| birther theory |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|09:08 pm] |
This one's for you, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) krjalk. :)
I have a theory, which is mine, and it is this:
Oh, but first, if you don't know what a 'Birther' is,
spend five minutes knocking round some right-wing looney site
(like WorldNetDaily, for example) and you'll know more than you want to.
Basically, they believe that Barack Obama was not born in the US,
and therefore, according to the constitution,
not legally allowed to be president.
Pretty desperate, huh?
Not like that 'ol rag ever stopped Dubyah in his day, anyhoo!
( So anyway, back to my theory, which is about Birthers, and is as follows: ) |
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| tracey ullman sketch |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
I mentioned in my hospital post
the intense dreams I've been having.
Most of my story ideas come to me in dreams.
This little sketch came to me fully formed
as if I were watching it on TV,
which made it easy to quickly write out the next day.
So, my first creative post since swearing my vow:
( Anybody Listening? ) |
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| shenanigans |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|12:09 pm] |
I call shenanigans on swine flu.
The vaccination drive recently swept through this hospital.
I protested loudly at being subjected to this pharma corp ad campaign
while captive in my recuperation.
More than a few of the nurses agreed with me,
the doctors merely looked nervous.
What a fucking scam!
Furthermore, I object to the WHO's response,
not only for its bizarre declaration of pandemic,
but also for stating that billions of vaccine doses should be produced.
(The latest comparitive statistics I can find
for worldwide mortality due to infectious disease
are from WHO's own under-reported data for 2002.)
Globally, the most deadly class of infections are
the lower respiratory diseases, mainly pneumonia and bronchitis.
These kill about 4 million people per year.
While it's true that influenza has some part to play in susceptibility to these,
the overwhelmingly obvious factor is poor living conditions,
especially lack of adequate shelter, heating and nutrition.
There is virtually no correlation between
rates of severe lower respiratory infection and rates of flu vaccination,
and a very strong correlation with poverty.
Now consider, by 2002, deaths related to HIV/AIDS had skyrocketed to 2.8 million.
Other disease rates have been gradually declining, but still,
diarrheal diseases (including cholera, dysentery etc) took 1.8 million,
tuberculosis, 1.6 million, malaria, 1.3 million, measles, 0.6 million.
I don't hear a call for billions of treatments for these diseases,
even though, for most of them, the treatment is cheaper and more effective.
Now tell me, how many people have died from swine flu again?
What is the reason for this difference?
The primary rational explanation apparent to me is
that these other diseases mainly affect poor people,
while influenza can still strike the wealthy.
Profit. We are being conned out of billions by corporations.
So what's new?
The citizens of North America may have something more to worry about.
I fear that something extremely dodgy may happen this winter,
that epidemic may be used as the motive force
to fill all those recently-built CDC and FEMA detention camps with the poor.
What a convenient start to a police state!
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| 40 |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|06:58 pm] |
Well, I'd better get started then, eh?
Today, I can say that with confidence.
Not so long ago, all my efforts produced not much result.
But a remarkable change has occured in me.
I've become the centre of the whirlwind.
I remain still, and the universe turns around me.
Pieces fall into place, almost by themselves, it seems.
Perhaps I was just building some kinda karmic potential energy?
I'm in for one hell of a ride then.
In any case, output begins now.
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| happy conjunction |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|08:32 am] |
Hey krjalk, which two planets
were in conjunction with the moon last night?
A giant smiley in the sky's gotta be a good omen, i reckon. :)
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| quotes for our times |
[Nov. 18th, 2008|12:58 pm] |
"Fascism ought more properly be called corporatism
because it is the perfect merger of power
between the corporation and the state."
Benito Mussolini
"The foundation of all mental illness
is the unwillingness to experience real suffering."
Carl Jung
"Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando."
(Give up hoping you'll change the will of the gods by praying)
Vergil
(said by the Sybil, in the Aenid, book 6)
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| we wuz robbed, cuz |
[Nov. 17th, 2008|10:38 am] |
So the G20 have outlined their Plan to Save the World,
and surprise surprise, it seems to involve the IMF
unleashing its 'hard medicine' on everybody.
Everybody, that is, except the robber barons who make these plans.
Under the seemingly sensible guise of austerity and sacrifice,
they'll set about ransacking public coffers, reducing wages and busting unions,
playing populations off against each other in the race to the bottom.
Under the holy banner of 'free' trade, they'll continue their program
of deregulation, privatisation and economic manipulation.
The current talk of increased monitoring of financial activities
will amount to increased surveillance and control
by the largest players over the middle layers,
to the detriment of the lowest layers.
By the end of this mess, the Age of Nations will be over.
The Corporate Era will equal feudalism with technology.
A coupla related videos:
Super Rich: The Greed Game.
This BBC doco is a straight-forward lay-person's rundown
on what global finance has been up to this last decade,
with relatively little infotainment padding.
Basically, how the fuckers have conned us out of all our cash,
and are now kicking back at some resort,
waiting to buy up all our property at fire sale prices.
And if you're wondering what neofuedal serfdom might look like,
watch as John Pilger asks some rather uncomfortable questions of
The New Rulers of the World.
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| remember? |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|10:56 am] |
Because it's about to happen again.
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| like a flaming cat on meth |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|03:44 pm] |
was how they threw that election to Obama.
I mean, all they had to do was fail to steal it this time,
Palin was just overkill.
So anyway, now we get bowt three years of pretty much SFA,
followed by the death of the dollar, and then:
"See! See! We went all left-wing, namby-pamby, help th weak and innocent,
and look where it's gotten us!
Only the strong may lead, the weak shall follow!
Schwarzenegger for president!"
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| "pass the bailout bill or martial law" |
[Oct. 10th, 2008|04:35 pm] |
US Representative Brad Sherman on 2 October:
Naomi Wolf (amongst others) declares the US is in the midst of a coup:
What do you think?
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| the burning house |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|01:59 pm] |
Our house is on fire.
It started in the dodgily-built sleep-out,
where we always knew the wiring was a little crappy.
It's spread to the laundry, and rapidly growing in ferocity.
Odd thing is, no-one's made a move to put it out ( yet. ) |
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| qotd |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|10:01 pm] |
" ... the number of corpses
who'll understand the ideological roots of Armageddon
will be approximately zero.
And the survivors will be more interested in
digging through the rubble looking for canned goods
than in reading your manifesto."
Cory Doctorow
Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now
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| a may day wish |
[May. 1st, 2008|04:02 pm] |
Hoping that we can all find a little free time.
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| it's been said before, but... |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|12:45 am] |
To sell your labour, rather than the products of your labour,
is somewhere between prostitution and slavery.
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| Ughhh... |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|09:53 am] |
a genuine three-H-er,
no workaday "ugh",
a more heartfelt thing,
with the full huff and shrug.
long way from a laugh,
too fraught for a sigh,
no clear course of action,
may as well be a cry.
exasp around in circles
or huddle to the side,
either way's the certainty,
there's no outside this ride.
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| and we thought Orwell was taking the piss |
[Sep. 27th, 2007|07:22 am] |
So did you catch Bush's speech to the UN?
Oh. My. Fucking god. Someone call the Guinness people,
i don't think i've seen a larger steaming pile of hypocrisy.
What an affront to common sense and our language!
Th word "freedom" has now been rendered officially meaningless.
In the same spirit (uh, make that free spirit),
i'd like to propose the following changes to our vocabulary:
Bombs shall, henceforth, be known as "democratic delivery units",
tanks can be called "free trade transporters",
assault rifles are now "human rights transmission sticks",
grenades, "enterprise eggs",
land mines, "foot massagers",
refugee camps, "new world cities"
and yes, war has now become "love".
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| everything happens for 10000 reasons |
[Sep. 11th, 2006|10:39 pm] |
Getting your head around human affairs is like studying the weather.
Uncountable impulses going this way and that,
most of the time cancelling each other out.
At times, when many impulses align, we see ( movement. ) |
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