The Bitter Truth
Professor Ryszard Legutko Took The Floor Of The European Parliament To Tell The Bitter Truth
Ideologues
The water-combed ideologues are back
The Ownership Class demands all, white wine and lobster.
Striking low-pay workers, – F**k them!
The Ownership Class
Discipline and Punish, Panopticism
The Victory of Perception Management
Swedish Nomination Committees
OSCE – “… to ensure compliance with the principle of equal suffrage.”
GRECO – “… urged to further strengthen anti-corruption measures”
New Constitution of Iceland Adopted by the Venice Commission
Wages, income and labour market (EU: NO #1 IS #14)
They are no friends with EU (?)
Austerity
What they say and what they do. – Do we have to choose between conspiracy, incompetence or economic entropy?
Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
CIA “asset” gets own talk show.
Do a little Social networking
Fisheries pay billions in dividends to the “owners” of a natural resource.
The infrastructure crumbles, – in preparation for privatization.
White collar criminals get suspended sentences.
Special prosecutor crippled by cuts.
Investigation Commissions suspended.
Information about 400 “entities” in tax-havens ignored.
Government bails out selective % of private mortgages.
New constitution buried, – after a referendum.
After repeated exodus of the young and able, – who is left behind?
Understanding our very own
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Same ideologues, now turned ‘purists’, convinced of a different outcome.
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– Give me a break.
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| “Without delay” | maybe someday |
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| “Live broadcast” | ‘enhanced’ tape-delay |
| “Not privatization” | cronyism |
| “Impossibility” | nuisance |
| “Unimplementable” | irritating |
| “Integrity” | broken campaign promises |
| “Safeguards” | broken campaign promises |
| “Reasoned discussion” | shut the fuck up |
| “Speculations” | the government budget |
| “Campaign promises” | speculations |
| “Immediately” | never |
| “Simple” | impossible |
| “National Consensus” | the will of the minister |
| “Nature reserves” | more Power Plants |
| “Restructuring” | cutbacks |
| “Solidarity” | obedience |
| “Safeguarded” | abolished |
| “Untraditional” | the MP is lying |
| “Thinking aloud” | the MP is lying |
| “Money in the Post” | more comities & no fulfillment |
Adapted from Jonas.is
Repeat after me:
“Redundancies reasonable and necessary”
– today it is Public broadcasting – to morrow it will be …
“The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.” ~ Arundhati Roy
Now that we have one, – we can continue to enjoy the regurgitated BS they call news.
Even our FM took cookies to Kiev à la Nuland, – not doing to well at home?
Newspeak Dictionary
The real battlefield is your mind (1/8)
Reality Asserts Itself (1/4)
Friendly Dictators Trading Cards
Russophobia produces foaming at the mouth
Warmongers are not taken by the Olympic spirit:
“to build a peaceful and better world in the Olympic Spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play – Olympic Spirit strives to inspire and motivate the youth of the world to be the best they can be through educational and entertaining interactive challenges. Olympic Spirit seeks to instill and develop the values and ideals of Olympism in those who visit and to promote tolerance and understanding in these increasingly troubled time in which we live, to make our world a more peaceful place.”
A Common(s) Problem:
“Yet again the current … Minister of … shamed our country, this time by … Please do not judge … by the … actions of this man, most of us voted against him but we split our votes among opposition parties and must now endure his …”
THE//INTERCEPT
Officer Wolfgang Schmidt
A Dream Come True
The golden rule
We have no corruption, ~ it’s been legalized.
Skýrsla rannsóknarnefndar Alþingis (Special Investigation Commission)
Skýrsla rannsóknarnefndar Alþingis um Íbúðalánasjóð (Parliamentary Committee on Housing Authority)
Skýrsla rannsóknarnefndar Alþingis um Sparisjóðina (Parliamentary Committee on Savings Banks)
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Tillaga til þingsályktunar (Proposal for a parliamentary resolution)
Money laundering?
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Græðgi og spilling (Greed and corruption)
Groundhog Day
Footnotes:
1. Factual knowledge has not been able to counter voodoo convictions, some say that this is because the best stock left the country for Canada in 1870-1914, leaving only bankers, politicians, middlemen, and telephone sanitizers. – This may or may not be.
2. see 1.
Idiocracy
Selling the land from under our feet is so balanced, realistic, reasonable, responsible, sane, sensible, and smart, that, only those with defected brainwash could object.
We surrender, genuinely, heart and soul to the 0.0001% or the 6,660 Godlike creatures who own everything.
Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
… Blair and Bush to be tried over Iraq
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Idiocracy