Remember that when the government comes calling. If they say they want to help and they only offer you $290 billion or some bullcrap number like that, you stand proud and tell the government, “I didn’t work my ass off behaving so irresponsibly as to bring our nation’s economy to the brink of disaster just so you could call me a slut!” The government will apologize and it will let you know how much you mean to it by offering you another $10 billion. “You’re worth it,” the government will say, brushing a tear from your cheek. “You’ve always been worth that much to me.”
Moi, the Hedonistic Pleasureseeker, is fussy about my water.
I usually drink distilled water or spring/mineral water as I refuse to suffer the proven adverse mental health effects of fluoridated tap water. Yesterday I was overjoyed to discover that the township that I live in does not fluoridate it’s water supply. WOOT!!!
Unfortunately, between 60 and 70 percent of the country is not so fortunate. Americans are more likely to encounter fluoridated water in large towns and cities than in smaller, outlying townships. Since most of humanity clusters in urban areas guess what? Unless you take special efforts to remove the additives from your water you’re probably drinking crap, and a Brita filter won’t cut it, either. No matter what the ads tell you, the filters you buy at the store WILL NOT remove fluoride from your tap water.
So what’s wrong with fluoride? I’m glad that you asked.
Calcium fluoride is naturally present in some mineral waters and even some foods, but that’s not the chemical you should be worried about, because what’s being put in America’s water supplies is not calcium fluoride. Do a little digging and you’ll discover that it’s something much, much worse. In fact, the so-called “fluoride” being dumped in 60-70% of our drinking water is so poisonous that only a few parts per billion are apparently enough to lower our children’s IQs. Influential operatives sliming the corridors of power have known this all along, which TOTALLY pisses me off, SO . . . Full report after the jump, and it’s NOT a Hedonistic Pleasure.
Stewart: Do you watch the news that we’re watching?
Logan: No
Stewart: In the United States? Do you see what we’re hearing about the war? So, we might actually know everything?
Logan: If I were to watch the news that you hear in the United States I’d just blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts.
(WILD APPLAUSE)
This is the interview that earned Lara Logan the relentless mainstream media smearfest taking place right now. “What? She’s not a virgin?” The douchebag media moguls are punishing her for telling the truth of how morally bankrupt we’ve ALL become, thanks to THEM. That’s right: Our shitty, treasonous, useless mainstream media. Logan called them out, and now she’s getting “the business.” Like we care about the sex lives of war correspondents; It was a freaking war zone for chrissakes.
Tonight on the way home from work I was listening to NPR (XM Radio) and they were gassing about how “awful” it was that the world of print media was disappearing. Here the MSM thought they had us all under control! Yet we just bypassed them by going to the internet. WAH. Well boo fucking hoo! The MSM assclowns have no one to blame but themselves. There will be a PARTY AT MY PLACE! if corporatist ass kissing newspapers begin to fall like dominoes and the “news” programs on television fade into irrelevance.
Now, pay attention: The Fourth Estate failed us by failing to hold our government accountable, so why are we giving them our money? When we all “switch to digital” next year, consider just letting your television go blank! Use it to watch DVDs instead, and get your news and entertainment from outlets that deserve your business. I’ll be canceling my cable this weekend, and I’ve already canceled the newspaper I’d only just begun to receive. Die, mainstream media motherfuckers, just DIE already. We won’t miss you.
(Yeah, I have PMS. Two senators got email from me today, but just wait until I get these media people on the phone! Some words just need to be spoken.)
NeoCons are more than just evil: They’re also a bunch of cowards.
Several alternative news sites, news aggregators and web logs critical of U.K., European, U.S. and Israeli governments are frequently hacked or victims of Denial-of-Service attacks. These onslaughts are so pervasive, large-scale and aggressive that they are likely financed by people with very deep pockets: Either the governments themselves, their private sector puppeteers, or their hired henchmen.
(What we call NeoCons here in the U.S. are called NeoLiberals in the U.K. I suppose that in this context “neo”= “new” = “has nothing to do with the original.” Basically, they are all frauds.)
In my opinion, frequent cyberattacks are a pretty good indicator that these news and opinion sites are telling the truth: Why else would such extreme efforts be put into shutting down the discourse or silencing free speech? What are the financiers of these hacking attempts afraid of?
Think about it: If the information posted at these alternative sites is misguided or incorrect, honest representatives of the blameless governmental body should counter with: “You are mistaken, here is the truth, and here are the links to our evidence.” Why? Because it’s the cheapest, most effective way to counter an unfavorable message with a better one. It takes an awful lot of money, time and people-power to just plain shut down the opposition.
Bottom line: NeoCon attempts to stifle alternative websites are pathetic and will fail in the long run. NeoCons may be evil, sneaky and rich, but they are outnumbered by regular folks hellbent on telling the truth.
This is the trailer for a new documentary, produced by Canadians, about resisting the North American Union (NAU). If you’ve not been paying attention, the NAU is the globalistas’ plan to merge the US with Canada and Mexico, into one Superstate, much like the European Union that the Irish want no part of. Canadian citizens are not thrilled by this plan and who blames them? They see what Bush has done to this country; why would they want to live in an American police state where they have no rights? And where will OUR young men run to get away from the draft, if we turn into one big police state? Siberia?
Anyway. Check it out: Notice how anti-NAU activists exposed the agent provacateurs at the Montecello summit (they were undercover police), simply by confronting them and ordering them to take off their masks and show their faces.
That’s how you do it, folks! This is a stealth coup that can only be stopped using the weapon of EXPOSURE.
The Security and Prosperity people meet in secret. This is because the SSP is about THEIR security and prosperity at OUR expense (literally and figuratively). They don’t reveal their activities. Many of the operatives don’t even reveal their own names. And Congress? Congress is also kept in the dark.
What to do, what to do? We can do is root out the conspiracy, trumpet out the facts and ask the Canadian, U.S. and Mexican populations: Is this what WE the PEOPLE want? If the answer is “yes,” then I’m pretty sure We the People would like a voice in how to implement it. If NO, then case closed, because governments serve at the whim of the people, not the other way around. Sometimes our governments need to be reminded of this.
I love Schoolhouse Rock! If it weren’t for the producers of these videos I’d know NOTHING about American history. Seriously, Americans: Did your primary school education do American history justice? Mine neither, but at least I had Schoolhouse Rock. This one is my favorite, “Preamble:”
(Fox News closes the barn door after the livestock escapes)
To find out what’s really going on in the economy, the LAST place you want to look is the mainstream news channels! Two places I like to visit are shadowstats.com to see how the U.S. Government “lies with statistics,” and the Daily Reckoning to laugh at the Mogambo Guru’s rants.
Here’s something interesting: Three market crashes,including the one we are presently suffering, superimposed. During the bubble periods shown here stocks rose more than 350% in 6 years. During the crash the market fell more than 50% in 3 years. After the crash markets were volatile for at least 10 years.
Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve’s credibility crumbles
US central bank accused of unleashing an inflation shock that will rock financial markets, reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall “below zero”.
“We’re in a nasty environment,” said Tim Bond, the bank’s chief equity strategist. “There is an inflation shock underway. This is going to be very negative for financial assets. We are going into tortoise mood and are retreating into our shell. Investors will do well if they can preserve their wealth.”
Barclays Capital said in its closely-watched Global Outlook that US headline inflation would hit 5.5pc by August and the Fed will have to raise interest rates six times by the end of next year to prevent a wage-spiral. If it hesitates, the bond markets will take matters into their own hands. “This is the first test for central banks in 30 years and they have fluffed it. They have zero credibility, and the Fed is negative if that’s possible. It has lost all credibility,” said Mr Bond.
What is common knowledge among the Seekers is FINALLY seeping into the mainstream: Some illegal drugs are actually GOOD for you. The medical and psychological benefits of marijuana, ecstacy and psilocybin mushrooms FAR outweigh their drawbacks. Welcome aboard the Clue Train.
That the Associated Press would publish such an article, and that mainstream “controlled opposition” political blogs like the Huffington Post would happily spread the word, tells me that the New Powers that Be are an entirely different breed of overlords. Either that or the same old plutocrats are just settling down and thinking about life, death, God, spirituality, and meaning. Either way good for them, BUT!!! I have a better idea for the world than just passing around a pot of tea that tastes like poo.
Patton arrived in the United States on Monday, May 5, 2008, accompanied by SPCA International’s Terri Crisp. He is just a small 13 lb puppy even though his Tanker unit has been caring for him since February. Patton was greeted at Dulles International Airport by SPCA International staff, volunteers and another SPCA International Iraq rescue, Thor.
Patton was found while his soldier’s tanker unit was en route back to their Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Iraq. The tanker unit saw what looked like a piece of plastic by the side of the road. They approached the small object cautiously, but soon realized it was just a tiny puppy and not a piece of plastic. The puppy was so small he looked like he had just been born. His eyes hadn’t opened yet and he was covered in fleas. The unit of soldiers could see that he would not survive long without some really special TLC. The soldiers could not resist helping the defenseless puppy in need. They brought him back to the FOB and made a makeshift nipple out of a latex glove. The whole unit helped care for the puppy as they carefully nursed him for two weeks. They made a bed for him in a box with a heating pad and cover to protect him. After two weeks, his eyes began to open. “Ah, he was a cute one,” said his soldier, Derrek.
Since Derrek is part of a tanker unit, they decided to name the dog Patton after General George S. Patton who commanded the first Tanker Corps. in WWI among his many other great military successes in WWI and WWII. Soon, Patton started riding in their tanks while the unit went out on patrol. Derrek explains, “At the time, he was small enough to fit in my tank commander’s curtain. He liked the vibrations from the tank. He slept like a little baby should, despite the horrid noise.” When asked about how he feels about Patton’s rescue Derrek replied in an email, “I am extremely happy to be getting him home. LOL. He will be home before me! Ain’t that somethin’? I want him out of here. Trust me, anyone that knows this dog will remember him forever. ”Then Derrek added, “Thank you for helping me get him home. I am very thankful for you all at SPCA International. You all are the bomb!”
Coming soon! Sweet Revenge in the form of an IMF led investigation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
If you’re not reading international newspapers in addition to your more mainstream local fare, I guarantee you have NO idea what’s going on in America. The United States doesn’t have reporters; it has court stenographers. We haven’t had a free press since World War II. To find out what’s really happening, you need to see what foreigners are saying about us, and then take heed.
WEST WING
The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve
By Gabor Steingart in Washington
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power . . .
. . . For seven years, U.S. President George W. Bush refused to allow the IMF to conduct its assessment. Even now, he has only given the IMF board his consent under one important condition. The review can begin in Bush’s last year in office, but it may not be completed until he has left the White HOuse. This is bad news for the Fed Chairman.
If I were Ben Bernake I’d just step down now and let some other douchebag take the fall. Bernake didn’t start this quiet war on the American public. He joined late in the game and was given his orders, and he’s been a good soldier for the Reich. Unfortunately for him, however, he’ll be the one left holding the bag when the whole mess is documented and finally presented to the world.
(Priceless: A creative and entertaining protest at a Halliburton shareholders meeting, the year Halliburton moved it’s headquarters to Dubai. Great soundtrack!)
UPDATE!!! The military activity may have been no more than dickwaving during a highly tense day when the Bush/Cheney/Clinton crime family was caught raiding the cookie jar (at a bank in Ireland), and subsequently forced to give up their Bad Man Ways. Whatever happened that day appears to have triggered the massive international settlement process that’s been dragging ass for decades. From World Reports:
SETTLEMENT PROCESS TRIGGERED BY LAST WEEK’S EVENTS
BRUSSELS, 24th June: The ‘happenings’ that took place during the week ending 20th June 2008 finally triggered the Settlements payment process. They also reconfirmed that Bush, Cheney and the other criminalist operatives never had the slightest intention of paying out a single cent, while at the same time raiding the funds as often as they could for self-enrichment purposes, to restore the Bush Crime Family’s decimated finances, and to sustain the spigot that is used to finance the World Revolution, and the secret financing of the world governance structures, and to finance the secret projects of the US Intelligence and Military Power apparats, as well as covert operations in Iraq and elsewhere by the oil corporations and their associates.The most senior tier of payments, to the 160 countries, was completed on Saturday 21st June 2008. On Tuesday 24th June, a certain ‘licensed’ US information source mentioned that money was being pulled out of banks in New York City. Specifically, Wayne Madsen reported:
‘[Our] United Nations sources report that there has been a sudden rush in requests for foreign exchange wire transfer requests from the New York City banks’.'The sudden demand for transferring funds abroad has resulted in a 24-hour to 48-hour processing delay due to the sheer volume of requests’.
‘Foreign employees at the United Nations are transferring their money from accounts at the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) and other New York City banks, both domestic and foreign-owned, and the move has been sudden’.
‘There has been no explanation for the sudden wire transfer activity, although the [US] rumor mill suggests fears of a sudden economic collapse and/or a US and Israeli military attack on Iran, which could touch off a wider regional conflict’.
The rumour mill was talking rubbish, illustrating how crass and inaccurate it usually is. The reason for the sudden surge in requests for foreign exchange wire transfer requests was that the country payees had at long last received their payments and were now transferring their funds out to their respective governments and central banks.
Is this GOOD news? Well, it is good for people in 160 countries! Other payments to the aggrieved are being paid out of these 160 new accounts, so the U.S. will also be effected. Some of these settlements go back to the U.S. Farm Claims lawsuits, back in the 80’s. I know nothing about the matter I was just a kid back then . . .
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Well! I guess I need to start a new category, since there seems to be a lot of this going on: From behind the Wayne Madsen Report subscription wall, United Nations sources are reporting a sudden rush in requests for foreign exchange wire transfers out of New York City banks. The move is sudden and without explanation.
Are mass transatlantic flights out of the U.S. next? What’s about to hit the fan?
Things that make you go HMMMMMMMM. Last year I moved Bunny’s college fund into gold and silver, and my own retirement account into international stocks, because I knew “it” - whatever “it” was - was going to hit the fan eventually. It’s a wonder our Corporatist Overlords managed to kick-the-can down the road for this long.
Bets, anyone? Stock market crash, false flag terrorist attack on “Das Homeland,” (wince) war, or both? For what it’s worth, Wall Street has been buzzing ALL DAY about an Israeli attack on Iran, which IMHO would be a colossally STUPID thing to do. Why? Because Russia will come to Iran’s defense, and then the U.S. will come to Israel’s defense, and then - BLAMMO! Bye bye Tel Aviv, bye bye Fifth Fleet, bye bye American soldiers in Iraq, bye bye what’s left of our civil liberties and our prosperity.
UPDATE: Ham radio operators worldwide were picking up extremely high level encrypted military transmissions from the U.S. and Soviet controlled territories last Friday. Reportedly things have settled down, so . . . ? Why the U.N. bank run now?
Sitting ducks. All of us, everywhere in the world, but what can we do? Let us pray that it’s a false alarm, get drunk, screw, and listen to the Steve Miller Band. Hit it!
“Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. And then we assign a word to a thought, and then we’re stuck with a word for that thought, so be careful with words.”
- George Carlin
Sepinwall on TV: George Carlin, 1937-2008: A man of many words
by Alan Sepinwall/The Star-Ledger
Monday June 23, 2008, 2:36 PM
Twelve hours after comedian George Carlin died Sunday of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital, a Google search of recently-updated pages to feature the phrases “George Carlin” and “passed away” drew more than 6,000 hits. If there’s an afterlife and Carlin is up there looking down at us, he’d be . . . well, first, he’d be surprised . . .
At a site called Deep Capture - yes, Deep Capture - Byrne and his fellow theorists recently published a nearly 40,000-word treatise detailing his claims that Wall Street, the Wall Street press, Wikipedia, and the Russian mafia have conspired to cover up an illegal stock market manipulation scheme of unprecedented proportions. If you can find a clever way of exposing this sordid tale to the masses, the world’s most entertaining CEO will pay you as much as $30,000.
(HPS Note: The original article was found at the UK Register. How interesting: It’s written by a dude who lives in San Diego.)
In case some of you are too young to remember what Herbert Hoover’s FBI did back-in-the-day:
(1) Developed 500,000 domestic intelligence files on citizens,
(2) Assisted CIA in opening and photographing at least 250,000 first class letters and producing a computerized index of nearly 1.5 million names,
(3) Opened and photographed 130,000 first-class letters in eight cities,
(4) Assisted National Security Agency in obtaining millions of private telegrams under a secret arrangement with three telegraph companies,
(5) Forced Internal Revenue Service to develop 11,000 files on “political enemies”,
(6) Prepared a list of 26,000 people to be rounded up in case of a “national emergency”,
(7) Assisted Army in preparing intelligence files on an estimated 100,000 Americans
. . . and the list goes on. Are we having FUN YET?
Obama’s support for the FISA “compromise”
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday June 21, 2008 09:53 EDT
In the past 24 hours, specifically beginning with the moment Barack Obama announced that he now supports the Cheney/Rockefeller/Hoyer House bill, there have magically arisen — in places where one would never have expected to find them — all sorts of claims about why this FISA “compromise” isn’t really so bad after all. People who spent the week railing against Steny Hoyer as an evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration — or who spent the last several months identically railing against Jay Rockefeller — suddenly changed their minds completely when Barack Obama announced that he would do the same thing as they did. What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good.
Accompanying those claims are a whole array of factually false statements about the bill, deployed in service of defending Obama’s indefensible — and deeply unprincipled — support for this “compromise” . . .
Glenn Greenwald was once a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: “How Would a Patriot Act?” (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration’s use of executive power, and “A Tragic Legacy” (June, 2007), which examines the Bush legacy. His most recent book, “Great American Hypocrites”, examines the manipulative electoral tactics used by the GOP and propagated by the establishment press, and was released in April, 2008, by Random House/Crown.
HOUSE JOINT RES 1089
Claiming sovereignty under Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; and directing distribution.
A giant, voracious subspecies of pork-barrel patronage and crony capitalism inhabiting the Lone Star State. Will thrive in a climate of apathy, or when ignored by citizens, who are unwittingly consumed.
Riiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggghhhhhhht. OK. “Trans Texas Corridor,” then. It’s a distinction without a difference. The TTC contract has already been awarded to Cintra, an enormous conglomerate based in Spain.
Meanwhile the superhighway plotters were seizing private property using Eminent Domain procedures, buying up the community newspapers along the planned highway in order to stifle dissent, and even breaking ground and beginning construction in some places. Check here for an archive of NAFTA and associated global transportation news.
No matter how you may personally feel about the concept of trans-continental corridors, you must at least recognize that our corporatist/globalist overlords are a bunch of lying assholes. Personally, I believe that no trans-continent superhighway or rail system is by itself a bad thing. What’s reprehensible is that the corporatists are implementing their Master Plans without the knowledge or consent of the people affected by them, which is by definition unAmerican. It is fascism, this merging of corporate and government interests, with top-down decisions screwing over the citizens whose needs, desires and opinions are neither solicited nor addressed.
(The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker is in favor of sustainable development, but hates that otherwise noble environmentalist concepts and concerns are being cynically used to force a global control agenda.)
Through the cynical use of the concept of Sustainable Environmentalism, people’s property, their liberty and their lives become subordinate to corporatist manipulation. The central purpose behind today’s environmental scares and how they tie in with NAFTA,“Deep Integration” and the Security and Prosperity Program, to create a government controlled society. Sustainable Development, founded and funded by the elites in the Club of Rome, is the synthesis of the ARTIFICIAL dialectic between the right and left “wings” of American politics. SINCE THE DIALECTIC IS ARTIFICIAL, THE SYNTHESIS IS NOT REALLY NECESSARY!!!
Considering how governments FUCK UP just about everything they touch, one would think We the People would have a problem with fascist control, yes?
(We the People don’t like TYRANTS. We the People think TYRANTS deserve to be eaten by fire ants.)
The Oklahoma State Senate voted to recall a bill that would have further facilitated plans for the NAFTA Superhighway to run through the state. There were fears that parts of Bill 1507, which dealt with Foreign Trade Zones, were tied to the superhighway which is to extend from Mexico to Canada. There were also concerns that this would lead to private property seizures through eminent domain. This is already taking place in parts of rural Texas with the construction of the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), which is to be the first leg of this superhighway infrastructure.
Some have argued that Bill 1507 would have allowed for the creation of foreign owned smart ports. This would have allowed for imported goods to pass through the U.S./Mexican border without going through customs until Oklahoma. This follows in the same line as other proposed inland ports, such as the one in Kansas City. The NAFTA Superhighway will be a borderless open transportation system that will further facilitate the flow of cheap goods from China. Oklahoma has already passed legislation to stop the TTC from coming through the state.
The NAFTA Superhighway is the necessary infrastructure needed for the creation of a North American Union. It will serve as a highway for cheap Chinese goods and cheap labor from Mexico and Latin America. It will untimely benefit multinational corporations, who view borders as barriers to trade and greater profits. Last year, Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., introduced a House resolution that stated congressional opposition to the construction of a superhighway or entry into North American Union.
The link from the Mexican border to Oklahoma is to be the highest priority, and has been branded the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC). If completed, it would encompass more than 4,000 miles. It is being financed by the Spanish company Cintra, who will lease and operate it as a toll road. It is set to have 1,200-foot corridors with separate lanes for passenger vehicles and large trucks, and room for future upgrades. Opposition to the TTC is growing, and for the second straight year, ranchers and other opponents marched on the Texas state capital in protest. Some might recall that in a blatant effort to try and stifle opposition, a company with close ties to Cintra purchased many local newspapers from towns that fall in the TTC’s path. The TTC is part of the NAFTA Superhighway, and is proof of further integration into a North American Union.
The recalling of this bill by the Oklahoma State Senate is another small and maybe even temporary victory in the struggle to stop the NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union. Nevertheless, it is encouraging that citizens concerns in regards to this issue are being echoed by more and more legislators. Many states have already passed anti-North American Union and anti-NAFTA Superhighway resolutions. The NAFTA Superhighway is a threat to private property, our sovereignty, and security.
Patton was found while his soldier’s tanker unit was en route back to their Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Iraq. The tanker unit saw what looked like a piece of plastic by the side of the road. They approached the small object cautiously, but soon realized it was just a tiny puppy and not a piece of plastic. The puppy was so small he looked like he had just been born. His eyes hadn’t opened yet and he was covered in fleas. The unit of soldiers could see that he would not survive long without some really special TLC. The soldiers could not resist helping the defenseless puppy in need. They brought him back to the FOB and made a makeshift nipple out of a latex glove. The whole unit helped care for the puppy as they carefully nursed him for two weeks. They made a bed for him in a box with a heating pad and cover to protect him. After two weeks, his eyes began to open. “Ah, he was a cute one,” said his soldier, Derrek.
