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In "Unprecedented Move" Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Demoted For Decision To Give Obama 2009 Award
Back in 2009, just months after his swearing in, president Barack Obama was crowned with an unexpected glory: he won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 due to "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Back then there was little indication that just a few years after his crowning achievement of "ending the war" in and returning US troops from Iraq, he would send US troops right back in Iraq for the 3rd US invasion of the country in three decades, but also send out US troops across the globe, and launch the second cold war, pushing the world to the brink of another "large scale war." Those who wish to read Obama's teleprompted and ghostwritten acceptance "speech can do so here.
At the time the White House, and the fawning media, was delighted by this crowning, if premature, achievement of the progressive president.
Which is why don't expect much coverage of the inevitable aftermath: earlier today, in what France24 dubbed an "in an unprecedented move", the controversial head of Norway's Nobel Peace Prize committee was removed Tuesday and demoted to the rank of mere member.
Thorbjoern Jagland, a former Norwegian premier, drew criticism after becoming committee chairman in 2009 for awarding the prestigious Nobel to newly elected US President Barack Obama. He will be replaced by current Deputy Chair Kaci Kullmann Five.
The Nobel Peace Prize awarding Norwegian Nobel Committee on Tuesday elected a new chairman to replace Thorbjoern Jagland, whose six-year tenure has been lined with controversies.
Jagland will remain a member of the voting panel but was a contentious leader, attracting criticism for his dual role as committee chairman and head of the European Council when the prize was awarded to the European Union in 2012. His leadership also was clouded by the decision to give the prize to Barack Obama in 2009 after he had just been elected president, and the 2010 prize to the jailed dissident Liu Xiabo drew fury from China.
The former labor politician was replaced by the panel's deputy chairman, Kaci Kullmann Five, a former conservative party leader. She denied that Jagland's ousting had anything to do with pressure from China, which froze diplomatic ties to Norway after the 2010 award.
She did not deny that his ousting had anything to do with Obama who has since the aware become a neo-con warhawk, who has put some of the most bloodthirsty republicans to shame, and whose actions (and lack thereof) have led to not only global conflict intensity spiking To a 7-year high, but have generated untold riches to the shareholders of the military industrial complex.
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Better late than never
Better if the award had never been made.
Obozo turns everything to shit.
I am wondering if this is a signal for Obama, because he did not bow to his Jewish master speaking to Congress today: the next time, your price is gone.
If the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee really wants to correct the wrong and fix their tarnished image they should have the balls to strip Obozo of the prize. Change the records officially and take it away from him.
But they're Euroweenies. Wussies.
Why would they want to set a precedent of correcting a wrong committed by TPTB?
Dunno. I doubt this dude cares. He already got paid.
Crap.
..they canned him just before he could get the Nobel secured for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Now rescind his award.
Had to sign in just so I could say:
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
KARMA
Only took six years for people to start understanding Obama is a liar and a fraud. He is the Manchurian Candidate. And he fucks over his friends twice as bad as his enemies.
He's exactly the kind of person who gets a lot of people killed while espousing the best of intentions. Whatever the word is for an anti-leader, that's him.
Agreed with many others- strip him of the prize. Obama is well overdue for some public shaming. Not that he'll care, but we will.
(FYI- Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, but he didn't win it.)
i don't buy this love-hate smoke-mirror sh't one bit...
you think the honeymoon is over after 6 years, with net-an-yahoo shreiking in CONgress with no WH invitation and now early-retiring AW-ard chair-dumbo?
wait-see, i would.
This schmuck committee chairman denigrated the entire process and honor associated with that award. It also tarnishes the other winners in chemistry, etc as the brown smelly stuff of this mistake tends to contamainte the entire attitude toward that award now.
This Norwegian has to be tremednously arrogant for not resigning long ago.
Lol. I think the award kinda lost it's sparkle when they gave one to Kissinger. Then Arafat, Perez and Rabin.
It's been a joke since day 1.
I don't give a fuck about the nobel prize one way or the other. Seriously, why are we respecting the nobel prize?
So it took them 6 whole years to figure out they'd fucked up? Is it just me or isn't that a tad slow on the uptake?
PTI,
That sorry ass BIBi will be up for an award soon....best actor in a fake drama....
herein lies the un-real reality they have sowed for us.
It's going to be helluva rollercoaster ride we are up against, as they 'harvest' !
Setting aside the fact that Mr prez, and not as quite as petite as vanity self convinces, Mrs Prez, both got drummed out of the bar for some nassity thing I ain't gonna bother to chase down.
But that is a plus for getting the "piece [of the action] prize" in our moment. Recalling the republocarat campaign. Dr Paul was kicking ass every place that had a paper vote, except those polls, like in Nevada, where big boxes of stuff were secreted away out the back alley door. Thinking that when the inner girl of Juulie Giggiliani made its way into the hearts of the 12 or so Americans that actually watched the debate. `Membering the "Cain" was losing his ass. Was down to pocket change, or what ever he could shake out of his prospective Mrs Prez, and Coors Beer Heiress, piggy bank.Carrying his own bags, booking his own flights and catching red eye flights all by his lumped face lonesome. Look back - how did that guy go from that to the Rebublocrat nominee.
Now, a dude name Adam Paul Laxalt is running for another pretense of an AG in Nevada. Adam is the grandson of the mafias top and bestest bunz-up-and-kneeling tug job queen and onetime sometime NV Governor and Senator. Paul Laxalt, who spread his cloaca and worked with all the "Community Relations" departments of all the pre Disney era mob controlled casino ville USA! Bush and Bushes sons, cocaine cowboy real estate attorney, shadowy land purchasing and profitable cattle futures trader, ole Rhino Thighs Hilary is following her artificially black dress inseminating cum fountain of her other half-wit, Slick Dick Willey. Rumor has it the kid will be a political player. We no have a political system whereby we employ public servants based an poll, WE NOW HAVE A SELF ANOINTED POLITICAL PRIMO GENESIS INDUSTRY that manufactures the royal blood lines of America's "too exceptional for our own good", nobility.
Despite the fact bloodied hands, a CV filled to brim with aborted fried human fetuses from drone shat burning phosphor uterine wall "scrapper" our prez, whatever you think you think of "it", forgot the goals of the UN, forgot the UN's marketing plan, ya see? Israel is a loss leader for multi-regional sales. US left the pacific rim-job and the low margin napalm served genocide of Asian brownies, cause war in the middle east offered so much more of what the forever wars dream. Not only would global commons linit tithings for genocide armaments, they would pay for carbon at 3 times the fair market value! Lot more territory - easy to justify - much easier than spending 20 years pretending to win war to colonize some patch of low resource real estate about the size of florida and an enemy that wore pajama's as a uniform and fired back with homemade zip guns. No planes. No missiles. Can't pich BEX like that to anybody for more than 25 years max.
The UN is an ongoing open air market for weapons sales - that's all it is. And our Prez, who be just too sissy to be a "real" pimp, forgot the fucking tenants of the marketing plan that required Israel as a loss leader, an incubator to bait jew hate, or Islamic hate (take your pick), and regional war or whatever - it don't fucking matter, as long as Oceania gets it's daily lame-streamed banded Emanuel Goldstien dose, a mloss leader, ya know, like diapers for baby poo poo, ya know - a shit bag - tagged at or blelow costs to induce shoppers to go to market, it's something to get the most buyers, at lowest cost, in the store cruising the isles. When Mr. Prez said he would shoot down IAF planes attacking Iran, when the Prez did not attend Nutcakeyahoo's speech, converse to, to be sure, onetimes Ms Heinz, now a Kerry cow, and multi-billionaire extraordinaire bitch ZAQ (zionista american queen as opposed to zap, or, zionista zmerican princess) to the max, dry tongue farked Johnny boy's ear juz-z'nuff to get him into the miwday of Nuttty-Net-an-Yahoo's speech carnival:
When our Mr Diebold Puppet Prez did that shit, it be about time to smack his sissy wanna be pimp ass hands and take the blood stained Piece [of the Action] Prize back.
Now for the chorus:
The Prince of Piece Prizes
A real American
THe Price of Piece Prize
Know him
By
The blood on his hands
The Prince of Piece Prizes
He da Prince of Piece Prizes
He cut you up
into little bitty slices
He Make you scream
He turn everyone
Into Soylent Green
He da Prince of Piece Prizes
Yeah Yeah Yeah
In remembrance of Fuddy, Breitbart, Clancy, and Hastings...
The real House of Cards.
Must be because the Committee noticed my comment yesterday evening http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-02/despite-russian-warnings-us-will-deploy-battalion-ukraine-end-week#comment-5848828
(Not that I'm claiming any clairvoyant capability . . . . :-) )
Does Jagland have to give the money back to Soros?
Great film...the original
Don't they mean the JD Powers/Sony Nobel Peace Prize Award?
http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag118/iabditn/JD%20Powers%20Goldman%...
and the $900,000
....and nullify his presidency.
This opens the door for the piece prize to be handed Pol Pot or Stalin post-humously by the new Norwegian committe chief.
... or is it, "post-humorously?"
Whatever it is, it sure ain't noble.
And the other candidates at the time were people who actually had accomplished things...
We could see his actual BC and College transcripts, assuming they exist. Won't matter. We have bread and circuses.
"BC"
You mean that doesn't stand for 'Bread and Circuses'? /sarc
(sigh)
This award and its recipient was the greatest example of the hopium there was. It is common for nobel prizes to be awarded posthumously (and often after the recipient faced professional ruin and penury for their contribution), but I have never heard of a nobel prize being given for something that someone hoped that they would do.
correct, it was a break with traditions
but seriously, it was also a political message. a very simple one, directed, obliquely, at Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney
"I doubt this dude cares. He already got paid."
And he resides in a french castle with seven butlers.
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/11/05/magasinet/sondag/interiorblogg_2010/i...
neo-con warhawk, who has put some of the most bloodthirsty republicans to shame,
Yeah, I get it. There is no difference between the parties, but this Tyler hates Republicans with a purple passion.
but but but...he is a neoLIBERAL...same fucking difference if you ask me
I think that's TD's obvious point, but I get it now. Kaiserhof is on a mission.
If you continue to read, you will understand that the only part of the deep state the "libertarian" Tylers really hate, is the military.
Hard to square that with freedom, tolerance, and pursuit of happiness.
They kinda like Russia's military though ;-)
Maybe,
but I think she just has a thang for midgets;)
Could be...or man boobs on horseback.
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Oh dear gawd I've offended a Russian national!!!...lol.
Keep voting ;-)
And why wouldn't the Tylers blast both parties, the MIC, CIA and Mossad? The Russians haven't done a thing that I can see that warranrts harsh criticism compared to all those assholes who are pushing the world towards nuclear war.
Seriously, I have no fucking idea what you guys are talking about sometimes.
Outside of going from monarchism to "communism" (I just love that warm & fuzzy term for state control of everything) and butchering of anyone who didn't "believe"...to an oligarchy?
I don't even know how that works, at least capitalists say they are about making a profit outright with no BS or they'll stay home, they don't hoodwink farmers & laborers into working harder for "Mother Russia" or oligarchs or the state, they do it for themselves, their families, self interest.
And self interest is not greed.
"I just love that warm & fuzzy term for state control of everything"
We wil not have peace in the world until a new system of ownership takes hold and replace Capitalism, and this is Co-operativism.
Corporations must become Co-operatives.
"The Russians haven't done a thing that I can see that warrants harsh criticism compared to all those assholes who are pushing the world towards nuclear war."
interesting view, or, better, non-view. Russia could have played a different game against those assholes. But then, it would now not be in the possession of Crimea
the very search of moral high ground in this conflict smacks me of a deeply ingrained habit of partisanship. black vs white hats, good versus evil
well, let's hope peace returns despite the warmongers on both sides
Why don't you point out where the Americans (since we are Americans reading an American blog about things American in America, for the most part) where their criticism of anything USA is incorrect?
All I know about the Tylers is that they must have hired some young, eager to impress, archivist.
Articles are going to the archives within a week all of a sudden.
More like neo progressive. Nothing liberal about him. He doesn't give s shit about your rights. It's all abour power and control with these progressives in both parties.
"but this Tyler hates Republicans with a purple passion."
As well he should. This Tyler also hates Democrats. As well he should. Name one in national office of either party that doesn't suck oligarch balls.
ummmm, i can't anymore, now that really sucks
Have you come to some major epiphany I hadn't noticed or have I mischaracterized you?
Miffed
I'll leave that answer to you, but I've been singing the same song about the Teams for as long as I've been here. But many consider me a pinko because I believe that we're better off with some form of government than without. Roving warlords and such. And I also believe that unlimited free markets will lead to the warlords in the form of guys in suits who command private armies, so I can't count myself a libertarian.
"because I believe that we're better off with some form of government than without'
Which is why I disagree with you. You, like any government lover, want everyone else to get down on their knees for your government. Why? Tell me why? Because you BELIEVE in government and have absolutely no idea how people could possibly live without it. Tell that to the hundreds of millions killed by your precious government. All that blood is the government lovers' hands.
Government is death and destruction incarnate and can be nothing else. Why does your clueless ego want to force that evil on all others?
GOVERN, root meaning = Control. MENT = mental, re: mind.
Government then = MIND CONTROL.
FUCK THAT ALL TO HELL
I agree with you to a point. Government's legitimate function is to set and enforce standards of weight, measure, volume and common medium of exchange and set a few other social standards such as driving on the right, stop for red lights and don't act as an imminent, immediate, threat to others (such as driving recklessly and/or drunk). It has a few other legitimate functions relating to keeping the peace, seperating the psychopaths from everyone else, maintaining fair and binding contracts, and setting a common manner of trade with other nations.
We no longer have any sort of government that provides these basic functions. We have Rand's Moocher government. With a 'Moocher' as first lady, strangely enough.
While I could better your level of government control, anything needed that you described could be provided by a free market.
Its a fair point, I wonder how LTER feels about the regulation of the internet ;-)
Simple answer. There should be a one line rule that says that internet service providers cannot slow connection speed to sites such as ZH that don't pay the quasi-monopoly internet service providers for bandwith.
One line..., me likey,
Except that there is never only one roach.
Your ZH connection is slow, is it?
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You don't even kknow how it works, do you?
Do you really believe that the 3 or 4 companies who control the internet don't want to slow bandwith to sites that don't pay them? I totally understand and agree with the outrage over the current bill. That doesn't mean the internet companies don't want to fuck us too if given the chance. They are hardly going to do it while this debate rages on. They will do it when the debate is over and they've won, or the government will win and we'll get censorship. Those are the options.
They will do it because you ask them to.
If you're sittin around thinking this will turn out any better than ObamaCare you've got rocks in your head. ISP's have to maintain their network and it operates on best effort traffic. ZH takes practically nothing, Netflix sucks up a great deal.
It will turn into (eventually) internet-per-minute because of morons like you.
Literally nobody is talking about a one line rule. And you must have missed what I said above about being against the current bill, or really any bill that does more than say that the quasi-monopolies that control the internet cannot throttle down speed to sites that don't pay them. You are setting up a straw man argument against what I am saying. Tell me why you think Verizon would not slow the internet connection speed to any site that doesn't pay them if they could, when it is enshrined in law which is what they are asking.
"...when it is enshrined in law which is what they are asking."
Enshrined in law?...lol.
THERE IS NO FUCKING LAW!!!
The FCC is unelected, all appointed by Obama, you didn't vote on anything, you're congress critter didn't vote on anything either and/or be held accounted for that vote, three out of five people said this is the way its going to be and you're fucking cool with that?
And its not "just" about ISP's and speed. Its about content, why did you not say Google or Bing or any other search engine?
I don't even know what we're debating. The companies that provide internet service like Verizon, want to have the ability to throttle down internet speed to sites that don't pay them. They could do it now, but they won't until this debate is finalized. They will likely win this debate sooner or later, thanks to guys like you that can only see the trees (the government "solution" that I disagree with). You are I are in agreement that the government proposal is bad. You and I could not disagree more that letting these monopoly entities decide which internet sites get priority status is a good thing. There is no free market in the internet. There are a few companies that control it.
The internet companies are playing chess with you. You are playing the ideology game, which is akin to checkers.
Ideology has jack all to do with this, I'm trying to save your ass while you're attempting suicide but be aware, I will let you go.
Google is practically a monopoly isn't it? I know where you live (generally) so whats the problem with Brighthouse, are they not a monopoly too?
How do you define monopoly?
I define a monopoly as one (or a few) companies that control a service. At the moment, Brighthouse and Verizon control the large majority of the internet received in our households. If either entity (and of course they never talk) decided to make ZH run on dial up speed, they could.
Yet they have not, thats very odd.
I suppose if Florida Power (now Duke) decided to cut everyone off they "could" but they have not either. Something to do with supply & demand, profits, bad PR & declining subscribers, no doubt.
So again, it needs government regulation, why exactly?
Of course Verizon and Comcast have not, because it's not already regulated. Chess, my friend. If you controlled either company, would you start throttling down internet speed to sites like ZH before the net neutrality debate were decided in your favor?
Duke power is already regulated, or did you not get the memo. http://www.ferc.gov/about/ferc-does/ferc101.pdf
Thats what I'm trying to tell you, they are already regulated, the internet is not.
And quit saying "zero hedge" as a way to invoke sympathy for censorship (it makes you look inane) into your speed problem (whatever that is) get FIOS or switch ISP's you've already planted enough red herrings like "you must have missed what I said above about being against the current bill..."
There is no bill, no proposal, no law.
Another EDICT.
Nmewn, I think we're not communicating. ZH is not slow for me. I have FIOS. What I'm talking about is what Verizon is going to do if left without checks and balances when they get what they want, e.g., no regulation. I'm talking about the future. You seem stuck in normalcy bias.
You're demanding more regulation for something that hasn't even happened by your own words.
THATS WHAT I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU DAMMIT!
Please...stop with promoting more regulation among the ignorant without any science or major issues or votes OR LAW, thats called bureaucratic tyranny LTER.
This is the most polite you're ever going to find me again, I'm serious about this, you really don't know what you're doing or what the lobbyists & cronies will craft, one line becomes a paragraph, then a page, then chapter, they will never stop, they get paid to do moar.
Stop.
>It will turn into (eventually) internet-per-minute because of morons like you.
So it is back to it's roots... GEnie.
The initial price for connection, at both 300 bits per second and the then-high-speed 1200 bits per second, was $5–$6 per hour during "non-prime-time" hours (evenings and weekends) and $36 an hour (to discourage daytime use) otherwise, later adjusted to $6 per hour and $18 per hour, respectively. A speed of 2400 bit/s was also available at a premium.
Sandard Disclaimer: Early internet addiction was quite costly.
back to compuserve/tapcis? guess maybe it will be all text again...
You to need to find a room.
I'm afraid only one of us would come out. Prediction, there will never be a ZH party where all of us meet.
Security alone would be a million fiatsco's ;-)
Well, I would invite all to join me in hut 17 in my stalag but I'm not sure if you men would be allowed to come. Sad. It would be quite a rabble rousing affair.
Miffed
You can boost your RAM to 16 or 32 on a i7 plateform. You can get on your knees a suck some PR 's dick to tell you can buy the new surpercomputer. Only President plays games to execute another Executive Order to illegally pass laws without using the three branches of law. Fuck Obamaba and the laws he passed without constitution consent.
This will be fun to watch collapsing, you policy makers don't know how the internet works. 80% of the people are underground. No fucking Google ad revenue. Imagine that, tell Google when we can tell you what there thinking. What happen to our adsense advertment? we are -10% lost because of Net Neutrality .
Keep your 20% at a new -10% . What new NBNC {makeup call letters] fuck is going to get sacked on high wages and low advertisement cost?.
Perhaps if deemed good for society, keeping us safe from ourselves, it must be a necessary sacrifice? But I'm being a touch of an asshole.
Miffed;-)
You are being a touch of an asshole if you think I am saying that the only purpose of government is keeping us safe from ourselves. The false dichotomy of the Teams is to suggest that the two parties disagree on the purpose of government, when both use it to control us. It is exactly that which makes both parties wrong. The valid function of elected government is to allow the many to avoid control and oppression by the few. That equation is now turned entirely on its head in America, while the Teams pretend otherwise.
I think I get what you are saying but the idea that government will prevent the control of the many by the few misses an important point.
In a system where majority vote gets control you have the tyranny of the many over the few.
Niether is a good thing, IMHO.
There's no such thing as good government.
But it'll be "enshrined in law", so its all good...or sumpin...lol.
DAMMIT!
I could just fucking scream sometimes.
"In a system where majority vote gets control you have the tyranny of the many over the few. Niether is a good thing, IMHO."
I agree, actually. But it's not really an either/or. The Founders created a system that attempted to address both problems. Worked for a while until the few figured out how to usurp it, sometime around 1913.
Yeah. That's the question. How to keep heavily armed, psychopathic or just plain greedy fucks in line with words written on a piece of paper.
Put like that, the outcome was somewhat predictable, I'd say.
A bloody shame.
Your so full of SHIT LTER. You have always been a cheer leader for the liberal technocrats bullshit. Now that your team has been exposed as the shit stain side of the dirty shirt, you scamper over to the other pile of shit.
HOPE, HOPE and CHANGE !!!!!
Since I've always been a cheerleader for the liberal technocrat's bullshit, I'd enjoy reading my prior posts that establish this. I'm sure since you are familiar with them, you can share them with me.
You remember a few weeks back, when I said you remind me of a fly, fleeting to the next fresh pile of shit?
I have to tell you a story k. I found these things called "Fly Predators". When ordered, they come in a bag as larvey, in sawdust. You leave the bag inside, room tempature. When they hatch, you take them to the pasture, sprinkle the bag out and around on fresh Cow and Horse Shit in the pastures. Pretty cool huh?
The purpose of the bug, it grows then attacks all the blood flies that hammers cattle and horses sucking blood, causing weight loss. Eradicates the Mfers.
Reminds me of the fucking Liberal Technocrats each time I put them out. I doubled the size of my Fly Predator order this last year......
So just personal attacks now. Okay.
Hey, be nice. Took me a while to type you a story. I don't have a Free Oblamo Phone.
" keeping us safe from ourselves" is simply the meme employed to exert the control. I did not mean to imply that was government's purpose. It had not been nor ever shall be. The teams both use government to control us because that is what government is, a means to control others. Benevolent government is oxymoronic. No matter how noble the intent, it attracts those who are psychopathic in nature who warp the laws for their advantage. This has always been true historically and to think any other outcome is possible is quite naive.
Miffed
I don't disagree with you, Miffed, except for the solution. Can you share with me the solution that you envision, and any examples that suggest it would work better than the Constitutional elected government envisioned by the Founders?
This is a fair question which obviously begs after my stance. Unfortunately a response would be quite a treatise and though I would love to do so, i do not have the time to engage you fully.
However I will point you to a book that has completely changed my view on the dynamic to which we speak. This knowledge as a framework would have the possibility to keep the excesses of government in check as long as the populous is willing to be vigilant.
Politial Ponerology ( a science on the nature of evil adjusted for politics) by
Andrew Lobaczewski
Miffed
I'll try to take a look. If you ever have time to summarize the main points in the interim, I'd welcome a discussion.
That seems in earnest so I shall attempt to compile scattered ideas into some cohesive presentation. However, knowing my luck when I am ready, you will assumed the role of an apostate and be no longer in need of a debate. Or, your head will be ritualistically displayed here on a spike by one of your testosterone filled detractors and you are no more.
The read is quite cerebral but very enlightening. I believe it would be worth your time. It explains how good intentions in this realm are the eventual undoing of any system considering the nature of those who seek an involvement in government are inherently power seeking to enrich themselves, not to do societal good.
Miffed
I'll try to keep my head.
LTER and anyone else can download the pdf of Political Ponerology here: www.doomsteaddiner.net/uploads/peter/ponerology.pdf
A searing and deeply intelligent look at evil and politics, revealing them to be the head and tail of the same coin.
Yeah, cheapskates, it's free.
keep the excesses of government in check as long as the populous is willing to be vigilant.
Christ Miffed, that is exactly while the US experiment failed. The populace was NOT willing to be vigilant. If it had been vigilant, the experiment would not have failed.
So far as I can see, the US experiment was the strongest attempt at enlightened government so far. You know, the media, the 4th estate, could have saved it. Centralized control of the media is a recent phenomenon. The Kennedy assassination/coup, for example... the media toed the government line by choice. Too bloody bad.
Very true.
This is why I found that book so enlightening. He showed that it was during the " good times" when things actually unravel because this is when we become complacent and caught up in the fun. This is when the psychopaths start to work in the shadows. The good and bad times cycle is the wheel that perpetuates their power and they use it to their advantage.
Miffed
Twin wings of the buiness party with a little friction on some meaningless social issues
What we have seen since 2006 when Dems took back Comgress and Obunghole swindled us with hope and change is that both parties agree that perpetual war on behalf of the oligarchs will be enforced by full spectrum surveillance on the citizenry to ensure compliance
2008 showed there is no substantive differnce between the parties. It is why Hillary will lose in 2016
Our presidemtial elections from now on will come down to popularity contests between the candidates. not issues or party affiliation
In 2012 people disliked Obama less than Mormon fucktard Romney
In 2016 people will dislike Jeb less than Cankles
I had a touch of an asshole...that's why I went two-ply.
Re: The topic...I kinda miss the old BBS system. It had such a neighborly feel to it...and sometimes there were access points to the world wide web available where, if you had an address, you could go explore a bit.
Used that system back during the Clinton shut down working as an ancient (35 yo or so intern) for a fire department to find a phone number within the federal government for annexation grants to annex George Air Force Base for the City of Victorville Fire Department. My assignment was to establish the property tax valuation for the base over six months...it took six weeks. So they gave me other things to do.
(Base had been closed a couple of years as a land battle was fought between Victorville and Adelanto over the rights to the base. Eerie shit, entire AF base that I had grown up with was deserted. I could see dishes on kitchen tables, furniture and shit inside through the windows. Weeds growing up in the roads. It was like a couple years after a neutron bomb had gone off. Worse, the Fire Chief's second in command took me into one of the apartments, ran water into a glass and lit it on fire. Jet fuel permeated the water lines.)
Anyway, found a number and dialed it. It rang a bunch of times, no answering service, and I expected not to reach anyone but to leave a call back message. I was surprised when it was answered.
In the background I could hear two men talking back and forth. "You ask. No, you ask. No!" Finally, "uh, um, sir? Um, who IS this?"
I tell them I'm some piss-ant intern from a city fire department looking for information.
"un, um, ", I could tell them were shaken, "where did you get this number from?"
"Oh, I found it on a BBS for the government that listed it as an information place regarding land annexations. We're trying to annex a closed military base here in California."
"Uh, holy shit, we didn't even know that this phone existed. It's in the wall, like a speaker and we had to figure out how to answer it...and that's not the kind of annexation we normally deal with here. That's why you scared the living shit of us."
I still laugh over that...then look at today and get tears.
[Edit: It's March 4, 2015. All that housing got a nice big fence around it to hide the decay. Base has a few businesses, 2001 until now it housed hundreds of grounded planes from 9/11, but the greatest shame is the blight and decay of all that housing. Now, at least, it's cosmetically hidden.]
I ran a BBS on a Amiga custom tower 24/7 for about 5 years. Had users from all over the world. Yes, it was intimate for lack of a better word.
I haven't heard anything negative about the patent office.
It took both teams to get to this point of no return and both need to be punished.
harshly
Bernie "Ball-Suck" Sanders.
errr, wait, I just contradicted myself, maybe I'll be the next Nobel Prize Wiener.
Who would you hate more, a slut who sleeps around, or your wife, if she turned out to be a slut who sleeps around?
I used to be a Repuke.
No more.
They don't have a party for me.
Thirty plus years of being a registered Republican until the last election and what they did to Ron Paul. Day of election I changed party to Libertarian just so I had a label. Dad was fifty plus years republican, he registered socialist so he could sarcastically say he supported the government.
The parties mean nothing when the venue is owned by a sole proprieter. As long as the rent is paid on the facilities and the party abides by the rules, it doesn't matter who's dancing.
Although I have voted Libertarian since they started up back in the '70s, when I first could vote, I registered Republican so I could vote in the primaries. This year I changed to Libertarian, after Ron Paul I don't care what the R team does. They are exactly the same as the D team.
Yassar Arafat still has his, so that seems unlikely.
He's dead, Jim
...and send a bill for monies to be returned.
"Peace" "Literature" and "Economics" prizes are essentially exercises in Scandinavian humor-cum-depression.
And, of course, an Economics "Nobel" doesn't even exist; but then it IS bestowed by the Swedish central bank who are lying fucks by definition.
Yup, everything's da jooz fault!
Gonna snow again this week - friggin' joo secret snow machines!
"You know who invented Astroturf?......da Jooz"
Them Hebes got a sunspot machine too.
Prolly be puttin the EMP on us crackazzzz.
Hebrooooz be trippin Yo!
I bet you'd be ok with Mexico announcing their intention to obliterate the USA and working to develope an A Bomb to accomplish that mission.
So my goal of crowdsourcing a nuclear weapon might be a tad ambitious?
I'll kick in two bits.
You going to crowdshare the tech?
(Actually, it used to be available in public libraries before Gov.com decided that might not be a good idea.)
WTF do you expect? They're the same color.
This isn't a story about King Midas, this is the real shit deal here boyzzzzz. It's about the King of Shit, King Omummerterd.
shit skinned mufugger could fuck up a free soup-sandwich
And if that don't get me banned, nuthin will.
Sometimes I disgust even myself.
Barkeep! Make it a double!!!
nobel peace prize became irrelevant after nominating that war criminal.
I think he was referring to the idiot who recommended the award in the first place...
Yes
lMAO...
Fuck the Nobel Peace Price and this guy Thorbjulghgher whatever his name is.
Shame can be a very powerful depressant.
YOU nailed it Larry, America, and the world has lost it's SHAME!
Umm, you misspelled it, I think it's Throatgurgler.
So can a bullet in the head but nobody is suggesting that even though it would be a much surer thing.
Easy there Tex.
Polish them rockets and swallow them pills.
Space Lord, Mother, Mother, HUH!!
Yeah, and that is going to resurrect all the people that have been killed at his direction and make their families whole.
Obama? What's not to like about a homosexual muslim?
Married to the heshe from Orange is the New Black
It's a Chewbaca stand-in.
A member of the homosexual community might resent inclusion among the muslim population.
That cranium belongs on 'Easter Island'.
that is an insult to those statues!
Dumb dumb want gum gum
Dum...Dum..Dum... Nightmare at the Congress, Senate,and Oval Office.
Where's the IRS Lois Lerner tapes?
Probably filed away in Cankels Hitlary's HRC private email account.
OH wait........
Barry not the wunderkind they were paid, quite handsomely, to promote...
The damage is done , who the fuck want's a noble peace prize now.
I think the guy who awarded the Nobel Prize deserves a Nobel Prize himself. In fact, they should put the Fed in charge of issuing and distributing awards until they're worth less than a Weimar note.
LOL
and his name was Obomber...just cause he is a leftwing, islamofascist shouldn't be a problem right....faceplant!
America is LOST!
The half black guy is drong brown families to death while eating dog meat pate' on crackers...quick...somebody go camp out in a ditch on Mahhhtha's Veeenyard and get the countrys attention, this is a Code Pink Alert!!!
Wheres Brian Williams!? ;-)
Ain't that the truth...Brian is queueing up for the next peace prize! or is it the lying prize?
Either way these dumbass "Scandinavians" would give it to him.
Its not just one guy voting to give it out, it takes an entire village of Nobel idiots ;-)
Socialists all...ain't it a hoot?! May I cry yet?