A definition of Surrender, is to join the winning side. What if they don't want your surrender?
Below is today LUV News, ending with an article on joining the 1%. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyunderground/message/3693 Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *THE PSYCHOPATHS WHO RUN THE EMPIRE ARE THE TERRORISTS * ** ***NATO yesterday slaughtered 24 Pakistani troops <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/11/201111265841645810.html> who were trying to stop Taliban from crossing the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Such incidents, we are always told, are "collateral damage," and our military and political leaders always pretend to care, apologizing, as they continue to bomb the third world into oblivion. Some of the family members of the victims of course, will want revenge against the Empire and help to justify future attacks, when they decide to fight back.* *We have troops now in several nations of Central Africa, the Philippines, Colombia-- all over the world in this maddening "war on terrorism" that creates new terrorists daily from the fathers of the children the Empire murders, the sons of the mothers the Empire murders. With a thousand military bases abroad we still have troops in Germany and Japan from World War Two, and troops in Korea from that war, and nobody in our controlled mass media ask why. Glenn Greenwald goes into another incident <http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/the_fruits_of_liberation/singleton/> in which a number of children were slaughtered by the Empire in Afghanistan, and he apologizes for first considering not doing it, and waiting a day, because the Empire bombing children is so commonplace now that it is considered by most to be boring-- no longer newsworthy. The lower than whale poop corporate media have been encouraging "consumers" (they are no longer human beings, but a kind of zombie shopper) to buy things they really don't need, with "Black Friday" stories dominating their headlines. The wealthy are raking in billions from the wars, so mass media are careful not to allow criticism, for fear of losing their jobs as propagandists-- better to go with stories about shopping to enrich their owners, board members and advertisers. One of the worst of them, Scott Simon of /NPR/, pushed the lies of the Bush regime for weeks leading up to the illegal invasion of Iraq. This morning Simon had Alan Simpson on to tell us we need to cut Medicare. Simon could not find another person among the 7 billion on the planet he might have interviewed about the Super Committee failure-- he decided to go with the guy who made a career of selling out citizens in the Senate. Has he ever done anything else with objectivity? * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE CRACKDOWN ON OCCUPY * ** *Naomi Wolf has a great piece <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-7> this morning going into what the crackdown on the Democracy Movement in the Land of the Free is really about. Of course, she had to publish it abroad with only the one viewpoint allowed here. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *GETTING BEYOND THE CAMPAIGN LIES * ** *Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-6>, who used to give presidents of the USA their morning intelligence briefing, offers questions our corporate media should be asking candidates for office, were they interested in getting facts to the American people, rather than allowing more psychopaths to take office on behalf of corporate greed at any cost to the public interest. Ray says ask the candidates real questions. Of course, any mass media journalist who tries to get to the inconvenient truth of the public interest would soon be unemployed. * ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **We used to run a bit of humor from time to time, just to break up all the serious stories, to make /LUV News/ more fun to read. For some time we've been buried in serious things we felt we had to get out, so we'd gotten away from it. With all the wars, government corruption and horror brought on the planet by the psychopaths who run the Empire on behalf of the psychopaths who run the transnational corporations on behalf of the psychopaths who invest in what becomes global horror for most of the people on the planet, the 99%, we thought it would be nice to give readers a break, following --Jack ** *Forget the Occupy Movement* *Why I'm Joining the One Percent <http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/why-im-joining-the-one-percent/> * * * *by BRIAN J. FOLEY* *I marched with Occupy Oakland last Saturday, but I've had a change of heart. I'm joining the One Percent.* *The One Percent have fun. They have jobs and money. Or just money, because when you have a lot of money, you don't need to work. They live in houses, not tents.* *The One Percent have a government that actually listens to them. Lockheed needs a war <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/business/yourmoney/28lock.html?pagewanted=print&position=> to sell goods and services? Coming right up! Former Homeland Security Head Michael Chertoff wants to sell some porno-scanners <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101129/02381512037/chris-matthews-says-that-pointing-out-chertoffs-conflict-interest-over-rapiscan-tsa-scanners-is-slander.shtml>? Get in (a very short) line -- or no line at all if you've bought that exemption from TSA screening <http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/participation.shtm>! Taxes too high? The One Percent's government will lower them for the rich. Too many 99 Percenters declaring bankruptcy? The One Percent's government will just make it harder for them <http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/20/pf/bankruptcy_bill/>. Bought toxic, mortgage-backed derivatives? Don't worry, your government will bail you out if you're in the One Percent. Bought a toxic mortgage? It's your "responsibility," if you're in the 99 Percent.* *Another reason to join the One Percent is that the One Percent have their own media mouthpiece --- more like a bullhorn. The One Percent funded those meager Tea Party protests <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/28/obama-richest-enemies-billionaires-summit?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487>, and the One-Percent-owned Media covered them religiously. And I mean religiously: the media proclaim stuff about the movement that defies reality, such as how The Tea Party was a really big, grass roots, populist movement, and that it wasn't racist. The Tea Party hate Obama for his "socialist" policies, not his skin color.* *I also like how the One Percent-owned media have covered the Occupy movement. They treat the Occupiers as oddities, like circus animals --- /Cirque du So What/? Paid-off pundits talk about the First Amendment with the "No way, this archaic language can't really stop OUR OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT from doing what it wants, can it?" To find out if the New York City Police honored Occupiers' First Amendment rights, CNN asked ... a former New York City Police Commissioner <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/17/ebo.01.html>, who assured viewers that the New York City Police honored those rights (ridiculous and so-pre-9/11 as those rights may seem!).* *The One Percent don't have school loans or credit card debt. When they get into financial trouble, they get bailed out by the Big Government they claim to hate. They get saved and protected from The Market they claim to love. They changed the rules <http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/09/19/shattering-the-glass-steagall-act/> that kept their businesses from getting too big, and when they ended up failing, they got deemed "too big to fail." And at the same time, the One Percent get to say they are looking out for "the little guy" on Main Street! Unlike they Occupiers, they get to say that without getting their mouths, eyes, and nostrils filled with pepper spray.* *And no one ever dares call the One Percent "traitors," "anti-American," etc. No, they're "patriots" who ask what their government can do for them, not what they can do for their government. No one ever says, "Bailing out Banks to save us from socialism is like f---ing to save virginity." That would be rude, and no one is rude or even slightly impolite to the One Percent.* *Except the Occupiers, who get battered by police for their rudeness. In fact, the One Percent get to have police beat down Occupy protesters and pepper-spray them for no reason, and without fear of getting into trouble. Police pepper-spray defenseless students in front of hundreds of out-in-the-open cameras <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4>. Lesson: If you can't join the One Percent, you should at least work for them.* *If an Occupier ever tried to defend himself and/or toted a gun, police would shoot him to death. But Tea Party guys get to bring their guns <http://media.photobucket.com/image/guy%20with%20gun%20at%20tea%20party%20protest/renegadephoenix1/100_1715.jpg>to protests <http://www.flickr.com/photos/8506937@N05/4240627077/in/set-72157623004114223> and to make not-so-vague allusions to shooting President Obama <http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/03/20/87743/code-red-gun/>. They never had to worry about cops <http://urbangrounds.com/wp-content/uploads/Gun_at_Capitol.jpg>crushing their skulls <http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/10/28/police-grenade-occupy-oakland-protestors-unconscious-vet-bleeding-ground-78781/> or pepper spraying them!* *So I'm joining the One Percent. A friend said I'd regret joining and quoted Three Dog Night, who sang that one is //the loneliest number. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSy_FRXqzZs> No, it's not, not when you've bought off the government and the news media. In the United States, 2 + 2 = 5, and 1 > 99. * *http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/why-im-joining-the-one-percent/ * */*Brian J. Foley* is a law professor and comedian and author of A New Financial You in 28 Days! 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