"... 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? "
'Trickle down effect' - the favourite buzzword of neoliberal supporters. I'd like to see
trickle down effect tried at the local pub on the taps by the local mp. Imagine what would
happen. Definitely doesn't pass the pub test.
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.'
'Trickle down effect' - the favourite buzzword of neoliberal supporters. I'd like to see
trickle down effect tried at the local pub on the taps by the local mp. Imagine what would
happen. Definitely doesn't pass the pub test.
That'd be like astronomers saying that although Hellenic astrology is pseudoscientific nonsense they can probably do business
with Ptolemaic or Hindu astrology. Other scientists would laugh and call astronomy the dismal physics. Isn't it about time economists
like yourself just told the knuckle dragging ideologues - of whatever colour and salinity - to fuck off?
That'd be like astronomers saying that although Hellenic astrology is pseudoscientific nonsense they can probably do business
with Ptolemaic or Hindu astrology. Other scientists would laugh and call astronomy the dismal physics. Isn't it about time economists
like yourself just told the knuckle dragging ideologues - of whatever colour and salinity - to fuck off?
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.
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political 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 be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.
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.
" 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. "
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?
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
"... 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.
" 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.
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.
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?"
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
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.
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.
up 8 users have voted. --
Disclaimer: No Russian, living or dead, had anything to do with the posting of this
proudly home-grown comment
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:
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?
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.
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.
Ah, yes. Goldman Sachs is
famous for their "good work and integrity".
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said about $4.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB,
including some money that Goldman Sachs helped raise, by high-level officials of the fund and
their associates from 2009 through 2014.
US prosecutors filed criminal charges against 2 former Goldman Sachs bankers earlier this
month. One of them, Tim Leissner, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and
conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I'm sure it was just a "few bad apples", like Goldman Sachs's Ex-CEO
Lloyd Blankfein , who was personally involved in the transaction.
You might remember Lloyd from his doing "God's
Work" .
Ah, yes. Goldman Sachs is
famous for their "good work and integrity".
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said about $4.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB,
including some money that Goldman Sachs helped raise, by high-level officials of the fund and
their associates from 2009 through 2014.
US prosecutors filed criminal charges against 2 former Goldman Sachs bankers earlier this
month. One of them, Tim Leissner, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and
conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I'm sure it was just a "few bad apples", like Goldman Sachs's Ex-CEO
Lloyd Blankfein , who was personally involved in the transaction.
You might remember Lloyd from his doing "God's
Work" .
"... 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. ..."
... 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."
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.
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.
"... 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. ..."
... 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? "
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"
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.
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.
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.
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," ..."
"... "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/
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," ..."
"... "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/
"... 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?
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.
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 ?
'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
"... "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.
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."
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.
"... 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
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?!
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.
"... 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
"... 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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'...
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.
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.
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"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
looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll. Then the screen comes up, and they go to the new
president:
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!
Trumpenstein delivers magnificently for his constituency. Cheap fiat money for the jooie
banking usurers and wall street scammers. Continued destruction of the ME making the
bloodthirsty izzies and domestic jooies deliriously happy.
And for the MAGA white trash deplorables .a miniscule tax cut so they can afford a new
blue tarp to cover the trailer roof leak and maybe a new mumu for the 250 lb wife.
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...
"... "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. ..."
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.
"... "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... ..."
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...
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 .
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.
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.
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.
"... '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.
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. ".
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 ;-)
"... 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.
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.
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.
"... 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.
Notable quotes:
"... 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. ..."
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.'
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
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".
"... 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. ..."
"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.
"... 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. ..."
"... 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. ..."
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!
"... "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."
"... "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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
WASHINGTON -- Saying he just wants to fit in with his colleagues, shy Rep. Harold Olsen confided to reporters Wednesday that he often
feels left out of all the illegal activities going on in Congress and wishes his fellow lawmakers would include him in their crimes.
"I see everyone around me committing these...
WASHINGTON -- Feigning polite interest throughout the 90-minute meeting, Pentagon officials
from all five branches of the armed forces listened in silence Thursday as Mike Pence presented
his detailed plans for a state-of-the-art angel-guided weapons system. "Though we are grateful
for the vice president's interest in
WASHINGTON -- Suffering yet another unexpected setback during his ongoing investigation into foreign collusion with the Trump
campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller scrambled Friday to contain the damage to his documents after spilling an entire Grape Crush
Big Gulp all over his Russia evidence. "No, no, no! No! Aw,
WASHINGTON -- Saying that their investigation indicated her involvement in election interference went deeper than
previously believed, the FBI revealed Thursday that Russian agent Maria Butina traded sex in exchange for all 62,984,828 votes Donald
Trump received for president in 2016. "Our inquiry into Ms. Butina
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 ;-)
I had just finished exercising and went to the sauna. The gym I go to is a modern facility
with new equipment and is very popular in our city.
My favorite parts are the sauna and the steamer. Both remind me of my old country –
Russia. Though, to be politically and geographically correct – I never lived in Russia: I
was born and raised in one of the fifteen republics of the former USSR – the republic of
Kazakhstan.
So, I am a Russian from Kazakhstan. It's kind of confusing for Americans, and when
twenty-six years ago my American wife brought me here, the customs official gave me an alien
card where my nationality was stated not Russian but Kazakh. My friends make fun of me, because
Russians and Kazakhs are like apples and oranges. We look different
In 1992, when I arrived in America, the relationship between the two cold war rivals was
excellent: Americans traveled to Russia, opening McDonalds, KFC's, Burger Kings, and other
businesses, and Russians were opening not only their hearts but even the secrets of the
overthrown KGB. Millions of Russians and Americans enjoyed such a "romance" between the two
most powerful nuclear countries in the world.
Not anymore! Every morning I wake up to the words, "Russia is terrible," and go to sleep
with the humiliating jokes of the "night-show-clowns" about "the dictator" Putin and "barbaric"
Russians, whose 13 hackers changed the electoral minds of millions of naïve Americans.
Wow! What a powerful "gasoline station country"- Russia, as Senator McCain calls it.
If in 1992 the people in my city who heard my accent were very nice to me and to Russia, now
the usual reaction is to stare at me like a goat at the newly painted gates. One of my
neighbors even yelled at me when I answered his question about my recent trip to Russia. I told
him: "Russians like Putin because he saved their country from collapse. I saw with my own eyes
how Russia has changed since my last trip there. I didn't see the impact of Obama's sanctions,
Russians have better roads, than we have in Colorado; the shops, are filled with all kinds of
products; the churches are restored "
My neighbor who didn't like Trump yelled at me: "If you like Russia go back to your
country!" My answer was: "I love Russia but I am American – like your immigrant wife,
like you. I love America for a lot of reasons, one of them – the right to speak! Nobody
should privatize this right." He ran away, later coming to apologize
My wife, knowing my hard-tempered character asks me not to talk about policy –
Putin-Trump anymore. And I don't, to a certain degree. However, when someone asks me about
Russia or Putin I usually answer, giving my point of view; I just cannot be silent. I was
silent for 40+ years living in the USSR, not anymore! Of course, not everyone likes my answers,
like the man I am going to tell you about.
So, I went into the sauna; a stout man was sitting on the upper bench. He was the same age
as I. Many of the older men in America call ourselves "old farts." The name is not offensive to
us, because we really do not care about our image, and because we like to make jokes about
everything, mostly about ourselves. Usually, we old farts are nice, we love to talk, even in
the sauna. Young people nowadays do not talk. They turn on their phones even in the sauna
– I bet they do not know how to talk with other people. They cover their "secrets" in
towels while we do not – we do not have any secrets anymore.
Anyway, the man said hello to me, I answered, and he caught my slight accent.
"Where are you from?" It's a question I am usually asked.
"From here." I answered.
He was a little confused. I knew what usually followed if I had said – "from
Kazakhstan." Usually, there would be an exchange of this type: "Where is it?" – "Between
Russia and China," – "How do you like it here?" The silly film "Borat" helped me for a
short period of time. People were smiling, as if they met Sasha Cohen, and I was happy that at
least they knew some geography, though the film was silly and the geography in it was
completely mistaken.
"No, I mean originally where are you from?" The guy, let's call him Tony, found the right
question.
I decided not to check his geography skills and said that I came from Russia. The dialog
that followed was remarkable. Here it is.
"Welcome to America! Your English is pretty good!"
"Yours, too." He didn't get my humor. "Just joking," I said, "As for welcoming, it's a
little late: I have lived here for 25 years."
"Have you been in Russia lately?" He asked.
"Yes, I go there every year."
"Wow. So, what do you think about that crazy guy , Pyutin?"
"Sorry, honey," – I apologized to my wife in my thoughts and picked up the gauntlet.
"You mean Putin? He is not crazy. Actually, he is one of the smartest rulers Russia ever had."
I said.
Tony's eyes nearly leaped from their sockets. "But he is a dictator and kills people!"
"I wouldn't call him a dictator – he was just last week elected by nearly 67% of
Russians. I would call him an authoritarian, strong ruler; but a weak ruler in Russia wouldn't
survive a day. Besides, there were seven people opposed him in the election!"
Tony smiled. "You call it an election? He chose the opponents himself from his friends. The
whole world knows that elections in Russia are a sham!"
"Who told you this nonsense, Tony? Did you listen to the debates? Did you hear how these
people yelled at each other and cursed Putin, asking people to vote for them not for Putin.
They really were as tough as Hillary to Donald! And besides, there were a lot of observers from
110 countries. They claimed the election was legitimate."
"No, I do not believe you."
"You may not believe me but I am citing the international organizations reports. You may
check their reports on the Internet yourself. You may even sue these organizations if you
wish."
Tony was silent for a minute, then turned his head to me and asked: "You know that Pyutin is
evil even to his own people?"
"You mean Putin? Who told you? How many Russians share your opinion?"
"McCain."
"Is he Russian?"
"No, but he knows that Pyutin is KGB."
"His name is Putin!" I tried to correct at least this in his mind. "So, you do not believe
me, a Russian, who just returned from Russia, but you believe this Senator, who hates Putin and
Russia? Besides, there are no KGB anymore."
"But he used to be KGB?"
"Yes, and Bush H. was also a CIA agent. So, what? After the collapse of the Soviet Union
there were no people who didn't work for government in that country, we all worked for
government! Putin is good for Russia, he is the brightest politician nowadays. He is like a
great Chess-master, and he is a dangerous player. We must be careful with him. Some Congressmen
are underestimating Russia, calling it "a gasoline station with nukes," but I was there this
summer and saw with my own eyes how much people love Putin, and how much he is doing to make
that country great again."
"Yeh, yeh, yeh " Tony didn't know what to say. Then he recalled something and turned his red
face to me. "Well, he invaded Crimea, and Ukraine!"
"No, he did not. Crimea was a harbor for the Russian navy, and according to the treaty
between Ukraine and Russia there were sixteen thousand Russian troops stationed there on a
permanent base. There were about twenty-three thousand Ukrainian troops there, too. So, when
the thugs in Kiev took power, illegally kicking out president Yanukovych and killing the
political opponents, the Crimean people decided to organize a referendum. Ninety-six percent
decided to reunite with Russia, as they were Russians for nearly 400 years before the Communist
dictator Khrushchev gave that peninsula to Ukraine as a present to his native land."
"But they had no right to secede from the main land of Ukraine!"
"Yes, they did. International law gives the right for self-determination to people.
Remember, we split from the British Empire."
"But it was so long ago!"
"Okay, what about East and West Germany or Kosovo? The people in these countries also
exercised their right of self-determination, but they didn't have any referendum as far as I
know."
Tony looked at me attentively. "I don't believe you."
"You have the right not to believe me. You asked, I answered."
Tony was silent for a while. Then he threw out his last argument. "I hope you wouldn't deny
that Putin killed British citizens recently, using KGB gas!"
Wow, he pronounced "Putin" correctly! I smiled. The nice face of my American wife appeared
in my head again, and she was not happy! I kissed her in my thoughts and finished the
conversation with my last knockout blow:
"I wouldn't deny it if the poisoning by Russians had been proved!"
"But it was proved by Teresa May!"
"Really? What did she say?"
"She said that it was Putin who poisoned the British citizens!"
"Not really, my friend. She said that it was "highly likely" that Russia did it! Besides,
only Mr. Skripal is a British citizen, his daughter is a Russian citizen"
"Does it make any difference?"
"You mean, "highly likely" is proof to punish somebody? What about one of the main pillars
of democracy – innocent until proven guilty?"
"But we believe our allies, not the Russians!"
That statement made me laugh. "You believe not facts but political statements without any
facts? Wow! What kind of democracy is that?"
Tony's face became so red that I was afraid it would melt. He stood up from the bench and
without looking at me firmly said:
"Russians are our enemies, and democracy does not apply to them."
He left, leaving me with a sudden fear of approaching nuclear war.
At night I prayed for peace. I prayed for American and Russian people-in-power who could
easily destroy this fragile planet. If people refuse to understand each other, they fight.
Kennedy and Khrushchev fortunately understood this. Will Putin and Trump understand?
Pavel Kozhevnikov was born in Kazakhstan. In 1992 he married an American woman and
relocated to Colorado, USA, where he worked in a variety of business ventures and taught
various subjects including Russian at Mitchell High School as well as at Pikes Peak Community
College and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Pavel continues to enjoy teaching
Russian at the local community college and university and devotes his free time to writing. He
has published four books of stories and poems as well as numerous articles for newspapers and
journals in Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
"... Cut to view of parade down Main Street USA of politicians and business people with computer keyboards hung around their necks. Many wear signs around their necks proclaiming their crimes. "I facilitated consumers to buy insurance policies for the ACA," says one. "I front ran the market for Uncle Sam," says another. ..."
Reactionaries will be purged. The Markets of Historical Determinism will demand it. Cut to
view of parade down Main Street USA of politicians and business people with computer
keyboards hung around their necks. Many wear signs around their necks proclaiming their
crimes. "I facilitated consumers to buy insurance policies for the ACA," says one. "I front
ran the market for Uncle Sam," says another.
The lines of armed guards lining the parade route are there to protect the penitents, as
various short action shots show. The crowd is in an ugly mood. Storm clouds lower in the
distance.
OTOH, remember all that money Jill raised from Dems for
the recount ?
Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein raised millions of dollars in 2016 to pay
for a recount after the electoral victory of President Donald Trump.
However, Stein's fundraising for the recount significantly exceeded what was actually
needed to pay for it -- and she tried to reassure her donors that their money would still be
well spent by promising to give them a say in how it got used.
However, the Daily Beast reports that Stein has so far not kept that promise and is
instead using money raised from her "recount" campaign to pay for legal bills related to
investigations into her possible contacts with Russia.
Fear is how you force persuade your own side and political opponents into falling
in line and supporting your policy ideas.
It's ironic that arguably the best-loved Democratic president ever came from a very
privileged background, connected with working class people, and absolutely did not need the
presidency to complete his life. The same guy who was stuck in a wheelchair for most of his
life and successfully guided the country (and the world) through two of the worst crises ever
in modern life -- the Great Depression and World War II.
"... First, the wrecking and diversionist-espionage work of agents of foreign countries , among whom a rather active role was played by the Trotskyists, affected more or less all, or nearly all, of our organizations-economic, administrative, and Party. ..."
"... Second, agents of foreign countries, among them the Trotskyites , penetrated not only into lower organizations, but also into certain responsible posts. ..."
Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers :
March 3, 1937
"Comrades!
From the reports and the debates on these reports heard at this plenum, it is evident that
we are dealing with the following three main facts.
First, the wrecking and diversionist-espionage work of agents of foreign countries , among
whom a rather active role was played by the Trotskyists, affected more or less all, or nearly
all, of our organizations-economic, administrative, and Party.
Second, agents of foreign countries, among them the Trotskyites , penetrated not only into
lower organizations, but also into certain responsible posts.
Third, some of our leading comrades, both at the center and at the periphery, not only
failed to discern the face of these wreckers, diversionists, spies, and killers, but proved
to be so careless, complacent, and naive that at times they themselves assisted in promoting
agents of foreign states to responsible posts.
These are the three incontrovertible facts which naturally emerge from the reports and the
discussions on them "
"... Donald Trump will follow the Canadian Saudi dispute with strong interest. He believes that "giving Canada their independence" was "the biggest mistake America ever made". In May he accused Canada of burning down the White House. It is high time to take revenge for that insult. ..."
"... Canada should note that its independence - graciously granted by Trump's America - can be revoked. The man who desires to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN may come to see the re-acquisition of the oil-rich but empty north American space as the climax of his political career. ..."
Dozens
of Saudi accounts sent the copy/paste tweet below to various addressees. They were
retweeted thousands of times.
خالد بن عبدالله
آل سعود @KAFTA78 - 18:29 utc - 5 Aug 2018
- Replying to @CanEmbSA
In Saudi Arabia we feel worried about Canada committing cultural genocide against Indigenous
people. We also support the right of Quebec to become an independent nation.
839 retweets 630 Likes
Donald Trump will follow the Canadian Saudi dispute with strong interest. He believes that
"giving Canada their independence" was "the biggest mistake America ever made". In May
he accused
Canada of burning down the White House. It is high time to take revenge for that
insult.
Canada has a controversial
$15 billion deal to provide Saudi Arabia with more than 900 'Light Armored Vehicles', 40%
of which are actually a Heavy
Assault type. The sanctimonious Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called them 'jeeps'. He
approved the export permits despite the acknowledged use of these tanks against internal Saudi
resistance and in the Saudi rape of Yemen. Donald Trump will happily accept the Saudi request
to move the deal to U.S. production lines.
There are rumors of a joint CIA-Saudi operation to arm Québécois moderate
rebels for their fight against the repressive regime in Ottawa. Codenamed Acor Sycamore , the operation will
purchase weapons in Bulgaria and Croatia and
secretly ship those to CIA trained freedom fighters. The Saudis will redeploy their
al-Qaeda and ISIS from Syria to occupy Canadian tar sands. The Israeli cyber spy company the
Saudis
hired to attack Amnesty International will be redirected towards Ottawa. Mossad will send
agents to sabotage Canada's Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve . The
move will increase demand for U.S. syrup products.
Canada should note that its independence - graciously granted by Trump's America - can
be revoked. The man who desires to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN may come to see the re-acquisition
of the oil-rich but empty north American space as the climax of his political career.
Justin Trudeau must immediately hop on a plane to Moscow and ask for Russia's support.
Firing his anti-Russian ,
Nazi descendant foreign minister may help to gain Putin's grace.
Trump's MAGA intentions are well known. The message the Saudis sent is clear. The CN Tower
will fall. Ottawa will be besieged. It is high time for Trudeau to act.
"What, now we're going to bicker over a hundred billion dollars and demand proper accounting?
" It's really handy to have that few hundred billion in ancillary funding to make your case more
convincing ...
Notable quotes:
"... All we can do is wait till the results are in. Putin is in full control of American politics and there is not a damn thing the people can do about it because he has mastered The Force ..."
"... The Force is so powerful, that only a few hundred of seemingly innocuous tweets and Facebook ads strategically placed around the country can cause most American's brains to be zombified and vote Putin's desires. ..."
Whether it will be Dems or Repugs will be HIS decision and his alone. All we can do is
wait till the results are in. Putin is in full control of American politics and there is not
a damn thing the people can do about it because he has mastered The Force.
The Force is so powerful, that only a few hundred of seemingly innocuous tweets and
Facebook ads strategically placed around the country can cause most American's brains to be
zombified and vote Putin's desires.
If you don't believe Putin has mastered the Force then explain why Russia can match the
American military on a budget less than 1/10th of the US?
STEPHEN COHEN: ...Are the Russians still targeting our elections?" This is in the category "Are you still beating your wife?"
There is no proof that the Russians have targeted or attacked our elections. But it's become axiomatic. What kind of media is that,
are the Russians still, still attacking our elections.
And what Michael McFaul, whom I've known for years, formerly Ambassador McFaul, purportedly a scholar and sometimes a scholar
said, it is simply the kind of thing, to be as kind as I can, that I heard from the John Birch Society about President Eisenhower
when he went to meet Khrushchev when I was a kid growing up in Kentucky.
...to stage a kangaroo trial of the president of the United States in the mainstream media, and have plenty of once-dignified
people come on and deliver the indictment, is without precedent in this country
"... Can't waste resources here at home assuring sound drinking water for all, no, we need to attack Iran because as the rumor has it that the "undemocratic" ..."
Can't waste resources here at home assuring sound drinking water for all, no, we need to
attack Iran because as the rumor has it that the "undemocratic"
Ayatollah is denying his
people the benefits of premium drinking water. Or something like that. I get confused.
Yep, you're a real James Bond. So they've been recruiting Trump for 21 years? Not 5? Not 8? Did you even read the damn dossier?
Not a word about "duping." The claim is that Trump was actively collaborating and that Putin's press guy was the mastermind in
this bullshit.
'Human intelligence compiled from anonymous sources is known to be the most reliable basis
on which to form judgements about important events. Nothing else provides such detailed insider
information from the very heart of enemy institutions.
'It is time people knew the truth. I have decided that it is necessary to reveal my own
notes from underground (scribbled on a table napkin in invisible ink this morning and just now
squirted with lemon juice). I cannot, of course, identify my sources, but I might suggest that
you look up Richard Meinertzhagen's "dirty paper method" (see footnote). I can also claim that
I have access to the highest echelons of the Russian government through somebody who knows
somebody, who is related to somebody, who went to school with somebody, whose neighbour
sharpens Vladimir Putin's hockey skates.
'These sources of mine tell me that the plot to place Donald Trump in the White House was
hatched not five years ago as claimed in the BuzzFeed report, but 13 years ago at an exclusive
banya in Sokolniki.
'According to Source BS, the concept for what became known as Operatsiia Tuz emerged during
a sweaty discussion over a dozen bottles of vodka, when oligarch Viktor Bogatyi announced that
he had an idea for a new television show. Aspiring kleptocrats would audition for a job as
Bogatyi's assistant and the losers would be eliminated one by one with his famous catchphrase
'You're shot!'
Hearing this, a senior GRU agent, Max Otto von Stierlitz, after a pause of seventeen
moments, suggested an alternative. Why not, said Stierlitz, pass the idea for the TV show on to
Donald Trump to use as a vehicle for making himself popular among the American people? It would
be the perfect mechanism to gradually push the Donald into a position from which he could
become President of the United States of America. The rest, as they say, is history.'
Yep, you're a real James Bond. So they've been recruiting Trump for 21 years? Not 5? Not 8? Did you even read the damn dossier?
Not a word about "duping." The claim is that Trump was actively collaborating and that Putin's press guy was the mastermind in
this bullshit.
I had this crazy dream last night. It must have been next year sometime, because it was the
opening ceremony for the Nord Stream II pipeline, in Germany. President Putin was there for the
ribbon-cutting ceremony (naturally), flanked by a beaming Gerhard Schroeder and Donald Tusk.
Maros Sefcovic was aglow with bonhomie as he presented the ceremonial silver shears, and a
beaming Petro Poroshenko, backed by members of the Atlantic Council, applauded politely as Mr.
Putin stepped forward to cut the ribbon.
As the two cut ends fluttered to the floor, a pig flew in through the open window, and
described a lazy parabola around the ceiling fixture. Stroking past me, it executed a casual
barrel-roll, winked, and burst into a cloud of red sparks: Lady Ashton – caught in
mid-clap – exclaimed, "Gosh!"
It looked like a Berkshire to me, although I am not a reliable judge of swine.
Woodford Reserve and Jefferson Reserve are both really rather lovely bourbons... takes
out the fire and keeps in the warmth.
Curious if anyone here has seen Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series, "Who is America?"
? It's the same schtick Cohen's been doing for years, some of which can be very funny.
But two episodes in he's already managed to get a few Republican lawmakers doing and
saying some pretty outlandish things.
The MSNBC/Brooklyn crowd are making hay about it, of course. But interestingly enough
it appears like he got the level of access he did (including getting Dick Cheney to sign
a "waterboarding jug") because he was presenting himself as an ex IDF Colonel. Not sure
if it was part of his intention or not, but beyond mocking American public figures it is
also putting it out there that most politicos in DC will do anything--no matter how
ridiculous or offensive--for the chosen people.
Great insight! I'm adding that to my Favorite Quotes archive.
As I pondered more deeply on your insight, I tried to imagine how the courtship proceeded. IMO, it was Clinton who presided
over the engagement of the neocons to the humanitarian bombers (R2P'ers). Then under Bush the relationship initially strengthened
due to 9/11 until the Iraq war became such an obvious mess that there was a brief cooling of ardor due to a still significant
antiwar contingent in the Dem party. Under Obama the antiwar Dems began to suffer something like "Stockholm syndrome" as few were
willing to protest against the black president of their SJW fantasies. This set the final stage for the neocons and R2P'ers to
commit to each other in "marriage" who then "adopted" the SJW's as their useful idiots.
So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit or Trump's meeting with his Russian
handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media would dearly like us all to believe. NATO has
not been summarily dissolved. Poland has not been invaded by Russia.
Notable quotes:
"... So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit or Trump's meeting with his Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media would dearly like us all to believe. NATO has not been summarily dissolved. Poland has not been invaded by Russia. ..."
"... And so, once again, Western liberals, and others obsessed with Donald Trump, having been teased into a painfully tumescent paroxysm of anticipation of some unimaginably horrible event that would finally lead to Trump's impeachment ..."
"... In the days and weeks leading up to the summit, the global capitalist ruling class Resistance deployed every weapon in its mighty arsenal to whip the Western masses up into a frenzy of anti-Putin-Nazi fervor ..."
So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit or Trump's meeting with his
Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media would dearly like us all to believe.
NATO has not been summarily dissolved. Poland has not been invaded by Russia.
The offices of The New York Times , The Washington Post , CNN, and MSNBC have not been stormed by squads of jackbooted Trumpian
Gestapo.
The Destabilization of the Middle East, the Privatization of Virtually Everything, the Conversion of the Planet into One Big Shopping
Mall, and other global capitalist projects are all going forward uninterrupted. Apart from Trump making a narcissistic, word-salad-babbling
jackass of himself, which he does on a more or less daily basis, nothing particularly apocalyptic happened.
And so, once again, Western liberals, and others obsessed with Donald Trump, having been teased into a painfully tumescent
paroxysm of anticipation of some unimaginably horrible event that would finally lead to Trump's impeachment (or his removal
from office by other means) were left standing around with their hysteria in their hands. It has become a sadistic ritual at this
point like a twisted, pseudo-Tantric exercise where the media get liberals all lathered up over whatever fresh horror Trump has just
perpetrated (or some non-story story they have invented out of whole cloth), build the tension for several days, until liberals are
moaning and begging for impeachment, or a full-blown CIA-sponsored coup, then pull out abruptly and leave the poor bastards writhing
in agony until the next time which is pretty much exactly what just happened.
In the days and weeks leading up to the summit, the global capitalist ruling class Resistance deployed every weapon in its
mighty arsenal to whip the Western masses up into a frenzy of anti-Putin-Nazi fervor. While continuing to flog the wildly popular
baby concentration
camp story (because the Hitler stimulus never fails to elicit a Pavlovian response from Americans, regardless of how often or
how blatantly you use it), the corporate media began hammering hard on the "Trump is a Russian Agent" hysteria. (Normally, the corporate
media alternates between the Hitler hysteria and the Russia hysteria so as not to completely short-circuit the already scrambled
brains of Western liberals, but given
the
imminent threat of a peace deal , they needed to go the whole hog this time and paint this summit as a secret, internationally
televised assignation between Hitler and well, Hitler).
I didn't realize that the Amerikan child/adolescent party game had metastasized and moved across the water-- but the Skripal farce
has turned into a game of Spin the Bottle , writ large.
[Wikipedia link]
Notable quotes:
"... I didn't realize that the Amerikan child/adolescent party game had metastasized and moved across the water-- but the Skripal farce has turned into a game of Spin the Bottle , writ large. [Wikipedia link] ..."
I guess whats even more pathetic about these stories like Skripal , perfume bottle/door knob Knovickok and Russia Gate is so many
people believe them. Witness the hysteria over the TP Summit in US media/comments. Without functioning brain cells escape from
the Matrix is impossible, and even then you have to have time to think anout matters beyond entertainment and survival, and many
people don't have the time in this neoliberal world of ours.
Lets face it, outside an alien intervention to save humans we are done. Lets hope that mission manual they bring " To Serve
Man" is not a cookbook
I didn't realize that the Amerikan child/adolescent party game had metastasized and moved across the water-- but the Skripal farce
has turned into a game of Spin the Bottle , writ large.
[Wikipedia link]
investigative journalist Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News.
Does anyone else see how appropriate it is that a nation of yahoos should get their
'news' , ahem, misinformation, from from a source so aptly named?
The truth is hiding in plain sight, we're being led by the nose, to God knows where,
apparently around in circles, all so a few insanely rich a**holes can become more insanely
rich.
I don't know about you, but I was a lot happier back when I could blame all our problems
on the republicans.
This free-for-all, bat-sh*t crazy propaganda surge, if nothing else, has made plain what
our betters think of us.
Investigative journalism courtesy of Yahoo News, what will they think of next,
intelligence services working tirelessly to keep America safe in a dangerous world?
Can't believe any sane American thinks Russians – including beautiful Russian tennis
players are more of a threat to us in 2018 then say M13 Gang banger invaders, Chicago Black
street gangs, Afghan and Pakistani child rapists or just the sub Saharan Black African mobs
with their machetes.
We commissioned some Farstar cartoons on this theme – seems pretty basic to me, but
the J media mafia simply goes on and on – there is supposedly a Russian spy behind
every bush, some Russians posted anti Hillary posts on Facebook – oh the horror!
Here it comes, the moment we've been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to
officially launch the Destruction of Democracy, and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That's
right, folks, once again, it appears we're looking at the end of everything, because according
to the corporate media, on July 16, 2018, Trump is probably going to
disband NATO so that Putin can invade the Baltic states, then Germany, then the rest of
Europe, and then presumably order an all-out thermonuclear strike on the United States, which
will pretty much end civilization as we know it. Or perhaps the plan is to do away with NATO,
withdraw
all American troops from Poland , let Putin rape and pillage Western Europe, and then have
North Korea nuke both coasts of the US mainland (and Canada, of course) so that a
Putin-Nazified Middle Amerika will have carte blanche to exterminate the Mexicans and make
women wear those "Handmaid" costumes, or some other ridiculously paranoid scenario, possibly
involving Susan Sarandon as some kind of Putin-Nazi triple agent.
Tragically, the global neoliberal establishment is completely powerless to stop Trump and
Putin from carrying out this evil scheme (whatever it turns out to be in the end), because even
the US Intelligence Community has to obey the law, after all, and not do anything sneaky, or
unethical, not even with the fate of democracy at stake. No, unlike the Russians, who go around
blatantly
poisoning people with novichok oatmeal more or less whenever they like, the global
capitalist ruling classes' hands are tied by their own integrity. All they can do is watch in
horror as these two Hitlerian megalomaniacs destroy their entire global empire and establish a
thousand-year Putin-Nazi Reich.
Thank God at least the corporate media are raising their collective voices in protest. In
a recent piece in The Washington Post , Max Bergmann of the Center for American
Progress warns that "this is a summit about appeasement, and we should be terrified that Trump
is going to sell out America and its allies." According to Bergmann, Trump might "accidentally"
share state secrets with Putin, or promise to reduce support for
our freedom-loving Ukrainian Nazis , or stop trying to overthrow the Syrian government so
that Syria, with the help of Russia and Iran, can launch a sneak attack on Israel and drive
"the Jews" into the sea. Worse still, Bergmann speculates, he might make "secret agreements"
with Putin without telling the editors of The Washington Post , which God help us all if
that ever happened.
Not to be out-apocalypsed by The Post ,
Roger Cohen of The New York Times published a full-blown dystopian vision wherein
Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, the AfD, and a variety of other globalist-hating Hitler-alikes
form "the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary States" (the "AARS"), disband the European
Union and NATO, impose international martial law, and start ethnically cleansing the West of
immigrants. Matteo Salvini and Horst Seehofer, decked out in full Putin-Nazi regalia,
personally supervise the genocidal purges, which frightened Europeans come to support after
Putin's irresistible "fake news" bots brainwash them into believing that a little Russian girl
named "Tatiana" has been abducted by Moroccan migrants off a beach along the Costa del Sol.
And as if that wasn't horrifying enough to whip folks up into a mindless frenzy, The New
York Times (which, let's remember, is an extremely distinguished and respected newspaper,
and not at all a cheap propaganda rag) produced
this charming little animated film depicting Putin and Trump as well, a couple of
tongue-sucking, titty-pinching homos. I found this kind of weird at first, as I had thought
such ugly anti-gay sentiment had disappeared from liberal society, but apparently it's fine in
Resistance circles to stigmatize your enemies as butt-humping queers in order to render them
more repulsive in the eyes of your sophisticated, liberal audience. I did a little research,
and it appears this "Hitler on Hitler" porno The Times produced is just the latest in
a rather long line of Trump on Putin "homo" jokes , which are perfectly harmless when told
by liberals, but when told by conservatives are homophobic hate crimes.
'Senator McConnell' always conjures the image and mannerisms of Colonel Sanders (ala
Kentucky Fried Chicken). White planter suit, broad-brimmed hat, weak-chin goatee and
unconvincing sales pitch.
Then again, beardless Mitch looks more like Toby Turtle, and what
he delivers is rarely worth a bucket of greasy chicken.
"One of the most disturbing displays of Obama's lack of foreign policy expertise came during last year's YouTube debate," Hannity
said Oct. 26, 2008. "The junior senator from Illinois gave what many called a naive answer for a question from the audience about
whether he would meet with the leaders of Syria, Venezuela, Cuba or North Korea without preconditions."
2018:
"A huge foreign policy win for President Trump," Hannity said March 8. "Little Rocket Man blinks. Now, the president's tough
rhetoric, his bold action, his severe sanctions, they appear to be working tonight. President Trump is accepting an invitation
to meet with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un by May...
"... I did a quick google search and examined several sources, and I have to admit that what I read about Sharia law sounded an awful lot like some of the things Vice President Mike Pence or Ted Cruz believe." ..."
Today at approximately 1:15pm, local Republican Voter Floyd Williams looked up Sharia law on a lunch break Google search and came
to the startling realization that it actually seemed a lot like the Republican Party's political platform.
"Well, I had just finished my tuna sandwich and I was letting my mind wander a bit when it suddenly hit me that for all my fears
of Muslims installing Sharia law in America, I didn't actually know the first thing about what Sharia law was or what it dictated,"
said Williams, in a phone interview with The Halfway Post this evening.
"So I did a quick google search and examined several sources, and I have to admit that what I read about Sharia law sounded
an awful lot like some of the things Vice President Mike Pence or Ted Cruz believe."
When Williams got home from work he did a little more research, but the renewed study only intensified his worry that, by voting
Republican for the last twenty years, he may have been already and unwittingly voting for Sharia law.
"From the GOP's religious-based opposition to ... , atheists holding public office, ..., the separation of church and state, taxing
churches and faith organizations, and so on, it just seemed like Sharia Law might have already been installed here in my beloved
Arkansas right under my nose," he said.
Williams shared his startling discovery with his wife, and though his wife Anne was skeptical at first, she too was quickly troubled
by the Republican Party's seeming theocratic approach to political issues. She even came up with some Sharia-esque Republican policies
that Floyd hadn't considered.
"My wife is as sharp as a tack," said Floyd, followed by a long list of more suspicious GOP ideas that his wife had added to his
growing list. "The GOP is also against equal pay for women many Republicans in our state legislatures want women to be forced to
birth babies after being raped or even if the pregnancy threatens their lives the Republican men in this town at least are all really
fond of purity balls and pretending they own the keys to their daughters' virginities
Our other Republican friends are convinced we shouldn't worry about climate change because God will solve it if it's really a
problem Republicans support Israel regardless of humanity crimes against Palestine over orthodox, apocalyptic hopes that Jesus will
come back and all nonbelievers will burn in Hell I mean the list of Sharia-sounding Republican issues just goes on and on!"
Asked if he still considered himself a Republican after his existential epiphany, Williams was unsure.
"Honestly, I don't know what I am anymore," he said. "But I'll tell you what, I'm gonna start pointing this stuff out to my friends
because I feel like all of us have been duped!"
"Beyond repair"? Come on, Paul -- Trump is a disaster, a horrible mistake and a reminder
that elections matter. But he's really pretty incompetent and weak. He's like a small, very
clumsy bull in a china shop. Once he's chased out, the place will get swept out, things put
back on the shelves and new stock purchased.
"... Instead she suggested pointing out that "Little Donald tends to draw the line between Fact and Fantasy in a Different Place that you and I might." ..."
As a teacher I once had a 4th grader who was an inveterate liar. One could never believe a
word that came out of his mouth yet the Principal, ever the Diplomat and Mistress of
Understatement, counseled against referring to the child as a Pathological Liar during parent
conferences (even though it was true, she agreed).
Instead she suggested pointing out that "Little Donald tends to draw the line between Fact
and Fantasy in a Different Place that you and I might."
"Only you can see this post because it goes against our standards on hate speech ..."
To give you an idea of the kind of automation in play and what words and ideas are being identified as running contrary to the principles
of media aggregators and distributors, consider that Facebook recently banned America's founding document from being posted.
Since June 24, the Liberty County Vindicator of Liberty County, Texas, has been sharing daily excerpts from the declaration
in the run up to July Fourth. The idea was to encourage historical literacy among the Vindicator 's readers.
The first nine such posts of the project went up without incident.
"But part 10,"
writes
Vindicator
managing editor Casey Stinnett, "did not appear. Instead, The Vindicator received a notice from Facebook saying that the post
'goes against our standards on hate speech.'"
The post in question contained paragraphs 27 through 31 of the Declaration of Independence, the grievance section of the document
wherein the put-upon colonists detail all the irreconcilable differences they have with King George III.
Stinnett says that he cannot be sure which exact grievance ran afoul of Facebook's policy, but he assumes that it's paragraph
31, which excoriates the King for inciting "domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages."
The removal of the post was an automated action, and Stinnett sent a "feedback message" to Facebook with the hopes of reaching
a human being who could then exempt the Declaration of Independence from its hate speech restrictions.
This is likely the 'offending' text: "the
merciless
Indian savages
, whose known rule of warfare, is
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and
conditions."
The truth is hate. I think everybody knows that by
now.
Thanks, here is some additional reading
material ..
The Unfortunate Fallout of
Campus Postmodernism- The roots of the
current campus madness
"In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune
entitled "In Front of Your Nose," George
Orwell noted that "we are all capable of
believing things which we know to be untrue,
and then, when we are finally proved wrong,
impudently twisting the facts so as to show
that we were right. Intellectually, it is
possible to carry on this process for an
indefinite time: the only check on it is that
sooner or later a false belief bumps up
against solid reality, usually on a
battlefield."
Anyone with a working brain cell can tell you that Facebook has been anti
Bill of Rights from the very beginning. They are actively collecting
information on everyone for the government. How does that coincide with
free people living in a free country? It doesn't. Throw Facebook on the ash
heap of history now.
Correction: "Over the last couple of years major social media, news and video
platforms have been
actively
engaged in the censorship
of what they believe to be [[fake news and
information]]
the truth
."
"... Thank God for the US ruling class. Less acute, less imaginative ruling classes might be tricked by the fact that Russia spends but a tiny fraction of its GDP on "defence" compared to the US/NATO. ..."
"... Who wants to go to an Ivy League college for years & years, only to end up "fighting" a complete grot like Osama ? He was just so -- well, ugly ! ..."
"... So, the Putin/Nazi enemy is just scads better. Putin is a living "Hannibal's at the gates" enemy (And let's face it: even your most blinkered six-pack flag waver was having trouble getting his head around new aircraft carriers, new submarines, new F35′s & new nuclear missiles to defend against the whole motley terrorist thing). ..."
I thank the author for his timely apology. At this critical juncture we must be wise to these
Slavic wiles.
Thank God for the US ruling class. Less acute, less imaginative ruling classes might be
tricked by the fact that Russia spends but a tiny fraction of its GDP on "defence" compared
to the US/NATO.
No, Russia/Putin's guile is at the level of 3D chess. Everyone knows that behind such
obvious inadequacy lies a Cujo- like bear, taunt, ready to spring at an instinctively
guileless US .
And, let's be honest here, the US deserves a better enemy than a bunch of shabby
"terrorists". There's something just so common about these ". "terrorists". Who wants to go
to an Ivy League college for years & years, only to end up "fighting" a complete grot
like Osama ? He was just so -- well, ugly !
Can you imagine Ellen doing an interview with him ? No !
So, the Putin/Nazi enemy is just scads better. Putin is a living "Hannibal's at the gates"
enemy (And let's face it: even your most blinkered six-pack flag waver was having trouble
getting his head around new aircraft carriers, new submarines, new F35′s & new
nuclear missiles to defend against the whole motley terrorist thing).
Only trouble is all this does tend to cast aspersions on such a great German/American as
Mr Hitler, who, 70 years ago did such sterling work combating the Russia/communist Evil .
the obsessive quality of the British establishment's paranoia about
Russia. That's probably because at the World Cup, the England soccer team is very
weak without its main asset, Sergey Skripal. ;-)
Can't wait until Trump invades the UK, deposes the royal family for treason,
kicks out the pakistani filth, dissolves parliament, seizes the City of
London, and restores the Stuarts to the throne.
Russiaphobes going bonkers. To damn funny. BTW Russian interference in US
elections has been internet postings only. What does that say about our
country's intelligence when some social media post sends the Snow Flakes into
a tizzy. What does that say about our future?
"... I subscribed to the NYT for a number of years. After the recent campaign and the current treatment of our President, Donald Trump, I quit. I am stunned at how these old media properties are being purchased and used for political activism on behalf of their owners and advertisers. ..."
"... The Gray Lady is an old SJW tranny, as far as I can tell.. ..."
I subscribed to the NYT for a number of years. After the recent campaign and the
current treatment of our President, Donald Trump, I quit. I am stunned at how these old media
properties are being purchased and used for political activism on behalf of their owners and
advertisers.
The Gray Lady is an old SJW tranny, as far as I can tell..
I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little tired of waiting for the Hitlerian nightmare that the corporate media promised
us was coming back in 2016. Frankly, I'm beginning to suspect that all their apocalyptic pronouncements were just parts of some elaborate
cocktease. I mean, here we are, a year and half into the reign of the Trumpian Reich, and, well, where are all the concentration
camps, the SS units with their death's head insignia, the Riefenstahlian parades and rallies? Trump hasn't even banned the Democratic
Party, or annexed Canada, or invaded Mexico, or made anybody wear color-coded armbands. If he doesn't start Hitlering relatively
soon, the oracles of the corporate media are going to have some serious explaining to do.
I don't think I'm overreacting. After all, back in 2016, The Guardian promised us an "
Age of
Darkness ," and the end of "civilized order" as we know it. "
Globalization is dead, and white supremacy has triumphed ," one of its more hysterical pundits proclaimed. "
Donald Trump is actually a fascist ," Michael Kinsley assured us in The Washington Post . Charles Blow of The New York
Times warned that Trump's election was "the beginning of the end," the descent of the republic into "
racial Orwellianism ," whatever that's supposed to mean. Thomas Friedman called it "
a
moral 911 ." Paul Krugman predicted nothing short of "
a global recession with
no end in sight ." Jonathan Chait, after heroically vowing not to flee the country with his terrified family, but to stay and
fight to the bitter end, guaranteed us that the "monster," Trump, would "
shake
the republic to its foundations ."
Perhaps my seismometer is on the fritz, but I haven't detected much foundation shaking. Yes, Trump repulses me, personally. I
do not like the man. I never have. I was based in New York for fifteen years, in the 1990s and early 2000s, before he became a game
show host, when he was still just
a shady real
estate mogul with alleged ties to organized crime who occasionally appeared on Wrestlemania and just generally went about
the city making a narcissistic ass of himself and plastering his gold-plated name onto everything. So I have no illusions about his
character the man is an inveterate snake oil salesman with the moral compass of a Tijuana pimp. All I'm saying is, we were promised
Hitler, or Mussolini at the very least, and it seems like all we're getting so far is just regular old narcissistic Donald Trump.
Of course, he could just be laying low and holding back on the Hitler stuff as part of the evil master plan personally developed
by Vladimir Putin to systematically brainwash Americans (with state-of-the-art mind-control Facebook ads) into embracing all-out
National Socialism and marching through the streets in full Nazi regalia singing Amerika Über Alles at which point Trump will rip
off his mask, reveal his true Hitlerian face, Steve Bannon will suddenly reappear in the turret of an M1 Abrams tank at the head
of a division of rebel infantry flying giant Confederate flags as they hideously rumble down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Putin-Nazi
Holocaust will begin.
Or maybe the extremely serious, Pulitzer Prize-winning political pundit David Leonhardt is onto something. In
a prominent op-ed in The New York Times , he wonders if Putin's "secret plan" is for Trump to destroy "the Atlantic alliance"
by arriving late for the G7 meeting and "picking fights over artificial issues," not to mention insulting the Canadian prime minister,
which, it doesn't get much more hair-raising than that. OK, I know you're probably thinking that sounds like the hopelessly paranoid
jabber of some conspiracy theorist nut on YouTube, but we're talking The New York Times here, folks, and a bona fide "respectable
pundit" who wrote a whole 15,000-word ebook and has been interviewed by Stephen Colbert, among his many other distinguished accomplishments.
Examined in the context of other blatantly loony theories the corporate media are currently attempting to ram down our throats,
Leonhardt's theory kind of makes sense. The Guardian , another very serious newspaper, in addition to covering the repercussions
of its coverage of Corbyn's Nazi
Death Cult , is hot on the trail of the soon-to-be-infamous
Putin-Banks-Brexit Connection
. According to "documents seen by The Observer ," a Guardian sister publication, Arron Banks, a "Brexit bankroller,"
allegedly
had brunch with the Russian ambassador three times , instead of just once, as he had claimed. He was also allegedly offered a
piece of some shady gold deal in exchange for the number of someone on Trump transition team, which for some reason it was otherwise
impossible to obtain. Or whatever. It doesn't really matter what happened. The point is, Putin orchestrated the Brexit, presumably
as part of his secret plan to destabilize the Atlantic alliance, and then blackmailed Trump into running for president with
that "pee-tape" the Democrats paid a former British spook to allege exists .
Paul Krugman of The New York Times concurs. In
his latest extremely serious piece of totally respectable grown-up opinionating , he once again calls Trump "a quisling" (he's
developed a fondness for this term, which goes over well with New York Times readers) and reiterates that Trump is "a de facto
foreign agent" and that "America as we know it is finished." Tragically, according to Krugman, the FBI, CIA, and other Guardians
of Western Democracy are utterly powerless to deal with this quisling, and his evil puppet master, Putin, because it turns out the
entire Republican Party is "hopelessly, irredeemably corrupt." Yes, it appears the only chance we have to save the world from Trumpzilla,
and imminent Putin-Nazi Holocaust, is to elect a buttload of Democrats to office, and eventually an Obama-like Democratic President,
so they can launch an all-out thermonuclear war against Russia and North Korea that'll teach these Putin-Nazis to screw around with
our trade agreements!
Oh, and also, we need to cancel the Brexit, and do away with all these "populist" movements that Putin has fomented all over Europe.
For example,
according to billionaire George Soros , the refugee-hating League in Italy is likely another Putin-backed front, part of his
scheme to "dominate the West." One can only assume that the AfD, the FPÖ, Rassemblement National, and every other extreme-Right party
exploiting people's rage and fear in Europe are parts of Putin's grand conspiracy (except, of course, for
the Ukrainian Nazis the Western alliance
put into power ). Soros, like billionaire Bruce Wayne before him, tired of waiting for the West to strike back, is taking matters
into his own hands. Not only has he been tirelessly laboring to prevent Donald Trump from "
destroying the world ," now
he's financing "Best for Britain," a campaign to de-brainwash the British people, who, obviously, only voted for Brexit because
they'd been brainwashed by the Putin-Nazis.
I'm not sure how much more bizarre things can get. This level of bull goose loony paranoia, media-generated mass hysteria, and
mindless conformity would be hysterically funny if it weren't so fucking horrifying in terms of what it says about millions of Westerners,
who are apparently prepared to believe almost anything the authorities tell them, no matter how nuts. That famous Voltaire quote
comes to mind "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities," he wrote. Another, more disturbing way
of looking at it is, people willing to believe absurdities, to switch off their critical thinking faculties in order to conform to
an official narrative as blatantly ridiculous as the Putin-Nazi narrative, are people who have already surrendered their autonomy,
who have traded it for the comfort of the herd. Such people cannot be reasoned with, because there isn't really anyone in there.
There is only whatever mindless jabber got injected into their brain that day, the dutiful repetition of which guarantees they remain
a "normal" person (who believes what other normal persons believe), and not some sort of "radical" or "extremist."
These people are the people who worry me these "normal" people who, completely calmly, as if what they are saying wasn't batshit
crazy, explain how Trump is just like Hitler, and how Putin is trying to take over the world. I sit there and listen and smile at
these people, some of whom are friends and colleagues, people who I genuinely like, and who genuinely like me in return, but who,
under the right set of circumstances, would stand by and watch me marched into prison, or worse, and not utter a word in protest.
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Murphy also included the District of Columbia in his research, and found it had a
psychopathy level far higher than any other state. But this finding is an outlier, as Murphy
notes, as it's an entirely urban area and cannot be fairly compared with larger, more
geographically diverse, US states. That said, as Murphy notes, "The presence of psychopaths
in District of Columbia is consistent with the conjecture found in Murphy (2016) that
psychopaths are likely to be effective in the political sphere."
Surprised? I didn't think so. But still, fun to get some scientific confirmation.
The personality traits generally corresponding to psychopathy are low neuroticism, high
extraversion, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness.
Of course, D.C. came in first by far. But as he notes, that this is not exactly a fair
comparison, as it is a city being compared to entire states. The study finds that urban areas,
in general, correspond to more psychopathic personality traits.
Another interesting finding is that a higher concentration of lawyers predicts higher
psychopathy prevalence. I kid you not.
So removing D.C. can you guess which states come in the top three? I bet you can.
Connecticut
California
New Jersey
New York ties for the fourth highest concentration of psychopaths among U.S. states.
Interestingly, it ties with Wyoming which I would not have expected. But the author notes there
was a relatively small sample surveyed from Wyoming.
The least psychopathic states are :
West Virginia
Vermont
Tennessee
North Carolina
New Mexico
And it should not be surprising that the main correlation was that state with the lowest
percentage of people living in urban areas also had the lowest concentration of
psychopaths.
Perhaps psychopaths need to be around more victims, or constantly switch out their friends
and acquaintances as they become wise to their antisocial behaviors. Note that antisocial does
not mean loner, it means lacking empathy, remorse, and
behaving in a manipulative way that hurts others .
But to be clear, the paper is not so much identifying where all the psychopaths live, as
much as identifying general population traits which correspond to psychopathy.
This certainly leads to a higher frequency of psychiatrically identifiable true psychopaths.
But it also means that a large percentage of the population behaves in a somewhat psychopathic
manner.
While a very small percentage of individuals in any given state may actually be true
psychopaths, the level of psychopathy present, on average, within an aggregate population
(i.e., not simply the low percentages of psychopaths) is a distinct research question. While
empirical operationalizations of psychopathy frequently treat it as a binary categorization,
the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (Hare 1991) treats it as a spectrum. The operationalization of
psychopathy found here is consistent with psychopathy as thought of as a spectrum.
The study concludes:
Areas of the United States that are measured to be most psychopathic are those in the
Northeast and other similarly populated regions. The least psychopathic are predominantly
rural areas. The District of Columbia is measured to be far more psychopathic than any
individual state in the country, a fact that can be readily explained either by its very high
population density or by the type of person who may be drawn [to] a literal seat of power (as
in Murphy 2016).
Hailing originally from Massachusetts, I can attest to the highest corresponding personality
trait being "Temperamental & Uninhibited." Where did you think the term Masshole came
from.
If you aren't a psychopath when you enter the state, you soon become one from the traffic
alone. And I wonder if just being in such close proximity to people makes it a necessary
adaptation to care a little less about how your actions affect others.
There are just too many variables, so you become numb to the plight of others, and just need
to get the hell out of this traffic jam before I go insane!
WALTHAM, MA -- Saying that if the U.S. government would not act it was time to take matters
into their own hands, defense contractor Raytheon declared war on North Korea, sources
confirmed Friday. "Look, the American government has made it abundantly clear with their
massive payments and subsidies to the private defense sector that they want to scale up
military action on the Korean peninsula, but if they're going to putter around with peace
summits, then it's clearly up to Raytheon to lead the charge," said Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy
as platoons of Raytheon employees boarded company aircraft armed with its AGM-65 Maverick and
High Speed Anti-Radiation missiles, noting that fleets of Raytheon ships carrying private
security forces were already speeding across the Pacific toward the North Korean theater.
"For
too long, we have put off what would be an excellent use of our armaments. We can only
stockpile weapons for so much time before we have to use them, and frankly, we're tired of the
empty promises from multiple presidential administrations that we're going to get to unleash
our full arsenal on North Korea. If the government can't even declare a simple war, it's
clearly time for the private sector to step in. Let's get this show on the goddamn road."
At
press time, Raytheon allies Booz Allen Hamilton, Halliburton, and the United Kingdom had
announced that they would be sending weapons and ground troops to support Raytheon's invasion
of North Korea.
There are many other clear traces of evolution (constantly developing antibiotic resistance of disease-causing bacteria being
one of the most obvious), but the funniest argument for evolution I know is this: "Bush junior is the best argument against intelligent
design: nobody intelligent would ever design that".
"... But Lexus and Vovan – they strike again!! – get the OSCE Secretary General to admit it's Kiev that blocking it – more seeing what's in plain sight. ..."
TODAY'S LAUGH. (But not actually very funny). "Today the Atlantic Council launched
DisinfoPortal.org , an interactive
online guide to track the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns abroad". It says it's "reliable"
several times, so I guess it must be.
I can't believe in the USA the prosecutor is asking the judge
not to let the defendant see the evidence against them
.
Notable quotes:
"... "In this case it's a euphemism for sleaze." ..."
"... *Definition of pettifogger. 1 : a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable : shyster. 2 : one given to quibbling over trifles. ..."
Oh it's way more than that.
That is the kind of language Oliver Wendell Holmes would have used back in the
day. It also brings to mind Samuel Clemens. This is a very sharp team indeed.
Mule-er basically drew to an inside straight, and got busted. The Russkies
called his bluff, and his hand is 7-8-10-Jack-four. Sorry, Ereberto,
no nine, just a "nein." Discovery is a bitch! I suspect that further
developments are going to be highly entertaining. Judge: "can we see your
evidence of wrongdoing." Mule-er: "That's highly classified."
In its earliest English uses, "pettifogger" was two separate words: "pettie
fogger." "Pettie" was a variant spelling of "petty," a reasonable inclusion in
a word for someone who is disreputable and small-minded.
Who would have believed decent Americans would ever applaud Russians
kicking the shit out of federal law enforcement? Do I hear "The World
Turned Upside Down" in the distance? Should Mueller change his name
to Cornwallis?
How about "corrupt" shill? Remember, Mueller headed the FBI before and
after the 9/11 attacks. Did Mueller's FBI investigate? No; they covered up
for 9/11 perpetrators. Thanks a lot Mueller.
If I were the judge, I would refuse any motion Mueller makes to avoid
releasing evidence, and if he doesn't do it within a matter of hours, his
entire staff would be getting perp walked for contempt. Let Mueller manage
his investigation from a prison cell, like some drug kingpin.
The US government has already wasted $200 million on this stupid "pettifoggery".
Some one, any one, put an end to this ridiculous dog and pony show.
Mueller, and the Justice Dept. are now the laughing stock of the world. We
need to save a little face, and have this SOB shot for the good of the
nation. This Prick doesn't give two shits for the American people, or the
nation that he is paid to serve.
These guys were likely just pushing click-bait on Facebook. And since it is
election season, it is easy for them to riff off the candidates.
Mueller
giving it any legitimacy shows he is either out of touch with how the internet
works or has his own special case of Trump derangement syndrome.
Accuse others for which you are guilty is in the dnc handbook. The only
illegal activity involved the DNC, team Hillary, and operatives in the FBI,
CIA, DOJ, and the IRS.
This indictment is a total fujkin joke. In Mueller's world he can charge
you with a crime but refuse to show the evidence. Proves that he has no
interest in serving justice. His goals are to defame and bankrupt enemies
of the deep swamp.
It's all fun and games until the defense show up with a shit ton of lawyers too.
Thin soup is what Mueller has. Thin soup. You would think that with the idea of being compared to Benedict Arnold, Him, Clapper,
Comey, Clinton, Brennan and all the rest would take pause. Swamp doesn't even begin to describe those shitbags sucking up our
free American air every day.
PS. A note of interest, when I was somehow accidentally using Googlet to look up past CIA directors, the first line was "Save
on past CIA directors" at Amazon.com.
Famous story in the FBI. Young Special Agent selected to drive Mr Hoover
from the office to the airport. As the SA opens the door for the Director
he overhears a fragment of the Director and SAC's farewell conversation...
".............I am very angry about too many Left turns in this country".
Later in the day, "standing tall" in front of the SAC's desk he explains
why a normal 45 minute drive turned into a 3 hour fiasco. Not wishing to anger
the Director any further he explained, he plotted a course to the airport which involved only "Right" turns.
Trump knows his prostrate allies. He moralizes: 'the more you screw them the better they
like it'!
That's the Trump doctrine. And its not only his personal views: the stock market loves it;
the Silicon billionaires and the manufacturers are cashing in on protection at home and free
markets overseas
@31....Adelson, casino mogul. Once the abode of the Mafia. Now not much different than them.
One in the same. "The government and us are cut from the same cloth." Sam Giancana, former
Chicago crime boss.
Posted by: Jose Garcia | Jun 10, 2018 3:06:49 AM |
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Ivanka's ability to give a speech and simultaneously say nothing is comparable to my
ability to get an A on a paper that I bullshitted my way through completely
The only theory missing is that Mrs. Trump was secretly in Russia, meeting with Vladimir
Putin, planning how to steal the 2018 midterm elections for Republicans.
I knew this government contained idiots, ne'er do wells, compulsive liars, misfits, childish
imbeciles, ego maniacs, sociopaths, psychopaths, bigots, rorters, drunks, fascists,
intransigents, ideologs, religious nutters, dullards, dunces, dickheads, shonks, spivs,
lairs, carpetbaggers, rent seekers, lobbyists, conmen, urgers, scammers, ratbags and people
unable to get work in any other field of endeavour....but Neoliberals?
Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard, several years ago
remarked that "Arrested Development" is both a "great show and a terrific description of U.S.
political institutions."
Recent events involving the actors perhaps illustrate the limits of parody: A show about the
people with no self awareness hardly precludes such behavior among at least
the male real-life actors .
Indeed, while U.S. media seems increasingly drenched in satire, genuine improvement in the
society seems tragically rare and slow. So, to the extent that the Bluth family is an allegory
for twisted U.S. political institutions, perhaps a straightforward analysis would be of
benefit. Walt didn't elaborate on his analogy, so I have endeavored to connect the characters
to their appropriate institutions:
George represents the presidency. His very name is presidential. He's prone to criminal
activity, but at times attempts to maintain plausible deniability by using his twin brother,
Oscar.
Lucille is the nominal vice president, but, as is often the case in U.S. administrations, is
the actual cold, calculating power behind the throne. In seeming contrast to the actress
Jessica Walter depicting her, Lucille hatches insidious plots that she strong-arms the
president and others to carry out, like buying land to build The Wall on the border with
Mexico. She has an affinity for criminality on the high seas, perhaps stemming from the VP
living at the Naval Observatory.
Buster literally joined the army. He does the dirty work. He's -- big stereotype here -- not
too bright. He has an affinity for robotization, at times killing with drones and himself has a
mechanical arm.
Tobias represents the NSA. While he's a never nude, he can use his cat-like agility to spy
and move stealthily around a home. Or, after he says "I blue myself" -- is capable of
surveilling on the go. His photography of his own body parts was seemingly mistaken as evidence
of Iraqi WMDs.
Gob (or G.O.B) is the C.I.A., frequently dispatched by the president to execute covert ops.
With his "illusions" is capable of cluelessly killing innocents. He teams up with the Buster
army in the Sword of Destiny and the Tobias NSA in Gobias Industries. He's continuously trying
to cover up his various shameful actions, including from himself, by popping Forget-Me-Nows.
He's guilty of spawning blowback, such as giving the seal that bit off Buster's arm the taste
for mammal blood.
Michael is the State Department. He gets sent to Iraq with Buster and Gob. He had often been
seen as more sane, the adult in the room, but ultimately has been shown to be as twisted as the
rest of the family -- foreshadowing the current unfortunate trajectory of the institution he
represents.
Lindsay is the non-profit sector, perpetually putting on ridiculous fundraisers and staging
particularly pointless protests -- all the while eager to sell out, intentionally or not.
George Michael is Silicon Valley and its connection to academia. While ostensibly pursuing
an education, he focuses on projects like his anti-social software Faceblock.
Maeby of course is Hollywood -- she worked at a studio. While her parents Tobias and Lindsay
are inept, she's a skilled con artist. But she does have incredible lapses, displaying
incredible ignorance of basic religious knowledge and simple mathematics. She was last seen
eyeing more money in Silicon Valley as part of her varied incestuous relationship with her
cousin George Michael.
Ann Veal ("Egg") represents the politically organized right-wing mega churches: Opulent in
their wealth, banal in their persona, shallow in their beliefs, hypocritical in their conduct
-- yet with seemingly functioning family structures.
Lucille 2 : Is the donor class, perpetually funding and in bed with one Bluth or
another.
"... Holy fuck, do something! I heard a rumour that one of them was in a San Francisco bathhouse at the same time as Adam Schiff! Or was it sitting in the next booth at a McDonald's? ..."
I want to know what the FBI is doing about all the guys with suspicious names
playing hockey for the Washington Capitals: Orlov, Ovechkin, Kuznetsov,
Burakovsky...my God, man, they're playing for the CAPITALS in Washington DC!!
Holy fuck, do something! I heard a rumour that one of them was in a San
Francisco bathhouse at the same time as Adam Schiff! Or was it sitting in the
next booth at a McDonald's?
"... the goddamn fat cats love seeing all us hamsters spin in our little wheels to power their trip. ..."
"... It's past fucking time we went out and dragged these corporatist parasites kicking and screaming through the streets -- and if anybody disagrees, I've got two middle fingers for them right here." ..."
"... Tillerson responded to a follow-up question concerning his relationship with Donald Trump by saying "here's how I feel about that piece of shit," flipping over the lectern, and kicking Breitbart correspondent Charlie Spiering in the crotch. ..."
WASHINGTON -- Challenging American citizens to band together, rise up, and break out of
their "mind prisons," mohawked former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Thursday warned that
U.S. democracy was being threatened by plutocratic fascist pigs fucking over the working man.
"These totalitarian autocrats are coming to fuck you, man," said Tillerson, pausing briefly to
strike a match off his teeth, light a hand-rolled cigarette, and mutter that the goddamn fat
cats love seeing all us hamsters spin in our little wheels to power their trip.
"You all need to stop being fucking sheep and see the world for what it is, man. It's past
fucking time we went out and dragged these corporatist parasites kicking and screaming through
the streets -- and if anybody disagrees, I've got two middle fingers for them right here."
Tillerson responded to a follow-up question concerning his relationship with Donald Trump by
saying "here's how I feel about that piece of shit," flipping over the lectern, and kicking
Breitbart correspondent Charlie Spiering in the crotch.
The FBI Wasn't Spying On Trump, It Was "Benign Information Gathering"
Vietnam wasn't a war, it was "a police action"
Our politicians and judges don't accept bribes, they "receive campaign contributions"
Waterboarding isn't torture, it is "enhanced interrogation"
Our Al-Qaeda fighters we arm and train in Syria aren't terrorists, they are "moderate
rebels"
Affirmative action isn't racist, it is "embracing diversity"
Israeli soldiers aren't shooting unarmed protesters, they are "defending Israel from
terrorist attacks"
Social Security isn't a Ponzi scheme, it is "old age survivors and disability
insurance"
Abortion isn't killing an unborn baby, it is "a woman's choice"
Saudi Arabia isn't a barbaric kingdom, it is "the leader of the UN Human Rights
Council"
Representative Kevin Brady isn't a prostitute for the banks, he is "a proven
conservative"
Afghanistan isn't the longest war in American history, it is "Operation Enduring
Freedom"
The NSA isn't violating the Fourth Amendment, it is "Defending our Nation. Securing the
Future."
The National Firearms Act doesn't infringe on our right to bear arms, it is "a statutory
excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms"
Possessing nuclear weapons while sanctioning North Korea for the same is not hypocritical,
it is "exceptional"
Seth Rich wasn't murdered for leaking Podesta's emails to Wikileaks, he was "fatally shot
in a botched robbery"
"... Global capitalists do not have this luxury. Generating the simulation of democracy that most Western consumers desperately need in order to be able to pretend to believe that they are not just smoothly-functioning cogs in the machinery of a murderous global empire managed by a class of obscenely wealthy and powerful international elites to whom their lives mean exactly nothing, although extremely expensive and time-consuming, is essential to maintaining their monopoly on power. Having conditioned most Westerners into believing they are "free," and not just glorified peasants with gadgets, the global capitalist ruling classes have no choice but to keep up this fiction. Without it, their empire would fall apart at the seams. ..."
One of the most complicated and frustrating aspects of operating a global capitalist empire
is maintaining the fiction that it doesn't exist. Virtually every action you take has to be
carefully recontextualized or otherwise spun for public consumption. Every time you want to
bomb or invade some country to further your interests, you have to mount a whole PR campaign.
You can't even appoint a sadistic torture freak to run your own coup-fomenting agency, or shoot
a few thousand unarmed people you've imprisoned in a de facto ghetto, without having to do a
big song and dance about "defending democracy" and "democratic values."
Naked despotism is so much simpler, not to mention more emotionally gratifying. Ruling an
empire as a godlike dictator means never having to say you're sorry. You can torture and kill
anyone you want, and conquer and exploit whichever countries you want, without having to
explain yourself to anyone. Also, you get to have your humongous likeness muraled onto the
walls of buildings, make people swear allegiance to you, and all that other cool dictator
stuff.
Global capitalists do not have this luxury. Generating the simulation of democracy that most
Western consumers desperately need in order to be able to pretend to believe that they are not
just smoothly-functioning cogs in the machinery of a murderous global empire managed by a class
of obscenely wealthy and powerful international elites to whom their lives mean exactly
nothing, although extremely expensive and time-consuming, is essential to maintaining their
monopoly on power. Having conditioned most Westerners into believing they are "free," and not
just glorified peasants with gadgets, the global capitalist ruling classes have no choice but
to keep up this fiction. Without it, their empire would fall apart at the seams.
... ... ...
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 .
"An audience with Ian Bremmer: 'Populism is going to get worse" [
Financial News ].
Bremer: "Humanity has given us absolutely no reason to believe that if we are heading into
an environment where large numbers of people are economically expendable, we will do anything
but treat them that way."
...1] Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta (100% certainty) 17 intelligence agencies Obama
and Hillary said so. This will all become clear when we an finally bring Julian Assange to
justice. (just wait)
2] Russia hacked Brexit:
Russian bid to influence Brexit vote detailed in new US Senate report
h**ps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/russian-influence-brexit-vote-detailed-us-senate-report
3] Russia hacked France:
U.S. increasingly convinced that Russia hacked French election
h**ps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-russia/u-s-increasingly-convinced-that-russia-hacked-french-election-sources-idUSKBN1852KO
4] Russia hacked Italy:
Russia Blamed For Italian Election Outcome
h**p://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/march/06/russia-blamed-for-italian-election-outcome/
5] Russia hacked Spain:
Spain sees Russian interference in Catalonia separatist vote
h**ps://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia-russia/spain-sees-russian-interference-in-catalonia-separatist-vote-idUSKBN1DD20Y
6] Russia hacked Germany:
The impact of Russian interference on Germany's 2017 elections
h**ps://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/the-impact-of-russian-interference-on-germanys-2017-elections/
7] Russia hacked Holland:
RUSSIA HACKING DUTCH ELECTION A WARM-UP FOR GERMANY, FRANCE INTERFERENCE
h**ps://nltimes.nl/2017/03/10/russia-hacking-dutch-election-warm-germany-france-interference-report
8] Russia hacked Norway:
Russia Hacked Norway Like US? Cyberattack Similar To Trump Election In 2016
h**p://www.ibtimes.com/russia-hacked-norway-us-cyberattack-similar-trump-election-2016-2485956
9] Russia hacked Sweden:
Sweden PM 'can't rule out' Russian interference in Swedish elections
h**ps://www.thelocal.se/20170109/sweden-pm-cant-rule-out-russian-interference-in-swedish-elections
10] Russia hacked Scotland:
Russia meddled in Scottish independence referendum to aid SNP, claims security expert
h**ps://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/754332/russia-spies-scotland-independence-referendum-aid-snp-claims-security-expert
... ... ...
john wilson , May 19, 2018 at 2:30 am
And don't forget Stngr, Russia also hacked the Russian election for Putin to get in when
really an small time farmer somewhere out in Siberia should have won.
Great post. It reminded me of a joke I saw the other day:
"A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sitting at a table.
In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches
across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the Tea Partier and says, "look out for that union guy,
he wants a piece of your cookie."
You know it's funny, all those 'conservatives' screaming that Edward Snowden is a traitor,
that we should trust the US government to spy on us in secret because national security
demands it, etc. Because only bad people have something to hide, right?
And now we begin to see exactly what it means when the central government can essentially
spy on anyone for any reason not so wonderful after all, is it?
There is an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, and a liberal
is a conservative who's been arrested. I guess a civil libertarian is a national security
hawk that's been spied on.
The signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran
nuclear deal, announced yesterday that they have found a way to "fix" the deal to make it
acceptable to US president Donald Trump.
Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif explained: "After lengthy Twitter discussions with the White
House, we learned that Trump had only one real objection to the deal: Obama got credit for it,
not him. So we decided to keep the deal intact, including the acronym, but change the name to
honor Trump. From now on, instead of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA will stand for
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Asshole."
"Confidential sources within the U.S. government have confirmed a report that Iran has
viagra fueled rape camps populated by Kuwaiti incubator babies who are chained to test tubes
where they make weapons of mass destruction (to Iraqi specifications) that will soon be
shipped to the Gulf of Tonkin on a replica of the U.S.S. Liberty before being flown back to
Syria on highjacked airliners by jihadi flight school dropouts so Assad can gas his own
people while Putin watches."
"You won't get this story anywhere else" - said Rachel while twitching just a bit.
Meanwhile in an interview on CNN Madeline Albright lamented that her only career regret is
that she "wasn't able to kill more Iraqi children" - explaining - "we think it would have
been worth it."
It has always amazed me how from the start of all this Iranian nuke stuff, US officials have
alleged that Iran has facilities the IAEA doesn't know about.
If the US knows of such facilities, presumably they know where the facilities are and could
inform the IAEA, which would demand inspections.
If the US does not know where they are, it's impossible to take them out with
airstrikes.
The only way to eliminate them would be by invading and searching every square meter of
Iran, but we say we don't want to put "boots on the ground."
Attention
Hookers : Special Counsel urgently needs your stories. We pay top dollar. Big tits, role-play,
and lying required. Television experience preferred. No drug screening. No background check.
Transportation included.
Call 1-800-George-Soros or contact the Law Offices of Wray, Mueller, and Rosenstein,
LLC.
We
hear that the documents he is said to present were compiled
by one Christopher Steele and assembled with the help of one Sergej Skripal and his MI6 handler
[redacted]. They will show that Iran attempts to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger .
This new comedy stunt by Netanyahoo is tightly coordinated with the Trump
administration.
We hear that the documents he is said to present were compiled by one Christopher Steele
and assembled with the help of one Sergej Skripal and his MI6 handler [redacted]. They will
show that Iran attempts to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.
I think b was being sarcastic although Netanyahu and Bolton really are dumb and arrogant
enough to try it.
Trump shouda put that McMahon wrestling lady in the propaganda department,
shes pretty good at convincing 50 year old adults that wrestling is real.
Americans just aren't buying what these idiots are trying to sell us with these chemical
attacks by the brutal dicktaters.
I'm honestly confused by the stupidity lately, either Trump is a genius or he is the dumbest
person on the planet.
The totally insane actions of these morons lately is waking people up in massive numbers, is he
doing it intentionally? Like a call for help or something? Trying to show us who is really
behind all this this crap? (Israel)
Because if he isn't, thats exactly what its doing.
See BBC
interview . One really good sarcasm from Lavrov. Sergey Lavrov comperating UK beahviour with
the famous Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland episode in order to describe the new western
'weird logic' of 'Sentence First, Verdict After' has to be watched repeatedly by all...what a
masterful HardTalk show...exposing the new bench mark in western international discourse.
Sergey Lavrov: No, I said "highly likely" as a new invention of the British diplomacy to
describe why they punish people – because these people are highly likely guilty, like in
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - when he described a trial. And when they discovered that
the jury could be engaged, then the King said "Let's ask the jury" and the Queen shouted "No
jury! Sentence first – verdict afterwards." That's the logic of "highly likely".
Question: Have you got one shred, shred of evidence to suggest British intelligence tried to
kill Sergei Skripal?
Sergey Lavrov: There is an old Roman criteria "who is to benefit". The UK is grossly
benefiting from the provocations both in Syria and in the United Kingdom itself.
Sergey Lavrov: That's a problem. First, the A-234 agent in highly pure form in high concentration is already raising
suspicions.
Question: It came from Russia. In the former Soviet Union, you invented that.
Sergey Lavrov: Stephen, you are not factual. You may be hard talking, but you are not listening. This chemical substance
indeed was invented in the Soviet Union, then one the inventors fled to the United States and made the formula public. And if you
want to check before raising the issue, please do so, the United States patented this formula; and it was formally taken by United
States special services or the army, I don't remember. But A-234 is a very light, I mean, it seriously damages a person, kills him
of her, but it evaporates very fast; and the sample taken two weeks after the event cannot, according to our scientists, contain
very high concentration.
Notable quotes:
"... 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first -- verdict afterwards.' ..."
"... give the Orange One some credit: he was a wrecking ball to the stagnant, hideous Clinton and Bush dynasties. He has also driven the DC establishment and media insane. Pure schadenfreude. ..."
They are also non-democratic, authoritarian regimes.
"By contrast, Trump is a loon, ignorant of practically everything, mentally chaotic, and
easily modified."
That's all true, especially the last bit. But give the Orange One some credit: he was a
wrecking ball to the stagnant, hideous Clinton and Bush dynasties. He has also driven the DC
establishment and media insane. Pure schadenfreude.
"Trump is a congenital liar who is devoid of empathy, a narcissist with a nihilist's view of
the world. These are not mere character defects; they have a bearing on the decisions the de
facto leader of any action in Syria would take. Among the reasons I opposed the 2003 invasion
of Iraq was my fundamental distrust of George W Bush and his circle, especially on the matter
of motive. "
That is why Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Alistair Campbell fought so hard to oppose invasion of
Iraq. In the end they had to resort an academic paper to do it. I feel terrible for them.
In response to a caller's concern, Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell told the C Span
Washington Journal audience this morning that there was "no danger from a chemical plume"
after missiles struck Syrian chemical plants "because the attack was designed to burn up" the
fumes.
Russell explained that while "Nazis used chemicals in the holocaust." and Russians
deliberately target hospitals and schools with barrel bombs, "no other nation takes as much
care to prevent harm to civilians" as the USA.
Trump is a typical business tycoon: a clueless moron. Pence is just a weasel. Weasels are
carnivores, but small ones: sometimes they eat, sometimes they get eaten. I hope Pence gets
eaten.
I saw an interesting tweet over at Charles Shoebridge. " To be clear, I don't dispute that
as UK govt says cleaning up nerve agent may 'cost millions and take months'. But I do dispute
that the same UK govt and media saying this can also with any consistency then suggest Russia
has cleaned up Douma in just a few days. Jihadists claim that sarin was used as well as
chlorine.
#111 and #144. Saud Arabia already have "troops" in Syria, Jaysh al-Islam and the rest of their inbred motley crew. That's
the problem. If that happens, poor Kurds, stuck between rock and a hard place. My bet is that 70% of Saudi troops would defect
to ISIS in no time!
"... American tomahawks missiles are equipped with 'special' molecular compounds imbedded in the warheads so that when they hit chemical weapons factories it produces & releases an intoxicating floral bouquet like Chanel number 5, Old Spice, or Irish Spring soap... ..."
"Warplanes and ships from the United States, Britain and France launched more than 100
missiles at three chemical weapons storage and research facilities..." ...
American tomahawks missiles are equipped with 'special' molecular compounds imbedded in
the warheads so that when they hit chemical weapons factories it produces & releases an
intoxicating floral bouquet like Chanel number 5, Old Spice, or Irish Spring soap...
The Syrians then jump up and start doing Irish jigs and proclaim "Manly yes ~ But I like
it too"!
That dastardly Assad obviously knew his chemical weapons facilities would be attacked so
he had all of his chlorine gas moved and added to his personal swimming pool. Damn the water
looks great now but don't go for a swim for at least a few days.
"The Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party in the way that manslaughter is
slightly better than murder: It might seem like a lesser crime, but the victim can't really
tell the difference." -- Michael Harriot
There's been a whole lot of stupid put out about ScaryRussia in
the last two years, but the Pentagon managed to find a
new level of stupid today that I didn't know existed.
You know how they say that 97.3% of all statistics are made up?
"I think there's a basic reality check you can do on most statistical claims," Tim Hartford,
host of statistics podcast More or Less, told Vice. "You can just ask: Does that sound
reasonable? ... OK, so first, if you've been given a number, just ask: compared to what? ...
The second thing is -- what does the statistic actually refer to?"
2,000% 2,000,000%
The numbers are as meaningless as Pentagon body counts in Vietnam.
The attack can be called "Operation Stormy Daniels" Rome had bread and circuses. We've got crumbs, tweets, and Tomahawk missiles
with direct TV coverage. Monica probably is crying for the day on old glory in Clinton Whitehouse ;-)
In other words: "Candidate Trump is dead. Long live President Trump" ~The Neocons. Notable quotes:
Notable quotes:
"... I think I will walk over to my neighbour and de declare his house and car and wife a "vital national interest" and see what happens..... ..."
Monica Lewinsky redux ? Trump is not right any more than a man who pulls the trigger once in a game of Russian
Roulette and gets away with it was "right".
Notable quotes:
"... Taunting the Russians via Twitter? It's not genius, it's dementia. ..."
from The Duffel Blog... Trump orders cruise missile strike against one of 3,297 factions fighting in Syria
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump ordered a Tomahawk cruise military strike against one of
the 3,297 factions currently fighting in the Syrian civil war, sources confirmed today.
Just days after the Syrian government, one of the thousands of rebel groups, or al Qaeda
terrorists allegedly bombed civilians with chemical weapons, Trump and his military planners
launched missiles after mulling options that could potentially punish the perpetrators of
such a war crime. "Everything is on the table," Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One on Wednesday. "We're
pretty sure it's Assad who carried out this egregious attack. That's what my so-called
intelligence agencies are telling me. But they told me stuff about Russia, and that was fake
news, fake, fake news, so I'm not sure. I don't know what we're going to do, but we're going
to do something. Something."
"I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do, because we want ISIS to be surprised by a
sneak attack," he added. . .
here
"... Concur. Clinton is sociopathic. Trump is narcissistic. The Deep State uses both. The former willing tool, she cares nothing for anyone but herself. The latter, the psychologists in CIA have his profile and manipulate him like a woman with a velvet glove. His inadequacies are easily stroked. ..."
Concur. Clinton is sociopathic. Trump is narcissistic. The Deep State uses both. The
former willing tool, she cares nothing for anyone but herself. The latter, the psychologists
in CIA have his profile and manipulate him like a woman with a velvet glove. His inadequacies
are easily stroked.
"Comrade Putin, we have successfully stockpiled novichoks in secret for ten years, and kept
them hidden from the OPCW inspectors. We have also trained our agents in secret novichok
assassination techniques. The programme has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but now we
are ready. Naturally, the first time we use it we will expose our secret and suffer massive
international blowback. So who should be our first target? The head of a foreign intelligence
agency? A leading jihadist rebel in Syria? A key nuclear scientist? Even a Head of State?"
"No, Tovarich. There is this old retired guy I know living in Salisbury. We released him
from jail years ago "
"With respect Comrade Putin, are you sure he is the most important target to reveal a
programme we have put so much resource into for ten years?"
"Yes. I sit here every day and I cannot concentrate on the affairs of Russia or the World as
all the time am thinking of Sergei Skripal. I should never have let him out of jail to spend
his life buying lottery tickets and eating in Zizzis. But you must make absolutely certain to
kill him."
"Don't worry Comrade Putin, we have been training in secret novichok assassination
techniques for ten years. We even have an detailed manual explaining our methods. We will
spread the novichok on his outside door handle (fiendish laugh)."
"Are you sure comrade? Is there not a danger it will wash off or get diluted?"
"No Comrade Putin, it never rains in England."
That is, genuinely, in every detail the official British government version of what happened
in Salisbury, including the ten year programme and the secret assassination manual.
Despite this story being one of the most improbably wild conspiracy theories in human
history, it is those who express any doubt at all as to its veracity who are smeared as
"conspiracy theorists" or even "traitors".
All copyright on this article is waived. Feel free to use, translate and republish as you
wish.
Prime Minister May is seen at around the 0:40 (depending upon clip version) mark beating the
cat against a wall.
Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
is the "Burn the Witch" scene. With Putin as the witch it is a fair representation of the type
of justice and deep thought applied to the Skripal case.
The newest theory: novichok was produced in Tehran and delivered by an Iranian agent, Persian
cat who was owned by Sergey Skripal. The cat was allowed to periodically leave home for walks
and got the poison from other Persians. As UK authorities decided to pin the blame on Russia
(they actually oppose the renewal of sanctions on Iran but want to extend sanctions on
Russia), the inconvenient witness was liquidated.
The intricate plot was to cover the palms of gloves of Mrs. Skripal so the father-daughter
pair would get into contact with the poison misleadingly far from home. The door handle got
contaminated by a gloved hand of Yulia. Later, when the pair sat on a bench after their meal,
father complemented the brand new gloves and Yulia handed them to him for a closer look. As
both handled the poisoned surface with bare hands, the onset of symptoms was swift.
I posted this theory, without the role of Persian cat mafia earlier elsewhere. It is easy
to explain how car avoided contamination: Sergey locked the seatbelt of Yulia and she set
like a proper young lady, with hands on her lap with gently curved fingers. It is harder to
explain how the gloves eventually vanished, but cats that were observing Skripals could
remove them from the scene and drop into the nearby Avon river.
Thus the cat met poetic justice, while the hapless Guinea pigs were collateral damage.
"... ++ Joseph Magill #22. That is one of my surmises too. She just picked up a bundle of cash from her deceased brother's estate too as I read somewhere. There is no doubt a price to pay to take the cash back to Russia and for wee bit of play acting she could stay with the dad in UK. Perhaps she will get a job with SCL/Cambridge Analytica too. All surmise though. When I last checked May and her manbag Boris have finally lured Jeremy Corbyn into the sights. I guess that was one of the intentions all along and well worth any price for them. ..."
"... Listening to lies , propaganda for many, many years as soon as I heard the Skripal affair I smelled the rat-false flag. Governments unfortunately kill, lie. ..."
Days ago, before the poisoning theories surfaced, I read at Sputniknews Yulia's first
statement was "it didn't taste like chicken."
Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 6, 2018 9:21:21 PM | 52
Are you sure about that? I saw that claim, but on some blog not on Sputnik and I
understood it to be the blog-owner's sarcasm. A search produced no Sputnik page with that
quote - on the contrary a claim that the menu choice had not been released. Some UK
Newspapers claimed they ate the seafood but this could easily be deliberately planted
misinformation.
Skripals' Last Restaurant Order Not Released by UK, Niece Tells Russian TV - Sputnik
International
Considered in syndromal or functional terms it could therefore be considered a 'closely
related agent' to an organophosphate based nerve agent. It is listed alongside OP agents as a
nervous system agent here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ana.21072
Also see here https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/saxitoxin/casedef.aspCase
Definition: Saxitoxin
Clinical description
. In severe poisoning, illness typically progresses rapidly and may include gastrointestinal
(nausea, vomiting) and neurological (cranial nerve dysfunction, a floating sensation,
headache, muscle weakness, parasthesias and vertigo) signs and symptoms. Respiratory failure
and death can occur from paralysis (1-5).
So accordingly, shellfish poisoning could be consistent with this: "The samples tested
positive for the presence of a Novichok class nerve agent or closely related agent."
When 'closely related agent' is understood as pertaining to a syndromal classification rather
than a chemical group.
Having read only about a third of the commentariat, what has been obvious to this point is
the food poisoning theory is appearing to be another echo chamber. Even global warming is not
enough to overcome the adage of only eating shellfish caught in months having an 'R', like in
MaRch (though this may not apply in the Russian language - having no familiarity with
Russian). Are those suggesting those alleged shellfish were caught the prior August?
Unlikely. There are two separate metabolisms, differing stomach contents, body masses, and
body compositions (fat components) in addition to differing ages and sexes. What would the
likelihood that food poisoning would happen at a similar moment with both?
Again the most likely cause would be a voluntary ingestion of some street drug by both
victims, such consumption isn't something rarely known, even in those parts of the world. No
evidence has been presented to either substantiate or disprove this, nonetheless this
provides the simplest vehicle for the two as well as a possible vector for the Detective
Sergeant poisoning as a first responder. Recall this happened on a Sunday afternoon, the DS
has not been established to be on duty that day or not; either way the presence of trained
CPR personnel would have resulted in the same response, going to aid persons in distress - no
mystery that. I suspect the time of recovery of the affected had a lot to do with the rate of
clearance of the substance from the bodies of the victims to levels difficult to detect.
Again supposition and conjecture seem to rule the public dialogue, and evidence is remarkably
missing still. YMMV
++ Joseph Magill #22. That is one of my surmises too. She just picked up a bundle of cash
from her deceased brother's estate too as I read somewhere. There is no doubt a price to pay
to take the cash back to Russia and for wee bit of play acting she could stay with the dad in
UK. Perhaps she will get a job with SCL/Cambridge Analytica too. All surmise though. When I
last checked May and her manbag Boris have finally lured Jeremy Corbyn into the sights. I
guess that was one of the intentions all along and well worth any price for them.
Listening to lies , propaganda for many, many years as soon as I heard the Skripal affair
I smelled the rat-false flag. Governments unfortunately kill, lie.
Here I see unnecessary provocation which could lead to war, as it was unfolding in Syria.
We are all in danger from stupid politicians.
Someone should tell Elliot Higgins over at Bellingcat that if he's been trying to geolocate
the expelled Russian diplomats in Belarus , he can stop now.
Anders Aslund's deep knowledge of Eastern European politics was no match for April Fool's,
when the supposedly all-knowing Russia commentator fruitlessly cheered fake news about Belarus
expelling Russian diplomats.
Aslund, who was presented by the American think tank the Atlantic Council as a
"leading specialist" on Russian economic policy and Eastern Europe in general, has
been featured on the BBC, CNN and the Washington Post as a commentator on Russian President
Vladimir Putin's administration.
The prank was carried out by Martin Kragh, of the Swedish Institute of International
Affairs, who tweeted: "Breaking: Belarus expels 5 Russian diplomats in solidarity with the UK.
'Russia is on the wrong side of history,' says [President Aleksandr] Lukashenko."
Aslund even commentated on the 'development,' stating that it revealed how Putin had
"profoundly" isolated his country. "This is not 'Global Russia' but Russia alone," he
added.
Kragh later revealed his tweet to be a prank by alluding to the date it was posted - April
1st - a day for playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.
Anders Aslund's deep knowledge of Eastern European politics was no match for April Fool's,
when the supposedly all-knowing Russia commentator fruitlessly cheered fake news about Belarus
expelling Russian diplomats.
Aslund, who was presented by the American think tank the Atlantic Council as a
"leading specialist" on Russian economic policy and Eastern Europe in general, has
been featured on the BBC, CNN and the Washington Post as a commentator on Russian President
Vladimir Putin's administration.
The elder Skripal awakes, tells nurses he is tired of hospital; walks out to find nearest
press mike, tells world Russia had nothing to do with it, just bad food at a Chinese
restaurant!
This slide is a good April 1 joke, courtesy of Her majesty government on Theresa May. By the way, I've heard the Russians are
now telling a joke about Boris Johnson: they're saying he was poisoned with durachok (bonehead)! but many be he is
playing fool, with vicious and calculated intention
Notable quotes:
"... All that is missing here is the mass rape of baby penguins by drunken Russian sailors in the south pole or the use of a secret "weather weapon" to send hurricanes towards the USA. ..."
In the 12 events listed as evidence of a "pattern of Russian malign activity" one is
demonstratively false (2008 invasion of Georgia), one conflates two different accusations
(occupation of Crimea and destabilization of the Ukraine), one is circular (assassination of
Skripal) and all others are completely unproven accusations.
All that is missing here is the
mass rape of baby penguins by drunken Russian sailors in the south pole or the use of a secret
"weather weapon" to send hurricanes towards the USA.
You don't need a law degree to see that,
all you need is an IQ above room temperature and a basic understanding of logic. For all my
contempt for western leaders, even I wouldn't make the claim that they all lack these. So here
is where "solidarity" kicks-in:
"Solidarity" in this context is simply a "conceptual placeholder" for Stephen Decatur 's famous " my
country, right or wrong " applied to the entire Empire. The precedent of Meine Ehre
heißt Treue just slightly rephrased into Meine Ehre heißt
Solidarität also comes to mind.
Maybe it did expand my audience. I have no idea. About the only proven use I found was being
able to get on Tinder to get laid, as you cannot have a Tinder account without a Facebook
account. Thereafter I called it Fuckbook.
THE international community has agreed to adopt a 'guilty until proven guilty' stance
towards Russia in relation to the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy in Britain, following a
deliberation that lasted as long as it took to say 'well of course they fu**ing did it'.
The Russian government, who have previously stated in no uncertain terms that they 'don't
give a fu** what anyone thinks', categorically denied any involvement in the poisoning of
Sergei Skripal and his daughter last month, although political experts have pointed out that
the Russian spokespeople have had their hands under the table at the time and may have had
their fingers crossed.
So far, 15 EU countries, including Ireland have expelled Russian diplomats as the fallout
from the case continues, despite the lack of hard evidence that the Kremlin had anything to do
with the attempted murder of Skripal, a former double agent exiled in the UK since 2010.
Stating that 'you don't need evidence when they're clearly as guilty as sin', EU leaders have
sided with the UK government, whose secret service has never carried out shady, underhand
executions on foreign soil.
"I will miss very much the Supermacs and the Copper Faced Jacks," said the Russian diplomat
expelled from Ireland, packing his suitcase.
"But I understand the Irish people want to
stand shoulder to shoulder with their close friends in the UK. Maybe sometime in future they
will forget all about this incident and normal service will resume. How long did it take after
scandal about Russian spies using Irish passports? 18 months, maybe? I can wait that long. Save
me plate of coddle".
Meanwhile, Leo Varadkar has stated that Russia may be pardoned if Vladimir Putin visits
Ireland for a photo-op in which he sups a pint of Guinness.
speaking of "smart toasters" this 'daily show' clip from 15 years ago is a gut-busting
hoot.
i rarely if ever post links in comment sections, but this ties in quite nicely with this
article!!
The latest piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the
NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the
Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
...here is a Ukrainian joke.
- You say Russia occupied Ukrainian Crimea. So, why don't you fight for it?
- We are not stupid, there is Russian army there.
- But you say that there is Russian army in Donbass, yet you fight
- That's what we say, but in Crimea there really is Russian army.
I hope Melania isn't too hurt by this. Nothing says fidelity like the tender notion of a
non-disclosure agreement with your floozies . I'm sure that's how my wife would see it.
The British broadcasting Corporation, or simply BBC is crying all day. And how not to cry:
The Syrian land is suffering from all sorts of iniquity. Legitimate government has already
taken control of two cities in Eastern Ghouta, where British trained and supported head
choppers have dug along with some British intelligence instructors. It's terrible and they
simply stand such an indignity! England loudly protest the fact that those nice freedom
fighters, that for some strange reason Russian view of Islamic fundamentalists and bandits are
killed and the province is liberated. Because there is another version of this reality for
England. and to add insult to injury they fed and funded, and deprived themselves to induce
those fighters to overthrow Assad. Money now lost.
And now Skripal disaster. I also see that somewhere in Sussex there a poor English Lord who
embrace as a brother Russian Jewish oligarch and they both cry and cry. All, or almost all
wealth which was acquired by back-breaking labor (aka stolen from Russians with the help of
British banks), can now go to hell.
Add to this the sad fact that those nasty Russians expelled the British Council! This news
was declared on BBC by a fellow who was almost crying dir such an undeserved and unprovoked
insult from ungrateful Russians! He really looks like so sad as if his own mother was just
buried. Looks like Russian hit in the bull's eye and a lot of MI6 guys will return to the
motherland. For the glory of God.
And BTW, it looks like that in of England over the past 17 years perishing way too many
defectors from Russia. Suddenly(!) the British began to count them and notice that something is
wrong! Now there is a talk that they say we ought to pull old files and cadavers and review.
It's a very cool idea to make same dead people a propaganda story about evil Russians the
second time! Reminds me Hollywood with unbearable continuations of popular movies. But on the
other hand, what if they run out of usable defectors who fit the propaganda scheme, and they
are simply forced to reuse the previously poisoned cadavers out of necessity? Looks like a
crisis of the genre of some kind! On the other hand Khodorkovsky and Browder might start a
little bit worrying. What if they are next.
"Sir, Further to your report ("Poison exposure leaves almost 40 needing treatment", TIMES Mar
14)' may I clarify that no patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in
Salisbury and there have only ever been three patients with significant poisoning. Several
people have attended the emergency department concerned that they may have been exposed. None
has had symptoms of poisoning and none has needed treatment. Any blood tests performed have
shown no abnormality. No member of the public has been contaminated by the agent
involved."
Stephen Davies. Consultant in emergency medicine, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
Funny montage of episode of the soviet serial "17 moments of spring".
Stierlitz meets Putin in Switzerland. Casts:
V.Tikhonov, V.Putin, Y.Timoshenko, N.Savchenko, H.Clinton
"Sir, Further to your report ("Poison exposure leaves almost 40 needing treatment", TIMES Mar
14)' may I clarify that no patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in
Salisbury and there have only ever been three patients with significant poisoning. Several
people have attended the emergency department concerned that they may have been exposed. None
has had symptoms of poisoning and none has needed treatment. Any blood tests performed have
shown no abnormality. No member of the public has been contaminated by the agent
involved."
Stephen Davies. Consultant in emergency medicine, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
Holmes, why do you think it was Teresa May who was involved in the crime in
Salisbury?
This is really elementary, Watson. There were several victims in this case. Only the real
organizer of the murder knows that the target of attempted assassination was Sergei Skripal
Stalker ABV , Sankt-Peterburg, 10 hours ago
Standing at the counter of an English pub, a man in the full protection gear tried to mix some
chemicals in the flask. Looks like he is a real beginner in such a task, "novichok" as Russians call such people,
derisively thought Sherlock Holms correctly guessing that the man is trying to prepare several ounces of nerve gas "Novichok".
George Galloway tweeted:"IF only #Russia had access to #Novichok WHY would they choose that weapon to mount a terrorist attack
in England? Might as well leave a pair of snow covered boots at the scene of the crime and scrawl Vlad woz Here on the nearest
wall! THINK!"
This man, Clyde, and all others against you don't seem to have much knowledge of how false flags are planted and cannot think
beyond what they have already concluded.
Motives are there and false flags usually happen when there are several levels of profit.
It just happens to be the last phase of the war in Syria and we get another call from Nikki Haley to strike Syria, which happened
several times in response to so-called chemical attacks. I was waiting for it, but did not expect it to happen in the UK.
As if Putin would use such a method to kill, on the eve of elections, a former irrelevant agent, and then did not succeed.
There are other levels relating to the end of the Russia probe around collusion being declared over without result and the next
day the whole hysteria shifts to the UK. Another factor has been the ongoing Nord Stream II oil pipeline from Russia to the EU
which the US does not want (nor does Poland and some others).
Carl Jung described the lowering of the mental level in mob psychology and how this then prevents people from thinking and
rushes of their own unconscious motives and feelings dominate. Secret services who know how to play this are very good at it and
the media in the West are no longer run by independent journalists. It is tragic to see how the US and UK always manage to play
on these instincts of the masses and it works: the Wesley-Clark message about going to war with a host of Middle Eastern countries
is unfolding after using the usual demonising of the leaders, then the black propaganda and lies are used, false flags planted
and the mobs go along with it time and time again (who cares about Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Yemen etc.).
Thank you, Craig, for standing up to these low level, non thinking types who cannot help themselves and have no integrity to
even allow due process to take place.
He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and
a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water.
"There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the top of the pile.
"There is a little nut for you to crack, Master Holmes."
"Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air.
"You dragged them from the Serpentine?"
"No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me
that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off."
"By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you
hope to arrive at through this?"
Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Noble Bachelor"
If it was the poison of a fugu fish, we would know for sure that the Japanese are guilty
You are over-thinking this, Craig. The fact that Boris Johnson has now stated that it's "overwhelmingly likely" that Putin
did it is incontrovertible proof that Putin is almost certainly innocent.
"... Unfortunately events in Ghouta seem to be moving more quickly than foreseen. If the West doesn't get a move on there aren't going to be any more imaginary hospitals in Ghouta filled with non-existent children for Butcher Assad to drop fictional barrel bombs stuffed with made-up Novichok on. ..."
it's has a cumulative effect the west just has to keep the daily, weekly, or monthly
accusations on full tilt, without any substance to back it up.. but i do believe the west is
pissed they have been snookered in syria with un security res 2401 all the plans for a false
flag, chemical attack in ghouta and extra, have been turned upside down.. now, if only the
white helmets could figure a way to rescue the skripals from zizzi's restaurant and have a
real baby in the pic too, they might have had a better pr thing going here . sorry to be so
cynical, but too many of these accusations without substance to back them up wears thin after
a while.. at this point cold war 2, and a reenactment of mccarthyism is on full display in
the usa/uk .
" but i do believe the west is pissed they have been snookered in syria with un security
res 2401 all the plans for a false flag, chemical attack in ghouta and extra, have been
turned upside down "
I'm inclined to agree with you James. I think the whole thing was cooked up as a kind of
precursor: "Look! LOOK!! Putin is assassinating people in Britain with Novichok, and now
Butcher Assad has DROPPED A WHOLE BARREL BOMB STUFFED WITH NOVICHOK ON A HOSPITAL FILLED WITH
CHILDREN IN GHOUTA!!! We must take a MEASURED RESPONSE to this, and save the Syrians by by
BOMBING WHAT'S LEFT OF THEIR COUNTRY INTO RUBBLE "
Unfortunately events in Ghouta seem to be moving more quickly than foreseen. If the
West doesn't get a move on there aren't going to be any more imaginary hospitals in Ghouta
filled with non-existent children for Butcher Assad to drop fictional barrel bombs stuffed
with made-up Novichok on.
...UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said on Thursday that Russia "should go away and
shut up" when asked about Moscow's possible response to British sanctions.
...Lavrov said he probably lacked education. "Well he's a nice man, I'm told, maybe he wants
to claim a place in history by making some bold statements," Lavrov said. "Theresa May's main
argument about Russia's guilt is 'Highly probable', while for him it's 'Russia should go and
shut up'. Maybe he lacks education, I don't know."
The Official Enemy always does *exactly* the wrong thing:
- Saddam Hussein hid WMD even as war loomed
- Gaddafi ordered a massacre certain to bring 'intervention'
- Assad launched a gas attack exactly as inspectors entered Damascus
- And now Putin...
"... the name "Football" is reserved for a game where you carry an object which is not shaped like a ball with your hands instead of kicking a round, ball shaped object with your foot. ..."
"... Kind of like the "Forest Protection Act" removes logging protecting from National Forests and the "Clean Air Act" removes anti-pollution regulations from big polluters like coal fired power stations. ..."
In the US, where everything is named for the opposite of what it actually is, the name
"Football" is reserved for a game where you carry an object which is not shaped like a ball
with your hands instead of kicking a round, ball shaped object with your foot.
Kind of like the "Forest Protection Act" removes logging protecting from National
Forests and the "Clean Air Act" removes anti-pollution regulations from big polluters like
coal fired power stations.
Here in Canada the "Seal Protection Act" makes it illegal to protect seals, among other
"named the opposite of what they actually do" laws.
George Orwell nailed it in "1984". "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is
Strength".
The PM has said that the nerve agent was 'Novichok' which is 5 to 8 times more
potent than VX... and the authorities waited 5 days to send the army in and over a week to
tell people to wash their clothes and other items?
"Sergej Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a
type developed by Russia.
MILITARY grade? Well then, Mrs. Prime Minister... that's pretty God damn serious
then. Because everyone knows the Russian CONSUMER -grade nerve agents are crap. I
think they sell them on Amazon (Free shipping with Amazon Prime).
Like I said in a previous thread Novichok was part of the plot of the recent "Strike Back:
Retribution" TV series on Sky TV, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox owns a 39.14% controlling
stake in Sky PLC. So a TV series by a billionaire supporter of Teresa May just happens to
make a fictional TV series around a nerve agent and Bad Russians(TM) and is put on TV just
before Teresa May accuses Bad Russians(TM) of using said nerve agent. This is not a
coincidence.
Link in Russian. Some (very few) Jews protested and I think because of the
oxymoron–Jews are never poor (wink, wink). This is the same company which produced
ice-creams Hohol and Obamka (diminutive for Obama), Obamka, as you may have guessed it, being
a chocolate ice-cream. State Department even accused the company in anti-Americanism.
I think it is time to produce brand Katzap to put all those issues to rest. Here is how
ice-cream looks like.
This is the level of nonsense that even yellow press would shun... Probably the pressitute who wrote it was
beaten to force him/her to write such a nonsense. Or as one commenter said was "working under hostile duress"
Notable quotes:
"... It is a "working under hostile duress" beacon set off ..."
> How please can a phone that can not send or receive signals, take a call? That is
impossible. How can a fact-checker and/or editor at The NewYorker let such nonsense slip into the opening graph.
Very very simple. It is a
"working under hostile duress" beacon set off
"...looked much like the other businessmen heading home, except for the fact that he kept his
phones in a Faraday bag -- a pouch, of military-tested double-grade fabric, designed to block
signal detection..."
A practical man, Steele also kept a giant roll of telephone line attached to his belt.
Unrolling it as he proceeded down the high street, he glanced upwards.
A Pteranodon, perched upon the slate roof was watching him closely. A bead of sweat
appeared on his temple, just showing underneath the rim of his bowler hat, trickling down the
side of his face, the leaving a streak that resembled a long forgotten river delta.
A chimmney sweet was approaching him on his right, whistling a jaunty tune, his bag of
extendable brushes jingling and clanking, just like Steele's nerves. Obviously a Russian
operative, the sweep was whistling an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, an ominous
warning...
This part of the New Yorker article could be sheer comedy gold:
'... Regardless of what others might think, it's clear that Steele believed that his
dossier was filled with important intelligence. Otherwise, he would never have subjected it,
his firm, and his reputation to the harsh scrutiny of the F.B.I. "I'm impressed that he was
willing to share it with the F.B.I.," [former CIA spook John Sipher] said. "That gives him
real credibility to me, the notion that he'd give it to the best intelligence professionals
in the world."...'
FBI, best intelligence professionals in the world? Didn't the FBI along with the CIA miss
most indications of a looming terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in the months
leading up to September 11, 2001?
A former CIA officer called John Sipher, calling a rival organisation 'the best
intelligence professionals in the world'?
a day in the life of joe "THE TRUMP VOTER" republican--by john gray: Joe gets up
at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The
water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum
water-quality standards.
With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His
medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure
their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan
because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical
insurance - now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat
because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing
industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly
labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some
crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and
how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is
clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop
industries from polluting our air.
He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It
saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some
fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives
everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical
benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union
members fought and died for these working standards.
Joes employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his
employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed,
he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal
didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune. Its
noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills.
Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal
wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking
system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten
mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal
decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and
earned more money over his lifetime. Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his
father this evening at his farm home in the country.
He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world
because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives
at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed
by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.
The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his
nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. He is happy to
see his father, who is now retired.
His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some
wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so
Joe wouldn't have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show.
The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good.
He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every
protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need
those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man
who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
Today's 'liberal' is no liberal at all. Center-extreme righties love
to get all indignant and shitty toward 'Trumptards' however today's
liberal deludes themselves into believing that they're 'socialists',
which is utter bullshit. They're party is racist, bigots and fascist
WARMONGERS.
At least with the right you know what you're getting.
But NEOLIBERALS have done more to manipulate and exploit their base
based upon identity politics which is thinly veiled after their fraud
committed during the 2016 attempted coup. Russiagate is utter
bullshit and all of these hangers on trolls here are nothing more
than cheerleaders for fascists who are sleepwalking them right into a
third world war.
These deep state whores murdered Seth Rich.
As a reformed ',liberal', I would rather spend time on slightly
rightie ZH page than to listen to these fascist fake liberals any day
of the week.
This past September, in one of his regular interviews with the newspaper Parlamentní Listy, retired Czech Major General
Hynek Blaško commented on the possibility of a conflict between Russia and NATO with a following anecdote:
"I have seen a popular joke on the Internet about Obama and his generals in the Pentagon debating on the best timing to
attack Russia. They couldn't come to any agreement, so they decided to ask their allies.
The French said: " We do not know, but certainly not in the winter. This will end badly. "
The Germans responded: "We do not know, either, but definitely not in a summer. We have already tried."
Someone in Obama's war room had a brilliant idea to ask China, on the basis that China is developing and always has new
ideas.
The Chinese answered: "The best time for this is right now. Russia is building the Power of Siberia pipeline, the North
Stream Pipeline, Vostochny Cosmodrome Spaceport, the MegaProject bridge to Crimea; also Russian is upgrading the Trans-Siberian
railroad with a new railway bridge across Lena River and the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline. Russia is also building new sports facilities
for the World Cup and athletics, and has in development over 150 production projects in the Arctic Well, now they really need
as many POWs as possible!"
Unbelievable. Aaron: I don't believe that the Mueller investigation has delivered solid
proof that Russia did anything against the country.
Sipher: Well I think that he and the FBI are reputable sources and I'm going to believe
them and what they tell me. Even if they haven't proven anything, we know that Putin is a bad
man and he wants to sow divisions here and besides he's using chemical weapons in Syria (even
though that's so totally off topic) and when I go to bed at night I see Putin in my dreams
and yackity, yack, yack! So there. I'm a poopy head and you're not.
Good grief, how can people believe anything by this time? And Rachel? Quit lying to
yourself and others. My gawd! You have come a long way from your time at Air America that I
don't even recognize you anymore. You are creating hysteria and you have become a raving
lunatic. Enjoy your $30,000/day, $7 million a month salary for selling out to the people who
you used to despise. I despise you!
I suppose it is ok for Aaron to interview guys like this CIA agent but the agent clearly
doesn't understand the validity of an indictment. An indictment doesn't prove anything; If it
did, we wouldn't need trial courts.
The Department of Justice could indict a ham sandwich if they wanted.
The DOJ knows that this case will never go to trial and they will never have to prove
anything. It is depressing that the Democrats and MSNBC have lost all credibility. We are
very lucky to have Aaron and Max looking at this sutff.
People all over the world are delighted to see the US and Russia joining together to
call out the globalists on their blatant hypocrisy.
Notable quotes:
"... "A Russian company spends 72p on Facebook ads: interference, hybrid war, parliamentary inquiry Soros spends £400K on bringing down UK Government: nothing to worry about." ..."
"A Russian company spends 72p on Facebook ads: interference, hybrid war, parliamentary inquiry Soros spends
£400K on bringing down UK Government: nothing to worry about."
A Russian company spends 72p on Facebook ads: interference, hybrid war, parliamentary
inquiry
Soros spends £400K on bringing down UK Government: nothing to worry about
pic.twitter.com/yeCZw4Z2B1
Steve S: "My God, what a confession it is to believe that 13 non-billionaires could influence
an American election: "Horosho! Now that election goes to Trump, next we get Moose and Squirrel!"
Seriously?!"
shinola , February
20, 2018 at 3:36 pm " If special snowflake America's democracy is so fragile that a bunch of amateurish Boris
& Natasha trolls can bring it down, then let it bleed [and share the Stoli,
comrades]."
"... Are we to see all this nonsense as merely an internal US matter, with the Dems planning an attack on Trump before he was elected, and subsequently promoting Russia as a blanket external enemy - as they can't accuse the Republicans, Banks or Big Corps, need an outside bogey, though they have post hoc also blamed the electorate, not smart. ..."
"... Russia is merely a mythical figure, breathing fire and red-clawed, in the wings, invisible, serving as a prop for the major contestants. ..."
"... Naturally, ordinary US citizens are of no account beyond their role as potentially duped followers, adherents, minions, serfs, ciphers on a page, etc. Influencing opinion(s) the most efficiently is part of the competition, actualised through media, TV, internet, etc. etc. ..."
I'm confused. The ICYMI facebook page has been going for a month or so.
It does exactly what the Russian bots are accused of, raising political issues and
mocking one side or as often both sides. Perhaps more UK based than US based though.
A lot like the more humourous RT posts do (which also find their way into my timeline -
not complaining I click on a lot of them). How come it hasn't been brought down yet?
And when is the Onion going to be indicted for being funny and spotting absurdities.
More seriously. The Russkies, e.g. Zakharova and Lavrov have said that the USA has gone
mad, is in the grip of a crazed delusional hysteria (or words to that effect.) Why the
hype?
1) Are we to see all this nonsense as merely an internal US matter, with the Dems
planning an attack on Trump before he was elected, and subsequently promoting Russia as a
blanket external enemy - as they can't accuse the Republicans, Banks or Big Corps, need an
outside bogey, though they have post hoc also blamed the electorate, not smart.
Neatly fitting with that Trump did propose 'good' ( ) relations with Russia, in an attempt
to actually conserve some, or even a major part, of US hegemony in the new 'multipolar'
world. (Trump wanted to control and 'annex' the weaker partner, not a bad calculation.)
>> Russia is merely a mythical figure, breathing fire and red-clawed, in the
wings, invisible, serving as a prop for the major contestants.
Naturally, ordinary US citizens are of no account beyond their role as potentially
duped followers, adherents, minions, serfs, ciphers on a page, etc. Influencing opinion(s)
the most efficiently is part of the competition, actualised through media, TV, internet, etc.
etc.
2) The USA is *for real* gearing up for a meltdown war, against Russia in first place, and
all the Media hype is aimed at getting US, NATO citizens to support it, or at least sleep in
front of the TV and not object, and/or be controlled by various entities. The US PTB will
never accept its loss of power/status and will destroy the world in a nuclear storm before it
gives up.
News review for the week ending Feb 18th 2018, in which Robert Mueller named 13 Russians who
allegedly conspired to alter the result of the 2016 election
View the archive at:
www.calvinsworldnews.com
Or why not check out my other website with classical music cartoons:
www.maestrocartoon.com
There's a certain irony in stuff like this that supersedes even righteous outrage. It
reinforces what Mad magazine spoofed decades ago: our spies are just as dumb as theirs;
perhaps even more so. And when you wade in the swamp, expect to attract leeches.
"... Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the "Nunes Memo" could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States. ..."
"... "Making this memo public will almost certainly impede our ability to conduct clandestine activities operating outside any legal or judicial system on an international scale," said Wray, noting that it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or subvert religious and political groups. ..."
"... If we take away the people's faith in this shadowy monolith exempt from any consequences, all that's left is an extensive network of rogue, unelected intelligence officers carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of subjective, and occasionally personal, reasons. ..."
With the moment of truth - over-hyped dud or Democratic-establishment-crushing dream - looming in less than 24 hours, the headlines,
finger-pointing, pettiness, and back-stabbing has reached 11 on the Spinal Tap amplifier of debacle... to the point where some humor
in this FISA farce may help everyone get through the weekend.
The following is the latest to cross the wires...
Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the "Nunes
Memo" could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States.
"Making this memo public will almost certainly impede our ability to conduct clandestine activities operating outside any legal
or judicial system on an international scale," said Wray, noting that it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American
people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or
subvert religious and political groups.
"If we take away the people's faith in this shadowy monolith exempt from any consequences, all that's left is an extensive
network of rogue, unelected intelligence officers carrying out extrajudicial missions for a variety of subjective, and occasionally
personal, reasons."
At press time, Wray confirmed the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies were unaware of any wrongdoing for violating
constitutional rights.
DAVOS -- Maintaining that the notion didn't even cross his mind, President Trump reportedly
insisted Friday that he never once thought about firing Robert Mueller, feeding him to a pack
of rabid dogs, and mounting his head in the Oval Office as a trophy.
"At no point did I ever
consider firing Mr. Mueller, tossing his body to snarling, mangy hounds, and having his head
stuffed and mounted front and center above the Oval Office fireplace," said Trump, dismissing
several reports that he had ordered the special counsel to be terminated from his post and
torn limb from limb by starving Rottweilers before nailing his skull to a wooden plaque, but
backed off when a top White House lawyer threatened to quit.
"It's also totally ridiculous to
think that I would ever want Mueller gone for good, boiled alive, and chopped up into bloody
chunks. The stories you're hearing about me trying to get rid of Mueller and then gutting him
with a rusty ice pick are absolutely not true."
At press time, Trump asserted that if he ever
did one day decide to forcibly castrate Mueller and set him on fire, it would be fully within
his authority as president.
ltravisjr asks "what did she destroy evidence of?" There is just so much to choose from.
How about this joke
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar.
Donald leans over, and With A smile on his face, says, "The media are really tearing you
apart for That Scandal." Hillary:
"You mean my lying about Benghazi?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the massive voter fraud?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using my secret private server with classified material to Hide my Activities?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything Else?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, Hiring Cronies, And
taking
bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the drones being operated in our own country without The Benefit of the
law?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million, and right afterward it Declared
Bankruptcy
and was sold to the Chinese?"
Trump: "No,the other one."
Hillary: "You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Whitewater, Watergate committee, Vince Foster, commodity Deals?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Turning Libya into chaos?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Turning our backs on Israel?"
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "The joke Iran Nuke deal? "
Trump: "No the other one:"
Hillary: "Leaving Iraq in chaos? "
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance Executives?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving our cronies in SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 Months Later they
declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA monitoring citizens' ?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on
departmental sexual misconduct?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Me, The IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Threats to all of Bill's former mistresses to keep them quiet"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "I give up! Oh wait, I think I've got it! When I stole the White House
furniture,
silverware and China when Bill left Office?"
Trump: "THAT'S IT! I almost forgot about that one".
-- -- -- -- –
Sorry that doesn't actually answer your question. By the way, when I googled for
trump hillary "the other scandal"
I had trouble finding that joke, but duckduckgo.com had no trouble finding it at all.
Makes me think that google is deliberately trying to hide it.
"... According to the Moscow Times, another Duma deputy suggested that the address of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow should be renamed as "Severoamerikansky Tupik, 1," -- "North American Dead End, 1." ..."
Sparking an angry reaction halfway around the world, the D.C. Council voted to rename the
street outside the Russian Embassy after a leading rival to President Vladimir Putin who was
assassinated near the Kremlin in 2015. A portion of Wisconsin Avenue in front of the Russian
Embassy will now be known as "Boris Nemtsov Plaza," according to the D.C. Council .
... ... ...
According to the Moscow Times, another Duma deputy suggested that the address of the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow should be renamed as "Severoamerikansky Tupik, 1," -- "North American
Dead End, 1."
I understand why you're so angry about the new Michael Wolff book, especially some of the
quotes attributed to me. I was as shocked as you were to see them in print.
For the record, I take full responsibility for letting Mr. Wolff hang out with me in the
White House for so long. Apparently the dude was writing down everything I said, word for
word.
Who does that? Nobody here at Breitbart News, that's for sure!
Please allow me to provide some context and clarification for my seemingly nasty comments
about your family.
First, you know Ivanka and I have had our differences. It's no secret that she actually
hates my guts, which is fine. Lots of people do. Almost anybody who's spent time with me, to be
honest.
However, Wolff's book says I describe your daughter as "dumb as a brick," a phrase I've
never used in my life.
Now, it's somewhat possible that – in an unguarded moment -- I said she was "dumb as a
box of rocks," a phrase I use many times a day.
In fact, I say it so often that nobody who knows me takes it seriously anymore, or gets
their itty-bitty feelings hurt.
"The biggest rub is how stupid they think the American people are," says the Broadway star,
who traveled for hours to parody the GOP nominee's wife with a perfect pouty lip and
spot-on Slovene accent.
The Last but not LeastTechnology is dominated by
two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt.
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