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[Cosmic Cowbell]

"One by One, they'll hear my call. Then this wicked town, will follow my fall" ~ The Joker

[Jeff]

"I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster - I'm just ahead of the curve.”

[Sweejak]

Turner: What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Higgens: No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15 years -- food, plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

Turner: Ask them.

-- Three Days of the Condor

[mentalgongfu2]

"It is better to be a wounded lion than an impeccable flea."

-Russian proverb

[Sweejak]

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.

I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring ...

--- Leonard Cohen

[Occult Means Hidden]

(From Robert F. Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban Missle Crisis, 13 Days)

"Everything was going to work out satisfactorily... I went back to the White House and talked to the President for a long time. As I was leaving he said, making reference to Abraham Lincoln, 'This is the night I should go to the theatre.' I said, 'If you go, I want to go with you.'"

(And RFK's favorite quote:)

"Who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for the mortal good." - Keats

[chiggerbit]

"I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen."

-John Edwards, in 1999 regarding Bill Clinton's moral lapses

[MinM]

Wise words from Sean Hannity

“If you can’t keep a promise to your family, can’t keep a promise to your wife, you’re having an affair, you’re lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you’re not gonna lie to them? Why should we trust you?”

-- Sean Hannity

[MinM]

Wise words from John McCain

"In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations."

-- John McCain

[Jeff]

"I was still naked, and although I did not feel the least bit of shame, I was disturbed to realize that modesty had deserted me."

Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, Hiroshima Diary

[Byrne]

“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.”

Marshall McCluhan

[Sweejak]

No one knows what war is like other than my family, period."
-- Meghan McCain

"How could Stalin afford to buy all these factories?"
-- Franklin Roosevelt

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

"Are you telling me that until the day that the CIA confesses to drug trafficking, CNN's position is that these events may not even have happened?" I snapped. "What the fuck is that? When did we give the CIA the power to define reality?"

-Gary Webb in 2004
'The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays on' essay from 'Into the Buzzsaw.'

[barracuda]

"Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works"
-John Stuart Mill

[monster]

the mainstream media finds itself running from fire to fire reporting the resulting damage while completely missing what is the real story: There are arsonists on the loose

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