OMG! We are all going to die...AGAIN!
Are you sufficiently terrified? Unless you are currently cowering under your bed and praying to whatever deity you think can help you, then you aren't terrified enough.
The American government wants to help you live in fear of Monday.
US intelligence officials have reportedly warned law enforcement around the country of the potential for multiple al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on Monday, aimed to coincide with the day before the US election. The reports were described as “possibly legitimate and concerning.”Details are still scant, but the intelligence has singled out New York, Virginia, and Texas as the mostly likely targets. Even then, they offered no details on potential locations, saying al-Qaeda and its affiliates are eager to regain their relevance.
A NYPD spokesman briefed on the matter said that the threats “lack specificity,” however local police around the country were said to have been warned that polling places are considered “attractive targets” for both organized and homegrown terror attacks.
Darn those terrorists. Always trying to kill us in predictable ways.
Wait a second. I seem to have heard this somewhere before. Sometime last year.
Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell ominously told CBS last week that “I wouldn’t be surprised if we weren’t sitting here a week from today talking about an attack over the weekend in the United States.” MSNBC and Fox joined in too, using graphics and maps right out of Stephen Colbert’s satirical “Doom Bunker,” suggesting World War III was just on the verge of reaching America’s shores.
Like in most cases, it was CNN who led the charge in making sure that our fear level was sufficient.
There were plenty of Serious People in the government to explain why this July 4th was going to be the most dangerous in the history of the country.
Authorities told NBC News that they are unaware of any specific or credible threat inside the country. But the dangers are more complex and unpredictable than ever.
You read that right. There were no "specific or credible threats" but that just made things more dangerous than ever.
If there was a specific and credible threat then we'd actually be in less danger.
Even politicians wanted us to know that now was the time to tremble.
Oh sure, you are more likely to die from your own falling furniture than from a terrorist attack, and white supremists kill more Americans than Islamic terrorists, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be paralyzed with fear of scary muslims.
If you want proof, just look at the ISIS dildo-flag. We need to be protected from that.
Adam Johnson went back and looked at the last 40 times that the FBI and Homeland Security have issued similar threats around national holidays and found that we barely escaped with our lives each and every time. Somehow the terrorists failed to carry out a single one of those terrorist attacks.
“Can the FBI break its terror-predicting 0-40 losing streak this weekend? Tune into CNN to find out!”
- Journalist Adam Johnson
So how did we manage to dodge yet another bullet this July 4th? Because the FBI was on the job, as CNN reported.
US law enforcement efforts thwarted a number of terror threats in the last two weeks, including plots timed to the July 4 holiday weekend, US officials tell CNN on Thursday. The thwarted plots included targets “coast to coast.” In fitting with calls by ISIS to attack in any way possible, the attempted plots were unsophisticated, including guns, knives and other weapons.
More than 10 people have been arrested in the past four weeks on charges related to their association with ISIL. Some of those, Comey said, involved plots timed to July 4th. Comey declined to elaborate on the nature of the plots or where they were targeted.
"Coast to coast"! They almost killed us all! With knives, no less!
NBC managed to get FBI Director James Comey to elaborate on these evil plots.
Comey added that those inspired by ISIS don’t make elaborate plans and often act on the spur of the moment.
“It’s actually hard to figure out when they’re trying to kill somebody,” Comey said. “And you cannot say, ‘Well, we’ve got to do it on the Fourth.’ Because you know you have people who are motivated to kill people, and they are unreliable in terms of when they’re going to act.”
So these terrorists had "no elaborate plans" and are “unreliable in terms of when they’re going to act” and it's "hard to figure out when they’re trying to kill somebody" and are not actually linked to international terror groups, but somehow they were "plots timed to the July 4 holiday weekend".
If I wasn't pissing my pants in fear inside of my panic room right now, I might be able to notice the contradictions in claims.
Considering all those restrictions, it's amazing the FBI managed to thwart them at all. If our law enforcement hadn't thwarted those "plots" we might not have even known about them.
FBI press release-reader Jim Sciutto managed to add, “No further details were immediately available about how the plots were thwarted.”
Personally, I fear sharknados a lot more.
Comments
I thought there was so much infighting in the FBI...
that they were taking a break from setting up Muslim and "anarchist" teenagers as scary terrorists.
This makes me nostalgic
for the Homeland Security color code warnings.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
So true.
At least that way I could go online and see if it was safe to open my door and venture into the world. Now, I just do like before and say "My what another wonderful day without fear".
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
<cracks ruler over your knuckles> That is the WRONG
answer! You are allowed to retreat to an unstable state of cautious relief that can be triggered into active fear by posthypnotic cues anytime the PTB need cover or want to prod the cattle in one direction and away from another.
So listen up and believe: No-no-NO. It's still not safe to go back in the water, or into the world, because All The Scary Things Are Still Out There And Only WE Can Protect You!
Got it now?
Lesson over.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
What color
is this warning?
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Like this? They need us afraid. Or else we might really stand up
and at least try to do something about the crap our own government has been/is/plans to be up to.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
That cinches my vote.
Vote green - low risk. I think they got blue and red backwards; blue should be on top.
Mango.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Purple, please.
If you're feeling fearful, here's something to laugh at - remember, Obama wants people to vote for Her Heinous to protect his Legacy! Isn't that a hoot! He thinks he has a legacy to protect.
Yeah, that guy's been a laugh a minute, yuk yuk. And the
joke's always been on us prols.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I can't hide under my bed.
They say that's where trump is.
The closet is out too because of the evil monkey.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
My bed is on a closed platform
Last thing under there was a pistol, long-gone. I can't lift the damn thing. And my closet is a walk-through, no door at one end. I guess I am SOL. Funny, I don't feel afraid.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
When I was young I was taught that a school desk was the ideal
place to hide. Scrunched over with your head between your knees and your arms protecting your head. We practiced it many times. I should start hitting the garage sales and the used-goods stores. See if I can find a couple. Then I can invite a guests for the upcoming Armageddon. Make a party out of it.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Cuban missile crisis, October 1962.
One day we we sent home from school. My mother didn't believe me and told me to go back, like, now! I tried to explain. I asked her to call the school. She wouldn't.
When she later found out waht happened, her reply was "Well how was I supposed to know?"
Canada had a slightly different response to the
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cuban-missile-crisis/.
The then PM Diefenbaker lost the following election to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Pearson because Canadians thought that he (Dief) should have been more pro-American.
That was about the time that Canada-US relations began to significantly warm. Pearson, unlike Dief, was an "internationalist" (def: pro_American in foreign if not domestic policy.)
But that's now a v long story.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
We were told it was "duck and cover"
almost as strange as suggesting ( this was to those of us living in DC) to cover our windows with that plastic see thru covering after 9/11. As if that would protect us.
Me too, Amanda.
We even formed lines, walked a block from the school to the courthouse, which had a basement designated as the safe place to go. I remember the Civil Defense signs on the courthouse.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We did the same thing for tornadoes if I recall correctly. Those
were sure some heavy-duty desks. Good for use in all or natural or man-made disasters.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
The Chicken Little'ing
is absurd and yet people are freaking out all over the place cause the Hairballs people 'are gonna kill yer family'. I have never seen such an absurd unbelievable elction. Even Bush's selection pales in the light of 'Were so Screwed -2016.' Maybe we will get lucky and all these infighting asshole fascist's who own and run the place will eat each other in an endless loop of internecine fighting and gang warfare.
'Dear world did no one read my book?' George Orwell.
America, land of the
wimps.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Speaking of Chicken Little
My favorite card in the world, millions of years ago when I was working on Wall Street, a dear friend send me a card:
Front - a picture of Chicken Little running & screaming "the sky is falling"
Inside - "Sell Sky."
I not doing anything but finding things to laugh at until next Wednesday. Then, maybe in the immortal words of John Lennon we will find: "Tomorrow has been cancelled due to of lack of interest."
climate change is scary
Bruno Latour's project - "we have never been modern" published in 1991. In the next few months he will be going around the world to talk about a new politics to deal with the new climate regime. One part of this is the impossibility of the globalization project because there is no earth that can support the imagined future. He uses the term "earthbound" rather than the older term "humans."
Here are some tweets from his AIME project
I attended this lecture Thursday evening at Notre Dame - 4 1/2 hour drive one way. Spent the night
We are Programmed to Die Upon Conception
Relax. Living is about how you want to die.
I thought the FBI were at their annual seminar in Moscow.
Awesome comment
I assume they are there with Trump meeting with Putin.
Too funny!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Trump and Putin are the keynote speakers
Or so I choose to believe
The one on updates to the Protocols of the Elders of Putin? n/t
Another good one gjohnsit.
All I can add is BOO!
-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
It's quiet out there
too quiet...
Please stop bombing them there
so then they won't want to bomb us here.
then we wouldn't have any of this bullshit.
It's all
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Bush administration did this for years
I guess you can teach old bluedogs new tricks
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Shouldn't it be "You can teach old bluedogs OLD tricks." .?
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
New to them
at least until this election when all the McCartyites are Hillbots
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I thought it was
You can treat a blue dog for ticks.
Damn, I need to get my hearing checked.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
I think this would be an instance where there is more tick than
there is dog...
Bloodsuckers the lot of them.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Let's add that to the list of threats
So far Camp Hillary has told us that Russian hackers are going to shut down the grid, and prior to that will have manipulated the election. Russia itself is about to attack the Baltic states, Poland and the Ukraine. Right wingers are going to stage a rebellion, as well as beat people up at the polls, as they did at Trump rallies (oh wait, those were Hill's shills). Both Trump and Assange have been accused of pedophilia and in Trump's case, child rape, yet both allegations mysteriously collapsed upon even cursory scrutiny, and were apparent attempts at intentional false accusation. They've more or less said that anyone who opposes them is working for Russia.
They've been saying that Trump will crash markets and start wars. They offer few positive reasons to vote for Clinton, instead favoring the strategy of smearing Trump or sowing fear about him.
We supposed to be terrified, but I don't think that nearly as many people are dancing to their tune as they think.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
it's your patriotic duty to be terrified
But not of climate change
Climate Change is good!
As we speak, hedge funds and oligarchs are probably buying up property in Greenland and Hudson Bay, in anticipation of opening all-inclusive beach resorts there someday. Also the inevitable mass die-off will probably create new investment opportunities for our betters.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Remember Shrub* after 9/11
Then it was our duty to go out and buy things.
I can't keep up.
* Homage to Molly Ivins. Still miss her.
In a way I’m glad she doesn’t have to see the 2016 election
If Molly Ivins were still alive today, she would either have been turned into a Hillary pod person like nearly all of her peers, or have been fired for refusing to go along.
Fired,
I have no doubt.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
It is Killary
who scares me. While I don't want a constitutional crisis, I sure would like to see her kidnapped and stashed on a remote island somewhere.
Mary Bennett
Rendition black site in
Morocco or Egypt. No private server. No Blackberry. No wall sconces.
We could let her measure for drapes, though.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Trump hung around with Epstein. Oops, so did Bill and Hillary
In the diary on DK the other day the author was absolutely disgusted because Trump went to Epstein's parties and is said to have had sex with an underaged girl. Everyone in DC knew that Epstein was a pedophile. If that is true then he is lower than pond scum.
But what is never mentioned is that Bill also hung around with Epstein.
Or that Epstein only spent 13 months in prison because his plea deal was that he would name other people who also had sex with underaged girls.
There's a wilileaks article on kossacks for Sanders that says Hillary, Bill and Huma flew on his jet to the Bahamas 26 times.
Funny how that is never mentioned there, huh?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The plea deal was that he would -NOT- name others, or? n/t
Did they find this on Weiner's laptop too?
Actually, I'm more frightened of what's on the laptop than getting blown up - except that I live in a very small, rural Texas town, and have absolutely no idea what the redneck who owns the unmarked warehouse next door is storing or playing with in there.
I'm more likely to be shot during a road rage incident, or bleed out due to my tekata airbag exploding in a low impact crash (which is more likely to explode in hot humid places - HOUSTON - but we'll let you know when we have parts to replace it, dated June, 2016 for a 6 yr old vehicle).
I agree Deja
Maybe this has something to do with what's on Weiner's laptop. Like the Clintons and other top level officials being involved in sex trafficking, pedophilia, Lolita express, etc. As was in the post, ( Don't give up hope), by birdiemom87.
Don't worry. Killary the warrior will save us.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
I wish I was rich enough for a panic room
Can you imagine a whole room for panic? Marble floors, potted palms, leather sofas, soothing music on the expensive stereo, just sitting there with nothing else to do but panic. Must be nice.
Guess I'll just have to panic over “possibly legitimate threats" on a ratty sofa on the front porch drinking beer.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Awesome!!
Can I join you!! I'll even bring my own chair, and another thirty pack of Busch Light...can't rush a good panic session, ya know, or I'd bring a couple of growlers of a good local craft brew.
Can someone tell me this?
Why can we see how ridiculous this sh*t is, see the patterns and the timing and shake our heads in amazement-amusement when they do it again (because it works), when bazillions of our 'fellow Amurricans' don't?
This is a question I've been pondering throughout this appalling Potemkin election cum coup. It's not a matter of being smart or informed, because many smart AND informed people are susceptible to this form of propaganda and respond like Pavlov's conditioned canines. Why don't we?
I'm not looking for collective back-patting; I really want to know. Any ideas?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Why?
Because we're not afraid.
If you watch with eyes open, consider yourself concerned. All should be.
To close your eyes or hide from what is happening, you are either thoughtless or afraid.
Eyes wide open.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Makes sense but begs the question: Why aren't we afraid?
Is it because we can weigh relative risks? Because we can see the manipulation and its purpose? And if so, why can't millions of others? Why are people who have no reason to be afraid of this hogwash fearful?
Don't think it's because as a group, we have more Bravehearts or careless risk-takers.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some observations/ideas
A partial list of characteristics of the Emperor's New Clothes Gang:
a capacity for critical thinking has got to be part of it
a lower tolerance for denial
decisions based on data rather than personality (that's a big one); we don't decide whether to vote for Hillary based on what Bernie tells us, or our mom, or Tim Robbins, or Dolores Huerta, or whoever: we decide whether to vote for her based on the data we know about her.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I can go with that for candidate of choice. But why aren't
we scared into quivering puddles by the feds' deep, dark, dire warnings about terrorists setting possible sights on polling places Monday (no doubt because they hate our rapidly dwindling freedoms)? And why are we perhaps more alarmed rather than less by the prospect of the deployment of goon squads, aka, our friendly local militarized police (ND water protectors might have other descriptions) to protect all those citizens eager to exercise their right to vote? Why are we so skeptical in general and less cooperative with herding and stampeding than the norm?
I really don't know and am interested. Why was I one of the few Bernie voters and now the only Stein voter in my extended family of long-time leftish Dems?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Because we can see that the feds have been using
fear of terrorists to jack us around for years. And we can see that the cops are (sadly) defending the rich and powerful.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I can't speak for anyone else, but I think just maybe -
-That it might have something to do with being willing to do the math. Really do the math, that is, and not just talk about it. Most people I have met during my life fear math. And geometry. And physics. And materials science. And science in general. Many people who don't actually fear those things are still ignorant of them, frequently through basic mental laziness. The acronym TL;DR makes me cringe, but apparently has become a thing.
I don't remember where I read it, but somebody once said: "We have become a nation that has forgotten how to think statistically." True, I think, for the nation; here, not nearly so accurate!
I have a far-Right friend that actually started getting worked up about ISIS beheading Westerners. My first reaction was to look up the actual numbers online. If one ironically includes 3 Japanese, that's (as of when I looked it up) 15 Westerners. 15. ISIS has beheaded hundreds of their own fighters for desertion, but they still lag well behind the Saudis, who routinely execute criminals that way in their charming, brutal, medieval system of government, but it's OK because they're pals of Hillary. Not like ISIS, who we only FINANCE.
I pointed out to my friend that he had a better chance of being shot by American cops. Then I told him not to join ISIS, or move to Saudi Arabia, and he should be relatively safe from beheading.
I try to approach all offerings of fear from that angle, and I know I'm not alone on this site. From what I've seen, this is a pretty "fact-based, reality-centered" community. Thus the liberal bias!
I wrote down my personal reaction to the neoCON "U.S. of FEAR" about ten years ago (partial quote):
"We all have this big red button on our chest, marked "FEAR", and the Powers That Be have been jumping up and down on mine for as long as I could walk. But they finally broke it... -You say terrorists have dropped weaponized Ebola into the mall? I'm goin' shoppin'!"
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
I think you're on to something
I'm among the multitudes who glaze at things statistical, but I've had to work with technical data and grok them enough to explain them clearly to others. Then I promptly forget and have to relearn the next time. But I value unvarnished facts. I want to understand. That characteristic seems to be shared by those drawn to this place.
Anti-intellectualism has been promoted in the US a long time; remember Nixon's Trump-like VP, Spiro Agnew, and his (in)famous "effete intellectual snobs" (short version of "an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals")? A ploy that serves the masters, not the serfs.
Your comment about the fear button reminds me of something I've written elsewhere: that the Dems pushed the "Supreme Court!" and lesser-evil buttons so long that mine broke. In fact, this election has broken my lifelong D habit entirely. Ah, #Demexit: How good it feels to be free of that auto-response.
Thanks for taking the time to offer your insights. If you have any more, please post 'em.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
I Think YOU'RE On To Something -- Voracious Learning
I think that you have the idea here. I want to understand too. I want to learn.
This is not a common trait in America. Many people find learning, regardless of the value of the lesson, quite painful. I deal with those people all the time. My job is to break through that.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Maybe most Americans are just really, really bored?
We have become a nation of fat rats waiting for the bell so we can push a button to get our fix of opiate. (MSM supplies that) The acceptance of constant fear mongering is because we need enough stimulation to assure that we still possess a fight or flight capability.
You still get to choose your own boogeyman though!!
It's because we're antisocial. We're purposely ignoring
or civic duty to be terrified.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
I've been wondering something similar
Why is the propaganda so transparent now? Have they really gotten sloppy? Have I become more adept at spotting it, and if so why? Is it because only six big companies control the media outlets now, so the message is practically the same everywhere you look? Are they not updating their techniques so the 30th time I see it I start to notice it? It is because they've laid off all the journalists and there is nobody left in the office but talking heads reading drivel from teleprompters? Is it alternative news that trickles through the internet, fighting cat memes and food porn for bandwidth?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
I think all of the above, WoodsDweller
-But i also think that this time around, they put Trump up as the designated villain, and he surprised and confounded them by being accidentally in touch with our fed-up and angry counterparts over on the Right. I don't believe he was supposed to do this well. I think maybe they panicked while trying to keep it all under the strictest management, so The People would buy their kabuki election one more time, and they finally over-did-it with the propaganda.
And as Dr. Goebbels pointed out, back in the day, once you become aware of propaganda, it loses its power.
Or, as the historian Max Domarus put it in his list of things that WW2 should have taught Germany (or anyone else, for that matter):
Propaganda (so-called psychological warfare) is effective only with the aggressor’s own people or with inferior nations, whose inevitable collapse may be hastened by them. The weapon of propaganda is ineffective when used against an opponent of equal or superior strength. By no means does it out-perform military weapons. Words cannot change hard facts.
-And let's face it; on the subjects of rational thinking and moral compass, we here on the Left have it all over the Hillbots. Couple that with the fact that we are effectively no longer the Great Donkey's people. This tribe has emancipated itself from their abusive would-be parentage. Their propaganda has therefore become weak, and we see right through them.
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
At various points in history, some people have recommended...
copious amounts of THC and/or, even better, psychedelics.
One note along those lines: I'm just reading an old book by Sidney Cohen, a psychedlics researcher back in the 50s and 60s. He quickly surveys the history of consciousness altering drugs and activities and notes that the oracle at Delphi probably relied on excessive amounts of CO2 to induce a trance followed by divination. Maybe the CO2 buildup in our atmosphere will make us all into frothing-at-the-mouth prophets.
I went there last year.
According to the guide, scientists have discovered that the crack in the earth, a fissure where Zeus said the 2 eagles flew and met, to designate the center of the earth, emitted ether.
More than one young lady died from inhalation.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
My millennial daughter is buying the Hillbot fearmongering
I've been texting with her for hours. She's also afraid of what will happen Monday. Afraid of Trump jailing women for abortions and appointing a Supreme Court Justice.
I've told her about David Brock and paid shills - and who first spread propaganda online by paying shills - Killary buddy, Bibi the Butcher.
I told her to Google Anita Hill with David Brock. I gave very brief summary about Anita and Clarence (mentioned he represented Monsanto).
I linked here.
I told her she's more likely to be shot by the cops and she's white, than attacked by terrorists.
She gave me a Facebook screenshot of Trump that said he's going to implement anti-LGBT laws.
She asked about a nationwide bomb shelter campaign going on in Russia.
Hadn't heard of either but said of the latter that if it's true, they're preparing for a Killary presidency because she wants to go to war with Russia and they know more about her than most Americans.
Of the former, I said she was against gay marriage until she wasn't, and it got her votes.
Not sure what else I can tell her.
Tell her he will be an impotent leader
because ours is a government that must cooperate between its branches or nothing can be done. No one is going to let Trump pass anti-LGBT laws. If congress doesn't stop him, the Supreme Court will.
He's not going to build a fence, he's not going to go nuclear but he objects to current and potential trade deals like NAFTA and the TPP, whereas Hillary will sell the nation to the highest bidder asap.
No elected president is completely impotent
Trump has stated that he wants to fill vacancies in the Federal Courts with judges like Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia-like and Thomas-like judges are NOT going to overturn any anti-lgbt laws that are passed by a Republican-controlled Congress.
Hillbot in subject line & look what the cat dragged in!
But, you're right. Look at what Obama has done. Legacy, indeed.
Yes, let's look at what Obama has done...
The supreme court justices that Obama appointed joined with the majority of the court to rule that same-sex marriage should be legal throughout the land, unlike the Republican-appointed supreme court justices who ruled the opposite. The supreme court justice that Trump has said, on multiple occasions, that he admires, Scalia, threw a giant hissy fit in response to the opinion of the majority. But, I guess granting minorities equal rights is unimportant to you.
What Are You Doing Here? Are You Purposefully Trying to
waste our time?
This kind of inflammatory passive aggressive commentary doesn't fly here: "But, I guess granting minorities equal rights is unimportant to you."
You might as well call us Bernie Bros, man.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Justices
The 4 justices appointed by Democratic presidents joined justices appointed by Republicans in a unanimous ruling that reversed an appellate court's decision to uphold the bribery conviction of former VA governor Bob McDonnell. McDonnell and family accepted $177,000 for performing services for a snake oil salesman. The court ruled that his acceptance of the, for want of a better word, gratuities was not illegal because the acts he performed were things elected officials do for constituents, like allowing the salesman to launch a new product from the kitchen of the governor's mansion.
Ultragreen, I think you can relax. A video of Hillary accepting stacks of $100 bills while signing a list of favors to be performed in front of a notary wouldn't establish a quid pro quo. She might have done the same things for other constituents who offered only half that much.
So much for justices appointed by Democrats.
Democratic Senators should block bad SCOTUS nominees and, in
general, do their job.
Republican Senators have managed to block everything a Democratic President tries that they don't like, whether they are in the minority or the majority. Democratic Senators can do the same. Make your blessed Democratic elected officials do their jobs.
BTW some of the most liberal justices in US history were nominees of Republican Presidents, Warren and Stevens, On the other hand, Obama almost nominated a Republican Justice or Sunstein but nominated uber conservative "Democrat" Garland instead. Sorry, the SCOTUS bogeyman gets less and less scary with every New Democrat President we put in office; and Hillary is the Empress of New Democrats.
I told her Congress would keep Trump in line
Thought about SCOTUS, but was texting. But did say that I didn't think Congress could keep Killary in line.
Also said that a Killary SCOTUS nomination would not be any better than Obama's -DINO, and defined that.
She mentioned Pence's wish to teach creationism in school.
For some reason (Facebook?), she thinks that if Killary is elected, and dies or is "arrested" before being sworn in, "they'll put in Johnson." I told her it would be her Wall Street whore VP, not Johnson. (What's procedure for that scenario, anyway?)
I also explained about Congress choosing among top 3, should either of the Deplorable 2 fail to reach 270 electoral votes.
Kaine is awful
On gay issues
Sounds like Ms Convenience
Two peas in a convenience pod.
Evolution, see?
Yep, more likely to be shot by a cop. In riot gear
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Tell her
if she wants to wreck the Republican party, vote for Trump. If she wants the ossify the Democratic party for a generation, vote for Clinton.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Tell her about Russia's history with belligerent RWNJs
They ARE doing civil defense drills. They DO have bomb shelters. And it's largely because they are hearing the same propaganda from Hillary that they heard during the Cold War, which was the same "anti-Bolshevist" propaganda they heard from the Nazis before WW2. They were invaded, nearly overrun, by an enemy that slaughtered civilians and used torture. They sacrificed 13% of their own people to end Nazism. We only lost one-third of a percent. And THEN our own home-grown RW militarists hit them with the exact same propaganda, only in English, AFTER the war. Is it any wonder Russians armed themselves to the teeth?
And THEN, after the collapse of communism, they invited our capitalists over to help them build their own capitalist economy, and they got an early preview of the 1% / 99% wealth inequality scam. Their people died in poverty, just like in the middle ages, while a wealthy few sucked the blood from the country like bloated ticks. Vladimir Putin may be a gangster, but he was the gangster that threw off the Western predatory-capitalists. His approval rating with the Russian people is hovering around 82%. Make enough military threats against them, and I expect that will climb to 99% pretty quickly.
And NOW, the Russians are hearing that same old propaganda ginning up again. Any sane person would get ready to defend themselves, and who is it slaughtering civilians and using torture, these days? Who is it with their own Gestapo, and non-stop anti-Russian propaganda?
Just one little problem. This is not WW2. Russia has nukes. If we press them hard enough, they may well use them. They don't need to ever reach a single American city. They could just dump a few dozen of them into a patch of Siberia, and then we get nuclear winter, lasting many years. Likely outcome - everybody and every living thing dies.
Hillary is talking glibly about nukes. So is Trump, but he has fewer friends and contacts in the military. He is less likely to get it done. I refuse to vote for either of them because anyone that easy with the "nuke 'em!" talk should never have that power. Ever. That they threaten nukes so easily tells me they are utter morons, or insane. Or maybe both.
Tell your daughter she can vote for either of the two loonies who talk lightly of nukes; but I, for one, want to sleep at night. If the nightmares of my childhood come true, and our horizons bloom with nuclear fire, I don't want my last thought to be "I helped this happen."
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
Afraid of the truth
People are afraid of the truth. You can point out TPTB's evildoing and they will even admit that it is true, but then will say that TPTB would never do such things. The corporate media is also to blame. I really fear for the internet. I am sure TPTB are aware of
the truth being provided by websites like Caucus99%. They do not like the young peeking behind the curtain an seeing the foul Wizard manipulating us all.
2and fro, maybe hanging out for years
on dkos fine tuned our bs. meters. Perhaps we did read Orwell's book. Maybe this is a group of 'far lefties' who don't believe up is down or right is left. I have no TV and refuse to listen to the political partisan pundirts or the veal pen so called progressive orgs. I dunno but I believe there will be are more and more of us as this farce of democracy continues after the election and believe me this is just the start.
FBI found OWS organizers before first occupy event, but ....
Sort of an interesting pattern. The FBI found out the organizers of OWS before the first occupy in NYC. And were tracking them as potential terrorists. The Russians told the FBI about the Boston Marathon brother terrorists. Nada happened. We can listen into the conversations of Merkel, and flush out those wiley Russian hackers, but we can't pinpoint a terrorist threat. We listen in on billions of acts of electronic communication, but could not find out the CA jihadist couple.
What exactly are we getting for our money and getting for giving up rights?
Nada, except for the money grab.
Which will continue.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Excellent comment, MrWebster! n/t
I am not giving up rights; they're being taken from me
without my consent, and often without my knowledge.
''Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
The terrorists didn't take away our freedoms, congress did
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Hear, Hear snoopydawg!
Where do uou guys and gals find these pics from fb and how do you manage to get them on cc99%? I tried google image and it was a bust I can't 'save as' directly from face book.
shararazade, people post them on various websites
And I save them to my iPad.
It's easy to upload them here
See the first icon on the left? Click it and other little windows come up.
The navigator takes a few minutes to load, then an upload button comes up and asks where to upload the picture from.
There might be clearer instructions in the resource library on the right.
I can save an image from FB if I open it in another tab.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Thanks the 'open it in
another tab' option seem to be the solution for me saving the FB pics. I have mastered the process of the icon on the left here and have a whole large file of pics I can post here but have not been able to figure out how to get these pics off fb.
It's kinda like skeeters.
Those that buzz don't bite. Those that bite don't buzz. You're safe if you hear buzzing, but if you hear nothing, be very afraid.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
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