Showing posts with label Backlash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backlash. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States:
Praise Allah, for soon every American city shall be plagued with disaster and hardship,” al-Zawahiri said in the video, which includes several minutes of footage of young, masked al-Qaeda militants casually sipping beverages as they thumb through the latest issues of Time and U.S. News And World Report. “The infidels have brought this pain and destruction upon themselves through their arrogance and callousness. Soon, the United States will watch in horror as its bridges crumble, its desperate citizens suffer in want of medicine and paying employment, and its once vast riches are reduced to naught. The righteous warriors among our ranks must now unite, get comfortable, and look on from afar at the calamity unfolding in the West.”

“We vow that we will not cease sitting around and laughing it up until America is reduced to rubble,” he continued.
We have met the enemy, and it is us.

2 Questions:
  • Why is The Onion now a source of real commentary?
  • Why is no one else saying the obvious?

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

("They ain't seen nutin' yet!")

Paul Craig Roberts:
Historically, the definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. Serfs were not free, because they owed their feudal lords, the government of that time, a maximum of one-third of their labor. Nineteenth century slaves were not free, because their owners could expropriate 50 per cent of their labor.

Today, no American is a free person. The lowest tax rate, not counting state income, property tax and sales tax, is 15 per cent Social Security tax and 15 per cent federal income tax. The “free American” starts off with a 30 per cent tax rate, the position of a medieval serf.

In medieval Europe, when tax rates reached beyond 30 per cent, serfs rebelled and killed their masters.
And it's even worse when they are unemployed. The proverbial line has been crossed. Obviously, the idiots in power don't get when they've gone too far. Obama has shown himself no different than Bush. Both want to sell out the future so bankers can enjoy another multimillion dollar bonus while running the financial system into the ground. What I find truly amazing is, when called on it, they whine about persecution. ("They ain't seen nutin' yet!")

Saturday, February 10, 2007

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Six.9.14

9l. Self destruction should be limited to oneself. A suicidal death trip should be a personal affair. Anything else lacks respectability and deserves the inevitable Backlash. Unfortunately, the broken shards never seem to touch those most deserving. Anyone one bringing down such destruction is no less or more an enemy than the perpetrators. Know thine enemies.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

On ThisModern Warrior Archetype Part Six.9.13

9k. The embrace of Maximum Advantage ensures the self-inflicted inability to halt anything in motion. The political leadership has nullified itself through its complete reliance on inertia. The Technical Morality requires basic efficiency in everything, and applies itself. Like dogs, its multiple systemic products are conditioned to salivate on demand. Power and money are intoxicating, but not mutually inclusive. Cocooned, the inner circles easily forget which is respected and which is reviled. Too many tap dance on their own graves.

Monday, December 04, 2006

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Six.8.19

8u. Popular culture is easily portrayed as the will of the people. They consume it, so they must want it. In actuality, in almost all cases, it is a reflection of the media. It’s on, so it is watched. History and real culture are inconveniences to the machine. Popular culture may be used as a substitute, and as a means to facilitate forgetting. By distracting the herd through meaningless diversion, the past is effectively eliminated. Of course, by doing so, as witnessed from time to time, terrible Backlash may be provoked. Massive destruction is seen as the surest means to ending the chatter. Not everyone lies down and passively swallows decadence.