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February 5, 2015

U.S. and Europe Working to End Ukraine Fighting

KIEV, Ukraine — With fighting intensifying in eastern Ukraine and the White House weighing whether to send arms to bolster the government’s forces, Western leaders embarked on a concerted diplomatic effort on Thursday aimed at ending a conflict that has strained relations with Russia.

These leaders also weighed whether sending arms to bolster demonstrators against the police in the "black lives matter" movement might also help to end racial conflict in America.

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Published on February 05, 2015 18:37

January 22, 2015

Boehner Invites Another Response to State of Union, From Israel's Premier

Further evidence that we have a bipartisan israeli caucus governing our nation, not just demublicans but republicrats as well.

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Published on January 22, 2015 11:38

January 16, 2015

Hypocrites Without Borders

<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If the stand-up-for-freedom by paying to see a lousy film about Korea wasn’t enough to send you to the vomitorium, the murders in Paris should have done the job. The global 1% is moving us towards more bloody warfare as salvation for capital while growing sectors of the 99% wonder if we can afford to tolerate this madness much longer and hope to survive as a race.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Hollywood film about murdering the North Korean head of state received negative reaction from North Korea – who could have imagined that? – and became a heroic gesture for freedom when a ban on its showing was rescinded and Hollywood fundamentalists risked life and limb congratulating themselves for having the courage to watch a stupid racist movie. Wow. Is this a great country or what? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But that was light stuff.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Shocking as they were, the horrible murders in Paris could have been anticipated by the attitudes of sophomoric, goading, racist disrespect for Islam taken by the publication which was attacked. This tragedy was immediately transformed into a ceremonial frenzy about freedom of speech forced on decent people who might not know such freedom even if they actually had it. But we can all identify bloody murder when it’s bludgeoned into our skulls by corporate media, its alternative echoes, and an assortment of fringe analysts who find Dick Cheney, Mossad, the Illuminati, the CIA or the Brothers Karamazov at the root of anything and everything that happens behind an all encompassing “false flag” waving over all of our besieged brains. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Given the consciousness control exercised by our corporate mind managers, even mildly critical people can’t be faulted for believing in religion. Whether the accepted opiate is Judeo Christian, Islamic, Buddhist or conspiratorial, its explanations can seem to make more sense than what passes for corporate capital’s political economic gospel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But the procession of head of state western mass murderers and suppressors of liberty parading under the banner of freedom – a false flag if there ever was one - and mouthing platitudes about humanity united against exactly what they practice every day was enough to get some religious folk to renounce their faith in anything, except maybe the God of Fake Fabric worshipped by the conspiracy church.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Most disgraceful is the complicity of the USA in its training and financing many of these “freedom fighters” who become “terrorists” when they turn their wrath on us instead of the people we hired them to kill. The two who attacked the French publication were once fighting for the American side in trying to destroy the Syrian government as part of a slaughter that has killed some two hundred thousand people and made refugees of hundreds of thousands more. All of these people, like those killed in Paris, were and are innocent of anything more than being unable to stop powerful minorities of state terrorists from destroying their nations. But only some, we are told, deserve our sympathy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Left out of the story are details that certainly do not rationalize the hideous attack on innocents but put them into a social perspective. Like, this alleged French bastion of satirical freedom of the press once dumped a staff person for allegedly making an anti-Semitic remark. Oh? But it’s okay to insinuate that Islam’s billions are united in trying to destroy the west in all its past glorious profits of colonialism and present glorious profits in pet food and homelessness?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The reductionist hate of professional islamophobics who, since 911, have assumed leadership in shaping what passes for political religious logic in America would have us accept every patronizing simplification that passes for news and nullifies material history. Draw Mohammed as a clown and Muslims as demented monsters anxious to cover our women in cloth instead of cosmetics and run the planet as a caliphate instead of a mall and you can pose as an expert on terrorism on PBS or Fox, a pundit at the NYTimes, even though you’re just a nitwit on the corporate payroll helping to further savage american mentalities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">While millions have been innocently swept up in the massive global trance induced by the corporate attack on critical thought, it is refreshing to see how many have demanded a broader scope in the telling of the story that includes what the provocations might have been and not simply the awful acts committed in a social vacuum, as they are presented. History and social reality do not exist in the major presentation, and its almost as though the killers were having breakfast and decided to murder people instead of taking in a movie, going shopping or attending grad school. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The skeptics who always find hidden assassins, fake identities, subterfuge and intrigue only they can understand are there, as always, but they are accompanied by far more who take a wider view and refuse to be swept up in the panic about terrorists who kill on a small scale while nations murder by the thousands. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This love-in for liberty observes a vicious double standard, as evidenced by the prosecution of a French comedian who dares to speak against the establishment and includes criticism of Israel and the holocaust in his act and is thus judged unworthy of freedom. Perhaps if he’d just viciously slur nearly two billion Muslims for the behavior of a relative handful France would allow him to speak as freely as its complicit butchery in Syria allows?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Look for entrapment of often puzzled youth into planning violence organized with arms supplied by federal agents, numerous arrests of terrorists often set up by those same agents, and continued panic induced among a public generally uninformed as to why there might indeed be hatred for the west among many, especially Muslims who are being singled out in the present war of capital. That system’s history of colonialism, its mass slaughter, enslaving and exploitation of much of the non-european world, and its present status of global crisis bordering on collapse while its ruling minority desperately attempts to salvage what will ruin civilization if it is allowed to continue will not be mentioned by them but must be understood by us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Not just Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, but all of us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Published on January 16, 2015 13:30

January 8, 2015

Obama Proposes Free Community College Education for Some Students

Other students will continue to pay. This kind of affirmative action for some and not all is what makes america such a great nation, and why divide and conquer identitarian politics is so important to sustain.

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Published on January 08, 2015 17:10

December 31, 2014

Hysterical Materialism: Anything New? Maybe

<div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The annual shopping frenzy representing profit for corporate America and loss for consumer nation is over. The joyful smiles of children at Santa’s visit were followed by the frowning faces of parents on his departure when the bills arrived. But that happens every year. Was this season different from all others, to paraphrase one of the fables that keep our often dysfunctional human family divided among supporters of identitarianism, drugs, religion, therapy or, just maybe, social revolution? Haven’t we been told that the recession is over, repeatedly, for several years now?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The cycle of commodity consumption to satisfy desperate desires and compulsive cravings induced by advertising has been with us for generations and always reaches fever pitch at the joyous season of peace and profit. But stylish fashions of the market are being accompanied by more fascistic styles in politics and a global population’s attention is being drawn to what visionaries warned against at the system’s origins. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the 19<sup>th</sup> century, early in capital’s industrial age, many cautioned that treating the earth and its people simply as profit producing modules could endanger both the race and the planet responsible for its survival. Lately, we’ve seen evidence of that becoming so clear that it isn’t necessary for a visionary minority to come forward since a growing majority is getting angry at being treated like products instead of humans while taking note of the danger to the race in that same treatment being applied to earth, air, water and other natural resources which have been suffering unnatural use for seeming millennia. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">As a geo-political crisis of the western capitalist world grows more menacing and threats of war are being made on even more nations than usual, and the assault on nature under the strain of what is called the climate change crisis becomes more obvious to all but paid servants of capital and abject morons, what’s a private profit system’s rich minority to do in order that their wealth remain under their control and the natives, peasants and other workers of the majority don’t get ideas about a need for radical change? Simple:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Make the monthly announcement of another end to the recession, and show all the increasing dollar flow to prove it, without revealing that the source of the flow comes from the American majority’s faucets filling minority reservoirs to overflowing while that majority remains in a parched economic drought. And that’s not all.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Corporate media tells daily stories of Russian problems and Putin’s menace while goading Russia and Putin into taking defensive measures due to military encirclement by the west that grows worse with each report of danger coming from the east. As Russia re-arms, faced with a real threat from American Euro-puppet NATO nations edging closer to its border, the propaganda paparazzi here keeps warning about alleged Russian hostility that revives the madness of the old cold war and brings it closer to a new hot war that could be worse than anything imagined by the idiots doing the provoking.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The crippled empire is in such bad shape that it has finally, desperately acknowledged the murderously idiotic nature of Cuba policy and acceded to demands to sell lots of stuff to that nation since we need more consumers, fast. But this mincing step towards sanity is only taken with rhetorical blather from capital’s senior clerk at the half-white house about rescuing the Cuban people from their dreadful state of eating regularly, being well educated and maintaining one of the world’s foremost health care systems. Awful. They need to become over consumers of physical and mental waste like true citizens of democracy and have the freedom of speech such as Americans enjoy and unfortunate Cubans have never known. If Eric Garner of New York had been murdered in Cuba, so the opponents of the government claim, he would not have had the freedom to say, “ I can’t breathe”, several times as he was being strangled to death by the police. Take that, you totalitarian fiends!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">We are also told our stock market is booming but not that most of us haven’t a prayer of ever owning any stock, and that our unemployment rate is not as high as it was the last time we weren’t told how many people had dropped out of the work force and weren’t even being counted. Or were working part time low paying jobs which made the gross number of jobs go up but the truly gross measurement of wages decline. Not to worry. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Our warfare welfare state rulers are trying to get us into more military conflicts which could mean more jobs, definitely mean more death, and a lower unemployment rate since the dead are definitely unemployed but not included in the count. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Capitalist mathematics can be truly wonderful, especially if you invest in weapons and war but never have to use the weapons or fight the war, like our minority investor class. Of course, terrorism tends to level the field of slaughter while it raises the profits of war, but that contradiction is being noticed along with those of climate and politics and all of them related to the economics of all seasons under markets dominated by minority private control. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">This could be, should be and really has to be not only an interesting but also much better year for humanity in which more of us confront the de-humanizing system of private profit for some and massive loss for most. That is capitalism, and it is not a threat to one or another nation, ethnicity, alleged race or real class, but to all of humanity. Happy New Year.</div>

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Published on December 31, 2014 19:10

December 23, 2014

Sony's Comedy on Netanyahoo's Murder starring Mel Gibson to Open Soon!

Coming soon after its brave, bold and profit making decision to show the wonderful freedom of speech endeavor about murdering North Korea's leader, the heroic directors at Sony, along with their courageous stalwarts from Wall Street, announced their hopeful opening of an outrageous, laugh packed story of assassination of the Israeli leader.

"We hoped to open during the celebration of Chanukah but our frolicsome friends from Aipac thought it might be better to wait until Easter" said board chair Mustapha Hakim Dinero.

When asked about hiring the controversial actor, Mel Gibson. Dinero said "he's a bankable commodity these days and even the scene in which he causes Netanyahoo's head to explode and tries to collect brain matter with a soup spoon will be seen as hilarious by freedom loving American people of good humor."

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Published on December 23, 2014 14:00

December 17, 2014

U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking

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BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, December 17, 2014

American intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was “centrally involved” in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures’s computers, a determination reached just as Sony on Wednesday canceled its release of a comedy which is based on a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. Officials said it was not clear how the White House would decide to respond to North Korea.

Legalienate's foreign policy advisory commision suggested that they threaten to "unlike" North Korea on Facebook?

That would soooo infuriate Kim Jong-un he might like, you know,um, commit suicide?

Also, if they unlike Putin on Facebook he might give the Ukraine back to the USA and stop speaking Russian all the time? Who can understand the guy? Doesn't he know we are the exceptional nation?

And that we invented uptalking?

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Published on December 17, 2014 18:11

December 15, 2014

Torture? By the USA? Naaaah..

Critics of the report that the U.S. tortured vicious, murderous, barbaric, bloody, rapist, vivisectionist, dog and cat hating terrorists claim the report vastly overstates the actual truth.

"When american cosmetic agents of inquiry cut off prisoner's lips or sliced off their noses, they were merely performing extreme makeovers, not torture" said professor of humanities Klaus von Goldfarb of the Center for Rationalizing American Politics.

"And these techniques produced excellent results so these suspects would never commit terrorist suicide knowing those seventy virigins would have nothing to do with them in all their ugliness.

See?

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Published on December 15, 2014 15:09

December 9, 2014

Cosby and the Crusader Consumers

<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Some never liked him that much, especially after he publicly said what too many people - quite a few of them professional class African Americans <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- were saying privately about blacks, but many also think the current media feeding frenzy at his expense is worse than the accusations being made.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Celebrities can easily become creatures of super inflated ego and male celebrities can become piggish in their use and abuse of women. That goes with the territory of celebrity. When you make millions of dollars and are treated like something close to a god by millions of people you can easily become warped inside your head, and a male celebrity who collects women as easily as ordinary people collect commodities can be a disgusting ego specimen, but the creatures he collects are rarely paragons of morality and virtue, and are often just slightly lower budget versions of ego-gratification lusting, job seeking, social status climbing and possibly damaged humans.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Like people who admire and envy fame so much they make ego idiocy possible and even necessary, or wish for careers among the rich and famous so strongly they try to achieve them through performing sexual favors. Or just folks who enjoy hearing stories about the mighty who fall as long as those stories are limited to entertainers and rarely politicos.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Clinton <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- remember him? Hilary’s husband? – had a reputation for being a “womanizer”, which was liberal-speak for screwing any woman who would let him, many delighted to do so for such a powerful figure. But when he got caught, the young woman who nailed him was treated like a bitch by alleged "feminists" who found Clinton's support of abortion far more important than his cheating on his wife and having sex with lots of women, while showing no concern for the morality he would later preach welfare mothers to practice. They vilified her, not him, as some sort of biblical Eve-demon who took advantage of their hero. And Clinton had alleged victims who came forward and told stories of his abuse, disrespect, and how he used them. Double standards? Here in America?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">A generation ago according to some legend and some facts, another president, John Kennedy, was having the Secret Service deliver women to him for sneaky sex at the White House and none of that or his affairs with celebrities – other than his wife - ever was spoken of by the media. He, like Clinton, was a politician-ego-sex-maniac, not an entertainer-ego-sex-maniac, like Cosby.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Led by media and the sheep-like tendencies of too many Americans, this nation is regularly led into moral vigilante –lynch party idiocy in which manufactured villains are forced to confront torch-wielding mobs that make fanatics seem sensible by comparison. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Once it was alleged child molesting at day care centers, or satanic rituals conducted by the people next door, or sexual abuse in the family - at one point so many were coming forward to speak of their abuse years after the fact, some psycho-hustlers offered support groups for the millions never sexually abused by their families -What was wrong? Weren’t they attractive enough? - and too many other dreadful expressions of concern over personal matters of nasty gossip and character rape of individuals. This while the world sometimes seems to be falling apart, people suffer real horror, and some micro-minds are obsessed with why Cosby's wife didn’t kick him in the nuts and why Ray Rice’s wife stands by him instead of joining the judgmental elite who make the gross paparazzi and other bottom feeders seem like poets. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Unlike the towers of moral strength who thrive on public character assassination, some women succumb to the celebrity appeal that others dream about. And sometimes years later, once the story of the star’s sex life breaks, they come forward to reveal the horrible experience of being taken in by a celebrity who, um, promised them a role in his movie or on his show, or a gourmet meal if they'd just come to his room for a drink and maybe play doctor, grown up style? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Given the number who’ve come forward, it is more than possible that Cosby may have taken advantage of and even treated some women disgracefully, but this invasion of privacy and the way it is being used is far more disgraceful than any individual behavior and indicative of a diseased, mean, immoral and vindictive culture of political economic degeneracy. That culture spends trillions to invade countries and slaughter people all over the world, kills its own in the streets with an occupying military colonial force we call police departments, and lavishes love and money on pets -fifty billion dollars a year on animal family members - while tens of thousands of its citizens are homeless. Hopefully we will stop this crazed social behavior before it destroys us all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">But first, of course, we need to stomp out the behavior of disastrous and menacing monsters like this celebrity. Of particular note was the comment of one of the used and abused women treated in such deadly fashion by this monster, which said he "kissed her at a party when she was a teen"...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Wow! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Castrate the son of a bitch ! !</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Published on December 09, 2014 18:38

December 2, 2014

Switzerland: Ban Urged on Eating Cats and Dogs

Switzerland: Ban Urged on Eating Cats and Dogs
An animal rights group has petitioned the Swiss government to ban a traditional, if rare, practice of eating cats for Christmas dinner and turning dogs into sausages. Tomi Tomek, president of the animal rights group SOS CHATS Noiraigue, said 3 percent of the population still eats cat and dog. “You can’t report it to the police because there’s no law against it,” he said.
The Swiss are urged by American pet lovers to eat unwanted children for Christmas and turn homeless people into sausages.

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Published on December 02, 2014 18:39

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