The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has collapsed. The conflation of freedom with the free market has been exposed as a sham. The travails of the poor are rapidly becoming the travails of the middle class, especially as unemployment insurance runs out and people get a taste of Bill Clinton’s draconian welfare reform. And class warfare, once buried under the happy illusion that we were all going to enter an age of prosperity with unfettered capitalism, is returning with a vengeance.
I grind my teeth when I read things like...
ReplyDelete"Those who care about the plight of the working class and the poor must begin to mobilize quickly or we will lose our last opportunity to save our embattled democracy."
The "last opportunity" was lost a long time ago. "Embattled democracy?" It's gone. Talk about rhetoric (is that redundant?)... we have to stop talking about how we are going to "save" something that's gone... and probably never existed in the first place.
So now what? You know what. Bald-faced coups being engineered... the "Supreme Court" nattering about Saudi "sovereign immunity," how obvious does it have to get? It won't be a "revolution," it will be a civil war... and the opening shots will be fired by those who believe they are "saving" something that does not exist.
They will be armed and financed by those who aren't "saving" anything... they are simply taking all of what they don't already own.
The "realpolitikers" are the most deluded of all.
I like Chris Hedges but he doesn't see the whole picture. The fascist plan, which started with the inception of the Federal Reserve, is complete. All that's left for them is the tying up of loose ends. They have all their people in place along with all their draconian laws. The total police state is approaching rapidly.
ReplyDeleteWaldo is right. I tend to believe those that are saying that things are going to get very ugly this fall. The crackdown could come with the lab created "swine flu" and forced innoculations. Be forewarned and be prepared.
If they can convince us that the war is lost, they don't have to fight it.
ReplyDeleteMuch of this game depends on belief systems. Remember Kissinger's fearful comment at Bohemian Grove one year: "what if they realize no one is really in charge?"
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ReplyDeleteThe US currency declined 0.6% to US$1.4078 per euro at 3 p.m. in New York, from US$1.3988 yesterday, extending its loss this week to 1%. The dollar fell 0.8% to 95.17 yen from 95.95 and was poised for a 1.1% weekly decline, its third consecutive drop.
http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/innernews.asp?storyId=106311&lmn=1
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BEIJING -- China's central bank reiterated its call for the creation of a new international currency that could replace currencies such as the dollar in countries' official reserves.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124616719675965215.html
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...so hey there kids...
ReplyDelete...been a bit of time huh?...i and i have just...oops...
...the only thing about opinion that on occassion makes me wonder...when i and i are presented with the notion that the time for change...i have grown to dislike that word but it does serve a purpose...exactly when in my life on the frontlines...they dropped dod no insingnia...in idaho...did i happen to miss the opportunity for change?...we stopped the nuke testing...sub criticals being another matter...but i and i amm sure that we were really looking for change...so please if you could...and on a good day and in a bestess way...what the [(please insert adverb or adjective of choice here...thank you!)]...thank you...
with love and prayes...meyer...
people who talk about "change" are totally full of crap. We don't need change. We need something completely different. Is that "change?" bladda bladda yabba.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see some "change" when some fats are trussed-up like mummys with 10-penny nails through their heads. Until then. they gotcha by the balls... or whatever sensitive part you care to claim.
Leave the realpolitikers on the sidelines to choke their chikkens. Whip their mules. Pet their kittys.
Whatever.
...hey kids...
ReplyDelete...for all the hyperbole about " ...i can't say what i want?...)
this is what you got...come on...coto can not be this lame...this is the only time i and i check the response box...which may have had an effect on...
we have our server...you are service industry?...i am simp;y trying to figger why you would post a letter..do you have a clue?...and if ya'll do please let me know and i and i promise i and i will meet you in the library with col. mustard...
...with love and prayers...meyer...
Meyer, forgive me, but what in the hell are you talking about???
ReplyDeleteYes indeed JG. He does not grasp the basic formula at all. Just the results. I really dislike all the NEO-CON Christian right nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThese baby eaters are no more Christian than they are RIGHT. They are mere antagonists/antithesis directing the population to accept the 'changling world order.'
Obama & Co. cannot even step out of the Bush/Cheney shoes. Illusion, the master trick of the darkness, and Hedges, liberals and the world suffer severely from night blindness.
something he ate?? or ESL...sorry Meyer , what?
ReplyDeletehey kids...
ReplyDelete...not eat...it is smothing that i smoke...just as a heads up i and i am a medical marijuana (registered!) cripple west of denver...for the most part youse can take what my babble to be is trying to put a positive spin on this...or the relevant...issue being talked about...i truly have been trying to fight the good fight my whole life...i do not know how to be any other way...we used to deal weith the logistics of large actions...wto in seattle...my collective was the kitchen on denny...san franciscos latest war demos in two thousand three...that sort of thing...oh yeeah we did live at 1601 pennsylvania in dee cee during the first gulf war...one hell of a vigil...the war at home right kids...
...this is one of the venues that i have for any sort of communication at all...that may be why when i and i read absolutist tending viewpoints MY kneejerk reaction is to try and put the discussion on a positive trajectory...a lets all fight for life not death spin on it...
this ain't no whining as i am also trying to learn how to write...never really tried to put the heart into words for real so folks that i and i can not see will know my meaning..so this is weird in and of itself...though if you would enjoy more completely disjointed self indulgent attempts to put thoughts into words try my blog from the selection on the right...and now i and i will get back to that morning glow...hope you all had the kind spring harvest as well...praise jah!...with love and prayers...meyer...
Neo-cons are prime examples of those who join xyz in order to gain POWER. Power is the be-all and end-all for them, they have no other ideal or goal.
ReplyDeleteIn every movement there are some opportunists who come for that reason. And successful movements often fall to them after an establishing period, and turn into just another version of what was fought against.
Awareness and vigilance must be maintained; complacency is a trap.
...hey kids...
ReplyDelete...i and i have gotten the resposes and the replies to my postings and i and i will answer but at the moment...got a touch of trimming to do and wouldn't you just know it...rhe little creep meyer loves baseball...i know it is true...
...irrespective i and i am going respond...weeze a touch slow with the didgets so we use the cool looking text edit to compose...pretty!...so our turnaround may take a second or trey...so crack open another bottle of thorzaine...prop your feet up on the nearest ten year old and the reply...for as someone said...jump on in...so i did and you all are in the shallow end?...didn't figger on that!...will be along shortly...because we sure don't agree with that spackle you got on i and i...with love and prayers...meyer
To the extent that the title of this article has any meaning...
ReplyDelete...speaking and espousing the truth is just so much rhetoric. Actually KNOWING the truth means that you've put some "skin in the game." That means, you've actually acted like you KNOW what the truth of the matter is.
Until we act, we don't know squat. In fact, every single action we ever take is but a reflection of the truth we are willing to accept about our reality.
The only actions taken by the collective have lead us to where we are today...hanging by a thread between tyranny and slavery.
I guess we must really believe, as a civilization, in the power of tyranny and the productivity of slavery.
If we didn't, we wouldn't be here now.