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The design for the Satanist statue proposed for the lawn of the Oklahoma state capitol is a delight: Baphomet, a goat-headed pagan idol, sits gracefully on a chair, gazing beatifically forward while holding two fingers aloft. Two children, a boy and a girl, stand on either side of him, looking worshipfully upon the goatly representation of the occult.
For the Satanists who designed the statue and their supporters, the joke is obvious, though no less hilarious. Baphomet is a figure likely made up by the Inquisition for the purpose of accusing its victims of worshipping him. Satanists today use his face as a way to mock modern fundamentalist Christians for their tendency to concoct imaginary enemies to stoke their own paranoid fantasies about being persecuted.


How a Satanic Goat Statue Threatens the Christian Right
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the luck of the draw

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one my best friends in this life goes by the name a goat.......and ya all the theatrics are a way to insight n mock n inflame Christians own hypocrite insanity within lolz its fun though man I hate fundamental Christians like dog shit on new shoes lolz..........................followers! I got no problem with the book of the ancient outcasts n respect the ways of theres and even the one they call god or whatever but the modern church is sad as fuck n I got more jehovahs dancing on my finger tip than the catholic or Christian church will ever know............ think for yourself man don't do as they do there may be one god or many gods and maybe ones all powerful and believe me when he says so I will bow until then lmfao .........i am my own God FUCK YOU! DO AS THOU WILL


smell my finger too

Wht is an fpc? Federally protected committee? fukin people's crap?

freedom psychic corps

fossil pine cone

way back machine...

some interesting recollections from overgrow days
helped this one guy fix a wiring job. he had run to small of cables to a building in the backyard and was bummed. i helped him install a subpanel halfway there with new wire to it. fixed his voltage drop issues.

shabang tossed this guy a ticket into the chat room so we could converse live in order to assist getting this done.

years later he told me he was 16 years old at the time!

jeez

sad story... he was trying to stabilize a home that was falling apart. got dragged into joining the military there right a bit after 911 and i never heard from him again.

figure he bought it.


remember another guy... he was about to harvest and his gf goes evil and starts threatening to call the cops... so he quick chopped em and drove out in the woods and hung them up in a tree to dry

jeez

we had another friend who got out of the mining industry... said they were trying to kill people. when massey blew those 30 guys to bits and got away with it a few years later i remembered him

jeez

next month is the anaversary of coloweed wrecking him car and dying...

valintines days

left a daughter

i cant rememebr were now but i was reading a while ago that some currency or some postal orders in america had the pic of adam weishpuat on the back of it, he is the founder of the bavarian iluuminati... i thought that was weird !!!

he wrote some good stuff!

now your shoppin baby!

^^^
jake & dinos chapman present 'in our dreams we have seen another world' at art basel miami beach

you got to see this!

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just to cover the bases


hell broke luce
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theres a trick to it...

you know the other guys carrying a sub
most likely

so we scream around the corner
see the guy
and duck back
just as the noise starts

quick

before it stops
rush back around and tackle the fuck!

as you turn the corner
hes busy shooting up the ceiling
that the deal
muzzel lift

hes trying to take his finger off the trigger

distracted

put him down

you get his gun
and the next clip for it

assuming someone doesnt waste you while your picking them up

mabe skip the loot and kick him good a couple times

mabe skip the loot

Your pit bull will flee in Terror, leaving a puddle of liquid fear in its wake.

i got this client i work for
and often theyre out of town
so i house sit

a good sized place
the view is spectacular

i feed the cat
and chip away at the maintainance

sit and the kitchen table
and realize

my memories of this space
are quite different from theirs

them with the kids and their careers

they have a whole nother appreciation for this space
that i can only imagine

what with me being here alone

you can't insult any Christians who have heard.

Why can't Jesus eat M & M's

I appreciate the fact your an honest person and can be trusted!. May I borrow your credit card please so I can help my elderly mother charge up the battery on her wheel chair? I give it right back.

AGENDA 21

COMMON CORE

FEDERALLY PROTECTED COMMUNITIES
doesn't mean protecting people it means protecting wildlands and animals and areas outside the limits of people to travel into and through limitedly under prescreibed routes least likely to harm the "environment".

PASS PLEASE

to travel between environmental cages.. you can not damage the environment

Fine.. whatever. The progressives can continue with destroying the chair they are sitting on.

Its gone so far now I don't think there is a stopping it.

Can you ride and jump across on the tumbling rocks?

We will not make it to the "perfect" environmental agenda 21 common core continued destruction of society by retards in the illumanati

power boys and girls

money is monopoly money

assets and power
runs over penguin with bull dozer "Cause my Bleepin .. SPONSOR NAME DELETED didn't get my xanax in my tent per the contractual agreement!"

"Who the BLEEP Is BLEEP BLEEP right or BLeeP BLEEP wrong? I'm calm

See I'm calm..

Peanut butter any one?

WHo the fuck wants Grape Jelly on thEir FuCKing peanut Butter SandmiHCES OR Not?

Raspberry?

pulls out butter knife with normally sawed edges. Waves it around circurlarly in the air like a helicoptor shaft?

speak up now?

I want to shove lard loaded with rock salt and river gravel of various sizes up my ass. What business is that of the DELETED NAME OF GOVERNMENT AGENCY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS WOMEN AND CHILDREN MAY POTENTIALLY BE HARMED

sEE. lol sycotically

what they don't realize

cause THEY SO FUCKING ECONOMICALLY STUPID

is that I'll start with the easy stuff butt the rock gravel sizes get bigger and bigger and sooner or later I am up to shoving concrete. Ok just a little at first butt you guys know how that shit builds up and sooner or later you have a boat load of cement stuck up your ass.

ok I'm going to solve everyones problem who worry about government collasping in upon itself. I'm going to after careful study ..

scared to death walk under the weight and stick a 2 x 4 underneath a sagging creaking floorbeam cracking


stands back amazed at the sagging weight

Is there anything we can do to save things? The world is on its trajectory. How do you stop it or slow it down? Put up space speed zone signs and charge fines to comets passing by? Send the bill to their home galaxy?

ok. hang on . my secretary an ex postal employee recently released from the local mental institution for insane people said we don't have enough postal code zone numbers for the galaxy.

the first step is to give everyone a hundred chest x-rays

a tophet!
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What you talking about Willis..?

Different Strokes Crew ran OG.

And the Almighty Counsel of TRoLLs and it's sub group the Troll Mafia.

we should have gave them the keys to the place!

sharp bunch of kids
err, mostly

i got sucked in rather late
well after theyd coalessed

really had a knack for throwing the older genius's out of kilter

Oh dear. The ever-fearless Sarah Silverman has made another PSA for women's reproductive rights, this one featuring Jesus coming to her apartment to binge-watch CSI, eat popcorn and serenely tell her, “Fertilized eggs aren’t people - people are people." Though he adds that “people who believe fertilized eggs are people are people too. You have to love them," the people he's talking about are still freaking out about "progressive propaganda" in which Jesus came to see the "base and crass" Silverman and her "need to destroy beauty in our culture (because) beauty is a part of our connection to G-d and G-d is our connection to morality (the enemy of the Left)," having evidently missed the part where He told her to love them even if they do say things like that. The ad is for nationwide Lady Parts Justice rallies in September, dubbed From V to Shining V.



the psa gets super funny when she talks about the need to do invasive probes of men whenever they feel like masterbaiting, so as to see all the little people their about to kill!

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She's a dirty Jew.

thanks for the images of ronald mcCdoanald on abortion stiks.. Shared

never mind the linguistics ive been noting
having worked around the edges of this industry
this is a very perceptive expose


By Victoria Frings

Why TV Wives Are Always Way Hotter Than Their Husbands

Investigation into TV casting shows: why there is an "attractiveness double standard."

Louis C.K. has largely revolutionized the tried-and-true model for producing television programming. He writes, directs, edits and stars in his own show, and has been given free rein by the network to oversee all of his own casting decisions, which is largely unheard of. Yet, for all Louie’s critically acclaimed differences from TV business as usual, his is still a show about a middle-aged comic who is divorced, has questionable prospects and is not conventionally attractive, but who often dates very attractive women. It is a show about a very real man, a recognizable man, a man audiences can laugh at and sympathize with and relate to — but like most stories currently told on American screens, it is not about very relatable women.

And Louie is one of the more realistic shows on TV these days where female casting is concerned. Across the board, audiences today are subjected daily to female characters who are not, for lack of a better word, ordinary. They are almost always gorgeous, fit, sexy and dating or married to someone not nearly as attractive as they are. Men can be all shapes and sizes on film; women must be hot.

When I talk about this issue with fellow actresses, I’ve gotten a unanimous three-step response: 1) Recognition; 2) a shaking of the head in disgust, immediately followed by 3) a shrugging of the shoulders in defeat. I used to shrug too, and yet I decided to do some research and quickly realized that this discrepancy is lodged deep within the writing and casting processes. And I find myself, as an actress eager to get cast, unable to do anything about the pattern I have spent months charting (except stay fit and spend tons of money on makeup), but wanting to do something about it. I no longer want to feel like the idealistic, talented, industrious overachiever who is powerless in an industry dictated mostly by the very subjective notion of fuckability.

For those of you not familiar with the casting process, I will attempt to shed a little light on what goes on way before you ever see a finished movie or TV show. Once a studio has decided to run with a TV pilot, for example, part of the next strategizing process is casting. Offers will be made to named actors, and then auditions will be held for all remaining uncast roles. A casting director gets hired to find talent, vet the talent, and bring the appropriate people in front of the director, producers and studio execs. The casting directors use a service to create a digital document that communicates the needs for all the roles to the agents who represent the talent. They submit the script or screenplay to this service, sometimes with character descriptions already included, and then the service edits existing descriptions or reads the scripts and pumps out their own.

These character descriptions are called breakdowns, and they try to distill a character into a few words or a few sentences, so agents have a better sense of which actors to submit for the project, or actors looking to self-submit can more easily select the right projects to target (there are two different platforms for these breakdowns: one for agents only and one for paid subscribing actors). Once submissions have been made, casting directors look over the proposed talent and decide which actors to bring in. They don’t have unlimited time or unlimited slots available for each role, so they have to be very specific and exacting when determining whom to see.

The breakdowns are very simple and streamlined, but specific. If a script calls for a man who could believably be a coal miner to say two lines in an episode, the breakdown will say as much. If a female nurse is needed to deliver a few lines of bad news, that will be the bulk of the information an agent will get. However, if you see several of these breakdowns lined up in a row, what starts to become clear is how different the descriptions are for male roles and for female roles (not to mention for white and non-white roles, an issue worthy of its own analysis).

I’ve spent the past few months poring over breakdowns on the platforms available to me. Here are a few of the descriptors I encountered for female characters: Smoking hot, beautiful, cool, personable, attractive, fit, stylish, siren, curvaceous, sexy, alluring and flawless (did I mention sexy? It shows up a lot). For male ones: filthy rich, confident, wealthy, businessman, authoritative, debonair, corporate giant, brash, corn-fed, pudgy, adorable, serial killer, funny, smart, famous, passionate and handsome. As you can see, breakdowns for women put much more emphasis on looks.

For a bigger picture, here are two breakdowns for the same script:

Male: 25 – 30, Caucasian, nice guy, lacks confidence – may have a receding hairline. He wears neon colored clothing. No nudity.

Female: 20 – 23, pretty, professional, mature for her young age. She is more of a follower than a leader. Jealousy tends to get the best of her. Partial nudity.

In this breakdown, the two characters are a couple:

Male: 30. 30 going on 21. He’s married to [female]. He’s a fun, hip guy, but at his core, he’s become a family man.

Female: 29 – 30 years old. She’s both beautiful and cool and just a few notches this side of New-Agey.

The man is described by his personality and his character’s transformation, but the woman’s personality description is intertwined with a description of her looks.

The next example proves that age doesn’t change anything:

Female: 18, very good looking, athletic/shapely build.

Male: 25, average looking (”Blue collar/ working man” presentation), somewhat muscular build.

Female: 40ish, very good looking, shapely.

Male: 40ish, average to good looking, a bit rough around the edges, average build.

Check out how, even when a man is described by his looks, it’s an afterthought. You’ll notice, also, that a racial reference sometimes takes the place of a description of looks:

Female: A good looking, sexy white woman in late twenties, corporate type, with wisdom beyond her years.

Male: A typical white doctor in Late Thirties but very handsome.

Female: A good-looking white babe in early twenties.

Male: Late Forties, African American, scientist type.

And these are just for fun, because I couldn’t resist:

Female: a free spirited beauty as fresh as apple pie who uses her sexuality to manipulate and disarm.

Female: Beautiful and very sexy with a fantastic body, preferably voluptuous. Her emotions will range from sweet, clever, teasing to sexy passionate to scared …

Female: The quintessential screen siren. She is her husband’s muse.

Female: Caucasian. An arising hotshot in the fashion scene: thin, loose, and beguiling … beautiful.

The pattern is unmistakable. Adjectives are key to writing a useful breakdown, but the adjectives describing appearance get a lot more play in a female description. A female character is almost always described first by her looks and then by anything else that is important for her personality type, profession, relationship to the male character or role in the plot. A male character often does not even get a description of his looks; the first sentence usually describes his occupation, which is then followed by his key personality traits or his function in the plot. Right next to the description of a “blue-collar criminal” is the description of his “pretty blue-collar mother.”

Why do all the women on TV have to be beautiful while the men don’t? Are we still so sexist that a man is identified by what he does but all that matters about a woman is her looks? Will the words a woman says fail to resonate if she is not conventionally pleasing to look at? Or do the people who call the shots, the writers and producers, have a preconceived notion of what sexy is for women that they’re projecting onto the screen?

Look at a show like “The Big Bang Theory,” chock-full of supposed nerds. The boys are allowed to be boy nerds in all their boy-nerd glory, but the girls have to be hot nerds. Or think about “Modern Family,” with its gorgeous women and average-looking men. Someone had to decide to put those casts together. Someone had to write a character breakdown with the word “hot” it in. And somewhere, an agent read that breakdown and used his or her subjective idea of hotness to submit actresses for the part. Then the casting directors weighed in and narrowed the hot list down further, and so on and so forth. So someone who could have been perfect for the role may not have been seen, because somewhere on the chain she was not deemed hot enough.

There are already fewer parts for women out there, and far more women than men trying to make it as actors, so can’t we at least have roles that are as interesting as the ones men get, that are not based solely on appearance? Can producers stop vetoing casting options based on fuckability? And can a physical character description be an afterthought, only included if it furthers the plot? From my perspective, as an actress but also as an audience member, I think it would be nice to see a complex female character physically, emotionally and mentally realized on-screen not by the hottest woman, but by the very real actress best suited to play her.




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I often wonder if there is a withdrawal from television. It is sensory biochemical stimulation, and has been proven by its own marketing to advertisers habit forming.

People get accustomed to the same programs at the same time with the same predictable characters having the same predictable reactions to the same situations.

They want to hear the same music, see the inside of the same artificial neourban Manhattan loft inhabited by living versions of barbie and her friends.

hast to be....


i came and say youd left the light on...
there was no one home at all

man my puppy ate my only piece a killer carrot cake but I didnt get too mad at her who can blame her.........good shit......that lil dawg doesn't have a bad bone in her....she is such a snuggly pooh dawg all them devils better run back to the churches cuz my baby girl dawg is getting really big n strong as hell too.....she knew I was sad n she gave me extra kisses to say sorry idk all my dogs are awesome and probably the best dogs ever but this lil pit pups a kewl ass dawg

little help here

searching for a name i cant recall
was a special forces guy
who turned whistleblower and author
after what he saw when we occupied haiti in the early 90's

back at overgrow id just found him and was posting exerpts
pinz really got a kick out of this guys work

remember pinz?

quite the place...
would have liked to see them built it.
hell, would have liked to see how they even drew it back then
was built between 88 and 93




couple dozen more pictures on this page
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shits awesome the scalation on the roof reminds me a one my atta boy shroom casin flushed all stacked like concentric armor bad ass

watch the video tour?

their front gates pretty cool too

I'd love to see a monument to Satan go up locally.

Not that I'm into Satanism but it would just be great to see other people get use to the idea of other types of worship.

^don't lie twil ya hop around singing helter skelter backward.........Devil worshipper! get him....lmfao

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Eerie, Wild Scenes Straight Out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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Someone did it,



They actually fuking did it.

that axe is a nice touch!

seen this?
"attempted murder"

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

was cruising through an article and on side bar was a link to another article about haiti
seems canadians are coming clean about their dirty role

anyway,
suddenly, the author ive been searching for
his name suddenly popped into my head

i knew it had a double letter in it and sure enough

goff

stan goff


the mans a saint

Behind The Matrix in Special Forces

Speaking With Stan Goff
Interview By Rachel Elliott

Stan Goff spent twenty-four years in the U.S. military, much of it in the Special Forces. He fought in Vietnam, was a sniper with the counter-terrorism unit Delta Force, and taught military science at West Point. His career took him to Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, and other hot spots around the globe. He saw up close how the U.S. government�s official statements didn�t match up with the actions of its military. His role in the U.S. invasion of Haiti disillusioned him for good. Officially named �Operation Restore Democracy,� the invasion, Goff says, was aimed only at eliminating any threat to U.S. domination. In his book Hideous Dream: A Soldier�s Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti (Soft Skull Press), he writes, �Haiti taught me what I was and showed me what I must become.�

Having spent his adult life in the military, Goff wasn�t sure where to turn once he no longer believed in its mission. �I was fortunate,� he says, �to have people close to me who were on the other side of the debate.� His sister had introduced him to women�s-rights and gay-rights activists, and an Internet search put him in touch with a North Carolina group called the Carolina Socialist Forum. Through that connection, he made many friends who helped him make the leap from soldier to activist. Goff retired from the military in 1996 and has been involved in progressive causes ever since.

Today Goff is active in the Bring Them Home Now campaign, led by Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. The campaign calls for the U.S. government to pull its troops out of Iraq. Its website, http://www.BringThemHomeNow.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, publishes anonymous statements from GIs, so that they can write freely about what�s going on in Iraq. �The more soldiers do it,� Goff says, �the more likely others will be to speak up.� Goff has a personal interest in seeing an end to the conflict: his son is in the military and was stationed in Iraq earlier this year.

Goff�s most recent book is Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century (Soft Skull Press). He�s currently working on a new book about gender and the military, titled Sex and War.

I first encountered Goff at an informal talk he gave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For more than an hour, he spoke passionately about the current war in Iraq, about class struggle here in the U.S., and about what he considers to be the real motives behind U.S. foreign policy.

For this interview, we met at his house in Raleigh, North Carolina. A sturdily built man, Goff met me at the door with a firm handshake. On the walls of his small home office hang vibrant paintings from Haiti, a place he refers to as his �second home.� Since the 1994 invasion, he has been back to that country ten times as a member of the Haiti Support Network. We sat in his kitchen, surrounded by pictures of his children and his first grandchild.



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Elliott: What does the title of your latest book, Full Spectrum Disorder, refer to?

Stan Goff: During the Clinton administration, when Hugh Shelton was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he began what Donald Rumsfeld calls the �revolution of military affairs,� which is the complete restructuring of the U.S. military. The shorthand for it is �full spectrum dominance.� This refers to dominance in three dimensions: technology, the full spectrum of conflict (from street riots to thermonuclear war), and geography. The belief that we can achieve such dominance is quite likely the most grandiose delusion in human history. It simply is not possible. It�s amazing and worrisome to me that people who hold the reins of power would actually believe in something like this.

I have been reading a book by Swedish anthropologist Alf Hornborg, who looks at social development through the lens of entropy: the notion that disorder always increases within a closed system. Hornborg says that, within the closed system of the world economy, energy is transferred from peripheral nations into the high-tech, metropolitan core. What�s left behind is immense social disorder. The environmental-justice movement focuses on one aspect of this: the way rich communities make a lot of toxic trash and dump it on poor communities. The rich gain order in the form of resources and export their disorder elsewhere.


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Reading Hornborg, it occurred to me that as we increase our dependence on higher and higher orders of technology, we not only increase social disorder elsewhere, we�re also increasing the probability that some unexpected event will come along and create an avalanche of disorder here. For instance, twenty-one power plants in the eastern United States shut down on August 14, 2003, leaving millions of people without electricity. And nobody really knows what caused the blackout. Or terrorists fly planes into the World Trade Center, and the whole global geopolitical architecture is transformed.

Elliott: What are your feelings about George W. Bush�s �war on terror�?

Goff: Bush is a terrorist. When you engage in massive state-run terrorism, and you support other leaders who conduct state-run terrorism, as Bush has done in Israel, you can expect a terrorist response.

No one -- not the Palestinians, nor the Iraqis, nor the Afghans, nor anyone else -- has the military capacity to confront the U.S. or Israel directly. They are forced by the situation either to lie down and die, or to fight back using asymmetric warfare, which we refer to as terrorism. Of course bulldozing people�s houses and bombing civilians are terrorism, too.

There is an implicit nationalism in the phrase �war on terror� because it says the threat is outside of us. But the single biggest cause of terrorist attacks, aside from the policies and actions of the U.S. government, is the size and scope of our military. There is simply no chance of victory if you confront the U.S. military on a conventional battlefield. Terrorism is a tactic, not a free-standing phenomenon. This is not a war on terrorism, nor on al-Qaeda, which is not a real organization but a loose, decentralized network characterized by spontaneity. The Taliban were real: they were the government of Afghanistan. But there�s no group called al-Qaeda, with a list of members and a hierarchy. So the Bush administration has this amorphous entity out there that it can use to frighten people. What�s great about having an amorphous enemy is that you can�t tell when it�s defeated. You can declare a perennial war and use it as an excuse for anything you want to do. All the Bush administration has to say is �We think this might be connected to al-Qaeda,� and the public will accept its actions uncritically. That�s what the administration did with the Iraq War: suggest a connection to al-Qaeda and terrorism. But this war isn�t about terrorism; it�s about oil. If the principal export of Iraq were palm dates, we wouldn�t be there.

Elliott: So al-Qaeda isn�t connected to Iraq. What is it connected to?

Goff: Its clearest connection is to Wahhabi Islam, which is the state religion of Saudi Arabia. This fundamentalist branch of Islam was nurtured by the United States during our longstanding military and political alliance with the Saudis. At our behest, they exported politicized Islam throughout the region as a weapon to destroy Arab nationalism and socialism. The effort finally culminated in the war between political Islamists and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Former U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski has said we laid a trap for the Soviets in Afghanistan. We funded and trained these fundamentalists, including Osama bin Laden, and maintained a long-standing alliance with them, even after bin Laden broke with the Saudis. The U.S. was funneling money to the Taliban all the way up until 2001, when our strategy came back and bit us.

Since we helped destroy Arab nationalism in places like Afghanistan, the only ideology left that gives voice to the increasingly frustrated masses in the region is politicized Islam. Everything about U.S. foreign policy right now is increasing the power of people who hate us. This doesn�t strike me as a very smart thing to do, even if you support U.S. imperial objectives, which I don�t. I desperately want to see the U.S. suffer a devastating political defeat in the Middle East, because maybe that would cause our country to pull out of the region.

Elliott: How have the Bush administration�s military operations differed from those of past administrations?

Goff: I�d say his success rate is worse, but the history of U.S. military operations is not as glowing as we�re led to believe. The U.S. military says it beat the Germans in World War II. In fact, the Soviets beat the Germans in Stalingrad. It was a mathematical certainty after Stalingrad that the Germans would be defeated. The Americans rolled in at the last minute to make sure they had a say in the postwar reconstruction. The Korean War was a debacle. Our use of overwhelming force led to a stalemate. Vietnam was a notorious disaster. And the attempt to impose a U.S. military presence on Lebanon failed miserably.

Our most glorious military victories -- the invasions of Grenada and Panama -- have been attacks by the world�s most well-funded military on nations that have fourth-rate militaries or no militaries at all. The Iraq War is an attack on a nation that has been shattered -- militarily, politically, and economically -- by warfare, sanctions, and the destruction of its economic infrastructure during the first phase of the Gulf War. To claim that Donald Rumsfeld�s military has had a great success in Iraq is like saying it�s a great success for Mike Tyson to knock out a ten-year-old in the third round.

The last time the U.S. had a striking military success was probably Sherman�s March, during the Civil War, which was the first time that troops deliberately bypassed engagements with enemy troops and went after strategic targets instead.

Elliott: Didn�t this policy lead almost immediately -- in the case of the burning of Atlanta -- to attacks on civilian targets?

Goff: All armies in all places have always attacked �civilian� targets. There are no exceptions to this fact. Yet people persist in believing the notion that civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are somehow the exception. This is a fantasy to convince citizens to support the state�s actions.

Sherman's use of force against strategic targets was simply a recognition that military and civilian resources had become integrated because of the Industrial Revolution. It was a quantum shift in warfare. Supplies were being moved by rail, so he went after the railheads in Atlanta. The principles first put into use by Sherman -- what some military theorists call �general war� -- would flower into the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, and finally Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We are seeing it on a smaller scale today with Rumsfeld�s meritless �shock and awe.�

Elliott: Your son recently returned from Iraq. How do you feel about his decision to join the military?

Goff: I didn�t want him to, but it didn�t surprise me. He was working at McDonald�s, and he had an infant son and no healthcare. He grew up on a military installation. What am I going to do, tell him the military is all bad? He knows better. In fact, the years that he lived on a military installation were the best times in his life. It�s like living in a park. It�s the only thing in this country that even approaches a socialist society. Of course, Rumsfeld�s trying to get rid of military schools, and military healthcare has already been turned over to an HMO.

Elliott: What changes would you like to see made within the military? Is it possible to reform it?

Goff: The military cannot be changed, for better or for worse, without a transformation of the state and the socioeconomic system within which it operates. The military is just one facet of a larger system. I would like to see a change in our military mission, however, which right now is to invade other nations to protect our power and the global business regime.

I would welcome the end of U.S. global power, because it has been an essentially destructive and exploitative force in much of the world. Leftists need to be honest and admit that our standard of living, constructed as it is on consumer culture and fossil-fuel energy, is based on draining the wealth of other nations. This was once accomplished through controlling markets, and now is done more through encouraging countries to go into debt to the World Bank or some other global financial institution. We can support our profligate lifestyle only through military intervention.

When our beliefs don't match up with our experiences, we develop cognitive dissonance, a kind of mental conflict. To settle it, we either have to deny our experience or give up our beliefs.
I at least have a grudging respect for those on the Right who openly admit that if we don't crush the will of people all over the Third World, then we can't live the way we do. The Left often wants to soft-pedal it and tell people that we can live even better without the use of military power, but that is a grotesque misrepresentation. I agree with African revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral, who said: "Tell no lies and claim no easy victories." I think the American public needs to be confronted with the truth: that we are a dirty, dangerous, destructive society, and that we export that dirt, danger, and destruction to poor people around the world so that some of us can live in a suburban Stepford fantasy.

Elliott: Do you think it's fairly common for a person in the military to become disillusioned with U.S. foreign policy?

Goff: Certainly there is a long history of it. If you are in the military for a career, of course, there is a tendency to identify with the foreign-policy goals and objectives of the national command authority. But you encounter a lot of contradictions in the field. In Special Forces, you get a much clearer look at the politics behind it all than you do in the infantry, where you sit behind some concertina wire with a weapon and never get out and mix with the population. In Special Forces you are required to learn target languages, establish a rapport with the locals, eat their food, and acclimate yourself to the social conventions. Whether you cling to your old notions or not is another question. The way to maintain your belief in the rightness of what you're doing is to adopt a racist, imperialist worldview, which is far more common than disillusionment.

When our beliefs don't match up with our experiences, we develop cognitive dissonance, a kind of mental conflict. To settle it, we either have to deny our experience or give up our beliefs. In a narcissistic culture like ours, it's a tough thing to admit that your beliefs are wrong. To say that you were wrong, that your parents were wrong, that possibly your whole society is wrong -- that's a tough proposition in any culture. It's almost like surrendering your identity. For men, it's like a surrender of masculinity.

Elliott: You were in Haiti in 1994 as the operations chief for a U.S. Special Forces team, and you ended up facing a possible court-martial. What happened there?

Goff: [Laughs.] It's a long story. Basically, I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing. I was supposed to read between the lines of the official guidance and find my real orders, which couldn't be given directly because it was a politically sensitive situation. The Clinton administration was reinstalling populist leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti, but only because it feared that a revolution against Haiti's right-wing dictator might result in a true popular government taking over. Aristide was a left-wing in a populist way, but easily co-opted.

While the American public was hearing that we were restoring the legitimate president of Haiti, the troops who were obliged to carry out this task were receiving vile anti-Aristide propaganda in our intelligence summaries. We were expected to infer from this contradiction that we were not to facilitate any genuine return of popular sovereignty, and that we were supposed to subvert the local committees of the democratic Lavalas movement, which had helped to elect Aristide by a landslide in 1990. We had to figure this out without anyone officially telling us what to do. They didn't want to end up with a situation where we could say, "I received an order."

I interpreted the guidance my own way and was very pro-Lavalas. But my team members were also seeing these intelligence summaries, and there was a strong racist and anti-Aristide element among them. Eventually my team rebelled against the direction I was taking and reported me to the task-force command for violating General Order One, which prohibited any of us from eating local food, drinking with the locals, mixing directly with the population -- all these things Special Forces can't function without doing. Of course, everyone there had violated General Order One.

During the investigation, no one asked me anything about General Order One. They asked me why I was so pro-Lavalas. Was I being seditious? In fact, one of the more bizarre accusations leveled at me by members of my own team was that I had become too "pro-Haitian."

It's probably a good thing that I was relieved, because if I had stayed there three more months, I would have had a nervous breakdown.

Elliott: Were there any other people there who felt the way you did?

Goff: Nobody on my team. We were isolated from other teams, with the exception of resupply runs and radio communications, which were very official and cryptic. My team commander followed my lead not because he agreed with me politically but because our actions had been incredibly efficacious. We had achieved a higher degree of stability than probably any other team, primarily because we had gone out and identified ourselves publicly with the popular force on the ground, which was the Lavalas movement. We were in a district that had a higher-than-average number of Haitian reactionaries, but still, the vast majority of the population was pro-Lavalas. By identifying ourselves with the Lavalas leadership and showing active support for them, we gained the cooperation of the majority of the people. So we were able to get on top of problems quickly before they got out of hand.

I could do this because the mission guidance was vague. One of the things it told us to do was conduct "stability operations." By that criterion, we were wildly successful. But that was not our real job. Our real job was to make sure that no Haitian political movement had the power to challenge the U.S. presence in Haiti.

Elliott: Doesn't giving vague and contradictory orders to soldiers in the field lower our military's effectiveness? Don't soldiers ever misinterpret the orders?

Goff: Of course vague communications have a deleterious impact on a mission, but they are a necessary institutional evil if the military is to avoid responsibility, not because it is the military, but because it is a bureaucracy. All bureaucracies are inherently insular and self-justifying. They function only because those who work in the system are invested in it for their livelihoods.

I believe that the methods that were employed in Abu Ghraib were probably sanctioned from the very top. It's difficult for me to imagine otherwise. Of course, now that we've gotten caught, the people at the bottom are expected to sacrifice themselves to protect the king.
As for the soldiers "misinterpreting" orders, that hardly ever happens. Part of institutional culture is learning to read between the lines of official rules and policies. A situation like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, for example, categorically could not have happened without the knowledge and tacit approval of nearly every level of command. The so-called investigations now will only measure the effectiveness of the firewalls of plausible denial at each level of command, and serve to bewilder the public.

Elliott: What creates a climate in which such abuse can occur?

Goff: The occupation itself. The obligation of our troops right now is to dominate people. That's what they do. That's going to be carried to its limit whenever the opportunity presents itself.

These troops are confronted with tremendous cognitive dissonance, and there are only two ways to resolve it: Either they are going to acknowledge the Iraqis as equal human beings, in which case they are confronted with questions like "Why am I telling them what to do?"; "Why am I pointing my weapon at them?"; and "Why am I even in their country?" Or the soldiers are going to reduce the Iraqis, both psychologically and physically, to a subhuman level.

I believe that the methods that were employed in Abu Ghraib were probably sanctioned from the very top. It's difficult for me to imagine otherwise. Of course, now that we've gotten caught, the people at the bottom are expected to sacrifice themselves to protect the king. That's why Rumsfeld, when he went up to testify under oath before the Senate, brought six other people with him. Anytime he was asked a question that would have put him on the spot legally, he handed it over to one of his cohorts. It was a transparent strategy to escape responsibility, but only Senator John McCain tried to call him on it. God bless McCain for that, even though he's a reactionary.

Violence is systemic because the occupation itself is an act of domination. The abuse scandal has turned into a recruiting tool for the Iraqi resistance, due to their cultural sensitivity to sexual humiliation -- though it must be said that anyone would have been "sensitive" to that kind of treatment. These problems have been out there for two years now, however, starting in Afghanistan. There's a documentary film by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran called "Afghan Massacre." It shows U.S. complicity, and direct involvement, in the massacre of thousands of unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan. Yet no one in the media even talks about it.

Human Rights Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been documenting atrocities in Iraq. In April 2004 the U.S. military killed six hundred civilians in an attack on Fallujah. The civilian death toll was reported by the wire services and major newspapers, but nobody batted an eye about it. Those killings strike me as a far more horrendous problem than sexual humiliation of prisoners, but it was the pictures from Abu Ghraib that shocked everyone. CBS even gave the U.S. military two weeks' warning before releasing the photos, so that the higher-ups could get their story together.

The soldiers who were guards at the prison said they didn't hit the prisoners, but they did "force them to assume uncomfortable positions." But what if the prisoner said, "No, I won't assume the uncomfortable position"? What do you think they did?

Elliott: Used more force.

Goff: The notion of using limited force in a situation like that is ridiculous. It doesn't pass muster. Nobody asks the next logical question. There are these invisible boundaries that the mainstream media won't go beyond.

Elliott: What interrogation techniques were you taught?

Goff: I was not an interrogator. The last interrogations I observed were in Vietnam, where our South Vietnamese allies kicked and beat civilian detainees while we looked on with orders not to intervene.

Elliott: Are there any circumstances in which it would be legitimate to use such tactics? To obtain information that could save lives, perhaps?

Goff: Hypothetical questions like that are impossible to answer because they have no context. We never act under just "any circumstances." All circumstances occur within a complex historical reality.

Within the context of Iraq, I don't believe there's any situation that justifies the use of force, because I don't think we belong there. The context is an imperial invasion and the destruction of a sovereign nation. This is a war of plunder for the purpose of establishing permanent U.S. military bases in the Middle East and eventually gaining control of the world's remaining oil supplies. But the U.S. government can't say that we're over there because of the oil, so they refer to the "war on terror" and the "liberation of Iraq." And the media, which are so incredibly polite and supportive of what our government is doing, repeat this constantly. One has to be deliberately disingenuous to accept it, but we habituate ourselves to that kind of disingenuousness until it becomes natural to say, "Well, yeah, I guess it is true." For such an "advanced" society, the U.S. has the most indoctrinated citizens in the world.

Elliott: You've said that the lines between the police and the military are becoming blurred. Why is this?

Goff: It's partly because, for the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities. Rural people have been forced off their land and into urban environments like Calcutta and Mexico City, where there are not many economic prospects. Demographically the population has become much younger, and the economic activity has fallen more and more outside the legal system. In many cases crime is the only choice available. There are a rising number of gangs, and a type of neighborhood-based urban warlordism is beginning to take shape.

In response to this, the police and military are both changing their functions. Police officers are carrying assault rifles and wearing body armor and helmets. They are relying more on SWAT tactics for things like drug busts. Meanwhile the conventional armies are trying to perform both military and constabulary functions in urban environments. If things keep moving in this direction, the military and the police will become indistinguishable except in name and jurisdiction. The Third World and the Middle East are the testing grounds for this experiment.

Another practice that erases the old boundaries between law enforcement and military is the employment of private security companies as both constabularies and mercenary forces. The second-biggest armed contingent on the ground in Iraq right now is the mercenaries. The British have eleven thousand troops on the ground; we have twenty thousand "civilian contractors." The technicality that makes "not mercenaries" is that they are corporate in structure and contracted through the Department of Defense, so we pay them, but they have no congressional oversight. Maybe that's one reason Rumsfeld likes them. They are not accountable. They also don't show up on official casualty tallies. Their missions are spelled out in corporate contracts, but how they get the job done is not well monitored. The law governing their actions is the UN charter, and it is beyond vague. I think the Department of Defense wants to use more contractors, but it will only exacerbate the biggest problem that the U.S. military has now: its fundamental inability to acknowledge the political context of this war.

The United States has the most indoctrinated citizens in the world.
With the rise of globalization, all armed conflicts are going to become more ambiguous in character, neither criminal nor political, but somewhere in between. As the system devolves further, if we don't have a vital and active Left prepared to seize the reins and effect a state-managed transformation of our society, there is a good chance we'll fall back into a feudal state, or a form of urban warlordism that would have some modern-day feudal characteristics.

Elliott: In Full Spectrum Disorder you connect the war in Iraq to the war against the working class at home. Do you think domestic class struggle is behind the decision to go to war?

Goff: I don't think class struggle is ever the determining factor in a decision to go to war, but I think it's always one factor. Wars are helpful to the U.S. ruling class because they focus attention on external enemies and distract from the systematic war being waged against the workers. The problem in the U.S. is that working-class people don't admit that they are working class. They call themselves middle-class. They don't understand that they are being robbed. The last three decades have seen the biggest transfer of wealth in U.S. history from the so-called middle class to the rich.

Elliott: How does wealth get transferred?

Goff: You can look at state government here in North Carolina for an example. Except for education, transportation is the biggest expenditure in the state budget. We have nineteen people on the Board of Transportation, and all of them are appointed by the governor. They take the taxpayers' money, in the form of the state transportation budget, and roll it into pork-barrel road projects all over the state. Does the money go to public transportation? No. It's spent on roads because of the asphalt lobby. The Department of Transportation board members all gave money to the governor's last political campaign. That's just one example of how the rich take money away from the working class at the state and local level.

The real vulnerability is that working-class people think of themselves as middle-class. Historically, when the middle class is thrown into political crisis, it does not embrace revolutionary politics; it embraces reactionary politics. Twentieth-century crises in Spain, Italy, and Germany led to the rise of fascism in all three of those countries. Fascism is a middle-class phenomenon. A powerful preexisting racism, like we have in our culture, pushes people in that direction.

Elliott: Do you think the U.S. is in danger of becoming a fascist society?

Goff: It's worrisome. If we do see something like that in this country, I don't think it will look like Italian fascism, or Spanish fascism, or German fascism. It will be our own special form. The people who are closest to that kind of consciousness right now are right-wing Evangelicals, who make up a huge percentage of the Republican Party base. There is a powerful undercurrent of white supremacy in their worldview. It's easy to make fun of them, but we need to be wary. Even though these right-wing Christian Zionists can appear ridiculous sometimes, they are politically well organized and very powerful. It's a big mistake to underestimate them, especially if you are an oppressed minority, or queer, or if you're female; they are incredibly misogynistic.

Elliott: You're not a pacifist. How do you relate to pacifists within the antiwar movement?

Goff: I have some philosophical disagreements with them. But I have philosophical disagreements with my spouse, too, and we're still married. Right now my pacifist friends and I are in absolute solidarity about trying to stop this nation's latest military adventure.

I think pacifists are fundamentally decent human beings, and it's hard not to like them for that, even if sometimes I disagree with them. If I disliked everybody I disagreed with, I wouldn't like anybody at all -- even myself. [Laughs.]

I would love to be a pacifist. I don't want to hurt anyone, and I don't want anyone to get hurt. My argument with pacifists is that it's also important to recognize people's right to defend themselves against extermination. Look at the Jewish people who fought back against the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto. Should they have just lined up and allowed themselves to be exterminated?

I believe that the Iraqi people have the right to resist with arms the U.S. military occupation, even though for a while my son was one of the people they were firing at. It's not those young soldiers' fault that they are over there. Nor is it the fault of the people fighting for self-determination in Iraq. It's the fault of the people up in Washington, D.C.

Elliott: You want to bring together antiwar activists and people in the military to try to form some sort of united movement. How do you see this happening when these two groups come from such different backgrounds.

Goff: It's true, people who are part of the antiwar movement tend to have high levels of education, whereas many people who enter the military do so for economic reasons. I went into the military so that I wouldn't have to work in the airplane factory where my mom and dad worked. I had no desire to drive rivets into airplane fuselage. That sounded to me like death, whereas joining the military sounded like an adventure.

Elliott: So how do you bring those two groups together?

Goff: We're working on it. More and more disillusioned GIs are becoming a part of the Bring Them Home Now campaign. And, of course, ex-soldiers are actively involved in Veterans for Peace.

I'm not comfortable with how the antiwar movement sometimes uses soldiers and veterans as a way of legitimizing its cause. And I'm also not comfortable with how readily some veterans will adopt that role of token vet. For a while I thought I was going to be a professional antiwar veteran. Everyone wanted me to speak. I understand that veterans have a degree of immunity against the patriot-baiting the Right engages in. But when antiwar activists put veterans in the spotlight as a way of saying, "Peace is patriotic," it sends a mixed message.

I don't care about patriotism. I agree with Samuel Johnson that it's the "last refuge of scoundrels." It's twisted to think that somehow we're all united against the rest of the world simply because we live inside the same geopolitical borders. "We're all Americans": what the hell does that mean? I may identify with you because we share a common culture, but am I supposed to value your life more than I do the life of someone outside our culture? That's the implication of patriotism. I'm glad to accept people's invitations to talk, but I quickly disabuse them of the notion that I'm there to talk about patriotism.

I also don't want to be identified as just a soldier, as if the only thing that gives me value is that I once wore a green beret. I've got other identities. I'm a writer, too, and I don't write just about military topics. I'm also a grandfather.

Elliott: I heard you speak recently, and one of the things you said was: "Hope is hidden in contradictions." What do you mean by that?

Goff: I actually stole that idea from Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht. He said, "Within the contradiction lies the hope." It means that periods of instability create opportunities. Stability creates inertia. It's when things get shaken up by contradictions that inertia can no longer be sustained. We can use instability as an opportunity to shape the future, and we are entering a period of extreme instability in this country: economic, political, and otherwise. Something's got to be on the other side of that. If we want a world in which our grandchildren can grow up safely, then we'd better be engaged. Our actions will determine what we leave to the next generation. It's not a choice; it's a duty.

Rachel Elliot is photo and editorial assistant at The Sun, where this interview first appeared.



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fuck the screws


By Aaron Cantú

Despite Receiving Millions in Public Money, Private Prisons are Impenetrable "Bastions of Secrecy"

A new study shows that federal law still allows private prisons to shroud much of their activity in mystery, despite receiving public money.


February 21, 2014 |

The private correctional industry in America is a massive complex funded by billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Yet, despite performing a public function and receiving public funds, current federal laws allow prison businesses to operate under an impenetrable cloak of secrecy, says a report released this week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Basic analyses of state’s expenditures for contracted prison services reveal that the cost to outsource has risen in some states over the last five years (sometimes after prison corporations threatened state governments with lawsuits). However, it is difficult to analyze the cost differentials because “there are no laws or regulations mandating the maintenance of such data,” as the authors of the study note from citing a review by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Public prisons are beholden to a dizzying array of record-keeping programs under the Bureau of Justice Statistics. By contrast, the only data released by private facilities about their prisoners and facilities is that which is mandated by business contracts or particular state laws. Even then, the information provided by prison corporations is often falsified -- or even “all the time,” in the words of one high-ranking GEO Group executive. Thus while some advocacy groups have challenged the prison industry’s claims of cost-saving and providing high-quality services, the critiques are disparate and incomplete, because the public does not have access to the sort of broad expanse of information that would allow them to mount an effective campaign against the industry as a whole.

The biggest obstacle to greater transparency within private prisons, the study asserts, is the limited reach of FOIA laws. Because private prisons are entities independent of the executive branch of government, the public cannot access the sort of information most critical for evaluating the facilities, which “reside exclusively within the custody and control of those prisons and the corporations that run them.”

Some states have succeeded in goading Correctional Corporation of America (the largest prison business) to produce guarded documents under state law—but federal FOIA laws completely exempt CCA and its peers from such disclosures. The result is an industry that is funded by public money but has absolutely no obligation to be transparent to the public. Although legislators have proposed measures to extend FOIA’s authority to include private prisons, the industry has successfully kept politicians at bay through millions in lobbying and campaign financing.

The report recommends the following four solutions:

1. The enactment of legislation such as the Private Prison Information Act, which has been killed and resurrected in Congress a number of times over the last decade.

2. Convene Congressional committees to investigate and reveal aspects of the prison industry that are still shrouded in secrecy.

3. Continued and enhanced investigations of private prison facilities by the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Offices of Inspector General at the DOJ and DHS. These agencies have jurisdiction in probing and releasing data related to how prison corporations are implementing their terms of of contract.

4. Grassroots groups continue to utilize FOIA access to shed light on the limited information that the federal Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcements have concerning private prisons. Also, the report recommends that activist groups within particular states explore and use state laws to gather as much data as possible on all parts of private prison facilities.

If we as a society want to truly challenge the legitimacy of the private prisons as an institution, we must be able to access the information that will help us undermine the industry.






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rock fish and wonder
banks i say plunder
grave is the thunder
would raise a fist
ah but
wont put you under

going under the knife
in the lead up they discovered another issue
my time may be up

a good friend disparages the crazies
all loose cannon
he says
"make a list!"

"that way when you crack
you can at least do some good going down"

poor dorner
it really burns how ineffective he was after deciding

how little he accomplished
someone should have crashed a plane into that goddamned parade they had for his victims


guess im the only one thinking


heh

ive buried enough guns and ammo over the years to take kiev by myself

keep your ears on
this is no time to go quietly

so i woke up
the beer i had for breakfast wasnt bad
so i had another

time is grim

walked over to other house i sometimes stay
got a bag i keep in a cabinet
down in the cellar

id put it there knowing id need it someday

back up on the street
and its just a block to the garage i keep that old beater they cant trace

id put twice what it cost me into new wires and hoses
tires of course
it turns over on the second lug and im driving

the radios tuned to classical
and checkoff streams in, in tune with the morning sun

pass the two roadblocks
life a peach when your white and unassuming

park the car
take a deep breath and grab my bag

the girls i pay
had lifted this ID off one fuck they got to screw

hundred buck and id made a copy

they dont even look in my bag
im all cleared

heh

easy now
just keep walking

down the hall
up the stairs
two turns left and one to the right

and now its time

a big room full of fucking bastards
and screws thick as fleas
cept im in the balcony

the compliant media's position

camera's all a rolling
boy
am i gonna show them

you know those fake war we running?

tons of fuckin junkies sent to bullshit?

bible in one hand
and meth in the other

aint no telling what they sneak home

i passed on the scalps and ears and just bought the ordinace

when he was asked to describe me latter
all he come manage was rattlesnake


tossed 3 frags into that room
threw em right over the heads of the media guys
they didnt even notice

someone will find the evidence on film

but thats miles away and im halfway down the hall before anyone prys their eyes open

jeez what the fuck?!?!?

i dont bother with the car
the torch will finish it off inside the hour

and the guy we bought it from is pushing up dasies anyway

the rush out the door settles down a block from the place

the sun is up
the ice is melting

i stop for a second
buy a flower from the old lady
who tells me how much my girl will love it

life is good

take some

i know you read this
i know you aint got shit to do
or means to do it
you just make notes and pass em up the ladder

then go home to your dirty magazines

hears a note for you...

" come and fucking get me! "

heh

cant put a finger on it really,
but it must be there
the anxioety

had this dream
had a swelling on the side of my knee
was a hockey puck

went to the hospital
by that time it was a softball

doctor used two hands to sequeze it till it burst down under my skin to my foot
they with an assistant
they pulled the skin away and lanced it and left a drain in...

knew it was bad
then i lost consciousness

and was suddenly in this weird world of walls and blocks
and the block were all jumping around
and i had to keep fleet on my feet to keep from being crushed
all those blocks flying up and then crashing down

then im back in the hospital
and this doctor or nurse
is painting my face
tells me im going in for another surgery
she was drawing lines on my skin

i knew i was in bad shape
told here about the blocks id been running from
she said id be heavily sedated for days now

they were probably people and i didnt know it

made sense
a friend was in the hospital for some intestinal sectioning
i remember him being in and out
and this once waking up and saying
hed just been dreaming about flying ziplock bags

heh...

ive been waiting for surgery for 2 years now
and i made it through pre-op last week

aint smoked in months to pass the drug test

i go in friday

watch out for the blocks

the conventional wisdom says 1000 monkees behind keyboards eventually
write shakespeare

wonder how many stoners you dont have to waterboards for a whole commercial break it takes to produce 20 minutes of john stewart?

so anyways
id stashed these cookies the day before

gots the couple more just today

id speak to someone official
but i dont speak spanish

pretty sucks in line around here

thats wrong

it was the getting here

the shop was great

Lastly, it is neither envious nor covetous to desire justice. Justice is God’s will for humanity, and it can never be sinful to desire what God desires for mankind: after all, desiring what God desires is the foundation of human flourishing, not a threat to it. Christians like Langone are thus an extraordinary threat to the moral authority of the religion as they effectively intend to undo what people like Pope Francis set out to do: witness faithfully to the Gospels with a heart to use all tools we’re given to support our vulnerable brothers and sisters. When Christian ethics, such as the prohibition of envy, are used to cast doubt on the rightfulness of justice for the poor and to frame the weak as evil and undeserving, all relationships of mercy and charity and love disintegrate in favor of pushing Christianity into the service of the dominant culture of consumerist free market capitalism.



By Elizabeth Stoker

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I found a piece of the mirror last month.

It took me a while to work out what part of me it was supposed to be reflecting, so I had a hard time placing it all. It felt weird, like ice melting inside my brain somewhere.

Was light getting in, or was it getting out. We never get to choose what we forget.

I can feel it at night coming up from my extremities, I am frozen in place to the sound of my heart pounding. The rush usually only lasts a few seconds before I faint, only to wake up later on the same night soaked in sweat.

The fragmented glimpses of the world I am taken to are snap shots too short to remember once I see. flashes really, I know I am remembering something I saw but it goes away in an instant.


Some times lightening strikes really slow.

pb&j wishes...

he did hang a spell...

by DAVID MACARAY
Companies beat unions for the same reason an antique wooden chair splits apart when a 350-pound man sits in it. The only genuine weapon a union can rely on is the strike, where workers willingly withdraw their labor, a form of punishing the company by sacrificing themselves. But ever since strikes have fallen out of fashion, unions have been left with little firepower.

One morning, during the 1993 negotiations, held in the Laguna Room of the Holiday Inn, we found a pile of material stacked next to the wall, behind our chairs. Apparently, the hotel rented out the room for evening seminars, and this material had belonged to the nighttime renters. It must not have been too important, because they appeared to have abandoned it. From what we could gather, it was some sort of real estate information.

Because the company always had us so overwhelmingly out-resourced, we came up with the rather juvenile idea of pretending this stuff was research data that we had compiled for negotiations. So we dragged it closer to our table and kept it there for the remainder of the bargain. From time to time, we actually gestured to it, indicating that we were relying on it as source material for statistics.

Weeks later, when the bargain ended, the HR rep and mill manager dropped by to make sure the room (whose cost the union and company were splitting) was left in presentable condition. The business agent and I were finishing up and about to leave. As we headed for the door the HR rep pointed to the pile and said helpfully, “Dave, don’t forget your documents.”

“Actually, that stuff isn’t ours,” I said. She paused a full beat and studied the pile of documents a moment. She was flummoxed.
“It isn’t yours?” she said in wounded bewilderment. “What do you mean, it isn’t yours?”

“We just found it here,” I said. “Somebody left it in the room, and we thought, you know, we’d pretend it was research material, just to fuck with you guys.”

You could see her mind racing a hundred miles and hour, trying to process what I had just told her, wondering how it had or hadn’t factored into our negotiations. But neither she nor the mill manager said anything, not so much as one word. And with the two of still standing there, the business agent and I said goodbye and left the room.



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twisted logic

heres one right off the press of one of drudgereports 'trusted' sources

whats left or old brightbart



Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), undocumented immigrants aren't supposed to be receiving government-run health benefits or subsidized coverage. However, President Barack Obama told Latinos in early March that the Healthcare.gov website would not be used to find out about an individual’s immigration status.


how are these asociated?!?!?!?
he skips straight ahead because he readership doesnt care
need explaining
they already know!

like georgies dad back in 90'


'i will never apologize for america! i dont care what the facts are!!!"


sicko's

"In 1978, I was clerking in a law firm involved in securities trading litigation. The expert witness for the other side had an econometric model of what the subject stock price allegedly should have been, but for our clients' actions. Since the partner in charge of the litigation knew I was an econometrician (and math was one of my undergraduate majors), he asked me to help him prepare for deposing that expert.

I have yet to run across an expert econometrician with a stock pricing model that actually works, whose parameters he or she is willing to share. I told the partner he should ask the witness if he used his model with any other stocks, and ask if he used the model to trade. He testified that he did both. The next question was "How much money did you make on those trades?" Answer: "Well, I actually lost money."

No further questions.

"

i walked
riches be damned
fuck that

when you think about these immigrants,
the iranian with the pizza shop
the viet with his hot sause

you remember who they really are

their traitor who sold out their own people to us during our occupations of their country

who had to flee after righteous rebellion pushed us out
and traitor were on the chopping block

there this local place
where an old south vietnamese army officer
started up making hot sause

its been in the news cuz the place really stinks up
the neighborhood and for a couple of months a year
when their grinding chiles
they effectively pepperspray a couple city blocks

all the news sticking up for this guy
only talking about

"came here with nothing"
"self made"
"american suscess story"
"is now facing communism once again right here in the states!"

as if he didnt shoot children in the head in front of their parents for a living when he worked for our democracy efforts

when religion and politics ride in the same cart
the whirlwind follows...



herbert, f

take a lot at this evil shit!

ive really fucked up
listen'd to some billy joel...

heres a good one!

Between 2006 and 2008, Duran took out 68 commercial and personal loans amounting to €492,000 (or roughly $678,00) from 39 banks in Spain. Never intending to repay the loans, Duran instead used the money to help fund those speaking out against capitalism. According to the Guardian, Duran's protest "pushed the anti-capitalist movement into the light, just as many Spaniards were seeking alternatives to a system that had wreaked havoc on their lives."

theres a documentary video on this page

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/21-4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

chew be due be due

heres funny

i pretty much hate music
avoid at all cost

but i just watched 14 minute
review of a pre amp

one supposed indignity
the british suffered
as they fought the russians in the crimean war

and died from colera mostly

was that the local population
would dig up their mass graves

to get the blankets the british were burying their fallen in

good blankets

belief is evolutions answer to selfrecognition, lately found out by scientists ... who did self recognition tests on different animals, this "higher" brain function, is just an emergency break, from keeping us away from suicide, giving us a reason to live ... beside all sex n drugs n drum and bass ...

so any religion is an enemy of our evolution

and today there were 4 of those highest human enemies in rome, 2 even got holyfied ... for doing miraculous things, dont know exactly which, but if i should guess, partly for walking on water, cutting water with wine and selling eternal life ...

but whats more worse, are all those long haired hippie half burka penguins, loving each other .... and thereby forgetting that none of them came to earth via the holy ghost, no it was dirty animal sex ... bc thats what we are ...

i really got upset, cant we bomb all religions down for a better world ? i tried it with acid .. but ppl are still too dumb to live and even more dumb to die ...


from that position, those satan worshipers, or anti vatikan forces ... have my green light, tho they are also dumb for their beliefs, at least its an opposite force, maybe one day they will erase each other, and we can finally party on ...

making a good case for "beliefs" is really a bad idea for most people
you take most ANYONE whos got "beliefs" san rationalism
and you got a person who is hardwired NOT to think

example

you take two people
one religious and one not

stand em next to each other and present them a problem or issue

the non religious will think and ponder
the religious will instantly start in with " well, I think..."

excuse me?!??!

i just presented a serious problem the leading thinkers of the
world are pondering without solution at the moments

something you know nothing about

but YOU have the answers faster than you could roll a dice???

if i could have picked a trade
slate work would have been a contender

St. Leonhardskirche

jonnys fuckin loaded

i only knew half the story...



the politics or helium
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ ... tml?page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

we all knew the swedes had turned into scum
but just how craven their turn to fluffing power was even i hadnt realized


http://www.globalresearch.ca/swedens-el ... le/5380195" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

does aphasia mean anything to anyone here?

Earl has a touch of aphasia from his stroke.

its a creeping aflictions which goes along with other issues
dimentia
strokes
cancers
a brain issue


i get these episodes where words dont make sense
and there is something about the interface of writting
which can point it out

i read stuff i wrote hours later
and i know i proofed
but the gramatical errors are agregious
as if for then i could tell noun from verbs

years ago i hooked up with some old friends
we partied

next day they tell me
they serious concidered taking me to the ER
after several drinks

though i was having a stroke

dont because i was drunk or sluring

it was because the words i was using in speach were entirely place inappropriate

and they told me they could see in my face that i realize my sentences wernt making any sense
but there was no solution and i was agrivated

its happened several time far earlier that i can recal
as these other times dont involved drinking
when suddenly i was in the middle of saying something

which made sense in my mind
but the words my mouth were making where unrecognizable

nevertheless

in the midst of noticing this i was still talking

and i had to look at the faces around me to tell if id said something sensible or giberish

theres a point in the fight
where the other guys just laying their daze
trying to breath

and you have to evalute his threat to your cause in the future
whether or not to brain the fucker

theres this trick i learn
learned it barefoot
but shod will do

when the person your going to kill is resigned to it
has stopped fighting

before you do them in
you peel their eyelid back
and hold it their with your foot

clad or not

nobody should die with their eyes shut
uncivilized

and we talked about this before
how a chain packs more punch than a bat

its really warmed my heart to see
in ukraine
that the facist thugs dont kinow shit about using chain

makes me smile to realize some rather evil dark ages technology

hasnt made notice by the evil fucks trying to keep hitler alive
or the western backers who would do anything they could
to keep such thinking bastards in hardons

By Jill Richardson

Why Goats Are Coming to An Urban Backyard Near You



Quieter than dogs, but just as affectionate, goats produce delicious milk and cheese. But they're not for everyone.



May 2, 2014 |

Believe it or not, chickens are not the only farm animals turning up—legally—in cities. Goats are now legal (with some limitations) in Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Pasadena, St. Louis, Oakland, Portland, Cleveland, Fort Worth, Berkeley, and St. Paul.

But do goats belong in a city? Strangely enough, goats can actually make nice neighbors, so long as their owners have a good fence. But, as a new generation rediscovers agriculture, they are also finding out that raising goats, particularly if you wish to raise them for milk, takes work.

Rachel Hiner and her husband, Andrew Clarke, have had goats for about two years, ever since San Diego changed its rules to allow them. The city allows homeowners to keep two miniature goats, no more, no less—and no bigger. Full-sized goats are still verboten. Males must be neutered, and all goats must have their horns removed, a procedure usually done a few weeks after birth.

Following these rules, Hiner and Clarke got a pair of female goats together with their neighbors, a married couple named Emily and Nick, planning to share the costs, the work and the milk. “The idea of making my own goat cheese sounded magical,” recalls Hiner. And she has made her own cheese. But it also required more work and money than she could have imagined.

They chose Nigerian dwarf goats, the breed of miniature goats most known for milk production. Because the goats are small, they produce a few quarts a day, which is less than larger dairy breeds like Nubian or Alpine. (Another option would be selecting a goat that is a cross between a Nigerian dwarf and a standard-sized dairy breed.)

It was easy to find goats for sale online. The two couples chose two females, an older one they hoped was pregnant (she had been exposed to a buck) and one who was too young to breed. They were named Flora and Fauna, respectively, and together, they cost about $300. Goats who were confirmed pregnant were available too, but they cost more.

As pets, the goats were wonderful. Quieter than dogs, they love being touched and petted by humans, and they can eat fibrous plant material that humans can’t. They will gladly eat out of your hands, although they’ll just as gladly eat your clothes.

The neighbors (mostly) loved them. Erica Tarassoff, a young mother who lives nearby, says, “The exposure is great for the kids.” She enjoys bringing her daughter and her daughter’s friends over to see the goats.

Not everyone loves them. Recently, one neighbor complained to the city about the goats. Hiner cannot guess who, as she lists her neighbors on each side of her house, noting that they each like the goats. Tarassoff agrees, saying, “That’s terrible,” that someone complained to the city. She says all the neighbors she knows like the goats.

As milk producers, the goats were initially less successful. Six months passed, and no babies came (a goat’s gestation averages around 150 days). Flora was not pregnant after all.

Since only neutered males were allowed in the city, the goats had to go to what Hiner calls “sex camp” on a farm in the country to be impregnated. The studding service cost $170 for two goats. “So right there, that’s a year’s supply of cheese,” Hiner reflects on the price of impregnating her goats. (Costs might be lower in other parts of the country.)

Again, Flora did not get pregnant, but now old enough to breed, Fauna did. She had twins, a boy and a girl, in early 2013. Because the law only allows two goats, they sold Flora and the boy kid, but kept the girl kid, whom they named Pepper.

Now it was time to milk Fauna. They bought and assembled a milking stand for about $200. It’s about the size and shape of a bench, and the goat stands on it and puts her head through two bars in order to reach a bowl of treats. To keep her in place, you clip the bars together so she cannot remove her head. Then you milk her as she eats.

Fauna, unfortunately, was not always on board with this plan. She sometimes kicked at the person’s hand on her udder, and occasionally landed a dirty hoof in the container of milk. And because Fauna’s teats were small, only the two women who co-owned her had hands small enough to milk her, which meant that milking duties could not be shared four ways.

Then there was the matter of competition. The humans wanted the milk, but so did the kids. Even after the male kid was sold to a new home, the female, Pepper, still wanted to nurse. After milking Fauna for three or four months, they gave up.

Now, Pepper is old enough to breed, so Hiner and Clarke are trying again. They just picked up both goats from “sex camp,” and with luck, both are pregnant. They gave up sharing their goats with the other couple, because it was too difficult.

The milk was delicious, the cheese was easy to make, and the goats are sweet, but Hiner says, “This might be my last round of goat babies.” Keeping the goats has been an eyeopening experience that has enlightened her to how livestock are routinely treated on farms, and she just does not have the stomach for some of the realities of goat husbandry. “You have to separate the mothers from their babies [or else the babies drink all the milk], and you have to burn the kids’ horns off if they live in the city. If it’s a male you have to castrate it, and then you might sell it to someone who is going to eat it, and I don’t feel good about that. It’s just this whole processes we are being awakened to, because these animals are raised as commodities. I might stop eating cheese. I gave up meat because of it.”

To be sure, some urban goat owners make it work. It’s easy to find success stories online, like one from a woman in Chicago, and Jennie Grant in Seattle, who wrote the book City Goats: The Goat Justice League’s Guide to Backyard Goat Keeping. But would-be goat owners should enter into the experience with their eyes open.

On the other hand, cities worried that goats make bad neighbors should learn from the several cities that now allow them. As Rachel Hiner points out, her neighborhood is full of nuisances that are far more obnoxious than her goats—weed whackers, airplanes flying overhead, a flock of extremely noisy wild parrots, and even some dogs. Yet nobody considers banning these.



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On Becoming a “Red Chinese” Subject


The textbook we used then -- I still have it -- was Living in Our America: A Record of Our Country, History for Young Citizens. Unit One (“The Beginnings”) started with this poem:

“In our great country can be found factories
with parking lots of full of automobiles --
not just cars of officials and factory owners,
but cars of the workmen, too.

“These cars are something more than pieces of
machinery to own and ride around in.

“They are symbols.

“They are symbols that in our country we can
and do earn much more
than a bare living.

“They are symbols, too, that their owners are free --
free to live in city, town, or country,
free to move on to other work,
free to seek other ways of life,
free in body and spirit.”

I’m sure history texts are just as uninspiring today, but in different ways. After all, I was living then in the American Age of Steel, so long gone that -- who can remember?






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After all,
contemplating future “global wars of annihilation”
(as America’s top strategists called them in private communications with each other),
you could either forswear meaningful victory by not using your nuclear arsenal or you could strike first,
by surprise, taking on the uncivilized and treacherous role long reserved
in American lore
for the enemy.

In secret directives, the “wise men” who inhabited the upper levels of Washington policymaking circles then were already planning for the possibility that 100 atomic bombs landing on targets in the United States would kill or injure 22 million Americans,

and that an American “blow” (i.e. surprise nuclear attack, or “first strike”) might result in the “complete destruction” of the Soviet Union.

the reason daniel elseberg was called the most dangerous man in america wasnt because of the pentagon papers.

they knew he also had the papers which proved that the US had long planned a nuclear first strike attack against russia and china and that the estimates of casualties floating around on official lips were absurd lies


the soviets had always knew of course
but the american people had no clue

In 2014, half a century later and seven decades into a world in which humanity has figured out not one but two ways of ending its life on this planet -- nuclear weapons and the burning and releasing of fossil fuels -- in an America in which triumphalism is ancient history (except in the fantasies of the Republican right); in which education, formerly the royal path to the future, is increasingly the road to lifetime indebtedness and jobs a new form of peonage; in which oil company execs and oil state chieftains cook up energy-reserve recipes for total planetary combustion, I’m curious about something. What alternate worlds are today’s kids mapping out while their teachers drone on? Undoubtedly, whatever they may be, they're on screens of some sort, not pieces of paper, but what worlds of fear are those teenagers preparing to leap into in a spirit of faith and mockery so many decades later?

good history of boats which ran the grand canyon

http://geogypsytraveler.com/2012/02/21/ ... ric-boats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

these guys were running things up there at the time on one of my travels.
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you gotta love the candid photo's of your kids


Anger is at long last rising against the new form of extremist Zionism dubbed "price tag attacks," wherein Israeli settlers vandalize and otherwise target Muslim and Christian sites as a way of threatening them with "paying the price" for curbing Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas. The Pope has called such settler provocations acts of "terror," the American Jewish Forward just ran a piece on a settlers' Israeli Independence celebration dubbed “When Israelis Teach Their Kids to Hate,” and Amos Oz, one of Israel's most renowned writers, used the occasion of his 75th birthday to blast terms like "hilltop youth" and "price tag" as "sweet names for a monster that needs to be called what it is - Hebrew neo-Nazis," adding that perhaps the only difference between hate crimes around the world and in Israel is that "our neo-Nazi groups enjoy the tailwind of numerous nationalist (or) racist legislators (and) rabbis who give them pseudo-religious justification."

"We wanted to be like all other peoples. We had hoped that the day would arrive in which there would be a Hebrew thief and a Hebrew whore. We also have Hebrew neo-Nazi groups."

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what funny is
they never see it coming

dickwads

lording it over you with the weight of the state on this side
their eyes roll back as they enjoy the glory

and they ever see it coming

the upper cut straight at their jaw

ya
im sure that cut half your tongue off
not to mention the teeth you then spit out

your lucking im a good guy

youd be in a loosing battle
thumbing for a blood donor

if i was one of the bad

non she cum quat
figures are slum slot
being brain and what knot
hardly helps, so

park my ass

words fail, alot...

no kidding stan

you see em right? irregulars
so jazzed theyre out shoot at people
they really aint paying attention

you can walk right up to them in a mask with a bat
most of their teams dressed this way these days

it kinda a toss up what really takes you out faster
a blow to the nose and teeth or a blow to the ear

id opt for witchever easiest
giving your taking on three

so down goes the first guy you hit
and you quick bring around to take the head off the guy who just noticed

and then you swing your bat around
up in the air to get the third guy
while the second guy is still falling down

hopefully
the crowd of general public standing about
has choosen to prevent these goons buddies from stepping in
and doing you like ya did their buddies

quick
look back at the first guy
he might be waking up and reaching for a gun

give him two or three strikes
back to the second guy
same thing

and the third

check the crowd
repeat

and now congradulate yourself
if your on the right side of things

absolutely breathtaking


SØBY, DENMARK—A thirteenth-century Christian statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered under the floor of a small church in eastern Jutland by archaeologist Hans Mikkelsen of Denmark’s National Museum, where the statue was cleaned and restored. The Limoges figurine, complete with halo, probably sat atop a crucifix that was used in a church processional. “I could see the colors—the red in the halo and the beautiful blue-green nuances in the clothing. It is absolutely fantastic,” conservator Signe Nygaard told The Copenhagen Post.



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someone i knew
knew someone
who rented this house
adjacent
to a corner
that had a liquer store

tight little packed in arrangement

the local cops liked to hide behind its one side
and point their radar gun at traffic

we used to look at em through the fence

they had no idea we were there

couple weeks after my trama surgery
couple weeks into my detention
without thinking i made points with the guys in charge
when i didnt flinch at a sucker punch

there were a half dozen of us
locked in this hallway with a phone
and this one guy acting like he owned it

guess he spent alot of time in that hallway

me not flintching tickled him pink

i got to use the phone

I forgot how to post a picture properly

high jluvn, welcome back!

either before or after you type your words,
go to Full Editor,
then scrolll down... to below the Post It button....
to where it says Upload Attachment,
when you click that, scroll down a little bit more...
and it will reveal the hidden Browse button...
use that to find the file on your pc,
sometimes I have to click on my pic twice to make it go,
then click Add The File..
then go to your text and hit Enter to place your cursor on the next line,
or wherever you want to place it inline at,
then click Place Inline.

you may want to scroll up just to verify it was added to your text as an [attachment/]
repeat as needed, starting with Upload Attachment for more pix
and then click Post It.

this acquaintance of mine
we shared a campfire together
years back

he was an accomplished hanglider pilot and base jumper

i was telling him about an idea id had

he said "well fucking build that shit and i will fly it!"


later that year he killed himself

hiked up onto of a famous rock here
and dove off head first

i was so poor at the time
could barely afford gas

had to haul stacks of cardboard
plastic sheets and blankets out to the crag


in order to "camp" out...
get through the night

at the end of that weekend
he gave me a sleeping bag

will never forget that roy

one of the more frightening videos out there

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first off
it reinforces the need to
turn around and walk away from anyone wearing a go-pro camera

fuckers are simple out to kill themselves

did this route way back
matter of fact
it was the summer after my shooting

its casual in regard to actual difficulty IF you pic the right path
but its a big piece of rock so you can get lost

it amazes me that these guys got past much more difficult terrain lower
to get up to this spot and fuck up

couple of the scariest falls ive ever seen

[ regular route on mt wittney btw... they video shows two different punters taking the most horrendous falls on 5.0 terrain... scary pitching over backwards headfirst stuff... ]

when i did the route and we'd gotten to that area
i didnt realize to keep traversing out left

it was getting into the afternoon and timewise i was starting to feel sketchy
so i headed straight up at that point
ran into a headwall i wasnt capable of freeclimbing at that altitude
and the partner couldnt touch it
but fortunately i knew how to aid climb

so i launched into this finger crack
bout 30 feet of it and i was on a ledge and the rest of the mountain was a scramble

i take that back
we did rope back up for one 20 foot section later on

s

an amazing compilation of western american climbing history has been put up after troves of original works were donated to the aac




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the end for us is often quite ugly

sure they will write songs
but the detail

basically your out buying grocerys
walking home

and some cat walks up with a gun if your lucky
or a knife if your not

and next things you know

your laying on the sideway
trying to breath

watching a pool of your blood spread out


as you wonder if you left the iron on...

there is a stain
on a sideway
in altedena

left over from the pool of my blood

used to have the crime scene photo of it
all the paramedics shit strune about
what with their trying to save me

i go back sometimes

nearly 20 years later
you can still see the stain on the sidewalk

my blood

fuck

another friend gone


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i got dreams they still stalk me
follow me around

put me guard down
and next
they shove me full of their needles

tell me im important
tell me ive got a chance to help
like im somebody

heh

when you start seeing lies
things really change

ive quit climbing
i dont need to go out and do those things anymore to make myself feel the particular way that those locked into this find insatable

mind you

i was certainly addicted for a good time
theyd write books about the shit i did
had they any idea

maturity and honesty means
there got to be thousands in my boat

unsung

real deal motherfuckers

heh

nuff said

ive this stand out experience
checking myself
climbing
aid climbing

the deal is
dont hit the ground
or the ledge
if you fall

being a young dumb fuck wit
i took on this old rivit ladder on some bolder in the neighborhood

the deal is
you hand off a piece of questionable metal
pounded into a hole
while you stand on a ladder of webbing
off of it
reaching for the next
questionable piece of metal
sticking out of a hole
someone drilled

we got this term in the sport
it called "top stepping"

means youve got what it takes to stand up in to closest loop\
of the step ladder
you attacked to the last piece of metal
sticking out of the rock
youd put your body weight on

when way off the deck
there are lots of stories of guy fucking up
falling
and going for mega rides
rope length rides
were talk falling 200 plus feet

frightening

you can get away with this when your a quarter mile off the deck
not when your just starting

so

you will notice
tough climbing of this type
starts after youve made up up in the air enough
your not going to hit the ground

[ there are situations given terrain that mean your gonna eat shit if you fall ven though your way off the ground... you kinda stuck with the terrain... and they guys who can do this... well... they earn their wings ]

they found a friend of ours dead couple days ago
handing off his gear

his partner had walked off to fill water bottles
comes back
to find him hanging there

dead

richie was a saint


makes my ass all the more obvious

sparked a few bowls with him
was intrigued by his genius and creativing

what a fucker

would talk people into helping him the do the most audacious things

one of these was hiking old give away sofa's MILES into the the wilderness

just for a nice place to sit and smoke up




miss you my friend

there were four of them
i had my sling going

they wernt dumb
move in strait on me

didnt get a one with my rock
but i saw it coming

dropped the sling

grabbed my knife out
managed to take a couple heads off

the other two ran way

i got lucky

i keep picturing it
bats or boards or whatever

suddenly
i getting beat

must be a couple guys doing it
given its come from several angles

amazing really
you could remain conscious

i feel each blow hit at the beginning
concusive waves of force

im lucky for a few seconds
these guys really dont know how to swing a bat

doesnt matter though

couple more of their poor hits and im dead

see ya

when i was a kid
i worked hard
real fucking hard
and my hands showed it

remember this one girl
noticing the calacuses
liked em
set me apart

between work and rock climbing
my hands were iron

mind you
im still tought at fuck
but not quit in the shape ive been in the past

i could go out and work a hard days tomorrow

might not be able to keep that up for a week or a month

as i was able previously

way back this once
was a girl trying to screw me
she was all into witch stuff
that and she wasnt my bag

told me though

she'd never seen more pain in anyone eyes

seemed to me a gimick

i hadnt even been shot yet

but she may have been onto something

FAIR shoots it out of the park

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today is fucking hell
ya
im a dick
who cant keep this shit to myself

got these two autos pointed at him head
and i realize im not going to be able to pull their triggers twice

quite a delema

you want to get the job done

but if you cant pull the trigger twice
seems like you might not

knew this guy who had tried to kill himself
shoot himself in the face
got a good scar

and a crazy alcohol problem
dont want that

that pile of rope is starting to look a whole lot more atrractive

he was supposed to deliver a check this once
disappeared for a few days
met a hooker at lunch
had a drink
lights out for 4 days

the boss pulled us off of work to go look for him

didnt find him
he sobered up and called in
still had the check
it had been canceled of course

heres what i do when im fit

these guys are real legends
this video shows them fighting for ascents of 15eens

im an old guy
so i only manage to pull of the 12's and 13eens

but the idea is the same

i remember chris when he was just a toddler
parents brought him around


him and linder fought over animal crackers


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never seen this video until today
does an amazing job of capturing
how you can pick what you like to do
in order to fight with yourself

which is what this comes down to

and these bats keep hitting me
left right
left right

why im conscious i dont get


when i was 12
i watched a gang
beat my father

it only lasted a minutes

i got hit with a cinder bock in the process

watched this guy grab a pipe
and stand over trying to get a shot in at my dad

but his buddies who were kicking him
as he curled on the ground

were so thick

he couldnt get the swing in

watched him try several times
before i got hit by the brick

and by that time it was over

you gotta see this twilson!
i didnt realize the professor had been there!!!

its far worse even than id learned before. he wasnt just going along... he was PLANNING the abduction and torture of priest nuns and general folks WITH the junta before they were carried out... a consultant!!!


GRTV Interview with Michel Chossudovsky

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Pope Francis I has been portrayed in chorus by the Western media as a champion of “Liberation Theology” committed to global poverty alleviation.

Pope Francis has urged world leaders to challenge “all forms of injustice” and resist the “economy of exclusion… the throwaway culture, … and the “culture of death,” [which] … sadly risk becoming passively accepted.”

Who is the Real Pope Francis I

Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis I) was one of the main supporters –within the Catholic hierarchy– of Argentina’s military dictatorship which came to power in a CIA supported coup in 1976.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio not only supported the dictatorship, he also played a direct and complicit role in the “Dirty War” (la guerra sucia”) in liaison with the military Junta headed by General Jorge Videla, leading to the arrest, imprisonment, torture and disappearance of progressive Catholic priests and laymen who were opposed to Argentina’s military rule.

what they never mention...

it always pays to suprize the enemy
and that pays extra when you on the run

the second your in retreat
your best bet is to find a place to stand
and let em pass over

their scum anyway
so they will automatically think its their own folk
shoot em
when you pop up and even the field

They Can't Stand in the way of hot monkey love

it was nice
they welcomed the insterment into their home
how bout that?

this thousand plus gang full of venom dripping cut throaths

get to gether to pray for evil
and they dont see it coming?!?!?!

hehe

this particular came off easy cause
they'd put a monster truck on display inside the building

and for 2 bills
i got a local drunk to walk around the premisise at the afforded hour
squirting super glue into the all the exits gear

so when my boy got into the cab of the monster truck
and started driving back and forth over the assembled
wasnt no place to run

dont feel bad
as far as innocents go
these were the least of these

went through this military checkpoint once
was on the island of new guinea

at the time it seemed comical

but i guess that had alot to do with me being rich white and american


if i was anything other
and not likely to drop a few hundred buck in the next week on my rice and beans

probably would have see another side of the coin

just as im finding no place in it
the world is growing exponentially

really

it is


crazy fucking shit

some say the end is near
some say we'll see armageddon

certainly hope we will
i could sure use a vacation

from all of this

bullshit

fuck your short memories
fuck your tatoos

and fuck all you gun toting hip ganster wanna be's

[learn to swim...learm to swim...learn to swim...]

its been years now
but i remember this once
i said something snappy

was a a business meeting
me and my partner were trying to get an inveator into bed

there was no deal
and after
my partner said to me

" you really mean that"

as though me having a spine had ruined the deal

knowing now later how money stick together
he might have been right

ohhh

im so on a tear
couple hours into it

who know what tonight may bring
3 squares a day
for a week
and im suddenly
im quite the man
im usually

ran this travel agency
we specialized in the music crowd
fly em in
pack em up
show them around

had a van full
just in from tela viv
a girls something or other school

nobody noticed none of the interior door handles worked
not like they had much time to

parked it on an incline to run into a store
but before departing
shoved a garden hose into a hole in the roof

do you have any idea how long it takes to fill a passenger van with water from a hose?

whats crazy

those girls clawd each others eyes out
fighting over the last of the air

these guy people
mind you
i used to be one

they aways want to show of their latest "iron"
bringing that shit into your house to gaggle over

it never occured to me back then
wish it had

"get that out of my house"

what?!?!?

"go put your fucking gun outside of my home you asshole"

what your problem?!?!?!

and heres where it gets good
just so you he knews you meant business
you slug him one good in the jaw

and then the guy with the guy
is standing there
trying to screw his eyeballs back in
wondering what the fuck

"hows this unclear??? i told you to get the fuck out"


anyone who wants to show you his gun
is just a prevert who doesnt have the balls
to expose his junk in public

theres this condition
where you can taste sounds and letters and colors

and you can hear things when objects are past your vision

i get that

i get this feeling
where im falling

not like in dream state
that an entirely other sensantion

compared to the real

in my pursuit of rock climbing
ive taken alot of falls
some approaching 60 feet

you get a taste of it
falling in dreams isnt even close

it doesnt even start off the same way

so its kinda crazy
when your walking through daytime life
and suddenly your falling

and its the real deal

you just have to stop
and wait it out

cant fall forever right

eventually your back there in your shoes
walking down the sidewalk

and probably nobody even noticed you took a minute

heres a cool trick
when you need to off some aging old two bit christian asshole

right before
aske em to make like a moonbeam

invariable
they will shout their arms out

at which point
it safest to drive the shive under the jaw into their skull

seeing their hands are at arms lenghts

by the time they reach back
youve already gotten to twist it a couple time

their hands are certainly not a thread at that point

done this a couple times
didnt make a film
or make a race out of it

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there is an interesting aspect to roped climbing
you dont fall for
for the most part
unless you let go

even people who do this all time time dont get this

blah blah " so i fell there..."

no you didnt

you let go there

we try so hard
we throw ourself at things


2o some years ago
this rock on a beach in northern california
caved

a giant piece of the whole fell off into the sand


what was a renouned crack climb on one side of the rock
turned into an arete



that a description of any corner feature of a rock face
one side of the cliff fell into the ocean

climbers quickly found rounts up the newly exposed rock

its at though nature intend for rock to be climbed

fuck all you
gun tot'in
hips
gangster
wanna be's...

i give it up
i climbed back then
you google my real name
you can find pictures of me wear those spadex tights

heh

my only excuse is mine were the brand nappy threads
and covered in tribal glifs

for 1990
that saying something

dan was always a goofie dumbass

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everything to the left of that crack hes climbing
fell off into the ocean a decade ago

he lived btw
is still out there kicking

me
im pretty happy

and its been about a month not since my bleeding wound healed

been nice
having to not do the bandage gig every day

i measured it
4 and 3 quarters inches
that how long they incision is
they cut me open to fix my hernia

afterwords
they said i actually had 5 hernias

in these post trama surgical cases its often the case

this once
we rolled out of the pizza place
it evening
were just standing around out front

and down the block
this kids starts yelling

pulls out a gun and starts really getting into it

was a hundred yards a way
so who knows if its a gun or not

i yell FUCK YOU and take off at a dead run
straight at him

he actually freaked

drop the "gun"
spend several moments finding it
and jumping in the car

but that point id just gotten there

punched it a few times as it speed off

they really fucked up
not restraining me
and then sending in just one asshole

didnt get 2 minutes into his "heres how it works" speech
before he was telling me what all
unholy abuse they would subject me to if i didnt roll over

didnt even know to keep a table in between us

talk to me this way when my hards arent tied?

heh

if youve fought much
you learn that the heel and the back of your hand are far better weapons of assault than fist often

not to mention your elbows

first i shove his nose in
since i dont want to actually kill him
i didnt hit him in the throat

his head sails back
an arc of blood up and over
had a pen in his hand
which goes flying
i reach out and grab it

one hit isnt enough
you step and turn so your backs almost to the person
that how you can really put your elbow to work
he needed his jaw wired anyway

it gets trick here
cuz its an old school cell
iron bars

after the elbow i shove him into the cell door
which the guard is trying to get open to save him

i manage to trap this guards arm in the door
as me leaning up on the fuck im beating down
pushes him into this door

i knee the fuck in the balls
lets get him out of the way for another minute
he crumples
next i really throw my weight into the door
want to fuck that arm up
time it right and got his elbow good
he howls
shuts his eyes
and i get another idea

still got that pen
i reach through the bars
and shove it up the guards nose real far
and twist
he basically forgets about his arm

then i step back
whip the door open grab the guard
hurl him down
he slams into the fuck who was just rolling over
as if he was getting up

heh

i reach over and slam their heads together

actually
i stomped the guard on the head and his skull crashed into the fuck
giving me this idea
the guard had enough hair you could grab

big mistake

grabbed by the back of the head he slammed nicely into the fuck several times good

those two guys going to be at the doctors office enquiring about surgery to correct their new hairlips

i know there is no escape
and a bunch more security is approaching

so i walk back over and sit down

the first next guard rolls up
looks at me
and the bleeding senseless bodies lying on the floor in between us

" those guys really dont like each other" i say
with a smile

the man was crazy
i remeber being a kid in the back seat
on the way to a game with him driving
and hed missed the freeway exist

fuckers brakes to a stop in the slow lane
puts it in reverse and starts backing up
there were 4 kids in the car
his own son starts screaming wtf dad

didnt even angle over to get on the shoulder
just backed up a couple hundred feet in the slow lane
id layed down on the floor
his son tells me he watched 4 cars swere to avoid hitting us

as kids we used to peer out the window
as he would mow the lawn
he had something against it
and would while doing the yardwork
utter a nonstop string of obscenities and curses
litterally for an hour on end

looking out a window at him
you couldnt hear it
but you could see his jaw working
white knuckes on the handle
grim on his face

he once caught me rinsing off my cereal bowl and putting it into the dishwasher

and he explodes "why doesnt my sun have your work ethic!"

ummm
im fifteen mr psyco
i dont even know what your talking about

his son ends up with a work ethic which matches mine in adulthood
in a short set of areas
ie
except for being humane
so hes a prick whos now two wives down
and shopping for his next abortion
hasnt learned a things

got any old friends
you wouldnt sit at a table or ride in a car with?

dont write a letter tonight
tuck your shit in
nobody wants to listen to you right now

dumbass

sat there with my rifle at the foot of the stairs
i had about a hundred bullets
4 clips
was inside the building a mob was attacking

as we were the non violent
not alot of arms to go around
once a mob of cut throats decended

was watching em beat one of the doors in
"shoot!"
says the guy behind me

i smile
patience i say

the hooligans
manage to beat the bottom half of the door open
start crawling through
theres hundreds of them outside itching to get in
im about 40 feet inside from where they managed to busted a hole
a long hallway basically
tell the guy behind me to shut the fuck up
ive only got so many bullets

have to make em count

waited till a couple dozen had crawled in
all of em carrying bats and hatchets and what not
intent on mayhem

now

whats nice about the good old copper jacketed rounds
they go through the target and hit people behind

i very carefully
start shooting down the hallway
the thugs who busted in are packed into

very carefully
centermass shots
mostly focused on the guys in the middle
want those shots to tear the shit out of the thugs behind em

popped off a good dozen rounds
took down more than twice that many attackers

now theres a pile of bodies and screaming dicks on the floor

that the fucks behind them will have to walk over if the want to proceed in that way

tucked myself into a corner
while the next wave of psyco thugs pours in

same things

now that hall is two layers deep of bodies on the floor

and ive only spent 1 and and half clips

and funny now
the horde of fucks outside

aint streaming in anymore

now their just taking peeks in the door they busted open

i shoot two of them in the head

we need more bodies of the oppositions outside



i tell the guy behind me "get me a good report of whats happening at the other doors"

theres only three guns on the premisis that im aware of
and its a huge crowd of thugs out there

this isnt going to be easy

new i should have packed more ammo

"science invent the gun
handed it to power
power put it the head of science
said
make more"


kim stanley roberts

ideology is an imaginary relationsship with a real situation...

Louis Althusser

"im taking kindly the council of my years
gracefully surrendering my things of youth"


desiderata

The language is rich in booster-ish phrases like this one: “Stress program integrity in everything we do.” (As opposed to, you know, not doing that.)




heh
no shit

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we werer gonna be there awhile
suck in lock up
specially when your white
and out of country
the authorities figure the conditions are gonna get to you


one of the locals was talking a shit about using the water faucet,

knew this wasnt going to go well till someone laid down the law

was trying to sleep on my stretch of concrete bench when i knew enough was enough

i got up
waked over
smiled
and put him down

nothing serious
but now his "enforcer" steps up

he was just the big mouth

i quickly beat the living shit out of the enforcer
fucking bullys
loads of softspots

went back to the big mouth
he was still laying on the floor
turned his head around and said

if anyone here associated with me has a problem again
i will make sure you lose all your teeth
cant smell anything again
and your hands dont work for shit

was standing on one of his hands
twisted my foot on it just to make the promise stick

walked back over to the enforcer
and knee'ing down on his neck
turned his face into pulp

we didnt have any troubles for the next couple weeks

you seen this one?

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sooooooooo many options
even after they get the cuffs on

youve got to know what your doing of course

and what you want to accomplish


thats some newanchor getting the treatment

if i was him now
and in the money

id pay whatever it took to end up in a room with those three

couldnt cost more than a few spendy dinner nights out
they got a union, but their still cheap fucking bastards

id bring a nightstick
teach those boys in blue what the definition of the word they like to throw around

really mean

lets hope i run out of gas

yes it burns
it burns
burn
burn
burns
it does

good thing it never goes anywhere

one of the things i deal with
is the imagry of being beat up
imagry isnt really the word
i can feel it

crazy
my head back and forth
after they pour out
but it down to a couple
smacking me senseless

you dont ever actually remember this part

least wise
not from my experience

well i went up
and i thought that
i would
get myself away

wasnt that now
pretty funny
howdy howdy and some hay

you could bury me three feet deep
in the men who walk awake

but theirs something needs a talk about
and it will not go away

im at a loss at this point
i tip my head down

a sream of fluid pours out of my nose
into my lap i suppose

im afraid to look

they keep tellling you
your right

then your hear
and just trying to survive
and get to a chance to be right

"i remember a girl called jonny
train came to town
boy, she got on it
without looking back
and without a word
if she said goodbye
i never heard"

mike scott

ive got alot of guts

for the most part, nobody everseen

leastwise
nobody can see my face and place a name

thats kinda the deal

you just show up
do the good deed
walk away proud of yourself

turns out
done me alot of that

your welcome

know what it like to actually empty a clip?
kinda presupposed you got another one
would empty one otherwise eh?

damn if they aint coming after you
bam bam bam

ya

i said it

i got 7 in that rack

but now in the lull
i replace it wiht a good 20
tuck it back

the war isnt over

i could turn most tables over with a fist
nowdays
when i think to
i just set my fist down
lay my head beside it

fucks with the tears
their frequent flyer milage

ya
im
fucked up and over
but its
not like youd notice...

ive got these pieces
and a few part
whats there to do

theres holes in the attic
feet out in the yard

would have kept my shit together
but i never
never thought out large

this has all come screaming up so fast
like i was a mote
it occurs i should say something
but not like

i ever wrote

want to bang my fist
slam my head
i want
i want
i want

doesnt get me

i get that

so i just sit here

im trying
im trying
im trying

im damn here
fucking trying

nobody can stand in my face
and said

i aint trying

i keep getting this
it kinda hurts

cant look up
hardly
without losing my balance

rather uncomfortable

certainly
no good for work

not like i was
up to
much of it

fuck
what timing

oh geez
fuck en
fuck
and fuck
and fuck

really hurt

really
really really

damn

tried to buy a baseball bat
told there was a waiting period
had to come back in 24 hours

wtf

i just wanted to beat someones head in
why are you getting in my way?

hes dead
hes dead
hes dead

lost 7 people in the last year


not counting the murders

one disappeared
people i dont even know are out searching for his body


i suppose
were just sposed to take this
but fuck

turn your back twice
and it will be me me

he was a real climber
left behind a campsite

had been on the road for months

nobody knows
use to do this myself
still kinda do


didnt know him
but i know the story

hey thanks for looking
but seriously

dont

im happy

just leave me alone

not like it happens state side

but theres place tall enough
our bodies just lay there forever

nobodys the strength haul you down

hell fuck
nobodys the strength to help
even when they find you on the last gasps of your life up there

i get it
we all do
the family not so much

in my case

i dont want those fuckers an excuse for getting together and talking their shit

might be why im out here in the first place

i try to talk about it to them
gave up after
all my mom could say was
what if we cant find your body

is that really all you got to say

mind you
lots of bodies out there

we just stack rocks around them
given em their due

it goes way back
this needing to get the fuck away from you

and seeing those mountains

for half its a polite pursuit

but for a good many
we driven to it

help

they say asking for its the hurdle
liars
idiots

im sure you mean well
but go fuck yourself

you know what
fuck these guys

two armed hoods in a car
and me
with my hand not tied

were gonna get it on

fuck these people

my toilent stinks
probably woudnt have notice
unless i was down here
face in it

clean it twice a week

guess i need to up that schedule

had to miss 4 doctors appointments
coming up on my fifth

poverty

i mean
im not actually bleeding anymore
what the fuck

words which make questions
may not be
questions at all


thats a quote

oh my god
oh my god
oh my god

life is fucked
do what i can
next thing you know
im curled up into a ball

and the words are please dont hit me

i dont even know where that coming from

threre is this wild crazy
climbing wise

you do what you can
an generally its safe

next you you know your fall

even thats ok mostly
you got the rope
it aint gonna break
just dont hit something

i fucking screwed up years ago
was about 30 feet up

blew off a move
pulled all my gear

next thing i new
i was laying on the ground

had gravel inbedded in my elbows

was a good think it was a sandpatch

used to walk past this other climb
had a rock at the base

it was blood spattered

he didnt live

it occurs to me today

dont kick yourself in the head

just brush it

i think i will live
i mean
i would like to

Iso ! uncle sam and me want YOU to be a Hemp millionaire and then some

I just went to the Pot store this morning, and bought pot.

First day of legal sales and I lived near the first store open.

bat country?

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

― Isaac Asimov






GREAT new book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway who previously wrote 'merchants of deception'



'The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future'

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior scholar presents a gripping and deeply disturbing account of how the children of the Enlightenment—the political and economic elites of the so-called advanced industrial societies—failed to act, and so brought about the collapse of Western civilization.

In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, the book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so called “carbon combustion complex” that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. Based on sound scholarship and yet unafraid to speak boldly, this book provides a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate change literature.

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harry reid called supreme court justice clarance thomas one of the "five white men" on the court

to funny

It was Martin Luther King who said, “On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?” And then comes a time, as Chris Hedges points out, “when a true follower of Jesus Christ must take a stand that’s neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take a stand because it is right.”


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to funny


If Latinos Said The Stuff White People Say


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i talked about it with soul
long time back
it still keeps coming

seem to me
i should just
walk into some out of the way closet

slump down
stop moving
just be there

aint like i aint brushed the dust off my lashes before

we are little more than what we respond to

when i went into surgery
one of the questions was what religion
i said none

the girl was visable shocked

fuckin whore

Now my grandaddy died in the room he was born in
Twenty-three summers ago
But I could have sworn he was beside me this morning
When the sheriff showed up at my door
So don't you come around here with your auctioneer man
'Cause you can have the machines but you ain't taking my land

and the rain came down



steve earle

a hammer over your head
you start to wish you were...

choke on your alibis much?

it was only a kiss
what a fucking abyss

whats it called
when your holding on with no hands?

i want to fight
i really need a sword

i want to stand
in a room
knee deep in people trying to kill me
ive managed to stop
and hacked to death doing so

i dont really want this

but often
it seems like a best use of my skills

my first feather was wearing out
got me bummed
mentiond it to an elder

he first said
"dont you have several?"

ya i said
but this ones

and he cuts me off

says feathers dont last forever
and what you done was 20 years ago

get over it

help
catch
what fuck up

am i?

aint the susual suspects

i just cant stop
it killing me
this taking control

its interesting
if you look back a couple centurys
many noted writers have mix ups with "hoaxes"

clemins comes to mind

you hit this spot with words and seeing the world around you that lives on em and you just kinda go holy shit! i can do THAT!

most everyone who can anymore
gets put in a can
sold to a corperation
sat down for 30 years to spit shit at you

thank god unemployed people out there still writing well

not me,
i just lunk along

no editor

")


but i can see it

can you?

"carry on mr bowditch"

its a book
damn those fuckers to hell for what they done to me!

but back then
they sure gave us alot to read
not all of it was bad

bowditch went to sea as a teen
after years indentured
the way it went back then

he turned out to be a real mathmatician
and figured out alot of stuff that made navigations for seafarers easier
he really did

and the story is inspiring

and he furiously approaches the lecturn

just imagine a soceity which doesnt let you NOT join
he'd been their member for several years at this point

ignored it for the first couple
but his work was good
so it keep being mentioned

somehow
they taked him into speaking
on on the one hand
he was pissed

but on the other
suddenly he was there in front of over a hundred of names he knew
and respected professionally
who had come to listen to what he was going to say

he'd come to kick ass systemically

but then he saw them all

and the next thing you know
he give up the first
and is talking about his work
and his work good
part of why the audiency

what is it
when a grown mans brought to tears
and im staring at a pipe i made
15 years ago

nearly my first


definately when i started

who said it?

"theres no point
at this point "

catch me

im falling over backwards

steel corps come and goes

meanwhite

we've known how to bust up rock
and make shit better than your steel
in several respects


for eons


been dont it

what
what
what

what are you asking me to accept?

so i climb rocks
whatever

but its this deal for some people
and seeing whats possible

so i see this rock
and this way to climb it

totally out of my ability

but i spent two days
moving rocks around under it

just so when someone who can
doesnt break there back trying

this was before the pads

they crawl around with em now

but still

i put some work in

why
guess i knew how to work
better than i knew how to climb

its that same jumping shit
what is it with fascists and having to jump in place?

“Gaza is a Graveyard! There’s no School Tomorrow, All the Children Are Dead!” Sing Joyful hundreds of Israeli Youths


http://www.globalresearch.ca/gaza-is-a- ... hs/5393961" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There was an episode of 'Die Trying' on GatGeo recently about a guy free-climbing Yosemite-3 routes in 1 day(?)
Seemed a bit 'silly' but some great camera shots

mountain climbers have a long history of enchaining climbs and rock climbing follows suit

one aspect of the disipline is simply to do a big climb in a day
then theres to be the fastest up a single route;
the record for el capitain is down to 2 hours and change now for a party of two

then they say "hey... lets run down the back and around and climb ANOTHER route up and see if we can do it in a 24 hours


they climb a climb over and over, figuring out its every detail and nuiance soas to get up it faster and faster
next thing you know, their going for three

check out this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsagruTOXA8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

this first part is him line walking without a tether
lots of people walk these slacklines but not many do it without a tether

this ones better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXT05R0WVQM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

the poem “Report from the Besieged City,” by the late Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, in a translation by John Carpenter and Bogdona Carpenter. As stated in the translation the speaker in the poem is designated a chronicler “Because he is too old to bear arms.”

I read the following lines,

I avoid any commentary I keep a tight hold on my emotions I write
about the facts
only they it seems are appreciated in foreign markets
yet with a certain pride I would like to inform the world
that thanks to the war we have raised a new species of children
our children don’t like fairy tales they play at killing
awake and asleep they dream of soup of bread and bones
just like dogs and cats

gang kids
no respect for property!

absolutely inspired

Mark Fiore's latest animation is a harrowing visual portrayal of the Palestinian death toll in Gaza as compared with Israeli casualties incurred since the beginning of the hostilities this summer. Read about the animator's research on the conflict and watch the must-see clip, "Not Equal: Gaza in Over 1000 Frames,"

http://vimeo.com/102184380" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/no ... s_20140731" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

heh,
watch presidential candidate rand paul tuck his tail between his legs and run away from a little girl

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/05/watch_s ... aul_flees/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

quoting from "the state and revolution" -
1917

vladimir lenin

"he who does not work
shall not eat; that is a necessary principal
under socialism"

socialism being a preliminary stage [ as lenin saw it] in towards a fully communistic society.


every noticed how many fundamentalists LOVE to quote communist idealisms?





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYF1O2_ ... r_embedded" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

been here before?
How Did the Suburbs Become the Zip-Code From Hell?


http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-did ... -code-hell" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

JAPADOG!!!!

you gotta see this menu


http://www.japadog.com/menu_En.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

they guys paints some great stuff

http://mixppl.artstation.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

if you cant do the time
dont do the crime!

amazing they never tell this to spys or the poor families they abuse by going out and doing american DIRTY WORK while pretending their "nice guys" for the family

look at this sick shit!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda- ... d=24983123" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


dont mind the incendary article title,
the US wants him to be killed, rather than coming home and talking about his real job
so their doing everything they can to piss off his captors
and the 'reporter' asked how he could help and they instructed him to slander the captors in his articles title and content

To Know the Darkness and the Light
Friday, 15 August 2014
By William Rivers Pitt




Ye must welcome the phantoms that scream through the night
Take heed to the visions and presences bright
Lest ye waste up your life with the weight of street
In fear of the banshees ye'd happen to meet...
- "Jo'rneyman's Song," Barleyjuice
I know about the darkness. I have seen it, smelled it, tasted it. I have felt it invade me through my pores, had it envelop and encompass every river and sea and valley of me. I have been staggered as it conquers and pillages me, I have choked on the soot of its burning, and I have wept tears of ash as the hoofbeats of its raiders tear my soil and thunder up the road to batter down my gates.

There is that. There is also this:

The wind in the trees. The sun on my skin. The taste of rain. The morning light dappling the ripples on the pond. The swell and crescendo of music. The caress of a lover. The coo of a child. A long embrace. A turn of phrase, a rhyme of verse, a finely-told joke. The taste of chocolate, or whiskey, or wine. The way wildflowers look in Spring, and the leaves in Autumn, the low susurration of snow in Winter, and the cobalt blue aftermath of sunset on Summer nights.

All of these, and so much more, and everything, are electric to me. For as long as I have had memory, the world around me and within me has left me gasping in a way that beggars the word "overwhelmed." I am in a state of perpetual astonishment, because I am wired that way. I came into this world a human tuning fork, humming with the tones surrounding me entirely against my will. I cannot stop it, and would not if given the chance. Mine is wonder, and awe, and I am overtaken by it, as if the air itself is transformed into high waves breaking on the beach. I drown daily, hourly, in minutes and in seconds, I drown in moments, and smile as I sink, because it is beautiful beyond words and space and time.

There is, however, a price. That price is the darkness, bleak and cold and forbidding, and I must make room for it as I also make room for the astonishment, because it comes relentless, remorseless, and it will have its way. When it comes to hold court - and it always comes, and always will - I cling to what is simple and good in this incredibly strange life I have been gifted to live. I hold tight the basics - my wife, my daughter, my family, my friends - and furiously remember that this, too, shall pass. It always does, I tell myself.

It always has, so far.

Such is the bewilderment of bipolar depression. It is both reaper and reaver, a joyful destroyer, a Technicolor wrecking ball. With one supple hand it gives you the whole wide world that thrums against every nerve and fiber of your being, the world like diamonds dropped on a gilded plate. The other hand is a taloned fist, crusted with old blisters and older blood, and that hand takes. And takes. And takes.

Balance is all. You come to see your life as a long sine wave, all valleys and peaks, which are to be ridden out. Chronic depression has a dreadful way of transforming you into a demented walking contradiction, a deeply empathetic narcissist, at once all-embracing and self-absorbed. You are a thunderstorm, beautiful and terrible, bringing rain to cleanse and restore along with wind and lightning to destroy and scorch. You ride it out. You tame yourself. You learn. You endure.

Most of the time.

The darkness took Robin Williams from us. On Monday, he was found hanged in his home, a suicide, another triumph for the torment of depression suffered by so many. Comedians, more often than not, are the saddest people in the room, as Richard Jeni, Freddie Prinze, and now Robin Williams could attest to, were they still here.

Robin Williams never knew me, never met me, could not have picked me out of a line-up, but the news of his death hit me like a physical blow. I had, of course, reveled in the body of work he assembled over so many years, but it was more than that. We had something in common, after all: that darkness, which is the price of the light.

"The funniest people I know," writes comedian Jim Norton, "seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that's probably why they're the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it. In the 25 years I've been doing stand-up, I've personally known at least eight comedians who committed suicide. There is simply no way Robin could have understood the way the rest of us saw him. And there is simply no way he could have understood how much respect and adoration other performers had for him. At least I hope he couldn't have understood. Because it's too sad to think that maybe he did understand, and it just wasn't enough anymore."

That's it, right there, and perfectly said. Depression is a thief that steals your ability to see the ground under your feet for what it is. You find yourself, instead, lost in a contradictory autobiography, a self-created narrative drafted by demons in a hall of mirrors where all the glass is cracked. It is all too easy to get lost in there, and Robin Williams, like so very many others before him, could not find his way out.

I see the ground under my feet. I know it for what it is. I lose it sometimes, but after many hard years, I know full well how to find it. I have put my malady in the traces, and it plows my fields with a durable reliability I will never not find surprising. When I hear the raiders coming, I brace the gates, and bring the provisions inside the walls, and prevail.

But I know the darkness, and I damn it with curses unspeakable, because it steals people like Robin Williams every day. Even in my wroth, however, I am forced to bless it as well, because it is Janus of two faces, and the other face of the darkness is that great, good, glorious light. It shined so brightly out of Mr. Williams, and out of so many others who bear this burden. It is the price, implacable, utterly immutable. It is what it is.

If you share this with me, you are my brother, my sister, the wind on my skin. You are not alone. Reach for the light, always. It is there. I know. I've seen.



http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/2 ... -the-light" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

seen this?

smithmansion.org

Take a Peek Inside Yellowstone's Abandoned Mansion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roadtripp ... lp00000592" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


cool video at the second link,
long time lapses with bigs skys of stars and clouds wheeling by

California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation

Posted on March 30, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

Fukushima Radiation Plume Hit Southern and Central California




The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California’s seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada:

Projected paths of the radioactive atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and 35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in contact with the North American continent at California, with greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3

Anaheim is where Disneyland is located.

EneNews summarizes the data:

Corona Del Mar (Highest in Southern California)

■2.5 Bq/gdwt (gram dry weight)= 2,500 Bq/kg of dry seaweed

Santa Cruz (Highest in Central California)

■2.0 Bq/gdwt = 2,000 Bq/kg of dry seaweedSimon Fraser University in Canada also tested North American seaweed after Fukushima:

■“In samples of dehydrated seaweed taken on March 15 near the North Vancouver SeaBus terminal, the count was zero; on March 22 it was 310 Bq per kilogram; and by March 28 it was 380 Bq/kg.” -Vancouver Sun
■Seaweed in Seattle also tested positive for iodine-131; levels were not reported -KIRO
■No results after March 28 were reported
In addition, radioactive debris is starting to wash up on the Pacific Coast. And because the Japanese are burning radioactive materials instead of disposing of them, radioactive rain-outs will continue for some time … even on the Pacific Coast.

Of course, the government is doing everything it can to help citizens cover up what’s occurring. We pointed out in January:

Instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem “safe”.

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials [see this].

And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation….

Indeed:

American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation, and are not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising “acceptable” radiation levels.)

So – as in Japan – radiation is usually discovered by citizens and the handful of research scientists with funding to check, and not the government. See this, this, this, this, this and this.

The Japanese government’s entire strategy from day one has been to cover up the severity of the Fukushima accident. This has likely led to unnecessary, additional deaths.

Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world’s nuclear agencies are wholly captured by the nuclear industry … as are virtually all of the supposedly independent health agencies.

So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about what is happening.

And it’s not just radiation from Japan. An effort by the Southern California Edison power company to secretly ramp up production to avoid public disclosure may have led to a leak at the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

And see these articles on California radiation exposure courtesy of EneNews:

■Anaheim, CA has highest amount of radioactive fallout of any EPA air monitoring station in Continental U.S. for iodine-131
■Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago
■USGS: Los Angeles area had highest cesium deposition in US after Fukushima
■“Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima
■Unprecedented Spike: 1501 atoms of radioactive sulfur per meter³ was detected in California air
■Radioactive sulfur in California spiked to highest levels ever detected: University researchers
■Controversy after US gov’t estimate showed 40,000 microsievert thyroid dose for California infants from Fukushima — Data not released to public — “Very high doses to children”
■Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? “Abnormal” readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington — Devices now “undergoing quality review”
■Nuclear policy expert: “Striking” that radioactive iodine-131 in California rainwater is so far above level permitted in drinking water
■Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern California, and Seattle


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Video: Bots already dominate the stock exchanges. Your job is next.

http://fortune.com/2014/08/17/video-bot ... id=tab_rss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Humans Need Not Apply

“Take the stock market,” says the narrator half-way through Humans Need Not Apply, a provocative — and disturbingly persuasive — YouTube video that was posted Thursday and quickly went viral (1.5 million views as of Sunday a.m.).

“In many ways,” the speaker continues, the market “is no longer a human endeavor. It’s mostly bots that taught themselves to trade stocks, trading stocks with other bots that taught themselves.

“Again: it’s not bots that are executing orders based on what their human controllers want, it’s bots making the decisions of what to buy and sell on their own.

“As a result the floor of the New York Stock exchange isn’t filled with traders doing their day jobs anymore, it’s largely a TV set.”

The speaker is CGP Grey, the pen name of a blogger, podcaster and videographer whose explanatory YouTubes put the best of broadcast news and factual programming to shame.

Grey made his anonymous name — and his first million subscribers — with The United Kingdom Explained, a 2011 video that clarified in five minutes (and once and for all), the difference between the U.K., Great Britain and England.

His latest work may be his best yet. It’s a 15-minute sprint through the history of man’s relationship with his tools that reaches the alarming conclusion that we are today where horses were in 1915, when the world’s equine population peaked.

“Technology,’ as he puts it, “gets better, cheaper, and faster at a rate biology can’t match.”

Result: Abundance, massive unemployment and the inevitable automation of nearly every job that humans do today — even mine. Newspapers, Grey points out, are already running financial new stories written by computers.



http://myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9795" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ever noticed the downright foolish notions people entertain as gospel
only because they havnt actually thought about it?

take this western aversion to beheading
AS IF its the epitomy of barbaric

ya, they kill a man in less than 10 seconds


as compared to our botched executions talking close to an hour these days

not to mention how long it takes to bleed out from a few little holes their dozen 9's slugs drilled in you

heh

whats not to love about being beheaded!?!??!!?

navy cans almost 3 dozen in a cheating scandal in their nuclear reactor program
10 more remain under investigation

an admiral assures us that unlike the cheating scandal which rocked the air forces
nuclear missile group

these sailors never had access to nuclear weapons


"_

ya, they just ran reactors...
i feel SO much better


http://news.yahoo.com/ap-newsbreak-navy ... itics.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

An extensive investigation ordered by Richardson and led by Rear Adm. Kenneth M. Perry found that an electronic master file of "engineering watch supervisor" tests and answers was illegally removed from a Navy computer "sometime before 2007." Investigators failed to identify who took it or exactly when.

The set of test and answer keys became known among the cheaters as the "Pencil Files."

These files were secretly passed via personal email accounts, compact disks, thumb drives and other non-official electronic systems. Richardson said the Pencil Files contained all 600 answers to questions on five sets of tests.

Also, a "Pencil Number" was passed to sailors to tip them to which of the five exams they would be given.

"The result was a deliberate scheme to cheat ...," the report said. It found no evidence of espionage.

Exam security was weak. For example, investigators found that the five tests were used in a predictably rotating order and the questions had not changed significantly since 2004, even though written rules require they be changed frequently.

NCIS investigators interviewed four people thought to have knowledge of the origin of the Pencil Files. Three of them denied involvement in the scheme and the fourth invoked his right to remain silent and requested an attorney.

"Thus, no further evidence of the origin of the 'Pencil Files' was obtained," the investigation report said.


http://news.yahoo.com/ap-newsbreak-navy ... itics.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

now this mk ultra aint so bad

http://disqus.com/michaelkultra/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

dats about right

How Fox News Promoted One of the Most Bogus Ferguson Smears So Far



http://www.alternet.org/how-fox-news-pr ... ars-so-far" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track “Subversive Propaganda” Online

By Matthew MacEgan

August 30, 2014

World Socialist Web Site



The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.

According to the award abstract accompanying the funding provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Truthy project aims to demonstrate “why some ideas cause viral explosions while others are quickly forgotten.” In order to answer this and other questions, the resulting database will actively “[collect] and [analyze] massive streams of public microblogging data.”

Once the database is up and running, anyone can use its “service” to monitor “trends, bursts, and suspicious memes.” Several of the researchers suggested that the public will be able to discover the use of “shady machinery” by election campaigners who push faulty information to social media users to manipulate them politically.

As a seeming afterthought, the abstract concludes that this open-source project “could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda, and assist in the preservation of open debate.”

This last statement provoked widespread criticism as troubling and even Orwellian. Right-wing media outlets Fox News and the Washington Timesattacked the reference to “hate speech,” in which they specialize, without highlighting the reference to “subversive propaganda,” a term of abuse usually reserved for left-wing criticism of American government and society.

While the leaders of this government-funded operation have sought to fend off attacks with the explanation that this database is merely designed to study the diffusion of information on social media networks, there is no mistaking the repressive overtones of the project.

Filippo Menczer, the project’s principal investigator and a professor at Indiana University, has responded to allegations by issuing a statement through the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, explaining that Truthy is not “a political watchdog, a government probe of social media,” or “an attempt to suppress free speech.” He states that Truthy is incapable of determining whether a particular scrap of data constitutes “misinformation,” and reiterates the notion that “target” is the mere study of “patterns of information diffusion.”

However, within the same statement, Menczer also echoes the abstract’s final conclusion, stating that “an important goal of the Truthy project is to better understand how social media can be abused.” This seems to contradict the claim that the database is focused only on how information is diffused, rather than its content.

Results of the project have already been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and have been presented at several conferences around the world. One of these studies shows how the researchers, including Menczer, studied the growth of Occupy Wall Street over a 15-month period. This was done by identifying Occupy-related content on Twitter and creating a dataset that “contained approximately 1.82 million tweets produced by 447,241 distinct accounts.”

In addition, the researchers also selected 25,000 of these users at random and monitored their behavior in order to study how these users may have changed over time. This effort included the compilation of the hashtags used by each user, their engagement with foreign social movements, and the extent to which these users interacted with one another.

In other words, while the creators of Truthy have presented their service as a means for the public to expose elected officials who inject misleading information into news feeds for electoral propaganda purposes, one of the primary uses is to track and keep tabs on individuals who engage in political discussions deemed “subversive” by US authorities. A previous report has already shown that local police departments were engaged in similar coordinated efforts to spy on Occupy protesters throughout the same 15-month period.

The revelations of Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks have shown the extent of domestic spying of national governments on their own citizens and the erosion of Constitutional rights to privacy and freedom of expression. Despite Menczer’s claim that the system was not “designed” to be a government watchdog program, there is no assurance that this project will not be used for that purpose.

The 25,000 Twitter users who were studied and tracked by the project’s developers certainly did not give permission to have their behaviors and tweets recorded and studied. Truthy will enable anyone, including federal officials, to similarly track and follow the actions of groups and individuals deemed to be “diffusing” ideas labeled as “misleading.” The fact that the United States government has already contributed more than $900,000 to this project only exacerbates this fear.



award abstract

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar ... ards=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Filippo Menczer's statement

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAwar ... ards=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


previous report on police spying activities

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05 ... y-m27.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


http://www.wsws.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


http://www.globalresearch.ca/police-sta ... ne/5398492" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ooohhhhh
the bitchy christians fucks at fox are sure squirming now!

the better you can read "flow patterns" the easier it is to link thoughts and opinions with there originators



The Truth about Truthy


The Truthy project was misrepresented in “The Kelly File” broadcast on 26 Aug 2014 by Fox News.


For the past four years, researchers at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing have been studying the ways in which information spreads on social media networks such as Twitter. This basic research project is federally funded, like a large percentage of university research across the country.

The project, dubbed “Truthy,” makes use of complex computer models to analyze the sharing of information on social media to determine how popular sentiment, user influence, attention, social network structure, and other factors affect the manner in which information is disseminated. Additionally, an important goal of the Truthy project is to better understand how social media can be abused.

In recent weeks, the Truthy project has come under criticism from some, who have misrepresented its goals. Contrary to these claims, the Truthy project is not designed and has not been used to create a database of political misinformation to be used by the federal government to monitor the activities of those who oppose its policies.

Truthy is not intended and is not capable to determine whether a statement constitutes “misinformation.” The target is the study of the structural patterns of information diffusion.

For example, an email sent simultaneously to a million addresses is likely spam, even if we have no automatic way to determine whether its content is true or false. The assumption behind the Truthy effort is that an understanding of the spreading patterns may facilitate the identification of abuse, independent from the nature or political color of the communication.

The Truthy platform is not informed by political partisanship. While it provides support to study the evolution of communication in all portions of the political spectrum, the machine learning algorithms used to identify suspicious patterns of information diffusion are entirely oblivious to the possibly political partisanship of the messages.

8/28/2014 Update: Despite the clarifications in this post, Fox News and others continue to perpetrate their attacks to our research project and to the PI personally. Their accusations are based on false claims, supported by bits of text and figures selectively extracted from our writings and presented completely out of context, in misleading ways. They did not bother to contact any of the researchers for comments before publishing these outlandish conspiracy theories. There is a good dose of irony in a research project that studies the diffusion of misinformation becoming the target of such a powerful disinformation machine.

Read below for a primer on Truthy. More detailed information can be found on the Truthy website and publications.

http://cnets.indiana.edu/blog/2014/08/2 ... ut-truthy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and speaking of
what keeping larry flint from staring megan kelly in something more appropriate?

inspired again!

Pentagon Hymn, the shores of Tripoli
[ the REALLY words... ]


With the tragic killing of James Foley, it’s more apparent that the Middle East (and beyond) is getting more complex and convoluted. “You’re either with us or against us,” has become all the more laughable now that the United States is on the same side as Iran when it comes to Iraq, and on the same side as Assad when it comes to ISIS. (But we used to be on the same side as ISIS and against Assad, before ISIS became even more nasty.) That’s just the beginning. You can read more at MarkFiore.com


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not content with knowing his pop helped jerry sandusky get all the little boy ass he wanted,
now hes written a book trying to blow smoke up ours!


fucking asshole and their religions



look at how he starts off

"My father's life was big, complex, and principled, and he himself would tell you he was not perfect. But what the Freeh Report asserted is far from the truth.

Child sexual abuse is the witch trial topic of our time."



not even CLOSE you piece of shit!

child sexual abuse is a reality... witches NEVER where


who fucking publishes this shit?!?!?!

oh thats right,

more jackholes who see the dollar signs which go with stroking the religiously faithful footballers

go fuck yourself

mlm

been a while
shouldnt forget



Counting Crows – Perfect Blue Buildings Lyrics
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Just down the street from your hotel, baby
I stay at home with my disease
And ain't this position familiar, darling
Well, all monkeys do what they see
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion
Try to keep myself away from me

It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion
Try to keep myself away from myself and me

I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Asleep in perfect blue buildings
Beside the green apple sea
Gonna get me a little oblivion baby
Try to keep myself away from me


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god rips christians a new one!

sweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... C56jND10V4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

oooooohhhhh....

foxie entertainment getting scared.


turns out the fbi is "competing" with them
for shame


"Listen to the radio and you might run across a segment that sounds something like a news report. A newsy music introduction plays as woman’s officious-sounding voice begins narrating a story. In a stilted delivery that appears to mimic that of a news anchor, the woman states, “In a move demonstrating the FBI’s valuable role of protecting national security, Director James Comey creates a separate Intelligence Branch…”

It turns out this isn’t a news report at all. And the “news anchor” is actually a public affairs specialist."

and the name of the program???

"the FBI this week"


aint that sneaky???


what truely sad is that this spot the fbi is running does nothing but underline and profit boost the very actors who fund the moles who are whining about it

sad




http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/02/fbi-r ... f-serving/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

bentech wrote:oooooohhhhh....

foxie entertainment getting scared.


turns out the fbi is "competing" with them
for shame


"Listen to the radio and you might run across a segment that sounds something like a news report. A newsy music introduction plays as woman’s officious-sounding voice begins narrating a story. In a stilted delivery that appears to mimic that of a news anchor, the woman states, “In a move demonstrating the FBI’s valuable role of protecting national security, Director James Comey creates a separate Intelligence Branch…”

It turns out this isn’t a news report at all. And the “news anchor” is actually a public affairs specialist."

and the name of the program???

"the FBI this week"


aint that sneaky???


what truely sad is that this spot the fbi is running does nothing but underline and profit boost the very actors who fund the moles who are whining about it

sad




http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/02/fbi-r ... f-serving/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

whats of particular funny is when these cons offer off the meat

"Federal law makes it illegal for the government to engage in domestic propaganda.
The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 authorized the U.S. government to generate and disseminate programming in foreign nations to combat widespread misinformation about U.S. policies, but it specifically forbade creation of programming for U.S. audiences. "

remember folks

these are the people who shut down city governments making the statistics of what they did available to the public because...at they put it

"such broadcast of information stifled our free speech"

got that??

government telling the truth STIFLED corperations lies gaining tractions

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/02/fbi-r ... f-serving/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

first job back working this year
and it couldnt be worse

actually thats not quite so
just cuz im working for food and gas
remember alot of employers
spending out of pocket to get out of contracts
god
at least im not that bad

broke two power tools
forced extra days

each one got a 40 dollar bounty in gas

sign

ended up one more day at least

so i got out early enough to go hike a hill i aint in years

the grafitti gone nuts
10 years ago i dithered out a racist tag with a sharpie
but it hasnt held up so well in the sun

back when i nixed it
youda never guessed that rock had been tagged

now it looks like i never addressed the offense

still a nice place

the city keeps tucking up
and eventually the pluto's will buy the summit and force a drive up the ridge

sorry bastards

they aint gonna know what hit em

heh

i was supposed to be...

supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be
supposed to be


whos doing all this supposing?!?!?!

how the fuck you get in between me and myself?

hell broke luce

oath keeper radio!

oh jezzus if these fucks aint a bunch of stupid



"you strip an iranian and a mexican down and you cant tell the difference, until you reach out for em with the left hand and the one that recoils is a muslim"

"theyre taking tires and making the biggest slingshots youve ever seen and launching boulders at the marines!!!"

"order from WAY UP THE LINE are preventing border patrol officers from traveling together so that its easier for them to be murdered"

"once theyve grabbed an officer, they take his keys and weapons and then go strip his vehicle of all weapons and ammunitions and all the sophisticated communication gear"

" i had some junkyard dogs but the cartels killed em and hung their heads on the wall in their office"


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09 ... ing-video/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

their stealing kids!!!

selling em for forced labor and prostitution
they get more money for blue eyes and blonde hair!!!

well damn mr gunfuck!

they sound just like the JEWS yalls grandparents were all worked up about!!!

You may ask yourself

Same as it ever was. same as it ever was

you can only stack bodies so high

least that is a pile of bodies can only have a certain inclination


thats assuming you just tossed em down

figuring they got ligaments and various other sinue
you can arrange their limbs soas to build piles of them much steeper than general nature allows for

and if you was born a thousand years ago
this knowledge would have taken up some of your basic training

given that
your mom only had you so she could ship you off to die somewhere brutally

the last hours of ancient sunlight


found this one of late
read it


While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book, originally published in 1998, has become one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now, with fresh, updated material and a focus on political activism and its effect on corporate behavior, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight helps us understand--and heal--our relationship to the world, to each other, and to our natural resources.

jezzus


please tell me in not the only one
who burst out laughing
when lobbiests for laws enforcement

dare to say limited resources!



ba hahahahha

you fucking fuck
ima fucking kills you
straight up
hit miss
dumb fuck

and your the other guy
on the other side of me

standing there

and im gonna kill you

sorry

apple just jumped the shark

The U.S. and Russia are the two great continental powers which up until about a century ago most stood in the way of the rapacity and greed of the international financial elite. The people of both nations have a history of being deeply spiritual, talented and innovative, and rooted in the land. Both nations tried for a long time to keep Western Europe , with its history of economic and colonialist imperialism, at arms length.

Despite the wars and traumas of the 20th century, both the U.S. and Russia remain cultures where ordinary people have struggled to express themselves, to learn, to work, and to excel, even with Russia ’s background of Tsarist and Soviet autocracy. See, for instance, the writings of Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-).

This heritage is much different from that of the Western European aristocratic culture with its rigid class divisions, where an economically powerful oligarchy has controlled society for centuries and has always managed to stay on top despite wars and revolutions.

The aristocratic tradition is most notable in Great Britain , with the incredible wealth of the Windsor royal family and the concentric circles of power and influence which surround it. These circles are made up of a blend of the old nobility with the more recent additions of bankers, financiers, industrialists, government executives, media moguls, and intelligence operatives who continue to control much of the wealth of the world.

The people who settled America fled that predatory aristocratic culture to find freedom. It is less well known how Tsarist Russia resisted Western European domination, but it is a fact that a longstanding alliance among the House of Romanoff, the Orthodox Church, the rural nobility, and the peasantry came together to create a culture that successfully kept that nation free from external control for most of its history.



2008
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European Lust for Control of the Middle East

It was really the European elite, both deeply materialistic and coldly inhumane, that was responsible for both of the 20th century’s world wars, for funding the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia , and for bringing about today’s economic crisis that threatens to reduce to abject poverty or even starve perhaps half of the world’s population. Now a third world war threatens, and while it appears on the surface that the immediate cause may be U.S. ambitions in the Middle East , this is a mask for the underlying machinations of the European controllers who are pulling the strings.

These people couldn’t care less if the U.S. is bankrupted or destroyed in a larger Asian conflict while engaged in doing their dirty work. In fact that appears to be the plan. A nation like the U.S. that owes as much money as it does today to foreigners, including China and Japan who purchase close to half our national debt, is no longer master of its own destiny.

The European desire for military conquest of the Middle East dates to the Crusades which started in the 11th century. By the end of the 18th century, Great Britain had planted itself on the eastern terminus of the region through the conquest of India . In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt . World War I saw the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, with Britain and France redrawing the map of an area consisting of almost a million square miles. When Israel was founded in 1948, it became a Western bridgehead.

But today it’s the U.S. , with its bases in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and conquests in Afghanistan and Iraq , that leads the charge.

Why Apple Devices Will Soon Rule Every Aspect of Your Life


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i tell em,

ya, i get it
sucks coming to terms with knowing youve been a tard all your life

but,
you really want to go out one, now that you know?



you can rest assured
living one all these years cant hold a candle to

"going out one
KNOWING better"

these fucks dont get any more praise than in church

why would the new york times stand by this fake reporting?!?!?!

what is the correct etiquette?

after a shoot out,
lots of wounded aint got a chance lying around
your and theirs


should you shot em dead and save a couple day or two of horrible suffering?

sounds good

its an after effect of physical motion
if you hadnt noticed

ignoring how rediculous it is
thinking were seperate

but the deal goes

stuff moves
it bats the air
and air full of particules
transfers the motion

some mediums carry it further than others
intensitys preserved to varing degree

we live with the assualt of this
all the while we generate a measure

and they say we will just start over
what rot!

the forrests are gone
saw'd en burned

theres no starting over

btw,
thats called "cribbing"

seen anyone lose it?

friend of mines sure trying...
got years into the prep and now it seems to be on

skirted it myself

knew there was nothing to be gained


had years of meditation under my belt at it came on
so i guess i was lucky

hard to image what the world would be like
if i really believed those voices that wanted more than just to be heard

once

seems to turn out
when you gone for good

you havnt any questions yet
you know KNOW
are CERTAIN

you get switched into a whole nother world
than the one you live in
and
are trying to relate to

its a little over my head
and i dont know the references it cites to modern tv characters
so i miss alot in reading it

but its got onto it
the perpetual childhood as goal we see

was well into my 30's when i could define it
but its root really pissed me off

wife of a friend back then tells me
that as my friends talk about me and shake their heads
her husband thinks " he just wont work"

witch is weird,
cuz they all know me and have watched and seen me work as hard as anyone
for years and years previous

said at the time

"tell em, i discovered i needed to grow up
and its a full time occupation at this point
not involving paid labor"

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/it ... s_20140914" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

please give me the minute
trying with all my might
the band
they seem done playin
aint like
we got all night

sometimes i wished that i smoked
the ritual has its good
so hard to take an away
from whatevers is your hood

dont look to this to end up
feeling good
helping you through

just words to grace the pictures
i got of all of you

had the girl pushed up
ya ya
she digs it

one hands full of ass
the others pulling her hair

having the two
move in and work that skin down from the ear

they like it

the bullets
the bullets

they just keep flying

i mean im trying
but they just keep flying


its like i should pick up a gun

bad week


bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week bad week

been dosing several hours now
got a couple left

got work today so
i got to get up soon

hit the gas station
the hardware store

make the deal of it

turns out
i got some talent people will pay for

helps to know how to be in person

that being the one standard norm
not the jackass you all know

the bullets are flying
theres alot of em

i try to sleep
but you know


used to just be
i could feel em going through my head

but that was use'd

now their going through all over

kinda stings

sat with a forensic guy once

way back


he had dummies and arrows
and shit
make him look like the guy

walked out of his office
called my lawyer
said
i dont ever want to see that guy again

its kida fucked
realizing your smarter than the guy your paying

real fucked actually

the cadance
the pace
this life
holy shit

holy fucking shit

gonna lay down

mabe i can catch 20 winks
fore i have to get up at at em

oh if i could sleep an hour straight
mabe less bullets would be flying around

wow!

this morning the drudgereport headline was

"trash decends on newyork"

and the picture was and overflowing can in the foreground dwarfing some protestors behind.

made me think " the only people this headline will appeal to are those folks who show up at tea party events. and was thinking specifically i wished i could find that photo of that even they had where they had seating for almost a thousand but only a dozen attended.

was funny shot of them with their flags and the bandstand and speaker

did a search and holy fuck!!!
all kinds are getting off on a few of these images,
check out this one




Thousands of Marxist Scumbags Descend on New York City “Climate Change” Parade

Marcus Cicero
Daily Stormer
September 22, 2014

Whenever Marxism rears its ugly head, it is a sure bet that there is a Jew somewhere close at hand. We see you, filthy parasite, and we’re beginning to grow fed up with your subversive rhetoric.

A massive parade that was organized over the weekend to protest a blanket concept currently referred to as “climate change,” an issue that is perhaps number fifty on the list of topics that need to be addressed, managed to cause controversy based on the dregs of society that flocked to the scene.

Thousands of Communists, brain dead Liberals, Black Power activists, and other assorted “untermenschen,” proceeded to turn an otherwise innocuous event into a spectacle that can only be described as nausea inducing.

Profanity-laced calls for action against the police were reported by witnesses, while Jew vendor stalls popped up by the dozens, featuring Marxist literature, idiotic memorabilia, and donation boxes for various degenerate causes.

It truly speaks volumes for the current state of our crumbling civilization, when hordes of filthy, low IQ genetic trash manage to assemble for the sole purpose of denouncing a phenomenon that has changed its definition several times over the years, and falls far behind other serious threats to Western nations.

Imagine if White folks across Europe, America, Canada, and Australia banded together in solidarity, and voiced their disgust at how far our culture has been allowed to decay and rot, largely due to subversive elements that have no place being where they are to begin with. Real and productive change would only be a stone’s throw away.


havnt heard any of that kinda talk in a long time

http://www.dailystormer.com/thousands-o ... ge-parade/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

redskin fan invited on daily show to defend teams name and mascot,
is confronted by indians who "know" the real story behind the fantasy world this fan wants to live in so badly

that fan leaves in tear feeling "threatened" and calls the cops!

jeezus
what fucking tards!

when you break this down.
this bitch can afford to watch every game
fill the house with the brands items
go to games

but thinks she the "poor" in this confrontation

calls the show
demands she be edited out of the episode

"im going to be DEFAMED!!!"


little late for that
and GEE what a choice of word!
CONCIDERING the subject

heh


episode has yet to air



but the preview of southparks season opener on the subject has

found here

https://movies.yahoo.com/news/-daily-sh ... 23087.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Among the Native Americans who participated in the segment was Amanda Blackhorse, lead plaintiff in the case that led to the Redskins losing their trademark on the name. "I said to them, ‘You sound like an alcoholic, someone who’s in denial and who doesn’t want to believe what they’re doing is not right,' " Blackhorse said afterward. "They don’t see anything wrong with it. "

"we've made excellant progress!"

they say...

doing little other than kill a bunch of people WHILE
destroying they civil infrastructure
which were largely empty of anyone were supposedly aiming at...

the leader of hezbulah had an excellant comment yesterday


wish i could find you the whole statement,
but he basically said of the "coalitions" that its was not fighting isil or isis BUT was in fact merely protecting american interests

AND

that america had no moral authority left nor interests other than long term pilliage

"WE JUST BOMBED THE SYRIAN OIL FIELDS!!!!!!"

you know,
where the "terrorists" were stealing oil and driving it to turkey and to coast to sell to western interests who were all lined up

you knew of course that a couple months ago the EU went into special session in order to amend their definition of who they couldnt do business with internationally

in order to be able to BUY oil from the "terrorists" didnt you?



where bombing syrians INFRASTRUCTURE after "terrorists" kindly put a target on them than the little people back home could agree with

WERE BOMBING THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





god damn us...

heard the 911 call on the guy the cops gunned down in a walmart?


what a lying sac of redneck cop want to be shit!!!!!
you fuckin racist crackers

ronald richey...

tag team hit!

lying fuck in levi's sets the cops up with fictional report to 911

says hes "following the suspect with the assault rifle" around the store
give a report of his actions while waiting for the law to arrive

lying fucks in uniform rush in and execute the niqqer!



seen the video they just released after the grand jury said no case?

found it


leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.

HASSAN NASRALLAH: [translated] We are against American military intervention and international coalition in Syria, whether that action is against the regime, as it was about to happen a year or so ago, or against Islamic State or other. It is a matter of principle. This American administration is not ethically qualified to present itself as a fighter of terrorism or as a leader of an international coalition targeting terrorism. It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism. It has other motivations. This coalition, as Obama declares in all his speeches, is defending American interests.


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i just learned

"huh?"

ben... they aint reading it

"huh?"

i mean... they aint reading it at all!

"who cares?!?!?"

fuck you! thats not what i said!

"heh... wasnt a questions actually... what did you THINK was the deal?!?!?"

......

"yes???"

shut up... im thinking

"i bet"

....

"yawn"

i was thinking, no one was listening; except for a few who were


"ya?"

ya

"well, what now?"

i dunno
carry on i spect
got to mean something someday

"thats what we like to hear"

the bullets fly
and im their guy

hey
go read the first page of this thread

thanks

i wake up screaming
often

probably not the time
to be brushing up
on my robbin wiliams

the bullets
i can feel em
they rip through me head

they leave these tracers

not sure what to make of it

other than
just having to live with it

its about as real as it gets
and i should know

my sister made it to the hospital
just before i went into surgery

both my lungs were deflated
they stick these lawn dart in you
to fix that

was laying on the gurney
my feet up
keep the blood where it counts

she said i said

"this really hurts"

surgeon does me up
tells the family its wait and see

a friends mom
nurse
chases him out the door

asks what the real deal

my friend followed him out

sugeon he said "he wont live..."

my friend said he fell over hearing those words

somehow
i just managed to live

We already know that if you use an online social network, you give up a serious slice of your privacy thanks to the omnivorous way companies like Google and Facebook gather your personal data. But new academic research offers a glimpse of what these companies may be learning about people who don’t use their massive web services. And it’s a bit scary.

Because they couldn’t get their hands on data from the likes of Facebook or LinkedIn, the researchers studied publicly available data archived from an older social network, Friendster. They found that if Friendster had used certain state-of-the-art prediction algorithms, it could have divined sensitive information about non-members, including their sexual orientation. “At the time, it was possible for Friendster to predict the sexual orientation of people who did not have an account on Friendster,” says David Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher with Switzerland’s ETH Zurich university, who co-authored the study.

Garcia’s findings showed that for people in minority classes—homosexual men or women, for example—his profiling techniques were 60 percent accurate. That’s a pretty high accuracy, he says, “since a random, uniformed classification would have a precision of less than 5 percent.”

The paper only examines sexual orientation, but Garcia thinks this type of analysis could model things such as age, relationship status, occupation, even political affiliation. “Basically, anything that is already shared by the users inside the social network could be predicted,” he says.

It’s yet another reason to be wary of Facebook in particular, as the social network’s growing size, massive user database, and increasing emphasis on advertising revenue continues to worry users. Last week, a two-month-old Facebook alternative called Ello was generating 50,000 new member requests per hour—not only because it was ad-free but because it provided a safe haven for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community unhappy that Facebook forced them to use their real names. But even if they flee Facebook, it seems, the social network may still have ways to betray their privacy.

Shadow Profiles
The problem Garcia identifies lies in something called “shadow profiles,” and as a consequence, we all could be intimately profiled by the Facebooks and Googles and LinkedIns of the world—whether we agree to it or not.

Garcia says this kind of statistical analysis—essentially using machine learning to study the known tastes and relationships of one person’s contacts, and making a guess about who they are likely to be—could be used to build disturbingly detailed profiles of people who do not even use the social network. Although the Friendster data dates to the last decade, Garcia believes that Facebook could make the same type of predictions with its data—and probably do this better because it has so many more users than Friendster ever did.

We learned about shadow profiles last year when security researchers at a company called Packetstorm discovered Facebook was maintaining its own files on users’ contacts. For example, if Facebook found two users were connected to a non-member—say, bob@wired.com—it would pool other information—different phone numbers, for example—into one master dossier.

A Facebook spokesman says the company “doesn’t have shadow accounts or profiles – hidden or otherwise – for people who haven’t signed up for our service,” and a 2011 audit by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner confirmed this. But the company does store information on non-users when Facebook members import their contact lists.

‘A Major Problem’
That doesn’t sit well with everyone. “The fact that I have no control over additional email addresses and phone numbers added to their data store on me is frightening,” Packetstorm wrote in a blog post last year. The man who wrote this post, Packetstorm Partner Todd Jarvis, says that he believes that Facebook still collects this data, despite his company’s recommendation that they delete it. “As long as it exists, it is a liability in my opinion,” he says.

These types of practices worry Garcia, too, because they could be used to infer private information on existing users. Or worse, they could be used to build dossiers on people who aren’t even on the social network. Facebook may not have shadow profiles today, but it could build them. And so could other social networks. Technically, it can be done; and there’s no clear way to stop this. “This is a major problem in privacy,” he says. “These people who are getting their privacy lost have never agreed to [the social network's] terms of use.”

He thinks that because it’s such a tricky technical and ethical issue, that the only way to really protect the data of people outside of the network is through legislation. “It is not enough to get a statement from Facebook saying we promise not to build those profiles,” he says.

Not on a Social Network? You’ve Still Got a Privacy Problem
By Robert McMillan 10.06.14 | 6:30 am


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know what its like?

seconds after a dust up
you back
and someone down is screaming

they aint no help
he aint going to make it

so you do him the favor
put your gun to his head

i dont think many of you know what that is like

bury me in a free land


slavery relied on brutality and violence, the horrors of which are described in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “Bury Me in a Free Land”:

I could not sleep if I saw the lash
Drinking her blood with each fearful gash,
And I saw her babes torn from her breast,
Like trembling doves from their parent nest.

I’d shudder and start if I heard the bay
Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,
And I heard the captive plead in vain
As they bound afresh his galling chain.

If I saw young girls from their mother’s arms
Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,
My eye would flash with a mournful flame,
My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.





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want to see
the begining of the american mobs?

here is one

just outside a sports event
alants something


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rf7gQe ... detailpage" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

hey
heres funny

i just walked to buy beer
and cops turns on his light
on my
just walking down the road

i wouldnt identify myself with a card

id gone out to buy beer
ya
i was stumbly
but theres just no reazon

i said the id is im my pocket
but he had no right to it

my lawyer told me

and then i said
you go after it
and you gonna unleash a who heap of shit

he told me
just stand there
walked away
musta been 5 minutes
he comes back

tells me it was ok to go

then
i really got the hair up my ass

i said
you know what
you got a real hair up your ass having to stand down dont you?

you should have seen him
for a second there
i thought he was just gonna pull his gun and shoot me

but he didnt

it sunk in and after the minute
he said

"do you have anything else to say to me?"

i said no
and we departed

he didnt even follow me

the bullets
the bullets
the bullets

they still going through
still ringing in my ears

hows that for fucked

i guess we had words for this back in the day

guess im finding my own

rickover

didnt realize what a genius he was for the politcs
not just the engeneering

someone dug it up recently
wrote a book

evem l didnt realize


he was the guiding force
that got this into
but demanded it be safe

we got lots to say thanking him

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he
rickover

he demanded a degree of engineering
and the the that comes with it

im going to need help now

It was 1989, on the way back from a weekend at the river camping that I first remember seeing them.

I was driving alone just south of Baker when I had an unexplained and urgent need to pull over. I didn't have to use the tree or anything like that, I just suddenly felt dizzy in a weird way and started to pull over to the side of the road. It felt like pressure in my neck and back of the head almost like I had been injured but I did not remember anything happening. Then the light, bright orange at first almost red, then yellow then blue-white. There was no sound, but I could make out a round metallic shape as I looked out the window above the road next to the car. It was hard to pin down the shape both because it was bright and because it seemed both triangular and spherical at the same time. At one point it even looked square.

Before I knew it I was outside the car walking right up to this thing hovering just over the road. It was about 30 yards around and almost a perfect sphere flattened on the top and bottom, and it appeared absolutely still like it was sitting on something, but it was hovering about chest level off the ground.

From there I remember flashes of them, coming out to greet me then leading me into this thing. There was no door no ramp, but somehow we walked straight into it. I found myself laying on my back on a small metal table. The room was shaped weird like a pie slice with the sharp end cut off. At the small end it was taller and there was an opening in the center of the wall. At the wide end it was curved and had a shelf along the entire wall with all sorts of metal things laying on it. It was a strange combination of sterile and messy at the same time. The thing was much larger from inside, confusing just looking around everything kept changing size.

I couldn't move nor was I frightened. Just passive laying there while they did what looked and felt like surgery on me. I could feel it, and knew it hurt, but did not care at all. I remember having a conversation with one of them about the ongoing war between them and what we think of as fairies. Apparently the fairies elves gnomes giants smurfs and so on are all aliens inhabiting our dimension as well as their own.

They are not just trying to manipulate us, they want to manipulate reality itself.

All of it.

They know about consciousness like we know about physical mechanics, and their philosophy or religion states that there is but one consciousness that resides in all things, and it creates the universe again and again as part of its life cycle. In this incarnation of the universe the gray aliens are trying to monopolize the experience of this consciousness keeping the ego consciousness bond by introducing it into a new body. They also wish to control what the rest of the universe is experiencing, while the rest of the 'fairy folk' for lack of a better description want to keep the universe on its natural course.

This difference of opinion plays itself out in every civilization that sprouts an antenna.

bentech wrote:"we've made excellant progress!"

they say...

doing little other than kill a bunch of people WHILE
destroying they civil infrastructure
which were largely empty of anyone were supposedly aiming at...

the leader of hezbulah had an excellant comment yesterday


wish i could find you the whole statement,
but he basically said of the "coalitions" that its was not fighting isil or isis BUT was in fact merely protecting american interests

AND

that america had no moral authority left nor interests other than long term pilliage

"WE JUST BOMBED THE SYRIAN OIL FIELDS!!!!!!"

you know,
where the "terrorists" were stealing oil and driving it to turkey and to coast to sell to western interests who were all lined up

you knew of course that a couple months ago the EU went into special session in order to amend their definition of who they couldnt do business with internationally

in order to be able to BUY oil from the "terrorists" didnt you?



where bombing syrians INFRASTRUCTURE after "terrorists" kindly put a target on them than the little people back home could agree with

WERE BOMBING THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





god damn us...

and now were bombing their grain silo's
just as the "terrorists" run on further to comit another couple atrocious slaughters


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Yea Isis

They are working for the U.S. They don't know it but they are. Their job is painting Russian Oil Assets in Syria so the U.S. can launch air strikes against the assets while pretending to act against terrorists.

Its all about keeping all the worlds petroleum traded on the U.S. dollar.

Age old colonialism.

it always amazes me they dont stay home to accomplish more
but nope
they all take the limo ride to the airport for their id less flight off to the desert

speaks to extremely targetted choices and exceptional well handling

What good is having $890,000,000,000.00 worth of air superiority if they never use it.

Anyhow the value of our currency, like everyone else's currency that holds any, is based on our ability to create growth using other peoples labor and resources. This is inherent in the whole global economic system, that the cloth its woven from was used for the same purpose since the first coins were pressed out of freshly looted pillage to pay the army.

Yeah feel free to vet munch any time.

I'm all for it

First war was paid for by taxing our liquor.

and hear i thought it was salt...

ebola may turn out to be the best things thats happened to america in decades if this keeps up!!!


For-Profit Healthcare Under Fire As Ebola Spreads to Second US Healthcare Worker

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Be careful what you wish for.

Our countries idea of solving that problem will be to put in place a system to arrest and detain citizens without due process.

oh good!

the sooner we get to a talitarian state the safer we will all be
as a whole

cuz the big stuffs soon
non democracies will address them imediate

democracies will hem haw and do nothing
till it crashes

THEN!!!!

get this...

the democracy will get a dictatorship anyway!
cept they will be in way worse shape under its fiat

than all the other places they used to scorn

bring it on!

i know how to grovel...

ode to plate


i miss my plate
not that i was attached to it so much as the function
its good to have a plate

this was almost 2 weeks ago now

been getting along without one
but dont think i dont miss it

finished a job yesterdays and got paid
think im gonna go buy a new plate

lost my masons jar in the same bobble

that kinda stings

Plate o' Shrimp?

youll find one in every car
youll see...

heh






During the avoidable Vietnam War, the second leading cause, after wartime injuries, for hospitalization of American soldiers was malaria. The Pentagon got so fed up with the U.S. drug companies refusing to do any research for anti-malarial drugs, that it set up its own very successful research division at Walter Reed Army Hospital. It was a there that dedicated physicians and other scientists developed most of that era’s breakthroughs for anti-malarial medicines at a fraction of what the price-gouging drug companies would have charged patients for access to the same medication.

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Another question is why there are so few doctors and health workers in these African countries. Dr. E. Fuller Torrey wrote in the Wall Street Journal recently that for years the U.S. has been part of the brain-drain of African physicians (and other health care professionals) because of an entirely preventable doctor shortage in our own country. He wrote, “The loss of these men and women is now reflected in reports about severe medical-manpower shortages in these countries, an absence of local medical leadership so critical for responding to the crisis, and a collapse or near-collapse of their health-care systems.”

He estimated that Liberia, a country of four million people, has only 120 Liberian physicians, while there were 56 Liberian-trained physicians practicing in the U.S in 2010.

Through H-1B visa preferences, we lure doctors and nurses from the developing countries that need them desperately. In contrast, Cuba, a much smaller and less wealthy country, has dispatched thousands of doctors over decades to assist needy countries in Latin America and Africa. Just this month, Cuba announced it had sent 165 healthcare workers to Sierra Leone with another 296 doctors and nurses on their way to Liberia to help counter the spread of Ebola.

kratom tree anyone?

I'll stick with my sweet tea, thanks.

one does is chewing up once ounce of leaves!

bleah!

this author links some things together well,
the news about sarkeesians plight at utah state is making the news simple as misogyny... hadnt thought is was so linked to gaming. she canceled here talk when it after the threat to "unleash the worest mass shooting in the history of the nation" was made, she was informed that utah state could not prevent attendies from carrying firearms into the lecture hall; as per the states carry laws.






Gamergate Goons Can Scream All They Want, But They Can’t Stop Progress

By Laura Hudson
Games aren’t very fun these days.

As anyone paying even tangential attention to videogames likely knows, the medium is in the throes of a misogynist backlash so virulent it often could be described as terrorism. In the past nine weeks, three female games professionals—Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and Zoe Quinn—have been driven from their homes by death threats. Sarkeesian, a critic who received a bomb threat when she accepted an award at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this year, recently became the target of a terror threat promising “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if she gave a scheduled lecture at Utah State University.


Even more fascinating is how these insecurities have allowed some gamers to consider themselves a downtrodden minority, despite their continued dominance of every meaningful sector of the games industry, from development to publishing to criticism. That demonstrates a strange and seemingly contradictory “overdog” phenomenon: The most powerful members of a culture often perceive an increase in social equality as a form of persecution. (To wit: the significant number of white Americans who say they face more racism than black people, or the persecution complex of some conservative Christians who believe that increasing cultural acceptance of gays and reproductive rights has transformed them into an oppressed minority—despite the fact that more than 80 percent of Americans identity as Christians.)

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this from fckh8.com


"i hate the word 'homophobia'
it isnt a phobia
your not afraid
your an asshole!"

heh

[ finally got my plate today! ]

I tossed and turned in bed wondering what Michele would do if she were president. I grabbed my iPad and watched her speech on YouTube. Hearing the roaring applause of her audience horrified me. The only thing more dangerous than a stupid leader is a stupider follower, I thought, feeling nauseated.

Whether they knew it or not, Michele was declaring war on one-quarter of the people in the world, just as evil leaders fictionalized in James Bond movies do in nefarious attempts to rule the planet Earth.



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George Kennan, the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote what has come to be known as the "Long Telegram," in which he described the bedlam of Stalin and Soviet intentions, and Truman along with a bunch of other people read it, and it scared the cheese out of them, and so the National Security Act of 1947 was passed, making America's economic wartime footing a permanent thing that endures to this day, and thus the Cold War was born...

...which was bully news for the weapons manufacturers who got rich on WWII, because now they were indispensable as a matter of policy, "national security" assets, and before long, tank after tank and warship after warship and nuclear missile after nuclear missile and bullet after bullet and rifle after rifle and bomb after bomb rolled down the production lines, each and every one paid for with tax dollars collected from an American populace which was led to believe this was all vitally necessary because the readers of Kennan's telegram decided the thing to do was to make sure everyone felt threatened because a fearful populace is easily controlled...

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now it’s virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that’s a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren’t being made these days.”



Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book

By Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
10.25.14

Patrick Rothfuss is the author of the mega-bestselling novels The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear, and is currently hard at work on The Doors of Stone, the final volume in his epic fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle. His latest book, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, is a novella set in the same world. This new book is enough of a departure that Rothfuss took the unusual step of writing an author’s introduction that begins, “You might not want to buy this book.” That may cost him some sales, but will hopefully result in fewer disappointed readers.
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“If only five percent of my readers end up reading this and hating it, that’s still kind of a lot of readers,” Rothfuss says in Episode 122 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “I’ve got upwards of half a million here in the US alone, and pissing off five percent of those is kind of a lot of people.”

The Slow Regard of Silent Things delves into the mind of Auri, a quirky, mysterious character from the earlier books. Rothfuss warns that the story is likely to be confusing for new readers, like starting a movie in the middle. The book also lacks many of the qualities readers might expect from his writing, such as vivid action scenes or witty banter. In the afterword Rothfuss recounts how the story grew in its own peculiar way despite his best efforts to force it into a more conventional shape.

“This story is about who Auri is and what she’s like,” he says. “The people that are curious about Auri, and about this piece of my world, that’s who this story is for.”

Since Auri is such a peculiar character with such an unusual worldview, it took a great deal of time and energy to maintain her voice for the length of an entire book. Spending a lot of time on each project is something Rothfuss is known for. He did 80 drafts of The Slow Regard of Silent Things, and solicited feedback from about 50 beta readers. And he reports that most of them have liked it a lot, despite his fears to the contrary.

“Am I obsessive? Yes I’m absolutely obsessive,” he says. “It’s entirely possible that I am not a well person. I’m fully willing to admit that.”

Listen to our complete interview with Patrick Rothfuss in Episode 122 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (above), and check out some highlights from the discussion below.

Patrick Rothfuss on Tunnel Bob:

“Auri started from stories my father would tell me about a guy that he knew called Tunnel Bob. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and he’s just a little different from the rest of us, and he is constantly getting arrested for being in the steam tunnels underneath the university, you know, the access tunnels that every big city has. My dad used to run engineering for one of the hospitals down there, and so he had to learn how to deal with Tunnel Bob, like everyone in the city, because he gets into your tunnels. What do you do? And so my dad actually solved the problem by saying Tunnel Bob could volunteer there three hours a week, but the rest of the time he couldn’t be in there. And it worked like a charm. Suddenly they didn’t have to worry about him wandering around when he wasn’t allowed, because he would do anything to protect these three precious hours where he was officially sanctioned to be in their tunnels. … ‘So what do you do down there in the tunnels?’ my dad would ask, and he’d say, ‘Well, the first hour I walks around a bit, and the second hour I cleans up some, and the third hour, well, that’s just for me.’”

Patrick Rothfuss on childhood:

“I was a very good boy. I was not terribly rebellious. I was not terribly wild. I liked to stay at home and read books. I lived out in the country, and the only neighbor within any sort of walking distance was my grandpa, who lived up the hill. And then he moved out of that house and some other people moved in, and there was a kid who was exactly my age, and he kept coming to my house. He would come to my house and he’d knock on the door, and he’d say, ‘Do you want to do something?’ Because he came from a suburb where there were a ton of kids, and they were always playing and doing things together. And he’d come and he’d knock on my door, and I’d look at him like, ‘What the hell are you doing here?’ because I’d never had anyone of my own age to play with before. And he’s like, ‘Let’s do something,’ and I’m thinking, ‘I am doing something. I’m reading a book, and you are interrupting me. Go away.’”

Patrick Rothfuss on Acquisitions, Inc.:

“I told my publisher, ‘Yeah, I’m going to go play D&D with the Penny Arcade guys,’ and she’s like, ‘You should probably stay at home and work on your book.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no. You don’t understand. I’m going to go play D&D on stage in front of two thousand people, and another twenty thousand are going to watch it live streaming, and then another couple hundred thousand are going to watch it online, after the fact. And she was just flabbergasted by that, in the same way that those of us who aren’t into sports just can’t understand why anyone would go to a football game. But it’s a little more understandable if, instead of ‘role-playing’ or ‘D&D,’ you say, ‘I’m going to watch a group of incredibly quick-witted, articulate, funny people engage in interactive, improvisational storytelling for two hours.’ And then suddenly you realize that what it really is is Whose Line Is It Anyway? with a strong narrative thread. … And as a bonus we get dragons and sword fights too.”

Patrick Rothfuss on Infocom games:

“They called it ‘interactive fiction,’ and it was absolutely interactive fiction. You read the text, and you took actions, and your actions influenced the games. And one of these games, Zork III, I played with my friend Chad, in like the sixth grade. We started in sixth grade and we played that game for two years before we solved it. … It was pre-internet. It was vastly pre-internet. We had no answers and no way to get them. … When I talk to the brilliant people in my generation — people doing things, telling stories, making things, they played Infocom games. Neil Gaiman played Infocom games, Terry Pratchett played Infocom games, Felicia Day played Infocom games, and they were all frustrated, and they all spent months trying to get the frickin’ Babel Fish in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And now it’s virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that’s a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren’t being made these days.”

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do you really think
there was a SS member
a guard at an extermination camp
a soldier shipping them there

who got his orders, and proclaimed

"YES!!! i can FINALLY rest assured im going to hell"

wow

ive scared up a wave
just when they were all invested in lying low in the water

say

whats a nice way of telling your family
"dont search for my body"

leave me the fuck alone!

!?!?!?

yesterday
got the wild hair to get up and do a bunch of things

nipped that shit in the bud

anything hierarchical eventually devours itself to enrich the few.


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bentech wrote:this author links some things together well,
the news about sarkeesians plight at utah state is making the news simple as misogyny... hadnt thought is was so linked to gaming. she canceled here talk when it after the threat to "unleash the worest mass shooting in the history of the nation" was made, she was informed that utah state could not prevent attendies from carrying firearms into the lecture hall; as per the states carry laws.






Gamergate Goons Can Scream All They Want, But They Can’t Stop Progress

By Laura Hudson
Games aren’t very fun these days.

As anyone paying even tangential attention to videogames likely knows, the medium is in the throes of a misogynist backlash so virulent it often could be described as terrorism. In the past nine weeks, three female games professionals—Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and Zoe Quinn—have been driven from their homes by death threats. Sarkeesian, a critic who received a bomb threat when she accepted an award at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this year, recently became the target of a terror threat promising “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if she gave a scheduled lecture at Utah State University.


Even more fascinating is how these insecurities have allowed some gamers to consider themselves a downtrodden minority, despite their continued dominance of every meaningful sector of the games industry, from development to publishing to criticism. That demonstrates a strange and seemingly contradictory “overdog” phenomenon: The most powerful members of a culture often perceive an increase in social equality as a form of persecution. (To wit: the significant number of white Americans who say they face more racism than black people, or the persecution complex of some conservative Christians who believe that increasing cultural acceptance of gays and reproductive rights has transformed them into an oppressed minority—despite the fact that more than 80 percent of Americans identity as Christians.)

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Problem is, rather than devoting their cause to help and assist in the plight women face in parts of the world where there is ACTUAL oppression of women, western feminists would rather attack video gamers and spread lies about the pay gap. That and feminists spend a majority of their time defending their movement rather than actually helping those in need.

heh

there is no pay gap?
gamers aint the scum of the earth?
the favorite scams your fronting aint doing so well of late?

heh

nigga please...

You'll find that the pay gap is a fabrication if you actually the research rather than propagate the indoctrination of everyone from all walks of life with a "woe is me" victim mentality.

Gamers are tame and harmless peons. Most of 'em are pasty white gym-sock skinned nerds who've spent so much time indoors, their skin will catch on fire if you bring them out into sunlight. Banning and censoring certain forms of entertainment in the name of sheltering and protectionism is a right-wing ideology anyway. I wouldn't wanna be associated with that.

90% of all drug sellers live at home with their parents
that sure aint stopped the dive into swat teams


conservatives are a joke
that is when their not raping girls they slipped a mickey

dah fuck your gacy ass doing here?

So is throwing up irrelevant metaphors your distortion tactic to avoid the issue?

"your issue" is a fantasy

let just say marching down box canyons aint my thing

Annnnnddddd you got nothing...

to invest in a faux?
no shit

this once
id hiked out a mile to a ridge top
damn if the bird wernt going wild!

there was some breeze over the crest
and the crow were loving it

musta been several hundred of them
all flying and tumbling in the airs confluence

i sat down to watch
and a minute later
one of them flys over and lands bout 10 feet away
then he walks closer checking me out

scrutiny

he flew off then
rejoined the multitude

ever seen a crow turn cartwheel in the air?

heh

Dude! I dont think you ought to be discussing yer spirit guide so openly.

While crow and ravens are sentient, i also have found they are almost always around spiritual events.
you felt it right?

I've noticed for me, a raven always seems show herself just before or after a personal epiphany. just noticing...

ya, i felt it

sick fucks!

PG&E Secretly and Illegally Altered Earthquake Standards for California's Last Nuclear Power Plant

By April M. Short

At least, we were assured, the nuclear plant was regularly checked and tested, and would withstand even a significant amount of tectonic action. We had better regulations in place than, oh, say, Japan, didn't we? Diablo could not be the next Fukushima Daiichi because everything here was up to California's strict codes that take "the big one" into account, or so we thought.

Surprise! This week a group of environmental activists brought a lawsuit against PG&E and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission because, as it turns out, federal regulators secretly and illegally revised Diablo’s license “to mask the aging plant’s vulnerability to earthquakes,” as the San Francisco Chronicle put it.

“The suit claims that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and [PG&E] last year changed a key element of the plant’s license related to seismic safety without allowing public input as required by law — or even notifying the public at all. The changes concern the strength of earthquakes that the plant ... can withstand,” reads the Chronicle.

its sad to realize that
most folks
spend their philosophical lives
in the kiddie pool

whats worst
is knowing the vilest armies that ever marched
all streamed out of the kiddie pool

last place i lived
a couple places ago
an incident occured over a couple of weeks
lady down the street gets weird
starts barging around the neighborhood in her robe

walking in peoples front doors talking their ear off
bangin on doors at night yelling about a flood coming

she goes to this church a couple miles away
and right about this time
this dude
with about a dozen stickers of his car
advertising him being on board with that church
starts hanging around
"friend" from church

mind you
this woman has stopped bathing
decided to cut her own hair
and only wear a bathrobe

barging into my garage
a couple houses from her
she discovers im a builder
and proptly hires me to fix her side gate
i do the job 2 days later
gave here a real deal of a price
get walked around explaining all the other work she needs done
over the course of this week
i notice her dude cruising our street
checking her house out

i dont say nothing
but she busts in again and mentioned
that "he" warned her about me

heh

she laughed too

so a couple more days go by
and theres bangin on my door one evening

shes locked out of her house
cuz she cant get her keyring out of her new suv

mind you,
this ladys been driving a golf cart around town for the last 5 years that i know of

suv?

i walked down
sure enough
brand new toyota


on the walk back to her house
she tells me she bought the suv so she could go on a vacation
was going to drive across the country with the dude

it was in drive,
she didnt know to put it in park
i did
the keys come out of the ignition
she grab em and runs for the house


i stand there and notice
off to my left
two of the local "finest" walking up the driveway
its a decent neighborhood, so their guns wernt out

i turn
and start the conversation

"youve been here a few times this week already i guess?"

yes

"she just bought a new car today! but didnt know how to get the ignition to release her keyring; she came and asked me to help"

ok

]mine you, this woman hasnt bathed in weeks, has been in a bathrobe for days, and has given herself a haircut...]

"you know, there is a car salesman who should be thrown in jail to rot for selling here a car today in the condition she's in... can you do anything about that?"

not really...


the next day,
i walked down and knocked on her door and talked with her
asked her where her friends and family where
we spent an hour going through the phone book looking up her friends

it had been a long time

i left 3 or 4 messages for "friends"
none of these people had seen her in years
and she had a streak of cantankerous
so the family didnt want anything to do with her

but one of these friends
got through to some family
and the gravity was conveyed
and next thing you know
an adult nephew moved in
the dude was run off
things stabalized

turns out
she takes lithium
and a holiday gift basket
with those little bottles of wine
was all it took

shes off the wine now
walks the block with a nurse

walks right on past me if im outside
blank as can be

no recognition

i mentioned this to the nephew
he said ya
" i think they got her on to much medication now"

in the interium between leaving messages for her friends
and hearing anything back

i called the pastor of the church she was attending
this gets funny

first
i have to wait about 5 minutes for his wife to call him to the phone
he was out with the "security alarm installers"

thats not the deal pastor, wtf?!?!?!?


next,
hes on the phone
and i tell him im trying to help one of his flock
was getting rebuffet from social services on my first calls

and was wondering if he had anyone or any contacts in such regard he could give me?

"what a great idea!!!" he says

and im just wondering how your a pastor for decades and this isnt the first card in your rolodex


he died a couple years later
i just happened to catch his obituary

i would surmise that
if you miss him
your ignorant

The question of what should be done with you is much easier to answer when we can definitively say what you are.


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The crux of the issue boils down to this: Is Facebook’s normalization of hyper-transparency and information-oriented mode of self-definition conditioning young people to be submissive toward institutionalized forms of subject formation? Does it quell unrest in response to those power structures invested in telling you who and what you are? Will the young people of the future question social values if they are trained from a young age by technological demands to express their person in a corporately constructed template?

The outlook appears grim when the current conversation surrounding identity on the Web has been reduced to an impoverished debate weighing the importance between “safety” (real names + accountability) and “anonymity” (freedom of speech in theory, but trolls in practice).

We’ve just witnessed exactly this occurring in the politics of Facebook. The company relied on a certain understanding of authenticity, which was revealed by complex subjectivities interwoven with technology to be a gross oversimplification. Facebook then lost the justification for their power to regulate and was forced to open their concepts to an amorphous process of reconfiguration. As Facebook scrambles to “update” how they verify “real names,” how will this technological giant redefine its reality.

i never "aired it out" on anything quite this technically extreme
but youd never know from watching

the positions was the same
the consequences just as dire

i remember having these compulsions and feeling
that these kids are talking about

i did my stint
got over it

good on them living through it so far


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if you look close
youll notice that in most of these extreme situations
there is oppertunity to exit left or right
avoid the next hard part

your going for the "line"
but its tough
and your tempted to bail

there was this one route in joshua tree
you got up about 40 feet and reached a spot where
you could just shuffle off to the left and be done
youd already done the technically hardest part

but above you reared 15 more feet of climbing

not quite as difficult technically
but it was still challenging
less positive holds
more a chance of fucking up

i remember several times
being at that spot
no rope
no gear
tempted to " call it a day"

but then casting off into that last bit
doing the whole climb

ive dont alot of rad shit

ive solo'd that climb probably a dozen times
i remember it well
and particularly

i remember that spot where you could wimp out
i never did

but remember the tug to

theres no doubt that bill oreilly is a filthy scumbag
watch this racist asshole stand up for whitey on this clip!

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fucking animal

one day
youll wake up
turn on the tube
and greet the news
of a killing spree
which crossed several state lines
killed thousands

oh wait,
thats already happened

hey!
check this out,

comes out of an article titled " fundamentalist athiests arent the problem, religious apologists are"

One pundit in particular, though, has busied himself opining on Maher and nonbelievers in general — Reza Aslan, Islam’s most prominent apologist of late. Delivered via multiple media outlets, his remarks, brimming with condescension, tinged with arrogance and laden with implicit insults to thinking people, deserve special scrutiny for one main reason: among well-intentioned liberals who don’t know much about religion, his words carry weight.

months ago,
aslan was castigated on fox entertainment for nothing other than being a muslim schollar who wrote a book about jesus.

their really fucking stupid over there

but to see it come at him from the left?!?!?!
christ!

this author is a complete piece of shit,
levels half a dozen charges without explainign a one of them

you can always tell a fraud
all they want to do is shovel bumperstickers at you

its always a sad day when my sources arent keen enough to see through this shit

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what apologists for religious insanity never admit that

religious fevor

is responsible for more social depredation attack and mayhem
than everyting else combined
times 10

if a one of them
actually cared about the poor

they wouldnt say a word about their god ever again

just so you know

there are plenty of such people out there
but there simply working
helping
doing what they can

not doing comercials for the scum of the earth

Aslan accuses the benighted critics of religion of a far more grievous misapprehension: the assumption that words mean what they actually mean. Here I’ll quote him at length.

“It is a fallacy to believe that people of faith derive their values primarily from their Scriptures. The opposite is true. People of faith insert their values into their scriptures, reading them through the lens of their own cultural, ethnic, nationalistic and even political perspectives. . . . After all, scripture is meaningless without interpretation. The abiding nature of scripture rests not so much in its truth claims as it does in its malleability, its ability to be molded and shaped into whatever form a worshiper requires. . . If you are a violent misogynist, you will find plenty in your scriptures to justify your beliefs. If you are a peaceful, democratic feminist, you will also find justification in the scriptures for your point of view.”

he really goes off his rails in the next paragraph

his reasoning swings to wildly im reminded of what school grade level most journalism is written in light of

anyone else make it through two pages of his shit?

that dumbfuck wire walker is at it again,
jeez

got a website
you cant even read the first page without logging in
what suckers

to think we got these type of fucks using up our airwaves

freeloading welfare slobs

peace is a world
free from religion

any compromises which lets these fuck in standing
is just Armistice

while they regroups and conspire
as to the next try at doing the good people of the world in

shot himself in the head

TWICE?!?!?!?!?!?!



jeez
you fucking stupid people

no wonder

Frank Schubert, the legendary Republican political consultant best known for his ballot campaigns to ban gay marriage, including California's Prop. 8 (now overturned).

One of Schubert's encouragements to his troops is, "If you define the terms, odds are you'll win the debate."



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amazing what filth can run around these days and think its decent

the latest bout a friend
he just spent nearly a month in a coma following a terrible fall and brain injury

i have memories of what it was like trying to wake up after being out myself for nearly 2 weeks

its a strange place






Latest report from people close to [ our friend ] as of this AM.
He gave a visitor a thumbs up on Friday.
They've downsized his trach so he can speak better.
Still confused and was insisting Saturday he had to leave.
Good day today, he talked a lot and got pretty emotional when told the names of everyone asking about him.
Perked back up and asked for ice-cream.

"In a Viet Nam Outreach Program, a vet’s father-in-law telephoned and interrupted him during an NFL playoff game on TV. The vet told him not to call while the game was on. It happened again during the next quarter, with the same result. When the father-in-law called a third time during the last quarter, the vet told him that if he called again, he’d pick up his gun in the next room, drive over to his house, and blow his father-in-law’s ^&*% head off. When the Vet told us this story in group therapy, he had that thousand-mile stare. I believed him. It scared the living hell out of me."

london through my bomb site
parting clouds

the moons light

its called "air'ing it out"


some of of just cant be happy with feet on the ground
planes get old
you start noticing you can jump off stuff you dont have to pay to get a ride in

dangerous of course

the first time you do it
its all about just getting it done
chute open
landed and safe

so you jump
and you immediately
correct your attitude for wind velocity and fall rate
basically
you stabilize yourself
pull your chute
fly to the ground

some places you might have to the run from the police


but after a while
this gets built in
and you get very intrigued by
that first few seconds of time
between jumping
and the chute opening

the more your expert
the more seconds there are in that phases
and you start to push it

oh what a space

instead of immediately getting stability in the fall

you can flip around
tumble for real

stretch your fingers and toes out

watch the world cascade by

you get about 9 seconds to do this

then you got to pull it together
wisen up
and not crater


oh but those nine

heres another wild one
you climb enough
you come across old gear
that back in some crack and crushed to death

turns out
these big giant chunchs of stone
we often climb up pieces of them
that seem solid
but are really the
next piece trying to fall off and hit the dirt

they expand at different rates than the mass

abd his process can
squeeze a climbers protections
into an unremovable piece of trash

there is an old name for big chuncks or rock that would flex

we called having to deal with them
climbing the cracks they were one side of expando

youd put in a piece of gear
step on on it

and the force your next piece could expert on the crack was enough that the opening, the crack, it would widen,
and the piece of gear your standing on would fail because of this


lots of weird shit in climbing

but those rocks up their

they dont stay as fixed as youd like to think

the wing suits came after my era
its been a good 10
but a friend of mine
i was sharing a campfire with
was listening to me talk about them
talk about how to use wires and computers
and catch falling people without needing the chute

he just laughts

"build the fucking things!!! i will by one and tell you how it worked!"

he had alot of jumps
was sad losing him

last time i saw him
smoked him out
and he tells me later
i havnt been that stoned since i was a kid!!!

back then
i was really poor

so,
to spend the night out in the deseart
i had a stack of cardboard and plastic wrap
i had to "tuck" myself into for the night

my friends didnt know
but in the morning a few saw
and just shook their heads