JackRiddler
JackRiddler's JournalWow, you are nothing if not flexible...
in your justification of the latest outrage from the CIA's bogus "revolution" du jour.
What flavor of nationalist radical iconoclasty does it take, also reminiscent of the worst image of the Cultural Revolution, to want to use their first moment in power simply to destroy (without a proceeding or debate of any kind) a historical monument from the 19th century, no matter what one may think of the figure depicted? This is historical vandalism, a throwing of memory down the hole. If Yanukovich had done it, you'd have been appalled, whether it was striking at Napoleon or his enemies.
No problem, I'll deny the "undeniable."
Unfortunately, the Snowden disclosures have not (yet) done "tremendous damage" to the "Western" "intelligence" agencies. Or barely any. Very unfortunate.
These authoritarian deep-state structures and their private corporate allies like Booz Allen remain firmly ensconced in their power. In every conceivable way, they continue to violating the rights and damage the interests of the very people they claim to be defending, as well as helping to create hell and destruction around the world, and thus to generate the very same "security threats" that they claim to be defending against.
We can hope, of course, that as a result of the Snowden disclosures, at some point down the line, others will be similarly inspired, and some real damage will be done to these fraudulent, criminal organizations.
We can hope for their eventual abolition, so that this country may one day truly serve as a light unto the world in inspiring other nations to also shake free of such parasitical, conspiratorial, criminal, and yet: state-financed agencies.
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So you want to kill kittens?
Please learn to read what I wrote, before misrepresenting it with a non-sequitur question like that.
I said something about what the Dow is, both inherently and as an indicator of something positive (which you seem to think it is). It indicates nothing other than the current market value of 30 mega-death corporations chosen by NewsCorp as indicative of something important. These are big parts of the much bigger machine that is melting the icecaps and driving what is probably the biggest extinction event in the history of life. To focus on the triviality of their current market price is the problem, not the solution.
Golly gee, do a lot of voters nevertheless care about that crap more than they do about their own lives, and those of their children and grandchildren? On some level, yes. Or they are willfully ignorant. Either way they do.
Your response - that I was actually expressing an opinion about how people who own stock should vote, and somehow magically without actually saying so - is bizarre, and speaks to obsessions of yours so strongly held that you can't even read what anyone wrote except in terms of party strategy, apparently divorced from any principle or the most important issues facing us.
The Democrats are not a successful liberal party. That's what they were up until the 1970s (domestically, anyway, notwithstanding their support for the international murder machine that killed millions in Vietnam and elsewhere).
At the moment, they are a successful, for now, neoliberal party. Very big difference, and highly unfortunate. They would be serving us better in the wilderness, if they were actually going to be a liberal party when elected.
Yeah, because partition works so well, see Yugoslavia.
What about the majority-minority blocks within the minority-majority areas? Partition is a great long-term solution a) if you are a very naive liberal humanitarian who's barely conscious of the ineherent imperialism in your proposal; or b) if you are CIA looking to plunge Ukraine, and Russia, and Europe, into a decade of ethnic cleansing and proxy war based on obtuse categories taken from the irrational and outdated handbook of traditional beliefs. What about all the people who don't identify strongly either way, or, e.g., who think of themselves as Russian-speaking Ukrainians, or global citizens, or whatever? I suppose they can just be given the same choices as those who in 1991 thought of themselves as Yugoslavians, and believed they had escaped the old ethno-religious matrices: join, run, or die.
The Venezuelan right wing opposition has got to be the world's most shameless.
As the right-wing oligarchs once again attempt to violently destabilize the democratically elected government of Venezuela, check out the crudity of the propaganda being pumped out in the attempt to sell their revolt as some kind of popular uprising that is being brutally suppressed by dictatorial forces, etc., etc.
The bastards even had the nerve to steal the extremely well-known picture of the Egyptian woman murdered in the street by police in Cairo and present it as a Venezuelan event:
For many more examples of pictures from around the world being appropriated and falsely presented as scenes from Venezuela, see:
http://daily-struggles.tumblr.com/post/76949406427/whats-being-faked-to-be-going-on-in-venezuela-in-a
The real question is, what kind of "opposition" imagines that this kind of crude tactic can work in the digital age when we have such wonders as reverse image searches?
Is the CIA still stuck in the 1950s?
The answer, possibly, is that they don't really care:
It's all about keeping the blood boiling with a core of right-wing anti-socialist Venezuelans and their lobby in one country, the United States, which is known for having a really stupid political culture where people will believe fucking anything, and which is providing the "international" financing and backing for the so-called Venezuelan "opposition."
There are a few such supporters of the next CIA coup attempt in Venezuela who post daily on this site, by the way. Whatever the latest lie of the day, they will be supporting it.
The irony is that this is the Venezuelan counterpart to the Tea Party "birth certificate seekers" who will believe any hysteria and make up any lie about Obama.
Should you be murdering little kittens?
While you focus on asking extremely loaded questions with patently false premises--as though you were echoing the authoritarian state's campaign to attack and neutralize Greenwald--the big question is, whether you, Demenace, should be murdering little kittens by drowning them in the river near your house. If indeed that is what you are doing.
That headline is evidence of brain damage.
Do pregnant pot smokers go around violently poking kids in the head? Or do they blow the smoke at the poor darlings? Because those are the only realistic possibilities implied by the syntax.
"The Institute's Professor Tibor Harkany was part of a global team of scientists looking into what effects consuming cannabis during pregnancy had on the unborn child."
Global team research money well spent! At last, someone's figuring out things we would have never known. The campaign by the state and the medical establishment to encourage pregnant women to smoke pot and cigarettes and chug liquor with their legally mandated prozac must stop!!! We need PSAs!!! Lady, don't smoke! (Also, keep those damn pot dealers in prison and keep funding the Mexican and Colombian states to kill thousands of their own citizens in the war on drugs. For the children!!!)
"In addition to researchers from Sweden and Austria, researchers from the US, Germany, Finland and the UK took part in the study."
Who paid for them to torture all those mice?
(The usual answer, no matter which institutes and foundations may have chipped in, is going to be: taxpayers.)
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