Twitter This Commentary In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio.. However, due to time constraints (Again!) there will be no text news synopsis this morning... A point of interest though. Over the weekend I spent much of my discussion time on the internet and in 'real' life on the topic:

"Where's the rage"

George Carlin, American Comedian:

“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want, They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. . . . And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.” [src]

"Income growth stumbled, while spending picked up as price growth slowed..." See: (the deceptively titled) Income: Wage Growth Balances Other Market-Based Weakness, and Spending Accelerates Despite Slower Income Growth...

"Payrolls declined by 36,000 but a much larger decline was expected. January payrolls were slightly weaker than preliminary estimates indicated; 6,000 more jobs were shaved off."

But ya' all keep spending like there's no tomorrow... with money becoming increasingly valueless as the 'full faith and credit' of the US government sinks to an all time low in heavy trading... Actually, there WILL BE a tomorrow (I think...) but there's uncertainty in the future. That certainly doesn't stop anyone in ClusterFuck Nation's "Leave It To Beaver" Happy Motoring Delusional Disneyland. James Howard Kunstler... ClusterFuck Nation, on a "rage" that's sweeping the nation:

I gave a talk down in Connecticut to a roomful of people who are still pretty much preoccupied with such questions as how to fight the landing of the next WalMart UFO, or how best to entice tourists to purchase objets-d'art, or serve up weekend entertainments along with fine dining and accommodations. Meanwhile, I'm thinking: how many of you might be grubbing around the woods six months from now for enough acorns and mushrooms to make something resembling soup...? It's an extreme fantasy, I know, but it dogs me. Elsewhere in this big nation, I imagine a laid-off engineer -- a genial, capable fellow, once valued by his former employer -- tinkering in his Ohio basement with a device designed to blow up the headquarters of the health insurance company that has just denied his wife treatment for cancer of some organ or other (ed. Obversely and perversely, see this WaPo article about how much AIG's employees despise the American public because you don't like the fact they helped crash the US economy // Auntie Im). Or my mind ventures into the rank "function room" of a Holiday Inn outside Indianapolis, where Tea Party recruits meet over chicken nuggets to discuss the New World Order, and the Bilderberg conspiracy, and the suspicious numbers of Jews in the bonus-padded upper echelons of the Wall Street banks, and what might be done about that. [In Full]

The Athenians... Greece, an ancient culture, understand rage:

Mayhem in Athens By Barnaby Phillips in Europe March 5th, 2010 These days, as the government pushes ahead with its austerity programme, the demonstrations are almost daily affairs. And, sometimes, like today, they turn ugly. It was mayhem out there for about half an hour, and we looked down on demonstrators hurling rocks and bottles at the police, who responded with volleys of tear gas. There seem to have been a couple of high-profile injuries. Greek TV showed union leader Yiannis Pannagopoulos being punched, apparently by another member of the crowd. And a prominent figure of the Greek left, Manolis Glezos, was carried away injured, apparently after being tear-gassed in the face. [src]

A Polish woman on an email list I frequent understands the rage:

Greece did not just resist Nazis but American occupation and then later in the seventies-hunta.American financed of course. I wish my friends everything. NXXXXXXXXXXXXX(redacted)

Compare her feeling to the non-reaction of the American public to impingements on their OWN basic constitutional rights. Do you think she's feel solidarity for YOU America? As you let your rights slip away, and sheepishly accept the police state surrounding you?

Homeland Security Says to Prepare to Prove Your Innocence by Computer Analyzation at Local Events(Video Below The Fold In The "NOTES:")

In the 1960s they practiced on the South African Black population (and so many other third world nations) with Polaroid's "Passbook" system of human movement control Then, they gave the Saudis state of the art Iris Scan equipment... ...to allow that totalitarian state control of the Muslim religion, because if you're an enemy of the Saudi state, you can never make the pilgrimage to Mecca as every good Muslim must. As George Carlin pointed out at the top of this screed... it's not in their interest that you notice... The folks who run the mayhem, murder, and loot show know it's all Marketing 101, and would rather have you believe they're "Doing It ALL For You", but "You" have been bought and sold.

'(Iraq) War hype was postponed until the weeks immediately prior to the November 2002 elections. The explanation from White House chief of staff Andrew Card: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."' [src]

But truth be told, there's a problem in their strategy... The children... Remember the children?:

"Nietzsche argues that the deus ex machina creates a false sense of consolation that ought not to be sought..." [Wikipedia]

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