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And sentenced to pay a few dimes
While profits they see
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I expected something far more depraved (real) for the first Queen's deal with the devils. Hillary? Sloppy seconds.
Old Phart, check out my response to your first post. I'm gonna be in Victorville Sunday.
Speaking of the incestuous nature of government (law) & corporations, here's a good one.
Government Motors (GM) wants you to know that you are only "leasing" and/or "licensing" from them, here is their convoluted logic:
"GM has joined with John Deere in asking the government to confirm that you literally cannot own your car because of the software in its engine.
Like Deere, GM wants to stop the Copyright Office from granting an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow you to jailbreak the code in your car's engine so that you can take it to a non-GM mechanic for service, or fix it yourself. By controlling who can service your car, GM can force you to buy only official, expensive parts, protecting its bottom line."
GM’s claim is all about copyright and software code, and it’s the same claim John Deere is making about their tractors. The TL;DR version of the argument goes something like this:
* Cars work because software tells all the parts how to operate
* The software that tells all the parts to operate is customized code
* That code is subject to copyright
* GM owns the copyright on that code and that software
* A modern car cannot run without that software; it is integral to all systems
* Therefore, the purchase or use of that car is a licensing agreement
* And since it is subject to a licensing agreement, GM is the owner and can allow/disallow certain uses or access.
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/21/gm-says-you-dont-own-your-ca.html
Ok fine you fucking profit driven dumbasses, if I'm only leasing you are responsible for the cost of repairs in toto, as I don't have any "ownership".
I'll (if I supposedly "owned" a GM product making payments on it, which I don't) leave the POS on the side of the road and expect a replacement when I show up at the dealership.
Dickwads.
Your genes belong to Monsanto... are we clear?
Well at least electronic medical records keeping is much moar efficient for them & making my medical costs come down!...lol.
Its like Homeland Security, everything has a purpose, just not what was advertised in the legislation ;-)
Hopeful organ donors (like Steve Jobs) are standing by!
Call! Now!
I was gobsmacked when I read about that a coupla months ago.
Only the uninformed would buy their POS. If the general public gets wind of this, they've just hammered a gigunda nail in their coffin.
Greedy, greedy, basitds.
Now for your morning corrupt MSM update, made possible by viewers like you...lol...and George Stephanopoulos...and Brian Williams...and Dan Rather...and David Gregory...and...
"The latest victim is “NewsHour” anchor Judy Woodruff, and by extension, PBS itself, which now admits to burying the $75,000 Clinton Cash scandal involving ABC News senior anchor George Stephanopoulos. Friday, as though anything will ever change, PBS ombudsman Michael Getler stepped up and pretty much pled guilty on both counts:
The following evening, May 15, Woodruff closed the NewsHour broadcast with a “short editor’s note before we go.” She said: “There have been questions this week about journalists’ contributions to the Clinton Foundation and my name has come up. I want to clarify what happened. In 2010, after the massive earthquake in Haiti, I made a gift of $250 to the Haiti Relief Fund, established by the Clinton Foundation. It was meant for charitable purposes only.”
Because as a grown adult with the mature ability to rationalize right vs wrong, as an extremely intelligent, highly ethical, morally grounded "professional journalist", carefully weighing your options & integrity against giving to say, the Red Cross!!!...you decided instead to give to the Clinton Cash Cabal.
Yes, not even the hint of impropriety here, as burying the Stephanopoulos scandal (and thereby evidence of any collusion) is what we've come to expect from the MSM and besides, your cash gift was for "the poor black skinned cheeelrun of Haiti"...wasn't it? ;-)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/22/pbs-buries-stephanopoulos-scandal-newshour-anchor-woodruff-exposed-as-clinton-donor/
I gave to PBS, until the government made it law to appropriate from me to give a farthing of their haul to PBS, instead of the money I was already giving to PBS.
Then I found out PBS was always controlled opposition.
I was wrong. I'm working on it...
There should be world celebration parties for each old bankster that dies of old age. (Big one for Buffet, Old Yeller (but she may be dead already, can't tell) old man Bush, Greenspan and Dimon). Of course if any of them decide to jump sooner that will be fine too.
From your posts you're about 25. You could be full of shit, but you're consistent, so I'll scope you as a grad student with no (at least here; or wisely un)stated goals, and when you get out, you have to pay a bunch of debt off to get pussy ever again, so you'll do any high paying jobs the fascists offer. Or hit the beach for life.
W took away the beach For You. You have to kick ass or serve.
Better than what I got. Back then for those like you it was kick ass or get drafted, but for guys like me it was volunteer or go anyway. As you see, colleges serve quotas... just like corporate HR. But not small business, where talent is (was) king.
Always, the option to fight the system was on the table. We did, and we did it good, at that time, with what we and they knew. Now you don't get drafted so Conoco Phillips can lay pipe with your blood (Heston), just because some lunatics think they require a human sacrifice to lay pipe.
Well, almost.
There it is. You are better starting off than I was. But there is no better security for you. CYA
Thats Life. Do Your Best. Take your chances.
Don't die.
we all know the world is a wreck as defined
by certain modern conceptual and economic
metrics and the media is a sewer and the politicians
are all criminals, but, check this conglomeration
and fraudulent garbage, just for the surface buzz
humour and sinker to deeper implications exposing systemic
insanity.
all fake and insane, all the time, here we go .....
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hilarious.
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Charles Manson Breaks Silence: Discussse Obama, Global Warming, and Himself
Uploaded on Apr 20, 2011
Cult leader charged with massacre 40 years ago participates in first interview in over 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clw_-97mqpM
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ok? can anyone actually grasp the depth of the depravity
evidenced here, i hope not.
that would be just too depraved for words.
that was a fake charlie,
here another charles.
Charlie Manson Exposes Illuminati Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkd4NYrzdFQ
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real or memorex, you tell me?
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The Tate Murders were a False flag
and the Greatest Unknown Success Story
of Project CHAOS
http://mileswmathis.com/tate.pdf
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when i wake up, if i should, i hear the
birds, not much else. ...
and they're chirping...
thanks for sharing, bm.
Ah, yes, the old Hindu curse: "May your children be born in interesting times". And the karmic wheel keeps on keepin' on. All I can say to my children and grandchild is: I'm sorry we don't seem to be able to do better for you. This is it. This is, apparently, the best that we can do. I'm sorry we didn't (don't) care. Thanks again, WB VII. You're awesome.
That is one clever double entendre, fine me- so the cops fine Citi. Who collects the money? The government. Who unconditionally supports the banks? The government.
Fine me some more bitchez!
this cuntsmear obama wouldn't take on his massas
“Verum dic iis qui potestatem habent”
They get the parking ticket and then a bag of cash stuffed in the cargo area.
I bet WB is a Ralph Steadman fan. Irreverent truths are becoming so uncommon, at a time when it is needed most. Thanks, William.
Indict 535 douches + 1 Criminal in Charge for treason, fraud, theft
You could probably get rid of most of the corruption without ever touching congress. If you're going to start somewhere, start with K Street.
But with the 535 douche bags and the Criminal behind bars, the bumper sticker would read "IN BIDEN WE TRUST."
I must be going insane, because that actually sounds like a viable alternative.
I'm here pretty much every day too, and always tended to optimisim. But the older I get, the harder it is to see an 'optimistic' way out. WB calls 'em as he sees 'em, and the system has long since gone past the tipping point of being self-correcting. The president, the Congress, and the Courts are falling all over themselves to take away the pesky Constitution and finally REALLY rule with meta-data on all (except them, of course).
It's gonna take a violent revolution, probaby brought on by economic collapse and/or a world war that gets out of control.
Fuck - and I have grandkids that deserve better - I once took the oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic - and it turns out the biggest enemies are the congresspeople of the USA.
May they all burn in hell.
It is not about this life, but the life to come in the eternal state. For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
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Being reconciled to God, who is Christ, is the most important thing any person can do for themselves, but sadly most people never bother to even consider what the Scripture has to say and dismisses eternal truth that saves a person from the effects of their sins. Do not neglect your salvation and be reconciled to your creator while you can..May the Lord bless you to that end.
- Persistence of Large Organizations and Large Budgets is always Ripe for both Plunder and "Capture" by Evil Actors
- To Bad we don't have Honest Brokers in DOJ, FBI, SEC, FINRA, FTC, GAO, CBO, FED, Treasury, OCC, FSOC, BCFP, CFTC, FDIC, FHFA, SIPC
- To Bad they never properly Enforced Anti-Trust Legislation in the USA, which has got to be some kind of Violation of the Law by the Directors of these afore mentioned Agencies
** What is next? **
- Still have big Funds for Plunder in MEDICARE & Social Security
- Obama, US DoD, Merkle say Climate Change is the Biggest Threat, So I'd guess that a Carbon Exchange Bank System with be a new Source of Wealth Extraction
- Goldman Sachs mentioned threat to Farmers, I think a collapse and panic by US Farms would create Giant Industry for Wall Street TBTJ Banks with US Government Guarantees
So, any updates regading keeping that oath?
When they let me out of the Marines no one rescinded the oath in any way.
That oath stands.
Though today, I'm a fat old fuck that can barely hold a pistol. But I can shot the ass out of a fly at a quarter mile with a rifle (with a bifocal scope).
Know the place and would love to, however will be REALLY busy fixing some plumbing in the shower/bath It's less of a mess, now, but 5/24, will have me and dad pretty tied up. oldphartbsa@yahoo.com
I agree.
Our kids are "millenials", you know, the one's that are supposed to be lazy, stupid debt-laded Obama supporters.
They refuse to have kids because the future looks bleak.
They work hard and are doing ok. They're not stupid and lazy and did not vote for obama. They don't vote at all because they never believed any politicians, ever.
I can't honestly say to them they're wrong and that's pretty sad.
Here's a challenge for you Will. You know I appreciate your work and check it out almost every day. This is not criticism.
Could you use your imagination to depict some sort of bright side or silver lining? Or, is humanity destined to be destroyed by a handful of greedy, rotten, sociopaths? I wish I had the discipline to completely ignore current events because it is so depressing.
His Visual Combat series is pretty much the inspiration for the "Bad Blood" music video on the interwebs right now. Eye candy? maybe. Free Will? probably. Mother nature? 100%
Chunga - what a Stirling idea.
I suggest that Billy's silver-lining masterpiece include banksters, politicians, bureaucrats and other unelected officials, all members of the bilderberg group, lamp posts, lots of rabid dogs and pigs, an army of starving hungry EBT parasites, napalm, nail guns, rope...all in an amphitheatre that sells cold beer and provides both a good view and excellent acoustics.
In fact, I suggest that performance art is called for...or perhaps a sizeable installation a-la Christo.
The brght side is most of these scumbags will be dead in twenty years and a fair amount sooner. I won't gloat about it as they go one by one, but I will take notice and think fuck you, you're gone and I'm still here.
Once they are out of the game, they get senile and brittle rather quickly.
We can only hope that the younger generations will have better sense.
The snake sheds its skin. Sometimes it sucks to be in some areas, but the skin as a whole is shed.
All together: We are the snake, not the skin! We are the snake, not the skin!
Then there's excommunication...
"We can only hope that the younger generations will have better sense." --WB
Does this in any way sound plausible to you?
No, of course not. The only hope is the end of mankind.
But as George Carlin observed, the planet really couldn't give a fuck one way or another.
It sounds plausible to me.
Kids are smart. It does not take much to clue them into reality so that they may identify the matrix sooner than we ever did.
They know adults lie. They are starting off on the right foot. They thirst to know the WHY of everything.
But they don't. I remember going to Boy's State, almost 40 years ago. i was 16 years old, as was everyone else there. My roomate was a consummate master at the political system, as slimy, cynical, and unprincipled as any Congressman. After three days, I bailed and hitchhiked home, with my Boy's State T-shirt, which I changed to read Police Boy's^State.
These fuckers are born they way they are.
becos they in-breed?
the good news is the banks have your back. the fed and the banks are on separate paths. the fed is a cabinet post, run by bureaucrats. fomc minutes are stock market pep rallies. while the money flows through wall street a great deal of it comes right back to washington and along the way government pension fund keep on paying out obscene benefits, so that only government workers have any shot at the american dream. trust me it wasnt always that way. the banks have surreptiously been carrying water for the fed, and encumbency, the one party system, boehner obama. a 5 billion dollar fine when the fed hands out 85B a month in candy is nothing. the good news is the banks arent happy with this quasi nationalization of their assets. as ellen brown notes after the next crash only five will likely remain, which is the ultimate vision of a nationalized banking system. the good news is the banks are in better shape than they were, and they will take over the market pricing mechanism for interest rates. i know its fashionable to throw all them under the bus, the fed and the banks but the bankers are doing it in real time, not in some ivory tower. in 1913 the fed was created because the government didnt think JPM should set interest rates, now we are full circle, and JPM will set interest rates, and the fed will fade into the background. the banks have an interest in economic growth, while the fed has reason not to want economic growth, which would impair their balance sheet, which is built on bloated political corruption, foreign wars which have no resolution, the phony war on terror, which replaced the phony war on drugs, and the phony war on poverty. the banks represent free enterprise, american industry, and the leading edge in credit technology. the fed heads really have no idea how it all works. their only purpose is to monetize progressive dreams, (or neocon war spending) the banks are your friend
Thanks for a genuinely thought-provoking take on matters.
Everytime I make a deposit I make it extremely clear that I neither trust the bank nor the VP running it.
It really rattles the shit out of the VP as he constantly tries to be 'a good guy' while he's shaking my hand.
I've already told him I know where he lives and that I'll personally come hang him if/when his bank hair-cuts.
He's always pale and chatty when I'm around. I'd prefer politicians to have that reaction but I can't stand being around them.
The banks have only one friend, themselves. To think otherwise is to be a megadick.
There are no sheeple so blind as those who refuse to see. The sheeple want to believe their media would inform them. The boomer sheeple suffer from the Bernstein-Woodward delusion of the media taking down the powerful. Deep Throat was the acting head of the FBI. Watergate was a palace intrigue.
What happens if the politicians end banker corruption? Their trough is not filled. Where is the honest federal judge who rejects the government/prosecutor sellout? There are no honest judges. Trust is delusion. Hope is delusion. Government is a hustle.
Fast Track to Fascism.
Why did the Irish call their pound the Punt?----Because it rhymes with Rothschild Rockefeller Wall St Bankster
the legal system: find it if you can..laws are for the little people sur nuff.
and remember obuma is a LAWYER by edumacation..rule by lawyers and judges who are lawyers and pols who are lawyers..disgust of them is a natural reaction, for good reason.