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Obama's policies to further his regime; politicising the IRS, shredding congressional procedure, failure of the attorney general to prosecute based on partisianship, reducing Libya and Somalia to failed states, prosecuting whistleblowers... there are more but I just cracked a beer and I don't want to think about them.
Short term political gains for the POTUS at the expense of our nation
It only hurts when I think about. I'll take one of them.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Report-US-prepar...
NATO defense plans given to the Soviets by our spying "ally." What's not to trust?
The real story:
In the tea break between two phone calls with BRICS leaders, Putin had a brief look into the "NATO defense plans", rolled his eyes, laughed, then thought "whata bunch of fools".
When Israel handed over the NATO defense plans stolen by Pollard to the Soviets in the 1980s over 1,000 US operatives behind the Iron Curtain were rounded up and imprisoned or executed. I'm not sure why you think that their deaths and the threat of the nuclear annihilation of millions of Westerners is funny but I suppose that depends on where your true loyalties lie.
It's hard to feel sympathy for spies that get rounded up and executed, as they know upfront that could happen. If you wish to live longer, don't be a spy.
You conveniently ignore the threat to all us us who were living at the time and didn't need any extra push toward nuclear war.
As for spies, if you can't see the difference between sworn enemies such as the US and USSR spying on each other and the US being spied on and sold out by an "ally" like Israel then I don't know what to tell you.
I find Beer Is Not Enough (TM) - I'm working a GlenLivit 12 at the moment...
I salute your good taste, Sir. My mood was dark tonight so I'm working on the Patron as I clean some firearms. However, a nice Scotch is always appropriate.
Mmmmm. Patron Silver could be my favorite spirit when I'm not drinking a really good Vodka.
PS The cartoon would've been more effective if the commentary wasn't coming from congress.
My thoughts exactly in your postscript. Boehner, Pelosi, McConnell and Reid are all working with Obama. None care about the citizens, unfortunately. It's getting more interesting as the Chamber of Commerce is going after conservative House members while Cruz and Lee are attacking McConnell. I wonder if Andorra would be a good place from which to watch the Great Unravelling.
http://www.google.com/?q=fbi+screw+ups
In a rare, ratings-inducing move, the FBI asked Germany's longest-running crime show Aktenzeichen XY for help in tracking down former mafioso James "Whitey" Bulger by broadcasting some supposedly recent photos of Bulger and his girlfriend, believed to be on the lam in Europe some time in 2008. What they didn't do was check these photos for accuracy.
Taken by a tourist in Italy the previous year, the photo featured an elderly couple that everyone in the FBI pretty much agreed resembled the infamous gangster and his girlfriend. Shown alongside some vintage pictures, they warned Bulger was wanted in connection with as many as 19 murders and "the couple may be armed and is extremely dangerous."
When calls started flooding the German airwaves with reported sightings of this "extremely dangerous" couple, the FBI was no doubt overjoyed about their new leads and probable vacation time in Germany. However, one call squashed all hopes of wearing lederhosen and eating bratwurst forever when it was revealed that the photo the FBI chose to broadcast was of his parents, nonthreatening retirees who were shocked to find themselves the center of an international manhunt.
The FBI waited five long days to remove the pictures from it's website, perplexed over which photo to use next because all old people look the same.
Two months ago, Whitey was arrested at his home in Santa Monica, and it is still unknown whether he and his girlfriend were even overseas at the time of the broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
FBI: Famous, But Incompetent
Wait...CONgress vs. the White House!?
Come on! It it is .gov and Wall Street vs. Main Street!
Yep. It really is a CON because in reality these Criminal Fraud deceptive Criminals are The Board of Trustees for The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 Bankrupted Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
If's funny cuz its true!
Today's FBI. It's for you.
The FBI is so committed to diversity in it's workforce that even its employment web site has compiled a multitude of different ethnicities to prove how multicultural it is. Their "American Indian/Native Alaskan" initiative, however, was a little lacking.
In 2009, that page featured a picture of former special agent Elizabeth Morris, who alleges that part of the reason she lost her job with the Bureau was filing a complaint of workplace prejudice. She claims she was relieved from her position after she brought to light some unethical practices made by another agent and against her supervisor, who made racially insensitive remarks. Oh the irony!
And it wasn't like this just happened and they were a little slow on taking down the snapshot. No, her photo was featured in 2009, a full TWO YEARS after she was fired for allegedly being the victim of the very behavior the FBI hoped to disassociate themselves with.
Apparently they had trouble choosing a photo to represent the ethnic background, because they thought all American Indians/Native Alaskans looked the same.
http://www.ranker.com/pics/N1000147636/today-s-fbi-it-s-for-you-photo-u2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
"On average, Americans will pay $2,500 less for health insurance."
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union."
"Jobs saved or created."
Don't be upset at any one politician, they're just puppets, we all know this to be true. But now the puppetmasters are out in the open, and the rules of the game are plain for all to see, vote any way you want, but if the central bankers don't like what you've voted for, they will shut down your entire country. Greece has shown us that central bankers are the ultimate authority on this planet, so if there's something you don't like about the way things are being done, it's the central bankers who are to blame; the politicians don't have any real power to speak of, so it doesn't make sense to blame them or to be upset with them.
It's ok to be upset with the Marxist Muslim dictator in the White House and the thugs that he hangs with like Al Sharpton--even if much of his agenda is controlled by others.
Fine. Enjoy your mental masturbation. The point is ... its a waste of time to dwell on the puppet. That's the whole point of the puppet, to distract you from the puppet-master.
No Shit - But you go to far when you say 'Give up'
Refusing to play the game set up by the oligarchy is not giving up. Playing against them on their own terms is giving up. Assuming that you are not too stupid to understand that simple fact what is your actual point?
Exactly. You can't, generally, opt not to play. But knowing the scheme is a good start. If the other side breaks rules and doesn't follow the law, I'll.....keep that in mind.
More and more the "leaders" resemble Zaphod Beeblebrox (you can do your own research you lazy bastard). I might actually vote for someone if I thought they'd really just leave me alone.
But does "being upset with" Obama have to including sucking up to neocons? If the instinct to follow one criminal gang rather than another isn't repulsive enough then remember that both criminal gangs are run by the same cartel and you're not their friend you're their lunch.
Again, no mystery. Don't act like your saying something fresh and jaw dropping. If everyone throws in the towel and stops making noise, we are dinner, or worse, grist for the mill. I find the distant Boogy Man elitist screed to be as old as an Alex Jones X-2 ad. The point is, the Elites depend on their miinions to pull this shit off. They are nothing without their minions.
Obviously the rules of "good cop, bad cop" are not jaw dropping and I don't understand you point in that regard. If anything I am exacerbated by the fact that people still seem to fall for this Red Team-Blue Team crap.
No one on this board falls for the Red Team, Blue Team crap. The hope is that an outlier comes out of nowhere to fuck with their plans, or just let it sink now and start over. Agreed, you better be single, no family, rich, and have an army to protect you if you're going to be that outlier.
Obviously untrue. Lots of folks support one candidate and oppose another. Lots of knee jerk support for various red or blue issues. Why pretend otherwise?
And kudos to you, Billy, and others who are pointing out the truth in this regard:
Democrat = Republican.
Trump=Bush=Obama=Clinton=etc
I am ashamed of most of my countrymen.
Because of their gullibility.
I do not currently have the time to educate the masses on this matter,
But this I will say:
TPTB have selected the next President, Senators & Congressmen.
And if, per chance, they don't get their way in the next election-
There's always Diebold, to "fix" the election.
My regards, friend of liberty.
Im just laughing because you think this observation is anything other than obvious. A GREAT BIG - NO SHIT. Now what? Act like you understand the illuminati and pat yourself on the back for it? Doesn't make a bit of difference, just like voting, I guess. At least with voting, or shouting at the bastards, they might just slow the fuck down, or even better, pull up on the reigns and doubt themselves. Whatever, so enlightened ...
You're the one who mentioned the Illuminati so save that pat on the back for yourself. I simply find the cartoon to be ironic rather than humorous, no matter how pedestrian you may find that critique to be.
What would the pols do if nobody voted?
They couldn't claim to be representing anyone.
It's the only way to put 'em out of a job and force the real controllers to stick their heads up.
Pure bullshit, the elected are living high on the hog, if they don't clean it up, curb stomp thir sorry asses.
Bad argument, if you hold one accountable for his actions you should hold all accountable for their actions. You should not be upset by any one politician... (aw shucks its not their fault, they're just puppets, they cant help it) you should really be upset by all politicians. (Oh, the bankers, the banker. they have a master plan to destroy Amerka)
If you like your lies, you can keep them.
Who ya gonna call?
Trust Busters!
That would be T. Roosevelt.
K...well...um..not really=. Let's get history straight here. Teddy empowered monopolies.
That is fucking all.
Regarding the creation of the Federal Reserve, that wasn't a camel's nose under the tent it was a bull moose's.
NM, you mean the bastard stayed bought?
Well...there's that. The purpose of government, itself a monopoly, is to eliminate competition. Standard oil was NEVER a coercive monopoly, and Rockefeller's fortune increased after its breakup.
Who Scooby call? #FBI.
1-800-FBI-FAIL
Sure, we've all forgotten to pay a bill here and there. You pay the late fee, maybe go without lights for a few weeks; no big deal, right? It's cool...unless you're an agency of the American government in charge of monitoring the country's security and you get the lines cut on your primary means of surveillance. Then, yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
In 2008, the FBI had their phone service shut down during a national security investigation and missed countless other opportunities to collect key evidence because they failed to pay their phone bills in a timely manner.
According to a report by the Justice Department, "We analyzed 990 telecommunication surveillance payments made by five field divisions, and found that over half of these payments were not made on time." If, that is, they were paid at all. One primary carrier sent a list detailing $66k in unpaid bills resulting from surveillance activity.
Yikes...you know you're in a financial crisis when even the government's calling collect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
coming from congress, I think the pot just called the kettle black
Sell your house and move up to a bigger one!
Capital gains tax of 3.8 percent of the sale to fund Obamacare, but that will only hit the rich!
ooops... wait.... what's the definition of rich?
Anyone saying the word TRUST means Don't!
I'm sure FBI agent Fred Kingston was just being cautious when taking this recently recovered top-of-the-line Ferrari F50 out for a test drive before returning it to it's rightful owner. You know, for safety and stuff. But crashing it into a bush and refusing to pay $750,000 in repairs? That has "fail" written all over it.
The vehicle was reported stolen in 2003 from a dealer in Pennsylvania, and found five years later, apparently still in prime driving condition. It was being held in Lexington, Kentucky, as part of a continuing investigation into the theft when Kingston was named in charge of moving it from it's garage in 2009. He promptly grabbed driving buddy and Assistant US Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson and (allegedly) commenced burning some rubber.
Thompson has since denied any improper handling, telling the insurance company that the car began sliding "Just a few seconds after we left the parking lot," and 'The agent tried to regain control but the car fishtailed and slid sideways up onto the curb." Right...Because racing cars sometimes just split in two when going around corners. More information pertaining to the crash was requested, but has since been denied.
The Justice Department responded to the request for damages by saying they are not liable for certain goods when they're in the hands of law enforcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
Come on... let's not make this about race!
<-- ramireztoons
<-- ramireziopropaganda
Trust is the opiate of sheeple. The American sheeple trust their masters in the Middle East and the servants of those masters in Washington. Everything your government says is a lie and everything you believe is your chains.
Imagine waking up one morning to see pieces of your likeness used as a wanted poster for arguably the most hated living man in the world. That's what Gaspar Llamazares had to deal with in 2008 when the FBI was unable to produce an updated image of Osama bin Laden based on old photographs.
Before Bin Laden was killed earlier this year, the government was still desperate to find his whereabouts, and struggled to provide an accurate photo because most of their prior wanted posters were now a decade old. So, when they weren't satisfied with their results simply by "aging" the outdated pictures, they turned to Google Images for help, borrowing facial similarities primarily from Llamazeres, a member of Spanish parliament with numerous campaign photos ripe for the harvesting of facial features.
"I was surprised and angered because it's the most shameless use of a real person to make up the image of a terrorist," said Llamazares, adding that he would no longer feel safe in the United States knowing that his wrinkles, hair, and jaw-line were linked to the September, 11th terrorist attacks.
The Frankenstein image of Gaspar and Osama appeared on the State Department website rewardsforjustice.net, but after it was pointed out that using features from one person to convey another's suspected appearance may lead to the capture of the wrong man, they FBI agreed to remove the photo. Is it finally safe to say the FBI does not handle the use of photos of minorities very well?
http://www.ranker.com/pics/N1000147640/osama-bin-llamazares-photo-u2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
"We're" talking about the ENTIRE burrito here, so get it right.
Not just the bizzaro president who is ultra-partisan or rather only pursues his own interests (or the interests of his sponsors). Congress has very low approval ratings, so it's not like they are representing the masses. Sure that's what they're paid for, but who knows what they're really up to, but the default is to suspect Congress is up to making best-government-money-can-buy, pay to play deals with the plutoligarchs.
It's not new per se, but it has been taken to the extreme over the last x number of years. Rather blatant, I'd say, these days. As if...as if the average citizen's only role is to consume by taking on debt and submitting to the will of the "ruling" class.
Game over, though, so...whatever.
The entire burrito would include the biggest elephant in the room --pensions---trust in the pension system--that is the biggest ponzi in the world and it is global-- Think Greece--or maybe the UAW or your local PD and FD. The POTUS and all of congress, the entire equity market, every gov't employee, all economic future think, each and every person in a promised some type of work now get benifits later scheme. That is the biggest "trust me" ---all other "trust me's" pale by comparison--and you can trust me on this---
I don't comment much, but this site is getting questionable and slanted.
I've been on Zh for only 6 months. The slant has been mostly: don't trust the US government, the system is falling apart, gold, China and Russia = good (unless it's China manipulating their currency or stockmarket), don't trust the plutocrats/oligarchs.Oh, and economists don't know what they're talking about. AND don't trust the mainstream media.
;-)
Don't know what the slant was before that.
The slant was toward Ron Paul and away from neocons. Or so it seemed.
Yea I don't know when or why Tyler joined the "bomb Iran" crowd. His/their libertarian critical analysis of government and economic policies has become kneejerk anti-Obama cartoons. That aren't very clever.
[ZH slant]: "China and Russia = good"
I can't say I've seen that slant. It's a subtle point that when you compare two rotten apples in a barrel (US -vs- Russian/China), the one which is least rotten (Russia/China) will appear better than the other and therefore get less stick.
That doesn't mean it is better, just less obnoxious. And in this case it isn't Russia/China that are destroying Western free markets and imposing marxist/fascist police states, it's Washington and its crony allies. So they're bound to get a lot more stick and criticism.
You forgot about the evil, Satanic Jews!
yeah...i was trying to stay away from that one
I can appreciate why you don't comment much! Getting questionable??????????
Many of us have called out these Ramirez cartoons and consistently given them a low rating.
Puncturing your comfort bubble? Congratulations, it's your first baby step to freedom, if your mind is open.
So how many people died when Mao, Stalin, and Pho Pot said to their people "Trust Me."?
Everybody always forgets LBJ. The man held dogs up by their ears, showed us his appendectomy scar and slaughtered millions. What's a guy got to do to get a little attention?
Millions? I am no LBJ fan, but I gotta call BS on that one. Gimme some links and proof on the millions please. BTW, I did not down arrow you either.
At least a couple of million in Vietnam:
http://faculty.washington.edu/charles/pubs/VietnameseCasualtiesDuringAme...
Plus whatever the VC lost, plus collateral damage (innocent civillians, kids, etc.). I'd say in the range of 2-5 million total. We killed some folks.
You may want to start your education here - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379352.On_Strategy
Thanks for that first link. An interesting read. The conclusion was 882k, not including civilians. The sampling was stretched, and no where did I see millions of deaths proven out. The footnotes speak to that fact as well. Further, the paper never delves deeply into the fact it is impossible to truly negate the deaths attributable to simply Vietnamese on Vietnamese aggression, exclusive of US involvement. Still, regardless of the actual number being provable, which it never will be, whatever it was was far too high. We never should have been there in the first place, which is really the point, right?
Anyway, I'll add the other book to my nightstand reading for another night.
BTW, this is why I like ZH. Green arrow for you, my friend.
Thanks to Old Trooper for the documenation of millions of Vietnamese war deaths. Add in the ongoing deaths from Agent Orange which are attributable solely to the US.
The Vietnamese Red Cross has registered an estimated one million people disabled by Agent Orange, but has sufficient funds to help only one fifth of them, paying out an average of $5 (£3) a month. Dr Nhan established the free OGCDC, having studied the impact of Agent Orange as a student, to match Vietnamese families to foreign private financial donors. "It was only when I went out to the villages looking for case studies that I realised how many families were affected and how few could afford help," he says. "I abandoned my research. Children need to run before they die."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/29/usa.adrianlevy
If you'd like to see the ongoing effects of Agent Orange and learn how you can help, visit Vietnam Friendship Village, a nonprofit group set up by an American Vietnam Vet.
http://www.vietnamfriendship.org/wordpress/
6 million. Default amount.
Indecent exposure?
When some S.O.B. walks up to you and says trust me, put one hand on your wife and the other on your wallet to be sure both of them are still with you at the end of the conversation. Trust people to look out after their self interest. As long as your interests are aligned, you are good to go. The moment they diverge, watch your back. There are a few men of honor but I know only two.
Nowadays the S.O.B might be a woman and your wife is going to put a hand on you to keep you from running off with a dudette named Caitlyn.
"There are a few men of honor but I know only two."
Sorry for your life. I know dozens and raised two of them.
I am happy for you. Those men you trust, lend them a substantial amount of money and see if they remain your trusted friends.
You can TRUST the Politicians and Banks to FUCK you over at EVERY given opportunity. Trust you can fucking believe in, me hearties.
It's hard to say where the biggest aspect of fail lies in the case of Tennessee Circuit Judge John B. Hagler, who made a "fantasy tape" with recordings so sensational the FBI mistook it for a torture session and linked it to an unsolved murder case. The tape, however, spurned no charges against the Judge, and police admitted he is not a suspect in any investigation.
The tape, which was brought to authorities by a recently fired secretary over two years before it's existence was made public in 2008, contained graphic erotic situations intertwined with legal dictation made by now former Judge Hagler. While this is undeniably intriguing, why did the FBI keep it private for over two years while Hagler heard family court cases if they believed him to be dangerous? If they believed him guilty of nothing more than an overactive imagination, why distribute the tape at all?
The tape was ultimately leaked by an unidentified source to the media which forced Hagler, married 65-year-old and thrice nominated president of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association, into early retirement, but the FBI saw it fit to show it to district attorneys in Hagler's jurisdiction even after it was deemed inconsequential and harmless, unless the listener had a sensitive stomach.
"The description of it as containing `graphic fantasies' ... is an accurate and sufficient description and all any decent person would want to hear of it," said Hagler. The murder case the FBI suspected the tape was related to remains unsolved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
Seems the cartoonist thinks that the slithers on Capitol Hill are not part of the DC US criminal and treasonous regime. And I would add that the two flags flying over the two edifices depicted should be white and blue.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
He also forgot the guillotines that will one day adorn the front lawns of both.
The senators are all part of a club. It is not towel snapping and grab ass in the senate gym locker room. is not like your local old dudes wearing funny hats. It is not access to the most attractive 20 somethings money can't even buy. It is not even a religion. It is not even bilderburg or Davos. It is trips on private jets to private villas to have private ceremonies. Bubba knows who is in the club, but he was only doing it as part of an under cover mission. Like Jethro Bodeen super spy.
Either hillary, Jeb or similar gets in 2016 or you will see lots of "early retirement to spend time with the family" speeches in the 2016 cycle. For example, remember how early this year Bob Menedez was under investigation for underage prostitution one week, and the next week he was on every MSM show giving expert advice on the Iran Nuclear deal?
FACTS
Beware
This is not your fathers socialism
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYW5nmS9ps
Butchie, what are you doing, she's your girl..
WTF you talking about you nit wit. I am not American.
New rule. Never put Hillary and exposed in same sentence.
Just..don't ...do...it.
Please.
The Clinton Chronicles . Clintons exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DSzcdCv8_s
If you want Trust you should take Hillary, the heart's desire of trust.
Leave the inferior minds and look at woman!
Is she, the strong, intelligent and good,
Up to her own conceivable height?
Keep cleaning those firearms.
Trust? TTP and TTIP are being done in secret and more or less imprisoning ALL the world . Corporations like Monsanto will destroy human beings slowly. Its all in the plan.
We don’t know about you, but when we think of FBI personnel, we imagine some of the most disciplined, intelligent, and well-mannered people around.
Turns out, there are bad apples in every bunch – 1,045 bad apples, to be more specific. That’s the number of FBI employees CNN reported were punished between 2010 and 2012 for conducting themselves in an unseemly manner.
In short: they messed up, and some of the ways in which they messed up are pretty darn hilarious because you’d think that you would know you can’t get away with any funny business when the FBI is your boss.
To warn other employees from further embarrassing the agency, the FBI recently sent out an Internal disciplinary report to its workers, detailing various examples of unacceptable conducts carried out by actual employees who were either suspended or fired for their acts.
The report didn’t give identifying details such as names of the agents, but they did explain what kinds of things are not considered cool, in an effort to discourage others from carrying out similarly questionable acts.
So what were some of these acts?
To start, it seems the FBI has a sexting issue. One of the employees sent a nude selfie to several other employees. The report lists this act “caused office gossip” within the work-place. Oh yeah, naked pictures will do that.
Then there was the employee who harassed her ex-boyfriend and his current wife (!!) by sending them nude photos of herself and refusing to cease contact with the couple. Guess the FBI doesn’t always get its man (get it?)
There was also the employee who cyber stalked friends and coworkers by using the official FBI database, an employee who paid for sex in the form of a happy ending in a massage parlor, one who knowingly married a drug dealer, and the brilliant now-former employee who tried to spy on the boss by hiding a recording device in the supervisor’s office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
Scoooooooooby Dooby Doo!
Damn, Scooby.
The story I want is the one about what they did to YOU!
https://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/19/how-israel-out-foxed-us-presidents...
http://www.unz.com/article/a-shifting-narrative-on-iran/
Scooby's female boss called him into her office, stripped and stood over him in a full frontal and said scooby snack time MF.
Another thing not to be trusted is the cartoonist Ramirez himself, a right wing crony capitalist bankster/chamber of commerce shill with a long history of attacking everything government and anything progressive.
The irony, of course, is that it's Congress suggesting the White House may not be trustworthy. Have they checked their public opinion ratings lately?
Iranian negotiator discusses nuclear deal.... MUST SEE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIz_vkZH5k&feature=youtu.be