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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE BIG STORY OF THE HOUR IS THE UNFORTUNATE EVENTS @ FORT HOOD, TX YESTERDAY which saw an Army psychiatrist of Islamic derivation (fodder galore for the "patriotic" Islamaphobes of conservative prolefeed, doubtless) go on a firearms rampage as would make the National Rifle Association (motto: "Happiness is a WARM gun!!") rather proud to the point of arrogant in its misinterpretation of the Second Amendment's supposed "right to keep and bear arms."
Which, in any event, left 13 dead and about twice as many hurt, including the would-be Charles Whitman (as was shot by a police officer, and is now under guard in hospital recovering from the wounds), whose explanation therefor is that he was upset @ all manner of Islamophobic and racist harrassment and taunting so directed, and wanted a cheap way to avoid imminent deployment to Afghanistan.
And when you get right down to it, expect the funerals of the martyred to feature "educational" protests from the so-called "Westboro Baptist Church" of Topeka, replete with all manner of absurd scaremongering about "G-d Hates Your Tears," "America Is Doomed," "Obama is the Antichrist," etc., etc., excused as being one with Saving America From Herself (but, when all is said and done, may actually be little more than a patsy to conceal certain insecurities on the part of Rev. Fred Phelps as may or may not involve child sexual abuse, incest, molestation or even "gay panic").
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ONLY HOURS PRIOR TO THE UNFORTUNATE EVENTS @ FORT HOOD, OVER IN WASHINGTON, what the prolefeed mongers known as Fox Prolefeed and conservative talkback radio hope to see as "preemptive action" against "Government Takeover of Healthcare" (a crucial vote therefor is set for tomorrow in the House of Representatives) attracted significantly and measurably fewer numbers of so-called "Real Americans" than organisers were expecting (many of them, it's now emerged, being bused in @ the expense of the so-called "Americans for Prosperity," a shill for the Koch oil-refining family and perhaps other elements among "the Four Hundred" hoping to use Joe Sixpack as unwitting dupes for the former's agenda and its articles of faith--a/k/a "astroturf" or, as such insist on being referred to, "tea party patriots," notwithstanding the perverted misreading of history excusing their agenda).
Said organisers including Rep. Michelle Bachmann and her closest media drookies, Fox Prolefeed being the most obvious in their (howbeit warped and misguided) application of the pro Deo, patria et familia platitude to be applied in case a Please Explain Letter comes along in the letterposts.
And need we remind all of you that "the Four Hundred," through the agency of "astroturf," are knowingly (all the while consciously denying, in line with the Principles of Doublethink) using an unwitting and unsuspecting (and @ once captive) audience of the socioeconomically-dispossessed and -dislocated (as in Joe Sixpack) to parrot articles of faith as are actually contrary to the interests of the "workers" they supposedly want us all to think they represent and defend (cf. Communist, Fascist and Nazi agendae and articles of faith along similar lines). And parrot them in the proper tone and nuance to maximise public impact and power, unaware of their being little more than pull-string dolls made all the more so by quasi-Scientologist methods and techniques.
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EVEN YOUR LOCAL BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU WILL TELL YOU THAT "HOME BUSINESS" AND "WORK-FROM-HOME" SCHEMES ARE ESPECIALLY OVERT during periods of wholesale socioeconomic instability, dislocation and/or uncertainty, targeting especially such as have been:
let go from the workforce because of current conditions;
have few or no realistically marketable job or career skills;
reside in lower-income or economically-displaced ZIP+4 areas; or
cannot find employment in the community because of external circumstances such as disability, mental disorders, need to care for infants or elderly relatives and dysfunctional background.
Especially so now with just-completed official calculations of unemployment in our "morally-superior" United States showing the October joblessness rate to be 10.2%, up from the 9.8% back in September and the first time unemployment has exceeded 10% since under the Great Miscommunicator's misguided agenda of "trickle-down" socioeconomic thought based on capitalism with American characteristics as Great White Father.
Even more horrorshow to the mountebanks and carpetbaggers of "keeping people busy" (or trying to) is the news that companies are now finding it more profitable to use fewer workers, as well as rely all the more on telecommuting and the Information Stuporbahn, as byproducts of their restructuring and reorganisation ... thereby leaving such with limited (@ best) work skills open to exploitation, all the while unaware of the schemes they're being targeted for in the name of keeping bread on the table--
risk significant and measurable loss of what little savings they may have to weird and unwholesome types;
make exaggerated earnings claims as may really be unattainable @ best;
are deliberately structured so that any realistic earnings among rank-and-file participants are limited while the ones "running the show" profit all the while;
overdo it on the Luddite angle (especially so when "home mailing" and "product assembly" schemes are offered) in misguided attempts to "make work" just to appease their (supposed) droogs among Fox Prolefeed and suchlike (all the while playing down the fact of automation and its efficiencies of scale actually negating any possibilities for big-big earnings);
overdo it on glowing generalities (and deliberately) to mislead and confuse, especially where reinforced by supposedly glowing-sounding "testimonials" from what turn out to be paid "singers" for the scheme who may not have been actually involved in the first place;
may offer only time-limited positions, notwithstanding claims that such allow you to stay on for as long as you desire; and
have potentially weird, unwholesome and/or dangerous associations which can easily take undue and unscrupulous advantage of the vulnerable, especially if they suddenly realise they've been taken to the proverbial cleaners and try to seek help.
And you also have "the power and potential of the Internet" coming into play as a hook to attract the unwary into misguided attempts to avoid being reduced to State charity, such to be seen by All Good Christians and Real Americans to be one with Moral Error, Defect and/or Lapse (as in all those scams invoking the good name and repute of Google, Twitter, Facebook and other hot names on the Information Stuporbahn, only to deny any actual associations therewith).
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CONSIDERING THE LEGENDARY "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" VIS-A-VIS WASHINGTON AND LONDON OF LONG DURATION, perhaps it was time that President Obama join British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call upon the Afghani Government of "re-elected" President Hamid Karzai to either clean its house of corruption, with its potential for undermining confidence and trust in the Afghan Government by the Afghani People and Nation, or face the abrupt withdrawal of its military presence within measurable distance.
Even if it means The Unthinkable Prospect of the Talebani exploiting such loss of public sentiment to the point of calling for armed insurrection as would have the Taleban reclaiming power--with another serious wave of corruption and abuse of power ensuing, financed all the more by the proceeds of opium poppy and cannabis cultivation and its respective end products of heroin, morphia and hashish.
Which is something that the hard-wired Zealots and True Believers in His Fraudulency's Misadministration as brought about the whole mess all the while should ponder for once, what with such having brought blood on their own hands and the National Debt made all the worse (so explaining my continuing offer to donate part of the online-shopping proceeds from this weblog to Reduction of the National Debt, something worth thinking about this holiday season, no?)
