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Sub-Prime Crime : An Economic 9-11 ? The audio track was concocted within a week of the events but life being what happens while you are busy making other plans, I never got to whip up the video & eventually though it was passé & kinda forgot about it. But just like 9-11 changed everything, the subprime crime spree created havoc on the economy & keep on giving. After the illegal push for subprime deals Spitzer tried to halt, Wall Street upped the ante & sold these fraudulent turds for triple A gold investment to the unspected international finance community causing a worldwide catastrophe. This is the story of some of those patriots who where mostly ignored, ridiculed or got their ass served by the GOPs Rove bots army. "Plus on est ignorant, moins on sen apperçoit." Louis Pasteur VIVE LAFAYETTE ;)

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell SUCH AS... If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." - Noam Chomsky OR... "It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" - Gore Vidal / Let alone the fact that most of the voting will be done on Diebold & friends machines, exposing American democracy as the sinister & cynical farce it has become under the proto-fascism Bush/Cheney junta.

"McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi" - Pat Buchanan * While the civilian economy is shrinking, the military sector is expanding. The Republicans, are pledged to an even bigger U.S. military. It's good for business, if your part of the growing group of Americans whose livelihoods, and claim to some sort of social status, depend on the continuation of our foreign policy of perpetual war and civilian abuse. GOP KILLING FLOOR examines how Nixon's ghost & ghoulies are still haunting american politics.

The privatization of the army undermines the "real one". It parallels the process by which the US middle class now competes with brutalized children in third world factories. We've now experienced the corporatization of the voting system with Diebold & friends, of the intelligence ( CIA, NSA & FBI ) with Choice Point ! And now a private army hell bound for the rapture is on deck... "What God wants, God gets, God help us all ! " - Roger Waters

"A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain" - Anatole France A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis." - Umberto Eco

The writers strike is crucial. Its resolution will determine how creative minds will be paid in the future. Intellectual property and publishing rights are sacred in civilized nations. When money is generated, content creators should be compensated. So Big Media & The Man are perverting democracy beyond recognition... Business as usual ! But to have "The Daily Show" & "The Colbert Report" permanently on re-runs...That does it ! "I'm mad as hell & I'm not going to take it anymore" ;)

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa / Is 'Disaster Capitalism' merely a hot short-term investment opportunity for you? Or is it a national 'crisis,' a warning bell, a 'shocking' call to ... rein in the 'military-industrial complex' mindset that's pushing America into a disastrous, self-destructive future? "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein

Big Brother is on a rampage and he's feeding on ya !

In a culture where insignificance is glorified, a few thoughts about the state of the union from an outspoken critic of the American political establishment should be welcome. "Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses." : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

" We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…" " Politics is the entertainment branch of industry " - Frank Zappa

If the Republicans lose in 2008, they will leave office armed and dangerous. "Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." - Frank Zappa "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - Dwight D. Eisenhower / farewell address "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush

"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself" - Joseph Pulitzer "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn "The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

'We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog, interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane.'" - Jules Carlysle "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin

Just a hint : Before you export democracy, try having it at home... "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office.": - Aesop, c.550 B.C. "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind": George Orwell "If voting could change the system, it would be illegal." - Theodore Adorno

Self explicit & tragic... We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. - Hunter S. Thompson