"Stripper Poll" predicts election results

Wisdom Quarterly; US.myspace.com/Power106; FitsNews.com

Strippers who work poles are the best source of predictive poll results (fitsnews.com)

   

Capitalism (Chad Chowe/online.WSJ.com)

Exit polls, entrance poles, polls of likely voters, polls of voters with cell phones but no land line... Who better to ask whom to vote for than pole dancers?

  

Pick a candidate, any candidate. You get a choice between the two sides of the same one. There is no third option, unless you're trying to make a statement. And WQ is.

  

So next time we get our turn again, right?

Who do strippers want if they are let out of the club to vote (which is their legal right with two hours of pay)? They are overwhelmingly for B.S. Obama. But throughout the Bible Belt, strippers working among older white businessmen say they are for Bishop Romney.

MIC told me in advance, but I didn't believe it.

How the the ballot measures breakdown? "What's that?" strippers ask. Would you like to know what's in food you buy? Yes. Then vote yes on 37 in California. Or, you know, read that newspaper thingy they said. It explains things in needlessly misleading language.

"Why would it be misleading?" Because democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the others. We should really give it a try someday. There's no time for this (s)election, but maybe next time.

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• The Last PEW Poll on Eve of Election (NPR)

RESULTS
What do the strippers predict? Obama may not win, but he will be the president (of the corporation) for another four years. Even if the Electoral College or Supreme Court has to hand him the crown Bush-style, he will be king. Strippers have spoken. Bishop Rmoney never really had a chance, even with rampant voter suppression. (This is carried out in various ways but it is most egregious with racial minorities being given "provisional" ballots that count for next to nothing). This is why no authentic Republican was allowed to run. Monsanto, Inc. is likely to prevail in its deception on labeling its genetically modified foodstuffs as per MIC agreement. Libertarian Gary Johnson will ride marijuana to the top in Colorado. California will see through sex trafficking ballot measure that tried to overreach for the police state.

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Porn King paying to see Romney taxes

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

"He wants to see what? Ha, I'd sooner appear in his mag!" "But he's offering a mil." "Uh-oh."

 

Hustler's Larry Flynt offers $1 million for Romney's tax return

"Oh, Moroni, what wouldn't I do to win?"

The only guy worse than war-mongering Pres. Barry Soetoro Obama is Republican candidate Willard "Mittens" Romney (whose moniker "Mittromney" sounds an awful lot like Mormonism's namesake Maroni to us).

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Golden Angel Moroni with horn

But conservatives seem to have been seduced into backing the only candidate among many colorful personalities sure to lose against a popular incumbent. Money rules in American politics, but not personal fortunes or we'd have an ex-president Perot.

What matters is how much a candidate can get the military-industrial complex (the marriage of the War Department and private corporate interests). Romney is said to be an out of touch quarter-billionaire, but he is aiming much higher as he tries to give the USA the old Bain Capital treatment.

 

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Not if porn king Larry Flynt has his way! The publisher of the hardcore magazine Hustler is offering a million dollars to anyone who will show him Romney's old tax returns. What does that mean? That means a great big bargaining chip for old accountants who can easily get $2,000,000 from Romney to keep such financial information secret. How far Mittens has descended from his proud Mexican father who, as a former candidate, showed years of tax returns to silence critics.

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Debt, Sin, Guilt, and the Way Out (video)

Sonali Kolhatkar, Martina Steiner, Uprising.com; David Graeber; Wisdom Quarterly 

(Uprising Radio) David Graeber is an American anthropologist, who teaches at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and a founding activist in the Occupy Movement.

David Graeber shows how debt (in many languages a word translated into "sin" or "guilt") and debt-forgiveness have been at the center of political debates across the world.

  

They have given rise to innumerable uprisings. He explores the history of money and credit and how societies have been divided into creditors and debtors.
      

Debt: The First 5000 Years

Most Americans know all too well the unjust difference between how homeowners facing foreclosure are treated versus how massive indebted banks responsible for the economic crisis have been treated. 

  

That unequal application of justice has angered so many Americans that it gave rise to Occupy, a worldwide movement under the banner of disrupting capitalism-as-usual by occupying Wall Street. He is considered one of the first activists credited with getting #OWS off the ground.

  

His earlier books include Towards and Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and more. He also writes for Harper’s, The Nation, and The New Left Review.

  

Thought for the Day

“As it turns out, we don’t 'all' have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. Nothing would be more important than to wipe the slate clean for everyone, mark a break with our accustomed morality, and start again” - David Graeber.

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Sacred Chinese site plans $118 million IPO

CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

(Bloomberg Businessweek) The managers of Putuo Mountain, a Buddhist shrine where worshippers go to pray for healthy children, want to raise 750 million yuan ($118 million) in an initial public offering, China Daily reported today... 

  

Plans for the offering by one of China’s four main Buddhist mountains come as China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs has criticized local governments for seeking to turn a profit off religious sites. More

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• (China Daily) Plans by local authorities to list famous Buddhist mountains on the country's equity markets are triggering a backlash regarding the commercialization of holy sites.

Lowest of sacred mountains (english.cri.cn)

Putuo Shan is one of the islands of the Zhoushan Archipelago, Ningbo, eastern China, which is comprised of 1,390 islands. The total area of Putuo Mountain is 12.93 square kilometers. It is one of China’s four great Buddhist Mountains. Putuo Mountain is the first group of national key places of interest, generally called [Chinese or Pureland] Buddhist Heaven on the sea and the Holy Land on the South Sea. It is a Five-A tourist destination in China. The immortal mountains [wrapped] in clouds and [surrounded by] waters offer travelers a feeling of mystery and sanctity. Putuo Mountain is a famous Kwan-Yin ceremonial center in China...

  

Monks go on 500-mile journey on their knees to Putuo

Mahayana monks making their way to Kwan Yin

A pair of Buddhist monks are to make a 500-mile journey on their knees to the religion's holiest shrines in China. Masters Zhiyuan and Hanliang will spend two months crawling to 99 temples on their way to the Putuo Mountains in eastern China until they reach a statue of Kwan Yin, the Buddhist goddess (bodhisattva) of mercy.... "They will crawl, and then every third step they will stop and bow as a sign of respect to the goddess," explained one.

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