock market cushions, you'll be gellin' like Yellen,
Haha,
I remember that one.
"You gellin?"
"I'm gellin like Yellin."
"All in and strapped tight to go to the Moon."
Dr. William Schol only had a measly M.D. Not a like a real Doctor with PhD Economics /sarc
i read Hussmans critique of Fishers suggestion that they remove the language considerable, and they reduce the monetary base (somehow) theres always someone who doesnt get it, in this case Fisher, this isnt a machine you tinker with, you eitehr print / monetize bonds in a sizable number to keep the politicians going, or you dont, and the later is not a choice. yellen is here to spout the occassional homily to the poor. but something else Hussman said, the Fed is no longer part of the banking community and i have to agree with that, they are foursquare a cabinet office now under secretary of treasury, or the other way around depending on your outloolk. yellen is a political appointee, and i also feel that if the stock market starts spiraling down, that obama will expect here to make it all better, whether she can or not, i believe she will say no, and that will cause some problems. why would she say no, she thinks shes really the independent head of something.
" as I have been told."
For the Tolkien nerds I'm pretty sure the "fool" Gandalf was referring to was Tom Bombadil. For finance nerds, the hope is that there is somebody on the "good" side is even more powerful than "Scamdolf" Well done William!
The Douche is strong in that one, Obi-Banzai.
Scamdolk and the seven retards a hummin and hummin towards oblivion.
Fa-la-la-la-la-la...la-la.
The Plunge In Oil Prices Will Bring This To An End, We Are In The Wile E Coyote Phase Of This Wealth Destruction. Gravity Is A Bitch:http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-plunge-in-oil-prices-will-bring-this-...
12_17_2014 / Jeff Nielson: Currency Wars, World wars, and False flags in 2015?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4fJ9hnsCDo
Gravity ain't a bitch, VG, It Is The Law. It's OK as a law, but the minimum sentencing guidelines are the bitch.
(Cub and Paraglider Pilot)
That's what happens when you breath too much printer ink.
A 1952 Indian but I would not have done anything to that bike. You ruin some of the history by doing a restoration. What the guy says is interesting though. If you are in sales or in a marriage don't say what that guy said.
Love the football helmet on Fonda's bike. I was looking at Harley's for sale last night but I don't know if I want to get into that shtick again because you can have an "unfortunate accident" at any time. In my eternal search for more information I discovered this which I found interesting.(read the text below the video) Basically the Feds went after the Mongol MC and lost in court.
I guess the thugs in .gov do not like competition from other thugs.
I gave up bikes when my kids were born. More recently I have noticed the Japanese are doing reproductions of vintage bikes and some of them look rather tempting.
You don't need another bike. If you had one when you were young, your experiential IQ is demonstrably superior just by the fact that you survived. But you don't need to plod that track again.
The global mx marketing criminals target badass geezers like you who have money, and vastly outnumber young males who hold their police state endowed transportation privileges as insecure.
You are the WilliamBanzai7 moon that levels the cesspools and mulch piles of the world. What does it mean, to be a god? David never understood.
You are at least more a footnote in history than Obama will ever be.
The way they are headed, we need to etch WB7 into some rocks.
Let me assure you my days of stuff are through and long gone.
If Honda would make the CB-305 Super Hawk again, that would be nice.
To really understand bikes, you need:
4 cylinders, 16 valves, min 600ccs, red line starts >12000 rpm, ie. 100 ponies or more
If >900 ccs, red line starting > 10000 rpm, ie 150 ponies or more
Dry weight < 250kg
eg:
Suzuki GSXR 600, 750, 1000, Hayabusa (1300)
Yamaha R6, R1
Kawasaki ZX6, ZX7, ZX9, ZX12
Honda CBR 600, 900, 1000 (FireBlade), CBR1100XX
(I've ridden some but not all of them)
but yeah, respect what you've got: minimum 100 ponies pulling you along. For those who have not had practise, those are not the bikes for you.
For newbies:
Start with a small dirt bike (i.e 50 - 100 ccs), take the thing out bush, make all your mistakes at low speed - pick up your bike, keep on riding. Riding on dirt scares the shit out of you so you won't mind riding slow on something gutless -->> crashes result in only minor injuries. Get on the road with 250ccs for about a year. Then go for the four cylinder 16 valve 100+ horses 600ccs. Those things are insane and you'll have a stupid grin on your face all day. Yes they are dangerous - but hey, people die at work and in cars and they never get to ride motorbikes. Be careful. Everyone else on the road IS an idiot and you have to make room for them. But with 600+ccs you'll never feel like a sitting duck. Instead of using the extra power to squeeze through tighter gaps, just use it to make more room for yourself on the road.
Once you've had your fun on the 600s / 750s, when you're sick of the low power at low revs when fully loaded (eg pillion passenger), then go for the 1000+ ccs.
Note that 1000+cc bikes can feel quite tame at legal speeds (even as you drag everyone else off) because you don't even have to change gears till you hit 110+km/h ( 68+mph ). They dance in the top half of the rev range, so if you're just putting around town or in a real twisty road, the smaller bikes will be in the top half of the rev range (plus they're lighter) and really sing while the bigger bikes will be in the low half of the rev range plus you'll still have their extra weight.
Once you get luggage and pillions, or go for long road trips, you'll appreciate the extra power in the 1000cc+ (and once you've tasted that power, it's hard to go back), but if you do go back to 600ccs, you'll notice how light they really are. Cornering will be difficult because you're used to the extra weight and it'll feel like you're trying to fling the 600cc bike onto the ground - it'll feel like you've forgotten how to ride. That's why I don't recommend going straight from 250cc to 1000cc. You actually will miss out on learning some bike skills and having some fun if you go straight to 1100s. 600s and 750s have an important place in the world - they still go like the clappers but they're light and nimble too.
If you want to learn to pop wheelies, get a Ducati or any 90 degree V-Twin (eg, Suzuki TL 1000, Honda VTR 1000) or a dirt bike (eg Kwaka KLR 650). 90 degree V-Twins give you a lot of control for popping wheelies. 4 cylinders can easily pop wheelies but they're very hard to control. Actually, if you're only learning then get a small dirt bike (eg 125 ccs) and just make sure the thing is balanced / geared to easily get the front wheel off the ground. Another thing you need to learn at low speed so you don't crush / kill yourself too soon. And, of course, a special mention goes to the KTM SuperDuke (90 degree V-Twin 990ccs). If you get a SuperDuke and you TRY really, really hard and ride it really, really carefully, then you should be able to keep the front wheel on the ground!
Thank you.
CB 400 T was mine, gave it up a long time ago.
Folks in cars and 18 wheelers almost took me out.
4 cylinders? Must have been smooth. I had forgotten them. Next, I think, Honda went to the CB750, which led to the Gold Wing, which is still around. I wanted both the CB400 and the CB750, but both came after enough people almost killed me that I decided I better quit.
Other than putting one's life at risk, though, it was great having a vehicle that could take one for hundreds-of-mile trips and yet have tiny fuel and repair bills, and could also take one down dirt and sand and potholed roads too. IMHO, motorcycles are definitely a wonderful invention.
Yes they are William. But that is not my style. I want old school because we are old school. There is one that I have never done with my wife of eleven years that I want her to do with her and that is to get on a motorcycle and ride. Her aversion is related to the fact her uncle died in a motorcycle accident when she young and she liked him. She does not know the circumstances of what happened and she only knows that she will never ride on motorcycle. The woman has never riden bitch...ever. She only says that we will both die if we ride on a motorcycle. I doubt that with as many mile as I have driven on a motorcycle.
She does not understand how different it is on a motorcycle. Here is the road right there beneath your feet just inches away. There is just more to riding than driving a car: you get to sense the temperature fluctuations, you smell things that miss in a car. Where are the bugs and should I close my mouth?
There was a guy in Shanghai ten years ago doing vintage BMWs with a side car. Apparently there were enough in Shanghai to start a small business. Recently, I saw one in Hong Kong. Very cool set of wheels particularly if you have a hottie in the side car.
That is cool William. It sounds like we all want to ride again. I would have no sidecar. Either ride bitch or I will ride alone. I would rather ride alone. If she don't like it that is too bad. Before I married that woman I had done some serious riding and we got to Michigan and then the cops pulled us over. We were riding air in the hair. I was the leader of the group and so I got to talk to the cops. "YOU ALL NEED TO WEAR A HELMET IN MICHIGAN". That is as dumb as a seatbelt laws are. Is a helmet really going to help you if you crash at 70 MPH on a motorcycle? I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IF THAT HAPPENS. It's a brain bucket.
When you ride you ride. You take the risks even if it is a legit group of guys. Can you draw us up a ZH leather cut design William? There is a code of honor.
All I will be riding from here on in is the Minibus...and screwing around with vehicles is one thing I do not miss.
I hear you there William.
Same here (gave it up) though considerably sooner than being a dad, too many stupid moves on my part...lol...it wasn't so much a concern for myself (I healed quick enough) but I rode it like that with the future Mrs.N on the back, in retrospect, totally uncool but man did we have fun.
Now, the itch comes again.
The price of my responsibilities to them are almost over, for me to be only responsible to myself...is priceless to me.
No one who has ever ridden will ever understand that ;-)
I lost one of my favorite teachers in high school to a bike accident. He was riding a Honda Cub and got nailed by a cement truck. Then I have another friend who maimed his right arm for life. Another acquaintance who almost killed himself and another who did.
That was enough for me to rethink biking. But the times I rode are fond memories.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean.
When I was teaching squire to drive I told him nothing prepares you to drive like riding a motorcycle. You get the mindset that at every intersection, every driveway, every front yard, behind & in every parked car...there is someone or something lurking there, waiting to kill you. Thats the way I rode, expecting it, watching for it, in retrospect, trying to create it at times...I saw it eventually and freely admit it now.
At third to half throttle most of the time, so it became an odds game at some point that I had to stop. Cops chasing me through back yards, the fortuitous lowering of my head to the handle bars just as an unseen clothesline whips across the crown of my helmet (how does one define fate or providence?), the not waiting in a traffic jam to get off Pass-a-Grille beach and sliding down the side past all those trapped cars and agitated people and then timing the green light from four car legths back, I rode them hard and the way I wanted to, legalities and fairness or propriety be damned.
Death or injury arrives on its own timeline, I almost lost my leg (showing off-didn't go to the hospital for the burns-till gangrene started), hurt the chick on the back as well that time (broken ankle, not the future Mrs,N)...that started to break me down, mellow me out, at least when I had someone on the back...then I finally stepped off.
I can't say for sure if it was my own immaturity at the time (then in my teens & twenties) or my rebellious zest for life in every risk I took or what it was but I do miss that feeling.
Maybe now I can control it ;-)
My wife and I recently rented a scooter in Indian Rocks and rode down to Pass-a-grille and back up to Clearwater. Not as exciting as your story. Our adventure reminded me of a Viagra or Cialis commercial.
lol...I'm 99% positive it would be that way with Mrs.N and I.
I won't know about "just me" until I get on one again ;-)
Just like berry's, got to love um all.
It's the brotherhood aspect that I like so much. I'm done with drugs and ever selling any more and have been done with that for many years now. I sold my bike in 2012 after it sat around for ten years or more. I do want to ride again but maybe just for about ten miles or so but I have this bad feeling that I would want to ride for hundreds of miles for no reason other than to be free. I think that is where is your itch comes from nmewn. We are already in an MC and it is called ZeroHedge.
all the illgotten gains from the santa claus rally are hidden in the gas tank, they're safe there i am sure, though i never saw the end of this movie, how does it turn out?
yup
"Fly Print you fools!"