That's a really heavy-duty, rhetorical question to answer (you've done such a fine job of answering, I won't even attempt to --- just like to add one remark to the equation).
There are four categories of people today in America:
1. Those who understand we have been taken over by a group whose main goal is a plutocratic, fascistic state,
2. Those who are clueless,
3. Those who don't give a rat's a**, and,
4. The last group is self-evident, and you know who you are.....
By any doubtful chance have you ever read Riccardo and Jean-Baptiste Say?
China IS NOT a Mecca for technology origination, nor are they a Mecca as an original source for best-selling novels, technical publications, etc., as no one stands to make any economic gain given their present (albeit evolving) system (if one presumes a totalitarian fascist system to be evolving!). Your remarks are pretty ludicrous given their present and past economic history, although it is the place to go for inexpensive digital and book knockoffs. Also, the Chinese fascists almost certainly do HAVE - or WISH TO HAVE - a mad-monopoly-over-information - just go back and read all those back issues of the Hong Kong Standard for the past five years.....
Go back to the time the Bush administration took over back in 2000 or thereabouts, and begin reading the Federal Register forward. Start back about four years ago and peruse the all those Supreme Court decisions handed down. Next, read over the Patriot Act very slowly and very carefully. After that, check over all the regulations handed down by the National Labor Relations Board since the Busheviks have been in offce. Finally, if you ever served in the US military, kindly review the oath you took --- the same oath General Hayden was supposed to be obeying and quite similar to Bush's oath of office.
Then, after you've done all that, come back and repeat your accusation to me --- if you honestly can....
No - they are definitely not communist - in fact there is a progression towards very little difference between the present system in China, fascist capitalism, and the same system in the United States of America (also fascist capitalism or corporate fascism).
I believe their notion of property dates back some 3,000 years or so.....
One keeps hearing about some war we Americans are fighting --- I believe they are referring to the INVASION of Iraq, and the subsequent OCCUPATION of Iraq, and now the rebellion there is taking place. Seems perfectly understandable to this American combat veteran.....
Yes, Virginia, 9/11/01 really did take place --- just not in the exact manner they would have you believe (v=gt).
[CODE Air Hammer Alert......CODE Air Hammer Alert...Shut down Congress]
Those who proclaim that NSA is using the data to track terrorists are the same ones who believed Nixon when he said he used highly focused "system analysis" to arrive at his paranoid and hyper-suspicious, emotional attacks on his political enemies using the FBI, NSA and CIA. This is just soooo deja vu, but at a much more highly dangerous level.
How they manipulate us --- first after the stories on NSA's illegal spying hit the media, that immigration bill --- then those Spanish-language radio stations organize those two nation-wide protest marches --- just research who owns those Spanish-language radio stations --- it will lead you to the Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group --- why am I not surprised.
Let me see now, the ability to reason scientifically:
Bush brings up this onerous immigration bill ---- the mainstream media covers that and no longer is covering illegal spying by NSA (and other agencies) ---- the immigration talk sputters ---- then suddenly the Spanish-language radio stations help tremendously in organizing nation-wide protest marches ---- and immigration once more occupies center news stage.
The obvious next question: Who owns those Spanish-language radio stations???
Can anyone spell the Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group? Hoooo ---- that would be too much of a coincidence, say the "Coincidence Theorists." No, that would be another rather obvious connection, say the scientific thinking people......
But why in the world would you ever think I would defend Kennedy's actions (I'm assuming you are referring to the horrible death of Mary Jo Kopechne)?
And his father made their fortune quite a bit more evilly cunningly than simply bootlegging liquor - I suggest you read Richard Condon's brilliantly stealth fictional work on Kennedy, Sr.
Most enlightening. And as for Clinton, those "free trade" acts he signed into existence have doomed the American (and in many respects, the Mexican) workers. And Clinton certainly promised the unions he would never sign any trade pacts that didn't include comparable workers' rights, environmental provisions, etc. This is why America is forever doomed should another BUSH or CLINTON reach the White House.....
Eons ago...when I was in high school..there was a sweet young girl who sat next to me in math class. One day she disappeared...and no one knew...or would tell...what happened to her.
Turns out she was pregnant and was taken out of school to have her child in secret (she latered married her boyfriend - and they're still married to this day).
Point being: that was considered shameful back then, while today having a monkey-boy deserter/AWOLEE in the White House - who never succeeded at anything in his life, together with his draft-dodging, college-flunkount vice-president, is NOT CONSIDERED SHAMEFUL??????!!!!@##@%$
that you're not trustworthy, that you're not even very good with grammar and spelling (in the real world, spelling counts).
Puuuhlease....I can't think of any corp. in the last decade or so where ANYBODY could spell or knew proper grammar. And to the point of trustworthiness (and spelling), would you please explain the commander-in-CEO in that sleaze house in Washington, D.C.?????
Can't spell....can't tell the truth about anything....let's see now, as to how many major corporations have had to pay legal penalties for major breaking of the law (price-fixing, RICOH act, etc., etc., ad infinitum): ADM...Boeing...Enron....Microsoft...Oracle...I could go on for almost forever.
It seems like an awful risk for Wired News, opening themselves to being sued by AT&T.
NEGATIVE...NEGATIVE...NEGATIVE. In any type of libel case, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff (AT&T) to prove the defendant (Wired News) wrong.
That would lead to a thorough discovery process - with AT&T having to open themselves up to complete outside scrutiny - and anyone who has ever been a contractor there knows that is the very last thing they can afford.....
Unfortunately, the Patriot Act changed all that - which is why one should always read such things - then make sure their lazy a** congresspeople and senators do likewise. What this country truly needs - assuming there are enough citizens with any backbone left - is a national strike - where the citizenry unequivocally lets the government know that it is time they feared us.
Next order of the day, a million man ARMED march on Washington, D.C.!
Your assumption appears to be that terrorists are responsible for 9/11/01 (that is, other than as "cutouts"). The problem with that is there is no actual evidence which would have made it through a normal discovery process in a normal criminal investigation - which never took place!!!!
In a normal criminal investigation, those passport(s) conveniently found nearby the WTC towers would have been laughed out of court by any judge. In a normal criminal investigation, the financial gains would have been looked at extremely closely, along with any and all connections among the passsengers so horribly killed, along with any and all connections between those same passengers and an US government agencies and operations.
It should be obvious to everyone - sooner than later - that Gonzales knows as much about the law the legal profession as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney know about combat and military practise and procedures.
Having familiarized myself with the Treason Act - which Alberto the Ignorant has been citing - it becomes obvious that Gonzales has never actually practised the law to think he has a leg to stand on.
The Treason Act can be used against the Bush Administration for leaking that CIA agent's name, along with the National Security Act and the War Crimes Act to really cause those characters some grief they justifiably deserve.
It has become rather obvious that any American who is in the least bit educated understands we are presently living in a fascist state - there is no debate on this matter.
Of course, China could have been doing "chipping" all along as has the NSA in times past (along with any other tech-intel organizations).
On the other hand, China has done a remarkably top-notch job of allowing foreign manufacturers (Sweden, US, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan) into their country, set up their factories, then steal their technology and manufacturing processes to their own benefit, so I suspect there is some biz competitiveness in all this charade....
I'd bet that those calls are being recorded, too. But so what? How do you know who is calling whom if the phone can't be traced?
Here's how they do it: using an improvement on the old infinity transmitter, they listen for any nearby calls from landlines - and they can then place where they are and track them by existence of both the landlines and their numbers (they don't even need the actual dialing to know where they are..).
[TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS: NSA + NGA + ChoicePoint]
Because our dirty linen is complicit in the offshoring of our jobs, livelihoods, and criminal activities.....therefore they have an international presence.
Perhaps you can clue me in, my good fellow? When exactly did these al Qaeda terrorist attacks take place? And what did it have to do with destroying those radar tapes of the airspace above NYC and DC on 9/11/01???
Sorry to inject a little logic here - also, why haven't those commercial passenger jet videos of the Pentagon on 9/11/01 been released???? Just asking....
It was done to gather information about terrorist cells in the US.
WOW!!! Look at all those terrorists they've captured!!!
Oh...you mean they haven't captured any terrorists since they've been doing this??? Well, look at all that business intelligence they've at least gotten....and look at all those telephone logs of democratic politicians, nosey reporters, honorable intelligence agents, honest judges.....oh no!!!!!
[Total Information Awareness = NSA + NGA + ChoicePoint]
Any chance we can export Tom DeLay, the Bush family along with their torture chamber, the Cheneys (including the mouthy lesbian), Ann Coulter (with both her gender wardrobes), and that dang purple dragon, Barney????
I don't know, dude, they do a pretty good job of smoke & mirrors.
Take for instance that silly release of that gas station stop frame (that's been on the 'net for just about forever) thanks to the righwing nuts at JudicialWatch, that's supposed to show us a commercial passenger jet flew into the Pentagon - but the frame itself is rather difficult to make out - this is supposed to obscure the obvious: a commercial passenger jet did indeed fly into the Pentagon. A missile did indeed fly into the fuselage of that passenger jet as it was going into the Pentagon - destroying the fact that it was Flight 11 - not Flight 77 (too long to go into the details - but such an anomly would really be difficult for the evil ones to explain).
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There are four categories of people today in America:
1. Those who understand we have been taken over by a group whose main goal is a plutocratic, fascistic state,
2. Those who are clueless,
3. Those who don't give a rat's a**, and,
4. The last group is self-evident, and you know who you are.....
China IS NOT a Mecca for technology origination, nor are they a Mecca as an original source for best-selling novels, technical publications, etc., as no one stands to make any economic gain given their present (albeit evolving) system (if one presumes a totalitarian fascist system to be evolving!). Your remarks are pretty ludicrous given their present and past economic history, although it is the place to go for inexpensive digital and book knockoffs. Also, the Chinese fascists almost certainly do HAVE - or WISH TO HAVE - a mad-monopoly-over-information - just go back and read all those back issues of the Hong Kong Standard for the past five years.....
Go back to the time the Bush administration took over back in 2000 or thereabouts, and begin reading the Federal Register forward. Start back about four years ago and peruse the all those Supreme Court decisions handed down. Next, read over the Patriot Act very slowly and very carefully. After that, check over all the regulations handed down by the National Labor Relations Board since the Busheviks have been in offce. Finally, if you ever served in the US military, kindly review the oath you took --- the same oath General Hayden was supposed to be obeying and quite similar to Bush's oath of office.
Then, after you've done all that, come back and repeat your accusation to me --- if you honestly can....
I believe their notion of property dates back some 3,000 years or so.....
One keeps hearing about some war we Americans are fighting --- I believe they are referring to the INVASION of Iraq, and the subsequent OCCUPATION of Iraq, and now the rebellion there is taking place. Seems perfectly understandable to this American combat veteran.....
Yes, Virginia, 9/11/01 really did take place --- just not in the exact manner they would have you believe (v=gt).
[CODE Air Hammer Alert......CODE Air Hammer Alert...Shut down Congress]
Those who proclaim that NSA is using the data to track terrorists are the same ones who believed Nixon when he said he used highly focused "system analysis" to arrive at his paranoid and hyper-suspicious, emotional attacks on his political enemies using the FBI, NSA and CIA. This is just soooo deja vu, but at a much more highly dangerous level.
How they manipulate us --- first after the stories on NSA's illegal spying hit the media, that immigration bill --- then those Spanish-language radio stations organize those two nation-wide protest marches --- just research who owns those Spanish-language radio stations --- it will lead you to the Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group --- why am I not surprised.
Bush brings up this onerous immigration bill ---- the mainstream media covers that and no longer is covering illegal spying by NSA (and other agencies) ---- the immigration talk sputters ---- then suddenly the Spanish-language radio stations help tremendously in organizing nation-wide protest marches ---- and immigration once more occupies center news stage.
The obvious next question: Who owns those Spanish-language radio stations???
Can anyone spell the Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group? Hoooo ---- that would be too much of a coincidence, say the "Coincidence Theorists." No, that would be another rather obvious connection, say the scientific thinking people......
Negative, I've worked overseas a good bit, but for US corporations there, with the exceptions of Cable & Wireless (British) and Aerospatiale (French).
And his father made their fortune quite a bit more evilly cunningly than simply bootlegging liquor - I suggest you read Richard Condon's brilliantly stealth fictional work on Kennedy, Sr.
Most enlightening. And as for Clinton, those "free trade" acts he signed into existence have doomed the American (and in many respects, the Mexican) workers. And Clinton certainly promised the unions he would never sign any trade pacts that didn't include comparable workers' rights, environmental provisions, etc. This is why America is forever doomed should another BUSH or CLINTON reach the White House.....
Eons ago...when I was in high school..there was a sweet young girl who sat next to me in math class. One day she disappeared...and no one knew...or would tell...what happened to her.
Turns out she was pregnant and was taken out of school to have her child in secret (she latered married her boyfriend - and they're still married to this day).
Point being: that was considered shameful back then, while today having a monkey-boy deserter/AWOLEE in the White House - who never succeeded at anything in his life, together with his draft-dodging, college-flunkount vice-president, is NOT CONSIDERED SHAMEFUL??????!!!!@##@%$
What's wrong with this picture???
that you're not trustworthy, that you're not even very good with grammar and spelling (in the real world, spelling counts).
Puuuhlease....I can't think of any corp. in the last decade or so where ANYBODY could spell or knew proper grammar. And to the point of trustworthiness (and spelling), would you please explain the commander-in-CEO in that sleaze house in Washington, D.C.?????
Can't spell....can't tell the truth about anything....let's see now, as to how many major corporations have had to pay legal penalties for major breaking of the law (price-fixing, RICOH act, etc., etc., ad infinitum): ADM...Boeing...Enron....Microsoft...Oracle...I could go on for almost forever.
NEGATIVE...NEGATIVE...NEGATIVE. In any type of libel case, it is incumbent upon the plaintiff (AT&T) to prove the defendant (Wired News) wrong.
That would lead to a thorough discovery process - with AT&T having to open themselves up to complete outside scrutiny - and anyone who has ever been a contractor there knows that is the very last thing they can afford.....
Next order of the day, a million man ARMED march on Washington, D.C.!
In a normal criminal investigation, those passport(s) conveniently found nearby the WTC towers would have been laughed out of court by any judge. In a normal criminal investigation, the financial gains would have been looked at extremely closely, along with any and all connections among the passsengers so horribly killed, along with any and all connections between those same passengers and an US government agencies and operations.
It should be obvious to everyone - sooner than later - that Gonzales knows as much about the law the legal profession as Karl Rove and Dick Cheney know about combat and military practise and procedures.
The Treason Act can be used against the Bush Administration for leaking that CIA agent's name, along with the National Security Act and the War Crimes Act to really cause those characters some grief they justifiably deserve.
It has become rather obvious that any American who is in the least bit educated understands we are presently living in a fascist state - there is no debate on this matter.
[You vote, but Diebold decides the election!]
Of course, China could have been doing "chipping" all along as has the NSA in times past (along with any other tech-intel organizations).
On the other hand, China has done a remarkably top-notch job of allowing foreign manufacturers (Sweden, US, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan) into their country, set up their factories, then steal their technology and manufacturing processes to their own benefit, so I suspect there is some biz competitiveness in all this charade....
Here's how they do it: using an improvement on the old infinity transmitter, they listen for any nearby calls from landlines - and they can then place where they are and track them by existence of both the landlines and their numbers (they don't even need the actual dialing to know where they are..).
[TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS: NSA + NGA + ChoicePoint]
Because our dirty linen is complicit in the offshoring of our jobs, livelihoods, and criminal activities.....therefore they have an international presence.
Sorry to inject a little logic here - also, why haven't those commercial passenger jet videos of the Pentagon on 9/11/01 been released???? Just asking....
WOW!!! Look at all those terrorists they've captured!!!
Oh...you mean they haven't captured any terrorists since they've been doing this??? Well, look at all that business intelligence they've at least gotten....and look at all those telephone logs of democratic politicians, nosey reporters, honorable intelligence agents, honest judges.....oh no!!!!!
[Total Information Awareness = NSA + NGA + ChoicePoint]
Any chance we can export Tom DeLay, the Bush family along with their torture chamber, the Cheneys (including the mouthy lesbian), Ann Coulter (with both her gender wardrobes), and that dang purple dragon, Barney????
Total Information Awareness = NSA + NGA + ChoicePoint
Take for instance that silly release of that gas station stop frame (that's been on the 'net for just about forever) thanks to the righwing nuts at JudicialWatch, that's supposed to show us a commercial passenger jet flew into the Pentagon - but the frame itself is rather difficult to make out - this is supposed to obscure the obvious: a commercial passenger jet did indeed fly into the Pentagon. A missile did indeed fly into the fuselage of that passenger jet as it was going into the Pentagon - destroying the fact that it was Flight 11 - not Flight 77 (too long to go into the details - but such an anomly would really be difficult for the evil ones to explain).
She told me she was a human!!!! How was I supposed to know????
Speaking of not being descended from chips, you've never met my uncle Herbie???