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You know, Tubularsock has dusted off his resume and decided to send it on to Tubularsock’s Uncle Vinnie.

Uncle Vinnie is in the future capitalist adjustment business (FCAB). A very respected business model that has been around for years and has been sanitized by Wall Street. In its early years it was known as loan-sharking, a cumbersome name, indeed. 

FCAB sounds way more classy than loan sharking and it doesn’t involve fish. But perhaps slime.

Now there was once upon a time when a “conflict-of-interest” was considered something that a respectable person would avoid to the point of “stepping aside” in a court case or in a regulatory situation where this respectable person may be viewed as possibly having an advantage in the outcome of the court case or regulatory situation.

Well old fashioned ideas have been set aside today for a multitude of reasons the primary reason being, there are no longer any “respectable people” left. At least on this planet. And greed and power is the life blood which makes this country GREAT! (Haven’t you heard?)

So realizing all of this Tubularsock contacted Uncle Vinnie and asked if Tubularsock could be placed into a respected position in the “family” business. Tubularsock felt it was time to dust off his Sicilian heritage …… Ciao amici !

And that is why Tubularsock is now CEO of TUBULARSOCK CORRUPTION SERVICES, LIMITED.

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Well, your first question is ……..

Exactly, who does TCS,Ltd. represent?

This information can not be divulged to outsiders but Tubularsock will share this only with YOU. Seriously ………. look in the mirror, YOU! (make sure no one else is in the mirror)

Hillary Clinton is one of our favorite clients.

As you know HC is running for office of something or other.

Every major defense contractor in the U.S. has given The Clinton Foundation hundreds of millions of dollars while she was Secretary of State.

Hell, while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, her department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments had given money to The Clinton Foundation. Plus a further $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of those countries!

And the Secretary of State oversee which defense contractor get government contracts for defense projects.

EVERY defense contractor who donated money to the Clinton Foundation received billions of dollars in defense contacts.

But in truth it’s the “bag-man” that arranges those transaction and that is where TCS,Ltd. steps into this financial-food-chain.

And the “bags” don’t exist any longer because TCS,Ltd. uses computers. Sure Uncle Vinnie is nostalgic but Fanculo tutti !

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And just to add profit to profit TCS,Ltd. also handles all of Hillary’s Wall Street speeches as well.

And Hillary has spoken very little but TCS,Ltd. charges Wall Street by the word and as you know words COST!

For example, Golden-Sacks, oop!, sorry Goldman Sachs paid Hillary $225,000 for ONE speech in 2013. But really, that was only about $83 a word. Cheap if you ask Tubularsock. And on Tubularsock’s suggestion “Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Thank You And Good Evening” were free. It was kind of like a perk.

Adding in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS all together Hillary hauled in $3.15 million in 2013 for just talking to them.

But with TCS,Ltd. at the helm the money ball keeps rolling into 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The tech sector has put up over $3.2 million dollars to hear Hillary’s golden words at about $307.00 a word.

And Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank both primary sponsors in the promoting of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has paid Hillary $1.6 million for eight speeches in 2014 and 2015.

And Hillary earned at least $2.7 million from speeches at companies backing the trade promotion authority (TPA ) for “fast tracking” trade deals.

Surprisingly EVEN the maimed-stream-media was forced to ask Hillary whether she felt that taking all this money from these banks and companies was a “possible” CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

Hillary said: “No”.

And that was it, folks. FULL AND FAIR COVERAGE!

So with a clean slate and the March To The White House underway Tubularsock should soon be getting a huge CEO bonus for manning the turbulent ship that is TCS,Ltd.

And as Uncle Vinnie always says: Ricordate la vostra famiglia e rispettare la vostra madre o ti ammazzo!

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This is the time of year that Tubularsock hides in his top floor corner office in the underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA.

Not from fear but from dread ……..

Tubularsock always puts on his stealth attire when he has to leave the bunker and you wouldn’t recognize Tubularsock on the street because the S.F. Bay Area that Oakland is a part has so many diverse hair styles Tubularsock isn’t all that noticeable. No, really.

But just in case Tubularsock always wears a ski hat with blinking green lights with its top cut open and people don’t even look up as Tubularsock passes on his two-wheeled bike. It’s rather a live-and-let-live community in general.

And hell with the homeless black dude that rides his bike pulling two bike trailers with a boom-box and two huge 12” woofer speakers blaring and adding that to all his belongings with everything painted GOLD to match his gold painted top hat, suit coat, pants and high top tennis shoes ……..

Well shit, Tubularsock even begins to look normal!

Tubularsock seldom goes into retail stores. Just have no interest and most of the stuff is priced so high that Tubularsock figures the “liberal-press” has buried the true story that the Chinese slave laborers in the sweat-factories have been given a huge wage increase! Fucking workers!

At least here in America when we asked the Black Africans to leave their homes and come to America we put them to work 24/7. They were good workers too. In fact, so good that the powers to be set up a system that still exist today. And keeps those Black Workers behind bars working in order to keep them from having to associate with all those welfare cheats!

Seriously! If you recall, those Native Americans would run off when our early Christian farmers used to attempt to “train” those savages to work. And none of them spoke American! Go figure.

But that was then and we are here now and things have improved.

And today in America we even love Mexicans! No seriously!

Right after Donald Trump proclaimed to build a wall to keep those raping Mexicans out he in his next breath proclaimed that he had a great relationship with Mexican waiters. They were his homey-amigos.

And just like Americans, no one even noticed any incongruity. That’s because we are ALL, EXCEPTIONAL!

Now, just watching truck after truck after truck of dead pine trees being brought into this city to be decorated and lighted up for a week or two and then tossed to the curbside to be taken away by trucks and trucks and trucks just brings merriment to Tubularsock’s soul.

And just like Americans, no one even notices any incongruity. That’s because we are ALL, EXCEPTIONAL!

But one can not miss the parade of stressed out smiling people marching in and out like zombies to every sales event in order to PROVIDE HAPPINESS which isn’t paid off until  May, 2016 if you’re lucky. Which then keeps them all sitting in cubicles day in and day out for years and they call it their life’s work.

And just like Americans, no one even notices any incongruity. That’s because we are ALL, EXCEPTIONAL!

But what if ………………………..

This year ………………………….

LIBERATION.

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Wow, now how easy was that?

If you haven’t figured this out yet ………..

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And believe Tubularsock on this ……. you don’t have to do this.

You never did. It has alway been an illusion and you are the ONLY one who can wake up because it is YOUR dream.

And Tubularsock knows your conditioned response …… “but I, I just couldn’t”.

But you can …….. you create your own reality and you even already know this, so listen from within.

“I’M SORRY, YOUR TIME IS UP ….. THIS IS A RECORDING. YOUR PARKING TICKET MAY BE VALIDATED UPON YOUR EXIT…….. HAVE A NICE DAY” beep.  your move

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Welcome to TUBULARSOCK EMPORIUM OF GOODS, Ltd.

You know, we are way overstocked with our speciality goods and we just have to move them out of our warehouses and into your home.

AND YOUR AMERICAN FAMILY JUST NEVER HAS ENOUGH OF THESE!

And we here at TUBULARSOCK EMPORIUM OF GOODS, Ltd. are offering our overstocked items not only at rock bottom prices but we have created two covenant sizes for your discriminatory taste.

The tiny and the JUMBO!

EMPTY BAGS

Priced to sell ………….

STOCK UP TODAY!***

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SMOKEN’ MIRROR OPPRESSION

You know, every once in a while people come up to Tubularsock and say, “Tubularsock, why is the world so fucked up?”

Now first, the fact that they call out Tubularsock’s name alerts Tubularsock that they are addressing Tubularsock specifically. And that is satisfying because it tells Tubularsock that these people that say, “Tubularsock, why is the world so fucked up  . . .” are putting their question to someone who KNOWS the answer.

That alone should give YOU a huge sense of relief. Do you feel better just knowing that? Tubularsock does.

In their annual survey, Win/Gallup International found that the United States is considered the number one “greatest threat to peace in the world today” by people across the globe.

That was the findings from their End Of Year (2013) survey that has been conducted every year for 37 years. And they do this survey according to Win/Gallup International because “this survey is compelling and is undisputedly the world’s first and longest global survey of its kind”.

But funny thing. That survey was so compelling that after the 2013 survey conclusion that the United States was the number one threat to world peace Win/Gallup International decided (after 37 years) to no longer conduct that survey. Which just goes to show you that if it’s Climate Change information, the Fukuyama Nuclear Disaster, or War Findings the best way to improve the truth is to NOT REPORT ON IT ANYMORE. Ahhh, now that’s settled.

1. Now the reason the United States has found itself in this situation is not because when it comes to arm sales the U.S. stands head and shoulders plus a head and shoulders plus a head above all other nations in the world. In fact, in 2010 fucking Obomber approved a 60 BILLION DOLLAR weapons deal with that sick and deranged Saudi dictatorship, the biggest arms sales in U.S. history!

2. Nor could it be because when 111 nations of the world called for the BAN on the use of the cluster bomb the United States would not sign the treaty and then proceeded to sell cluster bombs to the Saudis and supported their use of them against the population of Yemen!

“Obama has himself previously planted and detonated banned cluster bombs in crowded civilian areas of Yemen and killed several times more civilians, including some 21 children and 5 pregnant women, than were killed in the Boston Bombing.” (Robert Barsocchini, 5/3/15 Washington’s Blog)

Just think of the above statement when you watch Obomber sing Amazing Grace in front of that congregation in Charleston for Rev. Clementa Pinckney. And when he talks of those who “terrorize and oppress”. If that congregation had had any intelligence at all they would have gotten up and walked out on that mother fucker but oh no, they all “did their duty” oblivious to the baby killer they were singing with …….. shame on them, shame!

3. Nor could it be that the United States is the only country in the United Nations that will not ratify The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which is a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.

The reason is because it forbids both the death penalty and life imprisonment for children!

During his 2008 campaign for President, then-Senator Obomber described the failure to ratify the Convention as “embarrassing” and promised to review the issue. And now it’s 2015 and well, ahhh.

No none of the above are reasons why the world believes that the United States is the number one threat to world peace. bell alarm

The reason is because we ARE the number one threat to world peace.  And we as a people are delusionally sound asleep to ourselves.

But as things move along as things do it is painfully becoming obvious that it is doubtful that our institutions can pull America out of its trough. 

In fact if you really look at the truth of “our?” Congress and “our” President you will quickly realize that “our” own government is AT WAR WITH US!

According to Gallup only 8% of the American public have any faith in Congress!

A huge number of American citizens believe that the government is no longer serving its own  people.

And as Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the 39 Senators who voted against the TPP deal, stated, “They won the vote, but lost the trust of the American people . . . It is remarkable that so much energy has been expended on advancing the things Americans oppose, and preventing the things Americans want.”

And the amazing thing about all this is NOT GRACE but the fact that what we have as a so called leader is an empty, pathetic, sad example of a man that has no grace at all and that is sadly amazing.

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Oh, my, my. Tubularsock has been so busy adding another story to The Tubularsock Underground Bunker in Oakland, CA overlooking Washington, D.C. that Tubularsock has let several interesting bullshit Maimed-Stream-Media-Tales pass by on their way to history.

I suppose you realize that when you add a story to an underground bunker you go down but the end result is up in the way you view it from the bottom floor. But enough about basic engineering and forward to the American fabrication of the world.

Now Tubularsock does admit that any game involved with balls should be outlawed but that thinking is very counter to world thinking. And Tubularsock feels that when it comes to football (American Style) the shape of the ball is not ball shaped. While the shape of the football (World  Style) is the proper shape of a ball as in all balls are in the shape of a ball EXCEPT the American football and its shape is just not ball shaped.

Which is the fundamental shape of American foreign policy in that we may be out of shape but we want the world to be in our image.

Which leads Tubularsock to the first order of business today, FIFA and its corruption. Wow, that was a slick segue if you ask Tubularsock.

Now we know Tubularsock is really on top of his game but even an imbecile has known that FIFA and its officials have been known for bribery, money laundering, fraud and are so corrupt that for years they have been taking under-the-table money on top-of-the-table.

If you don’t know, FIFA’s Central Committee is a rich old man’s club that does everything in secret so we’ll never know who gets what and how. It has always been corrupt and just now the U.S. has stepped in with arrests and indictments of FIFA officials in Zurich.

Just like the U.S. another “surge” with worthless results. It’s a bitch saving the “free” world!

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Wonder why just now all this anti-corruption is happening? There are two pretty clear reasons. And neither are based on any high moral stance by the United States which lacks the capacity for ANY moral stance at all.

Side note: Tubularsock finds it interesting that the U.S. government can find the time and the money and the concern over corruption in soccer in the world federation but massive corruption in military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan that has already shown to be overwhelming hardly gets a glance from the Justice Department. And speaking of massive . . . . Banking corruption is looked upon as too big to fail and EVEN WORSE the WAR CRIMINALS in our current and past leadership get to have a free ride! So it is Soccer that is the root of all evil?

The United States lost it’s bid for having the World Cup Show to RUSSIA and QATAR.

And gosh, Qatar is an American ally no matter if it’s a brutal dictatorship and got the 2022 World Cup Show.

That’s all good BUT RUSSIA got the 2018 World Cup …… ahh, there’s the rub!

And who was America’s honorary chairman for the U.S. bid committee, which promoted America as the best place to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup events?

Bill Clinton!

And guess what? In 2014, the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, set up by the Qatar government to ensure a successful FIFA world cup, awarded the Clinton Foundation between $250,000 and $500,000; the State of Qatar donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Funny how that looks to Tubularsock. Bill Clinton is chairman of the U.S. bid committee which doesn’t get in the running but Qatar who doesn’t even know how to play soccer gets the bid to have the World Cup Soccer Event. And the Clinton Foundation makes off like bandits. If this was a fist fight could it be said that Bill threw the fight for monetary gain? You bet your sweet bippy!

Bill told NBC in a recent interview, “I don’t think there is anything sinister about trying to get wealthy people and countries that are seriously involved in development to spend their money wisely in a way that helps poor people and lifts them up.”

Funny thing here the workers on the Qatar World Cup building projects are primarily migrants from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal whose passports have been taken away and are forced to work in 106 degree temperature. With at least one worker dying on the job every two days. Is this what Bill means by “. . . helps poor people and lifts them up”? Maybe he’s talking about death and heaven.

But did the U.S. Justice Department only become “morally” concerned about FIFA’s corruption in order to attempt to keep Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup?

Well like some, Senators Menendez and McCain, have called on the FIFA Congress to elect a new FIFA President that would deny Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup.

And this makes this entire corruption moment seem like interesting timing. Doesn’t it?

Or perhaps the interest of the U.S. Justice Department that felt so compelled to take action on FIFA officials RIGHT NOW for corruption was due to the fact that there was a good chance that Israel was going to be suspended from the FIFA like South Africa was in the 1960’s for Israel’s Apartheid practices against Palestine.

Hmmm, interesting timing indeed.

Tubularsock DOES see a silver lining in all of this because in our dystopian world the U.S. didn’t carpet bomb Zurich in order to save us all from the soccer-terrorists who need to be eliminated “over-there” before we have to face them on our shores!

God Bless AmeriKKKa.

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Give Tubularsock a break! All of these fucking progressives running their hypocritical bull shit about non-violence and all that shit while the black communities have been having to deal with these fucking murderous motherfucking cops every day. Non-violence my ass! Tell that to the cops.

It’s these same progressive asshole that still back Step-An-Fetch-It Obummer as he keeps ass fucking America.   And they’ll swing over to Hillary and her same corporate ass fucking ways. They seem to like it!

No this is not a time for non-violence. This is a time to come out in force and threaten the power structure. It’s the only thing they really understand. You have to become so unpredictable and dangerous that EVERY TIME a person is shot and killed or beaten to death by the cops, the city irrupts.

That is the only thing that gets their attention is when they have to call out the National Guard.

When that happens the protestors need to back off and wait until all is calm and as soon as they leave create havoc again. And just follow this pattern until the cities and the cops involved have to change their behavior or commerce is interrupted.

You don’t have to burn thing down. Ok, maybe a few cop cars for the drama of it but the real power is shutting down commerce and that can be done by causing enough disruption that people stop shopping out of inconvenience.

And remember, you’re out gunned. So the confrontations have to be city wide with small disruptive tactics all over the city at the same time. Do you think the Viet-Cong guerrillas won over the American forces because they faced them off? No, it was because they used tactics that appeared and disappeared EVERYWHERE!

When you meet a superior force, dissolve and reconfigure elsewhere. This is a continuous activity. And can go on for months.

The cops are killing people everyday. And it’s the black population that is taking the heat. So ask that question again …… “Why are they burning down their city?” GET REAL! They don’t own it.

But the trick is continual struggle and disruption over an entire city not just in the neighborhood. That becomes scary and forces change to happen because the bottom line in our society is profit and if that starts to take a hit change will occur because it becomes too expensive for the system NOT to change. They sure won’t do it because they give a shit about YOU!

 

 

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NEWS THAT ISN’T!

The German Economic News  reported that a current Princeton/Northwestern University study has discovered that, The United States is no longer a democracy. Well no shit, Dick Tracy!

It takes two Universities to study and come to THAT conclusion?

Even a fucking beer swigging, football watching, wife beater, with a sixth grade education has figured that out just sit’en on his fat ass! It’s just that he doesn’t give a shit!

You see the Universities discovered that “. . . political decisions no longer serve the needs of citizens, but the interests of a small economic elite”. Wow. That’s as surprising as “fish have fins”.

Where in the fuck have these “educated people” been! Fucking DisneyLand?

And sit down because they discovered that in the realm of foreign policy it is the COMMERCIAL INTERESTS not the American citizen that the U.S. Government represents.

And they found that, “In the United States, the majority does not rule . . . As soon as a majority disagrees with the economic elites or organized groups, the majority loses . Although in the US the majority principle is incorporated in the Constitution, we note that even if fairly large majorities want a certain policy, they do not get it “.

The researchers determined that the U.S. government has become an oligarchy or a Corporatocracy. This means that a very few among the privileged and wealthy are literally controlling everything.

And Congress and the President do not have as much power as the American people previously thought but are controlled by the elite.

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Now there is no surprise here for those who have wanted to see the truth but most Americans believe that their VOTE counts for something. IT DOESN’T! It is all a sham.

And you can vote for Hillary or Jeb but you’ll get the same government. These people are just puppet figure heads and nothing more!

Tubularsock just can’t figure out why something so obvious is refused to be seen by the general American public.

Regardless of whether we face it or not it will not remain this way. It will either be the American public forcing a demand for change and going to the streets in mass or a collapse from within from the weight, just because shit is heavy, and that weight will bring us down.

Either way it will not hold!

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