Are you fucking kidding me? 84% of the ignorant masses actually believe 20,000 ragheaded camel jockeys in the Middle East who like to make gory Youtube videos and were funded and armed by the good old USA government are a CRITICAL threat to our country. That is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever read. Bernays was an absolute genius and his disciples have perfected the art of propaganda.
The US public education system has succeeded in dumbing down Americans to such an extent, they will believe anything they are told by the government and their MSM propaganda mouthpieces. I’m disgusted to be living amongst so many idiots and non-critical thinking believers. I sure hope it doesn’t take a majority to prevail, because we’re doomed if that is the case.
The Islamic State is seen as the gravest threat to the United States, according to a new poll from Gallup. The group released its latest horror video at the weekend, showing the mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya. The gruesome images have suggested that Isis is expanding its reach into North Africa, far from its current battlegrounds and havens in Iraq and Syria. Egypt carried out airstrikes in response to the beheadings.
84 percent of people in the US consider the Islamic State and international terrorism in general the most critical threats to American security. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and North Korea’s military strength follow with 77 and 64 percent respectively. The conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels has strained relations between Washington and Moscow in recent months, but nevertheless, tensions with Russia are lower on Americans’ list of potential threats.
You will find more statistics at Statista
They left out Brian Williams leaving the Nightly News. That is really the greatest threat. Who will we turn to for unbiased truth telling information now?
Admin, why do you rail at the bovine stupidity of “most people?”
MPAI. Most People Are Idiots.
Recently I had a physician (customer) ask me what I thought about ISIS. As the conversation progressed it was quite obvious that he was among the 84% above.
Think about that. This guy probably has an IQ north of 125, is a widely respected professional and has a decade or more of formal education, yet he is a complete and utter moron when it comes to discerning the hand up his ass working him like a sock puppet.
Most people are idiots. The rest are slaves who love their status as chattel. All they want is someone to take care of them, meaning that they want to be a cog in the machine, told where to go, what to do, and given a nice house, tasty food, and a Big Screen TV on which to watch The Game of The Week.
I’m sure you’ve read it before, but I urge you to read again Nock’s “Isaiah’s Job.”
Your website is aimed at Nock’s Remnant. Only a subset of those who read it qualify, as there remain Useful Idiots who comment, defending the narrative given them by the hand (elbow-deep) up their ass.
The remnant is here. The remnant matters. All others FOAD.
Here’s one copy of Isaiah’s Job. It’s also available as an MP3 for listening to it while commuting.
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock3b.html
We live in a world of The Brass Ring.
Those who would control us and live on our efforts (as the PARASITES THEY ARE) are adept at making everyone conform to their paradigm.
The stupid people are lined up to justify a vast state control apparatus, from criminal courts and cops to the welfare agencies and bleeding-heart redistribution programs.
Smart people are goaded into living for their work, by dangling false rewards (brass rings) in front of them and training them while in grade school that their lives are happier when they are sacrificing themselves in order to reach higher and higher and higher to deliver “the goods” to those who parasitize them.
It is this latter system that trains people to invest the time of their lives in professions that absorb all but sleep time. High level executives, successful professionals, etc., almost always sacrifice their families on the altar of “being more successful.”
Most Highly Productive People raise total screw-ups for kids. Most physicians’ kids, for example, are complete failures, and this applies to most corporate managers I’ve seen as well.
They are all too busy “being highly productive,” chasing those brass rings, to actually see what is most important to them. This is perhaps the most common vice among reasonably intelligent Americans, vice defined as by Spooner: self-harming actions undertaken to find one’s personal perception of happiness.
Nearly everyone dances to the tune produced by the parasite class.
Nearly everyone is an idiot when it comes to their Narrative, regardless of IQ, status or profession.
+100 DC, I put about as much faith in anything a MD says as I do one of bb’s ramblings. They are the #1 reason healthcare is FUBAR now.
For those who’ve not, but are interested in reading DC’s rec Isaiah’s Job see here: well worth your time.
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock3b.html
DC…beat me to it.
Fukushima absent from the list. Figures. Its the only thing I am even mildly concerned with.
From the article Admin posted Welcome to World War Three
“It’s self-evident now that ISIL would like to control as much of the remaining oil wealth as possible —
The Big Prize, of course, is the grand fortress of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is surrounded by Islamic maniacs now, with Yemen recently fallen to the south, the ever-hostile Iranian Shi’a across the Persian Gulf, disintegrating Iraq and Syria to the north, and the festering human compost heap of Egypt and then Libya across the Red Sea.
If Saudi Arabia falls apart, it’s game over for modern life as the West has known it (and much of Asia now, too).”
So to say the Middle East has no consequences for the United States and the Petrodollar is to clearly not understand what backs the US dollar and has made it the World Reserve currency. News Flash, the United States will not disengage from the Middle East and Middle East Oil, both are looked at as a Vital National Security Interest. More US troops are on the way at this very moment.
Disclaimer: I neither support or endorse Middle East intervention, just trying to keep the conversation grounded in reality.
#1 threat to this Republic MPAI
and nothing else even comes close.
Do you expect the people to grasp the elephant in the room, the Soverign debt crises, that will engulf the world?
Diversion, diversion, diversion…
When the shit hits the fan I fear that government employees and stooges in the media will have the upper hand. And usher in a new era of authoritarian governments around the world.
Why is the new Greek government communist? Do you think the dolts want to hear that the government has promised to much and used borrowing to pay for it?
Some for of succession seems the only answer.
+1 Mark.
In Elliott Wave terms, the debt bubble (AKA fiat money-enabled credit mania) of the last 40 years was a 5th wave, the final impulsive wave in a larger structure.
It has all the earmarks of a 5th wave, despite its relative size. It also ended (1995-2000) in a once-in-300-years stock mania, and was followed immediately by the greatest real estate mania in modern history.
All this argues that we face a corrective period (bear market in social mood) larger than the one coinciding with the Great Depression, a period that ushered in Stalinism and Nazism, and ultimately set the stage for Maoism, the three most mass-murderous totalitarian movements of all time.
We will experience this totalitarian, murderous, Total State because our collective neighbors will it (even as they suffer its horrors.)
Here’s the Dow Utility Index.
Is this the first signal that apogee is upon us, or is it just One More Head-fake?
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The biggest threat to me is and always has been THE POWERS THAT BE and their ability to use the television to mold the minds of the unwashed masses in to believing in the never ending wars that feeds the blood lust of their sick and demented minds.
Bernays would be thrilled that these idiots actually brag that they watch Fox News like a badge of honor. All wars are banker wars and towelheads are just one tool in their toolbox.
Bernays didn’t invent anything as I see it.
I’m reading “A Distant Mirror, the calamitous 14th century” and people are no different now than then.
People always believe what it is they need to believe to usher in the social events called for by their social mood. Deeply negative people choose (elect or simply obey) deeply negative rulers and believe profoundly negative narratives.
The problem we face is twofold:
1. There exists an unprecedented number of humans on the planet, providing a huge population for mass extermination due to Stupid Human Tricks.
2. Technology has “gifted” our rulers with unimaginable horrors like nuclear weapons, and we must expect the character of those rulers to become increasingly demonic once Mass Social Mood turns hard-core negative.
Never have so many faced dangers of such magnitude.
The outcome is predictable, just not the timing.
Neo-Malthusians worry about there being 20 Billion People on Earth in coming decades.
I worry that the current 7 billion will shrink to 700 million or fewer.
Don’t worry, Herr Admin. Polls are fucking worthless (I know you know that.)
I would bet a million bucks on this correlation: Americans are most afraid of whatever CuNNt or Fux are selling in that particular week.
Seriously. Not so long ago ebola was at, or near, the top of the list. Now it doesn’t even get a mention. Poor ebola … I’ll bet that just pisses them off.
God, I was hoping someone would jump up and tell me the Middle East and Middle East Oil have no consequences for the United States. That trimming a a trillion + a year out of the Budget would be child’s play once the Petrodollar falls and we cease printing. I need someone to explain to me what the United States will look like once we stop feeding the FreeShit Army. Tell me how fifty million people that are accustomed to sitting on their asses and being fed will react 48 hours after their last meal.
Watch this video and tell me where we cut.
The cuts will come one way or another! I say let’s buy a little more time. What say you?
Stucky nails it. I don’t know anyone who feels threatened at all. Attempting to sell us another round of endless war. I would have an easier time believing 84% of americans never heard of ISIS
You see even here where the learned reside, the curs focus on ISIS. It’s about the Petrodollar and control of Middle East Oil. If it wasn’t for the Oil we would not give a shit about ISIS. It’s about maintaining the US Dollar as the World Reserve currency. ISIS is a fucking side show. Carry on!
Did you not read what Kunstler said? Read it slow a couple times and you may understand why we fight in the Middle East
“If Saudi Arabia falls apart, it’s game over for modern life as the West has known it (and much of Asia now, too).”
It’s about OIL —NOT Terrorist’s —> Its about OIL not ISIS->
Sensetti
You seem to think whoever runs Saudi Arabia might stop selling us their oil. That’s pretty simple minded. It is run by despots and most of the 9/11 terrorists were supported by the Saudi government. Who cares if ISIS takes over Saudi Arabia? How would they run the country without selling oil? It’s all they got.
Don’t buy into the bullshit that ISIS is worse than what is already running things in the Middle East. They’re all ragheaded Muslims who hate our guts. But they will still sell us oil because we use 25% of the world’s supply.
Modern government (political government) is all about slight-of-hand.
People are taught the mythology that the political system protects them from
-foreign enemies (“defense”)
-bad luck that could lead to poverty (welfare state)
-criminals in their midst (police, courts & prisons)
Yes, lots of money is spent on this stuff, but it’s all window dressing.
Behind the curtain, hundreds of billions of dollars of graft and corruption flow to the powerful in the vast labyrinthine system. An entire ecology of sharks and remora exist to feed off the productive capacity of people supporting the system.
Power and money flow to those nearest the seat of power, Mordor-on-the-Potomac and its 50 vassal satrapies.
The myths taught in school and reinforced endlessly by the MSM keep the rabble in their hamster wheels.
We view that oil as our Asset to be controlled, not as a commodity to be purchased.
You think that Gallup poll is scary, take a look at this one from ORC:
CNN poll finds majority of Americans alarmed by ISIS
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/08/politics/cnn-poll-isis/index.html
The CNN/ORC Polls shows that 45% of Americans see that ISIS is a “very serious threat to the U.S,” while 49% thought the same of al Qaeda 11 years ago.
TV News – all reading from the same script–LITERALLY!
Sensetti, wrong. There is no “we.”
The dominant owners of multinational petroleum companies see that oil as theirs to sell.
Just like in the stock market, the real money is not in what is bought and sold, it is taking a commission on every transaction, up or down.
British Petroleum. Shell. Exxon/Mobil. Who the heck do you think owns the majority of these firms?
Hint: It isn’t you or me. It’s Old Money (the British Royalty, Old World Bankers, etc.) with a little New Money (most of the pantheon of Industrialist Billionaires), you know, the ones who actually run every country on the planet.
Ever wonder who sells the Jet A to the Pentagram to keep those B-2’s and F-22’s aloft? Or that vast flotilla of US Navy ships dieseling from port to port? Do you wonder WHY the USA sells F-16’s to every despot on the planet?
All of this is about energy, and every bit of that is maintaining the control of a handful of firms and their majority shareholders so they collect their commissions on the powering OF THE ENTIRE WORLD.
What we see in poll numbers is just a reflection of the bullshit that’s fed by the MSM. And they’re just reading Fedgov “talking points” (PR).
We all seem to forget that there was no such thing as ISIS until around May of last year. Then one day, we awoke and it was the biggest threat imaginable. I’m sure you could go back in the news archives and pick out the actual day when the order was given to push the idea of “ISIS.” It is controlled opposition to allow the West to continue to operate in the Middle East now that popular support has waned on the homefront and the puppet dictators in Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to outgrow their strings.
The same is true with Russia. None of the mouthbreathers cared about Russia until early 2014. The MSM got the memo to push “Russia is evil” right around the time of the Sochi Olympics. So instead of the fluff pieces on the Olympic village, we instead got stories about substandard bathroom facilities, culling stray dogs, and hurting the homosexuals feelings.
The most depressing thing is, that while most of the doom blogs saw through these farces at the get go, through endless repetition they have forgotten just how contrived these situations are. They also serve to distract the masses from the real invasion occurring on the southern border and the stealth immigration programs that are flooding the country with cheap labour, dangerous drivers and career criminals.
And upon closer inspection, that entire poll is unadulterated BS. The only options are “Critical Threat” or “Important but not Critical Threat?” WTF. None of those things even register as important. Where is the option for “total non-threat, completely contrived marketing gimmick.” That’s what I’d pick for each of them.
tumbleweed
They were given three choices. The 3rd was “not an important threat at all”.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/181553/isis-terrorism-seen-graver-threats-russia-ukraine.aspx?utm_source=Politics&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles
On TCM the other night ” the harder they fall”. Was on.
Rod Stiiegers reply to Boggart at the end of the film.
” the public what do they care? Sit in front of the TV and get fat. Fall to sleep with a belly full of beer”
Nothing has changed.
If Netanyahu and the neocons pitched a story that Iran was genetically engineering giant killer rabbits, after a decade of beating people over the head with this story, 84% of americans would name this as a grave threat as well.
Z – I gave you a thumbs up. I am glad you told me about the giant killer rabbits. I will be on the lookout. Roast rabbit is a favorite of mine.
The corrupt moron that is Jewliani:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hUtumtQpA
Hint: Bernays was not a Muslim. Hint: Muslims do not control international finance, which in turn controls the production and distribution of energy. Hint: Muslims do not control mass media. Hint: Muslims had nothing to do with the social engineering of “education”, etc. in the USA or Europe. Hint: Karl Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, etc. were not Muslims. Hint: Muslims played small, nearly non-existent roles in either WWI or WWII. And on and on. Radicalized Muslims are just another group of pawns on the chessboard.
This poll offers solid evidence that the greatest existential threat to the USA and Europe is a slack-jawed citizenry that is either incapable of or unwilling to read the handwriting on the wall. As I recall, the message was along the lines of “You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting”. Unless and until the cattle figure out who is guiding them to the chute and stampede, they (and we with them, sad to say) can be assured that their destiny is to be ground into quarter-pounders for the financiers and their vassals in government, media and other institutions that exist to control the masses.
Meanwhile, in the “Ad Column” to the right of this article –
“The World you know is about to disappear . . . . Is Your City Now ISIS’s #1 Target?”
Well, this article is about to drop out of sight.
The biggest threat to America is energy, both in the transportation sector (oil) and elctrical power production.
Now then, a question. Do you know where the greatest deposits of oil are in the US? I’ll give you six hints. Not in Alaska, North Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, or Colorado.
Bet no one comes up with the correct answer. And you must be specific on where, even if you give the correct state. Ready, set, go.
Times up. The Los Angeles Basin.
La Brea tar pits
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