COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Cairo, Jan. 29: Reacting to Egypt’s growing chaos, the head of the army warned today of the “collapse of the state” if political forces in the country did not reconcile, reflecting growing impatience with the crisis from Egypt’s most powerful institution. “The continuation of the conflict between different political forces and their disagreement on running the affairs of the country may lead to the collapse of the state and threatens the future of the coming generations,” said Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, who is also the defence minister. He added that “the attempt to affect the stability of the state institutions is a dangerous matter that harms Egyptian national security”.
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There is the US proxy, trying to steer a middle course.
ReplyDeleteThemilitary does control about 40% of their econoy
A llot like China, in that regard
Good to know that The Israeli forces compare favorably to the Egyptians. Well done!
ReplyDeleteHypocrite.
Delete" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ― George Orwell
San Antonio Police Beat Pregnant Woman
ReplyDelete10) Greenville County Police taser and punch 18-year-old in the face 13 times (Sep 26, 2009)
Greenville, SC - An 18-year old beaten over and over by an undercover police officer. As you watch and count the punches, you feel like "Wow, is he ever going to stop"?" Yes, the kid was at a known drug house and was possibly buying drugs or maybe had some sort of connection with drugs, but damn! As a user he's actually more a victim than a perp.
9) LAPD Officers Slam Defenseless Cuffed Woman to Ground (August 29, 2012)
A security camera from Del Taco captured this footage of a nurse, Michelle Jordan, being pulled over on a routine traffic stop (she was texting on her cell-phone while driving) and handled quite excessively by two officers. Fast-forward to view the bruises on her face and body brought on by the police officers use of excessive force. Note the officers, who included a 20-veteran with the rank of commander, fist-bumping after each man had tackled her.
8) Police Officer Attacks Grandmother at Hooters (Nov 18, 2010)
Fast forward to about 1:00 in the clip to see where the off-duty police officer starts getting rough with this grandmother and Hooters patron in Oak Lawn, Illinois. It all started over an issue with the bill, which got completely out of hand.
7) Denver Police Brutality Caught on Tape, Camera Pans Away... (August 17, 2010)
The video surveillance you see here was actually recorded by the police officer's own equipment. Knowing that, it's very interesting how the camera pans away, just as the officer begins pummeling the innocent bystander talking on his cell phone.
6) Officer Beats Special Ed Student Over an Un-tucked Shirt (Oct 27, 2010)
A special needs kid, 15-year old Marshawn Pitts, was at the wrong place at the wrong time in Dolton, Illinois. What began as verbal abuse over something as silly as his shirt not being tucked in, led to strong physical abuse and a broken nose at the hands of an "unidentified police officer".
5) Houston Police Beat Handcuffed 15-Year-Old Boy (Feb 7, 2011)
ReplyDeleteThe end of a pursuit is caught on a security camera, where 15-year old Chad Holley falls on the ground and surrenders. I don't think the cops want it to be that easy on him" Watch while he lays there with his hands on top of his head only to get kicked about a hundred times and have his head stomped in.
4) Rhode Island Police Officer Kicks Woman in Handcuffs (Sep 2, 2012)
Here we have a 2009 case where a Rhode Island police officer (Edward Krawetz) kicked a woman in the face, while she sat handcuffed on the ground. The video surveillance only recently went public. Officer Krawetz was convicted of "felony battery with a dangerous weapon" and sentenced to a 10-year suspension -- an unusually stiff response to police brutality, which is probably only because the incident was recorded. Significantly, this was actually not his first assault charge (the other's weren't recorded).
3) Police Turn Off Security Camera and Beat Woman to Bloody Pulp (Sep 23, 2009)
This woman was taken into the police station under "suspicion of DWI." She had just gotten in a wreck and the police assumed that alcohol was involved. Fast forward and you'll see the Shreveport, Louisiana officer turn off the surveillance camera and when it comes back on, you'll notice the woman lying in a pool of her own blood.
2) Kelly Thomas - Fatal Police Brutality of Homeless Man with Schizophrenia (May 8, 2012)
Kelly Thomas is a schizophrenic drifter who was tased and brutally beaten to death by officers Manuel Ramos and Corporal Jay Cicinelli. It was recorded using surveillance video taken from the Fullerton, California, Transportation Center.
1) Eugene Gruber - Police Brutality and Killing: Jail Security Footage - Chicago (Apr 18, 2012)
"What is "Occupation"Tue Jan 29, 10:43:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteTo compare the selflessness of Americans or Israelis as compared to Islamists that seek REWARD in heaven for murdering the infidel is sick...
really sick"
Why is it sick? Is it because Americans and Israelis are fighting for a just cause but the jihadis are fighting for an unjust cause?
cant answer deuce will delet me..
Deletelol
too fucking funny
Hell he never deleted me...
DeleteNor Me...
DeleteHe deleted me...
DeleteHe never deleted me...
DeleteYou had three hours to sunstantiate an outrageous and libelous claim that you said appeared on this blog. You lost.
DeleteI can search all comments deleted by posters. They do not appear on the comments section. They are however archived with all other comments. The comments that you assert we're made are not on this blog. You find them and I will post them. If you do not know the difference between someone claiming to be a lesbian and you accusing someone of murder, that speaks for itself.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you look on the Blogger Interface?
DeleteAnyway we should stop the F-16 and tank sales. But we won't.
ReplyDeleteWhy Hagel was chosen -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/hagel_and_a_nuclear_iran_--_perfect_together.html
Sounding indistinguishable from Noam Chomsky or Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former Sen. Chuck Hagel agreed in an Al Jazeera interview that the United States is "the world's bully" and has depicted Israel as a cruel oppressor, yet appears to have little similar concern about the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.
To the contrary, Hagel has gone so far as to argue that any government (even an openly genocidal jihadist regime) possessing such a weapon would naturally respond to the gravity of their new responsibility with common sense, prudence, and sanity.
Hagel's depiction of the U.S. and Israel as the world's chief troublemakers and jihadists as benign eerily echoes the worldview of Michael Moore, who has declared "Americans kill people," Israelis "know they are wrong," and "There is no [Islamic] terror threat." It comes as no surprise that Moore, the Iranian regime, Time magazine's Joe Klein, David Duke, Oliver Stone, and others in the progressive-Islamist-neo-Nazi alliance endorse Obama's "bipartisan" choice for defense secretary. Leading Democratic senators are on board, along with the online activists of the "white nationalist" Stormfront, where one member cited Hagel's "Let the Jews pay for it" quote, and wrote, "I love this guy!" You can't say Obama hasn't brought people together.
Through rain, snow, sleet, business calls.......
tata
GDP -0.1%...
DeleteSantelli: 'We Are Now Europe'...
Dems: 'Best-Looking Contraction in U.S. GDP You'll Ever See'...drudge
I love counter/cyclical
Shit, according to NeO he filed a criminal complaint with the FBI. They would have run a word search of the Google arcive. SOP with a Criminal complaint.
ReplyDeleteThe FBI never interviewed me. Never contacted Deuce, the site administrator.
NeO claims of criminal transgressions, totally delusional.
Or ...
... he did not file a complaint
A double down liar.
Quote & Unquote
notice deuce leaves this trash up...
DeleteI get deleted
" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ― George Orwell
lol
rat's statements are personal attacks and libelous
DeleteYou deleted my statements and yet his remain,
tsk tsk.
shame shame shame on you...
I told you to check with LtCol Noth for a list of names.
ReplyDeleteI never confirmed or denied working for Ollie
Just that I had been in El Salvador, concurrently, and had friends there.
The SoA program working to the benefit of US interests.
You, NeO claimed I had acted criminally.
I said...
Never charged nor convicted
Neither a denial nor admission of criminal activity..you jump to unwarrented conclusions, based upon your warped perspective.
Have a great day
Quote & unquote
That conforms with my memory of the discussion.
DeleteThat was later, Ash. In the days of rationalization, so to speak. I remember that as well. The original sin comment was much earlier.
DeleteI wish the wife would get ready. It isn't worth reading this stuff.
Yesterday I noticed WiO started out with four comments then two went missing without even a taken down by blog administrator or taken down by commenter notice. Just poof, vanished. Anybody else notice this? Or was I dreaming.
Ahhh, the blessed sound of the hair dryer.....
ReplyDeleteI was reading 'The Christian World of the Hobbit' last night.
DeleteBy one Devin Brown.
The world view is all through it, just deeply buried.
Former CEO Of Playboy Blames Chicago’s High Murder Rate On Global Warming
ReplyDeleteWhen discussing gun violence in Chicago, Hefner went into a diatribe, explaining how climate change has increased temperatures, therefore leading to heightened levels of violence.
Hefner works closely with the Center for American Progress
Ash said:
ReplyDelete"Is it because Americans and Israelis are fighting for a just cause but the jihadis are fighting for an unjust cause?"
What is your opinion?
I think they all risk their lives because they think their cause is right.
DeleteThat's what they think.
DeleteWhat do you think?
I don't think their causes are worth dieing for.
DeleteMany of those "Jewish" extremists are bound and determined to build their homes and gardens on land outside of Israeli borders.
DeleteI'm not trying to say a suicide bomber and an Israeli soldier dieing for country is equivalent but the motivations as similar - they both believe the cause they are fighting for is worth the risk of death. What their individual beliefs of what happens after death are debatable. Many Americans and, I believe, many Jewish folk believe that the deeds they do here while alive have meaning after death - they are, in a sense, rewarded for those deeds done alive.
more so if their 'good' deeds done alive cost them their life.
DeleteMany of those "Jewish" extremists are bound and determined to build their homes and gardens on land outside of Israeli borders.
Deleteisrael has no borders.
those extremists are building on Historic Jewish lands that have had Jews living on them for 3000 years. That's about 2800 longer than Canada has existed
Yeah, they are building in biblical Palistine, Eretz Israel, yet those settlements are outside of Israel's borders. Those settlers then want their settlements to be considered within Israel's borders, protected by the Israeli military, free passage for them to Israel ect. As Ariel Sharon referred to the ever expanding Israel "facts on the ground".
DeleteJerusalem?
DeleteIsrael certainly has no legitimate claim to all of Jerusalem - that is why most nations in the world refuse to acknowledge it as a captial city and they won't put their embassies there.
DeleteWell, "legitimate claim" may not be the right phrase - they've got a claim they think legitimate but so do others.
DeleteAsh the Jewish Quarter, the OLD city, the Temple Wall all is denied by the world.
DeleteIn Hebron the Tomb of the Patriarchs is denied by the world
The Tomb of Jacob denied by the world.
There ya go, Jew's most import 3 sites, all denied by the world
And to the world the Jews say?
FUCK OFF
So?
Dear ash
Deletei apologize, if only we would allow ourselves to die then you and yours could claim every square inch of Jewish soil everywhere for yourselves.
The world has no right to impose it's opinion.
DeleteNor to the invading, looting arabs that are just one of a dozen others that hold no real native status.
you yourself are occupying other's lands.
America? all squatting looters...
Arabs are from Arabia.
Blacks? Go back to africa...
Arabs? Get the heck out of everywhere and go back to arabia...
Why should the Jews not have the same rights as you looters?
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ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON — Jobless Americans are paying millions in unnecessary fees to collect unemployment benefits because of state policies encouraging them to get the money through bank-issued payment cards, according to a new report from a consumer group.
People are using the fee-heavy cards instead of getting their payments deposited directly to their bank accounts. That's because states issue bank cards automatically, require complicated paperwork or phone calls to set up direct deposit and fail to explain the card fees, according to a report issued Tuesday by the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit group that seeks to protect low-income Americans from unfair financial-services products. An early copy of the report was obtained by The Associated Press...
In five states — California, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland and Nevada — unemployed people aren't offered direct deposit at all. The report says that setup is illegal under a federal law that bars states from requiring benefits recipients to open an account at a particular bank...
Banks make more money when more people use the cards. In the past, some of their deals with states prevented states from offering direct deposit, or required states to promote the card program as a first option.
To cover the cost of issuing cards and running the programs, banks charge a plethora of fees, including charges for balance inquiries, phone calls to customer support, leaving an account inactive for a period of months, or making a purchase using a personal identification number...
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/finance/20130129/US.Unemployment.Card.Fees/?cid=hero_media
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"leaving an account inactive for a period of months, or making a purchase using a personal identification number"
ReplyDeleteThat sounds reasonable:
You use it, you pay.
You don't use it, you pay.
That plus QE 5 should keep the TBTF guys afloat.
lol
ReplyDeletescrubbed again...
" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ― George Orwell
gots to love this site...
ReplyDelete" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ― George Orwell
truth hurts..
ReplyDeletedelete it
lol
ReplyDeletethanks deuce for PROVING my point...
" If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. " ― George Orwell
I am a ghost in the machine...
ReplyDeleteJust like hitler did to the Jews..
Erased them..
but we live on.. No matter if deuce likes it or not...
NEO, that Orwell quote is in regard truth telling. Which it seems you are incapable of.
ReplyDeleteNow you have morphed, from Candyman II, The Sequel int the 'Ghost in the Machine.
Fancifully delusional
Quote & Unquote
This is a personal attack and is libelous
DeleteOne standard for me, and no standards for anyone else??
Rat you lied the day you were born and never stopped....
ReplyDeleteDoubt you know much about births, Israel being an abortion mill, murdering Jewish souls and all.
DeleteHigher abortion rates than the US, anyway.
Thanks for sending that complaint to the Phoenix office of the FBI.
EXONORATION , that was nice of you to provide.
Choosing a third party that Google is compliant to, masterful.
That after reviewing the Elephant Bar archives no action was taken, well proves that I was right, all along.
Thanks, again
The USA leads the way in abortions.... Rates are nonsense.
DeleteThe actual amounts of human souls snuffed out by America dwarfs all others...
55 MILLION since Roe v Wade..
you can stick to your "rates" but we all know that that's pure nonsense.
Unless you can figure out a way of saying that American souls are less valuable than Israeli ones????
As for your jailhouse lawyer double speak? you prove you are the convict we all think you are....
Nothing PROVES you are right about the FBI knowing what a creep you are. Sometimes things take time.
Just because the FBI hasnt "interviewed" you in YOUR timechart doesnt mean anything.
i am sure that the threats you make are duly noticed. After all if you are who you brag you say you are I am sure the FBI has a file on an private black ops merc like you....
Does the high abortion rate, combined with the high immigration rate an attempt to jump start an economy through avoiding the high costs of child rearing acruing to the government in a socialist State.
ReplyDeleteBetter that they have battle ready immigrants than native born children.
Talking about America of course?
DeleteAmerica leads the world in absolute murder of souls..
Makes ya proud doesnt it....
No doubt the US leads Israel in absolute numbers.
ReplyDeleteBut rates are important, they set the tone.
The abortion rate in the US tells me that the greatest threat to US, is US.
Not illegal immigrants, not ObamaCare and certainly not Islam or Iran.
The statement up thread, true for most of the 'Civilized West'
It certainly fits Israel, as the greater the socialism in a country, the more the government discourages marriage and child rearing. Israel on of the more socialist of the 'West'. Modeled after the Eastern Europeon utopias.
The only real question here is what happened to the Ur-statement. Because there was an Ur-statement, of that I am positive.
ReplyDeleteMy hunch is that it was scrubbed by the maker of the statement.
All this other stuff is beside the point.
The fellow from Arizona always brings up abortion, as he thinks he can somehow stick it to his hated Jews that way.
Israel it seems today has the same basic laws regarding that topic as the rest of the western world.
I do not think the fellow from Arizona really cares about abortion. He is, after all, affiliated with the Libertarian Party.
It was wonderful when he was gone, so peaceful, thoughtful, quiet.
Now he is back it is back to being not worth reading, again.
So I am not going to read it the rest of the evening.
My friend is in the hospital now. That gives me something worthwhile to do tomorrow.
....
By the way, the Christian influence in The Hobbit and the other books is not dogmatic nor creedal. It is more in the way of an affirmation of providence working its way through human affairs, the better slowly winning out over the worse, or worst. Which doesn't make things a rose garden.
That is why the 'Rate' is such an important guide to the level of social courseness in any particular country.
ReplyDeleteThe US, at 330 million is bound to be unrefined, but that 6 'illion of the whirled's self proclaimed elitists are less civilized than US, remarkable!
Percentage of Pregnancies Aborted by Country
Delete(countries listed by percentage)
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 12 March 2012
Percent of known pregnancies ending in legal abortions, most recent data (in order of decreasing percentage)
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/wrjp334pd.html
According to this Israel's rate of abortion is much less than THE USA...
Greenland
Delete2010
49.8
Guadeloupe
2009
42.3
Russia
2010
39.9
Cuba
2009
39.5
Nagorno-Karabakh
2007
38.1
Romania
2010
32.4
Estonia
2010
30.9
Hungary
2010
30.9
Martinique
2009
30.8
Bulgaria
2010
29.5
Georgia
2010
29.0
Cocos Islands
1978
28.6
Belize
1996
28.0
Latvia
2010
27.9
Moldova
2010
26.8
Ukraine
2010
26.2
French Guiana
2009
25.8
Korea, South (ROK)
1999
25.6
New Caledonia
2006
24.9
China (PRC)
2009
24.6
Sweden
2010
24.6
Serbia
2010
24.4
Singapore
2010
24.1
Belarus
2010
23.6
Reunion
2009
23.5
Seychelles
2009
23.0
Kazakhstan
2010
22.4
Slovakia
2010
22.2
United States
2008
22.2
there it is...
Delete22.2% of all US pregnancies end in abortion....
And now...
DeleteArmenia
2010
21.5
France
2009
20.9
New Zealand
2010
20.7
United Kingdom
2010
20.7
Norway
2010
20.4
Canada
2008
20.3
Denmark
2010
20.2
Australia
2009
19.6
Vietnam
2008
18.7
Spain
2010
18.6
Jersey
2007
17.8
*
Slovenia
2009
17.6
Japan
2009
17.3
Macedonia
2010
17.3
Italy
2010
17.1
Albania
2010
17.0
Czech Republic
2010
17.0
Turkey
2008
17.0
Iceland
2010
16.6
Mayotte
2006
16.6
Lithuania
2010
16.4
Portugal
2010
16.1
Mongolia
2010
15.9
Finland
2010
14.4
Azerbaijan
2010
13.9
Guernsey
2009
13.9
*
Germany
2010
13.8
Dominican Republic
2005
13.7
Guyana
2007
13.2
Andorra
1995
13.0
Taiwan (ROC)
1999
13.0
Belgium
2009
12.9
*
Hong Kong
2009
12.8
Greece
2007
12.7
Netherlands
2010
12.6
Switzerland
2010
12.1
Bahrain
2002
11.4
Anguilla
2005
11.2
Isle of Man
2010
11.1
*
Israel
2010
10.5
Yep Israel has 1/2 the rate of America
desert ratWed Jan 30, 05:42:00 PM EST
DeleteDoubt you know much about births, Israel being an abortion mill, murdering Jewish souls and all.
Higher abortion rates than the US, anyway.
I think you have been PROVEN wrong.
Blow it out your ass blowhard, bully....
This may be difficult for you to understand. You have right to tell the truth here and the truth will stand. You have a right to express an opinion whether I like it or not and it too will stand. You have no right to make false personal accusations. They will be removed. You were given three hours to back them up and you failed. Keep it up and I will scrub anything you write on this site. You have no right to make personal attacks that are libelous. They will also be scrubbed.
ReplyDeleteOne standard for all
DeleteNot one standard for the jew and none for anyone else
Other's make personal attacks but that's ok?
The previous comment was directed at Wio.
ReplyDeleteso how does this fit into your ideal???
Deletedesert ratWed Jan 30, 05:42:00 PM EST
Doubt you know much about births, Israel being an abortion mill, murdering Jewish souls and all.
Higher abortion rates than the US, anyway.
This aint slanderous? This is not libelous?
Ever hear of the BLOOD LIBEL???
desert ratWed Jan 30, 08:41:00 PM EST
DeleteThat is why the 'Rate' is such an important guide to the level of social courseness in any particular country.
The US, at 330 million is bound to be unrefined, but that 6 'illion of the whirled's self proclaimed elitists are less civilized than US, remarkable!
remarkable lies....