Thursday, December 16, 2010

How Can so Many People be so Incredibly Blind?

Dog Poet Transmitting…….

You ask yourself, just how twisted, indifferent and malevolent can some people get before the universe begins to construct an international gallows franchise everywhere there needs to be one. Each day we see unknown wannabees and the usual suspects, vying and competing to see which of them can be registered and remembered as one of the greatest assholes of our time. They’re looking for immortality in all the wrong places, while imagining its location is a suite at The Plaza, followed by a cameo appearance as an ornate urn in the remake of “The Loved One”.

You’ve got Olympics scale competitors, like Janet Nazipolitano and Skull Chertoff. Even their own criminal associates have passed an inflexible law that these two are not allowed to breed. Of course, if you know more about them, you would realize that restriction is unnecessary. There are all kinds of rich people like Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, John McCain and others who weren’t satisfied to just spend their spouses or parent’s money and live high on the cannibal hog. They needed, through some terrible compulsion, to also be able to fuck with the lives of others for personal amusement. Why else would you go into public service if you already possessed the payoff for which people go into public service?

Of course there is the vanity of public exposure and personal importance and when you look and act like the serial killer version of Lyle Lovett or a poor man’s Hannibal Lector in Depends, then I guess Nature is telling you, you gotta do what you were designed to do, badly, or worse. There are a few who go into it just for the celebration of pure evil, like Joe Lieberman or Chuckie Schumer but they got those Satan does vaudeville genes.

Sometimes, I sit back and ask myself; where are and who are the good guys? Maybe Ron Paul is a good guy, maybe. We are damn well going to see whether he is now or not because he is in the catbird seat for where his caterwauling has led him. I guess I’d like him better if he didn’t sound like a perpetual member of the Vienna Boy’s Choir, which leads me to Dennis Kucinich, as a logical progression, I think. I begin to think the testosterone shortage is ubiquitous until I get a load of Jessie Ventura. He could be the real deal if he doesn’t turn into a TV personality to the extent he forgets what he came here for.

Alex Jones is not a good guy and neither is Noam Chomsky. I used to think that Chicago prosecutor might be good guy but apparently not. Back in the day, I thought Bill Clinton was a good guy, just to show you what a Holden Caulfield sort of callow youth I was. When he got chummy with George, (Hail Satan!), Bush Senior, I got the message. I mostly think Jimmy Carter is a good guy but everyone stops short of telling it like it is and most of you who read here and at the other fine emporiums of what’s actually going on, know what it’s all short of. I’m not obliquely referring to Kucinich here so, don’t think that. Get it? Never mind, cue Randy Newman.

There’s a recurrent peculiarity that goes off in my head like an atom bomb, just about every day and that is, how come Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Churchill and everyone else who wrote about their time, never mentioned death camps, gas chambers or crematoriums? How come there was an increase in the population of a certain group from before the war to after the war? How come the Red Cross, which was the most in the know organization of anyone connected with the facts of the war and the camps, has one figure as to the deaths and now we got another figure? Should I go figure? How come the death count at Auschwitz was lowed by 3 million from 4.5 million to 1.5 million by the very people claiming six million and you still get six million? How come all these forensic tests come up with no evidence of mass graves? How come just over one hundred thousand survivors have translated into a present count of from two hundred and fifty thousand to over one million survivors? That’s an impossibility but there it is. I could add all kinds of supportive facts to an argument that I couldn’t be making because it’s against the law but this is not the big ticket item.

What is the big ticket item? No one is saying anything. No one except fringe pariahs like myself and a few others has anything to say about this and even uses the serendipitously, out of the blue, several years on, post war figures (from where?) as a defense for all the vile, genocidal behavior of Israel. That’s the big ticket item. Absolute, easily refuted hogwash is accepted as fact by seemingly intelligent, well educated and powerful political figures.

It’s no wonder they don’t want anyone questioning this because there are too many questions. It’s a strange thing how laws have been passed to prevent discussion of this righteously, questionable event in various countries where no good can be seen to come of it. What is the force behind the scenes here? What force compelled ordinarily rational people to go against their own interests and the interests of their fellows by allowing for evil laws to be passed against the truth? I mean, what force besides that of Satan, who rules the temporal sphere acting on behalf of his progeny? It would have to be money.

Yes folks, its money. Those who print it determine the nature and color of reality. But can there not be even a handful of slightly honest, slightly courageous, people around with some small flicker of integrity left who might say something? Isn’t there some famous and influential person dying of terminal illness somewhere who might speak out from their death bed? What gives? I mean, what gives? I’m missing some hocus pocus somewhere. I know that their near complete control of the press accounts for a blackout on anything approaching wider exposure but there are ways.

This group of latter day Pharisees has got their hand out for every dime they can get their hands on and it’s all based on the same hard wired argument for perpetual victimhood. I understand the victimhood, as an inflexible block against criticism, especially in the light of all those much larger holocausts like the gulags of Soviet Russia, the Ukraine and the Armenian holocausts that they were directly responsible for. I understand that the best way to go around victimizing is to be seen as the victim but… come on, this is beyond absurd that so many people in a position to speak can be so utterly silent.

It must be that when you sell out, a certain switch gets thrown inside your head and you are made incapable of alternative behavior. Is it some pervasive force, of ancient and atavistic evil, that simply clouds the minds of nearly everyone, everywhere? It missed me and it missed a few others. Maybe those tinfoil hats are more effective than we give them credit for.

I really need some answers but, on the other hand, I suspect those answers are coming soon. I scarcely see any of the other bloggers and writers mentioning this. They seem to want to focus on other aspects or other things, without dealing with the real nitty gritty, which is behind all the other shit to begin with. Unless you deal with the cause and not the symptoms, all you are going to get is a questionable state of false well being but you’re still sick, you just don’t notice it as much. Maybe that’s why I never take any of that cold or flu medicine, or ever catch much of anything either. I think there’s a connection between all of it. I think most people get sick because their integrity and courage are too low to protect them from pathological invasion.

There are all kinds of immune systems and some people go to great lengths to prove it. Don’t watch that video it you are squeamish. WARNING! Do not watch that video if you have issues (grin).

I’m putting something together and this is probably the right place to link it, here at the end of whatever this is. Let me hear from you.

In conclusion, all I can say is that a whole lot of you had better grow a pair and to also say that I’m glad I’m not you. I’m a little more like Olaf. There is some shit I just will not eat. Well it didn’t work out so well for Braveheart but the times are certainly changing so we’ll see how it all sorts out because… well, because we are all a part of it and it’s going to become very apparent soon enough.

End Transmission…….

The New Shangri-La

Anti-austerity riots erupt amid Greece strike

ATHENS, Greece — Protesters clashed with riot police across Athens on Wednesday, torching cars, hurling gasoline bombs and sending Christmas shoppers fleeing in panic during a general strike against the government's latest austerity measures.

Police fired tear gas and flash grenades as the violence escalated outside parliament and spread to other parts of the capital.

Angry unions triggered the 24-hour strike to protest new labor reforms and pay cuts as Greece struggles to reshape its economy under conditions set by a euro110 billion ($146 billion) international bailout. The strike also grounded flights, closed factories, disrupted hospitals and shut down trains, ferries and buses across the country.

It was the seventh strike this year by unions appalled at a wave of austerity policies meant to pull Greece out of its worst financial crisis since World War II.

In Athens, youths wearing black masks and ski goggles used sledgehammers to smash paving stones and hurled the rubble at police. A post office near parliament briefly caught fire, forcing employees and bystanders to run for safety.

Christmas shoppers fled as rioters hurled petrol bombs wrapped in bundles of firecrackers, causing small explosions when they landed. Rioting youths torched several cars, overturned trash bins and vandalized storefronts, tossing Christmas decorations into the street.

At least 10 people were detained Wednesday and five were hurt, including a conservative politician who was beaten in the street by protesters. Two people were injured in Athens and three in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, where another anti-austerity protest turned violent.

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Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts And One Possible Unfolding of the Endgame

This seems mildly reminiscent of the setup which Soros and unnamed Swiss parties engaged in when they took down the Bank of England's defense of the British Pound and its official peg to the Euro.

Will the US ultimately feel compelled to defend some of the gold and silver shorts, both in terms of bullion and derivatives, held by its Wall Street Banks? You could allow for the possibility, if you will, that there is a corresponding web of derivatives that has a links, and a possible chokehold, on a few key European institutions, particularly in England and Germany, involving counterparty derivatives and CDS, and collateral damage to professional and political careers. Ugly stuff, rather messy really. But there are historic precedents.

How Asian Buyers Are Maneuvering the Metals Shorts

There should be no confusion that this involves not only a few large Wall Street players, but also elements, past and present, in the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. It makes the unfolding insider trading scandal look like a neighborhood numbers racket.

Therefore we should not discount the possibility that if a default should occur there will be an emotional and political reaction put forward as a means of deflecting the disclosure of the true nature of the financial corruption.

It would be most interesting and possibly entertaining to see if Ron Paul's congressional committee could be able to mount an effective investigation into the matter, or if events will take place to pre-empt and redirect such an inquiry to manage the potential collateral damage to careers and possibly governments, both at home and abroad.

It's never really the act itself, often minor infractions undertaken for practical purposes or what could be rationalized as such by some. Rather it is always the corruption of the policy actions to personal gain, and the subsequent cover-up, that tends to gather substance over time into a first class scandal, acts of felony and high crimes, and all the revelations that follow.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott


« Jon Stewart: Boehner Is Profoundly Retarded, Deficit Monster Is Going To Eat Our Babies (Must See) »


The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Editor's Note - I'm reposting this excellent clip in honor of Boehner's 60 Minutes appearance earlier this week.

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Daily Show Video: Aired Aug. 12, 2010

  • "Republicans don't realize that extending the Bush tax cuts will strengthen the deficit monster that's going to eat our babies."
  • Jon Stewart didn't really know what to say last night about Republicans who complain about the deficit but advocate for renewing the Bush tax cuts. So he turned to House Minority Leader "and retired Syracuse mascot" John Boehner (R-OH) for a solution to the country's economic woes. Boehner has said that "the only way we're going to get our economy going again and solve our budget problems is to get the economy moving."
  • "The only way to get our economy going, is to get it moving?" Stewart asked. "That is either the most profound or most retarded statement I've ever heard. You know what, actually it's the most profoundly retarded statement I've ever heard."

Mission f'ing accomplished. Seriously. And for the record, I could care less about the Bush tax cuts and whether or not they're extended. The top rate has alternated between 36% and 39% for 2 decades, and I honestly don't think it will make much difference if it shifts back to 39%. Shoot me. I believe that tax cuts generally encourage growth, but austerity is finally coming to our shores, and I prefer not to fight something I've been begging for.

Back to the mission. Debt and deficit awareness. That's all it's about. It's why I launched the Bail. I saw the train coming and knew there had to be a site to chronicle, curate, aggregate. And frankly, after worrying about unfunded entitlements for most of my adult life, I am surprised, shocked even at the explosion of awareness in the past 18 months. When John Stewart does a clip mocking deficit fear-mongering and the audience gets it and laughs their ass off, then public awareness has been achieved. Even the kids have figured it out. It's awesome stuff. I'm happy. Two decades I've been waiting for this. Doesn't mean we've won.

So enjoy as Jon Stewart toasts John Boehner for deficit hypocrisy. By the way, the same John Boehner who said last month that the Social Security retirement age needs to be raised to 70 in order to fund the wars. Yes, he said that. As Pitchfork said last night, you have to remember that war funding is more or less equivalent to the $700 billion TARP, each and every year. And just like with TARP, we have little to show for the investment. Wall Street and the defense industry are thriving, just as Bush-Obama would hope, while just about everyone else is sufferring or knows someone who is. And I mean suffering. No job, family to support, few prospects and a hell of a lot of fear and self doubt. That's the aftermath of a 2-decade credit bubble in human terms.

With victory comes hubris, so how about a Friday F You to a few of the architects of our destruction. A large, collective middle finger aimed at Greenspan, Rubin, Summers, Nixon (gold standard), Roosevelt (gold standard), Wilson (Fed creation in 1914), Geithner, Bernanke, Clinton (glass-steagall), Phil Gramm and his wife Wendy, James Cramer, both Bushes, Hank Paulson, Dan Jensen, Stephen Friedman, Joseph Cassano, Obama, Paul Kanjorski, Gingrich, Boehner, McCain, Robert Byrd, Rostenkowski (I have a long memory), Reagan, Tip O'Neil, every single Kennedy ever, Reid, Pelosi, Mary Meeker, Frank Quattrone, Alan Blinder, every talking head who says: "No one saw it coming", the quasi-existent PPT (the FED has 400 traders now -- don't F with me), Ken Lewis, Stan O'Neill, Chuck Prince, that worthless piece of maggot shit John Thain, Dick Fuld, Jimmy Cayne, Neil Kashkari, Judd Gregg, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Paul Krugman. Just for starters.

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Bloomberg Television Exclusive Interview with Ron Paul

« Ireland's Choice: Default Now Or Later? »

By Dr. Pitchfork

If it isn’t clear yet, Ireland will default on its bank guarantee. The IMF bailout of French, German and British banks is more than the Irish economy can afford, and far more than the Irish people are willing to allow.

The austerity program put into place over the last two years in Ireland has been painful and people are angry, but the additional austerity that will come with (let’s be honest and call it what it is) the IMF takeover of Ireland’s budget will be crushing. More budget cuts and higher taxes will be pro-cyclical in the short term and disastrous in the long term. It will depress spending now and pile up huge debts and interest payments for later on -- what Hugh Hendry (after Keynes) refers to as “the economic consequences of the bailoot.” It won’t work. It’s not that the IMF and European politicians are short-sighted, it’s simply that they’re stupid. And even worse than stupid, they think they can control the markets. In fact they’re doing nothing but playing a high-stakes con-game, using obsolete economic models, and hoping against hope to reinflate the bubble just one more time. Bon chance, mis amigos.

Again, the only option -- the only viable option I should say (even if the Cowen’s and Lenihan’s of the world are too thick to see it) -- is to default. We’re not talking, of course, about defaulting on Irish government bonds, but defaulting on the ill-advised bank guarantees that went into place in the fall of 2008.

There has been much talk lately about stopping the “contagion” in Ireland, before it spreads to Portugal, Spain, and God knows where else. But here’s the problem: Additional public debts ARE the contagion. And the bailouts are their conduit. Bailing out “Ireland” has only proven that Europe’s TARP fund is full of holes and was never big enough to cover all the bad debts anyway. Meanwhile, countries like Belgium are starting to whinge. The contagion spreads, not in spite of, but because of the bailout. How long will it take for the markets to figure out that Spain is too big to bail? And what happens when they do? Will the Euro continue its slide against less-indebted currencies?

More importantly, which banks will be dragged down with Anglo-Irish, Bank of Ireland and AIB? And who will be foolish enough to try to bail those banks out? As Chuck Prince has shown us, at some point the music will simply stop. This time, everyone except the central bankers seems to know that the bailout waltz is winding to a close, but who or what will be left standing is another question altogether.

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Jimmy Rogers explains how the situation should have been handled...

More detail on this clip is here:

Even better, Rogers never mucks around with airtime. This is a solid 2 minutes of pain for bank-bullshitting fear mongers on both sides of the Pond.

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« Video: Bill Clinton Returns To White House Stage And Won't Leave As Obama Departs For Christmas Party »

There's a lot in this post. Short highlight clips plus video of the complete press conference, and multiple links on the growing backlash against the Obama tax bill as it heads to the House.

My thoughts on the tax cut bill are here...

And here...

I would have no objection to the 2-year extension had it been paid for - balanced by commensurate cuts in federal spending. The Pentagon would be a good place to start. But there were no spending cuts. Congress couldn't find the courage. So the tax cuts should have been allowed to expire.

The 2-year increase to the deficit because of the extension will be approximately $700 billion, about the price of TARP. The easy fix, that won't hurt anyone but the military, is to cut the Defense budget by 50% over the next 5 years.

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Now onto the Bill Clinton show...

Funny mash-up - Runs 1 minute

"Tough" off-prompter questioning and Michelle's incessant party demands cause Obama to surrender the Presidency to Bill Clinton.

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Video - Clinton says Dems should support tax deal - Runs 1 minute

December 10, 2010 -- Bill Clinton joined President Obama at a press conference where he urged the Democrats in Congress to cooperate to extend tax cuts, saying "I believe this will be a significant net plus for the country."

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Good summary clip - Runs 2 minutes

The 15 Senators who had the guts to say 'NO' to bankrupting America...

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The complete press conference - Runs 30 minutes

Watch the first 30 seconds so you can see how Obama strolls onto the stage, and then Obama's departure starting at 10:45.

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Recent updates on the Obama tax bill...

"The sand is shifting under this very fast," said Craig Shirley, a Washington consultant who advises the Tea Party Patriots among other groups. "If it doesn't get voted on soon, it could get voted down."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/tax-bill-now-its-the-tea-_n_796849.html

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Mitt Romney disses tax deal

http://news.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20101215mitt_rom

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Will the Tea Party Punish GOP for the Tax-Cut Deal?

"The GOP is going to pay dearly," says Colleen Conley, president of the Rhode Island Tea Party, "for so quickly forgetting that the people want deficit reduction and limited government."

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2036857,00.html#ixzz

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Kill The Deal

Some in the GOP are arguing that they will have time to make up for this sin or for what is at best a hand badly played. But as Mark Meckler of TeaPartyPatriots.org said on my radio show yesterday, the voters never forgot or forgave TARP, and unlike TARP, there is no financial crisis driving the rush to vote for this deal.

http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2010/12/09/kill_the_deal/page/full/

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Tea Party Patriots compares tax deal to TARP, warns of ‘House cleaning’

http://www.americanindependent.com/161367/tea-party-patriots-compares-tax-deal-to-tarp-warns-of-house-cleaning

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Say NO to the Obama Tax Compromise! - Sign The Petition

http://www.notaxcompromise.com/

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« Deficit Giveaways Turn Obama GOP Tax Cut Bill Into 'Christmas Tree' - CBO Estimates $858 Billion Cost For JUST Two Years »

http://dailybail.com/home/deficit-giveaways-turn-obama-gop-tax-cut-bill-into-christmas.html

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« Bernie Sanders On Tavis Smiley - Bush Tax Cuts »

http://dailybail.com/home/bernie-sanders-on-tavis-smiley-bush-tax-cuts.html

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And finally...

The 15 Senators who had the guts to say 'NO' to bankrupting America...

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