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Apocalypse Now & Forever

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Submitted by James H Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

As a political psychoanalyst I find the Super-bowl halftime show the best concise index of how psychotic American culture is becoming from year to year, and the 2015 version signaled a complete break from reality, a nightmare of twerking robots in a hall of mirrors, as if America had utterly surrendered its tattered soul to some rogue motherboard pulsing deep within Dr. Evil’s subterranean palace of sin. Hence it is the perfect analog for understanding otherwise incomprehensible happenings such as the USA’s role in fomenting further chaos and mayhem in Ukraine.

How otherwise to explain things like this morning’s New York Times report that the USA “now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position….”

Earth calling New York Times readers: I regret to inform you that this decision was already reached a year ago when we paid for the coup d’état against the elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, after the poor sap decided to not sign up with EU but rather the Russian-backed Eurasian Customs Union. Whoops! You’re so out of here, Bub, State Department Under Secretary Victoria Nuland burbled in a clandestinely recorded phone call to the American ambassador. Will somebody please find Yats! Yes Yats! [UKR politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk] and plug the Bluetooth earpiece of power into his skull!

And so it went this past year with a cabal of the USA, the EU, and the IMF shoveling financial support (billions!), armaments, and surely boots-on-the ground into the Ukrainian morass. Last week, a reporter in eastern Ukraine approached a soldier in UKR army battle garb only to be told, in pitch perfect American English, to “get out of my face.” Say what??? The You-tube clip was seen all over the world and to this minute no agent of the US government has been called to account over it. Like I said, a hall of mirrors.

But anyway, we get a little ahead of ourselves because all this really begs the question: what business do we have in Ukraine in the first place and why should it matter to us that they align with Russia? And more to the point: why is it not transparently obvious that Ukraine is solidly within Russia’s sphere of influence, and has been, really, for more than 500 years, and for an excellent reason that has been demonstrated most recently in Napoleon’s invasion of 1812 and then Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of 1941.

In both cases, Russia owed it survival to the vast expanse of flat geography represented by Ukraine where “General Winter” was able to carry out his own defensive operations of relentless howling wind, snow, sub-zero temperatures, and frostbite that eventually vanquished the invaders. Through most of modern times Ukraine has been under the explicit “protection” of the Russian Czars or has been an outright province under the former USSR. Hundreds of years before that, Kievan Rus was the center of an emerging Russian culture and kingdom that only later picked up and moved to Moscow.

You get the picture: Ukraine has a long association with Russia, a principal association, not always happy, sometimes tragic, but a fact of life and history that the US and its foolish stooges in the EU bureaucracy now wish to challenge for absolutely no good reason. Does anybody who is not whacked out of his/her head on crack, or focused like a laser beam on the gender schism within the Kardashian Klan, remember when the US ever challenged the Soviets over Ukraine? No. And for the excellent reason that we accepted the relationship for reasons stated above. So, whose idea is it now that we should start World War Three over this remote region where so many other reckless adventurers came to grief? And what, by the way, do our people mean by “defensive weapons?” Are not most modern weapons designed to work both ways? Anyway, I see the list includes “anti-armor missiles” (i.e. tank-killers) and “drones,” the latter presumably guided by comfortable American military gamers effortlessly targeting pixelated “bad guys” between Slurpee gulps and taco bites, not exactly American Sniper style.

 

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Mon, 02/02/2015 - 16:59 | 5736227 BullyBearish
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Next they'll be announcing "Humanitarian Soldiers" will be sent

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:03 | 5736246 Cognitive Dissonance
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It was clear the commercials were trying to calm an increasingly desperate America. I felt like I was being delivered a visual Prozac.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:07 | 5736258 knukles
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Propaganda and Perceptions Management, Deluxe
Vigilant Citizen forever.
(it helps)

 

sometimes being awake has it's "price", Cog  LOL

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:07 | 5736268 Comte de Saint ...
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...Iran, despite the ambiguity of its attitude toward Azerbaijan, similarly provides stabilizing support for the new political diversity of Central Asia. It dominates the eastern shoreline of the Persian Gulf, while its independence, irrespective of current Iranian hostility toward the United States, acts as a barrier to any long-term Russian threat to American interests in the Persian Gulf region...Iran's aspirations are vaguer still, but in the long run no less threatening to Russia's ambitions...Iran's role is likely to be even more problematic. A return to a pro-Western posture would certainly facilitate the stabilization and consolidation of the region, and it is therefore strategically desirable for America to encourage such a turn in Iran's conduct...In addition, it is not in America's interest to perpetuate American-Iranian hostility. Any eventual reconciliation should be based on the recognition of a mutual strategic interest in stabilizing what currently is a very volatile regional environment for Iran. Admittedly, any such reconciliation must be pursued by both sides and is not a favor granted by one to the other. A strong, even religiously motivated but not fanatically anti-Western Iran is in the U.S. interest, and ultimately even the Iranian political elite may recognize that reality...

For my students — to help them shape tomorrow's world (and the Obama administration is faithfully following that script despite strong opposition coming from the Arab countries and Israel)

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperative
Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Islamic Republic of Iran committed an egregious strategic blunder by trying to renegotiate its nuclear program with the west. As a result of this shift in foreign policy, Israel and the Arabs (specifically Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE and Qatar) have envisioned a military alliance focused on destroying Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure (and place this country in a constant state of internal chaos). The upcoming war against Iran will be short and extremely intense for the type of non-conventional ordnance to be used by the IDF and the Arab militaries (mainly DU ammo), nevertheless it will not degenerate into a regional conflict.

Too bad that ordinary Iranians are not prepared for these events since their own government hasn't taken the precaution of training the civilian population for massive air raids and the needed evacuation from areas highly contaminated by radioactive materials.

The Russian Federation (and not the United States) has already given the green light to this military alliance to act in the event current negotiations pertaining to Irans' nuclear program are adverse to Moscow's agenda.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:28 | 5736378 pods
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Not quite sure how he could see this halftime show as being a sign of the collapse.

It was a bubble gum show (the Katy Perry part) and my kids liked it.  The ads seemed to be a better thing to focus on (as Cog stated).

Some things can, after all, just be a show.

pods

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:50 | 5736459 Romney Wordsworth
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I kissed a Left Shark [& I liked it]

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:56 | 5736507 0b1knob
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< People who see deep meaning in superbowl halftime shows are geniuses.

< People who see deep meaning in superbowl halftime shows are just like the idiots who see the future in tea leaves.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:05 | 5736549 Romney Wordsworth
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People who see deep meaning in superbowl halftime shows are named 'Kuntsler' who whack off to it, then write articles about it to try and bring it to some level of significance to all the 'FOLKS' who, on their own, don't give a shit... Which basically means that Kuntsler is playing for the OTHER team while pretending to be your friend.

 

Suck on my guitar bagel boy! [& set your DVR for the Grammy's for your next splooge]!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:20 | 5736609 Rusty Shorts
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This one is a Doozy!! I stumbled upon a fascinating blog from 5 years ago from a woman that had worked in many areas of the Entertainment Industry

 

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

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:13 | 5736824 dsty
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this is really a good video

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:33 | 5736680 Four chan
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i cant believe how terrible and successful Katy Perry is. 

why does modern music have an inverse relationship talent/quality to money?

beiber,jayz,perry,cyrus, the richer they are the more horrible the music, it must make them wonder, if they had a scintilla of self awareness.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:49 | 5736736 McMolotov
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God put a mute button on the remote so you can enjoy nice tits without listening to bad singing.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:14 | 5736829 neidermeyer
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The beach balls were nice.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 22:00 | 5737378 willwork4food
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LMAO McM!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 23:59 | 5737731 WTFRLY
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Halftime show just another Illuminati masterpiece...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:50 | 5736738 Romney Wordsworth
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M..........K................UL.....................TRA.............................

 

[Oh no wait!... Whitney Houston's daughter just drowned in a bathtub a week b4 the Grammys!]

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:26 | 5736876 angel_of_joy
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...i cant believe how terrible and successful Katy Perry is

Her ass is already growing too big. Moving along...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 22:14 | 5737426 willwork4food
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+100

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:56 | 5736469 Ignatius
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I've pitched spare change into the open guitar cases of total strangers who displayed light-years more talent and musical soul than that halftime sh*t.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:00 | 5736528 pods
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Okay, and your point is? Did it suck?  That is a personal opinion.

I took issue with how somehow this show can be "a concise index" with how "psychotic" our culture has become.

Now, maybe if he spoke of how the MIC is sponsoring the X-games, yeah, I would entertain an argument.
But a chick riding on a robot, dancing balls and sharks somehow ties in to our greater geopolitical goals around the world?

I think what James, being a political psychoanalyst should look up, is non-sequitur.

pods

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:03 | 5736545 Ignatius
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Well, yeah, Kunstler's all over the map, but the show sucked, IMHO.

Didn't downvote you, btw.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:09 | 5736561 pods
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It's all good, you know I don't give a fuck. :)

I was watching the X-games with my kids (killing time) and noticed it was sponsored by the Navy.

A group of the most non traditional sports tied together, with many practioners being very anti authority, being sponsored by the MIC.

Not quite as bad as the DEA sponsoring the High Times Cannabis Cup but pretty damn close.

pods

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:38 | 5736713 Urban Roman
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Survey sez the show sucked. As usual they spent gobs and wads and dumptrucks of money on props and visuals and fireworks, but it still sucked.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:15 | 5736839 BurningFuld
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You can smoke pot legally in Washington State now so the half time show was geared to the Seahawks fans.  Don't read more into it than that.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:07 | 5736554 The Big Ching-aso
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It's standard electronic Salvador Dali. I think it's getting to the point that if you sprinkled nano-LSD dust over the entire global population 24/7 you would barely be able to tell any change in behavior.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:10 | 5736567 pods
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Oh there would be a big change in behavior.  

Heard that from a friend. :)

pods

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:13 | 5736578 Ignatius
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I knew a guy, who talked to a guy, that knew another guy and, well, we dropped some ac....

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:30 | 5736661 Winston Churchill
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I dropped way more than mine, and both of your shares.

Best thing that could happen to the world would be dosing it with Leary.

Dropped some with him in Goa once, bye the bye.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:03 | 5736793 Ignatius
Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:08 | 5737214 homme
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GTFOOH! That's a just too freaking awesome, off the wall sort of story to be made up. So, I totally believe you. I did it a lot in my teeny-bopper years. The last time though, I umm.. I thought the rapture had taken place and I was left behind with my super-polluted pot-head friends. So yeah... that was definitely it for me.

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 00:15 | 5737771 Abbie Normal
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Has anything really changed since the days of Gladiator?  The Romans let their aquaducts, roads and bridges deteriorate as they continued to build more coliseums.  Bread & Circuses indeed.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:29 | 5736886 Perimetr
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my take on it . . .

we are f*cking doomed

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:03 | 5737199 BigMike2012
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Sir, you need to stop taking everything quite so seriously.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:38 | 5736386 a common man
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previously mentioned.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:32 | 5736390 SafelyGraze
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holy smokes!

didn't realize about the gender-identity problem in the bruce jenner kardashianiverse

until reading this article

thanks for the tip! 

like most readers, I get my nouvelles first from zh!

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:39 | 5736410 Never One Roach
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Moar prosac and thorazine for the Gruberized sheeples, por favor. Cut back on the hooka. Reduce Walmart visits to once a day, on an empty stomach.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 23:57 | 5736551 Lore
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@ Comte - You lost me the moment you cited Brzezinski. I've read his stuff. There is a sick man.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:14 | 5736271 Cognitive Dissonance
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Lots of estranged dads bonding with sons and daughters, paying for your McDonald's Happy Meal with LOVE and Nationwide telling us if we don't buy their insurance our kids will drown in the bathtub.

I can't tell you how many times Mrs. Cog and I looked at each other after a commercial and said "WTF".

We rarely watch TV. Is this what it's like all the time now?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:17 | 5736310 knukles
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Ah... thaings could be worse.  They coulda shown an uncensored compilation of the recent beheadings to really rile up the fear, get a boost to military spending with a couple fly-overs and then have the Nationwide folks tell ya' that there is no insurance for terroristic acts aside from fealty to the Homeland.  Dad gets all patriotic, mom weeps, the kiddies are signed up for the Homeland Youth Corps summer camp. 

Oh well....
Let me not get ahead of myself.
They'll have that or a close facsimile within a few short years.

In the mean time, we can all go get our negative interest rate mortgage, get paid to borrow, retire with a mountain of self liquidating debt (which we'll want to be the first folks to do before everybody else catches on) just when nobody is in the work force to produce goods or services because everybody's retired and....

Ozymandias wuz here

Close you eyes, click your heels 3 times and everything is Alpha Oscar Knibblebits

(PS... yes, it's like this ALL the time.  Just most folks don't realize it, because here, on the SB, they were watching for the twists and hooks.  Yes, my man, 24/7/365  The Propaganda Machine is Well Oiled and Happy.)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:48 | 5736451 logicalman
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When I read the 'beheadings' bit I first thought of Saudi Arabia, but then I remembered, we're discussing propaganda.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 20:58 | 5736965 RaceToTheBottom
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Madison Avenue is being worked too hard.  Its no wonder they come up with the Insurance company add snafu.

There is no reality anymore so those guys are working 30 hours a day creating the mush we are being fed, hence a mistake here and there is to be expected...

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:42 | 5736426 blindman
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oh yes. and it only gets worse
with each passing second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svzPm8lT36o
Typewriter Artist
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8LbhEq7B-8
ROCKPILE - Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe - "Born Fighters" - 1979 - (Part 1 of 4)

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 01:25 | 5737887 Element
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"We rarely watch TV. Is this what it's like all the time now?"

 

In USSA TV watch you!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:09 | 5736274 NoDebt
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No "wardrobe malfunctions".  We didn't even catch any side-boob.  It sucked.  And what the hell was Lenny Kravitz doing in the middle of it for like 10 seconds?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:10 | 5736282 Honey Badger
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The halftime show made me feel like I was stoned.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:15 | 5736525 Ignatius
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I was embarrassed for 'my' culture.

Somebody, take it to the washroom and mercifully drown it in the tub.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736283 Cognitive Dissonance
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"And what the hell was Lenny Kravitz doing in the middle of it for like 10 seconds?"

Aaaaand he's gone. Actually he got eaten by Missy.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736299 centerline
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Funny.  Same comment at the same time (see below). 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:28 | 5736377 Cognitive Dissonance
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Spooky action at a distance.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:33 | 5736679 Hulk
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Quantum entanglement in HTML...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:31 | 5736391 Semi-employed W...
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Lenny was there for two reasons: 1) to provide diversity as Katy is very white and 2) as a male prop because the song that he and Katy were singing was "I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It".  That would offend some bible thumpers so they had a guy in there to distract from the lesbianism.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:31 | 5736475 Romney Wordsworth
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No... Kravitz was there so MK Ultra Katy Perry would have a negro male to twerk in front of his penis guitar riffs, then 3 seconds later get on her knees and twirl her hair in front of the same ejaculation move... The bisexual fantasy theme song was just a bonus...

 

Consider the teenage girl population of AmeriKa properly schooled in 'Illuminati-ese"

 

~~~EDIT~~~

3 junks ^^^ on something that actually EXPLICITLY HAPPENED during the show. [OK, maybe it was 4 seconds between the mimed TWERK & FELLATIO ~ maybe that's why I got junked, standards being high on ZH]

 

knuck ^^^ above actually has it correct... VIG.CIT will be all over this in time, but I'm sure they have their hands full with the upcoming GRAMMYS

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:38 | 5736703 Four chan
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good point bbc fascination.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:39 | 5736920 Gnostech
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Shut it down the goy know.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:35 | 5736399 Derfman
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I was drunk by then but I thought they turned him into a dancing shark....

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:56 | 5736477 Romney Wordsworth
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We're all LEFT SHARKS now...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:58 | 5737374 Sanity Bear
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Je suis left shark

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:14 | 5736302 zorba THE GREEK
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From the ball deflation to the half time insanity and the macabre commercials

to the passing on second down with one yard to win it all, it was a theater of the

absurd which can only summed up in 3 letters....WTF

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:04 | 5736547 Withdrawn Sanction
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"I felt like I was being delivered a visual Prozac."

Well said.  I especially enjoyed the treacle provided by the Budweiser puppy.  It felt calm and warm and soothing...mmmmm beer and puppies.


Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:49 | 5736742 Fun Facts
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Stupor Bowl Thunday.

From the ZWO propaganda empire to the drooling retards.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:05 | 5737206 Seamus Padraig
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Flags everywhere, fighters flying overhead. For a moment there, I though Ted Turner had colorized Triumph of the Will.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:27 | 5737264 gina distrusts gov
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I found the halftime show a really great reason to avoid pepsi for a really long time 

bluntly the halftime show sucked

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:04 | 5736247 JLee2027
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Good thing the author never saw the Beatniks in 1962 or WoodStock or Marlon Brando as that motorcycle guy...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:13 | 5736287 weburke
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I hope he commented on the madonna superbowl and the olympics, now that was a display of the masons. That was quite a message, and it did require deciphering. They threw in the kitchen sink in those shows. Topping it with baby killing was the high point at the olympics closing show, but maybe you missed that.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:23 | 5736352 Rusty Shorts
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Bingo - 

Watching Kronos ~ Project 2035

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DSRpqjwP_I

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:58 | 5736517 Romney Wordsworth
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Fuck Kuntsler... He whacks off to this shit...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:08 | 5736266 zorba THE GREEK
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It's one thing to poke the bear, but when you ram that stick up the bear's ass,

you are a mental defect and the bear is just culling the herd when he tears you a new one.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:13 | 5736294 Arrowflinger
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Said humanitarian soldiers will be sent to "stabilize," as they have been in 190 countries.

However, doesn't the status of the US $dollar as the "strong, least dirty shirt" currency depend upon soiling the alternative currency shirts globally?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:29 | 5736373 JohninMK
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Read the full article and weep at the stupidity of man.

Every Museum desires to do educational outreach, and the Museum-Panorama of the Battle of Stalingrad is no exception. (Visit its site here: http://www.stalingrad-battle.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=)  On January 22, it hosted a Round Table discussion with actual survivors of the historic battle. These old soldiers, still resident in the Volgograd region, Maxim Matveyevich Zagorulko, Alexander Kolotushkin, Maria V. Sokolov, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Eugene F. Rogov, and Alexander Yakovlevich Sirotenko, in their late 80’s or even early 90’s, looked at the present world as well as at the past, and produced an open letter, a “letter of the living” to the Chancellor of Germany. The full text is on several Russian language sites. Their letter follows, in English. 
  Letter of the Living to Frau Angele Dorothea Merkel from the Veterans of the Stalingrad Battle
  Dear Frau Merkel,   Here in the 70th year after the victory over Nazism, we, veterans of that terrible war and participants in that most horrible combat, are aware that a spectre again is haunting Europe, a spectre of the Brown Plague. This time it is Ukraine that has become the nursery of Nazism, where from the fountainhead of an ideology in ultranationalism, antisemitism, and inhumaneness, there have come into practice rejections of other cultures, physical violence, elimination of dissenters, and murders motivated by ethnic hatred.   Before us there stand familiar pictures: torchlight parades, thugs in nazi-emblemed uniforms, upraised right hands in the Nazi salute, fascist processions with police protection through the center of Kiev, and the imposition, on certain people, of second-class status. 
We have seen all this before, and we know where it leads.

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/six-veterans-of-stalingrad-write-...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:37 | 5736407 OpenThePodBayDoorHAL
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The US is slamming Putin for one reason and one reason alone: his is the only nation left with the balls to assert their *sovereignty*. He supports Assad because he was freely elected (and opposes Islamic fundamentalism BTW). Other nations bow under America's drone bombs and trade agreements (China excepted, of course). The world buckles under the "extra-sovereign" companies like Monsanto and Apple. On the other side of this onslaught is one guy: Putin. Obomba and the EU know it.

(There's a second guy in Greece but the hand he has to play is weak).

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:17 | 5736585 Lore
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+1 re: Stalingrad letter.  That should be re-posted.  I used to know an elderly centennarian. We had long talks about current affairs.  She had vivid memories of growing up in a prominent family in pre-war Austria. "All the signs are there."

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 00:32 | 5737806 Abbie Normal
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When someone reaches 100 years old, it's usually a given that they're considered to be elderly.  But yes, the signs are there for all who care or know to look.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:58 | 5736518 The_Dude
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Peace bullets...we must send send Peace bullets to help them

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 11:53 | 5739020 DonGenaro
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re "Humanitarian soldiers":
Kinda like a thin pig

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:03 | 5736235 LawsofPhysics
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Turning Japanese...

 

...just look at the shit that this once proud culture puts on the tele.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:07 | 5736270 lordbyroniv
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Breaking Bad was pretty good  :)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:20 | 5736335 robertocarlos
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I watched that cooking show for 5 seasons and not once did they list the ingredients or the recipe.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:28 | 5736371 Rusty Shorts
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Here ya go, names have been changed to protect the criminals,

 

How to Purify by Recrystallization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVA0rK_VITY

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:56 | 5736497 Ignatius
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STEP 1:  Pay off the right people (cops, judges and politicians, etc.).

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:50 | 5736951 Gnostech
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PSE, RP, and iodine. there ya go buddeh gl and hf ;)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:09 | 5736278 centerline
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And no wardrobe malfunction either. 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:35 | 5736405 chunga
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The closest thing to that was the seahawks player that scored a td then pretended to pull down his pants and shit on the ball.

I just heard the Seattle radio call of the last play of the game. The guy is saying the Seahawks were being "good sports" and gracious losers.

They were actually fighting at that time LOL!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:01 | 5736538 Consuelo
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'You really think so...?'

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:05 | 5736241 cnmcdee
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Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:04 | 5736242 ZomBiEHiGH
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"The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014" who smells the bullshit?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:05 | 5736248 cgbspender
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Fuck the super bowel. Why was anyone watching it to begin with?

 

I was tempted however, to watch the first few minutes just to see the fanatical militarism on display for the national anthem.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736277 cnmcdee
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I had to watch the half-time show - the only thing I could think was am I supposed to on acid while I watch this?  I mean it's so wacked a mocking parody would compliment it.  It goes from walking golden robotic tigers to preschool dancing trees and beach balls. Huh?  Seriously?  Then follows up with twerking police state rappers in tron / police state uniform crossovers finalizing with Katy (bit tits) Perry flying around the coliseum on a star platform...

I mean it looks like something robot chicken would put out for a superbowl spoof clip or something holy fawk!!

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:13 | 5736296 FreeShitter
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The Illuminati have a warped sense of reality.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:16 | 5736316 robertocarlos
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Katy has huge tracts of land.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:36 | 5736404 Seahorse
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parody is no longer possible

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:10 | 5736284 El Vaquero
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Let's see if I can one-up you on this:  At the time of posting this, I still do not even know who won the Super Bowl.  I've pretty much skipped anything that had to do with the game itself and have only read the social commentary about what it has come to represent.  

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:15 | 5736317 cgbspender
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Speaking of the social commentary, have you read the branding/commercial post-mortem?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/business/super-bowl-commercials-go-for...

 

I'm so glad that I didn't see any of this bullshit. From what I understand, last night was nothing more than 3 hours of commercials, with 1-2 mins of football sprinkled in.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:53 | 5736479 overmedicatedun...
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tv was on it sucked on so many levels, but food was good and friends and family made for a nice time. who won?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:16 | 5737232 Charming Anarchist
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It looks like you won.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:59 | 5736511 logicalman
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I hadn't even a clue who was playing until I got to ZH last night!

I knew KP was on at half time. That was pretty much impossible to avoid seeing somewhere.

As for the rest - all the info I have came from ZH!

 

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:11 | 5736573 Withdrawn Sanction
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I confess, I watched the final 15 seconds or so....just in the nick to see Seattle throw the game...literally.  Glad I used the other 4 hours for something not Stupor Bowl related.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:25 | 5736629 Berspankme
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Caddyshack was on at my house. Carl Spackler would make a hell of a president

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:12 | 5737218 Seamus Padraig
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The gladiatorial championship of The Empire!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:06 | 5736255 robertocarlos
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At least Katy isn't ugly without makeup. It was a good show. Especially with Lenny, minus the twerk. One day she'll be fat.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:29 | 5736375 altheatoldme
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Roberto, you should know by now that any positive comments on this site will resut in negative thumbs down.

just sayin..

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:05 | 5736257 D-liverSil-ver
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I like my Slurpee gulps and Taco bites.

Don't Drone Me Bro !

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:06 | 5736264 FieldingMellish
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Both Napoleon and Hitler went primarily through Lithuania and Belarus. Ukraine is not the key to Moscow.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:11 | 5736290 Automatic Choke
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agree.  too many swamps for tanks.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:13 | 5736292 Five8Charlie
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IIRC, those two guys both failed trying that "Lithuania and Belarus" method... I'm pretty sure the only guy who got this right was Wallace Shawn - never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:18 | 5736334 FieldingMellish
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Correct. Winter via St Petersburg. But this was not possible in Napoleon's time because ships could not get into Neva Bay due to ice.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:10 | 5736272 22winmag
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Halftime has been a pagan occult festival for quite some time.

 

The men behind the curtain have but a few minutes to cast their unholy spell.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:38 | 5736412 Semi-employed W...
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I enjoy my football sandwich with a little Luciferian occultism and a slice of Illuminati imagery in the middle.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:10 | 5736276 NoWayJose
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Ukraine sits in a position essentially surrounded on the North, East and South by Russia.  It is the classic 'Stalingrad Pocket' of WWII where all the Russians would need to do is pinch in behind the pocket and cut off any 'Allied' troops just like the ill-fated German Sixth Army.  The Russians can just hold position and wait for the 'EU Army' to surrender.

If there are any real generals left in the US amry after the Obama Purge, they ought to be speaking up.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:17 | 5736305 22winmag
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Aren't the Navy boys supposed to put the handcuffs on a rogue President that is sleepwalking into WWIII?

 

Clinton purged the Navy of admirals more than water-boy O'bomber ever purged the military brass in general.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 20:05 | 5736994 RaceToTheBottom
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What is Ukranian for "Ich bein ein Ukranian"?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:09 | 5736279 Jordan Cove
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The Ghost of King Leopold lives on at the Headquarters of NATO in Brussels.  We seem to be thouroughly sucked into the European whirlpool. Welcome to the American Free State.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:02 | 5736532 logicalman
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It's not about countries, they are just tools.

Welcome to the bankster's slave state is nearer the truth.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:29 | 5736659 Jordan Cove
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I was alluding to the Leopold's Congo Free State, but you are correct.  What a joy it was for his banks to have a Monarch ruling a slave state in absentia from his digs in Brussels. Ivory and rubber out, machine guns and sadists in.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736286 MsCreant
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I agree with the point of the article, but the stupor bowl half time show tie in is just too much of a stretch. 

Beyond the idea that neither the show nor the intervention made sense, Kunstler has nothing. I say this as a Kunstler fan.

Actually, the Ukraine intervention makes some sense, the show none.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:34 | 5736524 Romney Wordsworth
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Kunstler whacks off to this shit... He's playing on THEIR team...

<== KUNTSLER tribe is representin' inna hause!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:38 | 5736289 JustObserving
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fomenting further chaos and mayhem in Ukraine.

Obama remains the most admired man in USA in Gallup polls for seven straight years despite droning women and children and wedding parties, bombing seven Muslim countries, lying about Sarin in Syria and almost starting a major war, destabilizing Ukraine, assassinating US citizens as young as 16, defending the unconstitutional CIA spying on the US Senate - the list is endless.

We have a clueless populace hooked on bad entertainment, toxic food,  fluoridated water, fake media, compromised institutions, and lying politicians backed by a fascist, police state that is constantly spying on them.

America is going through its slow motion apocalypse and the clueless sheeple are completely unaware of it.  Maybe, a nuclear war with Russia may wake them up.

 

Seymour Hersh exposes US government lies on Syrian sarin attack

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html


Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:11 | 5736295 Salsipuedes
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What this witch has done for surfing can never be forgiven.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736297 taketheredpill
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Off-topic maybe.  GOOGLE "Doug Stanhope Football"....

 

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:12 | 5736298 robertocarlos
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Wait, how do you go from an innocuous half-time show to Ukraine and Russia and WWIII?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:17 | 5736318 MsCreant
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I said essentially the same thing above. No tie in.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:25 | 5736358 robertocarlos
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Yes I saw that afterwards.  Maybe the opening of the Superbowl had a parade of mobile nukes and tanks and a fly-by of a dozen B-2s and F-22s but I missed the first 5 minutes. We do not get to watch the Superbowl commercilas in Canada so I have no idea how many Army or Navy ads they showed.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:32 | 5736389 MsCreant
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5 Jets and soldiers in Afganistan via a live link, you bet. Lots of kitsch. The display is frightening and embarassing. I also wondered if Katy was going to go up in smoke with the rest of the fireworks.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:41 | 5736419 WTFUD
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Let's hope that at the next Superbowl and an Annual Event from thereon the Half Time Show will see ( fill in the number ) BANKSTER & COHORTS thrown to the LIONS. Full Circle!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:55 | 5736503 Rusty Shorts
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Hope and Change for Real, I like the way you think.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:02 | 5736542 logicalman
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Make that the main event and do the football thing at half-time!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:18 | 5737241 Seamus Padraig
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A lot.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:16 | 5736321 blabam
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Magnets. 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:25 | 5736368 Dr. Engali
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That made me chuckle.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:26 | 5736367 altheatoldme
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Because Zero Hedge never misses an opportunity for paranoid delusions...

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:31 | 5736388 Sophist Economicus
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Cuntsler is a 'political psychoanalyst',  they gave him a special license for awkward seques.

 

He is a one-trick pony.   It's the same broken, over-reaching message, he just changes the paragraphs around

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:39 | 5736706 Lore
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You're absolutely right.  Still, nobody is better at looking down their nose at the world around them in prose than old Snidey.  It's his bread and butter, and why he's a de facto mascot for the Global Warming crowd.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:36 | 5736701 blindman
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"...its just a jump to the left,
and then a step to the right."
.
Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-vgGuTD8A

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:28 | 5736319 Son of Captain Nemo
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How otherwise to explain things like this morning’s New York Times report that the USA “now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position….”

Defensive weapons???....

Worth repeating...

Given this,  "defensive weapons" like this and this!  Looks like NATO tried again with another oversized missile in less than two days but the NovoRuss team came prepared!  And I guess the logical question that should be asked is -what will happen if one of those missiles destroys a village with people in it?... Does Fareed Zakaria get Barry back on CNN to do a victory lap?!!!... And what will Russia then be forced to retaliate with given how much they and the ethnic Russians of Ukraine have already endured?!!!

One would hope we'd be seeing some action with those that care (which pretty much means everyone that's been following this since last year) in Brussels and Washington to put a stop to it... Before it's too late!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:21 | 5736615 Berspankme
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If Russia retaliates by striking DC and Brussels, so be it. I'm actually okay with that

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:19 | 5736333 yochananmichael
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cant they find anyone who doesnt autotune and lipsynche any more?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:29 | 5736374 MsCreant
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I agree, but how terrified might your voice sound when you are riding that rocket thing high above the crowd! I was laughing my ass off. If that thing fell, man. The carnage, the lawsuits. Would they go on with the game?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 18:29 | 5736654 Romney Wordsworth
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  "that rocket thing"

 

What? I suppose you mean the ROCKET which, [for these Illuminati fucks] is the symbol of a male ejaculation... With Katy riding it all the way!

 

Jesus Christ y'all are gullible... Prolly still think Mickey & Minnie Mouse are cute...

 

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:18 | 5736336 Downtoolong
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“Super-bowl halftime show - the best concise index of how psychotic American culture is becoming”

I just thought it was funny when Katy Perry sang the lyrics eye of the tiger while riding on a giagantic lion (????) and nobody even cared.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:01 | 5736782 Romney Wordsworth
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Well ~ I actually think it's funny that you mistake a 'lioness' for a LION...

 

But the "nobody even cared" part has merit [unless you're someone who like to attend parties where a single note on a piano is played for 4 hours straight].

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:55 | 5736966 Gnostech
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DaDa parties are best parties.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 21:22 | 5737254 Seamus Padraig
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Lion? Tiger? What's the diference? ;-)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:20 | 5736343 Itchy and Scratchy
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Exceptional American thunder thighs in action!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:24 | 5736364 altheatoldme
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"how psychotic American culture is becoming from year to year"

- its only entertainment, bro.

not everything is a conspiracy...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:45 | 5736935 Chipped ham
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I didn't think I'd like it but I did. Entertainment indeed!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:48 | 5736431 czarangelus
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Really. Never before in history has a fame-seeking woman gotten on stage and done something ridiculous and sexually taboo for money. Really. Only modern America has that so-called dubious honor. I see.

Millions of Americans wanted to turn on the TV and see Katy Perry or whoever the fuck it was show them her ass. And she wants to show millions of people her ass, and pretend to hump a lion on national television. And multi-billion dollar corporations are willing to fund it. I think it's hilarious, and that, my friend, is a little thing we like to call capitalism. If it hurts your feelings turn it off.

I'm sick of the geezers in this country with their shriveled religions and shriveled dicks trying to dictate what consenting viewers watch and consenting producers produce.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:16 | 5736843 czarangelus
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I wonder how many downvoting hypocrites are into porn...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 19:22 | 5736865 MsCreant
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Psst. it wasn't that sexul really. Compared to many of the shows in the past it was toned way the fuck down. NFL is trying to clean up thier image and court "women." Her outfits were stupid and awkward, not sexy. No lion humping. 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 20:01 | 5736970 Romney Wordsworth
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No... all she ACTUALLY did was to TWERK in front of Lenny Kravitz' penis guitar, then, about 4 seconds later get down on her knees and do a mimed FELLATIO with 3 hair twirls  while he masturbated his guitar licks a foot in front of her face to "I kissed a girl & I liked it"...

 

Then... after doing a POLICE STATE glorification sexualization of a costumed Missy Elliott routine, she hopped on board an ejaculating PENIS [rocket] & flew around the stadium...

 

Nothing to see here GRANDMA...

 

GODAMMITT some of you motherfuckers are stupid!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 20:04 | 5736992 MsCreant
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Or some are sexually repressed and prude, there is that.

These outfits are ugly and not very sexy. See here, Grandma:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/02/see-all-of-katy-perrys-cute-super-bowl-o...

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 17:45 | 5736432 Never One Roach
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If no one exposed themsleves, no one was stampeded to death and no one beat to death outside the stadium in the parking lot, then there's not much to see here.

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