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I gave him what little money I had. His face flushed red, and I could see that he was holding back tears. Sometimes it's not possible to suck it up any more. It gets to the point where even a recent Combat Veteran just can't take it.
What has this Country come to?
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticke... By Aaron Task | Daily Ticker – 20 hours ago --snip-- Beyond the Fringe There are a lot of whackos in the movement but if you look beyond the fringe there's also a lot of people just like you and me: Working class and college-educated people who have a stake in the system but feel the playing field has been titled way too far in favor of the wealthiest Americans and their corporate brethren. One critique of the protest is it lacks a unified message or mission. Indeed, in my reporting I found evidence of people supporting any number of issues, including: Higher Taxes on the Wealthy Prosecution of Financial Fraud Anti-Fracking and other "Green" issues Mortgage Modifications Campaign Finance Reform Anti-War Universal Healthcare Student Loan Forgiveness and, of course, Jobs, Jobs Jobs So, sure, maybe the Occupy Wall Street movement is a bit unclear in its views and lacks leadership. But to those who mock the protesters, I have to ask: What exactly is it that you're defending? Crony capitalism? Bank bailouts? Rising income inequality and the slow death of the American dream? To everyone out there dismissing the Occupy Wall Street movement, I say it's time we stop, and say 'hey what's that sound' everybody look what's goin' down. --snip-- Watch the video. Great kudos for OWS.
The PTB saw the message on the wall, long ago and realized their days were numbered, their only solution was to loot as much as they could and place as many barriers, in order to give them as much time as possible to do their dirty work. The T(errorist) Party is one example.
Something similar happened in Germany in WWII. The Nazi leadership and Industrialists saw the end coming, even before D-Day. They did everything they could to prolong the War to give them time to loot the conquered Countries. At the end, the Allies found huge caches of loot, Trains loaded with Treasure headed for safe hiding.
The T(errorist) Party was created to divide the opposition and make them fight among themselves.
You're right in thinking that the citizens who fell for the Propaganda need to see the light. When that happens, the end will be near, at least in the US and Europe. Just like many Nazis who packed up their loot and went into hiding, the boys will do the same and try to set up shop elsewhere, where the labor is cheap and a strong Military is available to propagate their agenda. India is a prime candidate.
I've seen first hand how it has been used in the real World to completely change the perception of the reader in very subtle ways. Take, for example, a Manifesto. The government decides that an author is a problem to be dealt with. The Manifesto he has written has limited distribution within a close circle of associates. What is done is to get a copy and rewrite it in very subtle ways, so by the time a reader finishes it, the original intent has been deflected or turned on it's head. The next step is to make thousands or Millions of copies that are indistinguishable from the original, except for the subtle change, right down to the type of paper, ink and binding. Even the author, examining a copy in detail would recognize it as his own. By the time he realizes what has happened, he has been discredited and the movement has lost valuable momentum, if not destroyed.
This has been done many, many times, and will be done many times to come, because the Powers That Be have the resources, experience and talent to do it, and they will most likely do it using your Tax Dollars.
Spellman's War The real reasons behind Viet Nam War: http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/spell2... --snip-- THE AMERICAN POPE The Cardinal's message was clear. The fall of Vietnam brought the day closer when Communists would dominate the United States. "We shall risk bartering our liberties for lunacies, betraying the sacred trust of our forefathers, becoming serfs and slaves to the Red ruler's godless goons," he swore. The other speakers needed no introduction: Madame Chiang Kaishek and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was a familiar figure at the Powerhouse. Both speakers were friends of the Cardinal and shared his conservative views. Madame Chiang lamented that the Soviets had corrupted the "minds and souls of those who became its puppets--the Chinese Communists." Radford asserted that the United States should be ready to police the world. The audience wildly applauded each speaker, but it was Spellman who brought them to their feet in a thunderous ovation. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Cardinal asked the legionnaires to pray for God's intervention. If Eisenhower wouldn't listen to Spellman, perhaps he would heed the Almighty. "Be with us, Blessed Lord," the Cardinal intoned, "lest we forget and surrender to those who have attacked us without cause, those who repaid us with evil for good and hatred for love." The day after the convention the impact of Spellman's address was noted in the press. New York Daily News columnist John O'Donnell, for example, reported: "From a political viewpoint-- global, national and New York State--the speech delivered by Cardinal Spellman was by far the most significant and important heard here at the convention....'' --snip-- Not the first Crusade, and it won't be the last.
Since I wasn't allowed to reply to Backscatter's thread, I will do so here.
The trolls can't be stopped from asking questions, no matter how obtuse they may be. The retort is to present a valid counterpoint to deflect or neutralize their argument, no matter how twisted it may be. It's like the Police trying to provoke the protesters to violence. The only thing the protesters can do, is not react in a negative manner to the provocations.
I'm reminded of a scene from the anti-war demonstrations during Viet Nam, where a photo showed the protesters putting flowers in the muzzles of the rifles held by National Guard troops standing at the ready with fixed bayonets. It brought into focus the abject polarization of Society.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/chri... Red-zone advertising pack angers residents DAVID WILLIAMS Last updated 05:00 12/07/2011 A "tasteless" mail drop has angered Christchurch homeowners hardest hit by the earthquakes. Envelopes addressed to "Red zone resident" have been delivered to mailboxes in the city's hard-hit eastern suburbs. Inside was advertising material and an invitation to weekend seminars with insurance, home-removal and property firms. --snip-- Christchurch Central Labour MP Brendon Burns said the mail drop was "poorly executed, to say the least". "I think that they have every right to be angry about that – people are feeling pretty vulnerable there at the moment." Warren Stephens, chief executive of the Lifetime Group, which was one of the companies involved, said there had been a "fantastic" response to the information pack and he rejected suggestions it was ill-conceived. --snip-- http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/assigned-c... / --snip-- As Marc points out, Steve Green at Vegas Inc. has one possible answer to that question, which suggests one very big little problem with this throw-’em-under-the-bus strategy: Ninety-eight. That’s the number of Righthaven LLC copyright infringement lawsuits in which Righthaven CEO Steven Gibson was one of the attorneys of record for his own company. --snip-- But this is a new one. Can you actually throw yourself under the bus? Now that would sure flatten you good. And — again — it would be Mr. Gibson who would be doing the throwing: In fact, Righthaven is half owned by Gibson and half owned by investors who are part of the family of Arkansas investment banking billionaire Warren Stephens. He and his family also own Stephens Media. --snip-- http://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-steph... Warren Stephens Net Worth $2.5 B As of March 2011 Owns investment bank Stephens, Inc. founded by uncle W.R. (Witt) in 1933 with $15,000 to start underwriting and dealing muni bonds. Father Jackson (d. 2005) joined in 1946. Brothers paid $5.4 million for Arkansas-Oklahoma Gas in 1954. Plowed earnings into private equity. Investment criteria: "Whim and caprice." Famously underwrote Wal-Mart's public offering in 1970. Warren grew up in the business, became chief executive 1986. Witt died 1991. Bought out cousins' stake in 2006. Adding to private equity stakes like Stephens Media, which owns 30 newspapers including Las Vegas Review-Journal. Golf nut built ultra-private Alotian Club on 1,000 acres outside of town. Also a wine aficionado, he sold 5,000 bottles in Sotheby's auction 2007. His favorite quaff: 1959 Chateau Latour. --snip-- http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/20... / Goldman, Citigroup Employees Big Givers To Deficit Super Committee If money does buy influence, the financial services industry should be in pretty good shape when the 12 members of a new Congressional “Super Committee” start meeting to decide how to trim at least $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit over the next decade. --snip-- A new analysis by MapLight, a not-for-profit which tracks political money, shows that the Political Action Committees and employees of six public companies— five of them entirely or partly in financial services—rank among the 10 largest organizational givers to the 12 politicians from 2001 through 2010. The five are Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and General Electric. The top organizational giver, according to MapLight, was the fervently anti-tax Club for Growth, which gave $990,066 to the 12. Most of that went to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa) who served as president of the Club before winning his Senate seat in 2010. Here too, the financial sector presumably has some influence; the current chairman of the Club is Jackson T. Stephens, a member of the Arkansas Stephens Inc. investment banking family. (His brother, Warren Stephens, is on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, as was their father, before the father’s death in 2005.) --snip-- Those Stephens folks really get around, sort of like the Koch Brothers. 
Source: Al JazeeraTurkish prime minister says he is ready to deploy warships to accompany Gaza-bound vessels delivering humanitarian aid. Last Modified: 09 Sep 2011 08:07 Turkey's naval forces would escort Turkish humanitarian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister has said, following Israel's refusal to apologise for its deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the besieged Palestinian territory in May 2010. "We have humanitarian aid to be sent there. And our humanitarian aid will not be attacked anymore, as happened to the Mavi Marmara," he told the Al Jazeera on Thursday. "Turkish warships will be tasked with protecting the Turkish boats bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip." Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, the ship which aimed to break Israel's naval blockade, and killed nine people - eight Turks and one US citizen of Turkish origin - in international waters, causing a diplomatic row between the two countries. --snip-- Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2...
Bound to happen.
Officer who had sex on car fired by NM police APAP – Sat, Sep 3, 2011 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state police officer has been fired after security cameras caught him having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. Officer Bert Lopez's dismissal from the New Mexico state police was confirmed by The Santa Fe New Mexican ( http://bit.ly/oIqKyd ) on Saturday. The newspaper said Lopez has 30 days to appeal the firing. The surveillance photos were taken from a motion-triggered security camera positioned at the front gate of the county-owned La Bajada Ranch south of Santa Fe. The encounter was at the remote Canyon Ranch. --snip-- http://news.yahoo.com/officer-had-sex-car-...
Our view: Governor discredited by his own anti-media tirade Gov. LePage's unwarranted attack makes him come off looking like a bully, not a leader. --snip-- His target this time was not Portland, but the news media, which he accused of failing to get his side of the story before going to print with allegations made by outgoing Commissioner of Marine Resources Norman Olsen. When MaineToday Media State House reporter Rebekah Metzler challenged LePage -- she had made numerous calls to his office seeking his comment on the story -- LePage lashed out at her personally, charging, preposterously, that "you have never written an honest thing since I've been governor." That is an outrageous falsehood, and one that the governor couldn't back up if he tried. But he didn't try, instead turning his back and walking away from the reporters, once again, without taking questions. --snip-- LePage's latest tantrum may have played well with his most ardent supporters, who see the governor as a plain-spoken straight shooter who tells it like it is. But the majority of Mainers -- 62 percent of those who voted in the 2010 election, don't forget, voted for someone other than LePage -- undoubtedly view his antics as offensive and embarrassing. --snip-- More at the Link: http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/editori... Old Shovel Dick does it again.
The Koch Brothers own Georgia-Pacific. They want people to build McMansions, because that's where the Money is for them. Build small, starve those fuckers. Use less, save Trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia-Pacif... Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. As of Fall 2010, the company employed more than 40,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America, South America and Europe. It is an independently operated and managed company of Koch Industries.
Source: YahooFox Business News' Cavuto Says US Credit Downgrade "Welcome" ForbesBy Kenneth Rapoza | Forbes – 9 hrs ago Fox News' vice president of business news, Neil Cavuto, said during the July 27 broadcast of "Your World" that a US credit downgrade would be a good thing. "I would welcome a downgrade. I think that will be the pain that will wake people up," Cavuto said during a one-on-one interview with Fox commentator John Stossel. Earlier in the interview, Stossel said that a downgrade would not be good for the US economy. --snip-- Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/fox-business-news-ca...
APBy MARYCLAIRE DALE - Associated Press | AP – Wed, Jul 27, 2011 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man at the heart of a groundbreaking criminal case against the Philadelphia archdiocese has filed a related civil suit, charging that the church let two priests and a teacher serially rape him as a young altar boy. The 23-year-old man accused the Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia of "callous indifference" to his suffering as a 10-year-old schoolboy. The suit seeks at least $450,000 in damages from the archdiocese and other defendants. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Wednesday on the suit, filed this week by a man identified as "Billy" in a February grand jury report. --snip-- His successor, Cardinal Justin Rigali, was sharply criticized for his handling of sex-abuse complaints by the lay chair of the archdiocese's own investigative panel. The pope last week named Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver to succeed Rigali. Note: Archbishop Chaput is an Opus Dei rising Star. Interesting that the Pope would have someone of his background sent to deal with this. http://news.yahoo.com/pa-man-callous-churc...
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