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<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" version="2.0"><channel><title>W. Christopher Epler's Open Salon Blog</title><description></description><link>http://open.salon.com/user.php?uid=2511</link><lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:11:17 -0500</lastBuildDate><item><title>The Clinton/Bush legacy of financial terrorism on America</title><description>

&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The American government no longer needs to slaughter union demonstrators or assassinate elected liberal officials or resort to the type of murderous terrorism it inflicts on probably most other countries on the planet (e.g., the history of our "government" in Latin and South America alone is horror incarnate).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;No, thanks mostly to Bill Clinton and his lying and treacherous administration, the new name of the game is to emasculate the middle and lower classes with financial terrorism.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;George Bush simply picked up where Clinton left off and pushed the "Clinton Doctrine" of an unregulated financial infrastructure to new heights of shifting the pitiful percentage of the economy in the hands of the working class into the claws of America's astronomically rich elites (the "Have's").&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In a word, Clinton gave the rich EVERYTHING.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Bush just followed his lead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;It is beyond tragic to think the economic chaos we now wake to every morning is simply a composite of "trends", or maybe just bad luck, or the roll of historical dice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;It is suicidally imbecile to think that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Rather the world we wake up to every morning is an elaborately constructed dynamic mostly started by Bill Clinton and his Judas DLC.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Said differently, it is simply a straight jacket strategy of the American Government (and we say American Government since it was created by both parties of our status quo one party system) to kill the dream of American Democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Indeed, that is now the chief function of the American Government, i.e., to stamp out the concept of "democracy" in the United States once and for all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;In its place?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The fancy word is "oligarchy", but in ordinary language, it's a Dictatorship of the Rich.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It's also a police state, but the financial strangulation of the American people is working so well the violence of preemptive military terrorism can mostly be saved for other countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Of course, this is overlooking 9/11, which nearly the entire planet now profoundly believes was engineered by American pug/fascists and their international terrorist friends (or is it fiends?).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;There are countless sites on the web where virtually encyclopedic evidence for this scenario is objectively documented. Plus, it only takes about 15 seconds to answer the question of what political party benefitted MOST from 9/11, and what Middle Eastern country benefitted MOST from 9/11?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Duh and double Duh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;However, after 9/11 served its purpose, most of the economic infrastructure of "our country" (what a laugh!), has been a nuclear reaction of unlimited greed. After a country or people have been financially destroyed, the police state can take a kind of break.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We have so many notches on our gun of how to destroy the economies of other countries, Clinton and his pond scum cronies secretly worked out how to destroy our OWN economy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Of course, the destruction never extends to Paris Hilton, Rupert Murdoch, etc., but only to the rags left of American's middle and lower classes.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This really shouldn't even be called a "class war", since the war is already over.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Look at the going ballistic rates on your credit cards, mortgages, and now totally ludicrous "investments".&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Look at what's happening to your health plans with $500 deductibles and retirement plans which more and more YOU have to pay for.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Look at your reduced salaries and your family where everyone now has to work except the dog.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;ALL OF THIS GOES BACK TO BILL CLINTON and his collection sly dog lawyers who simply passed the baton to the Bush Royal Family.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;And oh yes, who was Obama's first appointment?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Indeed, his very chief of staff?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Hmmm, more Clinton legacy since it was that documented Palestine-hater, Rahm Emanuel, a prime player who got nauseatingly rich helping Clinton criminally (literally!) trash the America Dream -- clearly not &amp;ldquo;his&amp;rdquo; dream since he clearly had and has other real estate on his mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;So, the beat goes on.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Of course, if push comes to shove and the public sector starts getting the message that all this alleged financial chaos is not a matter of biting the bullet of random history, but a very consciously constructed cattle pen to keep human beings so financially broken they barely have the time and energy to keep food on the table for their kids, much less stand up for democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;God forbid, they might actually realize the American Government itself is the greatest evil in their lives and very hell itself when it comes to true holy of hollies:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The Will of the People.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Remember that one? Most of us were taught when we were kids that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Remember all that idealism?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Remember, God Bless America?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;But that was all before the carnivorous filth of Bill Clinton and the Bush Royal Family and a collection of similar types who are either the relative handful of Gods and Goddesses who absolutely rule the Earth, or that Washington army of suck up traitors whose tongues never stray very far from the boots of the elites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;So, please, please never think that all this financial chaos and catastrophe is just the way of things which we either make the best of or drown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;No, it is a beloved and convoluted invention of people so evil they must come from a hell beneath hell, since it is killing the last vestiges of American democracy and has basically "broken our world".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;And oh by the way, Barack Obama is a hologram, so we are 100% on our own. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;**********************************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;W. 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</description><link>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/10/22/the_clintonbush_legacy_of_financial_terrorism_on_america</link><guid>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/10/22/the_clintonbush_legacy_of_financial_terrorism_on_america</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:10:23 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama is a fly on the elite/corporate stool of history.</title><description>

&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;How many of you can still remember the "idealistic promises" of this contemptible clown?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Not many I bet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;We can't even say suckered again, because most of us already knew he was a bought and paid for political stooge.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If there had been even 10% of the pugs (and this includes the DLC Clinton traitors), he never would have been allowed to do his Judas dance of obedience and betrayal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Man was this guy ever was GOTTEN TO!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;But why should this surprise us?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Dear God, ALL of our presidents (perhaps excepting Jimmy Carter and FDR), have been flies on the stool.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Daddy Bush, all the way back to Constitution-hating Woodrow Wilson (and beyond), were international terrorists.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Hey, a terrorist is someone who engineers mass murder and carnage in other countries and what this collection of moral garbage has done to Latin and South American countries (engineering assassinations, coups, and trashed economies, etc.) would make Jesus weep. And of course there&amp;rsquo;s the Middle East, far East, Africa . . .&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;oh, the beat goes on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;A problem we have these days is the danger of being too myopic.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Obama is just the latest link in a chain of terrorist horror that goes back decades and decades.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;History shows that in some ways Bush was even LESS an international monster than Kennedy and Clinton (to site a couple of closet elite pugs).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;All of these "presidents" started money cow wars, were responsible for the massacre of probably several million people, and have consistently been the ultimate enemies of even bare minimum democracy whenever it appears on the planet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The only counter force is "us", the will of the people, and the American trend toward activism (plus the Internet), is a very real trend that seems to be getting stronger and stronger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Our latest problem (for which we mostly have the Israeli right wing Bill Clinton doll to thank) is that the "power structure" has become much more convolutedly "financial" than before.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Take "privatization" as just one example.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It's not hard to work out.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Any aspect of our country (and economy) that gets privatized, by definition, is taken out of the public sector.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The consummation of this Clinton strategy is a country of depotentiated cattle. WHAT public sector?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;It's certainly happening before our eyes as we speak.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;People used to say for emphasis, "And you can take that to the bank!" Well, anyone one who says that now is beyond retarded.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Here's another issue where Obama is the kiss of death.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I suppose we'll never know why Obama is trying to absolutely destroy the American educational system (classes that meet TWELVE MONTHS A YEAR -- of course for the same income), but as usual, all this wimp does is smile his conceited little smile and give vapid, cowardly speeches.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Look. Do the math. Virtually every college in the country has tremendously increased enrollments, so the illiterates (e.g., Obama) think this is exactly the time to LOWER teacher salaries and abandon education to business types who can't distinguish classrooms from bathrooms.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Keep in mind that the judgment of history has always been that the soul of any civilization is its educational commitment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;So much more could be said, but here are at least three things which stand out:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(1.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Virtually all American presidents (stool-flies?) have an obscene record of terrorism.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(2.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Obama's smug campaign lies are now totally vomitus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(3.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This has all been going on for a very, very long time and it didn't start with Bush (either one).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The cancerous corporations and astronomically rich have been the Gods and Goddesses of our &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;dying planet for at least a hundred years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;*****************************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;W. Christopher Epler (Bill)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

</description><link>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/10/18/obama_is_a_fly_on_the_elitecorporate_stool_of_history</link><guid>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/10/18/obama_is_a_fly_on_the_elitecorporate_stool_of_history</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:10:56 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>The Simultaneous Whales</title><description>

&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The Simultaneous Whales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;**********************************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;How odd that we forget the simultaneous whales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Right now, this instant there's 3 or 4 specific whales in the North Atlantic who/which are 100% alive, 100% conscious, and 100% simultaneous with us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;But they aren't thinking about us.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And they never will be thinking about us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The fact that they're simultaneous is strangely humbling.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They're doing their thing, whether or not any human being ever notices them or even forms mental pictures of them.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They have THEIR world, THEIR reality, and it doesn't include us.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And it doesn't include science.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And it doesn't include religion.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Does this make them less real?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Perhaps we should call awareness of the simultaneous our "7th sense", since it has to do with dimensions which are really "too close" (for the lack of a better way of saying it) to be seen or touched or measured or prayed over.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The simultaneous whales are incarnations of that which is already the case, mountains of spontaneous presence, singing . . . but not for us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;**********************************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;W. Christopher Epler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

</description><link>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/09/01/the_simultaneous_whales</link><guid>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/09/01/the_simultaneous_whales</guid><pubDate>Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:09:49 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Human misery:  victimization or a defective species?</title><description>

&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;(1.) Explanation one:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The social matrix of the world we're born into is fundamentally a host for The Beast (mentally ill religious fanatics, astronomically rich parasites, and the KKKesque, psychotic right wing of every country on the planet).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This is clearly a victim explanation, much like being an innocent child born into a defective, dysfunctional family.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Said more formerly, this is the sociological explanation for our slave civilization, i.e., the American police state Dictatorship of the Rich.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;(2.) Explanation two:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We are victims of the power and wealth of roughly 1% of the planet, i.e., astronomically rich elites -- Paris Hilton comes to mind.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Against such limitless wealth and power we (basically, the entire human race) are simply cattle on the way to the slaughter house.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The evidence is overwhelming that the Haves are committing systematic genocide all over the planet.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They think we need to be weaned of around two billion cattle (oops, I mean human beings).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They already got a good start in Africa and New Orleans was probably just a fun experiment.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;(3.) Explanation three:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Lets face it; the world is chiefly made of deadweight, deadbeat, brain dead enablers and scabs, without which The Beast would have no social acceptance.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We should never forget that "social acceptance" is the very life blood of The Beast (or the Haves), so the enablers and scabs (e.g., Bill Clinton's right of center army of DLC deadbeats), are the absolutely necessary putrid underbelly of The Beast.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No enablers, no Beast.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Oh yes, what about Obama?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Obama who?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;He doesn&amp;rsquo;t even exist. He's done about 3% of what he solemnly promised he would do during the presidential campaign, so, next to Bill Clinton, he&amp;rsquo;s probably planetary enabler number two.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Lastly, please note that explanation number three is also a victim explanation.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;However much we may rage about it, the enablers give acceptance and power to The Beast -- and have done so for thousands of years.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;(4.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Explanation four:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;First, we should note that we could articulate several more victim explanations, but that's of no consequence, since the time has come to look at the REAL explanation -- which, guess what (?), isn't a victim explanation at all.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;OK, what follows will be vigorously objected to by many readers, but perhaps also vigorously agreed to by even more readers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;However, before entering into this, may I ask the indulgence of many of my reader friends (or whomever) that what follows may well be the end of many (most? all?) of my future submissions since for me it is the absolute bedrock account of this pitiful human carnival we all are putting up with.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;The victim explanations are trash.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;ALL of them!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Certainly they each have their role in this convoluted sitcom called the human condition (also called "consensus reality"), but in the words of my high school debate coach, they all put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLAHble.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Here's a little background for the asserted real explanation.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;First, since it&amp;rsquo;s obvious to barnyard animals that the scam of "politics" (ALL forms, ALL parties) is not only not part of the solution, it IS the problem since it was invented by and for the elites to recycle the status quo (jeez, just look at Clinton and Obama), first things first should be to turn to APOLITICAL activism when dealing with The Beast.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Revolution is certainly one possibility, but there are also several non-violent ones (e.g., national/international boycotts, strikes, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;The core evil of life is festering in places like the Israeli extremist right wing -- or ANY collection of murder in the name of God multi millionaires and billionaires.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But what do we do with these infinitely righteous psychopaths?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well, with abundant help from suck up Bill Clinton, we allow the AIPAC to wag American Middle Eastern foreign policy like a tail.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Gee, wouldn't it be a miracle if Americans got to decide our OWN foreign policy?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Don't hold your breath.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Time for a brief pit stop since this list of anti American (and anti EARTH) atrocities could go on and on. But you see that's just the point. We already know EXACTLY who are the psychopaths and murderers!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We know EXACTLY who keeps destroying the American economy, we know EXACTLY who keeps metastasizing the Middle East cancer to the entire planet, and we now have scientific and observational evidence piled to the moon that 9/11 was a national/international inside job.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;And of course we know EXACTLY who keeps raping and murdering Mother Nature.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Duh, how about fossil fuel Earth killers, retarded haters of science, and "preemptive" warmongers who use our children for cannon fodder in their money cow oil wars?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;It's time for the bottom line (and maybe one of my last ones).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We now know EVERYTHING about the dynamics of evil (i.e., The Beast &amp;ndash; who they are, where they are, etc.)), and we know politics is the very life blood of The Beast, and we know ONLY apolitical solutions can save our country, human civilization, and the life and death ecosystems of human existence (as well as thousands of "innocent by stander&amp;rdquo; species), but we still keep sucking our thumbs in consensus reality, babbling about elections, political parties, and elected traitors.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Since we could realistically, apolitically DESTROY THE BEAST in a matter of weeks (the power we could focus is effectively limitless), the conclusion is as inevitable as death!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;We "allow" The Beast, we "allow" the miraculous Earth to be ravaged and mangled, we "allow" our descendants to have no future, we "allow" the gaggingly righteous Israeli fanatics to steal an entire country while turning Palestine into a WW2 concentration camp, etc.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Any species which would allow the criminal theft of ethical/rational nations, the murder of civilization itself, as well as its own self extinction and the suicidal betrayal of its planetary home, is not being "victimized"!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The evil is as exquisitely obvious as how to deal with the evil.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Thus, there is only one POSSIBLE explanation of such infinite stupidity, betrayal, and cowardice.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The human species is radically, ontologically, spiritually, existentially defective.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;There can be no excuse in this or any other universe, whether there is a God or whether there is not a God, for how we are dealing with the ultimate (and TOTALLY solvable) challenges of human existence.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;The Beast is the God of this planet because humans are cosmic slobs bound for an appropriate and inevitable extinction. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Victims, hell!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We are allowing EVERYTHING and the Earth is probably holding its breath until Homo sapiens reap the inevitable extinction fruit their pathetic defectiveness has sown. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;300 more years, tops.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;**********************************************************************&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/"&gt;&amp;lt;http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;W. Christopher Epler (Bill)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Addendum:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I almost didn&amp;rsquo;t add this because it&amp;rsquo;s going to be tip of an iceberg (as opposed to a monograph), but I know in my quarks many readers (pro or con) are going to challenge me with being a member of the very species I am throwing into the trash heap.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Not a problem.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Over the millennia, many Homo sapiens have &amp;ldquo;transcended&amp;rdquo; their species.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Not physically or biologically perhaps (even though suddenly computer/android possibilities are exploding), but in ways impossible to briefly articulate.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;May we go back to &amp;ldquo;consensus reality&amp;rdquo; (a good jumping off place)?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Consensus reality is basically the mind set of the human species.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The context for this is simply out of reach in a mere &amp;ldquo;addendum&amp;rdquo;, but it is similar to the ancient oriental intuition of &amp;ldquo;maya&amp;rdquo;.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Consensus reality is a language/thought version of life.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s what we see when we look at raw givenness &amp;ldquo;through&amp;rdquo; totally arbitrary and programmed though-forms (the Hindu/Buddhist name/rupa).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;The thinking about point of view, for example, presumes to put reality into perspective (from what vantage point, one wonders).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is also the essence of what we mean by words like ego/personality.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The famous &amp;ldquo;separate self&amp;rdquo; (separate from the equally famous &amp;ldquo;external world&amp;rdquo;) is the fundamental identity of human beings.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;But, this is really an intelligence embarrassment since NOTHING is &amp;ldquo;separate from&amp;rdquo; reality and equally NOTHING is an island of self existent being.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Sorry about the philosophical jargon and I will shut up about all this as soon as possible.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;The point I am struggling to articulate is that just because you have two legs, two arms, and a head may mean you are a certain kind of life &amp;ldquo;form&amp;rdquo;, but life is n-dimensional and you may be a VERY different being beyond the relative appearance.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Any speculation about a deep connection between the profoundly defective Homo sapien species and &amp;ldquo;consensus reality&amp;rdquo; (a criminally simplistic version of the reality/universe) is beyond the scope of this paper, but it is almost certainly true that this effectively universal mind set has programmed our species to act out delusion.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Life is clearly a unity in process and eternally beyond the reach of pseudo separate selves and arrogant thought (basically, internalized language).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Thought is the long arm of conditioning, but liberation is groundedness in transcendence.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Only if and when the human race realizes that &amp;ldquo;awakening&amp;rdquo; (to use that beautiful word) is not that the dreamer finally wakes up from the dream but that SOMETHING MORE REAL THAN THE DREAMER wakes up from the dreamer, will the human species be free.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Some readers may feel offended that our species is being discounted (hey, ye shall judge them by their fruits), but miss the affirmation in the addendum that (however radical this may sound) our species is almost irrelevant.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;I have given much of my life to try to &amp;ldquo;help my species&amp;rdquo;.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;However, I think that is now finally over for me because apparently our species is simply beyond help.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If you could give an IQ number to a species, I think Homo sapens are down there in the 80&amp;rsquo;s (sad, sad, sad), hence I am in the process of cutting myself loose and returning to dimensions inaccessible to these defective creatures.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;I feel a certain sadness that this means I&amp;rsquo;ll no longer be fighting the good fight against The Beast in general and the Israeli lunatic right wing fringe (the core evil of our desperately wounded planet) in particular, but one can go on only for so long when the ultimately evil and dysfunctional tragedies of a species are COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD, plus how to remove these dysfunctional evils are also COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD, and yet the species in general takes no responsibility for anything and simply waits (however unconsciously) to go extinct. Well, be my guest and don&amp;rsquo;t bother to shut the door behind you.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Believe me, you won&amp;rsquo;t be missed.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Several human species were experimented with by evolution.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Clearly the wrong one briefly survived.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;Oh well, it&amp;rsquo;s a big universe and intelligence/spirituality isn&amp;rsquo;t limited to three dimensional appearance.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

</description><link>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/06/28/human_misery_victimization_or_a_defective_species</link><guid>http://open.salon.com/blog/w_christopher_epler/2009/06/28/human_misery_victimization_or_a_defective_species</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:06:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Bill Clinton champions America's deadbeat army of enablers.</title><description>

&lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;This guy just can't be real, with his glasses sliding down his nose like some pretentious political sage of the 21st Century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;And then the talk.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Are we EVER going to return our country to pre Ronald Reagan, when people talked about "issues"?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Reagan smirked his way to the Presidency with Hollywood mannerisms.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Clinton is not a professional actor (thank God!), but he's certainly Obama's mentor (or is he Obama's "brain"), and teaches his disciple to talk, blather, babble, free associate, jabber -- ANYTHING BUT ACT.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Obama/Clinton (or is it Clinton/Obama?) are "talkers".&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That's what they do and that's ALL they do.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;But of course "talking" is all the right of center scabs and enablers of America are willing to endure.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The tragedy is that the elites and religious psychopaths of America (and its suck up "ally") are so out of touch with reality the rest of the human race has to deal not with only their unwillingness to initiate decisive action, but with their INABILITY initiate decisive action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Clinton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;'s DLC (his "castle") stands for Defective, Lobotomized, Cattle, and is the putrid underbelly of "The Haves".&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Without millions of lobotomized cattle, The Haves would have no social acceptance.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;One should never underestimate how much an enabling spouse is ultimately responsible for the immeasurable suffering in a textbook dysfunctional family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Well, the United States of America is a nation-sized version of a dysfunctional family, and the "elephant in the living room" is clearly "The Haves", and the right-of-center-Clinton-DLC are the archetypal and cowardly enablers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Basically, America has four groups:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(1.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;"The Haves"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(2.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Clintonesque enablers and scabs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(3.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Pug tentacles of The Beast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;(3.)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;. . . and all the rest of us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;This is the ultimate two-sided coin.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Haves on one side and enablers on the other side.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And it can't be said strongly enough that no enablers, no Haves.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That's why Bill Clinton and his army of scabs is the belly of The Beast.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;It's also why a politically populist or progressive "movement" in America is nearly impossible.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The dead weight enablers could sink a planet.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As a matter of fact, that's exactly what they are doing with their "behind closed doors" relationship with the elites.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For every Rockefeller, there are probably 10,000 enablers of the Rockefeller&amp;rsquo;s. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;So, hopeless?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Yes, TOTALLY hopeless -- so long as we keep playing the status-quo political game.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And Obama?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well, to paraphrase the words of Martha in the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?":&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;"We'd divorce you if you existed."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;No, (The Haves) + (Clintonesque enablers) = political hopelessness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;However, intelligence is acting even when you don't know what to do. And that means the only game is town is an APOLITICAL GAME.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Politics is now simply running in place.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Obama gets blander and blander and blander. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;The human race has reached the point that we need to create radically new mechanisms for social transformation.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Can it be done?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Of course it can be done.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It can be done in countless ways.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What we humans do best is quantum jump out of contradictions and dead ends -- which is the status quo world we wake up to every morning. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Unfortunately, this time if we don't "rise to the challenge" we aren't going to have any second chance since the extinction of the human species is imminent (thanks to The Haves and religious fanatics). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;No, this time it's "do or die".&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We've got to permanently transcend politics (i.e., Clinton/Obama, Cheney, the DLC, hog trough pugs, and murder in the name of God religious nut cases), and TAKE CONTROL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Cindy Sheehan is now publicly and articulately talking about the "R" word (revolution).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Certainly not the only apolitical option, even though it is certainly preferable to 6,000 more years of deadbeats enabling The Beast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;**********************************************************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;W. Christopher Epler (Bill)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Addendum:&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The thing about denial is that it ultimately doesn't work.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Take denial of death.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Does it solve the problem, the "inevitability" of death?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Of course not.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It doesn't even take death out of your mind, since you have to know what to deny in order to deny it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;So millions of deadbeats (redefined as "centrists", by years of joint efforts of Bill Clinton and George Bush) live in a loony tunes world where genocidal religious fanatics and astronomically rich parasites get to do their thing with total acceptance!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The deadbeats are also so brain-dead they just don't get it that the Haves and religious psychos are ALLOWED to exist. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Hey, how about doing whatever we have to do to "DISallow" their existence with radical, apolitical activism. &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;It's time for warrior thinking! The Beast is the beginning of the end of human existence.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Killing The Beast would be the beginning of the beginning of human existence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt"&gt;Look, its grade school simple.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Are we really going to allow a relative handful (less than 2%) of astronomically rich people, plus scattered sewers of certifiably insane, murder-in-the-name-of-God "religious" people kill the entire human species and much of the miraculous Earth WITHOUT A FIGHT TO THE DEATH???&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br&gt;

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