That's right folks... or hadn't you known that the Kenyan's administration was a sham, telling people who were sick of Bush exactly what they wanted to hear, whilst in fact continuing the same old destructive, anti-survival polices? In the clear, without public criticism?
What a coup!
My small Lister engine/generator was held up in port by the EPA and then the dealer was harassed by inspectors, and just sent me a refund, afraid to complete the deal. This is a generator that can burn waste oil, diesel, really anything at hand.
I still feel as if I cannot speak out on the above. Vermont's liberal-left seem to be still on some kind of anaesthetic, euphoric drug; the O-Pill. They buy more hybrids and green products to choke the green landfills, whilst the Collapse proceeds. 'Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold...' Today Hillary is sending $200 million to the Palestinean Authority, Gov. Douglas is building a roundabout but letting bridges fall, and continues killing public transport in our (I can't even call it a State, our Guard have been illegally sent to Iraq, prisoners themselves) economic colony of Vermont.
Yet not a peep of discontent, aside from Vermont Secessionists, the admitted 'Wingnuts' of Vermont. Everything's just as wonderful as in 2001 when Reagan took office. Bernie himself has committed to 'Lead not secede' or somesuch nonsense, wasting time better spent fixing the electrical grid. Or maybe he can't really speak openly. Congressman Leahy is celebrating the Verwandlung of our Guard into more Iraq cannonfodder. They're not providing leadership, they are managing us on behalf of the Empire.
Well, referring to --- even thinking about the US is a waste of valuable time better spent learning to care for chickens, digging up the lawn, planting & canning vegetables.
I wish all the folks well, who are expending their energies in order to improve, reform, fix or otherwise prop up the US. Collapse is coming. The US are not worth the time. We have to fix Vermont, we've got enough problems, though far fewer than in the Lower 47.
This Winter will be telling. As imports dry up, people can't get things fixed, the crappy consumer goods from China fail (including bits to keep their 'green' traffic-obstructing hybrids going) and aren't replaced... we shall see.
One final image is from a fiercely intelligent gentleman named Peter Moss from Fairfax who stood for the Vermont House in 2008 and is now standing for the US Congress. The Donkeyphant speaks volumes. Peter's website is petermoss.org.
2 comments:
Hi-
You posted this comment on Dmitri Orlov's blog. I have family in Vermont, and knew there was a Vermont Secessionist movement, but I didn't know that the left had come out against it.
"However, the fact that the Left have actively come out against Vermont Secession means that they psychologically acknowledge that the Empire may be potentially unfixable (think Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy). Denial takes strange and profound forms. "
I don't understand what you're trying to say. When 'the left' comes out against secession, how is this acknowledging (even unconsciously) that the empire is unfixable? I don't get it. Please elaborate.
Here in Oregon the secessionist movement is very quiet and low key, but also rather popular, and will likely become much more popular, soon enough. Last summer I heard a comedy team at a large yearly gathering of Oregon's 'left' draw a huge laugh and standing ovation with 'Oregon Seceeds from the union'.
Regards,
Bruce
energyscholar@gmail.com
Hi Bruce,
Good catch, I did not write clearly. That sentence sure was telescoped, a few words pointing to a lot of thought (hasty typing).
During the 'Bush Years' or 'Eight Years of Shame' as my learned colleagues on the Left prefer to refer to that period, Bush was the problem. The solution was getting rid of Bush, hence the 'Impeach Bush' movement. There was never a systemic problem, only a few bad apples or bad executives. Now the problem has been fixed, Obama is in office, their precious property values have stopped declining, and the news media say that the recovery is underway.
However, during the 'Eight Years of Shame', the Left were careful to distance themselves from the secessionist movement. It was popular to label it as 'racist' and equate it with the Southern Confederacy and militia groups. Popular leaders in Vermont, in the executive or legislature, were careful never to refer to us, even indirectly.
Enter the financial collapse. Suddenly Bernie & Co. are doing their best to disavow any thought of secession, as if suddenly it mettered. Why? My colleagues and I have been publicly challenging leaders on the Left to abandon their collaboration with the Empire, as surely as they've been working harder to draw us back into the Empire.
Else, how could they justify abuses such as the unconstitutional deployment of our National Guard to Afghanistan and Iraq?
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