Tag Archives: Recruitment

Piss off the warmongers a little…

This will make some Marines very angry. Tough. Their new recruitment add says ‘protecting freedom by battles won’. Does that mean their first overseas engagement at Tripoli where they a)didn’t overturn the government of the Barbary Coast b)took casualties c) … Continue reading

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Double Standard Oil

So some political hacks in the U.S. Government have sounded the alarm that Russian investors have gained the largest block of shares in Citgo oil. So, why the whining? These are the same outfit who demanded for generations that Russians … Continue reading

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Veterans Stand is geared up and ready to “Roulons Y” against TrumpDAPL

By and large the protests and standoffs by the Kolas have been really peaceful. At least by the Protectors. Of course the cops and National Mercenary Guard tell a far different story with their actions. Blowing off a paramedic’s arm … Continue reading

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Next Hot-Button for Trumpistas: Islam

They had a headline on I believe the Enquirer, one of Mr Trumps properties, that 54 Muslim “spies” were identified working at the CIA. Imagine that, the CIA has a lot of operations in the Muslim parts of the world, … Continue reading

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Not so much bread, plenty of circus.

At last the modern gladiatorial spectacle in Rio is over. Yay! To not take away any reward gotten by the slave-entertainers, if you won anything good for you. The United States didn’t win a single thing. Seriously.  The athletes who … Continue reading

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Pam Gellar makes racist statement about US Muslim Fencer – Startling?

because the star fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad who has already won a Bronze medal in the Sabre competition. Which is beyond amazing in itself…. while wearing hijab. The US team never had really good performances in fencing. Partly because certain factions … Continue reading

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Haha. Black Power Rogue Blacklisted? Don’t they mean Micah Johnson was White-listed?

Propaganda hub Daily Beast has a bullshit article about how Dallas cop-killer Micah Johnson was blacklisted by black power groups. They mean “whitelisted” don’t they? It’s a laugh, but they interview a KEN MOORE of the COLLECTIVE BLACK PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT … Continue reading

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Miracle on Hardwood 1972

Yeah. It’s happening again. The Miracle On Ice, revisited. God how I hate the Olympics years. Not only do they have the constant rehash of bombastic imperialistic wack-job bullshit about how the U.S. hockey team winning a game, a game … Continue reading

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Independence Day

Not quite the July 4th holiday. More like the commercial hit movie of that name about an Alien Invasion being repulsed, from 1996. For those unable to do simple math, that’s 20 years ago. So The Army (which army? you … Continue reading

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Military recruitment techniques

‘Military recruiters with the Arizona Army National Guard engaged in a pattern of systemic misbehavior over the past decade that included instances of sexual abuse, forgery, embezzlement and assaults, including riding in a Humvee and shooting paintball guns at homeless … Continue reading

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US Military established American caste system for workers applies for Israeli soldiers, too!

If you participate in the Pentagon imperialist military in the US, you get 10% off, special loans on houses and cars, a military pension, health care for all soldiers and their families, univeristy grants, preferential hiring privileges, and a get … Continue reading

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Is Syria’s government using children as shields for its military personnel? Says who? Says Radhika Coomaraswamy for the Pentagon and the UN that’s who.

Every day there is some new atrocity the Syrian government of Bashar Assad is accused of, reported in the pro-USG, pro-Pentagon corporate media. Here, for example, is the latest item of this propaganda from the LA Times… Syrian children tortured, … Continue reading

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There is nothing noble about being in the military

‘We could start by telling the nation’s young people, and our own children, that there is nothing noble about joining today’s military, when its function is imperialism, conquest, genocide and, frighteningly, perhaps soon even domestic repression. As for those “highly … Continue reading

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“conservative” Pentagon budget includes NASCAR

No, really, the “Conservative” TeaPotty and Republitards have voted to continue funding sponsorship of NASCAR teams as part of their “Recruitment” budget. Yep, get the kids into the Murder Machine any way they can. So-Called conservatives don’t even care about … Continue reading

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Hillary says “Free the internet from political control”

And neglects the NeuenRealpolitik of Corporate control of Politics in America and its vassal states, and the strange silence on her part about Net Neutrality, just, you know, allow Corporate Overlords to control every aspect of the Internet through”free” Market … Continue reading

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Jeep declares war on intellect.

They’re sponsoring Call of Duty:whateverthehellnumber : BlackOps. In the Jeep commercial they show screenshots of a Black Jeep SUV in some tropical location that exists only in the imaginations of the designers of the game, who never got closer to … Continue reading

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Unexpurgated then and now.

Because of the massive amount of bigotry, jingoism and violent wishes expressed in reaction to one of our more popular Visitor Attractions showing just a minimal sample of war atrocity in the form of dead Soldiers. Like, what was expected, … Continue reading

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Are FBI raids on activists focused on UNAC strategies?

The UNAC is claiming that recent FBI raids on the offices of various antiwar organizations are linked to those which attended its July conference, an attempt to coordinate national antiwar activities. Even the title of the conference was never pinned … Continue reading

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Twin Towers “christian mecca” according to Idolatrous TeaTards

I’d been hearing that for the past (few) years from preachers, one of my pastors, gone almost thirty years now called them “Hellevangelists” but they’ve been saying that the Twin Towers were attacked because they were a religious symbol of … Continue reading

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Ron Kovic, Private Nation and the mystique of the Token Cripple

Because I get the same kind of crap in lower doses than Kovic and Max Cleland did and still do. When you become disabled at work you’re supposed to be grateful for any crust of bread thrown your way, and … Continue reading

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An anti-recruitment message especially for military families…

Because whenever the subject of recruitment comes up around certain members of my own family, many of whom were active duty military, the mantra of “But the Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines support the troops’ FAMILIES.” So, quiz time… Every base has a … Continue reading

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Surving on Separate Rats.

The “rats” is short for “rations” and it means somebody in the military who doesn’t live in a dorm or barracks. It’s an extra in your Monthly Eagle Shit… (paycheck) that’s supposed to make nice for the rent, groceries and … Continue reading

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Colleges mirror the Economic Draft

The notion that one needs the Army to get ones life together, that without Army Discipline your life goes nowhere… and that the Army prepares you for a Better Career and Better Wages… meaning the Army actively seeks to recruit … Continue reading

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The Cairo Declaration

Ambitions for a greater Gaza Freedom March have been set aside for another decade, but the hopeful delegates thwarted in Cairo issued the following declaration: End Israeli Apartheid? Cairo Declaration ?January 1, 2010 We, international delegates meeting in Cairo during … Continue reading

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I was watching Jacobs Ladder just now

I was watching Jacobs Ladder just now. Just a little bit intense. Definitely not your standard war flick. You know, the guy who recommended the film to me, he’d been there, in Nam. And in the VA outpatient clinics too. … Continue reading

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