THE INMATES : A SOAP MADE IN USA
Every time I see them GOP child chewing monsters strut their smug lying rhetoric on TV while no official body gathers the balls & dignity to throw these bums in jail well Im tempted to send Jesse Ventura for a pet talk with Cheney, Rove & friends to find out WTF really happened during those 8 years they stole everything from everyone ! http://current.com/items/89840535_america-wakes-up-90-want-bush-crimes-invest...
But being part of humanity & civilization; I restrain myself & retort to art, music & humor to vent my anger and profound disappointment with the absolute lack of courage displayed by the American psyche, media & representative bodies in this dossier. I thought the future Brand America depended on prosecuting those crimes & demeanors. Seems like war will soon be the last thing Made In USA. http://current.com/items/89858972_it-s-obama-s-war-now.htm
Are we collectively acting much like a battered wife systematically returning to her abuser for an extra session of bitch slapin? http://current.com/items/89955297_obama-and-wiretapping-worse-than-bush.htm
Is the brain-dead, zombified via media ill-treatment alibi, excuse or mental banana peel enough to explain our seeming unwillingness to act upon this unprecedented historical abuse & rape of the law and constitution these criminals have displayed in total impunity. http://current.com/items/89992126_the-politics-of-fait-accompli-an-american-l...
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.
Renegade Sheriff Grounded (seen at the end of the song on this clip)
The Obama administration has clipped the wings of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the immigration hardliner who has used his local authority to arrest over 30,000 undocumented immigrants in just two years, has faced accusations of racial profiling, and, perhaps most famously, forces his inmates to wear pink underwear.
JFWilliam 2 years ago
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
By SCOTT SHANE / NY TIMES
The C.I.A. was said to have withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on orders from the former vice president.
JFWilliam 2 years ago
Cheney Orchestrated Public Response to Plame Leak
Posted on AlterNet by Melissa McEwan, on July 3, 2009.
Former Bush administration officials say documents detailing Cheney's involvement must remain secret. The Obama administration agrees! Hopey changey !
Its here that the American dream decided it liked the taste of the vomit it was chocking on. Just rolled over on its back and screamed for more drugs. it didn't die. - Warren Ellis
JFWilliam 2 years ago
"Americans do not have the intellectual capacity to revolt. All you need to keep them pacified is to give them a dozen donuts & a gun ! - Max Keiser
Max is a well known provocateur but still, I find he's not so far from being spot on for at least half of the US population...
Chris Hedges on the Corporate Media State on Truthdig web site is, as usual, spot on in his piece : The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free
"Men go mad in herds, but only come to their senses one by one." - Charles Mackay
JFWilliam 2 years ago
American culture—or cultures, for we once had distinct regional cultures—was systematically destroyed in the 20th century by corporations. These corporations used mass communication, as well as an understanding of the human subconscious, to turn consumption into an inner compulsion.
JFWilliam 2 years ago
Old values of thrift, regional identity that had its own iconography, aesthetic expression and history, diverse immigrant traditions, self-sufficiency, a press that was decentralized to provide citizens with a voice in their communities were all destroyed to create mass, corporate culture.
JFWilliam 2 years ago