Much

"Ben Carson's house: an homage to himself - in pictures"
photographer: Mark Makela, the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/nov/07/ben-carson-house-homage-to-himself-in-pictures
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p.s. If the tpp goes through, so will the keystone pipeline.
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For a brain surgeon, you don't understand much.


Well, after I stabbed Bob but before I pointed the gunman in the right direction at the fast food establishment emporium, I wanted to be a hero in the worst way. I could never make up my mind whether I wanted to cut into peoples' heads or be a big general in the army. So I fabricated a pair of dice and tossed 'em. The rest is hysterical fantasy, which is why I won the Academy Award last night for my book. By the way, I would not have used the word "much." 

They're About Power

From Edward Snowden's open letter: "These programs [the U.S. government/corporation's indiscriminate worldwide surveillance] were never about terrorism: They're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power."

"Edward Snowden's 'open letter to the Brazilian people' - in full", from The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/edward-snowden-letter-brazilian-people
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"Tech firms urge Obama to 'move aggressively' on NSA reform - Live" by Paul Owen and Tom McCarthy, The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/snowden-brazil-us-spying-asylum-nsa-live

"Speaking the Truth is Not a Crime"

Three Saturday questions:
Are the "security" corporations that work for the governments involved in espionage and terrorism?
Do those same corporations/governments snoop to excess and attempt to intimidate truthtellers?
 Is blackmail the way they piece things together and occasionally get something done?

"Edward Snowden letter to government in full", The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/edward-snowden-letter-to-german-government-in-full-nsa

"speaking the truth is not a crime"

You Wish

Hey! Washington pols! Who wants to violate
the United Nations Charter?
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"It's a potent sign of how low the American political bar is set that gratitude is expressed because a US president says he will ask Congress to vote before he starts bombing another country that is not attacking or threatening the US."

"Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/obama-congress-syria-authorization
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Melted bone - War clone - Polite drone - Off camera groan - Stoned hone - Shark loan - Off camera moan - Ride the Rhone - Everybody has a stone - Hushed tone
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Militarized, he found his mental hollow point
He bought a few rounds from each Joint
Excuses
For abuses
Baptism by fire is one big annoint.
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This just in from Prez BHO: I've changed, but first I showered. Okay. So you have me on camera saying ". . . a red line for us . . .". What you fail to grasp from looking at the cleverly edited film is that I was speaking for the whole planet when I said "us." I can do that. I gave myself permission. One single person can do that.
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Your questions are unanswered in our
continuous and ongoing infestation.

Don't you mean "investigation"?

You wish.

Make a Salad Instead

"Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself" by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-government-independent-military-base
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"NSA Bugged the United Nations" by Christina Warren, Mashable (via Der Spiegel)
http://mashable.com/2013/08/25/nsa-bugged-un/
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Diversions, nudges, and distractions are more preferable to the U.S. government than controlling its behavior.
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They told him Blagoveshchensk to Springfield was 1% walkable. He tried it, and they were right.
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This just in:
The U.S. government says there is very little doubt it is too early to make assumptions. So it will make a salad instead.

Happy Third Reconstruction

"XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'" by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data
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Echoing wails of man-preyed whales
Ancient tales of vestigial tails
Canvasing sales of canvas sails
Expanded rales about diminishing rails
Desperate pales concealed in pails
Authoritarian males unauthorizing mails
Diminishing hales to expanded hails
Back breaking bales of back breaking bails.
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Happy Third Reconstruction!

Profit Above All

 

"Malala Yousufzai calls on governments to provide free education for all" by Amanda Holpuch, the guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/malala-yousafzai-calls-free-education
Meanwhile, the US government says education should cost more. Double the student loan rates!
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A little bit about a little bit:
If WalMart has 1.2 million employees and it has at least one manager for each of its approximately 9000 stores worldwide and 6 thousand of the 9000 get promoted from within, each of its store clerks has 1 chance out of 200 to get a promotion. So what are the odds of promotion?

WalMart has a standard. Abuse and neglect of contractors and employees is SOP. Name-calling goes too far and will not be tolerated.

If WalMart "embraced Obamacare" for the profit of its pharmacies and not for the humanity of its employees, what are the odds a majority of its store clerks get insurance from their employer?
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Dear George Zimmerman, To judge by your actions of the last 6 years, about every 2 months you make yourself very afraid of a Black person and then call the police. Can you force yourself to not hurt anyone? Ever again?
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The US government corporation IS a propaganda platform.
Edward Snowden IS a whistleblower.
Freedom of Speech IS a right of all humans.

The US government corporation has an unhealthy interest in snooping on everyone. It will lie and bully and blackmail and humiliate, whatever it takes to secretly continue its morbid obsession for profit above all.

Infinity Squared

Benedict Arnold and Dick Cheney
Worked for their own instant gainy
Paul Revere
And Edward Snowden
Living against those way too insaney.
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Is it okay for the Kochs to pollute our world?
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Dear John Kerry: Edward Snowden is a hero and an airport legend. Do you remember Dick Cheney? Do you remember Valerie Plame?
"The NSA's Metastasised Intelligence-Industrial Complex is Ripe for Abuse" by Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson, the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/23/nsa-intelligence-industrial-complex-abuse
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Obama, a little disappointing or
a man who is working to enslave the world?
From TPP.org/TransPacificPartnership.org - http://tppinfo.org/
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Posing for the camera 'cause you're running scared
Knowledge against you has really flared
Grab ahold and cough, boys
Your constant lying really annoys
And your criminality goes to infinity squared.

Figs or Bennies

An article from almost 6 years ago when the "structurally deficient" bridge problem was only "urgent."
"77,000 US bridges in need of urgent repair"
by Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/04/usa.ewenmacaskill
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It turns out that money cannot buy class,
even when you're a sore winner.
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The RahmObam unholy days
Are for greasing the piggies and the pennies
Thank goodness we only get their special okays
Because they don't give US any figs or bennies.

Bradley Manning in His Own Voice

Truth2SetUsFree

"Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice" by Glenn Greenwald, the guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/bradley-manning-tapes-own-words

Old Fossils Come Into It

"Keystone XL decision will define Barack Obama's legacy on climate change" by John Abraham, the guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/feb/22/keystone-xl-pipeline-barack-obama-oil-sands
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"Did the Pope Resign Due to Blackmail?" by Nathaniel Downes, Addicting Info.org
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/22/did-the-pope-resign-due-to-backmail-new-allegations-say-yes/
If that is true, for the first time I admire the Pope. The Bush Jr. White House - the male prostitute part, who knows about any blackmail part - could have benefited from the Pope's decision.
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Overactors and clowns are drawn to the formerly grand, but now merely old party. Research finds  two keystone koch principles which attract this minor segment of society. The first is Caesar's "Divide and Govern." They have modernized it into "Divide and Confuse." The second is Goebbels' "Tell a big lie often enough to be believed." They have made it their own by changing it into "Tell so many big lies every day to confuse even yourself." Research also finds that nobody ever told the overactors and clowns that Caesar and Goebbels are extinct and fossilized. Wait a minute. That's where the old fossils come into it. 

Saadiq Long

What former VP contender is good at memorizing one-liners that almost sound like something and is good at repeating them ad nauseam, but there is no substance behind the words? Hint: he is the true definition of "empty suit".

Cheap dates
Junior fates
Jack's goofer son
Sacks twofer one
Livin' large mates.

USAF veteran Saadiq Long
Is on the no-fly list where he does not belong
Hello, anybody with sense?
Why is our government so dense?
And why do we sing the same old song?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/09/saddiq-long-no-fly-list
by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian

Became a Wash

Angus T. Jones has been walking a fine bi-polar line between figuring out who he is and living his faith, while acting for laughs to promote sluts and their lifestyle. It can make you crazy, rich and crazy.
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"Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America"
by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/30/bradley-manning-liberty-lost-america
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"How the 1962-63 Newspaper Strike Crippled a Newspaper Town"
by Scott Sherman, Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/1963-newspaper-strike-bertram-powers
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Dear Large Ones, President Obama is planning to take away 401 thousand of your calories every day. Jesus, King of fossils and dirty water, told him to do it, so what can you do? Eat less?
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Mister Dniester Kiester
Put the kibosh on a bosh
But a blister dissed her mister
And well, the nosh became a wash.