January 30, 2014

I have concluded that he is being used to destabilize the Anglosphere for the economic advantage of

Russia and others in the Eastern Hemisphere. They want us out of their way. I rumbled about that here:

...This may be an economic move to destabilize the Anglosphere. It's not about our rights as USA citizens. It's been going on for many, many years...

The chances that the Anglosphere is going to shuffle off into history ares slim; but it's likely that certain entities and outside alliances arrayed against it would love to spark trouble and remake the world order.

There has been a push from Russia, China and other Asian allies to push the USA out of the trading there. It's about money, not hurt feelings on anyone's part.

This is a continuing thing that is older than we are and will outlive us, but some would profit by it and work on it every day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024396718#post270

I'd say he's being used as a tool for a bigger plan. But most Americans don't think decades in advance or have ambitions beyond their own situation. That is how these things are managed in more mature societies than ours.

Just for reference, here is the Wikipedia entry on this technique, and we see it is prevalent with ODS:

The word destabilisation can be applied to a wide variety of contexts such as attempts to undermine political, military or economic power. In a psychological context it is used as a technique in brainwashing and abuse to disorient and disarm the victim. For example, in the context of workplace bullying, destabilisation applied to the victim may involve:[1] [2]

* failure to acknowledge good work and value the victim's efforts
* allocation of meaningless tasks
* removal of areas of responsibility without consultation
* repeated reminders of blunders
* setting up to fail
* shifting of goal posts without telling the victim
* persistent attempts to demoralise the victim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destabilisation

This is what the media is doing with G.A.S., et al. Those promoting it are not our friends and do not have our best interests at heart.

January 29, 2014

Where I live, any snow or ice means the DOT stays up all night and gets positioned for action.

But schools and businesses are very reluctant to close. It makes it a necessity to keep the roads going unless it's day after day of snow and stuff. Then those who are going to work have to depend on mass transit. And at times, that does not work as well as one might think. But we are not usually taking the brunt of such things.

I don't put down the folks in Atlanta at all and don't know why anyone would. But have read a spat of threads today going back and forth on this. I grew up in a city where only one inch of snow was sufficient to shut down the schools, etc. We just did not 'believe' in snow. I don't fault Atlanta.

The scenes in Atlanta of the gridlock were no different than Houston when evacuating from a hurricane. People died as ambulances could not get through and cars were running out of gasoline and getting stuck. The Gulf Freeway starts at the beach and ends up in Dallas, roughly speaking. Millions of people trying to get away. It's okay.

Sometimes the best of planning will fail:

Within a week or so, I and most neighbors didn't bother to go out. People were scooting around on jet skis or walking over snow and ice.

Hold your head up proud, Atlanta! Elect Carter and Nunn and go blue!

January 29, 2014

They've simply repackaged the SOS for a new generation. Scratch the CT and OOPS, there it is.

This is a technique that has been used over and over. I'm just surprised that the people of Europe (sure it's a minority) are being taken in with the new anti-semiticism. I've read this stuff, it's what Tim Wise and others have spoken of:

http://www.timwise.org/2012/01/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candidates-and-the-confusion-of-certain-white-liberals/

Now it's wrapped in the Ayn Rand, teabagger and libertarian brand as some new thing. But look who set them in action - the Koch family who made their first millions with Stalin and who adored Mussolini:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227

Perhaps there wiil always be some with hot tempers and without education who have always been taken in, willingly. The Jews appear to be the new and the old shiny that is dangled for the wolves to feed on.

They've got different dog whistles, the Bilderbergers or Rothchilds or AIPAC or whatever name they pick, but it ends up at the same place, the Protocols.

It always does. And the recipients of this esoteric knowledge call all the rest who don't jump into their world view with all fours, 'sheeple.' They've fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book. Just looking for the strand to tie their own miseries upon, but never themselves.

At their most creative, they claim that Jews are not human, they are from another planet, thus they hate us all. This stuff gets really detailed. It's pretty amazing bullshit and it seems to justify any horror they wish to inflict.

Who are they avoiding looking at, which many Americans learned in the FDR era, to not be taken in by now? Likely the same actors, under a different name. Did you see the technique in this old film posted here?

Don't Be a Sucker - 1947 anti-facist film

to JHB

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017150109

I read something about things going in cycles. That we are going to go through social changes, like the 1930s and the Great Depression. Which I might add, the current crop of anti-semitics blame on the Jews of the upper or banker class. I don't know any of those.

They even try to get some distance from the charges by saying it's the normal or poor Jews are not the problem. They say it's the Zionists, and on and on.

But to the person on the street, it doesn't read any different, does it?

January 29, 2014

So do I. It's like a cathedral.

January 28, 2014

Tears. Love for him, his family and the firefighters. Picture of that loving face:

January 28, 2014

Looks like one we followed at night through the Santa Fe mountains in February years ago. n/t

Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican.

A snow plow makes its way north on the Old Las Vegas Highway on Sunday morning, Nov. 24, 2013. The city's emergency manager cautioned motorists against unnecessary travel Sunday.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/winter-storm-dumps---inches-of-snow-in-santa/article_d935fd64-66c1-5dcf-a846-9654a8f53e74.html

Guess all the big ones look alike. It was a comfort following behind them in the dark and around the curves in the road.

January 27, 2014

BWAHAHA! More from the twitter page:

Frank Conniff ?@FrankConniff 4h

GOP plan to replace Obamacare covers preexisting conditions as long as you blame the preexisting condition on Benghazi.

January 27, 2014

Send THAT to a creationism theme park:

In case they haven't thought it through.

January 27, 2014

It's the mantra of landed gentry. The Earth produces all wealth. The more land, the more they think

they deserve to have. And the reason they consider urbanites parasites, is them thinking we are feeding off them.

I will give what I have heard and thought about what I've heard from country folk which are the model for red staters. There is a lot more to it, socially, but I'll stick to the tax and welfare argument.

All of the wealth of the cities comes from the land, parleyed into a value which is not returned equally. It can't be, since the city requires a lot just to exist that it is not able to produce, resources and materials.

Rural workers are low-paid, because the majority of people live in the cities and insist prices be kept low and all their wealth is solid and tangible, not digits to be manipulated as city dwellers can do.

The farmer or rancher in a long-term gamble against weather, government regulations and a market he has little or no say in, such as Wall Street or whoever is running government. He must think long-term as it takes time for his crop to come in, and what does he have to live on before that?

The urbanite expects food available all the time, heat, water, and income to buy the same, or a system of governance to see him through bad years. If the city dweller through government taxes sees him through that period of time, he is sure that only part of what he is owed. He considers his plight to be the fault of the city dweller.

It is a permanent grievance that has been in place as long as the rural - urban dynamic has existed, and government comes from cities and high population states and insists the rural dweller obey.

it's getting more unbalanced with the HUGE need of those who demand regularity in their living conditions that the rural dweller cannot insist upon. The ratio of city to country dweller in this country is virtually the opposite that it was as the Great Depression hit.

People were driven out of their homes in the country to the cities to make a living. And they were made unwelcome when they arrived, as the refugees they were. Many have let those days fade into memory. Others have not forgotten, especially those that held on in the country for decades and felt pride - and not a small amount of resentment.

The rural people see what they are up against, and they call city and coastal dwellers elitists. The gas, oil, electricity, water and sewer systems MUST be going 24/7/365. The city, truth to be told, DEVOURS the countryside as a material thing that it does not respect. So when the country dweller looks askance at our horror of mining and factory farming, it is only fair in their book. They want to make a living, but they are driven to produce more meat, vegetables, oil and minerals for the city - which I am using analogy for the blue states and Democratic strong holds which pay the most taxes.

We pay more taxes because we have more money, it's not as hard to get as in a the almost barter system of land owners. We can make appear or disappear, the rural or red stater cannot do this sleigh of hand that we can. We can pass a law that makes one group well-off, they cannot make more land, water, etc.

But nothing else has ever worked in an urban environment of millions, and we love our combined intelligence, wealth, organization and education and what it buy us. Our money that we pay in taxes comes from our ingenuity, but what undergirds it is the land, which is neglected. And we use resources rural people lose to the political influences of the masses in cities. It's probably the reason our government was set up as it was, to maintain a political equity between the classes or regions.

The frontier mentality of guns, hunting, willingness to slaugther, live with animal and industrial filth and all the rest have made their culture. They consider their penury to be the fault of luxurious living in the cities and laziness because they consider their work more physically demanding. It's all out of sight and out of mind for the genteel urbanite, but all that we use and buy and sell comes from such places and people considered by many to be stupid and uncouth. That is very old.

Since rural folks are not getting the same treatment as they think the non-agrarian city dweller does, they believe our life styles to be frvolous, they think we are spoilt brats and resent us. They value land, family, etc. and the like. Not a full explanation, but IMO this is why they don't see our money paid in to them as welfare, but less than they are owed.

They think they are being cheated. Are they?

January 27, 2014

From a long poem some of them may have read:

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

The Mask of Anarchy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by the British Government at Peterloo, Manchester 1819 (of which I know nothing)



Who started the bloody class war, anyway!