SHRUG HARDER: "20 Reasons Why Americans Under 30 Are Giving Up On The U.S. Economy"

Hey kids, it's your Uncle Drunky, back to the land of blogging when he feels like it.

This is not the 'review of Tron Legacy & why it's Atlas Shrugged for our time. That may come later.

Now we come to a kid who sounds like every clued 30-something I've met lately. Read his comment here before you launch into my reply:

"Hans, my man, I have some advice to you, and to ANYONE under 40: SHRUG HARDER in the morning! If you’re young, start learning programming NOW. Pick a language. I recommend Python. In 2-5 years of watching shit crash you will become a kickass pentester. Programming is the new ‘bi-lingual’.. so pick up as many natural and machine languages as you can get from the couch.

Start learning about, and using bittorrent. Ignore the pop tripe that will get you in trouble and START looking at TV from overseas. And you’ll see how EVERYONE ELSE regards us: Hint: Nazi Germany 2.0.

Read Snow Crash. Then, bemusedly, watch ‘TRON Legacy’ and see how much the ‘young new director’ filched from it. In particular, dig what Lisberger did with Clu and Kevin Flynn, because HE represents your Baby Boomer Elders. MOST of them are either fiddling while Rome burns (Clu, aka GW Bush or Perry) or waiting for karma (crusty old NoBalls Flynn). Heck, his SON has to force him into some type of action.

If you buy the BS that ‘the Grid’ is some type of Galapegos Islands from the young director then I have a bridge to sell you.

If you have no education, START TEACHING YOURSELF. If you’re in school, DEMAND that your baby boomer teachers TEACH YOU SOMETHING USEFUL. History is useful (learn from the past). Humanities classes are useful (learn about the symbols around you). Math is useful (for that programming that you’ll be learning to craft your OWN environments).

START NOW. And to all the delusional Baby Boomer “Leadership” and where they want to herd you? SHRUG HARDER. THEIR BAGGAGE IS NOT YOUR BURDEN.

Damn, I wish there was something more all-capsy than ALLCAPS."

(Via » 20 Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Under The Age Of 30 Are Giving Up On The U.S. Economy Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!.)

Publish THAT, AlexJonesyBoy! Srsly tho, Alexy won't because none of what I suggest contains the idea BUY GOLD FROM ALEX FUCKING JONES.

I'm serious. Kids today have NO RESPONSIBILITY to continue what the "leadership" started in the last 10 years: War, Debt, and even moar War. So if you want to unseat these charlatans:

1. Like the #NoAgenda guys say, read Atlas Shrugged -it's gonna be REALLY FAMILIAR SOON.
2. Don't play the BabyBoomer Elites' game. Every time I hear about a 'Green Movement' or somesuch other Al Gore invention for $$$ I wanna take a royal crap. Every time I hear Lucy Napolitano and 'If you see something say something' I want to tell her where to go. Don't contribute to this bullshit. SHRUG HARDER.
3. LOOK at what happened to Japan & their 'lost decade.' It's now the USA's turn.
4. Learn the skills of the NEXT GAME and MARGINALIZE the charlatans. Take a hint from Bruce Sterling-- he also saw this coming YEARS AGO.

I've got one more tip, pretty much only for the young: If US employers don't appreciate your college degree, SHRUG HARDER and OFFSHORE YOURSELF. Teach English in an Asian country like Japan or Korea, pick up a hot Asian boy/girlfriend, and party where the cool kids are at. Unless you like death & taxes in the USSA. Even if you're older, you can do this, but it'll be harder. And if you're a Boomer, you almost have no prayer. Sorry, pay your fucking mortgage off.

I know, Drunky. Sounds really simple, don't it? Now ask me what I've been doing INSTEAD of blogging...

Drunky out.

PS. There is a third segment of Boomers that you should seek for friendship and counsel. In TRON terms, they're like Alan Bradley or TRON, the rare pragmatic mentors now in their 50s - 60s you wished you had. BUT: They are few & far between. I have a number of them in my life, and treasure every moment, and wish there were more like them. We need their counsel NOW.

Special Comment on Osama Bin Laden Assassination & Pakistan from KGS NightWatch 20110509 #ITM

So kids, it's your Uncle Drunky again. I found this gem in the early morning, from one of my favorite GOV/Mil/Infosec lists, KGS NIGHTWATCH. If you want REAL NEWS ala Cryptogon, Public Intelligence, or Wikileaks you NEED to be on this list!

Any apologies to KForce Gov or the NIGHTWATCH admin for length of passages.. but the kids need to be introduced to your list, as they will be assuming the debt/running the place in the next few years. Information is power and all that.

Now to the special comment about Osama bin Laden, the guy we've been dealing with, sometimes as a friend, since early Afghanistan-Russia days:

"Special comment: In American jurisprudence, the best evidence rule requires attorneys to provide direct evidence of the commission of an act, civil or criminal. This rule requires, for example, a properly executed deed as the best evidence of real estate ownership. Ownership of an automobile is established by the title. Best evidence of a dead man is always his corpse.

Unidentified US officials chose to sacrifice the best evidence for the sake of honoring Islamic 'burial' practices. That choice put the US in a difficult position because the US has produced no 'proof' of bin Laden's death - just words, also known as testimony. Moreover, since 1 May US officials have stated no less than five variations of the story of bin Laden's death. Pakistanis have issued three versons; Saudi news media have issued an entirely separate version of the death and al Qaida's general command has issued still another.

Without the corpse, it is entirely reasonable to believe that bin Laden could be still alive and in US custody. All of the evidence of his death is testimonial, not demonstrative. Even the acknowledgement by the al Qaida general command is suspect because of the al Watan version of the story that bin Laden was betrayed by his own people in a leadership split. Bin Laden's successors have a motive for declaring him dead quickly, much more quickly than the Pakistani Taliban acknowledged the death of Baitullah Mehsud, for example.

Testimonial evidence - words - is always weaker than demonstrative evidence. No amount of testimony about a person's death can equal the probative value of a dead body. Photos of a corpse, especially digital photos, always are weaker than the corpse itself, in proving death. That is why the best evidence rule exists in US law.

Thus the US has disadvantaged itself by its own choices. Administration luminaries have insisted the US did everything it could to ensure that the world would believe that bin Laden was dead. Nevertheless, they failed. They did everything except honor the best evidence rule which every lawyer in training learns in Evidence class.

(Via NightWatch 20110509 - KGS.)

Long story short: Gee, the 'People who can think for themselves & this kinda sounds like BULLSHIT to me'-ers, uh, 'deathers' may have a point. Why throw jurisprudence out the window? And, WHY should even the American people trust the word of a government that over the course of three presidential terms & two administrations has committed questionable acts, taken away our rights, and put restrictions on our travel? Bueller? Bueller?

But hey, this is how the Boomsters roll. Don't worry your pretty little head about the details. (hat tip to DSquare Digest, who also picked up on this 'deathers' thing).

Now on to the REAL and juicy (hi)story of Pakistan:

As for Pakistan, the US must decide about its relationship. The latest alliance with Pakistan, in a long and often broken line since World War II, is only eleven years old. It is based on coercion of a resisting General Musharraf to work with the inconstant Americans in late 2001, in the Pakistani view.

 

Pakistani memories are long and mostly unfavorable. For example, older Readers will remember that Pakistan was an alliance partner in CENTO, between 1955 and 1979. Membership in CENTO, also known as The Baghdad Pact, did not benefit Pakistan during the 1965 war with India.

Close ties to the US did not prevent Pakistan's loss of East Pakistan and defeat by the Indian Army in 1971 or in the Kargil war in 1999. A virtual alliance with the US seems to have encouraged the US in making a surprise commando raid against bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad this month.

The US relationship with Pakistan has shallow roots for another reason. An entire generation of Pakistani military officers have received no training in US military schools and courses because International Military Education and Training (IMET) was cut off in 1990. Chinese military authorities know more about the next generation of Pakistani military leaders than the US.

Long after the US withdraws soldiers from Afghanistan, Pakistan will be important to the US because it has nuclear weapons that can be used against India and proliferated to Arab states. Secondly, it has close security relations with China that are not congruent with US interests in South Asia and the Middle East."

(Via NightWatch 20110509 - KGS.)

And this, kids, is why your Uncle Drunky just doesn't buy all the 'Pakistan divorce' crazy talk by that Foreign Policy douchebag Tom Ricks. At all. This is also why I value lower-profile under-the-radar mailing lists over peacock-strutty pro-war buh-logs like Foreign Policy.

The drums of war are beating again. Will you heed the call by the former peacniks in our government? AGAIN?? Fool me twice.....

Drunky out.

ROC Chinese Girls Teach you Japanese << NMA.tv

Moving right along, if this is Taiwan ROC, I'm packin' my bags...and learning Japanese.

Wait, Japanese? WTF?

Dear Japan: China stole all your sexay & mojo. Go take your Geritol and fix your ratty cars.

Drunky out.

"New Delhi" TV aka NDTV. Stirring the Pot from.. the USA?

So, as almost everyone knows, the stories about Pasha Barry's Fabulous World Slavery 2.0 Tour and its "move a 0 million, move a 0 billion" originated from NDTV and MAYBE 1-2 other media sources.

From just a little bit of digging, it turns out that NDTV has as much success in 'embedding reporters' as CNN does, this taken from blogs reacting to coverage of Mumbai's "26/11" fiasco:

Barkha Dutt and NDTV: A Terrorist's DREAM COME TRUE

Mumbai attacks ! Shoddy Journalism .for example our star person Ms. Barkha Datt

and just for comedy's sake:

Barkha Dutt's "...top c*cks..." blooper on NDTV

Judging by the above posts you'd almost think Barkha was on the other side. In fact NDTV looks like a curried-up version of CNN or FOX, right down to the somewhat interesting Desi "Rupert" character that owns it.

So NDTV has a history of spilling the beans & gaffery. But fabrication? I guess no more than CNN or FOX.

Hmm, let's do a whois on NDTV:

   Administrative Contact:
      Bedi, Kawaljit           kawaljit@ndtv.com
      NDTV Convergence
      207, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase-3
      New Delhi -110020
      New Delhi, New Delhi 110020
      IN
      +91-11-26446666

Okay, that looks normal enough. There should be an Indian tech contact as well..let's look at their technical contact:

   Technical Contact:
      Hostmaster, Comcat               hostmaster@COMCAT.COM
      7109 Timberlake Road
      Suite 201
      Lynchburg, VA 24052
      US
      434-239-4272 fax: 215-489-8867

Yup that's right, Lynchburg, VIRGINIA, the Home of all Spooks(sm). Comcat, when it resolves, points to a web page that looks like it hasn't been touched since 1995. I guess they've been... uh, 'busy.' It may not even matter except that no other Indian media outlet (like TimesOfIndia) hosts in the USA. Why would they?

If you listen to 'No Agenda' sometimes you hear Curry & Dvorak floating the idea that sometimes the POTUS is in conflict with the CIA... Well. If you wanted to troll Emperor Barry, stir the pot, how would YOU do it? Probably using the media, and maybe a CIA/RAW connection.

Makes you wonder why Barry needs all that security if the 'threat' is akin to "10 men in inflatable speedboats".

-Drunky out

Gary Coleman RIP- World's Gonna Miss You, Arnold Jackson

This apocalypse tag is dedicated to the memory of Gary Coleman, who everyone remembers as 'Arnold Jackson' on Diff'rent Strokes. Gary made it to his 40s, and had the rocky life of most El Lay actors.

It's too bad he'll never evolve his 'Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?' line into what the world needs today -- something more like-

'Da fuck you talkin' about (politician, CEO, BP spokesperson, MMS Gal, Rahm Emmanuel)?'

Believe me, it was beginning:

What really gets me is that despite all the 'experts' there on Insider that were there to douchetalk him down.. NOBODY picked up on that bigass vein on the side of his head and said, 'Maybe Gary needs to get to a doctor, like NOW.'

Nah, they were too busy douchebagging about 'how dangerous he was'. Because even the world needs to be afraid of a 4'8" black man. Gary didn't need that noise. Who would?

Shows you what droids these 'journalists' of the Insider really are.. and why Gary was fully justified in telling them to Bartz off. Wouldn't you?

So, alla you angry manchildren & womanchildren out there. Of whatever color.

Remember Gary Coleman well. You will be judged by the content of your character.

And the next time you see an Andersen Cooper Vanderbilt or Joy Behar wannabe...fly off the handle.. and..

Be sure to tell them to Bartz off. In his memory. Or, where Gary was going-

'Da Fuck you Talkin' 'Bout, (asshole, Boomer, politician, lobbyist, BP, etc).'

-Drunky out.

"Diff'rent Strokes - The Complete First Season" (Leslie H. Martinson, Ellen Falcon, Dolores Ferraro, Lee Lochhead, Selig Frank)

Sony, Losing their Touch: Re-invents a Clock Radio with Failbook

Sheesh, the Japanese goombas who run Sony are really losing it. I mean, is this the best they can come up with? A freaking clock radio? WITH FACEBOOK? Cue post-Apple-a-long time ago lame hipster-kinda music and break out the popcorn, kids. This is going to be a painful watch:

From what I hear, they're gonna price these at $199 each. Priced so that I go thru three of these plastic little cheapies pounding 'snooze' when some asshole 'superpokes' me at 3 am.

Seriously. Sony. The PSX Mafia. And this is the best they can come up with? Really??

Anyone who was on the team making this retard clock radio need to fall on their family swords old school Shogun style because this blows. According to David Pogue, this wasn't even designed in Japan, it was outsourced to pot-smoking monkeys in California. Seriously, California has enough of a smoke problem with Shantanu Narayen & his ilk.

Akio Morita must be spinning in his grave. No wonder Uncle Steve and other founders stick around. Look at the alternative.

-Drunky out.

[Seriously. Anjin-san would have never gone to a Japan this lame]

"James Clavell's Shogun" (Jerry London)

How Stupid is the Mainstream Media? Pedobear Olympic Stupid.

Since it's staffed with burned out hippies & cretins who Twitter and Facebook all day, pretty stupid.

Don't think so? Then WHY are a number of major news outlets reporting that PEDOBEAR (of 4-chan fame) is an Olympic mascot?? Don't believe me?? Here is an excerpt from No Agenda, Adam Curry & John C Dvorak's podcast show--

This is seriously the FUNNIEST thing I've heard about all week. Hat tip to catatonicanimal at the NoAgenda forums for making this Youtube file that sums up the whole fiasco.

Just remember kids, this is all the MSM *does*. Explicate teh wurld to j00. Badly. In the morning.

Drunky out.

"I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (Tucker Max)

New Adam Curtis: "We're all Richard Nixon"

In the morning to you, kids...Uncle Drunky's been dipping into other people's media... fresh from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe Season 2, Ep 4, the UK TV show, comes this little gem from Adam Curtis, the BBC's senior current affairs geek, aka 'has all the keys to the BBC's film cans in the basement':

I really agree with him. Our politicians on either side of the ocean have been doing a good job of 'fearing us up'...making us compliant to whatever agenda or war they'd like us to fight today, whatever 2 inch fish we have to protect, whatever industry we have to sacrifice to the 3rd world... so...of COURSE this is the outcome. Suspicion, paranoia, malaise. Basically Jimmy Carter 2.0.

We're living back in the latter 70s. As designed. I don't remember much of it due to my age other than it SUCKED. But I guess it's what the Boomers (of the newly-communized USSA) want. The palace intrigue, horse trading, corruption and absurd crisis of the likes of the 'crotch bomber.' Bailouts. TARP.

It probably doesn't help that they baked their brains in the early 70s with acid and THC. I guess it's like home to them, depriving their children of their birthright, instead selling it down the road to the 3rd world as a 'bulwark against the inevitable'.. where are the new ideas?

Too bad Richard Nixon, no spoiled child Boomer by any account, was stigmatized for Watergate. His oftimes paranoid mentality was just what we needed in order to deal with the Chinese. Which we will have to. Again.

Seriously kids. Get into overseas media, and learn another language, preferably Chinese, if you want any truth. And learn to chase stuff like this DOWN.

The MSM in the USSA totally sucks the donkey 'nads.

Drunky out.

[There are a LOT of 'private DVDs' floating around Amazon due to no official distro from the BBC. Go to Archive.org instead, search for 'Adam Curtis']

"The Power of Nightmares (ADAM CURTIS)"