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Apathy is the new black.......or not....

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The disconnect between what most of us should care about and what the majority of us actually do care about is really quite frightening.  

You see, the truth is that far more Americans are drawn to articles with headlines highlighting the next exploits of the Kardashians or a cat playing Jenga, than to news stories that actually talk about substantive issues of real importance. 

  

 it is a crying shame that Americans know more about Kim Kardashian than they do about the Federal Reserve.  It is sad that a video about a cat playing Jenga can go viral while the systematic destruction of our most basic freedoms and liberties is virtually ignored by a deeply apathetic society.  My hope is that we can start to wake up a lot more people, because time is running out.

-How is it  LEGAL for members of congress to participate in insider trading without reproach?

-Our politicians have racked up 17.5 trillion dollars of debt that CURRENT & future generations of Americans will be expected to repay.

 

 


 

-A $710,000,000,000,000 derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy our financial system at any time.

 

-Miscalculation of true Bank exposure & risk, woefully understated in case of emergency

 

-Right now, one out of every five American families do not have a single member that is employed.

-The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 20 years.

 

-Our liberties and our freedoms are being systematically destroyed, and America is becoming more of a police state with each passing day….see Prism, XKeyscore, Tempora, muscular, Project 6, Stateroom,Lustre surveillance programs

 

-More radioactive material from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility is released into the Pacific Ocean every single day.  Since the half-life of many of these elements is measured in decades, this radioactive material will be in our food chain for the remainder of our lives.

-A foreign policy (not just here but in the UK too) that has been nothing short of a disaster.


 

-George Soros has admitted that an organization that he founded “played an important part” in the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government. In an interview with CNN he was asked, “First on Ukraine, one of the things that many people recognized about you was that you during the revolutions of 1989 funded a lot of dissident activities, civil society groups in eastern Europe and Poland, the Czech Republic. Are you doing similar things in Ukraine?” 

 

“Well, I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia. And the foundation has been functioning ever since and played an important part in events now,” Soros responded.

-U.S. relations with Russia continue to get even worse, and Russia is openly discussing a “de-dollarization” strategy which would be a massive blow to the monopoly of the petrodollar.

 

-The blatant manipulation of the price of gold has finally been publicly exposed and is now out in the open.

-According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year. More than half a million Americans have annual prescription drug costs of more than $50,000, according to a study released just this Wednesday. 


-We are experiencing the worst drought since the days of the Great Depression, and Dust Bowl conditions are now returning to areas in the heartland of America.


-The Bilderberg Group is meeting in the Austrian mountains near Telfs and yet most people still have no idea what the Bilderberg Group is or who is involved.


-Joe Corzine previously of MF Global was at the helm is one of the biggest bankruptcy in US history,where it was alleged that there was a misuse of client funds to cover trading losses. In March 2012, Bloomberg reported that a memo produced by congressional investigators quotes an internal company e-mail as saying Corzine gave "direct instructions" to use customer money to cover the company's own shortfalls prior to bankruptcy and yet regardless of what he may or may not have known as recent as April this year according to the The Wall Street Journal, Corzine has discussed plans to start his own hedge fund….reallly!!!??!!!

Since the Federal Reserve was established a little bit more than 100 years ago, there have been 18 recessions or depressions, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by 98 percent, and the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.  And now the Federal Reserve has set the stage for the greatest financial crash in history, but most Americans still don’t even understand what the Federal Reserve is or how it operates.


We desperately need people to wake up and start caring about these things, but most of them are so glued to the entertainment being fed to them by their phones, their computers and their televisions that they might as well be zombies.

The global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the last great financial crisis struck in 2008.  

It is a financial bubble far larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the planet.  According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total notional value of derivatives contracts around the world has ballooned to an astounding 630 trillion dollars ($630,000,000,000,000).  If that sounds like a lot of money, that is because it is!!!!  

For example, U.S. GDP is projected to be in the neighborhood of around 18.1 trillion dollars for 2015. So 630 trillion dollars is an amount of money that is almost incomprehensible.  

 “Too big to fail” is a far more massive problem than it was the last time around, and if at some point this derivatives bubble is going to burst we are going to be facing a crisis that is going to make 2008 look like a Sunday picnic.

After the last financial crisis, our politicians promised us that they would do something to get derivatives trading under control.  But instead, the size of the derivatives bubble has reached a new record high According to the Bureau of Statistics, the top 25 banks in the United States now have a grand total of more than 294 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.  

If the stock market keeps going up, interest rates stay fairly stable and the global economy does not experience a major downturn, this bubble will probably not burst for a while.

But if there is a major shock to the system, we could easily experience a major derivatives crisis very rapidly and several of those banks could fail simultaneously.

And this kind of thing is not just happening in the United States.  German banking giant Deutsche Bank has more than 75 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives.  That is even more than any single U.S. bank has.

You see, the truth is that virtually none of the underlying problems that caused the last financial crisis have been fixed.

The OCC that issues its quarterly report on bank trading and derivatives activity uses a VaR (value at risk) calculation and I quote,” Under the Market Risk Rule, which establishes regulatory capital requirements for U.S. commercial banks and savings associations with significant trading activities, a bank’s capital requirement for market risk is based on its VaR measured at a 99% confidence level and assuming a 10-day holding period.”

10 days!!??!! Since when are all open OTC positions flipped within 10 days or true exposure defined by what has happened over the last 2 weeks? When in low volatility markets ,this is fine but when we do get volatility spikes it forces liquidations to reduce VaR, with recent moves this hasn’t forced a complete panic as they have been short lived but any sustained panic forces everyone out at the same time.(see my earlier article “it’s a trap”)

Sadly, most Americans are totally oblivious to all of this.  We expect those in authority and in positions of  public office to be trustworthy. They just have faith that our leaders know what they are doing, and they have been lulled into complacency by the bubble of false stability that we have been enjoying for the last few years.

I hear a lot of people who simply refuse to care at all about politics or the economy. But like John Constantine said: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in the Devil because the Devil believes in you.” This means that you can pretend that the current leaders of the country have no real effect on our lives, but mark my word: they already do. The media just makes it look like nothing’s happening and that everything is alright. 

 The Millennials are probably the most educated generation, but by far the most ignorant? 

But all of us are guilty, instead of waking up and reading the newspaper in the morning, we wake up and read what people tweeted while we were asleep or how many matches we got on Tinder. We demand and expect instant gratification in every aspect of our lives. Due to the inflation of technology, we live our lives through the Internet, our cell phones and social media.

We have proven ourselves to be a generation largely spoiled and defined by greed and laziness. Our forebears had to endure the Great Depression, WW2, Vietnam & the Korean War .This country was built with a mentality, capturing strong work ethic, discipline and loyalty to one’s country and family…WW2 is now something totally incomprehensible and sadly confined to video games.

 

If we are to make any impact in the world close to what our parents and grandparents did, we must look to the past, change in the present and deviate from our current path of mediocrity.

This is surely not indicative of the entire generation, but there does seem to be an overwhelming number of people who embrace concepts like “the Iraq war sucks” and “global warming is a problem,” without ever trying to dig deep and investigate the political, economic and social motivations behind the government and corporate actions.

Political parties just say the same thing not because of their beliefs ,but instead have become uncreative ,heavily relying on focus groups to tell them what they should do to capture votes. We are no longer left or right, political parties, both in the US & UK are barely discernible from each other, barely a whisker either side of centre. 

State of Fear??? 

President Harry S. Truman once said, "When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."

After reading this quote, I was made to wonder…is it FEAR that has fostered the apathetic response to our governments ill-advised and unpopular behavior .It certainly would be understandable to some degree since the ramifications of “opening one’s mind and mouth” can be quite unsavory to say the least. 

Is the government banking on the fact that we fear their ability to make our lives miserable, and that we’ll weigh the pro’s and con’s of dissent and therefore remain quiet as mice…since they’ve put a great deal of propaganda effort into creating what has now become  a subservient society. 


“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.” 

Michael Crichton, State of Fear

Or are we, the baby boomers to blame??

We are raising future generations who are great at sending messages, but are inept at communicating. We lack the ability to communicate with people face to face, to express those opinions in the streets, not just on a blog — to have a conversation to a person’s face, to express dissatisfaction with something in real life, not secretly tweeting it behind a phone screen.

 

There are not just one but many “swords of Damocles” that are hanging over  the world by a thread day after day, month after month, year after year. We need to wake up before its too late…..

 

 

 

But I don’t want to be too depressing for the weekend…so here is a picture of a cat playing Jenga….

 

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Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:38 | 6102515 Playtime's Over
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This article is dead nuts. No one wants to even contemplate how bad things could be. Social media is a game people hide in to pretend everything is fine.  Those close to me know what they need to know about me and mine, the rest can fu-k off.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:29 | 6102509 EemieMeanieMinieMoe
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When told that igonance & apathy were ruining the country & what did he think about that, Mark Twain replied that he "didn'y know anything about it & didn't care". At the time he was more concerned about getting fucked by the publishers out of his book royalties. The more things change, the more they remain the same. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:28 | 6102506 Fun Facts
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The ZWO has created an idiocracy because it's easier to manage a global gulag of idiots.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 04:33 | 6102371 dogismycopilot
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I think Kim Kardashian is smoking hot in that Paper photo shoot. 

But yes, we as a country are fucked and not in the good way. 

That makes me sad.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 00:07 | 6102113 q99x2
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I gained 15 pounds because I can't wake and fast.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 23:46 | 6102072 lunaticfringe
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In 2008, after Hammerin Hank stole a tril from taxpayers to bail out his pals- I too started my own blog wherein I have ranted about this same apathy for 7 years.

Nobody gives a fuck. 

We have become a nation of self centered, narcissistic, and apathetic cowards. No amount of ranting will change that. The minority, those of us here, are not going to change the outcome. We're not in charge. Instead, prepare. And pray that the end comes soon so that we can quit jelling the paddles and bury this monstrosity. Then maybe we can start over.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 10:03 | 6102704 hootowl
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Do we have enough bullets to exterminate the banksters, the politicians, and the power-grabbing bureaucraps?....Or will we have to roll out the guillotines to get the job done?

 

Remember, if any survive, the disease will re-infect.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:25 | 6102501 messystateofaffairs
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I thought it was always committed minorities that always changed things. The vast majority of people depend on leadership and the minority that neither want to lead nor need to be led don't really understand that. Slavers understand that and are always willing to put in the work needed to provide that "leadership". The American Constitution was really the work of a very small minority of unusual men, the "American People" were taken along for the ride and never really understood what they lucked out on. Freedom is a qualitative thing, I have never seen an example of quantitative freedom in earths history, until that changes, each free man (internally free that is) will have to do what he can about his own affairs and maybe the immediate group he has assembled around himself. If you want to break out and build a widespread free system,  in a way you would be casting pearls before swine and would have to be willing to go the way of the martyrs and prophets. America was a nice try, but no system of checks and balances can prevent what only the minds of truly free men can, and most men do not have truly free minds, Benjamin Franklin knew that.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 23:25 | 6102044 dexter_morgan
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So, basically, what you are saying is that the ZWO agenda of global government and one legal tender currency is coming along splendidly due to apathy.?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 10:12 | 6102726 hootowl
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.....apathy, fostered by ignorance and dis/mis/information inculcated by the ZWO and their vast institutions of mass propagandistic communication.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 23:03 | 6102019 JoWazzoo
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I am concerned about all that and hope Corzine rots in hell.  BUTT, I still wanna see kim kardashian's ass.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 20:41 | 6101761 The Joker
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September 23rd. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 09:48 | 6102671 messystateofaffairs
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Supposed to be another zio inspired false flag cause they been telegraphing it in their movies.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 01:21 | 6102221 Dude-dude
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1929

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 23:26 | 6102046 dexter_morgan
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what is so special about that day?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 00:05 | 6102108 lunaticfringe
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Another end of the world, rapture day prediction. From the same minds that brought you 2012.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 19:54 | 6101656 will ling
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 sorry daz. the piper must be paid.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 18:13 | 6101400 blindman
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hilarious doom, i feel your pain but
only a few times everyday. the insurmountable
can only be approached one second and one
step at a time.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 18:19 | 6101383 Radical Marijuana
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& regarding

these facts:

George Soros has admitted that an organization that he founded “played an important part” in the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government.

George Soros has also been instrumental in transforming the "legalize marijuana movements" in North America into controlled opposition, that have dead-ended that movement into "legalizing marijuana" in the worst possible ways, by agreeing to compromise with the old lies, rather than promote more radical hemp truths.

In my opinion, the biggest problem "we" face is the degree to which the "opposition" is controlled. The place where the maximum leverage exists, and has always existed, is in the FUNDING of the political processes. Throughout history, there were example after example of the apparent "opposition" becoming controlled by those FUNDING that "opposition." While it is possible for some individuals to understand that better, they still can not practically compete with the ability of the triumphant core groups of organized crime, that have captured control over the government, to continue to be able to also control their apparent "opposition" too.

Theoretically speaking, genuine opposition would have to be based on a much more radical platform. However, of course, there is no such publicly significant opposition. In my own case, I have watched as the campaign to "legalize marijuana" has changed from being relatively radical, to becoming relatively mainstream, while that was NOT "success," but rather it amounted to the trivialization of that political movement, in order that marijuana ends up being "legalized" in the worst possible ways, that are NOT based on more hemp truth, but rather based on compromises with the same old lies.

Every other issue that I am aware of is following a similar path. For instance, all of the big environment groups can no longer be trusted, because they too have become controlled opposition, due to their funding driving them to develop in that way. I have yet to encounter any publicly significant "opposition" that is not dominated by reactionary revolutionaries, leading mainstream morons backward.

Guys like George Soros can drop tens of millions of dollars of funding onto some organizations that he picks, in order to transform those into best funded organizations, that then can dominate the public spaces regarding their issues, and thereby drive the genuine aspirations of people into various dead-ends.

"Apathy" is NOT accidental. The established systems are based on being able to back up lies with violence, engendering the matching attitudes of ignorance and fear. By and large, anyone who seriously engages in political experiments will tend to verify my points above, that the publicly dominant "opposition" groups are controlled, while more genuine opposition cannot publicly compete with those organizations which evil billionaires decide to contribute tens of millions of dollars to.

Although I can not think of anything which is theoretically better to do than attempt to organize better opposition against the established systems, so far, I have not been able to come up with any practical ways to do that, since the banksters, like Soros, ALREADY control governments, that can either win by cheating, or win by changing the rules of political game.

Practically speaking, I sympathize with those who do not bother to try, although I still think that they are theoretically wrong to become so "apathetic."

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 19:33 | 6101588 blindman
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the term is controlled opposition.
the source is the money, the universal language.
it corrupts and converts everything into
its design, structure and function, that is
why it is called "money". where does
"money" find opposition today? it doesn't,
everyone is on board with some form of
money. it is convenient, like a chip
in your hand or in your brain. the mark of
the beast is convenience and comfort.
i relink this from another zero head,
Cosmic Convergence: 2012 and Beyond
http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=1987
thank you for your insight and sharing.
the entire world is on the spectrum ......

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 21:38 | 6101870 Radical Marijuana
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"where does "money" find opposition today? it doesn't, everyone is on board with some form of money. ..."

YES, every natural resource already has a claim staked upon it, which claims are backed up by coercion, by people who are paid with the same "money" that can buy and sell those claims.

E.g., there is no way to produce sufficient food that is not done through some system whereby money has not ALREADY staked claims over the productive capacity to do that, which claims are ALREADY backed up by coercion. Therefore, the ENFORCED FRAUDS which are the SOURCE of the public "money" supply control the food, that controls the people, in ways whereby it is practically impossible to do anything else to live, that is not ALREADY more or less illegal to do ...

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

-- Pericles

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 17:32 | 6101280 two hoots
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So we wake up and do what with the derivatives, student loans, untrustworthy politicians, Fed Reserve and their balance sheet, smart phones, global government debts, trade imbalances, labor participation rates, water shortages, pills, the controller Clinton's (in the mist of it all) and Kardashianss (which I know nothing of).  Where would one start and with what authority or power would one effect this global reality?  What would this corrected world look like?  Or we could keep asking ourselves the most ignorant of all questions "why can't we just all get along?"

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 17:43 | 6101314 TertiumQuid
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Oh stop with the sanctimonious and feckless Clinton dithering! Unless, of course, you equally include the other dichotomous opiate of, say the nazi-traitor Prescott Bush and his genetically tainted lineage of racketeering. They're all the fucking same operative paradigm but the emotional narrative is generally derivative of a useful social genesis. NOT A SINGLE ONE of ANY political gang's candidate/office holder/standard bearer is purer, less conflicted, more legitimate, etc. I have my preferences emotionally but I am also not stupid enough to reflexively prattle the propaganda effluvium of the red --'or blue -- gang... at least not with a straight adult's face.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 17:19 | 6101236 TertiumQuid
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Plaintive, compelling, disturbing and yet a whiff of survivalist compound tract; although the inclusion of the rarely-aired Bilderberg Group conspiracy sure did perk up my ears towards legitimacy! Perhaps it is the pampered human nature of "civility" that not only permits a wretchedly utter solipsistic, zombie-zeitgeist of willfully distracted ignorance but indeed one which lacks the heightened clarity of capricious mortal peril in, say, the Arab morass or any lawless African miasma.

I'm no sociologist so I don't pretend to know the myriad and occult dynamics of revolution but my sense is that only when Americans discover that indeed they are digital pets of a dystopian capitalist oligarchy -- and that freedom is a prevaricated, equivocated "Constitutional" chimera (in the current technocracy) -- will they existentially understand the crapping of one's pants:

Perhaps it will take a world economic (secretly orchestrated) crash to dilate the sentinel pupils of defense of Liberty: losing one's currency to comfortably survive and then consequently being told "officially" that it is an unforeseen legitimacy of "freedom" that "bad things can happen" *unimaginably* (911, anybody?!) will surely tickle the conscious olfactories with the fetid stench of being wholesale & premeditatively fucked!

Meanwhile, the poor besotted & vigilant American sits a cheval between *knowing* that there is massive collaborative enslavement in process but also turned off by the hyper-radical survivalist Henny Penny-ism which has not only a political agenda (and Obama/Bush is a dialogue as useful to the global oligarchy as the technocratic opiates that literally manacle attention) but such a bleak nihilism that it is unbearable to most.

What's the answer? -- No, really, what the fuck is the answer for the vigilant but powerless individual?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 10:45 | 6102787 hootowl
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Er.....Eh....Uh....What?  Can you state that in more commonly iterated english terms.  It must have taken you a week to compose that unintelligible morass of pedantry.  If it is intended to disguise the fact that you really don't have anything to say,....or to disguise the fact that you don't know what the hell you are stating here, you succeeded extraordinarily well.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 17:48 | 6101328 two hoots
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As planned, the powerless commoners panic, kill each other, reducing the world population to something necessary to support the Bilderberg Project who  will safely hunker down until it reaches the designed level where they will finally have plantet earth to enjoy without all the masses and their choking burdens.  There is a movie in here somewhere.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 10:51 | 6102796 hootowl
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I would think that a few billion rotting, stinking, human corpses, and the attendant choleraic epidemic, would somewhat restrict the Bilderbergers enjoyment of their demoniacal success.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:37 | 6101102 kchrisc
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"After the last financial crisis, our politicians promised us ..."

Zion's politicians, not "ours." Crats, funcs, and banksters are Zion's as well.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:51 | 6101148 Pava
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I am tired of you jew haters...why don't you just dissappear one fine day

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 05:04 | 6102397 SubjectivObject
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Pavalov!  Yoo'r hearing a different bell here!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 03:55 | 6102338 Counterpunch
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And of course, any discussion of massively inordinate Jewish political, financial, and news and entertainment media power is "hate," too...

 

Is that right?

 

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 19:58 | 6101665 Gohigher
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Zion is not all Jews, But there are Jews in Zion.

You need history lessons, start with Cain and Adam and follow the bloodlines.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 17:06 | 6101192 kchrisc
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I don't know if it is ironic or sad that the mention of "Zion" is met with accusations of antisemitism.

Zionism is abhorrent to Judaism, and not all Zionists are Jewish.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 04:07 | 6102348 Counterpunch
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"Zionism is abhorrent to Judaism"

 

That is complete nonsense. It is inseparable from the prima facie racialist nationalism, xenophobia, and megalomaniacal eschatology that forms the dominant mythos presented in BOTH Torah and Talmud.

 

Deuteronomy ch. 7 alone disproves this assertion.

 

The more orthodox, the more fundamentalist. That a small minority believe their messiah must establish the world-ruling Jewish polity does not at all mean Judaism rejects Zionism. It is beyond absurd to so claim.

 

 

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 03:38 | 6102325 dreadnaught
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Jews ALWAYS whine "ANTI SEMITE!" when they are cornered or lose an argument-hell, one could be caught robbing a bank, and true to form, will scream out "Anti Semite!" to the arresting officers for daring to take him to the station

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:44 | 6101099 Comte d'herblay
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"We expect those in authority and in positions of  public office to be trustworthy. They just have faith that our leaders know what they are doing, and they have been lulled into complacency by the bubble of false stability that we have been enjoying for the last few years."

 

No, WE don't.  No one I know thinks that politicians are trustworthy, knows what they are doing, but they are still in all ways as you decribe them.  But just to clarify, they do not trust anyone to fix what is happening.

I can't think of a single thing I can do as an individual to begin the process of liquidating the quadrillions of derivatives in any way. No one, not a million of us can do one damned thing about it.

Apathy is a result of a sense of weakness in the knees, an inability to gain any power over what Deutsche Bank is doing. Or the local bank with a suspicious balance sheet.

You, like Ron Paul, have identified a number of the most potential disasters that are ahead of us, but, like Ron Paul, you have done nothing about them. It's not enough to know that I have an 85% blocked descending artery.  I have to get a stent or replacement for it.

Being distracted is the only way most of us with no power can deal with these catastrophes, as if an asteroid is heading towards earth and Bruce Willis isn't around to stop it, we might as well try to enjoy our time in this temp job called, 'life'. 

 


Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:36 | 6102512 GCT
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Spot on Comte!

I do not know any younger people that trust their politicians.  Now many elderly that vote is another subject.  They love them for some reason.  Probably for the SS and medicare but what do I know.

None of us can change a darn thing.  All you can do it try to protect what you have.  The recent changes to laws and the experiments in Europe with Cyprus and Greece clearly shows what is coming to all industrialized nations around the world. The more I learn the more I realize as an individual I can make changes to my life style and buy more tangible assets.  The general population are like cattle as they continue to watch TV and be brainwashed by the media into living in fear of well most eveything.  Me,  fuck it I am going to enjoy my limited time on Earth.

The only way the general population will finally wake up, is to cut off handouts and those in charge know that.  They want every person on the planet to eventually be on some form of government handout and bingo your fucked permanently. Our overlords basically want sheep to herd and when there are too many sheep they will simply make war.  Gotta cull the herd from time to time.  The education system in the USA is quickly becoming a joke and independent thought is quickly becoming a thing of the past.  Social media and phones are replacing real interaction between human beings.

Have any of you thought after learning and researching, you wish you took the blue pill?  I do from time to time.  I do my best to enjoy life now and stay out of the crosshairs.

None of this debt will ever be repaid period.  Just let the shit blow up and people will realize it was all a scam to begin with.  Nothing more then ink on paper people put their trust in, is the biggest joke and scam ever devised.

So pull up your favorite louge chair, have some popcorn, and your favorite drink, and enjoy the show.  Dweeling on the problem will not change one fucking thing. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 09:57 | 6102689 lincolnsteffens
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"-Our politicians have racked up 17.5 trillion dollars of debt that CURRENT & future generations of Americans will be expected to repay."

This is a debt of the Federal Government of the US, Inc.. Stop claiming you are a US Citizen and repudiate the debt of that foreign corporation. Every official document, registration, license etc. makes you a citizen/shareholder of that foreign corporation. Revoke and resign from all those fraudulent contracts. This is a difficult concept for most people to understand because people have been tricked and defrauded into consent. You have been captured by the STATE. Escape any way you can. If you don't, you are only paying for your own incarceration.

It is a difficult path but ultimately each of us is responsible for the result of our actions.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:33 | 6101085 kchrisc
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The American people will not wake up, but will be shocked awake by the empty and gnawing of hunger, or the bang of the ReadyReserve come to seize.

However there will be a smattering of people like me ready to educate them as to what happened, and by who, while they were comatose. I, we, will direct and focus their rage on Restoring what has been stolen, and against the thieves.

See you on the battlefield or in one of Zion's basements.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying, Stop Obeying, Stop Playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:39 | 6101114 Comte d'herblay
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Sincere, but entirely impossible.

 

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:39 | 6101113 Comte d'herblay
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; - 0ops

 

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 16:38 | 6101110 0b1knob
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"Joe Corzine previously of MF Global was at the helm is one of the biggest bankruptsy..." 

"Never take economic advice from somebody who doen't know how to spell bankruptcy."  J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 13:02 | 6105995 dazzak
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I didnt pick up on that till I just read your comment,thank you for pointing out my error :)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 07:52 | 6102532 JRobby
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Must be John's brother Joe?

Sat, 05/16/2015 - 23:11 | 6102032 JoWazzoo
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5 UP Arrows for mentioning J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.  Sweet :-)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 05:38 | 6102416 Elliott Eldrich
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"Never take economic advice from somebody who doen't know how to spell bankruptcy."  J. R. "Bob" Dobbs"

"Bob" taught me to never, ever accept backsliding into the happy tarpit of diminished expectations, and that the bankers are behind pretty much all of the really bad stuff in the world. Thanks, Bob! Too bad that brain-damaged nitwit Stang STILL can't get the date for X-day right. Bastard.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 01:42 | 6102231 SofaPapa
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"This means that you can pretend that the current leaders of the country have no real effect on our lives, but mark my word: they already do. The media just makes it look like nothing’s happening and that everything is alright."

The media is ground zero. As a population, the US is numb because the information we have is garbage.  Information is power.  And the information the majority of the US population receives is lies or garbage; thus we have little power.  Reality, however, is out there, and things are breaking down.  Think about the accidents and chaos we are now frequently seeing.  Reality is knocking... and it will come in.

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