deceit degree

DECEIT DEGREE


Quite by accident I stumbled on to a wonderful book. I went to the library, not every week as I had been but more like once a month since there actually are budget problems there I wasn’t informed about and almost all the new books they get in are from the “popular hacks” list. A more putrid and banal collection of forgettable tomes are hard to imagine unless you are visiting a communist country and only the Revered Chairman’s writings are allowed to see print. I wasn’t expecting much, but there it was in all its glory, “Without Warning” by John Birmingham. This wasn’t an apocalypse novel per se, but it was witty, interesting, well written, hard to put down, meaty ( read, long ) and only the first of a trilogy. An unknown phenomenon causes a blob of something to descend on the lower US 48 and the right side of Canada, wiping out all primates. You can’t even get close to check this out, since the blob reaches out and snatches you in. Think Stephen Kings Mist, but not as evil. Just a new force of nature. Anyway, this happens seven or eight years ago as the US marshals its forces to “liberate” Iraq, so most of the military is overseas. So, besides Alaska, Hawaii and Seattle ( along with Ft. Lewis ), there is no longer the USA. But we still have our military and a bunch of liberal commie pukes as civilians. The story jumps around between a stranded CIA assassin in France, a boat crew of hotties and a beach bum along with his oriental former-pirate sidekick, a city engineer, military dudes at Gitmo and a sleezy lawyer. The glue holding it all together is the global financial meltdown caused by the US disappearing. Highly recommended for mind candy, with a bit of “human nature revealed” to keep it insightful.

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The US has institutionalized its bribery. No one slips the beat cop $100 to keep from being harassed. Instead, the taxpayers make sure he is well paid ( or, if not well paid locally, given opportunities to transfer to an area that is- the lower paying job serving as an apprenticeship ) and bribed with a generous retirement package ( not that he will see it now, but how many cops have a hobby following the financial markets as they truly are rather than what Wall Street promises? ). This is a bad deal for civilians, since they are paying much more plus they get no chance to escape a BS law being enforced ( apparently, you now no longer even have the right of free speech agitating for a return to jury’s rights to revoke unjust laws ). To do that you must hire an attorney. And forget about that free public defender. He is busy sticking his head up the ass of both the judge and prosecutor. And the honest ones are given such an overwhelming caseload that they can’t actually do a good job. Hence, you sell the furniture and the first born to stay out of jail. If we could just bribe the cop individually we could enjoy such debauchery as prostitution and narcotics use without being penalized so harshly ( and for those stick up ass Jesus Freaks that enjoy punishing victimless crimes, your day at the witch trials surely shall come- reap what you sow, bitches ).

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I’ll cover the financial consequences of institutionalized bribery at a later date. For now, I’ll just say that as with bribery, so too with information. Our entire knowledge system has been institutionalized. No one is so crass as to threaten or bribe a specialist to get them to hawk the officially desired news. No, instead the system is automatic. You can chase whichever field of knowledge you desire. It might even pay the bills. But the ones that are rewarded are those that fit into the accepted rulers world view. If you become a “yes-man” you get a taste of the loyal treasury. The most obvious example is of course the “consensus” on man made global warming. We haven’t made this joint as hot as the pre-human humid jungle that had dinosaurs roaming around Canada and Russia, but somehow man is responsible for the artic melting. Hey, we very well could be. I don’t doubt that it is very possible. But instead of science debating the answer we get one shoved down our throat, all dissent being forbidden. That alone causes me to question if it is all legit. Now we are seeing the officially approved news being slopped in our trough on the Japanese earthquake. I won’t crow about being spot on in my super paranoia about the lies told about the nuclear power plants. Instead I’d like to talk about the ridiculous crap being peddled about the financial repercussions. Saturday evening CBS news ( okay, perhaps it was ABC, one of the majors anyway ) reported that the financial cost was projected to be ten billion dollars. Sunday morning they had a talking head report that on Friday the Japanese stock market had gone up on hopes that the rebuilding would be a financial stimulus. Do you see the incredible whitewash going on?

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Obviously, their stock market is tied into ours, as only insiders could manipulate them this well. Bad news, markets up. Good news, markets up. No news, markets up. One market wiped out, other markets up. Please. Forget the BS markets. The devastation has got to be so huge, many multiples of Katrina, that no economy can rebuild. Not in a country that imports all oil, its only “alt energy” source up in radioactive smoke, and its cash cow exporter companies halting production ( how does JIT inventories work now, bitches? ). What really got me laughing was the ridiculous $10 billion repair bill. Am I an idiot, or does ONE nuclear power plant cost more than that? Did I miss something, or does road construction costs something like $10 million a mile? You’re telling me an entire city getting swept away costs under $10 billion? Looking at one stretch of road, you see one lane four feet taller than another. That will be cheap to fix? This weekend, the legions of paid whores flocked to the airways to lie to us about the quake. No radiation to see here, no financial tsunami to come from this. And the sad part is, they aren’t lying. They were educated to actually think this is all true. American engineers are the best in the world. True, so I guess their design can’t be dangerous with all those back-up safety features. The US dollar will always be the dominant global currency. It isn’t about the energy. It is about paper dollars. So, they aren’t guilty of deceit. Their educators weren’t even guilty. Well, perhaps they were guilty of not teaching people to think for themselves. Unless students don’t want that skill. Since it doesn’t pay. Yes-Men positions do however. Ten Billion. If it wasn’t so tragic, attempting to keep the rotten structure together, it would be hilarious.

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