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The Slide Toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues

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Submitted by Pater Tenenbrarum of Acting Man

Government-Granted “Freedom”

Orwellian Language – the Slide toward “Velvet Glove” Fascism Continues

Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the “war on terror” started?

The latest example is the misnamed “Freedom Act”, the purpose of which appears to be to make legal what was hitherto plainly illegal – inter alia whole-sale spying by the government on the citizenry. The legislation has been sold to the serfs as absolutely necessary to “prevent terror attacks”. As we have previously pointed out, the average US citizen is statistically far more likely to die from drowning in a bathtub or simply by falling from a chair rather than from a terror attack. No special laws have been proposed yet to save us from the evil of bathtubs and chairs, in spite of the danger evidently emanating from these deadly household furnishings.

Many people indeed begin to watch what they are saying once they are aware of being under constant surveillance. As we have previously argued, this undermines an important pillar of civilization.

Cartoon via Terrence Nowicki

Apart from the vanishingly small statistical likelihood of actually being harmed by terrorists, it is noteworthy that such laws – the true purpose of which is highly unlikely to be congruent with their stated purpose – are enacted even while the government engages in activities that are bound to worsen these statistics in the future. The so-called “war on terror” so far actually seems to be similarly successful as the “war on poverty” and the “war on drugs”. In fact, it appears to be ranking quite high on the list of the biggest government boondoggles.

Since the “war on terror” started, terrorism has grown like never before. One should expect such outcomes to some extent, but this one is actually putting quite a few other failed government schemes to shame … via Washington Post, click to enlarge.

To call a law the “Freedom Act” makes it sound as if freedom were something the government generously grants to its serfs. This is not so. Not surprisingly, upon closer inspection it looks like the new law hasn’t improved the previous state of affairs in the slightest. Instead it has probably made it even worse.

Just keeping in touch with the newly liberated citizens – now and forever, Cartoon by Walt Handelsman  

Supporting Terrorists

Due to a FOIA request by Judicial Watch it has recently emerged that the government knew full well that its intervention in Syria (arming moderately mad mullahs in order to overthrow Assad) would probably result in the emergence of an “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria. As Washington’s Blog and Zerohedge have pointed out, there are quite a few choice passages in this 2012 assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (we have left the typos and grammatical mistakes in the transcription below intact, we have only added a few commas to improve readability):

“The general situation”:

Internally, events are taking a clear sectarian direction.

The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.

The West, Gulf countries and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China and Iran support the regime.

“The effects on Iraq”:
The opposition forces will try to use the Iraqi territory as a safe haven for its forces, taking advantage of the sympathy of the Iraqi border population, meanwhile trying to recruit fighters and train them on the Iraqi side, in addition to harboring refugees.
If the situation unravels, there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor) and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).
The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and are as follows:
This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers the enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.
The renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi arena.”

(emphasis added)

It is startling to learn that all of this was already known to government agencies in 2012, well before the world at large became aware of ISIS. Just think for a moment about this sentence: “…. there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor) and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want.”

Midwifing in the Middle Eas, Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

In other words, ISIS has not only done precisely what was expected, but what the governments supporting the Syrian opposition wanted to happen. Radical salafists were armed to overthrow a tinpot dictator who represents no threat whatsoever to us. Many of the same politicians who voted in favor of this have at the same time incessantly promoted the alleged need to keep civil liberties undermined. According to them, provisions of the “Patriot Act” shouldn’t have been allowed to expire under any circumstances, inter alia to enable us to “defend against the threat posed by groups like ISIS”. Someone should perhaps remind these slime-molds that they knowingly and willingly helped to create this threat. The cynicism and hypocrisy are truly remarkable.

John McCain posing with “moderately mad mullahs” in Syria. The man with the camera was later identified as terrorist Muhammad Nour, while the second man from the left was said to be his associate “Abu Ibrahim”. Both have allegedly been involved in the abduction of Lebanese Shia pilgrims. McCain’s office commented: “If the individual photographed with Senator McCain is in fact Mohamed Nour, that is regrettable.”

Why should “we” get involved in the Sunni/Shia religious dispute at all, what has any of this got to do with us? Note that prior to the Iraq war, Sunni, Shia and Christian communities were living peacefully side by side in the region. One certainly cannot deny that both Saddam and Assad were, respectively are, quite unsavory dictators. And yet, the West has no problem with supporting the brutal theocratic regime of Saudi Arabia and the even more brutal junta of General al-Sisi that is currently ruling Egypt (where the courts are routinely sentencing hundreds of people to death in one go in Stalinesque show trials). This support is provided under the cover of “realpolitik”, the term regularly invoked when policies completely bereft of morals are pursued.

Just trust us…, cartoon by Simon Kneebone

Supporting radical fundamentalists in order to fight a regime one happens to dislike at a given moment is per experience especially dangerous. If there is a “lesser evil” in the Syrian conflict, we have yet to be apprised of its existence. The radicals fighting Assad are certainly happy to take Western money and weapons, just as the mujahedin of Afghanistan once did, but they are definitely not our “friends”. On the contrary, arming them will ultimately only invite blowback, a term coined by the CIA to describe the rash of unintended consequences that usually results from such interventions. It should be known by now that Islamist fundamentalists have especially large blowback potential. The recent murder of cartoonists in Paris has once again underscored this fact (the French government has reacted as one would expect, by curtailing the liberties of French citizens further).

Spot the difference, Cartoon by Matt Wuerker

 

Amending the Amendments

No-one is saying that genuine terrorist threats shouldn’t be defended against. The question is whether surveillance of the entire population actually serves this goal. The evidence so far suggests that it doesn’t. As the former NSA chief publicly admitted, “one, or perhaps two” terrorist plots have actually been foiled by the NSA’s extended spying activities. Or perhaps none, as Michael Krieger avers. Who knows really? Our money is on “none”.

Similarly, the extraordinary powers the government has arrogated to itself in other areas via the likewise Orwellian-sounding “Patriot Act” are unlikely to actually improve its record of providing safety. The previously allowed methods of detection and prevention of crime should be more than sufficient for this purpose. After all, “ticking bomb” scenarios exist only in Jack Bauer movies. If such a scenario were against all odds ever encountered in real life, we’re quite sure that those confronted by it wouldn’t let protocol stand in their way (and we can be just as certain that no-one would subsequently complain). For the citizens who are supposedly going to be “protected”, there is definitely no mileage in the shredding of the bill of rights.

All over the world, anti-terror laws have been abused for purposes that have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. These range all the way from “investigating copyright infringement” to “spying on noisy children”.

Cartoon by Joel Pett

If the process were honest, one would simply have to amend the 4th and 5th amendments a bit further. We propose the following changes: 

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

 

There are certain exceptions when these rights shall be violated on a grand scale. As soon as the government declares something called “the war on drugs”, no-one shall be safe from arbitrary seizure of his effects by anyone ranging from Hicksville sheriffs to DEA agents at their whim. As soon as the government declares something called “the war on terror”, the passage about being secure from “unreasonable searches” will be suspended for the duration of the conflict, i.e., forever.  

 

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

 

As soon as the government declares the never-ending “war on terror” mentioned in amendment 4, the whole rigmarole about “due process” shall be suspended as well.

If these amendments were duly altered as proposed above, the courts would no longer have to engage in an unseemly song-and-dance about who has “standing” every time people are attempting to get them to rule on whether assorted anti-terror laws represent an infringement of the constitutional order.

A vision of the potential future consequences of complaining too loudly, Cartoon by Ben Sargent

Conclusion

The fact that the newest anti-terror law has been named the “Freedom Act” is a big red flag all by itself. It certainly appears as if nothing has improved relative to the previous situation. At the same time, government intervention in far-away lands continues to be the biggest force generating more terrorism in the world. When blowback eventually ensues, we will no doubt be told that if we want to be “safe” we will need to surrender even more civil liberties. Unfortunately experience suggests that most people are either going to sleep through this or will even cheer their own enslavement on.

History also shows that no society moves from a relatively free political system to full-scale authoritarianism in one fell swoop. Instead the process moves forward step-by-step, almost imperceptibly at first (in “salami tactic” fashion). A major characteristic of this process that can be observed time and again is that governments enact increasingly repressive legislation on the pretext of emergencies – at times real ones, and more often than not imagined ones. By the time people are waking up to what is going on, it is usually too late. None of this should therefore be taken lightly.

Reaching the “too late” phase.

 

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Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:56 | 6170268 Deathrips
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The initial cartoon implies Zero does more than golf when hes not fucking the public? Im calling bullshit.

 

 

All fun and games aside....safety gets free men to submit...even if its state sponsored terror. Like the sponsors dont know this.

RIPS

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:07 | 6170305 Stuck on Zero
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Old saying about governments: "If you attack moderate opposition all opposition becomes radical."

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:32 | 6170348 Boris Alatovkrap
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Neccesity is cry of tyrant, mantra of slave...

In other is news, War in Oceana and Eurasia is continue and chocolate ration is increase from 5g per day to is 20g per week.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:42 | 6170380 willwork4food
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LOL. BORIS!!!!!!! Welcome back !

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:43 | 6170617 TeamDepends
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Barry works for the Department Of Homoland Security, and SHOULD be viewed with suspicion by every free-thinking American and non-zombie.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 01:42 | 6170954 Gobbler
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Will the velvet fascists buy me a Fema trailer and pay to fix my teeth.  If the answer is yes, then they have my vote.  God bless the velvet fascists.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:01 | 6171222 Truthseeker2
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America Becomes A Fascist Corporatocracy

 

The Government-Corporate Complex Takes Complete Control Of The USA

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 13:04 | 6171718 chumbawamba
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I stopped reading after the second time this clown described Bashar Asad as a dictator akin to Sadam Hussein.  This asshat obviously didn't do his research, otherwise he'd know that Asad is nothing of the sort.  He's a mild-mannered Western educated ophthalmologist who was selected by his father and predecessor, Hafez Asad, as the leader of Syria after his elder brother, who was being groomed for the spot, was killed in a car accident.  Bashar assumed the role reluctantly.  Does this make him a dictator?  In the traditional sense, yes.  But to compare him to the likes of Saddam Hussein is like comparing Barak Obama to an actual statesman. Asad is actually liked by most Syrians, something that can't even jokingly be said about Obama.

I'm not here to lend support to anyone, only to point out that the moron author of this article probably has no idea about much of what he's talking about because he obviously took no time or effort to research one of the main people in his little high school quality essay.

I am Chumbawamba.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:47 | 6172045 Faeriedust
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Of course not.  Whatever makes you think that they need stoop to something so crude as buying your allegiance?  They have the guns; they make the rules.  Besides which, the whole point of owning the government is to make sure that they can keep all the goodies to themselves and pay nobody nothing.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:51 | 6170409 Muh Raf
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Meanwhile the Zionazis kick the sh*t out of Granny Kraut because she doesn't agree with everything being said about WWII. I'm trying to remember why we wanted to win the war in first place, wasn't it to safeguard freedom of opinion and speech? http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/breaking-86-year-old-woman-...

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:54 | 6170417 Boris Alatovkrap
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Russia is technical winner of WWII, is almost double territorial domain after war. US is burden with cost of foreign military installation while Russia is consume resource of many puppet nation.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:18 | 6170455 Counterpunch
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I'd say Banks, American manufacturing, and Zionist Jews won.  European civilians and civilization lost.

 

The Zionists managed to use Russian troops to beat the Nazis, ad they used British and American troops to get Palestine.

The Balfour "Agreement" is always presented as a gift the British didn't possess because it was seen by that noble race of colonialist murderers and slave drivers that the Jews of Europe were clearly middle eastern in origin.

 

The quid pro quo of using Jewish power to {help} get the US to enter the war, an absolute fact, is absolutely buried.   It clashes with the narrative of Jews qua perpetual helpless and 'sacred' victim.  That and the fact the early Bolsheviks were wildly disproportionately Jews in a country that was never more than perhaps 5-7% at most Jewish.

 

The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution
and Russia's Early Soviet Regime

of course, wikipedia, openly lousy with hasbara revisionist editors, has this to say about IHR:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Review

As always, judge for yourself...

 

is it "hate" if it's true?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:41 | 6170517 BullyBearish
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Truth...from the mouth of a Respected Jew:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8OmxI2AYV8

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:37 | 6170608 22winmag
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That's powerful stuff.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:47 | 6170620 TahoeBilly2012
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The Friedman speech is the single most powerful speech ever to exposing "forbidden history".

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:56 | 6170632 MonetaryApostate
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Links help a lot, just saying...

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:01 | 6170842 Motasaurus
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"Blowback"

A CIA term coined to cover their domestic operations. 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:30 | 6170882 COSMOS
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http://endthelie.com/2015/06/06/impeach-poroshenkorsquo-massive-anti-gov...

stirrings in Kiev, people starting to get fed up.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:41 | 6171202 Headbanger
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Boris:  Russian people suffered horribly fighting The Great Patriotic War then under Stalin and Soviet sistemy after.

So is not to say Russian people won WW II. Only government.

If Stalin attacked Germany first instead of Finland which joined the Axis to get back at the Russians, the war with Germany would have been over two years earlier.

But then Stalin would have taken over all of Europe and WW III with US would have followed so much worse suffering.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 05:00 | 6171099 SmedleyButlersGhost
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I thought that was a good link - why would you down Vote a link?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 12:58 | 6171712 fencejumper
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Smedley, probably because they prefer to believe the version of history the victors wrote. The same version that never mentions the great Smedley Butler. A couple of yrs ago I mentioned his name to a college history professor who had never heard it before!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 18:24 | 6172580 SmedleyButlersGhost
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As pathetic as that Is, he's not exactly required reading in the Corps. The follow on story about the bankers trying to con him is downright wtf.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 12:53 | 6171706 fencejumper
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Thanks for link BullyBearish. Will watch in entirety later.

Another bit of reality about the Zionists I watched last night from Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_5iOYsHFQ

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 13:19 | 6171755 ThirteenthFloor
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+1. Good link. I was somewhat familiar with Khazarian kingdom, but the WW1 details were interesting. Also to hear it in 1961 context is educational, the England/Ireland answer added more details too.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:31 | 6170598 22winmag
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I call partial bullshit here.

 

1/3 of the free world was simply given over to Stalin by Roosevelt with the stroke of a pen at Yalta.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 11:09 | 6171505 frankly scarlet
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FDR post WWII saw the world as a triumverate, with Britain the USA and Russia ruling. Churchill and the Brits realized they'd be the pipsqueaks in this setup and moved to instigate the cold war driving a wedge between Russia and the USA with Truman as point man. Some suggest that FDR was poisoned by Churchill and the Brit spy network to this end. Two of FDR's most trusted aids died on the way home from the Yalta talks.The Russian's wanted an autopsy on FDR's corpse for this reason but no search for poison was ever conducted. The British establishment has always been fascist and are the original neo cons having conducted brutal "empire" for several centuries prior. In 1913 they re conquered the USA with the installation of the Federal Reserve bringing together the British and European central banker/corporate cabal with their American counterparties and they were not about to let those waters be muddied with Russian joining the group.. Russia has long been a friend to the USA in a self survial sense, the Czar sending the Russian Pacific fleet to port in San Francisco during the American Civil War to keep Britain and France from invading the USA, taking adfvantage of the situation. The Czar saw the USA as a fellow bulwark against the Euro central bankers who wanted to set up shop in Russia aswell as the USA. Now we know why the central bankers financed the Russian Revolution and Lenon installed a central bank and had the Czars liquidated.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 13:33 | 6174967 Panopticon 131
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The International Banksters have always financed and controlled ALL sides - and they still do!!!

 

"The only new thing you don't know is history you never learned."  Truman

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 13:34 | 6174968 Panopticon 131
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The International Banksters have always financed and controlled ALL sides - and they still do!!!

 

"The only new thing you don't know is history you never learned."  Truman

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 13:11 | 6171736 ThirteenthFloor
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If you review transcripts of the Tehran conference, it was an angry Churchill that yelled at FDR, for not insisting Kai-shek move imperialisticly into south east Asia. Stalin asked repeatedly for poison testing of FDR at his death he believed in English interference there.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:49 | 6172053 Faeriedust
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Dear me, your memory is terrible.  We went into both the First and the Second World Wars to ensure that Britain would be able to pay back all the money it had borrowed from JP Morgan and his cronies.  The rest was always nothing but hot air.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:06 | 6170650 fascismlover
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We are living the very worst parts of 1984.  I love a good rally but we dont have that here.  We have total dystopian fascism.  We ended up with the perfect marriage of .gov and .corp.  The only thing that can prevent the next steps is a full out nuclear war or an angry meteor.  Neither is forthcuming though so enjoy and remember that the little things make us happy.  

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:57 | 6170903 COSMOS
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It got to this point because a clique of effendi have taken complete control of media and govt and wall st. There is no real investigative journalism or voices of dissent that can reach out over Cable/Satellite/Radio.  1984 is a world without options for gentiles.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:56 | 6172082 Faeriedust
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Oh, don't be such a pessimist.  The nuclear war could easily brew up over the Ukraine, although Putin is trying carefully to avoid that.  The angry meteor COULD show up about 20 years from now.  There's plenty of space junk in orbit ready to fall in the interim.  And have you any idea what havoc Peak Oil and Global Climate Change are going to create?  We can confidently look forward to seeing Manhattan abandoned as its connections to the mainland are destroyed by repeated storm surges, and Washington D.C. under five feet of tidal water -- both within fifty years if not twenty.  Be sure you set in a good stock of popcorn!

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 03:13 | 6171027 WOAR
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Welcome back Boris.  I've missed your wit.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 05:19 | 6171142 Boris Alatovkrap
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Is apologize for you are miss Boris' joke. Maybe Boris is bad English...? Next time is type more s-l-o-w-l-y.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:11 | 6170311 Pairadimes
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Velvet glove? More like a sandpaper condom.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:16 | 6170321 Counterpunch
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Who hurt you, Pairadimes?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:39 | 6170374 Oldwood
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Its all for our CONvenience.

Everything that is sucking our freedom away comes in the form of CONvenience.

They make it SOOO easy to make the wrong choice....every fucking time, and generally people fall for it every fucking time.

I think there is an app for that.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:42 | 6171325 negative rates
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Yet convience and recreation are not worth going bankrupt over, but we constantly do just the opposite.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:24 | 6170590 Ms No
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I liken it more to a donkey punch fascism.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 09:24 | 6171384 Fun Facts
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Your baby gettng blown up in his crib by a paramilitary bomb launched by IQ capped stormtroopers is hardly a velvet glove.

Americans are among the most controlled, regulated, incarcerated, abused citizens in the world, and the police force is impossible to distinguish from an occupation army.

"To see what is under one's nose needs a constant struggle"

- Orwell

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:32 | 6170351 dimwitted economist
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We Need to Hire MORE TSA People ASAP!!!!! 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:43 | 6170383 XitSam
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If it takes the current 50.000 TSA employees to miss 95% of weapons and explosives, if they double that number they can miss 190% of weapons and explosives. It's simple math. 

Thanks Emperor Obama for keeping me safe!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:29 | 6170486 WTFUD
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Am sure there's a compound measure in there somewhere making the % miss higher than you estimate.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 14:15 | 6171938 roadhazard
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That just goes to show you how little of a terror war we are really living in. Otherwise all hell would be being raised by "lone wolves" and "terrorists. 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:25 | 6170477 Abaco
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Whenis he not fucking the public.  I submit he does both at the same time.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:52 | 6170276 wisefool
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The velvet glove is directly trnsnlated to I.R.S/ISIS. We don't take that stuff kindly 'round here. If Timmay can't figureout his taxes with tech working two jobs (IMF consultant and FRNY presidentae. Then we are going to have to let Keynes theory work for 50 years after he died.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:56 | 6170285 will ling
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"security" over liberty - get neither.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:35 | 6170357 Boris Alatovkrap
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"He who is sacrificing of liberty for security is victim of history"

- Benjamin Santayana

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:43 | 6170386 Oldwood
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No.

A victim of stupidity passed from one generation to the next.

If humans were capable of learning,,,,if ALL people were capable of learning from history....and we have the greatest assemblage and access of historical knowledge in history, this shit would end...but it won't.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:07 | 6170441 palmereldritch
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Stupid is as stupid does.

And stupid does as much as it can when it is unopposed and delivered by a system that gains from its proliferation and detroying its alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ybDS2Ddzo

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:46 | 6171333 negative rates
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History is written by the victor, and shows no proof of actual events or exactly why they did (or did'nt), occur.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 15:04 | 6172101 Faeriedust
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Ah.  Excellent.  Someone who understands the need for Salt.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 10:30 | 6171461 New World Chaos
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The puppetmasters need a few real terrorists to make the false flags more believable.  The 10x increase in (non-state-sponsored) terrorism is also the perfect excuse for Iraq War 3.0 and the Orwellian USA Freedom Act.

Mission Accomplished!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:56 | 6170287 davidalan1
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The cartoons are stellar...OMG

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:58 | 6170288 Winston Churchill
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MRAP's come in velvet.

Cool.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 18:58 | 6170289 Bighorn_100b
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True story. Just today I crossed the street only to be met by a homeless person pushing a baby's stroller full of shit, no baby. Went to buy some beer at the liquor store and SHE was ahead of me in line buying a fifth of vodka. She smelt like a out house that has not been cleaned in over a year! I said to her you smell like shit and she responded back at me saying she was homeless. I said "take a shower and get a job". She left with her Vodka and I left with my beer. I get home and some person is crashed/sleeping in front of my bedroom window. I said to my wife close and lock the windows. She got upset until I showed her what was going on.

It's going to be a long summer.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:18 | 6170325 Big Corked Boots
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You're living in the wrong 'hood, dude.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:25 | 6170335 Bighorn_100b
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Looks that way. Home prices only 500+K in my neighborhood in CA. Looking for a better place to live with a potential job.

I know, good luck with that.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:32 | 6170349 JLM
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Come to Canada.  Water coming out of our ying yangs and winters cold enough to make a polar bear feel at home.  No vagrants on our streets 6 months of the year.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:37 | 6170369 Boris Alatovkrap
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Canadia is great country where is play hockey and is name popular fry potato and gravy dish after Russia president.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:09 | 6170416 Deathrips
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The socialist liberals arming up to kill climate refugees doesnt seem that inviting. I hear theres a global heated housing market up there too....Full Recourse as well...careful buddy.

 

Cause they think...and all..eh.

 

RIPS

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:51 | 6171211 besnook
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now that is funny. poutine, for those who don't know.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:01 | 6170643 Stoploss
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Do they allow 45-54 year old highly skilled workers to get a job?

Spent a lot of time in BC as a youngster, Okanagen.  Miss it.

Mon, 06/08/2015 - 20:57 | 6176784 Abbie Normal
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Just come with proof of your specialized skill and a job offer from a Canadian employer.  They'll process the free-trade visa paperwork at the border crossing.  Healthcare may be "free" but the tax rate is 30% so be prepared to live a thrifty lifestyle with $10 cigs and $2 beer (at the store, not the bar.)

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:18 | 6170327 vic and blood
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I have no idea what your location is, but I recommend a region with harsh winters. Seems to keep the vermin population in check.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:38 | 6170370 Boris Alatovkrap
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You are familar with is Minsk!?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:18 | 6170584 TeamDepends
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Our minks are world class. They are harvested to make the finest velvet. Hey, wait a minute....

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:49 | 6171337 negative rates
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Yes, rich white people who predict future with great accuracy.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:59 | 6171350 overmedicatedun...
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The idea and Image I hold in my mind of America, does not come close to today's Amerika.

the .gov colossus feeds us the Idea & Image of America, while the physical fascist Amerika is growing stronger.

 

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:27 | 6170342 scatha
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While you at it, tell those Hollywood/Washington crackers to get off this shit and get descent jobs instead of all these sorry narcissistic productions bordering with sick perversions, getting high on spying on grandma bowel movements for billions $ of taxpayer money in form of contracts and subsidies.

Then I would, buy your righteous indignation about an alcoholic trying to do the same as those bolted good for nothing elites, to return to the world of illusion and fantasy that does not exists.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:47 | 6170399 Cautionary Tale
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@Bighorn

 

Fuck you & your tight concentric circle of imaginary problems whilst you pretend to stack ammo & be a friend of the ordinary man that you know NOTHING the fucking fuck about...

 

PEACE

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:56 | 6170419 Deathrips
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Did you always blurt out numbers in music class?

 

RIPS

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:07 | 6170437 Cautionary Tale
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I never wasted any time in 'MUSIC CLASS' like you might have done... I was prolly busy taping Larry Lesters buns together & getting a detention sentence 4 it...

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:09 | 6170569 Counterpunch
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So apparently you wanted to fuck this Lesters fella and were repressing and lashing out, eh?

 

Textbook, kid.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:03 | 6170300 cherry picker
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People will get what they ask for and a lot of them are asking for what is portrayed by the above.  How?  By their silence.

My mother told me in The Netherlands during world war two how people would be hauled away in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again.

Do you trust government with your liberty, your right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty, your right to expect a punishment that fits the crime and on and on?  

I don't trust government.

You shouldn't either.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:10 | 6170306 Cautionary Tale
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just what we all need... POLICY instigating IMAGERY! (so as to more accurately DIVIDE people)...

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:33 | 6170353 Monty Burns
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When Baker took over as Secretary of State he was told that by the end of his term he'd be hating the Israelis. He replied 'what if you already hate them at the start of your term?'.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:23 | 6170472 Counterpunch
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The hidden history of how the United States was used to create Israel  {Gilad Atzmon review}

very good book.  predictable hasbaratry at amazon reviews, but more fevered than usual, probably because the book is concise and well researched.

 

the most flak is over the target, and all.

 

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:10 | 6171074 mortem-tyrannus
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You are killing me smalls. Killing me.

You sound like Stuart Mackenzie. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo

"And Colonel Sanders before he went tets up."

I suppose the Colonel also kllled poor little palenstinians too.

Damn the jews! Damn them! 

"a million deaths were not enough for Yueh"

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:20 | 6170330 Bobbo
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It is the age of Thugs recognized by the Power of Organized Thuggery. 

It is the rule of Thugocracy: physically, mentally, emotionally, economically.

Not that it has ever been otherwise -- the Thugs tell us what passes as Historical Record, and those who disagree are made enemies.

-----

By comparison:
1 How many people die by the actions of the police
   v. by the actions of so-called terrorists?
2. How many people die by the actions of US Anti-Terrorist Warfare
   v. by the actions of so-called terrorists?

Who, again, are the real terrorists ?!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:59 | 6170427 OldPhart
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The only terrorist to fear is our war criminal government.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:29 | 6170344 Ajax_USB_Port_R...
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Solution - Pass a 'More Freedom Act'

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:31 | 6170346 Clycntct
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I am Joining the fight.

From this day on it is no longer the "    on      "

It is now the "Joke on Error" If death doesn't scare you then at least you will be able to laugh at it..

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:49 | 6170403 palmereldritch
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on = for

If you've played their cryptoquotes long enough it would be apparent

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:31 | 6170347 kchrisc
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I found this terrorist communique online. In the spirit of "see something, say something," I will reproduce part of it here.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

I hope that they find the writer of such sedition, and ship him off to Guantanamo before he does any real damage.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:44 | 6170724 TeethVillage88s
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Hey sounds like the US Declaration of Independence, but I didn't look it up yet...

did I win.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:00 | 6171062 mortem-tyrannus
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Guillotines. You have had the answer all along. I really do need to get out of writing software and into making hardware.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:35 | 6170358 Reaper
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Trust is the sheeple's most destructive vice.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:56 | 6170545 kchrisc
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Actually, obedience, submission, is.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:41 | 6170379 henry chucho
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The "man" always used a "latex glove" on me,when he was rooting up my rectum for seditious paraphernalia..

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:48 | 6170400 Oldwood
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I assume you didn't give a shit.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:45 | 6170390 NuYawkFrankie
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Since when have 2-bit con-artists been 'The Elite"?

"Elite" scum-bags maybe - but that's about it.

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 19:53 | 6170413 22winmag
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Mr. Truman drops atomic bombs on women and children and it my father who is posthumously adjudged a war criminal.

 

At Yalta with a sweep of a pen, a senile president condemns a third of the world to communism.

 

Europe with the zeal of a missionary gone mad, hands over the wealth and resources of Africa to savages who have barely learned to beat a drum.

 

Then you give them tanks and arms to replace their bows and arrows.

 

And when your freezers arrive, they use them to store their enemies for dinner.

 

I have the grace not to mention Vietnam.

 

All over your brave new democratic world, inflation spirals as literacy drops.

 

And in America? They vote for law and order whilst shooting down Presidents, schoolchildren, and rock stars in the streets.

 

The Holcroft Covenant (1985)

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:07 | 6170434 Pancho de Villa
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The Only "Terrorists" are our Lying Fascist Politicians and their War Profiteering Cronies!

 

We don't need no Stinking Fascist Bastards!

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:32 | 6170445 Kirk2NCC1701
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Just as there are many steps, players, actions and milestones toward Totalitarianism, so there are many towards Freedom. 

ZH provides a valuable first link in the Value Chain of the latter, but is not a substitute for what must follow in that Value Chain.

Those who think or claim that merely being informed (leveraging the research and analysis of others) and Prepping is good enough, are wrong or worse.  These are great starts on a new road to Freedom, but not it's the milestones or the goal.

Be sure to think deep & hard about what actions you are able and willing to take, and what active (open or hidden) role to play.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:09 | 6170446 robertocarlos
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Kids should not smoke dope as it leads to psychological problems.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:22 | 6170470 q99x2
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The war on terror now that everybody knows means the war against fascist government. When the F is the military going to realize this?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:31 | 6170493 Jack Burton
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"Many people indeed begin to watch what they are saying once they are aware of being under constant surveillance. As we have previously argued, this undermines an important pillar of civilization."

This is what it is really all about! To silence critics using fear. The Washington elites, the Israeli's and the Military Industrial Complex want to be the only voices heard, via their tame media. We all know now what US Media is, it's fixed, controlled, scripted and now full of lies. All aimed to further the wealth and power transfer. Our elites want to be the only voice heard. Like John Kerry, former 60's liberal anti war veteran, his screed over the simple little RT channel. "Propaganda bullhorn which is RT!"  Well, I watch RT, and it is very tame indeed! It does allow criticism of US war policy and bank looting, this makes it very different to the one voice US media. But all in all, I have found it very hard to catch RT in a lie. I keep informed, when RT comes on like CNN and tells a massive lie, then I take notice. Trouble is, I rarely find a lie, just a counter point of view that can be backed by evidence. Bankers are crooks? It can be proven.

So it is all down to fear and to inforce silence. I know every post I make now is in the NSA books, and I am flagged probably a hundred times already as being a threat. Anyone not buying media lies is now a threat. All of us! That is all it takes, not agree with the 1% or Israel. I suspect the American jews have a big hand in this, as they dearly want to silence anyone but themselves. That they even have AIPAC shows they support the spying and the media lies. Most media are direct agents of Israel. and we know who lives in Israel.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:01 | 6170558 Niall Of The Ni...
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Are we reading the same papers? The MSM keeps telling me, "Israel is an apartheid state. Israel bombs Arabs for sport. Netanyahu controls the Republican Party." An Israeli can't cough without being condemned for it by the New York Times.

You really think our elites do the dirty work of Israel? They hate the Jews, partly because they insist on defending their own and partly because they refuse to bow down and worship the elites of the Gentile world as gods. If it weren't for the Samson Option they'd have wiped Israel off the map long since.

If you'd said they were in league with the House of Saud, who are everything the Elders of Zion are said to be and worse, you'd be nearer the truth. Genteel Jew-haters are a dime a dozen. Try breathing a word against Islam in polite company and see if you'll be welcome in it again.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:19 | 6170585 Counterpunch
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The question isn't is this^ nonsense, it is ostentatiously so, the question is why someone like you, who all else aside clearly isn't a dumb guy, anyway, would actually believe it to be the case.  The fucking NYT is anti-Israel??

Israel violates the cease-fires more often, bombs Gaza more times than Gaza rockets Israel, and kills more Palestinians than Palestinians kill Israelis. But these findings are not what is striking. What is striking about this is that almost everybody believes the opposite of the reality. Here’s Munayyer with more on that:

 So how have these cease-fire dynamics been covered? We’ve tracked New York Times coverage of the cease-fire during this period. The New York Times is representative of the mainstream and extremely important for shaping public discourse on events and thus an important window into broader mainstream coverage. The Times also has multiple reporters covering these events including a bureau in Jerusalem and a correspondent in Gaza. Finally, we simply can’t track everything so the Times, with its easily searchable history, is an effective example to use.

Of the nearly 120 Israeli cease-fire violations during this period the New York Times reported on 17 of them. Additionally, most of these stories (eleven) came either during the first week of the cease-fire, when the issue was still fresh in readers’ minds, or since the escalation on December 20th. That means for the bulk of this period, during which Israel committed 87 cease-fire violations and causing some 91 Palestinian casualties over nearly a one year period there were only six stories on the topic. This represents a systematic failure to cover Israeli cease-fire violations.

Making matters worse is the way events are covered in the rare instances they are covered. In most cases, Israeli actions are described as a response to Palestinian actions. So while most Israeli cease-fire violations are not covered at all, those that are are explained as justified retaliation. Thus the reader is completely misled about the dynamics of fire, why the cease-fire is threatened and exactly what is going on in and around Gaza.

The biggest challenge to the cease-fire agreement is persistent Israeli violation and the lack of any accountability for them. The politics of the Gaza Strip are complex. Israel says it wants Hamas to control projectile fire from other factions and yet it persistently violates the truce putting Hamas in a position of having to defend Israel’s violations. By targeting groups other than Hamas and by expecting Hamas to crack down on their responses, Israel is playing a dangerous and deadly game of divide and conquer in Gaza that will likely lead to the unraveling of the cease-fire. Once again, Israel has proven security is not its aim, subjugation is.

More here.

 

also see:  Jodi Rudoren, Another Member of the Family - If Americans Knew

 

What, do you work for MEMRI?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 03:54 | 6171054 mortem-tyrannus
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You are full of shit.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:05 | 6171230 besnook
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you would make a great lampshade.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:40 | 6170713 TeethVillage88s
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If you post Israelie Websites here won't your comments be nuked, or all comments nuked, or all ZH servers nuked, as happed like a month ago or maybe 2 months ago?

There are mechanisms on the Web that watch for posting negative comments on news-sites, and then nuke them for being anti-ceramic. Or maybe I got that wrong.

They don't know the intention of the comment or the sentiment of the website, so best decision is to nuke the comments in a way that looks confusing. Or so it might seem.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 01:47 | 6170960 Counterpunch
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Aipac.. why in the fuck is there a JINSA?

 

Also, I don't think everyone at nsa, cia, and dia (especially) is in thrall to the neocons and Israel.

 

No one ever wants to be first over the Hill, particularly with the media in Jewish, *ergo* Zionist hands.  Clearly most Jews are liberal, secular, us loyal.  but their massive power and ethnocentrism/ethnonepotism allows the large (20/30%) of Israel Firsters to wield outsized power. "CHRISTIAN" Zionists vote them in maybe 15/18 senators....  b

ut though the loudest trolls, the evangelicals are in fact outnumbered by Catholics alone...and more pour into the CSA every year.  Which is why the last thing the media will do is cover Israeli treatment of eastern rite/orthodox christians in Israel, and dwelled little on the destruction by isis and nusra of christian sites.  

 

What if Pope Francis met with the top Orthodox leaders and called for a boycott on Israel until it ended its occupation and siege?  if 20% of nominal Catholics and Orthodox even went along....  highlighting merely the facts of Jewish occupation, colonialism, and repression easily refutes absurd Zio claims about bds being, for the majority, about something other than Israel's behaviour...

 

 

 

 

 

9/11 remains the key.

 

 

 

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:34 | 6170498 magnetosphere
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fwiw codebreaking and surveillance operations from the 30's were very handy during ww2.  nsa prolly wants to stay on the cutting edge in case of ww3

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:37 | 6170508 TeethVillage88s
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China builds database on Americans...(like 'Murica)
Denies...
White House presses for new cyber laws...

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:44 | 6170520 WTFUD
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Embrace your freedoms but don't allow your freedoms to embrace you!

The photo of J. Sidney McCain is haunting and sums up perfectly this war on freedom, er, terror.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:49 | 6170531 seataka
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A People's Party Intelligence Briefing

NOTE: there has been an influx of disinformation agents all over the net. See THIS article http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-03/meet-british-armys-77th-battali...

GCHQ, NSA and Aussie's & New Zealands same offices are joined at the hip by secret treaties revealed in the book on NSA titled "The Puzzle Palace"  I think they have recruited ten thousand  or more total.

The Acid test: Do you believe 3 guys with box cutters brought down 3 steel buildings in Manhattan AND destroyed the precise conference room in the Pentagon where forensic accountants and program analysts were trying to find the missing 2.3 trillion mentioned in the newspapers the day BEFORE 911? its a YES or NO answer

If NO then the person is not adversely affected by the Neo-con hypnosis-induced-by-trauma METHOD.

If YES teach them the following data:

"Anything said to a hypnotized person is true for them" stated George Estabrooks the father of military hypnosis in 1943. Compare that to $cientology's L Ron Hubbard and his minions who actually say "What is true for you is true for you" $cientology uses the same METHODS of covert hypnosis as America has been using upon Americans since the cabal killed John F Kennedy.

Intentionally contrived Trauma (911, ISIS beheadings, JFK murder,) will tend to be followed by the propaganda they want you to believe. This is because after intense EMOTIONAL SHOCK, humans tend to stop thinking.  WHEN YOU HAVE STOPPED THINKING  you have entered a more suggestible state, where anything said to you, will go directly into your subconscious as a command, or as a suggestion as to what is 'true'.

Reread this, look for examples in your own life where you recognize this happening.

George Estabrooks said that you will continue to have what you believe to be true manipulated by others UNTIL YOU BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE METHODS BEING USED upon you!  .

This is ONE METHOD. Save this, pass it on, there are other METHODS.

Here is another METHOD: THE BIG LIE
https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnaldo-lerma/the-most-important-deprogra...

And yet another: Google THE CONFUSION TECHNIQUE - read the links to Lermanet.com.  I learned these lessons deconstructing $cientology for 30 years only to realize they are being used upon society all around us, only with a different shore story....

And another: DEMONIZATION - whenever you encounter ad-hominem, ALWAYS read at least  a few pages by the person being demonized yourself, see for yourself. Do NOT let anyone see for you. ALWAYS LOOK AT THE SOURCE MATERIALS. The adventurous will begin learn amazing things if they just used demonization as a big red READ ME NOW flag. Of course if a person appears to have been assassinated DEFINITELY read EVERYTHING that guy wrote. You will be AMAZED at how much you will learn and you will understand WHY those that seek to control what you believe, used demonization to begin with - often, it is those same people they demonize who have the evidence of the crimes of the accusers or know the secret of 'how the trick is done'.

Also see original CIA DOCS on how to suppress the truth. This deserves close study.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-created-phrase-cons... When you see these being used, you will now know what you are dealing with. Understand that much of society has been conditioned by repetition to think these things are 'normal', they are now, YOU are normal...

and DCDAVE.COM's 17 Techniques for Truth Suppression...

The same deprogramming methods I used on $cientology work on Neo-Cons. By reading the links above you will learn some of these techniques.

Regards
Arnie Lerma.

hope this helps...we need thousands of deprogrammers...
"Secrets are the mortar binding bricks as lies together into prisons for the mind"
"I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speake"

PS: Repetition alone is another METHOD

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:44 | 6170618 WTFUD
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Very good post seataka and i will take up your suggestion to explore the information provided.

Personally i have a simpler ' rule of thumb ' method to establishing truthiness and that is taking the exact opposite view/position to western msm. Absolutely amazing that it seems/appears to work 99.9999% of the time.

Uncanny Eh?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:44 | 6170898 Aussiekiwi
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The Acid test: Do you believe 3 guys with box cutters brought down 3 steel buildings in Manhattan AND destroyed the precise conference room in the Pentagon where forensic accountants and program analysts were trying to find the missing 2.3 trillion mentioned in the newspapers the day BEFORE 911? its a YES or NO answer.

Dude , it probably had a lot more to do with the huge aircraft hitting them, or are you using the butterfly flapping its wings effect?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 03:40 | 6171047 smacker
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It's not a Yes or No answer as seataka says. That's too simplistic.

Nevertheless, two pieces of evidence which are highly significant are (a) the collapse of Building 7 in its own footprint without being hit by anything - virtually impossible according to many experts and (b) no evidence exists to confirm that it was a plane that rammed into the Pentagon. A missile is far more likely, especially given eye witness accounts and the exact spot where it hit, as seataka says.

There are other very dubious pieces of evidence but these two alone are more than enough to cast serious doubts over the whole 9/11 attack.

I have long been of the view that dark forces inside Washington and elsewhere were deeply involved in 9/11. Exactly who and how widespread the conspiracy was remain uncertain.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:37 | 6171095 dreadnaught
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there was barely enough wreckage from the Pentagon missile to fit into a Volkswagen beetle-look at the pics

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:36 | 6171200 mvsjcl
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I'm speechless.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 20:57 | 6170536 Billy Bob101
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...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Declaration of Independence 1776

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:31 | 6170597 Winston Churchill
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Nice prose, but the reality was American oligarchs battling English oligarchs.

Still left the oligarchs winning.

Meet the new boss,same as.......

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:28 | 6170595 22winmag
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The desperation of the government is apparent in the absolutely inane laws, not worth the toilet paper they are written on, spewed forth from both sides of the aisle.

 

The jig is up.

 

Heads must roll.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:29 | 6170596 general ambivalent
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Anyone notice Harper's Economic Action Plan is being used to expand CSIS operations?

Can't find a job? Well, CSIS is hiring. Are you flexible? Can you make your friends flexible? Real flexible?

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 21:45 | 6170614 Arthur Schopenhauer
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These Fascist muthafuckers are pitting the people against each other with leftist/rightist crap propaganda so each side will blame the other political ideology whilst these Fascist muthafuckers just go on about their way and continue to thrive.

Sat, 06/06/2015 - 22:53 | 6170737 eddiebe
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Anyone around here ever do anything about all this but bitch?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:36 | 6170892 Aussiekiwi
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Allahu Akbar?

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 00:11 | 6170850 raywolf
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100 people die every day in car accidents in the US alone.... that's like a 9/11 once a month ! Where's the war on human freeway mincemeat ? Then again I suppose when they do start this campaign, it will be time to sell your car since road traffic death rates will probably soar !

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 03:29 | 6171039 mortem-tyrannus
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I think perhaps it will be the other way around. Google cars will reach a tipping point sometime in 2020 and after that no insurance company is going to insure a "meat" operator. Driving then will be relegated only to the rich. The rest of us poor bastards will have sit in windowless little dick weasel eco friendly dogshit mobiles to get shuffled from point A to point B.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 02:47 | 6171010 honestann
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Terrorism is a huge problem.  But roughly 99.9999999% of terrorism is actions of predators-DBA-government, hundreds of billions to trillions of times every day.  And yes, 911 was terrorism, namely false-flag terrorism by predators-DBA-government, the only question being how many of them, and which fictitious governments were involved.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:05 | 6171064 smacker
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Pater Tenenbrarum: "Velvet Glove Fascism"

This is a good description of what's happening...

I am on record as far back as 1991 saying:

__________________________________________________________

"Fascism is on the rise across the West. Except this time round the leaders won't be wearing military fatigues and goose-stepping. They'll be wearing Armani suits and dining in the best restaurants."

__________________________________________________________

What is actually happening now pretty much matches what I saw emerging over 20 years ago.

The fact that it's taken over 20 years to become so visible confirms that fascism is being introduced very carefully and step-by-step, so as not to scare the horses. AKA: the "velvet glove approach".

Seemingly, 9/11 was the catalyst which allowed the plan to get underway in earnest.

It's not limited to one single political party. Fascism attracts people from diverse political backgrounds because it provides the authority to raise the level of power and control which is what they all like, even those who publicly deny it.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:16 | 6171077 Youri Carma
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Ex-Stasi Spy Chief Markus Wolf Hired By Homeland Security!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/061204wolfhired.htm

General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security!
http://www.realnews247.com/KGB%20General%20Yevgeni%20Primakov%20hired%20...

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:29 | 6171087 BoPeople
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The article does seem to sum up how far we have fallen at the hands of an elitist government that conquered America with a silent coup.

How do I know there has been a coup? They no longer use amendments to the constitution to pass unconstitutional laws. They just pass them through Congress or as executive actions.

However, what I can tell you is that every person who uses the term "elite" to describe those who are currently in power is playing into their hands. THEY want us to think they are better than us, that they are "elite". THEY coined the term, not us. The tone of articles would change if they were referred to as "elitists", "power-mongers" or "those who executed the coup".

If you want people to think of them as better than us, then by all means continue to use the term "elite" to describe them.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:39 | 6171096 Firewood
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Merca is doomed...only question is when the civil war erupts..

 

But look on the bright side and imagine how the rest of the planet will enjoy when Merca is burning.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 04:57 | 6171125 escapeefromOZ
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Every year in Germany alone thousands of people are jailed for the fake crime of denying the Hollow Cast ( sic ) .

Germany and Europe are fascist vassals of the NWO . 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPa_QeV9KDM

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:02 | 6171170 q99x2
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When I try to imagine their rationale for these destructive enterprises, such as surveillance and global dominance, I come up with greed which implies that "they" believe that monetary value and power determines self worth. Also, that in the end, the unification of the world under one controlling power will be more lasting than a world with waring factions. And, so on. They are blind fools. The problem is that these individual reasons are not shared by a corporate mechanism that is not human. Corporations have no concepts because they are not human. They are systems that function until they achieve total domination and then devour themselves when there is nothing left to consume. Corporatism ends in waring individuals that sabotage the system and all the power of that system is used against itself. The problem is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few sociopaths. One megolomanic Soros, and there are many such morons, insures the destruction of any global system. 

Arrest him. I believe that many billionaires already realize that they will eventually be arrested by the system that they have been supporting if they don't do something to stop it.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:41 | 6171201 besnook
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all that matters is the bottom half of the class buys it. they are the ones who will "give" the permission to disappear you.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:05 | 6171215 Monetas
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Asad brought this on himself .... coziness with Iran and Russia and Hizbollah .... so who won the 2006 Lebanese War with Hizbollah .... Israel's crushing victory is still ongoing .... but, even brain dead Muslim filth (not all Muslims, just the brain dead filthy ones) .... are starting to sort it out .... don't fuck with my Jews .... or I will unleash my wicked side on you ! LOL

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 06:54 | 6171217 besnook
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what is incongruent is there is a critical mass of people who understand what is happening but can't seem to convince the critical bottom half of the class to get on board. nothing happens until the dumb people get angry.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:01 | 6171225 Trestle Rider
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The author is full of horse manure, if for this sentence alone, starting with Note.

 

Why should “we” get involved in the Sunni/Shia religious dispute at all, what has any of this got to do with us? Note that prior to the Iraq war, Sunni, Shia and Christian communities were living peacefully side by side in the region.

Actually:

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_iraniraq.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:13 | 6171238 Monetas
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They were not living peacefully with Israel .... so Israel, SA and US .... are kickin' butt .... using stupid ISIS Muslims .... to do the dirty work on each other .... and they are brutal .... life is better when you are fair to Israel !

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:34 | 6171265 Counterpunch
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They seem like cunts, Monetas.  You're a smart fella...  surprised you don't see it.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 08:00 | 6171287 Monetas
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I'm not Jewish .... but, when I see 1.6 billion Muslims .... with a collective inferiority complex .... try to wipe out the 12 million living Jews .... I'm gonna go with the underdog .... it's my sense of fair play .... and a little guy in a fight .... has to use his wits .... and pop the big dumb guy in the nuts !

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:23 | 6171251 Monetas
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Sunnis are the Roman Catholics of Islam .... they got Mecca, don't they .... and the filthy savage Mohammad (easily documented by his own words) was born near there around 700 AD .... and the Shia's are the Orthodox Catholics of Islam .... on the outside .... looking in .... maybe that's why the stupid Russians .... identify with the losers !

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:31 | 6171261 Counterpunch
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They don't spend a lot of time learnin' you about other religions in your yeshiva, do they?

 

Speaking of a filthy savage, check out my man Yahweh.  His book is everywhere.

 

Deuteronomy 7 New International Version (NIV) Driving Out the Nations

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[b] and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.


The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. 10 But

those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
    he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.


11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today

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12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors. 13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young. 15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. 16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.


17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?” 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. 22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. 25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

 

 

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p.s. fuck YHWH. Little bitch, demiurge.  Let's see his crew just try to rebuild that whack ass temple for the 5th time and callit the 3rd time and kill animals there to please his self.  Shit will just be destroyed again, couz.

 

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 07:52 | 6171281 Monetas
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All religions have their skeletons .... Islam, being the new kid on the block .... has to get beyond this primal stage it's stuck in .... free speech would be a good place to start .... give to others .... the tolerance they demand from others .... they have a lot of growing .... spiritually .... to do .... do you applaud your children .... when they have homicidal tantrums ? Gotcha ! LOL

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 09:14 | 6171369 indaknow
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Just when I start thinking I may be reading too much ZH.........Boris returns and reminds of the lighter side. Lol.

Sun, 06/07/2015 - 10:58 | 6171506 rejected
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Speaking of Fascism / Nazism,,,

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2015/06/swat_team_kills_family...

A swat raid that kills their dog, puts a woman in jail and destroys her home over .................................... not having natural gas service. This happened over a year ago and just now coming out!

Fascism / Nazism is a collective mental disease. Some of us are willing to say we have a "light version".... I say we have a full blown case of it.

Nothing light about a ten man swat no knock raid for not paying a gas bill.

 

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