Couple quick thoughts…

Has there been a stealth coup by Corporate/NSA, where the Big O is merely a figurehead? Getting eerie now…have Drudge Report on hot dial from the bunker…

Looks like another proxy war brewing. Russia will support the fascistic regime of Assad; the U.S will support the terrorist group Al Qaeda. WEIRD TIMES (and that’s OFFICIAL).

After finalizing her divorce with Rupert I’m wondering if Wendi Deng will date me? Not only is she gorgeous but her dowry could be a tidy sum (caution, Wendi:  I will not sign a prenup).

Wow I really like John Oliver as temporary replacement for Jon Stewart (who’s directing a movie for the summer) on The Daily Show. I was reading in a bio of Woody Allen that said when he subbed the Tonight show for a week, the critics said Carson better get back quick: Allen’s that good.

NOTE: People have asked me where I got the ferocious red-tongued baboon picture in the upper left corner. It’s from my driver’s license.

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The upside of totalitarianism-in-progress

Yeah, there is an upside. No, it won’t make anybody safer (I think Boston proves that) but it could come in handy if you lose your passcode or phone message–you can always call up the NSA and get it.

Challenging the totalitarian-state-in-progress

Here’s a couple of timely articles written by disparate authors on the Grand Banana Republic’s descent into you-know-what (from the “Guardian” UK)

The U.S is behaving like China by Chinese artist/designer and dissident Al Weiwei

The Security State Laid Bare by Clay Shirky

Here’s another good one, by Nat Hentoff–This is America?

Go 1984 (a very bad year)…

Orwell’s old novel, “1984,” climbing the charts again, at least on Amazon. Fortunately i already have a copy and plan to read it again soon. I mean, after all we are getting close to that time. By the way, this novel was not based on Stalin’s government  as is commonly perceived (that would be too easy) but on Britain’s fascistic Labour Party. It didn’t take much to extrapolate where that system was going. Also, the novel’s invented Newspeak  and government structure have their chilling equivalent today in government-directed/approved political correctness and mass internal spying (just read the headlines).

Nothing new…

USA Today from 2006: NSA secretly establishes mass database of Americans’ phone calls. Probably started before that even, with Alexander Graham Bell’s first call, only back then they’d probably have to record it on paper by hand.
By the way, you’ll know our freedom’s completely gone when you don’t see stories like this anymore.

Here’s another thought on this whole spying scandal. If, as they say, it’s needed to fight terrorism maybe instead this need could be circumvented by modifying some parts of our immigration policy.

Looks like 1984 again…

So many deep-rooted 1984 government spying and IRS targeting scandals emerging, and evidently they’ve been going on for quite some time now…almost afraid to post anything (I think my dishwasher‘s been tapped).

(Pssst, hey, guess what?…1984 never really left; it’s been here all the time–even before 1984.)

 

NOTE: By the way, pay no attention to the long time span between this post and the one prior.

In the land of the poor

Is the USA the poorest “rich” country in the world? Yes, it is. It is truly the land of the one-percenters and their victims. Check this eye-opening article in the UK’s Daily Mail. Here.By the way, you can find out more about American poverty at the aptly titled site American Poverty.

Rihanna bares breast in nature: but good news, blindness in the innocent was averted

Lo and behold, almighty ones,  Rihanna goes topless on farmer’s field while shooting video and causes rift in the fabric of existence. The stilted old farmer then came upon the scene of corruption on his land and disrupted filming and ordered the sexy singer off  in the name of God.  Nudity of course cannot be tolerated; it can cause blindness in innocent beholders (though God was merciful in this case; there were no incidents of reported blindness or sudden outbreaks of severe acne). Staring at bare breasts can also, so it is said, cause auto-ejaculation in crazy old cogs who have never experienced the fleshier aspects of  the natural world (except maybe for a cow’s milky udder), or at least can’t remember. Here.

Quoting the X-Files: The truth is out there..

“The sudden disappearance of the home’s Saudi residents before September 11 prompted calls to authorities, who found links to those who orchestrated the horrific attacks of that morning…” Here. Someday (say in the year 2277), someone scouring the depths of the Grand Banana Republic’s and the Saudi’s secret vaults, will uncover the real truth behind 9/11. Be patient until then.

Rise of the Constitutionless state

It’s all done in bits and pieces through smoke and mirrors, and sometimes directly with a uniform and gun. Here.

Dumb and dumber

That other banana republic, Little Britain, isn’t called the sick man of Europe for nothing. Here. Oh, here’s something else. Little Britain is so dumb anymore that Rodney King is even giving this shit hole island advice.

Robber barons are back (maybe they never left)

In the Grand Banana Republic capitalist robber barons used to “employ” young boys, maybe around 11 or 12 years old or even younger, to work in coal mines fourteen hours a day. Robber barons practiced the same thing in Britain. Looks like they’re starting up again. Here.

“Slut Walks” look like fun

Right here. Oh, pretty pleasey please, can I cum come along too…huh?

Are some white celebrities using minority babies as ‘designer handbags’?

Black babies as accessories for famous white mommies: “…during [s]lavery, we had no rights. However, we were never the equivalent of handbags used to show White power. You are not America’s sweetheart, Ms. Bullock…” Ouch!–from an article last year at Booker Rising.

Check Madonna of Scotland

Studious Asian immigrant students adjust to school in third world (the Grand Banana Republic)

Highly academically performing Asias kids harassed and beaten by African American kids at school (case in point: third-world Philly). Here.

Related: Beaten for being white.

Related: The true story.

Tiger wife save face of Murdoch man with dunk shot of volleyball move

Chinese netizens speak on Wendi Deng: Chinese flying beauty does full chop. Here. (By the way, Deng is gorgeous, and her volley ball style of slap down is quite sexy).

One small step for man, one giant leap for Pastafarians

Pastafarians rule. Yes, long live religious head gear. Legal question, though: should there be a separation between state and pasta strainers?

Barbecuin’ with pink slime

“…Pink Slime is in most of the ground beef in the USA….it is found in a lot of fast food, canned foods, children’s school lunches, and even in fresh ground beef bought at the local grocery store.” Think of it this way. Drown it in ketchup and onions and fry it till it’s not pink anymore and serve it with big salty chips (and don’t forget to smack those lips at first bite)… Here.

Memorial Day Grand Banana Republic style

Warzone – “…Filthy streets, a drive by shooting, multiple cars crashed in the process, and total chaos on the streets. This is unacceptable and must be controlled before we totally lose our city, tourism & residents. It is not limited to Ocean Drive or Collins [in South Beach, FL] – there isn’t a residential street  not affected by tons of garbage, crime to our vehicles, excessive noise 24 hours a day, and simply a lack of respect for our community, citizens & property. THIS [referring to the video above] is the image the world sees of our “American Riviera”… Here. Well, amigo, imagine what it will be like in twenty years? Wait, on second thought try not to think about it. Here’s another story on Miami weekend….BTW, there has been a ton of these kinds of riots going on throughout the country.

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Kevlar sado-mas run

Yes, the Grand Banana Republic is a frightening place anymore, especially when cops like to make believe they’re in a real war zone, you know, making believe they’re like troops in Afghanistan or Iraq who are in the midst of very lethal roadside bombs and suicide bombers and Islamic  death squads; but hell, the cops are wearing super neato homeland security uniforms with Kevlar vests and helmet cams just like Seal Team Six and have cool face masks and are driving armored vehicles and have fun automatic weapons, and so hell let’s have a shoot ‘em up guys…bambambam…(ure beats tasering eighty-year old jaywalkers for a change) get us some action like the boys overseas. Here’s the scene. They kiss their wives goodbye at the door.  Hon, I’m on a dangerous mission to the suburbs; there’s this possible illegal marijuana weed grower guy and his wife sleeping in bed and they have their dangerous little kid in the crib and maybe even a barking dog with teeth but hell, hon, somebody gotta battle these damn suburbanites.

Quick note: While police brutality, and abuse by authority figures in general, often offend our sense of  what it means to be civilized (wondering why cops so often abuse their authority over even the slightest provacation) keep in mind the infamous and chilling psych experiment Obedience to Authority and read the book The Lucifer Effect (by the same psychologist). You may find something disturbing, that in the same situation (official uniform, authority to act with impunity from superiors, etc) you (and I) may be capable of the same sort of behavior.

Related: “It was a trial that bared some anxieties that run just below the city’s surface: the weakness of a drunken memory; the vulnerability of ordinary residents to abuse from the powerful, especially in a police uniform…” Here.

Related: Uniformed crotch grabber. Here.

Feces and Urine Act of 2011

I wonder if now the ripening El Paso, TX will finally pass–well let’s call it the Feces and Urine Act of 2011?

Jello money

Now what incredibly idiotic government could possibly be using tax dollars to fund a study of Jello wrestling in Antarctica? Huh?

The Gulag Grand Banana Archipelago

Imprisonment for profit. The biggest prison population in the world.

Safe planking demonstrated

Great news. After several deaths and serious injuries have been reported a safer planking way of life is being demonstrated by some Taiwanese girls. No need to plank (just in case you ever find yourself in a grammatical quandary about the declension of this term I believe the past tense is plunked) on a fast moving car; now it can be accomplished on steps or flat ground. Once again China rules.

More fast food nation…

The latest fast food mob attack: Dunkin’ Donuts

Story here.

Confirmed: this is the REAL new world order

Study Mandarin (FMC is). After all, to quote Martin Jacque’s When China Rules (p. 399), “With the rise of China…growing numbers of people around the world are beginning to acquire Chinese as a seconde language.” Don’t be left out.

Related: Every new world order comes with an underwear exhibition, and the Chinese new world order is no exception.

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Personal Note: I’m sorry to keep celebrating China’s rise but I’ve been dating a quite beautiful Chinese university student from Shanghai and she says if I stop praising her country she won’t let me lick her feet anymore.)

A B-movie queen I won’t be seeing at Chiller Theater conventions any time soon

I’m a B-movie fan, especially of the old sci fi genre, and well, sadly I just read about Yvette Vickers (81), of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman fame (I recently saw this again; I don’t think she was the fifty foot woman herself–she was the other woman, the party girl floozy,  in the movie, the one that got the fifty foot woman so jealously vengeful), being found mummified in her home the other day.  Evidently she had been dead for a year before being found. RIP

Check this article on some other B actresses who are no longer with us. “…The larger-than-life star of this cult Russ Meyer [Faster Pussycat--Kill Kill] movie passed away from heart failure earlier this year at 72. She had a tough childhood in Chicago, where she was raped aged just nine by five men. In 1973 Tura [Satana] was shot by a drug-crazed ex but survived. In 1981 she was hit by an unlicensed driver, at 60mph in a 25mph zone. She was in hospital for two years…” .

Inside the increasingly brutal Grand Banana Republic

The Grand Banana Republic condemns violence in Mid-East and crack downs on democracy in China but ignores the brutal practices of its own fascist state. Go  here for one common example about police mercilessly beating a man, then arresting the guy who filmed them).

Fast food nation

It doesn’t matter what place you pick, Denny’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, et al, this uncivil behavior is getting pretty common.

Theological question of the day: If God wanted peace in the world why did he build fast food joints, huh?

Secular question of the day: Fries with that brutality?

A few examples of the GBR’s fast food life (hey, let’s pick on Denny’s; it seems to be a hotbed of assholes):

Pancake brawl at Denny’s

Halloween battle at Denny’s

Battle of the morons at Denny’s

Denny’s: Battle zone

Yeah, there’s plenty more but I don’t have all night to post this crap.

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UPDATE: McDonald’s this time:  black racists attack white girl in McDonald’s grease joint. (Now you might ask, how I know this is racist as such? Well I’m just applying the Al Sharpton Classification of Racial Antagonism Law, which clearly states that if a person or group (who happens to be W)  attacks, singles out another  person or group (who happens to be B) for violence or abuse that is in fact a raciist act–case closed).

UPDATE: Now even kops are fighting at the trans fat joints.

“A cut woman”

I first read, at least in depth, about this Islamic ritual of “cutting women” in Ayaan Ali’s Infidel.

The incident

“…Last week, the world learned about the town of Cleveland, Texas, where 18 teenage boys gang-raped an 11-year-old girl and, according to The New York Times, caused the community to rend their garments about how the crime would ruin the lives … of the rapists…” What to do about avoiding future rape incidents? Well for one, conservatives want to take a rule from the Taliban gender playbook  and regulate the dress code of eleven year old girls. Read article here.

So demented it’s hilarious

I don’t think there’s a lot of people anymore who don’t consider the Grand Banana Republic to be one sick mass of cat feces. Take the latest hilarious headline story:

ATF senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson’s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen. Investigators call the tactic letting guns “walk.” In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States…[now here's the really funny part]… Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles. So it turns out ATF not only allowed it – they videotaped it.

Check out the rest of this hilarious story here.

The Mideast “democracy” protests: be cynical

In their giddy lovey-dovey way Grand Banana Republic media, otherwise known as the mainstream media, are touting those Mideast protests as a democracy movement. But read this article from London’s Daily Mail about Tunisia.

Classic Stern

In this rant Stern is clearly back to his roots (rated R for strong language).

President Hu Jintao (and the other guy)

China’s prez visits the Grand Banana Republic but makes no promises about feeding our hungry and homeless.

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Related: Everyone has probably seen Obama bowing to various heads of state; most recently he’s been bowing to China’s president Hu Jintao. Even though Hu is from a prosperous and superior first world nation (unlike our third world landfill) Obama does not need to bow to show respect. Here’s what  China Orbit recommends: “A brief handshake serves as greeting, as the majority of Chinese people who interact with Europeans have become accustomed to shaking hands and are surprised when someone offers a short bow. It’s advisable, when greeting a superior or equal, to direct your gaze downward and to avoid direct eye contact.”

Related: Grand Banana Republic leader experiences deer caught in Chinese headlights syndrome. Hilarious.

 

I hope he doesn't order me to take our flag down.

Cynic’s family Christmas

What to do?…Uncle B (short for Boon) offers the cynic a Christmas libation, but there is much to muse about before accepting. Is the cup clean? How do I know Uncle B hadn’t first taken a swig directly from the bottle, which he’s been known to do? In that case there may well be many molecules of backwash in the cup, diluted as it might be–but still, the thought nauseates the cynic; Boon’s teeth are dark green and look like eyeless insects; and how does the cynic know he hadn’t urinated or spit in it at some time in the recent past, as he’s been known to do. But of course the cynic must accept the cup (Unlce B carries a hunting knife in his belt). So now the problem becomes not whether to accept the cup or not but what to do once the cup is accepted. The cynic will do what the cynic must do: He will clandestinely pour the contents on the floor under the table and blame it on grandmother’s bladder problem. (Oh, please do not worry about grandmother. She carries a long titanium darning needle under her bonnet. Uncle B will be lucky if he gets his knife even halfway out of his pants before his agonizing demise.)

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Note: From bottom center L to R: Cynic Boon (yours truly), Little sister Sheba Boon, Father Boon, Virgin Mary Boon, Uncle Ignatius Boon, and the village whore (and only worker), Jezebel Boon. Source: the Boon Family chronicles

Freakazoids on parade…

Freakazoids: Jack Birch, Thora Birch for being totally annoying … “Mr. Alexander, the director, said that ‘it was odd to have Jack Birch around so much, but that it hadn’t really been a problem until Thursday.’ At another point during Thursday’s rehearsal, Mr. Alexander said he noticed Mr. Birch peering through a window that was part of a library set while a scene with Ms. Birch was underway. ‘I couldn’t believe my eyes and turned to a crew member and said, ‘Is that Jack Birch looking through the window at Thora?’ ” Here (NY Times) and here (IFC)

Freakazoid: Allen West for being a fascist neocon  nut case):… “And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauding him for the efforts…” Here (HuffPo)

Freakazoid: TSA screener for putting pressure on the underside of this guys testicles)… ” ‘He started running his hands all over my body,’  Powers said in an interview. ‘He went all the way up to my crotch and put pressure on the underside of my testicles…’ ” Here (News Observer).

Freakazoid: Fascist government of Sweden for prosecuting Julian Assange for not wearing a condom. Here (Reuters).

Freakazoid: Elitist piece of trash Spencer Bachus for being an elitist piece of trash…”Washington’s role is to serve the banks…” Here (Daily Bail)

Slowly, then faster, the Grand Banana Republic is building its police state

The insidious monster is gradually taking hold, not only in emerging new Homeland Security edicts (as in Police State), but in the “little” incidents occurring daily, as, for example, Police storm house and execute puppies.

The Imperial Banana

“The United States considers itself a shining beacon of democracy and openness, but for many Europeans Washington’s fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles… (here)” No argument here. This place will still be preaching its democratic ideals even after it becomes a police state like China. Its hypocrisy is mind-boggling. “While the Obama Administration,” the article continues,  ”has done nothing in the courts to block the publication of any of the leaked documents, or …tried to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for any crime, American officials and politicians have been widely condemned in the European news media for calling the leaks everything from “terrorism” (Rep. Peter T. King [a former terrorist IRA supporter] to ‘an attack against the international community’ (…Hillary Clinton). Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates called the arrest of Mr. Assange on separate rape charges ‘good news,’ while Sarah Palin called for him to be hunted as an ‘anti-American operative with blood on his hands’ and Mike Huckabee…said that he should be executed [as did another neo-con Bill O'Reilly].” There’s a ton of these quaking holier-than-thou freaks out there.

We are the masters now: the Chinese crescendo is building.

” ‘We are the masters now.’ I wonder if President Barack Obama saw those words in the thought bubble over the head of his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, at the G20 summit in Seoul… If the president was hoping for change he could believe in—in China’s currency policy, that is—all he got was small change. Maybe Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also heard ‘We are the masters now’ as the Chinese shot down his proposal for capping imbalances in global current accounts. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke got the same treatment when he announced a new round of ‘quantitative easing’ to try to jump start the U.S. economy, a move described by one leading Chinese commentator as ‘uncontrolled’ and ‘irresponsible.’ ”  Here (Niall Ferguson)

Criswwell predicts: Ladies and gentlemen…I PREDICT that in another twenty years the Grand Banana Republic will be just another South American country.

“The experiment”

I read this in disbelief, though knowing what I know about government now I shouldn’t have been surprised in the least: “…New York City is applying the same methodology to assess one of its programs to prevent homelessness. Half of the test subjects — people who are behind on rent and in danger of being evicted — are being denied assistance from the program for two years, with researchers tracking them to see if they end up homeless…” Here.

The criminal state: scary stuff

You know, a few years ago I thought Alex Jones was on the fringe of political comment and extrapolation but not anymore.

The Grand Rotting Banana Republic

Welcome to Zimbabwe …hey, just kidding, Welcome to The Grand Banana Republic (Zimbabwe ain’t this bad): “One of the key signs that we are in the early stages of an economic collapse and that we are heading towards another Great Depression is America’s crumbling infrastructure.  The truth is that our infrastructure is literally falling apart all around us. Thousands of bridges are structurally deficient and there have already been some very high profile collapses.  Over 30 percent of the highways and roads in the United States are in very poor shape.  Aging sewer systems are leaking raw sewage all over the place…” Here.

Note: Nothing has improved (it’s actually getting worse and will continue to worsen if you extrapolate to, say, 2020). Here’s a report from 2007-08: Look out below!

The Grand Banana Republic: rust country

“… The same thing that happened to Detroit is now happening to dozens of other communities across the United States.  From coast to coast there are formerly great manufacturing cities that have turned into rotting, post-industrial war zones.  In particular, in America’s “rust belt” you can drive through town after town after town that resemble little more than post-apocalyptic wastelands.  In many U.S. cities, the “real” rate of unemployment is over 30 percent.  There are some communities that will start depressing you almost the moment you drive into them…” Here.

Related: While the Grand Banana Republic descends to Third World status of the typical two-tier (very rich/very poor) society China will lead the way in technical innovation during the next decade. Here. (Maybe this is the reason: Shanghai students astound educators–came in first in science testing…btw, the Grand Banana Republic came in 23rd.)

Bits and pieces (all of which add up to something ugly)

I guess we all know the federal government is broke so when they need money they just print it up by the billions, but now they’re so incompetent they can’t even print money right (remember, all you can do is laugh). Here.

Authoritarian penis envy? Swedish Condom Police want Wikileaks hero Assange. Here. New and better article here. Update: funny satirical piece by Naomi Wolfe: Julian Assange captured by world’s dating police (here).

Note: I can’t find one “conservative” site (Pajamas Media, Big Peace (etc), NRO, WND, Hot Air, TV’s O’Reilly Factor, big Wall St lovers Rush Limbaugh and Laura Inghram, etc. etc….) that hasn’t fallen prey to corrupt authoritarian neocon symptoms, from their ongoing nostalgia for Inspector Clouseau, aka  George Dubya, and Resident Dr Evil (Cheney) to their vicious attacks on Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Adherents of Jeffersonian democracy evidently died out a long time ago.

Ted Turner: Get sterilized for cash, my friends. Here.

Speaking of Wikileaks…How Wikileaks altered the way we see the world in just a week

Circumventing Chinese government censorship via Kindle: “…Mainlanders have been putting black market “e-readers” to a novel alternative use: Bypassing state censorship. ..Chinese who purchased Amazon Kindle [3G version] have found that they can use its built in web browser to access sites and services – including Twitter and Facebook – which are normally blocked in China. According to media sources, the 3G version of the Kindle uses a high speed GSM cellular connection to connect to a server located outside of China – and thus outside of state censorship… Allowing it to view websites that are normally blocked by Chinese ISPs by bypassing the the ISPs completely in favor of an uncensored American counterpart…” Here.

Back to Wikileaks again: Why is China blocking Cablegate? Well, according to the Angry Chinese Blogger it’s “1) Because it’s Beijing. It’s what it does2) Because some of the cables contained unflattering information regarding China in general, and Beijing in particular…”

Austria: latest country to disembowel Free Speech on the altar of religion. Here.

Back to Wikileaks again: Well after Wikileaks is out of the way, after the Evil forces have had their way with him, we can go back to a more steady dose of the usual big important news, like today’s The Look of Love–Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Dazzle at the World Premier of The Tourist. Hint: in the near future look for tons of these kinds of articles to make up for the sudden departure of oxygen. In fact, make up a headline and it will probably actually appear… er, like Conan Shaves His Beard LIVE on Basic Cable, or What color crayon did George Bush use to “write” his memoirs? or…well, you get the picture.

Hey, guess what? Back to →Wikileaks.  ”In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: ‘In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.’ His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public…” Here.

Can you believe this? Back to Wikileaks again. “Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest over the dubious rape and molestation claims of two Swedish women is likely a political stunt, after it was revealed that one of the women has connections to the CIA and is a militant feminist who published a guide on how to get revenge on men and make them ‘suffer’…” Here.

The coming authortarian tax monster: “The new ObamaCare1099 rule for reporting of all cash, credit and check business transactions of $600 or more is scheduled to begin January of 2012.  This is really an extension of the 2008 Housing and Recovery Act IRS rules that start this January when merchant banks and PayPal will report business sales directly to the IRS (the reporting threshold is $20,000 and 200 transactions a year)…” Here. Don’t worry, it’s all part of the growing fascism.

Back to the Grand Banana Republic’s growing fascism again: “Last week FCC Commissioner Michael Copps suggested broadcasters be subject to a new ‘public values test’ every four years. Copps said that the test would make a broadcaster’s license renewal contingent upon evidence that they meet a prospective set of federal criteria…” Here.

Foreign youth get a taste of the Grand Banana Republic (it ain’t pretty)

This is what happens when foreign exchange students or J-1 Visa visitors believe the land-of-opportunity myth that has been perpetrated by the Grand Banana Republic all these years (via Hollywood): What they find of course is that they’ve entered a pretty scummy country. ”…This is not what I thought when I paid all this money to come here,” said Natalia Berlinschi, a Romanian who came to the U.S. on a J-1 visa hoping to save up for dental school but got stuck in South Carolina this summer without a job. She took to begging for work on the Myrtle Beach boardwalk and sharing a three-bedroom house with 30 other exchange students…In my whole life, I’ve never lived in that kind of place and that kind of conditions…” Now you know how those born here in this shit hole feel.  Here.

Related: see past post: Foreign exchange students get a taste of the real Grand Banana Republic (and it ain’t pretty). Here.

The great comparative recessions chart

Please write your congressman: tell him you want the country sold to China asap. See article here.

Eat my dust…

The Grand Banana Republic may be the biggest debtor nation in the world but in most other respects the writing is on the bathroom wall: China is the new star of the world. Almost half of the tallest buildings in the world are located in China. The GBR has three.  Their cities are booming. “Financial gloom,” writes AP, ” has derailed plans for new towers in Chicago, Moscow, Dubai and other cities. But in China, work on the 2,074-foot (632-meter) Shanghai Tower, due to be completed in 2014, and dozens of other tall buildings is rushing ahead, powered by a buoyant economy and providing a steady stream of work to architects and engineers” (here).  And getting between those modern cities? Bullet trains. China is developing thousands of kilometers of bullet train routes, with sleek 300 mph hour engines. The GBR doesn’t have one. Not only are we behind China, but we’re behind Japan and Europe too. It’s like a horse race that’s already started and we haven’t got out of the chute yet. Read story (here.

When will we start receiving care packages from China?

While China moves directly into the 21st century with its newly rebuilt cities, laid out in gleaming architectural splendor, and its new bullet trains between those cities making not only quickness (for business or pleasure) a marvel but bringing a futuristic thrill to the ride as well, the whole panorama of their success makes our emerging Third World status ever more apparent. With our millions of unemployed, our corrupt greedy banks raping the economy, and our inept and increasingly authoritarian government more concerned with pursuing permanent war than with improving our own social and physical infrastructure China may just feel sorry enough for us to send us care packages of food and clothing. I can see Chinese TV running ads imploring its citizens to send in a few yuan each month to sponsor a malnourished American child.

Secrets buster finds refuge in nuke bunker

Wikileaks’s servers, at least some of them, have been set up in a nuke proof shelter in Sweden. Story here.

Related: Why we need secrets busters. Here’s one example from the economy–here. (BTW, if the government’s so concerned about its secrets why weren’t they encrypted?)

Update: Wikileaks Julian Assange waiting to be arrested for “rape charge”. I just wonder who the female CIA agent is who”pressed” the charge?

Note: After people have read the Wikileaks documents how many could go back to the filtered TV news with all those fake talking heads and “All the News That’s Fit to Print” crap? While goofy O’Reilly opines with with his tired Patriots or Pinheads comedy routine and Olbermann strains his face to a deep hue of purplish red naming Bristol Palin The Worst Person in the World for the night the status of news events has suddenly shifted ahead with Assange’s published revelations of what really goes on in government and corporations. Keep it coming.