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Brian always wanted to be a creative writer. His mistake was trying to translate that desire into his journalistic reporting--in other words, he is a liar.
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FTA: Understanding of psychopathy is lacking
I read a lot of history before I ever studied psychology or psychiatry. You don't have to read a great deal before you can get an understanding. Combine a lack of empathy with greed & I believe that is the foundation of the syndrome.
Psychopaths tend to rise to the top of organizations because of the greed aspect. Organizations with too much psychopathic input tend to be at war with themselves. Look at the west & central Asia for modern examples.
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"About one percent of all people are psychopathic, which amounts to something over three million psychopaths in the USA and perhaps sixteen million among Muslims."
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Many were surprised when a White House front man recently called the Afghan Taliban an "armed insurgency" and refrained from calling the hardline Lion of Islam group forces of Evil a month after the United States ended combat operations in Afghanistan.
The United States lost more than 2,000 soldiers in its 13-year war against the Taliban after it led an international coalition to topple their regime in Afghanistan in late 2001.
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Lessons for the world:
Asymmetrical warfare against the US works. If there's an attack on the US there might be some military reaction against terrorist groups, state sponsors however enjoy absolute immunity.
If the POTUS issues an ultimatum in the aftermath of a massive attack in the US, such an ultimatum can be safely ignored, being no more relevant than a rant by comical Ali.
It was the Bush administration that went wobbly in October of 2001.
The above mentioned lessons reflect a broad consensus in the political classes of the US and major Western nations.
War in eastern Europe is only a small part of the price that will be paid for this madness.
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If the Taliban was a CHRISTIAN "armed insurgency" the White House and State would have named them a terrorist network in a heart beat.
Better watch out for all of those conservative white war veterans and their weapons...that's where the real danger comes from...really?
Do we have a Pakistani press secretary? Only the paks are capable of this kind of mental gymnastics without suffering a stroke.
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Are the Afghan Taliban terrorists?
A. Yes. Next question.
B. Who cares. Shoot the MFers.
C. Maybe, but they do like to bugger little boys, throw acid in the faces of little girls and play party host for the demonstrably worst airline pilots in world history.
D. All of the above.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Political leaders must heed the call being made today by members of the FBCCI for the government and BNP to peacefully resolve their differences.
The past month has caused huge carnage and injury to innocent members of the public. The FBCCI's demonstration today is a reminder that blockades and strikes have also needlessly caused massive economic damage.
For the sake of the nation's future, the mindless political impasse has to end.
Both the government and BNP must step back from actions which prolong their deadly stand off.
It makes no sense for the BNP to continually call hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s and say they are only intended as peaceful protests, when it is clear that calls for blockades and strikes are giving license to senseless individuals willing to carry out sickening acts of violence.
Calling a further hartal at this time shows a deep lack of concern for public safety and gives the government a further excuse to stand firm. It would be better advised to keep its civil disobedience strategy purely peaceful.
This does not mean however that the government does not also share responsibility.
By not allowing meaningful political space to the BNP and permitting it to hold peaceful rallies in the capital last month, the government's very high-handedness has helped bring this situation about.
It is not sufficient for the prime minister to ask for more public support against violence, if the government does not itself work to calm the situation through its actions.
If the government is to gain public support in the long term, it cannot both lock up BNP leaders and blame them for violence.
It must use its authority to calm the situation through peaceful dialogue. The public needs all politicians to behave more responsibly.
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[SultanKnish] In a speech at the Department of Homeland Security, Obama declared that he wants to replace "mindless austerity" with "smart investments that strengthen America". Those smart investments scattered across a gargantuan $4 trillion budget include a $500 million Green Climate Fund for the Third World and $105 million to help the government build better websites.
Obama is fond of putting the word smart in front of stupid ideas to make them seem less stupid.
The $4 trillion budget is actually as stupid as the new left-wing Greek government elected on a platform of not paying its debts. This new government intends to replace the old policy of getting money in exchange for cutting spending with a new policy of not cutting spending and demanding money anyway. So far this new policy has been rejected by every country from Germany to China.
Greece has managed to spend itself into a debt that stands at 175 percent of its GDP. But of course we're Americans. Our smart government with its "common sense reforms" and eagerness to spend a vast fortune to build better websites couldn't possibly have dug us into a hole that deep.
Our debt-to-GDP ratio is only 101 percent. Under Bush, it stood at 64 percent. By the time the last election rolled around, it was nudging 100 percent.
But that's no reason for "mindless austerity". It's no reason to stop investing in things like spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help Third World countries buy crudely inefficient solar panels from China that will break down even before our economy does. Obama's idea of "smart" investments that "strengthen America" is to borrow money from China to buy things from China for other countries. That's not even a smart investment for China which has been reducing its holdings of US Treasury bonds because it's not all that confident in our "smart" investments.
#2
I would like to see a movement to restrict the budget to the previous years revenue. Revenue goes up, spending can go up; revenue goes down spending goes down.
None of this BS that bases future spending on present planned spending (when is a 5% increase a cut in spending? when you really wanted 10% more)
#7
Well, the fine print, err....the unreported details are that the budget includes proposals for $2.0 TRILLION in new taxes, AND a $875 BILLION Deficit.
That's a real whopper. SO with another $2.0 Trillion in taxes, which I do not think our economy can absorb, you have a $875 Billion deficit?
Unbelievable...the Dems will roll out the disabled, and the children, and the crumbling infrastructure (which I thought the stimulus and its shovel ready project BS was supposed to fix) and crumbling schools, and other fluffy bunny imagines to make the mean old Republicans look even more mean and old.
Let me repeat that Gentlemen, $2.0 TRILLION in new taxes AND a $875 BILLION Deficit in spending including the new taxes.
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OTOH see CHINESE MILITARY FORUM [Rock Solid Politics Blog] END OF DAYS [looms?] FOR [Global Ponzi-based = Current] WORLD ORDER?
VERSUS
* TOPIX, BIGNEWSNETWORK > IS PUTIN/RUSSIA MOVING BACK TO THE GOLD STANDARD?
Iff so, may be the best shot-in-the arm for Russia's economy + Putin's legacy???
#9
If I were a congress critter, it would be a good chance for some performance art. Have my staffers wheel a giant wood chipper up to the podium. Feed the entire packet in and yield the remainder of my five minutes to Mr Speaker.
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Semantics: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ... well, you get the idea. But not this White House, which called the Fort Hood massacre by a self-proclaimed jihadi yelling "Allahu Akhbar" "workplace violence."
Despite Army denials, desertion charges appear likely and imminent in the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his combat post in Afghanistan.
The White House line that we traded five Taliban generals for him because "we leave no man behind" is wearing thin. We do and should leave deserters behind, and if we ever get our hands on them, their fate is usually not a happy one. Neither should Bergdahl's be.
#4
It's not desertion; it's seeking opportunities to know the enemy better by living among him on an equal footing. Maybe things haven't worked out for him in the DOD, but I'm sure the State Dept likes the cut of his jib.
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HHHMMMM, HHHMMMM, wehell, to paraph OWG BRIC Girl PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA = TRIP TO BRAZIL" ABDUL, what does Penn State, Carlyle Group, + Madonna Fans remember about MAJOR HASAN???
#5
The planet has been gradually warming since the end of the last ice age, and will continue to do so until the next ice age. The whole idea that man is responsible for it is complete crap and is only being used to make us serfs and take away our rights and liberties.
#6
Watch yer wallet when the climate change thugs come to town.
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For some amusement, think of all the climate change Cassandras that you have heard (or read about) whining about recent "unprecedented" examples of warming - and then go read the press clippings - some of them going back more than 200 years - recounting virtually identical reports:
#10
[1950's THE THING = "KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES" = 21ST CENTURY "KEEP WATCHING THE SUN"].
Again, as per GWCC the greatest single threat from our mighty future OWG-NWO + OWG Govt-Pert consensus on same is that there is no consensus.
The above being said [again] the Globies are still moving forward wid setting up [Anti-US US-led] OWG + Global Federal Unions, + still widout formally asking the Voters = aka the People iff they want it or not.
Thus we have the Commies + aligned Marxists-socialists, special Interests likely FOOLISHLY?believing that Radical Islam's Global Jihad will end once the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoAmerika Global SSR is finally suborned to Communism + Commie-Socialist World Order.
I have seen NOTHING thus far to indicate the Commies + aligned, etal. can even control the Hard Boyz, which BTW the US-West are directly or indirectly helping to NUCLEARIZE.
IN THE NAME OF OWG + GLOBALISM + MARXIST-COMMIE-SOCIALIST WORLD ORDER [MWO-CWO-SWO], THE US-WEST - NON-MUSLIM WORLD IS HELPING TO NUCLEARIZE THOSE FORCES WHICH COULD EASILY TURN ON THEM + DESTROY THEM.
E.G. DESTROY THE ISIS NOW, OR ELSE SEE THE RISE OF THE [Nuclear] ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESSIAH/HIDDEN IMAM 2030-2050.
IRONY, LIKE MILPOL = GEOOL DIALECTICISM, IS A BITCH???
CHOOSING THE LESSOR OF TWO OR MORE [self-imposed] CATACLYSMS.
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Of course, I think you should follow the money to see who and what has benefited from this wholesale manipulation of data, i.e., baldfaced lies and falsehoods.
I don't remember too much of this global warming BS until Fat Albert Gore went private and started his multimillion dollar scam with carbon credits and such...
A lot of people are making major money off of this global warming crap...
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'So it is not unique to one group or one religion,' Obama said. 'There is a tendency in us, a simple tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.'
Imam Obama's words were an insult to Christians and the Christian faith, dressed to kill in the kind of rhetoric you would expect from an imam holding forth at a mosque, but never at the White House.
There were 3,600 in attendance, including those of other faiths. Not one of them rose in defense to set the record straight when Obama talked about the 'terrible deeds committed by people in the name of Christ'. And that, to me, is most troublesome.
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According to Obama terrible deeds are committed in the name of religions
Of course. And it's not out of order to point that out.
The controversy was phrasing it in language that's generally used when talking to and among leftists. It's not the first time. At the very least, Mr. Obama was inarticulate. At the worst, he was using his speech to cater to certain domestic sectors (political and the most likely reason,) and foreign interests.
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Not to mention (cause he didn't) the terrible deeds done by socialism in the 20th Century* (100 million dead and still counting), yet he remains on the high horse of socialism/Marxism/redistrubutionism.
* within human lifespan, not something several hundred years in the past.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Semantics: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ... well, you get the idea. But not this White House, which called the Fort Hood massacre by a self-proclaimed jihadi yelling "Allahu Akhbar" "workplace violence."
