Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Why So Much Weeping and Tooth Gnashing Over a Nothing-Burger?
By CNu at February 06, 2018 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , agenda , Brookings , Deep State , elite , establishment , unintended consequences , unspeakable
Reaction To The GOP Memo Revealed MUCH About Unelected American Power Structures
By CNu at February 06, 2018 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , agenda , Brookings , Deep State , elite , establishment , unintended consequences , unspeakable
Friday, December 15, 2017
DNC - RIP
Norman Solomon, Battle for Democratic Party: After the Unity Reform Commission
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czesław Miłosz
I guess this sort of nonsense is what happens when you allow a powerful private interest like Hillary, Inc. to take over your organization and shape its mission for their own purposes.
Budgetary and fiduciary oversight and transparency within your own organization is fundamental to any good governance. But not within a credentialed oligarchy, which is what the DNC had apparently become.
It seems to have started out as the ascendance of the self-proclaimed elite, the knowing, and their super-delegates. But in reality, all they had in addition to their professional pedigrees and places of power was the unique talent of betraying their duties in order to amass enormous amounts of money. They maintained and expanded their power by distributing the party's funds selectively, ruthlessly, and with a Machiavellian intent for the accumulation of personal wealth and power.
Surprising that a community organizer wouldn't understand that. Of course it seems like he understood very little about reform, financial or otherwise. Or wanted to.
Who are these five consultants and what did they do to earn their $700 million? Were these no-bid contracts? Who approved them?
Whatever it was, it could not have had much to do with effectively winning elections. But it had everything to do with the arrogance and self-delusions of a few largely isolated from those who they were sworn to serve and protect.
By CNu at December 15, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Naked Emperor , peasants , professional and managerial frauds , shameless
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Pompous Posturing Democrats Serve No One But Themselves...,
"Another example of giving the game away in few words came two nights ago when the liberal-elitist 'Inside Elections' political analyst Stuart Rothenburg spoke on the PBS NewsHour. 'The Democrats as a party' Rothenburg told NewsHour host and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Judy Woodruff, 'are divided between the Bernie Sanders wing and Hillary Clinton wing, the pragmatists and ideologues.'
For Rothenburg, the Clinton wing members are the 'pragmatists,' the realistic adults who want to 'get things done' (one of the great neoliberal president Obama’s favorite phrases and claims). The Sanders folks are 'ideologues,' a pejorative term meaning people who are mainly about ideology and who are carried away by their own flighty and doctrinal world view.
This was a slap (an ideological one I might add) at the more progressive and social-democratic faction of the Democratic Party – a blow masquerading as 'objective' and detached political analysis."
Paul Street, Giving the Game Away
If you watch this relatively short video much of what has been puzzling you about the failure of our political system will be made clearer.
Franklin Roosevelt could work tirelessly for the common person because he was already comfortable in his own skin with regard to his social status. And more importantly, as a result of his long term paralysis he knew how little social status really meant. As suffering sometimes does, it introduces compassion and empathy, even among the upper crust.
But the New Deal principles were shunned for the credentialed aspirations of those class-climbing, middle class kids who would be rich and acknowledged as members of an elite crowd with the right kinds of bona fides. There are probably few better recent examples than the Clintons. Their attitudes towards the average American are paternalistic at best, and highly cynical and patronizing at worst.
They attempted to disguise their credentialed, professional class preferences with 'identity politics.' But if you look at the culmination of actual policy initiatives, versus platform platitudes, the Democrats, similarly to the GOP, serve no one but themselves. Winning...
They rely on the 'lesser of two evils' to scrape out the occasional win, when the excesses of the other party drive people to embrace 'hope and change,' and to be largely betrayed once again.
By CNu at November 16, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , corporatism , deceiver , professional and managerial frauds , shameless , status-seeking
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The Brookings Report
"While face-to-face meetings with it will not occur within the next twenty years (unless its technology is more advanced than ours, qualifying it to visit Earth), artifacts left at some point in time by these life forms might possibly be discovered through our space activities on the Moon, Mars, or Venus." – pages 182–183[2]
"Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they have had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behavior." – page 183
"Since intelligent life might be discovered at any time via the radio telescope research presently under way, and since the consequences of such a discovery are presently unpredictable because of our limited knowledge of behavior under even an approximation of such dramatic circumstances, two research areas can be recommended:
Continuing studies to determine emotional and intellectual understanding and attitudes -- and successive alterations of them if any -- regarding the possibility and consequences of discovering intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Historical and empirical studies of the behavior of peoples and their leaders when confronted with dramatic and unfamiliar events or social pressures. Such studies might help to provide programs for meeting and adjusting to the implications of such a discovery. Questions one might wish to answer by such studies would include: How might such information, under what circumstances, be presented to or withheld from the public for what ends? What might be the role of the discovering scientists and other decision makers regarding release of the fact of discovery?" – pages 183–184
"An individual's reactions to such a radio contact would in part depend on his cultural, religious, and social background, as well as on the actions of those he considered authorities and leaders, and their behavior, in turn, would in part depend on their cultural, social, and religious environment. The discovery would certainly be front-page news everywhere; the degree of political or social repercussion would probably depend on leadership's interpretation of (1) its own role, (2) threats to that role, and (3) national and personal opportunities to take advantage of the disruption or reinforcement of the attitudes and values of others. Since leadership itself might have great need to gauge the direction and intensity of public attitudes, to strengthen its own morale and for decision making purposes, it would be most advantageous to have more to go on than personal opinions about the opinions of the public and other leadership groups." – page 183
"The knowledge that life existed in other parts of the universe might lead to a greater unity of men on Earth, based on the 'oneness' of man or on the age-old assumption that any stranger is threatening. Much would depend on what, if anything, was communicated between man and the other beings . . ." – page 183
"The positions of the major American religious denominations, the Christian sects, and the Eastern religions on the matter of extraterrestrial life need elucidation. Consider the following: 'The Fundamentalist (and anti-science) sects are growing apace around the world . . . For them, the discovery of other life -- rather than any other space product -- would be electrifying. . . . some scattered studies need to be made both in their home centers and churches and their missions, in relation to attitudes about space activities and extraterrestrial life.'" – page 102, n.34[3]
"If plant life or some subhuman intelligence were found on Mars or Venus, for example, there is on the face of it no good reason to suppose these discoveries, after the original novelty had been exploited to the fullest and worn off, would result in substantial changes in perspectives or philosophy in large parts of the American public, at least any more than, let us say, did the discovery of the coelacanth or the panda." – page 103, n.34
"If super intelligence is discovered, the results become quite unpredictable. It is possible that if the intelligence of these creatures were sufficiently superior to ours, they would choose to have little if any contact with us. On the face of it, there is no reason to believe that we might learn a great deal from them, especially if their physiology and psychology were substantially different from ours."– page 103, n.34
"It has been speculated that, of all groups, scientists and engineers might be the most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature, rather than with the understanding and expression of man. Advanced understanding of nature might vitiate all our theories at the very least, if not also require a culture and perhaps a brain inaccessible to Earth scientists." – page 103, n.34
"It is perhaps interesting to note that when asked what the consequences of the discovery of superior life would be, an audience of Saturday Review readership chose, for the most part, not to answer the question at all, in spite of their detailed answers to many other speculative questions." – page 103, n.34
"A possible but not completely satisfactory means for making the possibility 'real' for many people would be to confront them with present speculations about the I.Q. of the porpoise and to encourage them to expand on the implications of this situation." – page 105, n.36
"Such studies would include historical reactions to hoaxes, psychic manifestations, unidentified flying objects, etc. Hadley Cantril's study, Invasion from Mars (Princeton University Press, 1940), would provide a useful if limited guide in this area. Fruitful understanding might be gained from a comparative study of factors affecting the responses of primitive societies to exposure to technologically advanced societies. Some thrived, some endured, and some died." – page 105, n.37
By CNu at September 27, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Exponential Upside , governance , Livestock Management , Living Memory , wikileaks wednesday
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Kevin Shipp: The Deep State and the Shadow Government
By CNu at September 16, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Breakaway Civilization , Brookings , Deep State , Dystopian Now , Left Behind , Living Memory , Naked Emperor , necropolitics , predatory militarism , psychopathocracy
Thursday, September 14, 2017
People Get Their Beliefs Reinforced Just Enough To Keep Fooling Themselves
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank ... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
The Awan Indictment is an Exercise in Prosecutorial Omission
By CNu at August 23, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , high strangeness , just-us , professional and managerial frauds , Rule of Law
Saturday, August 19, 2017
The American Imperium Losing Control of Its Domestic and Foreign Vassals
By CNu at August 19, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , change , civil war , clampdown , individual sovereignty , individual vs. collective , What Now?
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
A Deep State Charlottesville Ukraine Connection?
By CNu at August 15, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Clintonian Imperative , Deep State , Living Memory , necropolitics , not a good look , Obamamandian Imperative , sum'n not right
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Censorship is for Losers...,
By CNu at August 10, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , civil war , facebook IS evil , feminization , FRANK , Gender , governance , information anarchy , political theatre
Thursday, August 03, 2017
The Success Sequence: Tard Bidnis Masquerading as Public Policy
If you are a long-time observer of the Success Sequence community (like I am), you may have noticed something a little strange about it. Though everyone in this community claims they are interested in the same anti-poverty process, in reality, each publication defines the Success Sequence somewhat differently. And those differences tell you a lot about what actually motivates the folks who push this concept.
- Graduate high school.
- Get a full-time job.
- Get married before having children.
- Wait until at least age 21 to get married.
- Wait until at least age 21 to have children.
- Graduate high school.
- Get a full-time job.
- Get married before having children.
By CNu at August 03, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , doesn't end well , Livestock Management , professional and managerial frauds , Tard Bidnis
Sunday, July 30, 2017
The High Costs of Being Poor in America
By CNu at July 30, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Brookings , doesn't end well , Dystopian Now , Left Behind , What Now?
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Did the Bush-Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White House?
With so much post-election analysis, it is surprising that no one has pointed to the possibility that inequalities in wartime sacrifice might have tipped the election. Put simply:
perhaps the small slice of America that is fighting and dying for the nation’s security is tired of its political leaders ignoring this disproportionate burden.
A new study attributes Donald Trump’s victory last year to communities hit hardest by military casualties and angry about being ignored. These voters, the authors suggest, saw Trump as an “opportunity to express that anger at both political parties.”
The study… found a “significant and meaningful relationship between a community’s rate of military sacrifice and its support for Trump.” The statistical model it used suggested that if Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin had suffered “even a modestly lower casualty rate,” all three could have flipped to Hillary Clinton, making her the president. The study controlled for party identification, comparing Trump’s performance in the communities selected to Mitt Romney’s performance in 2012. It also controlled for other relevant factors, including median family income, college education, race, the percentage of a community that is rural, and even how many veterans there were.
By CNu at July 11, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Collapse Casualties , Collapse Crime , Dystopian Now , Left Behind , necropolitics , Obamamandian Imperative , predatory militarism , psychopathocracy , unspeakable
Friday, June 23, 2017
Jon Ossoff: Nobody Buying Pathetic Democratic Hokum
By CNu at June 23, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Brookings , Cathedral , civil war , FAIL , not a good look , professional and managerial frauds
Sunday, June 04, 2017
When You Establish Who Cannot Be Criticized, You Have Established Who Is Your Ruler
By CNu at June 04, 2017 0 comments
Labels: accountability , Brookings , Clintonian Imperative , cognitive infiltration , Deep State , Dystopian Now , Obamamandian Imperative , Pimphand Strong
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
How Russiagate Began: Because Russia is a Bigger Threat than ISIS
By CNu at May 30, 2017 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , agenda , Brookings , elite , establishment , governance , psychopathocracy , What IT DO Shawty...
Friday, May 05, 2017
American-British Collusion with Nazi Germany
By CNu at May 05, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Deep State , fixyt , hegemony , History's Mysteries , Living Memory , Race and Ethnicity , The Big Lie
Thursday, May 04, 2017
Risk Transferring Interventionists and Their Mental and Moral Defects
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Clinton Tries, Obama Spies, Media Lies, Susan Rice Fries...,
By CNu at April 05, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Clintonian Imperative , Deep State , doesn't end well , Obamamandian Imperative , wikileaks wednesday
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