It's Time for Another Edition of "9/11 Odds"

Since very little in this world is certain, and therefore it is difficult to be absolutely certain of many aspects of 9/11. Moreover, my ideas for what happened on 9/11 have evolved over the years. The following are how I rate various aspects of 9/11, in terms of probability (I define "Beyond any reasonable doubt" as odds of 10,000 to 1 or higher):

1) Some officials in the US government had specific foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

2) Some officials in the US government aided the hijackers at various points before 9/11: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

3) Some officials in the US government had a direct hand in carrying out the attacks: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

4) Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

5) No aircraft hit the Pentagon at all: 10 to 1

6) Pre-planted explosives destroyed the WTC (1, 2, 7) towers: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

7) Nuclear weapons were involved in the destruction of the WTC (1, 2, 7) towers: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

8) No plane crashed at all in Shanksville and the crash site was a complete hoax: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

9) UA93 did not crash in Shanksville: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

10) flight 11 did not hit WTC1: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

11) flight 175 did not hit WTC2: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

12) at least some videos and photos of the second hit were faked: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

13) Bush had some specific foreknowledge about what was going to happen on 9/11: 10 to 1

14) The air defense (NORAD) response to the hijackings was distracted and/or disabled by wargames being run on 9/11: even (since lack of real hijacked planes would have been as much of a factor)

15) The four 9/11 "crashes" did not involve any conventional planes (includes real plane parts used to mimic crashes, and that planes were used indirectly as decoys): "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

16) There is a cover-up/disinfo campaign about 9/11 being maintained by the government: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

17) There is a cover-up about 9/11 being maintained at high levels by the media: "Beyond any reasonable doubt"

FBI = Famously Bad Informants

Frazier Glenn Cross, the man accused of murder in the shootings of three people outside Jewish facilities in Kansas last week was... arrested by the FBI back in 1987 and tuned into a government informant. He only served three years in jail... what a sad, fucked up, dude, who apparently was caught once having sex with a black male prostitute.

And...

An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites, including some operated by the governments of Iran, Syria, Brazil and Pakistan, according to documents and interviews with people involved in the attacks.

Exploiting a vulnerability in a popular web hosting software, the informant directed at least one hacker to extract vast amounts of data — from bank records to login information — from the government servers of a number of countries and upload it to a server monitored by the F.B.I., according to court statements.

The details of the 2012 episode have, until now, been kept largely a secret in closed sessions of a federal court in New York and heavily redacted documents. While the documents do not indicate whether the F.B.I. directly ordered the attacks, they suggest that the government may have used hackers to gather intelligence overseas even as investigators were trying to dismantle hacking groups like Anonymous and send computer activists away for lengthy prison terms.

The attacks were coordinated by Hector Xavier Monsegur, who used the Internet alias Sabu and became a prominent hacker within Anonymous for a string of attacks on high-profile targets, including PayPal and MasterCard. By early 2012, Mr. Monsegur of New York had been arrested by the F.B.I. and had already spent months working to help the bureau identify other members of Anonymous, according to previously disclosed court papers.

This is just the ones recently in the news, and the tip of the iceberg, of course.  The classic bad FBI informant is the one who lived with two 9/11 hijackers and supposedly had no idea about the attacks...


And-- become an informant or else!!!

Naveed Shinwari is one of four American Muslims who filed suit against the government this week for placing them on the U.S. "no-fly list" in order to coerce them into becoming FBI informants. The plaintiffs say the government refuses to explain why they were named on the no-fly list. They also believe that their names continue to be listed because they would not agree to become FBI informants and spy on their local communities. "It’s very frustrating, you feel helpless," Shinwari says. "No one will tell you how you can get off of it, how you got on it. It has a profound impact on people’s lives."

UPDATE:
And this sort of threatening is undoubtedly how they create al-CIA-duh, or al-FBI-duh.

"You Might Get Hit by a Car": On Secret Tape, FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing to be Informant

Ukrainian War Propaganda

Some things just never fucking change:

The Times led its print edition Monday with an article based in part on photographs that the State Department said were evidence of Russian military presence in popular uprisings in Ukraine. The headline read: “Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia.”

And the article began:

For two weeks, the mysteriously well-armed, professional gunmen known as “green men” have seized Ukrainian government sites in town after town, igniting a brush fire of separatist unrest across eastern Ukraine. Strenuous denials from the Kremlin have closely followed each accusation by Ukrainian officials that the world was witnessing a stealthy invasion by Russian forces.

Now, photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed by the Obama administration on Sunday suggest that many of the green men are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces — equipped in the same fashion as Russian special operations troops involved in annexing the Crimea region in February. Some of the men photographed in Ukraine have been identified in other photos clearly taken among Russian troops in other settings.

More recently, some of those grainy photographs have been discredited. The Times has published a second article backing off from the original and airing questions about what the photographs are said to depict, but hardly addressing how the newspaper may have been misled.

It all feels rather familiar – the rushed publication of something exciting, often based on an executive branch leak. And then, afterward, with a kind of “morning after” feeling, here comes a more sober, less prominently displayed followup story, to deal with objections while not clarifying much of anything.

Indeed it does. I was shocked at how credulous the Times reporting was on that original story. It felt like the "Old Shoe" campaign from "Wag the Dog." Sullivan comes down hard on the paper, as she should. Even though they whine about the fact that their Iraq war reporting tainted their credibility, it did.

And as we well know, out government has a long history of distributing propaganda in these confusing situations to drum up support. (And if they don't do it themselves they contract the job out to the private sector.) Skepticism is always called for at times like these.

Just the other day I was reminded of this when the story of the pamphlets instructing Ukrainian Jews to "register" came up.  Does anyone remember this little debacle?

On May 19, 2006, the National Post of Canada published pieces by Amir Taheri alleging that the Iranian parliament had passed a sumptuary law mandating a national dress code for all Iranians, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Both National Post articles went on to say that non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran would be required to wear "special insignia": yellow for Jews, red for Christians and blue for Zoroastrian. According to the article by Taheri, "[t]he new codes would enable Muslims to easily recognize non-Muslims so that they can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus becoming najis (unclean)." According to both articles, Iranian Muslims would have to wear "standard Islamic garments".

It wasn't true and the newspaper eventually issued a retraction. It's interesting how this stuff just keeps coming up. That particular story was sourced to a conservative Iranian exile, known for fabricating stories. I'm sure he agreed with the neo-con mantra that "real men go to Tehran."

And In Other News...

Michael Ruppert commits suicide on the radio? 

Also this.

Hard to know what to say. The guy made some important contributions to our conspiracy world, but was always kind of a blow hard.  Hard to know what make of his whole "peak oil" theory... to some extent it was true, to come extent it was disinfo. Typical conspiracy crap.  He was the child of intel agents too. I feel a bit sorry for him... I feel like he was depressed because things kind of passed him by and he never got as much attention as he wanted.

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Some good news--

In Landmark Ruling, U.S. Ordered to Release Memo Behind Targeted Killings of U.S. Citizens

In these Obama years, I really do not know what is more sickening and purely evil than the drone program. It's hard to even contemplate how gawdawfully fuckedup the endless drone killings are, and done in OUR FUCKING NAME.

Thank JEBUS someone is taking this evil to court and that there are judge's with some sense of decency.

Random Interesting Items

"Your cellphone is killing you: What people don’t want you to know about electromagnetic fields.
 The industry doesn't want to admit it, but the science is becoming clearer: Sustained EMF exposure is dangerous"-- this includes WiFi.


Targeting the President: Evidence of U.S. Government Training Exercises on 9/11


Psychics powers are real?
Government Experiments Reveal Humans Are Capable Of Bending Physical Objects With Their Mind

If you told a random person that psychic phenomena like psychokinesis (or PK) has been proven in a number of laboratories all over the planet for a number of years, they would probably look at you like you’re crazy. Phenomena that fall within this category aren’t really emphasized within the realm of traditional education, it is however heavily studied by scientists working at the highest levels of government.

One particular example was the work of professional aerospace engineer and physicist Jack Houck, along with Army Colonel J.B. Alexander. They were responsible for holding a number of PK sessions, where attendees were taught the PK induction process and how to initiate their own PK events using various metal specimens (forks, spoons, etc.). Individuals were able to completely bend or contort their metal specimens with no physical force being applied whatsoever.

These events were held for numerous government science advisors and senior military officials. They took place at the Pentagon, at officers’and scientists’ homes, and at U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command locations all over the world. Commanding generals, colonels and more were always in attendance. What was witnessed by all was spontaneous deformation of metal specimens, which caused “a great deal of excitement” amongst those present.

High ranking military personnel were not the only ones in attendance, other trained observers were also involved. One notable was Psychic Uri Geller, who during a talk that he gave at the U.S. Capitol building caused a spoon to curve upward with no force applied, the spoon then continued to bend after he put it back down and resumed speaking.

The experiments with Aerospace engineer and physicist Jack Houck, along with Army Colonel J.B. Alexander used what they call PK parties, in which over 85 percent of attendees learned how to bend metal and plastic, proving that we all have these capabilities. In order to give some scientific credibility to an observed phenomenon that is hardly understood, electron microscopic pictures were used to try to explain what is going on inside of the metal, from a scientific point of view.

see also:

The Men Who Stare at Goats

"Libertarianism and The Jews"

This essay started out very reasonable and makes interesting points, then ends very very oddly:

A disproportionate number of libertarians, and a notable number of those who influenced libertarianism, are Jews. This can, of course, be overstated. The majority of libertarians are not Jewish, and the majority of Jews are not libertarians. However, it is fair to say that a notable number of leading libertarian intellectuals are of Jewish extraction (although, incidentally, the majority of these are atheist/agnostic). A few explanations can be given for this.

Academia:
It’s no secret that Jews often work in academia. The reasons for this may stem from the Jewish emphasis on education from a young age. Libertarianism, as a systematic political ideology, inevitably exists in a large part in the academic sphere. Outside of the ‘pure’ academia of universities, it’s fair to say that libertarianism is something of an intellectual movement (hence the stereotype of the libertarian nerd). Being explicitly philosophical, and something of a non-mainstream position, it’s unsurprising that libertarianism has intellectual spokespeople.

Political, Social and Economic Theory:
Similarly, Jews are often key architects of ideologies. Socialism has Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Eduard Bernstein, Ralph Miliband, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Cohen, Rosa Luxemburg, Murray Bookchin, Robert Wolff, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and most of the Frankfurt School. Neoconservatism has: Leo Strauss, Paul Wolfowitz, Irving Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle and David Frum. And modern liberalism has Paul Krugman.
Interestingly, asides from the old-school Marxists, Jewish socialists have tended to be part of the libertarian left. Likewise, although Jews in the US tend to vote Democrat, in part this is due to an overwhelming preference for liberal social policies. Excluding the Orthodox, Jews overwhelmingly support gay marriage and legalisation of marijuana.

Minority Status:
One attraction of libertarianism is its defence of minorities in the face of the tyranny of the majority (the smallest minority on earth being, of course, the individual). Jews, particularly in the US, occupy a position as an established, integrated and successful minority, but a minority nonetheless. This can feed into an inclination towards a system that both allows for diversity and also defends individual achievement and success.

Non-Conformism/Individualism:
Perhaps as a result of being a minority, there is something of a Jewish tendency towards non-conformism, thinking individualistically and willingness to challenge the status-quo. This may also be informed by the opportunities of being relatively privilege whilst being outside of the establishment and the ruling class. The number of prominent Jews within a variety of ideologies and movements (especially ones, like libertarianism and socialism, that can be intrinsically provocative) attests to a fondness for iconoclasm, as does the equal Jewish presence in the media, entertainment and Hollywood.

Capitalism:
As explained by Milton Friedman in his essay Capitalism and The Jews: Confronting a Paradox, Jews have done very well in liberal capitalist societies. Compared with fascism, Nazism, feudalism, theocracy, nationalist regimes (excluding Israel), communism, and various empires, capitalism has treated the Jews remarkably well. This has ironically contributed to the large Jewish contribution to socialism, in part to repudiate the stereotype of the greedy Jewish banker and in part as a result of the fact that the leading critics of capitalism tend to be those who do best from it. However, equally, it is easy to see how a group who have suffered horrendously under every other social structure can see the benefits of liberalism and capitalism.
It should also be noted that within Jewish scripture and culture there has never been an absolute rejection of capitalist practises and ideas. Indeed, unlike certain perverse elements in Christianity, Jewish tradition has tended to avoid fetishising poverty. Whilst charity is a virtue, and it is reprehensible to allow others to be trapped in poverty, one has a responsibility to avoid being a burden to others where possible.

Tradition:
Part of the reason for Jewish flourishing under capitalism stems from the particular kind of minority status usually held by Jews, and the economic and social roles they filled as a result. Before the modern period, it was extremely rare for governments to uphold and defend the rights of Jews. On occasion, a monarch may have protected the Jews (and in the Islamic world, there was considerably more tolerance than in Christendom), but, on the whole, governments were not friendly and seldom did much to protect Jews from the aggression of the majority. It should also be noted that protection of Jews by the monarch was usually contingent on them being the primary source of loaned funds.
Further, for various reasons, Jews tended to occupy commercial economic positions. This was often due to laws against usury for Christians and Muslims, plus the fact that Jews would exist outside of feudal structures. All this adds up to Jews having a tradition of dealing with, and avoiding/working round, overbearing regulation and explicit and implicit oppression.

Conspiracy:
However, all of this may just be cover for a conspiracy. Along with the Bolsheviks, Wall Street, the free-masons and the illuminati, libertarianism is just a front for the Zionist plot to achieve world domination and a new world order. Libertarians, like Jews, are actually giant shape-shifting lizards. Similarly, “Ayn Rand” was just Trotsky in a cunning disguise. Although their ideologies seemed different, this was just part of the Zionist scheme. Every time a libertarian talks about freedom or enterprise, what they’re really advocating is sacrificing white Christian babies to the Rothschilds and Kochs.

Is this a joke?

The FBI and CIA Are Messing with the 9/11 Trials at Guantanamo

Gee, it's almost like they are trying to cover something up...

Thirteen years after 9/11, nobody has been convicted in connection with the attacks and, because of the F.B.I. visit, a trial could be delayed even longer. But it was only the latest in a string of strange events at Guantánamo Bay that, coupled with the decade-long delay, have undermined a process that was supposed to move swiftly, without the encumbrances of the civilian legal system and its traditional rules of evidence.

Last year, as a lawyer for Mr. Mohammed was speaking during another hearing, a red light began flashing. Then the videofeed from the courtroom abruptly cut out. The emergency censorship system had been activated. But why? And by whom? The defense lawyer had said nothing classified. And the court officer responsible for protecting state secrets had not triggered the system. Days later, the military judge, Col. James L. Pohl, announced that he had been told that an “original classification authority” — meaning the C.I.A. — was secretly monitoring the proceedings. Unknown to everyone else, the agency had its own button, which the judge swiftly and angrily disconnected.

Last year, the government acknowledged that microphones were hidden inside what looked like smoke detectors in the rooms where detainees met with their lawyers. Those microphones gave officials the ability to eavesdrop on confidential conversations, but the military said it never did so.

“At some point, it just becomes silly,” said Glenn Sulmasy, a military law professor at the Coast Guard Academy who supports military trials for terrorism but said problems at Guantánamo Bay have undermined confidence in the system. “I don’t think we’re at that point yet, but at some point it just becomes surreal. It’s like there’s a shadow trial going on and we’re only finding out about it in bits and pieces.”

The court has also been troubled by computer problems. A botched computer update gave prosecutors and defense lawyers access to the other side’s confidential work. And the Pentagon acknowledged inadvertently searching and copying defense lawyers’ emails but said nobody read them.

I Really Wish George W. Bush's Paintings Were Like This

Haunted by dead Iraqis...

One Year Anniversary of the Boston Bombing

Still there are SO many obvious holes and discrepancies with the official story, and the best hypothesis for many of the observations is a false-flag attack. Fucking evil powers that be.

A Question About Neo-Nazis

Maybe it's too much to expect rationality from someone this extreme, but how exactly do Neo-Nazi's reconcile their views that Holocaust didn't happen with the view that Jews are evil and should be killed and Hitler was doing the right thing?

Now, in theory, one could say Hitler was just trying to remove Jews from Europe, but not really exterminate them. And there is some evidence that Hitler tried to have them sent to Madagascar (from what I recall).

But at the same time, it seems clear that if you are blinded with hatred for Jews, that you are not going to have a problem with killing them, as this Frazier Glenn Miller seems to have. And overall, I just see a conflict in the Neo-Nazi/White Supremacist position. Not to mention that white supremacism is grotesque and demented, and not even rational from a biological perspective.

WTC1 Demolition Viewed from the West

Wow, this is interesting-- I never saw the angle before in all the videos of the WTC destruction I've seen over the years.




The end has a view of the "spire"-- it clearly does not disintegrate, but falls into a cloud of dust.

The Evil Nazis and Their Medical Experiments

 Whoops-- oh wait...

U.S. government researchers who purposely infected unwitting subjects with sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala in the 1940s had obtained consent a few years earlier before conducting similar experiments in Indiana, investigators reported Monday.

The stark contrast between how the U.S. Public Health Service scientists experimented with Americans and Guatemalans clearly shows that researchers knew their conduct was unethical, according to members of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which is investigating the experiments.

“These researchers knew these were unethical experiments, and they conducted them anyway,” said Raju Kucherlapati of Harvard Medical School, a commission member. “That is what is reprehensible.”

At least 5,500 prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and children were drafted into the experiments, including at least 1,300 who were exposed to the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid, the commission reported. At least 83 subjects died, although the commission could not determine how many of the deaths were directly caused by the experiments, they said.

“This is a dark chapter in our history. It is important to shine the light of day on it. We owe it to the people of Guatemala who were experimented on, and we owe it to ourselves to recognize what a dark chapter it was,” said Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, the commission’s chairwoman.

The revelations came on the opening day of a two-day hearing the commission convened to review the findings of its investigation. President Obama ordered the probe when the experiments were revealed in October. Investigators reviewed more than 125,000 documents from public and private archives around the country and conducted a fact-finding trip to the Central American nation.

The Guatemalan government is conducting its own investigation. The experiments were approved by some Guatemalan officials.

“Actually cruel and inhuman conduct took place,” said Anita L. Allen of the University of Pennsylvania. “These are very grave human rights violations.”

In one case described during Monday’s two-hour hearing, a woman who was infected with syphilis was clearly dying from the disease. Instead of treating her, the researchers poured gonorrhea-infected pus into her eyes and other orifices and infected her again with syphilis. She died six months later.

Ignoring Real Genocide

Another shameful episode of US foreign policy:

Declassified U.S. documents show the Clinton administration refused to label the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda as a genocide. One State Department document read: "Be careful … Genocide finding could commit U.S.G. to actually 'do something.'" At a press briefing in 1994, Reuters correspondent Alan Elsner asked: "How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?" State Department spokesperson Christine Shelly responded, "Alan, that’s just not a question that I’m in a position to answer." Samantha Power, who is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, described the U.S. inaction in her 2001 article, "Bystanders to Genocide." She wrote, "The United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements." We speak to Emily Willard of the National Security Archive, and University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor Scott Straus, author of "The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda."

If you watch the clip, you can see Clinton making some flowery excuse for not doing anything.

I'm going to make a new rule here:

The more elaborate the rhetoric, the more colorful the prose that a leader uses-- the greater the evil and the larger the lie they are covering up.

Donald Rumsfeld Is Trying to Wrest the Title of Creepiest ex-Bush Administration Official Away from Dick Cheney

Seriously.

Stewart also showed footage of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Errol Morris’ documentary The Unknown Known in which Rumsfeld parries a question about memos related to torture, blames the memos entirely on the Justice Department, then congratulates himself for, in his mind, stumping the questioner.

“Look how f*cking proud he is of having put a lot of different words in between ‘Bush administration’ and ‘torture,’ while not, in any explicit way, changing the meaning of those words or refuting the charge,” Stewart said, pointing to a picture of a smiling Rumsfeld. “But as long as you’re happy, I’m happy. And I assume that is happiness, and not his teeth trying desperately to escape his face.”

And note, Rumsfeld is 82, but looks pretty damn good for that age.  Maybe he's the one really staying alive by drinking the blood of Iraqi children. 

The Pro-Vaccine Propaganda Is Strong Lately

Seeing pieces like this all over now, plus they bring up this tragic story of the kid who had meningitis and then horrible amputations, to really make people feel guilty.

More here, here, here, here. Thinkprogress is the worst-- really makes me rethink being a liberal... but Mother Jones is also pathetic. 

This comment, posted at the first linked MotherJones piece, really echoes my own thoughts lately:

It's remarkable that a magazine which focuses on corporate pathology and regales us with stories every issue of corporate malfeasance and captive regulatory failure would run an insulting piece of garbage like this vaccine rant...

The most remarkable thing about the vaccine issue is the number of liberal minded people who are ordinarily highly skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA, and who believe that huge swaths of our institutions and politics are broken, corrupt and pathological, yet then they succumb with complete unthinking compliance to the out of control vaccine industry and its lies and greed.

This is the exact same industry which is of course run by the very same pathological craven drug firms and captive feckless FDA that media like Mother Jones is usually exposing. These industry hacks and government bureaucrats are the same people who proclaim that fracking is safe, that GMO food safe, that pesticides are safe, that cigarettes are safe, and on and on.

As a matter of fact, today's leader on this web site is a story about broken science and phony claims of safety of BPA. Can one of you outraged vaccine drones explain why the vaccine industry is immune from the corruption and madness that has infected EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF PUBLIC LIFE?

How many of you eat organic, avoid GMOs, clean with vinegar mixes, and oppose fracking? Don't you know that you are ill-informed: science has told us you are wasting your time. The government has blessed all of this. You foolish Luddites opposing fracking just because some celebrity told you to do it. Science has spoken: there is not one case of fracking causing contamination. It is SAFE, thousands of feet underground forever. The fracking chemicals are simple ingredients found in many kitchen cabinets. By opposing fracking, you are making us less secure and killing jobs. By opposing GMOs, you are literally starving millions of small African children. You are all selfish
misinformed liberal kooks, and you should be forced to have a gas well in your backyard and eat GMO corn every day before you endanger us all with your stubborn refusal to do what you are told by a government that knows best.

The list of failed efforts to control fraud and prevent serial contamination crisis's by the FDA is legion. The legacy of flat-out sociopathic malfeasance by the drug industry is documented fact. These are the people who are killing us and the earth, yet they get a free pass on vaccines.

Despite all of this, for some mysterious reason, the same people who have legitimate doubts about corporate claims and regulatory effectiveness (and who often opt out of the corporate system in as many ways as possible), will then line up and get their shots without question. Talk about the people in need of some forced reeducation.

The government's very real history of crimes and madness in secret involuntary public medical experiments, in covering up toxic dangers, and enabling corporate poisoning of the population ought to be understood by Mother Jones. I cannot imagine why anyone with even a modest understanding of our broken government and its pathological track
record would blindly entrust it (and its drug company partners) and inject their infant children with an ever-growing list of chemical compounds, in vain hopes of creating a risk free world, somehow magically without consequence.

It's you fear-addled sheep who are endangering us all with your blind compliance, misplaced faith in drug companies/FDA, and calls for public shaming and forced mandatory vaccines for everyone like some Terry Gilliam totalitarian dystopia. It is you who are spreading the hysteria.

One problem with the pro-vaccine crowd is that they are forced into an absurd position of arguing that vaccines are completely safe and do not cause any problems, when they are clearly not.

To be clear, I am not really anti-vaccine, I think they serve some use, but they need to be used judiciously. At the same time, I think it is reasonable to think that too many vaccinations can be a problem and there is some evidence for this too.

Mostly, I can't stand the pro-vaccine crowd lately-- their arguments are not that strong once you get past the emotional bullying of how people who don't vaccinate their kid are endangering everyone else and plus, amputations. Uggh.

By the way, what about these doctors who amputate a kids' arms and legs as a life-saving measure and then expect the parents to deal with the horrible consequence? The pain and suffering such a child must go through has got to be unbearable. Is it really worth saving that sort of life? Personally, I would rather die than lose my arms and legs.

More Crappy Shit in the News

Insane-- Corrupt and evil judge says rich DuPont asshole pedophile rapist shouldn't go to jail because he might not fare well there.

Judge Jan Jurden's sentencing order for Robert H. Richards IV suggested that she considered unique circumstances when deciding his punishment for fourth-degree rape. Her observation that prison life would adversely affect Richards was a rare and puzzling rationale, several criminal justice authorities in Delaware said. Some also said her view that treatment was a better idea than prison is a justification typically used when sentencing drug addicts, not child rapists.

 
In "McCutcheon" case, US Supreme Court thinks unlimited contributions will not corrupt politicians...  
(imo, money does not = free political speech)


The ocean is tragically and horribly polluted with tons and tons and tons of mankind's plastic shit.


Evil idiot--

State Sen. Leland Yee has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, casting yet another cloud of corruption over the Democratic establishment in the Legislature and torpedoing Yee's aspirations for statewide office.

Yee and an intermediary allegedly met repeatedly with an undercover FBI agent, soliciting campaign contributions in exchange for setting up a deal with international arms dealers. 

And, William Seger, one of DU's resident "9/11 official story shills" is still shilling for the WTC collapse story like a fucking asshole shill.

Kevin Ryan Is Upset People Compared 9/11 Truth to Holocaust Denial

What a doofus. That sort of thinking is so trite at this point... so stale. Dude needs to grow up and do some fucking research.

Three 33's of the Day

Paul Ryan wants to cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs...

and, there have been 33,900 FISA requests by the NSA over the past 8 years.

Data storage by companies rather than the NSA is inconsequential since the NSA requests to the FISA courts for a warrant to access the information are granted automatically. Over the past eight years, only11 of 33,900 requests have been refused.

 Hmm, wonder how they chose the last 8 years for this...


Finally, in the recent SCOTUS McCutcheon case:

Mr. McCutcheon, who had contributed a total of about $33,000 to 16 candidates for federal office in the 2012 election cycle, said he had wanted to give $1,776 each to 12 more but was stopped by the overall cap for individuals.