My main interest as a blogger is in the self-subjugation of Americans to control by a predatory oligarchy, a capitulation which has practically no peer in the developed world. Within that realm, I am most interested in the intellectual policing and obstructionism at the margins by public liberals and lefts.
http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/a-heat-vampire-in-search-of-a-movie-deal/
"Tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people."
-- Hannah Arendt
"...but I seriously had no idea it would be this bad."
How would you design a Healthcare Extortion Racket?
"New York State's healthcare plans range from Fidelis Care's 'Bronze' plan at $810.84 per month to $2554.71 per month for something I didn't bother to look up because if I had $2500+ a month to spend on doctors, I'd buy a doctor and have him/her live with me and dole out pills like I was Michael Jackson. The deductibles - the amount you pay out of pocket every year before you the insurer has to give you anything at all - are outrageously high. Fidelis Care Bronze has a $3000/year deductible per person. I'm in pretty good health; it's a rare year I spend that much on doctors. After the $3000/year deductible, they pay 50% of your bills. So if you rack up $5000/year in medical bills, you pay $4000 and they pay $1000. Pretty damned crappy."
http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/4005?utm_source=October+7%2C+2013&utm_campaign
Peter Dale Scott
Since 9/11, above all, constitutional American government has been overshadowed by a series of emergency measures to fight terrorism. The latter have mushroomed in size and budget, while traditional government has been shrunk. As a result we have today what the journalist Dana Priest has called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose parts had mushroomed in less than a decade into a gigantic, sprawling universe of its own, visible to only a carefully vetted cadre - and its entiretyâ¦visible only to God.1
For us, of a certain age:
http://arcaneimages.tumblr.com/image/62436655871
"Tyler Hicks, who always somehow seems to be at the hottest of hot spots and war zones when things explode, did it again today, improbably being inside the mall in Nairobi when the bomb went off."
Like Mumbai, this is NOT what all appearance and "reporting " are telling you.
It is a "Gladio" style operation.
UN nuclear meeting rejects Arab push for Israel to join weapons pact
If adopted, Israel would have been compelled to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and place its nuclear facilities under IAEA monitoring. Diplomats had expected a close vote.
The United States said the move would endanger broader diplomatic efforts to create a Middle Zone free of weapons of mass destruction. Israel said it would severely undermine efforts to hold regional security talks.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-worried-it-may-be-forced-to-join-chemical-weapons-ban/
Write your own commentary.
Why does he go to bed at night trying to figure out how to increase farmers? How do the President and other cabinet members view Vilsack's role as the nation's farming czar? What could be the most important contribution that increasing farmers could offer to the nation? Better food? Better soil development? Better care for animals? Better care for plants?
Are you ready? Here's his answer: although rural America only has 16 percent of the population, it gives 40 percent of the personnel to the military. Say what? You mean when it's all said and done, at the end of the day, the bottom line -- you know all the cliches -- the whole reason for increasing farms is to provide cannon fodder for American imperial might. He said rural kids grow up with a sense of wanting to give something back, and if we lose that value system, we'll lose our military might.
http://transitionvoice.com/2013/08/rural-population-not-needed-for-farming-but-for-cannon-fodder/
"Hugh Grant as PM, even after a lobotomy, would without any doubt run rings round our red-faced, bullying, compassionless, educated-well-beyond-his-intelligence, over-privileged, over-fed, pathological liar of and pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister."
http://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/26735777
Can someone on NPR interview Maher Arar, again?
We don't even go after the Godwinning...
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/04/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-wiza.html
But? It's really all for Israel.
"...who can keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him."
-- Newspaperman in Frank Capra's Meet John Doe
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
