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Sweejak · Post by **Sweejak** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:25 pm

Britain's - and later America's- drive to conquest was foreshadowed unmistakably by Mackinder's cursory yet almost oracular mention of the several bridgeheads that the Sea Powers need to graft unto the heartland to draw out its armies in a deliberate sequence of separate clashes. To isolate each conflict, the targeted territorial portion had to be severed from its adjacent district, and bled white by prolonged strife waged in the name of political, religious, or ethnic diversity. Thus the Anglo-Americans have always acted: in Europe by spinning everybody against Germany (1904-45); in the Near East, by jamming Israel in the heart of the Arab world (1917-present); in the Far East, by planting thorns in the side of China: Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan (1950-present); in Central Asia by destabilizing the entire region into tribal warfare with the help of Pakistan to prevent the Caspian seaboard from gravitating into the Russian sphere of influence (1979-present).

... Imperial stratagems are protracted affairs. The captains of world aggression measure their achievements, or failures, on a timescale whose unit is the generation.

-- Guido Preparata, Conjuring Hitler, pg 16

monster · Post by **monster** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:42 am

"We have placed the first foundation stone of a new financial order," said chancellor Angela Merkel, underlining that nothing would ever be the same again in banking.

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Gouda · Post by **Gouda** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:51 am

"If you are not at the table, you are on the menu."

-- Who said that?

sprhoto · Post by **sprhoto** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:12 am

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because – it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. "

--Bill Hicks

Gouda · Post by **Gouda** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:24 pm

"Hemorrhoids are more popular than this man. Why is he making laws?"

-- Dave Zirin on the flurry of (90) new regulations Bush plans to pass before November 22nd -- one of those being a regulation that "would allow state and local law enforcement agencies to collect intelligence on individuals and organizations even if the information is unrelated to any criminal matter," according to Rachel Maddow.

Gouda · Post by **Gouda** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:22 pm

"Moral conviction scares the hell out of us. Hope is effortless. Thus, hope is still the order of the day. "

-- Joe Bageant, The Sucker Bait Called Hope - Making the best of a slow apocalypse

brekin · Post by **brekin** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:01 pm

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gouda · Post by **Gouda** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:30 pm

"It's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable amount of time..."

-- Bernard Madoff, speaking on a panel in October of 2007

monster · Post by **monster** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:00 pm

When a Carbon Tax or a Carbon Cap and Share program is announced the one thing that can be assumed is that it will be designed to make money for those who usually make the money all along. To believe that Washington or London have developed a more altruistic nature and suddenly want to save the world, is to deny decades of Political and economic history.

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kenoma · Post by **kenoma** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:11 pm

I remember two things he said especially: "Hopelessness is the disease of old men", and : "Bush and Blair are fucking cunts. You know, the English language has fantastic resource. Fucking cunts. Bush and Blair, fucking cunts. It is absolutely right for them."
He said this quite deliberately in a voice the whole restaurant would hear.

- Craig Murray on Harold Pinter

anothershamus · Post by **anothershamus** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:04 pm

"Goddamn Quotes anyway!", anothershamus.

Et in Arcadia ego · Post by **Et in Arcadia ego** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:10 pm

adrunkenshamus wrote:"Goddamn Quotes anyway!", anothershamus.

anothershamus · Post by **anothershamus** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:22 am

Goddamn Irish Whiskey!

Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:37 pm

"What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, the dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?" - Sterling Hayden

Joe Hillshoist · Post by **Joe Hillshoist** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:16 pm

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don’t have any substantive dimension to them.

- Kevin Rudd prime minister

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug.

- Geoffrey Blainey - Historian

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon feed them.

- Ian Kiernan - organiser of Clean up Australia Day

The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man's inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.

- Brian Penton - journalist

The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose.

- convict saying

Such is life. (Ned Kelly's last words.)

If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may now have a bright side.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown...let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

- Ned kelly

If you go out for a big night and by some misadventure you end up in a prison cell, you can count on your best friend to bail you out, but your best mate will be in there besides you.

- anon