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September 28 2011
The Last Psychiatrist -- Finding Existential Solace In A Pink Tied Psycho
'Though narcissism demands the right to self-identify, narcissists are often unable to do so because they don't know what it is they want to be. Who am I? What are the rules of my identity? So people look for shortcuts, like modeling oneself after another existing character. But the considerably more regressive maneuver is to define yourself in opposition to things. What do the protestors want? Can they articulate it meaningfully, not in platitudes or "people over profits" or "more fair income redistribution" soundbites? They can't tell you because they don't know. They can, however, yell at you what they don't like, and the louder they yell it the more they hear it themselves. If I hate the protestors, I'm on Wall Street's side, and vise versa, no further branding, let alone thought, is necessary. And now you have a quick way to decide if you hate me.'Partial Objects -- Protestors Get Maced
'...when the oppressive entity is so poorly defined (e.g. Wall Street, “the banks”, corruption) these protests always and without fail turn into protests against the police. ...iphones at the ready, praying someone maces them so they can get a video out of it. Here’s a clue that this is a pathologic narcissism, the nihilistic kind that 17 yo boys have when they threaten to kill themselves if their girlfriend leaves them: I actually agree with the protestors about Bank of America in principle, but because they are putting their identity ahead of the cause and are making it about themselves, I find myself hating them more than Bank of America. Their arrogance and entitlement drives me away from them, into the arms of their enemies. I’m hardly alone in this. Either they are not aware of this effect, in which case they are merely idiots, or the are aware of this effect and do not care.'September 11 2011
YouTube -- CorbettReport: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
'Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.'
'Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.'
September 03 2011
Partial Objects -- “Florida mandates drug testing for welfare recipients; but only 2% tested positive.” And now the truth:
'2b. “The cost of the drug test is the responsibility of the individual tested.” But if you are clean you get reimbursed. Would you pay to fail?' -- 'The largely irrelevant debate about whether poor people take drugs (yes) or whether this is state intrusion (yes) deliberately avoids exposing the true systemic corruption of the process: commitment not to identifying, and then solving, actual problems; but a society insisting that appearances/narratives/ideology are paramount.'August 26 2011
The Onion -- America Gets Set To Enjoy Month Or So Of Libya Seeming Like Symbol Of Freedom
'“We’ve got a nice four weeks of thinking Libya represents a triumph of liberty before the situation begins to deteriorate and some new form of authoritarianism inevitably asserts itself,” said Michigan-based architect Wes Reinhorn, adding that while he was looking forward to the nation potentially serving as a model for other Arab countries, he would eventually realize the situation in the region was very complex, and any hope he had of Libya transforming things for the better would presumably fade away by October.'July 08 2011
Wikipedia -- Network (film)
Max Schumacher: "You need me. You need me badly. Because I’m your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day." -- Diana Christensen: "Then, don’t leave me." -- "It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. You’re one of Howard’s humanoids. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you."June 10 2011
The Daily Bell -- Arab Awakening Pretext for Wider War?
'...what if the "Awakening" in all of its chaos was meant to set up a more polarized Middle East that would confront Israel in an regional war? We know the elites like to follow the road map of religious texts (which predict this sort of thing) because it provides a kind of cover. (Religious texts in this regard may act as a kind of predictive programming.) A war between Israel and the "rest" of the Middle East might entail nuclear weapons and the amount of people killed would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor skirmishes. Yet, the drumbeat for war continues. And would the result be a resurgent Israel that won new territory through enormously superior firepower? Would such a war, then, put the West in charge of the Middle East in a way it's never been before? Would it provide the fuel for even more Draconian rights crackdowns at home? Would it somehow place the elites closer to their goal of global governance?'May 28 2011
The Daily Bell -- G8 Clarifies Response to Phony Arab Spring
'Dominant Social Theme: Supporting the glorious Arab Spring is important. -- There are five countries that we count as successfully destabilized by the West (America in particular). They are Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt and the Ivory Coast. The money shows where the West wants to go. ...there is a sudden scramble to bankroll efforts to steer these destabilized countries in the "right" direction. This is the stated goal then – regulatory democracies not Islamic republics. It is a predictable dominant social theme. Destabilizations have taken place and the citizenry has been freed! We do not put it past Western elites to be playing an even more subtle game. It is possible that Saudi Arabia is supposed to be destabilized to usher in a non-dollar, global currency. It is possible that the creation of a string of Islamic republics is still the ultimate goal (the better to support the "war on terror"). It is even possible that general chaos and regional war is the preferable outcome.'May 12 2011
Galactic Empire Times -- Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
'CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday. In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that “justice has been done” as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said Kenobi resisted and was cut down by Lord Vader's own lightsaber. He was later dumped out of an airlock.'May 09 2011
The Daily Bell -- Cost of Bin Laden Deception: US$3 Trillion
'Al Qaeda was at least in its initial terrorist stages partially a promotion of Western intelligence; bin Laden was the scion of a family with close business ties to the Bush family and apparently a CIA asset to boot; he was a very sick man a decade ago (at least) and the idea that he survived to 2011 is doubtful in the extreme. There is no doubt the war on terror is a manipulated war. For the elites, money does not matter. They control central banks around the world and can print as much money as they wish and fund whatever programs they wish... The US$3 trillion drained from Western coffers to pursue illusory wars and phantom enemies is in fact a net-positive from the point of view of Western elites. With their fear-based promotions foundering, Money Power has increasingly fallen back on ... authoritarianism. And this means that the world itself must be thrown into chaos and poverty lest the middle classes look too closely at the false narrative being constructed around them.'May 08 2011
The Daily Bell -- Will Bin Laden's Death Justify More War?
'The Anglo-American elite uses war as a main tool of control. But sometimes it is more effective than at other times. We believe that the Western elites may have miscalculated as regards their world-spanning ambitions in large part due to the Internet that is destroying their fear-based schemes as fast as they can be applied. If so, war (society-reshaping war) may not be an option at the moment. A "long war" may be all they can manage (one which involves various societies in low-intensity conflicts over a long period of time), and long wars (as opposed to a 20th century world war) are merely a way of controlling social change, not radically reconfiguring global society. Why settle for a long war? Because the West is topping into the abyss financially and the elite lacks the tools to radically reshape perceptions thanks to the new communications technology. ...the elites are having a good deal of trouble controlling the message these days.'May 05 2011
Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death by Paul Craig Roberts
'How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the "terror mastermind"—who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly—has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight? Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.' -- Riveting tale, chap!Adam Curtis: For 10 years, Osama bin Laden filled a gap left by the Soviet Union. Who will be the baddie now?
'One of the main functions of politicians – and journalists – is to simplify the world for us. But there comes a point when – however much they try – the bits of reality, the fragments of events, won't fit into the old frame. ...the fundamental problem with this simple story of good versus evil is that it does not permit a proper critical framework that allows you to properly judge not only those you are fighting, but also your allies. -- America and the coalition invaded Afghanistan with the simple aim of destroying the terror camps and setting up a democracy that would allow the country to be ruled by good people. But in the ensuing decade they have been tricked, spun round and deceived by the complex web of vested interests there. And their inability to understand and deal with this has led to the rise of a state crippled by corruption in which it is impossible to know who the "good" people might be any longer.' -- YOU
YouTube -- OSAMA DEAD?...NIGGA PLEAZE!!!!!
"Y'all can't take pictures of a nigga that's already dead? You scared he gonna come back and haunt you or some shit?"
"Y'all can't take pictures of a nigga that's already dead? You scared he gonna come back and haunt you or some shit?"
YouTube -- TheAntiTerrorist on 'Osama Proof'
"You're all happy, satisfied, and you're all going to write that in your papers for the rest of the schmucks."
"You're all happy, satisfied, and you're all going to write that in your papers for the rest of the schmucks."
May 04 2011
YouTube -- RT: Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell: 'Globalist threat more dangerous than Bin Laden'
“We have the fundamentalist-driven type of philosophy that is being implemented from within the chambers of the city of London and anchored under the cloak of the Western style of democracy. -- The forces that are on the ground, these globalist forces that have the intent of bringing in line the various nations and states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government, they will continue their efforts, whatever it takes – force or propaganda through the mainstream western media sources or the subversive movements of the CIA... -- Americans should be more concerned with their own government and growing authoritarianism which is mounting within the US and the soft police state that is being imposed."
“We have the fundamentalist-driven type of philosophy that is being implemented from within the chambers of the city of London and anchored under the cloak of the Western style of democracy. -- The forces that are on the ground, these globalist forces that have the intent of bringing in line the various nations and states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government, they will continue their efforts, whatever it takes – force or propaganda through the mainstream western media sources or the subversive movements of the CIA... -- Americans should be more concerned with their own government and growing authoritarianism which is mounting within the US and the soft police state that is being imposed."
YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition: The Bin Laden movie, the animated version
'According to Variety, Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (the Academy Award-winning team of 'The Hurt Locker') have been getting ready for a Bin Laden film. With the recent news event, they have just found themselves an ending for the film!' -- Cool story bro!
'According to Variety, Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (the Academy Award-winning team of 'The Hurt Locker') have been getting ready for a Bin Laden film. With the recent news event, they have just found themselves an ending for the film!' -- Cool story bro!
May 03 2011
RT -- Washington in a frenzy over Pakistan leaving US Empire – investigative journalist [Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell]
“We have the fundamentalist-driven type of philosophy that is being implemented from within the chambers of the city of London and anchored under the cloak of the Western style of democracy. -- The forces that are on the ground, these globalist forces that have the intent of bringing in line the various nations and states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government, they will continue their efforts, whatever it takes – force or propaganda through the mainstream western media sources or the subversive movements of the CIA... -- Americans should be more concerned with their own government and growing authoritarianism which is mounting within the US and the soft police state that is being imposed."March 31 2011
YouTube -- Alex Jones: Al-Qaeda 100% Pentagon Run
'For the average person who has lived through the phony 'War on Terror', a post-9/11 age of fear that has swirled around the persona of bin Laden, it may be quite confusing to now read headlines like Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side. Indeed the rebel forces trying to topple Gaddafi admittedly include thousands of al-Qaeda forces while enjoying total backing – weapons, planes, funding and forces – from the U.S., Britain, NATO and other allies.' -- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four
'For the average person who has lived through the phony 'War on Terror', a post-9/11 age of fear that has swirled around the persona of bin Laden, it may be quite confusing to now read headlines like Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side. Indeed the rebel forces trying to topple Gaddafi admittedly include thousands of al-Qaeda forces while enjoying total backing – weapons, planes, funding and forces – from the U.S., Britain, NATO and other allies.' -- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four
March 30 2011
The Daily Bell -- Darkness of the Royal Wedding
'The public supposedly "demands" these spectacles. But we would argue they would be produced whether the public wants them or not. Surely it occurs to such manipulated people at some point in their mature lives that they are fundamentally expendable? The REAL power elite – a few unfathomably wealth banking families and their corporate and religious facilitators – never orchestrate such shows for themselves. They never have to go through such soul-killing publicity. The logical solution to this sort of painful exposure would be to remove it. But it doesn't happen because the monarchy itself is a dominant social theme and one that is useful to an Anglo-American power elite. The monarchy MEANS something. In fact, it is a kind of elaborate billboard. The Royals are not valuable for themselves but as elaborate metaphorical personifications. They are the message bearers of a certain kind of instruction: Some people are born to rule; others are born to serve.'
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