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Title: The ugly truth about the world today
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The movie "Network", 1976
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Published: Feb 11, 2009
Author: Paddy Chayefsky
Post Date: 2009-02-11 00:17:48 by Elliott Jackalope
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Views: 119
Comments: 4
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale... and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country... and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance! You are an old man... who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems! One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars! Petrol dollars, electro dollars, multi-dollars. Reichsmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you? You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and Du Pont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations... inexorably determined by the... immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale."
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#1. To: All (#0)
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Keep this in mind when the puppets of the slavemasters who own this wretched planet come knocking on your door and want you and/or your children to go and fight in the next war. And yes, it's coming soon, nothing is going to stop that. But there ARE no nations, there ARE no peoples, there are only DOLLARS. That's all they care about, nothing else matters. Not even close. So when they come to conscript you or your family, be sure to tell them what they've been telling us for decades now. Dear owners of this wretched empire: You want us to fight for this "country"? THERE ARE NO COUNTRIES. THERE ARE NO PEOPLES. THERE ARE ONLY DOLLARS! So, you want us to fight for your profits? You go out to your BANK ACCOUNTS and you send your DOLLARS to war, you miserable dogs. Don't like that? TOO BAD. YOU are the ones who set up this game, now WE are going to play by the rules YOU established.
 | Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. |
#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
You just don't get it: over 4,000 Americans have died in the sandbox to protect our freedoms, nay, democracy itself, from evil Islamo-fascists who want to sweeten their latte with the blood of Christian babies. Dollars....pfffftt. I'm an American-by-gawd and I'll FIGHT to keep NFL Monday Night Football beaming into homes across America and the Budweiser flowing into bowling alleys everywhere patriotic Americans gather. ;-)
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
The bastards who own this empire want us to meekly accept when they gut our industrial base in their insane pursuit of profits, then they turn around and want us to snap to and "fight for our country" when it's to their benefit. To this, I say "no more". If they want to have a globalist planet, then they can PAY for MERCENARIES at one thousand dollars per day per head plus expenses when they want to have a war. Otherwise, if they want us to pretend we're "citizens" of a "nation", then they can bloody well keep our industry HERE and get rid of noxious, insane "free trade" treaties like NAFTA and GATT. It's one or the other: Either we're a NATION, or we're a globalist EMPIRE. Pick one or the other, but then stick with it. One or the other, but not BOTH whenever and however it suits the ruling oligarchs.
| Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. |
#4. To: X-15 (#2)
Barack Obama is no President. He is a DUFFLE-HEAD putting on a big show for the Illuminati to save his ass like everybody else who has held the office in the 20th and 21st centuries so far.
Oh what a DUFFLE-HEAD that Barack Obama is !!! Duffle-Head (As used in a Felix the Cat cartoon) A wicked person of limited intelegence but with pretenses of intelectual grandeur. Their only successful endevors are usually the invention of self punishment machines.
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