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Regime-speak

You're about to be lied to by the regime when they say ...

growing support for
mounting opposition to
the reality is
the larger question is
the more important question is
the bigger issue is
broader implications
our nation's children
fully funded
linked to
touched by
raising awareness
on some level
not value neutral
demand action
a new study shows
in denial
comprehensive
marginalized
the American People
sends a message
reaching out
inappropriate
off our streets
history shows
the failed ...
arguably
greater diversity
disenfranchised
people of color
insensitivity
social justice
cycle of poverty
most vulnerable
disproportionately
economically disadvantaged
disparate impact
oppressed minorities
the struggle for
solidarity with
outreach
stakeholders
shared values
root cause
working families
underserved populations
diverse backgrounds
vibrant community
too many
too often
a hand up
cycle of poverty
cycle of violence
give back
a positive step
positive outcome
best practices
non-partisan, non-profit
speaking truth to power
making a difference
statistics show
emerging consensus
a poll by the highly respected
reaffirm our commitment to
voicing concern
are speaking out
redouble our efforts
giving voice to
empower
enhance
making bad choices
have issues
divisive
inclusive environment
commonsense solutions

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Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Tactics of the Left

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy.

Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag.

Rule 8: Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period.

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Rule 10: Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

Rule 11: If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

Rule 12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

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Unknown artist for today

A Wintry Moon, John Grimshaw, oil on canvas, 1886

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893) was a moderately successful Victorian era painter who advanced the Nocturnes genre within the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He's one of Remus's favorites - sharp focus, high contrast embedded in receding planes of mist, it's a great schtick. The genre has seen a revival of late but it appears to have fallen into less capable hands. Like everything else.

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What allegedly happened
Thankfully it allegedly didn't

Some Des Moines police suspect there may possibly have been a barely detectable racial element in blacks beating whites randomly for three days running, and assaulting the police, at the Iowa State Fair. They're investigating whether the grand finale they called "Beat Whitey Night"—shouted actually—was meant as a call for SubSaharan African Americans to assault non-SubSaharan African Americans or whether something else was meant. Something may have happened, many supposed white folks were attacked and beaten by what appeared to be black folks, and it did resemble night in that it was non-daytime. The investigators are reviewing videos, taking reports from unreliable and easily duped police officers, injured and otherwise, interviewing untrustworthy witnesses, and checking the hospitalized to see if in fact they were injured and just who they mistakenly claim injured them, and whether it was even night that night. Rachael Pierce at ABC5 allegedly has the details. Video (02m 15s)

This just in. Ahah! Those who rushed to judgement based on flimsy bald-faced facts will be chastened to learn "investigators are unable to confirm that weekend violence outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds was racially motivated." So says the Des Moines Register, so say the police and so say we all. Investigators investigated everything with powerful magnifying glasses and found nothing racial about it. Photos were taken of the lack of evidence and will be exhibited for the skeptical. Complainants will be sentenced, found guilty, brought to trial, prosecuted and charged with crimes against humanity. In that order. Public service ads at eleven. Forever.

So. It's a big hoax, the work of mean-spirited bigoted schwarzophobes for sure. "Beat whitey night" can have so many meanings, say, excelling academically or acts of selfless good will for the community's well being. After all, who can say what's really in a person's heart while they're beating you bloody? Perhaps in the fullness of time we'll understand why otherwise good people slander their brethren, but meanwhile we're still ashamed for not drawing the correct lesson from last year's Iowa fair when pretty much the same things were found not to have happened. But now it's over and are our faces red (oops), we're mortified for what we almost allegedly thought this time.

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A contributor at James Rawles's Survival Blog posted a lengthy article entitled Community Crisis Planning for Societal Collapse. In effect it's a plan to impose high-sounding martial law, confiscate everything of value from the rightful owners - for the common good natch, impose a redistribution system based on labor and loyalty and trust and selflessness—yeah right—and live the collective life for as long as the booty holds out and for as long as the followers need a leader who will excuse their pillage. Suburban Survivalist has an excellent recap of the article and the followups, with links. The comments below the article are also excellent.

The Norfolk Community Services Board has been paying an employee for 12 years, and giving her regular raises, even though she never showed up for work. Raises?! Little is known about the employee yet.

"... in the long-line cycles of monetary history, technical (momentum) trading emerges in the very late stages of cycles in its most frenetic fashion. This is when it draws the most people into the unproductive activity of trading for trading's sake. And this is when it draws in the greatest profits, right before it delivers a catastrophic total loss," says FOFOA in his article, Credibility Inflation.

How to spend $1.25 Trillion, get paid for doing it, and still come be 61¢ off. True.

The street war between blacks and latinos sometimes takes some odd turns. This 14 year old girl shot a latino man in the head for laughing at her. But everyday murders can be bizarre as well, these teens killed an 87 year old guy because he didn't move fast enough. One of his, um, neighbors opined, "They didn't have to kill him. He's 87 - they could punch him, knock him down." Indeed.

Turns out the guy who stabbed the Moslem cabby worked for a leftist outfit that promotes "peace across lines of faith" and supports the Ground Zero mosque.

“Islamophobia” is the latest charge to stifle legitimate debate.

What about ObamaCare's "individual mandate," which forces Americans to purchase health insurance? ObamaCare opponents are lining up to challenge its constitutionality, but supporters say it's justified—you guessed it—under the Commerce Clause. Austin Bragg produced this video for Reason TV that shows how the clause became the federal government's justification to do almost anything. (10m 06s)

Why Mayor Bloomberg of New York may be supporting the Ground Zero mosque.

The Myth of the Engineered Recession, Gary North article at Market Oracle. This is one you have to read, it's chock full o' gems.

The ongoing bailout - "If this latest bailout becomes law, it will mark the first time in American history that tax dollars are used to fund the pension plans of private—unionized—industry. The teachers unions know that their lavish pension plans will result in a financial tsunami for the states. Should this new bailout go through, it will pave the way for a massive bailout for the teacher unions, the likes of which have never seen," says Kyle Olson in his article, Public Sector Pensions: The Real Bailout Bomb is Still Midflight, at Big Government.

If true, this explains a lot: from dust cloud to black hole, bypassing all that star-formation busywork.

Food Safety Administration - Small family farms, once these bills pass will be annihilated as the government will force them to use only ‘approved' seeds, feed, equipment and fertilizers. Eventually, the farmers will go out of business. We suspect that large farming corporations will quickly step in to snatch up their farms at significant discounts. Prepare yourself for the War on Food. One day, food raids will be as common as a drug raid, giving your neighbor a basket of tomatoes you grew in your own garden will be an illegal act, punishable by fines and jail time for repeat offenders. Read the rest of Marc Slavo's article at SHTFPlan.

South Africa is sliding toward anarchy and collapse. Even the police are planning to strike. Next stop Zimbabwe, but with better rhetoric.

Ten years after the USS Cole attack in Yemen the Obama administration has stopped the prosecution of the mastermind, one Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges were withdrawn in 2009, but reinstated, now dropped again, apparently because nobody cares any more. Judging by the Black Panthers case, the Commander in Chief never did. And recall how his Attorney General instructed the Justice Department to not to prosecute any minorities. There may be a pattern here.

Here comes the new amnesty. The Department of Homeland Security is dismissing pending deportation cases against illegal aliens, including those convicted of crimes. They're doing it wholesale and on a hurry-up basis. Liberals couldn't get amnesty through Congress but they do it anyway, that's what the rule of law means - nothing.

Desperation - A St. Louis school is offering cash for every new kid parents send their way. Reading between the lines, that's the only way this place will get them.

Up and coming narco-state - The latest mass murder in Mexico is unusual only because it set a new record. The old record was set in May with 55 liquidated in a disused mine. July fell short with only 51 murdered at one go in the old-fashioned 'killing field' way. This one was at a ranch, 72 blindfolded and bound victims offed and piled Auschwitz style. Everyday smaller massacres continue of course. The death toll in the Mexican drug war is 28,000 since 2006 counting assassinations, car bombs &c. But remember, the rich tapestry of diversity is our strength ... living in the shadows ... vibrant community ... gag.

Step by step - "It's the gravest nightmare of U.S. citizens and abandonment of our Constitution to date: a presidential assassination program in which U.S. citizens are in the literal scopes of the executive branch based upon nothing more than allegations of terrorism involvement as the branch defines it," says Chuck Norris in his article, Obama's US Assassination Program, at Town Hall.

The solar system is older than we thought. But only by a couple million years.

Mort Zuckerman at US News has a firm grasp on the obvious, "The growth of public debt has been driven by a dramatic diminution of tax receipts due to the recession, the extra spending to avoid sinking into a self-perpetuating depression, and all those billions we invested to save the financial sectors from their sins. Voters see the politicians most vociferous about reining in the federal budget as those who are out of power and want to use it against the majority party." He says a little less bickering and a little more tinkering and we're back to those wonderful days of yesteryear.

Iran's intelligence agencies have their own way of settling differences, they shoot it out on the streets.

The 80/20 rule - Pareto's law was discovered by sociologist-economist Vilfredo Pareto in the late 19th century. He studied the distribution of wealth in various European nations. He discovered that this distribution centralizes wealth. About 20% of the population owned 80% of the value of a nation's capital. It did this all the way up ... this same distribution applies to every society studied. It does not matter whether the countries were pre-social democratic nations (pre-1900), or where, or how socialistic they are. The same distribution exists. No one has offered a cogent explanation for what does not conform to anyone's economic or social theory.
On Pareto's Law, Gary North at Market Oracle

Social Classes, the Upper Classes in America, a short article by Scott Locklin at Alternative Right is a great read, part of a serialized essay, a sort of updated Paul Fussell but at somewhat reduced amperage. Here's an excerpt:

The upper class in America are the people who used to be in the society page of the newspaper. One of the great tragedies of American history was how this class mildly stepped aside as the ruling class, and handed it over to the "modern" cretins in the upper middle classes. They're still the upper class and distinct from the lower orders, but they mostly seem content to fiddle while Rome burns. They do well in the markets; why should they worry? They no longer make taste for the lower classes as they did in the past, and they don't lead in any obvious way.

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It's just the way it was

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Pie Town, New Mexico 1940

Pie Town is in west-central New Mexico, named for the pies made and sold by the keeper of its general store and as a short-lived but notable destination for the Dust Bowl Okies of the 1930s. The Smithsonian has a pretty good article on Pie Town and the photographer that took this picture.

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Overheard

EMP or Solar Storm - As for the military and police, you can expect high numbers of deserters, placing an even greater strain on the limited resources of government order. This is not meant as an insult to our uniformed personnel, but from my personal experience of being a New Orleans police officer before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, I witnessed 1/5 of the police department simply walk away the first day. Some chose to leave for family reasons while others left due to stress. I also saw how quickly those we entrust with public safety can become an armed street gang and simply take what you have at gun point.
Kevin Hayden, Survival Blog

There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who do not. Those who do not, nullify their premise by their existence.
dukeystick, comment at Zero Hedge

Pakistan flood - The United States will send four more helicopters and an amphibious ready group to Pakistan, Brig. Gen. Michael Nagata said from Pakistan Wednesday. By next week, at least 23 U.S. helicopters will be in the country ferrying relief supplies and rescuing people in and around the Swat River valley in northern Pakistan, Nagata said. [Remus says: sheer lunacy].

Victory mosque - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy. The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. [Remus says: apparently there's no separation of mosque and state in NYC]
Joan Gralla, Reuters

The desperate action to launch QE2 will be quite evident in the coming weeks. It will even become a national priority. The bankers and politicians will rush to destroy whatever credibility remains in the USDollar, or any fiat paper currency. The challenge to banking leaders will be to conceal their desperation and panic. They have had no options or alternatives for almost two years, now painfully evident.
Jim Willie, Golden Jackass

The problem, for the student of history, is that the identity of B.H. Obama (unlike the existence of Bigfoot) is an important historical question. Without access to B.H. Obama's sealed life records, no historian can write a history of 2008-10 which is both definitive and true.
Mencius Moldbug, Unqualified Reservations

August 1931 - Phillips Petroleum becomes first major to offer $1/barrel in Oklahoma as sought by Gov. Murray, who responded that Oklahoma oil fields will remain closed under martial law until all companies in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas “agree to pay $1 a barrel and ... agree not to let the price go below that ...” Texas Gov. Sterling was pleased at news of the $1 price posted in Oklahoma but declined to say when martial law will be withdrawn in East Texas. [Martial law? Really? - Remus]
News From 1930

Who is this guy?
Answer is at the bottom of this page.

September 2005 - It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them ... My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud. [Remus says: speaking of monstrous frauds ...]
Randall Robinson, Huffington Post

Country wisdom - The parasites slipped in during a time when man's productivity was sharply increasing. And that's the ONLY reason they were able to slip in. Prior to that, it would have been so noticeable that their heads would've been handed to them, severed and plucked out of the body, like that of a tick on a dog.
Benjamin, comment at Rick's Picks

Unmanned military aircraft - In theory, software and sensors would make a combat UAV much quicker to sort out a combat situation, and make the right move. For the moment, this aspect of UAV development is officially off the table. But once combat UAVs start operating, and that will be by the end of the decade, there will be much pressure to let combat UAVs rule the skies, in addition to scouting and bombing. The senior Pentagon leadership have seen this future, and believe it is the real one.
Strategy Page

Global bond markets - This (meaning Friday) has been one of the most interesting days in finance ever. We are right at the tipping point. Yields are about to collapse even further, equities are about to turn over. The end game approaches, probably in next few weeks."
Andrew Roverts, RBS, via Ambrose Pritchard, Telegraph UK

Bring in the "illegals" and give them their amnesty. Shower them with welfare and subsidized urban housing. Treat their every nick and bruise for "free". Keep sending real jobs overseas. Keep funneling our wealth to your financial puppet masters. By all means, enact every single piece of tyrannical and oppressive legislation your monkey brains can concoct. Set George Orwell's nightmare loose upon the earth. Everything they do simply brings total collapse that much closer. I welcome it with open arms.
Mayberry, Keep It Simple Survival

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Who is this guy answer: it's ol' Rembrandt, as a lad, before he went all gravitas.

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