The Old Hippie's Groovy Blog: August 2009

Wake-Up! (Oops... Too Late.)

Ahh... Reality... Obviously Is Something You Know Little About.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

Bernanke Helped Cause the Economic Crisis, So Re-Appoint Him?!?
Growth of Ocean ‘Garbage Patch’ Alarms Experts - A definite “Too Late.”
3 Banks: ~1/3 Of Deposits, 1/2 Of Mortgages, 2/3 Of Credit Cards.
5 Corporations: Control Almost 100% Of All American Media.
Closing In on the Torturers - Okay, it’s never “Too Late” for this.
Guess Who Gets Hurt Most By “Climate Change?”
Not Only Is This Illegal and Immoral, It’s Stupid.

Note This: $1 of every $700 spent on healthcare in America... Goes to just 1 Man.

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Nothing Else - The above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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R-i-g-h-t. . .

Ahh... Reality... Obviously Is Something You Know Little About.
Because Reality, As Defined By The Thieves, Is Your Reality Now.

There Are More Slaves Today Than At Any
Time In Human History - Alternet.org

This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery - Truthdig.com

CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney’s Claims - WashintonIndependent.com

“Unauthorized, Improvised, Inhumane” Key points on the torture report. - CommonDreams.org

“Well, Stick A Power Drill In My Head:” UPDATED - CrooksAndLiars.com

ACLU Obtains Detailed Official Record Of CIA Torture Program - ACLU.org

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Nothing else at this time, the above links should keep you busy for awhile - Right?

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(s-i-g-h...)

It Continues To be Allowed To Get Worse Yet, And Still, You Allow...
by The Old Hippie Because Seeing Truth Didn’t Help, Nor The Resultant Pain Of The Truth.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

I keep hoping Obama will prove my growing doubts wrong, but it seems to only keep going the other way. I voted for him, and would again, given the same choices we had been allowed to have when the election came around. . . But his continual caving to the corporations, and the carrying on of the previous bad polices of the previous administration’s wars, the non-investigation of obvious crimes, including war crimes, environmental crimes, and Constitutional destructions, all for profits of wealth and power to so very few, by those same leaders, cohorts and cronies, that destroyed our nation's once powerful reality of hope to the rest of the world - And brought America to its economic knees. It is not acceptable.

The “allowing” must be stopped.

The following two articles give a very good perspective to what we are all facing, particularly we who elected this current administration, an administration that is fast proving to be one of false hope, and no change after all.

Obama’s Trust Problem - Paul Krugman

Has Obama Lost the Trust of Progressives, as Krugman Says - Glenn Greenwald

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned... I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists. I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself. All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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Best Article Of The Week...

It’s A Blunt Discussion Between Two Of The Best Minds We Have.
by George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth Concerning What’s Coming.

Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short discussion. I personally think they are both correct, and both wrong, at the same time. (Just like in Logic-101; “The next sentence is a lie. The previous sentence is true.”)

It is the reality that is being “allowed” to continue to progress, behind the fogging white noise of all of the political yelling, from all sides, about the much more trivial aspects of all of our lives, as the extremely-very-few, who are now wealthy far beyond your ability to comprehend, are “allowed,” by you, to continue to gather even more protective wealth, to “protect” them from... us, and from the coming multi-leveled crisis of the long fall of current human industrial culture - That we are all guilty of “allowing” to happen in the face of glaring undeniable evidence, and denied warnings.

The simple complexity of the complex simplicity is beyond most Americans.

The problem with the stupid and ignorant among us is that while they “proudly and patriotically,” allow their own self-destruction by fighting among themselves as they were programmed to do, is that they are destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives... They are destroying us all.

Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant. Or stupidly pay the price.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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Gotta Love Keith. . .

He Nails “Them” Once Again With His Unique Special Comment...
by Keith Olbermann -

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Reprised because I hope at least a few of the morons see this, and maybe actually wakes up.

Of course, since the morons of our nation do not bother to believe anyone but Fox, or their
con-artist mega-church preachers, or their sociopathic propagandist collaborating profiteers,
e.g. Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Dobbs, et al, they’ll never watch this. They
will continue to allow their own (manipulated) self-destruction, claiming anyone who disagrees with them, by being so rude as to smack them in the face with the documented proof of their ignorance. . . is a stupid far-left elitist.

The problem with the morons proudly, patriotically, allowing of their own self-destruction, is
that it is destroying much more than just their environment, their livelihoods, their lives...

It is destroying us all. Ignorance is curable, stupidity is forever.

Fight the stupid - Educate the ignorant. Or stupidly pay the price.

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Ahh... Fascism. . .

The Denial, And Ignoring, Of Our Growing Fascism Is Deadly Stupid.
Because The “Allowing” Has Not Been “Allowed” to be Stopped - I Fear That, More Than Them.

This is Not the Country That We Should Be Proud of Right Now.
The Threat Is Real: Right-Wing Rage ~~Could~~ Will Turn Deadly
Olbermann Unmasks Saboteurs Behind Phony Protests.
We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat.
“Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican”
Teabagging: The Next Chapter
The Attack of the Useful Idiots

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A “Below The Fold” video bonus... Enjoy...

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Those That Are. . .

Telling It Like It Is In Reality, Not As We Hope It is.
Because, Quite Often, The Exposed Reality spotlights Hope’s Dangerous Delusions.

- The 'Tea Party' Nexus:
...empowering far-right extremists who want a new civil war.
...business and conservative interests are ginning up these protests,
but they're doing so by empowering the extremists from the fringe.

- Red-Baiting and Racism
a key point has been missed, and it’s this point that best explains
what the red-baiting is really about. It’s not socialism or capitalism.

- ‘Evil and Orwellian’
America's Right Turns Its Fire on the National Health Service.

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A“Below The Fold” bonus - “Your Moment of Zen” video of the Week...
From the most astute folks at Truthdig.com, and GRIT tv...
[Reprised for those that missed it the first time.]

Watch and Enjoy. . .
“Is the unflagging popularity of reality television a sign of the entertainment industry’s relentless reliance on producing fodder for the lowest common denominator—or a symptom, as Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges argues in this clip from “GRITtv With Laura Flanders,” of a society in serious moral decline?”

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Best Article Of The Week...

This One Nails Us. It’s Blunt, And Accurate.
by Chris Hedges Concerning How Nader, et al Were Correct.

Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

It is seriously well worth one’s time to read this short article.

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It’s not long - Just link to it, and enjoy your reality... bluntly exposed.

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We Do Deserve What Is Coming...

Because Of All The “Allowing” You’ve “Allowed,” ... Still “Allow”
- It Is Coming - It Is Already Getting Ugly From The Effects/Affects Of The “Allowing.”

Unions Receive Increasingly Scary Threats Of Violence For Town Hall Participation.

Is Obama Punking Us? ...as the president put it, the system is in hock to “the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few” who have “run Washington far too long.”

We’re Breaking Records for Long-Term Unemployment. It’s Worse Than They Admit.

U.S. Still Paying Blackwater Millions - Still Being “Allowed.” -

Seven New US Military Bases in Colombia Is Hardly a Move to the Left

The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

Militarizing the Homeland - “It might sound crazy to anyone who is not a veteran.”

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- Just for the memories - From the archives -

Neff

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(s-i-g-h...)

It Continues To be Allowed To Get Worse Yet, And Still, You Allow...
by The Old Hippie Because Seeing Truth Didn’t Help, Nor The Resultant Pain Of The Truth.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

The violence by the programmed... begins. The third stag of the historically well documented transition of a democratic nation into a fascist state has been realized. History has repeatedly shown, proven, that once a nation allows itself to descend into this stage, it is almost impossible to stop the transition of the final two stages. (To understand the five stages better, here is good starting link.)

When they can not win by reason, when they are smacked down at the voting booths, by their own nations citizens, (even after they openly corrupted the voting process itself,) they refuse the loss, they embrace the most violent radical fringes of their base to “survive” - It has happened many times in history, and it is happening now. . . in this nation.

“The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of Liberal excess during the past years.”

— Adolph Hitler - Taken from The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1,
Michael Hakeem, Ph.D. (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 871-872.

“Have a nice day. :-)”

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The following is reprised, because not much has really changed as far as the ongoing denial of the insane “allowing” of the theft by the-very-few is concerned... I will continue to reprise this... as long as the 'citizens' of my nation continue to “allow the allowing.”

It, the insanity, of the “allowing,” is getting worse, in fact it is much worse already.

Go look at all of the MSM’s headlines, at their websites, then compare what you see there with the reality as rationally reported by reality based independent news sites.

If that simple comparison doesn’t open ones closed eyes of denial, nothing will.

To help you remain sane, and not too deeply depressed, you should end your “session of reality” by stopping in at some of the better editorial humorists’ websites - It couldn’t hurt.

That is my main personal method of doing research for this blog - Check in with the right and the right’s insane, then study as much of the reality-based news sites as possible, then check in with the humorists. I then sleep on it, do it again, and then post what I have learned, observed, or was stunned by, to first, share it, and second, to get it off my chest so that I can remain sane myself. All the while, trying my best to keep a reality-based perspective in these historically insane times.

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