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America's Pitiful "Choice"
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com,
A Look Ahead to the Next (S)election
We realize we are jumping the gun a bit here, after all, it isn’t yet certain which candidates will win the primaries and become presidential candidates. However, we are taking an educated guess here, based on past elections and primaries. The Democratic Party usually has a relatively non-competitive field. One or two candidates are most likely to get the nomination from the outset. Left-of-field candidates like e.g. Bernie Sanders may take part, but have no chance anyway. Last time around, Hillary Clinton faced quite a formidable opponent in Barrack Obama, who undoubtedly was a far more appealing choice from the perspective of the Democratic base.

We present to you the likely winner of the next election …
This time around, it is hard to see who could possibly stop Hillary, except perhaps herself. She is as scandal-ridden as a stray dog in the slums of Lagos is flee-ridden. So she might trip over one of her scandals, but not if the US mainstream press has anything to say about it. This is actually a bit of a word play in a sense, since she usually gets away with stuff precisely because the mainstream press isn’t saying much about it. We also know from occasionally watching the discourse on Democratic grassroots sites that they are all rooting for her this time (we admittedly can’t understand it, but there it is).
With respect to the Republicans, it seems likely that the primaries will once again see a large field of candidates competing. The only somewhat offbeat choice on the menu is Rand Paul, who is a bit like a version of Ron Paul who has shed a lot of Ron in order to become “electable”. We cannot fault him for this strategy – if he were as fiercely principled as his father, he’d have no chance whatsoever. Rand Paul is the best chance the libertarian wing of the Republican party has had in a very long time indeed. We can be 100% sure though that he is not the preferred choice of the Republican establishment – the bland, war-mongering professional political clique that is always pushing for an equally bland candidate. To wit, Mitt Romney last time around – how much more uninteresting a candidate could they have possibly picked? So who is the Republican “establishment candidate” this time? Like Hillary, he is part of what America has instead of a nobility: Jeb Bush.

Rand Paul – the only possible candidate not utterly committed to statism and hence unlikely to get the nomination
Photo credit: WTVQ
The two major parties might as well be one party. Both are statist to the core, with only their emphasis slightly differing. The Democratic Party leans more toward welfare statism, the Republicans more toward warfare statism. A slight exception may be the small paleo-conservative and libertarian wings of the Republican Party, which would long have become a third party if the US were Europe. In the US the system is extremely stacked in favor of the two established parties though. It is extremely difficult to even get one’s candidates on a ballot as a third party – in fact, it is far easier for a non-establishment group to get onto the ballots in Russia (yes, allegedly “authoritarian” Russia) than it is in the US. Hence many of the more off-beat candidates are joining one of the two big parties, picking the one that seems ideologically the closest to their own views.
So here is the most likely “choice” in the next presidential selection:

Hillary and Jeb
We know one interest group in the US that is already rubbing its hands at the prospect of these two butting heads, because it will win no matter which one of them becomes president: the war racketeers, a.k.a. the military-industrial complex.

These guys are eagerly looking forward to a Hillary vs. Jeb election
Hillary the Neo-Con
Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who writes for the “Intercept” these days, is philosophically sympathetic to the misnamed liberals, or let us rather say he isn’t averse to “progressive” ideology. We generally prefer to call it what it is, namely socialism. However, he has never once hesitated to criticize powerful Democrats with just as much verve as he displayed back when his main targets were G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and we like him for his consistency. If they are evil, he’s saying so. Anyway, as someone who is generally sympathetic to the Democrats, he may be uniquely qualified to provide us with a critical appraisal of Hillary. His assessment is certainly free of partisan bias as you will see below.
The quote is taken from an interview Greenwald gave to GQ:
“Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a f*cking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the ?rst female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power. They’ll probably have a gay person after Hillary who’s just going to do the same thing.
I hope this happens so badly, because I think it’ll be so instructive in that regard. It’ll prove the point. Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.”
(emphasis added)
Greenwald is of course not the first person to notice that Hillary is not only surrounded by “sleazy money types”, but is a war-mongering harpy ideologically indistinguishable from the neo-cons. Note here that the latter are not only America’s biggest warmongers – among their philosophical/ideological heroes are people like Leo Strauss and Leon Trotsky (yes, the communist – Justin Raimondo has written extensively about their elitist and leftist roots), and they are in love with playing the role of “philosopher kings” who are constantly pulling the wool over the public’s eyes to get what they want. They are certainly not in favor of the free market. In fact, their position vis-a-vis the unwashed masses is that anything that keeps them docile is good, hence they support not only warfare statism, but welfare statism as well. Hillary fits right in, in every respect. Hell, even the New York Times has noticed.

Strident harpy Hillary
Photo credit: AP
Jeb Bush Still Likes the Iraq War
We didn’t know very much about Jeb Bush, except for the fact that he’s surrounded himself with the usual neo-con advisors that seem to be the main choice of every Republican establishmentarian. However, he is not only rightly suspected of being indistinguishable from Hillary in the foreign policy department, he just proved that as long as he can somehow get a war, he will be all for it, no matter how idiotic the choice is – even in hindsight! He might as well have announced that his middle name is “stupid”. Here is a recent Reuters article on the topic:
“Potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, just as his brother George W. Bush had done. The former Florida governor, in an interview taped to air on Fox News on Monday, acknowledged the United States made mistakes in managing Iraq after ousting President Saddam Hussein, including lack of post-war security for Iraqis.
“By the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well? George W. Bush,” he said. “Yes, I mean, so just for the news flash to the world, if they’re trying to find places where there’s big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of those.”
Bush has said that he is “my own man” and not tied too closely to the policies of George W. or their father, former president George H.W. Bush. He also has said his brother advises him on the Middle East.
The United States invaded Iraq after making a case to the United Nations that said Saddam had biological weapons. That case turned out to have been based on flawed intelligence.
“I would have [authorized the invasion] and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody,” Bush told Fox News. “And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”
(emphasis added)
Anyone who paid even the slightest attention at the time knew the so-called “intelligence” was cooked up by an administration eager to go to war against a helpless third world tinpot dictator, who incidentally happened to sit atop a lot of oil. The intelligence wasn’t just “flawed” – they made it all up from day one. Today everybody knows of course that their “intelligence” consisted mainly of stuff like the lies they were told by con-men like Ahmed Chalabi (who ironically was basically an Iranian plant). US and UK secret services were told in no uncertain terms “to fix the intelligence around the policy”. The whole affair was so transparent from the outset though, that one required an IQ below room temperature not to see through it. Anyone who as naïve enough to believe even one word of Powell’s UN presentation is high on the list of people we’d love to meet at a poker table.
It isn’t a big surprise that Hillary did indeed vote in favor of the war, but what Jeb Bush is basically saying above is that he too would have been naïve enough to have believed in this so-called “intelligence” at the time (we will refrain from insinuating that he would have been party to cooking it up, we simply don’t know enough about him to come to any conclusions in this respect). Meanwhile, the fact that his brother is “advising him on the Middle East” is downright terrifying.
Conclusion
It would be both funny and tragic if indeed Hillary and Jeb were to end up facing off against each other in the next election (personally we would classify it as a nightmare actually). What it definitely wouldn’t be is a proper choice. We haven’t yet completely given up on Rand Paul’s chances though, so at the moment there is still a sliver of hope, tiny as it is. Maybe the fat cat seen below can still be deprived of its prize.

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The word "Entitlement" is left out of the title of the top illustration.
I would elect myself and many others here, but why bother. We be too rational, too real and they would not like that.
Still ultimately amazed that so many uppers fell into a trap of such utter bullshit. I guess their bullshit system rules any reason. God, please save us all.
I woldn't take the job. I would have this overwhelming desire to fix as much as is wrong in DC as I could, and I know that it is a task that I could not complete. This country is beyond repair at this point.
I wouldn't either unless I had the power to purge the feculent filth that has built up over the years. It wouldn't be pretty. Proper channels have long been devoid of usefulness.
I'd make a great dictator. You may assassinate me when I am through so to not let the absolute power eventually corrupt me absolutely.
Miffed;-)
The "Reagan Revolution" had similar ambitions. As did RFK and JFK.
JFK & RFK, yes, but RR, no.
Reagan was a corporate shill, owned by G.E since the early 50's. He did exactly what his sponsors inteneded for him to do. Don't forget, his VP, Daddy Bush, had just come from heading up the CIA. You really think that cleaning up DC was on their agenda?
Reagan was enough of an idealist to warrant a bullet.
Idealist, my ass. He was the bankers best buddy and BFF to the MIC. He promoted the hell out of corporate welfare while deriding "welfare queens" in his Southern GOP dominance strategy. He pandered to the "religious" right, pretending that he was one of them, while his wife preferred the wisdom of the astrologers. The trickle down economic theories he foisted off on America, coupled with the massive expansion of debt, and dramatic reduction in taxes on the top earners laid the groundwork for the consolidation of wealth that is killing us today.
But you are welcome to keep worshiping the Raygun God if you like. It's still a partially free country.
this guy did a nice job painting out the bankers in this picture
What if they threw a party and nobody showed up? BOYCOTT 2016
What difference does it (voting) make
I am in my 40's, and I remember even as a kid hearing people say they were voting for a candidate and holding their noses, because it was a "lesser of evils." It took me most of my adult life to finally realize that "lesser of evils" really means two sides of the same coin. Voting is a waste of time and energy, unless your sole concern is the social policy differences of the parties, which are brilliantly displayed and made front and center of each election while our country is sold over and over to the highest bidder.
"sold over and over to the highest bidder."
Passed my 40's and came to same conclusion after watching a lifetime of political activity have no impact whatsoever.
It's all Kabuki theater to pacify the masses.
http://blog.redefininggod.com/
Wrong analogy. The masses don't/can't understand the import of what the "kabuki theater" means, so it could hardly placate or satisfy them.
Wow LTER, we actually agree on something? Haha....
Where's poster Pure Evil? I need to ask him if Hell has frozen over.
When our rulers allow us to vote on single issue items like the legalization of pot I vote. Otherwise...
Yep. knew that the "market" would always go up then to.
"Full faith and credit"
Not too far behind you. Exact same experience. I remember somewhat favoring the red team because at least the "talked" the small government talk. Bush opened my eye's to that one. Have mentally withdrawn from politics since and don't see it as having any real impact other than making people pick sides and become blind in the process.
A result of this though is I have effectively withdrawn my consent mentally. If/when that withdrawal turns into actions remains to be seen.
In another piece, someone made a comment that I find to be valid: "By voting for the "lesser evil", one enables evil the power of office, voter's consent and the color of law... voting for evil, greater or lesser, is still a vote for evil. Never vote for evil-- not ever!"
...Or something to that effect. Perhaps a better wordsmith or thinker than I can take a stab at this one.
Sounds like you knew my parents.
If a 3+ party system existed, with true oversight (rotating public watch), then voting could produce change.
How to get from A to B?
http://blog.redefininggod.com/
Nope. You need an informed public with a transparent government for there to be change at the ballot boxes. Winston Churchill (the ZH poster, not the historical figure,) suggested that it would be a good idea to make people pass the citizenship test before they can register to vote. But that's not in effect, so peaceful revolutiono has been made impossible.
I disagree with Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man.com regarding Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders has been screaming the same, consistent message for 25 years. Call him a ‘socialist,’ all you want but every day more and more Americans are agreeing with Bernie Sanders because his message is much more powerful than his label.
I agree with you. Sanders is in many respects the Ron Paul of the left. One of the few in national politics who actually has real convictions and isn't just acting a role. Like Ron Paul, he believes in individual freedom and that the country is owned by bankers and oligarchs. Just as I would take Ron Paul in a heartbeat, so would I take Bernie, even though I have significant disagreements with both of them (Ron is too "pure free markets" for my taste, and Bernie is too nanny state for my taste). But it will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, happen.
"Sanders is in many respects the Ron Paul of the left."
Sad part is that they are both part of the plan...
They are a fake "alternative" pre-chosen....
http://blog.redefininggod.com/
I've often wondered that. I know I don't trust that Elizabeth Warren is anything but controlled opposition, and I see Rand Paul as a pure corporatist. Bottom line is that Ron Paul is out of politics so he's a non-issue, and Bernie Sanders has exactly zero chance of being elected, so it's all academic. I had a brief moment of thinking about giving money to Sanders as I did with Ron Paul, but then I thought better of it. I gave money to Ron P even though I knew he was unelectable, because I thought that maybe it would do some good to have him around on the national stage making his arguments. Didn't matter, and didn't make a difference. Good booze is a better investment.
A lot of people said the same thing when they were considering voting for Ross Perot, so they didn't do it. I will go on record as one of those who wasted my vote on Mr. Perot.
I was one of the guys that did cast my vote for Perot, which is part of my cynicism. Even with his bankroll he didn't stand a chance after MSM tore him to pieces and made him appear (wrongly) to be crazy.
You can say things haven't changed since then, but the fact is - lots of things have changed since then. I'm not attacking you but your very words expressed it: The problem is cynicism. If people want to go along with it then they will go along with it.
But there is something going on. Lots of people are questioning. I just feel it in the air.
I hope you're right and I'm wrong. I believe the distant sound of thunder you hear is a Warren Buffet train full of crude. Honestly, the MSM has a vice grip on this country. A very small percentage of us see something fundamentally wrong. Far more people think the other Team will fix whatever they think is wrong, and even more aren't paying any attention at all.
You cannot give up! I will post it again...
The Old Man and the Starfish
"There was a young man walking down a deserted beach just before dawn. In the distance he saw a frail old man. As he approached the old man, he saw him picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea.
The young man gazed in wonder as the old man again and again threw the small starfish from the sand to the water. He asked, "Old man, why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time?"
The old man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun. " But there must be thousands of beached and millions of starfish!" exclaimed the young man. "How can you make any difference?"
The old man looked down at the small starfish in his hand and as he threw it into the safety of the sea, he said, "I made a difference to this one."
Williambanzai7 tries to make a difference. He makes and effort. He uses the concept that 'a picture is worth a thousand words'.
He does something to contribute, whether you agree with him or not is another question. But at least he makes a stand.
You'd do more to grow your own food and collect your own water, than to vote. That's a real vote of no-confidence in the system. As long as people vote the charade will continue. I thought Obama taught everyone that Cynicism isn't the problem... everyone was hopeful he wasn't yet another stooge. But he's the biggest stooge yet.
Where you put your time and money far outweighs anything you put down in the ballot box.
Arthur, I would have agreed with you about Bernie once upon a time. However, I was living in the mountains of central Vermont in 2007, the year that Bush's people got Robert Novak to intentionally "out" Valerie Plame. The guy behind it was Lewis Libby, who was convicted of being the mastermind. On July 2, Bush commuted his prison sentence... just as the world was running off to play July 4. What better time to sneak one through? Bernie Sanders was in the infamous and hysterically great Warren, VT 4th of July parade that year. I went to the parade with friends as always. The parade got bogged down in the middle of tiny Warren center and everything stopped for 10 minutes. I was delighted to see Bernie standing in front of me not 10 feet away, so I thouight I'd get him pumped up. So I shouted out "Impeach Bush, impeach Bush." A friend shouted "Impeach Cheney," and another friend shouted "Impeach Bush and Cheney." The response we got from Bernie ended my desire to EVER participate in American politics again. Rather than getting a high five, or a bunch of laughs and thumbs up from Bernie we got the opposite. It was like he wanted to crawl into a whole in the ground. He shuffled his feet, looked embarraseed, looked away, looked down at the ground, fidgeted, turned red, wouldn't look at us from ten feet away so we poured it on him for 10 minutes before the procession resumed. I couldn't fucking believe it. This was his crowd by the way, 6 or 7 thousand left or center leaning individuals, hardly a repug in that part of the state on that day. That was his sweet spot. And Bernie showed me once and for all what EVERY American politician will do when the chips are down. They'll talk a good fight, they'll use their soundbites and PR assholes and they'll "manage" their public appearences. But look you in the eye? No fucking chance in Hell. Fuck American polictics, it's broken beyond repair.
I don't think it was Perot they took apart as much as his admiral, a very poor choice of VP candidate. Maybe he was a good man but he was horrible on stage.
Ummm. Ross Perot DID appear to be crazy... he wasn't... But he appeared to be.
All he had to do was appear presidential... Right or wrong... He would have stood a chance. He was too fiesty...
"are you listening? Lemme give ya an example... If you put two men with matches in a room full of gasoline it ain't gonna make a difference which one lights the match first."
So it's the system... The system isn't the room full of gasoline it's the fact that the only way to get elected is you're forced to carry matches... and voting for Rand or Perot or Shillary or Bush 'ain't gonna make a difference'. Are you listening?
Take away the matches...
Good example that the media leans ratings rather than agenda first... If you're cuckoo like Perot or if you're cuckoo enough to say Putin is puttin' is ugly head out to look at Alaska... Or even if you're cuckoo enough... Who was the democrat that was in the lead at the polls that was screaming woooooo... he was the democratic party head... What was that nut's name?
At any rate... Picking sides is the American illusion that there is a choice.
Red blue...what a joke ... this isn't the Superbowl.
Then there is the brilliant solution of not voting for anybody that was part of the establishment...Obama... that turned out well.So... We're fuqed.
Move to Texas... That's your only hope for the future.Keep it simple and transparent.
N't
I voted for Perot Twice. My thinking was I thought Congess deserved him.
Doesn't matter, even if one of the two were elected, even if they wanted to do good.
They would set them down and splain it to them in very simple terms.
Remember JFK?
Young fire pisser that wanted to change things.
Be a shame if you wanted to change things.
Be a shame if your head got blown off by an assassin.
JFK: "I want to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds"
Instead he had his head scattered all over the streets of Dallas after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
If you would question in your mind as to what is really going on?
Many have opinions about Baltimore. If you choose to look instead at the numerous whites who are protesting instead of focusing on the blacks? There are many Baltimores and they have absolutely *nothing* to do with black people. The Baltimore riots were only part of that city, a swath of inner city neighborhoods impacted by job loss, poor education and aggressive policing. There are other Baltimores outside of Maryland. They include Akron Ohio, Birmingham Alabama, Cincinnati Ohio, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Toledo, etc.
It is not just an inner city problem. Along with with it are the problems of the outer ring of suburbs. You can see the the cracks in the metropolis: You can see the trailer parks, the suburban rental units that house those pushed out of the city by gentrification and redevelopment.
The Baltimores you see today are the Baltimores of economic neglect - massive job loss, aggressive policing and the deprivation that is found throughout metropolitan regions across this entire country. They are places of despair that house the voiceless of the US political system.
The marginalized of the US economy and those left behind in the commodification of US society.
Martin Luther King Jr's 1966 statement still has resonance: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Nah. If a rebel got elected at this stage they would just be walking into a trap as the whole charade would be allowed to crumble around them so the TV crowd could watch the O'Reillys and Matthews of the MSM lay blame on them and exhonerate the guilty.
Until then, in Diebold we trust.
Sorry Majestic, you got downvoted on this one. The guy behind the redefininggod blog is nothing but a clever shill. Read carefully and the MO is clear - a lot of truth written to deliver the real message - the giant lie. The idea that Ron Paul is part of the plan is one of the giant lies he is pushing. Note how he offers no solutions and everyone is 'part of the plan'. It's too bad he's sucked in a lot of folks by being very clever and devious. Anybody who does not lay all the blame for almost all of the ills in our world - moral, financial/monetary, political, social etc. on bankers creating currencies from nothing and charging the world interest on it is either sadly ignorant/brainwished or is a shill for the bankers. It really is that simple.
Don't eva, eva, eva, no not eva even...say neva.
How do you know those two won't get together and run on and independent ticket? It could happen.
They could. They wouldn't get on the ballot in the vast majority of states. They wouldn't get the money (corporate big bucks) for advertising. They wouldn't have any friends in the MSM to push their narrative. They wouldn't control the Diebold machines that cast the only votes that count - the vote counts. So yeah, they could run together against the rest but it is unlikely and still unlikelier that they could succeed.
And if they did win, TPTB would crash the system and lay blame upon their feet. There literally is no way to actually win and succeed at this stage of the game.
IMHO
Why is socialism such a dirty word in this country? I had a socialist Mayor while I was growing up in Milwaukee by the name of Karl Zeidler. He was great Mayor.
We could use a little socialism in this country. The Danes are the happiest people on earth and they are socialist!
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The Danes are the happiest people on earth and they are socialist![/quote]
It's always easier to herd cats when there's less of them!
what we really need is a strong-armed, benevolent dictator to take control and dissolve the present system. it doesn't work anyway.
benevolent dictator=unicorn shitting skittles
"benevolent dictator=unicorn shitting skittles"
While fucking you in the ass! Forgot the dictator part...
Horrid picture...ewww.
Even if it wasn't a unicorn shitting skittles, you've got the problem of what heppens when he dies and a not-so-benovelent dictator takes power. How bad was Julius Ceaser or Agustus for the people? Not too bad, eh? How about Tiberius? Not too good. Now, what about Caligula and Nero?
Well, Chancellor Palpatine has some experience in Governance.
Damn Hillary to hell, God-damn that corrupt liar bitch and any who support it.
I'd give anything to waterboard her....and that Marxist Jackass Obama. It would an illuminating confession.
LOL! It's a very complex system "folks".
I would not want to be in the prediction business right now.
"LOL! It's a very complex system "folks"."
Two words...."Norman Dodd".
So far steady as she goes...
I stand by my prediction that it's clinton / bush and bush wins. Bush will have the deep state, MIC backing of the Bush legacy and connections. He'll also pick up the evangelicals like GWB did. The economy at the time of the elections will be shit (you can't predict elections on now, it has to be based on how it will be at the time of the election). The republican house and senate will continue to shit on obama over the next years. Hillary will run, but a lot of democrats hate her. Turn out on the democrat side will be poor. Turn out on the republican side will be significant, largely in response to the hatred of obama. Jeb wins.
..and "voting' remains irrelevant. Sorry, did you have a point? How do we trade this?
My point is that greenwald is wrong.
"How do we trade this?"
Long on Annunaki Reptilian Overlords....or NWO...
Here is a hint: http://www.alibaba.com/body-bag-manufacturers.html
jeb bush rigged the election so big brother could win the state. ex-cons ~ 200k [mostly black] were refused voting rites in florida as freed men, after serving their tyme. gore would have won the state easily.there's lots moar, but you get it.
william rehnquist wrote his third book about 'what happens during a close vote and the country must move on?' ironically, he started writing notes and short manuscripts (*the disputed election of 1876 c.2004 finally published /// note: rehnquist died sept/2005) the book that year during summer recess. strange thing about the tyming, and being a die-hard conservative given the SCOTUS under his soul[?] command! http://www.supremecourthistory.org/timeline_rehnquist.html
a nixon appointee and a bush lover!!!
about, jeb bush and florida regarding his leadership, and how he helped his brother and his brother helped him get reelected when bush #43 stopped 'big-oil' from offshore drilling on florida's coastline!!!
this fucking joke is all about big oil mic (missile defense) and multinationals/ corporate america with shit to do regarding joe sixpack! and yet they throw this bums name out there as a legitimate fucking candidate.
this country has become the laughing stock of the world!!!
Fantasy land
Jeb won't make it through the primaries.
every time I think I want to contribute to Rand Paul I get a flash back of the picture of him in front of the "Wailing Wall" ----that spooks me and I hold of writing the check-- You just can't unsee stuff---maybe in a couple of weeks I'll get the nerve up----
Invest in yourself and your tribe, period.
His Dad never made the trip and must have told his son it was just something he had to do or he'd have no chance.
Now, Huckabee has made 43 trips there we'll see if that helps him.
Huckabee will simply round up all the people hoping for the end of times and then point them at Jeb when he concedes the race to him.
Divide and conquer.
Imagine that the Russians were believed to hold much control and sway over the DC US governmnet. How much more believable would that assertion be if every so-called candidates routinely paid homage to the Kremlin Wall?
Now consider more deeply Rand Paul's photo op at, and homage to, the "Wailing Wall?"
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
"Congressional Military Industrial Complex" Good to see the full reference for a change.
"Good to see the full reference for a change."
Not nearly. The full reference would include the Secret Space program and the DUMBS, interconnecting tunnel system, and "why" satanic occult ritualism is central to all of it.
Hint: "The top" is not the President, the 1%, the .001%....they have a boss who is holding a gun to the latter's heads...
The real agenda, is scarier than you could possible imagine...and when JFK discovered it, was hit for declaring his intent to try to stop it.
Last time around, Hillary Clinton faced quite a formidable opponent in Barrack Obama, who undoubtedly was a far more appealing choice from the perspective of the Democratic base.
Last time around Hilary was not black. They saved the "woman" card. Last time around Obama embraced the lies. And was more subservient. Obama SOLD out long before election. Was groomed. Bought and sold to be a puppet.
There is no choice but revolution.
With respect, but all those that are watching Hillary are watching the red herring. She is serving the same purpose she did in 2008, a distraction, diversion, from the magician(s) and their dropping of a rabbit in the hat. In 2008 that rabbit was CIA-Obama, this time it is Perry of Texas.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Almost funny how many distrust the noiZ-media, but not when they are pushing FUDD (Fear, Uncertainty, Dread, and Distraction) like, "Hillary is a candidate for president." It is a lot like still believing your uncle's assertions that there are "boogeymen under one's bed. The boogeymen are down the street in the buildings labeled "Police," or "city hall," or "White House," or "Eccles."
Perry isn't going to look good trying to explain the massive job losses and economic downturn due to malinvestment under his watch in Texas.
I think Congress will be blamed for stifling Obama's plans for the economy, this, that, and everything in between. I think O'Malley might be the dark horse but he's a white guy pretending to be a rock star and he'd have to explain Baltimore. Fauxcahantas has virtually no record as a pol, is a woman, and even thought she was a repressed minority (a true native at that). She is a pawn of the bankers and a real statist to boot. Her believers are ardent and true. Fear her.
Actually that is part of the "benefit" to Zion of the oil price take down: Perry can blame the "policies" of the current regime, and more importantly, the regime's "party," for the problems.
One can see this propaganda meme working its way into the noiZ-media more and more.
We, shall see, but my Magic Eight Ball says the outlook for Perry being Zion's pick, is good.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize as President, Hillary or Jeb will also win the Heisman Trophy, the Egg Council's "Man of the Year" award, and the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes Grand Prize.
Jeb president/HillaryVP!
What a cuntry
No this article misses the current paradigm. It is not the Congressional Military Industrial Complex. It is currently the Progressive Government-Media Complex. Designed to ramp up the Welfare State which is far larger than military spending. Sure that is part of it but the biggest driver is the Welfare State. And there is plenty of crony captialism to go around there.....to all the filthy fat cats of both parties. In fact it is the Welfare State that will sink the Republic in the near future, not the Military side.
No it's not. Only if you include direct corporate welfare, right? Welfare for people, flows through them, indirectly to the corporations, right?
Look at the included chart again. Now imagine that those things labeled as "$" are energy--The efforts and exertions, production, of the people.
Now think of entropy, the leakage of energy away from a specific system to the universe, and the changing of order into chaos. Imagine Zion as the unseen universe surrounding those people, institutions, and entities in that chart.
Zion is the entropy of the American country. The robbing of the people of their efforts and exertions; The origin of the chaos and plundering of our country, lives, and futures.
Zion is entropy to prosperity.
However, unlike entropy in the physical world, Zionism is not a universal part of the system, but an abhorrent contagion; A contagion that can be, must be, eliminated. But first one must see it, them.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Reminder: America is the country of people and the land they inhabit. The US is the criminal nation that is criminally occupying and oppressing the American country and people.
some people are unfit for public service.
it is a fact. you need to discern this
and now. these unfit will have you murdered
in broad daylight to serve their masters.
they have conflicts, are already bought,
have benefactors and relations that make
them servants to other masters. other than
the public good. yes, this
includes most all of the government high
profile persons, most all incumbents bought
and owned by special interests eating the pork.
the eating of pork in the noon day sun is
not the ultimate virtue or entirely sustainable.
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it is the problem.
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there is a solution but
it requires a high degree of awareness and
a degree of organization. the "people",
the majority, not silent but ignorant just
don't get it for a variety of reasons and other
fantasies sold as facts, we weened on bad directions.
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15 MAY 2015
The One Percenters' Tax Loopholes and Unindicted Frauds: Audacious Oligarchy
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-carried-interest-ta...
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.."Anyone who can distill 'poor Angelo Mozilo' and 'Barney Frank did it' as the only lessons out of the carnage and suffering of the housing financial crisis with its rampant, largely unindicted fraud, brazenly committed by financial institutions and their enablers in ratings agencies, is living in an alternate universe.
And unfortunately that is the case. The uber-wealthy often live in a bubble of delusion because few if any will ever tell them the truth, and if they do, they do not wish to hear it and shout them down or use their money and influence to shut them up.
This is the well spring of hubris and overreach. No one wants to tell the Emperor that he is naked. No one can tell a Caligula that his horse is a poor choice for the Senate. No one wants to explain to the powerful that they have gone too far, and that the times, they are a changin'. They seem to have to get hit with reality in the face, and that is too bad for a lot of innocent bystanders." ... jca
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those with a record that make them unfit
for public service should be eliminated
immediately so the discourse can be sanely
centered on the real issues and potential
candidates whou might serve honorably, truthfully
and honestly. otherwise, there is always doom.
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they are not playing. they are very concerned and
serious. are you? show up every day and stand your ground,
that is all. ....
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tom waits whistle down the wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpnnMb1WtZM
John Cale: Fear (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50geZZiFqtc
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sleeping in the mid day sun.
Meh. As bad as bush or clinton would be, the chosenites have spoken.
Rubio for the win.
The worst part of that for me will be the loud cheering from the right as the right boot comes down upon our necks.
I've shaken his hand. Ive looked in his eyes. Owned asset.
That Cliton bitch is the most perverse choice possible. She is a total Zionist, going so far as to make sure future Clintons will be jews. What other choice was there for their daughter than to marry into the banker tribe. And so she has. Zionists have pretty much locked in power in the USA. Banking and Media are totally in their hands, and those two are powerful. The CIA and NSA are total zionist constructs by this point, owing alligeance to Israel and acting as the hammer to force Americans to be obidient to the masters. Congress is a gutter full of wretched whores, strung out of cash infusions and media attention. The Military Industrial complex, drug companies, big oi, big coal, and AIPAC own them.
Where is the choice? There is none. They rule, we obey. Like David Cameron in the UK, the next president is likely to proclaim any free thought of writing to be terrorism.
Are we fucked? Yes. Have we let it happen? Yes. A handful of zionists pretty much run the entire government and business sector. We are left to loyally pay taxes, shut up, fight their wars, wave the flag and kiss Israel's ass daily.
If it comes down to Hillary vs. Jeb, I'll vote for Jeb because 'J' comes before 'H' in the dictionary.
PLEASE let Hillary be the one that has to explain to the American people why the economy and stock markets tanked.
Anybody under attack anywhere in the world knows how to stop it. All they have to do is arrest Jamie Dimon, Loyd Blanfein and some technocrats but they won't even put out an arrest warrent. Could be that they get paid by the same people.
According to the 'Blair witch Project[?]', aka, Orwell's... 'Animal Farm', the 4th Estate is no moar?
'Don't do stupid stuff'... via Zbig & the Kiss[in`ger] of deaths', purple`licious`passage? Being all but[t] an agnostic's epithany of throwing 'Black`Pearls of Wisdom', before the swine of Plutocracy with their 'Web-of-Deceit' slipping off Satan's rosary string'd... tied tongue quartet of neveryear?!?
Indeed,... Orwell's predictions have come full circle when the fawning equality of mankind begins and ends with whom the bell`tolls. For in the 'Eagles' Nest' loft, the rulers layer rest in serenity as the squalor in the mud below never dares look towards thy owe'd sunshine?
Note: Jeb Bush #3 son, [G. Prescott Bush] is the 'State of Texas' current 'Land Commissioner. Now we all know GHW Bush [#41] son Marvin was ahead of security on the WTC during 9/11 and also closely associated to the security team on the Oklahoma bombings. H/T to a blogger about the Oklahoma affiliation.
Texas is now under Jeb's sons control giving Uncle Sam free reign over military [marshall law] training!
All the Bush's should be convicted of 'War Crimes' exposing 'Cheney' as the 'Grey eminence'!!! Satan incarnate!?!
jmo
Does the Land Commissioner clear the way to frack up water supplies in Texas?
Does the Land Commissioner clear the way to frack up water supplies in Texas?
Rand vs. Bernie. Now that would be a worthwhile election. The other two... I'll be voting for a third party candidate.
I said below both of them are saying exactly the same thing - except the two are speaking to two completely different audiences. They are BOTH saying exactly the same thing!
Why don't you write a letter to both of them and tell them to get together and speak their message together?
Because of annual trade deficits, foreigners are buying all of our assets!!!
- Our Stocks
- Our Bonds
- Our Mortgages
- Our Homes
- Our Farms
- Our Coastlands
- Our Big Businesses
- Our Small Businesses
Currently our debt to foreigners totals more than $35,000 for each man, woman, and child... in this country. That number is growing every day...
WAKE UP!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yX90EN5bM
> WAKE UP!!!
Why? There's nothing you or I can do that would make the slightest difference, so why not just shut your eyes and go back to sleep?
Why the down arrows. DaveA makes perfect sense. Look around, - where do you see anything that makes sense. Anything? For those that have been loyal and long readers of this blog, what positive change has happened in the last 5 years other than the pumped up stock market?
What we need to do today is reach out to the colleges and universities.
Ironically, GenX is running the country today? Yes. The same college students that responded to the Vietnam War in the late 60's,early 70's!
Somewhere our great country has been compromised by its leaders.
It is all these leaders in office that must be purged!
There should be term limits. Perod!!!
To hear a Senator answer to a presidential delimma as being temporarily,... and responding that he/ she will be in office many, many terms after said president is gone is a 'FAIL"!!!
Three, Four, Five, and Six Term US. Senators is absolutely unexceptable.
jmo
Name a single X'er running things. Boomers got the power.
"The United States invaded Iraq after making a case to the United Nations that said Saddam had biological weapons. That case turned out to have been based on flawed intelligence."
Hans Blix found no such weapons. That was before the war.
"Fuck Saddam, We're taking him out"
George Bush 2002(Time Magazine) one year before Hans Blix found no weapons
(google it)
yet another ZH article today insist on claiming Pikett is wrong. What exactly IS the connection between Military-industrial complex but corporate fascism? Pathetic Americans indeed.
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DEMAND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Put your Congressional Members contact info in your phone. Having this info at your fingertips will mean you can contact all three in 6-8 minutes. Call every week and DEMAND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. I have been doing this for some time and posting this same message for some time here and in NY Times, Yahoo etc. Every time I call I ask is any one else DEMANDING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM and I am hearing there is an uptick in requests.
It takes 6-8 minutes a week- you can do it while you have a cup of coffee or visit the bathroom.
Pass it on. I left the numbers at my dentist's office and at least one of them will do it. It would be nice if ZH readers could do so. Just 6-8 min to particpate in this exercise.
If you want secession, then campaign, support, and vote for Hillary. She's the last best hope for showing Americans they have nothing left to lose, so it's time to go all in...
We here all know the national political system is a sham of democracy. Yet no one thinks there is a way to end the corruption of the federal government finally and completely.
Yes there is one way, a choice the American people have always had but never exercised. The clear option when all else has failed is to start over. How can that be possibly accomplished you ask?
On November 8th, 2016 the people believe they will have to dutifully go to their local polling place to cast a vote for a presidential candidate. They think they have to do this even though they know the system will continue to oppress, steal their hard earned wealth and make war around the world.
But the reality is we don't have to vote. Instead we can stay home and deny the elitists the scepter of authority to rule over us. It can be done, all it takes is will power. If the nation does not vote on November 8 there cannot be a central legislative body in Washington.
This will be the greatest single event we can do for ourselves to end the tyranny. Don't vote on November 8, 2016, let the government collapse.
Humanity around the world will thank us, rejoice and know everyday Americans possess courage and are not afraid.
I am not afraid. Are you?
America needs a Sulla to take all the property of all the neo cons possess and proscription for all their families.
Elections, blogs, ZHers are useless; only a physical purge of the PTB will purify the evil USSA.