Thanks for you good work Tim
What a total cesspool!
So discouraging… How can we have any “hope” when the corruption is so deep.

na, big industry wouldn’t use their billions of dollars to prevent something that would benefit everyone for their own selfish needs.

Petroleum, Electric Utilities and Automotive wouldn’t collude to prevent the implementation of gasoline saving measures just because they have billions of dollars invested in each other. No, of course not

Why is it that when liberals organize community activism it is supposedly legitimate grassroots versus when coservatives do it, it is calledd ginned up astroturf?

Jed Clampett

Because when the populace does it, it is for the benefit of all and encompasses people of all stripes and credos, joined in hands for freedom, liberty.

When conservatives do it, it is to manipulate a few radicals into raising a clamor in order to prevent realistic debate and enacting realistic solutions to a problem. The purpose being to help the oligarchy maintain, or conserve, an undeserved grip on power with the tightly clenched fist of greed.

Follow the money is usually productive. Philip Morris is famous for having “more money than God” and using it to kill law it doesn’t like. The money tells you how, and the industry memos tell you why. Thanks for connecting the dots on this one. I bet there are more to be connected.

If people live longer won’t they be able to smoke MORE cigarettes? If I was the CEO of PM I would want a health care system that would get a 3 pack a day smoker to 100yrs old!

I would just like to say “THANK YOU RIO!!!” Now Daley will have to find some other way to rob the Chicago taxpayers.

The only thing bigger than Oprah’s fat butt and the Olympic delegation’s carbon footprint is Barack’s ego. Without a doubt this is going to get chalked up to 8 years of Bush, blah, blah, blah. Fuking liberals never get tired of that one.

Tim, great piece.

Anonymous: The difference in the two ‘grassroots’ efforts lies in the ‘hiring’ practices and the reasons for the protest. Liberal organizations usually want change. Conservative organizations usually want status quo.. or worse

Tim, can we get a piece about the recent ACLU lawsuit regarding the Oklahoma City bombing security tapes? Seems they were all edited to delete 2+ minutes before and after the bombing.

Can’t find any investigative pieces on it, and I can’t figure out why. That, to me, is pretty big news. What could the FBI be hiding?????

They don’t care eric, there’s a new fool born every second waiting to be hooked by one of the most harful drugs in America. You think the alcohol purveyors care how many people their product kills? How many brains get turned into swiss cheese? All they care is about money now, if we all die tomorrow, they consider themselves winners because they had it all in the end. Five thousands years as a tree would be the deserved reward for that ‘winner’, perhaps being locked into an eternal existence as a dung beetle, never again reaching the higher expressions of life.

Jed Clampett

Two major earthquakes in a week, one generating a Tsunami wave that leveled the greater part of an island, an American protectorate. Hey, is Terra assaulting ‘American Interests’?
But that is so far away, and happening to people that are so ‘different from us’ that it is difficult to empathize.
A man-bird-pig epidemic is spreading over the land, how did the body fluids of a human, a bird, and a pig come together? That must have been one hell of a deviant’s orgy… or the work of a very special corporate lab. How do you make a vaccine for something that mutates so quickly? Who cares? Sell me my dose so I can be safe.

Perhaps we need a sign closer to home to get us to take conscience of how everyone and everything are connected, and that we should be excellent to each other, to give so that we might receive.
Please don’t be angry at how she teaches a people that refuse to learn.

Read the post @ Anonymous | 10/3/2009, 2:43 am EST. This is a perfect example of why you Americans are unable to accomplish real progress on any issue. Americans have been dumbed down by their ridiculous media and poor educational system. Now they are unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Underneath all of the other problems there is this giant culture swallowing leviathan. The rest of the world has to live at the mercy of nation that is governed by corrupt thieves who are elected by a mentally deficient, superstitious, paranoid population.

Jed Clampett

Michael Vick trained dogs to fight to the death, provided hte arena for them to fight in, then made money off of their killing and dying, finally, he buried the bodies of the dead and got rid of the injured unless they were good enough to fight again. When caught he was punisched with 2 years in prison.
Politicians do the same with people, but instead of punishment, they are considered patriots, get reelected and make a great living after congress working in the same industries they once regulated.
HMMM!!

Yes, that’s a dumb one for sure, but the rest of us Americans are not all that way. Some of us are trying to make things work in spite of the obvious impediment of a fantasy indulged, attention deficient, easily provoked culture. America may appear a confederacy of dunces, but there are decent people out there who are not too steeped in ideology and/or saturated with nonsense to form worthy opinions about the state of our world. Please do not generalize from this singular instance of an idiot with a big mouth.

No, offense itended to individual Americans. However, you must realize that your country has so many imbeciles who babble utter stupidity for no better reason than to enjoy the sound of their own voices that the “impediment” almost certainly cannot be overcome. It is a positive feedback loop that will only get worse with time. If you will, stupidity in a democracy is an infectious disease and once a critical mass is reached in the population the patient will soon be overcome.

Whatever the FBI is hiding, they consider it a matter that could endanger national security… read that as; it could incense people to such a degree that they would revolt or demand that certain groups be dismantled… corporate influence agency perhaps?

Something is definitely not right there, being that the OK bombing was the first of seven thunders, there is something very important being kept from the public. Probably evidence of serious corruption.

Jed Clampett

Tim, finally had an opportunity to read your piece on “The Lie Machine”… excellent!!
Love the way you used the internal documents of the industries involved to expose those who are abusing their right to ‘free speech’ to actually spread disinformation and prevent the American public from making an intelligent, well informed decision.
Apparently, the leadership of the Reich Wing has no problem in usurping the right of the people, to lie and deceive, with the intent of stealing the power that rightfully belongs to the populace.

In case you didn’t notice, Stanley McChrystal just showed that the Reich Wing has their supporters in the military who are willing to sidestep presidential power.
Watch out, their coup, which they seem to have modeled after the Taliban and that which they have implemented in other countries, the one in Honduras being the most recent, may just be brought into it’s violent side.
The recovery we so desperately need to bring us back to a prospering democracy has been derailed by those with economic power and the apparent authority to misappropriate and prevent the funds disbursed from reaching the entities that would have the greatest positive impact… guess who they vote for.

Jed Clampett

Remember me being all nervous at the end of June about an attack on Dallas that might change the skyline? I knew I was being followed after my visit to downtown and videotaping the skyline, now I understand why.

Seems my instincts were right-on once again, we’ve recently learned about a plot against one of our buildings here. Seems the original attack date was July 16, pretty close to the fourth of July.

Seems the FBI trolled the usual web sites and was able to lure Smadi, a mentally disturbed 19 yo that was easily made to think he was acting with a terrorist organization instead of a ‘law enforcement’ agency.
The FBI provided the motivation, the implements, the planning and the triggering device; the perpetrator merely volunteered to be manipulated into pulling the trigger, stellar!! I guess that’s what passes for investigative work these days. Makes one wonder about the real plots are being ignored because resources were wasted on this putz. I guess they would make Chris Hansen proud… ‘wait, don’t leave, have a seat… just have a seat and talk to me.’ (’To Catch a predator’, did you notice that series ended when a cop blew his brains out after becoming a suspect?)
I wonder how far they would have been willing to take it. Arrest him after the event to impress the need for greater funding? A little political football to be kicked down the field? Some pretty evil people around us my friends, they don’t care who they hurt or what crimes they commit to prove a point or gain a personal advantage. Law enforcement have realized that they can do whatever they want without real scrutiny, the ends justify the means, as I’ve personally experienced recently.

How many other conspirators have they arrested along with the ‘radical’? Apparently, this guy was easy to entrap, but then again, there are many like that in our world, there wouldn’t be volunteers in either side of the ‘War on Terra’ if this wasn’t so.

I wonder what those two minutes that have disappeared from the OK city tapes actually show.
Where’s the truth? Is that what is being hidden?
In the words of Nicholson… ‘you can’t handle the truth’(A Few Good Men)

Jed, why don’t you give it a rest, man? As was pointed out above, the stuff you’re posting only serves to make the average American look stupid. If political strategists and politicians themselves use forums like this one to interpret public opinion, it is not surprising that we’re treated like idiots when there are people like you upchucking their stupidity all over the place.

Jed Clampett

The average American is not stupid, they are apathetic. An apathy created by television and an advertising industry well versed in psychology and how to create unthinking consumers, and the necessity of working two or more jobs to make ends meet; a necessity to have both parents working in order to meet the most basic standard of living, preventing them from paying attention to their governance, forcing them to send their children to a day care that is merely a profit center designed to make money rather than provide the nation’s children with the social and learning skills necessary to make sense of the real world or even perceive reality betwixt all the PR spin.

America’s children are woefully undereducated and falling fast, this doesn’t make them stupid, merely ignorant. A person is not stupid for not knowing a different way of being, they merely act in the way the television has taught them. Sure, some excel and rise above the flock, fly over the roost; unfortunately the ones below are attempting to shoot them down, jealous of their ability to soar and too stupid to realize that an Eagle flies above them rather than a Chicken hawk.

I say… I say son, do you get what I’m trying to tell ya?

Yea Jed, just kick back and relax. Just watch the world go to hell, SNAP!!

Nothing here to see, carry on, don’t worry about it, you can’t and shouldn’t do anything about it.

Loosing your rights? don’t worry about it, you’ll have nice rules and regulations on the public to protect corporate greed.
Carry on. Were smarter than you because we like to keep it safe and put it on the hands of the pigs and dogs.

Welcome to the sausage factory.

Jed is lying. This summer he went to a lot of trouble to make his imagined audience think he was being followed by some group of haters. Either he is a paranoid nutcase or he’s just pathetically trying to add excitement to an otherwise deprived existence. Anyway, he talked about being harassesd on the Houston METRail. He didn’t have anything to say about Dallas. It’s all archived. You see, he’s full of crap about EVERYTHING. He desperately wants your attention and will write anything to get it.

How come no thread on Obama’s lab coat costume party?

@ Blow Job

In my opinion, Jed makes a LOT more sense than many of the people posting on this site. Houston, Dallas, what difference does it make? I’ve experienced the same type of harassment from the “law” as he has, and I’m a white, arian-looking man. I’ve also noticed the militarization of our local police forces who seem more intent on levying hefty fines and obstructing freedom than serving or protecting. But, as is usually the case, since you can’t relate to what he’s saying or disagree with his viewpoint, it’s much easier to paint him as crazy or unpatriotic than to pull your head from your arse and really see what’s going on around you, or even rationally discuss the issue to possibly find some common ground. Don’t wait for the bubble you live in to burst before realizing that you don’t know everything.

Jed Clampett

Thank you for the support Burn Daddy, If you go to my you tube channel (7sArts), you will see the intro to my experience with Police Harrasment (Authorita – intro) in the Dallas Area and other places, Part 1 coming soon. Meanwhile, follow the sites I’ve subscribed to understand a little of my motivations. StopAndLook channel has a lot of info on civil rights in a republic/democracy and the contrast of individualism/collectivism… enjoy and learn if you are so inclined, his stuff is really well done.

Peace, it’s conducive to learning and understanding. War is not.

Houston, Dallas, what difference does it make? Uh, almost 300 miles I reckon. You claim foreknowledge of a botched terrorist attack in Dallas, and support this claim by referencing a statement you never made. Ergo, you are a liar. You are also unpatriotic and crazy, but that has already been established.

Jed Clampett

Those who have been following know the reality beyond some ‘Hand Job’ liar that merely lands on these boards to denigrate those who are attempting to help the majority instead of funneling power to the few as you are doing.

I live in Dallas and it was Dallas I was nervous about before fourth of July. I never claimed to have foreknowledge, just a feeling that the maniacs who want to send our world into global conflict for the benefit of their masters were planning something major. If I had prior knowledge, you can bet your arse I would have exposed them, I would have felt stupid if I could have prevented something that harms many innocents because of apathy or fear.
It was not a botched terrorist attack, as is now clear to anyone with two brain cells left in their head, but an entrapment by FBI of a putz that was spewing hatred on message boards much the way you Reich Wingers enjoy doing all over the internet.
Hmm, you call me crazy, what evidence do you have? Prove it, search the internet for proof and you won’t find any. In fact, you don’t have any proof that you are sane either. Even if there were evidence to either case, you wouldn’t accept it because you are demented, you won’t accept anything that is contrary to your imagined reality, and will use all the tactics associated with evil to disprove and denigrate those who don’t accept your vile sense of reality and the unhealthy way you and those of your kind deal with adversity; opposition with violence, lies, deceit, subversion, etc. etc. All those things that the usurpers of power do to get their way. Those that use violence to take away the civil rights of common people, the human rights of the population, the dignity of those they consider lesser human beings don’t deserve the lable of American, they are traitors that don’t understand the most basic premise of their nation. They have chosen to forget them out of fear or simply never learned them out of sheer selfish ignorance.

There’s a program about what happened in Chile in ‘73 playing right now. Watch it and you might realize what your future looks like if you don’t change course soon. The specter of Terrorism was used as an excuse to subvert authority just as was done under the Bush administration. McChrystals statements the other day were an indication of the division within the military and how the corporate structure has convinced some in the military that they would be patriotic to act against the government, the media is being used to convince many in the general public… all they need is a vocal few to enact their plan.
Take it from someone who has lived it before and has studied how it’s been used in other countries, the US is being primed for a hostile coup. Only the people, those with the real power, can prevent it. But it will not happen from the comfort of your armchair sitting in front of the TV or PC.
The president is being painted as being devoid of political capital, that means they have taken away the support of the people, a prime excuse for a coup even though they didn’t think that when Bush was at 20%. The only way to counter that is to send your emails of support to the white house, and attempts to convince your senators and congressmen to support our choice of leader. We hold all the political capital and must make a vocal point of making him a loan, otherwise we will be bankrupt, given the current economic climate, seems that is exactly what is being planned, no?
If that tactic fails, sending emails of support and condemnation, we must walk the streets every weekend until it is clear what the public wants. We must drown out the insistent, droning, shrill voices of O’really, LimpBought, Breck etc etc etc.