tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23307996768992489682024-03-13T10:45:55.148-07:00World Affairs and Rock'n'Roll (WARR)A blog based on the belief that the world would be a much better place if it were run by people who know how to rock and roll.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-61957071298965565772015-02-14T11:28:00.000-08:002015-02-14T12:18:13.482-08:00Valentine's Day: Sounds to Shag ByIt's time for a lighter post and it just happens to be Valentine's Day, so I thought I would share some wisdom with all the love birds around the world... It's an interesting human trait that sharing tips for courtship (or at least to initiate mating) is something we do all our lives. It really starts to become a preoccupation when we become teenagers and are sent to those incubators of human lust--called high school in America. For me this would have been around 1980, when the rituals of seduction were transitioning indoors from <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruising+the+gut" target="_blank">"dragging the gut"</a> to hanging out at the shopping mall, and millions of teens learned the advice of Damone's Five Point Plan.<br />
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For the most part, it's not bad advice, but young Mark Ratner must not have had a copy of Led Zeppelin IV, so he ended up going with Physical Graffiti, which I personally think is a better album to fuck to anyway. So I'm trying to come up with a WARR Blog Five Point Plan and reflecting on memorable bits of advice on sex and love that I was given during my life. Here they are. <strong> [1] </strong>Once I was riding with a surfer friend of mine in his Trans Am down by <a href="http://swellmagnet.com/surf-cams/torrance-beach-cam-and-report/" target="_blank">Torrance Beach</a> and he told me how to make sure a girl wants to see you again: "The first time you just keep going and keep going all night, no matter how tired you are, just keep getting her off and I guarantee she will start calling you every day." This guy was a big wave rider. There are limits to his advice, but it is true that if you are spectacular in bed and leave a lover fully sated, they will come back for more. <strong>[2]</strong> I once had a boss who had been a serious playboy in this younger days and liked to give me advice. He told me, "Women love to be told what to do. They love it." It's a variation on Damone's "kiss me you wont regret it" meme. On one date I tried the forceful seduction approach and did manage to round the bases and steal home plate, but she never wanted to talk to me again after that night. <strong>[3]</strong> I remember sitting at a bar with a buddy who is a small-scale rock star--played on several albums, performed to big crowds, etc. I was chatting up a couple of girls and gave my friend a full introduction, seeking to impress them. "I never tell a girl all that stuff when we first meet," he said. "Save it for later and then when they find out, it blows their mind." In other words, don't oversell yourself. Let the person you're interested in discover what makes you special naturally, whether that is later in the conversation or on a future date. I swear by this point. <strong>[4]</strong> When working on my psyche degree I did two significant research projects on my favorite topic at the time, sexual promiscuity among college girls. Some of my Likert scale surveys came back with comments written on the form like "you either do it or you don't" or "if you're going to go half way, you might as well go all the way." We all have different attitudes toward sex, so know who you're dealing with. <strong>[5]</strong> Skip the Zeppelin and put on this sexy number, which seems to work even with women who don't like hard rock:<br />
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Happy Valentine's Day and I hope my advice serves you well.<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-66191328926550288812015-01-28T09:22:00.000-08:002015-01-28T18:10:07.910-08:00Greek TriumphI am happy for the people of Greece and the EU this week after voters elected Alexis Tsirpas as its president. The Greeks were able to achieve what so far the Scots and Spaniards have not--a blow to the Eurocratic Empire. It's interesting that a desire on the part of the Greek people to self-govern is somehow <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/23/greece-election-left_n_6532570.html" target="_blank">considered "radical"</a> in the west. The radical part seems to be a desire to escape a fiscal austerity program that has been imposed by the EU. It's only the beginning, but the Greeks are euphoric for the moment and having a grand party of it all.<br />
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Now the dilemma for Tsirpas is how to do this while remaining on the Euro currency and that has Eurocrats nervous about Greek payments. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/greeces-agonized-cry-to-europe.html?&_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times reports</a>, "Some of the creditors still seem to feel that a debt is a debt to be
repaid in full, and that the Greeks 'deserve' punishment for their
history of profligate spending and habitual tax evasion." Again a very one-sided view from the west. Nothing is said of the shenanigans of Goldman Sachs to crash the Greek economy so that vulture capitalists could buy up Greek bonds on the cheap. As investigative reporter Greg Palast revealed in his excellent book, <i>Vultures' Picnic</i>, <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/lazy-ouzo-swilling-olive-pit-spitting-greeksor-how-goldman-sacked-greece/" target="_blank">Greece is a crime scene</a>, and the people are being looted. Now the Greeks have had enough and they've begun to fight back.<br />
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This is a small victory for the people of the world against multinational corporations and international bankers, not just for Greece. The best government is local government. The frictions that borders cause for international trade are not just costs to be removed from a value chain, but cellular walls that protect nations and the people of the world. They create jobs, protect cultures, preserve local environments, and ensure that the will of the people is not abrogated by central planning or a bureaucratic elite. One of the great oxymorons of globalization is that the destruction of nation states and their sovereign cultures in favor of large, homogenous regulatory unions is somehow a way of embracing "diversity." The Eurocrats have shown their predisposition toward Orwellian state-craft and there is no uglier example of that than what has happened in Greece.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-90003424134697850012014-12-08T11:24:00.001-08:002015-01-28T18:11:41.485-08:00FDR's Day of InfamyDecember 7 marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that led the U.S. into WWII. In the U.S. this day is greatly memorialized for its tragedy and celebrated for the heroic response of the American military in what was the first battle of "the good war" against Japan and Nazi Germany.<br />
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My grandparents were very much your model Americans of the early-mid 20th century with a strong sense of service to country. My grandmother's brother was killed in the war in the Pacific, something she was never able to forgive the Japanese people as a whole for. However, I remember a couple conversations with my grandparents that always stuck in my mind and one statement in particular: "No sir, I never believed that (the Japanese surprised us)." Long before the internet or independent newspapers or radio, it seems that skepticism over the Roosevelt Administration's account of what happened that day in 1941 abounded in the taverns and coffee show shops of mainstream America.<br />
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The preceding video is a brief discussion of the questions surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack and tends to be aimed at debunking the argument that FDR allowed it to happen, but it's a cursory primer and largely based on Robert Stinnett's book <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig2/stinnett1.html" target="_blank">Day of Deceipt</a>. The most explosive evidence in Stinnett's book is the recently declassified (1994) <a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html" target="_blank">McCollum Memo</a> which listed steps to provoke a Japanese attack, but there are many more facts exposed in the book that are largely ignored by critics. If you've got the time, I highly recommend the book, because it sure convinced me. The author is respectful of Roosevelt's probable motives, like the need to stop Hitler, but the justifications for baiting an attack should not preempt a historical analysis of the facts.<br />
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The most catastrophic loss on Pearl Harbor Day was to the U.S.S. Arizona, which lost 1,177 men when it was struck by dive bombers--nearly half the men killed that day. Ironically, the <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/12/04/uss-arizona-pearl-harbor-history/19788563/" target="_blank">christening of the Arizona</a> in 1914 was presided over by then Asst. Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt--the very man who may have sent the ship its grave. Even now after 73 years, many of the official government records concerning what was actually known about the movements of the Japanese fleet in the weeks approaching that fateful day <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4740-pearl-harbor-hawaii-was-surprised-fdr-was-not" target="_blank">remain inexplicably classified</a>. More secrecy exists around the events at Pearl Harbor than does the development of the atomic bomb. Since the technology that existed in 1941 is now so completely obsolete, the only rational conclusion to draw is that the contents of those records remain politically explosive and that can only mean that they do not support the official explanation of what happened. The casualties of World War II and their families deserve the truth.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-38899080000836093852014-11-25T15:30:00.001-08:002015-01-28T18:17:39.630-08:00Ferguson Ver-DickedThe social engineering of the American populace to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grand-jury-reaches-decision-in-case-of-ferguson-officer/2014/11/24/de48e7e4-71d7-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html" target="_blank">accept police brutality</a> continues...<br />
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The more things change <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUBOZtsyhfM" target="_blank">the more they stay the same</a>, Brothers and Sisters, fellow Americans, compassionate members of the human race....<br />
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<b>"When reason fails, the Devil helps!"---Fyodor Dostoyevsky</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-36747542193895594252014-11-18T11:58:00.000-08:002014-11-18T12:08:51.810-08:00Battle of the Bands: Jesus, Satan, The Atheists live in Florida!If you've ever been in a local band, you know that competition to get people to come to your shows can be intense. So it is that <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2014/1023/Will-this-shocking-atheist-pamphlet-be-handed-out-in-some-Florida-schools" target="_blank">a school district in Florida reluctantly brought about</a> a Battle of the Bands, or something like that. Turns out a local Christian group, <a href="http://www.satanmusic.com/" target="_blank">Satan</a>, and some cats calling themselves The Atheists (who also play under the name <a href="http://ffrf.org/" target="_blank">Freedom From Religion Foundation</a>) created quite a stir in the Orange County Public Schools when they started passing out flyers. Ironically, it was The Atheists (not the Satanists) who generated the most shock among parents.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson#mediaviewer/File:Marilyn_Manson_2007_Southside_1.jpg" target="_blank">Marilyn Manson</a> would have been proud. Fans of Satan were shocked as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan_(band)" target="_blank">NWOBHM pioneers from 1979</a> produced some very un-heavy images, causing quite a stir in metal chatrooms until it was revealed that it was not the same Satan; rather it was more of a <a href="http://en.babymetal.jp/home/" target="_blank"><b>baby metal</b></a> band.<br />
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So far Orange County Schools haven't had too much problem with stickers being plastered all over lockers and bathroom stalls, but the controversy seems to have <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-satanic-pamphlets-board-reacts-20141113-story.html" target="_blank">proven quite enough for administrators</a>. The Atheists responded to the controversy by claiming that the local Christian group was "hateful, sexist, and cruel." Personally, I think they just need to work on their image because they look really stupid.<br />
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You know it's just plain wrong when a Christian musician stuffs a sock in his spandex to get attention, so maybe the critics have a point. However, I just can't understand why people these days don't just chill the fuck out! The Bible thumpers have always been around, because Christianity is the <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/number-of-christians-rises-but-their-share-of-world-population-stays-stable/" target="_blank">dominant western religion</a> and makes up 32% of the world's population. That we've reached a point where atheism/existentialism/secular humanism/etceteraism is so passionately proselytized that its believers have come to admonish any challenge to that belief system would seem to contradict its very purpose. Existentialist super-philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" target="_blank">Sartre</a> wrote, "And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own." It seems like a progressive movement that once felt like an intellectual vanguard has become an <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/satanists-elegantly-humiliate-christians-into-ending-public-school-proselytization/" target="_blank">ideological abstersion</a>. And as for Satanism, Spinal Tap summed it up best at the <a href="https://screen.yahoo.com/spinal-tap-interview-000000180.html" target="_blank">2:20 mark of this interview</a>. Back in the 80's Satanists had class and didn't need to go stirring up trouble in high schools. Classy like this...<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-310521526453877952014-11-11T14:33:00.000-08:002014-11-11T14:34:34.992-08:00Eleven Eleven ElevenThough I never knew him, the story goes like this... My Great Uncle Nils, the day after the United States entered the Great War, went to Sausalito and took the ferry to San Francisco (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge" target="_blank">Golden Gate Bridge</a> did not exist at that time) where he enthusiastically enlisted in the Amry. After basic training, he was shipped to France and was immediately sent marching to the front to counter the Ludendorff Offensive which had made huge advances toward Paris. With little rest and probably still a bit seasick from the long ocean voyage, he went <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsfeRl3y0Es" target="_blank">over-the-top</a> and into the Argonne Forest. Whether he was one of the famous "<a href="http://prosites-johnrcotter.homestead.com/lost_battalion.html" target="_blank">Last Battalion</a>" I honestly don't know, but what I do know is that he was cut down by machine gun fire not long after the assault began. He took a ride across the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx" target="_blank">river Styx</a>, departing in Northern California and reaching the other side in a wasteland called a forest. He rests someplace here now...<br />
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Has there ever been a war so terrible to have been a soldier in? Only a few battles from other wars are comparable in their scale of brutality and certainty of death (e.g. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189w5xpkt0Y" target="_blank">Stalingrad</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" target="_blank">Gettysburg</a>), unless you start to take into account civilian casualties and events such as the firestorms of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE3PYYgoHXo" target="_blank">Tokyo</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ziK5F37WA" target="_blank">Hamburg</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f07vNUecN8c" target="_blank">Dresden</a>, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592ZXOuG7yE" target="_blank">Battle of Berlin</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSt5XZ7fq4" target="_blank">Hiroshima</a>, etc. Whether you are talking about WW1's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_I)" target="_blank">Eastern Front</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXtsiqrhqsU" target="_blank">Western Front</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feVOwtwR4OM" target="_blank">Gallipoli</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3njNASo1xTo" target="_blank">Isonzo</a>, the casualty and death toll were horrifying. There's no doubt in my mind that if it possible for any of the soldiers stuck in the thick of those battlefields to transfer through time to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80fw7dqN-sk" target="_blank">Okinawa</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfbIk_7XOiQ" target="_blank">Tunisia</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AOuqG5HxaI" target="_blank">Khe Sanh</a>, etc, and trade one version of Hell for a seemingly lesser, they would have done so.<br />
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I've sometimes felt that I've been reincarnated from a prior life that ended in those cryptic trenches. I remember taking a train from Frankfurt to Paris and for whatever reason, the train had to stop somewhere on route. Passengers were allowed to disembark temporarily and as I did I immediately recognized the tortured landscape around us. I remarked to the people I was with, "Do you realize where we are?" None did, though we stood in a giant killing field. The trench lines <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058917/Remembrance-Day-2011-Haunting-pictures-Great-Wars-battlefields.html" target="_blank">were still recognizable</a>.<br />
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Why do we take time to remember the mistakes of the past if we continue to repeat them? God damn the people who have the power to prevent war, but let it happen anyway.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-67380821693121180182014-11-06T11:04:00.000-08:002014-11-06T15:22:31.612-08:00Ivy League Sex Education: Anal Sex, Jungle Fever, Online HookupsHere in America, the old English system of perpetuating the division between "the classes and the masses" (Quigley, 1966) that the Brits have with Oxford and Cambridge can be found in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League" target="_blank">Ivy League</a>--a group of prestigious and expensive universities that produce many presidents, senators, blue chip CEOs, and the like. Harvard is arguably the most recognizable of these institutions which have a profound impact on the direction of higher education at large through influential publications (e.g. <a href="http://hbr.org/" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review</a>) and alumni, though intraconference pomp and rivalry are intense. So it was that after Yale University introduced "Sex Week" in 2002, Harvard was quick to join the race and has <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2822770/Get-bottom-Anal-sex-class-offered-Harvard-University.html" target="_blank">taken Ivy League sex ed to a new level</a>. <br />
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You can <a href="http://www.hsexweek.org/schedule/" target="_blank">go to Harvard's class schedule to see the courses on offer</a>. I'm a straight guy, so I'm interested in taking Jungle Fever, Sex Ed 101 (because I honestly don't know what a "dental dam" is), and Online Hookup Culture so I can improve my "technique." As an aging single, I can use all the help I can get with sexting and mobile dating apps. Unfortunately, I don't live in the Boston area and Harvard has yet to put these courses <a href="https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx" target="_blank">online with edX</a>. If they did I might even go for a certificate program, but I'm afraid one of the required courses will be <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1986355/harvard-what-what-butt-workshop/" target="_blank">What What In The Butt</a>. I'm not a homosexual, but the course instructor says that's just due "repressive patriarchical conceptions of sex."<br />
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I'm sure I could successfully challenge the Losing Your Virginity course given all my undergraduate credits. ...And I've yet to look into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Week_at_Yale" target="_blank">the award winning sex program at Yale</a>, but since it is home to the elite secret society known as <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/skull-and-bones/" target="_blank">Skull & Bones</a> where ex-members like George Bush (father and son) and John Kerry would lay <a href="http://observer.com/2001/04/at-skull-and-bones-bushs-secret-club-initiates-ream-gore-2/" target="_blank">naked in a coffin and reveal their darkest secrets</a>, I suspect it's pretty good. I'm not sure if "Boffin In A Coffin" is being offered, but past courses have included Fantasy Rape and Sex Geek Chic. It's unclear what the career prospects are for students who go through these workshops, but like many college majors these days, it's really not so much about pulling six figure salaries as it is about personal development and becoming a better person. An Ivy League education in "sexology" can help you accomplish that.<br />
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It remains to be seen if America's Ivy League can even begin to compete with the centuries old <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNjcSF_OKFM" target="_blank">tradition of sex education that has been perfected by the British</a>, but its a start. I'm probably behind the curve, given that I only went to flagship public universities where we didn't have anything like Sex Week (nothing official anyway), but one of my alma maters now has "<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/30/us-usa-transgender-california-idUSKCN0HP2BY20140930" target="_blank">gender neutral</a>" restrooms. Last summer I visited the old campus and must say I found it quite liberating to expose myself to pee in a room with young ladies without fear of being arrested, though I'm not sure that's exactly what administration had in mind. Overall, I think what Harvard is doing is a good thing, and it's important to remember that classes like What What In The Butt have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rquF6oTa_h8" target="_blank">something to offer heterosexuals too</a>.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-65617621179489199042014-11-04T11:15:00.002-08:002014-11-06T11:05:43.815-08:00Casting Day at the American Political TheaterAh, it's Election Day in the U S of A. This is the day that Americans head to the polls to choose the actors for many roles in the political theater to follow for the next two years. For WARRiors who click through from foreign lands, and for those Americans who still don't get it, the way this works in most states is you go to a polling station and enter your vote on an electronic voting device that is produced by private corporation with <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/trade_secret_law_makes_it_impossible_to_independently_verify_that_voting.html" target="_blank">proprietary software that the public isn't allowed to inspect</a>, don't have to produce auditable paper receipts, and are <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/09/27/votinghack/" target="_blank">notoriously vulnerable to hacking</a>, which has led <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/" target="_blank">many cases of vote tally irregularities</a> since Bush pushed for the Help America Vote Act.<br />
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Electronic voting is definitely easier than the kind of skullduggery that the CIA used to get Buddhist-monk-killer <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1979/may/17/the-cia-in-angola/" target="_blank">Ngo Dihm Diem elected Prez of Vietnam in 1955</a> or the <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1979/may/17/the-cia-in-angola/" target="_blank">FNLA in Angola in 1964</a>. ...Not to mention all the trouble Jeb must have gone through to get his lil' bro' in office <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/one-million-black-votes-didnt-count-in-the-2000-presidential-election-rnits-not-too-hard-to-get-your-vote-lost-if-some-politicians-want-it-to-be-lost/" target="_blank">in 2000 by purging blacks</a> from the voter rolls, or the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quFtd5P2Q8g" target="_blank">strange case of ballot paper switch</a> that led to the <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads" target="_blank">hanging chad</a> fiasco. Unfortunately, it most probably means that American democracy has been hijacked in the last few elections, according to professors from <a href="http://www.yuricareport.com/2004%20Election%20Fraud/FreemanAnsFarhadManjoo.html" target="_blank">University of Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="http://void.nothingness.org/archives/situationist/display/17242/index.php" target="_blank">UC Berkeley</a> among others. No wonder so many people in the U.S. are completely <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/175676/congress-approval-sits-two-months-elections.aspx" target="_blank">fed up with Congress</a> going into this election. They don't respond to what the voters want, because the voters aren't the ones who put them in office.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-1185913279983710122014-10-31T09:47:00.001-07:002014-10-31T09:49:03.705-07:00Dudley Do-Right Likes Beer! Happy Halloween, Eh!I love my neighbors to the north. That would be Canada, eh. They really know how to incentivize good civic behavior. <a href="http://rt.com/news/201199-canada-parliament-guard-beer/" target="_blank">Such is the story of this man, a modern day Dudley Do-Right who put himself in harms way to protect Canadian Parliament from an armed gunman</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kefOWquqNrA" target="_blank"> "Canadian mounted, baby, a police force that works..."</a> Alain Gervais, a government security guard, was rewarded for his heroism with... A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF BEER! And just in time for the holiday season, too!<br />
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The Obama Administration should take note of this, since a guy recently jumped the White House fence, sprinted past the guards, and made it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/white-house-intruder-east-room" target="_blank">all the way into the White House</a> with a knife. How he managed to do that when an old guy like me was getting assholed around by Secret Service just for standing on the sidewalk by the Eisenhower building this summer is beyond me. More amazing is that <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-intruder-dominic-adesanya-forcibly-removed-court-article-1.1989003" target="_blank">it happened a second time</a> weeks later. Both men were returning U.S. Army veterans. But that's beside the point. Maybe instead of making our returning vets wait for months to receive critical services due to the <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/07/17/va-whistleblower-theyre-manipulating-disability-backlog-stats-too-n1862859" target="_blank">backlog scandal at the Veterans Administration</a> we should do as the Canadians do and give them all free beer for life.<br />
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That would certainly take the edge off of <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gulf-war-syndrome/" target="_blank">Gulf War Syndrome</a>. Then again I would much prefer that the U.S. government stops treating the American military as a mercenary force for some New World Order so international banking interests can profit while the American taxpayer foots the bill. And don't fucking tell me I don't support the troops! Most of them that I've talked don't understand what they Hell they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan anyway. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dmyq_ro4JU" target="_blank">Bring The Boys Back Home!</a> And give them free beer! The way to fight fundamental Islamic terrorists is to send American hard core bands to the Middle East.<br />
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WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-63789938898216647182014-10-17T10:02:00.000-07:002014-10-31T10:03:55.866-07:00World War 1: Putin and Russia's New Perspective<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been personally disappointed by the lack of recognition and public ceremony in the U.S. over the 100th anniversary of WWI, or "The Great War," as the Brits like to call it. WWI is one of my favorite and most studied periods of world history and is still probably the seminal event of the last two centuries. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wwi-is-family-history-for-cameron-obama-putin-and-merkel-1.2687165" target="_blank">Obama and other European leaders</a> gathered at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menin_Gate" target="_blank">Menin Gate</a> in Ypres earlier this year, but the even was largely ignored in America.</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Russia had its own ceremony and the speech is really quite revealing of how Vladimir Putin and modern Russia and look back on its past. Instead of venerating the Bolsheviks and murderers like Trotsky and Lenin, he calls them out for what they really were--not altruistic communists, but thieves who "sought only power for themselves."</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Putin's view of the <a href="http://russian civil war 1918" target="_blank">Russian Civil War of 1918</a>, one can presume, is decidedly more White than Red.</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Putin's candid insights into history explain much about the current tensions between Russia, the EU and US. What he's saying is that in return for taking extraordinary losses to support the Western Front, Russia was betrayed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_R9bpdndE" target="_blank">brutal revolutionaries</a> who had been in exile (Lenin in Sweden and Trotsky in New York) and were assisted by the allies in their return to Russia. The story of how the Bolshevik movement was supported by key western industrialists and government leaders is well documented in a book (available free online at this link) called <u><a href="http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/index.html" target="_blank">Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton" target="_blank">Prof. Antony C. Sutton</a></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sutton's work is often taken out of context by conspiracy theorists and it's not the most enjoyable reading, but it is dense with facts. What can be said about this book is that it represents an important yet esoteric side of history from which it could be argued that the Cold War was one big case of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)" target="_blank">blowback</a>. The people who lived in what became <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuRKy0HKK8" target="_blank">the USSR got the worst of it</a>. Naturally, Russia is suspicious of western leaders promoting globalism.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span>
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WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-64725602096832719052014-10-14T10:01:00.004-07:002014-10-31T10:04:52.348-07:00Ebola: Did Dallas Nurse Have One of These?The CDC is taking heat for blaming America's first case of ebola transmission on the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/health/ebola-who-is-nina-pham/index.html" target="_blank">Dallas nurse</a> who caught it, saying it was a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-head-criticized-blaming-protocol-breach-nurse-gets-040454561.html" target="_blank">"protocol breach"</a> of protective gear. CDC <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/director.htm" target="_blank">Director Tom Friedman</a>, might want to look in the mirror when it comes to protocol breaches. Ebola is a Bio-Safety Level 4 pathogen. In addition to Dallas, hospitals in Seattle, Omaha, Washington, and Boston either have or are preparing to take ebola patients. I don't think any of them look like this: Popular Mechanics magazine took us <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/4315093" target="_blank">inside a BSL4</a> facility in 2007 (notice PM in '07 mentions that ebola could even spread with a sneeze).<br />
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BSL4 protocol checklist.... Vacuum sealed suits? Nope. Building in a building? Nope. Compression chamber? Nada. Separate HEPA filter HVAC system that removes everything down to .0003 microns? Nyet. Separate water decon system? Absent. Okay... So who's breaching protocol, Mr. Friedman? According the CDC's own <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/bmbl5_sect_iv.pdf" target="_blank">BSL standards checklist</a>, it doesn't even appear that BSL2 was reached at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The U.S. has on-base hospital facilities that are heavily defended with controlled entry and exit points. Ebola cases from Africa need to be flown to a central location, preferably an airbase, where the best possible hospital conditions can be established. Similarly, all passengers arriving in the U.S. from ebola affected regions in Africa should be routed through a single USAF base for screening. Similar mothballed facilities outside the U.S. could be dedicated to implement a similar process for European countries. Breaking the natural barriers of oceans to bring a BSL4 pathogen to unequipped hospitals is just plain stupid. Read this <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-peter-piot-discoverer-of-the-ebola-virus-a-993111.html" target="_blank">scary interview with Dr. Peter Piot</a> who discovered ebola.<br />
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As it is, the policy of the Obama Administration and the Center for Disease Control seems to be <i>Spreading the Disease</i>.<br />
<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-46979249380964656342014-10-12T10:24:00.002-07:002014-10-31T10:05:37.334-07:00Fukushima Radiation vs Ebola OutbreakThe contrast between news coming out on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the ebola outbreak could not be more stark. The mainstream media is completely <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/12/examining-the-nations-ebola-response/17059283/" target="_blank">saturated with news</a> of the ebola virus outbreak. The Obama Administration's refusal to restrict air travel from Africa is already becoming an <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/politics/ebola-midterms/" target="_blank">election issue</a> in America. This is as it should be, because ebola is a very scary disease. It is <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ebola-totally-out-control-doctors-without-borders-says-n136856" target="_blank">overwhelming</a> west-central Africa and kills about 70% of its victims in short order. Now Europe and America are experiencing their <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/texas-health-care-worker-tests-positive-for-ebola-says-health-department-1413112243" target="_blank">first cases</a> of ebola.<br />
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On the other hand, radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown is already in the U.S. It's also been revealed that <a href="http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Fuel-Recycling/Mixed-Oxide-Fuel-MOX/" target="_blank">mixed oxide fuel rods</a> were in use at Fukushima and we can count <a href="http://enenews.com/plutonium-detected-underground-fukushima-plant-test-results-made-public-year-after-sampling-date-officials-planning-pump-water-dump-pacific-ocean-photo" target="_blank">deadly plutonium</a> among the radioactive isotopes released. The <a href="http://enenews.com/vancouver-seaweed-almost-400-above-international-standard-for-iodine-131-in-food-by-march-28-levels-increasing" target="_blank">Vancouver Sun reported</a> that seaweed samples taken off British Columbia had tested at 4x safe limits for radiation. The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/us/31milk.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reports "low levels"</a> of radiation in U.S. milk samples. There has also been massive mortality among fish on the West Coast, including <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/3rd-major-mass-fish-die-near-california-coast-two-weeks/" target="_blank">sardines</a>, <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/08/14/sea-star-deaths-along-the-west-coast-elicit-close-study/" target="_blank">starfish</a>, salmon, and other sea life. Mainstream media won't speculate on radiation, though it's interesting that radiation from the Fukushima 3/11 event arrived on the West Coast in March 2014, about the time these anomalies in the coastal ecosystem became present. And about 80,000 gallons of contaminated water from Fukushima <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/another-day-another-spill-radioactive-water-fukushima-229840" target="_blank">continues to pour</a> into the Pacific each day to bioaccumulate in the food chain.<br />
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Naomi has long been a leader of the feminist vangard. I bought and read her 1997 book, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Promiscuities-Naomi-Wolf/dp/0449907643" target="_blank">Promiscuities</a>," and understood it's point, but felt it was extremely one-sided. Was my experience as an awkward, young stud-supposed-to-be really so different from the pressures she described for young women? In this scene from An American Werewolf In London, she (Nurse Alex) confronts the wolf of man and in his demise, sees his tragic vulnerability. She realizes then that he was cursed and that she loves the beast being hunted.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Now Naomi is <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2014/10/the-crucifixion-of-naomi-wolf-for.html" target="_blank">being crucified</a> for thinking for herself--the very thing she gained fame for among feminists who saw her books as a catalyst for liberating causes--simply because she questions some of the developments taking place in the world. Most recently for her <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781864/Author-Naomi-Wolf-condemned-suggesting-videos-hostages-beheaded-ISIS-aren-t-real.html" target="_blank">observations on the strange details of ISIS's executions</a>, but also (though it gained no press) the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment" target="_blank">creeping fascism</a> of the post-9/11 world and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYU5Pipl1E" target="_blank">true meaning of gun control</a>. That is a more libertarian perspective coming from somebody with a long history of non-libertarian thinking. You don't have to agree with the conclusions, but feminists everywhere should at least respect her intelligence and take the time to consider what she's saying. Unfortunately, the Thought Police are out to get her now.<br />
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Who'd have thunk that Naomi Wolf and W. Axl Rose have so much in common.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-65187710650002271222014-10-06T16:14:00.003-07:002014-10-31T10:06:58.057-07:00Cryogenic Future World?A few weeks ago, the United States had rallies in many cities to draw attention to the threat of global warming, or more generally, <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/nyregion/new-york-city-climate-change-march.html?_r=0" target="_blank">climate change</a></i>. Now that is a subject itself, because what does one mean by "global warming?" Does that mean "the earth's atmosphere is heating up and we need to understand and do something about it" or does it mean <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/" target="_blank">Al Gore's Imminent Apocalypse</a> theory? Might the reality of the situation lie somewhere in between? My problem with such movements is when questioning the magnitude of the variables involved in climate change draws accusations of "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/peter-defazio-global-warming_n_4562210.html" target="_blank">global warming denial</a>." I didn't graduate with honors from a major research university for being a "blathering idiot," Congressman DeFazio.<br />
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Someday I'll go deeper into the global warming equation and models, but for now I'll go straight to the point that there's also significant evidence that the world is only a decade away from dipping into another <a href="http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf" target="_blank">Little Ice Age</a>.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>What I find interesting is that Russia is doing exactly the opposite of what the U.S. is doing and <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/grand_minimum.pdf" target="_blank">warning policy makers of the risk of another ice age</a>. Hmmm... The West is worried about a global warming meltdown and Russia is worried about an approaching ice age. It's like the Cold War all over again, isn't it? Snow Miser vs Heat Miser.<br />
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That's really the the level of debate taking place on <i>climate change</i>, isn't it? You're either a "denier" or an "alarmist." This obscures the real issues and also takes public attention off of some of the most actionable countermeasures. Regardless of whether people believe in Al Gore or think global warming is a hoax, they can probably agree that deforestation, industrial pollution, CFCs, etc, are problems that need to be mitigated. If you present the debate in that context then you get people moving forward on very actionable and impactful measures. This is where I think many well-meaning climate change activists are being misled, because it benefits the financial-industrial interests that profit from the status quo. The powers that be seem to want the debate to remain polarized.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-13187775121982664612014-10-04T15:04:00.001-07:002014-10-07T08:19:07.404-07:00Stanley Kubrick - Too Fast For Love (Motley Crue cover)Man, there's so much heavy shit to contemplate in the world... Ebola, Fukushima, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2780268/Charlie-Sheen-sued-woman-claiming-sexual-assault-incident-dentist.html" target="_blank">Charlie Sheen</a>... Not to mention my own personal problems. So I'm going to go a little more fizzy rocka rolla on this post.<br />
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Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" came out in 1987. Motley Crue (insert aumlauts) releasted <a href="http://www.motleymuseum.com/leathur-records/tffl/tffl.html" target="_blank">Too Fast For Love</a> on their own Lethur Records (insert aumlauts... yes really) label in 1981. By the way, I once owned a copy of the original "Too Fast For Love" album, which I bought from a friend, who I believed purchased it at Beekman Bob's, which was <i>the</i> underground record shop on Melrose in LA in those days. I bought it for $20 and sold it a few years later for $50. I wish I still had it.<br />
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Anyway... Bear with me here... Motley Crue preceded Kubrick's film by like six years, okay? So look at the cover of "Too Fast For Love" and then look at this scene from "Full Metal Jacket."<br />
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So... Vince is doing the "this is my rifle..." thing in 1981. "This is my studded leather, chain bracelet, Devil's Sign hand signal, this is my gun!" Or "this is my pistol this is my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7FrA0Lh0yM" target="_blank">LOVE GUN</a>." I don't know. Nikki Sixx can be such a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdEQ4Pxl5I" target="_blank">cryptic dude</a>. Paul Stanley never had that problem (click on preceding link).<br />
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Anyway... Kubrick was all about the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySnL38JpOg" target="_blank">hidden meaning</a>, right? And what Motley Crue was saying with Too Fast For Love? Whoa, it's heavy, Man! By the way, did you know that if after you've survived and recovered from ebola, and are otherwise no longer contagious, your sex pistol can still spread the infection for another <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html" target="_blank">THREE MONTHS</a>!!!WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-86676619704543353842014-09-29T14:49:00.000-07:002014-10-07T08:19:37.455-07:00The Goldman Sachs Finger - In Your Face!The latest revelation of just how corrupt the investment banking sector has become comes from another another <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771630/Goldman-Sachs-BANS-traders-buying-stocks.html" target="_blank">Angel named Carmen Sagarra</a>, one Federal Reserve Bank regulator embedded at Goldman Sachs who has revealed how Fed regulators look the other way when it comes to Wall Street corruption. Like <a href="http://www.classifiedwoman.com/" target="_blank">Sibel Edmonds</a>, she's smart, sexy, honest, and being crucified for doing the right thing. I wish I had a swimsuit calendar full of girls like this.<br />
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As Bloomberg and other financial news outlets <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-26/the-secret-goldman-sachs-tapes" target="_blank">report</a>, Sagarra was alarmed at the level of collusion and lax regulation that Fed employees were giving Goldman Sachs. So she went all Bond Girl on them and started recording the meetings, uncovering Enron-like soundbites such as, "Once clients are wealthy enough, certain consumer laws don't apply to them." Instead of saying something like, <i>Wait just a fucking minute, you hedge fund cunt, slime bag piece of shit</i>, her fellow regulators would say to Carmen, "You didn't hear that." Pulling a gig where acting like a regulatory whore meant one day swallowing some of the Goldman lucre, honesty only led to Carmen's termination and another nail in the coffin of <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketefficiency.asp" target="_blank">market efficiency theory</a>.<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-7641350829377134212014-09-25T13:45:00.002-07:002014-10-13T15:43:00.470-07:00Prof. Zeke Emanuel, Obamacare Policy Wonk, Thinks People Should Die By Age 75"In a time when no man could just do alright and get by... To make way for the new, the old had to die! It was crazy. It was crazy!"--Sammy Hagar from "Spaceage Sacrifice" by Montrose<br />
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One of the self-ordained central planners of globalism, Prof. Zeke Emanuel, who is also one of the main architects of so-called Obamacare in the U.S., has penned a rather lengthy op-ed in <i>The Atlantic</i> magazine. The article is titled, "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/" target="_blank">Why I Hope To Die at 75</a>." The University of Pennsylvania MD and PhD is currently 57 and presumably has a rather lucrative pension and retirement to look forward to, but he seems to feel that his quality of life will not be sufficient to enjoy the good life that keeps guys like Warren Buffet, 84, or Henry Kissinger, 91, going at a ripe old age. Hey, to each their own. I hope Zeke has a heck of party before he puts himself out of misery.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Unfortunately, the subtitle to the article is "An Argument that Society and Families-and You-Will be Better Off If Nature Takes Its Course Swiftly and Promptly." Ah, so he's not saying we're going to better off if we're spared his memoirs on how forcing people to purchase insurance from private companies (that are given immunity from anti-trust laws) under penalty of the Internal Revenue Service was a great moment in American history. What he's actually saying is that society will be better off if all of us are dead before we turn the spirit of 76. Zeke's scientific mind makes the case by citing an availability heuristic--dad's heart attack at 77.<br />
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I could spend hours picking apart Zeke's argument about how old people go about embarrassing the young and restricting their progress, but I'll let you read it yourself. The whole thing sounds extremely Orwellian, as does much of the policy coming from the globalist policy wonks these days. A better comparison might be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE" target="_blank">Aldous Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i></a> where we're all kept content with a drug called "soma" that conveniently limits the lifespan of the masses to their sixties. It also invokes comparisons to the bloody, totalitarian histories of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qQsXUZh0I" target="_blank">Soviet Russia</a>, Nazi Germany, and Maoist China. At least he's not advocating a fabricated, endless war where the victims of terrorist attacks or environmental disasters are simply selected at random and expected to report to "disintegration booths" for destruction, as in the Star Trek episode <a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/star_trek/video/619898727/star-trek-the-original-series-a-taste-of-armageddon/" target="_blank">A Taste of Armageddon</a>. <br />
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Almost as disturbing as his extensive role in developing the current Obamacare paradigm is that Zeke is actually a professor of MEDICAL ETHICS at an Ivy League university! Even if I accept for a moment Zeke's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green" target="_blank">Soylent Green</a> allusions, he's still discounting the contribution of the senior community and violating his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath" target="_blank">Hippocratic Oath</a>. I respect his freedom of speech and right to die, though. I hope he does have a big party at 75 to say goodbye to his family and the world. In fact, I wouldn't mind going to that party myself.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-87072811316786223012014-09-21T11:11:00.001-07:002014-10-09T09:06:17.543-07:00Scotland's Valient Stand<br />
The last few days have been a tornado of news and opinion on the loss of the "Yes" campaign for Scottish independence. It's an unfortunate outcome, but one that sends a message, no matter how much the political elite of the UK and western world wish to ignore it. The 45% "Yes" vote is a significant rebuke of federalism and globalism. <i>The </i><i>New York Times</i> even went so far as to publish an editorial citing the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/upshot/scotland-independence-vote.html?abt=0002&abg=0" target="_blank">Global Crisis of the Elite</a>s. Of course, if you read my previous blog post about Henry Kissinger's new book, "World Order," those same global elites really think the answer is to shift more power to regional governments and supra-sovereign trade organizations like the hideous <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/break-the-silence-on-ttip" target="_blank">Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</a> (TTIP) which is secretly being negotiated by the Obama Administration and the EU. Scotland sent a loud and proud message to the globalist elite.<br />
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The true tally of Scotland's vote for independence was almost certainly closer than the polls indicated and that sends a strong message, not only to London, but to the rest of the global elite that the pressure is building and they ignore the need for local governments to correct for the imbalances imposed by globalism at their own risk.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-33885516296225132782014-09-09T12:11:00.000-07:002014-09-25T15:19:03.593-07:00Another Lame Duck Swan Song from Henry Kissinger"For God's sake, how many swan songs can a lame duck deliver?"--Henry Kissinger quoted in <i>Rolling Stone</i> <i>(1977)</i> regarding the number of farewell ceremonies he had to deliver.<br />
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Kissinger just released his latest pontification on how to achieve a "new world order" in his latest book called--wait for this--<i>World Order</i>. You can read <a href="http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-on-the-assembly-of-a-new-world-order-1409328075?mobile=y" target="_blank">Henry's own press release</a> in the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> or you can read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton praising</a> this warmonger in the <i>Washington Post</i>. If the book is anything like Hillary and Henry's previews, it should largely read like a piece of fiction.<br />
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But seriously, just how many swan songs can this lame duck Kissinger croak out about the new world order? It's hard to make an argument in support of the success of his policies--Vietnam, Angola, Chile, etc.--unless this goal of renovating the world order that Hillary seems committed to force America to do is in pursuit of an entirely different agenda than what is claimed. However, that's a topic for some other day.<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-65052486137445924802014-09-05T10:54:00.000-07:002014-09-25T15:19:23.657-07:00Joan Rivers 'Throat Wide Shut'Comedy fans throughout the world mourn the death of Joan Rivers, the woman who almost trumped Jay Leno to replace Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Last night I was watching the opening game of the NFL season as the Seattle Seahawks mauled the Green Bay Packers when there was this announcement for some TV show (paraphrasing): "...Joan Rivers dies due to complications with her throat." That's an odd way of saying it. In fact, it had a certain eerie, <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i> quality to it.<br />
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So is it possible that Joan Rivers' throat problems were some of her more controversial statements? Rivers recently caused quite a stir in the media when she suggested that President Obama is gay and Michelle Obama is actually an transvestite.<br />
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Now, the President may have swung both ways during his younger years (an accusation that was sometimes made toward George W. Bush), but I'm not so sure that should really matter. The accusation against Michelle Obama seems pretty absurd and racist. You can find it on YouTube and it usually centers around her athletic physique as not belonging to a woman. By that logic Serena Williams, Angela Bassett, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee must also be men. I would date any one of those ladies.<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-43878593061057449782014-08-31T12:21:00.001-07:002014-09-25T15:20:08.137-07:00Killing Herself To LiveHere is a <a href="http://rt.com/usa/183720-four-jobs-car-nap/" target="_blank">sad story</a> about Maria, a 32 year old woman who was working four jobs to make ends meet and literally died of exhaustion. It makes me think of the Black Sabbath song <i>Killing Yourself To Live</i>. "You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live! ...Never give your trust away, you'll end up paying 'til your dying day!"<br />
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Despite her hardship, the article describes Maria has having been a positive and popular young lady who immigrated to America from Portugal to find a better life. She's the kind of immigrant we should be doing a better job to identify and welcome to our country. Unfortunately, her pursuit of the American dream literally killed her. Rest in peace, Maria. This one's for you...<br />
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Personally I'm more concerned about the U.S. government's failure to do something about the <a href="http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/ucm371055.htm" target="_blank">absence of coral snake venom</a> from hospitals, which could result in an apocalypse of highly neurotoxic envenomation in an America. It's hard to call these docile and candy-colored little elapids "terrorists," but they are native American and quite deadly if allowed to chew on exposed skin. Fortunately, the NFL's New England Patriots' quarterback superstar and supermodel-husband, Tom Brady, took the time to film a bare-chested, public service announcement on YouTube to warn people about the danger of coral snakes amongst us.<br />
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Come Halloween Night 2014, all coral snake antivenom will be past its already-extended expiration date from the FDA. This colorful relative of the taipan, krait, and cobra will have free reign among the living, who will no longer have recourse to antivenom, only a potentially awful death!!<br />
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Take lots of zinc. Zinc was used as a treatment to smallpox and scarlet fever. I have several bottles in my cupboard which I tap whenever I feel flu symptoms coming on. I also eat lots of garlic, because the allicin in raw garlic is considered to be good for fighting viruses. My ex-girlfriend also claimed these measures were effective at stopping herpes outbreaks. On top of that, I take the herb echinacea, which another ex-girlfriend turned me on to and she was so hot, she had to know what she was talking about. Oh, and lots of Vitamins C and D. That's the WARR Blog remedy for the common cold. I have no idea if it will work for ebola, but figure it's better than nothing.<br />
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All that said, my best wishes go out to the people of Africa who are going through this. Maybe the CDC needs to get back to basics and just think about addressing zinc deficiency (as with smallpox) as a cheap way of ameliorating the progression of ebola. All options should be on the table to stop this plague.
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-90955802222336427382014-08-25T17:43:00.002-07:002014-09-05T11:11:44.677-07:00YES!!!... for Scotland's Independence! Freedom!!!A short shout out to all my distant clansmen and Scots. Vote yes for your independence and self rule! I've yet to make it to Scotland, but for the record my grandmother's folks on my father's side came to America from Scotland in the 1800s. I'm a mixed American mutt, but on my great grandfather's side my family is from the Colquhoun Clan.<br />
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I recently visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the American Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution of the United States was drafted and executed. I'll be brief with my argument here--all progress in human civilization has come from the decentralization of power. The Roman Senate, The Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution are all examples of where authority and information was distributed. When power is held in fewer hands, brokerage of that power occurs across a more narrow range of interests and humanity suffers. This has certainly been the case with the trend toward supra-sovereign organizations and treaties like NAFTA, the G7, and EU. Though their stated goals are ostensibly humanitarian, there is always an undercurrent of avarice and nepotism that reigns in policy. The most visible victims (for those who care to look) are nations like Greece, Argentina, and Azerbaijan.<br />
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The Founding Fathers of the USA understood something very important about the consolidation of power. It's bad, okay? Thus most of the time and furious debate over our fledgling Constitution centered not around what was considered Democratic or Republican (by today's standards). The debate that raged for years was over the distribution of power between the federal government and states' rights. Unfortunately, the U.S. has taken a strong turn back toward Federalism, which is the natural consequence of war-time crisis (Civil War, Great War, WWII, War on Korea, War on Poverty, War in Vietnam, War on Drugs, War on Iraq, War on Terror, war, war, war...). The average middle or working class person is always the loser.<br />
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What has the consolidation of power at the UK and EU brought Scotland? What has hard fought independence throughout history brought Scotland? The eyes of the world are upon you. Choose your independence and, like Iceland recently, you will find your own path. Your friends and distant clansmen the world over will support you. I personally will visit Scotland at long last and hopefully have a chance to meet some long time Nazareth fans and raise a glass to your independence.<br />
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<br />WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-24301458741678455702014-08-22T09:32:00.001-07:002014-09-25T15:21:51.344-07:00The Top 1% Only Get 1% of Income... Well, Sort Of<br />
Income inequality is a hot topic these days, with the Occupy Wall Street movement of a few years back and so much attention being paid to the disproportionate <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021795994_incomegapxml.html" target="_blank">share of income for the top 1%</a> in the U.S. However, that's not true for income earned by labor (wages, tips, etc.). In fact, it's quite the opposite, with the top 1% earning only about 1% of income from labor. How can this be? This discrepancy of polar extremes is because the top 1% earns around 75% of income from capital gains.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I always find it rather amusing how caught up Democrats and Republicans get in the debate over income brackets for personal income and what those progressive levels of taxation should be for earnings from individual labor, when capital gains remain a flat 20%. That 20% is less than an individual will pay on their 36,901st dollar of income in 2014. Now I'm not saying capital gains should necessarily follow the tax tables for earnings from wages, interest, etc., but come on! At what point should a Top-One-Percenter pay an extra 5% on their capital gains? How about their one millionth dollar of cap gains? Too stifling for business you say? How about the ten millionth dollar?<br />
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And why should all cap gains be treated equally? How about a higher differential for short term capital gains as opposed to long term (gain on securities held over one year), since the average middle class investor is constantly preached to about the value of "investing for the long haul?" How about leaving cap gains at 20% for gains from long positions and a higher tax rate for short positions, since institutional bets against the market increase volatility? How about putting the cap gains tax higher for more exotic securities like derivatives, since their presence produces excess leverage which ultimately translates into higher market risk for all, as we saw in the financial crisis of 2008?<br />
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Now before you shake the Internal Revenue Code in my face and start bitching about complexity, consider that the great majority of folks who will really have to deal with the extra forms are in the Top 1% anyway, and those guys all have CPAs and tax attorneys to do the work for them. And those fees are tax deductible.WARR Lordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09437882580727381296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2330799676899248968.post-76167968187228210602014-08-17T18:04:00.001-07:002014-09-25T15:22:24.520-07:00Edge of Tomorrow - Starring Tom Cruise as Dirk The Daring<br />
So I just today saw Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, quite late I should say, because my strategy for budgeting my limited time to catch the occasional movie is to wait and see if (a) it's sufficiently reviewed, (b) I remain interested months after all the opening week hype, and (c) it comes to one of my favorite pub theaters where I can see the movie and down a pint of microbrew all for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ten-dollar_bill#mediaviewer/File:US_$10_1934_Note_Front.jpg" target="_blank">Paper Hamilton</a>.<br />
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The movie has been reviewed thousands of times by bloggers and critics already. Most reviewers pick up on the action-adventure version of Groundhog Day. Far fewer make the connection of the video game plot--you play and die, play and die, play and die, until you figure it out and win. You kill the mothership (yeah, I guess there's a little Xevius to the plot). I couldn't help but think of Dragon's Lair, the first video-anime arcade game where <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l464ZF5jK3Y" target="_blank">Dirk The Daring dies over and over again</a> (Over the Edge? - shout out to LA Guns classic). But that point's been made, even if I'm the first to compare Tom Cruise to Dirk The Daring.<br />
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I would much rather talk about Emily Blunt, the movie's heroine than Tom Cruise....<br />
<a name='more'></a> Not only is she one of the most beautiful actresses of her day, she's also one of the most talented. Any actors talent is ultimately measured by their range of roles, and Blunt has shown a very rare talent to take on any role and transform it into an imitation of life--think Sean Penn here, because she's that good. I think Emily Blunt may be the best actress of her generation.<br />
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Getting back to the plot, and the original point I wanted to make here, there's an element of social commentary that I haven't seen mentioned in the few dozen reviews I've looked at for Edge of Tomorrow. Cruise's character starts the movie thoroughly unlikeable. Major Cage is, in fact, a first class asshole in a way that any generation that's lived through war (I guess that's every generation, because world leaders can't seem to figure out the peace thing) could relate to. He starts the film as one to "play the game with the bravery of being out of range" (ping Roger Waters), a talking head on CNN with images of Hillary Clinton and other war pigs (ping Black Sabbath) talking about how winnable the conflict is, invoking the "Angel of Verdun" (Blunt's character Rita), and how it just needs more sacrifice to win. Historians of WWI will recognize the Verdun reference, but the battle that claims Cruise's life over and over again is more of a foolish assault, like The Somme or Passchendale. <br />
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When Major Cage pops off to the commanding general, threating him with blackmail to avoid being sent to the front, he gets demoted and dispatched to the first wave. The soldiers don't like the pompous, white collar officer either. His attitude says it all--the hellish side of war is for blue collar people like you. Cage goes across the English Channel in D-Day fashion and begins his series of brutal deaths. He connects with Rita, the war hero who he learns had previously had his strange connection to the aliens to reset time, and they begin working through Cruise's memory to advance further and further on the alien mothership. As he does, not only does Cruise advance in the game to save the world from annihilation, he also becomes a better person. Edge of Tomorrow borrows from Groundhog Day, but it also has a lot of another (better) Bill Murray film in it--The Razor's Edge. "The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge." Cruise's character, as a future-forward Dirk the Daring, doesn't just die over and over again in an endless stream of quarters until the game is won. He goes through an accelerated, reincarnational drama. He becomes a new man, a better man or son of man. Then the story ends. Did he go to the "Edge of Tomorrow" or did he just go "Over The Edge?"<br />
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