tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33971673280610197652026-03-30T17:40:53.879-04:00Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!)<b>Striking a blow against fascism with commentary on current events, finance, economics, politics, music, art, culture and how to deal with our economic lives being bartered away by the <i>elites</i> who have our financial future all figured out: We'll be paying off their debts forever.</b>Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-87514016627515838282021-02-03T23:11:00.000-05:002021-02-03T23:11:46.235-05:00Ian Welsh's essays always provide the most light around (not to overlook his commenters
who flesh things out nicely, so to speak).
Mark Pontin
January 20, 2021
Hugh wrote: ‘We should take a moment to consider Trump’s accomplishments. He killed 400,000 Americans, as many as died in World War II, and he did it in one year not the 3 1/2 the war took.’ We should take more than a moment. In the UKCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-28491250171850360332019-01-04T01:40:00.002-05:002019-01-04T01:40:52.197-05:00(Deception City (er, Country)) New York Times Smears Bernie Sanders With WMD Pose (NO PAYGO!!!) Do We Have to Wait for a Quadrillion n Hidden Taxpayer Funds to Be Reported Missing? (Reporter Quits NBC Citing Network’s Support For Endless War) Rigged American Elections? (Out-Russianing the Russians!) MORE!
The "New York Times," having run out of countries to find WMD in, has now determined that Bernie Sanders is the most likely target this election?
Sad.
NO NO NO
PAYGO!!!!!!!!!
In a wealthy first-world nation, no one thinks hard about some of the employees making off with a few bucks now and then.
Today's situation, trillions missing, unaccounted for, and unlooked for, is straining theCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-44920362306650835642018-12-23T05:38:00.002-05:002018-12-26T01:19:45.009-05:00Lee Camp's New Comedy Show Will Remind You of the Classics for a Good Reason (Think Sahl, Bruce, Carlin & Pryor)
(Update! Apologies for the previous link gremlins!!!)
That's just horribly wrong.
For the business boys.
As for the children and the poor . . . .
The horror! Steve, Gary: Couldn’t you just put a new tax on food stamps or check-cashing? You’re killin’ us. This could not possibly get worse, except if you hadn’t just engaged in the biggest transfer of wealth in the wrong direction in Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-39316014441262941442018-08-01T01:46:00.001-04:002018-08-01T01:46:11.887-04:00RULED BY MONSTERS? Stop Reading Now If You Don't Want to Believe It
If you've been lucky enough to not be paying attention to your coming demise, economic and physical, don't stop now.
Because if you watch the following short video, you will catch up.
And they are not kidding.
In fact, if you watch the "News" coverage put out by any of the major networks, you will have absolutely no idea what is, and has been for years, happening to your pocketbook (and Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-65944137596574193132018-03-10T04:16:00.001-05:002018-03-10T04:16:06.124-05:00UNC Beats Duke - On to Virginia! (Google Admits It Works for Pentagon: Drone Murder Program)
UNC Beats Dook!
Going for Virginia tomorrow night!!!!____________________
In my afternoon mail, I found some really terrific political insight from my favorite reporter, Lee Camp at "Redacted Tonight," when he interviews the incredibly still alive ex-CIA operative, Ray McGovern.
Hey - In this gripping interview with 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern, he tells me that Deep State is very Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-58111458138950433302018-02-08T23:01:00.002-05:002018-02-09T04:03:24.802-05:00U N C !!!!!! Beats Dook!!!!! (With Rob Porter Gone, The Heat on John Kelly Is Increasing) Labor Dept. Report Mysteriously Missing After Contradicting Trump (Congress To Pass $300B Spending Bill) SHUTDOWN
(BEATS DOOK!)
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“He Was F---ing Pissed” With Rob Porter Gone, the Heat on John Kelly Is Increasing
Trump is not happy with the chaos; Jared and Ivanka are trying to right the ship; and even Hope Hicks, one of the president’s closest confidantes, is in trouble. A day after White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter resigned amid allegations he physically abused his ex-wivesCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-850693495730194062018-02-07T02:37:00.000-05:002018-02-07T02:37:39.097-05:00Wells Fargo Wept? Nah. Don't Be Silly, It's Just a Timeout (Trumpists Eerily Quiet on Debt) Steve Wynn LLC Pays Off Accuser (Russia Confirms Su-25 Downed in Syria) Amazon Food Hells? (Wall St. Made Bank on Trump) Dark Money Trumps (Collusion) Trump's Financial Arsonists
Lee Camp is never that subtle when depicting how ignoring global climate change will screw up our lives.
Permanently.
Although he does exhibit a tad more discretion when pointing out that entities (like the oil/gas/coal/nuclear vampires and Hillary) that are pushing the full-scale destruction of fracking on our way of life are the full-blooded villains of today. With not a hint of sarcasm or Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-24443956726792799522018-02-01T04:54:00.000-05:002018-02-01T04:54:01.294-05:00State of Our Disunion
I don't know about you but this is how I've been feeling.
Politics has become the new ball and chain.
Who'd have believed it would surpass romance?
I couldn't stomach viewing the State of the Union address by the greatest President evah, but one of my buddies did, and he did a much better job of evaluating it than many I've seen so far.
I watched as much of Trump’s speech to the ReichstagCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-17411566026605996232018-01-27T04:41:00.001-05:002018-01-27T04:41:30.614-05:00Happy Birthday, Edith and Virginia! Happy End of War on Terror Everybody Else? We'll See If It's Just More Exciting Propaganda
Happy Birthday, Edith and Virginia!
Edith Wharton, "A Backward Glance," 1934 “The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.” Virginia Woolf, "The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three," 1980 “I am reading six books at once, Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-75177438829075627012018-01-11T05:23:00.002-05:002018-01-11T05:41:55.815-05:00(America!) Nothing to see here. Move along. (Smoking Gun Proof of Massive Collusion) Republicans Agree to Hate Knowledge, Democracy and Hippies (Kiss His Ring at Davos?) CFPB Orwellian Rebranding (Lee Camp Exposes) Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose (Being Protected by MSM with Fluff News) Feinstein Dumps Fusion GPS (Get Well Soon, Bob, We Miss You!)
“Oh My God, This Is So F---ed Up:” Inside Silicon Valley’s Dark Side
Really?
Large Green Bird clarifies this American moment:
From the normally rational Digby:"The released transcript of Simpson's testimony contains a good deal of interesting information, all of which will be gone over with a fine-toothed comb in the press." Ha ha. Whatever on the face of the earth could Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-41098362782947947372017-12-16T04:57:00.002-05:002017-12-24T03:14:40.642-05:00(Special Ops Rules Over All?) Bye Bye Reliable Internet & Monitor WSJ for Reporting by Comcast & Spectrum? (WAR! What/Who Is It Good For?) Analysis-Suppressing Mental Munchkin (Flim-Flammery of Tax Cuts) Leda & the Swan Redux? (How It All Happened) Dubya Is Still Either the Dummy or the Smarty (The Enemy of One's Enemy Is . . .?)
Donald Trump's First Year Sets Record for US Special OpsAmbassadors of the traditional kind? Who needs them? Diplomats? What a waste! The State Department? Why bother? Its budget is to be slashed and its senior officials are leaving in droves ever since Donald Trump entered the Oval Office. Under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, hiring is frozen, Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-76360484552591550052017-11-15T02:31:00.002-05:002017-11-15T02:54:45.843-05:00The Real Why of Hillary Clinton's Loss (Oh, And U.S. Attacking Russia) There's No 9/11 Here; Move Along (BitCoin Going to a Trillion Dollars?)
The Billionaire Bonanza report stated: “Our wealthiest 400 now have more wealth combined than the bottom 64 percent of the U.S. population, an estimated 80 million households or 204 million people.” That’s more people than the population of Canada and Mexico combined.IPS’s Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie know it is not a “natural phenomenon,” how the rich got rich at the expense of the rest Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-50491160443672097152017-10-26T01:18:00.004-04:002017-10-26T01:58:44.446-04:00(Roooskies!) Time To Open Our Eyes and View the Damage? (Obama Exposed As Trumpists Intensity Builds) Hefner Finally Dies, Will Playboy? (Affleck Apologizes, McGowan Is Shut Down by Twitter?) Needing to Rebalance Economy (With Nothing To Lose, Why Stay?) Building a More Equitable World (Max, Stacy, Randy and Noam!)
Rooossia? Hillbots? Bernbots?
Trumpers?
Whom to blame for the 2016 election fiasco?
As a former software "wiz" it's hardly a surprise to me. Many were the days when I spent long hours at my desk "improving" the code, and then being told by my managers (nonprogrammers) that I was wasting my time, baby . . . get over it!
And shit software will still remain more profitable than software that Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-2475030035546544392017-09-29T18:19:00.003-04:002017-09-29T18:19:52.788-04:00U.S. Cares Nought for Its Citizens - Watch Out Puerto Rico! And VI and Guam!!! (Merkel and Hillary Out? Not Far Enough!) Germany Out of the EU? (Senate Refuses to Stop Endless War) Venezuela Stops Accepting $$$ (Shut Up Jamie Dimon!) J.P. Passes (Dems A Joke?) Seth Rich Never Going Away (Bannon Still Skunking) Exotic "New" Trump Plague? (SMASH the Duopoly!)
Imagine, if you will, how much money has been taken off the table of jobs-creation to pay for these "stars."
Who said there were no good jobs being created?
Cree Dangles Millions in Incentives for Its New CEONaomi Klein strikes again.
Or is it just that U.S. "leadership" can only get their policies passed during "manufactured" crises?
Or will today's natural ones suffice for those no longer Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-88361869258419532272017-09-04T22:07:00.002-04:002017-09-04T22:22:45.716-04:00(Happy Un-Labor Day?) Liars Figuring Still (Stop Democracy Now!) Junior Soprano Unleashed: As*hole Defined (Ignorant/Racist USA!) Empire of Never-Ending Debt? (White Lashed) Vouchered Rahm? (After Liberalism? When?) Watershed History Moment (New International Economics Needed) Hillary Hype Resented?
Sorry that this is a ridiculously long one, but I'm catching up as I've been on long-term hiatus due to desperate economic circumstances . . . just grab a tall, cold one; you may need a refill. Many of us do constantly these days.
A brief moment of clarity for the jobs-bereft (as well as the life-bereft (h/t to D. Trump's "Have a good time!" to the desperate refugees as he scrambled back to Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-13433317730054974632017-08-12T14:11:00.001-04:002017-08-24T18:52:47.000-04:00A Not Very Rosy Picture (LIBOR BS Finally Smells Rank - Fanny/Freddie Rank Too - Privatized Profits/Socialized Losses) N. Korea/Guam Terrified of Crazed Leader & Intel Folk (Leak from DNC, NOT Hack) US Media Has to Keep Lying? (Dems Better Deal Spells Disaster) Bigger Systemic Risk Now Than 2008 (Glorifying Wasting the Earth's Bounty: Elites Rejoice) Trumponomics (NeoCon Lies & Monsanto Truth Revealed)
Anne Jones became so afraid to drink the water that came out of her well she installed a water purification system. A blue plastic jug, filled to the brim with purified water, sits on her kitchen counter. . . . Jones’ home in Banks County, about 75 miles northeast of Atlanta, sits on the edge of the county landfill. Since 2015, trucks from North and South Carolina have filled it with atCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-6262884696051621712017-07-05T05:21:00.002-04:002017-07-05T05:21:35.516-04:00Fourth of July Fab Fireworks? (North Korea in Sights) Sarin Gas Attack Attacked? (Trump's Staged TV Propaganda) White Helmets Follies (Won't Read President Risk Taker) More Fake Attacks Planned? (What Justifies Downing Syrian War Plane) Trump M-I-C Prisoner? (Neanderthals Sighted) Sy Hersh Speaks Internationally
Gee - if only it didn't look like this Fab Fireworks Fourth was planned to be coincident with the start of the next world war (see North Korea coverage on Fox News, etc.). And who paid for that million-dollar fireworks display? And why? (Surely not the country already in trillions of dollars of debt, which evokes almost instantaneous explosive anger in every so-called conservative in Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-83344725465434666512017-06-05T00:41:00.003-04:002017-06-05T01:05:13.905-04:00(Goodbye No Angel Gregg) Democratic Party Elites Don't Have Ideals (Republicans Do - Very Bad (Criminal) Ones) Real History of First Black President? (BLS BS) Social Security Always In Black (Rule-Breaking Trumped?) Never a Left-Wing Alternative? (Known Con Man Leads Polls) US World Domination End Seen? (Necessity of Cover Stories) JFK at 100 Tremors (False Flags Bragging Material?) Terrorism & Dot-Com Bubble 2.0
Did someone forget to pay the Saudis their bribe on time?
I've said early and often that Obama always seemed more like someone who was chosen than someone who made the hard choices.
Paul Street fills us in on the real history of our first black president.
“In Chicago…we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-89813028121573759742017-05-23T23:58:00.003-04:002017-05-24T00:10:22.079-04:00Embarrassed Enough Yet? It Was a Good Plan (Calling Roger Stone!) Please, Drink the Koolaid (Really. It's Not Soma) There Is No Such Thing As Cyber Security (Pig Poop Fills the Sinuses)
First off, in self defense, seriously consider this:
Truth Has Become Un-American
That peace with Russia and China would undermine the justification of the $1,000 billion military/security budget, and that the military/security complex is the American government, is too much truth for most writers to state.
Truth is the most rare element in the Western world, and we will not be permitted to Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-47498977181915694052017-05-15T02:20:00.003-04:002017-05-26T00:28:47.417-04:00(Intimidation Watch?) Fibrillating in Fear and Bankrupting By False Security (How the U.S. Electorate Has Been Denied Its True Voice for Over 40 Years) John Dean Sees Trouble? (The Real New Climate) Self-Interest or Values Voting? (Violence Our Most Important Product) Lee Camp on No More Net Neutrality (Max and Stacy on Fake Health Care Tax-Payer Insurance Scam and Education Freight Train of Fraud) Comey Cooped?
Bullshit works.
And I'm quoting Fareed Zakaria (believe it or not):
They're calling it "impeachment watch," but it seems more like bare-knuckled intimidation.
Trump Threatens Comey With Secretly Recorded “Tapes” of Their Conversations
Trump’s attempt to intimidate Comey appeared to be in response to reports from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News that the former director had let it be Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-77228610701164952792017-05-08T04:55:00.003-04:002017-05-08T04:55:54.111-04:00War Against Taxpayers and Whistleblowers (Trump Picks All Part of the Problem) Trump Threatens WikiLeaks "Nuclear Option" Against the First Amendment (Why So Easily Manipulated) Global Neoliberalism Coming to All
Damn it. "Billions" is over.
Damn. It.
Just catching up after the furor.
Wanker of the Day - Rep. Chris Collins of Upstate New York wins today's all-pro wanking award. What kind of prize should he get? Discuss. Total of 4.2Mln of French Voters Cast Empty Ballots - MillionsCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-64902840186271413362017-04-28T03:19:00.003-04:002017-04-28T03:36:02.077-04:00Napkin Voodoo Economics Redux (Deep State Captures Trump?) Looting Was the Point of Neoliberalism (ISIS Friend or Foe?) Off-Shoring Deep-Sixes Unexceptional America (New Old Dems Still Blame Stealthy Russia) Nobody's GOT To Use the Internet!) Boring 500-Pound Bombs Hit Passersby (America's Regressing Into Developing Nation But Where's President Trump?) ISIS Benefits from Assad's Downfall
One napkin was shown to Ronald Reagan who, foreshadowing Trump, was too thick to understand it. Like Trump, the Gipper thought that it proved that, 'the lower the tax, the more tax revenue collected.' George Bush Sr. called that "voodoo economics."Not voodoo, no; but here’s the key — pay attention, A students! — it’s a CURVE. When "marginal" tax rates are ABOVE 90%, cutting to, say, 85Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-7687875751911854162017-04-20T07:02:00.000-04:002017-04-22T18:28:51.373-04:00(Bill O'Gone) Rebranding Universal Basic Income As Money-Maker for Hedge Funds (President Pussy) Trump Tilt Back to Goldman Sachs (Soul Stagnation Strikes) Pundits Syrian Swoon: Good Soldiers All (Billions Missing) Twitter Governance Strategy (A Year of Blind Rats? Or Mice?) Lee & Max & Stacy & Lee!
Consider the reality of O'Reilly's career. ... He worked for Fox News for about 20 years, spewing the most vicious pack of hatred and lies he possibly could. For this he was paid millions; his salary at the end being about $18 million a year. So let's be cautious here and guess that, over the years this scum was paid about $200 million for his contribution to the country's well-being. Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-64211380514262476272017-03-29T03:46:00.002-04:002017-03-29T04:01:13.661-04:00Restoring the Greatness of Civilizations in Decline? (Four Corners of American Politics: Delusional Dems, Feckless Repubs, Deep State Handmaidens & the Golem-King) The Dick Dr. Speaks: Let's Make War On Everyone for the Good of US (And Shut Up About It or We'll Send in the Troops) Neoliberalism Brings On Civilization-Ending Disaster or Just Self-Serving Nihilism? (Green New Deal? NO WAY!)
Well, it's okay.
No one else knew about it.
Except for everyone.
Look at the election results (not just the large-state results).
It was no mystery in North Carolina.
With the decline of manufacturing jobs in the rust belt having become a significant issue in this turbulent election year, the arrival of the play in New York, where it opened on Thursday at the Public Theater after Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-82353539102419394462017-03-13T02:12:00.000-04:002017-03-13T02:30:49.038-04:00Our Hero W: The Boy King's Golden Return (Hardly a Harmless Jackass - A No-Lose Proposition) U.S. Health Care Catastrophe? Let the Wealthy Decide - They Always Do (But for God's Sake Don't Hit the Streets!) Max and Tracy Hit the Dirt (Streets) & Lee Camps Out As Usual
Get a drink.
Now.
This refugee crisis is an American creation, a parting gift from George W. Bush. We forget what he was, we forget the aftermath of what he did, but how? Whence comes this shallow grave of memory? The corporate "news" media, for their part, are all too happy to help us forget, because in that forgetting they are absolved of any culpability for their harrowing judgment Cirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com4