David is still, in my opinion, the “beautiful voice of the American Resistance”. I wrote about him in 2009, then I interviewed him, then I met him. He still makes me laugh, and cry and hope.
The Saker
“Obama gave a speech, I wrote a song.”
Terrorist In Chief
It’s September 11th and Obama gave a speech
On the War on Terror and its mighty reach
The arm of the law is long and victory will be ours
As long as we cooperate with certain powers
Such as the ones who funded the Islamic State
The Saudis are our allies, of this there’s no debate
The misogynist king will bring us some relief
From the Caliphate – so said the Terrorist-In-Chief
It’s September 11th, listen to the man
Talk about successes in Afghanistan
Still the world’s poorest country, still beneath the yoke
Of the very terrorists whose back he claimed we broke
Now we’re at war with IS in Syria and Iraq
Though we can’t support the main army that’s fighting back
They’re terrorists too, though with a secular belief
So down with Assad! So said the Terrorist-In-Chief
It’s September 11th and there’s someone on the screen
I’m still trying to figure out what he means
The Peshmerga are ours now, we give them air support
While just across the border, lives cut short
By our Turkish allies, also in this fight
As they kill our infantry when they have them in their sights
There are some things not worth mentioning, he’s got to keep it brief
So said the Terrorist-In-Chief
It’s September 11th and I’m hearing every sound
3,200 boots, but they don’t really touch the ground
And all the mercenaries, they don’t really count
These details don’t matter when there’s a campaign to mount
Just listen closely, the White House has it sussed
We’ll protect those refugees, these oil cans won’t rust
No, not Honduran kids – Yazidi ones, good grief
So said the Terrorist-In-Chief
Imagine, what kind logistic is involved in feeding 20,000 ISIS forces on a daily basis!
“Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he’s our fool
If they think they’re better than him they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song”
Shades of Tom Lehrer!! As Pilger said last night, as he gently admonished one member of the audience for speaking of ‘..how we invested so much hope in Obama’, the evil bastard has been an immoral opportunist all his life, and one long ago recruited and financed by the Zionazis who totally control US politics, a situation with few parallels in history.
On September 17, the war criminal Poroshenko, who has killed and continues to bomb thousands of innocent Ukrainians, who is also a mafioso thug, is going to be received and honoured and allowed to address the Canadidan Parliament.
The worst government Canada has ever known is doing this to get the Ukie votes from the prairies. For that reason, no opposition party is going to say anything against Porky the killer. It’s disgusting in the extreme.
Despite the fact that Rovics wrote “Reichstag Fire” which is a 9/11 truth type song, he is not supportive of 9/11 truth (at least not several years ago, don’t know if he’s changed his position recently). I guess his desire to fit in with the lefties made him too scared.
I lost a lot of respect for David Rovics when he started dissing the 9/11 Truth Movement after having previously questioned the official story.
Saker !
David Rovics is wonderful. What a great face he has.
I’m going to look him up right now and see what else he’s got.
The Terrorist in Chief
ROFL!!! How fitting.. To hear this guy makes me cringe. An knowing everything that comes out of that mouth is is a lie just makes me wanna stick an apple in there to shut him up..
Saker !
By the time I look at this thread again it will have 100 or more comments….but I wanted to find out more about what you said about Medyev (Putin’s prime minister)
Why does Putin give him that job, and also, they seemed so close a few years ago…does he accept bribes ?
By the way, ISIS sold their stealed oil to whom? Shipped to where?
There have been a couple of frightening comments about the 5th column in Russia. Are they really that powerful? Maybe someone has more insight into this issue.
best regards
olivier
Come on now- Harper and Petroshenko are brother hyenas separated at birth, from a litter that includes Netanyahoo, Abbott, Cameron, Rasmussen, Kerry etc, etc, etc. And as Brecht said, ‘Watch out-the bitch is in heat again!’.
Check out Jacques Sapir article on Russia and sanctions, and graph 2 on domestic consumption, industrial production, investment etc. in Russia and compare those figures with the West’s; where they have large pluses we have large minuses. So, if I’m +20 and you’re -20 since 2008, that makes a 40% gap.
That’s as good a reason as any for nuking ‘dem pesky Moskals’. Right?
http://russeurope.hypotheses.org/2794
David has an interesting program to get 1000 people – his sustainers – to each give him $50 a year – about a dollar a week – to cover his basic expenses so he can afford to do free concerts at protest rallies and fund-raisers for various worthy causes. I though it was a much better use of my money than most things I donate to (excepting the Saker, of course).
It also entitles you to free, or pre-paid, actually, copies of his latest albums and songs, and free admission to any concert in your area, although I always pay for the concert anyway. Probably most other sustainers do also. After all, we’re there to support David (and whatever cause he’s promoting at the time).
” The US in general and John McCain in particular are playing a duplicitously amoral game of Musical Allies in the region. They lied about Gaddafi, they lied about Syria, they lied about the Muslim Brotherhood, they lied about Al Q-aida, and now they’re lying about ISIS. Dirty tricks are, for all these lunatics, a daily fare. We should stop seeing the flaws in the ISIS videos as fruitcake conspiracy theory, and recognise them for what they are: planned jingoism designed to facilitate further aggression, without any of those namby-pamby legislators getting in the way.”
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/isis-black-ops-john-mccain-and-the-mounting-evidence-of-us-identity-manipulation-in-the-middle-east/
This article is adapted from John Pilger’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture, delivered in Adelaide, Australia, on 11 September 2014.
” On 31 July, the National Defense Panel in Washington published a remarkable document that called for the United States to prepare to fight six major wars simultaneously. At the top of the list were Russia and China – nuclear powers.”
“In one sense, a war against Russia has already begun. While the world watched horrified as Israel assaulted Gaza, similar atrocities in eastern Ukraine were barely news. At the time of writing, two Ukrainian cities of Russian-speaking people – Donetsk and Luhansk – are under siege: their people and hospitals and schools blitzed by a regime in Kiev that came to power in a putsch led by neo-Nazis backed and paid for by the United States. The coup was the climax of what the Russian political observer Sergei Glaziev describes as a 20-year “grooming of Ukrainian Nazis aimed at Russia”. Actual fascism has risen again in Europe and not one European leader has spoken against it, perhaps because the rise of fascism across Europe is now a truth that dares not speak its name.”
” Demon Journalism makes over a fascist-contaminated junta that seized power in Kiev as a respectable “interim government”. Neo-Nazis become mere “nationalists”. “News” sourced to the Kiev junta ensures the suppression of a US-run coup and the junta’s systematic ethnic cleaning of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine. That this should happen in the borderland through which the original Nazis invaded Russia, extinguishing some 22m Russian lives, is of no interest. What matters is a Russian “invasion” of Ukraine that seems difficult to prove beyond familiar satellite images that evoke Colin Powell’s fictional presentation to the United Nations “proving” that Saddam Hussein had WMD. “You need to know that accusations of a major Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine appear not to be supported by reliable intelligence,” wrote a group of former senior US intelligence officials and analysts, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Rather, the ‘intelligence’ seems to be of the same dubious, politically ‘fixed’ kind used 12 years ago to ‘justify’ the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.”
The jargon is “controlling the narrative”. In his seminal Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said was more explicit: the western media machine was now capable of penetrating deep into the consciousness of much of humanity with a “wiring” as influential as that of the imperial navies of the 19th century. Gunboat journalism, in other words. Or war by media.
The false reality created by false news delivered by media gatekeepers may prevent some of us knowing that this new superpower is stirring in country after country: from the Americas to Europe, Asia to Africa. It is a moral insurrection, exemplified by the whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. The question begs: will we break our silence while there is time? “
http://johnpilger.com/articles/breaking-the-last-taboo-gaza-and-the-threat-of-world-war
The Terrorist in Chief ~ I wonder who that could be? bit.ly/1lZy7Gr
Or is the Terrorist ‘n Thief?!?
It’s important to handle 5th column before 2016 when NATO will start hostilities against Russia, the summit in Poland will be probably moved up to Spring. The plan includes current ruling party in Poland (Civic Platform, CP) to yield to the main opposition block (unLaw and inJustice LJ), which is rabidly anti-russian, in 2015 when the parliamentary and presidential elections take place. By early 2016 there will be many events destabilizing Poland, Pribaltica, Romania, Ukraine, (Gladio, cyber attacks, bioweapons, energy disruptions) all blamed on demonized Russia, who has been recently consistently called “aggressor”, by both Obama and Komorowski. It’s very probable that some serious steps are taken to replace Obama with Romney, McCain, Ted Cruz, Hitlary Killton or other more subservient puppet to the Bilderbergers/Commonwealth. The UK will lead the charge instigating hate and fury. They held hundreds of thousands of Polish immigrants hostage by artificially maintaining the living standards in Poland much lower through their loyal puppets the CP and the LJ parties. Perfidious Albion will use again naive Poles to fight the enemies of the Crown to last drop of Polish drop, and the immigrant community will not be able to do anything because “you do not bite the hand that feeds you” and the MI6 handlers of fake Islamic “scholar” Chodhoury can threaten them with jihad against the Polish Catholics (or use the EDL for same purpose).
TBC…
Cont…
Nothing new here in a long history of betrayals, mistreatment, lack of honor in the British-Polish relations: blatant diminishing the crucial role of brilliant Polish mathematicians in cracking the Enigma, in defending the British skies by the brave Polish pilots (read “The Question of Honor”), in cancelling participation of the Polish forces (4th largest among the Allies) in the Victory Parade because of Stalin, in killing general Sikorski in the “accident” in Gibraltar…
The ground is already being staged by shameful speech of the Polish president before Bundestag and fake stories about Gazprom “cutting the gas deliveries” to Poland. Whereas in fact early September Poland _increased_ the demand above the contracted amount. Gazprom refusal to deliver _additional_ supply was announced widely and loudly as another “Russian hostile act” and the stories about scared housewives filled the airwaves – which may be a good thing.
I do not know whom to vote for in the next Canadian election…the opposition parties are so similar to the Harper regime in foreign policy!
– “Resistance is humanity at its bravest and most noble.”
– “The siege of Gaza is a siege of all of us. The denial of justice to Palestinians is a symptom of much of humanity under siege and a warning that the threat of a new world war is growing by the day as immunity for mass murder is sponsored by a godfather in Washington that has answered the cries of children in Gaza with more ammunition to kill them.”
– “The great crime committed in Gaza is a reminder of something wider and menacing to us all.”
******** A remarkable piece by John Pilger ********
“Gaza and the threat of world war”
Part 1: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-120914.html
Part 2: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-03-120914.html
– also talks about situation in Donbass:
“In one sense, a war against Russia has already begun.”
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Saker, have you considered accepting Bitcoin donations? I will send a few Satoshis if you do.
Jc
Babay @Truth_Seeker_11 · 41m
#Lyashko accused #Poroshenko and MoD of hiding losses, says over 8.000 killed #Ukraine soldiers are being hidden
“There have been a couple of frightening comments about the 5th column in Russia. Are they really that powerful? Maybe someone has more insight into this issue.”
Given the marvellous ways Russians seem to have of doing things. Jumping into frozen lakes. Dash-cams everywhere. Coolness in the face of danger. Winning wars! I’d guess the Russian trolling press is at least as venal and cunning as any the West has to offer.
Мэрия Москвы подтвердила согласование шествия оппозиции 21 сентября
http://www.interfax.ru/moscow/396163
On a lighter note…
Barack Obama is dead.
He has been staying in Paradise for the last 10 years, and begins to feel a tad bored.
So he decides to ask God for a small favor: “I would like to go and see how is my country, how are my fellow Americans. Please send me to Earth for a short time”
The Lord answers: “OK, I’m sending you to New York for one day. Use it wisely”
Barack Obama finds himself in Central Park. Everything looks normal. He wants to feel the mood of the country, and decides to visit a bar.
Entering the nearest bar, he orders a beer. On this morning, the bar is nearly empty, so he begins speaking with the barman:
– So… what do you think of the present situation of the country?
– Present situation? Well… everything is fine… we are the Great Global Empire, the whole world is ours
– What??? But what about Iraq… Afghanistan?
– Why, they’re ours
– But… and Europe? Africa? The Middle-East?
– They’re ours too
The barman brings a terrestrial globe and shows Obama… everything is the same color. Name is written: “Great Global Empire”
Obama is astonished… He finishes his beer and asks the barman:
– How much do I owe you?
– 2 roubles 15 kopecks, please
Baboo here, Red alert on the hat4uk. John Ward is a card carrying Zio shrill holohoaxer.
Mulga,
Thank you so much for everything you’ve written lately; you’ve been on a real roll and it’s been great to read! I’ve not only enjoyed every word of it but learned a lot too, and sure do envy you having gone to that talk.
But you may be reasoning ex post facto in assuming that bc these monsters are running the show right now, their hate, fear and psychopathy are necessarily adaptive. Scarily enough, we may be well en route to proving rather conclusively — i.e., permanently — that they are not.
A lot of people confound Spenser’s Social Darwinism (developed of course to support the usual suspects) with what Darwin actually set forth, so old Charles’ thinking has gotten just as distorted to support TPTB as Adam Smith — who, miracle of miracles, was actually in favor of smart gov’t regulation.
And Spenser’s acolytes have simply combined “the invisible hand of the market” with a total misinterpretation of Darwin, and then via the miracle of modern marketing managed to implant the result in our brains where the phrase “Divinely Ordained” used to live.
In any case, we’ve already got ample evidence that it’s not just cream that rises to the top.
There was an important article published in the Guardian newspaper today which I feel is of great importance in what is currently happening in Ukraine and the EU politicians behaviour which is completely incomprehensible and devoid of all logic and common sense.
The EU has imposed further sanctions against the RF in tandem with America who today also announced further sanctions.
The article in the Guardian refers to a group of Israeli intelligence officers who have refused to serve in occupied Palestinian territory because of the scope of intelligence being gathered on ordinary Palestinians (ring any bells ?). These intelligence officers work for israels equivalent of the NSA or GCHQ and the following is an excerpt from the article :
“Accompanying the letter – published in the Israeli media on Friday, and organised several months before the recent Gaza war – are a series of testimonies provided by the signatories to Yedioth Ahronoth and shared with the Guardian.
A common complaint, made in both the testimonies and in interviews given by some of the signatories, including to the Guardian this week, is that some of the activities the soldiers were asked to engage in had more in common with the intelligence services of oppressive regimes than of a democracy.
Among allegations made in the statements are that:
• A significant proportion of the unit’s Palestinian objectives “are innocent people unconnected to any military activity. They interest the unit for other reasons, usually without having the slightest idea that they’re intelligence targets.” According to the testimonies those targets were not treated any differently from terrorists.
• Personnel were instructed to keep any damaging details of Palestinians’ lives they came across, including information on sexual preferences, infidelities, financial problems or family illnesses that could be “used to extort/blackmail the person and turn them into a collaborator”.
• Former members claim some intelligence gathered by the unit was not collected in the service of the Israeli state but in pursuit of the “agendas” of individual Israeli politicians. In one incident, for which no details have been provided, one signatory recalls: “Regarding one project in particular, many of us were shocked as we were exposed to it. Clearly it was not something we as soldiers were supposed to do. The information was almost directly transferred to political players and not to other sections of the security system.”
Now we know for a fact how the NSA and the GCHQ also operate because all the western “intelligence” agencies all read and operate from the same manual. This lends credence to my theory that the EU donkeys are being blackmailed by uncle sam as nothing else makes sense to explain their current behaviour.
A German newspaper has reported today that Germany has already lost 3 billion euros in trade with Russia over the first 6 months of this year because of already existing sanctions and here they are piling on still more sanctions, does this make any sense to a rational thinking person ? And lets not also forget that while political parties in office may come and go the essential infrastructure of governance rarely changes. It is still the same senior civil servants in office and running things and very often have a lot of skeletons in the closet. It is my heartfelt conviction that America has got the goods on practically all the EU political hierarchy and these people no longer represent either their countries or their own people and are all traitors.
Putin goes everything loose.Since Odessa he plays ‘low profile’, treating Western gangsters’my dear friends’,’my dear partners’ etc … result: at least 3,000 people (innocent civilians+ NAF, tens of billions of infra destroyed, a million refugees in Russia,three levels of sanctions activated, a ceasefire which is a ridiculous capitulation and announces new deaths of innocent people and a probable defeat.Nato will be in full drills mode in Ukraine as of next monday, the MH 17, a deficit of communication.The EU Kiev deal,8 billions euros more today for the Junta.12 billion dollars unpaid to gazprom.The Empire only respects STRONG heads of state, not weak ones. There is no diplomacy possible with them,let alone Nazis and their sponsors.When we see the ridiculous counter sanctions of today (used cars, some textiles) .They unfortunately have to laugh at BXL and Washington.And it was predictable with the weak approach, the fifth column waiting his time as Strelkov rightly said yesterday, will come into action in one week with massive meeting in Moscow.The worse, they know it and allow it, it’s like allowing the Maidan. Everything funded by the US ambassador, arrived there in August precisely in this goal.They can not say they were not advised.People of NR betrayed and now the Russian patriots who are going to be betrayed as well.We believed in Putin as the last holdout to the Empire,we also have been betrayed.The BRICS will soon be over.Banksters,plutocrats, Eurocrats,neocons,presstitude,it is a triumph for them…very sad,so many scrifices for nothing but Crimea and for how long?
Another important September 11 that started a movemnt that was able to bring down colonialism and aracism, a movement that will live longer than US presidents and their allies:
Long live the Muslim social innovation of modern collective non-violence 11th of September 1906!
It is time to put yet another sep 11 behind us. The day 1906 on which the Muslim Hajee Habib inspired the political strategy that became known as “Satyagraha”, the collective struggle with nonviolent resistance. The idea got strong support by Gandhi and the 3000 participants at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg. The big meeting was made possible much thanks to the Muslim Hamidiya Society.
From South African History online:
When Mr. Hajee Habib rose to speak, the audience greeted him with cheers. His speech was so caustic and impassioned that even those who did not know Gujarati said they could follow its purport. Now and then, Mr. Hajee Habib used English anecdotes. The audience was greatly roused by his speech of which the following is a summary:
The fourth resolution is the most important of all. Everything depends upon it. There is no disgrace in going to gaol; rather it is an honour. Only a few people knew of Mr. Tilak before he went to gaol; today the whole world knows him. We are not going to get justice at the hands of the British Government. It kills us with sweet words; we should not be deceived. They offer us sympathy, but we ask for justice, not sympathy. The British are ever willing to advise others. They are always ready to appease the Christian people. Take the case of Turkey. The British do not hesitate to bully Turkey, and that not in order to secure the interests of their own subjects. Again in this country, the doors are open to the whites and Christians, even if they were foreign nationals. In their view, the whites are descended from Heaven and we, they think, have come from the other place. This Bill is most objectionable. If it is passed, I solemnly declare that I will never get myself registered again and will be the first to go to gaol. [Applause] I recommend the same course to you all. Are you all prepared to take the oath? [The Assembly stood up to a man and said, ‘Yes, we will go to gaol!’] Only by so doing shall we succeed. We tried this method in the days of the Boer Government also. Some 40 of our men were once arrested for trading without licences. I advised them to go to gaol and not to seek release on bail. Accordingly, they all remained there without offering bail. I immediately approached the British Agent, who approved of our action and ultimately secured justice for us. Now that British Government is in power, the time has come for us to go to gaol, and go we will.
As he repeated the last phrase thrice, the meeting greeted his resolve with applause.
RESOLUTION IV
Should the Legislative Council, the local and the Imperial Governments reject the humble prayer of the Indian community against the Asiatic Ordinance, every Indian present at this meeting solemnly and sincerely resolves that, rather than submit to this tyrannical law and abide by its un-British provisions, he will prefer to go to gaol and will continue to do so until it pleases His Majesty the King-Emperor to grant relief.
Obama is a piece of shit,
There’s no getting away from it!
Americans are scum to be ruled by such dung.
Obama is a piece of shit!
Greetings @Saker et @Everyone:
We would like to issue an appeal, especially from those within the former Nation of Canada, since many here know how closely aligned the Harper Regime is with the war-mongering zioneocon tribe and their unrestrained support for the Kiev junta and NuttyYahoo.
We are buried within a sea of data and info related to many other shenanigans that have been rather detrimental to not only our sovereignty but that of others as well. This has taken more time than expected but the latest announcement that Porky will be speaking to our Parliament next week has us rather concerned and we feel we must reach out far and wide to take a public stand against this for obvious reasons.
What we require is someone that can actually put together a more professional press release that can appeal to the hearts and minds of the propagandized citizenry.
While we would of coarse like to publish or republish and share this, we feel the seed need to be planted and it needs to be done quickly to get the ball rollin’.
Our proposal is to inspire a massive rally in Ottawa (and other CDN cities if possible) against Porky’s appearance in order to fire a shot across the bow of the Harper Regime and the Opposition.
We want them to understand that we are opposed to supporting the ongoing neoziocon perpetrated oppression, violence and provocations globally.
As of this time,.we have floated the hashtag “CdnATO” which is short form for “Canadian Anti Terrorist Operation”.
We do know based on previous experience with the Regime, Harper’s ego will surely stoke and seek a massive media presence for this so if a mass organic peoples rally were to form, it would be noticed. If they attempt to utilize Police State tactics to suppress the right to protest like they did at the G8/G20 in Toronto, the emperor would have no cloths and be exposed as the whole world would be watching.
This may be just the right time to take a united stand against globalist fascists, eh?
DumpHarper!
https://dumpharper.wordpress.com
with some production we’d have another Dylan
Despite the fact that Rovics wrote “Reichstag Fire” which is a 9/11 truth type song, he is not supportive of 9/11 truth (at least not several years ago, don’t know if he’s changed his position recently). I guess his desire to fit in with the lefties made him too scared.
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I asked Rovics about this too and he openly derided any whiff of conspiracy.
Like other professional lefties you lose access and gigs by speaking out on 9/11. Career preservation over asking the third rail unaskable
Exactly as is expected according to Marcuse’s repressive tolerance
The book consists of three papers, “Beyond Tolerance” by Wolff, “Tolerance and the Scientific Outlook” by Moore, and “Repressive Tolerance” by Marcuse. In his contribution, Marcuse argues that the ideal of tolerance belongs to a liberal, democratic tradition that has become exhausted. Liberal society is based on a form of domination so subtle that the majority accept and even will their servitude. Marcuse believes that under such conditions tolerance as traditionally understood serves the cause of domination and that a new kind of tolerance is therefore needed: tolerance of the Left, subversion, and revolutionary violence, combined with intolerance of the Right, existing institutions, and opposition to socialism.[1]
Despite the fact that Rovics wrote “Reichstag Fire” which is a 9/11 truth type song, he is not supportive of 9/11 truth (at least not several years ago, don’t know if he’s changed his position recently). I guess his desire to fit in with the lefties made him too scared.
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I asked Rovics about this too and he openly derided any whiff of conspiracy.
Like other professional lefties you lose access and gigs by speaking out on 9/11. Career preservation over asking the third rail unaskable
Exactly as is expected according to Marcuse’s repressive tolerance
The book consists of three papers, “Beyond Tolerance” by Wolff, “Tolerance and the Scientific Outlook” by Moore, and “Repressive Tolerance” by Marcuse. In his contribution, Marcuse argues that the ideal of tolerance belongs to a liberal, democratic tradition that has become exhausted. Liberal society is based on a form of domination so subtle that the majority accept and even will their servitude. Marcuse believes that under such conditions tolerance as traditionally understood serves the cause of domination and that a new kind of tolerance is therefore needed: tolerance of the Left, subversion, and revolutionary violence, combined with intolerance of the Right, existing institutions, and opposition to socialism.[1]
Mulga,
Thank you so much for everything you’ve written lately; you’ve been on a real roll and it’s been great to read! I’ve not only enjoyed every word of it but learned a lot too, and sure do envy you having gone to that talk.
But you may be reasoning ex post facto in assuming that bc these monsters are running the show right now, their hate, fear and psychopathy are necessarily adaptive. Scarily enough, we may be well en route to proving rather conclusively — i.e., permanently — that they are not.
A lot of people confound Spenser’s Social Darwinism (developed of course to support the usual suspects) with what Darwin actually set forth, so old Charles’ thinking has gotten just as distorted to support TPTB as Adam Smith — who, miracle of miracles, was actually in favor of smart gov’t regulation.
And Spenser’s acolytes have simply combined “the invisible hand of the market” with a total misinterpretation of Darwin, and then via the miracle of modern marketing managed to implant the result in our brains where the phrase “Divinely Ordained” used to live.
In any case, we’ve already got ample evidence that it’s not just cream that rises to the top.
Thanks, Nora. I’m afraid that my recent productivity results from twisting my ankle and not being able to either go to work or garden. Both Spencer and Smith have been seriously abused and exploited by the Right, taking parts of their writings out of context and ignoring vast areas of their thought that do not suit their very narrow agendas. Spencer opposed the private ownership of land, slavery, military aggression, imperialism and was for childs’ right and trade unions, unlike, I would say, many of the Rightwing invertebrates who invoke his name today. Darwin’s theories were abused by those seeking to justify their wealth and privilege, gained by theft and murder. In fact the land distribution in the UK has changed little since Norman times, only, perhaps, becoming more concentrated and falling in places into new oligarchs’ hands.
Thanks, Nora. I’m afraid that my recent productivity results from twisting my ankle and not being able to either go to work or garden. Both Spencer and Smith have been seriously abused and exploited by the Right, taking parts of their writings out of context and ignoring vast areas of their thought that do not suit their very narrow agendas. Spencer opposed the private ownership of land, slavery, military aggression, imperialism and was for childs’ right and trade unions, unlike, I would say, many of the Rightwing invertebrates who invoke his name today. Darwin’s theories were abused by those seeking to justify their wealth and privilege, gained by theft and murder. In fact the land distribution in the UK has changed little since Norman times, only, perhaps, becoming more concentrated and falling in places into new oligarchs’ hands.
know the truth, I had not seen your excellent comment when I posted a much abbreviated version of this revelation. The Israelis control much of the world’s communications and the moves by Euroland to abandon the Palestinians and grovel to the ‘Treasured Nation’ did not surprise me at all. Money doesn’t ‘talk’- it yells, and a bit of blackmail helps with recalcitrants, after which they call in the ‘Kidon’. All ‘Standard Operating Procedures’ for three millennia.
Mulga,
You’re more than welcome! :~) Also, I totally understand your productivity issues: easy to gauge how bad my back is by the number of posts I make!
@Anunnaki
I agree part of it is definitely career preservation. The professional lefties fear losing “credibility” if they support things like 9/11 truth. The vast majority are dismissive of any conspiracy regarding JFK as well.
The left already has “intolerance of the Right, existing institutions, and opposition to socialism”, so I don’t really think that is the problem.
One big problem with leftist ideology is that they incorrectly believe that single persons don’t make a difference. Which is partly why they discount assasinations (like JFKs) as being unimportant, or at least they use that as an excuse not to look into the matter.
Another problem is that most are anti-religion, so that it suits their biases and prejudices to pin the blame of 9/11 on Muslims.
Anonymous 02:59,
Please provide real data to support your allegations. I’m relatively certain I’ve known a whole lot more “lefties” than you and I disagree very strongly with just about everything you’ve said here, up to and including your absurd allegations about leftish ideology.
IOW, you’re just repeating what you’ve been told and haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about.
Try some facts please. I’m no leftist but your ignorant assertions demonstrate a lot of why they hold so many people on the right in utter contempt.
If you like Rovics you might also like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
@Nora
Which allegations do you want me to provide facts for?
We can proceed in a step by step manner.
BTW, you are unaware that many professional lefties are anti-religion? Many are Marxists and subscribe to the “opiate of the people” view of religion.