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Showing posts with label usa. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Thursday, September 1, 2011
A 9/11 Colouring Book!
From Cryptogon.
Come on kids, let’s go for a ride on the triceratops and then we’ll go buy us some frozen pizzas at CostCo. Later on, if yer’ real good, you’ll get to hear the one about how the Navy SEALs killed Bin Laden again.
Gee, thanks, Dad!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Learn A New Word: Kleptocracy
From Wikipedia.
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from Greek: κλέπτης (thieve) and κράτος (rule), is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves". Not an "official" form of government (such as democracy, republic, monarchy, theocracy) the term is a pejorative for governments perceived to have a particularly severe and systemic problem with the selfish misappropriation of public funds by those in power.
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from Greek: κλέπτης (thieve) and κράτος (rule), is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves". Not an "official" form of government (such as democracy, republic, monarchy, theocracy) the term is a pejorative for governments perceived to have a particularly severe and systemic problem with the selfish misappropriation of public funds by those in power.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
“In the United States of America there is a hidden government about which you know nothing.”
We all know that the mainstream media to a large extent just feeds us propagandistic dribble like mindless robots and that both U.S. political parties are almost entirely just puppets of slightly different shades of the same power base.
But could one examine this farther and find that a shadow government (or even groups of forces) underlies this illusion of freedom and democracy which so many Americans still apparently believe in? Is the US under the control of a shadow government basing its power on state of emergency or Continuity of Goverment (COG) plans?
Remember in connection also what Julian Assange mentioned, that freedom is just an illusion, when that freedom is inneffectual...i.e. presents no resistance to the powers that be. Here is his quote:
...it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.
Peter Dale Scott describes in the linked article quoted from below, the lingering uncertainty over who is actually running the show...
From Japanfocus. and 9/11 Blogger.
...One Congressman explained to a constituent that the provisions of the National Emergencies Act have now been rendered inoperative by COG. If true, this would indicate that the constitutional system of checks and balances no longer applies, and also that secret decrees now override public legislation as the law of the land.
With a few notable exceptions, there has thus far been scant interest in the media and the public in the extraordinary facts that Cheney and Rumsfeld were able to
1) help plan successfully for constitutional modifications, when not in government, and
2) implement these same changes themselves when back in power.
The first of these facts gives us a glimpse of an on-going power realm independent of the publicly acknowledged state. In the words of James Mann, “Cheney and Rumsfeld were, in a sense, a part of the permanent, though hidden, national security apparatus of the United States, inhabitants of a world in which Presidents come and go, but America always keeps on fighting.”50 A CNN Special Assignment assessment of the COG planners was even more dramatic: “In the United States of America there is a hidden government about which you know nothing.”51
What is the first step out of this current state of affairs, in which the constitution appears to have been superseded by a higher, if less legitimate authority? I submit that it is to get Congress to do what the law requires, and determine whether our present proclamation of emergency “shall be terminated” (50 U.S.C. 1622, 2002).
As part of this procedure, Congress should find whether secret COG powers, never submitted to Congress or seen by it, are among “the powers and authorities” which Bush in 2007 included in his prolongation of the 2001 emergency and which are maintained today under Obama.
This is not a technical or procedural detail. It is a test of whether the United States is presently governed by its laws and constitution, or whether, as has been alleged, the laws and constitution have now in places been superseded by COG.
But could one examine this farther and find that a shadow government (or even groups of forces) underlies this illusion of freedom and democracy which so many Americans still apparently believe in? Is the US under the control of a shadow government basing its power on state of emergency or Continuity of Goverment (COG) plans?
Remember in connection also what Julian Assange mentioned, that freedom is just an illusion, when that freedom is inneffectual...i.e. presents no resistance to the powers that be. Here is his quote:
...it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.
Peter Dale Scott describes in the linked article quoted from below, the lingering uncertainty over who is actually running the show...
From Japanfocus. and 9/11 Blogger.
...One Congressman explained to a constituent that the provisions of the National Emergencies Act have now been rendered inoperative by COG. If true, this would indicate that the constitutional system of checks and balances no longer applies, and also that secret decrees now override public legislation as the law of the land.
With a few notable exceptions, there has thus far been scant interest in the media and the public in the extraordinary facts that Cheney and Rumsfeld were able to
1) help plan successfully for constitutional modifications, when not in government, and
2) implement these same changes themselves when back in power.
The first of these facts gives us a glimpse of an on-going power realm independent of the publicly acknowledged state. In the words of James Mann, “Cheney and Rumsfeld were, in a sense, a part of the permanent, though hidden, national security apparatus of the United States, inhabitants of a world in which Presidents come and go, but America always keeps on fighting.”50 A CNN Special Assignment assessment of the COG planners was even more dramatic: “In the United States of America there is a hidden government about which you know nothing.”51
What is the first step out of this current state of affairs, in which the constitution appears to have been superseded by a higher, if less legitimate authority? I submit that it is to get Congress to do what the law requires, and determine whether our present proclamation of emergency “shall be terminated” (50 U.S.C. 1622, 2002).
As part of this procedure, Congress should find whether secret COG powers, never submitted to Congress or seen by it, are among “the powers and authorities” which Bush in 2007 included in his prolongation of the 2001 emergency and which are maintained today under Obama.
This is not a technical or procedural detail. It is a test of whether the United States is presently governed by its laws and constitution, or whether, as has been alleged, the laws and constitution have now in places been superseded by COG.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Meanwhile back in America...
It's Black Friday...go get those video games fast!
From Prison Planet.
Will it be like this in another few years?
From Prison Planet.
Will it be like this in another few years?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Jobless America threatens to bring us all down with it
From The Telegraph
A depression may have been averted, but nothing has been fixed. This is the depressingly downbeat message that came across loud and clear from last weekend's annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
By Jeremy Warner, Assistant Editor
Published: 7:40PM BST 11 Oct 2010
The destructive trade and capital imbalances of the pre-crisis era are back, banking reform appears stuck in paralysing discord, public debt in many advanced economies remains firmly set on the road to ruin, and the spirit of international co-operation that saw nations come together to fight the crisis has largely disappeared.
This was not where we were meant to be in tackling the underlying causes of the crisis and returning the world to sustainable growth. Yet beneath this sense of frustration at lack of progress – and at international organisations such as the IMF and the G20 to bring it about - there is an underlying truth that's often left unspoken; many of the problems in the world economy right now are not international at all, but US specific and can only really be solved by America itself.
I don't want to belittle the difficulties faced by some of the peripheral eurozone nations, but in the scale of things they are a sideshow alongside the malaise which has settled on the world's largest economy.
Ignoring the troubled fringe, Europe as a whole is to almost universal surprise starting to look in reasonable shape again, and for reasons that I will come to, Europeans are in any case not nearly as fixated by high unemployment as their American peers...
A depression may have been averted, but nothing has been fixed. This is the depressingly downbeat message that came across loud and clear from last weekend's annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
By Jeremy Warner, Assistant Editor
Published: 7:40PM BST 11 Oct 2010
The destructive trade and capital imbalances of the pre-crisis era are back, banking reform appears stuck in paralysing discord, public debt in many advanced economies remains firmly set on the road to ruin, and the spirit of international co-operation that saw nations come together to fight the crisis has largely disappeared.
This was not where we were meant to be in tackling the underlying causes of the crisis and returning the world to sustainable growth. Yet beneath this sense of frustration at lack of progress – and at international organisations such as the IMF and the G20 to bring it about - there is an underlying truth that's often left unspoken; many of the problems in the world economy right now are not international at all, but US specific and can only really be solved by America itself.
I don't want to belittle the difficulties faced by some of the peripheral eurozone nations, but in the scale of things they are a sideshow alongside the malaise which has settled on the world's largest economy.
Ignoring the troubled fringe, Europe as a whole is to almost universal surprise starting to look in reasonable shape again, and for reasons that I will come to, Europeans are in any case not nearly as fixated by high unemployment as their American peers...
Friday, September 3, 2010
Pain Compliance In U.S. Police State
Oh, you just love the USA don't you now? It's just such a great country. Wave that red, white and blue and do whatever the authorities say and maybe just maybe you won't be tortured. Come sir, we need to take you for an evaluation....ha ha ha....ha ha ha....come little man, you might hurt yourself...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Freedom of Speech? Move Along, Move Along....Images From A "Free" Country
America provides us with images of the cruel shutting down of free speech no matter where on the political spectrum you happen to lie.
This is the reality folks in the good ole US of A. Robocop and 1984 become reality for a largely zombified country located in the western hemisphere. (Thanks to Kushmonster for the tip to the first video)
This is the reality folks in the good ole US of A. Robocop and 1984 become reality for a largely zombified country located in the western hemisphere. (Thanks to Kushmonster for the tip to the first video)
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