Goldman Sachs Contains 4,000 Separate Corporate Entitiesby JacobSloan on July 24, 2013 in News
Including more than 739 companies based in the Cayman Islands alone. Common Dreams on the staggering webs woven by multinationals as they split and grow, bringing to mind primitive, blob-like life forms expanding and engulfing their surroundings:
The London-based Open Data Institute has collected and mapped ccorporate data, much of it made public for the first time, showing the complex relationships between multinational companies and their global subsidiaries. Stunning visuals on the corporate networks of the six biggest banks in the U.S. – Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JP Morgan – show the tangled webs they weave.
http://disinfo.com/2013/07/goldman-sachs-contains-4000-separate-corporate-entities/
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I tried the interactive map site, it was blank...???
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Chris Hedges: As a Socialist, I Have No Voice in Corporate Media.
ReplyDeleteSo there we have it, Hedges is a Socialist.
As much as I enjoy and agree with so much of Hedges' critique and analysis, I find "Socialism" to be the height of political/economic naïveté. It is reliant on a powerful central state, therefor it is another form of statism.
Once the citizens realiz they can vote for more bread and circuses, our ultimate demise is set in motion.
So often mentioned is “crony capitalism” - rarely mentioned is “crony socialism”, and the one is not exclusive from the other; as “cronyism” is the nature of groups of human beings.
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FOR ROUGHLY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, INDIGENOUS peoples have been struggling against the dominant institutions of society, against imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, impoverishment, segregation, racism, and genocide. The struggle continues today under the present world social order and against the dominant institutions of ‘neoliberalism’ and globalization: the state, corporations, financial institutions and international organizations. Indigenous communities continue to struggle to preserve their cultural identities, languages, histories, and the continuing theft and exploitation of their land. Indigenous resistance against environmental degradation and resource extraction represents the most direct source of resistance against a global environmental crisis which threatens to lead the species to extinction. It is here that many in the scientific community have also taken up the cause of resistance against the destruction of the global environment. While Indigenous and scientific activism share similar objectives in relation to environmental issues, there is a serious lack of convergence between the two groups in terms of sharing knowledge, organizing, and activism.~Andrew Gavin Marshall
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"To address the environmental crisis in a meaningful way, this reality must first be acknowledged. This is how an anarchistic understanding of the environmental crisis facing the world and humanity can contribute to advancing how we deal with these profound issues. For the sciences, the implications are grave: their sources of funding and direction for research are dependent upon the very institutions which are destroying the environment and leading humanity to inevitable extinction (if we do not change course). Advancing an anarchistic approach to understanding issues related to Indigenous repression and resistance to environmental degradation can help provide a framework through which those in the scientific community – and elsewhere – can find new avenues for achieving similar goals: the preservation of the environment and the species."
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Thought i'd drop this in here on the HAARP "shutdown" meme:
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From where I'm currently located, and the absolutely "Vicious" storm that just blew through (continuing), and noticing chemtrails earlier in the day, I'll say that this bad boy was hyphenated.
We gotta bright sunny day here...but such a cool breeze - one could say an almost perfect day. A day for a daydream. Custom made for a daydreaming boy.
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Although chocolate anemones look like flowers they are actually predators.
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Reblogged this on Johnsono ne'Blog'as.
ReplyDeleteAlfred McCoy - development of the surveillance state:
ReplyDeleteFor over one hundred years U. S. government authorities have imported draconian police state techniques and technology developed overseas back to the American homeland, whether involving torture, surveillance, and suspension of human rights and liberties, using the overseas country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression. We saw evidence of this recently on the streets in Boston and Watertown with martial law maneuvers used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From suppressing the Filipino Insurrection following the Spanish-American War to the destructive counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, these martial exercises in unlawful, extra-constitutional behavior have continued unabated. And like the prodigal son of New Testament scriptures, they have come home.
http://sreaves32.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/alfred-mccoy-on-the-surveillance-state/
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I was just on the Alex Jones site, a story about the Commies instigating all the Trayvon Martin protests...
ReplyDeleteThe comments section read like something from Storm Trooper magazine, really bold racist bullshit. Jones claims they are trolls trying to make him look bad - but he has no moderation of the extreme.
Even here I would lobby for banishing such skinhead racist shit. Jones is right about one thing - it makes him look bad, very bad!
We should keep in mind that the "Communists" are as fat and happy from corporate benefits as the Right Wing Jingoberries...it's the Hegelian bop again.
And the herd remains baffled.
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"Watching the ongoing retardo dialogue between materialist science and religion continues to amuse me to no end as an Occultist. I mean, both camps should be giving each other high fucking fives. You both hate altered states of consciousness. You are each other’s greatest allies in stunting logical inquiry into the topic. Before any of us can remember, the church got inside science’s head and told them not to tread on their turf by studying experiential inner phenomenon like near death experiences and psychedelic drugs. Science folded like a bitch and has now completely sold itself on its own nonsensical spiritual ignorance.
ReplyDeleteIn the other corner, there’s the most belittled fringe minority in the universe going, errr, why’d we reject all that shamanism stuff? I took mushrooms and stared into a transcendent cognitive eternity. I did it a bunch of times. Isn’t that the sort of thing shamanism was based on? Maybe those folks who didn’t give a shit about killing the planet were onto something after all. Not so much with the not creating the internet thing though. And that’s the main issue I have with both overly scientific and excessively religious freaks. When faced with a world of increasing complexity, why on earth would you believe that somehow spirituality would be insanely simplistic? For the religious nut, some book from 2000 years ago holds all the answers to the universe and you’re judged based on what you did or didn’t do with your pussy. For science geeks, nothing to see here. Get it, we don’t have to study altered states of consciousness because they’re “not real”. What do you not understand about this? Well..."~Thad McKraken
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Are you smoking those chocolate flowers?
ReplyDeleteI have said as such, and others, Mr. Rogue1. This is the sad state-of-affairs of the Statist bastard psychos. Now that the incorporation of these exo-state operations have ramped up so quickly in the "Home of the Free", folks are starting to take notice.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a very short time relatively for the "Drones to Come Home", after predicted LIES of the puppet leaders and their military and police arms. Well, whaddaya know? Soon they'll be Everywhere -- they're so damn "useful"! But the "private" and even police agency versions are nothing like the Sky Death Machines flown by joystick jockeys in their little toilet rooms somewhere. Maybe even underground, whatever.
Thad's not impressing me with his McKrackken likeness. He tries to sound intellectual while tearing down everything else that has some kind of foundation. What's his built on? Shrooming, Zooming, and Freaking?
ReplyDeleteI'm not feeling the "Love" or rational thought in his pitch. Pseudo-intellectualism with a side of shamanism. He's lost in his own stream-of-unconsciousness, though he feels he's in-tune. Whatever.
Aw c'mon Boomer where's yer sense of humor?
ReplyDeleteHe's just makin' fun of your "rational thought"...mine too, but it didn't set me sideways. Lol
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Cool jazz session with the frog-song tonight...I swear it's Fibonacci, a front rapper over a general cadence...
ReplyDeleteCrazy man!
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Check this out, thought it was interesting and clever.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSHJHFu4E24
This is an interesting take on the Hastings murder:
ReplyDeleteWhy Was Hastings Murdered?
Hastings and Snowden had contact with each other through an off-the-books WikiLeaks contributor named Israel Shamir. Hastings was preparing to release what Snowden was holding as leverage against the US government. The mere fact that Snowden is in Russia is highly significant. Snowden’s information has also paralyzed our country’s foreign policy efforts.
Nine months ago, Russia and China threatened the United States with war if they invaded Syria and/or Iran. This is well documented. It is also well-documented that this conflict between Iran and the United States was over the preservation of the exclusive use of the Petrodollar. As I have documented, Iran began selling their oil for gold to Russia, China and India.
Federal Reserve stooge, President Obama, has been beating the war drums with Syria and Iran in an effort to stop the undermining of the Petrodollar. Invasion of Syria and then Iran was imminent, last fall, until China and Russia reacted so strongly. Therefore, Obama used the fallback position of arming al-Qaeda, as he did in Libya, in the hopes of toppling Assad through a CIA inspired revolution and opening the door to making Iran the next victim. However, something has dramatically changed and, at least temporarily, derailed the invasion plans.
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/23/why-was-michael-hastings-murdered/
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"What you are talking about will come to pass this fall and I think I know the date that it, martial law has to happen by. Why am I so sure? The answer to the question is December 23, 2013. Does anyone know why that date looms so significantly?"~Dave Hodges
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Snowden, Wiki... lol
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jaysun duh7...Lol
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I left the spooky, wacky woods of the Holly farm long ago. See, I learned a new euphemism today at COTO. I don't think it will be too useful to me, but now I know why asking if you're "smoking" one rates a "ewww".
ReplyDelete"Whilst this mouse of an inquest moved ever so quietly, an elephant had been trampling the undergrowth for the three previous days, starting at Harrowdown Hill. Within three hours of the body being found, my Lord Hutton had been engaged to chair an ad hoc inquiry, by my Lord Falconer as Dr Watt has already described. Miles Goslett recently reported in the Mail that Hutton had confirmed in a letter to Norman Baker MP that he had been asked to meet Lord Chancellor Falconer in his Lord’s office around noon of the 18th July and that he agreed to serve.(6) At that point the subject, David Christopher Kelly CMG DSc had not been identified and no cause of death had been established. This fixer was a friend of Blair’s when they were in chambers studying law! He had assisted his friend the PM in bolstering the claim that there was a legal basis for a massive bombardment and invasion of Iraq rather than it being a supreme war crime as defined at Nuremberg."
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-unnatural-death-of-dr-kelly-the-forensic-pathology-the-subversion-of-due-process-continues/5343704
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Amerika -- LIED TO AGAIN by the MSM & Those who have something to gain by staying in the dark and shadows. Any Suspects, folks?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqe6S6m73Zw#at
There's some other info/articles on carjacking on http://blacklistednews.com; and also THIS:
ReplyDelete"Amerika -- Got a Police State Yet?!" You oughtta wonder WHO/JEW continues to place Their People in Your Positions of Policy & Authority?!
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Architect_of_NYC_crime_clean-up_fraud_is_Obama%E2%80%99s_top_pick_to_head_DHS/27596/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Its called a Criminal Cabal. And They Do the Dirty.
Use the link instead Willy.
ReplyDeleteI called him one years ago on a common psyop alternate media site and took severe criticism. What I said was that Chris Hedges is great at pointing out the injustices of das kapital. I could live with hedges because he would eventually realize your true statement and then he would have to write on the injustices of the state.
ReplyDeleteI said that he should be aware that his paycheck comes through the same banks that funded state fascism and communism for over 300 years and the same corporate propagandists who are funded GO or NGO .
Obama is a magician in running both crony concepts. One domestic and one foreign. He's a wolf in sheeps clothing and a sheep in wolves clothing. Victimizer and victimized.
Along with the usual D.C. divide and conquer of the McMartin Zimmerman, he wasted no time in opportunizing his low rating reality with the race card. Really, a most pathetic sleazy liberal tool. Then the apologist's media haarping on this point. Sickening.
induction
ReplyDeleteIt is easier to dominate someone if they are unaware of being dominated. Colonised and colonisers both know that domination is not just based on physical supremacy. Control of hearts and minds follows military conquest. Which is why any empire that wants to last must capture the souls of its subjects.
— Ignacio Ramonet, The control of pleasure, Le Monde diplomatique, May 2000
Scientific Anarchism is a must in understanding the GREEN MACHINE. It has been one of the most controlled entrancement programs ever conceived by the globalists.
ReplyDeleteThe HAARP-ENMOD factor aside, the PETA, GREENPEACE, SIERRA CLUB crowd are the very strip-mining corporate dumpers that have idiots focused on carbon while ignoring DU, Plastic, Dow, Union Carbide, BASF, Microsoft, Apple and all the others who contaminate the world so the greenies can text pictures of their hybrid cars and new shoes.
I wish you could record that.
ReplyDeleteKelly and Bloomturd look just like the thugs out of THE GODFATHER, and that's because the thugs in the movie were fashioned on the real thugs like Kelly and Bloomturd...issa conceptual roundabout.
ReplyDeleteGlad I don't live in a big city - specially NY or Chinkago or Deeptroit, deep shit flows in all of'm...merkah's down the tubes and everybody's making plastic smiley-faces at each other.
"Whut? Me worry?"...Lol
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When sheeple consider 911, they rarely bounce to the Patriot Act. A redefining of "you are with us or against us" using the term patriot. Clever yet, obvious to coto. What the 'base' CIAda developed was a group of double agents who in the triple cross would infiltrate the anarchist and sovereign resistance to world order and dissect and decimate them, assuming the persona of freedom fighters and terrorist. Mujihadeen, being a perfect example. The war on trade and on drugs were the cover for gladio type installations.
ReplyDeleteThe networks were more or less trafficking points for the funding and distribution of narco-terrorists that can easily be tracked from south america to europe to asia. Where the killing fields are, so are the crops, processors and distributors. Aghan-China to Bosnia-Herz to Colombia-Panama. Not allegations but proven, the CIA has been forced to set up new points since the revelations of Mena Airport, Noriega, Iran Contra-Colombia, Venezuela, Benghazi, Sinoloa-Mexico
(fast & furious), etc.
Mind Controlled Reagan's 'war on drugs' was GHW Bush, the drug kingpin was instrumental in making the freebase crack program to kill blacks and useless eaters in America. Perfect use the the Golden triangle that works around the globe today. It's purpose to kill and create a criminal justice dept, protection racket while developing the largest prison state in the world. Drug treament centers-MKUltra, bogus money schemes in Methadone clinics and other benefits were privatized under this crony conceived process. We can look at the corporates who run these 'for profit' corpo-state flesh processors and see the connections. Soros is the eurasian kingpin.
'The Don' Sollozzo Zapata sporting the Zimmernan doo.
Me too Puddy, all my recording gear is in storage...
ReplyDeleteWe got the Katydid zoom castanets now in the daylight hours...
surround sound swirl - if you stand in a field with your eyes closed it can make you dizzy.
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Infowars gets a free pass. Alex Jones has to repetitiously entrain the mass that the reason he has not been 'Bill Coopered" is that it would bring credibility to his Stratfor controlled operation. The NSA is using the useful idiot approach with infowars and the Trolls are identifying the red-blue label dossiers for what has to be a huge source of data-mining. I can't fathom the depth of deception there anymore.
ReplyDeleteDisclosure connects infowars, disinfo, drudge, dprogram and others under this umbrella. I can't make any head or tails of it anymore except to say it's the counter to left leaning alternates. It's a mind and money marketing machine. That i know.
Sounds like the Triune for the science-theology paradigm. Like a Soros/Graham Hancock type alternative. When the committee creates these memes and programs they understand the fallout from religion and science, as they have corrupted both, using them to continue their acquisition and control over them. I accept the partial truth of all sides of the triangle. It's a gleaning and deduction process. The reality lies within each and is different. What is truth is independent of any reality and I do not believe it can be seen, heard or learned by any experience in this fabricated realm. Knowing this is freedom, beyond that it is all false flags, force and farce.
ReplyDeleteBeware the s.ytimg. User removed video (lie)
ReplyDeleteIt's the legal date for the expiration of the the Federal Reserve Charter.
ReplyDeleteKelly was the perfect 911 operative in cleanup and continuity. He was instrumental in WTC93 and 01. Coming in as an interpol-FISA spy chief and Delta force operative with plenty of CIA and master of running interference and protection. He'll get the nod from the global committee members in congress. He's got the total package for 911-the sequel.
ReplyDeleteHey why don't you do a profile piece on this Kelly puke?
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear more about the psycho creep as he seems up for the new "job".
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I did Puddy. Same thing; blank black page.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of www problems these days.
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It's a pin the tail on the donkey exercise. Once you look at their pedigree, you can pin tails on all of them. It's a superlegion under the order that connects all of them. The class is SCUM.
ReplyDeleteKelly was a Marine Corps Reserve Colonel, Director of Police under the United Nations Mission in Haiti, and an Interpol Vice President. During the Clinton administration, Kelly served as Treasury Department Under Secretary for Enforcement, as Customs Service Commissioner, and was in the running to become the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam, after President Bill Clinton extended full diplomatic relations to that country in 1995.
ReplyDeleteThe first World Trade Center terrorist attack occurred on February 26, 1993 while Kelly was Police Commissioner under Mayor Dinkins (1992 to 1994), and Kelly led his department through the investigation of the bombing.
After his handling of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, he was mentioned for the first time as a possible candidate for FBI Director.
Under Bloomberg, Commissioner Kelly also revamped New York City's Police Department into a world-class counter-terrorism operation, operating in conjunction with the CIA.
An August 2011 article by the Associated Press reported the NYCPD's extensive use of undercover agents (colloquially referred to as “rakers”[25] and “mosque crawlers”[26]) to keep tabs, even build databases, on stores, restaurants, mosques. and clubs.
"The FBI was reportedly so concerned about the legality of the NYPD's program that it refused to accept information that came out of it."[28] Valerie Caproni, the FBI's general counsel, told the AP that the FBI is barred from sending agents into mosques looking for leads outside of a specific investigation and said the practice would raise alarms. "If you're sending an informant into a mosque when there is no evidence of wrongdoing, that's a very high-risk thing to do," she was quoted as saying. "You're running right up against core constitutional rights. You're talking about freedom of religion."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_W._Kelly
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ObamaCare is a multi-facted entity like fast & furious and change. Transition to care=abuse tax/fines, fast&furious=bailouts/R.O.W. and change is a global ponzi and ultimate conversion to bilderberg bancor. The committee works this through the FED and Wallstreet but the reality is the transition of bailouts to perpetuate the Triffin Paradox. PM's will be addressed in this conversion and will not be convertible. All contingencies are covered. Merry Christmas in advance because we have no XMAS coming without a banking roman holiday. Look for early snowjobs on jobs and snowdens on the den of thieves.
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That's pretty accurate for Wikipeeks. Pentagon to Interpol to Treasury to Ground Zero. Groomed for success.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that under Bloomberg and Kelly that NY has become the model police state metropolis in the nation.
ReplyDeleteIt is nearly impossible now to walk a block in lower Manhattan without being on television. There are 2,000 cameras, and soon there will be 3,000 -- all of which feed into this control center housed in a secret location.
Technology built specifically for the NYPD includes radiological and nuclear detectors on boats, radiation detectors on helicopters and trucks, and detectors on cops' gun belts so sensitive that people who've had medical procedures may trigger them.
And Lower Manhattan now includes thousands of surveillance cameras that can identify shapes and sizes of unidentified "suspicious" packages and can track people descriptions, like, "someone wearing a red shirt," within seconds.
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"within seconds"__bullshit, that is fear and loathing PR...cops don't get ANYWHERE within seconds when it really matters.
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Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR
ReplyDeleteI spent the summer of 1961 behind the Iron Curtain. I was part of the US-USSR student exchange program. It was the second year of the program that operated under auspices of the US Department of State. Our return to the West via train through East Germany was interrupted by the construction of the Berlin Wall. We were sent back to Poland. The East German rail tracks were occupied with Soviet troop and tank trains as the Red Army concentrated in East Germany to face down any Western interference.
Fortunately, in those days there were no neoconservatives. Washington had not grown the hubris it so well displays in the 21st century. The wall was built and war was avoided. The wall backfired on the Soviets. Both JFK and Ronald Reagan used it to good propaganda effect.
In those days America stood for freedom, and the Soviet Union for oppression. Much of this impression was created by Western propaganda, but there was some semblance to the truth in the image. The communists had a Julian Assange and an Edward Snowden of their own. His name was Cardinal Jozef Mindszenty, the leader of the Hungarian Catholic Church.
Mindszenty opposed tyranny. For his efforts he was imprisoned by the Nazis. Communists also regarded his as an undesirable, and he was tortured and given a life sentence in 1949.
Freed by the short-lived Hungarian Revolution in 1956, Mindszenty reached the American Embassy in Budapest and was granted political asylum by Washington. However, the communists would not give him the free passage that asylum presumes, and Mindszenty lived in the US Embassy for 15 years, 79% of his remaining life.~Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.infowars.com/role-reversal-how-the-us-became-the-ussr/
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It’s now painfully clear that the president has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment. And at the Capitol, the hierarchies of both parties are stuffing it into the trunks of their limousines, so each provision can be neatly fitted with cement shoes and delivered to the bottom of the Potomac.” ~Norman Solomon
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“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.”
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What goods your gear in boxes Rogue1? Why not be recording, and proffering like the Dog Poet, or Willy Master?
ReplyDeleteMy first incredulous question is, "Why would you want to live there in NY in anyways?". Then, the next question is, "With the current 'bullseye' on NY, and the extreme levels of extra-constitutional surveillance and Zionist Overseers cracking down and crapping around the place -- why hang out There?".
ReplyDeleteIts totally "mafia'd out" with TurdBloom chocolatte anemone head, heading the insanity.
What is needed is a stern, WE MEAN BUSINESS "No Fucking Way!" attitude and posture by The People. If you bend over every time, you are on the "receiving end" from these Zionist psychos. Do The People really think that this Monstrosity coming at them in waves will stop at any point other than Complete Domination and Subjection of The People by the State Operation and Operatives?
ReplyDeleteDo you?!
That's a rhetorical question. Since No Law, and Nobody has slowed them down on their maniacal run-around and run-over Liberty blitzkrieg, it is apparent THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING THEY CAN TAKE unless stopped by a collective force and will of The People.
Its not too late. And this mass revolt, this gut level revulsion against criminals masquerading as "friends & policy-makers 'for' the people" needs to GET REAL, REAL FAST!
Personally, I'm not taking their shit anymore. This spurs me to put up a particular half-written piece that's been sitting in the Men's Room ripening for a week or so. Rogue1 inspired the concept with something he wrote.
Keep an eye out for it. Perhaps Today is the day for the unveiling...its satirical in nature.
Hahahaha...yea Boomer,
ReplyDeleteNow you got the swing of it. Yea, Metropolis...it all reminds me of Blade Runner - the ones that are still standing. Then there are the Detroits that remind me of Road Warrior...and EVERY fuckinwhere reminds me of the Twilight Zone and 21st Century Schizoid Man.
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Can't wait Boomer,
ReplyDeleteMe loves yer writing style.
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I live in a cracker box Boomer.
ReplyDeleteNo room for much of anything but the essentials here.
I got some great gold splatter vocal mics...a cool system, but the brains got blown out - my main super jazzed up computer that I told you about loosing. But still, if I got that back in working order, this place would be like a maze to get through with any more stuff in it. Da Squeeze...
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Full Metal Jacket by Master Kubrick was a kick.
ReplyDeleteHe shows that the USMC is actually the USMMC (US Mickey Mouse Club) at the end with all the jarhead jingoberries marching through the fields of Nam singing the Mickey Mouse Club song...
Loved it.
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Black eyed Magog. The kid looks real happy about the lap, doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteLondon brought the englishman surveillance to New York. My friends said London is scary with cameras and plainclothesman.
ReplyDeleteThey said London should sell the surveillance back to tourists for a fee as a vacation film and photo service. -lol
Yea and grampa's hand on his crotch...Lol
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Hey, I just rented and watched THE DARK KNIGHT RISES...
ReplyDeleteDanged if it wasn't good...yea I really liked it.
No humbug me 'bout that howlies...
I liked SKYFALL too...so nener nener
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Without advertising them as such, Japan has many socialist aspects, and I would consider it perhaps the world's most successful socialist system. I think the addition of Confucianism helped it a lot. People expect the bureaucracy to be benevolent, so they are very supportive of a centralized system as long as it toes the line in certain important ways. The problems you mentioned, however, are apparent. A lot of cronyism and corruption in the form of money-making schemes in ways the people here will tolerate, such as through the medical system. Fukushima is steeped in scandals that might be this world's undoing, and it is all done with a painted smiley face that doesn't manage to fool anyone currently.
ReplyDeleteThey are not a pure socialist system, by any means. They've been known for predatory capitalism as well, and with further pressure from the West to liberalize their markets (e.g., allow Monsanto in), they may go tripping down the same slippery slope as America, but I think there will be more resistance here. People are not enamored of capitalism in Japan.
I always found the Japanese to be hard working. Socialist or charitable programs can work well in this kind of populace. Not the US and it's lazy, stupid and ignorant attitude towards work and the quality of the work they do. Too many years of destructive mind control to believe you get rich the easy way by lying cheating conning and stealing. Adding entitlement to this was the kiss of death.
ReplyDeleteNow that there are no jobs I can't prove the point but if there were jobs, a large chunk of this fat ass would still be grifting through the system.
I'm sure Japan has seen some of this trend over the thirty years I have been gone. I still admire their honor in work ethic.