Fantastic piece by Jesse at http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/. He comes to the same conclusion that I have reached, but does it in 2,500 less words. Until the banking oligarchy is brought to its knees, this country will never recover.
For those so inclined, I’d like to ask that you say a prayer for Jesse’s wife, as she is dealing with an illness.
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But either expedient solution suits the external monied interests promoting the system who seek only to plunder and drain the assets and labor of others who are all their common prey, whether they feel their kinship or not. An unjust and unsustainable system tarnishes all participants and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and decay.
It is the root causes of the debt and the imbalances in the system that must be addressed to make any reform sustainable. And this obviously includes addressing abuses such as the promotion of a global trade regime that is inherently unjust and imbalanced to the favor of the oligarchs of whatever political wrappings around the world who hold the greater profit to themselves and leave their people relatively impoverished and exploited. And it also includes the waging of unfunded wars to protect and promote privileged commerical interests, and a political funding system that is little more than soft graft and an open invitation to corruption by special interests.
It begins with a debilitating system of taxation by the monied interests on every commercial transaction in the form of fees and commissions, and the abuse of a money system that is little more than a fraud perpetrated by private interests for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. If you wish a simple measure of this, then look to the median wage.
Greed is not good. Greed is a disease, an abberation of simple honest ambition and necessary provision taken to excess. This simple distinction may be lost on a people no longer able to distinguish between virtue and sin, honor and expediency, appetite and gluttony, the means and the ends. Every great religion, every school of philosophy has cautioned throughout history on the perils of unbridled and unregulated greed. And yet this generation would make a god of it, although in fairness most really do not understand what it is that they do and how and whom they serve.
Greed, often in company with hubris, is a handmaiden of the corrupting influence of power and triumph of the will. Greed is contagious, and attacks the very contentment of society at its heart, turning it towards anarchy and oppression.
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” Erich Fromm
Any system that promotes greed, gluttony, and insatiability as its highest goods and fundamental ideals is a cult of perversion and addiction on a scale with ancient Rome, an imbalanced insult to the natural law, with a fatal attraction to overreach, failure and self-destruction. What the US has today is not market capitalism that rewards the merits and work of individuals, but rather is the product of dishonest and disordered minds, a system of fraud and plunder by privileged oligarchs masquerading as fair and honest markets of legitimate valuation and price discovery.
“Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.” Raghuram G. Rajan
The Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustained recovery.
Financial Interests Dictate Sovereign Policy
By Michael Hudson
December 18, 2010“…The economic problem is not caused by sovereign debt but by bad bank loans, deceptive financial practice and neoliberal bank deregulation. Iceland’s Viking raiders, Ireland’s Anglo-Irish bank and other foreign banks are trying to avoid taking losses on financial claims that are largely fictitious, inasmuch as they exceed the ability of indebted economies to pay. The ‘crisis’ can be solved by making the banks write down their debt claims to realistic ‘junk’ valuations. There is no need to wreck economies by subjecting them to financial asset-stripping.
In such cases there’s a basic principle at work: Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. The question is, just how won’t they be paid? As matters stand, countries are being told to subject themselves to massive foreclosure – not only a forfeiture of homes, but of national policy.
In this respect the sovereign crisis is a crisis of sovereignty itself: Who shall be in charge of the economy, its tax philosophy and public spending: elected officials acting in the public interest, or an intrusive financial oligarchy? The EU was wrong to tell governments to pay for following its advice – and pressure – to trust financial crooks and deregulate bank oversight. The European Central Bank should reimburse victimized governments for the bailouts that have been paid. This reimbursement can be done by levying a progressive tax policy and creating a central bank to help finance governments.
The proper aim of a national economy is to promote capital formation and rising living standards for the population as a whole. not a narrowing financial class at the top of the pyramid. So I see two major policies to lead the way out of this mess:
First, shift taxes back onto land and resource rent, and onto financial and capital gains. This will prevent another real estate bubble from being inflated by debt leveraging. By holding down housing prices, it will save labor from having to pay an equivalent amount in income tax. Low real estate taxes (under 1% until just recently) have not saved homeowners money in Latvia. Low property taxes merely have left more rental income to be pledged to banks, to capitalize into large mortgage loans.
Second, de-privatize basic utilities and natural monopolies to save Europe from rentiers turning it into a tollbooth economy. Europe needs a central bank that can do what central banks are supposed to do: create money to finance government deficits. But the European Central Bank and article 123 of the European Constitution as amended by the Lisbon Treaty prevents the central bank from lending to governments. This forces governments to levy taxes to pay interest to banks – for creating electronic credit that a real central bank could just as well create on its own computer keyboards.
Government banking is not necessarily inflationary. It finances what is necessary for economies to grow: investment in infrastructure and capital formation to raise productivity and minimize the cost of doing business.
What turns out to be inflationary is commercial bank lending. It inflates asset prices – unproductively. Banks lend mainly against real estate and other assets already in place, and stocks and bonds already issued. This is unproductive credit, not real wealth creation. The only way to keep this unproductive debt overhead solvent is to inflate asset prices more – by untaxing assets to leave more revenue to pay bankers on exponentially growing debts.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The recent 30 years of financial polarization is reversible. The alternative is to succumb to neoliberal austerity.”
I think that most people know what needs to be done in their conscience, but their hearts have become so hardened over the past twenty years that the message will be ignored until after they undergo a period of suffering on the scale of the worst of the twentieth century. May God have mercy on us all.
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
In vain you rise early and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat—
for he grants sleep only to those he loves.Psalm 127
Kill Bill says:
Who would ever think greed is good. O. Yeh. Ayn Rand dupes.
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20th December 2010 at 3:58 pm
StuckInNJ says:
“The recent 30 years of financial polarization is reversible.”
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Yes, I believe that’s possible and the author of that great piece lays it out nicely.
A government is doomed to collapse if it turns on its own people or fails to follow the rule of law.
This government has done the former for decades now, and has done the latter recently as evidenced by the fact that they not only refuse to put in jail criminal bankers — they even reward them!
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Possible? Yes. Likely? Nope. There is no incentive for TBTB to change.
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20th December 2010 at 4:01 pm
Kill Bill says:
Thirteen trillion obviously wasnt enough to satiate the parasites.
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20th December 2010 at 4:18 pm
MuckAbout says:
I tried the other day to assume the position for “atomic attack” but I find I’m too old and crickity to kiss my ass goodbye. I’m in trouble now!
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20th December 2010 at 4:58 pm
Kill Bill says:
Grinch was a Ayn Randist.
Bet you didnt know that!
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20th December 2010 at 5:30 pm
Steve Hogan says:
We should be less concerned with greed and more concerned with fraud. A greedy man without the means to defraud others is practically harmless. When he does commit fraud, and if we had a government that fulfilled its proper role, the criminal would be forced to provide restitution to his victims. The harm would be contained.
What we have today is a system where the fraud is widespread by the corporate elite and abetted by the crooks in Washington. And all if it is out in the open for all to see! When those charged with enforcing the laws are themselves complicit in the crimes, we are truly screwed.
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20th December 2010 at 10:18 pm
Smokey says:
“We should be less concerned with greed and more concerned with fraud.” You fucking dolt, greed is the ESSENCE of fraud. Only a fucking brain dead retard without a clue would try to draw a distinction between the two. Quinn needs to put a filter on this blog to screen out imbeciles who post stupid shit in an effort to be profound.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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20th December 2010 at 10:38 pm
Steve Hogan says:
You’re not too bright, are you Smokey? If you read my message (I used small words just for you), you would have understood that greed is merely a desire, whereas fraud involves an act. Most of us are greedy, but only a few resort to defrauding others.
My point was to enforce the criminal act, but that’s clearly too complex a concept for the simple-minded. Go back into your hole.
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20th December 2010 at 10:55 pm
Smokey says:
Enforce the criminal act? Are you fucking shitting me? You genuinely believe it’s possible to make the criminal pay restitution to the victims? That’s the “proper ” role of government ? Goddamn, why not just wish for infinite wealth, eternal life and world peace?
Hot debate. What do you think?
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20th December 2010 at 11:01 pm
llpoh says:
I ain’t giving none of my pile back. None. If you didn’t steal, er, earn, yours when the stealing, I mean earning, was good, too fucking bad. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too, so long as you don’t catch me taking it. Tough titty.
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20th December 2010 at 11:08 pm
Kill Bill says:
Well, I think I get what your saying Steve Hogan, but lets take Angelo Mozilo, for one, he got a fine of tens of millions while making hundreds of millions.
Hardly a deterrent.
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20th December 2010 at 11:08 pm
llpoh says:
KB – that’s what ‘m talking about. Angelo Mozilo goes to all the trouble of stealing hundreds of millions and the bastards come and take some back off him. It just isn’t fair. Something should be done about it. What is his is his.
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20th December 2010 at 11:10 pm
Steve Hogan says:
Not “enforce a criminal act.” Enforce the law against criminal acts.
Paying restitution is how it should work. You violate someone’s rights, you have to compensate the victim. What do the geniuses in government do? They give the criminals three square meals a day and send the bill to his victims. Not too fucking smart.
Well, if you really must know, Smokey, I am an anarchist. The proper role of government is to not exist. But the people who profess to believe in government claim that its role is to enforce the laws, including those of contracts and fraud. If they can’t achieve these simple aims, they aren’t worth a shit. If you ask me, they aren’t worth a shit. The evidence is pretty damn clear.
I’m not looking for heaven on earth, infinite wealth or eternal life. Being left alone would be plenty.
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20th December 2010 at 11:12 pm
Kill Bill says:
It just isn’t fair. Something should be done about it. What is his is his. -=llpoh=-
Yeah. Now if he would have used a gun and robbed a bank that would have been different,
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20th December 2010 at 11:14 pm
llpoh says:
Steve – you want to be left alone but you keep posting! Good luck with that!
By the way, I almost shit my pants when I read “I am an anarchist”. I thought it had said “I am the antichrist”. Much the same, I suppose.
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20th December 2010 at 11:15 pm
Steve Hogan says:
KB, if Mozilo defrauded someone, he should be prosecuted. If he just happens to be slimy bastard, no harm done.
My personal opinion: he’s corrupt to the core. If nothing else, the dude should go to jail for looking like a mafia don. His suits have hash marks between the pin stripes. The fake tan is classic, though.
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20th December 2010 at 11:19 pm
Kill Bill says:
http://www.bankinginsurancesecurities.com/banking/banking_news/banking_countrywide_ceo_mozilo_fined_record_sum_banned_for_life
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20th December 2010 at 11:24 pm
Steve Hogan says:
llpoh, writing messages on a blog means I should be subject to government snooping and taxation? Care to explain that?
Not wanting to deal with an agency of violence that kills millions and steals with reckless abandon is equivalent to being an antichrist?
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20th December 2010 at 11:26 pm
llpoh says:
Steve – you said “I’m not looking for heaven on earth, infinite wealth or eternal life. Being left alone would be plenty.” Now I have to join Smokey in questioning your intelligence. You do not mention anything in there re government snooping/taxation. Or did you forget what you wrote?
Further, the definition of anarchist: 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation
2. a person who causes disorder or upheaval.
Whether you fall into #1 or #2, if your position were implemented it would be chaos, death and destruction for millions if not billions of people. Do you really think that the masses would fall in line and work together voluntarily. So yes, if your world vision were to come to pass, you would be akin to the fucking antichrist.
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20th December 2010 at 11:34 pm
Steve Hogan says:
llpoh,
I prefer the first definition. The second conflates anarchy with chaos. It’s a rather tired means of avoiding the criminal nature of governments.
Incidentally, history isn’t your strong suit, is it? Have you glanced at the death and destruction brought about by governments you blindly support? A conservative estimate of those slaughtered by the state during the last century alone is probably about 100 million, and probably closer to double that. And that is for those not involved in war.
How could a stateless society possibly amass anything close to that? And you claim without a hint of proof that billions could possibly die without corrupt politicians ruling us? Are you fucking insane?
And you have the nerve to question my intelligence?
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20th December 2010 at 11:52 pm
llpoh says:
Steve – I do not argue the death toll. It is a huge number, stemming from, largely, a handful of despots. Can you imagine the unhindered chaos if the 30 blocks of squalor had no overseeing law or government? What about the drug gangs? Or basically anyone with an axe to grind? It would be great if people would work together voluntarily. It isn’t going to happen. Do you think that strongmen wannabes are simply going to drop off the face of the earth by wishing it were so? The human condition is not naturally one of peace and goodwill toward men, despite it being a grand goal. Anyone thinking otherwise merely has to look at any age of history.
Your desire for no government is shear lunacy if you believe it is workable or attainable. As a theoretical ideal it is great fun to consider and discuss. But it is a fantasy, and if you really consider it as a true option to the current system, you are either quite naive or deluded.
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20th December 2010 at 12:05 am
Steve Hogan says:
llpoh,
Who or what caused the 30 blocks of squalor? Who is waging the drug war and the violence that results from such a prohibition? Hint: it wasn’t people in stateless societies walking around in robes and chatting about philosophy while harps play in the background.
We can argue all day about anarchism vs minarchism, but this is an academic debate, as we are living under the largest, most expensive regime in world history.
If we ever get to a point where we have a night watchman kind of government, it is worthy of discussion. Until then, debating anarchy is rather pointless. A government that can assassinate on a whim, torture, detain indefinitely, seize assets, listen to phone calls and record emails, and engage in wars without purpose or end is out of control.
Those who believe government has a legitimate role to play in society have some ‘splaining to do. So start ‘splaining.
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20th December 2010 at 12:34 am
Reverse Engineer says:
Alhough a stateless society is a long term goal, its not going to happen overnight. So in the meantime, you want to try to maintain some stability in the society and minimize the short term death toll. The best way to do this is to steal back the wealth that individuals have hoarded up by instituting Capital Controls and taxing the living shit out of the top 20% or so of the society. The TBTF Banks should be divided up into a Good Bank and a Bad Bank, with the all the Good Assets going to the taxpayer and all the bad assets/liabilities being left in the hands of the Bond Holders/Illuminati to eat the losses.
Once the Wealth is stolen back, then you replace our current system of English Common Law with the Inquisition and try everyone who had a net worth of say $1M or more by fire. If they don’t burn, then they were innocent and you can release them.
This solution should keep anarchy to a minimum and keep the death toll down to around 20% of the population, mostly the formerly wealthy. It should find good support amongst the 80% of of the population who got screwed over the last 30 years.
RE
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20th December 2010 at 1:14 am
Goldorack says:
RE, I have to respectfully disagree on one point: the evildoers or so are not 20%, but more likely 2%
the other 18% of your percentage are some leechs of the system that would integrate the “normal” standard of living once you eliminate the 2% of Dr Evils.
no, the dangerous fuckers are not numerous, but they hold the strings and they’re not likely to be swept because an army of leech protect them.
almost ALL the most known politician, wherever they are, are in the 2%
from o’bwana to Mc cain here in the US
I remind a debate where Mc Cain wasn’t able to recall how many houses he own. WTF? If you don’t recall how many houses you have, sell them or go see a physician.
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20th December 2010 at 4:28 am
Kill Bill says:
Anarchism isnt worthy of debate, IMB, as its basically just a return to tribalism.
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20th December 2010 at 11:02 am
Smokey says:
Steve Hogan—–To say that government has no legitimate role to play in society may well be the fucking stupidest thing I’ve ever read on a blog, and I have fucking read goddamn TONS of insane shit from douchebags like you. But that takes the fucking cake. Let me ask you something, you fucking idiot. Who is going to resolve the legal disputes in a society where no government exists? How about if a pack of well hung niggers decide they want to fuck your ugly wife at knife point against her will? Will she have any recourse? How about if a drunk driver at 110 MPH renders your son a quadriplegic, and then laughs about it? Does your son have any recourse? How about if someone takes a drum of gas and turns your home into a pile of smoldering embers while you are off at ballet practice? Do you have any recourse? You still want anarchy, asshole? Before you post again, get someone to transplant a fucking brain into your skull.
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20th December 2010 at 2:00 pm
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Smokey
I see you’ve caught that Christmas spirit.
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20th December 2010 at 2:09 pm
llpoh says:
Smokey – I couldn’t have said it better myself. I love the fact that I get more thumbs down than up when I attack anarchy. I mean, WTF?
Nice post. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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20th December 2010 at 2:13 pm
Smokey says:
Administrator—-I just can’t keep myself from radiating peace and goodwill to all. LOL—My favorite Christmas card I ever received was many years ago from my oldest brother. It said, “Merry Christmas! Money’s short. Times are hard. Here’s your fucking Christmas card.”–Then I opened it to Santa’s smiling face as Santa was giving me the bird.
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20th December 2010 at 2:15 pm
Smokey says:
llpoh—–Don’t take the thumbs- down personal on a post like this. That is nearly always guilt by association—People zap you because I have created many enemies on this site.
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20th December 2010 at 2:19 pm
llpoh says:
Well, I am glad it isn’t me! Never take them seriously but really, WTF? Hahahaha. People support anarchy!
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20th December 2010 at 2:25 pm
Kill Bill says:
Merry Krampus Smokey!
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20th December 2010 at 2:30 pm
Smokey says:
Thanks Kill Bill. —-And Happy Kwanza to all!
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20th December 2010 at 2:33 pm
Administrator says:
Anarchy rocks!!!
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20th December 2010 at 2:38 pm
Kill Bill says:
A joyful Saturnalia and Sol Invictus to all!!
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20th December 2010 at 2:46 pm
Kill Bill says:
Anarchists fighting anarchists.
The ultimate in organized chaos.
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20th December 2010 at 2:52 pm
llpoh says:
Admin – I can’t believe you let anarchists on this site! What next? Commies? Socialists? For fuck sake, next it will be Jews, Mormons (plenty of morons already), Catholics and 9/11 nutjobs. You simply have got to draw a line in the sand. Happy Kwanzaa! Hope that doesn’t mean there are any blacks posting.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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20th December 2010 at 3:42 pm
Administrator says:
LLPOH
I thought I had successfully alienated every religion, special interest, race, and political party in the world. I guess not. I’m going to need to work harder in 2011.
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20th December 2010 at 3:56 pm
jmarz says:
Administrator—–I doubt you have to worry too much about this site being overrun by neocons.
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20th December 2010 at 4:05 pm
Smokey says:
Sorry—-That was not jmarz, it was I.
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20th December 2010 at 4:06 pm
Administrator says:
We have too many neo-cons as it is.
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20th December 2010 at 4:20 pm
Smokey says:
TOO MANY ? WTF ? Me and Daniel. I guess that’s too many for the Paulites, who, despite their ganging up on me, I mercilessly thrash at my every whim.
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20th December 2010 at 4:23 pm
llpoh says:
Smokey – what are you talking about. Anytime ANYONE disagrees with the Admin they forevermore are labelled Neocons! I myself have been called a warmongring Neocon on more than one occassion (- had to get him to define Neocon as I was sure I had been slighted but didn’t know exactly how badly). One thing about this site – hang around very long and your vocabulary expands.
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20th December 2010 at 4:28 pm
Punk in Drublic says:
LLPOH
You’re not thinking this anarchist thing through. We need to convince them to launch an attack on the Free shit army, use them as our proxies. I thought you were a Managerial expert or some such thing, here is your chance to become the general of your own army.
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20th December 2010 at 4:34 pm
Smokey says:
LLPOH—-I did not realize you had been tagged with the dreaded label. Really, I think the only neocons that have not been run off are me and Daniel. And Daniel is a part-timer.
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20th December 2010 at 4:42 pm
Punk in Drublic says:
Steve Hogan
You show great promise. COBRA could use more men like you. You will be a welcome member of my organization, bent on bringing down all the worlds governments and banking cartels. If you accept this invitation, please, do not confirm on this blog, as It is monitored by no less than three government agencies.
Instead, Put $5,555 in a cigar box and bury it precisely 23 inches deep in your back yard. One of our underground agents will contact you shortly.
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20th December 2010 at 4:46 pm
Administrator says:
I consider everyone a neocon until proven otherwise. Only when they bow down before my savior RON PAUL are they absolved.
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20th December 2010 at 4:47 pm
Administrator says:
SSS is a neocon down to his CIA undershorts.
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20th December 2010 at 4:48 pm
Plato_Plubius says:
Smokey, since you’re a self professed neocon, here is a holiday laugh for you from the NeoCon inspired t.v. character Jack Bauer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp19qiash2U&feature=player_embedded
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20th December 2010 at 4:50 pm
llpoh says:
Punk – I have enough trouble organizing capitalists. I would never be able to organize a bunch of anarchists.
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20th December 2010 at 4:54 pm
Smokey says:
Plato Plubius—–Thanks. That was hilarious. I’ve watched every 24 that’s ever been made, either on TV or on DVD. Jack Bauer is my fucking hero. If I could talk Administrator into watching a couple of seasons of 24 or into reading a couple of Vince Flynn novels (Especially Memorial Day), I’d never have to listen to his nauseous screeds about the virtue of abandoning our allies across the globe. The only real life person to approach the excellence of Jack Bauer is Peyton Manning.
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20th December 2010 at 5:07 pm
Kill Bill says:
Neo-cons, before they converted to the conservative side, got their start under (D) sen. Scoop Jackson. [Aka senator from Boeing]
So when someone says neo-con in the pejorative sense I get a little lost on what they actually mean…I take it they mean the Straussian lie-o-cons Bush and Cheney sidled with?
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20th December 2010 at 5:10 pm
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20th December 2010 at 5:15 pm
Smokey says:
KB—The definition varies from person to person and agenda to agenda. Rush Limbaugh say that neocon is code for Jew. Administrator has indicated that it includes Bush, Cheney, Krauthammer, Kristol, Rove, McCain, Palin, Romney and generally anyone else who doesn’t buy into the notion that it is in the best interest of the USA to immediately totally abolish every last fucking remnant of military apparatus ever in existence.
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20th December 2010 at 5:17 pm
Plato_Plubius says:
@Kill Bill…when I use the term neo con, I refer to the Straussian, elitest-thinking individuals who also believe in Samuel Huntington’s neoliberal economic policies in regards to “development” and the global economy. They are warmongerers who care not if their insatiable desire to be the “alpha dog” in the world tramples upon the rest of our “natural rights”….war = peace, ignornace = strength, freedom = slavery pretty well summizes the average individual (not the elitest educated neo con)….Many of us hold to neo con ideals even without realizing we do, due to such popular shows as 24 using predictive programming used against the unsuspecting population who thinks they are tuning in for an escape of reality and entertainment….really what they are getting is a nice brain scrubbing in how to think like a neo con! Being a neo con, The ends always justify the means (see rendition, torture, and the term “enemy combatant” for a few examples)…Besides the warmongering and social darwinistic mentality prevalent with the neocon perspective, their neo liberal sensibilities when it comes to development and privitization of infrastructure are what I despise the most!
Sorry Smokey…
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20th December 2010 at 5:26 pm
Kill Bill says:
Well, the neo-cons are more or less cheerleaders for the military industrial complex thats true. Might is right, Clash of the civilizations empire vein which isnt classical American conservatism though a strong defense usually is.
When I say neo-con I mean those interested in global hegemony and pre-emptive wars and will lie lie lie, and cal it noble, to make it happen.
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20th December 2010 at 5:27 pm
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Kill Bill says:
Kill Bill…when I use the term neo con, I refer to the Straussian, elitest-thinking individuals who also believe in Samuel Huntington’s neoliberal economic policies in regards to “development” and the global economy -=Plato Plubius=-
Thats what I generally go by, Noble liars. But im not referring to you here Smokey.
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20th December 2010 at 5:29 pm
Smokey says:
Plato—–”Sorry Smokey “———-I’ll get over it.
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20th December 2010 at 5:34 pm
Smokey says:
KB—–”But I’m not referring to you here Smokey.”—A damn good thing too, because if you had, it would have been me and you out in the parking lot. Mostly me.
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20th December 2010 at 5:37 pm
Kill Bill says:
KB—–”But I’m not referring to you here Smokey.”—A damn good thing too, because if you had, it would have been me and you out in the parking lot. Mostly me.
Well, if I thought you were a Straussian I would have written it…but you dont seem to fit that bill.
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20th December 2010 at 5:43 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
“RE, I have to respectfully disagree on one point: the evildoers or so are not 20%, but more likely 2%”-Goldy
Granted, those with sufficient control to be fully rsponsible for the Evil are way above top 20%, less than 2% and more like .2% I suspect.
However, the next 19.8% are complicit as accessories to the crimes against humanity and as the receipients of stolen merchandise. They are kind of like getaway car drivers and fences. Without this bunch of folks who are the beneficiaries of the Racket, the Illuminati could not function.
Perhaps the Inquisition will come up with lesser penalties for these folks. I suppose simply stripping them of their wealth and leaving them destitute and penniless is enough punishment for the lower level criminals.
RE
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20th December 2010 at 6:12 pm
Administrator says:
Thank God I was in the 21% group.
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20th December 2010 at 8:47 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
Yah, its a wise idea to fall below the Cutoff Point
However, based on history of the French Revolution and the Reign of Robespierre, I wouldn’t count on it being safe to be anywhere above the 50th Percentile.
Can you imagine the Efficiency of applying the Internal Combustion Engine to the Guillotine? I mean really, hook up a nice 600HP Caterpillar Diesel Engine to a huge Lawn Mower type Rotating set of Blades, you could probably achieve decapitation rates of 1000 HPM or more. (that’s Heads per Minute).
RE
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20th December 2010 at 9:46 pm
Punk in Drublic says:
RE
As far as gas powered execution goes, this is more my style.
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20th December 2010 at 10:06 pm