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September 8, 2014
Open Thread 2014-21
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To anonymous at 194 —
Everyone should read the MSM, I know I do. You shouldn’t believe it, can’t fight the lie of the day if you don’t know it. What they conceal and what they admit can be far more important than what they want you to believe.
No need to make folks up. You interview until you find someone who says what the editors want said, and print that, not the others who contradict or complicate. And if you reduce the no. of outlets by consolidation and the no. of bureaus for reasons of “economy,” well, the Ministry of Truth has less work to do filling the memory hole. Or more correctly, the contractors and defense firms to whom MiniTrue has been privatized.
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 12 2014 3:34 utc | 201
Oops, a quick nightcap, am a little tired.
at my #200, “murders on the left did not stop in the 60’s, you recall…”
My bad, folks.
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 12 2014 3:37 utc | 202
malooga 192
here’s death by suicide, car clash, air clash and what not….
these were prominent star war scientists and microbiologists engaging in arcane projects….like ethnic bomb, they were dying like flies !
truely amazing !
examples…
July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
–Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down and worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
–Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax”
–Circumstance of Death: He was found dead after seemingly slashing his wrist in a wooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire.
dna sequencing => ethnic specific bioweapon ?
January 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
–Expertise: Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top of the line world class.
–Circumstance of Death: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
http://www.rense.com/general62/list.htm
Posted by: denk | Sep 12 2014 4:05 utc | 203
@ rufus magister:
Yes, I remember Greensboro — it is all just one long continuum of assault and resistance.
To see conspiracies where a mutual material interest and common values produces common actions is to distort reality. To change it, one has to see it as clearly as possible.
I think we are merely arguing semantics, not substance, here.
As to my obscure reference, it had nothing to do with the innertubes. Rather, I was referring to Herman Hesse’s last novel:
‘”Glass Bead Game” is a literal translation of the German title, but the book has also been published under the title Magister Ludi, Latin for “Master of the Game”, which is an honorific title awarded to the book’s central character. “Magister Ludi” can also be seen as a pun: lud- is a Latin stem meaning both “game” and “school”…
Freedman wrote in his biography of Hesse that the tensions caused by the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany directly contributed to the creation of the Glass Bead Game as a response to the oppressive times. “The educational province of Castalia, which provided a setting for the novel, came to resemble Hesse’s childhood Swabia physically while assuming more and more the function of his adopted home, neutral Switzerland, which in turn embodied his own antidote to the crises of his time. It became the “island of love” or at least an island of the spirit.”’
So, it was a (now un) veiled compliment to your appearance as a breath of fresh air on this blog, especially as we appear to have lost bevin after the last round of trolls.
Didn’t you read your Hesse in High School? It was about the only thing that got me through those drear days. As we face similar deeply troubled times today, we again need an island of the spirit to retreat to.
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You also refer to the origin of the Rufus, or red, part of your moniker as coming from your physical appearance. Which brings to mind a story from my past: Many years ago, working general construction on the island of St. Croix after hurricane Hugo, I was thrown onto a tile job with a huge, rather rough-hewn, Puerto Rican guy I had never met by the name of Rojas. I saw him looking down rather disapproving of me and my appearance as his new partner-to-be. I knew I had to be proactive and think fast, before things I got off on the wrong foot — as survival itself was not to be taken for granted in post-hurricane Mad Max conditions. My last name derives from the Russian word for red, a prefix we see in the name of many of the contested towns of the Donbass war, as in Krasny Luch.
“Hey Dude!,” I exclaimed, “we must be brothers.”
“What do you mean?,” he asked, now more visibly surprised and shocked by my behavior, than my appearance.
“Well, look, see your last name means red in Spanish, and mine means red in Russian. We’re brothers! We just happened to have been born on different sides of the border! People were always crossing back and forth in the old days. We could have been born together, but for a simple accident of fate! So, somewhere way back, because we have the same last name, we must share the same father. Plus, my favorite color is red, how ‘bout you?”
“Well, yeah, me too,” he conceded, now sheepishly befuddled and completely mollified.
And from that day on, despite our many differences, we became staunch friends, and forged a good tight work bond — and a somewhat incongruous pair of drinking buddies — making the most of our time together in what was, in many ways at the time, a perilous and capricious wild west environment on the island.
And I owe it all to the power of “red.”
I just saw mojo on msnbc. They are talking about the ray rice and nfl abuse story acting all sanctimonious about what should be done and how heinous and irresponsible the nfl is, and how it is all about money.
And Joe Scaborough and company sit on national teevee spewing lies and fomenting and endorse rapacious policies that kill thousands of people, destroy entire countries and cause people around the globe especially the middle east to hate america. Then they sit up there laughing like a cabal of hyenas.
What ray rice and the. Nfl is going through is bad for all parties concerned, but for Mojo on msnbc to be acting all holier than thou in their disapproval is hypocritical at best. Look in the mirror morning joe…do yall really like what you see?
Malooga @ 204 —
I would say, emphasis, not semantics.
I had more my politics in mind with “rufus,” just so happens it fits the hair. Which I still have almost all of, no gray in it (yet), a bit in the beard though, for a no. of years.
No, did not read Hesse, the author of “Siddharta,” correct?
Thanks for the compliment, even if I didn’t fully grasp it.
Gotta run, on the internet this am looking at the weather for Ms. Magister, she has an event at work tomorrow that’s indoor/outdoor. Off to the day job.
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 12 2014 11:57 utc | 206
@193: sometimes you don’t see the forest for the trees — Chomsky denies the importance of central banking/debt schemes/structures. A biggie!
@ 204: “we appear to have lost bevin after the last round of trolls.”
I for one, certainly hope not. We have few enough ” must reads” here as is.
Your return here is most welcome.
Posted by: ben | Sep 12 2014 14:20 utc | 208
Israeli wire-tappers refuse to spy on Palestinians (Unit 8200)
The most moral army in the world …
Posted by: Outraged | Sep 13 2014 2:53 utc | 210
I must say Abby Martin’s ‘Breaking The Set’ on RT America is awesome. Half hour tis not enough, her show shold be an hour long.
Peter Lavelle’s Crosstalk and The Keiser Report on RT America are great too. Love it when Mr. Lavelle abruptly but politely ends the discussion at the end of the program. Lol!
Links for those that don’t know.
http://rt.com/shows/breaking-set-summary/
http://rt.com/
http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/
To really @ 212 —
For what MHO is worth, I agree with you on Crosstalk and Keiser Report. Max is, as the young people say, “off the hook.” Ms. Magister is a Max fan, too, btw. Shares his strong dislike about “the banksters,” as he calls them. Personally, I’m good with 1/2 for Abby, I’d give a few of Lavelle’s regulars their own shows with that 1/2 hr. Mark Sleboda, e.g.
And I’m starting to like their “Redacted Tonight” comedy program. Lee Camp really nails our proposed bombing campaign at about 6:00, see link below.
Tearing apart the media, the corporate bacteria, & how little Congress cares about mad police
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 14 2014 13:16 utc | 213
“Russia is turning away from the West”
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.nl/2014/09/listening-to-lavrov-giving-up-on-west.html
Posted by: Willy2 | Sep 15 2014 14:27 utc | 214
It seems like the hegemon is going to militarily capitalize on the ebola crisis in Africa. It plans to send 3,000 troops to Africa including a general to “help” with the ebola crisis.
Posted by: really | Sep 16 2014 10:11 utc | 215
Cuba sends medical teams around the world and is denigrated as exporting communism, yet even in a medical pandemic crisis, where the Empires only tool is a Hammer, this problem too becomes a ‘Nail’, send in the Military … apparently we’ll destroy the evil of Ebola by sheer force of arms !
Posted by: Outraged | Sep 16 2014 10:34 utc | 216
To Outraged at 216 —
A “Triumph of the (American) Will,” perhaps? I’ve seen some press about it, haven’t had time to look into it. But I’m wondering, is this a slick way to engage Boko Haram? We can’t let the French have all the neo-colonial fun in Mali, Cent. Afr. Repub., now, can we?
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 17 2014 3:43 utc | 217
@217 red master-of-the-game
If the subject vmatter was not so deadly serious I would be lol’n at the ‘Triumph of the (American) Will’ line. Well done. I hate having to be so skeptical of the USG but dayum, they make it so hard not to be..
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/02/understanding_a_1.html
Posted by: really | Sep 17 2014 4:06 utc | 218