At the risk of being told (again) that I need to get a tune up of my tinfoil hat, I'm going out on a limb to send you here to see an inappropriately funny and under 5 minutes explanation of why I believe our government is lying to us about 9/11.
Next, I'd suggest you go here to view another video in which we discover that a German company, under contract to the Department of Defense, documented that just before 9/11, over $100 million in short sales of the companies who would lose the most value as a result of the attack on the World Trade Centers. Oddly, the 9/11 commission never addressed that evidence, nor did anyone ever look into just how so many people knew that airline stocks, insurance company stocks, financial company stocks, etc., would so precipitously drop in September, 2001.
Finally, you might have a look at this one, to see why exactly we never hear about this stuff on the mainstream media.
So now, if your tinfoil hat also needs some adjusting, you might begin to question whether, in light of the fact that we have yet, ten years and two wars later, never gotten a straight answer from our own government about what happened to get several thousand Americans killed on 9/11, you might also begin to doubt the veracity of the current drama in which we are to believe that a used car salesment and a Mexican drug cartel conspired to kill a Saudi diplomat on American soil--a plot twist which Hillary Clinton is sure that 'you can't make up.' You might even think that the only real conclusion about the whole situation is that our government is lying to us AGAIN.
And if you don't think that, please give me a call about a lovely piece of oceanfront property I've got for sale in Arizona.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Why The Government Is Trying to Start a War With Iran
And it ain't because of some middle aged used car salesman who was set up by a paid government informant in a bomb plot. It's been planned for ten years! Watch.
Suppose we ought to do something to stop them before they get WWIII going? Perhaps, since it's not going to be the old farts in Congress whose kids are going to get blown to smithereens.
Suppose we ought to do something to stop them before they get WWIII going? Perhaps, since it's not going to be the old farts in Congress whose kids are going to get blown to smithereens.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
And Now a Word
Not a word from our sponsors, since I don't have any--just a word--a word that will come to mean everything some time soon. The last few weeks, I've been posting about things that I hoped would poke and prod you enough to make you rethink some of the things we've all believed were true, or at least to start looking into them yourselves. Stuff that leads someone of even moderate intelligence and skepticism (and I'm sure you're all above average in both) to think that perhaps we've been hornswoggled, as they used to say in the Westerns.
My initial reaction to such things when I have learned about them would have to be censored even on late-night television. To put it mildly, I was pissed. As I've shared recently, I always had a fairly high regard for America and Americans. Of course there have been times when I didn't like what I saw, but overall, I believed in our system and our ideals.
Trouble is, lately it has been becoming increasingly clear that both the system we thought we were operating under and the ideals we thought were being upheld on our behalf were equal parts smoke, mirrors, and BS. Over the last year or two, I've realized for the first time that our problem isn't one side or the other, but both sides being corrupted in a very systemic and intractable way. No one's been considering whether our collective resources should buy guns or butter (for those of you who took Econ 101), but merely how to get all the guns and all the butter under the narrowest control in the shortest time possible.
We've all been, for quite some time, riding a train that doesn't exist--an illusion. We've thought that our train, the economic and political system, is incompetent, stupid, and wasteful--if it were a movie, it would be called The Three Stooges Run a Country-starring Executo, Legislato, and Judicio. In truth, it seems that our system is quite competent, pretty clever, and very efficient. It's just that it's trying to accomplish different goals than the ones it tells us it's trying to accomplish.
For example, if the last few years were a government trying to keep an economy growing, reduce unemployment and make regular people more prosperous, it has quite obviously sucked at it. But it has been amazingly competent if, as I now believe, it has been working to scare people so that we will focus on their game of economic collapse and doomsday three-card-monty while they work on their real goal, which was to make history's largest transfer of wealth to the wealthiest among us, grow the government to the point where it tells us what we're allowed to eat, drink, and think, suspend civil liberties we were told were "inalienable," and position our military industrial complex to take control of the most desireable and valuable resources throughout the world. Capiche?
Ok, now here's the hard part--before anyone thinks I'm advocating anything to do with torches, pitchforks, or hoisting anyone on pitards. It's happening because WE are making it happen. Just like the serial battered woman keeps finding guys who beat her until she fixes her own emotional problems, we're getting this result because collectively we have valued money and power and our own comfort over the common good. We've ignored the plights of the rest of the world so long as we have our Xboxes and plasma screens. We've ignored the damage we're doing to our environment so we can keep driving SUVs and consuming plastic junk wrapped in plastic. We've ignored investigative reports that tell us all the ways our government is corrupt by blaming it on "gotcha journalism" or the evil "other party."
We've stuck our noses firmly in front of our Jersey Shore and our Farmville to keep from looking around at all the neon signs pointing at the fact that something has gone terribly wrong. We've turned up our I-pods and smart phones to keep from hearing the voice in our heads that's telling us it's time to smell the coffee. Last week, our government openly and triumphantly announced it assasinated an American citizen without even a trial, much less a finding of guilt, and when I looked at the comments on the mainstream news web article about it, there were at least as many saying that the guy deserved it because the government said he was a terrorist as there were saying it was wrong. As a country, we have decided it's perfectly ok for our government to kill us, as long as they call us a bad name first.
So now the word. The word is Love. Not the smooshy, teenage, TV show, or sexual variety, but the real thing. The kind that means that the system doesn't work for us until or unless it works for others too. The kind that makes us do unto others as we'd have them do unto ourselves. The kind that doesn't allow for the "screw the other guy-I've got mine" mentality that we Americans have elevated to an art form.
It is my firm belief that the wheels are quickly coming off our illusionary train. Every day, if you look, there's disclosure of another way we've been laboring in delusion--missing trillions in budgets, protests, scandals, abuses, conspiracies, plots, exposures of lies and omissions. Some--maybe even most--are starting to see the man behind the curtain who's operating this great and powerful wizard that has bullied and threatened and cajoled and stolen its way to dominance in this world. Many are beginning to see that our country has become more about stealth and secrecy and lies than about truth and justice. Some of us are even starting to get the message that the man behind the curtain is, in fact, us. And I for one am ready to try something different.
In the time to come, we're likely to continue to see the disclosure of an unflattering and unwelcome truth about what we've allowed to happen in our world--what our indifference and preoccupation and self-absorption has brought to life. When that happens, as much as we'll want to play the victims of people with an unending supply of greed and lust for power, we need to remember that our world is what we've created. And the only way to start changing it is to change us. Give up the out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality that lets us ignore that our government murders people every day based on lies, innuendoes, accidents of birth and calling them bad names. Give up the fear of the unknown and the hatred of those who are different or with whom we disagree. Insist on justice, not vengeance, toward the people who have engineered our train of delusion and deceit, because we were at least conductors. Stop blaming and pointing fingers and start examining and considering--especially self-examining and self-considering. And above all, start doing unto others. If we don't, we may just find that this train we've created runs right over us.
My initial reaction to such things when I have learned about them would have to be censored even on late-night television. To put it mildly, I was pissed. As I've shared recently, I always had a fairly high regard for America and Americans. Of course there have been times when I didn't like what I saw, but overall, I believed in our system and our ideals.
Trouble is, lately it has been becoming increasingly clear that both the system we thought we were operating under and the ideals we thought were being upheld on our behalf were equal parts smoke, mirrors, and BS. Over the last year or two, I've realized for the first time that our problem isn't one side or the other, but both sides being corrupted in a very systemic and intractable way. No one's been considering whether our collective resources should buy guns or butter (for those of you who took Econ 101), but merely how to get all the guns and all the butter under the narrowest control in the shortest time possible.
We've all been, for quite some time, riding a train that doesn't exist--an illusion. We've thought that our train, the economic and political system, is incompetent, stupid, and wasteful--if it were a movie, it would be called The Three Stooges Run a Country-starring Executo, Legislato, and Judicio. In truth, it seems that our system is quite competent, pretty clever, and very efficient. It's just that it's trying to accomplish different goals than the ones it tells us it's trying to accomplish.
For example, if the last few years were a government trying to keep an economy growing, reduce unemployment and make regular people more prosperous, it has quite obviously sucked at it. But it has been amazingly competent if, as I now believe, it has been working to scare people so that we will focus on their game of economic collapse and doomsday three-card-monty while they work on their real goal, which was to make history's largest transfer of wealth to the wealthiest among us, grow the government to the point where it tells us what we're allowed to eat, drink, and think, suspend civil liberties we were told were "inalienable," and position our military industrial complex to take control of the most desireable and valuable resources throughout the world. Capiche?
Ok, now here's the hard part--before anyone thinks I'm advocating anything to do with torches, pitchforks, or hoisting anyone on pitards. It's happening because WE are making it happen. Just like the serial battered woman keeps finding guys who beat her until she fixes her own emotional problems, we're getting this result because collectively we have valued money and power and our own comfort over the common good. We've ignored the plights of the rest of the world so long as we have our Xboxes and plasma screens. We've ignored the damage we're doing to our environment so we can keep driving SUVs and consuming plastic junk wrapped in plastic. We've ignored investigative reports that tell us all the ways our government is corrupt by blaming it on "gotcha journalism" or the evil "other party."
We've stuck our noses firmly in front of our Jersey Shore and our Farmville to keep from looking around at all the neon signs pointing at the fact that something has gone terribly wrong. We've turned up our I-pods and smart phones to keep from hearing the voice in our heads that's telling us it's time to smell the coffee. Last week, our government openly and triumphantly announced it assasinated an American citizen without even a trial, much less a finding of guilt, and when I looked at the comments on the mainstream news web article about it, there were at least as many saying that the guy deserved it because the government said he was a terrorist as there were saying it was wrong. As a country, we have decided it's perfectly ok for our government to kill us, as long as they call us a bad name first.
So now the word. The word is Love. Not the smooshy, teenage, TV show, or sexual variety, but the real thing. The kind that means that the system doesn't work for us until or unless it works for others too. The kind that makes us do unto others as we'd have them do unto ourselves. The kind that doesn't allow for the "screw the other guy-I've got mine" mentality that we Americans have elevated to an art form.
It is my firm belief that the wheels are quickly coming off our illusionary train. Every day, if you look, there's disclosure of another way we've been laboring in delusion--missing trillions in budgets, protests, scandals, abuses, conspiracies, plots, exposures of lies and omissions. Some--maybe even most--are starting to see the man behind the curtain who's operating this great and powerful wizard that has bullied and threatened and cajoled and stolen its way to dominance in this world. Many are beginning to see that our country has become more about stealth and secrecy and lies than about truth and justice. Some of us are even starting to get the message that the man behind the curtain is, in fact, us. And I for one am ready to try something different.
In the time to come, we're likely to continue to see the disclosure of an unflattering and unwelcome truth about what we've allowed to happen in our world--what our indifference and preoccupation and self-absorption has brought to life. When that happens, as much as we'll want to play the victims of people with an unending supply of greed and lust for power, we need to remember that our world is what we've created. And the only way to start changing it is to change us. Give up the out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality that lets us ignore that our government murders people every day based on lies, innuendoes, accidents of birth and calling them bad names. Give up the fear of the unknown and the hatred of those who are different or with whom we disagree. Insist on justice, not vengeance, toward the people who have engineered our train of delusion and deceit, because we were at least conductors. Stop blaming and pointing fingers and start examining and considering--especially self-examining and self-considering. And above all, start doing unto others. If we don't, we may just find that this train we've created runs right over us.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Corporate War
We've all heard how the United States is broke. We can't afford Social Security. We can't afford education. We can't afford health care. Makes one wonder how we can afford this.
Who's Responsible for All This Mess?
We could have save ourselves a lot of trouble if we'd opened our eyes in 1976, when this movie was first released. Since we didn't, we'd better open our eyes now.
Network
If that's not clear enough, the inimitable George Carlin told us a little more colorfully.
The Big Club
It's time to wake up.
Network
If that's not clear enough, the inimitable George Carlin told us a little more colorfully.
The Big Club
It's time to wake up.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Are You the One?
There's a watershed moment here in America right now. We're standing at the top of the Continental Divide, and we're soon going to have to decide which side we're on.
I'm going to explain which side I'm on in a moment, but first I want to tell you a few things about me, so that all my biases are right out there in the open. I'm pushing 50. I own a couple of very small businesses, together with my husband, who also has a 'regular' job and financially, we do ok. We live in a modest home, without all the 'desireable' features of granite this and marble that, but it's a nice place in a nice neighborhood with curvy streets and good schools-- my girls go to the top public middle and high school in our state, and they're both good looking straight-A students in college-bound curricula.
I've lived in a big city, the suburbs, and a small town at different times in my life. I don't have legal trouble, communicable diseases, or a history of psychosis. I give regularly to charity, especially animal shelters and food banks. I have excellent credit, money in the bank, and a reasonable retirement nest-egg. I scored in the 99th percentile on the ACT in high school, and graduated from a state university Magna cum Laude when I was 19 years old after 2-1/2 years.
I have worked continuously since I was 14 years old, as a waitress, a retail salesperson, a pizza parlor manager, a secretary, a paralegal, an attorney, and finally as a business owner. I've never been on welfare, food stamps, or unemployment. In fact, the only money I've ever taken from any government entity was a $3000 student loan during my first year in law school. I paid it back the year I graduated. Otherwise, I've done whatever I've done on my own since I left home at 17. I don't cheat on my taxes, and the only times I've ever stolen anything were a hair ribbon when I about 8 (my mom made me take it back and apologize), and a pair of jeans when I was in high school (I never got caught, but I always felt too guilty to wear the jeans).
I'm a recovering addict with many years clean, except from chocolate. I've never used patchouli. I don't burn incense or wear flowery long dresses from import stores, but I do yoga and meditate every day. I bathe daily, shave my legs whenever I get around to it, and wear makeup when I must. I consider myself a follower of Jesus Christ, but I don't belong to any organized religious group. I'm not a Communist, or a Socialist, or an anarchist. I am a registered Independent (except for in 2008 in Iowa, when I registered as a Democrat so I could go to the Caucuses).
I hope this tells you where I come from, because .... wait for it.... I'm on the side of the Occupy Wall Street (and elsewhere) Protesters. The very criticisms that the media has publicized about the protests are the very reasons I like them. They have no leader--that means that they can't be bought by someone who can make their leader miserable or confortable depending on his/her position on issues. They have no specific manifesto of demands--that means that they can't be brushed aside with a pat on the head and a token compliance with a few items only to have the spirit of the agreement corrupted through the back door. They aren't 'mainstream' and some of them are a bit nutty--that means that they're not just a front group for big money interests that seek to corrupt, co-opt, and capitalize on their momentum. Ahem--The Koch Brothers/Mrs. Clarence Thomas Tea Party---excuse me.
I am the 99 percent they are advocating for, and they are the only ones in recent memory who have. They advocate for the end to our pointless wars, the criminal Federal Reserve Banking system, and the corporate oligarchy that offers our government for purchase by the highest bidder. They seem to have nothing to gain from their risk in supporting this movement--they don't support any one candidate or any one political position or party, none of them is running for anything, and none of them have books on the market singing their own praises for being such "mavericks." They don't claim to have all the answers in the form of a bumper sticker solution like "_______________ for President," or "Tax the Rich" or "Go Whales." The problems we have are bigger than who is President, or who's in Congress, or who pays taxes or doesn't, or even what happens to whales, although I like whales a lot. The problems we have need to be solved by a razing to the ground of the political and economic systems that have gotten us to this place, followed by the re-creation of a system that isn't run by money and power, but for the good of the majority of the people. Are they the perfect movement? No, thank God, they're not, because perfect movements are phony movements. If they get their way, will it create havoc for a bit while things sort themselves out? Probably. But the alternative is more of the same. And, as I'm fond of quoting--the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again expecting different results.
So, if you're the One--that is, the one percent of people who have been and continue to get ahead on other people's pain and loss, and you like it that way, then by all means don't support these people. They're dangerous to the status quo and smell like patchouli. But if you're the 99, you owe it to yourself to get some information that doesn't come from a cable news network owned by the same people who are fiddling happily while Rome (Georgia) burns, and see if you don't support them too.
I'm going to explain which side I'm on in a moment, but first I want to tell you a few things about me, so that all my biases are right out there in the open. I'm pushing 50. I own a couple of very small businesses, together with my husband, who also has a 'regular' job and financially, we do ok. We live in a modest home, without all the 'desireable' features of granite this and marble that, but it's a nice place in a nice neighborhood with curvy streets and good schools-- my girls go to the top public middle and high school in our state, and they're both good looking straight-A students in college-bound curricula.
I've lived in a big city, the suburbs, and a small town at different times in my life. I don't have legal trouble, communicable diseases, or a history of psychosis. I give regularly to charity, especially animal shelters and food banks. I have excellent credit, money in the bank, and a reasonable retirement nest-egg. I scored in the 99th percentile on the ACT in high school, and graduated from a state university Magna cum Laude when I was 19 years old after 2-1/2 years.
I have worked continuously since I was 14 years old, as a waitress, a retail salesperson, a pizza parlor manager, a secretary, a paralegal, an attorney, and finally as a business owner. I've never been on welfare, food stamps, or unemployment. In fact, the only money I've ever taken from any government entity was a $3000 student loan during my first year in law school. I paid it back the year I graduated. Otherwise, I've done whatever I've done on my own since I left home at 17. I don't cheat on my taxes, and the only times I've ever stolen anything were a hair ribbon when I about 8 (my mom made me take it back and apologize), and a pair of jeans when I was in high school (I never got caught, but I always felt too guilty to wear the jeans).
I'm a recovering addict with many years clean, except from chocolate. I've never used patchouli. I don't burn incense or wear flowery long dresses from import stores, but I do yoga and meditate every day. I bathe daily, shave my legs whenever I get around to it, and wear makeup when I must. I consider myself a follower of Jesus Christ, but I don't belong to any organized religious group. I'm not a Communist, or a Socialist, or an anarchist. I am a registered Independent (except for in 2008 in Iowa, when I registered as a Democrat so I could go to the Caucuses).
I hope this tells you where I come from, because .... wait for it.... I'm on the side of the Occupy Wall Street (and elsewhere) Protesters. The very criticisms that the media has publicized about the protests are the very reasons I like them. They have no leader--that means that they can't be bought by someone who can make their leader miserable or confortable depending on his/her position on issues. They have no specific manifesto of demands--that means that they can't be brushed aside with a pat on the head and a token compliance with a few items only to have the spirit of the agreement corrupted through the back door. They aren't 'mainstream' and some of them are a bit nutty--that means that they're not just a front group for big money interests that seek to corrupt, co-opt, and capitalize on their momentum. Ahem--The Koch Brothers/Mrs. Clarence Thomas Tea Party---excuse me.
I am the 99 percent they are advocating for, and they are the only ones in recent memory who have. They advocate for the end to our pointless wars, the criminal Federal Reserve Banking system, and the corporate oligarchy that offers our government for purchase by the highest bidder. They seem to have nothing to gain from their risk in supporting this movement--they don't support any one candidate or any one political position or party, none of them is running for anything, and none of them have books on the market singing their own praises for being such "mavericks." They don't claim to have all the answers in the form of a bumper sticker solution like "_______________ for President," or "Tax the Rich" or "Go Whales." The problems we have are bigger than who is President, or who's in Congress, or who pays taxes or doesn't, or even what happens to whales, although I like whales a lot. The problems we have need to be solved by a razing to the ground of the political and economic systems that have gotten us to this place, followed by the re-creation of a system that isn't run by money and power, but for the good of the majority of the people. Are they the perfect movement? No, thank God, they're not, because perfect movements are phony movements. If they get their way, will it create havoc for a bit while things sort themselves out? Probably. But the alternative is more of the same. And, as I'm fond of quoting--the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again expecting different results.
So, if you're the One--that is, the one percent of people who have been and continue to get ahead on other people's pain and loss, and you like it that way, then by all means don't support these people. They're dangerous to the status quo and smell like patchouli. But if you're the 99, you owe it to yourself to get some information that doesn't come from a cable news network owned by the same people who are fiddling happily while Rome (Georgia) burns, and see if you don't support them too.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Fox News Thinks 'Occupy Wall Street' and Thomas Jefferson are Idiots
The Fox News arm of the Rupert Murdoch syndicate has been busily demeaning the brave people with Occupy Wall Street who are risking their safety to tell the corporate overlords and their criminal banking enterprise that we've had enough of paying for their excesses. Apparently, before the story ran, they missed the fact that one of our "founding fathers" who are so quoted and misquoted on Fox actually agrees with the protesters.
And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to to John Taylor, Monticello, 28 May 1816.
And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to to John Taylor, Monticello, 28 May 1816.
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