The "elites" are acting like they've just taken a goofy pill

Which they probably have, knowing how many enthusiastic cokeheads there are among them. But to their "normal" behavior, i.e. drunk, drugged and delusional, other strange traits are accruing:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-signs-americas-super-rich-are-going-deep-end?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark
5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End: 
Inequality seems to have made the wealthy very upset...for themselves.

We hear all the time from prophecy-maniacs about signs of end times. If this isn't the sign of an impending overturn of some kind, I'll eat my hat.

Maybe this cataclysm will be a good one -- we can dream, in spite of all the evidence the goons are permanently in power. A great prophet who can't be named here (too semitically incorrect) has been through everything -- jailed repeatedly for his First Amendment work, his home and offices burned to the ground in an act of terror stonewalled by the authorities, thrown out of this country for not resembling Al Sharpton enough.... but he's always been fond of saying that evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. With today's level of evil, those seeds must be avocado size by now!

Where were you this evening, by the way? A small but hardy representation of greater Greenville had a fine meeting at Ryan's. Don't forget our sister organization's Burning of Columbia festival today (Saturday Feb. 22). See southernaction.blogspot.com for more.

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So much for the drug war

 ...and all others Washington's bringing us.

BrasscheckTV sends anyone interested a major video link each day free of charge, ranging in length from a few minutes to a few hours. Its summary of this link is, like most of theirs, unbeatable:

Yes, the US government is a major participant in the global heroin trade that originates in Afghanistan.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
You can see it with your own eyes.

But be warned. You've seen many other videos and documents nailing the U.S. government as evil incarnate, but this one gets the job done more searingly and sordidly than most!

Uncle Sam's heroin business

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/25969.html

Washington tells us they're engaged in a drug war. They've been telling us so for most of my 64 years on earth. This is true in a sense, but it takes the form of killing, maiming, jailing, disenfranchising, and otherwise tyrannizing anybody that gets in the way of our illustrious politicians' drug profits -- and cocaine habits. It takes the form of, for instance, ordering Afghanistan to quit growing opium poppies and then bludgeoning that country and its economy such that it has to return to that dirty business..... which is what Washington appears to have wanted it to do the whole time anyway.

Washington is the new Roman Empire, the new Dracula's Transylvania, and the new USSR rolled into one. Don't laugh -- it's true. Vlad Țepeș, the original ruler on which Count Dracula is based, impaled numerous hapless citizens, leaving them to die a slow, crucifixion-like death. But we in modern ameriKa outdo him: "Dracul's" victims died within hours or days. We literally torture whole countries and regions for decades. The Gulf War, vulgarly euphemized "Operation Desert Storm", was 23 years ago, plus change -- and we're again/still brutalizing Iraq! What for, please?

And where is Iraq on a map of Asia?

Why did we get involved in World War I? Maybe we shouldn't bomb anybody else until at least 10% of the population can answer these questions and sum up whatever good we've done in these engagements.

When was the last time Washington won a war? Careful -- WW2 merely made the world safe for communism, as supposed "isolationists" tried to warn for many months beforehand.

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Pop group ABBA makes bizarre (or Bizarro) tax news

Tax laws make people jump through crazy, exhausting, extremely annoying hoops in this country and probably all worldwide. Sweden is pointed to as a country where socialism actually works, but now one's not so sure:

http://www.newser.com/story/182422/abba-crazy-costumes-were-a-tax-dodge.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_entertainment
ABBA: Crazy Costumes Were a Tax Dodge

Thus where for some wealthy people the dodge may be raising crops on a particular piece of ground to lower the taxes on it, giving away a ton of money to charities in order to save a fraction of it on April 15 or whatever, here tax madness impacted popular culture, making it more decadent. ABBA was one of the groups whose music was the most lovely, musical and wholesome out there, but they felt compelled to save money by making sartorial fools of themselves when performing!

I say wholesome, but being part of the satanic pop music industry there are questions. What's this song The Piper all about?

http://patterico.com/2009/09/26/president-obama-speaks-to-americans/

Obviously it could in fact be an accusing allegory on depraved politicians like Obama, but who knows. Like much of the subtle meaning in pop, it doesn't want to commit itself.

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Europeans betrayed by both EU and their own "good" politicians

Today's news link is remarkable, sort of like when a doctor tests a patient and finds he's got cancer running all through is body.

Both are remarkable, but neither in any positive or exciting sense of the word.

It would be remarkable for doctors to tell a patient she has cancer without daring to mention the name of the disease. And what politicians do today is give people economic and social cancer, while viciously stamping out among them the freedom to complain, or even call the situation what it is!

They do this in tandem with the news and entertainment media. In all countries the media determine policy and and rigidly enforce it by making some people persons, others nonpersons, and some public enemy number one. The politicians are beholden to them in this fashion and follow right along with it -- some willingly and knowingly, most stupidly and gutlessly.

They treat issues in a similar fashion. News readers spout the subjects and spin which will become fashionable according to their bosses' freakish politically-correct agenda. Entertainment and music stars parrot and model this bullcrap, and the dumb sheeple just accept it whole hog, even when it;'s obvious, insane bullcrap.

Notice in the article below that a top-ranking supra-national bureaucrat and a dissenting local politician are discussing a crucial, life-or-death issue affecting every American and European -- but without naming the real problems that are the problem! 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/459884/Migration-IS-harmful-but-we-will-never-halt-it-pledges-Euro-chief
Migration IS harmful but we will never halt it, pledges Euro chief

You know what the real issues are. Do you dare to admit them to yourself, your friends, family or co-workers?

Do you, hmmm?

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Threats! Intimidation! Punishment! Terrorism!

Those are the tools by which the USG operates on its enemies (real and imagined), its friends and its citizens.

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=163042
School Safety Expert Threatened for Questioning Sandy Hook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6roDPt1WYYY&feature=youtu.be

"Please come down to the station for just a little questioning...." Words that should give you mortal dread once the SHTF in earnest. "Expert Threatened for Questioning" -- words that should make you positively crap your pants now! Forgive my vulgarity, that's what it's coming down to anymore.

Still continent? Consider: 

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/prison-security-american-people/
10 Prison Security Techniques Being Implemented on the American People

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And the master geeks?

I've been holding of this one since it's so grim and fatalistic. But it too is a sign of the times, i.e. a good case of how political correctness totally ruins everything:

http://collapsereport.com/2013/12/30/several-thousand-more-brilliant-software-engineers-kill-themselves/
Jobs Armageddon – Several Thousand More Brilliant Software Engineers Kill Themselves

We've heard so much about a handful of bankers reputedly committing suicide, one of which is already a suspect story. Where are the headlines and commiseration for these unfortunates? Oh -- it's unofficially a racial story of a politically-incorrect nature, so it mostly doesn't get mentioned despite its much greater magnitude (well, if this story's true). If it is true it's a genuine holocaust, not a fake like some others through history.

It also affects YOU and ME directly. We love having smoothly running computers and ever-new programs, don't we?

What a tragic waste. Not a capitalism-voodoo or Beltway politics waste, but one involving free enterprise and what was till not too long ago a phenomenally successful economic plan.

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Good question re ameriKa's glamorous political fools

I go for years wondering when somebody's going to call the "emperor's new clothes" on the Obamistas in some actually irreverent, scathing way. Here's a masterly job of it:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/us-ambassador-picks-103242.html#.Uvx_U_ldWhM
Why Does America Send So Many Stupid, Unqualified Hacks Overseas? 

.......The resumé imbalance, of course, owes to a simple fact: The United States is the only industrialized country to award diplomatic posts as political spoils, often to wealthy campaign contributors in an outmoded system that rivals the patronage practices of banana republics, dictatorships and two-bit monarchies. A similar system once allowed political allies to become military officers, but Congress outlawed the practice after the Civil War, during which the public recoiled at the needless slaughter brought on by incompetent cronies who had been appointed generals (men like Daniel Sickles, whose insubordination at Gettysburg caused more than 4,000 Union casualties). Representing the United States in a foreign capital, however, is a privilege still available to any moneyed dolt with party connections.

And President Obama—who entered office promising to limit the practice and instead appoint more Foreign Service professionals to ambassadorial positions—has arguably done more to exacerbate the problem than his recent predecessors.........

There it is. You and I are smart and with-it enough to take on one of these jobs. Heck, We could randomly pick a K-Mart shopper and they'd likely be less embarrassing at it! WE ARE BEING RULED AND REPRESENTED BY PERFECT ASSES. That's the strongest I'll put it in a family discussion forum.

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