Robert Kennedy's Voice Is So Fucked Up I Think He Should've Took The Vaccine

 

 Once you know how "the other half lives," with their striving for position, multiple tragic affairs, weird "spiritual" beliefs, not to mention looking down on everyone else, then you also know why Free Speech is restricted to what they want to hear. They call it "good manners" when it's really good cover from TMR. 

   

 Like, is it in "bad taste" to mention that we should all be rejoicing, knowing King Charles has cancer AND a homeopath by his side? Or are we supposed to stay quiet, when anyone can see this lifelong defender of "alternative" medicine is hypocritically relying on conventional medicine for this diagnosis, and will finally be forced to lean on it - and not his beloved quackery - to survive? I don't think 'What happens when no one believes anything anymore?' is a question King Charles has ever asked himself, though that's been just one result of his lifetime of bullshitting. On me, anyway. Isn't this the right time to drive that point home - to the world?

   

 And one of the first things that turned me off about Zionists on Oct 7 was how they called Palestinians "animals." But now, Thomas Friedman has taken that to a whole new level. And good on him. It's about time he, Donald Trump, and Adolf Hitler all had something in common. Or is that wrong to say as well? It's so important not to screw up.

The Great American Self-Imposed Psyche Out

"Today, the Great Recession has led many Americans to overstate China’s power. Thomas Friedman, an influential newspaper columnist, has advanced the idea that the so-called ‘Washington Consensus’ of free markets and globalisation may be supplanted by a ‘Beijing Consensus’ model — a Confucian-Communist-Capitalist hybrid under the umbrella of a one-party state. These notions are by no means confined to political theorists: the public are guilty, too. An opinion poll in December last year found that 44 per cent of Americans believe that China is the world’s leading economic power; just 27 per cent name the United States.

The Middle Kingdom is certainly growing faster than the Grand Old Republic, but by any conventional measure — economic output, military capabilities, scientific and technological capacity — the United States is the most powerful country in the world. And it’s not a close-run thing."

-- Daniel W. Drezner, reminding us not to listen to fools - even if they write for The New York Times - or conventional wisdom, if you're going to be known as The Spectator.

If You Don't Use Your Head They're Using You

[Thomas Friedman], Al Gore, James Hansen of NASA, and others present climate change as some kind of super-ultra emergency. Global warming is a problem, one that must be managed via greenhouse-gas restrictions and a weaning away from fossil fuels. But in a world of poverty, disease, dictatorships, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, lack of girls' education, and more than 1 billion people without cleaning drinking water or electricity—climate change barely makes the Problem Top 10.

-- Gregg Easterbrook, mentioning the #1 lie of our time, in the Slate.com.

For [James Chin, who worked in the World Health Organisation’s Global Programme on AIDS], the,...AIDS story is an example of a ‘glorious myth’ – a tale that is ‘gloriously or nobly false’, but told ‘for a good cause’. He claims that government and international agencies, and AIDS advocacy organisations, ‘have distorted HIV epidemiology in order to perpetuate the myth of the great potential for HIV epidemics to spread into “general” populations’. In particular, he alleges, HIV/AIDS ‘estimates and projections are “cooked” or made up’.

While [Elizabeth Pisani, of UNAIDS] disputes Chin’s claim that UNAIDS epidemiologists deliberately overestimated the epidemic, she admits to what she describes as ‘beating up’ the figures, insisting – unconvincingly – that there is a ‘huge difference’ between ‘making it up (plain old lying) and beating it up’. Pisani freely acknowledges her role in manipulating statistics to maximise their scare value, and breezily dismisses the ‘everyone-is-at-risk nonsense’ of the,...‘Don’t Die of Ignorance’ campaign.

-- Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, on how the claims of an AIDS epidemic "made a fool of everyone", in Spiked!.

Politicians Using Cultism: Weak On Words

"Sen. Hillary Clinton, who wants to run as the "change" candidate—because, well, because you can't so easily run as a status quo candidate—also wants to run as a stability-and-experience candidate. Hence the repeated alterations (or "changes") in her half-baked slogans. By the time the plagiarism row had been started by her very ill-advised advisers, she had run through: "Big Challenges, Real Solutions"; "Working for Change, Working for You"; "Ready for Change, Ready To Lead"; and "Solutions for America." Sen. Obama, meanwhile, had picked the slightly less banal and more cryptic mantra "Change We Can Believe In," which I call cryptic only because at least it makes one ask what it can conceivably be intended to mean.

It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse. It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their own convictions would not shrink to fit on a label or on a bumper sticker. But now it seems that the more vapid and vacuous the logo, the more charm (or should that be "charisma"?) it exerts. Take "Yes We Can," for example. It's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training uptake. As for "We Are the People We Have Been Waiting For" (in which case, one can only suppose that now that we have arrived, we can all go home), I didn't think much of it when Rep. Dennis Kucinich used it at an anti-war rally in 2004 ("We Are the People We Are Waiting For" being his version) or when Thomas Friedman came across it at an MIT student event last December. He wrote, by the way, that just hearing it gave him—well, you guess what it gave him. Hope? That's exactly right."

- Excepted from (my man, seen above) Christopher Hitchens' new piece on Slate.com