[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'O')K, I convinced myself that agree with you - it's a silly diversion.

[dinopello]

What the heck... Great double face palm pic



Maybe the Lady took a little R&R

[Timo]

Divide and conquer! Occupy their little minds with superficial, yet emotional religious, moral dogma, framed as 'national security,' or 'protecting the children,' while we go about dismantling the core protections granted to them by those silly founding fathers in their silly constitution. People don't run this country anymore. Corporations do, and what's good for us is good, well, for us! Use the media that we own and control to divert their attention away from reality with 'reality TV!' People care more about the Kardashians than the Pcaific trade agreement. People care more about the Chicago Bears than domestic drones spying on them while they watch the Chicago Bears. Pit the people against each other, and we can proceed forward in peaceful solitude. No one will ever notice.

[PrestonSturges]

It makes me wonder when the Xtians and Tea Party folks will get a clue. They are neccesssary for the conservative "movement" but they are also expendable to the movement no matter how convinced they are that they run the show.

With these right wing kook billionaires like Harlan Crow etc, and their obsessions with cults and dictators and Nazis, I think we are starting to see what is probably a completely amoral world view based on Nietzsche ("God is dead"). These Nietzschean "supermen" see themselves as having evolved completely beyond "good" and "evil." Religion is strictly for use as a propaganda tool.

[vision-master]

Richard C. Hoagland believes the Nazis are alive and well, they just went underground.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'R')ichard C. Hoagland believes the Nazis are alive and well, they just went underground.

[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '.')..With these right wing kook billionaires like Harlan Crow etc, and their obsessions with cults and dictators and Nazis, I think we are starting to see what is probably a completely amoral world view based on Nietzsche ("God is dead"). These Nietzschean "supermen" see themselves as having evolved completely beyond "good" and "evil." Religion is strictly for use as a propaganda tool.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '.')..With these right wing kook billionaires like Harlan Crow etc, and their obsessions with cults and dictators and Nazis, I think we are starting to see what is probably a completely amoral world view based on Nietzsche ("God is dead"). These Nietzschean "supermen" see themselves as having evolved completely beyond "good" and "evil." Religion is strictly for use as a propaganda tool.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '.')..With these right wing kook billionaires like Harlan Crow etc, and their obsessions with cults and dictators and Nazis, I think we are starting to see what is probably a completely amoral world view based on Nietzsche ("God is dead"). These Nietzschean "supermen" see themselves as having evolved completely beyond "good" and "evil." Religion is strictly for use as a propaganda tool.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'A')lso the asshole that runs the National Prayer Breakfast that is mandaotry for DC politicians. The leader of The Fellowship (aka The Family) fetishizes power and compares Jesus to “Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden”

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')Check.

Meanwhile, one dollar, one vote carries the day...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')heldon Adelson shakes up race with $10 million pro-Romney donation

By Matea Gold / Tribune Washington Bureau
Thursday, June 14, 2012

WASHINGTON — The news that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is pumping $10 million into a "super PAC" backing Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney underscores how swiftly this campaign’s state of play can be affected by a single wealthy donor.

The contribution by Adelson — reported Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau — comes after he and his family pumped $21.5 million into a super PAC that supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the GOP primaries. The Adelson family effectively subsidized the entire Gingrich super PAC — its contributions made up 89 percent of all the money raised by Winning Our Future.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'A')lso the asshole that runs the National Prayer Breakfast that is mandaotry for DC politicians. The leader of The Fellowship (aka The Family) fetishizes power and compares Jesus to “Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden”

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '
')Check.

Meanwhile, one dollar, one vote carries the day...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')heldon Adelson shakes up race with $10 million pro-Romney donation

By Matea Gold / Tribune Washington Bureau
Thursday, June 14, 2012

WASHINGTON — The news that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is pumping $10 million into a "super PAC" backing Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney underscores how swiftly this campaign’s state of play can be affected by a single wealthy donor.

The contribution by Adelson — reported Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau — comes after he and his family pumped $21.5 million into a super PAC that supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the GOP primaries. The Adelson family effectively subsidized the entire Gingrich super PAC — its contributions made up 89 percent of all the money raised by Winning Our Future.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'T')he Harpers article on them is a classic undercover report.[/url]

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I')nteresting how you randomly picked this instance, yet remain silent on the fact that Obama holds the record for attending more fund raisers than any other sitting president. He raises way more money than Romney. Your right, one dollar one vote, which is why Obama will get another term. Or is it OK with you that Obama gets money from the rich, just not Republicans?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'T')here was an article on the Family ten years ago in the Post and they talked about the squeaky clean eager young men.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'O')K Preston you convinced me, I should follow the Dems the bastions of morality. How could they not be with such guiding lights like Edwards, Clinton etc, etc.

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'W')hat Gypsy said.

In the context of deserving freedom, would you think frittering away emotion on being forced to wear a helmet while riding a bike is more or less egregious than...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;every day, the NSA intercepts and stores around 1.7 billion emails, phone calls, text and other electronic communications"

National Intelligence Director James Clapper ... “It is not reasonably possible to identify the number of people located in the United States whose communications may have been reviewed under the authority.”

[SeaGypsy]

My reading of it is that the entire uncoded network is captured and saved somewhere. There are at least 3 main central databases, one in Australia which 'does' SE Asia, another in Europe and another in continental USA. Only the Australian one was 'openly' announced as 'Echelon'; it has 3,000 full time rotating staff, a significant portion of who are American. Since opening in '99 the eraser has gone over the net to the point it's hard to find mention of the system. It is never mentioned in the news, only the old language of licensed tapping is used. Headlines about switching on these systems in the USA and Europe (England in particular) were published and subsequently pushed to page 8 then oblivion by the latest terrorist threat or Hollywood scandal. I would bet 90%+ of people anywhere have no idea how insecure their personal information is.

(whilst Terrorism is the usual justification for using these spying systems, it is not so much what they have been used for as what they are capable of being used used for. Politics at the ultra-national level are dirty and bloodthirsty. The ability to dig dirt on enemies of the establishment at a political level, with no illegal or violent intent or justification, is already being used and abused in 'democracies' worldwide. This is the thin edge of the wedge, but it serves to control the houses of power. The emerging extremism in collapse politics when crossed with this information capability is a real worry. Just for an instance, imagine some religious wacko government getting in deciding everyone who looked at porn was a criminal, including retrospectively.)

[rangerone314]

Democratic systems were doomed soon as the elites started applying Edward Bernay's "Engineering of Consent" theories in practice to political systems.

There is a reason why gay marriage and other topics are used to divide and conquer (and work).