Horror File of Objectivist Living

[Selene]

My, my, the Canary in the coal mine ...

http://news.yahoo.com/chronic-common-sedative-linked-alzheimers-risk-234653544.html

London (AFP) - The annual cost of dementia to the UK has soared to 26 billion pounds with patients, carriers and families being forced to shoulder two-thirds of the cost themselves, a leading charity warned on Wednesday.

The Alzheimer's Society has called on the British government to provide more financial assistance after research showed dementia patients and their families received on average about a third of the total

cost of their annual care of more than 32,000 pounds from the state.

Yeah, that single payer system really works quite well...

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[Selene]

Another chain for the corporate neck...

Directive 0001 and more on the way...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Monday announced new rules aiming to make it more difficult for United States companies to relocate overseas to lower their tax bills and wipe out the benefits for those that do. It is the administration’s latest move to sidestep a paralyzed Congress and tackle a politically charged element of President Obama’s agenda.

“While there’s no substitute for congressional action, my administration will act wherever we can to protect the progress the American people have worked so hard to bring about,” Mr. Obama said in a statement after the regulations on so-called corporate inversions were announced.

The Treasury guidelines are designed to curb inversions by limiting the number of companies that can complete them, and by barring them from transactions that make the practice profitable. But the changes will only affect deals completed Monday or afterward, meaning they will not reach back to any of the high-profile inversions, such Burger King’s takeover of Tim Hortons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/business/treasury-creates-new-hurdles-to-inversion-moves.html?emc=edit_na_20140922&nlid=53564225&_r=0

Drip...drip...incremental iron chains choking commerce...

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[Backlighting]

Another chain for the corporate neck...

Directive 0001 and more on the way...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Monday announced new rules aiming to make it more difficult for United States companies to relocate overseas to lower their tax bills and wipe out the benefits for those that do. It is the administration’s latest move to sidestep a paralyzed Congress and tackle a politically charged element of President Obama’s agenda.

“While there’s no substitute for congressional action, my administration will act wherever we can to protect the progress the American people have worked so hard to bring about,” Mr. Obama said in a statement after the regulations on so-called corporate inversions were announced.

The Treasury guidelines are designed to curb inversions by limiting the number of companies that can complete them, and by barring them from transactions that make the practice profitable. But the changes will only affect deals completed Monday or afterward, meaning they will not reach back to any of the high-profile inversions, such Burger King’s takeover of Tim Hortons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/business/treasury-creates-new-hurdles-to-inversion-moves.html?emc=edit_na_20140922&nlid=53564225&_r=0

Drip...drip...incremental iron chains choking commerce...

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Another knife thrust into the torso of an already heavily bleeding America.

The Horror File continues, unabated.

I find it difficult to read the "news" It can be so depressing.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Joe,

I saw that.

If Obama & Co. stay in office, I wonder how long it will be before Americans need exit visas to be able to leave.

Michael

[Backlighting]

Joe,

I saw that.

If Obama & Co. stay in office, I wonder how long it will be before Americans need exit visas to be able to leave.

Michael

Who will protect us from our "protectors?"

[Jules Troy]

Canada is looking less socialist all the time which is frightening because it isn't. This next two years with Obumbler at the wheel is going to feel like a damn eternity.

[Backlighting]

Canada is looking less socialist all the time which is frightening because it isn't. This next two years with Obumbler at the wheel is going to feel like a damn eternity.

Felt the same way when Billy the pervert had 2 more to go.

With Obama, "It's deja vu all over again"...Yogi Berra

[moralist]

This rightfully belongs in the horror file...

...and no, it's not Photoshopped.

It's the Idiot in Chief getting off his helicopter in New York on Sunday. The Marines now call it the "Semper Latte" salute.

Greg

[Jules Troy]

That's a disgrace.

[moralist]

That's a disgrace.

That's a liberal.

Greg

[Brant Gaede]

I'm giving him a pass on this one. His hands were full. (Me giving Zero a pass must be a first for me.)

--Brant

[Selene]

I'm giving him a pass on this one. His hands were full. (Me giving Zero a pass must be a first for me.)

--Brant

Brant:

It looks even worse in motion and even worse in slow motion.

Additionally, this is not the first time...that he was caught I mean ,,, this was May 24, 2013.

Disgraceful.

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[Wolf DeVoon]

No more disgraceful than this:

[Jules Troy]

Is it so hard a concept for the US government to understand that they have NO FRIENDS in the ME other than Israel? Period. Let THEM sort themselves out and don't waste resources and weaken ourselves further by giving them anything. It's either that or nail them all which the US is in no position to do. Get the country back on its feet economically as THE most successful capitalist country or soon there will be no more US...

[Backlighting]

I'm giving him a pass on this one. His hands were full. (Me giving Zero a pass must be a first for me.)

--Brant

Brant:

It looks even worse in motion and even worse in slow motion.

Additionally, this is not the first time...that he was caught I mean ,,, this was May 24, 2013.

Disgraceful.

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Difficult to watch this anti-America, Chicago thug.

Yet so many like him as a person?

-J

[Selene]

No more disgraceful than this:

He has control of his hands Wolf.

We, and he, have no serious control over the "politics" of the Middle East.

By the way, he is left handed. Why is he holding his alleged Pumkin Latte, excuse me while I vomit, in his less dominant hand?

I know that even though I am ambidextrous, my right hand is my dominant hand. I always carry HOT

coffee in my more solid hand.

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[Wolf DeVoon]

[Wolf DeVoon]

This was so funny, I had to quote it

No matter where you're located in the world, if you watch TV - which I don't - then you're likely to find it pretty tough staying away from the media circus that follows election campaigns like a swarm of magpies circling a fish and chip packet. It's the same story with every country I find myself in.

Politicians convincing those who are listening, which is regrettably a lot, that they're as necessary as penicillin, and further promising all manner of absurdities. That these absurdities, or promises have the life expectancy of a veal calf never seems to phase the hoi polloi, who keep coming back for more each election year. This time "my guy" is going to fix things. Right!

You can't complain about this... criticizing politicians for failing to deliver on promises is like criticizing your underwear for not making very good french toast.

[Chris Tell]

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I have not seen the following anywhere other than in reference to Robert Reich, but what he came up with rings true to my storytelling and propaganda ears regarding American politics.

Reich's American Narratives

He divided four story types into two groups, hope and fear. In other words, two are hope-based stories and two are fear-based.

He colorfully called them as follows:

Hope

The Triumphant Individual

The Benevolent Community

Fear

The Rot at the Top
The Mob at the Gates

The link also provides a graph with a further classification, few and many, but I can express it here with parentheses:

Hope
The Triumphant Individual (few)
The Benevolent Community (many)

Fear
The Rot at the Top (few)
The Mob at the Gates (many)

Goering's story is "The Mob at the Gates."

Each of these story types can morph into the opposite for a counterpart. For example, The Benevolent Community can become a Bigoted Majority and so on.

Another point--a story is not limited to only one type. You can mix and match to great effect.

I see this set of themes constantly in Glenn Beck's storytelling and news.

Michael

[Wolf DeVoon]

We need a new category of Fear -- the insane bluff that something has to be Done Right Now to stop Everything

Hank Paulson at Clinton Global Initiation (video) http://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Clinton-Global-Initiative/782/2014-09-24/Investing-In-Climate-Change-Makes-Economic-Sense---Henry-Paulson

[william.scherk]

Is it so hard a concept for the US government to understand that they have NO FRIENDS in the ME other than Israel? Period.

This is mostly wrong. Jordan is a close friend and ally. Turkey is an ally.** Saudi Arabia is an ally (and flew sorties over Syria), the United Arab Emirates are allies. Iraq is a friend and ally (in the war against terror). Qatar is a friend of the USA. Kurdish Regional Government (out of Erbil) is a close and committed ally of the West ...

(of course I note that every Arab/Muslim country that flies with or bombs with or supports Syria airstrikes is either a family dictatorship, a religious dictatorship or both -- with the exception of the KRG, whose rule, while socialist, is secular)

-- here's a picture of a pilot from the UAE on return to base from a bombing over Syria:

Whatever we think of these Muslim majority states, their governance, their problems and idiocies ... the Emirates and Qatar especially are homes to many hundred thousands of Westerners, and have (in Doha and Dubai) religious and economic freedoms that we take for granted here at home.

-- if you think that America has no 'friends' in the Middle Easts, you will tend to see things as a cartoon, in my opinion. Thinking of hundreds of millions of people as an undifferentiated "Them" and comprising an enemy class closes off discussion of particulars. Reality is that the USA and Arab/Muslim allies have brought a new level of war to Syria. If we want to discuss this reality we need the most rational, objective information in hand.

________________

** Turkey's relationship with the Syrian opposition is complicated by the Islamist philosophy of Turkey's ruling party. Of all the countries names, theirs is the one that shows fractures, hypocrisies, and seemingly two-faced policies. They are essentially sitting out the current war on ISIS in Syria, neither flying their own sorties nor allowing use of the US airforce base at Incirlik.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

We need a new category of Fear -- the insane bluff that something has to be Done Right Now to stop Everything

Hank Paulson at Clinton Global Initiation (video) http://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Clinton-Global-Initiative/782/2014-09-24/Investing-In-Climate-Change-Makes-Economic-Sense---Henry-Paulson

Wolf,

The last big en masse scare of the global warming type based on fudged science was with eugenics. I've gone through some of the stuff from that time.

This was an upper class thing.

The biggest fear was that, due to advances in medicine and industry, the unwashed masses, "inferior" races, mentally ill, etc., were multiplying faster than the "superior" upper class. Soon the bad humans would overtake the good humans by sheer breeding and the evolution of humanity was going to become degraded by the very technology that was supposed to improve human life.

This was a real fear at the time in the molds of that bluff you mentioned and was pedaled with all the fervor of the current global warming alarmists.

Michael

[Selene]

The global warming agenda marxists work well with eugenics because they see humankind as a disease that

is killing the planet.

Talk about death worshippers, Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother, and semi-architect of the PPACA,

allegedly stated recently that people should die at 75.

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[Wolf DeVoon]

We need a new category of Fear -- the insane bluff that something has to be Done Right Now to stop Everything

Hank Paulson at Clinton Global Initiation (video) http://www.kitco.com/news/video/show/Clinton-Global-Initiative/782/2014-09-24/Investing-In-Climate-Change-Makes-Economic-Sense---Henry-Paulson

Wolf,

The last big en masse scare of the global warming type based on fudged science was with eugenics. I've gone through some of the stuff from that time.

This was an upper class thing.

The biggest fear was that, due to advances in medicine and industry, the unwashed masses, "inferior" races, mentally ill, etc., were multiplying faster than the "superior" upper class. Soon the bad humans would overtake the good humans by sheer breeding and the evolution of humanity was going to become degraded by the very technology that was supposed to improve human life.

This was a real fear at the time in the molds of that bluff you mentioned and was pedaled with all the fervor of the current global warming alarmists.

Michael

An investor who backed me in the 90s was CEO of a population control nonprofit, bitched that there were too many blacks in the show. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) advocated birth control and abortion for blacks and sterilization of the severely retarded.

[Jules Troy]

Is it so hard a concept for the US government to understand that they have NO FRIENDS in the ME other than Israel? Period.

This is mostly wrong. Jordan is a close friend and ally. Turkey is an ally.** Saudi Arabia is an ally (and flew sorties over Syria), the United Arab Emirates are allies. Iraq is a friend and ally (in the war against terror). Qatar is a friend of the USA. Kurdish Regional Government (out of Erbil) is a close and committed ally of the West ...

(of course I note that every Arab/Muslim country that flies with or bombs with or supports Syria airstrikes is either a family dictatorship, a religious dictatorship or both -- with the exception of the KRG, whose rule, while socialist, is secular)

-- here's a picture of a pilot from the UAE on return to base from a bombing over Syria:

Whatever we think of these Muslim majority states, their governance, their problems and idiocies ... the Emirates and Qatar especially are homes to many hundred thousands of Westerners, and have (in Doha and Dubai) religious and economic freedoms that we take for granted here at home.

-- if you think that America has no 'friends' in the Middle Easts, you will tend to see things as a cartoon, in my opinion. Thinking of hundreds of millions of people as an undifferentiated "Them" and comprising an enemy class closes off discussion of particulars. Reality is that the USA and Arab/Muslim allies have brought a new level of war to Syria. If we want to discuss this reality we need the most rational, objective information in hand.

________________

** Turkey's relationship with the Syrian opposition is complicated by the Islamist philosophy of Turkey's ruling party. Of all the countries names, theirs is the one that shows fractures, hypocrisies, and seemingly two-faced policies. They are essentially sitting out the current war on ISIS in Syria, neither flying their own sorties nor allowing use of the US airforce base at Incirlik.