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My mattress is already lumpy, lol.
Recently Obama nominated Merrick Garland
to replace Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia
who died under strange circumstances on
the remote ranch of a Texas millionaire.
Republicans are blocking the process out
of spite. Democrats are rhapsodizing about
what a fine man he is.
Who is this guy?
For one thing, he was the "clean up"
judge who presided over the Oklahoma
City bombing trial and made sure that
the government's preposterous account
of what happened became the official
story.
A reminder of how flawed the "official
story" of Oklahoma City really is.
America in Crisis: What Happens When Neither Political Party Answers to the Bottom 90 Percent?
Posted on Mar 20, 2016
By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet
As Donald Trump leads a full-scale war against the Republican establishment and elites, particularly through his attack on both their military (Iraq) and their trade (NAFTA) policies, the Democratic Party is also in a predicament that Bernie Sanders’ candidacy is exposing. Both parties right now face a great crisis of leadership/ideology as well as a great opportunity for reinvention, and whichever party first reinvents itself successfully will begin winning elections the way the Democrats did in the 1932-1968 era.
If neither does, our nation faces a massive crisis provoked by the loss of democratic representation of the majority of the American electorate. Neither party today does much of anything for the bottom 90% of Americans, as so clearly demonstrated by a recent study out of Princeton that showed that the likelihood of legislation passing that represents the interest of that bottom 90% was equivalent, statistically, to white noise.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_happens_when_neither_political_party_20160320
The U.S. Terrorized Cuba, Not the Other Way Around
Posted on Mar 20, 2016
By Robert Scheer
When is it all right to blow up restaurants and kill tourists? Anytime, according to Luis Posada Carriles, who masterminded last year’s attacks on Cuba’s booming tourist industry, terrorizing disco dancers and diners alike.
In a startling revelation this week, the 70-year-old Posada revealed that key Cuban American lobbyists in this country financed his activities, in apparent violation of U.S. law, while the FBI and CIA looked the other way.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_startling_tale_of_us_complicity_20160320
Voting With Our Feet
Posted on Mar 20, 2016
By Chris Hedges
Bernie Sanders’ political corpse in the presidential race is still warm, but some of his prominent liberal supporters already are urging us to flee to Hillary Clinton. Sanders, who knows the game is up, will soon become the Democrats’ pied piper. He will seek to entice his supporters into the Democratic Party rattrap. He has decried the disruption of Trump rallies—denigrating the only power we have left—saying “people should not disrupt anybody’s meetings.” His “political revolution,” like his promise of a movement, is a cynical form of advertising. Sanders will, like the Barack Obama of 2008, end as an impediment to the mass movements he claims to represent. And mass movements in our system of “inverted totalitarianism” are our final and only hope.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/voting_with_our_feet_20160320
Some have said it's just one guy shooting his mouth off. What do you think?
"Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
--David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
---David Rockefeller, at a 1991 Bilderberger meeting
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
---David Rockefeller
"But this present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces at work that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an enduring structure of global interdependence."
---David Rockefeller, speaking at the Business Council for the United Nations, September 14, 1994
"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."
---David Rockefeller, statement about Mao Tse-tung in The New York Times, August 10, 1973
I'd like to think that also. It's my hope that it'll be played out in our lifetime. One way or another this planet needs a housecleaning....the bullshit of religions, politics...you name it.......is suffocating.
Could be.......that's one I'd like to save for our fireside chat, lol.
Perhaps, initially........but during the last....who knows....4000 yrs?....we've done that to ourselves. We let liars and sociopaths rule us.........the question we all have to answer is....are we sheep or human beings?
Something dramatic.......the return of the Anunnaki, lol.
Wel, if the purpose of the embargo was to keep Cubans poor.....it succeeded.
I'd forgotten they did a take on that song too. Thnx for the trip down memory lane.
Forgive me for the repeat, but I can't get enough of this tune........and it's right in context..........
How True.........
Don't you often wonder why politicians exist at all?
Don't you often wonder why politicians exist at all? A government can be run by computers, impersonal, non-ambitious, not people who are seeking their own personal glory in the name of their nation; then we might have a sane government! But you see, unfortunately, human beings are not sane, they want to live in this immense mess. And you and I are responsible for it. Don't, please, merely agree, or shake your head in assent; you have to do something about it. The doing is the seeing, the listening. You know when you see a danger you act, there is no hesitation, there is no argument, there is no personal opinion, there is immediate action. But you don't see the immense danger of what is going on in the world around you, in the educational system, the business world, the religious world -you don't see the danger of all that. But to see the danger of it is to act. When you see something actually then there is no conflict, there is immediate movement away from the thing, without resistance, without conflict. - Krishnamurti, Talks in Europe 1968, Social Responsibility
ROFL.....you're darn tootin'........they need us, otherwise who would they boss around?
What can I do faced with this colossal machine?
Then there is the fundamental question of man's relationship to man. This relationship is society, the society which we have created through our envy, greed, hatred, brutality, competition and violence. Our chosen relationship to society, based on a life of battle, of wars, of conflict, of violence, of aggression, has gone on for thousands of years and has become our daily life, in the office, at home, in the factory, in churches. We have invented a morality out of this conflict, but it is no morality at all, it is a morality of respectability, which has no meaning whatsoever. You go to church and love your neighbor there and in the office you destroy him. When there are nationalistic differences based on ideas, opinions, prejudices, a society in which there is terrible injustice, inequality -we all know this, we are terribly aware of all this- aware of the war that is going on, of the action of the politicians and the economists trying to bring order out of disorder, we are aware of this. And we say, 'What can we do?' We are aware that we have chosen a way of life that leads ultimately to the field of murder. We have probably asked this, if we are at all serious, a thousand times but we say 'I, as a human being, can't do anything. What can I do faced with this colossal machine?'When one puts a question to oneself such as 'What can I do?' I think one is putting the wrong question. To that there is no answer. If you do answer it then you will form an organization, belong to something, commit yourself to a particular course of political, economic, social action; and you are back again in the same old circle in your particular organization with its presidents, secretaries, money, its own little group, against all other groups. We are caught in this. 'What can I do?' is a totally wrong question, you can't do a thing when you put the question that way. But you can, when you actually see (as you see the microphone and the speaker sitting here) actually see that each one of us is responsible for the war that is going on in the Far East, and that it is not the Americans, nor the Vietnamese, nor the Communists, but you and I who are responsible, actually, desperately responsible for what is going on in the world, not only there but everywhere. We are responsible for the politicians, whom we have brought into being, responsible for the army which is trained to kill, responsible for all our actions, conscious or unconscious. - Krishnamurti, Talks in Europe 1968, Social Responsibility
Lula and the BRICS in a Fight to the Death
By Pepe Escobar
This is all about a white coup - in the form of a Rousseff impeachment and sending Lula to the gallows. -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44399.htm
"We will be debt free in 6 months ... "......?
Syria: Things They Just Made Up
By Kit
March 17, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Off Guardian"- The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can’t quite decide if it’s a victory, or a defeat. They don’t know if it’s because they ran out of money, are giving up, or it’s all a big lie – but they all agree on two things: 1) Russia have not achieved anything and 2) This is a massive a surprise.
Such a surprise that Putin announced the plan five months ago, in a story printed in the Telegraph. This is what the Western world has come to, I suppose, if a politician SAYS he’s going to do something and then actually DOES IT, this is…surprising. How sad.
The Guardian are firmly of the belief that this is “A Bad Thing” – in fact they are so against Russia leaving Syria, that one almost forgets they were just as strongly against Russia entering Syria in the first place.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44447.htm
Impaled On Its Own Petard——The Fed’s Folly Festers Further
by David Stockman • March 16, 2016
Listening to even a small portion of Simple Janet’s incoherent babble makes very clear that the nation’s central bank is well and truly impaled on its own petard. According to the dictionary, the latter term refers to…..
…….. a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. It is of French origin and dates back to the 16th century. A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal device containing 2–3 kg (5 or 6 pounds) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/impaled-on-its-own-petard-the-feds-folly-festers-further/
The Mexicanization of the United States
Posted on Mar 13, 2016
By Chris Hedges
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mexicanization_of_the_united_states_20160313
“Overpopulation” and the Funding of World War III
‘Operation Barbarossa 2’
By Peter Koenig
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44423.htm
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: a Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
by ELLEN BROWN
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/14/exposing-the-libyan-agenda-a-closer-look-at-hillarys-emails/
Hah..........Celente's on a roll. Give 'em hell Gerald!
RIP____Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dead at 71
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/03/keith_emerson_of_emerson_lake.html
What a surprise!!! The mafia ain't got nothin' on these guys.
Vampire technocrats fly to Jekyll Island to stop Trump
by Jon Rappoport
March 10, 2016
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/vampire-technocrats-fly-to-jekyll-island-to-stop-trump/
ROFL...great thought!
Hillary Haunted by Libya
By Eric Margolis
Hillary Clinton, who is bankrolled by heavy-duty neocons, holds chief responsibility for two calamities-
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44375.htm
The Brazilian Earthquake
By Pepe Escobar
It's no coincidence that three major BRICS nations are simultaneously under attack - on myriad levels: Russia, China and Brazil. -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44377.htm
RIP.............Beatles Producer George Martin Dead at 90
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-producer-george-martin-dead-at-90-20160309
Unfrickenbelievable.........just like Obomber's Nobel Peace Prize..............
Hollande's Hypocrisy
France Honours Saudi Crown Prince for 'Fighting Terrorism and Extremism'
By MEE and Agencies
President Francois Hollande has awarded the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, to visiting Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44374.htm
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.": Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.
Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956
“You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves”: Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/03/04/paul-robeson-before-the-house-un-american-activities-committee/
REFLECTIONS ON CAPITALIST CULTURE AND THE SYSTEMATIC MORONIZATION OF AMERICAN PUBLICS
The PRE-EMINENT IMPORTANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY OF IDEOLOGY AS A means of political control was emphasized early in the century by Georg Lukacs in History and Class Consciousness, where he analyzed the false consciousness imposed by capitalist ideology on the working class that caused them to accept beliefs that are against their own self-interest, and by Antonio Gramsci in his formulation of “ideological hegemony” whereby the interests of the capitalist class are made to appear to all other segments of society as the natural, immutable order of the world.
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/03/04/reflections-on-capitalist-culture-and-the-systematic-moronization-of-american-publics-2/
The thing about most politicians is that they'll do anything to stay in office........including being honest.
The politician and the so-called religious person
So, it is extraordinarily difficult in this world for the mind to be free. The politician and the so-called religious person talk about freedom, that is one of their catchwords, but they jolly well take care that you are not free because, the moment you are free, you obviously become a danger to society, to organized religion, to all the rotten things that exist about you. It is only the free mind that will find out what is true, it is only the free mind that can be creative; and it is essential, in a culture of this kind, that importance be given, not to the following of a pattern, a doctrine, or a tradition, but to allowing the mind to be creative. But the mind can be creative only when it is free from conditioning, and such freedom is not easily come by; you have to work extraordinarily hard for it. - Krishnamurti, Collected Works, Vol. X",164,Individual and Society
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
By Chris Hedges
March 04, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Truth Dig " - College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values—civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class—while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44370.htm
I'll vote for Sanders if he gets the nomination, but between Trump and Hillbilly.....I'll live dangerously and take the devil I don't know. If Trump is a tool of the globalists, so be it. At least their shit will finally be out on the open. And if not.....it should be a fun ride. The more the Repugs hate him, the more I like him.