LOOK AT THE LIVES WE’RE LIVING

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Posted on 11th November 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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  1. Administrator says:

    “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

    Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket

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    11th November 2012 at 4:20 pm

  2. Kill Bill says:

    Exceptionalism is a racket alright.

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    11th November 2012 at 4:46 pm

  3. Thunderbird says:

    The best way to be successful in this country is to keep a low profile and find a nitch where you can make a descent living. Most importantly remember this is Lucifer’s world not ours. Murphy’s law is king here. What can go wrong will go wrong. Stay aloof from the Hakaka and you will do well.

    I speak from the few that observe the rest. The majority of the population is asleep and so they are used and discarded. That is the nature of things on this planet. It is called life.

    TBP is continuously posting articles for us to read about the absurdities going on around us. We comment on them. For me the life I live is being grateful for what I have while observing the absurdities going on around me and avoiding identifying with them. This produces peace of mind, even though one knows the world is insane.

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    11th November 2012 at 4:49 pm

  4. wip says:

    Excellent commentary Thunderbird.

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    11th November 2012 at 5:22 pm

  5. ragman says:

    General Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor winner and one of the most decorated Marines in the Corps illustrious history. Contrast General Butler wif general betrayus. The former was a true American hero, while the latter couldn’t keep his dick in his pants and is a disgrace to everything good about the American military. However, said dick has absolutely nothing to do with the real problem. gen betrayus was to testify this week at the Benghazi hearings, and now he won’t have to. I hate this govt more and more every day.

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    11th November 2012 at 6:53 pm

  6. chip says:

    So I guess Thunderbird that in a war against freedom by slavery you’ll just be a slave. We who are about to die don’t salute you.

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    11th November 2012 at 6:55 pm

  7. Zzzzzz says:

    “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    11th November 2012 at 9:48 pm

  8. Reverse Engineer says:

    Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You.

    RE
    http://doomsteaddiner.org

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    11th November 2012 at 10:31 pm

  9. BUCKHED says:

    Dang Jim….I’ve been quoting Smedley for years on your site….now you do too. Great minds think alike !!!!!!!!! LMAO

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    11th November 2012 at 11:36 pm

  10. crazyivan says:

    Yeah, well, Smedley. I fucked my little sister.

    Watcha say to that.

    Creep..

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    11th November 2012 at 11:49 pm

  11. Thunderbird says:

    chip: You missed the point.

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    11th November 2012 at 8:17 am

  12. NaughtOphelia says:

    WTF. When was this video made? George Bush has been our of office FOUR F—–g years! Where’s Obama’s smug face? It’s his highnesses dirty business now.

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    11th November 2012 at 11:58 am

  13. Pcaldallas says:

    That we’re like animals! It’s in the blood! It’s natural! Peace? That’s an accident! It’s what is! When you’re pushed, killing’s as easy as breathing. When the killing stops in one place, it starts in another, but that’s okay… ’cause you’re killing for your country. But it ain’t your country who asks you, it’s a few men up top who want it. Old men start it, young men fight it, nobody wins, everybody in the middle dies… and nobody tells the truth! God’s gonna make all that go away?

    ~~John Rambo

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    11th November 2012 at 2:56 pm

  14. Bob says:

    Or, maybe here? Weep for our lost children and for those whose lives we have taken.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DboMAghWcA&feature=player_detailpage

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    11th November 2012 at 7:22 pm

  15. Administrator says:

    Bob

    Great song and video. I posted it as it’s own thread.

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    11th November 2012 at 7:41 pm

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