Sunday, June 21, 2015

Repeal the 2A?

Number 41  harry  an hour ago
Don't you get the weird feeling Rove would be cool with it -- if the 2nd Amendment vanished tomorrow? The Ruling Political Class whether Leftwing Prog Borg or the supine Rightish Establishment Quislings will never be without protection. That's why they're such bloody hypocrites.
They tell us what to do, but never suffer the consequences of their actions.
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Friday, May 29, 2015

Going still further...

no mention of the right wing coup carried out by Washington? no mention of the collaboration between the US government, neo-Nazis and fascists? Come on!
or US-NATO expansionism and aggression, and how the situation in Ukraine relates to globalized capitalism?
voltairenet.org/article183470.html
A Family Business of Perpetual War
consortiumnews.com/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/
Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism
wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/10/pers-f10.html
“Russians sympathetic to Ukraine hacked Beseda’s email, according to Jeffrey Carr, the founder and president of Taia Global, a four-year-old consulting firm. Taia has provided advice to multinational corporations and to the U.S. government, which has been critical of Russia’s actions in Ukraine.”
Who are these “Russians sympathetic to Ukraine”? My guess would be CIA. What is the background of Taia Global? I suggest a CIA front.
In any case I would be very cautious of and would wish to independently verify any information I received from a company which has clients that are transnational corporations and/or the US Imperial government. They are most unlikely to say or do anything to offend their customers and in fact are paid to help their customers. I presume aiding their clients and providing shareholder value is their sole purpose.
This article has a faint whiff of planted propaganda. Sure, the emails are probably authentic wrapping the propagandist message in true statements is how propaganda works. Russia tries to get around US Imperial sanctions and relentless Imperial attempts at containment, it even does so on the internet and in secret – Russia is bad.
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TPP confirms what we’ve always known: Politicians are whores.
This Grauniad article demonstrates a deeper point.
The politicians are not just whores, they are ten dollar crack whores.
They sell their constituents jobs and US sovereignty for a mere few grand.
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Sharon Weinberger, State Dept. Stooge: Hating Russia is an official stamp...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/28/u-s-cyber-firm-alleges-hacked-emails-reveal-russian-front-operation/




So, I’ve been reading around a bit, as we all should do, to see where Sharon Weinberger is ‘coming from’. I recommend, as it might complement your perspective of The Intercept.
The bio page on the TI website mentions her history at Wired magazine, her writing at Slate, her contributions to the BBC, ‘Nature’ journal and her work on a history of DARPA. Quite groovy for a defense tech writer.
However, it doesn’t mention that she has come to The Intercept having been flung out centrifugally from the revolving door between the State Dept Foreign Service; a defense industry corporation who work under the DARPA umbrella called System Planning Corporation; writing and editing warmongerer’s wank mags like Defense Daily and Defense Technology International; and a dominant pro-military ‘think tank’ The Center for Strategic and International Studies. [This last one is interesting for anyone who has followed Dov Zakheim in his contribution to the PNAC document ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’ and his role as comptroller for Bush junior at the Pentagon (2.3 trillion missing?). Weinberger co-wrote a paper with Zakheim titled ‘Fortress Europe’ (2000) that suggests in its conclusions (amongst other things) the push for closer relationship between the EU and NATO – the like of which we see today supporting a neo-fascist regime in Ukraine.]
I guess there is no evidence in any of that to prove that Sharon Weinberger is compromised in her reporting here, but I think that it is good to know someone’s bio when they write pieces like this , and for a publication (TI) with statements like the following in their ‘about’ section:
Our long-term mission is to produce fearless, adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues. The editorial independence of our journalists will be guaranteed. They will be encouraged to pursue their passions, cultivate a unique voice, and publish stories without regard to whom they might anger or alienate. We believe the prime value of journalism is its power to impose transparency, and thus accountability, on the most powerful governmental and corporate bodies, and our journalists will be provided the full resources and support required to do this.

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Monday, May 11, 2015

We already live in a Police state...

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Johnny Kay 
Any military preparedness drill based upon an alleged threat from “terrorists” is a fraud because there is no terrorist threat, foreign or domestic, to the United States.  The “terrorists” are created and funded by our own government and its allies. 9/11 was an inside job, as was Oklahoma City; the Boston Marathon “bombing” by “Chechen terrorists” was a hoax, as was the Sandy Hook shooting. Our own government -- and the international corporate elite that controls it -- is the real enemy.
The only threat to our southern border is the continued mass immigration of Mexicans, and they are being invited into the United States by the government as part of the plan -- in the works for decades -- to form a union between Mexico and the United States.
On a deeper level, we must ask ourselves this:   Why is formal martial law even necessary?   We already live in a police state, the United States military continues to have a steady supply of directionless and desperate adolescents anxious to join the team and become cannon fodder, mass immigration and the union with Mexico is proceeding on schedule, and everything presented to us by the corporate media is scripted.
While more and more of us are awakening to the disturbing reality of events, the vast majority of Americans are dumbed-down and drugged-up, sickly and stupid; “soft-kill” is working.   Most Americans are unwilling to acknowledge or even consider that they are nothing more than slaves on a vast tax plantation, and many of those who are awakened still see things according to the diversionary Democrat-Republican, Liberal–Conservative paradigm fed to them by their masters.   The reality is that this country is exactly where the international corporate elite want it to be.
Perhaps Jade Helm is just a variation of the “Watch out, there’s going to be another 9/11!!!” psy-op that occurs every year and peaks in September -- as Jade Helm is scheduled to do.   Author Lenon Honor, in his book The 911 Fear-Based Mind Control Program, details how such fear-based programming is intended to produce a state of perpetual anxiety and powerlessness to keep us traumatized, passive, and compliant.
The people at the top are masters of propaganda, masters of manipulation.  They know that the easiest slaves to control are those who are not aware that they are slaves.  That strategy has worked for them in the past, and continues to work for them today.If there is any purpose to Jade Helm other than as a psy-op, it will be to prepare one or more false-flag or hoax attacks to keep us on edge and encourage us to embrace even more regulation, centralization, and self-harm -- perhaps a hoax “biological attack” that will have us begging for mandatory vaccinations. . .
As for John Stewart (real name: Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz), he is a well-connected gatekeeper -- his brother, Larry Liebowitz, was the managing director of UBS and later the Chief Operating Officer of the New York Stock Exchange.  
John Stewart’s job is to A) promote harmless, generic criticism that does not threaten the control of the corporate elite; B) ridicule those who question the official narrative of events; C) ridicule those who question the validity of the system underlying those events; and D) ridicule those who suggest that the international corporate elite controls things behind the scenes.

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Friday, April 17, 2015

AMD still the one...

If you are like sadly many others going by the benchmarks please note that even Intel admits they rigged the benchmarks [youtube.com] and when you use actual programs instead of the rigged benchmarks? You'll find that AMD chips are trading blows with chips that cost 3 times as much [youtube.com] while the actual power they use is low enough it would take 18 years [youtube.com] for you to come out ahead on power savings. Sorry for two of the links being from one site but Tek Syndicate is one of the few hardware sites that isn't getting the majority of their ad revenue from Intel.
If anybody still doubts that the US DoJ is nothing but a toothless joke? Intel should be all the proof you need. Here you have a company that admits flat out they are rigging the tests every major website uses to judge performance, was allowed to pay off its rival after several CEOs got on the stand and admitted Intel was bribing their companies, used their leverage in one market (CPUs) to wipe out a competitor in another market (chipsets) while memo were leaked talking about how they were gonna "cut their throats" and they STILL didn't get fucking busted? If the MSFT antitrust were to happen today I have no doubt Gates could walk right into the deposition room and take a big dump on the table as his response and the DoJ would be lining up to offer him TP!
So don't buy the bullshit, or "tests" done by sites where the majority of their advertising budget is filled by Intel, get an AMD and see for yourself. Here in the shop I've had just about every Intel and AMD chip come through the door and on everything but the over $600 chips? You are seeing MAYBE mid single digits difference, with everything under $400 a chip trading blows back and forth....except of course on price, where it will cost on average double to trade blows with the AMD chip. Sadly the rigging doesn't just extend to benches though, you go to sites like Tom's and Anand's and you'll see writer admit that most of the new games coming down the pipe require quad cores to even play....and then push an Intel Pentium dual core over even a hexacore in the same price bracket. Of course when you turn off adblock you'll see why, as the page is covered with ads for Intel boards and chips. Never in all my years in computing have I ever seen one company be so damned blatant in their market manipulation and not even get so much as a slap on the wrist for it, I only hope the EU investigation has more teeth and hits them with enough fines that Intel will finally have to play on a level field which they have not done since the day the P4 was released!
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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Only...indoor militias...

The US Supreme Court undertook an exhausting historical and linguistic investigation in the 2008 landmark case: Heller versus DC. The country's best historians and linguistics experts found that the prefatory phrase of the Second Amendment: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, … " was in no way a limitation on the operative phrase: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The first clause merely announces a purpose, not every purpose, just a purpose. The second clause mirrors language found in other amendments where the rights are unquestionably individual rights. The court found the strained contention of anti-gun-rights proponents that the Second Amendment conferred only a collective right to arm militias to be nonsense. Those same anti-gun groups now contend the right is limited to the home. Combined with their previous arguments I suppose the Second Amendment would only protect the right to collectively arm indoor militias.
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Congrats, You fit the profile!

Maggoty
In your last line you admit fear is meant to smother rational debate.
Congratulations, you fit the profile, you are part of the problem you set out to attack in your article. The answer to your last question how can so many Americans be behind both more guns and more background checks is simple. We know guns are dangerous, we don't want to get rid of them but we would like to make sure they're staying out of the hands of people who again and again we find out should never have had access.
You cannot open a rational debate with a school massacre of small children by an outsider, conflate every school shooting with that level of violence, and then say "but I'm the rational one." 99% of school shootings are an extension of violence in already happening in the neighborhood. They are crime related. That's not to say we should write them off, but the way to handle them is entirely different from the way we should handle things like Newtown. One is about someone who has gone off their rocker, and should have been in a mental institution and the other is about day to day policing and efforts to keep our youth from participating in crime at all.
Not happy there you blithely sensationalize the green tip 5.56 round the ATF wanted to ban under a handgun law. The problem here is no rational person would call it a handgun round. It is a rifle round with a few very expensive custom made pistols for it. It really isn't anything more than a regular 22 caliber round with more oomph in the cartridge. The same caliber as the popular plinking round kids learn on. It has no special armor piercing properties other than its speed. That would be the black tip round which is both rare and already restricted to military use only. Furthermore under this argument you'd have to ban all rifles and all rifle ammunition as they all have the same or better characteristics where body armor is involved. To make this even more insane, body armor has advanced since the bill was passed in the 1980's and can now stop rounds like the 5.56 green tip.
I know it all seems like low hanging fruit, but one of the perks of having so many bad black rifle thingys floating around your society is that the society tends to understand how they work much better.
As to talking to stupid people about what women need for protection, why not try talking to the survivors, while they aren't all together on whether they should carry, I am sure they will object to being called "young, hot little girls" and I am just as sure you could have found a less sensational quote that didn't paint every gun owner as a mental loon.
You know who else won't rest no matter how far they go with guns the Brady Campaign, they won't rest until guns are outright banned or legislated so badly that they are effectively banned. Interestingly enough you have pretty much stolen their arguments and printed them as your own.
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