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Hardliners of the world, unite! The Cold War was fought largely by the hardliners in each country against their own "liberals" who wanted detente.
Joe McCarthy's ally = Stalinism.
Stalin-Hitler pact - now how does that square?
Puritanism is pornography.
Hippies are bourgeois.
The road to success in art (success defined as having your pieces bought by the bourgeoisie) is to shock & insult the bourgeoisie.
Bankers are money-launderers.
Those who decry the "free lunch" usually do so while eating one.
"Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints..."
The top drug enforcer is in bed with the top drug dealer. Or else his deputy is, in every country where drugs are illegal. An axiom so often demonstrated that it has the force of natural law.
Organized crime is the rich friend of the hard-working police, who only go after the petty stuff.
Prisons are factories.
Schools are prisons.
Free trade is a form of enforced cannibalism.
The Sky-God of the most stringent organized religions acts and talks just like the Devil.
The industrial promulgation of lies and the corruption of youth is celebrated as a worthy profession, known as advertising.
Militarists and hardcore machos are often as queer as they fear.
Almost every country honors a mass murderer as its founder and hero.
The independent use of intelligence is invariably punished as naive.
Yet curiously the application of intelligence to politics invariably leads to paranoia.
Sorry, in Gore Vidal's immortal words, Democrats and Republicans are one party with two right wings.
Preparing for nuclear holocaust is considered the realistic course. Trying to prevent it is considered hopelessly idealistic.
The terrorists are the counterterrorists.
Defense consists in creating your future enemies.
Work is a form of prostitution.
The health industry does its best work by getting people sick, so they need it.
All the nationalisms are mirror images of each other. Ditto the intolerant, Sky-God religions.
The most striking thing about Palestinians and Israelis is how similar they look and think, how their values (with regard to family, work, education, religion) generally correspond.
The law exists to be violated by its practitioners.
The guys who wrote the anti-environmental clause in NAFTA (allowing companies to sue countries to compensate FUTURE profits estimated as lost due to ecological regulations) went on to bring the first such lawsuit against Canada.
Every Pentagon official is a future Pentagon contractor (or a failure).
This is the way the world works. I always kind of knew this stuff, but it took me a while to wake up to it. It's not satire. It's the way power in the world really works. Alice never went to Wonderland, she only opened her eyes and saw what was already there.
So it surprises you when hardcore Zionists and Nazis turn out to have certain affinities and shared friends (in this case, the Bush family)? This is an old, old history. Palestinian Zionists had a deal going with the Nazis, the Transfer Agreement (look up the book by the same name, author Edwin Black), trading resources in exchange for allowing some Jews to get to Palestine.
The Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Klaus Barbie, was ratlined by the CIA to Bolivia, where he masterminded two coups d'etat, the second on behalf of the drug mafia, and hung out with Spooks International, including old Nazi buddies alongside the Israeli business types who armed them.
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