May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle ;-)
Bigger doesn't imply better. Bigger often is a sign of obesity, of lost control, of overcomplexity, of cancerous
cells
Nope. I've already said that George answered his own question when he asked where were all the good people of conscience
in government. He mentioned ,in Life Is Worth Losing, the people who often end up assassinated: Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, JFK,
RFK, MLK, Johm Lennon, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X. Folks who talk about peace, love and doing good to one another. These folks
RARELY get elected to high office and those that do end up dead!
RagingCapitalist
If you think that the people who didn't get elected would actually be different, you need to watch this video again a few
times.
20120123 : Their bread, our circus ( Recently, in the course of one evening in the Big Apple, President Barack Obama "hosted" three fundraisers ranging from $35,800 a head to $1,000 a head and raised $2.4 million - and that wasn't even close to 1% of the funds he will need for this election season. This reflects the power, needs, fears and desires of America's 1%, and how it has turned the rest of us from citizens into viewers. - Tom Engelhardt (Dec 15, )
Why, it is apparently the following, which is surely a red hot smoking gun. That is,
one that condemns the FBI, not Trump; and shows that the NYT , which once courageously
published the Pentagon Papers and had earned the above sobriquet for its journalistic
stateliness, sense of responsibility and possession of high virtue, has degenerated into a War
Party shill – not to say the journalistic equivalent of a comfort woman:
Mr. Trump had caught the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents when he called on
Russia during a campaign news conference in July 2016 to hack into the emails of his opponent,
Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump had refused to criticize Russia on the campaign trail, praising
President Vladimir V. Putin. And investigators had watched with alarm as the Republican Party
softened its convention platform on the Ukraine crisis in a way that seemed to benefit
Russia.
Well, for crying out loud!
Any journalist worth his salt would know that Trump's July 2016 shout-out to the Russians
was a campaign joke. At best, it was merely an attempt to cleverly state in one more way the
running GOP theme about Hillary's missing 30,000 emails. How many times before that had Sean
Hannity delivered his riff about Hillary's alleged hammer-smashing of 13 devices and
acid-washing with BleachBit of the missing emails?
A new, updated data
set is now available on a psychological phenomenon that has been labeled "Trump Anxiety
Disorder" or "Trump Hypersensitive Unexplained Disorder," and it says that the phenomenon only
got worse in 2018. The disorder
is described as a specific type of anxiety in which symptoms "were specific to the election
of Trump and the resultant unpredictable sociopolitical climate," and according to the 2018
surveys Americans are feeling significantly more stressed by the future of their country and
the current political environment than they were last year.
"As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away -- and
the possibility of a Donald
Trump presidency became more and more certain -- the contours of the new age of American
anxiety began to take
shape . In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank
described this phenomenon as "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder": Overeating.
Headaches. Fainting. Irregular heartbeat. Chronic neck pain. Depression. Irritable bowel
syndrome. Tightness in the chest. Shortness of breath. Teeth grinding. Stomach ulcer.
Indigestion. Shingles. Eye twitching. Nausea. Irritability. High blood sugar. Tinnitus.
Reduced immunity. Racing pulse. Shaking limbs. Hair loss. Acid reflux. Deteriorating vision.
Stroke. Heart attack. It was a veritable organ recital.
Two years later, the physiological effects of the Trump administration aren't going away.
A growing body of research has tracked the detrimental impacts of Trump-related stress on
broad segments of the American population, from
young adults to
women , to racial
and LGBT communities .
A nice exa,ple of checkbook journalism... Previously there were a difference between a
Professor and a prostitute. No it completely disappeared.
Notable quotes:
"... I canceled my subscription to the Globalist and Mail it'll expire at the end of this month but I must say, I'm going to miss reading all the comedy I finded in this paper, particularly in its comment sections. ..."
"... At this point I think it would be much worse if Trump isn't a Russian agent. At least being a Russian agent would make the ruination of the US a valid goal. If he truly isn't an agent, he's just ruining the US for the fun of it? ..."
"... Trump is not an enemy of America. He is America at its strongest and most sinister form, just the way Wall Street likes it. If Americans want a better society, they'd better stop asking to be led by grifters and take the lead themselves. ..."
Jared Yates Sexton is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University. He is the
author ofThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of
American Rage.
This is, above all, a very real and very dangerous crisis. The time to wring our hands and
hide behind faith and disbelief are over. To fully counter this possible betrayal we must look
it dead in the face and begin to change our perception of what is feasible. Mr. Trump has
capitalized on the good faith of the American people. In order to start healing, we must accept
that, with this administration, with this group, with this movement that Mr. Trump embodies,
almost anything is possible.
Opiedog , 3 days ago
What you are witnessing is the decline in American influence and might. This is very
similar to the decline of the Roman Empire. Slow degradation of social norms. Donald is not
the cause of this but we are in real time witnessing the decline of America.
Ramsey0 , 6 days ago
I canceled my subscription to the Globalist and Mail it'll expire at the end of this month
but I must say, I'm going to miss reading all the comedy I finded in this paper, particularly
in its comment sections.
dbns , 1 week ago
At this point I think it would be much worse if Trump isn't a Russian agent. At least
being a Russian agent would make the ruination of the US a valid goal. If he truly isn't an
agent, he's just ruining the US for the fun of it?
MG-TD , 1 week ago
Where is James Bond when you need him?
Unlimited reader , 6 days ago
I'm waiting eagerly for Bruce Willis to show up and save the USA
Globu , 1 week ago
Why the surprise? Mr. Trump is the very embodiment of the same cutthroat capitalism that
has defined America since colonization, slavery and the Trail of Tears.
Trump is not an enemy of America. He is America at its strongest and most sinister form, just
the way Wall Street likes it. If Americans want a better society, they'd better stop asking
to be led by grifters and take the lead themselves.
M. Gavin , 1 week ago
One can see why this is in the Opinion section. It's melodramatic, devoid of facts, offers
no reliable sources, fails to demonstrate motives, etc., etc. It's less obvious why the Globe
would publish it at all, because "news" like this we can get listening to the barber.
tinman1957 , 1 week ago
This guy isn't offering any news or opinion of concern he is just venting his hatred.
Andrew Smith , 1 week ago
The author is an associate professor of creative writing at a community college and it
shows.
Globu , 1 week ago
"Special to the Globe" always translates to chequebook journalism.
wellworn , 6 days ago
He is an associate professor of Writing and Linguistics; there is nothing in the profile
to suggest "creative" writing. I suspect that you creatively included the word to discredit
the very plausible premise that trump is an agent working for Russia; he certainly is not
working for the United States of America.
Personally I believe trump should be thoroughly investigated by the House committee to
look at his tax returns and banking records to determine how much money trump and company
have earned from Russian sources.
wglenm , 1 week ago
Who chooses the opinion pieces for this newspaper? This article is a completely one sided
joke.
just as good as you , 1 week ago
It IS - as you admit - an OPINION.
bdtaylor , 1 week ago
if Trump is such a boob, m_oron, rube and nitwitt that CNN and MSNBC make him out to be,
then how has he managed to fool the most sophisticated surveillance network in the world:
namely the CIA and NSA. if Trump was a Russian "Manchurian" candidate, does anyone actually
think the CIA and NSA wouldn't have figured that out 2 years ago?
All we have are platitudes and no real evidence. Is their a bunch of corrupt people and
dealing around Trump, yup (Michael Cohen, Maniford and probably others) is their actual
Russian "conspiracy" NOPE.
This entire RussiaGate conspiracy was started by Robby Mook and John Podesta of the DNC
(with the support of Clinton) to justify the embarrassment of losing to Trump in 2016.
Imagine losing to Trump a complete political novice that Hillary outspent 2.5x (she spent
almost $1Bil USD and still LOST).
Turn on your critical thinking and this entire RussiaGate is one big joke.
British authorities have refined to a whole new level offering bald faced lies and patent
absurdities with a dignified stiff upper lip. I have it from a highly placed source that
envious American and Israeli official and unofficial liars have been practicing posturing as
dignified and putting glue on their upper lips.
The only thing missing from this godawful Broadway screenplay is the lurid description of
the violent sex between Sergei Scripal and Colonel McCourt and we have a 2019 Bad Sex Award
laureate.
We appreciate that you have built a successful career and/or business under the prevailing
laws, and that changing these laws would cause the destruction and/or appropriation of much
of your wealth (while costing us little).
Nonetheless we've had a vote and decided that we
will indeed go ahead and make these changes. Sorry about your luck.
What? You don't agree! Don't you believe in democracy? You hypocrite you!
The Integrity-lacking Initiative can now report that contamination in the Skripal home has
been explained to a high degree of supposition. Unofficial sources surmise that the Skripal's
prized Persian feline distributed the deadly Novichok throughout the house and was
particularly attracted to birds nesting in or near the attic as the hungry cat-spy slowly
starved in the boarded-up house.
Hundreds of British birds may have been infected by Putin's Persian distributor, putting
thousands of British citizens at risk of toxic bird poop. An estimated 239.45 thousand
British subjects are struck by bird poop every year and 11 million clean bird poop from their
windows/windscreen.
Renown British secret agent Austin Powers marveled at the evil cunning of the devious
Russians: "Sharks with frick'n lasers are bad but this is crazy, baby!" Powers explained that
Russian cross-species research is deeply concerning to the fictional secret agent
community.
Salisbury resident and avowed cat-lover, Misty Englander reacted with horror when she
heard the news. As her mother carried the seven-year old away, Misty cried: "Please make
Putin and the Iran Mullahs pay for this atrocity!" Or, words to that effect.
" The officer, who was hospitalised after being exposed to novichok last March, is on duty
once again. - Yulia Skripal recovered in less than ten weeks. Why did it take the
doorknobichok™ Det Sgt Nick Bailey a full ten month to come back to work?" Yulia
Skirpal is a Russian woman - Pushkin advises a Russian woman can stop a wild horse. Women who
grow up in Russian villages that encounter a military grade nerve agent will try to walk it
off. No disrespect meant for British bobbies but they are snowflakes by comparison.
"... The prime minister condemned the bloodsucking parasites of international finance, signed the massive austerity measures imposed by the IMF and transferred his own money to an offshore account before the devaluation ..."
and then the government was forced to call the IMF.
The prime minister condemned the bloodsucking parasites of international finance, signed
the massive austerity measures imposed by the IMF and transferred his own money to an offshore
account before the devaluation
Donald Trump may or not be on the Russian government's payroll.
He may or may not have been blackmailed by Vladimir Putin.
He may or may not have actively colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
But there's one thing we know for sure: Donald Trump has been compromised by Russia.
Every day that he remains president will mean that he is putting Russia's interests ahead
of America's.
The latest revelations that emerged this weekend in the Trump/Russia investigation only
bolstered this notion. First, via The New York Times, we found out that the FBI opened a
counterintelligence investigation after he fired FBI Director Jim Comey to determine if he
was working on behalf of the Russian government. Then, the next day, The Washington Post
revealed that Trump has gone to "extraordinary lengths" to keep the substance of his talks
with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, hidden from his own aides, "including on at least
one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the
linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials." ...
(Note: This is from Globe opinion write Michael A. Cohen
not Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael D. Cohen.)
The
Washington Post's Greg Miller reported Sunday that President Donald Trump's confiscation
of the translator's notes from a one-on-one conversation with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in 2017 was "unusual." This is incorrect. It was unprecedented. There is nothing like
it in the annals of presidential history.
Not really. Other U.S. leaders held long private meetings with their counterparts without
notes being taken.
When Richard Nixon met Leonid Brezhnev he did not even bring his own interpreter:
Nixon would meet Brezhnev alone, the only other person in attendance being Viktor
Sukhodrev, the Soviet interpreter. "Our first meeting in the Oval Office was private, except
for Viktor Sukhodrev, who, as in 1972, acted as translator." Nixon on Brezhnev's 1973 visit.
RN, p.878 . Therefore, the only "notes" that would exist would be those of the Soviet
interpreter. Not sure he would have time to make notes and translate and, even if he did so,
whether those notes would be housed in any US archive.
Nixon's White House office was bugged. There are probably tape recordings of the talks.
There might also be recordings of the Trump-Putin talks.
Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev began their second day of talks with a private meeting that had
been scheduled to last 15 minutes but ran for nearly 70 minutes, with only interpreters
present . They met in a small room in the Soviet Mission , with the Soviet leader seated in a
small armchair and Mr. Reagan on a sofa.
In the afternoon, they meet alone for a little over 20 minutes and then again for 90
minutes. All told, the two leaders have spent 4 hours and 51 minutes alone , except for
interpreters, over the two days here.
That the FBI agents involved in the decision were avid haters of Russia and of Trump has
surely nothing to do with it. That the opening of a counter-intelligence investigation gave
them the legal ability under Obama's EO12333 to use NSA signal intelligence against Trump is
surely irrelevant.
What the FBI people really were concerned about is Trump's public record of favoring Russia
at each and every corner.
Trump obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He is reluctant to counter
its military might. He is doing his best to make it richer. Just consider the headlines below.
With all those good things Trump did for Putin, intense suspicions of Russian influence over
him is surely justified.
Trump obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He
is reluctant to counter its military might. He is doing his best to make it richer. Just
consider the headlines below. With all those good things Trump did for Putin, intense
suspicions of Russian influence over him is surely justified.
When one adds up all those actions one can only find that Trump cares more about Russia,
than about the U.S. and its NATO allies. Only with Trump being under Putin's influence,
knowingly or unwittingly, could he end up doing Russia so many favors.
Carlson said Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her party are "no longer telling you that walls are too
expensive [or] don't work -- obviously they do."
"The problem they're now telling us is God doesn't like walls," he said, adding that former
Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said a wall along the Mexico border "will ensure death."
Freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar demanded that President Trump "end his temper tantrums and
quest for a racist and sinful big [border] wall."
"I join the similar calls made by my colleagues today, and I demand that the president end
his temper tantrums and quest for a racist and sinful big wall,
Carlson said that, for a moment, we should accept Democrats' "immorality" premise:
"There are an awful lot of walls in this country. Now that we know they're an offense
against God, how can we let them stand?" he asked.
WASHINGTON -- In an impassioned call for preemptive action against the Middle Eastern nation, United States national
security advisor John Bolton insisted Thursday that Iran was likely harboring the dangerous terrorist Osama bin Laden. "For
the good of our nation, we must act immediately," said Bolton, citing several
Carlson played audio from earlier Friday of Buzzfeed reporter Anthony Cormier, who said his sources are "rock solid" and that
he stood behind this story "one hundred percent."
"Just unbelievable," Carlson said in response to the news [ that Robert Mueller, through a spokesman, denied the veracity
of a potentially damning
Buzzfeed report
about President Trump and his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen.]
So Pelosi proved to be rich enough to by her own private jet trip to show Trump who is the
boss... Poor aged Pelosi. "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor
of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public
office." ~ H. L. Mencken
Just one day after Speaker Pelosi chose to exercise her right to not invite the President to
give his "State of the Union" address, Trump has responded
... ... ...
'Tit'... meet 'tat'
"It demeans the office is the presidency because it is so petty," House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer says of Trump's decision to deny Nancy Pelosi use of a military plane for a planned
overseas trip (which we presume means he did not think Pelosi's decision to rescind Trump's
SOTU speech invitation "demeaned the office of the Speaker"?)
Don Lemon -- has it nailed. As we told you Tuesday night - you could've seen this coming - the FBI has suspected this for some
time.
The bureau opened a criminal investigation into the president more than a year ago, on the grounds that no loyal American would
fire a leader as impressive as FBI director James Comey. Putin must have ordered it. The Washington Post concurred with this.
As one of the paper's columnists noted, Trump has also "endorsed populism." That's right. Populism.
It has the stink of Russia all over it. Smells like vodka and day-old herring.
Back in the USSR my friends... As H.L. Mencken wisely observed, " The most dangerous man to
any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he
lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
Notable quotes:
"... On Tuesday morning, in fact, Preet Bharara - he's the most famous former federal prosecutor in America - explained this on Twitter: "If true, Trump should immediately and publicly state his apparent wish to withdraw from NATO, so he can be promptly impeached, convicted, and removed from office." ..."
They have got him, finally. Trapped like John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater by the
G-Men. Democrats announced that they have finally obtained proof -- concrete and irrefutable
proof -- that President Trump is, in
fact, a secret Russian agent .
"This president seems to be putting Russia's interests ahead of our own," CNN anchor
Don Lemon said.
The evidence suggests, indeed, Trump is, has been a pawn of the Russians," Carl Bernstein,
of Watergate fame, said.
Don Lemon -- has it nailed. As we told you Tuesday night - you could've seen this coming -
the FBI has suspected this for some time. The bureau opened a criminal investigation into the
president more than a year ago, on the grounds that no loyal American would fire a leader as
impressive as FBI director James Comey. Putin must have ordered it. The Washington Post
concurred with this. As one of the paper's columnists noted, Trump has also "endorsed
populism." That's right. Populism. It has the stink of Russia all over it. Smells like vodka
and day-old herring.
So, people in Washington have had their suspicions for years. But now we know for certain.
And we know because of a stunning New York Times piece on Tuesday. In it, current and former
administration officials, speaking, of course, from behind the protective veil of anonymity --
because, honestly you don't know what the KGB or whatever it's called these days is capable of
doing to people who tell the truth. But, nevertheless, they divulged that, on multiple
occasions over the course of last year, President Trump privately floated the idea of pulling
the United States out of NATO.
Let that sink in. Leaving NATO.
This is a huge story. Or it would have been huge in 1983 when the Soviet Union still
existed, and it was still clear what the point of NATO was. NATO, you'll remember, was created
to keep the Soviets from invading Western Europe. NATO did a very good job at that, all the way
until the day the Soviet Union collapsed, in the summer of 1991. That was almost 28 years
ago.
Vladimir Putin runs Russia now. He does not plan to invade Western Europe. He can't. So why
do we still have NATO? Nobody really knows. In Washington you're definitely not allowed to ask.
And that's a shame because it would be an interesting conversation.
How do we feel about that now? Are you ready to launch a nuclear war over Latvia? What do
you think of sending your kids to defend the territorial integrity of Estonia? Our foreign
policy establishment thinks it's well worth it. In fact, under the current rules of our
membership in NATO, we would have no choice. You might not have known that. All of this might
merit a national debate of some sort. At some point. When we're ready. 28 years in.
But no. The left isn't into national debates anymore. They're into screaming, and threats
and criminal investigations, and other forms of coercion. They like the way things are in this
country. They're benefitting hugely from the status quo, and they don't like being challenged.
They consider asking difficult questions a criminal act.
On Tuesday morning, in fact, Preet Bharara - he's the most famous former federal
prosecutor in America - explained this on Twitter: "If true, Trump should immediately and
publicly state his apparent wish to withdraw from NATO, so he can be promptly impeached,
convicted, and removed from office."
In support of RRC, I looked up their agency expenses, and found they are less than $50
million. That's to pay for keeping up with almost a half million oil and gas wells, thousands
of operators, and multiple other duties, including taking care of a significant amount of
State income. There is a grand total of about 725 employees. Hats off!
"... Speaking of sociopaths, I am sure Darth Vader would make himself available to advise from Wyoming. Where the hell is Elliot Abrams when you need him. What's Rumsfeld doing these days? How great would it be to get the old gang together again, under the maniacal leadership of Bolton. ..."
Bah, who cares about a little collateral damage. The Iranian people obviously don't know
what's good for them. We just need to bring back Wolfowitz to make sure they are on hand to
lay down palm fronds before the US forces as they enter Baghdad after we nuke it into
rubble.
Speaking of sociopaths, I am sure Darth Vader would make himself available to advise
from Wyoming. Where the hell is Elliot Abrams when you need him. What's Rumsfeld doing these
days? How great would it be to get the old gang together again, under the maniacal leadership
of Bolton. Maybe Dubya would be willing to do the "mission accomplished" as the smoke
clears over the whole MENA region. What a great bunch of guys.
The quote below is from Tucker book... Tucker Carlson for President ;-)
Notable quotes:
"... What was written as an allegory is starting to feel like a documentary, as generations of misrule threaten to send our country beneath the waves. ..."
"... Facts threaten their fantasies. And so they continue as if what they're doing is working, making mistakes and reaping consequences that were predictable even to Greek philosophers thousands of years before the Internet. ..."
"... They're fools. The rest of us are their passengers. ..."
Most terrifying of all, the crew has become incompetent. They have no idea how to sail. They're spinning the ship's wheel like
they're playing roulette and cackling like mental patients. The boat is listing, taking on water, about to sink. They're totally
unaware that any of this is happening. As waves wash over the deck, they're awarding themselves majestic new titles and raising
their own salaries. You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools.
Plato imagined this scene in The Republic. He never mentions what happened to the ship. It would be nice to know. What
was written as an allegory is starting to feel like a documentary, as generations of misrule threaten to send our country beneath
the waves.
The people who did it don't seem aware of what they've done. They don't want to know, and they don't want you to tell them.
Facts threaten their fantasies. And so they continue as if what they're doing is working, making mistakes and reaping consequences
that were predictable even to Greek philosophers thousands of years before the Internet.
They're fools. The rest of us are their passengers.
Like that scene in Orwell's 1984 where the Party switches official enemies right in
the middle of the Hate Week rally, the War on Terror was officially canceled and replaced by
the War on Populism. Or all right, it wasn't quite that abrupt. But seriously, go back and scan
the news. Note how the "Islamic terrorist threat" we had been conditioned to live in fear of on
a daily basis since 2001 seemed to just vanish into thin air. Suddenly, the "existential
threat" we were facing was "neo-nationalism," "illiberalism," or the pejorative designator du
jour, "populism."
"Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020" He has already floated the idea that
he is the most 'qualified'. It worked so well for hill, hey why not?
...This is insulting. "we came, we saw, he died" is so morally damning.
Biden was a very normal senator, a creature with absolutely no guiding principles or
morel values. And "go with the flow Joe" was a callous warmonger only because that's what
Democrats of the time were. It's not his fault.
In other words, Biden is HRC without the selling points.
Before reading below, please know I did not mean to offend and I apologize profusely in
advance if someone actually takes this list seriously or crystallizes anything from these
mind droppings other than a poor attempt at silliness.
Elizabeth Warren & Matt Damon -- how you like them apples (nationalize Apple)
... ... ...
Kamala Harris & Jeff Bezos -- The Crazy Neoliberals Next Door
Which brings us to recent commentary from Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his eponymous
show, Tucker Carlson Tonight . Among other things Carlson asked why investors (think
hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, etc.) are taxed at lower rates than are typical
workers. Carlson's specific target was Mitt Romney.
The junior Utah senator famously earned hundreds of millions while running private equity
(vulture) firm Bain Capital.
Hillary lost the election when she could not walk. she lost a shoe, she was shown in the van,
and shoe was thrown after her. And that was arranged by Russians.
May be not yet, but talks
talks are under way and hiring of former CIA officials commenced :-). What is coming is
going to make COINTELPRO
look like the work of some amateur meme-freak.
But, seriously, all that actually happened back in the Summer of 2016 was the global
capitalist ruling classes recognized that they had a problem. The problem that they
recognized they had (and continue to have, and are now acutely aware of) is that no one is
enjoying global capitalism except the global capitalist ruling classes. The whole
smiley-happy, supranational, neo-feudal corporate empire concept is not going over very well
with the masses, or at least not with the unwashed masses. People started voting for
right-wing parties, and Brexit, and other "populist" measures (not because they had suddenly
transformed into Nazis, but because the Right was acknowledging and exploiting their anger
with the advance of global neoliberalism, while liberals and the Identity Politics Left were
slow jamming the TPP
with Obama and babbling about transgender bathrooms, and such).
The global capitalist ruling classes needed to put a stop to that (i.e, the "populist"
revolt, not the bathroom debate). So they suspended the Global War on Terror and launched the
War on Populism. It was originally only meant to last until Hillary Clinton's coronation, or
the second Brexit referendum, then switch back to the War on Terror, but well, weird things
happen, and here we are.
... ... ...
And then there's the battle for hearts and minds, which they've been furiously waging for
the last two years, and which is only going to intensify. If you think things are batshit
crazy now (which, clearly, they are), strap yourself in. What is coming is going to make
COINTELPRO
look like the work of some amateur meme-freak. The neoliberal corporate media, psy-ops like
Integrity Initiative , Internet-censoring apps like
NewsGuard , ShareBlue and other
David Brock
outfits , and
a legion
of mass hysteria generators will be relentlessly barraging our brains with absurdity,
disinformation, and just outright lies (as will their counterparts on the Right, of course,
in case you thought that they were any alternative). It's going to get extremely zany.
The biggest variable in my humble opinion is whether the US is going to allow Turkey to take
possession of F-35s in Turkey. If Erdogan has really thrown in his lot with Putin he might
let Russian engineers have access to the F-35 in order to reverse engineer it. There was a
time when the prevailing view of the Turks in England was that they were a slippery and
untrustworthy people. I certainly wouldn't trust Erdogan as far as I could throw him.
The video which features lookalikes for Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, Hillary Clinton, Stormy
Daniels, Mark Zuckerberg, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner is a satire on the news of the past 12
months.
"... Yes! All true! But I weaponised Vladimir Putin to make media profits, newspapers (Guardian!), radio (BBC), internet (Bellingcat). Evidently only the Brits understand me. The US does the same in a different style. ..."
Breaking News, Anonymous intelligence sources report that Russia has successfully weaponized
rational thinking, if you suspect you or a someone you know might be a rational thinker,
immediately report to your local Atlantic Council affiliate to ensure that your thoughts are
"Good Think" compliant.
Its ok SMCO @47.
remain calm, just poke a poppy or a rose in the gun barrel and blow them kiss. I am wondering if there are any academics amongst
that Oxford Internet Institute that study obsessive disorders or have published on the current media obsession/paranoia with Russia.
How do researchers in ponds such as OII check in with each other to eliminate mass hysteria?
This is my favourite... Vladimir Putin Outwitted Megyn Kelly by Weaponizing Incompetence The New Yorker, March 2018 I love the insinuation that CNN didn't suspect that Megyn is a bimbo until she tried to outsmart Putin.
We used to get completely weaponised on a bar on Alexandrovsky Park in St Petersburg, so much so that by the time we wanted to
go home they had opened the bridges over the Neva and we had to wait until they closed again, re-weaponising ourselves in the
meantime. The White Nights are beautiful beyond belief.
Yes! All true! But I weaponised Vladimir Putin to make media profits, newspapers (Guardian!), radio (BBC), internet (Bellingcat).
Evidently only the Brits understand me. The US does the same in a different style.
"On Thursday, Politico published a delightful story tracing how Donald Trump, American
president, got control of his own Tweet Machine. You see, up until 2013, he had a social
media manager named Justin McConney who would actually type and send each bit of, say, dating
advice to Robert Pattinson. The workflow for this was legitimately bonkers.
'Even as the mogul embraced digital media, he did so in the most analog way possible. He
had McConney print out his Twitter mentions, and he would use Sharpie pens to scribble
responses, which McConney would then type up and tweet out. After appearing at events, Trump,
who remained distrustful of anything he saw only on a screen, had McConney print out 8x10
glossy photos of him for his signoff before they were posted online.'
But one day, Trump got hold of the controls himself. In vintage fashion, he first used
them to praise someone for praising him on the teevee:
This prompted perhaps the greatest ever quote about Trumpian social media use. Certainly
it's the best from this news cycle.
"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in
'Jurassic Park' when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors," recalled
McConney, who was the Trump Organization's director of social media from 2011 to 2017. "I was
like, 'Oh no.'"
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a
caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney....
A few months later, my boss called and started with, "Don't kill me." He was sending me to
Dick Cheney's. Dick was home.
He had an assistant or secretary or maybe security who followed me around while I checked
connections and signal levels. I'd already found a system problem outside. I just wanted to
make sure I never had to f!cking set foot in that house again. Dick walked into the office
while I was working. He was reading from a stack of papers and ignored me. I told the
assistant it would probably be a week or so. I'd put the orders in. He had my supervisor's
number.
He said something to the effect of, "You do understand this is the former vice
president."
I panicked and said the first thing that came to mind: "Yeah, well, waterboard me if it
makes him feel better. It'll still take a week." And I walked out.
It was my last call that day. I drove the entire way home thinking of a hundred better
things I could've said. Finally, I called my supervisor and told him I might've accidentally
mentioned waterboarding. He laughed and said I'd won. He'd stop sending me to the Cheneys'. I
don't actually know if they ever complained. If they did, he never mentioned it."
... there is no hope for the humanity. The greed of the working class knows no boundaries.
After all that the elites have done in the past 40-50 years to demonstrate their humanity
– basically bringing a big chunk of the third world and resettling them in the west,
the greedy underclass still demands proof from the elites that they are humanists.
Unfortunately the way they envision that the elites should prove their humanity is by
opening their wallets and sharing their wealth with the poor in order to satisfy their ever
increasing demands for better life by the undeserving poor.
Someone has to put a stop to it. Because if the poor underclasses succeed in draining the
wealth from the innocent elites – the whole society will collapse. Why? Because there
is no way that anyone can have respect for poor elites – which is where all this
business with the yellow wests in France is going.
If the elites become poor – how can they maintain that magic aura of "we are better
than you" that they project on the poor and which allows to govern them? No one can have a
respect for poor elites. That's why I think it's time to step up the tried and trusted method
– thankfully invented by US – that when somebody doubts the generosity of the
elites – just import few hundred thousand fresh new faces from the 3rd world – to
prove how much the elites care and that we are all equal – not with them, but among
ourselves, which is where it really counts.
I do not own a crystal ball to predict the future with so in considering what is to come in
the New Year for 2019, I have had to resort to staring into my coffee mug instead. As a public
service then, here is what I foresee happening in the coming year, both the tragedies and the
triumphs in the main story for each coming month-
JANUARY – Tragedy struck when the annual World Economic Forum at Davos was caught in a
massive snow avalanche. Most would have survived except that under an austerity recommendation
by the WEF, the Swiss Mountain Rescue was recently disbanded and replaced with "volunteers".
Unfortunately when it came time for the rescue party nobody volunteered.
FEBRUARY – The US Federal Reserve Board steps down confessing they have no idea how
the economy works anymore. Says that they are not a part of the government anyway. They are
replaced with a reforming Government Board who includes people such as Michael Hudson,
Stephanie Kelton, Mark Blyth, Bill Black and Steve Keen.
MARCH – A terrible mishap occurred at the center where all Federal student loans
records were stored when an employee entered the command "rm -r" on his computer to format it
not realizing that he was actually logged into the mainframe. Managers called in the FBI when
it was remembered that the employee was living in a van in the center's car park as he could
not afford anything else due to his student loans. A team of FBI special investigators quickly
find that the whole thing was an accident with no charges needed. It was only found out later
that these FBI agents too were still loaded up with student debts.
APRIL – In a surprise announcement, the Republican and Democrat parties say that they
are going to amalgamate into one super party called the Progressives party. One operative
stated "We have the same policies anyway". In a move to combine the "dirt" files that they hold
on each other's candidates into one repository, these files are released to the public by
Wikileaks and what is in them makes nearly all former Democrat and Republican candidates
ineligible to run for office. A Sanders/Gabbard ticket now seems the only one viable for 2020.
The new Progressives party blames the Russians.
MAY – Donald Trump, finally realizing now the awesome responsibility that he has
undertaken as President, apologizes for his past behaviour, shuts down his Twitter account and
spends his time pushing for any policy that attracts 80% of the electorate's support such as
medicare for all, student loan forgiveness and winding back overseas commitments. A visibly
shocked Hillary Clinton retires from public life, goes into a convent and undertakes a vow of
silence.
... ... ...
JULY – Old KGB files surface showing that Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Freeman
were actually committed communist agents pushing their ideas as part of a plot to destroy the
West. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan now seen to be as 'useful idiots' for pushing these
ideas further.
AUGUST – In a move to shore up falling ratings, the last six mega-media companies
combine into one vast mega-media company. This move is announced with fanfare on all TV
stations and major newspapers but as very few get their news from those sources anymore, hardly
anybody notices. As ratings continue to plunge off a cliff, small newspapers, radio stations
and TV stations arise to fill the void.
SEPTEMBER – The Pentagon, finding that due to rising costs that by 2022 they will only
be able to afford one plane, one tank and one ship, announces that they will buy Russian
weapons from now on saying they are cheaper and actually work. They further announce that this
will continue until the industrial complex "wakes up to itself".
In a year where cruelty, deception, and unfettered corruption controlled all three branches
of the U.S. government, The Onion 's flawless reportage and above-reproach journalism
in 2018 exposed the dark underbelly of society and provided a beacon of hope that human
civilization would finally and mercifully come to an end soon. Here, then, are the landmark
moments of the year as reported with singular veracity by America's Finest News Source.
January
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November
The entire Baby Boomer generation was likewise "brainwashed" by Soviet propaganda in the
1960s: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-1964). What 10-year old All-American Boy
was not enticed by the smokey-voiced Russian agent, Natasha Fatale? Such a doll!
"... This post first appeared on November 29, 2011 ..."
"... By Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard and is currently continuing work on his thesis topic. He also taught mathematics at a local elementary school. Andrew enjoys explaining the recent history of the financial sector to a popular audience. ..."
"... Simulposted at The Distributist Review ..."
"... Recently journalist Philip Pilkington has interviewed authors with unconventional perspectives on economic issues, including Satyajit Das and David Graeber. I thought it would be fun to interview someone too – but the man I interviewed uses a pseudonym. This is a six-part series. ..."
"... Now that Code Name Cain has indicated the promise of a libertarian society, in the next part of the interview he will give a step-by-step plan for how we can make this society a reality. ..."
Yves here. In some summers past, we've rerun NC classics during slow news periods. We
haven't had slow news period in a while, and one side effect is that we haven't yet reprised
this series on libertarianism, which will run this week and into next week. Enjoy!
By Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard and is
currently continuing work on his thesis topic. He also taught mathematics at a local elementary
school. Andrew enjoys explaining the recent history of the financial sector to a popular
audience.
Recently journalist Philip Pilkington has interviewed authors with unconventional
perspectives on economic issues, including Satyajit Das and David Graeber. I thought it would
be fun to interview someone too – but the man I interviewed uses a pseudonym. This is a
six-part series.
ANDREW : Some people say that you represent a fringe view, and so interviewing you is a
waste of time.
CODE NAME CAIN : If people obsessed with inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom
underestimate libertarians, so much the better.
ANDREW : Can you give any evidence that your ideas are taken seriously?
CNC : Well, people used to think that the financial crisis was caused by antisocial behavior
in the finance sector. In September 2007, Tom DiLorenzo pointed out on the Lew Rockwell
website that the crisis was actually the result of the government forcing banks to make
risky loans to low-income borrowers. Although initially ignored, DiLorenzo's thesis is now
widely accepted among careful observers.
ANDREW : Is that your only convincing example?
CNC : Hardly. Did you notice how over the last year or so, everyone started to talk about
how the threat of new taxes and regulations was making producers uncertain? And when producers
are uncertain, the economy fails to improve? Well, the fact that worries about taxes and
regulations cause uncertainty and so damage the economy is a key insight of Austrian economics
that we have proclaimed for decades.
ANDREW : Wait, I thought people said that Obama was causing the uncertainty.
CNC : Obama is causing the uncertainty now. Before Obama, George W. Bush was causing the
uncertainty. In general, democratic government causes uncertainty. Hans-Hermann Hoppe made all
of this clear in his 2001 book "Democracy: The God That Failed."
ANDREW : Are there things you have learned from the work of Dr. Hoppe that you had not found
in the writings of other libertarians?
CNC : "Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard were great men, but they lived in a time when
supporters of freedom needed to be careful about what they said. As a result, libertarians
often fail to describe their ideal future society in clear detail. But, as the Cato
Institute's Patri Friedman has recognized , Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an exception to this
reticence. He is willing to speak the truth, no matter how much it makes "politically correct"
people squirm, and he is so logical and eloquent that I routinely quote from his classic book
on the failure of democracy. Please color such quotes in red – I would never try to pass
off my own ideas as if they were on his level.
ANDREW : Tell us now about the libertarian society you are working to make possible.
CNC : It will be a free society – no government, no coercion. People will have their
rights respected. Everyone will be free to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't
interfere with anyone else's rights why are you looking at me like that?
ANDREW : I was kind of hoping for less speeches and more details.
CNC : What do you mean?
ANDREW : In our society, the government is the only organization allowed to kill people. In
the libertarian society, which organizations will kill people?
CNC : There will be no government that is allowed to use force against people and kill
them.
ANDREW : Some people will be very rich, right?
CNC : Of course. Some people will always be stronger and more brilliant than others.
ANDREW : Will the wealthy people still be worried about people stealing from them?
CNC : Obviously – all property is necessarily valuable; hence, every property owner
becomes a possible target of other men's aggressive desires . [255]
ANDREW : So who will protect property owners?
CNC : Insurance companies in a competitive marketplace.
ANDREW : So in your society, insurance companies will be sort of like governments. Can we
call them security GLOs (Government-Like Organizations)?
CNC : Sure, as long as we stress that the insurance companies, as security GLOs, will be
very different from the statist, coercive governments we have today.
ANDREW : Will security GLOs be different from governments because they will be small family
firms?
CNC : No. One reason that insurance companies will be well-suited for the role of security
GLOs is that they are "big" and in command of the resources necessary to accomplish the task of
dealing with the dangers of the real world. Indeed, insurers operate on a national or even
international scale, and they own substantial property holdings dispersed over wide territories
[281]
ANDREW : Will security GLOs be different from governments because they don't use physical
force against criminals?
CNC : You gotta be kidding, right? in cooperation with one another, insurers [will] want to
expel known criminals not just from their immediate neighborhoods, but from civilization
altogether, into the wilderness or open frontier of the Amazon jungle, the Sahara, or the polar
regions. [262]
ANDREW : So the security GLOs will be allowed to kill people, if they are known
criminals?
CNC : The security GLOs will not kill people, they will just expel them to the Sahara or
polar regions. What happens then is up to the criminals.
ANDREW : Can we say that the security GLOs will effectively kill them?
CNC : I really don't like that choice of wording. You make it sound like the security GLOs
will be committing aggression against the criminals. That's backwards – the criminal
commits aggression, and security GLOs will just defend people. They won't violate anyone's
rights.
ANDREW : Maybe you would prefer that we say: the security GLOs will effectively kill people
in a rights-respecting manner.
CNC: Yeah, that's better.
ANDREW : Will everybody be able to get insurance from the security GLOs?
CNC : Of course – in a market economy, shortages are impossible. Anyone can get
anything by paying the market price.
ANDREW : What if the market price of insurance for some people is more money than they can
pay?
CNC : Don't worry, competition among insurers for paying clients will bring about a tendency
toward a continuous fall in the price of protection [281-282] .
ANDREW : In the future everyone will pay less for security than they currently pay in
taxes?
CNC: Well, certain government-induced distortions would be eliminated. Government taxes more
in low crime and high property value areas than in high crime and low property value areas.
[259] Security GLOs would do the exact opposite.
ANDREW : So in rough neighborhoods, most people might not be able to afford security
insurance.
CNC : Possibly.
ANDREW : Suppose there are people who aren't covered by any security GLO – would it
effectively be legal to kill them?
CNC : They would definitely be rendered economically isolated, weak, and vulnerable
outcast[s] [287] .
ANDREW : Then people are effectively forced to join a security GLO?
CNC : Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but this will be a free society. The relationship
between the insurer and the insured is consensual. Both are free to cooperate and not to
cooperate. [281] No one will force people to buy protection, and no one will force insurers to
offer protection at a price they think is too low.
ANDREW : What are some other ways that you think this would be a good system?
CNC : Well, every property can be shaped and transformed by its owner so as to increase its
safety and reduce the likelihood of aggression. I may acquire a gun or safe-deposit box, for
instance, or I may be able to shoot down an attacking plane from my backyard or own a laser gun
that can kill an aggressor thousands of miles away. [256] In a free society, security GLOs
would encourage the ownership of weapons among their insured by means of selective price cuts
[264] because the better the private protection of their clients, the lower the insurer's
protection and indemnification costs will be [285].
ANDREW : Let's see if I understand. In poor neighborhoods, most people will not be insured,
and it will be legal to kill them. The people that are insured will be encouraged by the
security GLO to carry weapons that are as technologically advanced as possible. It sounds to me
like this would be bad for the poor neighborhoods.
CNC : On the contrary – in "bad" neighborhoods the interests of the insurer and
insured would coincide. Insurers would not want to suppress the expulsionist inclinations among
the insured toward known criminals. They would rationalize such tendencies by offering
selective price cuts (contingent on specific clean-up operations). [262]
ANDREW : Suppose that security GLOs, or private groups that they sponsor, are looking for
criminals. When the enforcers catch the criminals, will they always transport them to an
uninhabited area, or will they sometimes put them in prison?
CNC : Prisons like the ones we have? With basketball courts and televisions for the
criminals? How would that be fair?
ANDREW : Maybe other kinds of prisons?
CNC : Look, it's not about putting people in prisons. It's about people getting what they
deserve. And in the libertarian society of the future, people will get what they deserve.
Security GLOs can be counted upon to apprehend the offender, and bring him to justice, because
in so doing the insurer can reduce his costs and force the criminal to pay for the damages and
cost of indemnification. [282]
ANDREW : So they'll have to do forced labor for the security GLO?
CNC : How can you possibly think this could be worse than our current system? Where instead
of compensating the victims of crimes it did not prevent, the government forces victims to pay
again as taxpayers for the cost of the apprehension, imprisonment, rehabilitation and/or
entertainment of their aggressors [259] ?
ANDREW : Still, as a libertarian, aren't you against coercion?
CNC : Coercion? Obviously you don't understand what you're talking about. Coercion is only
when someone interferes with rights someone else actually holds. Criminals can forfeit their
rights through their own choices. When that happens, requiring them to make restitution for
their actions doesn't violate their rights.
ANDREW : Will there be any other people in the free society who will be slaves?
CNC : Slaves?! Don't you know that the first condition of a libertarian society is that
everyone owns themselves?
ANDREW : Sorry, I meant to say: effectively slaves in a rights-respecting manner.
CNC: Oh. Hmmm. Let me think about that.
ANDREW: For example, suppose someone signs a business contract and then, later, can't
fulfill the terms of the contract. What would happen?
CNC : In a libertarian society, sanctity of contract is absolutely fundamental.
ANDREW : Let me be a little more specific. Suppose some guy can't pay his debts. Would he be
allowed to declare bankruptcy and move on, or would he become, in a rights-respecting manner,
the effective slave of whoever had loaned him the money?
CNC : That would depend upon the debt contract that the lender and borrower had together
voluntarily signed. If they had chosen to include a bankruptcy proviso, then the borrower could
declare bankruptcy.
ANDREW : Suppose that in the libertarian society, lenders would rather encourage borrowers
to focus on repayment – and so they decide not to give borrowers an easy way out. Suppose
that no lenders offer loans with a bankruptcy proviso. Would that be okay?
CNC : Economic theory tells us that loans without a bankruptcy proviso will be made at lower
interest rates than loans allowing borrowers to go bankrupt. So if no loans contain a
bankruptcy proviso, it will just mean that borrowers prefer low-interest no-bankruptcy
loans.
ANDREW : I see some problems here.
CNC : Look, it sounds from your question like you think that the lenders should be coerced
into allowing borrowers to be irresponsible and go bankrupt! That would effectively make them
loan their hard-earned money in ways that they don't want. How is that any different than
forcing them to work at hard labor?
ANDREW : Obviously it would be better to have defaulting borrowers be effectively enslaved
in a way that fully respects their natural rights.
CNC : Obviously. Now that we've cleared that up, can you turn off the tape recorder? I want
to get started on my steak.
Now that Code Name Cain has indicated the promise of a libertarian society, in the next
part of the interview he will give a step-by-step plan for how we can make this society a
reality.
What puzzles me about the Libertarian Dream is their ability to ignore the Dark Ages in Western Europe.
It fulfills all their requirements, and by what accounts survive, was remarkably unsuccessful. Life was poor, nasty, brutish
and short.
I've has the discussion of rule of law with libertarians, and it went like this:
Lb: We could have a farming society without rule of law.
Me: How are disputes resolved? Lb: We all get together and resolve the dispute.
Me: How is the dispute resolution enforced? Lb: Everybody agrees to the resolution.
Me: What happens if some do not agree? What happens if someone cheats? Lb: ……..
Me: We've used this mechanism before, Hatfields vs McCoy' in the US, and Campbells Vs McDonalds in Scotland. Lb: ……..
Those who don't know their History, are condemned to repeat it. Winston Churchill in his "History of the English Speaking Peoples" refers to the desire of the People in England to have "The
King's Peace," otherwise known as "The Rule of Law" with all it's apparatus, Police, Courts, etc. The Libertarians appear to want "Rule by the Rich and Powerful" and do not understand that that includes few, if any, of the
current libertarians, except perhaps for the Koch Brothers.
Sleeping Dog December 30, 2018 at 9:05 am
In the 90's when encountering a want-to-be business tycoon spouting Libertarian nonsense, I would encourage them to seek their
fortune in Somalia, where no government existed.
"... Special Counsel Robert Mueller has gone so far down the rabbit hole in his $25 million (taxpayer funded) Russia investigation -- going so far as to have "collected a nude selfie " to satisfy his probe. ..."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has gone so far down the rabbit hole in his
$25
million (taxpayer funded) Russia investigation -- going so far as to have "collected a nude selfie " to satisfy his probe.
The claim, according to The Hill was contained within a court filing by Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting - one of
three businesses indicted by Mueller in February along with 13 individuals for election meddling.
In the Thursday court
filing accusing Mueller's team of illegally withholding information in the case, Concord attorney Eric Dubelier made mention
of the "nude selfie," asking " Could the manner in which he collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the
United States? "
Chickenhawk (bird)
- Wikipedia "In the United States, chickenhawk or chicken hawk is an unofficial designation for three species
of North Americanhawks in the family
Accipitridae :
Cooper's hawk , also
called a quail hawk, the sharp-shinned hawk , and the red-tailed hawk . The term
"chicken hawk", however, is inaccurate. Although Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawks may attack
other birds, chickens do not
make up a significant part of their diets; red-tailed hawks have varied diets, but may
opportunistically hunt free-range poultry . "
Notable quotes:
"... In defense of the chickenhawk -- the actual bird ..."
"... So while I certainly despise the useless eaters that agitate for war while having not the slightest idea what combat of any kind is about, I always cringe at the degradation of the word 'chickenhawk' a mighty little predator whose good name should not be sullied in association with such human detritus ..."
The first time I saw one in action, it was quite a revelation I looked out the kitchen
window to see what looked like a blue jay perching on some kind of largish rock that he was
pecking at of course that made no sense at all and upon closer examination it turned out to
be a tiny raptor, not even a foot long from beak to tail, standing on a much larger dead
chicken and ripping flesh off of it I ran out back toward the chicken yard and the mighty
little slayer flew off the poor hen had a good part of her back flesh removed
Pretty amazing that such a tiny bird could take a chicken easily ten times its weight --
the sharp shinned hawk weighs just 200-400 grams
So while I certainly despise the useless eaters that agitate for war while having not
the slightest idea what combat of any kind is about, I always cringe at the degradation of
the word 'chickenhawk' a mighty little predator whose good name should not be sullied in
association with such human detritus
Obamacare is like at least the fifth time in over a century to introduce affordable
healthcare. Looks like we're going to need at least a sixth attempt to actually do it right.
What was Winston Churchill's saying that Americans will always do the right thing but only
after doing everything else?
Notable quotes:
"... Nixon is not just to the left of today's reps, he's to the left of the so called centrist dems I would call them right wing corporate lackays that never saw a war they didn't like. ..."
Nixon is not just to the left of today's reps, he's to the left of the so called
centrist dems I would call them right wing corporate lackays that never saw a war they didn't
like.
They are several varieties of the Mueller candle. The vendor below said they sold out the
original supply of candles but more will arrive in the future. Pray to St. Mueller!! /s
That should be a St. Mueller vigil candle cover. Something appropriate for a saint
dedicated to blocking the cleansing power of light.
From "The Legend of Saint Mueller":
"And then the Priest of the Temple named Mueller didst procure screens with which to block
out from the sight of the People those necessary sins taken upon themselves by the Priests to
protect that same People from the Forces of Evil."
In later days, that Priest named Mueller
was elected to the ranks of the anointed as the patron of all who cast shade and do other
evils in the service of a Good Cause. His Saint Day is February 29. The prayer to Saint
Mueller begins: "Redactio ad absurdum." His sigil is 'A Candle Under a Basket.'
The Guardian is the best newspaper with 4,049,000 daily readers, they are owned by
non-profit foundation and they are free to write whatever they are pleased but their contents
is verified 100% so you are free not to like it but you have to accept it as a facts.
Look at the Russian bots here? Do they actually think they can change anyone's opinions
about their backwater country run by an egotistical authoritarian?
Says the one person making troll comments. "Russia bots" is the liberals new word for
anyone that disagree with them. They need this little labels because they have no facts on
their side. Only hatred for dissenters.
Look at the Russian bots here? Do they actually think they can change anyone's opinions
about their backwater country run by an egotistical authoritarian?
the West seeks no friends , but rather vassals are welcome.
Scores of worldwide diplomats have their backstage sayings : " it's better to be US' foe than ally
because if you are their foe, they'll try to buy you ;
but if you are their ally , they will sell you.".
Russiagate, what a nonsensical concept. Constantly shifting narrative. (1) OMG, they hacked
voting machines! (2) OMG, they hacked DNC servers! (3) OMG, someone talked to a Russian!
"... Like firing a smoke grenade into a hornets' nest. What a priceless sight. The atlanticist scum over here in Germany are really at a loss, flat on their backs. Well done, Donald! ..."
Scotch Bingeington , Dec 20, 2018 5:15:34 PM |
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Like firing a smoke grenade into a hornets' nest. What a priceless sight. The atlanticist
scum over here in Germany are really at a loss, flat on their backs. Well done, Donald!
"... In the wake of the summit, the neoliberal Resistance, like some multi-headed mythical creature in the throes of acute amphetamine psychosis, started spastically jabbering about "treason" and "traitors," and more or less demanding that Trump be tried, and taken out and shot on the White House lawn. ..."
As my regular readers will probably recall, according to my personal, pseudo-Chinese zodiac,
2017 was " The Year of
the Headless Liberal Chicken ." This year, having given it considerable thought, and having
consulted the I Ching, and assorted other oracles, I'm designating 2018 "The Year of Putin-Nazi
Paranoia."
... ... ...
Back in America, millions of liberals and other Russia-and-Trump-obsessives were awaiting the
Putin-Nazi Apocalypse , which despite the predictions of Resistance pundits had still, by
the Summer, failed to materialize. The corporate media were speculating that Putin's latest
"secret scheme" was for Trump to destroy the Atlantic alliance by arriving late for the G7
meeting. Or maybe Putin's secret scheme was to order Trump to sadistically lock up a bunch of
migrants in metal cages,
exactly as Obama had done before him but these were special Nazi cages! And Trump was
separating mothers and children, which, as General Michael Hayden reminded
us , was more or less exactly the same as Auschwitz!
Paul Krugman had apparently lost it , and was running around the offices of The New York
Times shrieking that "America as we know it is finished!"
Soros had been smuggled back into Europe to single-handedly thwart the Putin-Nazi plot to
"dominate the West," which he planned to do by canceling the Brexit (which Putin had obviously
orchestrated) and overthrowing the elected government of Italy (which, according to Soros, was
a Putin-Nazi front).
As if that wasn't paranoia-inducing enough, suddenly, Trump flew off to Helisnki to
personally meet with the Devil Himself. The neoliberal establishment went totally apeshit. A
columnist for The New York Times predicted that Trump, Putin, Le Pen, the AfD, and other such
Nazis were secretly forming something called "the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary
States," and intended to disband the European Union, and NATO, and impose international martial
law and start ethnically cleansing the West of migrants. That, or Trump and Putin were simply
using the summit as cover to attend some Nazi-equestrian homosexual orgy, which The Times took
pains to illustrate by creating a little animated film depicting Trump and Putin as lovers. In
any event, Jonathan Chait was certain that Trump had been a "Russian intelligence asset" since
at least as early as 1987, and was going to Helsinki to "meet his handler."
In the wake of the summit, the neoliberal Resistance, like some multi-headed mythical
creature in the throes of acute amphetamine psychosis, started spastically jabbering about
"treason" and "traitors," and more or less demanding that Trump be tried, and taken out and
shot on the White House lawn. A frenzy of neo-McCarthyism followed. Liberals started
accusing people of being "traitorous agents of Trump and Moscow," and openly calling for a CIA
coup, because we were "facing a national security emergency!" A devastating Russian
cyber-attack was due to begin at any moment. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats
personally assured the Associated Press that the little "Imminent Russia Attack" lights he had
on his desk were "blinking red."
... ... ...
So here's wishing my Russia-and-Trump-obsessed readers a merry, teeth-clenching,
anus-puckering Christmas and a somewhat mentally-healthier New Year! Me, I'm looking forward to
discovering how batshit crazy things can get I have a feeling we ain't seen nothing yet.
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There is something really creepy about Putin. Like Midas everything he touches turns to
weapons. And Western journos are building their careers on this garbage!
Notable quotes:
"... Although likely covered by weaponizing incompetence and stupidity, Putin has certainly weaponized the Outlaw US Empire's appalling lack of a professional diplomatic corp--just look at who he gets Trump to nominate to key diplomatic positions. ..."
Although likely covered by weaponizing incompetence and stupidity, Putin has certainly
weaponized the Outlaw US Empire's appalling lack of a professional diplomatic corp--just look
at who he gets Trump to nominate to key diplomatic positions.
Add to this that Trump changed his election slogan from "make America [ "working class"]
great again" to "make Amerca [financial oligarchy] great again"
The only problem is that 'America' does not exist. America is a part description of a
continent and I think we are talking about the USA (only one country on North American
soil) Why do the yanks always have to exaggerate their own importance like the Olympics
bloke who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint lol! Do the USAians actually have an
inferiority complex?
" Miller also admits that the dossier's broad claims are more closely aligned with
reality, but that the document breaks down once you focus on individual claims. "
" Giving money in exchange for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption
laws ," the report explains, seemingly unfamiliar with business as usual in
Washington.
"... 75,000 Russian expats spying in London? Their handlers' workload must be a nightmare! The true scale of the workload facing British counterintelligences has been recently revealed by a London based think tank, which estimates half of all Russian expats in the British capital are spies or informants. ..."
Britain spent part of the spring chucking out Russian diplomats it accused of being spies,
of course that means all the known alleged spooks are no longer around, so the UK needs to find
some more. One of the things we have learnt in the post-Skripal world, is that there are now
seen to be only two kinds of Russian: the spies and ... oh no actually just one type of
Russian.
75,000 Russian expats spying in London? Their handlers' workload must be a nightmare! The
true scale of the workload facing British counterintelligences has been recently revealed by a
London based think tank, which estimates half of all Russian expats in the British capital are
spies or informants.
Unlike the 2014 Ukraine uprising, which witnessed invasive meddling on the part of US
politicians and diplomats, Western support for the French Yellow Vest protests has been
conspicuously missing in action ;-)
'Paris agreement isn't working out so well for Paris!': Trump taunts Macron over Yellow
Vests fires...
Macron's European army has arrived. It goes by the name Gilets Jaunes
b: After two years the Muller investigation found zero evidence for the 'collusion'
between Russia and the Trump campaign that the fake Steele dossier suggested.
I bet that there are few tons of evidence. b is unfamiliar with the most basic methods for
detectives and prosecutors: connect the dots. For example, one dot in Toronto, ONT and the
second in New Delhi, India. Connect them using a straight line, or more correctly, so-called
grand circle that is the unique shortest air route from Toronto to Dehli. Voila! It goes
through Russia.
Trump eloquently decried foreign war, thier wastefulness and negative effects of the standard of living of common people during
election campaign. Now prefers or is forced to outdo Obama in "Guns instead of butter" policies. Like Bush III.
Trump election-time message way about anti-globalization. He believed that the interests of the working
class have been sacrificed in favor of the big corporations that have been encouraged to invest around the world and thereby deprive
American workers of their jobs. Further, he argued that large-scale immigration has weakened the bargaining power of American workers
and served to lower their wages. After the election he betreayed his electorates well.
Guess who of those two people voted for Trump in 2016 ;-)
Those who dismissed the never-built Russian Property fail to understand that if or when it is
built, the property's telephone system will interconnect with Russian Telcom – the same
system that serves Putin and the Russian Federation, so they'd be directly connected by
copper wires and fiber optic cable. You can't be more intertwined or interdependent than
that. And don't get me started on how the buildings source of power is the same utility grid
that serves Putin's home, Dacha, and Government Buildings.
They practically makes tTrump and Putin Siamese twins just barely separated decades after
birth. That's high crime and misdemeanor grade Collusion if I ever cleverly imagined it.
No-deal Brexit: Disruption at Dover 'could
last six months' BBC. I have trouble understanding why six months. The UK's customs IT
system won't be ready and there's no reason to think it will be ready even then. I could
see things getting less bad due to adaptations but "less bad" is not normal
The
Great Brexit Breakdown Wall Street Journal. Some parts I quibble with, but generally
good and includes useful historical detail.
This is Onion-style humor is this headline. How to spell "taking hostages" in Chinese?
Notable quotes:
"... A White House official told Reuters Trump did not know about a U.S. request for her extradition from Canada before he met Xi and agreed to a 90-day truce in the brewing trade war. ..."
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, the 46-year-old daughter
of the company's founder, was detained in Canada on Dec. 1, the same day Trump and Chinese
President Xi Jinping dined together at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
A White House official told Reuters Trump did not know about a U.S. request for her
extradition from Canada before he met Xi and agreed to a 90-day truce in the brewing trade
war.
So, if you're a WASP, or at least did the American cursus honorum (i.e. went to Harvard or Yale), the American people
is ok with you being POTUS. You're only an illegitimate POTUS if you weren't born and raised to be one -- nothing to do
with winning an election with the help of the SCOTUS, or being a war criminal, or being a neoliberal.
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NYT, bastion of the liberals, covertly admits it doesn't like Trump because of the image he projects to the rest of the
world, not because of his policies:
So, if you're a WASP, or at least did the American cursus honorum (i.e. went to Harvard or Yale), the American people
is ok with you being POTUS. You're only an illegitimate POTUS if you weren't born and raised to be one -- nothing to do
with winning an election with the help of the SCOTUS, or being a war criminal, or being a neoliberal.
I anxiously await news that Lloyd Blankfein has been arrested and will be extradited to
Malaysia due to Goldman Sachs' involvement in a $6b theft of Malaysian assets (1MDB), and
Lloyd having met with the individual who executed the first step of the fraud back in 2012.
As for Trump not being able to fire Bolton, give me a break. Wimpy Obama was able to stand
up to Netanyahoo on occasion.
@outragedofacton - You have to be careful when you take on the banksters.
Abe Lincoln, John Kennedy and Hitler all tried or (in Kennedy's case planned) on the
issuance of money via the state circumventing the banks.
I hadn't realised the John WIlkes Booth and Lee Harey Oswald were bankers.
But I do always enjoy the scenes in Saving Private Ryan when thousands of
heavily-armed Goldman Sachs employees land on Omaha beach.
While he is not a central banker, I heard that
Lloyd Blankfein used to fly in Las Vegas on weekends and gamble in casino, as week was not enough for him
Notable quotes:
"... As central banks such as the FED and the ECB operate with insatiable greed and cannot be audited or regulated by any government body anywhere in the world, due to their charters having been set up that way, then bankers are free to meet secretly and plot depressions so as to gain full control over sovereign nations and manipulate markets so that their "chums and agents" in business can buy up assets and land in depressed economies -- while possible wars could also make corporations and banks more money as well! ..."
If private, stockholder-held central banks such as the FED and the FED-backed ECB were not
orchestrating this depression, and anybody who believed they were was a "wacko-nutcase
conspiracy theorist", then why do they keep repeating the same mistakes of forcing un-payable
bailout loans, collapsing banks, wiping out people's savings and then imposing austerity on
those nations year after year -- when it is clearly a failed policy?
Possible Answers :
1. Bank presidents are all ex-hippies who got hooked on LSD in the 70's and have not yet
recovered fully as their brains are still fried!
2. Central bankers have been recruited from insane asylums in both Europe and America in
government-sponsored programs to see whether blithering idiots are capable of running large,
international financial institutions.
3. All catastrophic events in the banking/business world, such as the derivative and
housing crash of 2008, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and The Great Depression of 1929-40
were totally random events that just occurred out of nowhere and central banks were caught
off guard -- leaving them no option but to play with their willies for years on end until a
major war suddenly happened to pull the whole world out of "bad times"!
4. As central banks such as the FED and the ECB operate with insatiable greed and
cannot be audited or regulated by any government body anywhere in the world, due to their
charters having been set up that way, then bankers are free to meet secretly and plot
depressions so as to gain full control over sovereign nations and manipulate markets so that
their "chums and agents" in business can buy up assets and land in depressed economies --
while possible wars could also make corporations and banks more money as well!
Please choose one of the possible answers from above and write a short 500 word essay on
whether it may or may not true -- using well-defined logical arguments. I expect your answers
in by Friday of this week as I would like to get pissed out of my mind at the pub on Saturday
night!
So he screamed in the cafeteria and spilled his morning coffee. We all wondered what
happened to him and so we looked at his friend, and he told us that he must have read the
NYT, as that was his common reaction, a cry of pain and anguish and screams of "all lies, all
lies, all lies" whenever he reads the newspaper or watches the TV, esp. NYT.
Your article and the previous news about Manfort visiting Assange and the funny timing of
the same reminded me of this story.
The Western MSM is a lying scamming neoliberal propaganda machine.
PRESIDENT: This is incredible! I never ordered such a thing!
SOVIET AMBASSADOR (scornfully): Our [intelligence] source was the New York Times.
-- "Dr. Strangelove"
REALITY:
US President Donald Trump is still unsure whether to meet with Vladimir Putin, pending a
'full report' about the Kerch Strait incident that by pure coincidence happened just days
before the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina.
Have some heart. It wouldn't be right to stop Mueller and his pals from billing their law
fees of $800/hr right before Christmas. Do you have any idea how much a yacht runs these
days?
Cover
your ears and avert your eyes, Americans: RT is attempting to weaken the United States using a
whole host of nefarious methods – such as telling the truth, a former Homeland Security
official has warned.
Notable quotes:
"... Cover your ears and avert your eyes, Americans: RT is attempting to weaken the United States using a whole host of nefarious methods – such as telling the truth, a former Homeland Security official has warned. ..."
"... "corrupt and broken" ..."
"... "taken over by politicians and the elite for their own corrupt ends." ..."
"... They feature every week, stories from our courts all across the country to demonstrate the truth of this statement. I don't think there's anything in there that is a lie. ..."
"... "using information operations, sometimes enabled by cyber, to weaken us" ..."
"... Oftentimes, they don't even have to make things up, they simply replay, they take kernels of truth, they take existing divisions and weaknesses of our own making and reproduce them, put them out, retweet them indefinitely in a very one-sided way. ..."
Cover
your ears and avert your eyes, Americans: RT is attempting to weaken the United States using a
whole host of nefarious methods – such as telling the truth, a former Homeland Security
official has warned. Sounding the alarm during a panel discussion at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Suzanne Spaulding, former deputy
secretary for cyber and infrastructure protection at DHS in the Obama administration, said that
one of RT's methods when it comes to its influencing vulnerable Americans is telling the truth.
As an example of this worrisome and effective truth-telling, Spaulding cited one of RT's
weekly shows, America's Lawyer, hosted by prominent US trial lawyer Mike Papantonio. The theme
of this show ,
Spaulding revealed to the audience is that the US justice system is "corrupt and
broken" and has been "taken over by politicians and the elite for their own corrupt
ends."
They feature every week, stories from our courts all across the country to demonstrate
the truth of this statement. I don't think there's anything in there that is a lie.
A truthful news show dedicated to exposing the corruption of the American justice system?
Terrifying!
Adversaries like Russia, Spaulding said, are "using information operations, sometimes
enabled by cyber, to weaken us" – but the reason it can be so effective, she said,
is that the information doesn't have to be a lie.
Oftentimes, they don't even have to make things up, they simply replay, they take
kernels of truth, they take existing divisions and weaknesses of our own making and reproduce
them, put them out, retweet them indefinitely in a very one-sided way.
Now, to many Americans, this might sound like some worthwhile viewing, but to Spaulding it
is still "propaganda" because the ultimate objective is to weaken the country by
revealing its flaws and stirring up trouble.
A transcript of exchanges between US
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been leaked to National News
Conglomerate by an anonymous source within the Kremlin . We here at NNC have confirmed the
authenticity of this document using the same rigorous verification process we've been using to
authenticate the evidence for all our other reporting on Russia's involvement in the 2016 US
elections over the last two years. These verification methods include hunches, gut intuitions,
and an introspective assessment of the way our feelings feel. The following exchanges revealed
in this transcript provide the clearest evidence yet that the President of the United States
has been in collusion with the Russian government for years.
This introduction has been authored by the editorial board of the National News
Conglomerate. Obey.
11/9/2016
Trump: I have done as you commanded, my dominant and all-powerful lord. I have conspired
with your hackers to steal the election, and now I'm going to be president! I want to thank you
for not releasing that video footage of those Russian prostitutes I hired to urinate on a bed
the Obamas once slept in. If that had come out it would have offended and alienated a lot of
people, which is something I never normally do.
Putin: Yes that is an old KGB tactic called kompromat, a word which only extremely
intelligent people know about. Keep this line of communication open. As long as you do as I
command, your pee pee tape will remain secret.
Trump: One thing I'm curious about though my lord, if you don't mind my asking. If you
already had an army of hackers targeting Democratic Party emails, why did you need my help?
Couldn't you just have hacked the emails and published them on your own? Why did you need me to
interact with them at all?
Putin: Moral support, mainly. We don't need to get into specifics.
Trump: Oh okay.
~
1/20/2017
Trump: I'm in! Whew! I was really worried that leaked dossier would be the end of me! What
are my instructions, my lord?
Putin: Begin introducing racism and division to the United States. America has never
experienced these things before, and it will shock and disorient them. With the US divided
against itself, your nation will be far too weak to stand against my plans of total world
domination.
Trump: That's a really tall order! America has always been a harmonious place where everyone
gets along up until today. I'll try my best though. Anything else?
Putin: Yes, make them distrust your nation's large media outlets and convince them that the
US intelligence community is often dishonest.
Trump: That will be really hard because those institutions have always been trusted for
their unparalleled integrity. But your wish is my command, oh lord.
~
4/7/2017
Putin: Bomb a Syrian airbase.
Trump: What? Really? Aren't they, like, your allies?
Putin: Exactly. This will throw inquisitive minds off the scent. We can't have them finding
out about that pee tape.
Trump: Are you sure? Some people are saying that chemical attack looks like it could have
been perpetrated by the many terrorist factions in Syria and not the government.
Putin: Who cares? Have you seen how relentless they've been in exposing us?? Have you never
watched Rachel Maddow? That woman is a psychic bloodhound, masterfully sniffing out the truth
at every turn! We can't afford to take chances. Do as I say.
Trump: Yes sir.
Putin: And see if you can arrest that WikiLeaks guy.
6/28/17
Trump: Hey do you want me to do anything about Montenegro's addition to NATO?
Putin: No. NATO expansion is good.
Trump: Uhhh okay.
~
6/28/17
Trump: Who do you want tapped for Ukraine envoy?
Putin: Kurt Volker.
Trump: Volker? He hates you! He's like the biggest Russia hawk ever.
Putin: We still need to throw the Russiagaters off the scent. We're playing 3-D chess here.
This is high-level disinformation, or dezinformatsiya as very smart people call it. I want as
many Russia hawks in your administration as possible.
Trump: 3-D chess? Alright. I guess you know what you're doing.
~
8/30/17
Putin: Shut down the Russian consulate in San Francisco and throw out a bunch of diplomats.
That will confuse the hell out of them.
~
11/21/17
Putin: Now approve the sale of arms to Ukraine. Not even Obama would do that. This will
throw them off the trail for sure.
~
1/1/18
Putin: Happy new year. Force RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents.
~
1/29/18
Putin: Make sure your Nuclear Posture Review greatly escalates its aggressive posture toward
Russia.
~
2/14/18
Putin: Happy Valentine's Day. Don't worry about those Russians your guys killed in
Syria.
~
2/19/18
Putin: Send a fleet of war ships to the Black Sea.
~
3/25/18
Putin: Better expel a few dozen diplomats over the Skripal thing.
~
4/5/18
Putin: Sanction a bunch of Russian oligarchs.
~
4/10/18
Putin: Bomb Syria.
Trump: What?? Again?
Putin: Yes.
Trump: What the hell, man? Why'd you even recruit me if you're just going to have me do
everything all the Russia hawks want?
Putin: Well, you know how I told you we were playing 3-D chess against the Russiagate
investigation?
Trump: Yeah?
Putin: Well that wasn't enough. Now we're playing 4-D chess.
Trump: Fine, whatever, I don't care. Just don't release my pee tape.
~
7/17/18
Trump: Oh man. They're really making a major fuss about that summit. What should I do?
Putin: Play it cool. Don't let them know about our secret diabolical plot.
Trump: Right. Remind me what that was again?
Putin: Make Jim Acosta feel really, really sad.
~
9/2/18
Putin: Have you arrested Julian Assange yet?
Trump: Working on it.
~
10/20/18
Putin: I like John Bolton's idea. Pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty.
~
11/25/18
Putin: Make sure your administration loudly and aggressively backs Ukraine in our Kerch
Strait spat.
Trump: OMFG this is getting too weird. Are you just trolling me? What the hell is this?
Trump: Hello?
Trump: Are you there?
Trump: Answer me!
Putin: 5-D chess.
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Saving neoliberalism in the USA requires demonizing Russia. A funny thing is that Russia is a
neoliberal country since 1991, which was economically raped in 1991-2000 by some western
countries (with the help of some Harvard Business school economists, IMF and intelligence
agencies.) So now they are suffering for the second time for their overthrow of Bolshevism and
the switch to neoliberalism (which now looks like a misguided move, judging from economic
consequences for the majority of Russian population) ;-)
The Trumpenleft (or "Sputnik Left," as it is also called by professional
anti-Putin-Nazi intelligence analysts ) is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It is a
gang of nefarious Putin-Nazi infiltrators posing as respectable leftists in order to
disseminate Trumpian ideology and Putin-Nazi propaganda among an assortment of online leftist
magazines that hardly anyone ever actually reads. The aim of these insidious Trumpenleft
infiltrators is to sow confusion, chaos, and discord among actual, real, authentic leftists who
are going about the serious business of calling Donald Trump a fascist on the Internet
twenty-five times a day, verbally abusing Julian
Assange , occasionally pulling down oppressive statues, and sharing videos of racist idiots
acting like racist idiots in public.
... ... ...
This is the type of gobbledegook the Trumpenleft use to try to dupe real leftists into
putting down their phones for a minute and actually thinking through political issues!
Fortunately, no one is falling for it. As any bona fide leftist knows, there is no "mass
migration problem." The whole thing is simply a racist hoax concocted by Putin, Alex Jones, and
other Trumpian disinformationists. The only thing real leftists need to know about immigration
is that immigrants are good, and Trump, and walls, and borders are bad! All that other fancy
gibberish about global capitalism, Milton Friedman, labor markets, and national sovereignty is
nothing but fascist propaganda (which needs to be censored, or at least deplatformed, or
demonetized, or otherwise suppressed).
But Angela Nagle is just one example. The Trumpenleft is legion, and growing. Its membership
includes a handful of prominent (and rather less prominent) fake leftist figures: Glenn
Greenwald, who many among the "Resistance" would like to see renditioned and
indefinitely detained in some offshore Trumpenleft gulag somewhere; Matt Taibbi, who just
published
a treasonous article challenging the right of the US government to prosecute publishers as
"enemy agents" for publishing material they don't want published; Julian Assange, who is one
such publisher, and who the US has scheduled for public crucifixion just as
soon as they can get their hands on him; Aaron Maté of the Real News Network, a
notorious Trump-Russia " collusion denialist "; Caitlin Johnstone , an Australian blogger and poet who
the Red-Brown Putin-Nazi hunters at CounterPunch have become totally obsessed with;
Diana Johnstone , who they also don't like; and (full disclosure)
your humble narrator .
Now, normally, the opinions of some political journalists and rather marginal political
writers wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but there's a war on, so
there's no room for neutrality. As I mentioned in my latest essay , over the
course of the next two years, the global capitalist ruling classes need to make an example of
Trump, and Assange, and anyone else who has had the gall to fuck with their global empire. Part
of how they are going to do this is to further polarize the already extremely polarized
ideological spectrum until everyone is forced onto one or the other side of a pro- or
anti-Trump equation, or a pro- or anti-populist equation or a pro- or anti-fascist
equation.
As you probably noticed, The Guardian has just launched a special six-week
"investigative series" exploring the whole " new populism " phenomenon
(which began with a lot of scary photos of Steve Bannon next to the word "populism"). We are
going to be hearing a lot about "populism" over the course of the next two years. We are going
to be hearing how "populism" is actually not that different from fascism, or at the very least
is inherently racist, and anti-Semitic, and xenophobic, and how, basically, anyone who
criticizes neoliberal elites or the corporate media is Russia-loving, pro-Trump Nazi.
Rep. Adam Schiff, who takes the chair of the House Intelligence Committee in January, has a
nose for hot tips about his bete noire, Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as a strong
bent toward credulousness. On October 23, 2018, Schiff solemnly told a young audience at the
old Hillary Clinton/John Podesta Center for American Progress Action Fund that he had been told
that Putin has one of his henchmen follow Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev around with a
pillow to smother him in his sleep if he ever gets out of line.
The British Army buys powder charges from South Africa. The US buys propellants for its
AAMs from Belgium. UK leases its Trident missile units from a common stockpile in King's Bay,
VA. Parts for F-35 Albatross are made in Turkey. UK imports its army uniforms from China as
does USA
You clearly make your mobile phones in Harrow rather than import them from China
A joke about Andreotti (originally seen in a strip by Stefano Disegni and Massimo Caviglia)
had him receiving a phone call from a fellow party member, who pleaded with him to attend judge
Giovanni Falcone's funeral. His friend supposedly begged, "The State must give an answer to the
Mafia, and you are one of the top authorities in it!" To which a puzzled Andreotti asked,
"Which one do you mean?"
is how no one really talked about their content, eh? We learned that she rigged the primary
against Bernie and then everyone started talking about Russia ! Just as she and Podesta
wanted.
#1
Amazing how elusive they are (scrubbed from the State Dept website) and how they have never
been picked up on by most of the corporate media.
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Theresa May today chose to compare herself with Geoffrey Boycott. For once, she was being
very accurate, especially when it comes to relationships with her own team. Boycott's players
hated him so much during his captaincy they actually
ran him out on purpose during a test match.
In a trite refrain straight out of the standard Washington regime change playbook, the
United States has lodged a formal complaint alleging Iran is developing nerve agents "for
offensive purposes".
Masha and the Bear is produced by a studio in Moscow
A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children
is accused of being a "soft propaganda" tool for the Kremlin (Mark Bridge writes). The
English-language Masha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in
various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13
channels.
Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However,
critics in Russia's neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is
part of the country's propaganda machine. Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of
Buckingham, an intelligence expert, said: "Masha is feisty, even rather nasty, but also
plucky. She punches above her slight weight. It's not far-fetched to to say that she's acting
like Putin".
As for the bear, the author recalled the position of the teacher of Tallinn University
Priit Khybemyagi, who stated that this character is intended to "change the image of Russia
in the minds of children from negative to positive." Khybemyagi considered this to be a
threat to n national security .
At the same time, the Lithuanian critics were confused by the USSR border guard cap
Masha wears in an episode where she is chasing a hare out of the bear's garden. They decided
that in this way Russia was demonstrating "the defence of its border".
From the most prestigious of British "quality" newspapers.
For your delight and delectation, Episode 58 of Masha and the Bear:
Save Forget the All-Blacks 'Haka', ignore Foreman-Frasier, Drago-Balboa, and Ortiz-Liddell,
the honor of the greatest (or perhaps most awkward) staredown in history now goes to US Vice
President Mike Pence...
Having been blamed for everything from Trump's election victory to USA soccer team's loss to
England last week, Russia faced accusations all weekend and was reportedly confronted by the US
contingent over "meddling."
As The Sun reports, Pence and Putin "discussed the upcoming G20 Summit and touched on the
issues that will be discussed when President Trump and President Putin are both in Argentina
for the summit," according to the vice president's press secretary, Alyssa Farah.
An NBC reporter tweeted : "New per the
@VP's Office-> The VP's office says Vice President Pence directly addressed Russian
meddling in the 2016 election in a conversation with Vladimir Putin on Thursday in
Singapore.
"The conversation took place following the plenary session this afternoon at ASEAN."
But, it was the following clash of the titans that caught most people's attention.
As the Russian president joined the that Pence shook Putin's 'deadly' hand, met his 'steely
KGB-trained' gaze, and desperately tried not to smile or blink for 20 seconds as Putin appeared
to chat amicably with the US VP...
While Putin has (if his accusers are to be believed) grappled his opponents to death with
his bare hands (remember he is a sinister KGB agent and jiu-jitsu expert); we suspect the only
thing VP Pence has gripped tightly in his hands is his bible.
Sadly, John Bolton then blew the tough guy act (or is he Mike Pence's 'good cop') as he does
his best impression of a teenage girl meeting their popstar idol for the first time...
Save
Comment: Reminds us of another 'tough guy' stare-down given by an American politician that was
outmaneuvered by Putin at every turn. Whether these nitwits are doing it to convey the
idea that they "are being tough on Putin and Russia" - or they actually think they're
being "tough" - one thing's for sure, they are both weak and dumb.
History repeats -- Looks like yet another
"Excessively careless" enthusiastic email sender: "The revelation prompted demands from
congressional investigators that Kushner preserve his records, which his attorney said he
had."
Ivanka Trump used her personal email account to send "hundreds" of emails last year to White
House aides, assistants and Cabinet officials, according to the Washington Post, citing "people
familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence." Of that, however, she discussed
government policies "less than 100 times" - and none of the content was classified.
"his daughter's practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton"
Some truth here. They are both chromosomally female, both were using email. Sure same thing
here, give her the cell next to Hillary. Fair sentencing would be something around life for
Hillary, week for Ivanka?
Honestly, after all of the grief those of us on the right gave Hillary, and rightfully so,
for Ivanka to be so obtuse and do this .... it just gives the liberals something to harp on.
Why make things harder than they need to be? The Trumps are under a microscope and have to
know that everything they do is going to be picked apart and debated in the court of public
opinion.
Now we will have to listen to people like Don Lemon and Rachel Madcow and the
Morning Joe Idiots for the next 2 months blow this waaayyyy out of proportion
To Durruti, Ilyana Rozumova wrote: "I am certain that you do not know this. Medusa's
"hair" signifies the bad ideas coming out from women head. Did you notice how many women in
US are engaging in politics?
.
US is doomed!!!!"
Broken Scranton greetings, I.R.
Taking off from your having mentioned "Medusa," & (with no pun), I do not know if you
domicile in ZUSA, but linked below is a unique scene from Arnon Milchan's 1978 film, "The
Medusa Touch."
The movie turns "bad hair day" when a Boeing 747 crashes into the Pan Am Building in NYC!
Uh, where did Arnon Milchan get such precognitive inspiration?
OK, so, that was a close one. For a moment there, I was starting to worry that the Democrats
weren't going to take back the House and rescue us from " the brink of
fascism ." Which, if that had happened, in addition to having to attend all those horrible
stadium rallies and help the government mass murder the Jews, we would have been denied the
next two years of Donald Trump-related congressional hearings and investigations that we can
now look forward to
I'm going to go ahead and call them the Hitlergate Hearings.
Staging these hearings has always been a crucial part of the Resistance's strategy. As
history has proved, time and time again, when literal fascists take over your democracy, outlaw
opposing political parties, and start shipping people off to concentration camps and revoking
journalists' White House access, the only effective way to defeat them is to form a whole
buttload of congressional committees and investigate the living Hitler out of them. This is
especially the case when the literal fascists who have commandeered your democracy are
conspiring with a shifty-eyed Slavic dictator whose country you have essentially surrounded
with your full-spectrum dominant military forces, and who your media have thoroughly demonized,
but who is nevertheless able to brainwash your citizens into electing his fascist puppet
president with a few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads.
Once you've determined that has happened (which it obviously has), the gloves have to come
off. No more prancing around in pussyhats, not with Russian Hitler in office! No, at that
point, you really have no choice but to wait two years until your opposition party (which
Hitler somehow forgot to ban) regains control of the House of Representatives (which Hitler
somehow forgot to dissolve), wait another two months until they take office, and then
immediately start issuing subpoenas, auditing Hitler's financial records, and taking affidavits
from former hookers. I realize that may sound extreme, but remember, we're talking about
literal fascists, backed by literal Russian fascists, who are going around emboldening literal
fascism, and making literal fascist hand gestures on television, and doing all kinds of other
fascist stuff!
Photo of a typical Trump rally. Trump himself designed the grandiose, operatic setting and
cast himself in the male lead as fiery, spittle-flecked orator/savior of his nation.
Michelle Obama revealed her
true feelings about George W. Bush in a candid interview with his daughter Jenna, insisting
that she holds the former Republican president in the highest regard, despite their differing
political views.
Speaking to former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager in an interview for
Today , the 54-year-old insisted that she has always maintained a close friendship with the
statesman, who served for two terms before her own husband, Democrat Barack Obama, took over
the White House, despite fighting on opposite sides, as it were.
'I think the political discourse, the way it's shown in the media, it's all the nasty parts
of it,' she told mother-of-two Jenna, 36. 'Because I guess we've become a culture where the
nasty sells so people are just gonna keep feeding that.'
And that:
Former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Michelle Obama shared a sweet moment
at John McCain's memorial.
The moment was captured by cameras during former Sen. Joe Lieberman's eulogy to McCain, who
died last Saturday after battling brain cancer. The former President and former First Lady were
among other political VIPs in attendance at Saturday's
funeral service at
Washington National Cathedral.
Bush was seen grabbing a mint from his wife, former First Lady Laura Bush, and then passing
it to Michelle Obama who mouths "thank you" with a smile.
CHAPPAQUA, NY -- In a press conference announcing her plans for the 2020 election, Hillary
Clinton told reporters she is launching a campaign Tuesday that will raise $100 million by the
end of the year or else she will run for president.
"I'm very excited to roll out my initiative
to secure this full amount within seven weeks, and if it is not successful -- let me be very
clear on this -- I will once more fill out the paperwork to run for president and submit it to
the Federal Election Commission," said Clinton, who stressed that she was "absolutely serious"
about her new A Hundred Million Or Me campaign, describing the town halls and
candidate meet-and-greets she would soon begin holding in Iowa and New Hampshire if donors came
up even a penny short.
... Look, mostly this whole patriotism/nationalism word game is just sadly funny. You are a patriot if you think like me. You
are a nationalist if you don't. Patriotism is good, nationalism is bad. If I am a patriot, I am good, if you are a nationalist,
you must be bad.
I think that the wisdom of Humpty Dumpty when speaking to Alice fits here:
"When I use a word..it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is which is to be master -- that's all."
Meanwhile, there is an arresting suggestion, floating on blogosphere, to
rename Gaza Ghetto into Auschwitz. Posted by: Anya | Nov 12, 2018 4:41:19 PM | 15
That would be a good strategic move. Israel bombing Auschwitz? Doesn't look good. It sends
a potent message.
B: "One wonders why the NYT is willingly playing into his hands with this."
From comments: "The image works for Trump, not against, on two issues; the border and the ME. The reality is the people on the
march to the US border all refused an offer from Mexico to settle in two southern (Mexican) states and receive jobs, free housing,
free food, free education and free healthcare. So much for the PR story of this group as economic immigrants and sanctuary seekers.
They are seen as being in search of the Free Lunch."
From comments: "I am not aware of anyone who thinks the US belongs in the ME. Yes, Israel is all for it, but in the US no one
wants troops there. We have lost country after country after country and some military head just said that after 17 years we are not
"winning" in Afghanistan. These wars are a financial scam in the eyes of many and are for Israel's benefit in the eyes of many
others"
After a screening of "Vice" Thursday, I asked McKay which of our two right-wing Dementors
was worse, Cheney or Trump.
"Here's the question," he said.
"Would you rather have a professional assassin after you or a frothing maniac with a meat
cleaver? I'd rather have a maniac with a meat cleaver after me, so I think Cheney is way
worse.
And also, if you look at the body count, more than 600,000 people died in Iraq. It's
not even close, right? "
Must have been Russian hacking. BTW Trump Republicans did better than mainstream Republicans,
showing that the establishment Democrats' strategy of running against Trump (as opposed to
running for something) continues to be a failure.
Proving the old adage that America is the land of opportunity where anything can happen,
Dennis Hof, a Trump-loving brothel owner, won his race for Nevada state legislature on
Tuesday night -- despite the fact that he's been dead for three weeks.
Five billion dollars spent on midterm elections! What an insane waste of money to keep the
established criminal cabal "smoothly" pilfering the insouciant serfs who voted for them
thinking it was their patriotic duty, and of course the chance to proudly wear an "I voted!" sticker on their blouse or
flannel shirt.
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert was offered the position of United States
Ambassador to the United Nations,
Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts shared the emerging report on Twitter,
writing: "Senior Administration Official tells Fox News that @statedeptspox Heather Nauert
has been offered the job of UN Ambassador."
Nauert, a former Fox News journalist, will replace current U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley,
who abruptly announced in early October that she will exit the administration at the end of
the year.
//Trump really is a clown – appointing yet another person, who will just read
prepared scripts. //
Congressman Louie Gohmert report can be read
here "What I have accumulated here is absolutely shocking upon the realization that Mueller's
disreputable, twisted history speaks to the character of the man placed in a position to attempt
to legalize a coup against a lawfully elected President," writes Gohmert.
For him to accuse his accuser of attempting to bribe someone to make accusations about him
is no surprise since that is what was most likely done to Kavanaugh. Their playbook is
getting quite old.
. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the report, telling reporters
Thursday the Kremlin regretted that the Times "thoughtlessly publishes information, which
demonstrates the decreasing level of journalistic responsibility."
"Nowadays, we tend to get amused at such publications," he added, according to Russian News Agency TASS
China issued a similar
response to the allegations on Thursday, claiming the story undermined the Times'
credibility.
smart traffic they say? Wowsers. I always wanted those lights to turn green immediately (when Im around).
And 24/7 tracking, so they can give you personal ads on LCD billboards while you walk past.
And better yet: access to lock or unlock your front door for a 'repairman'. Yeah that will work out great. I always wanted to
hand the keys to my home to outsiders for safe keeping, but now its automatic!
Amazing. What a different life we would all lead in this Smart City. /s
John Bolton suffers a crippling shortage of olives.
Notable quotes:
"... "As far as I remember, the US coat of arms features a bald eagle that holds 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch in another, which is a symbol of a peace-loving policy," ..."
"... "I have a question," ..."
"... "Looks like your eagle has already eaten all the olives; are the arrows all that is left?" ..."
Meeting with US national security adviser John Bolton in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir
Putin made a comment about Washington's hostility that went right over the hawkish diplomat's
head. "As far as I remember, the US coat of arms features a bald eagle that holds 13 arrows
in one talon and an olive branch in another, which is a symbol of a peace-loving policy,"
Putin said in a meeting with Bolton in Moscow on Tuesday.
"I have a question," the Russian president added. "Looks like your eagle has
already eaten all the olives; are the arrows all that is left?"
About 15-20 minutes to get through (the facilitator seems like a bit of a wet blanket), but
fascinating to read, if like me, most of what you hear about Putin has been filtered through
the MSM.
A couple of reflections:
Putin does detail. He is courteous and patient. He is highly pragmatic and appears to be
widely (and, for my money, effectively) briefed.
For those of us lucky enough to follow VVP in his native language – it is indeed a
delight. (And – mind you – it was only after I took the time to follow him in his
native language that I was able to appreciate this person and his leadership abilities. If one
follows him through NYT – no chance that would give one an accurate picture.) He is erudite, informed, and has a wicked sense of humour, as shown in this clip: https://www.rt.com/news/442068-putin-olives-eagle-bolton/
Alastair Crooke
explains why the Khashoggi murder, while not unusual, has this large effect: When a single additional,
undifferentiated, snowflake can touch off a huge slide whose mass is entirely disproportionate to the single grain that
triggers it. Was Khashoggi's killing just such a trigger? Quite possibly yes – because there are several
unstable accumulations of political mass in the region where even a small event might set off a significant slide.
Or was is "an externality" of MbS reneging on a huge Lockheed Martin Arms deal in favor os S400? .
Notable quotes:
"... Photo needs a caption: MbS explains all to Khashoggi Jr. "We came, we sawed, he died". ..."
Photo needs a caption: MbS explains all to Khashoggi Jr. "We came, we sawed, he died".
pogohere | Oct 23, 2018 5:37:36 PM | 33
Barbara Ann @29
Best summary yet!!!!
You've been nominated for the 2018 Hildabeast Award.
To me the Kashoggi thing is simple, the Skirpal assassins (yes they were involved, amazing as this may seem)
screwed up. They confused Riyad Time with London time; they were still in bed together and not available to routinely
refine orders issued by the young King's secretary, an addict of pep pills
"... Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the midterm elections, including addressing questions of collusion and obstruction of justice. What do you ..."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the midterm
elections, including addressing questions of collusion and obstruction of justice. What do
you think?
This is what really happened? Booker pulled this man into the restroom because he noticed
the man's fly was undone, and Booker being concerned that it would project a negative
stereotype helped him out by vigorously checking the area multiple times. You can never be
too sure.
Satisfied that the mans fly was safe, Booker became fearful that he might have left his
fly down but also with a stuck on piece of toilet paper on a very personal spot such that he
himself might become a target of Republican ire if they were to notice. Booker pushed this
ingrate down to get the problem fixed simply because reciprocity is part of human societal
relations and Booker needed a hand (sorry no pun intended).
Hey, just two dudes making sure everything is good. What? Now this gay version of Stormy
Daniels is making a play for Booker's cash, all because of an innocent helping hand in the
washroom?
Makes you wonder what this disgusting world is coming to?
"We're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement," Trump said Saturday after a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada. "We're
going to terminate the agreement."
Can't find the episode but I believe Homer Simpson had the briefcase that US Presidents use
to control the US nuclear forces. It had three buttons:
– First Strike
– Retaliation Strike
– "Accidental" Launch
[Oct 21, 2018] Russian military grade poisons in UK obtain an interesting property: affected people survive
Fully applicable to UK: "There is nothing puzzling about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy. What an
aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight war kills reform, overnight
it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and
overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope." ~ Walter Karp
Reminds me of a Russian joke.
An old man comes to a doctor and says:
- Doctor, I am only 65, but can't have sex any more. My neighbor is 80, and he tells stories
about having sex with young women. Can you help me?
- I don't see your problem: you can tell stories, too.
'When she was offered the UN role, Haley reportedly recalled, "I told [Trump], 'Honestly, I
don't even know what the UN does,' " to which the crowd "erupted with sympathetic
laughter and applause," Blumenthal writes.
Baturally after saying she doesn't know what UN does Nikki got the job
TPTB sold Obama as 'prez for change',
Trump was the 'anti establishment maverick'
Haley would be murikka's 'first lady potus'
What's there not to like ?
"... "The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade ... to make sure that their energy does not go to market," ..."
The spoken word is known to be sticky. The quote tells us "Be careful with your words. Once they're said, they can only be
forgiven, not forgotten." Especially when it is the word of some high-ranking official. For example, the US Ambassador to NATO, which the day before, according to Reuters,
said the following, quoting the Agency: "If Russia does not stop the development of prohibited
weapons systems, the US will consider destroying them before they work."
How can you not believe Reuters? Okay there some dubious sources like NYT or WaPo, but it's the most respectable news Agency
in the world. The main provider of financial news on the planet -- the type of news
for the reliability of which people pay serious money. Because they make important decisions on their basis.
And now the whole world is holding its breath. Especially as days earlier the USA Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proudly declared that
the USA can organize sea blockade of Russia (washingtonexaminer.com).
"The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade ...
to make sure that their energy does not go to market," he said. To prevent the supply of Russian energy resources to the Middle East. It's
so scary. The impression is that WWIII is coming as a bunch of crazy lunatics in the USA are hell-bent on destroying Russia.
Suddenly, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, wrote on Twitter that she's not mean. And said only
that if Russia will continue to develop their weapons, and the United States will also have to
get the same weapons. And on careful reading of the transcript, it becomes clear that she
really did not talk about any weapon destruction. But nobody checked.
And for some reason no onein MSM asked the
question, and why supplies of Russian energy to the middle East that the Minister of internal
Affairs of the United States trying to prevent are needed. Was he talking about gas supplies to
Qatar? Or oil to Saudi Arabia? Or whether former Navy SEAL and Congressman Ryan Zinke drink or smoke something really strong.
No, nobody checked anything. Everyone just believed what the media gave us. Because not only
is absolutely impossible not to believe Reuters. especially when the whole world is waiting for
such fake news. Such news seems natural to the world in light of what is happening. Humanity is
waiting for an aggravation, and the press gives mankind an exacerbation. Moreover, all know the
fake news are distributed only by the Chinese and the Russians. And the free Western media
cannot lie.
Science fiction, philosophers and futurologists have been trying for several decades to
predict how the WWIII can begin. And now you and I know how it can start. It can start with the
fact that some stupid or corrupt (or both )news agency decides to get more WEB traffic.
That's why probably the creator of WWW Tim Bernes Lee recently announced that he was going
to produce alternative which will destroy this old WWW.
And may be for MSM just silence in case you are not sure, and avoiding excessive concern
about profitability are somewhat safer. Actually safer for all of us, not just MSM.
Christ was crucified because of the Russians. GRU and Putin conspired to poison him at the
Last Supper. The actual death on the Cross was staged to cover the poisoning.
"Highly Likely" Iran had a hand in it also. Judas was a 'Persian', of course, and would
have been a Shiite if he hadn't been suicidal and lived another 800 years or so.
Bellingcat is due with the official report shortly. Stay tuned.
Oh, boo hoo hoo!!! Muh FREEDOM!!! Things like that never happen in a free country. I wonder
what the American reaction would be if China sent all their HP laptops back?
The new story pointing to an Ethernet hack is clearly intended to act as support for
the original story but since the details are so different, and given that the entire report
is single-sourced, it has had the opposite effect among security experts who have started to
doubt the credibility of the original story.
In addition, online sleuths have started digging into the reporters themselves and
identifying previous errors in their reporting of security issues
Tony Vodvarka says:
October 1, 2018 at 2:01 pm GMT LBJ, running for a seat in the Texas state legislature, told
his campaign manager to spread the charge that his opponent had sex with pigs. Shocked, the
manager replied, "He doesn't do that! "I know, I know" said Johnson, "but make him deny
it."
If there is one thing that still unites Americans across the ever more intellectually
suffocating and bitterly polarized political spectrum our imaginations have been crammed into
like rush hour commuters on the Tokyo Metro, it's our undying love of identity politics.
Who doesn't love identity politics? Liberals love identity politics. Conservatives love
identity politics. Political parties love identity politics. Corporations love identity
politics. Advertisers, anarchists, white supremacists, Wall Street bankers, Hollywood
producers, Twitter celebrities, the media, academia everybody loves identity politics.
Why do we love identity politics? We love them for many different reasons.
The ruling classes love identity politics because they keep the working classes focused on
race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and so on, and not on the fact that they
(i.e., the working classes) are, essentially, glorified indentured servants, who will spend the
majority of their sentient existences laboring to benefit a ruling elite that would gladly
butcher their entire families and sell their livers to hepatitic Saudi princes if they could
get away with it. Dividing the working classes up into sub-groups according to race, ethnicity,
and so on, and then pitting these sub-groups against each other, is extremely important to the
ruling classes, who are, let's remember, a tiny minority of intelligent but physically
vulnerable parasites controlling the lives of the vast majority of human beings on the planet
Earth, primarily by keeping them ignorant and confused.
The political parties love identity politics because they allow them to conceal the fact
that they are bought and paid for by these ruling classes, which, in our day and age, means
corporations and a handful of obscenely wealthy oligarchs who would gut you and your kids like
trout and sell your organs to the highest bidder if they thought they could possibly get away
with it. The political parties employ identity politics to maintain the simulation of
democracy that prevents Americans (many of whom are armed) from coming together, forming a
mob, dismantling this simulation of democracy, and then attempting to establish an actual
democracy, of
The corporate media, academia, Hollywood, and the other components of the culture industry
are similarly invested in keeping the vast majority of people ignorant and confused. The folks
who populate this culture industry, in addition to predicating their sense of self
Oh, and racists, hardcore white supremacists, anti-Semites, and other far-Right wing nuts my
God, do they love identity politics! Identity politics are their entire worldview (or
Weltanschauung, for you Nazi fetishists). Virtually every social, political, economic, and
ontological phenomenon can be explained by reducing it to race, ethnicity, religion, or some
other simplistic criterion, according to these "alt-Right" geniuses. And to render everything
even more simplistic, each and every one of their simplistic theories can be subsumed into a
meta-simplistic theory, which amounts to (did you guess it?) a conspiracy of Jews.
According to this meta-theory, this conspiracy of Jews (which is headquartered in Israel,
but maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York, from which it controls the corporate media,
Hollywood, and the entire financial sector) is responsible for well, anything they can think
of. September 11 attacks? Conspiracy of Jews. Financial crisis? Jews, naturally. Black on Black
crime? Jews again! Immigration? Globalization? Gun control laws? Abortion? Drugs? Media bias?
Who else could be behind it all but Jews?!
"... Well, of course Russians are guity. And yes, and the asteroid was an agent of mammals and, if not for his hatred of the noble dinosaurs, everything would be OK ..."
The main benefit of trump, of course, is not that he is supposedly "a friend of Russia".
That is, somewhere at the subconscious there he might have a sincere feeling that make friends
with Putin, that would be cool, but it's at the level of vanity, and practical value on this is
zero.
But what is really cool that he became of catalysts of bickering in the American neoliberal
elite on all fronts -- aka "uncivil war". The world would be better off if this abomination of
elite engaged in mutual destruction and it would be even better if they engaged in mutual
annihilation.
occuserpens , September 29 2018, 03: 23: 13 UTC
Well, of course Russians are guity. And yes, and the asteroid was an agent of mammals
and, if not for his hatred of the noble dinosaurs, everything would be OK
Jerrold Nader is a genius . For example, he's the one who drew the analogy between
the alleged Russian meddling in the election and Pearl Harbor, who identified the indictment
against the 13 Russians as "absolute proof that the US was attached. ( https://www.nysun.com/editorials/jerrold-nadlers-war/90195/
).
Just what kind of genius I'm not sure , but obviously he has a keen mind and is a
great strategic thinker. People need to be wary of him, especially Democrats.
So they are continuing to turn on each other. I predict this will continue as they try to
'out victim' each other, and their logical inconsistencies become more and more evident.
Sadly this will likely turn violent, as the screaming harpies no of no other way to
resolve conflicts other than scorched earth.
Yep. Scorched-earth violence is capitalism's preferred method of dealing with it's
problems, as millions of people in the Middle East have come to learn.
There's nothing to cry about. Nothing at all has changed. The 1% owned the Supreme Court before adding Kavanaugh. I'm just
pointing out a little reality to all the useful idiots.
"... Your comment reminded me of a recent Dilbert cartoon: The pointy head manager issued a directive that from now on all employees must use company manufactured equipment, which caused all the employees to scream I Quit! ..."
We have always been at war with Oceania and they have always tried to hack us... (Unless they
knuckle under on trade deals, in which case they have been our friends forever and always
will be so.)
Your comment reminded me of a recent Dilbert cartoon: The pointy head manager issued a
directive that from now on all employees must use company manufactured equipment, which
caused all the employees to scream I Quit!
"... That means there is not a single person who cares about him enough to tell him he had toilet paper stuck to his shoe from whatever bathroom he was in all the way to the plane ..."
Some wondered how it had taken this long for the president to find himself in this
situation, while others questioned how the toilet paper had been on his shoe for so long
without anyone giving Trump a heads up.
I honestly cannot believe it's taken this long for Trump to board Air Force One with a
full strand of toilet paper trailing from his shoe. https://t.co/hLWrqKqsIK
That means there is not a single person who cares about him enough to tell him he
had toilet paper stuck to his shoe from whatever bathroom he was in all the way to the
planehttps://t.co/87Xz1rrxXQ
Oh God. Oh God. Is there no surcease? I know, silly question. Squalling protesters: Half of
the country seems fifteen years younger than its chronological age. Staged ire. Sordid passion
of the herd. Hysteria. Irrationality. Weird accusations. Savage feminists. As per custom, it is
all about how horrible men are.
One of the sillier sillinesses of feminists regarding us men, of whom they seem to know
little, is that we hate women, scorn them, want to abuse and hurt them and, most especially,
gang-rape them. See, men view rape casually. It's just something to do in a moment of boredom.
Like scratching, or wondering where we left our keys. It's because of our misogyny. The
Sisterhood seems to love misogyny, pray for misogyny, invent misogyny because without it life
would be bleak and devoid of meaning.
What is wrong with these baffled ditz-rabbits? Men hate women? By and large, our mothers
have been women. Yes, check it out. Also our wives and girlfriends, grandmothers,
granddaughters, daughters and–this will astonish the more ardent among
feminists–even many of our friends. And, often, our collies.
As for regarding rape causally: If some dirtball raped anywoman close to me, I would favor
subjecting him to a sex change with a propane torch, knee-capping him as a mobility-reduction
measure, giving him a beating of the sort popular with dentists who want Porsches, and putting
him in Leavenworth for thirty years. Sensitive readers will suggest that I am a psycho for
proposing such effective and extremely meritorious measures. Admittedly they run counter to the
trade winds of American jurisprudence. But a great many men will quietly say, "Right on,
Fred."
But: Rape is a crime. The standard is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As well as I
can see, the Kavanaugh charges do not even meet the civil standard of preponderance of the
evidence, since there seems to be little evidence to preponder. The accuser doesn't remember
when it was, or where it was, or just who was there, and those she thinks were there don't
remember the party.
Since I am actually in a mood for noting things, I will note that any girl in my high school
class–King George High, class of 1964–could accuse me of raping her at a party, and
do it with similar evidence: none. Equally with Kavanaugh, I would have no way to defend
myself. How could I prove what I hadn't done at a party nobody remembered after 55 years? This
would be no defense against the presumption of guilt. Girls I dated would report that I had no
such inclinations. Surviving teachers would remember–well, perhaps imperfect behavior,
but nothing lubricious. This would prove nothing.
However, this first accusation against Kavanaugh has the virtue that it could have
happened, since there is no proof that it didn't happen. The same could be said of course of
the charge that I raped whoever some girl might say that I had. Ah, but now we come to the
gang-rape business. We have:
"Swetnick, who attended High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, swore under oath that she
attended at least 10 parties where she says she witnessed Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and
others "cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped' in
a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys." She added that she has a "firm
recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their
'turn' with a girl inside the room,"
First, "cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented." This displays a common theme
among feminists, painting girls as helpless, easily manipulated victims, having no will of
their own. Is this not truly insulting to girls? "He didn't tell me beer had alcohol in it and
I didn't know boys were interested in sex, I thought it was just us girls ."
But, just as the problem with the first story is no witness, the problem with the gang rape
is too many witnesses. "At least ten parties ." Since it is unlikely that a girl would come
back to be gang-raped a second time, this implies at least ten victims. While it is true that a
rape victim often will not come forward because of embarrassment, it is curious that not one of
the violated multitude said anything, even though everyone at the party would have seen the
line-up. None of the other girls at the party said anything either, even though this was a
frequent occurrence. Is it not odd that the author of this story, seeing long lines of boys
engaging in rape, at party after party after party, saw no particular reason for reporting it?
That the many other girls witnessing this also said nothing? This is a song sounding mightily
of fabrication. Which must be obvious to senators who, though morally challenged, are not
stupid.
I also think that former AG Harris should lead off her questioning with "When
investigating President Clinton, did you ask Monica Lewinsky under oath if Mr. Clinton came
in her mouth?"
Then start questioning his sexual history. I'm curious if he ever had sex with two women.
Or a guy and a woman.
About 35 years ago, at a party in San Francisco where everyone was very drunk, now Senator
Feinstein sexually molested me. Don't remember the date or location or anything else, but it
happened, I swear!
Naturally, want to remain anonymous to protect my integrity, but it did
happen! She shoved me down onto my knees and ground her crotch in my face. It was terrible, I
can still recall the horrible smell to this day! The stench was a combination of rotting
flesh and urine. Makes me nauseous just thinking of that sexual assault. INVESTIGATE this
serial molester!
Oh and I forgot to add . . . where a poll shows that 85% of Democrats believe Ford
and 85% of Republicans believe Kavanaugh . . . you know it's purely politics, because
there's nothing substantial and fact-based to go on. report spam
"The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open,
and, if necessary, to blockade ... to make sure that their energy does not go to market."
The insanity never stops. So, if you can't beat your competitors, then resort to violence?
SMH.
Following Europe's victory over the United States in golf's Ryder Cup, Trump has told the
EU that the United States will invade Europe unless the result is reversed immediately. The
reporter was then hit on the head by a baby's rattle.
...Any young guy reading this blog marry a woman from overseas. The women here are
miserable and rich. You will never be happy if you marry an American citizen.
what will society be like 50 years from now? I posit:
- Man and women will now have to be chaperoned when they are together when
they meet (hmm I do believe Islam has that covered).
- Man and women will not be allowed to be in the same room together (for you never know what could happen, right!) (Hmm I do
believe that Islam has that covered too!)
- Men will no longer be able to look lustfully at a women, that could be construed as assault! (Hmmm women will have to dress
less provocatively – wow – Islam has that covered too it appears there is a trend here!
"... How come the guys in the Southern and mid-Atlantic colonies didn't feel the need to accuse raucous women of being witches in order to get them back to their senses? ..."
"... I can imagine Southern or mid-Atlantic colonial men would tell the misbehaving women to knock off the nonsense or they might tell the women to stop bothering them while they're drinking ale. ..."
With more to come this is just the beginning (similar to the actual Salem witch
accounts, which grew over time)
How come the guys in the Southern and mid-Atlantic colonies didn't feel the need to accuse
raucous women of being witches in order to get them back to their senses?
Hackett Fischer readers might say the colonists and settlers came from different parts of
England and different parts of England treated women differently.
I can imagine Southern or mid-Atlantic colonial men would tell the misbehaving women to
knock off the nonsense or they might tell the women to stop bothering them while they're
drinking ale.
You don't go overboard and accuse women of being witches just because the uproarious
broads are getting on your nerves.
Hillary Clinton is too evil to be a witch, she is a demon sent from Hell to destroy us,
men and women alike.
not wanting to go public but hired an attorney and took a polygraph, supposedly. Her story contains only two claims: Kavanaugh tried
to rape her and she feared for her life. Everything else will be "I don't recall".
"It is past time for Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to pull the plug on
American engagement in Syria and terminate the seemingly endless cycle of wars in the Middle
East."
Orange Clown's a liar whose presidential campaign was a calculated bait and switch fraud
from the beginning. Our presidential poseur obviously had no intention of following through
on most of his pre-election intimations and campaign promises.
... it appears that 21st century sexual politics now affords women the best of all worlds. She may now participate as an equal
in dorm party drinking games with men.
And yet she remains so vulnerable that 35 years later an alleged incident involving the exposure of a (presumably flaccid)
male member - as a result of such activities - seemingly merits serious investigation as an 'assault'...
Arguing the Constitution with Brennan is like arguing the Bible with an Atheist.
hansenwtLeader -> KCMark
Except Brennan will be in charge of something again in the next Democrat Presidency....if
you vote Democrat....Anyone that remotely acts like Brennan, (not a partisan
argument)...should never ever be allowed near the levers of control of this country....the
2016 election has proven this.
In Paris, a great piece of street furniture called pissoir had been invented in 19
th century, and it made city life easy. Men could pop in and pee for free and
without bother. But the feminists objected to it, and the spirit of capitalism supported them.
A free facility is already a beginning of hated socialism. Rapidly, the number of street
urinals went down from 1200 to one. Instead, pay booths suitable for men and women came into
existence. These structures demand money, take time and are complicated to use. The feminists
were happy, money-charging descendants of Vespasian (the Emperor who said 'money doesn't smell'
and introduced a toilet tax) were very happy, but men weren't so happy to pay for something
they always had for free. So the men preferred to pee outside. And Paris stunk to high
heaven.
Squeezed between malodorous streets and feminist fury, the Paris Town Hall created a new
sort of urinal: open-air one, zero privacy, just pee and go away. Not much of a luxury, nothing
for women to be envious about. And they weren't envious, – just furious. They assaulted
the hated symbols of male patriarchy with concrete, pouring it down the drain, and quickly
blocked them and made them unusable. I suppose the owners of pay-as-you-pee supported them, and
probably even supplied them with concrete at slashed rate, but it is just my wild guess.
Anyway, now Paris stinks again, and the feminists may use this reason to hate men.
And now this toilet war had been carried out to the outer space. There was a strange recent
incident on the International Space Station (ISS). The pressure in the station had dropped.
In the search of a possible leak, a small (2 mm) hole had been discovered in a wall of the
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. The hole was located near the toilet and
covered by decorative fabric.
The US astronauts demanded that their mission be aborted and they return to earth; the
Russian cosmonauts just glued the hole with a bit of epoxy and the flight went on.
It was promptly established that it was not a result of a meteorite strike; the hole had
been drilled. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosm said that it was probably done by a homesick
astronaut. This version was considered just too bizarre. It was dismissed by all and sundry as
a new proof of Russian goofiness. The preferred version said that the hole was drilled by a
Russian worker on the ground, immediately before take-off, as you would expect from inept
Russians.
ORDER IT NOW
However, it is possible that Rogozin was right. I have heard from people in Korolyev
(Russian Houston) a very unusual if unverified story that fits perfectly with the rest of
American toilet gender disorder. The setup is as follows. The ISS has an American, a Russian
and a common compartments, separated but interconnected. (The Russian segment is the docked
spacecraft). There are four astronauts in the Western sector, and two cosmonauts in the Russian
sector. Among the Westerners, there is one lady.
Though the astronauts are carefully checked, still in the space things could run into
uncharted territory. The story from Korolyev says the lady objected to their toilet
arrangements as demeaning for her as a woman, and tried to readjust the equipment to fit her
requirements. The men did their own readjustment and complained about the feminist. In a short
while, the delicate toilet in the Western sector had been broken beyond repair, for nothing is
simple in the space, not even going to loo.
And the big grown men, ex-Navy and ex-Air Force captains and commanders, had been reduced to
use diapers on the daily basis. It is not only unpleasant to use: the ISS has no storage for
such a mass of used and stinking diapers. The Western sector began to stink like Paris streets
or worse.
By that time, the astronauts became mightily upset by the lady's extravagant behaviour, and
they complained: "Houston, we have a problem! Please take her home!" Houston, or NASA, had two
objections to granting their wish. One, diversity and female equality had to be maintained at
all costs. The second objection was money.
Now only the Russians have the means to take astronauts to the station and back home. Though
the US had landed a man on the Moon many years ago, they still have no working shuttle to fly
men to ISS. The inept Russians still have their spacecraft, though their best shuttle The
Buran and their best space station Mir had been dumped during the pro-Western
stage of Russia's political orientation at American insistence. The Americans have to pay a
hefty sum to the Russians for each flight, and evacuation of the virago would punch a hole in
NASA budget, bigger and more painful than the hole in the ISS hulk. That's why Houston replied
breezily: "This is your problem, guys! Try to get along with her!"
The Russian toilet and shower worked fine, and the Americans at first tried to use it. But
after a quarrel (and alas, people forced to live in close quarters are likely to quarrel), the
Russians objected and barred the Western astronauts from their Soyuz. The lady's mental health
deteriorated, and stench and floating excrement made her miserable and vicious; and eventually
her companions decided to implement a smart plan. When the two Russians went out to space for
scheduled work, the Americans made their way to the Russian module (there are no locks in the
ICC) and drilled a hole, sealing it with a sealant and covering with decorative fabric.
It was a creative and working idea. The sealant held on for a while and didn't burst
immediately. The pressure in the station is quite low, only one atmosphere, so the hole didn't
present a mortal danger for the team. If and when the leak were found, it would be possible to
insist on emergency evacuation of the crew, thus getting rid of the troublesome virago and
extricating themselves from the stinky hell while blaming the goofy Russians for the failure.
And the best part of it: the hole is in the section of the Soyuz capsule that is jettisoned
during its return to Earth, thus eliminating all evidence of the foul game.
But the plan didn't work out. The Russians closed the hole with a better epoxy sealant and
refused evacuation. Keep shitting in your diapers, gentlemen! The Western commander jerked into
the Russian module, shouting "I, as a commander, will decide what to do about it", and he tore
off the sealant. The Russians told him: "You are the station commander, but on board the Soyuz
you're just a guest", and they bodily kicked him out and re-sealed the hole.
The cosmonauts reported to Korolyev (the Russian flight control centre), and Korolyev asked
Houston to show them video records from the American module to check who went with the drill to
the Russian module. The Russian sanitary block (and that is where the hole was drilled) isn't
monitored for privacy reasons. Houston refused outright.
The situation on the ISS remains tense; the Russians apparently used force to evict the
Americans who tried to drill more holes. The Americans are unhappy as they have to spend all
their nights and days with the troublesome woman, and their toilet still does not work. Now
they hope that the US will soon be able to send a new all-American commercial private shuttle
to remove them, for NASA is adamant in their refusal to pay Russians for the evacuation, and
the Russians do not want to do this job for free. The latest reports
speak of "whodunit in space" and of Russian cosmonauts planning more examination of the outer
walls.
Thus the feminist-induced gender disorder of the West had almost caused disaster, – if
you believe this story.
Dream on it would take a Henry 8 Lenin and Trotsky type revolution to
get rid of affirmative action.
If it ever happens, the first thing to do would be to put every judge and their families in
some kind of detention center, close down every state and federal courthouse and completely re
write the constitution to give all power to the elected executive and legislative branches.
Every woman and minority organization would have to be treated the way Henry treated the
monasteries and Lenin and Trotsky treated the Russian counterrevolution.
I'd say only White men with 4 grandparents born in the USA be allowed to vote, but the
damage was done between 1964 to 1973 or so by native born American White men.
The feminazis are just fronts for the cannibal capitalists who used them to destroy the
private sector unions, lower wages for everyone and create a docile work force eager to work 80
hours a week for 40 hours wages.
I'd love to be the commissar in charge of ending affirmative action and punishing those who
created and enforce it.
The international working classes are racists. They are misogynists. Xenophobic transphobes.
They do not think the way we want them to. Some of them actually still believe in God. And they are
white supremacists. Anti-Semites. Gun-toting, Confederate-flag-flying rednecks. Most of them
have never even heard of terms like "intersectionality," "TERF," and so on.
They do not respect the corporate media. They think that news sources like the Washington
Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and so on, are basically propaganda
outlets for the global corporations and oligarchs who own them, and thus are essentially no
different from FOX, whose pundits they believe every word of.
Their minds are so twisted by racism and xenophobia that they can't understand how global
capitalism, the graduated phase-out of national sovereignty, the privatization of virtually
everything, the debt-enslavement of nearly everyone, and the replacement of their so-called
"cultures" with an ubiquitous, smiley-faced, gender-neutral, non-oppressive,
corporate-friendly, Disney simulation of culture are actually wonderfully progressive steps
forward on the road to a more peaceful, less offensive world.
Now this has been proved in numerous studies with all kinds of charts and graphs and so on.
And not only by the corporate statisticians, and the corporate media, and liberal think tanks.
Why, just this week, Mehdi Hasan, in an exasperated
jeremiad in the pages of The Intercept , that bastion of fearless, adversarial journalism
owned by billionaire Pierre Omidyar, proved, once again, that Donald Trump was elected because
PEOPLE ARE GODDAMN RACISTS!
"You know, there's a handful of people that run everything. That's a fact, I'm not some
conspiracy nut. A handful, very small, elite run and own these corporations, which include
the mainstream media.
I have this feeling that whoever's elected president when you win, you go into this smoky
room with the twelve industrialists capitalists scum-fucks who got you in there.
And a big guy with a cigar goes:
'Roll the film.'
And it's a shot of the Kennedy Assassination from an angle you've never seen before. It
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ANAHEIM, CA -- In a fiery speech delivered to students at the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend, former
President Barack Obama reportedly urged young voters to get out there and ignore how many lousy candidates the
Democratic Party runs.
"We're experiencing a crisis in our democracy that can only be stopped by showing up to vote for people who
will fight for transformative change, but until we start offering that, please just go to your polling place and
cast your vote for whichever mediocre Democrat is on the ballot," said Obama...
WASHINGTON -- Finding themselves increasingly annoyed with the inexplicable and infuriating
persistence of their feeble socioeconomic inferiors, America's rich and powerful were at a loss
Wednesday as to exactly when the rest of the country would finally relinquish all hope and
simply give up, sources close to the 1 percent confirmed.
"What exactly is wrong with them? I mean, there's no possible way they'll ever stop us from
getting everything we want, so the poor -- and I suppose what's left of the middle class -- are
only delaying the inevitable," said one outrageously wealthy citizen, speaking on expectation
of anonymity and adding that, realistically, no one in their right mind could possibly see the
use of struggling against those who control the nation's media, financial, and political
institutions.
"I suppose I should admire their sheer animal persistence, but, Christ, it's been over since
we somehow got them to accept that trickle-down bullshit. I know, I know, we tied their
education to their property taxes to encourage them to ass-fuck themselves almost as hard as
they ass-fucked their neighbors, but to think they're so stupid they can't get the concept of
'being fucked' through their thick skulls?"
At press time, the nation's most wealthy and influential citizens said they felt a sense of
renewed hope and optimism upon realizing how few poor people had voted in recent elections.
In the late 1980's, an old friend of mine based in Moscow was calling her husband in the USA
late one night. She said it was a "typical dumb husband/wife call," mostly about a broken
garage door.
Around midnight, a gruff voice broke into the call. "This is your KGB listener. This is the
most boring, stupid call I've ever listened to. Shut up and go to bed!"
Ah, those innocent Cold War days. Today, Big Brother listens to your calls, reads your
email, and follows your internet searches on silent cat's feet.
China's Taoists warned, "you become what you hate." They are right: the September 2001
attacks on the US, as John Le Carré wrote, producing a period of temporary psychosis.
America was knocked back to the ugly days of Sen. McCarthy's Red Scare of the 1950's. The big
difference was that today the bogeymen of "terrorists" have replaced menacing Marxists. And
today, terrorists were everywhere.
To incompetently attempt to murder their targets by spraying the deadliest nerve agent in
existence onto the doorknobs of their suburban homes and then stroll around getting filmed by
every CCTV camera in Britain.
As far as I know, the British tabloids haven't yet published surveillance photos of Corbyn
welcoming the Skripal assassins at Gatwick with a wreath, or a bottle of Stoli (and wearing
his
Russian-stooge hat , of course), but I won't be terribly shocked when they do.
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and satirist based in
Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing
(USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23 , is
published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
"... 'Clearly' is an English term which is subject to national interpretations. In Canada – mostly English-speaking – it traditionally means, "supported by verifiable and compelling evidence", although I hasten to add that Canada cheerfully booted out 'Russian spies' to support its ally, Britain. ..."
"... But in England, 'clearly' might mean 'as required to serve in the cause of political necessity'. In this instance, if the passports/visas/whatever travel documents of the men concerned do not read "GRU Assassin Traveling on Business", then clearly there was an attempt to circumvent British checks. ..."
Two alleged Russian spies who launched the Salisbury attack smuggled novichok into the
UK through Gatwick Airport, the security minister has confirmed.
I see! So now the disciplined and highly trained GRU assassins were spies as well.
Proper jack-of-all-trades!
Ben Wallace, who is currently Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime, " told
the House of Commons there was 'clearly some form of attempt to create a legend to make sure
that they circumvented our checks'.
'No doubt at the other end of that aeroplane journey [in Russia] there was some, I
should think, the baggage checks weren't probably as good as they might be,' he added "
-- because the Russians are all blithering incompetents stands ter reason, dunnit!
" Mr Wallace said requests for Russia to account for what happened in Salisbury had
been met with 'obfuscation and lies', saying their response merely 'reinforces their
guilt'. "
Of course it does! Why don't they just confess to what everyone knows they have done?
'Clearly' is an English term which is subject to national interpretations. In Canada –
mostly English-speaking – it traditionally means, "supported by verifiable and
compelling evidence", although I hasten to add that Canada cheerfully booted out 'Russian
spies' to support its ally, Britain.
But in England, 'clearly' might mean 'as required to
serve in the cause of political necessity'. In this instance, if the passports/visas/whatever
travel documents of the men concerned do not read "GRU Assassin Traveling on Business", then
clearly there was an attempt to circumvent British checks.
I have no choice. I must don the mantle of greatness and take the reins of the country.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I will run for the office of dictator, or
President in American parlance.
Readers may ask, "But Fred, what makes you think you are qualified to be President?" To
which I respond, "Nothing. But have you seen what we have now? You want a White House with
John Bolton in it?"
You see.
I append here a few of the enlightened policies which I will effect. Hold your applause
until the end. Interspersed for perusal are a few slogans that I may use to incite your
fervor.
One: I will end all policies hostile to Cuba. I will not make life difficult for
eleven million perfectly good people to please a ratpack of phony Cubans afflicting Miami. In
fact, I will offer Havana a twenty-billion-dollar loan if they will take the bastards back.
Cuba poses no danger to anyone. They have good cigars. They should be left alone to live as
they please and drink mojitos. If nutcake Republicans protest my policy, I will have them
stuffed into an abandoned oil well. Along with the pseudo-Cubans.
Two: Elizabeth Warren will be required to take a DNA test to see whether she is a
wild Indian. If she is, she will have to wear feathers. Otherwise, to see a psychiatrist.
We have nothing to be afred of but Fred hisself! Has a classic ring, don't you
think?
Three: I will end the Afghan war in an afternoon, relying on use the exit strategy
proposed by James P. Coyne, the Sun Tsu of our age:
"OK, on the plane. Now ."
If Lindsey Graham complains that we need to kill more puzzled goatherds, I will have him
inserted into the oil well on top of the Republicans and pseudo-Cubans, with Oprah tamped
down on top as a sort of cork. There is nothing in Afghanistan that Americans need or want,
except opium products, and private enterprise now provides these in abundance. Check the
nearest street corner, or ask your kids.
Four: I will make membership in AIPAC a felony, and remind its members that I could
have Oprah temporarily removed from the oil well to make more room. Aipackers can act as they
please in their own country–I will not meddle in foreign affairs–but leave ours
alone.
Fred! Ahhhhhh . This has a nicely orgasmic quality that will appeal to the younger
demographic. It represents the satisfaction that my rule will bring to the entire
country.
Five: I will end all sanctions against Iran. Then I will sell those Persian rascals
airplanes and cars and electronic stuff and towel softener and lock them into the American
economic system. This will make Boeing and AT&T and Intel love me with the deep sweet
love that never dies, at least as long as the money flows, and there will be lots of jobs in
Seattle.
Six: I will bring charges of treason against the contents of the Great Double Wide
on Pennsylvania Avenue. The evidence is incontrovertible. The first rule of empire is Don't
Let Your Enemies Unite. Everybody who has an empire knows this. Except us. Inside the White
House a bunch of apparently brain-damaged political mostly left-overs, suffering from Beltway
Bubble Syndrome, push China, Russia, and Iran together like some kind of international
spaghetti-grope LGTBQRSTUV threesome. Who are our dismal leaders really working for?
China?
A Fred in Every Pot This makes no sense, you may say. No, but we are doing
politics. It is almost iambic pentameter, like Shakespeare. It will lend class to my
campaign.
Seven: I will keep the F-35 program. It provides a lot of jobs. However, I will but get
rid of the airplane. Isn't this brilliant? Instead of building the thing, workers will dig
holes and fill them in, but keep their current salaries. It will improve their health, and
make America safer. The fewer dangerous things the children in the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel
have, the less trouble it can cause.
Better Fred than Dead! Some readers will dispute this. What do they know?
Eight: I have been urged to end affirmative action on the grounds that things
should be done by people who can actually do them. This is racist. I will have nothing to do
with it. Instead I will make affirmative action democratic and inclusive. Everyone will
qualify for it. Special privilege should not be restricted to a minority. It isn't the
American way.
Fred! Good as Any, Better'n Some. Good thinking.
Nine: I will abolish NATO. America should find a cheaper way to control the
vassals. There is of course the bedtime story that NATO exists to confront the Russkies, and
only incidentally provides a compulsory market for American armament. Nuts. Russia cannot
seem dangerous to anyone who wasn't dropped on his head at some formative juncture in life.
Smallish population, low military budget.
Likewise South Korea, which has twice the population and forty times the economy of the
North. If it wants to defend itself, it has my blessing. If it doesn't, it isn't our
problem.
Tippecanoe and Frederick Too! This may require exhumation, but for this we have
backhoes.
Ten: I will make a modest reduction in the military budget, say seventy-five
percent. To keep the soldiers happy I will invest in high-throughput roller coasters, a
shooting range with BB guns, and really loud speaker systems that say Va roooom and
Bangbangbang and fzzzzzzzzboom. These will provide psychic emoluments of
martial life without the murder.
Eleven: The money thus saved I will use on pressing domestic problems. LA has
68,000 homeless people on the streets, San Francisco loses conventions because of so many
homeless defecating on the sidewalks, Portland has homeless riots,. The lower primates in
Antifa and BLM rend such social fabric as any longer exists. Dams are aging. Our trains are
out of of the Fifties. And we spend a trillion a year on goddam aircraft carriers?
Fred? Well, Got a Better Idea?
Twelve: As an educational reform, I will have the Department of Education filled
with linoleum cement, the occupants being left inside. This will raise the national IQ by at
least three points. I will pass an amendment to the fragments of the Constitution saying, "No
federal entity or person shall say, think, suggest, or do anything whatever regarding
schooling on pain of garroting." Part of the savings from lowering the military budget will
go to purchasing garrotes. The duration, content, and nature of the schools shall be left to
localities without exception.
Thirteen: The father of any girl subjected to genital mutilation will be awarded a
free gender reassignment operation, preferably with tin-snips. Genital mutilation should be
inclusive. The father will then be placed for two weeks in the bottom of a public latrine in
Uganda. If this doesn't suffice to deter the practice, I may be forced to adopt extreme
measures. A country that allows such treatment of daughters deserves to go to hell. And seems
to be.
Fourteen: I will impose a literacy test for voting. People too dim to find their
way home should not be permitted to influence policies they have never heard of and can't
spell. Yes, this might be called illiberal. If so, it will doubtless be the only example of
illiberalism in this meritorious list.
Fifteen: In higher education, I will prescribe horse whipping for anyone saying
microaggression, white privilege, whiteness, patriarchy, safe space, people of color, racism,
any kind of phobia, or "Resist" in a squalling voice with an exclamation point. No curriculum
containing the word "Studies" will be permitted.
Sixteen: Anyone prescribing Ritalin for children under twenty-one will be thrown from a
helicopter.
In conclusion, I say to my yearning public, There, you, see, there is hope. Together we can
do this. See you at the polls.
... ... ...
Fred Reed is a former news weasel and part-time sociopath living in central Mexico
with his wife and three useless but agreeable street dogs. He says it suits him.
As commented elsewhere, all her screeching about double standards for women are utter BS. She
broke the rules while playing against another woman and not a man. The men's tennis league is
utterly irrelevant since she may as well have compared her league to men's football. She
failed by the standards of her league and not those of another. It was clear that she was
breaking the rules of her league and she was the one that escalated the conflict. It has
nothing to do with women's rights.
The PC drones are rather mentally deficient. They respond to trigger phrases and not to
concepts or principles.
Australian cartoonist Mark Knight is in trouble with J K Rowling and other self-styled
guardians of who may portray Serena Williams in meltdown and who may not. The offending
drawing below:
Salisbury (dpo) - Last doubts over Russia's guilt in poisoning
former spy Sergei Skripal have been eliminated. As the British government announced today, the
passport of Russian president Vladimir Putin was found at the scene in Salisbury.
According to Prime Minister Theresa May, the passport was only now found in another search
of the scene, as it had been hidden under a fallen leaf.
Nimrata Randhawa alias Niki Haley says she has intelligence that Putin and Assad were seen in
wal mart with a shopping cart full of Clorox bleach which indicates a chemical attack for
sure. she also said when the US bombed Syria because of the last chemical attack Putins
passport was found in the rubble
I have mixed feelings about the op-ed. Should Anonymous stay? But that's collaboration.
Should Anonymous go? But that's abandonment; who then would take the idiotic letters off the
mad king's desk? (And by the way, who put those idiotic letters there?)
One thing that makes all of this complicated for me is that Trump rarely seems even to care
about actual policy anyway. Sure, his team totally subverted him on the recent NATO summit,
but I have a strong hunch that DJT just wanted to yell at Angela Merkel on TV, and so that is
his actual "policy" and nobody prevented him from doing it. Metaphysically, is it possible to
stage a coup against a leader who has ALREADY abdicated but has not publicly acknowledged the
fact of the abdication?
The Coup Against Trump is completely meaningless -- he
did not achieve anything he promised to his electorate. Look like he effectively already actually abdicated his position.
How can you say Trump has done nothing? Hasn't he built the Wall? Hasn't he ended military
operations in the Middle East? Hasn't he destroyed North Korea's nuclear program? Didn't he
write the tax cut law all by himself? Hasn't he banned all Muslims? Hasn't he brought back
coal to where it was 100 years ago? Doesn't he have the best words, like "anomonous" and
"covfefe"? Doesn't he hire the best people? Doesn't he eat the best chocolate cake?
I'm sooo glad I'm alive at this point in history. If I had been born at a different time,
I would never believe these things could be happening. It's like watching Jim Jones and
Marshall Applewhite and Charles Manson all rolled into one and multiplied by 100.
I just saw a column by a progressive-liberal columnist, Will Bunch, at philly.com with the
headline " President Trump is not well. Congress must curb his power to start a nuclear
war. ".
That has been my take on affairs sine some time: Trump is just the mouthpiece of, and strong-armed by the Media Military Industrial Intelligence Complex (MMIIC).
Full disclosure: I despise Trump for a great number of reasons.
Even fuller disclosure: I despise with a vengeance the Intel community, which has taken over the media and the DNC and are
the Jesuits of the MIC.
"... There is a bit of self-contradiction in the US govt statements. They admit it's a civil war. That implies there is more than one side. But then the goal is stated that there is to be one leader to be approved by ALL Syrians. That is not possible. It's not even possible in the US. ..."
The administration spokesperson called for "a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to
all Syrians and the international community, unlike our own situation here in the United
States" Apparently his full quote was cropped before going out to the stenos.
There is a bit of self-contradiction in the US govt statements. They admit it's a civil
war. That implies there is more than one side. But then the goal is stated that there is to
be one leader to be approved by ALL Syrians. That is not possible. It's not even possible in
the US. And no lesson was learned from the latest forgotten war - Libya - which now has
3 governments amid anarchy caused by US/NATO/Qatar/S-A actions. Maybe Assad should invoke the
memory of Lincoln who was faced with a rebellion and ask what business is it of the US to
interfere.
Democrats should realize that had their sins not been so grievous against the American people,
God would not have bestowed such a punishment as President Trump upon them ;-)
So the USA, which has invaded Syria with large numbers of soldiers, weapons, and aircraft,
and has built permanent bases there *without permission from the government of Syria*,
demands that all Iranians leave Syria? Even though the Iranians are in Syria at the explicit
invitation of the Syrian government?
Arrogance and hypocrisy can hardly be taken any further.
The logical implication of this US government position is that the USA does not recognize
the Syrian government, and does not consider Syria to be a sovereign state. Yet the Syrian
Arab Republic is a member in good standing of the UN, and is recognized by other UN members -
even including the USA.
"... I am interested in another, a very simple question: why? Why would Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea interfere in the US midterm elections? What they want to achieve. All right, let's drop all the others, let's just talk about us, Russians. ..."
"... The same hackers who broke into the DNC and stole Hillary Clinton emails now will steal midterm elections. But from whom? Do you understand anything? Personally, I don't understand anymore. Which Party we support? Who is the target of our effort to interfere in the USA elections. Are we promoting Repubs or DemoRats ? ..."
"... Perhaps the head of the US national intelligence Daniel Coates is right when he declared that "their goal is to divide and undermine our democratic values." Well, let's suppose that we really are against those sacred values. ..."
"... But the midterm elections will still be held, despite any interference. And one of candidates will win, while the other will lose. If we see no difference in candidates why we should interfere? ..."
"... Looks like Daniel Coats think that the world government is us. No, I'd certainly like the idea, even if this requires smoking something really strong (let's use Musk as a lodestar ;-). But I'm afraid we're not capable to serve in this role. After economic rape of 1991 we are too poor. And to serve the role of world government you better be rich. ..."
"... why we Russians should interfere in already completely messed up US elections, which typically equal to a force choice between two equally unacceptable candidates, already chosen and vetted by neoliberal elite. Like Trump vs. Hillary. why we should play this game of "the lesser evil." It's plain vanilla stupidity. ..."
According to popular belief, the cold war ended with the victory of the United States of America. And, accordingly, the demice
of the Soviet Union. However, what exactly represent such a victory is not that easy to understand. Instead of one conservative,
and therefore predictable player, the United States received a half dozen countries, of which only three or four are loyal, with
other living by "the laws of jungles" (sorry free market). The number of aimed at American cities Intercontinental ballistic missiles
with nuclear warheads remained approximately the same as before the infamous "victory." And strategic atomic submarines remained,
and strategic bombers. There are less of them, for sure, but they are more modern and more dngerous with more sophisticated weaponry.
In any ccase remaining are still enough to make the winner to feel like a loser after b=neclear apolaipsys. And the idfea of victory
is that the victor is the master (in this case the master of the plant). Am I missing something ?
Of course, another inquisitive observer will tell us about the controlled chaos, about the growing influence and plans for the
establishing of the world neoliberal government. I was impressed by the recent revelation of Senator John Tester, who said that Putin
is promoting communism in America. As the idea that this senator is a complete idiot who does not understand the Russia rejected
communism as a dead-born system is pretty absurd. I would venture to assume that it might be that Russia did something that can with
some stretch be qualifies as an attempt to influence the USA election, but, alas, Putin has no strategic plan, not the intention.
First of all this would be pretty idiotic idea as two candidates were equally bad for Russia and it was completely unclear who is
worse.
But all those crazy US neocons still managed to imposed on Russia sanctions because of its "interference in the elections." That
tells us something about the US congress. I do not want to write about the lack of evidence and absurdity of the arguments again.
I've already written a lot about it. No, let's stop talking about the past and try to look into the future.
The US President's national security adviser John Bolton (who theoretically should be a sanest person in the administration) recently
said that the US is concerned about the potential for interference in the midterm elections to the Congress of four countries. Russia,
China, Iran and North Korea. "I will not go into details of what I saw or didn't see, but I tell you that in the 2018 elections,
these four countries raise the greatest fears," proclaim this highly placed Presidential adviser.
Theoretically it make some sense. Any man with a knife has a potential to kill. Any country with nuclear weapons has the potential
to strike at the US. Any country with developed IT has a potential opportunity to interfere in elections with the help of cyber attacks.
For example, Israel. But it is not a good idea to scare the American voter with Israel. No, he/she should be confused, and he/she
should be afraid of potential menace. And this external enemy should unite fragmented by neoliberal excesses country (for this purpose
those good-for nothing people grazing in State Department and Spaso House (The US embassy in Moscow) should constantly accuse the
Russian authorities of all sorts nefarious activities. So there is nothing new here: Great Britain uses similar dirty tricks against
Russia for centuries. I am interested in another, a very simple question: why? Why would Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea
interfere in the US midterm elections? What they want to achieve. All right, let's drop all the others, let's just talk about us,
Russians.
What do we want? Let's say we want the midterms to be won by the Republicans. Then explain to me why Republican John Bolton fears
this. If there's anything John Bolton should be afraid of, it's that Russia will intervene in the midterms in order to win the Democrats.
But The Washington Post writes that "the leaders of the Democratic party of the United States fear the potential interference of
Russia and start to increase its presence in anticipation of the interim election cycle on such platforms as Facebook and Twitter."
President Trump writes on Twitter that Russia will" make a lot of effort " to intervene in the midterm elections on the side of the
Democrats. Microsoft claims that Russian hackers created fake websites of Republican organizations in order to collect information
about Republicans. The same hackers who broke into the DNC and stole Hillary Clinton emails now will steal midterm elections.
But from whom? Do you understand anything? Personally, I don't understand anymore. Which Party we support? Who is the target of our
effort to interfere in the USA elections. Are we promoting Repubs or DemoRats ?
Perhaps the head of the US national intelligence Daniel Coates is right when he declared that "their goal is to divide and
undermine our democratic values." Well, let's suppose that we really are against those sacred values.
But the midterm elections will still be held, despite any interference. And one of candidates will win, while the other will
lose. If we see no difference in candidates why we should interfere? If the net result for us anyway will be the same: more
sanctions? Here we should go back to the idea of "controlled chaos" and world government. Looks like Daniel Coats think that
the world government is us. No, I'd certainly like the idea, even if this requires smoking something really strong (let's use Musk
as a lodestar ;-). But I'm afraid we're not capable to serve in this role. After economic rape of 1991 we are too poor. And to serve
the role of world government you better be rich.
Again the question arise, why we should interfere in he USA elections. Only if we are out for revenge, "eye for eye" principle
as they interfered in ours. There's no other reasonable answer. But even in this case, why we Russians should interfere in already
completely messed up US elections, which typically equal to a force choice between two equally unacceptable candidates, already chosen
and vetted by neoliberal elite. Like Trump vs. Hillary. why we should play this game of "the lesser evil." It's plain vanilla stupidity.
And before we get the answer to this fundamental question "Why?" there can be no further questions. None. Moreover, no other questions
are needed. So let them just explain to us why we should interfere and how we can benefit from such an interference, and we will
try our best. Before that, let's just watch.
And when they explain this to us, we can communicate the answer to China, Iran and North Korea free of charge.
The op-ed is nauseating because it tells us the truth why they do it: Because conservatives got
their tax cuts, deregulation and all the other conservative politics that gamble with people's
lives. It's disgusting.
I am outraged at describing Trump's administration as a "pirate ship"!
Pirate ships were in
reality the most egalitarian institutions that existed in the 17th century. Their articles
laid out that both the captain and quartermaster (who divided the spoils) served at the
pleasure of their crew, and that the entire crew had rights to a fair portion of the
proceeds.
On a real pirate ship, Captain Trump would have lost his job long ago and been abandoned
on some tiny island with a single shot in his pistol.
For the establishment media, socialism is an extremely flexible thing.
On one hand, socialism has failed and been discredited. It's followers have already
abandoned it. Any poor soul who still gives it a second thought is an anachronism deserving of
public humiliation.
On the other hand, socialism is a scary force that is taking over everything. Socialism is
hiding under your bed, lurking around every corner, is plotting to take away your children, and
destroy everything that is good in the world.
The title comes from another bit of satirical self-parody from
the
NYT.com , August 24; Alex Jones don't got nothin' on these dudes, Barnes and Rosenberg:
"WASHINGTON -- In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit
warnings about Russia's intentions to try to tip the American presidential election -- and
a detailed
assessment of the operation afterward -- thanks in large part to informants close to
President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.
"... C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org . ..."
Personally, I'm rooting for the Democrats to take control of the House in the midterms,
purely for the sake of entertainment.
After calling this ass clown a Russian spy and Literal Hitler for the last two years,
they're going have to at least pretend to impeach him, or else stage a series of
internationally-televised neo-McCarthyite congressional hearings to root out the diabolical
networks of Putin-Nazis that have infested America, and Britannia, and the rest of the
West.
That's the main thing, after all. Yes, the corporatist ruling classes need to make an
example of Trump to dissuade any future billionaire ass clowns from running for high office
without their permission, but even more so, they need to put down the "populist" opposition to
the spread of global capitalism and the gradual
phase-out of national sovereignty that began with Brexit and continued with Trump, so they
can transform the smoldering remains of the Earth into one big happy neoliberal market run by
supranational corporations and the "democratic governments" they have bought and paid for
which
Damn, I think I may have gone and opened a rather enormous can of leftist worms right at the
end of this essay by mentioning the "national sovereignty" thing. So, leftists, please ignore
the previous paragraph. National sovereignty is the same as nationalism. Nationalism is very,
very bad. Internationalism is good. Internationalist socialism is what we all want. Okay,
admittedly, the forces of internationalist socialism appear to be well, somewhat marginal at
the moment (or possibly virtually non-existent), but that's not a problem, because the global
capitalists will be happy to internationalize everything for us, and to do away with all those
nasty nationalists, and that national government-subsidized healthcare and university education
and all that stuff.
So let's forget that I mentioned national sovereignty, because that's all Putinist Trumpism,
and so on. There's absolutely no reason at all for leftists to discuss that subject, or to view
it in any kind of larger historical or geopolitical context or anything. Once the global
corporate empire finishes their Privatization of Everything, I'm sure they will be open to
considering socialism. They'll probably even let us vote on it. By then,
they will have cleansed the Internet of all the discord-sowing Putin-Nazis so there won't
be any danger of being "influenced" to vote the wrong way or anything.
In the meantime, don't forget to do your part in the War on Trump, Putin, Assad, Corbyn, and
whoever else the corporate media tell us we're at war against. Forget about global capitalism.
Keep obsessing about Donald Trump. And if you get tired of obsessing about Donald Trump, you
can always
call Corbyn an anti-Semite , or
accuse Glenn Greenwald of working for Putin , or, if you've got some free time and want to
get creative, compile a Directory
of International Assadists , or some other paranoid pseudo-blacklist. Every little
contribution counts!
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and satirist based in
Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing
(USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23 , is
published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
And on and on, and on, it goes and will continue to go until 2020, unless Trump decides
to attack Iran, which I doubt The Resistance® will let him do, because that would get
extremely weird, as they would somehow have to simultaneously support another US war of
aggression and condemn Trump as Adolf Hitler for starting it. Oh, and also, they would have
a hard time explaining why Putin had ordered his stooge in the White House to attack
Russia's ally in the Middle East. So, probably, no attack on Iran.
..Robert Mueller, who is doggedly investigating allegations that the President of the
United States is a devious Russian intelligence asset personally planted in the Oval Office
by Vladimir Putin, the Russian mob, and a conspiracy of crackerjack "cyber-influencers,"
who brainwashed millions of American voters into betraying Hillary Clinton, and the nation,
with a bunch of emails and some Facebook posts, and who are even now waging "a chaos
campaign to undermine faith in American democracy."
If only there was an Agent 99 to bring some levity and balance to Robert Mueller's Maxwell
Smart personna then everything would be complete.
Oh, wait; sorry – that's the United States. Yes, in another manifestation of his
incredibly cunning cunningness, Trump has rolled out a new master-plan to bring Russia to its
knees: withdraw the United States of America from all international organizations that will not
take orders from POTUS. That will show those borscht-eating bastards! Next up in the crosshairs
the WTO.
Rather like Janet Jackson's nipples,
It's been a while since we've seen the Skripals.
Not so long ago they were all over the news
As official drones droned their official views.
They said that in Salisbury wherever you look
Lurked sinister types splashing novichuk.
Door handle specialists had been imported,
Or so the BBC unquestioningly reported.
A laundry list of despicable acts
Only vaguely coincident with the salient facts.
Boris Johnson wasn't sitting on the fence,
He don't need no stinkin' evidence.
'It was them Russkies wot dunnit, no doubt about that',
Said the country's pre-eminent diplomat.
KGB thugs sent to put the boot in,
By Mr. Evil, Vladimir Stalin Putin.
Novichuk's lethality was re-emphasised again,
More deadly than others by a factor of ten.
Yet somehow miraculously the Skripals survived,
In Salisbury General they inconveniently revived.
And that was all we heard for a while
Bar a weird statement in machine-prose style.
Then a curious video right out of the blue
That looked like an advert for flyaway shampoo.
A chilled out Yulia said she was contented,
And consular access had not been prevented,
But no, she didn't want to meet up with her kin
(Not that the government would let them in).
The whole production was charmingly informal,
As though poisoning and exile were perfectly normal.
This remarkable young woman's taken it all in her stride,
Seemingly happy to go along with the ride.
Her boyfriend, her job, her dog and her flat
All peremptorily dumped at the drop of a hat.
The un-fake corporate media performed as tasked
Ensuring awkward questions remained unasked.
And all this ludicrous b-movie rigmarole
Was discreetly d-noticed down the memory hole.
The legal and diplomatic situation's now clear:
'Move along sir, nothing to see here.'
That's more or less what George Carlin insinuated: "The middle class does all the work,
pays all the taxes while the wealthy class takes all the money and pays none of the taxes and
the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class .keep asking for all those
jobs".
And if authoritarian governments happen to relatively low IQ societies (like Germany
in 1933?), we might ponder this:
A truly authoritarian leader would have the sole power to :
– declare war unilaterally and frequently;
– issue 300,000 national security letters, administrative subpoenas with gag orders that
enjoin recipients from ever divulging they've been served;
– control information at all times than any monarch in history under the National
Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.
–torture, kidnap and assassinate anyone anywhere at will.
Personal freedom in an authoritarian state would be limited by
– secretly banning 50,000 people from flying and refusing requests for an explanation
– imprisoning 2,000,000 people without trial
– executing 2,000 people each year prior to arrest.
In a real an authoritarian state there would be
– warrantless surveillance of private phone and email conversations by the NSA;
– SWAT team raiding homes;
– shootings of unarmed citizens by police;
– harsh punishment of schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance;
– endless wars;
– out-of-control spending;
– militarized police;
–roadside strip searches;
– roving TSA sweeps;
– privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans;
– fusion centers that collect and disseminate data on citizens' private transactions;
– militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition
Jeff, you're wrong! I saw through the RussiaGate farce back in the fall of 2016 when I was
living in Vermont, USA & first wrote this piece of satire as "The October Surprise" but
couldn't get it published anywhere even as a letter-to-the-editor in our censorious press, so
updated it to in time for the Jan. inauguration though without publication anywhere either:
"The Red, White & Blue Plush Revolution"
"The Old York Times missed it but back in October, a Bernie backer in the basement of the
Vermont Teddy Bear factory in the village of Shelburne, Vt. confessed to Green Mountain
Investigators that she, not Putin! had hacked the DNC emails to reveal that the Democratic
National Committee had sabotaged her candidate.
Furthermore, she explained that 'Fancy' and 'Cozy Bears', about which there had been CIA
allegation-turned "fact" and much media hysteria regarding their 'Russian Identification',
are actually two of their most popular plush products. So thanks to all of the free media
marketing, the factory geared up and met the demand for a bear in every Vermont Christmas
stocking and made enough profit to mail a free baby bear to every Vermont family for the New
Year!
But since Bernie didn't get it & made the Big Mistake of campaigning for Hillary,
Goldie Lock, who was previously best known for her expertise in sewing button eyes on the
bears and never suspected of being a hacker, together with her backers at the factory, has
called a press conference to declare that 'It Only Took a Village' to depose a phony after
they demanded that 'Hillary must go!'
So now they've got 4 years behind the scenes of the next DC Reality Show & its
mainstream-media-fake-news to restore The American Republic which had been divided &
almost conquered by the 1% & its media: The Old York Times, The Bezos Post & the rest
of the me-too-media.
LET THE RED, WHITE & BLUE REVOLUTION BEGIN!"
*footnote: I did not vote for Trump, nor Lady Hillary Macbeth!
"... Kudos to you for pointing out the obvious. Be careful though, this kind of talk can easily get you labelled as a racist, a fascist, as "literally Hitler" and Vladimir Putin's homosexual lover. ..."
"The progressive Democrats who are pushing for single payer healthcare still miss out on
other issues. They also support higher wages, but are, at the same time, against
restrictions on immigration."
Kudos to you for pointing out the obvious. Be careful though, this kind of talk can
easily get you labelled as a racist, a fascist, as "literally Hitler" and Vladimir Putin's
homosexual lover.
Bottom line: the Democrats give lip service to supporting higher wages, but in reality
they support low wages, hence their opposition to moderating the rate of immigration.
"... "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ..."
"... "In our system of government, everybody gets what the majority deserve." ..."
Mencken turned his scathing wit and rhetoric of ridicule on the political elite of American
society with a sense of humor missing from today's political journalism.
President Wilson was "the archangel Woodrow," Harding "that numskull Gamaliel," Hoover "Lord
Hoover." William Jennings Bryan was "a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany with no sense of
dignity. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the
company of rustic ignoramuses."
Electing Calvin Coolidge, he wrote, was like being presented with a sumptuous banquet and
"staying your stomach by plucking flies out of the air." When once asked why if he despised
politics so much he wasted his time writing about it, Mencken answer was simple: "why do people
go to zoos."
... ... ...
For all his flaws, Mencken had a keen insight into the American political scene. If you
doubt that, finish by pondering this observation:
"On some great and glorious day the plain
folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron."
"... Shortly before Hersh started covering the Pentagon for the Associated Press in 1965, Arthur Sylvester, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, berated a group of war correspondents in Saigon: "Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid." ..."
Shortly before Hersh started covering the Pentagon for the Associated Press in 1965,
Arthur Sylvester, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, berated a group of
war correspondents in Saigon: "Look, if you think any American official is going to tell
you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid."
Thursday, the New York Times decried Trump's accusation that the media are "the enemy of the
people." "Insisting that truths you don't like are 'fake news' is dangerous to the lifeblood of
democracy. And calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' is dangerous, period," said the
Times .
In the Cold War the USSR undertook an enormous (but futile) exertion to block our news and
propaganda; we, confident that we were in the right, didn't bother.
A parrot tells English firefighters to "Fuck Off!" when they try to rescue her.
Later, a more contrite bird is ordered by her owner to humbly say "Thank you" to the would-be rescuers.
It's time for everyone to come off Twitter – it is like writing your message on your buttocks with a black sharpie and dropping
your trousers. Tweets are the kind of stupid thing you send out at the end of work after you've had a bastard of a day, and something
you read or hear pushes you over the edge....
I've always wanted to be a Putinbot. I think it would be a great job. Hoping for my KGB
badge. I've got my KGB watch (even though its made in Germany), just need my badge now (hope
it isn't made in China).
Hammer it and remove all EMF's. An old microwave over works as a Faraday cage. Also; if you take a cell phone and wrap it in
just a layer or two of aluminum foil; it will not make or receive calls.
It looks like the top counterintelligence guy in FBI did not understand that texting with your mistress during working hours
on FBI supplied phone might be a career limiting move ;-)
Americans see the Russians as greatness deniers. Their European lackeys are their
greatness-acknowledgers -- even when it's detrimental to their own survival.
If the world was a theater, Americans see themselves as the only performers -- the role of
the rest of the world is to applaud their performance.
Russia is not a part of the audience, it's not even a heckler. It's a performer, it has
always been, and a very talented one too. To try to demote them to the role of spectators, or
to try to usher them out of the concert hall can be suicidal, they have enough musical
instruments to put on a remarkable concert -- even if afterwards no one is left to
applaud.
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