tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post1973828601765048254..comments2024-03-21T02:23:19.513-07:00Comments on STEVE PIECZENIK <b>TALKS</b>: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-36643700437462166182013-02-14T23:06:43.924-08:002013-02-14T23:06:43.924-08:00"A humanoid devoid of empathy who fakes human..."A humanoid devoid of empathy who fakes human emotions, wreaking havoc & dispair onhumanity."<br /><br />I couldn't have said that better myself.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-24226901490717260632013-02-14T23:00:34.426-08:002013-02-14T23:00:34.426-08:00Dr.P I have to disagree with you regarding Venezue...Dr.P I have to disagree with you regarding Venezuela and Cuba. Cuba was not a "pearl," but a land of squalor, widespread miserable poverty, rape, torture, criminality, and unspeakable suffering. My mentor and buddy CIA counter-intelligence Chief David Strier was there from 1956 to 1958 and actually supported Castro and spoke highly of him until he died in 2004. Cuba after 1959 is no picnic, but much of the suffering is the result of US sanctions and other policies. In Venezuela Chavez is a mixed bag, but if it were not for him the windfall of oil revenues would never have benefitted the citizens as it has. He's a cantancorous personality but there's a reason why he keeps getting re-elected, and he's typical of other populist leaders in Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and other spots which were formerly under the thumb of CIA terror states.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-14266785389284905622013-02-14T22:51:57.697-08:002013-02-14T22:51:57.697-08:00My point is that there was no sound choice. I ag...My point is that there was no sound choice. I agree with Dr.P and Webster Tarpley that the neocons around Romney would have likely started a third world war involving Iran and perhaps Russia and China if Romney had been elected.<br /><br />There were a lot of things about Romney which I prefered, but his allianc with Israel and neocons like the Kagans made him extremely dangerous.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-9559167167497907782013-02-14T13:46:53.019-08:002013-02-14T13:46:53.019-08:00prima facie evidence submitted to the SCOTUS:
LIST...prima facie evidence submitted to the SCOTUS:<br />LISTEN CAREFULLY:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_oPI4I1W8&feature=youtu.bePatriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-88127804715938871382013-02-14T10:58:55.608-08:002013-02-14T10:58:55.608-08:00MITMichael, so voting for Obama was a sound choice...MITMichael, so voting for Obama was a sound choice, that in 20/20 hindsight, would be repeated?<br /><br />As far as people who dream about change, well, you don't know me but I get my hands in it pretty deep from time to time, and I am not referring to voting for Obama, or Romney, or any of these charlatans. You can pretend all day that voting for either one of them matters at this point. If that makes you feel like you are a winner, then go for it.<br /><br />Done with it allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07923190629477497057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-56208906024674605092013-02-14T10:55:12.881-08:002013-02-14T10:55:12.881-08:00Or you can stick to your principals and be ridicul...Or you can stick to your principals and be ridiculed and called a kook, fight the establishment, and embolden others through your failures (if that is the result) to fight as well. Wars can be one while losing most of the battles. Ask George Washington. I guess he should have surrendered after New York was lost. That would seem the practical thing to do.Done with it allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07923190629477497057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-80982518605025121132013-02-14T10:51:32.827-08:002013-02-14T10:51:32.827-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Done with it allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07923190629477497057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-27247736257984100382013-02-14T08:24:39.299-08:002013-02-14T08:24:39.299-08:00Friend there's no conspiracy here. I underst...Friend there's no conspiracy here. I understand that you have your beliefs that there are cabals which rule the world in secret meetings but the clowns like Alex Jones and Lyndon LaRouche who preach this are con men - pure and simple and take it from one who knows Jones' operation in Austin [me] that he's a fake. There is no real evidence of such cabals ruling anything. The "illuminati" doesn't exist, the "Bilderbergs" do nothing but chat, and so forth. That's the reality.<br /><br />No one who actually works in the highest levels of governance, statecraft, finance or other institutions can verify any of these conspiratorial claims because they just aren't there. There are plenty of people who have actually worked in the high levels of things who say that things are completely different.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-84171775260991774982013-02-14T08:18:48.478-08:002013-02-14T08:18:48.478-08:00I can't claim to speak for anyone else but the...I can't claim to speak for anyone else but the difference between people who dream about change and those slugging it out in the real world is that the real guys have learned to make practical choices.<br /><br />It ain't pretty but the real world of human being is what it is and if you have worked in situations where you must show results you get used to making huge compromises.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-54600513428240178322013-02-14T08:15:50.788-08:002013-02-14T08:15:50.788-08:00The idea that better education can improve things ...The idea that better education can improve things is rubbish. The reasons why many kids leave or do poorly is because of their families, not the schools. Furthermore increasing the numbers of people with particular skills only drives down the salaries those jobs can obtain.<br /><br />You can't just look at the few high wage jobs existing and say, "Hey, why don't we train everyone to do those jobs and then everyone will be paid a lot."<br /><br />It doesn't work that way.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-29879164739661374162013-02-14T07:52:04.051-08:002013-02-14T07:52:04.051-08:00Anaconda- You are right about the schools, I agree...Anaconda- You are right about the schools, I agree that a good education can come from many different kinds of academic institutions, many of my smartest, most intelligent friends have been educated at so called "state schools".or the school of life...thanks for the call out. My main beef is lack of real accomplishment, executive leadership.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-24914394580655582562013-02-14T05:53:50.863-08:002013-02-14T05:53:50.863-08:00I'm still stuck on the fact you voted for Obam...I'm still stuck on the fact you voted for Obama. Quite frankly I am stunned you saw fit to vote for either of the clowns running in 2008. How you saw either of these soulless ghouls as viable options for President of this great idea we call America is beyond me. I do enjoy you immensely though. Thank you for my enlightenment in so many areas.Done with it allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07923190629477497057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-16607093015903515872013-02-14T02:54:28.167-08:002013-02-14T02:54:28.167-08:00I'm picking this out of the blog post, but it&...I'm picking this out of the blog post, but it's a recurring theme.<br /><br />"second rate schools"<br /><br />What a stinking, snobbish, pile of bullshit!<br /><br />It's the most over-rated self-important bullshit.<br /><br />By and large, school is what you make it.<br /><br />If America is any example to go by, the track record of elite schools is one of driving the nation into the ditch -- because that's right where we are -- a ditch driven into by a bunch of privileged snobs -- many of them with questionable loyalties, it would seem, given what has befallen the republic.<br /><br />Those first class schools in the Northeast sure are sending out a lot of graduates who gravitate into government leeches and special interest sell outs.<br /><br />We need fresh blood -- not the blue blood of privilege and bloated self-importance.<br /><br />I don't think we would miss much if every Ivy League school fell into the ocean.<br /><br />Give me a state school man with integrity over an Ivy Leager filled with the moral puss of "we know better" and "it's for your own good."<br /><br />Rubio?<br /><br />He's a politician -- no angel for sure. I differ with him on numerous issues and I would not be inclined to vote for him in a primary for a Republican nomination for president.<br /><br />Rubio's senate win is an example of being at the right place at the right time -- that's politics.<br /><br />A lot of politicians are like that, started out as nothing special (local tax collector, that kinda thing), but hit the sweet spot politically, and now are "respected" Congressman or Senators.<br /><br />Attacking Rubio is giving too much credit to a whole slew of other run of the mill politicians.<br /><br />Most are hacks...there are few Statesmen.<br /><br />The whole supposed, "Republicans have a hispanic problem," is overblown.<br /><br />Actually, Three things cost Republicans the presidency (in no particular order):<br /><br />1. Many Americans won't vote for a Mormon.<br /><br />2. Romney was a Wall Street candidate after a Wall Street crisis and economic collapse -- where not a single significant participant in systematic fraud went to jail.<br /><br />3. Romney's war-like foreign policy repulsed working class independents and soft Democrats, even some Republicans, as a war weary nation wasn't enthused by the prospect of war with Iran.<br /><br />But Conservatism Inc. wants Republicans to believe amnesty is a must. No, Republicans need to connect with working class and middle class voters as a result of policies campaigned on and carried out which build jobs -- regardless of race.<br /><br />This is a shallow post.<br /><br />La Raza, "For the race, everything, for those outside the race, nothing"<br /><br />By and large, La Raza is a Democratic Party ethnic idenity, special interest pleader. There are other such groups in the Democratic firmament.<br /><br />Rubio is a gook looking pol (never hurts to have a winning smile in politics), but on a national level is green, still a "rookie" and frankly over-hyped by many in the party.<br /><br />Let the man mature and season.<br /><br />Anacondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522474791573134808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-7931271364140915582013-02-14T01:40:20.931-08:002013-02-14T01:40:20.931-08:00During his Senate campaigh, Rubio was THE Tea-Part...During his Senate campaigh, Rubio was THE Tea-Party Darling, but he did not give the tea party response. Rand Paul did.<br />Why?<br />Because the Tea Party KNOWS HE IS CONSTITUTIONALLY INELIGIBLE to be POTUS. The blasphemy is that the GOP ignored Obama's ineligibiliy (his mother relinquished his citizenship when she married Soetoro. In Indonesia you cannot be a dual citizen),<br />and his true baby daddy is unknown to the public. (I believe it is Malcolm Little Shabazz X; both of the obama girls resemble Malcolm's daughters).<br />that would make Obama eligible and a "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN" AS REQUIRED BY LAW.<br /><br />How can Obama ever admit, his African daddy and folklore biopic is a fraud, Malcolm X is his illegitimate father, and Farrakhan took him under his wing as a surrogate son out of guilt for causing the assassination?<br /><br />Why is he using a social security number of a russian jew, born in 1890, Harrison J. Bounel, listed as the spouse of Michellle Robinson as of 2008?<br />You see, when John Brennan ransacked the passport office in '08, he forgot to mess up Obama's mother's passport file. The prima facie evidence will be now before the US Supreme court on this week Friday, 2-15 in a conference to review cases to be heard.<br /><br />But since the GOP never challenged Obama (because there is an "agreement" upheld in the courts that neither party will challenge the validity of the opposition's candidate OR THE RESULTS OF THE THE ELECTION OUTCOMES!!), they believe they can put forth any candidate they choose as well.<br /><br />There are very few honorable members on both sides. Ted Cruz spoke up about Hagel this week and Nelson (the senile florida Senator )attempted to invalidate him; McCain joined in.<br /><br />Since Rubio's parents were not naturalized as citizens before Marco was born, Marco is not "Natural Born". You must have 2 American citizen parents, a very precise and exceptional requirement to avoid "dual loyalty" in order to be POTUS.<br />His parents were "naturalized" after Marco's birth, which qualifies him for any office as long as he has a selective serice card.<br /><br />By the way, Obama's selective service card dated "80" is a forgery (2 digits as "80" inverted from "2008" and cut "20" off.<br />Postal stamp has never changed: always 4 digits on Selective Service Card. CIA isn't that negligent. That was a Bill Ayers forgery, his forte as a racketeerr and criminal<br /><br />If Obama really registered, his card would read "1980", but I believe he was jumping to Mars in 1980 (Attorney Andrew Basiago claims Bari's mom put him in the DARPA PROGRAM, along with Duggin, (appointed director of DARPA by Obama, but has since resigned for compromising reasons).<br /><br />I BELIEVE IT. After all, mom was CIA: <br />Did you see his "helmet scar" ENCIRCLING THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF HIS SKULL IN THE WELL OF THE HOUSE AFTER THE SOTU SPEECH?<br />That scar looks like he has had implants: His forehead is abutted; and his labiofacial folds look like there is an implant under his nose and around his oral cavity. the musculature is disproportionate to the rest of his face.<br />Obama is not from this world, sorry to have to say it publicly.<br />He is a plant, and a sinister one, a humanoid devoid of empathy, who fakes human emotions, wreaking havoc & despair on humanity;Patriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-1900752089390097242013-02-14T01:05:35.052-08:002013-02-14T01:05:35.052-08:00N A F T A signed by Clinton was purposeful economi...N A F T A signed by Clinton was purposeful economic decline...it took 10 years for China's sweat shops to dominate: no natural fibers; all man-made materials; no leather no wool only acrylic rayon and polyester blends.<br /><br />america's decline is not sociological; it is global governance; instead of elevating poverty to balance the prosperous countries, it is far easier to fall behind and destroy viable industry. ask Obama- he'll be happy to show you how it's done: over-regulation limits employment, limits productivity, limits profits.<br /><br />the Euro was purposeful inflation also.Patriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-24084315574865113222013-02-13T23:49:01.903-08:002013-02-13T23:49:01.903-08:00I meant to say, "classes are NOW adopted, rat...I meant to say, "classes are NOW adopted, rather than "not" adopted.<br /><br />I've really gotta to start proofing this stuff before I hit the button.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-50465448170160239162013-02-13T23:46:49.961-08:002013-02-13T23:46:49.961-08:00Not to put too fine a point on it but it's a l...Not to put too fine a point on it but it's a lot easier to EMPATHIZE with your fellow citizens when they look, speak, and act like you do.<br /><br />The root of the American problem is that fortunate people find it all the more easier to be callous about the less fortunate because it's unlikely that they even look or behave anything like the the priviledged ones.<br /><br />What's going on now is massive social dispair in which personal symbols such as tattoos, which were formerly associated with only the most marginalized class are not adopted by a wider and wider share of the public because they perceive that they identify with being forever prevented from social advancement.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-57257248310614528602013-02-13T23:22:11.200-08:002013-02-13T23:22:11.200-08:00The causes of the crisis are these:
American soci...The causes of the crisis are these:<br /><br />American society has always been characterized by disunity and extreme class conflict. Other industrial nations enjoy far more unity based on common heritages which the various peoples comprising America do not share.<br /><br />Although class indifference/conflict was present as well in other industrial societies, the unifying influences of their common nationalities OVERCAME internal class differences and led to harmonious, functioning societies.<br /><br />In the United States however this never occured. Instead class struggle resulted in extreme forms of class violence including massive labor violence in the years until the Second World War.<br /><br />After the Second World War however all these class and labor conflicts were countervailed by the EXTREME PROSPERITY WHICH ACCOMPANIED AMERICA'S DOMINANT ECONOMIC POSITION IN THE WORLD.<br /><br />However as the US has lost it's comparative and competitive advantages versus other nations, as the US economy has failed to perform as in the past, class conflict has once again emerged in the form of wealthy individuals gaining trememdously while wage-earners are declining materially with less and less opportunity for advancement.<br /><br />These social/economic stresses of the last thirty years, roughly beginning with the end of the Bretton Woods systems and the decline in American trade dominance, is what's at the root of this problem. Or better said the loss of trade dominance has allowed the working classes to sink into social and cultural dispair while the upper classes have become decadent and indifferent.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-69123449174220145982013-02-13T22:28:04.738-08:002013-02-13T22:28:04.738-08:00Yes the Republicans are becoming more and more idi...Yes the Republicans are becoming more and more idiodic and corrupt. Of course they can't hold a candle to the Republican party of the past. The same is true of the Democrats. The current Democratic party is far more moronic and criminal than in the past.<br /><br />So what's going on here?<br /><br />As a MIT/CIA trained student of national character/psychological warfare/popular culture let's look at trends in American popular culture and see if it can tell us anything about the "state" of thing.<br /><br />The PREDOMINATING forms of popular music are devoid of lyrics, non-melodic, and actually non-musical. Predominating themes are egotistical and are narratives portraying the artist as insensitive and overcoming the injuries of living in a malevolent society [e.g. "I can replace you tomorrow," "I don't feel anything,"]. Nowhere in popular music is there "romance" which has predominated music for sixty years. The "ballad" is dead.<br /><br />Television and film - Informational content is gone. The predominating forms are displays of the lives of actual wealthy people with no talent or merit other than being wealthy. Celebrity derives from wealth alone, and popular celebrities have no professions are educations, their vocabulary, habits, etc., are those of their audience members.<br /><br />Print [newspapers/periodicals] declining and almost non-existent. Virtually no public interest in content-driven journalism/investigations.<br /><br />Popular culture also reflects a decline in useable vocabulary and grammar abilities. <br /><br />This culture is in crisis.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.com