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“Terror Hype” vs The Corporate State: Why we so messed!

Friends, penned some thoughts today:

“Terror Hype” vs The Corporate State: Why we so messed!

Woke up to this nausea this morning: (CNN)A Montana pipeline burst sent as much as 50,400 gallons of oil gushing into the Yellowstone River, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/20/us/yellowstone-river-spill/index.html  

It cannot be viewed outside of the context of the mainstream media/government hype over the ongoing “War on Terror” that the Bush administration under the skilled guidance of Cheney/Rumsfield started and the Neo Cons 2.0 continued on through the Obama experience.

Recently, we had the criminal mass-murder in Paris and the Belgian government’s pre-emptive move against other criminal would be murderers in that nation. Not to be outdone, CNN, Fox and their peers bloviate endlessly about the “homegrown”, “lone wolf” , “Domestic Terror Threat” represented by a couple of unconnected mentally ill, would be instruments of death who were aided and abetted in their fantasy world by the FBI. Look at all your neighbors closely now people, the end is coming soon in a puff of nail filled smoke and hail of automatic gunfire. Look even closer if they worship differently than you do.

In the mean-time, think how much more exponentially, how much more vastly panicked the nation (and western society) would be if “terrorists” has deliberately poisoned the drinking water of millions upon millions of American citizens in hundreds, if not thousands of towns and cities. Can you imagine the media frenzy, the posturing in congress and what the State of The Union Speech would look and sound like? Can you come to grips with the spectre of “ terror” we would all live under in The West. Think of it, a “soft target" like a river being struck in such a way as to affect millions upon millions of peace loving, innocent souls.

Well gang, it just happened. You see, the Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River which then flows into the Mississippi River at St. Louis. From there it flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Get a map and look at who draws their drinking water from below this spill. Understand that petrochemicals are not filtered very well if at all by municipal water systems. Are there acceptable levels of bitumen oil for you and I to ingest? Fish and animals, ecosystems...meah.

Now this was an accident. It was a failure of engineering I suppose. A calculated risk gone bad and a minor byline in the press compared to the afformentioned simpletons the FBI groomed into a case they could prosecute. This begs the question, what would the outcry be like if 50 400 gallons of toxic waste were deliberately and criminally introduced into the drinking water of millions and done so with the excuse that God, Allah or some other deity demanded it be so to avenge wrongs real or perceived?

Imagine the new restrictions on civil liberties and militarization of the state to “protect us” from “Evil”. What new Patriot Act? What new war abroad to eliminate “Terror”….let your mind wander.

Well, a corporation enabled by laws passed by politicians who were lobbied by former politicians turned lobbiests payed for by big money did this. It was an accident and they will do better next time. Keystone or Enbridge anyone?

Of note: “This isn't the first major oil spill into the Yellowstone River -- the longest un-dammed river in the United States. In 2011, up to 42,000 gallons poured out of a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline.”

Goodbye 2014 Hello 2015

2014  you were surely a mixed-bag of life.  Bottom line however, is that you were survived and 2015 is front and center.

Project 2015

Gonna try and flip the accrued bad and feed the accrued good.   The difference between the majors and the minors is one hit per 10 in baseball.   Gotta tighten life's three round shot group.  Gotta try.

Racer Steven (son)

21 December, 2014

Hits A Place

Oh Club Lupus

Where For Art Thou?

Existential Confliction

High and Low
Near and Far
Rags and Tatters
Must Drive On

Shelter Eludes
Reflections Stick
There Is No Floor
And Looking Up
There Is No Horizon

Measure Up
Do Right
Yeah Right
"Biology Prevails"
"The Wrong Side of Heaven
The Righteous Side of Hell"

With No Gravity
Must Your Legs Be Strong?
Oscillate, Variate
With No Center
Tell Me, Tell Me
The Rigid Frontiers
Obfuscate
|Borders of Right and Wrong

Growing Hurts
We Cry At Birth
Hurting Hurts
When We Choose
When We Move
There Are Ripples In The Pond
We Can Never Still
Or Take Back
It Will Never Be The Same Again

The River Flows
Am No Stick
I Can Swim

I Can Aim For One Shore
Or The Other
Or So They Say

When You Get To Your Chosen Bank
All You Can Do
Is Watch The Current
Dry Up
Stay Still
Observe, Paint and Prognosticate
Til You Grow Old
And Forget
What It Was
To Swim

If You Stay In The Flow
Keep It In The Middle They Say
Middle Is A Riddle
For The River Never Flows Straight
The Banks Are Curved
And You Could Be Washed Upon
An Alien Shore

So Choose Wisely If You Should Swim
Take A Deep Breath
Look For The Horizon
Anticipate and Pull

With Your Feet Off The Ground
The Horizon You Figure In Sight

Child You Don't See

The Waterfall

Cannot See The Real Beginning
I Know I Don't Know You
My River
And I Don't Know
To Whence
I Might Flow

Like The Water
Like The Feel

The Question Doth Arise

Is Considered Ignorance

Bliss....

Chris Hedges On What Obama Really Wanted To Say in 2014 State Of The Union

 

 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_obama_really_meant_was_20140119

 

 

Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence (if he had told the truth) Department of Injustice
Washington, D.C.
11:15 a.m. EST

THE PRESIDENT: A small, secret surveillance committee of goons and thugs hiding behind the mask of patriotism was established in 1908 in Washington, D.C. The group was led from 1924 until 1972 by J. Edgar Hoover, and during his reign it became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI agents spied upon and infiltrated labor unions, political parties, radical groups—especially those led by African-Americans—anti-war groups and the civil rights movement in order to discredit anyone, including politicians such as Henry Wallace, who questioned the power of the state and big business. Agents burglarized homes and offices, illegally opened mail and planted unlawful wiretaps. Bureau leaders created blacklists. They destroyed careers and sometimes lives. They demanded loyalty oaths. By the time they were done, our progressive and radical movements, which had given us the middle class and opened up our political system, were dead. And while the FBI was targeting internal dissidents, our foreign intelligence operatives were overthrowing regimes, bankrolling some of the most vicious dictators on the planet and carrying out assassinations in numerous countries, such as Cuba and the Philippines and later Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Chile, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Throughout American history, intelligence services often did little more than advance and protect corporate profits and solidify state repression and imperialist expansion. War, for big business, has always been very lucrative and used as an excuse to curtail basic liberties and crush popular movements. “Inter arma silent leges,” as Cicero said, or “During war, the laws are silent.” In the Civil War, during which the North and the South suspended the writ of habeas corpus and up to 750,000 soldiers died in the slaughter, Union intelligence worked alongside Northern war profiteers who sold cardboard shoes to the Army as the spy services went about the business of ruthlessly hunting down deserters. The First World War, which gave us the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act and saw President Woodrow Wilson throw populists and socialists, including Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, into prison, produced $28.5 billion in net profits for businesses and created 22,000 new millionaires. Wall Street banks, which lent $2.5 billion to nations allied with the United States, made sure Wilson sent U.S. forces into the senseless trench warfare so they would be repaid. World War II—which consumed more than 50 million lives and saw 110,000 Japanese-Americans hauled away to internment camps and atomic bombs dropped on defenseless civilians—doubled wartime corporate profits from the First World War. Why disarm when there was so much money to be made from stoking fear?
 

The rise of the Iron Curtain and nuclear weapons provided the justification by big business for sustaining a massive arms industry, for a huge expansion of our surveillance capabilities and for more draconian assaults against workers and radicals. The production of weapons was about profits rather than logic. We would go on to produce more than 70,000 nuclear bombs or warheads at a cost of $5.5 trillion, enough weapons to obliterate every Soviet city several times over. And in the early days of the Cold War, with Hoover and Joe McCarthy and his henchmen blacklisting anyone with a conscience in government, the arts, journalism, labor unions or education, President Harry S. Truman created the National Security Agency, or NSA.

Throughout this evolution, Americans were steadily shorn of their most basic constitutional rights and their traditions of limited government. U.S. intelligence agencies were always anchored in a system of secrecy—with little effective oversight from either elected leaders or ordinary citizens. Meanwhile, totalitarian states like East Germany offered a sterling example of what our corporate masters might achieve with pervasive, unchecked surveillance that turned citizens into informers and persecuted people for what they said in the privacy of their homes. Today I would like to thank the architects of this East German system, especially Erich Mielke, once the chief of the communist East German secret police. I want to assure them that the NSA has gone on to perfect what the Stasi began.......(continue to link for further reading)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_obama_really_meant_was_20140119

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