Before the war on terrorism, our country well recognized the importance of free speech, privacy, legal counsel, and the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. If we sacrifice these basic liberties, according to the false dichotomy that such is required for security, then we transform ourselves from an oasis of freedom into a police state that terrorizes its own citizens when they step out of line.
These are the hallmarks of tyranny and despotism — not democracy — and are increasingly alien to the Constitution and our American way of life. ~former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake, Whistle-blower
If you're going to sell me "security", what's it going to cost me?
I was under the assumption that I already "owned liberty"...you know...the Liberty Bell ring, ring, ringing, the Star Spangled Banner (spangled? bangled, mangled?), the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution of the United States of America, fa la la la laaa, la la la laaa. Santy Claws.
So I own Liberty. How much ya gonna "pay me" for it?
I'm not selling. It's NOT FOR SALE! Now or ever.
Oh, you're going to steal MY Liberty? In Broad Daylight? Nope. I'm an American, Owner of Liberty. It's NOT FOR SALE and I WON'T STAND FOR IT TO BE STOLEN!
I think the transaction breaks down like that described above.
The CONgress SELLING MY LIBERTY without asking ME, and the pResident signing OFF on IT (with some reservations. Spit on THAT!); uh, what do the rest of Americans think about that transaction? First, of course, someone has to tell them, inform them, educate them what just happened to Old Lady Liberty and their BIRTHRIGHT of FREEDOM! Once the DEAL sinks in, I don't think they're going to like it one bit. No. They don't realize what just happened to their most valuable possession, and the Laws that "kept" them safe.
"For someone as familiar with Washington as I am, I recognize these reports for what they are. They are Br’er Rabbit telling Br’er Fox “please don’t throw me in the briar patch.”
If you don’t know the Uncle Remus stories, you have missed a lot. Br’er Rabbit was born and raised in the briar patch.
What these “leaked” stories of Washington’s warnings and protests to Israel are all about is to avoid Washington’s responsibility for the war Washington has prepared. If the war gets out of hand, and if Russia and China intervene or nukes start flying, Washington wants the blame to rest on Israel, and Israel seems willing to accept the blame. Nikolai Patrushev, who heads Russia’s Security Council, has apparently been deceived by Washington’s manipulation of the media. According to the Interfax news agency, Patrushev condemned Israel for pushing the US towards war with Iran.
You get the picture. The helpless Americans. They are being bullied by Israel into acquiescing to a dangerous war. Otherwise, no more campaign contributions.
The facts are different. If Washington did not want war with Iran it would not have provided the necessary weapons to Israel. It would not have deployed thousands of US troops to Israel, with a view toward the American soldiers being killed in an Iranian response to Israel’s attack, thus “forcing” the US to enter the war. Washington would not have built a missile defense system for Israel and would not be conducting joint exercises with the Israeli military to make sure it works."~Paul Craig Roberts
"We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under." (Martin Van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Israel’s Hebrew University, September 2003)
Rather than cringing at the thought, and hoping against hope that Israel never 'goes under' - Israel's "capability to take down the world" should be removed. They should be denuded of their nuclear capability.
If there is any sanity to be had on this planet, this shitty little psycho, Israel should be scuttled post haste.
Then of course there is Big Bro psycho...who feeds the little shit... Whatta world. \\||//
Whoever they blame is a moot point. The Obvious conclusion is the MSM at the behest of the Warmongers set to profit off the conflict in various ways, have sent the message over the airwaves. The military has put their ships and assets into harm's way whilst encroaching into Iran not-so-covertly and inflicting damage intended to goad a reaction, a pretext. We're aware of this tired old shtick. The Israeli Khazars in the US in positions of influence have pressed the conflict. Etc., etc. Once it goes off (if it does) the politicians will probably blame it on the American People...for wanting security. Who profits? They are the instigators and the guilty.
"Fascinating we don't teach goal setting and decision making skills in our education system. These help form the foundation of real character and individuality - and protect us from over dependency on the ideas or opinions of others."~Article
What is more fascinating is having the knowledge of WHY such things are not taught in the educational system. {notice the subtle change in phrasing I use here - not "our educational system" - "THE educational system"} The truth is "We" don't have control of the decision making.
Thus one of my favorite lines, "What do you mean WE kimosabe?"
I know that being a "natural born artist" has been a boon to my life throughout. Asked those questions about my future - I had the answer readily in my head when I was six years old. "I am going to be an artist when I grow up - because I am now, and that is all I want to do".
And I know you know as well as I Boom, how many barriers they try to throw in your way to stilt and deform self will, and self thinking. "Get a REAL job"...etc. If they can't control your creativity they want to block it.
In 'Art and Artist', Otto Rank posits that there are two main groups of people, Artists, and Neurotics, and the neurotic is often the artist who has been discouraged. Most people are born with creative gifts of one type or another. But it is the system of society that needs drones for the jobs of drudgery. \\||//
Well Roberts has come a long way for a "government man"...he still doesn't seem to see the central point where the kayak floats, and that Zion does not emanate from Tel Aviv, but the City of London.
Like all commentators, I take from him the kernels of truth he has, and see the errors of his focus.
This is NOT an Amerikan Empire. Amerika is merely the garrison for the Central Bank - the Money Changers. This is why Amerika crumbles as per infrastructure, and the well being of the citizens.
The New World Order is the order of Zion. And this has nothing to do with ethnicity or any of the other kakabootle that the controllers want to point to as "antisemitism". It may have been the kayaks who originally organized this shit into a ball, but many other types of psychopaths have come aboard with enthusiasm. \\||//
. Good points, Will. For example even that twit Yingluck Shinawatra is part of global zionist order now, as is Communism, but I think the kayaks are still very much the core paddlers in zionism. They alone may moor in the cesspool that is Israel today. Also the Rothschilds who run the anglo banking cartel in the CIty of London for whom Palestine was promised in the Balfour Declaration, were proclaimed the kings of the jews long ago, so I acknowledge what Douglas Reed did in 'The Controversy of Zion" about who runs the media, who did 9/11, set off all the wars. etc. also cuz it is obvious. As Bro Nathaniel says.
Aye, my Mom says I was born in the "wrong time"...meaning, humanity is perversely constrained by the materialistic greed-grubbing elites and the cages they've constructed (for drones as you say). As you know, forums available to artistic personalities are co-opted at the top turning Art into a homogenized "product" for the most part, and "artists" into organ-grinder monkeys. Yet, the world has often been like this. Maintaining the "spark" of creativity and striking it into a fire is the rewarding part for artists -- whether alone in a dark cave, or in front of an audience. The Heart sings because that is what makes life worth living. Drudgery never got me out of bed, or had me staying up into the wee hours of the morning...grokenspiel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zADZLIh_4Bk Notice that you never hear from Robert Wexler after his attempts to impeach Bush. Time to clean out the dangerous victims of the Prescott clan. They sent him packing without an option. Kucinich just got the dead horses head routine from the clan. His brother's wasn't it?
There's Homer's Iliad and then there's Homer's Simpson. Where we reside as COTO in on the heel of the committee minority. While the Simpsons live in langour with SuperBowl they do not see the Trojan Horse that has moved in.
OWS, NDAA, GLADIO, COG, BLUEBEAM, TRANSITION, MARTIAL LAW, ELECTION SUSPENSION, RETURNING SOLDIERS, IMMIGRATION-BORDER WARS, PRE-PLANNED SHORTAGES, EMP EVENT, THE "BIG COCKTAIL", GREAT LAKES-MADRID, CUMBRE-CANARY......a proverbial "no mans land"
Os anyone keeping up with the court case in Georgia? The judge in the Taitz case has refused Obama's lawyers request for dismissal of discovery and Obama must testify.
Hmmm??? Now THAT would be a big woowoo game changer if his citizenship was finally proven false in a court of law.
But hey, it's 2012 the year of the Grand Woowoo. \\||//
I figured...I think what we are really going to get is the Internet ID thing that will make zeroing in on the dissidents easier. Just watch and see. \\||//
So does COTO know the power six in Upper Congress. Leahy, Reid, Baucus, Feinstein, Kerry, Nelson - (lower) McConnell, McCain, Snowe, Coburn, DeMint, Chabliss.
All more powerful than the President, but not the lobbyists that give them their marching orders.
The revolving door just keeps kicking our asses round and round.
Lindsey Graham should be immediately detained and tried for treason.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your vote of confidence in Mr. Graham, Dennis. He's a piece o' work ain't he.
ReplyDeleteGO RP! Here's DK on the issue..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AENPHDM9IoQ&feature=related
Thanks for dropping in Dennis,
ReplyDeleteI do agree and raise you about 90 percent of the rest of that criminal syndicate euphemistically referred to as "Congress".
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So what have we got? maybe a handful of "congressmen" who aren't raving lunatics...
ReplyDeleteBad odds kids. Very bad odds.
Let's dump the kayaks and get back to the canoes.
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Before the war on terrorism, our country well recognized the importance of free speech, privacy, legal counsel, and the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. If we sacrifice these basic liberties, according to the false dichotomy that such is required for security, then we transform ourselves from an oasis of freedom into a police state that terrorizes its own citizens when they step out of line.
ReplyDeleteThese are the hallmarks of tyranny and despotism — not democracy — and are increasingly alien to the Constitution and our American way of life.
~former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake, Whistle-blower
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/27/what-country-do-we-want-to-keep/
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” – Benjamin Franklin
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to sell me "security", what's it going to cost me?
ReplyDeleteI was under the assumption that I already "owned liberty"...you know...the Liberty Bell ring, ring, ringing, the Star Spangled Banner (spangled? bangled, mangled?), the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution of the United States of America, fa la la la laaa, la la la laaa. Santy Claws.
So I own Liberty. How much ya gonna "pay me" for it?
I'm not selling. It's NOT FOR SALE! Now or ever.
Oh, you're going to steal MY Liberty? In Broad Daylight? Nope. I'm an American, Owner of Liberty. It's NOT FOR SALE and I WON'T STAND FOR IT TO BE STOLEN!
I think the transaction breaks down like that described above.
The CONgress SELLING MY LIBERTY without asking ME, and the pResident signing OFF on IT (with some reservations. Spit on THAT!); uh, what do the rest of Americans think about that transaction? First, of course, someone has to tell them, inform them, educate them what just happened to Old Lady Liberty and their BIRTHRIGHT of FREEDOM! Once the DEAL sinks in, I don't think they're going to like it one bit. No. They don't realize what just happened to their most valuable possession, and the Laws that "kept" them safe.
To an Amerikan:
ReplyDelete"You want pizza, beer and the game on TV, or Liberty?" -Announcer
"What was that second choice??? Ah pizza and beer, when's the game start? Get it ON rah rah rah..." -Amerikan
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"For someone as familiar with Washington as I am, I recognize these reports for what they are. They are Br’er Rabbit telling Br’er Fox “please don’t throw me in the briar patch.”
ReplyDeleteIf you don’t know the Uncle Remus stories, you have missed a lot. Br’er Rabbit was born and raised in the briar patch.
What these “leaked” stories of Washington’s warnings and protests to Israel are all about is to avoid Washington’s responsibility for the war Washington has prepared. If the war gets out of hand, and if Russia and China intervene or nukes start flying, Washington wants the blame to rest on Israel, and Israel seems willing to accept the blame. Nikolai Patrushev, who heads Russia’s Security Council, has apparently been deceived by Washington’s manipulation of the media. According to the Interfax news agency, Patrushev condemned Israel for pushing the US towards war with Iran.
You get the picture. The helpless Americans. They are being bullied by Israel into acquiescing to a dangerous war. Otherwise, no more campaign contributions.
The facts are different. If Washington did not want war with Iran it would not have provided the necessary weapons to Israel. It would not have deployed thousands of US troops to Israel, with a view toward the American soldiers being killed in an Iranian response to Israel’s attack, thus “forcing” the US to enter the war. Washington would not have built a missile defense system for Israel and would not be conducting joint exercises with the Israeli military to make sure it works."~Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/16/washington-moves-the-world-closer-to-war/
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The Samson Option;
ReplyDelete"We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under." (Martin Van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Israel’s Hebrew University, September 2003)
Rather than cringing at the thought, and hoping against hope that Israel never 'goes under' - Israel's "capability to take down the world" should be removed. They should be denuded of their nuclear capability.
If there is any sanity to be had on this planet, this shitty little psycho, Israel should be scuttled post haste.
Then of course there is Big Bro psycho...who feeds the little shit...
Whatta world.
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This piece is located at a couple of sites today:
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your post Rogue1...
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/inspirational_general/news.php?q=1326921629
Whoever they blame is a moot point. The Obvious conclusion is the MSM at the behest of the Warmongers set to profit off the conflict in various ways, have sent the message over the airwaves. The military has put their ships and assets into harm's way whilst encroaching into Iran not-so-covertly and inflicting damage intended to goad a reaction, a pretext. We're aware of this tired old shtick. The Israeli Khazars in the US in positions of influence have pressed the conflict. Etc., etc. Once it goes off (if it does) the politicians will probably blame it on the American People...for wanting security. Who profits? They are the instigators and the guilty.
ReplyDeleteWhammo! A lucid and self-evident Truth becomes Obvious!
ReplyDeleteWill anybody listen? Will anybody stop the madness before it turns into suicidal insanity?
"Fascinating we don't teach goal setting and decision making skills in our education system. These help form the foundation of real character and individuality - and protect us from over dependency on the ideas or opinions of others."~Article
ReplyDeleteWhat is more fascinating is having the knowledge of WHY such things are not taught in the educational system. {notice the subtle change in phrasing I use here - not "our educational system" - "THE educational system"} The truth is "We" don't have control of the decision making.
Thus one of my favorite lines, "What do you mean WE kimosabe?"
I know that being a "natural born artist" has been a boon to my life throughout. Asked those questions about my future - I had the answer readily in my head when I was six years old. "I am going to be an artist when I grow up - because I am now, and that is all I want to do".
And I know you know as well as I Boom, how many barriers they try to throw in your way to stilt and deform self will, and self thinking. "Get a REAL job"...etc. If they can't control your creativity they want to block it.
In 'Art and Artist', Otto Rank posits that there are two main groups of people, Artists, and Neurotics, and the neurotic is often the artist who has been discouraged. Most people are born with creative gifts of one type or another. But it is the system of society that needs drones for the jobs of drudgery.
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Heh..You want that answer in one word?
ReplyDeleteRead my mind, you know my answer.
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Well Roberts has come a long way for a "government man"...he still doesn't seem to see the central point where the kayak floats, and that Zion does not emanate from Tel Aviv, but the City of London.
ReplyDeleteLike all commentators, I take from him the kernels of truth he has, and see the errors of his focus.
This is NOT an Amerikan Empire. Amerika is merely the garrison for the Central Bank - the Money Changers. This is why Amerika crumbles as per infrastructure, and the well being of the citizens.
The New World Order is the order of Zion. And this has nothing to do with ethnicity or any of the other kakabootle that the controllers want to point to as "antisemitism". It may have been the kayaks who originally organized this shit into a ball, but many other types of psychopaths have come aboard with enthusiasm.
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. Good points, Will. For example even that twit Yingluck Shinawatra is part of global zionist order now, as is Communism, but I think the kayaks are still very much the core paddlers in zionism. They alone may moor in the cesspool that is Israel today. Also the Rothschilds who run the anglo banking cartel in the CIty of London for whom Palestine was promised in the Balfour Declaration, were proclaimed the kings of the jews long ago, so I acknowledge what Douglas Reed did in 'The Controversy of Zion" about who runs the media, who did 9/11, set off all the wars. etc. also cuz it is obvious. As Bro Nathaniel says.
ReplyDeleteAye, my Mom says I was born in the "wrong time"...meaning, humanity is perversely constrained by the materialistic greed-grubbing elites and the cages they've constructed (for drones as you say). As you know, forums available to artistic personalities are co-opted at the top turning Art into a homogenized "product" for the most part, and "artists" into organ-grinder monkeys. Yet, the world has often been like this. Maintaining the "spark" of creativity and striking it into a fire is the rewarding part for artists -- whether alone in a dark cave, or in front of an audience. The Heart sings because that is what makes life worth living. Drudgery never got me out of bed, or had me staying up into the wee hours of the morning...grokenspiel.
ReplyDeleteJerrold Nadler
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zADZLIh_4Bk
Notice that you never hear from Robert Wexler after his attempts to impeach Bush. Time to clean out the dangerous victims of the Prescott clan. They sent him packing without an option. Kucinich just got the dead horses head routine from the clan. His brother's wasn't it?
There's Homer's Iliad and then there's Homer's Simpson.
ReplyDeleteWhere we reside as COTO in on the heel of the committee minority. While the Simpsons live in langour with SuperBowl they do not see the Trojan Horse that has moved in.
OWS, NDAA, GLADIO, COG, BLUEBEAM, TRANSITION, MARTIAL LAW, ELECTION SUSPENSION, RETURNING SOLDIERS, IMMIGRATION-BORDER WARS, PRE-PLANNED SHORTAGES, EMP EVENT, THE "BIG COCKTAIL", GREAT LAKES-MADRID, CUMBRE-CANARY......a proverbial "no mans land"
It's going to be the most interesting year.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
ReplyDelete"It’s going to be the most interesting year."
ReplyDeleteYea, it started with a bang right on New Years Eve dent it.
I got a feeling it's a game of catch up...
"The BogusMan is on his way as fast as he can run, he's tired but he'll hurry-up to shoot you with his gun-un-un-un..."~Eno
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BTW Pudster, another fine illio-header...and I especially like the de Tocqueville quote. Thanks.
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Yes, cool header.
ReplyDeleteWhat to make of this "story" by Ulsterman reporting:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/01/18/white-house-insider-you-dont-ever-wanna-do-the-things-ive-done/
"What" really goes on behind those closed doors in political wonderland? White Rabbit in Black Face in the White House? Creepy concepts.
Wow...that Ulsterman interview is some spooky woowoo...
ReplyDeleteYou get strange goins-on in the "upper chambers" of power.
The commentary really put some of it together...Fienstien, and the guy Kam that seems to have seen too much...
Obamarama Ding Dong Ding and kachingaling.
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Glad you saw I posted that. I was wondering if anybody saw it.
ReplyDeleteOs anyone keeping up with the court case in Georgia? The judge in the Taitz case has refused Obama's lawyers request for dismissal of discovery and Obama must testify.
ReplyDeleteHmmm??? Now THAT would be a big woowoo game changer if his citizenship was finally proven false in a court of law.
But hey, it's 2012 the year of the Grand Woowoo.
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Congress stops Internet Piracy bills...
ReplyDeleteWhat do you know about that?
I figured...I think what we are really going to get is the Internet ID thing that will make zeroing in on the dissidents easier. Just watch and see.
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So does COTO know the power six in Upper Congress. Leahy, Reid, Baucus, Feinstein, Kerry, Nelson - (lower) McConnell, McCain, Snowe, Coburn, DeMint, Chabliss.
ReplyDeleteAll more powerful than the President, but not the lobbyists that give them their marching orders.
The revolving door just keeps kicking our asses round and round.