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JackRiddler wrote:.

Heh. Now they're saying "KSM" was the one who gave the info that let them pick up the trail to "OBL." What a storehouse of valuable information and evil plots he proved to be!

Come on people, you gotta see some black comedy in all this. The radio woke me up yesterday with "shot in the head, burial at sea." Burial at sea! I couldn't stop laughing. Am I bad person? And I mean, laughing: not nervous defensiveness, not denial of nothing (given that we're kept so clueless about what really goes on in that black-box deep state that I wouldn't even know what the fuck I'm denying). Maybe a touch of Comedian cruelty, okay. (Watchmen reference.) But mostly just hilarity. Do I suffer from confirmation bias? "Burial at sea" is like someone intentionally aimed a laugh-bomb right at mine. And now they tell me "KSM" gave them the means to find Bin Ladin, eight years since he was moved to Guantanamo. That is fucking funny stuff.

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JackRiddler wrote:Come on people, you gotta see some black comedy in all this. The radio woke me up yesterday with "shot in the head, burial at sea." Burial at sea! I couldn't stop laughing. Am I bad person?

"So the Qaeda leader’s body was washed and placed in a white sheet in keeping with tradition. On the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, it was placed in a weighted bag as an officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker, according to the senior Pentagon official.

The body then was placed on a prepared flat board and eased into the sea."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world ... gewanted=4

JackRiddler wrote:.

Ha! At last, I'm ahead of the curve. I just saw next week's headlines!

Bin Ladin Laptop Reveals Inner Workings of His Terror Network

Unfortunately this will be the banner for a lot of drone bombings. If still you should laugh at the absurdity of the justification, keep in mind these are coming anyway, and thus you are mostly absolved.

There's never been a better moment to Declare Victory and Get the Fuck Out.

Instead we can play at guessing which countries will bear the brunt of whatever is about to be "discovered."

May I be wrong, by the way. May I be totally wrong about that.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... id=1011589

Multidimensional chess players, here's your man's chance. What will come of it?

Interesting past week:

Obama -- born! (In 1961!) A muscular, lightly ironic video at the White House press dinner shows NFL hits and baseball victory celebrations, intercut with a dancing birth certificate set to the tune of a song called, "I AM A REAL AMERICAN."

Trump -- naked! Republican dwarf candidates -- laughing stocks!

Osama -- dead! Buried at sea, case closed. Americans chanting USA! USA! and primed for closure on the era of 9/11.

Reelection 2012 -- a wrap, if it were today. Obama administration, reset and popular, "political capital" restored.

The Bush man at the Pentagon, Gates -- retired. Obama's choice, Panetta, is in. Petraeus -- neutralized, withdrawn from his Afghanistan flag-waving photo-ops and sent into the bowels of the CIA, an agency with a proven history of stimying and dispensing with directors considered hostile to it.

Afghan government -- practically inviting a drawdown, the July 2011 date for beginning a withdrawal almost here. Pakistan urging Karzai to get the Americans out. Supposed mission in Pakistan can be declared a victory right now.

Iraq -- the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated between Iraq and the Bush regime calls for all US troops out by December 31st.

A report by top ranking members of the Navy and Marine Corps officers serving Adm. Mullen at the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the US has been wrong to pursue military solutions instead of political ones, spent its treasure on war when it should have invested in education. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are ready to entertain this! [???]
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com ... to-shrink/

The next budget -- not just a crisis but an open book. Ryan proposal -- now anathema to most. Initiative can be seized by the liberals, if the executive is willing to provide leadership.

Arab Spring -- an opportunity to redefine all relations there. The US can stop playing Big Cheese and let an Egypt on the Turkish model show the way to new possibilities.

So here's the big chance. No more excuses. The chess pieces are positioned for action. Iraq can be over, this year. Afghanistan and Pakistan can be declared almost over, this year. A shift in spending from the wars and the "defense" budget toward human needs and investment at home can begin, this year. Even Yemen can be vacated, this year. (Dare we even dream that pressure can be applied for a real peace in Palestine?)

Obama has the position and the pieces to make these moves, this year. The neocon rationalizations of why the terror wars must continue forever ring hollow, can be counteracted. Obama can declare a bunch of victories and GET OUT OF THE MESSES.

Is your man going to live up to that? Does he really want to?

You don't have to convince me.

It's much more important that if YOU want that, if you really want it, you show that you do. Calls and letters are nice, but there will be rallies and strikes and public pressure for it... if YOU want it.

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gnosticheresy_2 wrote:

justdrew wrote:just an FYI - I'm done with this subject. it's irrelevant. the details, the stories, the contradictions, the lies, all utterly meaningless.


MOST people are completely controlled by the media, nothing we can do will change that, or give us any degree of control over said media. no independent media will ever be allowed to truly compete. It's over, there's no point in pretending there's still a fight here. anyone inconvenient will simply be killed. it's pointless. The population is lead around by the nose via their neurotypes and all of society is ever geared to turn babies into little growing authoritarians. I'm walking away from this. hope for humanity is dead. not OBL.

BOOORRING. YOU ARE SO BOOOORRRRING. BEING HOPELESS IS BOOOORRRRING. HAVING HOPE IS BOOOOORRRRRING

MOST people are completely controlled by the media

Yeah but that's why they're so much fun to wind up

So what you going to do? You're going to die anyway and so are all your loved ones, maybe in front of you in horrible ways. OR MAYBE NOT. So what are you worried about? Fight, fuck, love, laugh, be happy, be sad, try and change things for the better or run away and live in a shack. Whatever. LIVE YOUR LIFE cos we're all doomed. DOOMED I TELL YE!!

Nordic wrote:The burial at sea thing made me laugh out loud, too. It's just so bizarre! And stupid! And ...... you know, for propagandists/psyops folks, what is the psychology behind this story? Usually it's pretty transparent.

But how in the WORLD does this fit into any kind of "mythmaking" which is what they usually do??

I mean, how can anyone with half a brain not just see this as a cover-up? An excuse?

It is indeed one of the most laughable things they've ever come up with.