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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 06:20 PM
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Global Eye - The Big Fix - By Chris Floyd
Let's face the facts. The game is over and we -- the "reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning -- have lost. The better world we thought had been won out of the blood and horror of history -- a realm of enlightenment that often found its best embodiment in the ideals and aspirations of the American Republic -- is gone. It's been swallowed by darkness, by ravening greed, by bestial spirits and by willful primitives who now possess overwhelming instruments of power and dominion.

A gang of such spirits seized control of the U.S. government by illicit means in 2000 and maintained that control through rampant electoral corruption in 2004. The re-election of President George W. Bush last November was a deliberately shambolic process that saw massive lockouts of opposition voters; unverifiable returns compiled by easily hackable machines operated by avowed corporate partisans of the ruling party; and vast discrepancies between exit polls and final results – gaps much larger than those that led elections in Ukraine and Georgia to be condemned as manipulated frauds. Indeed, a panel of statisticians said last week that the odds of such a discrepancy occurring naturally were 959,000 to 1, the Akron Beacon-Journal reported.

The copious documentation of the Bush fraud keeps growing. Last month, experts using actual machines and returns from the 2004 election showed Congress how a lone hacker could skew a precinct's results by 100,000 votes without leaving a trace. More than 40 million votes in 30 states were cast on such computer systems, BlackBoxVoting noted.

Think of it: Law is now the enemy. Democracy, as we've seen above, is the enemy. This, the demented code of criminals and tyrants, has become the ruling doctrine of the United States -- replacing the Constitution, replacing the noble struggle for liberty and enlightenment with the howl of the beast, with a freak show of avarice and death.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/08/120.html
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 10:00 PM
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1. to find the truth, read publications from other nations . . .
this is a prime example . . . and I'm amazed that no one has seen fit to comment on the substance of this commentary . . . we complain that the media doesn't speak the truth, but when someone in the media (albeit in Moscow) does, we're not interested . . . curious . . .
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chlamor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 10:09 PM
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2. The Howl of the Beast
Edited on Thu Apr-07-05 10:11 PM by chlamor
A freak show of avarice and death. And as above post noted sooo many are distracted while being driven off the cliff.

Nominated-Hope to see it worked into the GD forum. The sky is darkening. Shine the light.



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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-05 04:13 PM
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3. Say's it all with great clarity.
Where do we go from here

"a freak show of avarice and death."
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TeeYiYi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-05 02:02 PM
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4. kick
TYY:kick:
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-05 02:47 PM
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5. Chris Floyd is ALWAYS
spot on right, superb analysis, sizzling writing. He's right at the top of my favorite writers. Frankly, I'm not sure he's not No. 1 (or if he isn't, I'll be damned if I can think of who might be in that spot -- and no, it's definitely not a certain DUer).
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-09-05 10:29 PM
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6. Kick
:kick::kick::kick:
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deacon2 Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-05 02:28 AM
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7. Love the "portrait" of our prez, but may I suggest
that he should also be sporting a large, strap-on "Steely Dan" with which to continue his buggery of our democracy?
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:10 AM
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9. strap-on "Steely Dan" you say LOL never heard it referred to
quite like that :)

Yes it would complete the pic which is not mine but I love it also.

America is taking an unbelievable buggering at the moment from the most corrupt group to ever grab power in Washington. IMO

W E L C O M E to DU!
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-05 08:14 PM
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8. The Thing About Reality IS: It Always Gets You In the End!
They can run, they can obbfuscate, but in the end, REALITY BITES!
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