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Dec 31, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Mao , Dec 30 2019 9:03 utc | 48
"Freedom gas" named Worst Words of the YearPlain English Foundation has voted freedom gas as the worst word or phrase of 2019.
The term comes from the United States Department of Energy, which rebranded natural gas as "freedom gas" and boasted about bringing molecules of US freedom to the world.
"When a simple product like natural gas starts being named through partisan politics, we are entering dangerous terrain," said the Foundation's Executive Director, Dr Neil James. "Why can't natural gas just remain natural gas?"
Each year, Plain English Foundation gathers dozens of examples of the worst words to highlight the importance of clear and ethical public language.
The full list of 2019's worst words and phrases follows.
https://www.plainenglishfoundation.com/documents/10179/636280/2019_Worst_Words_media_release
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Dec 30, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"How much money did you make in Ukraine?"
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Dec 30, 2019 | www.washingtonpost.com
1 day ago Maddow is really a propagandist. She really isn't a journalist. Because her credibility and ratings have gone south because so many of the big stories she has been obliged to push have been fake from the get-go. People start to notice that after a while. You can't fool all of the people all of the time as Abe observed. 1 day ago It has been determined to have been a fabrication. It is not just controversial. Maddow may be spot on in fooling her drooling sycophants, but facts seldom ever interfere with her fairy tales and TDS motivated delusions.
10 hours ago Rational Agent:
The CIA told the FBI that the material in the Steele dossier is merely Internet gossip and bar room talk. This is in the inspector general's report (issued Dec 9) and public testimony under oath before Congress (Dec 11).There were several agents in the FBI who were disturbed about the unverified nature of this material, and they were overruled by other agents and their supervisors and this material was then presented to the FISA court four times in the knowledge that it was unverified but the court was told it was verified. That is also in the inspector general's Report and public testimony.
The result of this misconduct was that the head judge of the FISA court Rosemary Collyer, issued on Dec 16 an unprecedented and angry public rebuke of the FBI for repeatedly deceiving the court about the veracity of the Steele dossier.
Enough for you? 1 day ago With apologies to Bob Dylan:
"A man (or woman) sees what he (she) wants to see and disregards the rest."
If you're tuned into cable 'news' at 9 p.m. eastern time looking for objective journalism, well, good luck with that. Cuomo is probably the best bet; he offers a little bit.
Not withstanding that, your point is well made. Not much in the way of great thought on the telly at that time on any station.
1 day ago Independents view Rachael Maddow, Chris Cuomo and Sean Hannity as hate peddlers who spin, lie and twist every single issue to fit their fantasy of how the world exists. I cannot imagine how anyone with a brain or any semblance of logic could be a regular viewer of these hate mongers. If one does a cursory analysis of the predictions these people have made over the past couple of years, you will quickly see how ridiculous and wrong they have been. The bigger problem is that they represent their news organizations and only add to the distrust and declining reliance that rational folks have of the Media.
2 days ago [she is] Just another CIA mouthpiece.
Maddows is furiously back pedalling, not standing by what she said. This speaks volumes.
Maddows is evil.
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Dec 30, 2019 | dissidentvoice.org
by Andre Vltchek / December 24th, 2019
I constantly receive such letters; letters which repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: "If only we would have an opportunity to vote out our damn system!"Such letters, emails and messages keep coming to me from the United States, but also from the United Kingdom. Particularly, after certain events , like when the Western empire overthrows some progressive government in Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.
I honestly wonder: "Don't my readers actually periodically have that proverbial opportunity they are longing for? They can, can't they, install socialism; to let it storm into Downing Street like an early spring?"
But they keep missing that opportunity, again and again. Or, are they really missing it? Actually, for so many years they have voted in the most extreme forms of capitalism and imperialism, so one has to wonder whether the British voters perhaps truly deserve their rulers?
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Dec 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN "really, literally is paid Russian propaganda."Now, Maddow finds herself having to come up with a defense for her statement in court. And she has also apparently hired Lionel Hutz as her legal adviser.
According to Culttture , her lawyers argued in a recent motion that " the liberal host was clearly offering up her 'own unique expression' of her views to capture what she saw as the 'ridiculous' nature of the undisputed facts. Her comment, therefore, is a quintessential statement 'of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false."
Oh, it's capable of being proved false, alright. Maddow had previously claimed, on air, about one of OAN's reporters:
"In this case, the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America is really literally is paid Russian propaganda," and added, "Their on-air politics reporter ( Kristian Rouz) is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government."
The testimony of UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor Stefan Thomas Gries, however, stands at odds with Maddow's defense. Gries said: "It is very unlikely that an average or reasonable/ordinary viewer would consider the sentence in question to be a statement of opinion."
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Dec 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
#2 This is known as "the season of giving", but one 65-year-old guy in Colorado decided it would be more fun to do it with other people's money : Just after noon on Monday, a 65-year-old man walked into a downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado bank and stole thousands of dollars before running outside and tossing the cash up into the air while yelling "Merry Christmas!"
#8 One rapper in Los Angeles decided that the best way to address the problem of homelessness was to climb on top of a tall building and throw cash down on to the homeless people living on Skid Row so they could fight over it: The 22-year-old rapper known as Blueface climbed onboard a black Mercedes SUV in Skid Row before throwing money out of a bag while dozens of people below scramble to catch the flying cash and pick it up from the ground. The artist, whose real name is Jonathan Michael Porteris, is known for the Benjamin Franklin tattoo on his cheek and a handful of hit tracks that reached viral status in recent years.
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Dec 29, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
" Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart ":
She was there for the bunkings, absent for the debunkings -- a pattern of misleading and dishonest asymmetry.
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Dec 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
ibeanbanned , 42 minutes ago link
This is the reason that progressives hate russia?
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Dec 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
5 more days!!
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Dec 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran.
...The Mandate of Heaven has been removed from the elitist establishment. It is passing to the Deplorables.
The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the antidote to arrogant globalists.
Deplorables everywhere say "from now on we will make our own decisions."
What is it with the Deplorables? What gives them such power?Three things, I believe, are elevating them.
Deplorables are pragmatic . They are not wedded to any extreme ideology. Deplorables will go with anything that works. It is no wonder that the Deplorables began in America. For, as Americans we inherit the pragmatism of our pioneering ancestors.
Boogity , 4 minutes ago link
FBaggins , 1 hour ago linkThe article incorrectly lumps the astro-turfed Hong Kong protests in with the "Deplorable" populist movements in the USA and western Europe.
The Hong Kong protests are being backed by Soros and the Davos globalist elites as well the the CIA, MIC, and the DC Uniparty. This same bunch of Swamp scum are enemies of the "Deplorables".
More pure American establishment propaganda as if the globalist movement is essentially a creature of the socialists, government bureaucracies, and the Asian block. The truth is that it is a creature mainly of the Rothschild banking cartel and with the support of most Western based multi-nationals, which have utilized the Rothschild & Soros backed international socialists, the Western mainstream media, most Western governments, plus the Catholic Church hierarchy, in order to bring about a world government. The Rothschild wet dream is control of world finances just like they control those in the West, and their stated intentions are for a One-World Bank with a one-world currency. However, the cartel cannot do that without a world government with real enforcement powers for trade and protection with their world currency. The multinonals mainly want borderless nations for freer access to resources and markets.
Trump has been used to whump up US stature and ultimately will be seen as much an instrument of the globalist cause as was Obama. Perhaps he was put in the game by his backers to secure a higher return on the US dollar when they are cashed in for the proposed one-world currency, and by the Zionists to secure more turf for Israel. Israel is getting very itchy with the old trigger finger and we await in the New Year another false flag at least on the scale of 9/11. It will likely have to involve a US city.
As we know, the term 'deplorables' came from Hillary in the last US presidential election and was applied to people who amplified "hateful views and voices" about her, but later the term was used to characterize mainly Trump supporters. The Hong Kong protesters as not "deplorables" because their cause in not for Trump or for the US. It is for their own liberty against the communist Chinese government usurping their basic legal and local rights, which Trump could care less about. Aslo, he is not a populist. He is an elitist and he is totally controlled by elitists with more money and power than even he every dreamed of.
Left or right, Democrat or Republican, the puppet masters are the same and run the show. They are all global elites using their money and power to swing the public audiences left and right with every pull at the strings of their dummy politicians. What they fear the most, is the people in the middle uniting without their money or the media and taking control of their lives and their nations.
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Dec 27, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Then-RNC chairman Jim Nicholson said of Schumer "No self-respecting jury would allow somebody who's already formed an opinion on the guilt or innocence of the accused," adding "but Chuck Schumer has loudly proclaimed that he's pre-judged the case. He's already announced that he's decided the President shouldn't be impeached , much less removed from office."
Schumer responded days later, telling NBC 's "Meet the Press": "The Founding Fathers -- whose wisdom just knocks my socks off every day, it really does -- set this process up to be in the Senate, not at the Supreme Court, not in some judicial body ."
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"Every day, for instance, hundreds of people call us up and lobby us on one side and the other. You can't do that with a juror," he added. "The standard is different. It's supposed to be a little bit judicial and a little bit legislative-political. That's how it's been.
Meanwhile, Schumer said in a 1998 Op-Ed that he would be voting to acquit Clinton , and that he'd made up his mind that September.
"My decision will not come as a surprise," Schumer wrote . "I will be voting to acquit the president on both counts. I had to make my decision in September as a member of the Judiciary Committee in the House, and while I was in the middle of the campaign."
Responding to CNN 's recent report (yet failing to explain the 'impartial juror' hypocrisy), Schumer's office said that his statements came after the conclusion of the Starr investigation, "which included testimony from key witnesses including President Clinton, had concluded and been made public for months and as Sen. Schumer was in the anomalous position of having already voted on impeachment in both the House Judiciary Committee and on the House floor."
"As is reflected in these quotes, Schumer believed then and still believes now that all of the facts must be allowed to come out and then a decision can be made -- in stark contrast to the Republicans today in both the House and Senate who have worked to prevent all the facts and evidence from coming out."
gay troll , 33 minutes ago link
The_Central_Scrutinizer , 21 minutes ago linkAnother term unlimited parasite shows that he has become an utter hypocrite, if he wasn't one in the first place. Praising the wisdom of the founding fathers is such a rookie move, the kind of thing you say to get elected. Like all other politicians he picks and chooses the parts of the Constitution that are conducive to his hold on power. The Democrats do not have a leg to stand on, and for that reason they are going down. What Trump will do with his second term terrifies me. I still cannot believe this dissembling confidence artist, former NYC liberal, arch Zionist, Rothschild beneficiary has the best interests of America in mind.
2handband , 16 minutes ago linkThe idea we have members of the House or Senate still serving who participated in the last impeachment should be a warning to us all. Yet the number is surprisingly high.
Bay of Pigs , 3 minutes ago linkbut the larger issue is the money favoring...reducing that will be complic
Never happen. People are ****, and everybody has their price. Term limits would probably make it worse; if you know you're only getting one or two terms you'll be trying to maximize your take.
stevek , 11 minutes ago linkFirst we see the liberal rag WaPo blasting MadCow and now CNN calling out Chuck Schumer?
WTF? Is this Friday Humor?
2handband , 8 minutes ago linkI get really suspicious any time CNN reports anything even remotely resembling the truth. They must be up to something no good.
2handband , 15 minutes ago linkThe whole thing is scripted. I've been waiting for stuff exactly like this, actually. They're not really trying to get rid of Trump; in fact they NEED him in office next term.
gay troll , 22 minutes ago linkOnce again: this is too dumb too be real. If they actually wanted to get rid of Trump, there are easier ways.
SocratesSolves , 23 minutes ago linkAnother term unlimited parasite shows that he has become an utter hypocrite, if he wasn't one in the first place. Praising the wisdom of the founding fathers is such a rookie move, the kind of thing you say to get elected. Like all other politicians he picks and chooses the parts of the Constitution that are conducive to his hold on power. The Democrats do not have a leg to stand on, and for that reason they are going down. What Trump will do with his second term terrifies me. I still cannot believe this dissembling confidence artist, former NYC liberal, arch Zionist, Rothschild beneficiary has the best interests of America in mind.
2willies , 24 minutes ago linkIt is time, ladies and gentlemen, to put the *** in the Zoo. After all, that's what they tried to do to you...
Schumer is a classic psychopath.
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Dec 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Legislators have begun to hold hearings on impeaching Santa Claus after an overheard conversation seemed to imply he was offering a quid pro quo: gifts in exchange for good behavior. FBI agents spied on Claus at various malls as he repeatedly said things like, "Sure, I'll get you a pony. But first, I need you to do something for me... be a good little boy!"
The FBI was able to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Claus, because it's easier to get a FISA warrant than to get a Costco membership.
"Ho ho noooooo!" Santa Claus cried as investigators leaped out and cuffed him at a Dayton, OH mall. "Not good! Sad!"
freedommusic , 2 minutes ago link
The whistleblowers are children of CIA and FBI agents and remain anonymous to protect them from retaliation from angry Christmas elves.
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Dec 26, 2019 | twitter.com
Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 1:12 AM - 18 Dec 2019
Dear Tony Blair,
The days of privatization, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, tuition fees and warmongering in the Labour Party are over.
Neoliberalism ain't coming back.
Now, take your £9 million from Saudi headchopper Mohammad bin Salman and fuck off.
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Dec 26, 2019 | twitter.com
Voortrekker 12:55 PM - 20 Dec 2019
Anti-homeless gay rock is peak neoliberalism . pic.twitter.com/u4N4ibwNrv
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Dec 25, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Alan Dershowitz via The Gatestone Institute,Speaker Pelosi's unconstitutional decision to delay transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate in order to gain partisan advantage raises the following question: has President Trump been impeached, or did the House vote merely represent an authorization or intention to impeach -- which becomes an actual impeachment only when the articles are transmitted? This highly technical constitutional issue is being debated by two of my former Harvard Law School colleagues -- Professors Laurence Tribe and Noah Feldman -- both liberal Democrats who support President Trump's impeachment.
Tribe believes that Trump has been impeached and that it would be perfectly proper to leave it at that : by declining to transmit the articles of impeachment, the Democrats get a win-win. President Trump remains impeached but he gets no opportunity to be tried and acquitted by the Senate. This cynical, partisan ploy is acceptable to Tribe because it brings about the partisan result he prefers: Trump bears forever the stigma of impeachment without having the opportunity to challenge that stigma by a Senate acquittal. Under the Tribe scenario, the House Democrats get to "obstruct" the Senate and "abuse" their power (to borrow terms from the articles of impeachment).
Feldman disagrees with Tribe, arguing -- quite correctly -- that impeachment and a removal trial go together. If a president is impeached, he must be tried. Impeachment, in his view, is not merely a vote; it is the first step in a constitutionally mandated two-step process. He goes so far as to say that if the articles of impeachment are not forwarded to the Senate for trial, there has been no valid impeachment.
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Dec 25, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Moscow Exile December 24, 2019 at 1:20 am
S&P Global Platts does not seem to be in the same jubilatory mood as is the troll in his belief that Nord Stream 2 has been well and truly fucked by the mighty Empire:Nord Stream 2 pipelayer Allseas suspends operations on US sanctions
The move by Allseas will certainly mean new delays to the completion of the 55 Bcm/year pipeline, which had originally been scheduled to start operations at the end of 2019.
Delays to the completion of the pipeline?
Delays????
Are you serious Platts?
The Empire has once again been victorious against the doltish Mongol-Tatar subhumans, who have no technology, no wits, no gumption no nothing , when faced with the awesome might of the Exceptional Nation.
Nord Stream – 2 is totally fucked, I tell ya!
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Dec 25, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
pretzelattack , Dec 26 2019 2:37 utc | 87
Such a Christian nation: " the USA never bothers to meet the requirements of its own constitution for going to war."
as far as know, Christianity hasn't burned anybody for being a witch, nor drowned them, in some time; otoh, Christians sure have started a lot of recent wars, or police actions, or whatever they are called technically since the USA never bothers to meet the requirements of its own constitution for going to war.
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Dec 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
And as liberal family members arrive packing a battery of Maddow-approved, Media Matters talking points beamed directly into their outrage cortex, conservatives may find themselves ill equipped to handle the firehose of vitriol pouring out of their loved ones.
In anticipation of holiday triggerings, the 2020 Trump campaign reserved the website " snowflakevictory.com " two weeks ago, filling it with all sorts of facts and logic that can be deployed to "win an argument with your liberal relatives," which can also be viewed in short video clips set to patriotic background music.
51 minutes ago (Edited)I read this earlier on ZH, but it was priceless. Just tell your liberal and Democratic relatives that since the House of Representatives impeached Trump, he is now eligible for two more terms as President. Thanks GunnyG for posting this earlier in this thread.
41 minutes ago (Edited)
If Trump had actually done anything for the American masses, we would all know it and no list of talking points issued from the Trump administration would be necessary.
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Dec 24, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
cartman December 22, 2019 at 9:55 am
Today in Russophrenia:In other news, @RANDCorporation report firmly establishes that Van Gogh was a Russian Agent. May be, the dastardly Kremlin plot drove him to cut his ear off?.. At any rate, NATO is now on alert. pic.twitter.com/9k9j5K9rx1
-- Constantin Gurdgiev (@GTCost) December 22, 2019
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Dec 24, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
flora , December 23, 2019 at 12:09 pm
adding: I listened to part of an NPR report on the French strikes. It was a first person account by the young US reporter (judging from her voice) living in Paris about how the strike was affecting her. She started out well enough, then complained that the strike makes it hard for her nanny to travel to-from her apartment, making it a terrible hardship on the nanny, and upsetting her childcare arrangement. Then her real complaint about the strikes was aired: it's making it ever so much harder for her, the intrepid reporter, to travel to all the upscale holiday parties she's been invited to. (Oh, the humanity!)
NPR foreign correspondents today; "My nanny is inconvenienced. I am inconvenienced. Workers' pensions are all well and good, but what is that compared to my inconvenience?!"
Not exactly Eric Sevareid reporting from London during the blitz
chuck roast , December 23, 2019 at 6:58 pm
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting!
There fixed it.
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Dec 24, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Big Tap , December 24, 2019 at 1:06 am
and if Donald Trump was Mitch Hedberg he would be far more interesting. Also the show is from 1999 not 2017 in the caption. He died in 2005.
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Dec 24, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
jeremyharrison , December 23, 2019 at 3:46 pm
I can't wait for the Warren – Trump debates, where Trump will show up wearing a full-length American Indian headdress.
inode_buddha , December 23, 2019 at 3:57 pm
Nothing stopping Warren from showing up in a orange wig with a really bad comb over. And a loud tie.
Trent , December 23, 2019 at 4:07 pm
she's not funny and takes herself too seriously
polecat , December 23, 2019 at 5:44 pm
So, a faux tranny .. in addition to a faux indigenous. Alright then
CoryP , December 24, 2019 at 12:53 am
Have to admit I laughed.
But tranny is an offensive term. Which I nonetheless appreciate in the right context. . whatever you can't censor people's thoughts.
Everything has become an offensive term, generally when it's used intentionally to cause offense. We have to be able to insult these people somehow!
I thought of Dearieme. As much as his comments got me worked up it's made me realize what a fine line there is with censorship.
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Dec 24, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Big River Bandido , December 24, 2019 at 12:30 am
If Democrats were to win, they'd have to govern.
albrt , December 23, 2019 at 11:42 pm
The Democrat consultant and non-profit ecosystem is fund-raising off of Trump like they have never fund-raised before.
Allegorio , December 24, 2019 at 12:31 am
The corporate Democrats, got Trump elected in the first place,
ggm , December 24, 2019 at 2:06 am
Tulsi had the sense to see impeachment for what it is, a farce that only helps Trump, and look how she is treated by the party for refusing to go along with it.
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Dec 24, 2019 | kunstler.com
4014HAMPHEDGE December 23, 2019 at 11:11 am #
RIB December 23, 2019 at 11:30 am #Will we still have boys and girls & trains? Log in to Reply
Ishabaka December 23, 2019 at 2:26 pm #No, just boys and girls and trans Log in to Reply
Ishabaka December 23, 2019 at 2:27 pm #Transgenders are the new saints of the alt-left. No one dare criticize them, everyone wants their child to be one, no expense must be spared in glorifying them.
hmuller December 23, 2019 at 11:38 am #And I left out – President Liz promises to dedicate a day to our transgender martyrs.
Did you mean to write "trains" or "trans"?
I read JHK's post-apocalypse 4 book series. Don't remember any trannies. A word of advice to Jim. If you want the establishment media's seal of approval you better put some drag queens in volume 5. Tough ones who read library stories and practice kung-fu on the bad guys. Some real role models for the young kids.
As I recall, the critics said your female characters were too feminine. So include some butchie bitches next time. The New York Times might finally have a kind word.
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Dec 24, 2019 | kunstler.com
abbybwood December 23, 2019 at 2:10 pm #
elysianfield December 23, 2019 at 1:46 pm #Considering there are three billion Muslims determined to rule the planet with their Sharia Law and forcing everyone to face Mecca five times a day to "pray" while waiting for Mahamed to return, adding to that millions of Christians, many nutty enough to believe we need a nuclear war destroying Israel in order to save it and cause Jesus to return on a cloud, plus good luck converting the billions of Chinese to ANY of this! Destroy the planet in order to save it! Light a candle, take off your shoes and burn some incense! The end is nigh!!!
Human beings on this planet, I have come to believe, are all just batshit crazy and delusional regarding their various "beliefs".
Just look at what that nut editor of "Christianity Today" did to President Trump!
For God's sake! (cough), Trump and his GOP crew are against abortion, going so far as to stop ALL funding of abortions with federal money, they hate the Commies and on and on. Probably the fact that neither Trump nor his wife have set foot in a church on a Sunday morning in four years toting his well-worn Bible, was what really did him in! No regular photo-ops like with Jimmy and Rosalind or Bill and Hillary. Tsk, tsk
Seriously. I am almost 70 years old and have lived in Los Angeles for the past ten years. This place has no soul. My friend and I want to leave and buy a small house in a nice town with normal people. The only problem is that any of these towns that might exist are filled with depressed people, some slumped over their steering wheels dying of heroin overdoses while their toddler children sit in the back seats of the cars freezing, screaming and starving.
Starving for food, warmth and affection.
Too old to fight the snow and frozen roads and sidewalks. Wish I had a pretty lake to swim in Spring, Summer and Fall with a nice mild Winter.
And the quaint town of my childhood back again.
I wish it wasn't so, but I will probably die here in this hell hole with nothing but my memories of swimming lakes and pretty gardens with bluebirds and robins and cardinals singing.
And in my memories I can hear my grandma saying, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride".
Merry Christmas.
"And, maybe someone can refresh our memories on when was the time in human history that we were not faced with "apocalypse"? "
shotho,
Perhaps, because we all carry the seed of our personal apocalypse?
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Dec 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Trump weighed in on the saga Sunday, suggesting that Democrats have realised they are driving off a cliff:
Crazy Nancy wants to dictate terms on the Impeachment Hoax to the Republican Majority Senate, but striped away all Due Process, no lawyers or witnesses, on the Democrat Majority House. The Dems just wish it would all end. Their case is dead, their poll numbers are horrendous!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2019He also asked why Pelosi isn't being impeached for her own 'quid pro quo':
Nancy Pelosi is looking for a Quid Pro Quo with the Senate. Why aren't we Impeaching her?
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
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Dec 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
onwisconsinbadger , 35 minutes ago link
In May 2016, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, famously proclaimed that, "If we [Republicans] nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it." Since then, Graham has become one of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders, making Graham the target of critics who paint him as a hypocrite for repeatedly contradicting his previously expressed stances.
In 2015, for example, Graham called Donald Trump a "race-baiting xenophobic bigot," but by 2018 he was claiming that he had "never heard [Trump] make a single racist statement." And in 1999, during impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton (a Democrat), Graham asserted that an impeachable offense "doesn't even have to be a crime," but then in 2019 Graham challenged those calling for the impeachment of Trump to "show me something that is a crime"
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Dec 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Trump weighed in on the saga Sunday, suggesting that Democrats have realised they are driving off a cliff:
Crazy Nancy wants to dictate terms on the Impeachment Hoax to the Republican Majority Senate, but striped away all Due Process, no lawyers or witnesses, on the Democrat Majority House. The Dems just wish it would all end. Their case is dead, their poll numbers are horrendous!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2019He also asked why Pelosi isn't being impeached for her own 'quid pro quo':
Nancy Pelosi is looking for a Quid Pro Quo with the Senate. Why aren't we Impeaching her?
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
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Dec 23, 2019 | news.yahoo.com
Bobbie"We have no concept of a preemptive strike," Putin told a forum of international experts in the southern city of Sochi in response to a question from the audience.
"In such a situation, we expect to be struck by nuclear weapons, but we will not use them" first, he said.
"The aggressor will have to understand that retaliation is inevitable, that it will be destroyed and that we, as victims of aggression, as martyrs, will go to heaven.
"They will simply die because they won't even have time to repent,"
last year Russia is a Christian nation since the Soviet Union fell. They believe in the 10 Commandments one of which is do not murder. E D
last year Yup a reply to the jarhead Mattis who mentioned the possibly of a preemptive strike on Russia because of allegations they are violating a missile treaty.Yup should start showing the movies 'Fail Safe' New Bedford Incident', 'The Day After', 'Dr Strange Love, ' Missiles of October' now on TV prime time spots. No JFK or RFK to hold the generals in check this time.and God indeed will judge them for the billions that die.
Replylast year If it had not been for one brave Soviet officer during the Cuban missle crisis it is likely few of us would be reading how "unlikely" the communists are to launch a first strike. I consider Vasili Arkhipov to be a hero but he was not necessarily viewed that way in Russia. He probably prevented a nuclear world war III. Please read his story...
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/vasili-cuban-missile-crisis.html Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer who, upon making a split second decision, prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into a nuclear Vasili Arkhipov was a Soviet naval officer who, upon making a split second decision, prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating into a nuclear www.warhistoryonline.com wootendwlast year Just a warning to nutjobs in the US who believe Russia won't use nukes because they know they'll be destroyed. Even if there isn't a heaven, what happened to Libya and Qaddafi was WORSE than nuclear war. Having lost 20m in WWII, Russia will certainly use nukes in defense EVEN IF THE WEST ONLY ATTACKS THEM WITH CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS Bond000000007
last year Russia is obviously not the evil society or culture that the evil west is drumming propaganda against at every opportunity It is unfortunate the western world has evolved very negative socially; surviving at the cost of lies, murder, cheating, beliefs in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxons, domination of the world and name it! If it is true that Russia has achieved the military advances that Russia has publicly made known and if that was the western world, then they would have most likely planned for a schedule of striking Russia and China in order to bring the world to the level of subjugation that was existing in the colonial era and even practically now where they are telling countries which community should lead a country at the national level and which ones and which ones should work on cohesion of the nation etc. Without any pretence, a one world government will bring the world to subjugation which will be more less comparable to the era of slavery! Alex
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One correction: Putin didn't say "our enemies will just die", he said "our enemies will croak" , he used an informal word 'сдохнут' - zdokhnut.
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It was interesting watching the impeachment vote on the House floor. Several House Democrats got up and spoke of how impeachment was like the civil rights movement. I guess they forgot it was the Democratic Party who defended slavery, founded the clan, imposed segregation, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Trond , Dec 22 2019 19:54 utc | 31
Hugo Boss could probably make some nice uniforms for the space force...Russell Brand Rips on GQ Hugo Boss and Syria War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inB-6R1-4ngOr they could use Star Trek-uniforms, if they were not already used by someone else...
Picard is back:
uncle tungsten , Dec 22 2019 20:12 utc | 39
Spaceforce uniform and so on. Can it be called The Mighty Muskateers after Elon's rocket.
Maybe Boeing Brigade as they can be sure of returning to earth. One way or another.
At least the good colonel has his priorities right - the patch is mission critical.
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GovWaste , 1 hour ago link
No Facts, No Truth. What's left? hysteria.
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Reaper , 1 hour ago link
nyuszika45b , 1 hour ago linkI hate, therefore I am intelligent.
Modern hysteria, aka TDS, is used by the mentally challenged to hide their self-perceived stupidity.
Further depth on all these subjects can be realised by perusing the collected sayings of P.T. Barnum... he created the meme for the modern media perversion of reality in accordance with their Usury Empire masters' wishes.
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Stormcrow , December 21, 2019 at 11:54 am
The Long, Dark History of Russia's Murder, Inc. New York Review of Books
Up next: The bright, sunny history of the CIA
Carolinian , December 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Speaking of that.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/20/gladio-the-story-of-a-conspiracy/
Acacia , December 22, 2019 at 12:15 am
No surprise. NYRB has had a b*ner for Muh Russia since the early days of the hysteria.
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tucenz , Dec 22 2019 12:28 utc | 59
"The second is the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip; an unpleasant, misogynistic, racist 98 year old man who has led a life of privilege and leisure by poncing off British tax payers and who has given the world nothing (except fathering yet another generation of inbred, royal parasites) and achieved absolutely nothing of any import whatsoever despite being given every advantage life can offer. Now, Prince Philip fell sick yesterday and was rushed from the royal estate of Sandringham (in Scotland) by helicopter"
Sandringham isn't in Scotland. Phil allegedly didn't father Andrew and Edward. And he has given the world some outrageously offensive comments over his many years. A small example - about 6 years ago a relation of mine witnessed him ask a Polish scientist at a research laboratory he was opening - "Did you originally come over to pick strawberries?" hehhehheh..
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Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
"America is a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse."
For a century and a half American political life has been the exclusive preserve of the duopoly of Democrats and Republicans, also known as the Evil Party and the Stupid Party . (If something is both Evil and Stupid, we call that "Bipartisan.") But the familiar Evil-Stupid dichotomy doesn't even begin to describe the descent into national dysfunction and galloping irrationality that characterizes the Trump impeachment hysteria.
Media chatter now centers on the nuts-and-bolts questions of "what's next?" Will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate? (Yes. Even one of the legal "scholars" enrolled in the impeachment lynch mob avers that Trump isn't actually impeached until the Senate receives the articles .) Who will be the trial managers? (Who cares.) Will there be a "real trial," with witnesses? (It hardly matters.) Will Trump be removed? (Unlikely unless some bolt from the blue flips 20 GOP Senators.) Will impeachment be the Democrats' albatross going into November 2020? (Most polls show independents are turned off, but there's still almost a year to go.)
None of these questions, which are meaningful only in a mental universe of the Evils and the Stupids shadowboxing over a partisan allocation of political spoils, touch upon the grim – and occasionally sardonic – symptoms of America's seemingly unstoppable terminal slide.
With Trump's impeachment it's time to say goodbye to yesteryear's Team Evil and Team Stupid. Say hello in 2020 to Team Maggot and Team Corpse!
Even though Trump has not turned out to be the transformative and restorative president that many of his supporters might have hoped for, he certainly will be (assuming he survives impeachment, which he probably will) the lesser of evils in November 2020 compared to whoever ends up as the Maggot Party nominee. Worse from his opponents' point of view, he remains a toxic avatar of the old America they thought would be well and truly laid to rest for ever and ever, amen, when Hillary Clinton came into her kingdom. That having misfired in 2016, partisans of that legacy America's marginalization, displacement, and eventual extinction can't breathe easy while Trump remains in office lest he, however unlikely in view of his failures of performance, serve as a catalyst for revival of the historic American nation facing loss of its birthright : an organic, uncontrived, living ethnos characterized by European, mainly British origin (a/k/a, "white"); Christian, mainly Protestant; and English-speaking, as augmented by members of other groups who have totally or partially assimilated to it. The certified victim classes standing on the threshold of the permanent, total power that eluded them three years ago are haunted by the knowledge that there's still lots of them Muricans in red MAGA hats rallying to Trump out there in Flyover Country .
In short, Democrats hate Trump not so much for what he's done (which, contrary to what his passionate supporters think based on his Tweets, isn't much) but as an expression of an amorphous dread that by some mysterious populist alchemy he might still breathe life back into the Corpse Party's deplorable base.
With that in mind, here are a few things to note as we cruise on into Bizarro World :
" What do you mean 'we,' white man? "As the impeachment spectacle unfolded in the House, one could not fail to be touched by the hushed, heartfelt reverence with which Democrat after Democrat cited the sage words of the Founding Fathers: Madison especially, but also Jefferson and Washington. No doubt they can hardly wait for this spectacle to be over so they can go back to denouncing the Founders as dead, racist, Christian, patriarchal, " Anglo ," and (presumably) heterosexual slaveholders in wigs and knee-breeches whose memory should be expunged from the historical record . It's instructive to glance at the members of the House Judiciary Committee who – solemnly, reluctantly, and prayerfully, they assure us! – voted out articles of impeachment in the name of "the American people." But which "people" might that be? Of the 23 Democrats who voted, only four even arguably fit the heritage American, male profile of the Founding Fathers. The " gender balance " (as it's ungrammatically called nowadays) on the voting majority side of the Committee is 12-11. That's not quite up to Barack Obama's exhortation that "every nation on earth" should be "run by women ," but it's progress in that direction! (Just imagine how much more serene the world would be if all countries were ruled by peaceniks like Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Condi Rice, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michèle Flournoy, Evelyn Farkas, etc., plus a bevy of Deep State Democrats now installed in Congress .) By contrast, the 17 Republicans on the Committee have approximately the same demographic composition they'd have had in 1950 – and aside from the inclusion of two women, that of the First Congress seated in 1789.
In short, in the Congressional Maggot Caucus the approaching Dictatorship of Victims defined by race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, language, religion, migratory status, etc., is already becoming a reality, and they voted to get rid of Trump. Members of the Corpse Caucus defending him still belong demographically and morally to the declining legacy America, though they'd never, ever admit it. Impeachment is thus more than just the latest iteration of the years-long anti-constitutional coup to overturn a presidential election, though it is that too . Even more fundamentally, it's a coup against the people whose identity, traditions, and values the Constitution was intended to ensure for themselves and their posterity.
Foreign interference in our deMOCKracy.Even more absurd than Democrats' presumption in lip-synching the venerable principles of an American constitutional tradition they despise almost as much as they loathe the ethnos that ordained and established it is their feigned horror – horror! – that Trump's phone chat with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky realized the Founders' worst fears of foreign influence over American domestic politics. Leaving aside the fact that Ukraine under Zelensky's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, did try to queer the 2016 election in favor of Hillary, and that Hunter and Joe Biden are crooks, the Maggoteers' ability to maintain a straight face of shocked indignation smack in the middle of a souk, a flea market, a bazaar where both domestic and foreign interests buy, sell, and trade favors like vintage baseball cards is nothing less than heroic.
While the bipartisan leadership has not yet taken up the helpful suggestion that barcodes be affixed to legislators' foreheads so that interested persons and organizations can conveniently scan prices and self-checkout , they have provided a helpful guide to what are called " Congressional Member Organizations (CMOs )," also called coalitions, study groups, task forces, or working groups. Memberships in many but not all CMOs serve as virtual barcodes for potential (mostly legal) campaign donors, including, in the case of "friends of" this or that foreign country, contributions from ethnic compatriots who are US citizens, or at least are supposed to be. Here's a partial selection:
Argentina Caucus, Armenian Issues Caucus, Azerbaijan Caucus, Bangladesh Caucus, Bosnia Caucus, Brazil Caucus, Cambodia Caucus, Central America Caucus, Colombia Caucus, Congressional Caucus on Bulgaria, Croatian Caucus, Czech Caucus, Ethiopian-American Caucus, Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka, EU Caucus, Friends of Australia Caucus, Friends of Denmark Caucus, Friends of Egypt Caucus, Friends of Finland Caucus, Friends of Ireland Caucus, Friends of Liechtenstein Caucus, Friends of New Zealand Caucus, Friends of Norway Caucus, Friends of Scotland Caucus, Friends of Spain Caucus, Friends of Sweden Caucus, Friends of the Dominican Republic Caucus, Friends of Wales Caucus, Georgia Caucus, Hellenic Caucus, Hellenic Israel Alliance Caucus, House Baltic Caucus, Hungarian Caucus, India and Indian Americans Caucus, Iraq Caucus, Israel Allies Caucus, Israel Victory Caucus, Kingdom of Netherlands Caucus, Korea Caucus, Kyrgyzstan Caucus, Macedonia and Macedonian-American Caucus, Moldova Caucus, Mongolia Caucus, Montenegro Caucus, Morocco Caucus, Nigeria Caucus, Pakistan Caucus, Peru Caucus, Poland Caucus, Portuguese Caucus, Qatari-American Strategic Relationships Caucus, Republican Israel Caucus, Romania Caucus, Serbian Caucus, Slovak Caucus, Sri Lanka Caucus, Taiwan Caucus, UK Caucus, Ukraine Caucus, U.S.-Bermuda Friendship Caucus, U.S.-China Working Group, U.S.-Japan Caucus, U.S.-Kazakhstan Caucus, U.S.-Lebanon Friendship Caucus, U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus, U.S.-Turkey Relations and Turkish American, Uzbekistan Caucus, Venezuela Democracy Caucus
Recalling Your Working Boy 's years at the State Department – where there still exists no "American Interests Section" – the reader can search the above in vain for anything that looks remotely like "Friends of the United States of America."
Russia! Russia! Russia!In fact, the Democrats' core impeachment narrative – Russia bad, Ukraine good – is itself an example to which American policy is in the grip of foreign antipathies and attachments against which the Father of Our Country warned us in his 1796 farewell address :
"[N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."
In his closing statement before the impeachment vote House Judiciary Chairmaggot Adam "Captain Ahab" Schiff , in his frenzied hunt for the Great Orange Whale , provided a textbook example of what Washington feared:
"[W]e should care about our allies. We should care about Ukraine. We should care about a country struggling to be free and a Democracy. We used to care about Democracy. We used to care about our allies. We used to stand up to Putin and Russia. We used to. I know the party of Ronald Reagan used to. 'Why should we care about Ukraine?' But of course it's about more than Ukraine. It's about us. It's about our national security. Their fight is our fight. Their defense is our defense. When Russia remakes the map of Europe for the first time since World War II by dint of military force [ JGJ : Well, there was Kosovo, but never mind ] and Ukraine fights back, it is our fight too."
Indeed, one wonders how hysterical Democrats missed accusing Trump outright of treason , which actually is specified as grounds for impeachment in Article II, Section 4 . After all, as described by Schiff, didn't Trump's actions constitute (under Article III, Section 3 ) "adhering" to our evil enemies the Russians, and "giving them aid and comfort"? It's an open and shut case of a capital crime – and the House Majority Whip is ready to get the rope ! (Really, how did the Democrats miss this? Maybe GOP stupidity has migrated to the other side of the aisle )
It is noteworthy that not a single House Republican dared or even cared to question Schiff's framing of the issue, which was bolstered by witnesses from the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic establishment, including Trump's appointees.
Nor is any Republican Senator likely to point out the inconvenient truth that we have no defense treaty with Ukraine, which thus is not really our "ally." Partisanship is the variable; Russophobia is the constant. The sole retort from Trump's establishment defenders : He released the aid to Ukraine, including the Javelin missiles Obama denied them! He's every bit the warmonger you want him to be! So there!
Thus, even with Trump's almost (at this point) certain survival of a Senate impeachment trial, the relevant foreign inveterate antipathies and passionate attachments will remain entrenched. (Not just in the case of Ukraine/Russia but with respect to the rest of the world our habitual hatreds and fondnesses remain firmly in place and are unlikely to change for the balance of Trump's presidency, if ever. Trump's Korea initiative is on life support. Israel/Iran is a flashpoint that could explode at any time : "Israel, even less than the US, cannot take casualties. A couple of bull's eyes, a lot of Israelis go back to Brooklyn. The 82 million people in Iran have no place else to go.")
Senate Demaggotic Leader Chuck Schumer gave the game away when he demanded that the World Greatest Deliberative Body receive testimony from cashiered National Security Adviser John Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney but not from the man at the center of the whole Ukraine "drug deal" (as Bolton described it): Rudy Giuliani. Why wouldn't the assembled Maggotrats jump at the chance to grill him under oath? Because he'd dole out the real dirt on Ukraine and its legendary corruption that would make a Nigerian prince blush. For the same reason, Corpsublicans won't want to hear from him either, any more than they're interested in whether the "sub-sources" of the Steele Dossier – whose identity the US Justice Department knows and who were available to the IG's investigators – really had anything to do with the Russian government . We wouldn't want to debunk all that yammering about " fake Kremlin dirt ," would we.
Meanwhile, back in what remains of America, regardless of how impeachment turns out, the lines of irreconcilable division deepen . Whether or not Trump is reelected (the politics look good for him, the demographics don't ) he will eventually be gone, whether in 2020, 2021, or 2025. He will almost certainly be the last Republican president, depending on when Texas goes the way of Virginia . One way or the other, we'll soon see whether the corpse has any fight left in it .
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Leguran , 9 minutes ago link
And, the USA? I keep getting phone calls from god knows where masquerading as local calls. And our $100 billion per year intelligence services can do nothing to protect Americans from something as simple as unwanted phone calls. We know every single intelligence service will use cyber warfare and we have no way to stop it despite colossal expenditures on war munitions.
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dark pools of soros , 4 hours ago link
itstippy , 3 hours ago linkThey ALL have to stop working and storm the police and government and eat the commies on live tv
Well at least you present concrete, actionable advice. Cannibalism on live TV would definately scare the dumps out of the Chicoms.
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Authored (satirically) by CJ Hopkins via OffGuardian.org,
Well, it looks like we've somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy.
It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what with Jeremy Corbyn's desperate attempt to overthrow the UK government, construct a British version of Auschwitz , and start rounding up and mass-murdering the Jews.
That was certainly pretty scary... but then, the whole year was pretty scary.
The horror began promptly in early January, when Rachel Maddow revealed that Putin was projecting words out of Trump's mouth in real-time , i.e., literally using Trump's head like a puppet, or one of those Mission Impossible masks. And that was just the tip of the iceberg, as, despite the best efforts of Integrity Initiative , Bellingcat , and other such establishment psyops , Internet-censoring sites like NewsGuard , and an army of mass hysteria generators , Putin's legion of Russian "influencers" was continuing to maliciously influence Americans, who were probably also still under attack by brain-eating Russian-Cubano crickets !
While Resistance members were still wrapping their heads in anti-cricket aluminum foil, Putin (i.e., Russian Hitler) ordered Trump (i.e., Russian-asset Hitler) to launch a coup in Venezuela (i.e., Russian Hitler's South American ally), probably to distract us from " Smirkboy Hitler " and his acne-faced gang of MAGA cap-wearing Catholic high-school Hitler Youth, who were trying to invade and Hitlerize the capital. Or maybe the coup was meant to distract us from the un-American activities of Bernie Sanders, who had also been deemed a Russian asset, or a devious " Kremlin-Trump operation ," or was working with Tulsi Gabbard to build an army of blood-drinking Hindu nationalists, genocidal Assadists, and American fascists to help the Iranians (and the Russians, of course, and presumably also Jeremy Corbyn) frontally assault the State of Israel and drive the Jews into the sea.
As if all that wasn't horrifying enough (and ridiculous and confusing enough), by early Spring there was mounting evidence that Putin had somehow gotten to Mueller, possibly with one of those FSB pee-tapes, and was sabotaging the "Russiagate" coup the Intelligence Community, the Democratic Party, the corporate media, and the rest of the Resistance had been methodically preparing since 2016. Liberals' anuses began puckering and unpuckering as it gradually became clear that the "Mueller Report" was not going to prove that Donald Trump had colluded with Putin and Julian Assange to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton and transform the United States of America into a genocidal Putin-Nazi Reich.
Meanwhile, the anti-Semitism pandemic that had mysteriously erupted in 2016 (i.e., right around the time Trump won the nomination) was raging unchecked throughout the West. Jews in Great Britain were on the brink of panic because approximately 0.08 percent of Labour Party members were anti-Semitic , as opposed to the rest of the British public, who have never shown any signs of anti-Semitism (or any other kind of racism or bigotry), and are practically a nation of Shabbos goys. Clearly, Corbyn had turned the party into his personal neo-Nazi death cult and was planning to carry out a second Holocaust just as soon as he renationalized the British railways!
And it wasn't just the United Kingdom. According to corporate media virologists, idiopathic anti-Semitism was breaking out everywhere. In France, the "Yellow Vests" were also anti-Semites . In the U.S.A., Jews were facing " a perfect storm of anti-Semitism ," some of it stemming from the neo-fascist fringe (which has been a part of the American landscape forever, but which the corporate media has elevated into an international Nazi movement), but much of it whipped up by Ilhan Omar, who had apparently entered into a "Red-Brown" pact with Richard Spencer, or Gavin McInnes, or some other formerly insignificant idiot.
Things got very confusing for a while, as Republicans united with Democrats to denounce Ilhan Omar as an anti-Semite (and possibly a full-fledged Islamic terrorist) and to condemn the existence of "hate," or whatever. The corporate media, Facebook, and Twitter were suddenly swarming with hordes of angry anti-Semites accusing other anti-Semites of anti-Semitism. Meghan McCain couldn't take it anymore, and she broke down on the Joy Behar Show and begged to be converted to Judaism, or Zionism, right there on the air. This unseemly display of anti-anti-Semitism was savagely skewered by Eli Valley , an "anti-Semitic" Jewish cartoonist, according to McCain and other morons.
Then it happened ... perhaps the loudest popcorn fart in political history. The Mueller Report was finally delivered. And just like that, Russiagate was over . After three long years of manufactured mass hysteria, corporate media propaganda, books, T-shirts, marches, etc., Robert Mueller had come up with squat. Zip. Zero. Nichts. Nada. No collusion. No pee-tape. No secret servers. No Russian contacts. Nothing. Zilch.
Cognitive dissonance gripped the nation. There was beaucoup wailing and gnashing of teeth. Resistance members doubled their anti-depressant dosages and went into mourning. Shell-shocked liberals did their best to pretend they hadn't been duped, again, by authoritative sources like The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Guardian , CNN, MSNBC, et al., which had disseminated completely fabricated stories about secret meetings which never took place , power grid hackings that never happened , Russian servers that never existed , imaginary Russian propaganda peddlers , and the list goes on , and on, and on and hadn't otherwise behaved like a bunch of mindless, shrieking neo-McCarthyites.
Except that Russiagate wasn't over. It immediately morphed into " Obstructiongate ." As the corporate media spooks explained, Mueller's investigation of Trump was never about collusion with Russia. No, it was always about Trump obstructing the investigation of the collusion with Russia that the investigation was not about, and that everyone knew had never happened . In other words, Mueller's investigation was launched in order to investigate the obstruction of his investigation.
Or whatever...
It didn't really matter, because, by this time, Assange had been arrested for treason, or for jumping bail, or for smearing poo all over the walls of the Ecuadorean embassy, and The New York Times was reporting that a veritable "constellation" of social media accounts "linked to Russia and far-right groups" was disseminating extremist "disinformation," and Putin had unleashed the Russian spywhale , and " Jews were not safe in Germany again ," because the Putin-Nazis had formed an alliance with the Iranian Nazis and the Syrian Nazis, who were backing the Palestinian Nazis that Antifa was fighting on behalf of Israel , and Jews were not safe in the UK either, because of Jeremy Corbyn, who Donald Trump (who, let's all remember, is literally Hitler) was conspiring with a group of "unnamed Jewish leaders" to prevent from becoming prime minister, and Iran was conspiring with Hezbollah and al Qaeda to amass an arsenal of WMDs to launch at Israel and Saudi Arabia, and other peaceful Middle Eastern democracies, and Trump was finally going to go full-Hitler and declare martial law on the Fourth of July, and he was operating literal "concentration camps" where immigrants were being forced to drink out of toilets , which looked almost exactly the same as the "detention facilities" Obama had operated , except for well, you know, the "fascism."
So who had time to worry about the corporate media colluding with an attempted Intelligence Community coup?
Then, in August, right on cue, some racist whack job murdered a bunch of people, and so now, as if the mass hysteria hadn't already been jacked up to the max, America had " a white nationalist terrorist problem ," or was in the throes of a " white nationalist terrorism crisis. " Trump was now officially our " Nihilist-in-Chief ," and " a white supremacist who inspires terrorism " and was basically no different than Anwar al-Awlaki . It was time to take some extraordinary measures along the lines of the Patriot Act, except focused on potential white supremacist terrorists, or anyone the Editorial Board of The New York Times might deem a "threat."
This sudden outbreak of " Trump-inspired terrorism " and the manufactured "fascism" hysteria that followed got the Resistance through end of the Summer and into the Autumn, which was always when the main event was scheduled to begin. See, these last three years have basically been a warm-up for what is about to happen the impeachment, sure, but that's only one part of it.
If you thought the global capitalist ruling classes and the corporate media's methodical crushing of Jeremy Corbyn was depressing to watch well, prepare yourself for 2020.
The Year of Manufactured Mass Hysteria was not just the Intelligence Community and the corporate media getting their kicks by whipping the public up into an endless series of baseless panics over imaginary Russians and Nazis. It was the final phase of cementing the official "Putin-Nazi" narrative in people's minds.
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To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin there are going to be three things in life that are certain. Death, taxes and the impeachment of a US President when the House is held by a different party. American politics is going to get a whole lot nastier now than what it has been.This Punch and Judy show has achieved nothing. The House impeached him and the Senate won't convict him. Trump now will be playing the victim card. Come November the key thing that will matter is the economy. If it as successful as it is now then he will get a second term. If it is in a recession then advantage Democratic candidate.
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Reading the comments, my thought is:rottenboro , 19 Dec 2019 08:15"American 'exceptionalism'? Don't make me fucking laugh."
Look at this way, the Democratic Party had two terms in office, under Obama,in order to deliver a 'New Deal'. It turned out,they were selling Snake Oil, life got no easier for ordinary Americans, particularly those of colour.Justlyjohn -> cmouse , 19 Dec 2019 08:09So, the poor decided to give the Republicans a try, cutting out the middle men of the democratic party. Now,in order to get back into power, the neoliberal Left are breaking Trump's legs and the cycle will start all over again, with so much time and money that could have been used to help those who need it, going to the politicians and lawyers who run the charade.
The rich will get richer and the ears of the suckers who vote will bleed from listening to all the bullshit.
Well, calling out the democrats for these. Things is not really a problem rather the depressing truth. With clown shows like Nader and Schiff on display its not hard for voters to conclude that the Democratic Party has become haters, undemocratic, not believers in rules of evidence or due process, all foundations of American justice.third_eye , 19 Dec 2019 07:49In other words anti-American. Turning their so called investigation into the Schiff show has confirmed what most Americans have come to understand, democrats are not fit to lead the country, and will not after this next November.
When justice is muddied by the vengeance of politics there is little surety of integrity for the common citizen believe in. When fighting each other in the name of the people becomes an obsessive intent to hurt but not to serve, there is little foundation left for the common man to be believe in.LynchBlob , 19 Dec 2019 07:37Whilst perfection was never sought nor expected of those who were chosen by the people to represent their hopes and wishes, the boundaries of common sense and commonwealth must never be breached. The war which rages on in Washington is one which represents little, if anything, of or for the people. In truth, regardless of Trump's fate, the theatre of narrow political dreams go on, in the name of the people.
Since Trump stepped into office the Democrats were looking for something that would make him impeachable. The deep state delivered them Russiagate, the claim that Trump 'colluded' with the Russian government, by taking seriously an obvious fake dossier the Clinton campaign had ordered and paid for. FBI agents who hated Trump even faked FISA court certification submissions to be able to spy on the Trump campaign. They found nothing that supported the 'collusion' claims.BaronVonAmericano , 19 Dec 2019 07:19The FISA court is not amused about that:
"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an order published Tuesday.
The Dems would have been.better off just coming up with some better more appealing policies but here's the rub, they haven't and that's because they can't, their agenda is one of stay tje same, no change, keep the status quo, forever wars and printing money and just hope it all gos away. Instead of hope we've got horseshit.
This article is spot on. Impeachment probably persuaded only a tiny number of vacillating voters, sidelined Trump's worst crimes, and rallied his base. Meanwhile, as the author states, the public is no closer to knowing what the Dems stand for -- another downside in their election chances.BertieBallcock -> Glitchd , 19 Dec 2019 07:19There has never been a president in my lifetime at least that has been so put under the spotlight as Trump. Literally under investigation since the day he took office and yet the best they have is a highly disputed telephone conversation. Meanwhile Biden is there on video in all his glory boasting about using US aid to force behaviour that suited him.axis45 -> ArturoRosales , 19 Dec 2019 07:19
Trump will be aquitted and the Democrats will suffer for their desperation.you seem to be suffering from the delusion that actual policies and beliefs are being fought over by two opposing sides,its a pathetic sideshow between two almost identical parties with identical policies and the same paymasters,the outcome of this farce is utterly meaningless to the ordinary citizen.
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recently there's been a new salesman coming door-to-door with holiday shopping offers. Stooped low under the burden of unpaid taxes and smirking as he ports a briefcase jammed with cheap Chinese-made gadgets, the mysterious bald fellow seems to already know what you want and offers amazing discounts. A dutiful drone buzzes alongside him, ready to dispense fresh new items at its master's command.
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Dec 21, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Jesus Got a Fairer TrialRep. Barry Loudermilk was so incensed by the Democrats' impeachment proceedings that he made a favorable reference to Pontius Pilate.
"When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers," Loudermilk said on the floor. "During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president and this process."
Is Trump facing crucifixion if he's impeached? No; but don't let that get in the way of the overwrought rhetoric. According to House Republicans, Jesus got a fairer trial than Trump.
Rep. Loudermilk: "When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers." pic.twitter.com/HqlRYFMIaN
-- Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 18, 2019
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Dec 21, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
And Ms. Pelosi believes that Mr. Trump is so eager for the public vindication of a Senate acquittal that he will put pressure on the majority leader to make it happen even if it means offering some concessions to Mr. Schumer.
For now, however, Mr. McConnell -- and many other Senate Republicans -- seem unmoved by the House posture. He spent much of Thursday gleefully ridiculing Democrats' negotiating tactics.
"Do you think this is leverage, to not send us something we'd rather not do?" he asked reporters this week as he cracked a broad smile outside the Senate chamber, in a departure from his usual dour expression.
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Dec 21, 2019 | off-guardian.org
s Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the "rabid socialist" Corbyn fail to seize power from the Russophobic cold-war warriors of Whitehall but Russia's man in the White House is already planning to move in with them!
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Dec 20, 2019 | off-guardian.org
J_Garbo ,
I suspected that Deep State has at least two opposing factions. The Realistists want him to break up the empire, turn back into a republic; the Delusionals want to extend the empire, continue to exploit and destroy the world. If so, the contradictions, reversals, incoherence make sense. IMO as I said.Gary Weglarz ,
I predict that all Western MSM will begin to accurately and vocally cover Mr. Binney's findings about this odious and treasonous U.S. government psyop at just about the exact time that -- "hell freezes over" -- as they say.Jen ,
They don't need to, they have Tony Blair's fellow Brit psycho Boris Johnson to go on autopilot and blame the Russians the moment something happens and just before London Met start their investigations.
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Dec 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
???ö? , 2 minutes ago link
Is Schiff a Muslim ... because this looks like martyrdom.
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Dec 20, 2019 | www.youtube.com
For those of you who don't have time to watch the entire video, I offer the "Cliffs Notes" version of Senator McConnell's speech. It is as follows:
"Our duty in the Senate as parents of petulant adolescents in our House is to ignore their fantasies, send them from the table to stop their food fight and give them a long time out in their safe spaces (and maybe a permanent one!) since quite a few won't be returning to the table after Nov 2020."
I second that motion, Senator . . .
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Dec 20, 2019 | mythwatch.com
Well hell, there are still people who believe the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. So why should we be surprised? Some people will believe anything.
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Dec 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Nobody in 1963 would imagine that the USA of the 2000s would be the USA of finance, of Wall Street ; of football players, of the anti-vaxxers, of the flat earthers and of the Kardashians.
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Dec 20, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
He can just gin up another invasion with another WMD ,'imminent mushroom cloud' flurry with stories in the New York Tool and CIA.po, who are dependable on that front, then get with the 'enhanced interrogations' (better known as torture) and then drone bomb brown people at a record setting pace (with a couple of Americans thrown in for good measure).But all he will get is praise, although not like that article in the NY Tool where the discussion of Obama's 'Star Chamber' was all about how the deep decisions were made along with mostly unnamed, non-elected people, regarding who goes on the 'kill list', on "Terror Tuesday". All people that list need not be charged with any crime, along with everyone near them who are killed or wounded, and nowhere in the article will it mention these are 'war crimes'. "High Crimes" by definition, instead it will all be about the poor President's heavy decision making duties.
It will all be "Acting Presidential" like according to CNN's Freed Zakaria when Trump bombed Syria and who will be once again salivating, grinning, and wiggling around so much in his chair you think an orgasm is possibly happening.
Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi will rise in support of tRump, and people like Adam 'Raytheon' Shiff will be in his corner.
All will be well with corporate America...'Let the killing begin!'.
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Dec 20, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
So, if the President wanted to, he could be impeached by the house over and over again without that helping the Senate to find any illegal, and therefore convictable behavior for the President?
May be if the house impeach him three times and never send the impeachment articles to the Senate, the dear President would faint. May be then the doctors would finally decide that he is incapable of fulling his duties in the White House and declare him officially so sicko that he gets forced to stay in bed. /sad snark attempt.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The EveryThing Bubble , 57 minutes ago link
Zero Schmeero , 54 minutes ago linkGOP: Government Of Putin.
RNC: Russian National Committeesticky_pickles , 54 minutes ago linkLike anyone believes the words of a lying *** that upvotes itself. Rev. 2:9 and 3:9, words from a real ***. That must just eat you alive khazar.
attah-boy-Luther , 2 minutes ago linkDNC. Democratic Nation of China
silverer , 1 hour ago linkLed by Feinstein and her driver....
Aha! PROOF! Putin runs the US Senate now! Hear all about it on the Rachel Maddow show.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Fiscal Reality , 7 minutes ago link
Impeachment is the Democrat version of the battle of Stalingrad. The Dem's are the Germans, walking into a trap, refusing to withdraw and regroup as their fanatic Fuhrer, Frau Nancy, claims Victory, only to be annihilated by her hubris.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
The axis of neolib and intelligence agencies want a coup from Santa.
So even as the hive mind agrees that a flippant remark is "demanding foreign intervention" or "a national security threat," or that an investigation is "interference in our democracy," or with even less evidence that Trump is a Russian agent, Tulsi a Russian plant, Facebook a Russian tool, Jill Stein a Russian something or other, it does not make it true. Adding "-gate" to a noun does not create a crime.
Believing a phone call is bribery, or a tweet is witness intimidation, does not negate the need for the law degree that allows you to use those words accurately. This is about the law, not about writing marketing copy. And kids, I'm sorry, I know how much you wanted to believe in the elves, but it really was Mom and me buying the presents all those years.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Steve Ruis , December 18, 2019 at 9:01 am
This is why I have stopped watching MSNBC, which I used to watch five nights a week.
They have fallen into the NY Times trap of believing that they create the news instead of report on it.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Russ , Dec 18 2019 21:30 utc | 8
The FISA court is not amused about that:"The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable," Judge Rosemary Collyer wrote in an order published Tuesday.
She's shocked, SHOCKED the FBI lied to her.
Seems to me that judges at every level systematically encourage cops and prosecutors to lie to them. And what kind of legal repercussions are these agents going to face for lying to the court? Same as any other "law enforcement" personnel caught lying.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
librul , Dec 18 2019 21:10 utc | 1
Democratic Party - Henceforth known as the Anti-Democracy Party.
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
ptb , Dec 19 2019 1:57 utc | 58@anne 32Weird. "Corney" indeed appears in the DOJ's official PDF more than 100 times.
Autocorrect prank by loving employees?
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Dec 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Willy2 , Dec 19 2019 9:11 utc | 89
- The one senator that decides whether or not Trump will be forced out of office / impeached is a Republican senator called Mitch McConnell from Kentucky. If McConnell wants Trump to go then Trump will be gone tomorrow.- When I pulled up McConnell's bio on Wikipedia then I noticed that McConnell is already 77 years old. This reminds me of the Soviet Union in the last 2 decades of its existence. In those 2 decades the soviet leaders were all VERY old men. Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko all died in their 70s.
- Just look at the current leaders of the US. Bill & (K)Hillery Clinton, Trump, Biden, McConnell, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Bloomberg all are 70 years or older.
- Dianne Feinstein is even older than 80 years old. 86 years to be precise.
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Dec 19, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
travelerxxx on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 12:48am
Watch Mitch McConnell suck the air right out of the Democrats lungs in about one minute once this mess goes to the Senate. That's what I think will happen once the House sends this impeachment bill to the Senate.
"Those in favor of considering the impeachment bill say aye." Democrats screaming "aye!"
"Those opposed?" Republicans all mutter "No."
"The No's have it. The bill is dismissed."D-U-N, done.
No drama, no 24/7 newz coverage, no witnesses, no circus. Just crickets. Democrats are seen wandering around the capitol like lost puppies looking for the television cameras, but the cameras have all gone home for the holidays.
Trump's approval numbers go up by 10 points.
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Dec 18, 2019 | www.unz.com
turtle , says: December 17, 2019 at 2:57 am GMT
Just in time for "Xmas."Dweezil the Weasel , says: December 18, 2019 at 5:55 am GMT
Oh, excuse me, "Winter Holiday."I guess this means the Emperor will be sending the FBI to confiscate my DVD: The Passion of the Christ. Maybe Mel Gibson was on to something.
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Dec 18, 2019 | quoteinvestigator.com
The truth of Jay Gould's assertion that he "could buy the vote of a farmer member of the legislature for the price of a bull calf, about seven dollars and a half," was clearly disproved at Topeka last January, where not a single People's party member of the Kansas House could be bought at any price.
It is my prayer to God that all farmers and other toilers will now unite in one solid phalanx, so that the other characteristic remark of the same gentleman, that he "could hire one-half the farmers to shoot the other half to death," shall also show him to have overestimated the power of his money, supplemented though it may be by Satanic cunning,
John Livingston,
President New York State Farmers' Alliance.
Campville, Tioga Co., N.Y., Oct 21, 1891.
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Dec 17, 2019 | www.washingtontimes.com
The impending House vote is sending a thrill up the legs of Washington journalists, who hope the public won't go beyond their misleading headlines. Perhaps few will notice that the Constitution doesn't list "abuse of power" or "obstruction of Congress " as impeachable offenses.
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
evilempire , Dec 15 2019 20:51 utc | 9
I think we have been looking at RussiaGate from the wrong angle all along. It is actually all those Russians who have been meeting with their American counterparts that are American agents who were colluding with the Americans to interfere in Russian politics.Yeah, that's it, and it is actually Putin who is the Manchurian agent rather than Trump. The CIA has video of Putin getting a bj from Victoria Nuland while he was helping her give out cookies to the nazies in Maiden Square. Putin does whatever the US wants, like letting Israel bomb Syria at will, letting the nazies run amok in Uraine, poisoning the Skripals, shooting down MH17, poisoning russian athletes by spiking their food with PEDS, hating on the fags and dykes, and poking fun at the munchkin Greta.
Unbeknownst to many is that Greta is also a sleeper agent. Putin has clandestine meetings with her at Dunkin Donuts to plot with her how to destroy Russia. Here's the clincher: Putin sings Fats Domino songs. Pay special attention to Putin when he sings a Fats Domino song because it signals that his Manchurian programming has been triggered and he is about to launch a cruise missile at the bundestag to start WWIII.
The last time he sang Blueberry Hill the president of Poland died in a plane crash, that's how sinister it is. Also, Putin sneaks out of the Kremlin late at night to eat at McDonalds where he colludes with The Big Macs and the Large French Fries to become fat and ugly and splotchy like the Americans.
Lastly, Putin eats his glyphosate wheaties that he gets the hookers who peed on Trump to smuggle in from the US while he watches reruns of Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy. What more proof do you need?
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
evilempire , Dec 15 2019 20:51 utc | 9
I think we have been looking at RussiaGate from the wrong angle all along. It is actually all those Russians who have been meeting with their American counterparts that are American agents who were colluding with the Americans to interfere in Russian politics.Yeah, that's it, and it is actually Putin who is the Manchurian agent rather than Trump. The CIA has video of Putin getting a bj from Victoria Nuland while he was helping her give out cookies to the nazies in Maiden Square. Putin does whatever the US wants, like letting Israel bomb Syria at will, letting the nazies run amok in Uraine, poisoning the Skripals, shooting down MH17, poisoning russian athletes by spiking their food with PEDS, hating on the fags and dykes, and poking fun at the munchkin Greta.
Unbeknownst to many is that Greta is also a sleeper agent. Putin has clandestine meetings with her at Dunkin Donuts to plot with her how to destroy Russia. Here's the clincher: Putin sings Fats Domino songs. Pay special attention to Putin when he sings a Fats Domino song because it signals that his Manchurian programming has been triggered and he is about to launch a cruise missile at the bundestag to start WWIII.
The last time he sang Blueberry Hill the president of Poland died in a plane crash, that's how sinister it is. Also, Putin sneaks out of the Kremlin late at night to eat at McDonalds where he colludes with The Big Macs and the Large French Fries to become fat and ugly and splotchy like the Americans.
Lastly, Putin eats his glyphosate wheaties that he gets the hookers who peed on Trump to smuggle in from the US while he watches reruns of Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy. What more proof do you need?
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
We have been good democrats all our lives. Voted for Clinton, and Obama twice. We all voted for you in the last election, but after watching this idiocy in the fake impeachment trial, and seeing the democrat party rapidly turning towards out right communism, which is actually anti-American, we will no longer vote for any democrats.
Our family is fed up and sick and tired of you taking the taxes we pay and seeing you do absolutely nothing for us, or our country. We quit! The undersigned do hereby declare that we no longer choose to vote for you and the witch hunting party, the criminal democrat party of which you belong. You are all alike. Liars and deceivers. No longer do we wish to be associated or looked on as accomplices in the democrat criminal communist party that does not care about the individual voter, their family, or the American People that voted for you.
We the American people that voted for you, are not you. You no longer represent We, the People. We do not want to be known as criminals, or those who associate with, and empower you reprobates. We no longer support the democrat party that wastes so much time and taxpayer money doing nothing good for us. Making up lies to impeach a president is not good. It's criminal!
The malfeasance of the democrat party, and out right lies and determination to focus only on impeaching the president for no good justifiable reason is filthy, a farce, and very embarrassing. We want no part of it anymore. All of you have become a bunch of despicable, colluding criminals. Corrupt to the core, and you only have one thing on your mind. It is not we, the voters. It is only the continued hateful idiocy of fake hearings, the impeachment hoax like the Russia hoax was, and big fat lies to drag out the clock so the real criminals that everybody knows are criminals get away with their crimes, corruptions, and their treasonous acts against America and the People of Conscious.
We therefore declare that we will be voting for any republican running against you, because you are an associate of the criminal democrats that are now communists. We and our families are not criminals, communist, nor will we ever again be associated with what you and they do. We now disavow the criminal democrat party of liars and deceivers that do nothing for we Americans. We disavow you, congressman/woman!
Signed,
A Former Democrat
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"As part of your rehabilitation, it's crucial that you admit you have a problem - you are hijacking the Intelligence Committee for political purposes while excusing and covering up intelligence agency abuses ." -Devin Nunes to Adam Schiff
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Dec 15, 2019 | twitter.com
Nathan Brand 3:00 PM - 8 Dec 2019
The Washington Post Opinion page: If you don't agree with us, you must be a Russian asset
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Dec 15, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Fred -> srw... , 14 December 2019 at 07:38 PM
Srw,So all other presidents who claimed privilege were actually obstructing Congress and were subject to impeachment as will be all future presidents who claim privilege. Burisma, a Ukrainian company, can not be investigated because a Biden is on the board. Hunter has a very lucrative future ahead of him as an insurance against investigation.
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.truthdig.com
In the early 2000s, writer Michael Wolff reported on a privately compiled, limited-edition booklet called "The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg." Compiled as a gag gift from his staff, the 32-page text featured real-life Bloomberg quotations collected by former executive Elisabeth DeMarse and others who knew the mogul in the 1980s, before his run for mayor. Among its more prescient gems: "A good salesperson asks for the order. It's like the guy who goes into a bar, and walks up to every gorgeous girl there, and says 'Do you want to fuck?' He gets turned down a lot -- but he gets fucked a lot, too!"
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
I think it was the USSR where a Jew would have Jew as the nationality in their USSR internal passport. Is this where we are headed?
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Piotr Berman , Dec 15 2019 21:50 utc | 12
It is said, yea, elected, but only because people are manipulated. Yet people are well aware that most of the transactions in which they are participating have a degree of manipulation. For example, when Trump praised how he provided effective relieve to "our nukes [that] were tired" described them as "now in tip-top shape". This is a rather original way of talking about nuclear weapons, but absolutely expected from a salesman of a property with all visible defects repaired or painted over and untold horror of hidden defects. If people do not pay attention or tolerate it, it is not because of being deprived of access to relevant information. EVERYONE can read MoonOfAlabama, both the website and the Twitter.
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
The Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau is a U.S. creation. It is therefore not astonishing to find that it is corrupt.
@kooleksiy 16:29 UTC · Dec 13, 2019
Director of Ukraine's National Anti-corruption Bureau Sytnyk will pay a ~$140 fine for "violation of restrictions on accepting gifts" [valued at ~$1 thousand in his case] - his lawyer stated today after Appellate Court ruling @dw_ukrainian reports www.dw.com/uk/
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Dec 15, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jayne , Dec 15 2019 14:26 utc | 4
Hey *Politifact*:"...Obama did sign H.R. 4310 into law, also passing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. But the bill did not make it legal for independent, private-sector media outlets to present outright false information to the public. Instead, it allowed government-sponsored news like Voice of American to be broadcast in the United States. It removed restrictions on U.S.-generated news from being presented to American audiences.'''"
Oki doki so what about those < cough > "independent, private-sector media outlets" that are blatant 'governement funded fronts' that only 'claim' to be our independent, private-sector media...
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Dec 15, 2019 | off-guardian.org
nottheonly1 ,
What just happened was an inverted U.S. selection. In the U.S., a confused rich man got elected, because the alternative was a psychopathic war criminal. In the U.K. a confused upper class twat got elected, because the alternative was too good to be true.
Something like that?
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Dec 14, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Karl Malden's Nose , 7 minutes ago link
BigSpruce , 21 minutes ago linkI didn't know Illinois was part of the deep south. "You backin' them Russians there, boy?"
Shesquirts , 26 minutes ago linkHes definitely a shooter..but just not that sharp
BigSpruce , 31 minutes ago linkI give the guy credit for being very honest, but damn you dumb as ****.
Gives new meaning to the line " As Seen On TV"
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Dec 14, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Martin Sieff via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The Democratic leaders in Congress really should have checked with Central Casting before picking the stars of their passion play: "The Impeachment and Destruction of Donald Trump."
Former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill was supposed to appear as a principled and dignified heroine. Instead, her virulent hate, ignorance and contempt for Russia were apparent to all. And she looked uncannily identical to the late Alan Rickman playing Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies.
Congressman Adam Schiff chaired the House Intelligence Committee hearing and was supposed to be the wise, fearless and incorruptible chairman. Instead, the camera's cruel, unblinking eye revealed him as a buffoon – and a sinister one at that.
Schiff's round bald dome was identical to Mussolini's and his ridiculous bulging eyes are those of Christopher Lloyd's evil cartoon villain Judge Doom in the Hollywood movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
The supposedly heroic Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman of the National Security Council was even worse – Presented as an all-American Patriot, instead he resembled the thick, hulking brutal thug that Hollywood Central Casting always chooses to play endless Russian intelligence service or criminal villains in thousands of bad primetime TV shows.
Kurt Volker was almost as bad. He was the quiet cool, calm, bespectacled villain – always a CIA bureaucrat and usually played by Ronnie Cox – who wants to feed Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Steven Seagal or Bruce Willis to the villains.
And of course – the Real Hero could not appear at all. The Whistleblower's identity is being jealously guarded – though as Senator Rand Paul has pointed out, everyone knows who he is and – far from being a Disinterested Pure Hero, he was a CIA veteran and former senior National Security Council official outspoken in his contempt for the President of the United States: In other words, yet another anonymous Deep State manipulator and apparatchik.
No doubt he will be revealed as the winner on the Fox Television Channel's popular show, "The Masked Singer."
Or perhaps he will reveal himself in an exclusive interview with a fawning Rachel Maddow, still masked and identified as "The Lone Ranger."
( Is this The Whistleblower ?)
Now Rand Paul does have the looks, the bearing, the moral fervor and the dramatic character to play the hero in this botched fiasco of a drama. But there is only one small problem. He is on the other side. He has forcefully publicly defended President Donald Trump.
Gravity – Albert Einstein assures us – "bends" light (A dubious assertion at best but at least Einstein, unlike Schiff and Company Looked the Part he always played – Lovable, Child-Like Jewish Genius Who Never Gets a Hair Cut) And Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has bent the brains of movie directors Nancy Pelosi and Schiff.
Trump Derangement Syndrome: a fearful, incurable affliction more terrible and humiliating than Alzheimer's: Better to forget who you are than remember you are a hate-crazed, foaming at the mouth, credulous idiot who will believe anything.
Like all policy wonks of their aging generation of corrupt and complacent Baby Boomers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Schiff have salivated at the thought of inflicting a "Watergate 2" impeachment drama comeuppance on Donald Trump.
But the Villain of Watergate, Richard Nixon, was indeed an inept and more than slightly sinister creep (and lifelong liberal). He looked the part and he exuded pious bogus ineptitude on camera his entire career. (Nixon's inspiration for how he projected himself on television was clearly Jack Webb playing Sergeant Joe Friday in the wonderfully badly acted "Dragnet" police series on US television in the 1950s.)
By contrast, Donald Trump channels John Wayne, the most popular and enduring movie star in American history:
Trump is a physically big and fearless New York construction businessman turned immensely successful popular entertainer. He, like Wayne is a natural athlete. It is a matter of public record ignored by all fearful liberal wimps that Trump really was offered a contract after college to be Major League Baseball player for the Phillies, but he turned it down to focus on his business career.
Working class American Heartland men and women over 40 instinctively loved Wayne and therefore they love Trump too. Aging American feminists like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren – and the further they are over 50, the more rabid and rage crazed and insane they become – hated Wayne and are traumatized by his resurrection as a defining national culture hero nearly four decades after his physical death echoing in the figure of Trump.
It was Trump's genius at silent reaction shots that ridiculed 17 Republican Congress members, Senators and Governors in the 2015-16 campaign before he even began to turn his wit and video skills on Hillary Clinton – a creepy Richard Nixon clone if there was one.
Trump was crafted by Fate and his brilliant media career from The Apprentice to Worldwide Wrestling Central Casting to be the Hero of Impeachment. Making him the villain reverses the entire emotional dynamic of the drama. It is like casting James Stewart as Nixon. (At worst, Trump is classic King Kong eternally plagued by those pesky biplanes: And everybody roots for Kong)
Liberals who loved Watergate went into emotional frenzies over Nixon's imagined humiliation at the hands of such ludicrous pompous and overpaid fools as Dan Rather of CBS.
Pelosi and her laughably misnamed "advisers" have learned nothing from all this. This week, we are seeing yet more interminable biased show-trial hearings and the even more ludicrous Jerrold Nadler has taken center stage. He looks like Frankenstein's dwarf –servant Igor in Mel Brooks' classic 1973 comic horror movie " Young Frankenstein ."
The bottom line on why Impeachment has failed so miserably to whip up a storm or convince anyone beyond the already committed "Trump Must Go", babies-throwing-tantrums across Liberal America lies in the childishness and elemental incompetence of its cast and directors. Being repulsive and ridiculous human beings themselves, they have no clue how obvious it would be that they would appear that way to everyone else.
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Dec 14, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
In a truly bizarre and insane moment during the ongoing impeachment hearing, democrat Congressman Hank Johnson asked fellow lawmakers to imagine the teenage daughter of Ukraine's president tied up in Trump's basement. Apparently, he wanted to summon mental images of an "imbalance of power" between the two world leaders.
"They're standing there, President Trump is holding court. And he says, 'Oh, by the way, no pressure.' And you saw President Zelensky shaking his head as if his daughter was downstairs in the basement, duct-taped," Johnson said, drawing laughter from the room.
Decimus Lunius Luvenalis , 1 hour ago link
That dude was a judge. A judge that adjudicated cases.
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Dec 14, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Manthong , 2 hours ago link
Bricker , 3 hours ago linkDoes Alcatraz have enough wall space to accommodate all
j0nx , 3 hours ago linkThe majority of the US would be in favor of shutting the FBI down.
ZENDOG , 3 hours ago linkNo. We cannot.
35,000 Humans work directly for the FBI.
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Dec 14, 2019 | www.youtube.com
NBC doing an honest interview? Is the world over?
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Dec 14, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
One aspect of this report in the NYT is very troubling but not a great surprise to those who pay attention to Asian affairs.The reports that US military leaders had no idea of what to do in Afghanistan and constantly lied to the public should rouse citizens in America to take a different view of military leaders. That view must be to trust nothing coming from the Pentagon or from spokespersons for the military. Included must be any and all secretaries of defence, and all branches of the military.
It is totally unacceptable that 1-2 trillion dollars and several thousand lives were spent by America for some nebulous cause. This does not include many thousands of civilians.
During the Vietnam disaster, it became obvious that American military was lying to the public and taking many causalities in an unwinnable war. Nothing was learned about Asia or Asian culture because America entered Afghanistan without a real plan and no understanding of the country or it's history.
The experience of the USSR in that country should have sent up all kinds of red flags to the invading US military but it apparently did not. Both USSR and America lost thousands of military lives -- but nothing has changed in the country. Life in Afghanistan is actually worse now than before the multiple invasions. The only think which has improved is the cultivation of poppies and the export of opium.
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Dec 14, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
The Washington DC foreign policy establishment are too busy appearing before the impeachment inquiry and telling them how the orange man hurt their feelings.jmac55 , 10 Dec 2019 16:40File under: Tell us something that we didn't know already!The reality is of course: that the media knows and understands that we are being lied to all the time about these interventions, be it in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Honduras, Venezuela and soon Iran, but they go along with it all because they are in the regime change echo chamber club!
As George Carlin said: "It's a big club...but you ain't in it!"
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drumlin woodchuckles , December 14, 2019 at 12:42 am
If Sanders got nominated, he could do what you suggest. He ( or surrogates) . could also coin the phrase The Cowardly Lyin' . . . Trump . . . with a picture of Trump's facial features photoshopped into the center of the face of the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz. It would be a clever political pun and a memorable visual image. I give it away for free to anyone who wants to use it.
But the CenDems don't want to see Sanders nominated. Or Warren or Gabbard. So they will do all they can to prevent it. The only hope Sanders or Warren or Gabbard has for winning the nomination is to win it on the First Ballot. The only way one of them can do that is if All of their delegates uNANimously combine ALL their delegate votes behind ONE of those three candidates. And ALL the combined delegates for those three candidates would have to ALL uNANimously aGREE to do that . . . and which one to do it for. Because the First Ballot is the one only single chance that the Decent Three have to prevent a Catfood Nominee by getting one of themselves nominated. The CenDems actively and fervently prefer losing with C. Anof Catfood than winning with Sanders or Warren or Gabbard.
As Yoda would say . . . " First Ballot or First Ballot Not! There is no Second Ballot."
If the Decent Three cannot collectively co-win the nomination for one of themselves on Ballot Number One, all they will have left is to obstruct every effort to stop the balloting for a Brokered Convention. They have to make the ballotng go on and on and on . . . until Balloting becomes such torture for the Catfood Delegates that the Catfood Conventioneers will give in to whatever the Decent Three choose to extort from the Catfood Leadership to make the pain stop.
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notabanker , December 13, 2019 at 6:02 pm
An Amazon surveillance device in your child's bedroom, what could possibly go wrong?
I'm past the point of blaming big tech companies. If you are fool enough to pay money to do this, you deserve what you get. American Idiots.
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uncle tungsten , Dec 12 2019 21:36 utc | 9
I don't want to see the following headline:Nigel Farage returns hated Conervatives to powerbut then such is perfidious Albions style.
Alternatively this headline would make my day:
Blairite traitors decimated in Corbyn WIN
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vk , Dec 13 2019 15:56 utc | 68
Hungary has no plans to leave European Union -- top diplomatAt the end of the day, money talks. The peoples from the former Iron Curtain should already had learned that, it's been 30 year already...
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George Cornell ,
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So your argument consists essentially of name-calling to exercise your own demons. You make Trump look good, like the other stark raving lunatics opining on this , many in the Democratic Party. You have zero chance of unseating Trump by impeachment and by the looks of things that might not be such a bad thing, he said, making the sign of the cross and mouthing pagan incantations, begging forgiveness from the ether.You recall Bill Maher's comment before a previous election. "The Republicans have shifted to the right and the Dems have shifted right into the insane asylum."
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Here are some of Nancy's best stumbles and bumbles."It's wonder to be here "
"Imagine the honor to get the NAACP cem -- , centen -- , NAACT centennial anniversary."
"And now it is a great pleasure to be with you here in New York -- in Detroit for the NAAC's 110th anniversary."
"In our new house, the house, the house congressional black caucus "
"We, too, must continue to stand firm for fairness, for generin -- , genuine equality."
"Once we, once we restore the vote and break the grass, the gas, the grasp of special interest "
"A pay raise that is so ex -- , in the workplace, we must achieve health -- , justice and healthcare."
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Chiropolos , 10 Dec 2019 15:56
This war is 18 years old. It's no longer a minor in the eyes of the law. It's old enough to think for itself, to vote, to move out of the house and get it's own place. Afghanistan will figure it out. Once we withdraw to allow Afghanistan to return to self-governance.
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Dec 13, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
Since you bring up the issue of educating schoolgirls, it's worth remembering that when the U.S. connived to drag the Soviet Union into its own Afghanistan conflict, one of the tactics we used to inflame the mujahedeen was to remind them that, under Afghanistan's communist government, girls were being educated as a matter of policy.
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Dec 12, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
If Judaism is a nationality, then what nationality do American Secular Jews belong to?
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Dec 11, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
emmanuelthoreau , 7 minutes ago link
Watch the dates.
Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998. The multiple Senate votes to acquit were on February 12, 1999.
Arlen Specter flaked out with a "not proven" vote. You'll get something like that this time, too.
Same ****. Wake up, Neo. They'll literally do this on the SAME DAYS.
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Calvertsbio , 8 minutes ago link
Yep, some good people, made bad choices...
turbojarhead , 4 minutes ago link
wmbz , 27 minutes ago linkNot exactly -- Obammy isn't out of the woods yet, maybe we will catch that crook after all -- and his wingman too!
HardlyZero , 22 minutes ago link"FBI May Have Acted In 'Bad Faith'
Yea that's what it was, perhaps just a little bad faith. Surely there was no intentional intent to do harm to Donald Trump.
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They have a "good faith" in Moloch and Mammon over there. The other faiths have withered and fallen off the branch...
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I have a mental age of 4 so let me see if I get this, Your presidential opponent pays for a dossier of dirt that is untrue, and hands it to the FBI who can't be bothered to verify it, lie, to a court, imprison innocent people, with a view to preventing your opponent from winning and should he win use all law enforcement agencies to over turn that election with the dossier being the bulk of evidence.
But it's not politically motivated? OK
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3 crazy professors and 1 NOT crazy professor. That's 75% crazy and 25% not crazy. I am afraid for this country.
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Lee , December 9, 2019 at 5:50 pm
The detestable in full pursuit of the deplorable.
With apologies to Mr. Wilde.
Henry Moon Pie , , December 10, 2019 at 4:08 am
"Rep. Schiff as he was sent on a fool's errand"
At least they had the right man for the job.
Tom Stone , , December 10, 2019 at 9:48 am
"Politics is show business for ugly people".
Enjoy the show!
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JoeTurner , 12 minutes ago link
Ophiuchus , 9 minutes ago linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipI-uHKizbg&feature=youtu.be
Wow, even fake news NBC is pooping themselves over FISA mishandling. I predict whiplash with how fast the fake news, drive-by media throws Comey, Clapper and Brennan under the bus to protect Hillary and Obongo.
Lie_Detector , 17 minutes ago linkDon't bet on anyone taking a fall. All animals are equal, but some animals, especially pigs, are more equal than others.
Deep state covering the deep state.
At what point do the masses decide enough is enough?
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DEDA CVETKO , 32 seconds ago link
Like I said. The Horowitz Report has become a Whore-o-witz report.
Folks, this is what happens when the Deep State is allowed to investigate the Deep State. It is a Warren Commission deja vu all over again.
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annamaria , says: December 7, 2019 at 7:11 pm GMT
@National Institute for Study of the Obvious"CIA runs your country." -- Correct. As a subsidiary of Mossad.
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melpol , says: December 5, 2019 at 8:04 pm GMT
Millions of mistresses are being expensively supported by defense contractors and their employees. Horny men are not ready to give up defense spending needed to support their gals for the sake of international peace. Blame it on those expensive Harlots for keeping them bullets flying.Z-man , says: December 6, 2019 at 3:28 pm GMT@melpol Brahahaaaaa! Your are right. It was truer then ('60's) than now but it's still happening for sure.George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJzF6PD2nMhttps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8icpnrLqx0
Funny and true.
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Erebus , says: December 8, 2019 at 5:50 am GMT
@denk Relax denk.The world is simply re-bifurcating into 2 camps. More specifically, the Anglo-World is splitting away from whatever parts it can't bring into their sphere of dominance. They couldn't dominate the whole playground, so they're taking their toys and carving out a corner of it for themselves.
The current demonisation of China and Russia sets the stage for the real split that will happen in the 2020s. Gotta get the sheeple used to the notion so that they will accept, even demand, bringing the Bamboo Curtain down when the time comes.
What we're seeing now in Europe, the M.E., S. America etc is nothing more than the Anglo-World's attempt to bring more along with them, and the RoW's attempts to minimize their success.
With people like these, who needs the ptb ???
The PTB needs the people, not the other way around. People are happy to believe anything that makes them comfortable. Instilling Sino/Russo-phobia in their otherwise empty heads is but the prelude to splitting them off from demonic Eurasia/Eastasia, and also so they'll be happy with whatever they get in Oceania.
They'll be living in the Free World again! Smaller this time around, but Freeeee!!!
It worked the last time. It'll work this time too. One stands in awe of how easy it is.
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An alarmist headline out of US state-funded media arm Voice of America : "Pentagon Concerned Russia Cultivating Sympathy Among US Troops". The story begins as follows:
Russian efforts to weaken the West through a relentless campaign of information warfare may be starting to pay off, cracking a key bastion of the U.S. line of defense: the military. While most Americans still see Moscow as a key U.S. adversary, new polling suggests that view is changing, most notably among the households of military members .
Remember when Russia bombed Belgrade back to the middle ages, invaded and occupied Iraq, started an eighteen-year long quagmire in Afghanistan, created anarchy in Libya, funded and armed al-Qaeda in Syria, and expanded its bases right up to US borders? Neither do we.
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Dec 08, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Nadler also said he would reject witnesses requested by the GOP, calling them "not relevant" to the allegations.
For example, he said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), whom the Republicans have requested as a witness, did not witness any of the actions and therefore is not relevant to call as a witness.
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Frederick V. Reed , says: Website December 5, 2019 at 4:19 pm GMT
Why do we say "defense spending" when we mean "military spending"? America has no military to defend against.
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dearieme , says: December 5, 2019 at 3:19 pm GMT
how much smarter and better educated than Americans Russians arePatricus , says: December 5, 2019 at 6:55 pm GMTI know; just compare Putin to Trump or Hillary and you can see the folly of the claim.
@dearieme Russians are certainly brilliant. Their per capita GDP is about the same as Mexico or Turkey.Anonymous [607] Disclaimer , says: December 5, 2019 at 11:39 pm GMT@benion101EoinW , says: December 6, 2019 at 3:12 pm GMTSaker and Martyanov are desperately trying to wake you morons from your narcissistic coma. Wanna stay asleep? Fine. Then reality will wake you up.
@Andrei MartyanovIf only Those Russians could play chess or compose classical music or write a few serious novels. Oh well, I guess you can't expect everything from people with no GDP.
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I am all for such definitions; their scope is too narrow, if anything.
I'd prefer a broad definition that would describe as anti-Semite any person who attends a church or a mosque; who does not contribute to Jewish settlements; who does not believe in God-chosen Jewish nation being above all mortal laws.
Maybe then the Gentiles would be healed of their fear of being labelled 'anti-Semite'.
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Really?? , Dec 5 2019 18:25 utc | 36
Wasn't the "so we won't be fighting them here" meme used also to justify the Iraq invasion and the War on Terror?AntiSpin , Dec 5 2019 21:09 utc | 65Kooshy | Dec 5 2019 20:10 utc | 55It's really the Sinning City of the Shills
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ak74 , Dec 6 2019 2:14 utc | 98
As the great wise man, Frank Zappa proclaimed about the USA: "Politics/government is the entertainment division of the Military-Industrial Government." American politics makes much greater sense (and is a hell of a lot more entertaining) if you understand this truism.US Presidential Debates and impeachment hearings are a swell occasion for drinking games. Every time a political hack, media shill, or academic invokes some variant of American Exceptionalism, take a shot of your favorite alcoholic beverage. You will be drunk within half an hour--guaranteed!
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Bart Hansen , Dec 5 2019 16:21 utc | 11
"...make sure Ukraine stays strong and fights the Russians so we don't have to fight them here"Is this 2019 or 2003?
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Likklemore , Dec 5 2019 16:13 utc | 7
Attributed to Mark Twain. Perhaps the learned professor Karlan may affirm: "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."AND Ukraine wishing to join NATO: well, not so fast for Hungary. Hungary says it will block Ukraine from joining NATO over controversial language law
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Mischi , Dec 5 2019 16:39 utc | 14
I used to think that stupid was a characteristic of the American right. It took Donald Trump getting elected to see that stupid knows no political borders. Seriously. I thought that education and progressive thinking also led to a clarity of thought. Boy, was I wrong. The most pro-war people in the USA seem to be Democrats. Bizarro world.
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Citizens of France. To arms! Man the ramparts. The American barbarians are coming. They shall not pass!
Le Trump's threat to France's splendid wines and Roquefort cheese are the gravest menace France has faced since the Germans invaded this fair land in 1914. Burgundy wines and France's 300 fromages form the very soul of la Belle France.
Trump does not know or care that France saved America from British mis-rule. He wants revenge because France – which taxes nearly everything – seeks to tax US IT firms like Google and Amazon. Trump considers this a personal affront. Besides, he dislikes wine and lives on desiccated burgers made with petrochemical cheese, washed down by acidic Diet Cokes.
On top of this outrage comes the squabble over NATO. Trump used to scoff at the Alliance, saying it was 'obsolete' as well as under-armed and short of money. The president and his backers really dislike France and all it stands for, including wine and cheese.
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RC (Ron) Weakley , December 06, 2019 at 05:34 AM
To paraphrase Lennie Briscoe "You can get the House of Representatives to indict a ham sandwich."RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to RC (Ron) Weakley... , December 06, 2019 at 05:36 AMOf course that assumes that the ham sandwich is not a member of the House majority political party.
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ilsm -> RC (Ron) Weakley... , December 01, 2019 at 04:10 AM
#resistance is a coup attempt. Make up offenses!RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to ilsm... , December 01, 2019 at 06:29 AMAs my son observed, at least the deranged subversives are not mucking up the country with doing appropriations, USMCA.....
What coup? There have been loads of offenses, mostly to the liberal sense of decorum and mildly to the republican notion of fair play. Orange is the new black.
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ilsm -> Fred C. Dobbs... , December 01, 2019 at 05:51 AM
Obama is Bill Clinton with fewer skeletons.
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Dec 06, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Civilization as we know it today is at stake in the next election, and certainly, our planet," said Pelosi.
"The damage that this administration has done to America, America's a great country. We can sustain. Two terms, I don't know," she added.
Ledlak , 20 seconds ago link
Free range bear , 55 seconds ago linkFirst, Trump was going to destroy democracy. That didn't persuade voters. Now it's he'll destroy civilization itself...and the planet. When that doesn't work where will they go next? He'll destroy to Solar System? The Universe? How do such people get into power in the first place? Oh yeah, San Francisco.
BlueLightning , 2 minutes ago linkTranslation: The Pelosi Crime Family will be out of business if DJT is re elected. The days of foreign aid kickbacks and influence peddling will come to an end. Who does this ******* Trump think he is putting country before personal gain.
Blackhawks , 7 minutes ago linkHow old is this wax figure? WTF
Bread and circus. The swamp is full and Clinton is not in jail. The southern border is wide open. We're sending more troops to the Middle East. The status quo is completely intact. If it weren't for the hysterics you'd think Obama was still president. The only thing that's changed is Trump's wife doesn't have a ****.
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4 wheel drift , 3 hours ago link
Dickweed Wang , 4 hours ago linkFederal authorities have indicted two Russian cybercriminals who allegedly lead a shadowy organization called "Evil Corp" that has stolen more than $100 million using a powerful malware that has spread to more than 40 countries.
now... how come the FBI, (NOT to mention, CIA, and the rest of the alphabet soup agencies) are not spending their efforts and monies to pursue this ENRON, (LOGO LOOK-A-LIKE) company, instead of initiating an illegal coup d'etat against the president of USA?
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Members of Evil Corp are living a lavish lifestyle, funded by the life savings of their victims.
If Maksim Yakubets, who used the online identity of 'Aqua', ever leaves the safety of Russia he will be arrested and extradited to the US.
Well duh.... lol !
Why would he....????
Wouldn't it make sense to make a deal with... "lord Putin" to cease this shield of protection ?.... hmmm I wonder why...
Ask some Biden guy...
Oh wait... the US Gov. and alphabet agencies are supposed to be doing so, yes ?
Hmm ever wonder why google changed its name to "alphabet"... suspicious minds want to know ... -lol
Next time on the Twilight Zone:
'Russian hacker by the name of Boris Beatinoff steals millions from **** producers and gets life plus 20 years.'
'The US Department of Defense and HUD steal 13+ trillion dollars of federal funding over the last 15 years and it is not reported or prosecuted.'
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Robjil , says: December 7, 2019 at 2:11 am GMT
@Bardon Kaldian BKCzech and Slovakia divided into two nations in 1993. It was the people's choice.
East Germany wanted to join West Germany in 1989. It was the people's choice.
Crimea wanted to join Russia after fall of the Soviet Union. It was the people's choice just like the two above.
The only thing that makes it "different" it was not a people's choice that the rulers of Zion US empire likes.
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Realist , says: December 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm GMT
@sallyIMO, The CIA exists at the pleasure of the President.
The CIA sees it differently; and they are part of the Deep State.
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Dec 06, 2019 | twitter.com
Aaron Maté 3:47 PM - 4 Dec 2019
Thanks to Pamela Karlan for so aptly capturing Democratic elites' delusional, Reaganite, jingoistic Cold Warrior mindset in your claim that we need to arm Ukraine "so they fight the Russians there and we don't have to fight them here" & we remain "that shining city on the hill."
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Dec 06, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
St. Nancy the hypocrite a reporter asked Pelosi yesterday if she acts from hatred of Trump. She responded that having been raised as a Catholic she does not hate anyone because we are taught to hate the sin and love the sinner. Well, pilgrims, Catholics are expected to practice their religion through both faith and deeds and to accept the teaching of the Church...
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SOFTWARE. A law has passed requiring electronic gadgets to have Russia software in them. The BBC idiotically says : "Others have raised concerns that the Russian-made software could be used to spy on users". "Idiotically" because one of the reasons for the law is that US-made software is spying on users .
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Seoulite Max Rockatansky • 6 hours ago ,
Democracies are earned not given, that lesson cost us trillions and in blood!
Yes please give us more democracy, so the uniparty can sell our jobs to global capital and our children's future to foreigners. Nations have survived tyranny, despots, and brutal civil wars. It is not at all clear whether the nations of the West will survive your beloved democracy.
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Marshal • 9 hours ago ,
it's not a mature democracy, if the party in power uses the criminal process to go after its enemies.
Is this a reference to the Obama Administration investigating the Trump Campaign at the behest of the Clinton Campaign?
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a different chris , December 5, 2019 at 2:20 pm
>Senator Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be
Senator Harris has the capacity to appear to be anything she wants to appear to be.
Fixed it for them.
chuckster , December 5, 2019 at 5:21 pm
Yeah, that's the ticket – Biden/Harris 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What would their slogan be? "Just wanted to prove to you that Clinton/Kaine wasn't the worst ticket we could come up with"
The Rev Kev , December 5, 2019 at 6:03 pm
'Senator Harris has the capacity to appear to be anything she wants to appear to be.'
There is a word for that. It is a chameleon so yeah, Kamala Chameleon works. But Biden picking her as a running mate would be the same as back in 2008 when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as a running mate which went down like a lead balloon.
Brett , December 5, 2019 at 7:31 pm
I can hear the stage entrance song now.. Kama Kama Kama Chameleon. Boy George can open for their rallies to appeal to the IdentiPol crowd.
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Darius , December 5, 2019 at 3:37 pm
I think Warren is running for treasury secretary in a Biden administration. The theory being that that will be her reward for stopping Sanders. Everybody has an angle. Except Bernie. Can someone show me his angle?
NotTimothyGeithner , December 5, 2019 at 4:44 pm
Warren may be many things, but she despises Biden. She has enough self respect to never work for the turd.
hunkerdown , December 5, 2019 at 4:56 pm
No neoliberal should be assumed to have self-respect. If they did, they wouldn't be neoliberals.
NotTimothyGeithner , December 5, 2019 at 3:58 pm
Three things:
-one, 2016 what ifs.
-two, how does Warren look in the light of Sanders and a few newer types like AOC or Omar? If there is no Sanders, she is the nominal left, a former Republican which shows how right wing Team Blue is. Zebras don't change their stripes, but I think what is and isn't acceptable does change. The three I mentioned moved the perceptions of enough people who otherwise would support Warren. Warren is a day late and a dollar short in 2019. Okay, she's $0.02, but she is still short of where she would need to be to take her advantages over Sanders to next level.
-Misinterpreting popularity. One of the more detailed ratings of Warren a few years indicated she wasn't wildly popular in Taxachusetts, but she was very popular with a narrow subset of women around the country. In a sense, she is trying to grow from this group instead of understanding a big tent is the only way forward if you aren't an effective incumbent or VP. Its similar to Clinton's 90's worship of "soccer moms" (surburban white women), basically the only group that outpaced or met expectations in support for Bill and company. Instead of recognizing problems with the generic Democratic coalition, they worked to make their friends really like them.
-not recognizing, the importance of sitting out in 2016. She didn't win friends. She relied on msm punditry instead of recognizing politicians and elections are about pushing, not waiting for David Brooks to weigh in. She failed a basic leadership test because she was afraid of offending Hillary Clinton who was going to collapse over the finish line and then have been on the defense before she was even inaugurated.
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Hepativore , December 5, 2019 at 11:19 pm
Here is a clip from the Hillary interview with Howard Stern courtesy of Secular Talk
https://invidio.us/watch?v=QjK8Ghxi5Zk
Clinton apparently has super-special powers for sniffing out Russian mischief-makers that mere mortals like us cannot comprehend.
Also, she says that she refuses to go away because "that is what her adversaries want". I knew that Hillary was a narcissist, but this takes being a sore loser to a whole other level. Somebody like this as president would be just as bad as Trump, and Hillary would have the entire DNC leadership apparatus to carry out her royal decrees.
sierra7 , December 6, 2019 at 12:29 am
HC contemplating running in 2020 is like Gorganzola cheese way past pull date!
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Exiting the news conference as she was addressed, Pelosi turned around, walked up to the journalist -- James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcast Group -- and proceeded to wag her finger with scorn.
"As a Catholic, I resent you using the word 'hate' in a sentence that addresses me," she said. "Don't mess with me when it comes to words like that."To Republicans eager to paint Democrats as out-of-control partisans, the forceful rebuttal was a sign of the speaker losing her grip.
"It's caused them to lose sight of why they got the majority," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said of impeachment and Pelosi's outburst. "I think things are starting to unravel."
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Indeed, Pelosi also has cast the constitutional clash in terms of defending an ally against Russia, calling the concerns raised by the whistleblower complaint the "aha moment" and repeating a phrase that she used in challenging Trump face-to-face at the White House in October."All roads lead to Putin," she told reporters.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA officer who was among the "national security freshmen" who pushed Pelosi toward supporting an impeachment inquiry, praised her handling of the process. From the beginning, she said, she asked Pelosi to ensure that the investigation was done in a strategic, efficient and serious manner, and she said Pelosi has followed through.
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Mischi , Dec 5 2019 15:45 utc | 1
never underestimate the stupidity of people. Even professors.Likklemore , Dec 5 2019 16:13 utc | 7
Attributed to Mark Twain. Perhaps the learned professor karlan may affirm:"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
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The world leaders were joined by Princess Anne, the Queen's daughter, who naturally was invited to the Buckingham Palace reception where the footage was taken. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also appears to be in the scrum. At one point, Rutte can be heard laughing while saying "fake news media".
Though Trump's name isn't heard spoken, the subject of their gossipy little pow-wow is pretty clear. At one point, Trudeau can be heard telling his pals about how a certain leader's team members' jaws dropped when he launched into a rambling tangent during a press conference.
A loosened up Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, seen sipping from a glass of beer, could barely contain himself, gesturing wildly and shouting "You just watched his team's jaws drop to the floor!"
It's likely that Trudeau is referring to his joint press conference with President Trump, where the president veered wildly off-topic and answered questions about the burgeoning impeachment inquiry while lashing out at his democratic rivals.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, leaders wrapped up the two-day summit with a draft communique that made on thing clear: The rest of Nato wants to keep Trump happy, and is much more concerned about what Trump wants than what the president of France wants right now, BBG reports.
The draft showed that leaders made "burden sharing" - Trump's top priority re: Nato - the centerpiece of the communique.
NIRP Diggler , 2 minutes ago link
The EveryThing Bubble , 2 minutes ago linkWell, Trump is a joke for sure. But, for these three arrogant, pompous aholes to be laughing at anybody, is itself laughable.
ibeanbanned , 7 minutes ago linkSeason 3 episode 287 of the hit reality series "Somehow I Became US President".
Spiritual Anunnaki , 8 minutes ago linkHe who laughs last laughs best.
AI Agent , 11 minutes ago linkPolitical leaders like those above have no loyalty to the Counties they were elected to.
They all tow the Globalist line that is negligent, if not out right destructive to their domestic responsibilities.
Just get out of NATO. Europe is in no danger of Russia and should be more than able to defend itself.
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Dec 04, 2019 | thehill.com
The attorney handpicked by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the probe into the Trump campaign and Russian election interference has reportedly found no evidence to support claims from conservatives that the case was a setup by U.S. intelligence officials.
Sources told The Washington Post that John Durham , the U.S. attorney chosen by Barr to lead an investigation, told the Justice Department's inspector general (IG), who conducted his own probe, that he has found no evidence to support claims that a Maltese professor who spoke with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos was secretly a U.S. intelligence asset.
Allies of the president have claimed for months that the professor, Josef Mifsud, who spoke with Papadopoulos about the possibility of obtaining Hillary Clinton stolen emails, was actually an asset of U.S. intelligence agencies seeking to set up the Trump campaign on criminal charges.
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sedge2z , September 28, 2019 at 6:05 pm
Somebody over at The_Donald on reddit copied the new Whistle Blower Complaint Form. They checked the new box saying they heard it from someone else.
In the space to explain their source, they wrote "SETH RICH"
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DonCoyote , December 3, 2019 at 3:48 pm
Political trivia:
According to John Nichols of The Nation , what two sitting U.S. senators attended MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963?
(Answer in the reply)
DonCoyote , December 3, 2019 at 3:49 pm
Bernie Sanders & Mitch McConnell.
cuibono , December 3, 2019 at 4:16 pm
which one attended on the FBI payroll?
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Conrad , December 3, 2019 at 7:10 pm
This four-minute video of British folks reacting to US health care prices is delightful. https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1201826927520161792
I see Bernie retweeted it as well.
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Fake polls, fake trends, fake candidate
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drumlin woodchuckles , December 3, 2019 at 5:48 pm
I have seen other versions of that same story with other characters. For example, several decades ago, Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute illustrated "revenge culture" with the story of the Greek and the Turk.
God HimSelf appeared to the Greek Peasant hoping to teach the Greek Peasant something about charity and kindness to others. So God said to the Greek Peasant . . . " I will grant you one wish, any wish at all. And whatever you wish for, I will give your Turkish neighbor twice as much of it."
So Greek Peasant says: "Put out one of my eyes."
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Dec 04, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
gjohnsit on Wed, 12/04/2019 - 5:44pm
After slashing taxes on the ruling elites by $1.5 Trillion , The Donald has decided that poor people need to skip some meals "to restore their dignity" and "be respectful of the taxpayers".
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Dec 03, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The Palmetto Cynic , 43 minutes ago link
Trade wars are good...
...and easy to win!
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Dec 03, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
The blogger Eliot Higgins made waves early in the decade by covering the war in Syria from a laptop in his apartment in Leicester, England, while caring for his infant daughter. In 2014, he founded Bellingcat, an open-source news outlet that has grown to include roughly a dozen staff members, with an office in The Hague. Mr. Higgins attributed his skill not to any special knowledge of international conflicts or digital data, but to the hours he had spent playing video games , which, he said, gave him the idea that any mystery can be cracked.
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Bellingcat journalists have spread the word about their techniques in seminars attended by journalists and law-enforcement officials. Along with grants from groups like the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, the seminars are a significant source of revenue for Bellingcat, a nonprofit organization.
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Richard FL 34m ago
Ah, yes, nothing goes together better than impeachment and Christmas. I can just hear Nadler and Schiff singing, "It's the most wonderful time of the year," during the hearings.
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Apr 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
nmewn , 21 minutes ago link
A "friendly subpoena"...lol.
Thats sorta like a "suggestion" from a gun toting thug to hand over your wallet ain't it? ;-)
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james , Dec 1 2019 21:59 utc | 13
stimulating / entertaining article from john helmer if you are interested..
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May 01, 2019 | anamericancomment.blogspot.com
Adam Schiff, the man who every time he talks, shows his incompetence and lack of integrity, but he is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.Think about that for a while.
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fdr-fan , , November 29, 2019 at 2:11 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYud9re7-Q
Joe Rogan finally got around to interviewing Tulsi, along with another vet named Jocko Willink. Tulsi does splendidly but unsurprisingly, finally allowed to complete a sentence without fighting stupid questions. Around the middle of the clip, Willink has a passionate description of the rebirth of manufacturing in Maine, which is surprising!
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Dannyh , November 29, 2019 at 4:26 pm
"I loathe Black Friday: Degrading scenes of people wrestling for shoddy merchandise."
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clarky90 , November 29, 2019 at 6:17 pm
ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
This is an astonishing speech. Borat ..?
The comments have been turned off.
urblintz , November 30, 2019 at 1:33 am
Binoy Kampmark responds; https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/29/sacha-baron-cohen-comes-out-swinging/
Not that he's wrong about social media but he actually said this (I imagine with a straight face) – " "let's hold these companies responsible for those who use their sites to advocate mass murder of children because of their race or religion."
Apparently he doesn't know that Israel is on both Faceplant and Twitster
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Jackrabbit , Dec 2 2019 0:19 utc | 26
Trump 2016: "I love Wikileaks."Trump 2019: "I don't know Wikileaks."
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Nov 30, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Trump tweeted "I thought Newsweek was out of business?,"
The Persistent Vegetable , 4 minutes ago link
5fingerdiscount , 17 minutes ago linkNow if they will just fire those reporters who claim dems are going to jail for spying on the president!
Everyone is wound up pretty tight today.
What happened?
Someone shoot your crack dealer?
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timothy curlee , 4 days ago (edited)
Savannah Thomas , 1 week ago (edited)What do drywall , christmas ornaments and Jeffrey Epstein have in common ? None of the three can hang themselves.
Darin Singleton , 20 hours ago"Biden to me is like having a flashlight with a dying battery and going for a long hike in the woods" - Joe Rogan 😅 1:28:33
My Movers Inc Moving , 1 week ago... "Looking for news in the corporate-media is like looking for love in a brothel. Not saying it can't happen. Just that it comes at a price."
Rosablue Hand-Made Originals , 16 hours ago (edited)Journalist: "How are we going to impact the world if people think we are a joke?" Comedian: "a billion downloads."
"People are increasingly careful about what they put into their bodies. But they do not think about the news that way, or social media. They don't think about what they put in their brains. It's also a consumer product." -- This by Matt Taibbi has to be the Quote of the Day I will use to bore my former colleagues on LinkedIn today.
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Nov 28, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Presidential candidates Andrew Yang (Bowen Yang), Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost), Cory Booker (Chris Redd), Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), Amy Klobuchar (Rachel Dratch), Tom Steyer (Will Ferrell), Michael Bloomberg (Fred Armisen), Tulsi Gabbard (Cecily Strong) Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Joe Biden (Woody Harrelson) and Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph) speak at MSNBC's 2020 Democratic Debate.
Shane Towne , 1 day ago (edited)Yang gets ignored even in a fake debate lol.
meha K , 1 day ago (edited)This is the funniest SNL in awhile, love Bernie and Bidens character.
Garrett Lee , 3 days agoLmao spot on "I'm one second away from calling Corey Booker 'Barack.'"
The Illusion , 1 day ago"Trump don't want me to be the nominee. Putin don't want me to be the nominee. No one in America wants me to be the nominee."
Aimen Abduljelil , 1 day ago"I'm America's cool Aunt that lies about smoking weed in college so people think I'm cool."
Incomudro , 13 hours agoCecily Strong's Tulsi is pretty accurate :-)
Got to say, they nailed it well. "Tulsi" is hot.
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Nov 28, 2019 | www.washingtonexaminer.com
Businessman Bill Browder alleged Fusion GPS acted as an agent for Russian interests in 2016, when the country was trying to combat the Magnitsky Act and its sanctions on Russian officials.
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Nov 28, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Interesting to note how the phrase "Deep State" has gone mainstream. 3 years ago it was just a conspiracy theory
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Nov 28, 2019 | www.reddit.com
something different
Rafael Shimunov
@rafaelshimunov
Bezos gives 0.0906% to charity.
If you make $25 an hour, and drop a $20 bill on 2 gofundme's per year, you're giving more of your income to charity than the richest person on earth.
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bjd , Nov 28 2019 14:51 utc | 3
No Turkey for NATO.
No NATO for Turkey.
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dltravers , Nov 27 2019 22:31 utc | 27
I talked to the maid who cleaned Trump's room in Moscow after he pissed in the bed Obama slept in. She says he did it. She is now working on the submarine used by Putin to have sex with Tulsi Gabbart off the coast of Hawaii. She routinely makes up the bed and cleans the wardroom after they have sex.Brendan , Nov 27 2019 22:46 utc | 28All of this can be found if one searches for the facts. CNN is reporting on this daily, it must be true.
No surprise that Wikipedia has a page entitled "Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" that begins with the words "The Russian government interfered in (...)", as if it is a proven fact.David G , Nov 27 2019 23:47 utc | 33FSD , Nov 28 2019 2:32 utc | 38The final price tag for the 2016 election was $6.5 billion . The IRA spend only some $45,000 . It was 0.000007 cent for every election dollar that was spend during that time.Actually that's 0.000007 IRA dollars , or all of 0.0007 cents, per election dollar.Doesn't look so minor now, does it?
...As for the IRA indictments, they were a sham from top to bottom. Here's the Powerline blog:
"One hates to be in the position of rooting for the Russians, but the Mueller Switch Project is so distasteful that it is hard not to enjoy the prospect of Mueller having to deal with an actual adversary in court. Meanwhile, this is probably the first time in the history of litigation that a plaintiff (here, prosecutor) has told a court that it may not have obtained good service of process on a defendant that has appeared to defend the case on the merits. Mueller to Court: We didn't really mean it, Judge! We had no idea they might actually show up!"
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Carolinian , November 8, 2019 at 5:31 pm
Counterpunch' St Clair quotes his late friend Alex Cockburn that anyone rich enough to own a helicopter should be smart enough not to fly in one. Bloomberg pilots his own helicopter.
Perhaps Bloomberg can one up Trump by not only showing up at the Iowa fair in his helicopter but hopping out in a flight suit. Worked for Dubya.
NotTimothyGeithner , November 8, 2019 at 5:44 pm
Chris Matthews talked himself off on air during that stunt.
Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was [that] the best picture in the 2000 campaign?
He looks for real. What is it about the commander in chief role, the hat that he does wear, that makes him -- I mean, he seems like -- he didn't fight in a war, but he looks like he does.
Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.
Yep, this is just hard hitting analysis from MSNBC! Trump didn't break these people. He's simply a louder version of them, and they are all jealous they didn't go full in on an anti-immigrant, anti Jeb Bush platform in the GOP primary.
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Nov 27, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
VladLenin , 2 hours ago link
Pareto , 2 hours ago linkWho need Putin when you can get election manipulation by CIA
Welcome all my friends to the show that never ends...
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Nov 27, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
_JOHNLGALT. , 1 minute ago link
It's them pesky RUSSIANS again.
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Nov 27, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Under NATO, we are now committed to go to war for 28 nations
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Justin Case , 30 minutes ago link
This is unacceptable in a democracy and China needs to get involved to regain their freedumb.
- 2017 –Berkeley, California, February 1, civil unrest ensued at UC Berkeley as Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on the campus.
- 2017 – 2017 Anaheim, California protests, February 21, protesters demonstrate after police officer grabs boy and fires his gun. Protesters damage property and throw bottles and rocks at police.
- 2017 – May Day, violence breaks out at May Day protests in Olympia, and Portland, as masked anarchists damage property and clash with police.
- 2017 – 2017 Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11–12. At a Unite the Right rally of white nationalists and white supremacists opposing the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, rally attendees and counter-protesters clashed, sometimes violently. A woman, Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 other injured when a rally attendee drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors. Two law enforcement officers also died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the event.
- 2017 – 2017 St. Louis protests, beginning September 15, large protests erupted when police officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith on December 20, 2011. Some of the protests turned destructive and the police became violent. Windows were broken at Mayor Lyda Krewson's house and in the Central West End business district on the first night, many windows were broken in the Delmar Loop on Sept 16, a few were broken downtown on Sept 17 after police drove swiftly through a crowd following a peaceful march. Police conducted a kettling mass arrest operation of nonviolent protesters and bystanders, beating and pepper spraying many, including journalists, documentary filmmakers, and an undercover officer. Protests and sporadic unrest continued daily for weeks.
- 2019 - Memphis riot, June 13, following the fatal shooting of Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals, Memphis, TN
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Nov 27, 2019 | www.unz.com
A story has been circulating suggesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will soon be resigning because he needs to focus on planning for his campaign to become a Senator from Kansas in 2020.
This is good news for the United States, as Senator Lindsey Graham has had no one he is able to talk to about exporting democracy by blowing up the planet since Joe Lieberman retired and John McCain died.
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timbers , November 27, 2019 at 5:49 am
I always said Obama spoke like he had oatmeal stuck to the roof of his mouth because he usually stood for exactly nothing.
Obama was such a parsed speaker devoid of conviction except to be in service to a dutiful fulfillment to neoliberal establishment policies, I'm surprised the headline doesn't go something like:
"Obama Privately Considered to Privately Consider Leading a Consideration to Consider a Stop Bernie Consideration "
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Carolinian , November 8, 2019 at 5:31 pm
Counterpunch' St Clair quotes his late friend Alex Cockburn that anyone rich enough to own a helicopter should be smart enough not to fly in one. Bloomberg pilots his own helicopter.
Perhaps Bloomberg can one up Trump by not only showing up at the Iowa fair in his helicopter but hopping out in a flight suit. Worked for Dubya.
NotTimothyGeithner , November 8, 2019 at 5:44 pm
Chris Matthews talked himself off on air during that stunt.
Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was [that] the best picture in the 2000 campaign?
He looks for real. What is it about the commander in chief role, the hat that he does wear, that makes him -- I mean, he seems like -- he didn't fight in a war, but he looks like he does.
Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.
Yep, this is just hard hitting analysis from MSNBC! Trump didn't break these people. He's simply a louder version of them, and they are all jealous they didn't go full in on an anti-immigrant, anti Jeb Bush platform in the GOP primary.
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Nov 26, 2019 | www.unz.com
BannedHipster , says: November 26, 2019 at 3:21 pm GMT
Trump must be doing some really terrible stuff on all those Ghislaine Maxwell/Jeffrey Epstein tapes.
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prawnik , 25 November 2019 at 01:57 PM
I recall that the Russiagate conspiracy theory was "proven" factual as well, and by many of the same people who claim that Biden's corruption has been "debunked". Even though it was absurd on its face and had been debunked numerous times, many people in fact continue to insist otherwise.
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Nov 22, 2019 | original.antiwar.com
But in their frenzied pursuit of the Donald’s political scalp, the Dems may be inadvertently sabotaging their Deep State masters. That’s because the neocon knuckleheads they are dragging out of the NSC and State Department woodwork are such bellicose simpletons – just maybe their utterly preposterous testimony about the Russkie threat and Ukrainian "front line" will wake up the somnolent American public to the absurdity of the entire Cold War 2.0 campaign.
Indeed, you almost have to ask whether the bit about fighting the Russkies in the Donbas rather than on the shores of New Jersey from Morrison’s opening statement quoted above was reprinted in the New York Times or The Onion?
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Zoran Aleksic bumbershoot • 6 days ago • edited
Agreed. However, an addendum, you seem to have forgotten to mention Russia's aggressive training whales to spy on Norway, crickets to drive the US embassy in Cuba nuts, weaponizing Masha and the bear, using Pokemon to sow the seeds of discord, contemplating on freezing up a few states, any many others the mere thought of gets one wound up.Sid Finster Zoran Aleksic • 6 days agoYour irony is going to be lost on the average frustrated russiagate conspiracy theorist.
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Oldwood , 30 minutes ago link
Let me get this straight.
- Nunez speaking to Ukrainians is a crime.
- Trump investigating Ukrainian interference is a crime.
- Rudy asking questions in Ukraine is a crime
- But diplomatic staff interfering with Ukrainian investigations is NOT a crime.
- US congressmen going to Ukraine threatening them with cutoff of aid is NOT a crime.
- Biden's son taking money from the biggest criminal in Ukraine while his dad is VP is NOT a crime
- And Hillary paying Russians and Ukrainians for false dirt on Trump is NOT a crime.
Got it.
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Nov 24, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
For some bizarre reason, The New York Times asked Paul Wolfowitz to write about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
He testified that the Iraq war would be "self financing" his reward for that brilliant bit of financial prediction was to be put in charge of the World Bank. Can't say that the powers that be don't have a sense of humor.
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Nov 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Green Greenwald
My favorite paragraph from the NYT article depicting Tulsi as a fringe, divisive cult leader because she wears white pants suits - by the same author and paper who heaped praise on how Hillary's white pants suit shows she's ready to carry the nuclear codes.
Her white suits are not the white suits of Ms. Clinton, nor even the white of Ms. Williamson, whose early appearances in the shadeoften seemed tied to her wellness gospel and ideas of renewal and rebirth. Rather, they are the white of avenging angels and flaming swords, of somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders').
And that kind of association, though it can be weirdly compelling, is also not really community building. It sets someone apart, rather than joining others together. It has connotations of the fringe, rather than the center.
A New York Times writer who praised Hillary Clinton for wearing a white pantsuit called Tulsi Gabbard a "cult leader" for wearing exactly the same thing.
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Nov 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
In an interview with Associated Press, US Attorney General William Barr put all conspiracy theories to rest once and for all by assuring the world that alleged sex trafficker and alleged billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's death was simply the result of a very, very, very long series of unfortunate coincidences.
"I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups," Barr told AP on Thursday .
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Nov 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Highlights of yesterday's testimony (funny version)
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Nov 22, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Aaron Smith , 4 days ago (edited)Washington D.C. - a Schiff-hole city.
Great parallel to Dems saying that the Ukrainian border is of vital importance for our national security, yet they also say that our own border is not.
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johnf , 21 November 2019 at 02:26 AM
...Avigdor Liberman, leader of Israael's far right secular party Yisrael Beytenu has failed in his attempts to form a government of national unity and is now denouncing the ultra orthodox parties as "anti-semitic!"
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/left-and-right-unite-in-denouncing-libermans-anti-semitic-speech/
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... I did know what to make of the histrionics just before the recess. They looked false. That man wasn't really crying. And Chairman Schiff looked as scary as usual. If I could open my eyes that wide I'd make a fortune in horror movies. Which I suppose is more or less what he does. Reply 16 November 2019 at 03:35 PM
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What was left for State was reporting, its on-the-ground viewpoint that informs policymakers. Even there the intelligence community has eaten State's sandwiches with the crusts cut off lunch -- why listen to what some FSO thinks the prime minister will do when the NSA can provide the White House with real-time audio of him explaining it in bed to his mistress? The überrevelation from the 2010 Wikileaks documents dump was that most of State's vaunted reporting is of little value. State struggled through the Chelsea Manning trial to convince someone that actual harm was done to national security by the disclosures.
For the understaffed Department of State, that leaves pretty much only the role of concierge abroad, the one Ambassadors Taylor and Yovanovitch, and their lickspittles Kent and Holmes, complained about as their real point during the impeachment hearings. Read their testimony and you learn they had no contact with principals Trump, Giuliani, and Pompeo (which is why they were useless "witnesses," they didn't see anything firsthand) and griped about being cut out of the loop and left off conference calls. They testified instead based on overheard conversations and off-screen voices. Taylor whined that Pompeo ignored his reports.
Meanwhile, America's VIPs need their hands held abroad, their motorcades organized, and their receptions handled, all tasks that fall squarely on the Department of State. That is what was really being said underneath it all at the impeachment hearings. It is old news, but it found a greedy audience repurposed to take a whack at Trump. State thinks this is its moment to shine, but all that is happening is a light is being shined on the organization's partisanship and pettiness in reaction to its own irrelevance.
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Jackrabbit , Nov 21 2019 15:32 utc | 71
peter mcloughlin @61:... does impeaching a sitting US president ... make the world a safer place?The world might be a smidgen more safe if we could impeach non sitting ones too.
Why not? Strip them of their perks and prerogatives if they haven't acted in the best interest of USA and the world (since we claim to lead the world)! The rehabilitation of GW Bush is outrageous.
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Jackrabbit , Nov 21 2019 23:32 utc | 96
How is it that Trump is under investigation for a nothingburger phone call and not ...- lying to the American people about his intention to get out of the middle east?!!- backing a coup in Venezuelan and stealing Venezuelan State assets (essentially an undeclared war) ?
- militarizing space (another boondoggle for MIC) ?
Jackrabbit , Nov 21 2019 23:40 utc | 97
Answering @96High crimes and misdemeanors that have bi-partisan and Deep State support are ignored.
Ukrainegate is a farce. TPTB are not going to remove Trump when Trump is doing exactly what they want him to do .
Empire First!
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The AI can also be used to generate hilarious Onion-like texts. For example, given the following input:When Putin and Lennon decided to collaborate on a record,the algorithm spits out:
When Putin and Lennon decided to collaborate on a record, their mutual musical taste was obvious. But he had an issue with the singer's use of the word "Putin" in a song called "Vesti Rossiya.""I said to him, 'I can't put that in the album. The word 'Putin' is so strong, and we are talking about Russia,'" Lennon recalled in the documentary "Putin's Revenge."
Putin's Revenge, which will premiere in Los Angeles on May 27 and in New York on June 14, will also feature interviews with Lennon's former aides, members of his inner circle and Russian officials.
For "Putin's Revenge," Lennon hired an Israeli songwriter to pen lyrics.
"The man is the creator of the music, but there is also a certain degree of control," said Lior Ami, who wrote the lyrics. "He told me, 'If you don't write the lyrics in Russian, I will not give you the
You can input sentences in Shakespearean, Biblic, legalistic, pop song styles -- it will mimic everything thrown at it.
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S , Nov 14 2019 5:55 utc | 73
The OpenAI project has released a language model called GPT-2 that generates meaningful text based on short input. You can try it out at talktotransformer.com . The results are amazing. For example, I've typed in:The false allegations of Russian interferenceFrom which the algorithm generated the following text:
The false allegations of Russian interference have become so common in our political discourse that they have lost all meaning. The fact that so many people believed them without question and did so without investigation is one of the most pernicious trends in modern American politics.But that's only the half of it.
When a journalist or political activist takes an unsubstantiated allegation and runs with it -- or, worse, turns a discredited allegation into a full-blown conspiracy theory -- it doesn't just hurt their own credibility; it also hurts the credibility of all other journalists and activists who were duped into taking their accusations seriously.
And that hurts the cause of truth.
Because as anyone who's ever tried to fact-check an accusation knows, you never know whether a claim is true or false until someone actually tries to verify it. And unless you have actual, physical evidence to support your claim, it's pretty easy to just repeat a conspiracy theory without doing any of the
Machine writing is here. I think you all understand the implications of this.
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Nov 14, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Louis Fyne , November 12, 2019 at 8:43 am
Never ask for permission, always ask for forgiveness. The Silicon Valley-Wall Street motto.
eg, Uber-Lyft and jitney laws, AirBnB/local zoning.
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Nov 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Wilberweld says: November 7, 2019 at 2:11 pm GMT 100 Words Trump's problem was described in simple terms by John Connelly when talking with Henry Kissinger. "Henry", he said, "In Washington you are judged by the men you've destroyed". Trump has not destroyed anyone, not Comey, not Brennan, not Klapper. So he is viewed as weak, an easy target. So they just keep piling on. Attacking Trump is viewed as a "penalty-free activity
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Nov 13, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
"Biden Helped Reform Ukraine. Trump Pushed to Make Ukraine Corrupt Again." [Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine ].
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Nov 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
Mick Jagger gathers no Mosque , says: November 12, 2019 at 4:39 pm GMT
@The AlarmistThe emperor is naked
That is the best argument for voting for young beautiful women as POTUS.
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Nov 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
Carroll Price , says: Next New Comment November 12, 2019 at 8:31 pm GMT
@Lloyd JFK served from, January 20, 1961 till November 22, 1963 (about 1000 days). In December Trump will exceed JFK longevity.
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Nov 11, 2019 | www.counterpunch.org
In his [Bill Clinton] circumstances, can anyone really blame him for falling for Monica Lewinsky or even, to save his ass, for lying about it. Now it is Trump's turn.. why would he [Trump] target the one Democrat without any chance of becoming the Democratic nominee who could blow an easy victory in 2020 just as surely as Hillary Clinton did in 2016? .. if he thinks Biden is all that stands between him and a second term, he is even more of an idiot than he seems.
Biden is cut from the same center-right cloth as Clinton. The difference is that he is goofier and even more inept. He is also more "moderate" and "pragmatic – in other words, more rightwing.
It took a Clinton to lose to Trump; what kind of "very stable genius" could think that Biden, a lesser Hillary by any measure, is the biggest threat to his reelection now?
Democrats who favor Biden because they consider him more electable than Sanders or Warren or any of the other contenders seeking their party's nomination are not exactly geniuses either. They are all confounding the skills of a political tactician with those of a snake oil salesman running a con.
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Well, that's clarifying. "Backbone of our democracy." That's about what you would expect a Harvard faculty member to say.Nov 10, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Thank you, @BlackWomxnFor ! Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy and I don't take this endorsement lightly. I'm committed to fighting alongside you for the big, structural change our country needs. https://t.co/KqWsVoRYMb
-- Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019
JoeMerl • 2 days ago • edited
People need to remember that we literally didn't even have democracy until the trans movement started and finally brought us to The Right Side of History.
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Nov 09, 2019 | www.unz.com
renfro , says: November 7, 2019 at 6:48 am GMT
It's time for honorable members of the Senate of both parties to do their duty.
Small problem ..there are no honorable members in the Senate.
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Nov 09, 2019 | www.unz.com
Originally from: The regime always wins, by Audacious Epigone - The Unz Review
First the percentages of Americans who believe Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election and then the percentages of Americans who think the US has ever interfered with an election in any other country ( ! ).
Belief in Soviet sabotage:
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Nov 09, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
The Rev Kev , November 8, 2019 at 6:52 pm
"I Have Fought for the Democratic Party My Whole Career"
And when Biden said that, he chose the truth and not the facts, to paraphrase him.
MyLessThanPrimeBeef , November 8, 2019 at 7:13 pm
Maybe like Hillary, he distinguishes public vs. private statements.
Or maybe. I will give him the benefit of the doubt, someone else can cast the stone.
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Nov 09, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Trisha , Nov 8 2019 16:26 utc | 1
@b in regards to Kushner's "plan", that Monty Python's parrot sketch is "dead" on. Here's another Python classic applicable to the arguments bandied about during the Democrat "debates".vinnieoh , Nov 8 2019 17:21 utc | 5
Thanks Trisha - my facial muscles needed that. Ranks right up there with Biden's "I'm the most progressive candidate in the race!"
No you're not Yes I am No you're not Yes I am No you're not Yes I am No you're not
Compared to a Cro-Magnon maybe, but just by a tie pin. But Cro-Magnon's didn't wear tie pins! Exactly. Yes they did No they didn't...
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Nov 09, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
snoopydawg on Thu, 11/07/2019 - 9:55pm
Heh...Says it all I should think! pic.twitter.com/3XcajxWn6R
-- Simon Sankoff (@SankoffSimon) November 8, 2019
Not that there was anything wrong with that meeting, but in this climate of Russia Russia Russia Russia I'm waiting for Hillary to say that Bloomberg is a Russian asset. This time she will have proof.
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Nov 08, 2019 | www.unz.com
dfordoom , says: Website November 7, 2019 at 6:19 pm GMT
@Rahanit took Eastern Europe a decade (1990-2000) to undo 45 years of communism, and regain functional normality by local terms.
And it will only take slightly longer for neoliberalism, open borders ideology and globo-decadence to utterly destroy Eastern Europe. At which time they'll be wishing they still had the communists in power.
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Nov 08, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Drake , November 8, 2019 at 2:25 pm
"Trump is guilty of Bribery and Extortion."
I guess what I'm having trouble with is -- is there any foreign policy involving financial or military leverage that isn't bribery and/or extortion? The Marshall Plan? Alliance for Progress? Sanctions of any kind? Aid to Israel and Egypt?
What isn't bribery and extortion?
If it doesn't involve quid pro quo, then it's charity.
I just can't see what Trump is supposed to be guilty of except making this transparent.
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Nov 08, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Roy G , November 8, 2019 at 3:39 pm
Regarding Bolton and Ukrainegate, what I wonder is, how many people think Ukraine is part of Russia? It's rather bizarre that Russiagate seamlessly morphed into Ukrainegate. The clown car kicker is that the Borg are dirty dirty dirty in Ukraine as well. From MH17 to supporting the Ukronazis to 'F the EU' Nuland, to Biden himself, there are plenty of skeletons to dig up on the 'opposition.'
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Nov 08, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Nov 8 2019 17:31 utc | 8
Who has Trump kept his promise to?Tea Party foot soldiers?
Repeal and replace Obamacare on day oneAmerica?Nope. Quietly dropped coverage for prior conditions.Build a Wall - and Mexico's gonna pay for it!
Not really. Building sections of a wall that USA will pay for.Drain the swamp
Nope - unless by "swamp" Trump means the Democratic Party."Lock her up!"
Nope. He says they're good people who have been thru a lot. Aww . . .End the "threat" from NK "Rocket man"Nope. No follow-thru on the (sham) Summit.End the new Cold War
Nope. Increased military spending; ended treaties; militarized space.End "forever wars", bring the troops home
Nope.Bring jobs home
Uncertain: trade War with China doesn't necessarily mean jobs coming back US.= = = = = = = =
Republican Party?
Cut taxesYES!Cut regulations on business
YES!Israel?
Move Embassy to JerusalemYES!Recognize Golan Heights as part of Israel
YES!End aid to Palestinians
YES!Don't give up on Syrian regime-change
YES!US MIC, Netanyahu, MbS?
End US participation in the JCPOA!!YES!McCain: "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
"locked and loaded"
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Nov 08, 2019 | off-guardian.org
mark
Schumer's concern for the welfare of whistleblowers may appear somewhat belated and unconvincing, given his previous pronouncements about Snowden, Assange and Manning, but I suppose we should all welcome a sinner come to repentance (or whatever the kosher equivalent is.)Seamus PadraigChuck is now the ' shomer ' (guardian) of wistleblowers.
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Nov 07, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
Hidari 11.05.19 at 1:54 pm 96
... How many establishment Dems (or even non-establishment Dems) have indicated that they have any objections to arming the Ukrainians? That would be in the region of about 'none', I would imagine.... ... ...
The Democrats position is that arming the Ukrainians is a good and moral thing to do and that Trump is terrible for threatening to stop it, which is far simpler, far more logical and, if one ignores its flagrant immorality, far easier to 'swallow'.
As always 'reversing the polarities' gives clarity (imagine I worked for Putin, who was arming MS-13, and then Putin put me on trial because, for whatever reason, I stopped arming MS-13 .what would we think of Putin?).
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Nov 06, 2019 | www.unz.com
Dan Hayes , says: November 6, 2019 at 9:16 am GMT
Freeman Dyson: "Wikipedia – nobody trusts it, everybody uses it!"Gall , says: November 6, 2019 at 9:22 am GMT...Here is one of the few articles where the Onion wasn't being satirical as usual:https://www.theonion.com/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-american-independence-1819568571
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Nov 06, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
At Five Thirty Eight, Maggie Koerth-Baker has yet another article bemoaning the way partisanship biases our views . Apparently, one side, based on eyeballing, thinks the earth is flat, while the other, relying on the views of so-called scientists, or the experience of international air travel, regards it as spherical, or nearly so.
In the past, before the rise of partisanship, we would have agreed on a sensible compromise, such as flat on Sundays, spherical on weekdays, and undetermined on Saturdays. Moreover, there was a mix of views, with plenty of Democratic flat-earthers, and Republican sphericalists.
Of course, there is no way to resolve questions of this kind, but apparently, ""warm contact" between political leaders" will enable us to agree to differ, which would be a big improvement, at least until we decided whether to risk sailing over the edge of the world.
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Nov 05, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Tickets for Obama fundraiser in Silicon Valley going for up to $355K" [ Mercury News ]. "Donors can get in the doors for $10,000 -- but to even snap a photo with Obama they'll have to pony up $35,500. The eye-popping top ticket price will get attendees access to a VIP reception and a premium attendance package for the party's national convention next year. The event with Obama and DNC Chair Tom Perez will be hosted by Karla Jurvetson, a psychiatrist and ex-wife of a prominent venture capital investor, who became one of Democrats' largest donors during the 2018 midterms. She gave more than $6 million to the party's candidates and groups during that election cycle, helping boost female candidates for key congressional seats." • That's nice. Of course, Obama is very articulate. Who wouldn't want to pay $35,500 for a selfie with him?
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Nov 05, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Ford Prefect , November 5, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Make America Great Again.
Apparently, Americans don't need flag-making jobs as they will not Make America Great. Trump campaign making banners in China – moving fast to beat tariffs deadline. Although there is the possibility that these are for domestic consumption in China to help rally Chinese hackers to the cause of supporting the Trump campaign, including voting for Trump. That would prove there is No Collusion with Russia.
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Nov 04, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
doug , , November 2, 2019 at 2:52 pm
The D party reminds me of the 'union' I belonged to while building refrigerated truck bodies in the south. On Sundays, the head of the 'union' sat in the same pew as the owner of the factory.
When real union folks started agitating from within, they were fired.
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Nov 04, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Peter AU1 , Nov 3 2019 15:05 utc | 2
From Caitlin Johnstone's piece...
"We were told that the US must intervene in Syria because the Syrian government was massacring its people. We were told that the US must intervene in Syria in order to promote freedom and democracy in the Middle East. We were told that the US must intervene in Syria because Assad used chemical weapons. We were told that the US must occupy Syria to fight ISIS. We were told that the US must continue to occupy Syria to counter Iranian influence. We were told the US must continue to occupy Syria to protect the Kurds. Now the US must continue to occupy Syria because of oil."... ... ...
james , Nov 3 2019 18:54 utc | 33
@31 flankerbandit.. good overview.. i tend to see it in a similar manner.. thanks!i got a kick out of one of the commenters on that southfront link -
"Latest News: Even though Vladimir Putin has promised to withdraw all Russian troops from the US, Russian forces still does not want to leave the US completely, arguing that it wants to secure oil fields in Texas from ISIS supported by Canada and Mexico, while helping Indians and Indian Democratic Forces (IDF) who did not want to rejoin the US government and refused an offer to dissolve the IDF and join the US army. Although initially Russian troops stopped their support for the IDF.
Wait, there seems to be something wrong with this news! :)"
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Nov 03, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
... Lavrov added that Washington facilitated the rise of ISIS in the first place.
The foreign minister said that Baghdadi "is or was if he is really dead a spawn of the United States," according to the Russian broadcaster.
TeraByte , 52 minutes ago link
Baghdadi could be most accurately described as an epitome of MIC´s successful marketing strategy. You create an enemy, arm him to the teeth, then fight him and the industry have to run on full capacity all the time.
TemporarySecurity , 6 hours ago link
We killed him at least three times already, how dare the Ruskies question our word?
JailBanksters , 8 hours ago link
The USA does not have to show any proof of anything.
The USA's word should be proof enough.
General Titus , 8 hours ago link
"Al-Bag-Daddy" = Emmanual Goldstein from orwell's 1984
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Nov 03, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Rusty Pipes , 14 minutes ago link
Should Joe be the nominee, or should he be put in a nursing home? Too close to call...
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Nov 03, 2019 | www.realclearpolitics.com
ph 10.19.19 at 6:04 am (no link)
On the topic of scholarship and the benefits of war, here's a reminder of what passes for elite leadership. Tulsi Gabbard wants to end endless wars and the knives are now out for her. Somebody takes Morris's thesis seriously. The world will be better off with the US the permanent military leader of the world.This is blowing up all over Twitter, with Gabbard slapping back, and the HRC loyalists calling Gabbard an Assad apologist and worse.
According to HRC logic, American third party candidates are necessarily Russian stooges placed to help the Kremlin's candidate win. The logic is "inescapable" according to HRC. BUT OF COURSE!!!! Now it ALL MAKES SENSE! 1992 Perot-Clinton, 2000 Nader-Bush, 2016 Jill Stein-Trump, and, 2020 Gabbard-Trump!!!!
It's all so clear now! The KGB wanted to keep HW Bush out of office as the former Soviet Union collapsed! That's how she and Bill entered the WH in 1992! Perot was a KGB stooge, and Bill and Hillary have been lifelong assets of the KGB. Of course!!! That's why Hillary sold all that uranium to the Russians! Lest, anyone believe the charge of dual-loyalty leveled against Gabbard is a fiction, check for yourselves.
The above is an actual argument just made by the 2016 candidate for POTUS. Russia controls US elections by promoting third-party candidates. The best part is that HRC, beneficiary of "obvious" Russian interference may yet end up running in 2020. Something to look forward to! Imagine if HRC had won in 2016. Conspiracy theories out the wazoo!
Kind of puts the Morris "scholarship" in perspective, doesn't it? my mother and sister have. Dipper, probably not)
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Nov 03, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Peter AU1 , Nov 3 2019 15:05 utc | 2
From Caitlin Johnstone's piece...
"We were told that the US must intervene in Syria because the Syrian government was massacring its people. We were told that the US must intervene in Syria in order to promote freedom and democracy in the Middle East. We were told that the US must intervene in Syria because Assad used chemical weapons. We were told that the US must occupy Syria to fight ISIS. We were told that the US must continue to occupy Syria to counter Iranian influence. We were told the US must continue to occupy Syria to protect the Kurds. Now the US must continue to occupy Syria because of oil."... ... ...
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Nov 03, 2019 | www.mcsweeneys.net
"No taxation without representation. I'm not sure how much representation, I don't have an exact number."
-- James Otis, 1761"We hold these truths to be self-evident but just worry that the vast majority of Americans won't be ready to embrace them."
-- Declaration of Independence, 1776"Crime butchers Innocence to secure a throne, and Innocence struggles with all its might to have a civil conversation with Crime."
-- Maximilien Robespierre, 1794"Power concedes nothing without a demand. But maybe we should try politely asking again!"
-- Frederick Douglass, 1857"A house divided against itself sounds expensive to rebuild."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 1858"The only thing we have to fear is any fundamental change to the status quo."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932"We shall compromise on the beaches, we shall compromise on the landing grounds, we shall compromise on the field and in the streets, we shall compromise in the hills, and we will see if surrendering makes sense long-term."
-- Winston Churchill, 1940
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Nov 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"When it comes to Trump you may ask me a question and I'll give you an answer which might seem strange. I tell you he's the best American president," Assad said, according to a translation provided by NBC.
"Why? Not because his policies are good, but because he is the most transparent president," Assad continued.
"All American presidents commit crimes and end up taking the Nobel Prize and appear as a defender of human rights and the 'unique' and 'brilliant' American or Western principles. But all they are is a group of criminals who only represent the interests of the American lobbies of large corporations in weapons, oil and others," he added.
hayits grass , 13 minutes ago link
What is great for America is our great president. Donald Trump. Honest and not so humble, but who wants a boring dolt. Let all American Citizens vote for our 2020 win. Trump.
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Nov 02, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Wally on Wed, 10/30/2019 - 7:16am AOC got all kinds of centrist blowback upon her endorsement of Bernie and this young woman's critical response to identity politics is priceless:
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Nov 02, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
gjohnsit on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 4:49pm Why are a million protestors out in the streets in Chile?
Could they have legitimate grievances and minds of their own?Nope. It's all the doings of Putin .
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Nov 01, 2019 | www.unz.com
SwissArmyMan , says: November 1, 2019 at 1:21 pm GMT
@Biff "According to Cohen, Barr is going to investigate the CIA. America's top cop is going to investigate America's top criminal organization. This should get really interesting. I wonder who's gonna win?"Few seem to remember the results of the big CIA investigation of the 70's, the rub then was the CIA got caught operating domestically against it's charter. Well, Bush Sr. was appointed to head the investigation when he was actually the HEAD of the domestic branch of the CIA at the time. Looking at Barr's background I can only conclude we are about to be fed another similar magic act. I have no doubt who will win the deck is stacked.
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Nov 01, 2019 | twitter.com
"The oil belongs to Syria," said General Barry McCaffrey (Ret.)
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Nov 01, 2019 | Bernie Sanders Holds Secret Campaign Meeting With 15,000 Working-Class Democratic Donors
Also from Onion: .Bernie Sanders Clearly In Pocket Of High-Rolling Teacher Who Donated $300 To His Campaign
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Nov 01, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- After realizing there were still judicial appointments that needed to be filled during a meeting with the conservative think tank, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly pointed to a valet in the Heritage Foundation parking lot Thursday and asked him if he wanted to be a federal judge. "Hey, kid, how'd you like a lifetime appointment on the Ninth Circuit, huh?" asked McConnell, interrupting the 19-year-old temp worker's protests that he didn't know anything about the law to tell him that all he needed was "wipe that dumb look off your face" and he could be delivering rulings by the end of the week.
"You over 18? You got an ID? That'll do. Now just hop in this car with me and we'll head over to the Capitol right now.
Remember, abortion's bad, corporations are good, and as for everything else, you just shut the fuck up and do as your told. Got it?"
At press time, after the valet nervously informed McConnell that he was hungover and had illegal drugs in his system, the laughing Senate leader assured him that wouldn't be an issue.
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Nov 01, 2019 | thehill.com
Maureen Bold Solutions • 5 hours ago • edited
Just watched your Quid Pro Joe bragging that he was going to sign the Paris Peace Accords = a treaty to end the Vietnam War that was signed in 1973. LMAOJerry Mander ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ Maureen • 4 hours agosection data-role="main" data-tracking-area="main"
No you didn't.Maureen Jerry Mander ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ • 4 hours ago • editedYou saw him talking about the Paris CLIMATE Accord. How do you remember to breathe?
https://www.nationalreview....
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Want to bet? Biden just was talking about rejoining the PARIS PEACE ACCORD https://www.youtube.com/wat...Proud Communist Maureen • 4 hours ago • editedsection data-role="main" data-tracking-area="main"
Senior Moments: Biden 3030...
Rejoining the "Paris Peace Accords".
https://www.youtube.com/wat...They say that old folks with Dementia & Alzheimer's lose short term memory, but retain long term memory
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Nov 01, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
HenionJD • 21 hours ago>
Well, at least this operation will put and end to that silly idea that the only reason we're in the Middle East is for oil.
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Nov 01, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bart Hansen , Oct 30 2019 21:32 utc | 21
Vindman: "...the election of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the promise of reforms to eliminate corruption will lock in Ukraine's Western-leaning trajectory, and allow Ukraine to realize its dream of a vibrant democracy and economic prosperity."Ha! Ukraine's trajectory is better likened to that of an out of control 737 MAX.
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Nov 01, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
AntiSpin , Oct 31 2019 20:32 utc | 48
Two MoviesIn 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica produced a 10-minute classroom movie titled "Despotism," intended for showing to students in what used to be called "social studies" classes, which compared the characteristics of despotism with the characteristics of democracy, and showed how to recognize the clues that indicate where any given society falls on the scale between the two.
https://archive.org/details/Despotis1946This movie would never be allowed to be shown in any classroom in the US today, nor on any TV network, as all the characteristics of despotism portrayed in the film have come true.
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There is a companion movie – "Democracy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhiwswf4JlgWhich claims, among other things, that democracy means shared power, which the US has never had, (although the people of Venezuela do) and that it depends upon "a large middle class," or bourgeoisie, outnumbering both workers and the wealthy. So -- no "Workers' Paradise" for us.
Oh, also – only men are qualified to participate in the governing of a society.Thanks to my friend George who alerted me to the
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ben , Nov 1 2019 3:02 utc | 86
From the link @ 79:"About Trump, you might ask me a question and I give you an answer that might sound strange. I say that he is the best American President, not because his policies are good, but because he is the most transparent president.
All American presidents perpetrate all kinds of political atrocities and all crimes and yet still win the Nobel Prize and project themselves as defenders of human rights and noble and unique American values, or Western values in general.
The reality is that they are a group of criminals who represent the interests of American lobbies, i.e. the large oil and arms companies, and others.
Trump talks transparently, saying that what we want is oil.
This is the reality of American policy, at least since WWII. We want to get rid of such and such a person or we want to offer a service in return for money. This is the reality of American policy. What more do we need than a transparent opponent?
That is why the difference is in form only, while the reality is the same."
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Nov 01, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zedd , Oct 30 2019 22:06 utc | 23
It is Mockingbird media A to Z.Intelligence controls ALL influential media, period. Nothing else would be permitted. This has been true in all English speaking countries for well over a century, much longer in the UK. It is presently a global phenomenon, with all large nations employing a raft of Lifetime Actors, posing as public figures, who determine the range of acceptable discourse by their pronouncements.
Kiza , Oct 31 2019 1:03 utc | 43
There is a specific kind of activity in most professions. The prostitutes lay to do their profession, the presstitutes lie to do theirs. We do not expect prostitutes to ever do an honest day's work, so why would we expect the presstitutes to ever tell the truth? I am a bit tired of this constant harping about journalists' and talking heads' lying - that is their profession, always has been. They prostitute their pen (now keyboard) and their brain.As to The New York Times, when printed on paper it is good for wiping your bum in the outhouse if you happen to run out of toilet paper. Could not imagine using my tablet for the same purpose.
To pay 50c or a $1 for a newspaper and expect to get the truth, such expectation is good only for those who believe in free lunch. The huge hidden cost is always in the brainwashing. Here at MoA, apart from a few persistent trolls, there is no brain washing - this zine (and a few other) is the only way to get close to the truth. The society divided itself into humans (consuming this) and zombies (consuming main sewerage media).
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Nov 01, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Gwyn
I'm still quite annoyed about being called a "paid pro-Putin shill" on one of the Guardian's comment sections. "Paid"! If only!markI've been trying to get my KGB back pay for years. I wrote to the accounts dept. saying I'd take roubles or bitcoin, but nothing has come through.markWe are all Russian assets now. I myself have been a Russian asset for years. I have had to do Putin's bidding ever since he threatened to publish old KGB photographs of me having sex with a rhinoceros.Seamus PadraigSince then, I've been a Kremlin puppet, just like Trump. Gabbard and Jill Stein.
I am a Russian asset and I approve of this message!
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Oct 31, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
besnook , 2 minutes ago link
ted41776 , 16 minutes ago linkthe chinese have a lot to learn from the usa. they can only become great if they destroy the family and celebrate deviant lifestyles. they need a couple hundred million single moms and 40% of their viable workforce on welfare. once they achieve those milestones they will see the superiority of apple products, gm cars and google search.
not-me---it-was-the-dog , 7 minutes ago linkhuawei is still behind apple though. they have yet to master the feature that makes your device incrementally slower with every mandatory update that also correlates with a release of a new version of the device
i'm thinking they also haven't managed to steal the technology for non-customer exchangable batteries.
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Oct 31, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Lost in translation , 9 minutes ago link
When I was a boy, anyone not currently serving on active duty was a civilian.
More recently, here in CA a civilian was redefined as anyone not possessing a military ID (active or reserve), and not law enforcement.
Now, a civilian is defined as anyone not possessing a military ID, not law enforcement, and not a firefighter.
My expectation is that in the future, a civilian will be anyone who does not hold a government job: be it military, law enforcement, firefighter, public school teacher, or DMV employee.
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Oct 30, 2019 | www.redstate.com
you've taken your young son and daughter to a college basketball game to celebrate the beginning of the season. You've got your cokes, nachos, and those cancer-causing hotdogs .
Suddenly, out comes Snoop Dogg.
He tells the kids:
Top Dogg, bite em all, n*gga burn the sh** up
D-P-G-C my n*gga turn that sh** up
C-P-T, L-B-C, yeah we hookin back up
And when they bang this in the club baby you got to get up
Thug n*ggaz drug dealers yeah they givin it up
Lowlife, yo' life, boy we livin it up
Takin chances while we dancin in the party fo' sho'
Slip my hoe a forty-fo' and she got in the back do'
B*tches lookin at me strange but you know I don't care
Step up in this motherf****er just a-swangin my hair
B*tch quit talkin, Crip walk if you down with the set
Take a bullet with some d*** and take this dope from this jetWhat do you do?
A) Wave your hotdog in the air, and wave it like you just don't care
B) Something less parentally enthusiasticWell, Friday night, a crowd of over 16,000 at the University of Kansas Jayhawks 2019-2020 season kickoff got the opportunity to figure it out.
Watch (Language Warning):
Eyebrows were certainly raised.The stripper pole dancers also helped to liven the situation. Well, regardless of the strippers and vulgarity, everybody went home a little richer: Snoop used a cannon to shoot money into the crowd.
It may be hard to spend, though: Each bill sports the face of Tha Doggfather.
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Oct 30, 2019 | www.redstate.com
You know what they say about karma being a (word that rhymes with "witch"), right?
At the second Democratic presidential primary debate back in July, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI) absolutely torched Sen. Kamala Harris' (CA) criminal justice reform record during her time as California's attorney general. It was the political shot heard round the world.
In case you missed it, watch it below:
Understandably, Harris was none too pleased about it and let it be known in a post-debate interview in what Brandon Morse described at the time as a "childish and elitist" response :
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: Did you expect that from Tulsi Gabbard? Had you had interaction about that in the past? And how do you think it went?
SEN. KAMALA HARRIS: Well, I mean, listen, I -- this is going to sound immodest, but I'm obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.
COOPER: For a lot of them it's do or die.
HARRIS: Especially when some people are at zero or 1%, whatever she might be at. So I did expect that I might take hits tonight.
Watch:
It was a particularly cheap shot from someone who'd had such a disastrously poor debate performance. She actually stooped even lower during the same interview with Cooper, calling Gabbard an "apologist" for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Well, here we are three months later, and the tables have dramatically turned. Not only has Kamala Harris' campaign cratered , but in some national and state polls Gabbard is now ahead of her, in spite of vicious attacks on the Hawaii congresswoman earlier this month from failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
First up, the CNN/UH state poll out of New Hampshire:
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Here's how things have trended in that poll since July:
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Next, a national poll from Suffolk University and USA Today:
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The trend on that one looks like this:
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To be fair, there are other polls taken recently that show Harris ahead of Gabbard by a few percentage points, but it's still gotta sting Harris to know that the woman whose numbers she made fun of back in July is polling ahead of her in select polls now.
Daily Caller's James Hasson calls it for what it is:
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To make matters worse for Harris, Gabbard is just one poll away from qualifying for the November Democratic debate (which is scheduled for Nov. 20th in Georgia ).
Assuming Gabbard ends up qualifying, one has to wonder if she'll be prepared to use a rhetorical finishing maneuver on her political foe this time around (assuming the mods don't run interference ).
-- Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 16+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here . Connect with her on Twitter . –
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Oct 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Arising , 7 minutes ago link
piavpn , 41 minutes ago linkTrump's The Art of the Steal - New chapter just added
kbohip , 38 minutes ago link10 trillion dollar into the sand for nothing for past 16 or so years
Trump makes 30 million $ a month from the sand
Regardless of whether it is moral or not, its still better.
Even when Trump moved troops into Saudi Arabia, they are being paid by Saudi Arabia.
spoonful , 1 hour ago linkYep. Freedom isn't free.
Like Janis Joplin once sang - Get it While You Can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju9yFA1S7K8
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Oct 29, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk , Oct 28 2019 17:53 utc | 20
What if the people, democratically (i.e. living and voting in a free society in honest election), elects (without any external pressure), a "totalitarian" government?
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Oct 29, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Norwegian , Oct 28 2019 17:23 utc | 15
dan of steele , Oct 28 2019 17:24 utc | 16If the deep state is allowed to make its own policies against the will of the elected officials why should we bother with holding elections?"We" don't hold elections. The elections are required to buy the deep state legitimacy to do its thing.not sure why I still watch Bill Maher's show but this last weekend's Real Time had an absolutely jaw dropping moment for me. It started out with him having a former CIA agent as one of his guests (he even gushed over Brennan a few months back) and he then made a few stupid remarks about the Russians done it but the cherry on the whipped cream was when he referred to "the deep state heroes".WTF?
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Oct 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Boris Gudonov , 1 hour ago link
Californians don't need power lines. They have solar panels and windmills, which they assure me are all anyone needs.
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Oct 28, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
William Gruff , Oct 27 2019 18:24 utc | 50
oglalla @42October 24, 1945 is when the US-ratified Charter of the United Nations became law of the land. The US has been in violation of it pretty much every day since.
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Oct 27, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
They're the first to condemn troops being withdrawn from deployments they never authorized in the first place.
..Curiously, this reticence doesn’t extend to voting on resolutions that seek to preserve America’s military presence in the Middle East. Legislators are more interested in stopping troop withdrawals from unauthorized conflicts than authorizing those conflicts in the first place.
Ask Congress to engage in an honest, open, and transparent national conversation before launching the first cruise missile and they run for the hills like villagers from a flash flood.
But ask them to spend an hour on the floor blasting the president for losing his “resolve” or upending American “leadership” (those favorite Beltway buzzwords), and they arrive with speeches in hand. It would all be hilarious if it wasn’t so depressing.
Asking Congress to start acting principled?Please. Might as well ask cats to become vegetarians, or Trump to be honest.
Our leaders are indistinguishable from sociopaths, because power attracts sociopaths the way cocaine attracts addicts.
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Oct 27, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
They might get Warren as the result of their efforts.
Realignment and Legitimacy"From Beverly Hills to Miami Beach: who are America's richest zip codes backing in 2020?" [ Guardian ]. "Americans who live in the country's 20 wealthiest zip codes have donated the most to the moderate Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Booker and Joe Biden, a Guardian analysis of presidential campaign finance filings for the first nine months of 2019 found. The vast majority of the fundraising from the 20 wealthy areas went to Democrats . Residents of these bastions of actual limousine liberals – including Westchester, New York, Beverly Hills, and Greenwich, Connecticut – have ponied up nearly $880,000 for Senator Harris and nearly $600,000 for Mayor Buttigieg. Booker and the former vice-president Biden raised more than half a million dollars each. Donald Trump cashed his share of checks, too. The president raised more than $500,000 in total across the 20 locales, and was the top recipient in three: Palm Beach, Florida; Newport Beach, California; and Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump spends significant time at his private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and his golf club in Bedminster. Meanwhile, the senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who are among the frontrunners nationally, have amassed the largest campaign war chests of all the Democratic candidates while refusing to hold high-dollar fundraisers and calling for higher taxes on the wealthy. Their aversion to the rich appears to be reciprocal."
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Oct 27, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
The Debate"MSNBC names four renowned female journalists as moderators for November debate" [ NBC ]. "Moderating the Nov. 20 event, which is being co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post, will be Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC; Andrea Mitchell, host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on MSNBC and NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent; Kristen Welker, NBC News' White House correspondent; and Ashley Parker, a White House reporter for The Washington Post." • The count of journalists is off by at least one.
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Oct 27, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Oct 26 2019 23:51 utc | 41
jadan @32:Glenn Brown , Oct 27 2019 0:32 utc | 46As we know from Wayne Madsen's little book, "The Manufacturing of a President", Obama has been a CIA asset since he was a suckling babe.If Obama was CIA, and GW Bush was CIA (via daddy Bush), and Clinton was CIA (via Arkansas drug-running and the Presidency), and Bush Sr was CIA ... then what can we conclude about Trump? 1) he's also CIA, or 2) he's a willing stooge.Jackabbit @ 41There is a third possibility. What if Trump wasn't supposed to become President, according to the CIA's plans? This seems plausible to me, because during the 2016 election, it seemed to me at least that almost nobody in the US political and media establishments took Trump's candidacy seriously. Clinton was so sure she could easily beat Trump that she used her influence with the media to get Trump media coverage, in order to weaken the "serious" Republicans, one of whom everyone thought would get the nomination, like Jeb Bush.
I know you believe that Trump was somehow exactly what the US deep state needed. I don't agree, but even if you are right, are you really sure that the CIA and the rest of the deep state were smart enough to understand and agree that they needed someone like Trump?
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Oct 27, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
uncle tungsten , Oct 27 2019 0:30 utc | 45
james #39james , Oct 27 2019 1:23 utc | 53
are you familiar with the name porkoshenko
Barfly award to you for best typo this thread. :))@45 uncle t - lol... porky for short! that is mostly how i think of him..
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Oct 26, 2019 | www.bing.com
Adam Schiff seems to have two standards - one for himself, and one for President Trump.
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Oct 25, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Rachel Maddow's trademark pouty-face got a workout as she strained to imagine " what the thing is that Durham might be looking into." Yes, that's a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, all right with a sputtering fuse sticking out of it.
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Over in the locked ward of CNN, Andy Cooper and Jeff Toobin attempted to digest the criminal investigation news as if someone had ordered in a platter of shit sandwiches for the green room just before air-time. Toobin pretended to not know exactly who the mysterious Joseph Misfud was, and struggled to even pronounce his name
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As for impeachment, ringmaster Rep. Adam Schiff is surely steaming straight into his own historic Joe McCarthy moment when somebody of incontestable standing denounces him as a fraud and a scoundrel and the mysterious workings of nonlinear behavior tips the political mob past a criticality threshold, shifting the weight of consensus out of darkness and madness. It has happened before in history.
5fingerdiscount , 1 hour ago link
Out of 300,000,000 Americans how many watch cable news?
3,000,000 tops?
Rick Madcow averaged 432,000 this month.
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Oct 24, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Larry Kart , 24 October 2019 at 11:39 AM
"This administration doesn't need a national security advisor, it needs a psychiatrist." I think TTG speaks the truth.
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Oct 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
psychohistorian , Oct 24 2019 3:44 utc | 46
Below is a ZH link to the lying NYT about b's posting regarding Hillary saying that the Russians were grooming Tulsi......they have changed the story to say that the Republican's are grooming Tulsi...the NYT is not even safe for the bottom of bird cages.
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Oct 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
DirtySanchez , 34 minutes ago link
ebworthen , 47 minutes ago linkWeighing my options on what or whom to blame.....
- -Climate change
- -ozone layer
- -global warming
- -gun owners
- -white male terrorists
- -Trump
- -brown skinned men, women, and children in the middle east
I will go with the usual..... The godless and amoral cult of the satanic ***
new game , 48 minutes ago linkThey were warned in 1906, but despite this they kept building cities, towns, and communities on the fault line:
"The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American disasters." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake ).
Not one damn thing any human can do about it, the Universe will have its way. Same with volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, asteroids - out of our control. This preoccupation with us "doing something about it" is deluded hubris.
Bone-Machine , 23 minutes ago linkI propose a name change to the San Putin fault. of course, then the blame would be on Russia...
Pendolino , 52 minutes ago linkPutin is sooooo yesterday. I'd rather go with the Quid Pro Quo Fault. Has a nice shake, rattle and roll to it.
"Creep is our friend,"
Is this a Biden promo?
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Oct 23, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Has anyone ever fine-tuned the business-ification of politics as have the Clintons? Their conquering of the Democratic Party over the past 25 years has often felt like a corporate takeover, the absorption of a nationwide political apparatus into a family syndicate that exists to build and burnish the brand of a single couple.
Alex (the one that likes Ike) • 7 hours ago
Protecting the faded brand indeed. Because it's the sole explanation of a situation when someone starts dividing a party a year before the election and after an impeachment debacle, aside from idiocy in both colloquial, clinical and ancient Greek meaning.Russian agents behind Gabbard, Russian agents behind Stein, Russian agents behind Trump, Russian agents behind Clinton's fridge. And it's not said by a 5-year-old girl. It keeps on being said by a grown-up woman who, basically, rules one of America's two biggest parties. It starts feeling like some tragifarce already.
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Oct 23, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
With a great weeping, gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and clutching of pearls, the Democrats have declared that the decision to withdraw troops from Syria was a mortal sin .
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Oct 23, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Hillary is surrounded by advisers. This was planned. The only spontaneous thing she does is fall.
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Oct 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
DEDA CVETKO , 1 hour ago link
Memo to: the passengers,
(First Class Only)
From: John Podesta, the Captain
HMSS Titanic a/k/a Clinton for President 2020
Date: 10-21-2019
Re: ****. Fan. Hit. Urgh.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
... ship had hit the lies-berg at whopping 65 knots, thus sustaining a massive, catastrophic damage... The $hit has hit Hillary's email server's cooling fan in earnest and we are tankin' faster than the consumer confidence index.
Please proceed to evacuate in orderly fashion along the decks toward the ship's stern, where you will be able to board the lifeboats. Bill and Chelsea, Debbie Wasserhead-Schulz, Donna Crayzille, George Sorosh, Madeleine Nobright and yours truly will have the boarding priority, followed (in this particular order) by the filthy rich Wall Street investors, followed by hedge-fund managers, followed by Saudi princes and princesses, followed by Hollywood celebrities, followed by Islamic mujahedeen, followed by media cronies and kneecap-smashers, followed by IMF and World Bank officials, followed by the skulls & boners, followed by the illuminati, followed by world's tyrants and mass-murderers, followed by neoliberal and neoconservative cabal, followed by the military-industrial lobby, followed by the prison lobby, followed by the global kleptocracy, followed by the globalist mafia, followed by Blackwater officials, followed by Bhig Phat Pharma, followed by Academia sycophants, followed by the MTV, CNN, CBS and other fake news, followed by assorted humanists and "philanhropists", followed by Cher and Barbra Straisand and finally, followed by Barack and Michelle, Chuck & Nancy and Adam "Shifty" Schiff & Johnny Bolton. The remaining rats and rodents can simply jump the ship, no boats needed.
Women and children last.
For your listening pleasure, the band will continue to play "Some Enchanted Evening" until the last rodent is safely evacuated.
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Oct 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
"Ronan Farrow says Harvey Weinstein used his relationship with Hillary Clinton to try to kill his exposé about the now-disgraced movie producer" [ Business Insider ]. • Perhaps the reason for changing the subject to RussiaRussiaRussia and Tulsi Gabbard.
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Oct 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored (satirically) by CJ Hopkins vis The Unz Review,
So, it looks like that's it for America, folks. Putin has gone and done it again. He and his conspiracy of Putin-Nazis have "hacked," or "influenced," or "meddled in" our democracy.
Unless Admiral Bill McRaven and his special ops cronies can ginny up a last-minute military coup , it's four more years of the Trumpian Reich, Russian soldiers patrolling the streets, martial law, concentration camps, gigantic banners with the faces of Trump and Putin hanging in the football stadiums, mandatory Sieg-heiling in the public schools, National Vodka-for-Breakfast Day, death's heads, babushkas, the whole nine yards.
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Oct 21, 2019 | news.slashdot.org
A Boeing pilot working on the 737 Max said in messages from 2016 that a new automated system was making the plane difficult to control in flight simulators , more than two years before it was grounded following two deadly crashes .
From a report:
The pilot, Mark Forkner, complained that the system, known as MCAS, was causing him trouble. "It's running rampant in the sim," he said in a message to a colleague, referring to the simulator. "Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious," he went on to say, according to a transcript of the exchange reviewed by The New York Times .
The 737 Max was grounded earlier this year after crashing twice in five months, killing 346 people. In both cases, MCAS malfunctioned based on erroneous data, sending the planes into unrecoverable nose dives.
Mr. Forkner, the chief technical pilot for the plane, went on to say that he had lied to the Federal Aviation Administration. "I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly)," Mr. Forkner says in the messages.
The messages are from November 2016. Eight months earlier, Mr. Forkner had asked the F.A.A. if it would be O.K. to remove mention of MCAS from the pilot's manual. The F.A.A., which at the time believed the system would only activate in rare cases and wasn't particularly dangerous, approved Mr. Forkner's request.
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Oct 20, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Only a few months ago, the Democrats' drive to the White House began with the loftiest of ideals, albeit a hodgepodge from trans toilet "rights" to a 100 percent makeover of the health care system. It is now all about vengeance, clumsy and grossly partisan at that, gussied up as "saving democracy." Our media is dominated by angry Hillary refighting 2016 and "joking" about running again, with Adam Schiff now the face of the party for 2020. The war of noble intentions has devolved into Pelosi's March to the Sea. Any chance for a Democratic candidate to reach into the dark waters and pull America to where she can draw breath again and heal has been lost.
Okay, deep breath myself. A couple of times a week, I walk past the café where Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet, often wrote. His most famous poem, Howl , begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." The walk is a good leveler, a reminder that madness (Trump Derangement in modern terminology) is not new in politics.
But Ginsberg wrote in a time when one could joke about coded messages -- before the Internet came into being to push tailored ticklers straight into people's brains. I'll take my relief in knowing that almost everything Trump and others write, on Twitter and in the Times , is designed simply to get attention and getting our attention today requires ever louder and crazier stuff. What will get us to look up anymore? Is that worth playing with fire over?
It is easy to lose one's sense of humor over all this. It is easy to end up like Ginsberg at the end of his poem, muttering to strangers at what a mess this had all become: "Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! To solitude!" But me, I don't think it's funny at all.
Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People , Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan , and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent .
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Oct 17, 2019 | www.unz.com
"If minorities prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law.
Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell "discrimination"
-Vladimir Putin
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Oct 20, 2019 | www.unz.com
Liza says: October 15, 2019 at 4:11 pm GMT 100 Words @eah Yes, indeed. He is a loose cannon. Don't those people who are still kissing the hem of Trump's garments remember all that stuff he said during his campaign? Sure, we all know that politicians lie in order to get elected – but nothing on this level. Like the Scorpion and Frog poem, or at least his version of it (the Snake). Read More
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Oct 20, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
dbriz Kyle Stirkenburg • 5 days ago • edited
Quiz for the day: Does this “whistleblower” even exist? Or is it a composite creation of the CIA, Schiff and Co?Did Schiff and friends turn ghostly white when Trump called their bluff by releasing the transcript?
Is Pelosi’s new found reticence a result of her self annoyance that she let herself get talked into this new debacle and payback is to let Schiff shift in the wind dangling over the thought that no one in the CIA wants to walk the plank for him?
Do the Democrats and their allies in the deep state increasingly look like the Keystone Kops?
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Oct 20, 2019 | off-guardian.org
mark
Dubya rehabilitated himself by slagging off the Orange Man.So he's now a jolly decent chap and all round good egg.
Certainly outweighs a little thing like a couple of million dead sand niggers.
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Oct 20, 2019 | aim4truth.org
They send our sons to the Middle East. They send THEIR sons to Ukraine.
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Oct 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Graham Noble via LibertyNation.com,The following is a transcript of what Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told President Donald Trump during a phone call. This transcript was provided by an anonymous Russian – possibly the same one from whom Rep. Adam Schiff tried to get compromising photos of Trump. Unlike Schiff, we have not doctored this transcript.
"Hello, Trump, this is Vladimir. Hah! Funny man. Vladimir Putin, president of Russia. Listen, we need to have serious talk. We had agreement. You tell me you cooperate if I help you win election in 2016. What's this make American great again sh*t? I thought that was joke. You start playing with the ball or I'm going to replace you next year with Tulsi Gabbard .
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"You make America strongest country in world, now. You increase energy production – that's not good for me. You give aid to the sniveling Ukrainian dogs. You do nothing for Russia. No, that's not funny...
" So, listen carefully, Trump. You start helping me or Tulsi gets your job. Yes, she is secret Russian asset but we have problem. Clinton knows. Yes, she knows – I read it on the News Fox and the Washington Examination. I don't know how she knows. Probably those Ukrainian sh*ts told her – you know, the same ones who try to help her win election.
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2banana , 13 minutes ago link
Blackhawks , 5 minutes ago linkNothing a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation won't fix...
LEEPERMAX , 10 minutes ago linkYuck it up. This is what happened to Seth Rich. That lesbian **** and her syphilitic husband don't have a sense of humor
tyberious , 20 minutes ago linkBack to the Russia Russia Russia Scam just like this article . . . The Coup to Take Down Trump all started with Hillary's DNC & Chalupa's Ukraine.
All this hysteria toward Russia is beyond stupid, when China is eating our lunch!
- Russia was the first European country to recognize the new nation we call America.
- Russia prevented the French and English from interfering with the Civil War.
- Russia sold us Alaska!
- Russia saved countless Americans during WWI and WWII!
They aren't even communist, China is!
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
S , Oct 19 2019 15:33 utc | 24
Okay, let's recap:1) Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset (Clinton).
2) Jill Stein is a Russian asset (Clinton).
3) Donald Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987 ( Intelligencer ).
4) Rand Paul is "working for Vladimir Putin" ( McCain , Greg Olear ).
5) Bernie Sanders is "just a tool" to the Russians ( The Washington Post ).I'm sure Bernie will turn from "just a tool" into "an asset" in no time if his poll numbers become too high. After all, nobody forgot his fraternizing with the enemy in a sauna in USSR !
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"I don't think the Iranians believe a peaceful Middle East is in their national interest," said the former president according to The Washington Post 's Josh Rogin, whose brief Twitter thread on the subject appears to be the only record of Bush's speech anywhere online
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
renfro , says: October 4, 2019 at 4:31 am GMT
Russia is the excuse for US actions in the Ukraine as it was in the ME.What is America without a big bad boogeyman like Russia?. Certainly not a "Superpower' defending the world. Without enemies like Russia we would be nothing but big rich country.
And all the Neos and Zios and politicians would have to use Viagra instead of war to squirt out their poison.
A lot of countries like the Ukraine have gotten a lot of US taxpayer money by 'standing up to a Russian takeover' .and are laughing all the way to their bank.
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
Mikhail , says: Website October 4, 2019 at 8:33 am GMT
@Ron Unz Thanks to Tucker Carlson's show, some folks on the left like Cohen, Mate and Greenwald, are more likely to get air time on Fox News than MSNBC and CNN.
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
Biff , says: October 4, 2019 at 10:44 am GMT
@Ron UnzBut if someone would have told him that the people denouncing and blacklisting him would have been the *liberal Democrats* and some of their most "excitable" elements would be accusing him of being a "Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Russian Agent" he would have thought the entire country had gone on LSD.
Project MKUltra gone right?
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
RLV , says: October 4, 2019 at 3:57 pm GMT
It's quite ironic that the party that was in power when it was revealed that the NSA was spying on every US citizen (and a ton of foreigners) – an obvious violation of the 4th Amendment – now want to moan about the unconstitutionality of this phone call.
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ozymandias , says: October 4, 2019 at 4:32 am GMT
@Dennis Gannon "If we ever get a dictator in the USA, I would not be surprised to see everyone in the lying mainstream media wind up in a gulag."If we ever get a dictator in the USA, he will owe his dictatorship to the lying mainstream media. But that of course doesn't mean he won't turn on them. But it's more likely he'll enjoy their continued support.
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Oct 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
GMC , says: October 4, 2019 at 9:26 am GMT
Ran into a Ukie from Odessa yesterday on a beach i go to i go to Saigon n Vung Tau. He told me all about how Putin set up the Maidan in Kyiv, in order to invade and take Crimea. He was doing a great propaganda act, for this American, until I told him I live in Crimea. I gave some info how the US did Kyiv, then he stormed off. The Ukie nationalist are super brainwashed. Spacibo Unz Rev.
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Oct 19, 2019 | twitter.com
That's it, I quit. I can't be expected to compete with this.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTONOctober 9, 2019
His Excellency
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of the Republic of Turkey
AnkaraDear Mr. President:
Let's work out a good deal! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy -- and I will. I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson.
1 have worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don't let the world down. You can make a great deal. General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you, and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I am confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me, just received.
History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen. Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!
I will call you later.
Sincerely.
/signature/
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Oct 16, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Itchy and Scratchy , 1 minute ago link
Biden's feckless, corrupt, dishonourably discharged, drug addicted, womanizing son should take Joe's place on the 2020 Presidential ballot!
He's someone I can stand up for!
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Oct 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
LurchUSA , 55 minutes ago link
Schiff ... the bug-eyed face of desperation!
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Oct 13, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Vonu , Oct 13 2019 21:06 utc | 67
After Boeing commits suicide through incompetence and negligence, we can get to work on Lockheed. With a bit of patience, the entire American military industrial congressional complex may fail, enhancing the world's security.Willy2 , Oct 13 2019 17:31 utc | 59- Now I understand why the Trump administration wants to impose import tariffs on airbus planes...jared , Oct 13 2019 16:15 utc | 57@ Goldhoarder | Oct 13 2019 13:06 utc | 51JW , Oct 13 2019 12:14 utc | 48Excellent point and summary. But it's not that U.S. government are trying to destroy country it is rather that they were effectively influenced to look the other way.
Some people are becoming very wealth at the expense of the nation - zombie nation...
I wonder just how much % of US GDP is comprised of parasitic financial engineering. Going by healthcare costs versus other countries: At least half.
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Oct 15, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to RC (Ron) Weakley... , October 12, 2019 at 06:59 AM
That said, the two parties are clearly not the same. The Democratic Party is content to charge the wage class far less for the privilege of getting screwed over by corporations and elites than the Republican Party wants to charge the wage class for that privilege.ilsm -> RC (Ron) Weakley... , October 12, 2019 at 06:59 AMnot that much less, and the demrat pols need the money they get from wall st more than GOPster with family cash.50 years, it has been almost unabated since Hoover.
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Oct 15, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
JohnH -> kurt... , October 02, 2019 at 06:00 PM
... As I have said, I would be delighted if Trump went down and took Joe Biden with him. The last thing this country needs is a Joe Lieberman with a smiling face serving as President which is basically what Joe Biden is.
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Oct 15, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
Fred C. Dobbs
, October 11, 2019 at 09:32 AMilsm -> Fred C. Dobbs... , October 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM...According to a copy of her opening statement obtained by The New York Times, the longtime diplomat said she was "incredulous" that she was removed as ambassador "based, as far as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives."
A most unconstitutional posit:likbez -> ilsm... , October 15, 2019 at 06:07 PM"That harm will come not just through the inevitable and continuing resignation and loss of many of this nation's most loyal and talented public servants," ......"
These "loyal and talented" are deciding on loyalty to what?
Some image of "security" they (Obama?) define? Some definition of "national interest" they designed? Who voted for these "loyal and talented"?
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"These "loyal and talented" are deciding on loyalty to what? "That's the key issue. She might loyal to Obama neoliberalism, not to the Trump's "national neoliberalism"
And that's two different platforms ;-)
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Oct 14, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
REMEMBER when they used to say once KGB always KGB ?
Does that also apply to former members of organs of state security who are now all over US TV as "independent experts" ?
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Oct 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
by Tyler Durden Sun, 10/13/2019 - 12:22 0 SHARESHunter Biden is stepping down from a controversial board position at a Chinese-based private-equity company, and has vowed to forego all foreign work if his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, is elected president in 2020, according to Bloomberg .
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Oct 09, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Caught in a rip-tide and being dragged further out to sea, Mr. Brennan has hit the rocks and lost his ship. Floating with him, a hapless group of CIA and NSC Cold Warriors, all in way over their heads.
Having torn the sheets and smashed the hull, they bob in the waves. Lost is the wars they started far off over the horizon. Ukraine, Syria, who is to blame? Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, too.
Now, they have seized some bloated fat guy they are trying to turn into a raft. Two-faced, venal opportunist, he waded out into the water, seeing an opportunity to make a buck off the ship-wreck.
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Oct 07, 2019 | www.usatoday.com
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
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Oct 07, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
anne , October 06, 2019 at 05:37 PM
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/07/c_138452100.htmMr. Bill -> anne... , October 06, 2019 at 06:55 PMOctober 7, 2019
"You won't destroy me, and you won't destroy my family," U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post on Saturday, his latest response to President Donald Trump's call for an investigation into him and his son.
[ Has there been an American instance before, where a president has directly gone after the family of a possible rival? ]
Actually, yes.In the early days of the Republic, they were not always as civilized as the fat pig that currently occupies the WH.
Biden is not a saint.
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Oct 07, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
ilsm , October 06, 2019 at 05:32 PM
"All of this [the past 40 months of media and democrat craziness, covering corruption and misleading] because one billionaire ass clown [Trump] won an election without their permission?"
"No, this was never just about Donald Trump, repulsive and corrupt as the man may be. The stakes have always been much higher than that. What we've witnessed over the last three years (and what is about to reach its apogee) is a global capitalist counter-insurgency, the goal of which is:"
"(a) to put down the ongoing populist rebellion throughout the West,""and (b) to crush any hope of resistance to the hegemony of global capitalism in other words, a War on Populism."
"Not that Donald Trump is a populist hero. Far from it. Trump is a narcissistic clown. He has always been a narcissistic clown. All he really cares about is seeing his face on television and plastering his name on everything in sight, preferably in huge gold letters. He got himself elected president by being cunning enough to recognize and ride the tsunami of populist anger that was building up in 2016, and that has continued to build throughout his presidency. It is not going away, that anger. The Western masses are no more thrilled about the global capitalist future today than they were when voted for Brexit, and Trump, and various other "populist" and reactionary figures."
Read the whole post!
https://theduran.com/cj-hopkins-trumpenstein-must-be-destroyed/
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Oct 05, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
Fred C. Dobbs said in reply to Fred C. Dobbs... ,
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton appeared on "The Late Show" to promote their new book, "The Book of Gutsy Women" and while there, the former presidential candidate addressed the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Trump."It's your fault for coming on Ukraine week," Colbert joked to Clinton when she arrived on stage.
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Oct 05, 2019 | www.unz.com
The [neo]liberal mob was standing around with their torches and pitchforks in a state of shock. Doctor Mueller, the "monster hunter," had let Trumpenstein slip through his fingers. The supposedly ironclad case against him had turned out to be a bunch of lies made up by the Intelligence Community, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media.
Russiagate was officially dead . The President of the United States was not a Russian secret agent. No one was blackmailing anyone with a videotape of Romanian prostitutes peeing on a bed where Obama once slept. All that had happened was, millions of liberals had been subjected to the most elaborate psyop in the history of elaborate deep state psyops which, ironically, had only further strengthened Trumpenstein, who was out there on the Portico balcony, shotgunning Diet Cokes with one hand and shaking his junk at the mob with the other.
It wasn't looking so good for "democracy."
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Oct 04, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
ineluctable , 2 minutes ago link
You want dirt on Biden? Sure thing, how about a small reduction of America's naval presence in Asia. You'll get all the dirt you need Mr. Trump.
Love ya - Hypersonic Rocketman, Xi Jinping.
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Oct 03, 2019 | abcnews.go.com
Whistleblower attorney says complaint drafted 'entirely on their own' - ABC News
[But] According to a spokesperson for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, the whistleblower contacted the committee before raising concerns about alleged wrongdoing with the intelligence community inspector general.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/whistleblower-contacted-house-intelligence-committee-filing-complaint/story?id=66013379
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Oct 02, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
John A , , October 2, 2019 at 7:08 am
Imagine Trump were to overthrow Maduro in a coup. He installs his puppet Guido who immediately gives Ivanka a seat on the board of a Venezuelan oil company at 50K a month, or more. Would the Democrats be screaming 'nothing to see here' in that scenario?
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Sep 28, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Dear Establishment Democrats,
Thank you so much for inviting me to your Impeachment Party. It's really great to hear you've finally found something to nail Trump with. Good for you! You've been looking so hard these past three years. So nice to see all that effort finally pay off!
(Of course, some might say you should have spent that time looking for solutions to all the problems the country is facing, but hey, let's not get crazy! Right?) And your amazing valor doesn't stop at Biden. Oh no. You are even willing to let Republicans dredge up Hillary's email scandal long after people had all but forgotten about Crowdstrike. The Romans who stood in front of the charging elephants at Cannae would be proud.
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Of course, I understand your motives for Impeachment are not wholly altruistic. With corporate donations drying up and growing pressure from Progressive primary challengers making Establishment incumbents increasingly nervous, you need some way to excite your old school base for the important election season to come.
That's why it's even more testament to your pluck that you would choose such a transparently hypocritical and overtly political hill on which to take your final stand, especially after 2016 showed so clearly that going after Trump personally only makes him more popular.
So I say onward Impeachment soldier!By the time the primaries roll around, your brave Establishment beserkers will have divided the party and discredited the leadership to such an extent that rank and file Dems will be begging for a Progressive intervention.
Carry On!
Yours in Impeachment,
Not Henry Kissinger
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Sep 24, 2019 | www.unz.com
Mr McKenna , says: September 23, 2019 at 9:05 am GMT
Most of the surprising material presented here is hardly hidden or kept under lock-and-key. Nearly all the books are easily available at Amazon or even freely readable on the Internet, many of the authors have received critical and scholarly acclaim, and in some cases their works have sold in the millions. Yet this important material has been almost entirely ignored or dismissed by the popular media that shapes the common beliefs of our society. So we must necessarily begin to wonder what other massive falsehoods may have been similarly promoted by that media, perhaps involving incidents of the recent past or even the present day. And those latter events do have enormous practical significance.
Coincidentally enough, today the Guardian has published its own lengthy, soul-searching essay entitled, "Why can't we agree on what's true any more?"
Being the Guardian, of course, their prescription is that people should make a more sincere effort to support the Reporters of Truth, such as the Guardian. In their retrograde Left vs Right world, it's still up to the 'goodthinkers' to preserve our liberties from the Boris Johnsons and Donald Trumps of the world. Never in a million years would they entertain the possibility that Johnsons and Trumps come about because the Establishment–most certainly including its MSM lackeys–is corrupt to its core.
As the Washington Post has it, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- neglecting to add, "We supply the Darkness."
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Sep 24, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Ikallicrates , September 20, 2019 at 10:38
If Biden mental decline continues, he'll eventually be as senile as Trump. Then he'll be qualified to be president.
We have no influence over the decisions our elected representatives make for us in our name. Most of what we call politics is staged, and most of our recent presidents have been actors reading words written for them by someone backstage. A senile president, reading those words off a teleprompter, is the natural result.
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Sep 20, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
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Sep 23, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
yalensis September 21, 2019 at 1:50 pm
Ukrainian Fatigue Syndrom (UFS) is a serious affliction. If you suffer from this affliction, ask your Doctor about Rid-Uk. Do not continue to take Rid-Uk if you experience the following side effects: Historical clarity, soundness of reasoning, logical interpretation, factual evidence, economic utility, diplomatic success.Moscow Exile September 21, 2019 at 1:43 amThe head of the White House, Donald Trump, declared that American policy towards the Ukraine was senseless of and added that Moscow should be a friend of Washington, and that no one cared about the Ukrainians. The day before, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid said that the European Union was experiencing fatigue from the Ukraine.Source
Media: Trump considers senseless US actions in Ukraine
9/21/2019, 9:29:23 AMUS President Donald Trump considers US actions in the Ukraine senseless, which actions at the same time aggravate relations with Russia, The Washington Post reports, citing a former senior White House official.
According to the newspaper interlocutor, the president takes the position that "Russians should be our friends".
"What we do in the Ukraine is pointless and annoying Russia", he said, describing the president's opinion.
Earlier, former US Vice President Joe Biden called on Trump to publish a transcript of a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
So there you have it!
Trump is a Kremlin Stooge.
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Sep 23, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Northern Star September 17, 2019 at 4:58 pm
Probably had Death to the Great Satan etched on them right above made in Tehran.Patient Observer September 17, 2019 at 5:39 pm
https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/suspected-iranian-missile-debris-found-on-saudi-oil-field-after-attack/Like Like
I wonder when they will find Putin's passport.Jen September 17, 2019 at 7:15 pm" Probably had Death to the Great Satan etched on them right above made in Tehran "Etched in English and in the Roman alphabet as well, of course.
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Sep 20, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
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Sep 22, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
J.T. September 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm
How contrived.What will they claim next? That Putin and Smolenkov were lovers?
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Sep 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
Mulegino1 , says: September 22, 2019 at 1:49 am GMT
Who Launched That Mystery Attack?Given their age old fame for perfidy, corruption, cunning, mendacity and hatred of the nations, along with their proclivity for high technology, my money would be on the Amish or the Russian Old Believers as prime suspects and beneficiaries of the attacks.
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Sep 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
Anonymous [425] Disclaimer , says: September 22, 2019 at 1:05 am GMT
It's all so crazy. This is what goes by 'hate speech'. Truth is now hate. In a way, it makes sense because truth hates falsehood.
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Sep 18, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Gilbert Perea , 9 hours ago"Jerry Nadler is aiming to become the Rachael Maddow of Adam Schiffs" – Dan Bongino (3-24-19)
RIC shady , 7 hours agoYou have to laugh , I wonder if Mr. Cowen has a chicken wing in his jacket pocket.
ZENIGMATV , 3 hours ago"The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all." - Valery Legasov, Soviet chemist
ZENIGMATV , 3 hours agoNadler:Corey what time is it? Corey :It's 2pm. Nadler: The clock shows 1:59 . Charge Corey for lying to Congress! All a gotcha game by a group of angry haters.
Jim Carpenter , 6 hours agoNadler:Corey what time is it? Corey :It's 2pm. Nadler: The clock shows 1:59 . Charge Corey for lying to Congress! All a gotcha game by a group of angry haters.
Forever Joy , 9 hours agoNadler provides so much comic relief!!!! He is definitely one of my all time favorite oafs.
Bobwehada Babyitzaboy , 3 hours ago40 million tax payer dollars wasted...boom! Pathetic, thanks Democrats!
Dr.Roberto Rodriguez Jr. , 5 hours ago3rd time. If that were good for the left they wouldn't shut up about it. This is another witch hunt with attempt to deceive
Ricky Alfaro , 5 hours agoWhat a joke. Democratic live in a fantasy world
Teresa Upchurch , 8 hours agoCorey is toast!
This is obviously a Dog & Pony show by the Nadler nerd group of Demonrats! Can't even follow the House rules. Sickening !!!
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Sep 18, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Sydney • an hour ago
Who says Mr Trump is unpredictable? Is there anybody expected anything else from Mr Trump when it comes to picking his advisers or making thoughtful decisions? Let's be serious, Mr Trump did not pick Mr Robert O'Brien. The Bolton, Pompeo, Pence triumvirate picked Trump's NSA; naturally.
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Sep 18, 2019 | nationalinterest.org
Now we need to bury the agreement on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and on the ban on nuclear testing!
And the world will be truly safe!
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Sep 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
john , Sep 18 2019 12:46 utc | 125
William Gruff says:To maintain this fiction they must overlook the fact that their empire's best strategists reached the limits of their geostrategic talent playing the board game Risk
hahaha, yeah, a million laughs...all of that brilliant geopolitical strategizing from starched suits bending our ears for the last how many decades turns out to be so much deluded horseshit. Henry Kissenger, Zibigniew Brezinski, James Baker, etc. what a crock! oh yeah, almost forgot about that other duped asshat...Oded Yinon.
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Sep 18, 2019 | www.counterpunch.org
The Egyptians had pyramids. The Romans had roads, aqueducts, and coliseums. The medieval Europeans had castles and cathedrals. These days, America's pyramids, aqueducts, and cathedrals are those warplanes, among other deadly weapons programs , including a $1.7 trillion one to "modernize" the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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As ephemeral as the F-35 stealth fighter may prove in historical terms, it's already a classic symbol of America's ever more fruitless forever wars . Like them , the F-35 program has proven staggeringly expensive, incredibly wasteful, and impossible to stop, no matter the woeful results . It has come to symbolize the too-big-to-fail, too-sacrosanct-to-reject part of America's militarized culture of technological violence.
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Harper's Andrew Cockburn recently used it to illustrate what he termed "the Pentagon Syndrome ," the practice of expending enormous sums on weapons of marginal utility.
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Sep 13, 2019 | www.counterpunch.org
+ Apparently, Obama and Biden only caged kids who deserved to be caged.
+ Biden continues to lie about his position on the Iraq war and he lies so badly that no one, not even Bernie, bothers to call him on it.
+ Whatever brain-eating disease Biden has seems to be contagious, gnawing inexorably through the gray matter of the other candidates
+ CNN: "Biden had his best debate." Ok, I know I didn't drop acid tonight. Did Wolf Blitzer spike the company water cooler?+ Really, Baltz ? Biden was incoherent on NATFA, lied about the Iraq war, couldn't describe his health care plan, derided black families, stumbled over his immigration record & went completely loco at the end. Other than that
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Sep 17, 2019 | www.unz.com
Justvisiting , says: September 17, 2019 at 12:33 pm GMT
@Anonymous At some point when an foreign intelligence service has a critical mass of politicians blackmailed it becomes "domestic intelligence" or "domesticated intelligence". :-)JoaoAlfaiate , says: September 17, 2019 at 11:09 am GMTIt's amazing how little coverage this story got. Can you imagine if Russian devices had been found? It would be on CNN, etc. hour after hour and they'd be interviewing Nancy Pelosi non stop.sally , says: September 17, 2019 at 12:19 pm GMT@Cloak And Dagger I think you are correct there maybe many Americans in the USA.. It may take the few Americans who have been allowed to see the big picture at the USA
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Sep 15, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Unfortunately, Joe neoliberal Biden does not qualify. He wants to serve only the rich.
Gratified to read the phrase "carrying capacity" in a political discussion. One of the central drivers of elite power and asset hoarding is the perception of scarcity and the compulsion to ration (i.e. cut-off supplies of "nice things" to the proles and dusky-hued people).
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Sep 14, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
anne , September 14, 2019 at 12:38 PM
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/health-care-premiums-and-taxesSeptember 14, 2019
Health Care Premiums and Taxes
By Dean BakerThere's an old joke about a lawyer who is questioning a doctor on an autopsy they had done on someone who was allegedly a murder victim.
The lawyer asked the doctor, "did you check whether the patient was breathing?"
The doctor answers "no."
The lawyer then asks "did you check whether the patient had a pulse?"
The doctor again answers "no."
The lawyer then asks, "so how did you know that the patient was dead," to which the doctor responds, "because his brains were sitting in a jar on my desk."
The lawyer then triumphantly asks, "so he could have still been alive?" To which the doctor responds, "I suppose he could have been practicing law somewhere."
Our doctor may want to amend their answer to allow for the possibility that the patient could be a political pundit for a leading news outlet.
Our pundit class have to decided to make a crusade out of forcing Senators Warren and Sanders into saying that their proposals for universal Medicare will require a tax increase. Both have repeatedly responded by saying that total costs for the vast majority of people will fall, since Medicare for All will lead to a large reduction in costs by all accounts, because it reduces waste in the health care system.
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Sep 13, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Bugs Bunny , September 13, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Clowns should be increasingly used in redundancy (layoff, firing) meetings until it becomes the norm and employers start to compete with each other to offer the best clown redundancy experience and promote it as a benefit.
It would also create clown jobs, which would probably require more clown schools, meaning that the tuition prices would go through the roof and young people dreaming of becoming redundancy clowns would either have to come from wealth or take out massive clown loans to fund their education for clown universities and grad schools. Shareholders can only take so much top line costs and Wall Street pressure would force corporations to improve return on investment and reduce redundancy clown labor expenses. Sadly, redundancy clowns would find themselves training their own replacements – HB1 clowns from "low cost" countries. Employers would respond to quality criticisms of the HB1 clown experience by publishing survey results showing very similar almost ex-employee satisfaction with the new clowns.
Eventually, of course, redundancy clowns will be replaced by AI and robots. It's just the future and we will need to think about how to adapt to it today by putting in place a UBI for the inevitable redundant redundancy clowns.
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Sep 11, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Published on Sep 11, 2019
Firing National Security Advisor John Bolton gives US President Donald Trump a chance to move foreign policy in a more peaceful direction – as long as he's not replaced with another hawk, former congressman Ron Paul told RT.
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Sep 12, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Moscow Exile September 4, 2019 at 4:38 amMark Chapman September 4, 2019 at 7:21 am1933 – Great Britain, France, Italy – four-power pact
1934 – Poland – Hitler-Pilsudski pact
1935 – Great Britain – Anglo-German naval agreement
1936 – Japan – Anti-Comintern pact
1938, September – Great Britain – non-aggression pact
1938, December – France – non-aggression pact
1939, March – Romania – economic agreement
1939, March – Lithuania – non-aggression pact
1939, May – Italy – pact of friendship and alliance
1939, May – Denmark – non-aggression pact
1939, June – Estonia – non-aggression pact
1939, June – Latvia – non-aggression pact
1939, August – USSR – non-aggression pactYet everyone only talks about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Well, people talk about Italy – they have to; it was one of the Axis powers, and the allies had to fight it to subdue it. But now Italy is totally rehabilitated and, aside from a certain carelessness with money, a valued friend. Just as Germany itself is totally rehabilitated.It is only Russia which remains a place of evil, because it will not admit its Stalinist guilt and pay Billions in reparations to the Ukrainians for starving them all to death, and atone as the west demands for its sins. Then it will be broke and helpless but happy.
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Sep 12, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
et Al September 10, 2019 at 11:22 am
Bolt. Off.Mark Chapman September 10, 2019 at 11:37 amHa, ha!! Ever the wit.Jen September 10, 2019 at 9:23 pmThe better moments in John Bolton's career:yalensis September 10, 2019 at 3:22 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/fQ-BOqQw_TQ?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
It's pathetic how Bolton tries to save face (=his walrus face, such as it is) by insisting that he quit instead of being fired. It's that old canard, "You can't fire me 'cause I quit!" [snif sob]
A variant of "You didn't break up with ME, I broke up with YOU!" [snif sob]
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Sep 12, 2019 | www.checkpointasia.net
If it means US-style bombings, coups ,and millions for subterfuge in other countries then Russia will have to remain ''not normal''
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Sep 11, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Didn't Epstein fund the psychology department at Harvard?
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Sep 11, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Why would anyone appoint John Bolton as their National Security Advisor? It's like hiring Ghislaine Maxwell as a babysitter. You know it isn't going to end well.
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Sep 11, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Arioch , Sep 10 2019 19:19 utc | 12
> Obama administration .... Russia had stolen .... Democratic National Committee and ..... John Podesta.So we have to allege that Podesta's laptop between naked underage girls photos had list of CIA secret agents in Russian government? What else did it contain and where did Podesta stole those lists?
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Sep 10, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
librul , Sep 10 2019 19:54 utc | 19
Is someone brewing up some fresh Novichok nerve agent as we speak?Don't touch those doorknobs, Oleg!
for future reference: this post was for amusement purposes only
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Sep 11, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
...Who should the Administration now call on to provide some restraint on the Presidents warlike impulses?
blue peacock , 10 September 2019 at 04:55 PM
How about another peacemaker and lady in waiting for the GOP 2024 nomination - Nimrata "Nikki" Haley. She will immediately call for a Peace & Friendship Treaty with that evil thug Vladimir Putin.Barbara Ann , 10 September 2019 at 05:26 PMI'm sure the Administration will give the matter much thought and due deliberation and using the same selection process as before, choose the candidate most highlyqualifiedrecommended by the Adelsons. Tell me it ain't so.Lyttennburgh said... Reply 11 September 2019 at 07:05 AM
Subhān Allāh! Sultan Danuld at-Trumphoon al-Quincy dismissed his wazir Yahya al-Boltoni, for verily it’s said to all Faithful: mustache is Shaitan’s brush. /s
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Sep 04, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Diana C ,
"Being called a narcissist by Jim Comey is akin to being accused of having sex with underage girls by the late Jeffrey Epstein."As usual, your analogy here is spot on. I'm still giggling.
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Mar 11, 2014 | independentaustralia.net
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Sep 10, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The Gladiator , 1 hour ago link
Tough choice. Who to believe? CNN or CIA.
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Sep 10, 2019 | www.unz.com
Paw , says: September 10, 2019 at 3:26 am GMT
If bombing is/was punishment for use chemical weapons , US would have to keep bombing itself to this day , as punishments for what they did to Vietnam ..And elsewhere.On its own population as well..
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Sep 10, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Steve Smith EliteCommInc. • 19 hours ago • edited
Sid Finster EliteCommInc. • 19 hours ago"I have to think that NSA Bolton actually believes what he advocates."There are and have been lots of people who believe what they advocate--Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Robespierre, and the Neoconservatives in general among them.
Yeah, consistency may be nice, but what about the actual substance of what Bolton believes and does?
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"He's consistent and sincere!" in that cause of evil, yes.Heinrich Himmler also was a. consistent. and sincere. By your logic, that must mean that Himmler was a credit to the Nazi regime.
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Sep 08, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to "court the compatible left."
Right-wing and left-wing collaborators were needed to create a powerful propaganda apparatus that would be capable of hypnotizing audiences into believing the myth of American exceptionalism and its divine right to rule the world.
The CIA therefore secretly worked to influence American and world opinion through the literary and intellectual elites.
Frances Stonor Saunders comprehensively covers this in her 1999 book, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA And The World Of Arts And Letters, and Joel Whitney followed this up in 2016 with Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers, with particular emphasis on the complicity between the CIA and the famous literary journal, The Paris Review.
By the mid-1970s, as a result of the Church Committee hearings, it seemed as if the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. had been caught in flagrante delicto and disgraced, confessed their sins, and resolved to go and sin no more.
Then in 1977, Carl Bernstein wrote a long piece for Esquire – “The CIA and the Media” – naming names of journalists and media (The New York Times, CBS, etc.) that worked hand-in-glove with the CIA, propagandizing the American people and the rest of the world.
It seemed as if all would be hunky-dory now with the bad boys purged from the American “free” press. Seemed to the most naïve, that is, by which I mean the vast numbers of people who wanted to re-stick their heads in the sand and believe, as Ronald Reagan’s team of truthtellers would announce, that it was “Morning in America” again with the free press reigning and the neo-conservatives, many of whom had been “converted” from their leftist views, running things in Washington.
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...read Lansing’s July 10, 2019 testimony before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs: “United States Efforts to Counter Russian Disinformation and Malign Influence.”
Here is an excerpt:
USAGM provides consistently accurate and compelling journalism that reflects the values of our society: freedom, openness, democracy, and hope. Our guiding principles—enshrined in law—are to provide a reliable, authoritative, and independent source of news that adheres to the strictest standards of journalism…
Russian Disinformation. And make no mistake, we are living through a global explosion of disinformation, state propaganda, and lies generated by multiple authoritarian regimes around the world. The weaponization of information we are seeing today is real. The Russian government and other authoritarian regimes engage in far-reaching malign influence campaigns across national boundaries and language barriers.
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Sep 06, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jen , Sep 5 2019 22:35 utc | 59
I see Vladimir Putin has added a new victim to his ever-growing list of things, objects and phenomena he weaponises ... the Art of the Deal.
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Sep 04, 2019 | www.economist.com
"Few economists worked at the Federal Reserve in the early 1950s. Those who were on the staff of America's central bank were relegated to the basement, at a safe remove from the corridors where real decisions were made.
Economists had their uses, allowed William McChesney Martin, then the Fed's chairman. But they also had 'a far greater sense of confidence in their analyses than I have found to be warranted'. They were best kept down with the surplus furniture and the rats." • Indeed!
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Sep 04, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
For the geopolitically minded in Washington, the grim quip goes: "Lose a war, gain a restaurant." That's why, according to Yelp, the D.C. area boasts 379 Vietnamese restaurants. Most of them, if not all, were established, of course, after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, when hundreds of thousands of refugees fled communism and made their way to the U.S.
At the moment, only 30 Afghan restaurants grace D.C. That number will likely soon change -- upward. Why? Because the U.S., after 18 years, is headed towards the exits in Afghanistan, and so there's going to be a refugee influx from that afflicted country.
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Sep 04, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
nippersmom , , September 3, 2019 at 4:17 pm
" the enduring questions surrounding Biden's age and fitness for office may mean Democrats will lack the "safe" choice they have had in the past, whether the candidate has been former Vice President Al Gore in 2000, former U.S. Senator John Kerry in 2004 or Clinton, the former U.S. senator and secretary of state, in 2008 and 2016."
What do all those "safe" candidates have in common? Oh, that's right- they all lost .
Pat , September 3, 2019 at 4:47 pm
That and they didn't upset the apple carts of the political consultants and the major donors.
Funnily I think the author is missing several 'safe' candidates still in the running, all of whom might secure the nomination on the second ballot depending on who the superdelegate darling is. All of whom would probably be able to uphold that loss record of the safe candidate.
NotTimothyGeithner , September 3, 2019 at 5:27 pm
I didn't click through to read if it was a joke, but I suspect "safe" for Team Blue types means "a candidate who most assuredly won't be criticized by the Republicans."
Al Gore would blunt whining about the deficit. John Kerry was for a "stronger America."
Hillary was so qualified and had faced all arrows including machine gun fire in Serbia. Yep, those moderate Republicans are going to eliminate the need for Team Blue elites to ever have to worry about the poors again.
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dus7 , Sep 3 2019 23:53 utc | 32
Well, the first thing that came to mind upon reading about Boeing's apparent arrogance overseas - silly, I know - was that Boeing may be counting on some weird Trump sanctions for anyone not cooperating with the big important USian corporation!The U.S. has influence on European and many other countries, but it can only be stretched so far, and I would guess messing with Euro/international airline regulators, especially in view of the very real fatal accidents with the 737MAX, would be too far.
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Sep 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
If you want a vision of the future, don't imagine "a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever," as Orwell suggested in 1984 . Instead, imagine that human face staring mesmerized into the screen of some kind of nifty futuristic device on which every word, sound, and image has been algorithmically approved for consumption by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ("DARPA") and its "innovation ecosystem" of "academic, corporate, and governmental partners."
The screen of this futuristic device will offer a virtually unlimited range of "non-divisive" and "hate-free" content, none of which will falsify or distort the "truth," or in any way deviate from "reality." Western consumers will finally be free to enjoy an assortment of news, opinion, entertainment, and educational content (like this Guardian podcast about a man who gave birth , or MSNBC's latest bombshell about Donald Trump's secret Russian oligarch backers ) without having their enjoyment totally ruined by discord-sowing alternative journalists like Aaron Maté or satirists like myself.
"Fake news" will not appear on this screen. All the news will be "authentic." DARPA and its partners will see to that. You won't have to worry about being "influenced" by Russians, Nazis, conspiracy theorists, socialists, populists, extremists, or whomever. Such Persons of Malicious Intent will still be able to post their content (because of "freedom of speech" and all that stuff), but they will do so down in the sewers of the Internet where normal consumers won't have to see it. Anyone who ventures down there looking for it (i.e., such "divisive" and "polarizing" content) will be immediately placed on an official DARPA watchlist for "potential extremists," or "potential white supremacists," or "potential Russians."
Once that happens, their lives will be over (i.e., the lives of the potentially extremist fools who have logged onto whatever dark web platform will still be posting essays like this, not the lives of the Persons of Malicious Intent, who never had any lives to begin with, and who by that time will probably be operating out of some heavily armed, off-the-grid compound in Idaho). Their schools, employers, and landlords will be notified. Their photos and addresses will be published online. Anyone who ever said two words to them (or, God help them, appears in a photograph with them) will have 24 hours to publicly denounce them, or be placed on DARPA’s watchlist themselves.
The Alarmist , says: September 4, 2019 at 9:02 am GMT
@El Dato Dude, you watch RT? You may as well go turn yourself in at the local Federal Building.The Alarmist , says: September 4, 2019 at 9:03 am GMTI’d laugh, if this was actually satire and not the reality unfolding before our very eyes.
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Sep 02, 2019 | www.yahoo.com
Rob, yesterday
So all the fuss about "Russian hacking" was crocodile tears western propaganda.
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Sep 02, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
ambrit , , August 31, 2019 at 11:55 am
Thatcher was an English politico. It is not what she said, but what she did that counts. She is probably down in Dante's Inferno, Ring 8, sub-rings 7-10. (Frauds and false councilors.) See, oh wayward sinners: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/circle8b.html
The Rev Kev , , September 2, 2019 at 12:37 am
Ring 8, sub-rings 7-10? She will probably find Milton Friedman in the basement there.
ambrit , September 2, 2019 at 7:09 am
Ah, you think that Milton should be at the bottom, eh? Then, I hope that he knows how to ice skate. (He was the worst kind of 'class traitor.' [His parents were small store owner/managers.])
Ring 8 of the Inferno is for 'frauds' of all sorts, sub-rings 7-10 are reserved for Thieves, Deceivers, Schismatics, and Falsifiers. Maggie should feel right at home there.
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Sep 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
simpson seers , 45 minutes ago link
'the US went from victory to victory,'.........fake news, fake victories, ..., fake economy, fake politicians, fake history ...
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Sep 02, 2019 | www.unz.com
The only other putative American conspiracy theory I'm aware of where a larger percentage of the public does not believe the official story than does believe it is JFK's assassination .
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Aug 31, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Freespeaker , 8 minutes ago link
Harry Lightning , 32 minutes ago linkWhen an FBI guy lies they call it "lack of candor". When someone else does they call it "lying to the FBI".
James TraffiCan't , 3 hours ago link"Try that defense the next time you're pulled over "officer I didn't intend to speed" Im sure it will work."
A meeen, isn't that the truth !Jus say
" question: If Andrew McCabe's name were Michael Flynn, how much mercy could he expect from, say, Andrew Weissmann?
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Aug 31, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
And to think that today I saw my first "Biden" bumper sticker.Salt Lick • 2 days agoIt din;t say "vote for Halfwit Joe!" but it should have.
You will love this, I promise. I got nearly everyone wrong. Biden and Trump are one in the same.ParkerPolhill • 2 days ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/f...From the full article at the Washington Post:Charles Cosimano • 2 days agoOne big question facing candidates and voters more than 30 years later is whether President Trump's routine falsehoods have changed the standards by which other presidential aspirants, including Biden, should be judged.As the old song went, "That's Uncle Joe, he'sa moving kinda slow..."And he's the best they've got!
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Aug 31, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
> "A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into "godforsaken country"..."In the version I heard, Biden's helicopter landed under sniper fire, and he had to dodge bullets as he ran for cover. Oh no, wait, that was Hillary, in Bosnia.
One longs for the days when American presidential candidates had actually fought in major wars, but did not talk much about it.
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Aug 29, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Biden (D)(2):
"Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare" [ Vice ].
A Biden ad:
"In all, the ad is saying that healthcare is personal to Joe Biden because his son died; that as a father, he believes the best and most legitimate way to honor his dead son's legacy would be to implement further incremental regulatory reform, along the lines of what Barack Obama did; and that people who disagree and think that radical reform is necessary -- among them, presumably, the 80 percent or so of Democrats who say it's important to nominate a presidential candidate who supports Medicare for All -- are dishonoring his son's legacy. A hell of a pitch!"
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Aug 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Mike Krieger summed the farce up best:
Michael Krieger
@LibertyBlitz
Replying to @LibertyBlitz
The mass media is desperate to propagate a fake narrative, they keep making "mistakes." Over and over. For 3 freakin years. It really is that simple.
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Arioch | Aug 27 2019 14:58 utc | 168
Instead of holding free and fair elections, respecting the rule of law, and integrating Russia's economy with Western democracies, Putin has invaded Georgia, attempted to illegally annex Crimea, conducted war in eastern Ukraine where thousands have died, and supported a barbaric regime in Syria that has used chemical weapons on its own people in a war that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands," said Sen. Johnson.
Russian officials .... denied me entrance to Russia. Regardless of this petty affront, I will continue to advocate a strong and resolute response to Russian aggression.
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Indeed, where else can such a noble person fight Russian Aggression than in the grimmest den of Moscow! Indeed, who do those Russian subhumans think they are denying their massa the privilege to enter the country he is not citizen of!
BTW, Russian MoFa denied he even asked for visa, to start with.
Indeed, how dared Russian aborigines fail to read massa's mind and rush to implement his unspoken wishes before he moved his tongue.
The cherr yfor that pie comes form AP though: An email to the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., inquiring about the denial bounced back as undeliverable Monday. No one immediately responded to another email sent to a different address for the embassy. Calls to the building couldn't connect.
Wow, what an affront indeed!
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jared , Aug 26 2019 16:30 utc | 111
Sorry for posting links, but I think these are interesting re. recent post on MoA.Trump cited "good feelings" about Iran...
I think Costanza rule applies: Whatever they say, truth is opposite.
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Aug 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
consider me gone , 14 minutes ago link
heavens-door , 19 minutes ago linkRarely does the news make me laugh out loud but thank you Joe Biden: I'm Not Going Nuts - Vote Biden 2020. His presidency would be even funnier than Trumps and that is really saying something.
What are the odds? We have another stable genius running for president
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As far as breaking up America, the there is a less drastic alternative, one that could let California be California, Kentucky be Kentucky, and Vermont be Denmark (or Andorra, or whatever else it wants to be).jfmoris110 Ted Gale • 4 days agoWhat if we had a union of sovereign states, with a federal government exercising specific enumerated powers? In addition, we could have a separation of powers within the federal government. There would be a legislative branch, with a house representing the interests of the states as such and another directly representing the people. There could be an executive branch that saw that laws passed by the legislature were duly and faithfully executed, and a system of courts for the adjudication of disputes under the laws as written by the legislative branch.
Each branch of the government, being jealous of its powers, would act as a "check" or a "balance" against the others.
And the states, being guardians of their responsibilities, would prevent the national government from becoming overweening. There would of course be factions--its inevitable. But the competition between factions would prevent any one from dominating.
And, above all, the exercise of the franchise by a responsible, informed and virtuous citizenry would correct abuses. It could be a great . . .
. . . oh . . . wait . . . Hmmm . . . never mind.
I think a small tweak might be enough to avoid future corruption: Lawyers should be barred from legislative branch, as being a conflict of interest, and they having an excessive bias in favor of laws that lead to a lot of litigating - which is disastrous for anyone other than lawyers. And their adversarial "ethics" are a corrupting inffuence, too. And the new constitution should explicitly prohibit the courts from making law by deciding on the constitutionality of laws - just run the dam courts.
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kingdomofgodflag.info Magik13 • 3 days ago • edited
"Move to Russia if you dont like the United States or our government because we are not giving up even a single inch."Better than that, I moved to the oppressive country against which we rebelled in 1776.
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Aug 26, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Well, it has come to pass. Bush 43 wanted to remake Iraq in the USA's image. Looks like he ended up making the USA in Iraq's image.
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Aug 26, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
PlutoniumKun , August 26, 2019 at 7:54 am
On August 2, Trump said Xi had welshed on his promise to halt fentanyl shipments. China objected, saying it had made "unprecedented efforts" and the US was to blame for its opioid crisis. On August 21, the US sanctioned three Chinese individuals it depicted as drug kingpins, eliciting more unhappy noises from China.
I can't help thinking that the Chinese would appreciate the irony that post Brexit they may be able to force the British to buy their surplus opiates, sorry 'fentanyl' as part of any trade deal.
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Aug 26, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
movie buff on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 9:08pm
On a lighter noteCan you imagine the epic word salad that would be a Trump/Biden debate? It would make Lewis Carroll look like Strunk & White.
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gjohnsit on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 10:23pm
Sounds fine to me. I've seen it work on SharknadoTrump spoke to reporters as he departed from the White House in Washington and answered questions about his comments made the day before, which were widely condemned as employing anti-Semitic tropes of dual loyalty.
"If you vote for a Democrat, you're being disloyal to Jewish people and you're being very disloyal to Israel," Trump told US media. "Only weak people would say other than that."
He also said he hadn't heard of anyone calling his remarks from Tuesday anti-Semitic.
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Omar herself caused uproar in March when she suggested that Israel's supporters wanted American lawmakers to pledge "allegiance" to a foreign country.
Omar was criticized by some as anti-Semitic, and her remarks was said to have revived a trope of dual Jewish loyalties. At the time, Trump called on her to resign from the House or at least quit her post on the Foreign Affairs Committee over her comments.
American Jewish leaders have condemned Trump over his Tuesday remarks.
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While the Examiner lauds the possibility of Greenland's "inhabitants joining our national family," they might not have the same desire to be ruled by the imperial city of Washington, D.C. Can't say I blame them. America remains exceptional in many ways, but it's ruled by an abusive, hypocritical, irresponsible, sanctimonious, and incompetent elite -- at best legal guardians, not parents -- living far distant and with only minimal concern for the "family's" welfare.
Power is increasingly concentrated in Washington. The federal government exercises ever more authority over ever more aspects of Americans' lives. Interest group politics has grown more feverish and vicious. In recent years the U.S. has even been moving in the wrong direction on economic liberty. Although it remains ahead of Denmark on the Economic Freedom of the World ratings, on the similar Index of Economic Freedom, Denmark is just one position and a fraction of a point behind America. Most of the Scandinavian countries are redistributionist rather than socialist, and employ less intrusive regulation than the U.S.
People have long been concocting new schemes to expand the American Empire. In the early days, Washington conquered nearby territories; then it acquired more distant possessions. These days, outright aggression is frowned upon, so expansionists must be more nuanced. For instance, before the possibility of Canada dissolving was mooted, even Patrick Buchanan, who had long argued against America's warfare state, listed the seceding pieces Washington should snag.
However, the U.S. already is too big. With nearly 330 million people, there is no "national family." California is a fabulous place, but a majority of its citizens want to base policy on dirigiste economics and identity politics. Why not let them go their own way, rather than whine when the Electoral College prevents them from imposing their self-absorbed fantasies on everyone else?
Equally caustic judgments could be made against other sections of America, such as the South, Rust Belt, and New England. Books have been written about breaking the U.S. into pieces. In this case, secession, or "separation," would have nothing to do with race and slavery. Rather it would be about community, commitment, family, communication, unity, compassion, responsibility, humanity, and scale. Americans from everywhere should live in peace. But there is no reason why everyone needs to be forced into the same massive political aggregation, with one faction or another constantly attempting to seize control of the whole.
Thinking creatively could yield additional benefits. Why not sell off California to the highest bidder? That could raise a good chunk of money to pay down the national debt. Put Hawaii on the market. Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, or perhaps some Russian or Middle Eastern billionaire might make it worth Americans' while to yield the Pacific paradise. If not Hawaii, then perhaps American Samoa and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianna Islands.
The Midwest, with its big agricultural production, would be in high demand. China might pay a hefty price -- after all, it has a lot of people to feed! There might even be a market for progressive enclaves: San Francisco, Austin, Madison, New York City, Atlanta, and more. Bundle them together and see what the market will bear. Maybe a British government under Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn would make an offer. It would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire America's commanding heights of left-progressivism.
Another alternative would be to have U.S. communities go the way of Greenland -- that is, become autonomous territories under Danish control. For example, Springfield, Virginia, where I live, could offer to sell to Denmark. No more being forced to support the American imperium.
What is not to like about Greenland's situation? Once an active, militaristic, and colonial power, Denmark has left those days behind. Now it is a small, inoffensive, constitutional monarchy. It survived World War II and protected its Jewish population. It's a small, human-sized country, with fewer than six million people; it's wealthy, democratic, and, according to a UN survey, for what that's worth, the world's happiest place.
Perhaps most important, the Danish military has only about 27,000 people in uniform. New York City alone has 36,000 police officers. That means Denmark really can't wander the globe bombing, invading, and occupying other nations, unlike Washington, which seems to believe Americans cannot be happy unless they're at war.
Denmark exercised exceptionally good judgment by remaining neutral in World War I, perhaps the stupidest modern war with the greatest long-term consequences. In contrast, America, led by the sanctimonious megalomaniac Woodrow Wilson, voluntarily, even enthusiastically, entered that conflict. World War I brought forth communism, fascism, Nazism, and World War II. Had Washington stayed out, a compromise peace was most likely; the result would have been unsatisfying, but far better for humankind. Denmark's perspective was the right one, and American policymakers were wrong.
President Trump should leave Greenland alone. It isn't Denmark's to sell and it isn't in America's interest to buy. This nation's problems have resulted not from a lack of territory, but from its transformation from a democratic republic to a global imperium. No wonder Mute Bourup Egede, who heads a Greenland independence party, observed: "America will always have an interest in Greenland. Our country will always be ours." As it should be.
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire .
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youshallnotkill , 2 hours ago link
free corn , 2 hours ago linkThe markets love nothing more than uncertainty. Anybody who says otherwise is spreading fake news. /s
Serious question: Is he shorting the market? Nobody can be this dumb or demented.
steverino999 , 2 hours ago linkNever underestimate a comedian!
It's just too bad being elected President doesn't come with a 90-day probationary period that many employers use, because if they did Mike Pence would be considering a 2nd Term run right now.........
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Sean O'Farrell , says: August 24, 2019 at 6:56 am GMT
Netanyahu: "Bill, can I have a word with you?"Clinton: "Sure, Bibi, what's up?"
Netanyahu: "Listen, I've got a bit of bad news. A tape recording has recently surfaced of you and Monica having phone sex. The good news is that one of my most trusted lieutenants has tracked it down. He assures me that he has the original tape and that there are no known copies. No one else knows about the tape but my lieutenant and me. Of course, I ordered him to destroy the tape and to never speak of it again. It will be like it never even happened. All that remains is our friendship."
Clinton: "Thank you, Bibi. Your friendship means the world to me."
Netanyahu: "I know, Bill. I feel the same way about you."
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There are no Afghan peace negotiations. There are peace negotiations between the U.S. and the (U.S. created) Taliban who will continue to fight against the (U.S. installed) government even while the U.S. wants the Taliban to fight the (U.S. installed) ISIS in Afghanistan. Robert Fisk: A century after the Anglo-Afghan peace treaty, the Fourth Afghan War is about to escalate - Independent
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Piotr Berman , Aug 24 2019 21:19 utc | 21
The blow against Chinese fentanyl is spot on. Why should Americans consume Chinese fentanyl when they could use domestic meth, aiding industry that was thriving until recently... ... ...
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Aug 25, 2019 | www.counterpunch.org
Newsflash: Trump is as stupid as he seems, maybe even stupider, and he got as far as he has thanks to his father's money and political juice, and to the largesse of some of the sleaziest crooks on the face of the earth. It used to be possible to say of those who thought otherwise that they were merely willfully blind. The kindest thing to say about them now is that they are stark raving mad.
All Trump's flailing about does is cultivate uncertainty, discouraging business investment while encouraging market volatility. This is the standard, timeworn recipe for bringing on long overdue, far-reaching economic downturns.
Ultimately, though, it is up to the gods whose playthings we are to determine when the proverbial shit will hit the fan. Those gods are mean bitches and sons of bitches and, lately they have been especially unkind.
Setting Trump loose upon the world was mischievous and cruel. Turning the less odious duopoly party over to Clintonites -- neoliberals, liberal imperialists, unreconstructed corporate stooges – was wicked and heartless as well.
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The official narrative of billionaire accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death shifted faster than a New York subway rider when a homeless guy plops down next to them on a hot day.
- First they said Epstein had been on suicide watch, then that he hadn't.
- Prisons are full of cameras yet there's still no video of Epstein's death.
- Then, suicide watch or not, they claimed he'd been checked on every 30 minutes. Then more like every three hours.
- The medical examiner said his injuries were consistent with strangulation by a second person but then thought better of it and ruled Epstein's convenient demise a suicide.
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Aug 24, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
anon in so cal , August 23, 2019 at 6:38 pm
Putin derangement syndrome:
"Putin's most innovative, and dangerous, weapon. The dogs will be handed out to Democrats on election night, suppressing the vote and guaranteeing a second Trump term. Rachel Maddow, where are you?"
https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1164939107610570752?s=20
hunkerdown , August 23, 2019 at 7:28 pm
It's Bull Connor redux, but nicer and more intersectional.
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Jeff W , August 23, 2019 at 5:31 pm
Thanks. Imagine:
Warren: Throw 'em in jail! Let's not make crime pay!
Crowd: Make crime pay! Make crime pay!Warren: Power to regular "folks," not power to the oligarchs!
Crowd: Power to the oligarchs! Power to the oligarchs!It's like some scene from Life of Brian .
Warren, who is invariably a bit tone-deaf to these things, would probably never even notice. And the crowd would be having a blast.
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Aug 24, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Zhu , August 23, 2019 at 02:49
We Americans kill on an industrial scale; why wouldn't we F* ** on an industrial scale too? And the victims are all poor people.
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Skip Intro , , August 23, 2019 at 2:29 pm
I believe being oblivious is the main qualification for being a successful mainstream economist.
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Samuel Conner , August 23, 2019 at 7:30 am
"Government set to inject more than $1 Trillion into US economy this year, but poorly targeted and still isn't enough to improve the lives of most people".
fixed it.
Elspeth , August 23, 2019 at 11:16 am
"poorly targeted", no no my friend it's benefiting the ususally suspects.
Synoia , August 23, 2019 at 11:23 am
"richly targeted" would be most accurate.
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templar555510 , August 23, 2019 at 8:41 am
Spot-on . Whenever I read this nonsense in the NYT or elsewhere I always ask myself the same question ' Is this deliberate or are they really ignorant ? ' . I suspect the latter, but I could be wrong.
MichaelSF , August 23, 2019 at 12:17 pm
There's no reason it can't be both.
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Ian Perkins , August 23, 2019 at 10:57 am
"War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength." And if Orwell were still around, perhaps he would add: Austerity is Prosperity.
Synoia , August 23, 2019 at 11:24 am
Warriors are Peacekeepers
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Dr. James Rustler , August 23, 2019 at 2:03 pm
Excuse me, how can the deficit be increasing [with Trump tax cuts]?
I was told that a simple bell curve graph called the 'Laffer Curve' indicates that cutting taxes increases growth which increases revenue. Its simply mathematics.
Checkmate, liberals
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The Rev Kev , August 23, 2019 at 7:06 pm
Well, Lawrence H. Summers is right to worry when he says "Can central banking as we know it be the primary tool of macroeconomic stabilization in the industrial world over the next decade?"
I remember when Qaddafi was murdered and Libya fell. Within the first day or two a central bank was set up in Libya. And look how well that is working out for them.
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Summer , August 23, 2019 at 7:32 pm
"It sure is weird that the labor market is the only place where the magic of the marketplace -- price! -- doesn't work."
I also hear weirdness about price considerations when I read investment advice for workers and their 401ks.
"Don't worry about the price. Invest now as much as you can. You can't predict the market "
(Looks down at Twitter feed).
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Samuel Conner , August 23, 2019 at 2:21 pm
One can hope that Larry S will eventually convert to MMT, but I intuit that if that does happen, it will only be on his deathbed.
Synoia , August 23, 2019 at 2:38 pm
Or when receiving a huge stipend from a MMT adherent.
a different chris , August 23, 2019 at 3:05 pm
Haha so right and we mistakenly claim that economists don't know how the real economy works. They know, and part of that knowledge is that you need to shill the BS for those with the money if you wanna get your own piece of said pie.
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ambrit , , August 23, 2019 at 11:20 am
True. The function of the Court Jester was supposedly to speak truth to the sovereign and court in non confrontational ways. 'Modern' comedians fulfill the same function today.
sierra7 , August 23, 2019 at 3:55 pm
I keep telling my "TV" friends that the late nite comedy shows are just for poking fun at the serious issues that are mortifying our country. "Trivializing" the serious. Nothing more.
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Stephen Johnson , Aug 21 2019 20:15 utc | 6
Heh, I regularly get the Epoch times as bird cage liner, since it's free. Glancing at the articles and editorials, it is indeed a deeply weird publication. By preference, I get the Chinese language version- the birds don't mind and I get less of the crazy talk, since I can't read Chinese- though some of the pictures are pretty funky in there own right. Not as fun as Chick tracts, but an interesting read, if crazy is your thing
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Aug 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
Biff , says: August 22, 2019 at 3:58 am GMT
@lysiasRoman elites started to attack each other in 133 B.C., and the civil wars lasted a century. The Roman Empire survived several centuries after that.
" What have the Romans ever done for us?!"
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Tom Stone , August 20, 2019 at 2:13 pm
Kamala Harris is militantly progressive
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
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Aug 21, 2019 | www.unz.com
If the neoliberal ruling classes expect to keep the American masses worked up into a white-eyed hysteria over "fascism" until November 2020, they're going to need to get some better Nazis. The current Nazis are just not going to cut it. They are neither scary nor Nazi enough. OK, the militia ones look kind of scary, and that "Based Spartan" guy looks kind of uh, weird, but most of them just look like regular old rednecks. How hard would it be to get them some brown shirts, or those khaki pants like they wore in Charlottesville, or some other type of Nazi-like uniform?
And some jackboots. People love those jackboots.
Seriously, the Resistance need to get their official narrative optics in order, and they need to do it without delay. Millions of liberals are standing by to be brainwashed into a year-long frenzy of manufactured mass "fascism" hysteria, but they are going to need some halfway convincing Nazis to spastically freak out over. A few hundred bozos in MAGA hats parading around with American flags does not exactly a Sturmabteilung make.
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Mulegino1 , says: August 20, 2019 at 1:31 pm GMT
Trump is like the old story of the bottle of whiskey which the southern planter gave to his slave as a present. When the planter asked the slave what he thought of the whiskey, the slave replied, "perfect." The planter then asked the slave what he meant by saying the whiskey was perfect.The slave said, "if it was any better, you wouldn't have given it to me, and if it was any worse, I couldn't have drunk it."
That is Trump in a nutshell. He is certainly a "perfect" president, as he is palatable to both the Zionists and the kosher conservatives who are, at present, not attempting to accelerate the collapse of Euro-Christian heritage America, and totally odious to those who are attempting to do so.
Trump is no great statesman, as he has a very limited perspicacity in a world historical context. His only virtue is that he is not his Democratic rivals. The bar of American politics is set abysmally low in any case.
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Paul , says: August 20, 2019 at 3:49 pm GMT
Why do the Zionists need Palestine? They already have Brooklyn.
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Bill Jones , says: August 20, 2019 at 12:11 pm GMT
Ah, Phillip, You know damn well that starting wars is one thing that guarantees no impeachment ;-). Israel is the other.
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Aug 20, 2019 | www.unz.com
War for Blair Mountain , says: August 20, 2019 at 12:59 pm GMT
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!!!!or
1)Draft the Chickenhawk-Warhawk Coward Sean Hannity into the US Army Combat Engineer .Sean gets to do IED locating and defusing duty
2) Draft every White Male sitting in every SEC Football Stadium this fall screaming:"WHAT A STUD TYRONE!!!" No Draft deferments ..US Army .Combat Engineer duty locating and defusing road IEDs in Afghanistan .
3) Draft the homosexual PEDERAST writers for The Nation Review Into the US Army Combat Engineer duty searching for locating defusing .road IEDs in Afghanistan
Sean Hannity .YOU YELLOW-BELLIED GD COWARD!!!!
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Aug 11, 2019 | twitter.com
John McAfee 8:02 AM - 10 Aug 2019
I was stunned by Epstein's suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself.
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Aug 19, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
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Aug 19, 2019 | original.antiwar.com
In both Yemen and Syria, the War Party has found an ally that they can get behind, you know, one that really supports our values: al-Qaeda. From time to time they have even managed to get President Trump to go along with this nonsense – presumably due to the baleful influence of John Bolton.
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Aug 18, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Hell, Trump has made even doofus Uncle Joe Biden look like a viable alternative. Sad!
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Aug 18, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Comparing Epstein with Jacob Rubenstein's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald is sheer antisemitism.Tim JenkinsLeaked FBI interview of one of the guards.
FBI: Where were you when you discovered Epstein was dead?
Guard #1: I was in his cell.
FBI: Before that. Before you knew he was dead.
Guard #1: I was in his cell strangling him.
FBI: I see. How about you, where were you?
Guard #2: I was making sure the camera was off.
FBI: Are you sure it was off?
Guard #2: Oh yeah, it was unplugged.
FBI: OK, well, I think we need to work on this story a bit more, but otherwise, good job fellas.
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ewmayer , July 31, 2018 at 6:05 pm
"Somebody called it Trump derangement syndrome."
I believe that the full and proper name of the psychiatric disorder in question is Putin-Trump Derangement Syndrome [PTDS].
Symptoms include:
- Eager and uncritical ingestion and social-media regurgitation of even the most patently absurd MSM propaganda. For example, the meme that releasing factual information about actual election-meddling (as Wikileaks did about the Dem-establishment's rigging of its own nomination process in 2016) is a grave threat to American Democracy™;
- Recent-onset veneration of the intelligence agencies, whose stock in trade is spying on and lying to the American people, spreading disinformation, election rigging, torture and assassination and its agents, such as liar and perjurer Clapper and torturer Brennan;
- Rehabilitation of horrid unindicted GOP war criminals like G.W. Bush as alleged examples of "norms-respecting Republican patriots";
- Smearing of anyone who dares question the MSM-stoked hysteria as an America-hating Russian stooge.
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Aug 17, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
FBI Director Christopher Wray reminds me of one of the workers in the bowels of the Titanic who was furiously shoveling coal into the doomed boilers of the sinking ship.
The FBI, like the Titanic, is in trouble.
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Aug 17, 2019 | nationalinterest.org
RAP999 • 2 years ago ,
Look at the bright side. If the Russkies nuke Washington and NYC think how much better off the rest of the country will be.
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Aug 17, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
RC (Ron) Weakley said in reply to RC (Ron) Weakley... , August 05, 2019 at 12:56 PM
The Cherokees wish they had stopped immigration five centuries ago.
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Aug 17, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Marko , August 14, 2019 at 20:10
Too bad Epstein wasn't on Lolita Island when he committed suicide. At least then there would be a video of the event.
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Aug 16, 2019 | www.unz.com
Colin Wright , says: Website August 16, 2019 at 12:58 am GMT
@Assad al-islam' I believe that he[Epstein]is alive and this very minute he is being water boarded by our very own CIA Director Gina Haspel.'
This is a pleasant vision -- but improbable.
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AnonFromTN , says: August 14, 2019 at 2:49 pm GMT
As far as Jeffrey Epstein is concerned, I'd say RIH (rot in hell) is more appropriate than RIP.
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Art , says: August 13, 2019 at 6:17 pm GMT
@Twodees Partain"(Maybe James Bond, did the deed, to save Prince Andrew?)"
Yep. Good one. M assigned it a priority order, for sure.
Ya – they got 007 out of retirement to save the honor of the Queen. Her issue, Randi Andy never matured.
p.s. Who is his new Bond Girl (Teresa May is available)?
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Aug 16, 2019 | www.unz.com
When somebody smashes you in the face and breaks his hand
And sues you for his medical expenses.
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Aug 16, 2019 | off-guardian.org
The story goes like this: sometime during the height of the Cold War a group of American journalists were hosting a visit to the U.S. of some of their Soviet counterparts.
After allowing their visitors some time to soak up the media zeitgeist stateside, most of the Americans expected their guests to express unbridled envy at the professional liberties they enjoyed in the Land of the Free Press.
One of the Russian scribes was indeed compelled to express his unabashed 'admiration' to his hosts in particular, for the "far superior quality" of American "propaganda". Now it's fair to say his hosts were taken aback by what was at best a backhanded compliment.
After some collegial 'piss-taking' about the stereotypes associated with Western "press freedom" versus those of the controlled media in the Soviet system, one of the Americans called on their Russian colleague to explain what he meant. In fractured English, he replied with the following:
It's very simple. In Soviet Union, we don't believe our propaganda. In America, you actually believe yours!"
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Joe Wallace , August 14, 2019 at 01:46
"Allegations unsupported by facts, gross or misleading factual errors and ad hominem attacks, and abusive language toward other commenters or our writers will be removed."
Good to know the president can't sully the site with his comments.
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Deschain , , August 15, 2019 at 5:06 pm
> Maxwell was reading a book called "The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives"
You can't make this up. It's like they are doing everything possible to give conspiracy theorists maximum ammo. All we need now is to find out that Maxwell's Twitter handle is '#M0554d4g3nt4L1f3'
Librarian Guy , August 15, 2019 at 7:38 pm
That is hilarious, thank you for the link– & at first I misread that title as “The Book of Horror”- perhaps more fitting to the actual topic.
Summer , August 15, 2019 at 5:33 pm
“Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time girlfriend and alleged co-conspirator, was spotted Monday at an In-N-Out Burger in Universal City, California, of all places.”
I pass this place nearly every day…
Need me to grab her?
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Off The Street , August 15, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Once people spoke of TINA. Biden's campaign now gives rise to VANITY.
Viabile
Alternatives
Not
Indicated
This
Yearedmondo , August 15, 2019 at 5:32 pm
There is a kind of clarity to a Trump-Biden general election.
One is a racist Republican corporate tool who is way too old to be president. And so is the other one.
https://eus.rubiconproject.com/usync.html
https://acdn.adnxs.com/ib/static/usersync/v3/async_usersync.html
https://c.deployads.com/sync?f=html&s=2343&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2019%2F08%2F200pm-water-cooler-8-15-2019.html <img src="http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=16807273&cv=2.0&cj=1" />
Librarian Guy , August 15, 2019 at 7:10 pm
It doesn't acronym-ize so nicely, but the truth is "Viable Alternatives Not Allowed This Year" (or any, for that matter). It's still Wasserman-Schulz's and Tom Perez's & Pelosi's party– nobody even vaguely left is allowed in. ("The Squad" is an honorable exception which they will work to crush)
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Aug 14, 2019 | www.unz.com
Hail , says: Website August 11, 2019 at 12:36 am GMT
@Clifford BrownBanana Republic is owned by the GAP.
Conceded.
And the classic, LatAm 'banana republics' were owned by the CIA.
Or at least the latter had 'veto power' over the former.
It feels like we are the new banana republic, in that we don't seem to have control over our own affairs, and an outside force intervenes to keep us on the intended path. Always.
Trump also bears all the hallmarks of the classic banana-republic demagogue, frankly, and we all knew it going in. It turns out he was kind of an elaborate political con artist (perhaps moreso than the usual 'demagogue,' but still). There are lots of parallels, and this without even mentioning "banana republic demographics "
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Clifford Brown , says: August 11, 2019 at 12:28 am GMT
@HailTwo words come to mind:
Banana Republic.
No, no, Epstein's financier, Les Wexner, is the owner of Victoria Secret, PINK and Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Banana Republic is owned by the GAP.
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Jack D , says: August 11, 2019 at 3:38 pm GMT
It seems like this incident is the perfect storm to bring out the conspiracy theorist side of (almost) everyone on unz.Many people here are already suspicious of Jews, Democrats, the Establishment, Israel, etc. and Epstein touched all the right bases.
There was a Mossad submarine waiting in NY harbor to spirit Epstein away to a kibbutz safehouse...
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Clive , August 14, 2019 at 9:25 am
Then you get a tame judge assigned (and that's nothing new, even Johnny Carson used to joke "do you know how bad the economy is these days?" [sidekick] "no, Johnny, just how bad is the economy?" "it's so bad, organised crime has had to lay off 5 judges this week ") to let Epstein off with a slap on the wrist, a year at the Four Seasons low security penitentiary and early release through time served.
Much simpler than any of the other notions and achieves exactly the same result (Epstein is subject to "the full force of the law" but stays happily alive to tell the tale and keep his finger off the Dead Mans Switch).
If you were in charge of all this, which solution would you try first? If you've ever worked in a big, but incompetent, organisation (and if they're big, they're almost certainly going to be incompetence personified), you wouldn't even need to ask yourself that question.
polecat , August 14, 2019 at 3:11 pm
This is doomed to dissolve. To a greater and significant degree, the public is finding true justice wanting, and thus holds no trust in Government, at All levels.
But hey that's just conspiracy theory talk .. right ?
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Aug 14, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
FZ , Aug 14 2019 1:02 utc | 100
@ B, you overlooked this one. . .Grandpa Putin Loses Another Bet
TrueStory Gazette, Aug. 2019Several anonymous, unverified, and possibly non-existent sources announced today that they know, might know, or could possibly have heard from unknown others, who they suspect might know or could have reasonably speculated that Vladimir Putin lost a bet he made with his 2-year old grandson, Vladimir, Jr.
We caught up with the young Putin as he emerged from his daycare school in central Moscow. "Yes, he said, it is true. Grandpa lost the bet we made last week. We wagered about how long Western media could cling to even a microcosm of credibility. Grandpa said it would last until the end of this year, but I bet him that it would be gone much sooner than that."
Two-year old Putin, who is an avid reader of Moon of Alabama, said that when he woke up this morning he read the latest article. He said, "I just rubbed Grandpa's face into that article. He shrieked. He was so embarrassed. He had to admit that western media's credibility is already totally kaput, not even a shred of credibility left, zero."
"Now Grandpa is the laughing stock of my daycare center. One of my classmates, who is four, said 'how could your Grandpa be so dumb. Even a two-year old could see that western media's credibility is in the dumpster. Your Grandpa is such a loser!'"
The young Putin, who stands only up to our reporter's waist, said that he is studying English but still struggles with difficult words like "history." But he is not shy. When asked what was the prevailing political view at his childcare center, he looked our reporter in the eye, raised both fists, and loudly proclaimed, "All of us kids agree that U.S. Empire is a hysterectomy!"
We asked Vladimir, Jr. about the stakes of his bet, what did he win? He said, "Grandpa said I could have a place called Camp Pendleton in California to make a playground for kids but I will have to wait a little while until he acquires it. I'm going to make it a playground for Russian and American kids and we also will invite all of the kids from Central America and Mexico."
Asked if he knew that Camp Pendleton was a U.S. military base, he replied, "I don't know what it is now, but it's going to be a great playground for kids." And he added, "Look Pal, my Grandpa loses lots of times. He loses his keys and his wallet and every bet he ever made with me. But one thing about Grandpa, he ALWAYS KEEPS HIS PROMISES!"
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Aug 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Pliskin , 23 minutes ago link
You don't have to be a homosexual or paedophile to be involved in politics in America .... but it helps!
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Aug 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Biff says: August 13, 2019 at 4:24 am GMT
The solution to the problem remains simple. Tighten up the Congressional travel rules
One-way tickets only.
frankie p , says: August 13, 2019 at 7:00 am GMT
@Anon2020 God works in strange ways...Ludwig Watzal , says: Website August 13, 2019 at 2:35 pm GMTIt's well known that the US Congress is Israeli Occupied Territory...Justvisiting , says: August 13, 2019 at 3:10 pm GMT@Mr. AnonUS Representatives shouldn't be accepting money from any private source for any kind of travel. They shouldn't be accepting gifts of any kind.
In other news, alcoholics should not be drinking. :-)
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Aug 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Hail , says: Website August 10, 2019 at 11:45 pm GMT
Former Trump speechwriter and pro-American commentator Darren Beattie on the proper reaction to the Epstein death :Darren J. Beattie
@DarrenJBeattieIf our country wasn't a joke, there would be a Mueller level probe into Epstein's "suicide" that included extensive investigations into whether he was involved with a foreign intelligence agency -- and which one.
Chances of this happening?
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Aug 13, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Putin's Russia weaponizes everything , including humor, health information, giant squids, robotic cockroaches, tedium and postmodernism.At the same time these outlets tell us that Putin is losing many things, or already lost them.
Which bears asking: Is there a causality between weaponizing and losing stuff?
- Has Putin Lost His Sex Appeal?
NY Times , Mar 2012- Putin is losing the Sochi Olympic game
Washington Post , Feb 2014- Putin's Press Conference Proved Merkel Right: He's Lost His Mind
New Republic , Mar 2014- Vladimir Putin is losing the battle for Ukraine
Spectator , Mar 2014- Putin Is Losing In Ukraine And That's Our Biggest Problem Right Now
Forbes , Mar 2014- How Putin is losing in Crimea: A reality check
Yahoo News , Apr 2014- Putin is Losing Eastern European Energy Gamble
Oil Price , Apr 2014- Putin losing his geostrategic footing
Gulfnews , Nov 2014
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Eighthman , Aug 13 2019 19:18 utc | 67
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/05/russia-is-finished/302220/Here's a great article on how Russia is finished. Notice that it's over 18 years ago.......
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im1dc , August 13, 2019 at 09:50 AM
1 in 5ilsm -> im1dc... , August 13, 2019 at 02:24 PMOnce again the Software Gurus over sold their software...as they ALWAYS DO, eg., EHR
"Facial-Recognition Software Mistook One in Five California Lawmakers for Convicts"
by Barbie Latza Nadeau, Correspondent-At-Large...08.13.19...9:08AM ET
"One in five California lawmakers were mistaken for convicted criminals in an experiment testing the reliability of facial-recognition software in identifying potentially dangerous suspects."...
prescient!
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Aug 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
9/11 Inside job , says: August 11, 2019 at 11:33 pm GMT
Per ArcAngel "If the authorities and the Ministry of Truth say that Epstein is dead I go to my Orwellian dictionary and it states that he is alive . "
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Ahoy , says: August 11, 2019 at 4:53 pm GMT
I don't know Duch, but in Miro23 #200 comment I thought I heard the banker Ronald Bernard (video) saying that after the Epstein episode, in the new batch of dollars printed the All Seen Eye was shown in a new mode. In Murder We Trust and sometimes Suicide.
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Ignacio , August 11, 2019 at 6:17 am
We are navigating through uncharted territory and pretending there are no risks. The captain is drunk, the pilot sleeping, the crew on strike and the passengers dancing. Everything is under control.
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JW , Aug 12 2019 2:48 utc | 48
Ah yes, that self-admitted CIA linked, totally-not deep state propaganda puppet outlet lecturing the rest of us about the virtues of fact-checking and journalistic integrity...
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Featherless , Aug 12 2019 4:18 utc | 63
It is HIGHLY LIKELY the Kremlin used Facebook to manipulate the prison guards and interfere with their work.Featherless , Aug 12 2019 4:12 utc | 61
The 2 cameras in Epstein's cell malfunctioned. Obviously yet another example of Russian Malign Activities (Electronic Warfare + Hacking). DAMN YOU, VLADIMIR PUTIN !!!1
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Aug 12, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is Russiagate. What has caused the electorate to turn on the political elite, to defeat Hillary
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Aug 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ron Unz , says: August 11, 2019 at 12:44 am GMT
I've recently been doing quite a lot of reading about the Syndicate gangsters of the 1930s-1940s, and another interesting historical parallel comes to mindIn 1941, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, a senior figure in Brooklyn's Murder Inc. agreed to testify against America's top Syndicate bosses, providing detailed evidence about the 1,000 or so nationwide killings that his organization had performed on their behalf.
Obviously, the federal prosecutors were concerned about his safety in any ordinary jail, and stashed him in a suite of top-floor hotel rooms, where he was guarded 24-hours per day by rotating groups of six specially-selected police officers, who would keep him under constant surveillance. The doors were steel-plated and the rooms selected to preclude any long-range sniper.
Oops! Poor "Kid Twist" somehow decided to jump out the 5th story window and kill himself when all six of the on-duty guards happened to simultaneously doze off.
The Captain in command of the unit argued that it was accident rather than suicide, and the poor fellow had deliberately climbed out the window, intending to rappel down to the floor below, then walk back up the stairs and knock on the front door, thereby surprising his erstwhile guards with a amusing practical joke.
Syndicate killers planning to implicate their bosses should definitely avoid playing such "practical jokes"
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Curmudgeon , says: August 10, 2019 at 9:58 pm GMT
The likelihood of Epstein committing suicide reminds me of two other "suicide" stories.... ... ...
Finally, there is a greatly modified joke from my long ago misspent youth. A black man's body is found wrapped in chains at the bottom of the Detroit River. The police were saying it was an accidental death caused by him stealing more chains than he could swim with.
Looks like Jeffrey had too many chains.
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The Alarmist , says: August 10, 2019 at 8:58 pm GMT
Maybe Putin should urge the Russian Paralament to pass an Epstein Act and start sanctioning the hell out of US leaders.
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iffen , says: August 10, 2019 at 8:38 pm GMT
@Anonymous Epstein is likely still alive.There is no confirmation that body was his.
It is my understanding that he is with Elvis now and there is a whole lot of shaking going on!
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Ron Unz , says: August 10, 2019 at 11:47 pm GMT
This reminds me a little of a almost forgotten incident from the 1960sSome government inspector in Texas had agreed to testify about the details of a gigantic corruption ring that was closely connected with LBJ. I can't remember the exact details, but not long afterward, he was found dead, shot seven times.
The local Texas court ruled it an apparent suicide and that's exactly how it was reported in the Washington Post and the other national newspapers ;
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ancientarcher , 11 August 2019 at 03:24 AM
Guys, look at the bright side. At least the Clinton's are safe now!! That was a close call!! Whew!
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Aug 11, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Dr. John Carpenter on Sat, 08/10/2019 - 10:57am
Oh, I get it now!When they placed him on suicide watch they meant they were going to watch him "suicide". Yeah...that's the ticket!
DEDA CVETKO , 33 minutes ago link
PRC90 said in reply to Eric Newhill... , 10 August 2019 at 01:06 PMI wish to personally thank the FBI and the Attorney General for finally, at long last, turning 100% of the American population into "conspiracy theorists" (sic) and making the conspiracy-deniers look like a bunch of inbred imbeciles that they really, truly are.
You mean doing that as a matter of principle regardless of the elapsed time since his 'heyday' ? That level of efficiency in making people vanish may apply to bone-saw wielding employees of MBS, however US standards seemed to have slipped in many ways.Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 10 2019 15:05 utc | 32Of all this kabuki we are witnessing, I keep askingWho has the movie rights to what we are living?
Cui bono?
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ExPat2018 , 7 hours ago link
NO Huawei for USA agencies. Still busy upgrading from Windows 98
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et Al August 2, 2019 at 6:05 am
National Interest via Antiwar.com: The U.S. Air Force's Secret X-37B Space Plane: A War Machine?Mark Chapman August 2, 2019 at 6:34 pm
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-forces-secret-x-37b-space-plane-war-machine-69861The U.S. Air Force's Secret X-37B Space Plane: A War Machine?..
The fifth and latest X-37B mission could send the mini-shuttle over large portions of Russian territory for the first time
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I don't like Axe and these NI clickbaity/excitable articles, but several things spring to mind. considering it flies lower than any satellited and takes advantage of aerodynamic drag to manoeuver (much more efficiently) quickly than any satellite and is testing thermal systems, is this also could be used in future as an Orbital Bomber, i.e. loaded up with nukes and dropped on new targets as needed and at short notice? It doesn't need to make economic sense if it adds capabilities and there is profit to be made by LM/Boeing/Whomever.
My other thought, is the USA dumb enough to fly this low over Russia which would be asking for it to be shot down? I doubt it, but stupid seems to be the rule rather than the except in the US. We've already seen over the Gulf of Hormuz that there is a de facto and recognized disctinction between shooting down an unmanned drone (Globalhawk) and a manned spy plane (P-8a), particularly near, by or over someone else's borders. The X-37 is certainly no satellite and even for most of the Cold War the US did not fly a spy plane over the Soviet Union (apart from when they had the Brits do it for them instead – sic Gary Powers).
Still, it's interesting that it's popped up now despite being in the news over the last few years, yet another news item treated as a curiousity rather noted by Defense correspondents as yet another potential US treaty violation Optics, innit?
I'd like to see Russia put up a giant flying garage, maneuver the X-37B into it, close the door and take it. Keep it for about a week, and then send it back with a bear painted on the side, wrapped in a giant diaper, with a poster in the window that reads "Crazy Igor's Clearance Sale; Novichok Half Off! Everything Must Go!". And when the Americans opened the door to retrieve the payload, a concealed audio player would play "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" in farts. Trolled enough?
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yalensis August 2, 2019 at 12:38 pm
Snowden: "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
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Digital Samizdat , says: August 6, 2019 at 7:05 pm GMT
I respect the fact that Marianne Williamson is a sorta-kinda truther. But let me be honest with you, Kevin: it would take a hell of a lot trutherism to make up for her zionismeah , says: August 6, 2019 at 8:31 pm GMTMarianne Williamson Is Right: We Need a Spiritual AwakeningThat kind of shit didn't work for Jimmy Carter and it won't work for her -- campaigning for President isn't the same as appearing on Oprah.
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anon [632] Disclaimer , says: August 6, 2019 at 2:12 pm GMT
@c matt 9-11 was a wonderful boon to the demolition industry. The demolition experts no longer use explosives, as WTC 7 proved that a building can be demolished in its own footprint much more cheaply with simple office garbage can fires and maybe a little bit of petroleum fuel to accelerate the process of melting steel beams as perfectly even as a Weber grill charbroils steaks. Demolition explosives have gone the way of buggy whips, totally obsolete.
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Fred C. Dobbs said in reply to Fred C. Dobbs... , August 05, 2019 at 01:48 PM
As we are given to understand, trade wars are easy to win.Especially via bankruptcy of the entire world, maybe?
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anne , August 05, 2019 at 08:31 AM
https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2019/08/krugman-on-trump-and-trade-not-tariffic.htmlAugust 4, 2019
Krugman on Trump and Trade: Not Tariffic
-- Peter Dorman
[ This is a criticism of Paul Krugman on trade. I read the criticism carefully, but find no model and no actual refuting of the model of Krugman. Another reader may far better. ]
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Aug 06, 2019 | news.yahoo.com
Observer, 26 days agoA person who led Ukraine to prosperity, fighter with corruption, liberator from Russia, and he is being questioned? How come? :-) I hope you get the sarcasm.
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Kolya Krassotkin , says: August 6, 2019 at 3:09 am GMT
A spiritual awakening has a lot of appeal, but always best to start out small: How about ending dual citizenship first?
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ThePhantom , 16 minutes ago link
Dont_Stop_Believin , 30 minutes ago linki wonder how the mass shooters could be so callous towards human life....
sarcasm
runswithscissors , 23 minutes ago linkMaybe Obummer should have went to Disneyland after his big Nobel peace prize win instead?
ISIS is the CIA so the civilians murdered by CIASIS should actually be credited to the US military.
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donkeytale , Aug 4 2019 16:32 utc | 17
NoiretteI wish I had a dollar for every time someone on a comment board predicted the US bombing of Iran, WWIII, nuclear annihilation, etc.
This tendency should become (and maybe has for all I know) the focus for a sociological study in late stage decadence of the western empire. I hesitate to indict so many commenters as nihilists, but only because my schtick has matured from prior times...maybe this is the same as scaring ourselves at horror movies when we were kids, a sort of second childhood developing in old age.
Especially as the overhelming majority of commenters seemingly live uber-comfortable (relatively speaking) lives of retirement leisure (thanks to decadent social democrat state policies about which there are seldom any comments) which allows ample time, personal security and lack of material need to spend goofing around on the internet to our heart's content. And, please, before anyone comes in to tell me how rough THEY have/had it in life....ok fine. I'll cue the sad violins in my head everytime you post from now on.
Often, I wonder why the supposed malcontents of the Western World who spend so much time blogging in fury are never to be found commenting from the front lines of anything, anywhere?
ADKC , Aug 4 2019 20:21 utc | 38
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Wow, donkeytale @17Such snootiness! It's almost as if the West has never bombed Iraq or ever dropped a nuclear bomb or ever planed to annihilate 20 Russian cities with weapons of mass destruction? I would have thought this tendency of commentators (and b. which you don't mention) might be due to a concern about the general trend of western policy and the positioning of western forces, the racial stereotyping directed towards Russians, Chinese and Iranians.
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ted richard , 03 August 2019 at 01:22 PM
Hongkong is no longer of great importance for bejing as a financial and trading locus. up and down the south china sea coast are many cities of far greater importance than Hongkong.perhaps when the PLA finish in hongkong they can come over here and deal with antifa since our government at any level does not appear to have the sense or spine to do it themselves
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(Edited version of the speech given by the TJ Wormwood, Chief Demonic Officer – Finance, Lord of 3rd Ring of the 7th Circle, to invited audience at Davos.)
Dear Colleagues,
As you all know, I've been wrecking finance for millennia. [Pause for effect]
Nearly every major big idea, evolutionary leap forward, invention and discovery has improved the miserable lot of mankind only through their ability to monetise it. Forget the theft of fire – being able to monetise fire by attracting pretty and willing mates around a warm campfire, or cooking the food others have hunted, is what mattered. Strip out the noise, and the rise of mankind is largely due to improvements in the efficiency and ease of means of exchange.
From the realisation hunters could barter their furs for other goods, to the rise of complex products to finance global growth – the innovation of financial markets has been a major driver of success for the Other Side in raising the wellbeing and prosperity of mankind. Pretty much anything that holds back or disrupts trade, increases costs and holds back services is naturally positive for our goal of global destabilisation.
So, here is the big plan:
Since 2007 we've been turning the Other Side's successful innovation of financial markets against them. Global Financial Markets are incredibly rich in opportunities to distort truth, hide lies, and undermine mankind – generating immediate greed, envy, suspicion and anger. We've uncovered previously unimaginable ways in which to financially screw the World with consequences that impact everyone.
We've overlaid the programme with our mastery and understanding of temptation, human greed, avarice and pride, while adding subtlety and cunning. We merely suggest and advise. We are facilitating the train-wreck of the global economy by destroying asset values while confounding their understanding of money and wealth – the pillars of their society.
At its simplest form we are manipulating and driving constant market instability to keep mankind distracted. Uncertainty clouds their future expectations – so we keep it raining. A Mortgage crisis one year, followed by a Sovereign Debt crisis the next, spiced with a couple of bank failures, and threats of global trade war. Overlay with confusion and distraction such as social media, fake news, Bitcoin and populism, and it all works rather well.
Keep their leaders arguing. Keep the blame game going.
Our success can be seen in current financial asset prices. These are now hopelessly inflated and distorted by foolish post financial crisis policy decisions. They are bubbles set to pop. Empower the regulators and bureaucrats to compromise finance through zealous over-regulation, making banking safer by destroying it. Usher in a new era of trade protectionism, the end of Free Trade and increase the suspicion some countries are manipulating their currencies for economic advantage. Sprinkle some dust of political catastrophe, the collapse of law, undo the fair, just and caring society, while adding some eye of newt and complex environmental threats. Make the rich so rich they don't notice, and the poor so poor they become invisible. If the markets remain uncertain, then it distracts mankind from addressing these issues, making society less stable!
There as some things we're really proud of, including the Euro, Social Media, Investment Banks, the Tech Boom, and especially Quantitative Easing (which is still delivering confusion and pain). New Monetary Theory could prove even better – it shows tremendous potential to thoroughly unsettle confidence in money. Cybercurrencies are particularly fun – despite coming up with the idea, neither we, nor even the distinguished members of our panel of eternal guests, understand the why of them. They are libertarian nonsense – so, naturally we continue to encourage them as get-rich-quick schemes, but they also further undermine confidence in money and government. We made something up in a bar one night and called it a Distributed Ledger - the humans ran with it and invented Blockchain, whatever that might be..
Some of the other stuff we've encouraged, such as The EU, ETFs, Hi-Frequency Trading, Neil Woodford and Deutsche Bank look likely to be highly effective vectors of short-term economic destruction and destabilisation, triggering systemic market events and regulatory backlashes across markets. We are only now exploring the full potential of market illiquidity to rob billions of pensioners of their savings.
We've persuaded investors to overturn proven tried and tested investment strategies and wisdoms, nurturing a whole range of overpriced unprofitable US Tech "Unicorn" companies which we are confident will prove utterly over-hyped and largely worthless. The success of social media, data mining and new tech has increased levels of dissatisfaction and envy – especially in our target younger demography.
The way we successfully pinned the blame on banks for the Global Financial Crisis – despite the fact it was people who wanted mortgages to buy houses and fast cars - ensured global regulators would over-react. We've allowed regulators to focus on banks while we target the next financial crisis in other parts of the financial ecosystem.
Regulators forced the banks to de-risk. But risk does not disappear - it just goes somewhere else. While banks understood risk and had massive staffs to manage risk, risk is now concentrated in the hands of "investment managers" who are singularly ill-equipped to withstand the next credit crunch and global recession, (which we've planned for next October – Save the Date cards have been sent).
We are particularly pleased that many banks now exceed the 2.3 compliance officers for every profitable banker ratio. Compliance and regulatory costs now exceed 10% of income at some European banks – a stunning success and substantially decreasing the efficiency of banking and exchanges.
We've some great new financial ideas we are still experimenting with, some of which show great promise for further weakening society. Facebook Money is going to be a cracker, and I particularly like the Spaceship to Mars project if only they knew what awaits them
By hiding inflation in the stock market, we assisted the accumulation of massive wealth by a tiny percentage of the population to ferment income inequality dissatisfaction. When capital is concentrated and the workers under the cosh, it creates all the right conditions for weak disjointed government to aid and abet the rise of destabilising populism.
It's highly satisfying to watch the instability we've created in financial markets drive fear and distrust across society. The debt crisis we engineered led to global financial austerity, job insecurity, and rising inequality. We were surprised how easily we pushed the Gig economy concept to further exploit and cow workers through regulators and authorities – they barely noticed. Over this we've layered whole new levels of anxiety such as the unknowns of data theft, the rise in envy coefficients through social media, fake news while fuelling social distrust through resentment.
We've managed to persuade Governments to follow damaging and contradictory policies. As society reeled in the wake of the financial crisis, we persuaded policy makers to cut back spending through "austerity" spending programmes, simultaneously bailing out bankers while flooding the financial economy with free money through Quantitative Easing.
Effectively we've split the world into two economies. A real economy which is sad, miserable and deflating, and a financial economy that's insanely optimistic, massively inflated and ripe to pop on the back of free money.
The resentment, instability, fear and general sense of decay has paid dividends in our drive to break society by undermining the credibility of the political classes. Our approach to politics has been simple – deskill the political classes, reduce their effectiveness as leaders, while engineering economic, social and financial instability to drive rampaging populist politics – just like in 1932! Populism may ultimately prove short-lived, but it's difficult to see how the political classes will recover their power in time to reverse the damages being done to the global environment.
While markets have burned, society become increasingly riven, and politics has failed, we've distracted the humans from the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which threatens to create global warming and rising sea levels, while plastics poison the oceans and soil erosion threatens agriculture.
Now I love the ravenous hunger and sharp pointy teeth of polar bears as much as the next demon, but needs must... needs must. I was also rather fond of the dinosaurs...
Our approach to ensuring destructive climate change has proved very effective. We've supported, financed and advised the loudest green lobbies to ensure their message looks ill-considered, wrong and economic suicide. We also paid big bucks to fund the loudest climate change deniers. Our innovation of fake news to discredit and mitigate anything positive means climate change remains a crank topic – even as our polar bears drown.
Meanwhile, through our dominance of global boardrooms and investment firms, we've made sure that large corporates have bought-out and stifled new technologies that could solve the environmental crisis.
Our future looks great – because their future is bleak!
Thank you for your kind attention.
TJ Wormwood,
Demonic Chief Office – Finance
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Patrick Armstrong -> Andrei Martyanov (aka SmoothieX12) ... , 03 August 2019 at 01:10 PM
Somebody in the twitterverse asked the twits this question: "Name a job that you can completely suck at and still keep your job?" Instantly answered by Max Blumenthal "Beltway think tank senior fellow"
Patrick Armstrong
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Tomonthebeach , August 3, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Trump clearly hates being regulated, as do most bus billionaire cronies. They want to drill for oil on the White House lawn if there is potential. They would mine sulfur from Old Faithful if it was profitable.
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Piotr Berman , Aug 3 2019 14:22 utc | 92
I know you're addressing political-economy, but did you see this report about the continuing deterioration of USAF readiness, now below 70%? The accompanying chart shows USAF B-1 & B-2 strategic bombers at 51.75% & 60.7%, ...Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 2 2019 18:59 utc
Ouch, and so far I dwelled in USA with the blissful conviction that of all things, I do not need to be afraid of a foreign invasion. Now my nightmare-free sleep is gone.
Perhaps our Pentagon should get more inspiration from a movie "Il deserto dei Tartari". "Young lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars." Thus the lieutenant, and later captain etc. starts his long life of unceasing dedication. Weapons are checked and tested, patrols are regular, from time to time a "false positive" raises a few companies to enter more deeply into the desert and check more thoroughly, troops occasionally succumb to exercise mishaps, exhaustion on patrols etc. but the spirit of readiness never abates. The closing scene shows Drogo, now the fortress commander, on his death bed, and seeing, for the first and last time, Tartar galloping from the horizon, presumably a hallucination.
Now imagine the fate of the Empire if we replaced this dedicated unit with a bunch of slackers.
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Arioch , Aug 2 2019 19:54 utc | 12
An NBC News analysis of the main English-language news sites employed by Russia in its 2016 election meddling shows Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii...........Since Gabbard announced her intention to run on Jan. 11, there have been at least 20 Gabbard stories on three major Moscow-based English-language websites affiliated with or supportive of the Russian government....
So, 20 stories, on three media outlets. That is 6+2/3 per media.
Since January 11, that is 6+2/3 months.IOW that is one story per media per month.
Kremlin propaganda was never so brutal and amassed!
I got it americans do not study basic physics or chemistry in schools, but multiplication table they shoulg know. Who is TA for so pathetic propaganda???
dltravers , Aug 3 2019 4:33 utc | 58
jackrabbit @ 52To add to that, Gabbard and Putin have been having sex for years. The NYT has discovered a sexual relationship has gone on for years having been conducted off Hawaii on a Russian ship.
Seriously, send her a donation. I would love to see her demolish a few more candidates.
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Jackrabbit , Aug 3 2019 4:05 utc | 55
In 2016, Sanders was Hillary's sheepdog.In 2020, the Democratic Party sheepdogs for democracy itself.
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Aug 03, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
gjohnsit on Fri, 08/02/2019 - 5:53pm
Not only was she not supposed to attack Kamala Harris, but she most certainly wasn't supposed to have landed such an effective blow and lived to tell about it.
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DeDude , August 02, 2019 at 10:50 AM
Maybe someone should buy Rand Paul a ticket to Russia so he might come back and appreciate Democracy more.ilsm -> DeDude... , August 02, 2019 at 12:03 PMhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/politics/rand-paul-ilhan-omar-send-her-back-somalia-trnd/index.html
I suggest sending Omar and Harris (Gabbard is Assad apologist) to Idlib to hang out with the "peace loving" terrorists they and Obama support.
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anne -> Fred C. Dobbs... , July 28, 2019 at 06:16 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/11/bbc-rejects-complaints-newsnight-corbyn-russianMay 11, 2018
BBC rejects complaints that Newsnight made Corbyn look 'more Russian'
Decision to show photo of Labour leader in 'Lenin-style cap' in front of Moscow skyline was 'based on sound news judgment'
By Nadia Khomami - Guardian
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spyware-free , 13 minutes ago link
AKKadian , 12 minutes ago linkI could live with Gabbard replacing Bolton or Pompeo in a second Trump administration.
Someone Else , 9 minutes ago linkYou never Know, right!
A cancerous tumor would be preferable to Bolton or Pompeo, but then I repeat myself.
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Aug 01, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
The Democrats are considered "Moderate republicans" and have been for a number of years. So the moderate moderate democrats are effectively republicans. Just like the so-called centre-left here, are establishment right-wing.
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Aug 01, 2019 | profile.theguardian.com
"And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." -Matthew 19:24That either Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren might be considered left-wing is a mark of how skewed American politics is. Where the hell's the center!? And who decided, anyway?
When asked where the phrase "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" came from by a 2002 survey conducted by Columbia Law School, over 66% of Americans said the US Constitution.
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Jul 31, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
IndigoBleak , 31 Jul 2019 17:21
CNN retained control of what issues were addressed and when rather than the candidates, so the "clash" between the "moderate" and "progressive" wings of the party was largely orchestrated by the network. Given the number of candidates involved and the structure of what passes for debate during these spectacles they're largely a waste of time.luciddays , 31 Jul 2019 17:29The inevitable question in any US election is can the candidates really change anything? for all of the squealing about Trump he hasn't managed to do anything except give the rich a tax cut.The out of control military spending, the growing void between those born rich and those born poor, the further consolidation of Corporate power...all seems to go unchecked regardless of the rhetoric of any President
Mary B -> Quantum Ape , 31 Jul 2019 13:06
Watch an interview with Corruptus Maximus from the 1980s or early 90s. He was always a dick and a narcissist, but he was articulate and able to speak in full sentences and follow a conversation. He can't do any of that now. Little Donnie Dumbass is the poster boy for cognitive decline.
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Williamson (D)(1): "Marianne Williamson isn't funny. She's scary." [ Vox ]. "In her book A Return to Love, Williamson wrote that "sickness is an illusion and does not exist," and that "cancer and AIDS and other physical illnesses are physical manifestations of a psychic scream.'"
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Plp -> Plp... , July 31, 2019 at 01:48 PM
Even a compulsory choice between two poisons is preferred to being forced to take the designated poisonlikbez -> Plp... , August 01, 2019 at 09:40 AM
> Even a compulsory choice between two poisons is preferred to being forced to take the designated poisonWrong.
It's two batches of the same poison. One is artificially sweetened.
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steverino999 , 10 minutes ago link
"Epstein is a prolific liar and manipulator who lies about his net worth, financial prowess and personal achievements."
I guess Trump isn't so unique after all.
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anon in so cal , July 30, 2019 at 10:16 pm
Is Klobuchar the only one who mentioned Russia?
pretzelattack , July 30, 2019 at 10:20 pm
i'm guessing it will be mentioned more often tomorrow night. "the candidate that will stand up to putin" or something to that effect.
Lambert Strether Post author , July 30, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Too funny. I didn't even notice. What a debacle RussiaGate was and is. Not even CNN thinks it's important!
(Crossed fingers; the question could still come up.)
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Sadly, there will be no military fly-by.
skippy , July 31, 2019 at 1:14 am
Same initial reaction to the architecture, especially the gold deities lit up like their power was illuminating the room.
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nippersmom , July 30, 2019 at 10:39 pm
Every time Delaney talks about national service, "Hitler youth" pops into my head.
anon in so cal , July 30, 2019 at 10:47 pm
It's along the lines of Hillary's 2016 Hitlerly youth program for basement dwellers.
richard , July 30, 2019 at 11:46 pm
K. Kulinski tore it a new one yesterday.
John Delaney Releases Plan To Force You To Do Stuff
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Paul , July 30, 2019 at 10:28 pm
Marianne is the dark horse just like Trump was 4 years ago. Mark my words. She sounds different than the generic politician. That matters. I'm convinced that the voting public wants more than pablum from their elected officials.
Or this is just me and my biases. Who knows.
scarn , July 30, 2019 at 10:56 pm
My pre-Trump Republican but post-Trump independent boomer mother loves Williamson, and so do many of her friends. Marianne's apparent sincerity resonates with a lot of people.
MichaelSF , July 31, 2019 at 2:23 pm
Sincerity is the secret of success. Once you can fake that, you're on your way.
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Lambert Strether Post author , July 30, 2019 at 10:23 pm
Hickenlooper on nuclear weapons: " pullin' that trigger "
Warren's reactions on the split screen were just priceless.
(Could have been Bullock; they are both repellent in the same way.)
none , July 31, 2019 at 1:04 am
Trump's button is big, but mine will be bigger,
When I be pullin' that nukular trigger.Dita , July 30, 2019 at 10:27 pm
Is nuclear weapon proliferation the sovereign nation equivalent of open carry?
pretzelattack , July 30, 2019 at 10:28 pm
with israel in the mix, you'd have to add in concealed carry
Dita , July 30, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Make that "concealed" carry, winky winky
WheresOurTeddy , July 31, 2019 at 4:36 am
guys guys guys! HR 246 passed, you need to be considerate of the feelings of our allies in apartheid as your comments could be construed as "destabilizing" and/or attempting " to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world."
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3.14e-9 , July 30, 2019 at 11:01 pm
If tonight's theme was Let's Bash Crazy Bernie, imagine how it will be tomorrow night, when he's not there to call them on their BS. Hard not to think that was deliberate.
Lambert Strether Post author , July 30, 2019 at 11:06 pm
> Let's Bash Crazy Bernie
Didn't work, though.
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ChuckW , July 30, 2019 at 10:44 pm
Beto held town hall meetings to remind himself of who he represented. Otherwise he would have forgotten.
Jeremy Grimm , July 30, 2019 at 10:47 pm
Carry 3×5 cards or tie strings around the fingers?
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Cripes , July 30, 2019 at 9:20 pm
"I don't know why anyone goes to the trouble of running for president just to tell us what we can't do", best zinger of the night-Warren
XXYY , July 30, 2019 at 9:22 pm
"Insurance companies do not have a god-given right to suck billions of dollars out of our healthcare system." – Warren
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"It's not just America. The whole world has sort of turned muddy. By and large, the world is increasingly run by ignoramuses, wackos and psychotics. This was long before Donald Trump. But we've got more crazy people running the world now than ever."
Seymour Hersh
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Arioch , Jul 30 2019 7:30 utc | 73
Bloody Putin's assassins crack down on desperate people craving for peace and love!https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1268403813334569&set=a.239490036225957&type=3&theater
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He once got drunk on a bottle of vodka before he became a teetotaller. He often wears a red tie. He was once seen attending a film performance of "War And Peace." And (a dead giveaway) he has been seen talking to Putin and actually shaking his hand.
And if all that isn't conclusive evidence that he's a Kremlin spy, then I don't know what is.
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Glennn , July 26, 2019 at 12:16
Russia interfered on a massive scale and is doing it again as we sit here! Just how massive? They spent $100,000 on clickbait ads from a company owned by a man who was in a photo with the evil mastermind!
How evil? Well do the math. $43,000 to $46,000 of that was spent during the election and of those ads 8.4 percent were political. That's $3,684 dollars.
But the political ads were aimed in both directions so that's roughly $1,932 spent "promoting" Trump.
And now Mueller tells us the evil mastermind is at it again -- as we sit here -- probably spending even more this time. Let us know when he's spent a full thousand dollars Bob and we'll start loading the bombs.
Oh, and we found all this out for around thirty million dollars.
stephen kelley , July 25, 2019 at 22:34
think about it! with the myriad of problems we must contend with: growing social inequality, huge tax breaks for the rich, government deregulation of private business, a climate catastrophe, unending wars, nuclear annihilation spurred on especially by u.s. imperialism, the gutting of what little social safety net we have left and so on and so so on. and we are supposed to be outraged at supposed foreign interference with our supposed democratic process? please, this is total insanity!!!
John Wolfe , July 25, 2019 at 18:29
Of course, relatively speaking, it’s a nothing. Every knowledgeable person knows that we in the US orchestrated both the financing and the strategy of the 1996 Yeltsin campaign -- a political rescue so efficiently carried out that our operatives bragged brazenly about it to Time Magazine, which made it the cover story for its July 14, 1996 edition (“Yanks to the Rescue”).
The Lamestream Corporate media always underplayed the fact that Yeltsin ordered the execution of 1,100 demonstrators who protested the IMF backed “reforms”, and that Clinton approved of his deadly and heavy hand in implementing a neoliberal economic order. Clinton never threatened to suspend aid to the Russian Federation despite its numerous abuses of human rights.
Also forgotten is that Yeltsin ordered the Russian Parliament (Duma) shelled before it could vote on Yeltsin’s economic “reforms”, which were implemented at the point of a gun. At various times between 1993 and 1997, it was Yeltsin who declared martial law, suspended the Duma, and declared himself possessed of dictatorial powers.
How many Americans ever knew this? 20%? How many remember it today? Maybe 5%? That means there is no context for gauging Muellers’ testimony.
But, it is, by MSNBC standards, Vladimir Putin who is Evil Incarnate. Has Maddow ever mentioned Yeltsin, a tyrant of the first order? No, because at GE, Comcast, and NBC, tyranny in the name of enforcing neoliberalism is perfectly acceptable.
This post is a bit off topic, and is a bit relativistic, as I know we should be concerned if it is really true that Manafort was giving internal polling data to a Russian Federation person so that the IRA could better target swing states in our Midwest.
Bob Van Noy , July 26, 2019 at 08:26
John Wolfe, your comment is not off topic at all, it’s crucial to further understanding of the totality of the Russia did it mentality, and That is well documented in a small but powerful book called “Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance” by F. William Engdahl which I will link.
The American People have been propagandized so thoroughly that they can hardly recognize the truth any longer.
Too, I will link an article in Off Guardian this morning that is worth mentioning if one wants to see Real Reporting On MH-17.
https://www.amazon.com/Manifest-Destiny-Democracy-Cognitive-Dissonance/dp/3981723732
And:
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Jul 27, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Taras77 , July 25, 2019 at 12:07
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/democrats-mueller.jpg
I think I can manage to spell Schadenfreude; what an absolute train wreck. Unfortunately, trump's gloating will be ever present thru 2020 elections.
Jeez, dimos, get a plan, forget his stupid tweets.
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Jul 27, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Janet Abbey , July 25, 2019 at 20:19
Nor do I. All Hillary's emails are now in an art gallery show in Venice Italy. You can get a bound copy of all 6 0 ,0 0 0 of them. https://focusfree.blogspot.com/2019/05/hillarys-emailsall-of-them.html
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Jul 26, 2019 | smh.com.au
Warren became a household name thanks to her prescient warning of what became a global financial crisis."
No, she became a household name when she claimed to be part indigenous American.
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Jul 27, 2019 | www.unz.com
Pornography multiplies frequency, duration, angles, positions and sexual partners, an endless and eternal sexual buffet, except that none of it is really happening. Similarly, American democracy gives the appearance of boundless participation by all citizens, for they can't just vote in caucuses and elections, but cheer at conventions, march in protest, write letters to newspapers, comment on the internet and follow, blow by blow, the serial mud wrestling between opposing politicians. Pissed, they can freely curse Bush, Obama or Trump without fearing a midnight knock on the door. Alas, none of their "political activities" actually matters, for Americans don't influence their government's policies, much less decide them. It's all an elaborate spectacle to make each chump think he's somehow a player, in on the action, when he's actually all alone, in the dark, to beat his own meat, yet again.
He has railroaded, premasticated opinions on everything, but without the means to act on any of it. Only his impotence is real.
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Jul 26, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Kris Roberts , 23 hours agoMueller: What page are you referencing? I can't find it"
Rep: "Sir, you have the report upsidedown"
Diana Seip , 1 day ago"A daft old man blinking in the sunlight once the curtain has been opened"
Nadler should be charged with elderly abuse making Mueller testify today.
Louis Frost, 1 day ago
What's Fusion GPS???
Houston we have a problem,
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Jul 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Yog Soggoth , 3 hours ago link
ItsAllBollocks , 4 hours ago link"Following a series of investigative reports by the Miami Herald earlier this year, Deutsche Bank followed suit, severing ties with the wealthy financier. Doing so proved difficult for the bank, as its antiquated systems. " On a number of occasions, Deutsche Bank executives had thought they had shut down all of Mr. Epstein's accounts , only to learn that there were others that they had not previously been aware of," according to the Times . By late spring, there were still transactions occurring in Epstein's Deutsche Bank accounts, however company officials now believe they have closed them all down."
They had no investigative people working for them, and somehow did not read newspapers from Miami at the time. They also have, and always have had, antiquated systems even though they are a large bank. Who does this make sense to?
Post deleted due to cognitive disodence.
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Jul 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
Who imagined that in the climactic scene of the blockbuster RussiaGate fantasy, when the curtain was ripped away, the Wizard at the controls would turn out to be Captain Queeg! We need not rehash all the depressing particulars of Robert Mueller's six-hour public humiliation in two House committee hearings in order to reach a set of conclusions about the conduct of his rogue investigation and the perfidious report issued in his name.
One is that Robert Mueller could not have run his investigation. There is even reason to question that he was briefed on the day-to-day developments by the people who did run it -- since, for instance, he apparently never heard the phrase "Fusion GPS," that is, the swarm of flying monkeys who delivered the whole shebang's predicate documents known as the Steele Dossier simultaneously to the FBI, The Washington Post , and The New York Times beginning in 2016. By his testimony Wednesday, Mr. Mueller gives new meaning to the term useful idiot .
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Jul 25, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Monty , July 23, 2019 at 12:55 pm
"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope."
Never gets old.
Arizona Slim , July 23, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Source of this delicious quote, please.
WheresOurTeddy , July 23, 2019 at 10:51 pm
George Carlin, or as I think of him, 21st century Mark Twain
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Jul 25, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Laguerre , Jul 23 2019 13:27 utc | 13
Actually, a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, I think.Johnson's jokes all fall flat, witness today's poor attempt to call himself a DUD, and then add an E. That's no sign of intelligence. Anyway his former boss, Max Hastings, who knew him quite well said, "Almost the only people who think Johnson a nice guy are those who do not know him."
Jackrabbit , Jul 23 2019 15:08 utc | 26
Faux BoJo sings 'The Great Pretender'Noirette , Jul 23 2019 15:13 utc | 28Destined to become a classic.
= :) :) =Michael Droy , Jul 23 2019 15:40 utc | 37I can imagine this sketch: (Bojo impersonator)
quote:
Lift the ban on foxhunting, Tally Ho! Lower taxes for my friends, in arduis fidelis! Deliver Brexit, Do or Die! Tarrifs nought, qui audet adipiscitur!
(waves goblet of red and pulls a kipper out of his pants somewhere)
buses buses! National Health, shore it up, no spaffing money up or down the wall, oh my hobby, that hobby ..painting buses on boxes errr ?
(straightens, fakey serious mien)
Britain can be will be energised a will WILL make the way We will rise up and believe in self-achievement negativity is banned, banished, Britannia Rules the Waves, Merit will win out!
(in French with a fake plummy Brit accent)
Je suis la personne idéale pour faire comprendre à Michel Barnier que la menace de no-deal est absolument sérieuse, à 100 pourcent il n'y a qu'a..
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Bojo moved to Brussels when he was 9, his father worked for the European Commission. He speaks v. good French, with a ++ second from Oxford, Classics, his Latin is pretty good, and I have read (no idea?) he manages Classical Greek masterfully (i have none so didn't include quotes.)
The Ukraine elected a comedian for president. Great Britain felt a need to top that.Bronco_Kulitschka , Jul 23 2019 15:48 utc | 38
Or as i would say, the Ukraine elected a man who had pretended to be a president, and Britain elected a man who had pretended to be Trump.... ... ...
@4William Gruff , Jul 23 2019 16:13 utc | 44
I´m always amazed how easy it is to make people accept that they have no choice but pest and cholera.Just as Trump perfectly personifies America and Trudeau is the quintessential symbol of Canada-ness, BoJo is the ideal characterization of Britain. It is truly amazing that the western political world has become a caricature of reality.Clueless Joe , Jul 23 2019 16:26 utc | 47It seems logically inconsistent for anyone to back Trump's election but not BoJo's.Perimetr , Jul 23 2019 16:38 utc | 49We are getting what we in the US colloquially term a "two'fer" here. They are part of the same package.
... ... ... William Gruff - 43
We just need Sarkozy and Berlusconi back in power to have quintessential French and Italian caricatures - though Macron is trying hard. Sadly, Schäuble isn't likely to succeed Merkel.Re Thomas @ 25 "It is starting to appear to be very much a contest of buffoons, which country has the more outrageous buffoon."Indeed. Next question, which buffoon will launch their nuclear weapons first?
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Jul 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
My Lord. My Lord. Drug test everyone in Washington. Everyone!
Velocitor , 8 minutes ago link
RictaviousPorkchop , 37 minutes ago linkHe never heard of Fusion GPS!?!?? Whaaaa????
That would be like Archibald Cox saying he never heard of Watergate! Does Mueller have Alzheimer's? If he doesn't know that much, what's the point of even talking to him?
Dems should have adjourned right then, to save further embarrassment.
After that performance Mueller should be on street corner begging for change.
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Jul 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
MoreFreedom , 50 seconds ago link
I'm glad Democrats are hanging their hat on the fact that a president can be indicted when he's out of office for obstruction of justice. So they won't object when Barr indicts Obama.
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Jul 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk,
Eye-For-An-Eye: The UK fell for a US trap when it seized an Iranian ship on July 4. Iran struck back last Friday.
" Eye for eye and hand for hand is our Islamic ideology. An American eye or a European hand are not more valuable than an Iranian eye or hand ," said Mohammad-Sadegh Javadi-Hesar, a reformist politician.
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Jul 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Mah_Authoritah , 7 minutes ago link
Kartolas , 7 minutes ago linkFBI seems to come up in every scandal.
I think I'm beginning to see a pattern.
I'm shocked...
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Jul 23, 2019 | www.unz.com
Amon , says: July 23, 2019 at 7:37 am GMT
There is something perversely funny in the notion that the greatest nation in history, with the best military in the world is really nothing more than just another occupied land.
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Jul 23, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Imagine you are a horny 15 year old boy and you have been promised sex with an incredible Hollywood talent. Driven by surging hormones your anticipation and excitement are off the scale. You are taken to the place where the tryst will happen. And you open the door. Waiting of you is Barney Fife.
That sort of sums up what is likely to happen tomorrow when Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary and the House Intelligence committees. I have shut off almost all cable news. I cannot stomach the relentless hype about tomorrow's supposed "big day."
Blackberet , 23 July 2019 at 02:18 PM
Hmmm, given how the legacy media has managed to completely misinterpret what Mueller's Report actually says, imagine what a field day they will have interpreting "nothing" to mean something. Now, I wonder what that something might be...?
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Jul 23, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
farm ecologist , Jul 23 2019 1:59 utc | 49
@27 curtisI would vote for Jon Stewart, who seems to be a deep thinker and conscientious individual. (Colbert and Oliver, not so much.) Hey, if Regan and Schwartzenager and Trump could do it, why not?
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Jul 22, 2019 | jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
"When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing,"
Chuck Prince, CEO Citigroup, July 9, 2007
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Jul 22, 2019 | jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
"A baited banker thus desponds,
From his own hand foresees his fall,
They have his soul, who have his bonds;
'Tis like the writing on the wall.How will the caitiff wretch be scared,
When first he finds himself awake
At the last trumpet, unprepared,
And all his grand account to make!For in that universal call,
Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
They'll cry, 'Ye shops, upon us fall!
Conceal and cover us, ye counters!'When other hands the scales shall hold,
And they, in men's and angels' sight
Produced with all their bills and gold,
'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'Jonathan Swift, A Run Upon the Bankers
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Jul 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
rwe2late , 1 hour ago link
Klassenfeind , 2 hours ago linkDraining the swamp means hiring the lobbyists
- Orwell
...err, I meant Trump.
War is Peace
- well, now that's Orwell
(and many others in government and elsewhere)
The Donald Trump Administration is looking more and more like George W. Bush's Administration: a dumb clueless idiot surrounded by neocons.
Remember Donald Rumsfeld , Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice, John Bolton , George Tenet, Henry Paulson, Paul Wolfowitz , and **** Cheney from the George W Bush Administration?
Tell me Trumptards, what's so "different this time" about Donald Trump hiring Bolton, Pompeo, Mattis/Shanahan/Esper, Haley, Haspel and Mnuchin?
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Jul 20, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
Donald Trump's declaration that "trade wars are good, and easy to win" will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance -- but not in a good way.
Instead it will go alongside Dick Cheney's prediction, on the eve of the Iraq war, that "we will, in fact, be welcomed as liberators."
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Jul 20, 2019 | failedevolution.blogspot.com
In 2013, for example, the state of Washington approved a record $8.7 billion handout to Boeing in order "to maintain and grow its workforce within the state."
What did Boeing do? In the following years, it laid off more than 12,000 workers in the state.
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Jul 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Mina , Jul 18 2019 16:48 utc | 1
Not sure how to explain that to students in 101 History of the US. On one side it is ok fort he US President to sing "send her back" about an elected member of congress who is born in Somalia,
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49035505
But on the other side, according to the US embassy in Poland, it is 'promoting hatred' to have stickers 'LGBT freezone'.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49037275
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Jul 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
arthgallo , 1 day ago link
Well I"m completely satisfied. Bill Clinton said he didn't know; now Wexler says he didn't know anything either. Guess that the end of all the speculation. Might have to just open up those videos huh?
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Jul 17, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Hrant , 3 days agoI've been watching in complete dismay for more than two decades now how many unbelievably empty people run for the highest office in the US. These people are empty. No substance, no soul, no brain or heart. Nothing.
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Jul 17, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
sandgk Columbus, OH July 8"Nude photos of underage girls ..." This would be what the law also calls child pornogrpahy.
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Jul 15, 2019 | medium.com
Michael Weddle Follow Jul 15 · 3 min read
I originally published this as a satirical Facebook Note on February 21, 2018, after the New York Times reported on February 16, 2018 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had indicted 13 Russians.
February 21, 2018
The Honorable Robert Swan Mueller III
Special Investigating Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530–0001Dear Mr. Mueller:
I read with great interest your indictments of 13 Russian citizens and three Russian corporations.
Please note that Russia encourages you to continue your investigatory efforts as we are confident you will find that neither myself or any representatives of my office and government have anything to do with what many of your politicians and media members are describing as "Russian collusion" or "Russian meddling" with the US 2016 elections.
Also, as a side note, please know that we in Russia are completely surprised at how you conducted your 2016 election. From the vantage point of anyone living outside of America those elections did not appear fair at all. We in Russia are surprised by this as we thought you were a better nation than what we saw from your 2016 national elections.
Although the United States of America and The Russian Federation hold no formal extradition treaty agreement, please be advised I am willing to use the powers of my office to contact those whom you've indicted and I will do my utmost to encourage them to come to America in order to stand the trial of your indictments. We are confident that your jurisprudence system for legal discovery will produce both remarkable and enlightening evidence for your investigation.
On a mundane matter, would you be willing to pay for the costs of their travel and housing expenses while they stand trial in America, or would you prefer that The Russian Federation to cover this expense?
Finally, please find attached a copy of the Constitution of The Russian Federation. You are welcome to share with your fellow citizens as we are confident they will become very surprised by what they learn from reading the contents of our Constitution.
http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-01.htm
Very truly yours,
Vladimir Putin, President The Russian Federation
PS: I strongly recommend that your FBI, NSA and DHS departments thoroughly examine the DNC computers in order to determine if they were actually "hacked." I'm confident you will discover that the documents published by Wikileaks were the product of an inside "leak" onto a thumb drive. Please note that I am shocked that the thoroughness of your investigation has not yet accomplished this simple and obvious task.
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Jul 15, 2019 | www.unz.com
Gordo , says: July 12, 2019 at 2:35 pm GMT
@Tono Bungaypaedophile, or pedophile, is not the right word for what Epstein is accused of.
Espionage is the issue here methinks, not a discussion of the age of consent in West Virginia.
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Jul 05, 2019 | unz.com
Real Buddy Ray , July 5, 2019 at 2:27 pm GMTIt's no fair. We can't criticicize Jared without being called antisemitic. Ms. Mercer experts us to believe Ivanka is the power player when Ivanka was off having a baby. Jared didn't have the meeting with the Russian lawyer.
It was Ivanka. Jared didn't rewrite Trump's immigration proposals. It was Ivanka. Jared didn't leak that Trump Junior was at the meeting with the Russian. It was Ivanka.
It was Ivanka who undercut Tillerson and had her own shadow state department. Ivanka who instructed Flynn to contact Russian diplomats during the transition.
I agree that all Trump's failures are Ivanka's fault. She's is his favorite child and the only the reason Jared is in the White House -- firing anyone remotely competent and dooming Trump to the biggest election loss since Goldwater.
Ms. Mercer doesn't see her own ethnocentrism by blaming Ivanka for all Jared's failures. She's scapegoating. So we are doomed to let Trump fail because his liberal (neoconnish) son-in-law is Jewish? We can't kvetch? And there is so much more.
Jared really is at the helm of everything. Trump suddenly raised tariffs on Mexico recently and they were worried. They called Jared as reported by vanity fair. They Mexicans did not call our president. They went straight to the source of power just like Kim Kardashian's did. Jared got back in town and talked his father-in-law out of those tariffs. He even convinced his father in law that he gained something from the Mexicans. That something was something the Mexicans were already going to do. And Trump left us with was another cave. Thanks Jared.
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Jul 13, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Stan W. , July 12, 2019 at 13:55
The myth regarding Russian influence in the 2016 election that enabled Donald Trump to "steal" the presidency from Hillary Clinton would make a good sequel to a movie from 1966. Its title: "THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!"
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Jul 11, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Epstein-Barr virus epidemic strikes New York and DC; thousands stricken
on Thu, 07/11/2019 - 11:47pm
This has been a helluva news week.
According to Q: The Storm Is Here. And if anybody thinks this Epstein deal is going to blow over--night, but not before the storm knocks over many stalwart denizens.
Now speaking as a physician of sorts (I think we all have experienced sorts), The Centers for Disease Control has not authorized me or anyone to say what I am going to say. And thank you very much. But clinicians at CDC* (* meaning not really official) are saying that first indications of this disease are sometimes extremely subtle, such as repetitively looking over one's shoulder.
Incubation period:anywhere between today and 1/1/2020
Epidemiologyprimarily afflicts establishment democrats, in or out of office. For strictly show purposes, the Dems are allowed to have several (but no too many) Republican friends, but such companionship does not prevent infection.
Symptomatologyvery similar to a case of Severe Trump Derangement Syndrome, which we professionals often acronymize* to STDS. STDS also stands for sexually transmitted diseases.
*how do you like this new neologism (which is repetitive)?
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Jul 12, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Kefeer , 4 hours ago
Mah_Authoritah , 4 hours agoLiberalism is an oxymoron; it is not liberating, but rather constraining.
It liberates you from your mind & wealth.
Watch what liberals practice, not what they preach.
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Jul 12, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Anunnaki , 4 hours ago
Moving and Grooving , 3 hours agoYes Bill Clinton was a pedo President.
SergeA.Storms , 3 hours agoSo Monica was a MILF sort of thing?
No, she was the only one old enough to understand holding onto evidence was important.
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Jul 12, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Lumberjack , 3 hours ago
BREAKING:
Epstein's trial is being moved to Tel Aviv. His dream team claim he cannot get a fair trail... Even in New York.
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Jul 11, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Jackprong , 4 hours ago
I find it ironic that "the-intel-community-will-get-you-six-ways-to-sunday" Chuck U. Schumer telling Trump to fire his Labor Secretary who followed orders from the same Intel Community by giving a watered down sentence to Epstein.
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Jul 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
nickels , says: July 10, 2019 at 7:50 pm GMT
That's funny because I always thought the New York Times was the ultimate symbol of plutocratic rot.
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Jul 11, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Paco , 09 July 2019 at 01:46 PM
¿City on a hill?
Caligula an Nero look good compared to that tribe.
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Jul 10, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Bunga Bunga , 2 hours ago
SergeA.Storms , 2 hours agoSo there might be interesting stuff on the DVDs found in Epstein's vaults.
PGR88 , 2 hours agoThey will be stowed with Weiner's laptop.
the Problem with blackmailing powerful people is that eventually you get killed
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Jul 10, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
ken , 10 minutes ago
MagicCooler , 1 hour agoHmm...It's not the Russians??? What foreign government could it be? ...
RealityColin , 56 minutes agoAnn Coulter is like the proverbial "broken clock" -- right twice a day...
cayman , 37 minutes agoMossad.
Andrew G , 34 minutes agocia
Chupacabra , 7 minutes agoWhat's the difference between Mossad and the CIA???
MushroomCloud2020 , 1 hour ago*ding ding ding*
Pedostein should be at Guantanamo, but if they take him down there for some non-kosher interrogation, we won't get updates. I'm sure Pedostein is working for Iran. s/c
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Jul 09, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Don Bacon , Jul 8 2019 15:35 utc | 4
An Iranian general yesterday confirmed Magnier's take (also here ):
A senior Iranian general has revealed that Washington, through diplomatic channels, recently asked Tehran to allow it to conduct a small-scale operation in the Iranian airspace in order to save its face following the IRGC's shoot-down of a US spy drone.Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the Head of Iran's Civil Defence Organization, said Iran vehemently rejected the US request, saying that it will respond to any act of aggression.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran responded that it views any operation as a war and will give a crushing response to it. You may initiate a war but this is Iran which will finish it," he said Sunday.
The idea that the U.S. would ask Iran to allow it to bomb some targets without hitting back sounds crazy.
Dear Mr. Rouhani,could you please name me three targets in your country that I am allowed to bomb?
It is urgent as I need to look tough on Iran.
Pretty please!
Donald Trump
But this is the Trump White House and the only thing Trump really seems to care for is his own rating.
. . .that Trump be allowed to bomb one, two or three clear objectives, to be chosen by Iran,
Trump has experience in such a charade, when empty buildings were struck with US rockets after the fake Syrian "gas attack" in Douma, April 2018. Probably the details were worked out between US and Russia in that case. That it wasn't possible this time is a clear indication of Iran strength. Stronger than Russia! Imagine that.bevin , Jul 8 2019 15:36 utc | 5
Alistair Crooke thinking about Iran and IsraelDon Wiscacho , Jul 8 2019 15:42 utc | 6
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/08/to-think-outside-box-helps-first-understand-whats-box/That Trump would come begging hat in hand seeking for Tehran to let the US bomb the country unimpeded does not strike me as surprising or implausible. It fits Trump's trademark MO of "chaotic, incoherent" to a 't', with a heavy dash of megalomania thrown in as well. Just another day in the office for Trump.Dan Lynch , Jul 8 2019 15:50 utc | 8
The seizure of the Grace 1 is more intriguing for its brazen illegality as well as the reported circumstances (if one can believe the Brits in their claim of boarding 2.5 miles from shore). Was this another avenue of "maximum pressure" cooked up by Iran?
As for Iran seeking US military targets in the region, those sitting ducks will be the last targets sought. Not that they might not, but that certainly would be nuclear option for Tehran. There is much lower hanging fruit to target that would cripple the lackey Gulf states. Hitting the desalination plants of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain would ruin those economies overnight without risking environmental fallout. Iran would be hammered in the MSM, but would be no matter their course of action. Those countries would have strategic reserves of water, so I wouldn't imagine people actually dying of thirst in the desert, but the next day there would be a biblical exodus of the ex-pats that run those economies. The UAE would grind to a halt, there would be a possible overthrow of the monarchy of Bahrain, and massive unrest in Saudi Arabia, without risking immediate gloves-off war with the US.The cartoon has an element of truth, but mainly Trump is doing the bidding of his pro-Israel billionaire funders, Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer. They are frustrated that Trump has not been forceful enough with Iran.
Mercer">https://www.salon.com/2019/06/18/robert-and-rebekah-mercer-bail-on-trump-campaign-they-spent-49-million-in-2016/">Mercer bails on Trump
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Jul 09, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Deniz , July 8, 2019 at 17:50
The Grabber in Chief vs Willie Brown's mistress -- wonderful.
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Jul 06, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
divadab, July 5, 2019 at 10:57 am
Yes. It's piracy. USA a Pirate Nation. UK a useful part of the gang.
I mean, empires have always been expansionist, violently expansionist. I mean, this is bad, but the empire is the empire. What bothers me is the lying. The filthy unbelievable lies emanating from the likes of Hillaria Terroristica and Pompeus Maximus and even from Obama the Salesman emperor, Emperor Tex Bush the second, and our current Carnival Barker Emperor Trumpius the Rube Caller. Let alone the generals lying thru their teeth.
It makes the whole enterprise ridiculous -- no one but the stupidest and most brainwashed believes the filthy liars. Terrible that our ruling class are traitors to the country -- because why lie unless you have no respect for those ruled? Lie to the stupid cattle -- let them repeat the lies and laugh at their stupidity.
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Jul 06, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Turkey, NATO and Russia - Sic Semper TyrannisLars ,
Until you fix the problem with, according to a poll, 56% of American parents not wanting Arabic numerals taught to their children. I suspect that an equal number would not be able to find any of the mentioned places on a map.
Where those with crystal balls find certainty, I find something much less.
We do know that containment polices can work very well, but any involvement in the world's longest contested area is not worth the cost, nor the risk.
The US has already spent a fortune, with very little to show for it.
Maybe it is all about learning?
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Nov 10, 2016 | discussion.theguardian.com
JamesWonnacott , 10 Nov 2016 11:18
"And of course, they answer it by bashing immigrants and people of colour, vilifying Muslims, and degrading women."
Muslims, of course, never degrade women do they?
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Jul 06, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
John k , , July 5, 2019 at 1:27 pm
But consider Saudi us relations… who is kissing who’s ring?
Or consider Israeli us relations… ditto.
We’re a thuggish whore whose favors are easily bought; bring dollars or votes. Or kiss the ring.
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Jul 06, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Sound of the Suburbs , , July 6, 2019 at 2:53 pm
A multi-polar world became a uni-polar world with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Francis Fukuyama said it was the end of history.
The Americans had other ideas and set about creating another rival as fast as they possibly could, China. China went from almost nothing to become a global super power.
The Americans have realised they have messed up big time and China will soon take over the US as the world's largest economy.
Beijing has taken over support for the Washington consensus as they have thirty years experience telling them how well it works for them.
The Washington consensus is now known as the Beijing consensus.
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divadab, July 5, 2019 at 10:57 am
Yes. It's piracy. USA a Pirate Nation. UK a useful part of the gang.
I mean, empires have always been expansionist, violently expansionist. I mean, this is bad, but the empire is the empire. What bothers me is the lying. The filthy unbelievable lies emanating from the likes of Hillaria Terroristica and Pompeus Maximus and even from Obama the Salesman emperor, Emperor Tex Bush the second, and our current Carnival Barker Emperor Trumpius the Rube Caller. Let alone the generals lying thru their teeth.
It makes the whole enterprise ridiculous -- no one but the stupidest and most brainwashed believes the filthy liars. Terrible that our ruling class are traitors to the country -- because why lie unless you have no respect for those ruled? Lie to the stupid cattle -- let them repeat the lies and laugh at their stupidity.
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cnchal, July 5, 2019 at 5:38 am
Peace though procurement malpractice. The current batch of military hardware is so much garbage that when the President wants to use the "superb" pieces of crap (F35 and the new boats are prime examples) a general will have to become the sacrificial lamb and give the president the news that this stuff is for show only.
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Piotr Berman , July 3, 2019 at 14:49
Comparatively great?
Like the "withdrawal from Syria", a typically fleeting idea?
Breaking a few treaties? Ratcheting up support of the carnage and starvation in Yemen?
The "comparatively great" side of Trump is attention deficiency disorder, so it is hard for him to start a war, something that requires some degree of organization and coordinating different branches of governments, different countries etc.
Seer , July 3, 2019 at 17:02
Nailed it!
DJT is like a less-likeable Inspector Clouseau. Sometimes ineptitude is a blessing: this was my only hope when refusing to vote for HRC.
mark , July 3, 2019 at 00:17
Same old, same old, same old, same old. Prospective candidates spewing out the same tired old hot air about how, this time, it really, really, really, really will be different. There won't be any more crazy multitrillion wars for Israel. Honest.
Just like Dubya. Just like Obomber. Just like the Orange Baboon. Whilst simultaneously begging for shekels from Adelson, Saban, Singer, Marcus.
And this is the "new anti war movement." Yeah.
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Jul 05, 2019 | www.unz.com
Even Margaret Thatcher, a master of the manly art of the parliamentary joust, would have been left speechless at this American girl's audacious idiocy. Having no empathy for woman-centric whining, The Iron Lady would have hand-bagged Ivanka with that famous little bag of hers.
Ivanka at her serious best is Barbie doll hair, an overbite, Botox and mind-numbing banalities. The two brilliant women she's preening before are not in the habit of disgorging American-style jargon like "male-dominated," "intersectionality," "transsexuality." Neither do May and Lagarde rabbit on about "women in politics," "women in business," women in sport," "women in this or that."
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Jim bob Lassiter , says: July 2, 2019 at 1:07 pm GMT
@renfro"Intelligence firepower"? You mean like so smart that she just knew that there was no way a nine year old kid with an internet connection could debunk her Cherokee ancestry claims?
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Don Bacon , Jul 4 2019 17:50 utc | 24
current news - TOLONews
> The Hour Has Come For Peace In Afghanistan: Pompeo . . here
old news, seven years ago - BBC
> Obama in Afghanistan: 'We must replace war with peace' . . here
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A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages.
Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
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Jul 01, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
6. Tucker Carlson as a replacement for the 'stache? Good idea! Make the 'stache ambassador to Turkey or Israel. pl
catherine ,
''Make the 'stache ambassador to Turkey or Israel. ''Heaven forbid! Put him on a plane and drop him out over Houthis territory in Yemen instead.
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Jun 30, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
And how many congresspeople served in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan? How many presidential candidates had boots on the ground in combat theaters? The answer is one. Here is the moral decay of America's ruling elites boiled down to a single word.
Giant Meteor , 5 hours ago link44_shooter , 5 hours ago linkMoral leaders, lead. There is your moral decay.
It didn't matter when they did. McStain fought, and absolutely LOVED war. Plenty of the Hawks served and fought, it's like frat boys who were hazed, carrying on the hazing.
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Jackprong , 5 hours ago link
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." -Cicero
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Jun 30, 2019 | dissidentvoice.org
The Sunday newspaper had been left on the park bench. Its book page had lists of best-sellers, as if numbers two through ten could be the "best" along with number one. Absurdities were everywhere for the taking. On the Non-Fiction Hardcover list, numbers 3, 5, and 10 each had the word fuck in the title.
The books were published by two old and respected publishing houses: Harper and Little Brown.
However, something was odd, for the word fuck was spelled f*ck.
These books were about hope, acceptance, and living the good life, cliché topics in a feel-good culture: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Everything is F*cked, and Calm the F*ck Down.
It seemed you had to be fucked first before you could accept the hope that the good life was coming your way.
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LaugherNYC , 2 hours ago link
Anonymous IX , 2 hours ago linkYou gotta love the SCI. This shallowly-disguised Russian propaganda arm writes in the most charming awkward idiomatic English, bouncing from a "false neutral" tone to a jingoistic Amercia-phobic argot to produce its hit pieces.
Russian propaganda acts like Claude Raines in "Casablanca" : "i am shocked, shocked to discover (geopolitics) going on here!" Geeeee, Europe and the US are in a struggle to avoid Europe relying on Russia for strategic necessities like fuel, even if it imposes costs on European consumers. If you have a dangerous disease, and your pharmacist is known for cutting off their customers' vital drugs to extort them, you might consider using another provider who not only doesn't cut off supplies, but also provides the police department that protects you from your pharmacist's thugs who are known to invade customers' homes using the profits from their own business.
The US provides the protective umbrella that limits Putin's adventurism. Russia cuts of Ukraine's gas supplies in winter to force them into submission. Gasprom is effectively an arm of the Russian military, weaponizing Russia's only product as a geopolitical taser. Sure, it costs more to transport LNG across the Atlantic and convert it back to gas, but the profits from that business are routinely funneled back to Europe in the form of US trade, contributions to NATO, and the provision of the nuclear umbrella that protects Europeans from the man who has publicly lamented the fall of the Soviet Union, called for the return of the former SSRs, and violated the IRM treaty to place nuclear capable intermediate-range missiles and cruise missiles within range of Europe and boasted about his new hypersonic weapons' theoretic capability to decapitate NATO and American decision-making within a few minutes of launch.
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Oh, for pity's sake, Laugher. Everything...absolutely everything you attribute to Russia in your post can be said of the U.S. I'm not much of a Wiki fan, but for expediency, here's their view on military bases.
The establishment of military bases abroad enables a country to project power , e.g. to conduct expeditionary warfare , and thereby influence events abroad. Depending on their size and infrastructure, they can be used as staging areas or for logistical, communications and intelligence support. Many conflicts throughout modern history have resulted in overseas military bases being established in large numbers by world powers and the existence of bases abroad has served countries having them in achieving political and military goals.
And this link will provide you with countries worldwide and their bases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases
Note that Russia, in this particular list, has eight bases all contiguous to Russia. The U.S. has 36 listed here with none of them contiguous to the U.S.' borders.
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Anonymous IX , 3 minutes ago link
I love it. A company which fell in love so much with their extraordinary profits that they sabatoged their design and will now suffer enormous financial consequences. They're lucky to have all their defense/military contracts.
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Chris Mallory , says: June 28, 2019 at 2:04 am GMT
Miss Gabbard just served two tours in the ME, one as enlisted in the HI National Guard.Brave Mr. Bolton kept the dirty communists from endangering the US supply of Chesapeake crab while serving in the Maryland Guard. Rumor also has it that he helped Tompall Glaser write the song Streets of Baltimore. Some say they saw Mr. Bolton single handily defending Memorial Stadium from a combined VC/NVA attack during an Orioles game. The Cubans would have conquered the Pimlico Race Course if not for the combat skill of PFC Bolton.
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Jun 28, 2019 | peakoilbarrel.com
Carlos Diaz says: 06/23/2019 at 2:37 pm
What's wrong with America, that believes the solution to any international problem is war?"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov
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Bill Carson , June 27, 2019 at 10:44 pm
I might vote for Trump if, as Biden suggests, his reelection means the end of NATO.
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OpenThePodBayDoorsHAL , June 28, 2019 at 3:55 am
For 2024 let's just have cage fights, contestants show up naked with their names and policy positions tattooed on their bodies, each gets a bucket of slime to smear on their opponent to try and cover them up. Then Sergei Brin's computer chooses the winner
Svante, June 28, 2019 at 6:28 am
...But I’d add corporate logo branding Irons...
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Chris , June 27, 2019 at 7:56 pm
Let's see if they can keep Bernie in the same cage they put Tulsi in. I can't imagine they'll be helpful or even polite to him. I expect "debate" questions such as:
- Senator Sanders, are you current in your communist party dues?
- Bernie, when did you last speak to Vladimir Putin?
- How often are you wrong about FDR?
- Is your wife still laundering money for beach houses through small liberal arts colleges?
- Do you know how to pay for anything, or do you regularly leave restaurants without paying your bill?
- Bonus question: explain why anyone should continue to pay attention to you when your views are shared by everyone on stage?
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Noirette , Jun 23, 2019 11:16:27 AM | 10
Trump strove for some foreign policy triumphs. The art of the deal!
- He tried his hand with N. Korea. What happened? (Besides perhaps improved NK-SK relations ) Nothing.
- Syria .. (though there is still plenty going on there) what gave Trump / the USA some kind of 'victory'? Zilch, disounting missile attacks on a runway in an airport and on an empty research and teaching facility.
- Symbolic moves, as proposed to Iran (a deal, heh) to save face (see b's posts.)
- Next, ho ho, regime change in Venezuela, that might be great, get some extra voters in Florida. Result? The status quo ante, perhaps stronger than before, with the Dauphin, Random Guaido, shown up to be a cynical petty fraudster, and not even challenging enough to jail!
- Iran? Note the pressure has been building up since last year when The Donald withdrew the US from the JCPOA.
Real men go to Teheran!
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Jun 27, 2019 | www.wsws.org
When a FOX-news man is the most sane voice in USA foreign policy (regarding aggression against Iran and Venezuela) - it is the real madness!
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Jun 27, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Uncle Billy says: May 7, 2019 at 9:44 pm Bolton needs a rabies shot. The man is a rabid neocon.
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Sid Finster says: May 7, 2019 at 10:53 am
...Just as Obama turned out to be a slightly more articulate version of Dubya, Trump has turned out to be a meaner, more dysfunctional, more reckless version of Dubya.
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Jun 27, 2019 | www.realclearpolitics.com
Glenn Greenwald called out journalists and columnists pushing for a war with Iran and lamented that people who have been continually wrong are often hailed as the voice of authority and reason in an interview with FNC's Tucker Carlson on Friday.
Greenwald specifically took aim at Jeffrey Goldberg of 'The Atlantic' who he said got a promotion for being wrong about the war in Iraq.
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Choderlos de Laclos , Jun 26, 2019 10:55:51 PM | 99
Give the MSM some break. They have translate it to Hebrew, and from Hebrew to English. Mistakes could happen.
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Curtis , Jun 26, 2019 6:12:43 PM | 54
michaelj72 #37
I'm the Slime - Frank ZappaI am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate youI may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV setYou will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
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Josh , Jun 26, 2019 1:54:18 PM | 19This dude (Trump) has spent more than two years, and a ton of money, trying to pull the undercurrent of dissent in the American population into his camp and under his wing.In all of his 'fighting with the establishment' he has managed to change exactly nothing and bring exactly nobody to justice. He has gathered the entirety of the Bush/Rumsfeld faction directly into his tent, while miraculously failing to so much as arrest a single member of the Clinton faction. And to top it off he just ordered an armed attack on an independent nation (which failed in spectacular fashion as thr first targeting drone was vaporized while he was watching the livestream). Come on dude.
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Noirette , Jun 23, 2019 11:16:27 AM | 10
Trump strove for some foreign policy triumphs. The art of the deal!
- He tried his hand with N. Korea. What happened? (Besides perhaps improved NK-SK relations ) Nothing.
- Syria .. (though there is still plenty going on there) what gave Trump / the USA some kind of 'victory'? Zilch, disounting missile attacks on a runway in an airport and on an empty research and teaching facility.
- Symbolic moves, as proposed to Iran (a deal, heh) to save face (see b's posts.)
- Next, ho ho, regime change in Venezuela, that might be great, get some extra voters in Florida. Result? The status quo ante, perhaps stronger than before, with the Dauphin, Random Guaido, shown up to be a cynical petty fraudster, and not even challenging enough to jail!
- Iran? Note the pressure has been building up since last year when The Donald withdrew the US from the JCPOA.
Real men go to Teheran!
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Jun 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Timmay , 38 minutes ago link
free corn , 36 minutes ago linkWho would ever want to fly on one of these planes ever again??
inhibi , 39 minutes ago linkThey should convert them to drones - turn problem to opportunity.
Vince Clortho , 46 minutes ago linkAhh, so 737 Plunge Machine wasn't all that off for accurate new name.
ted41776 , 56 minutes ago linkVery negative Headline. Implies that Uncontrollable Nosedives are a bad thing.
shut up racists, why do you hate murkans? FAA said they're airworthy, what else do you want to hear?
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Jun 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
DingleBarryObummer , 15 minutes ago link
Rusty Pipes , 12 minutes ago linkAppear weak when you are strong, appear strong when you are weak.
And you appear stupid, when you are stupid, grats on that.
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Jun 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
R19 , 13 minutes ago link
R19 , 13 minutes ago linkPlease prioritize in line with our current game plan:
MAGA
MIGA
MSAGA
MMEGA
1. MIGA
2. MSAGA
3. MMEGA
4. MAGA
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Jun 26, 2019 | www.rt.com
It was Charles De Gaulle who once said, " In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant ." In the case of a US presidential election, his words should be amended to read: " In order serve corporate America, the politician poses as the servant of the people ."
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Jun 26, 2019 | www.reuters.com
Trump is massively overconfident .
Asked if a war was brewing, Trump told Fox Business Network: "I hope we don't but we're in a very strong position if something should happen.""I'm not talking boots on the ground," Trump said. "I'm just saying if something would happen, it wouldn't last very long."
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Ken T • a day agoTrump staggers through his presidency like a pinball bouncing its way through the machine - first this side, then that side, then being flipped back up to the top by a comment he hears on Fox News to start it all over again.
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.youtube.com
"Ill advised wars are like doing cocaine: The initial rush rises your poll-numbers, but the crash is inevitable." Wise words Mr Carlson
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.youtube.com
CNN:
2016: He's gonna start WW3
2019: He should have started WW3
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.unz.com
Malla , says: June 25, 2019 at 6:01 pm GMT
@J. GutierrezMadeline Albright responded to the question "1 million dead Iraqi babies is that an acceptable number for the US"? Like a true American woman and mother she said, "yes its acceptable."
You mean 'Like a true ((American)) woman and mother'
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
@ jayc 57
US Hook says Iran knew what getting into when struck deal
Yes they did, and now they regret it.
In 2013 Ali Khamenei said: "Certainly, we are pessimistic about the Americans. We do not trust them. We consider the government of the United States of America as an unreliable, arrogant, illogical, and trespassing government,"The JCPOA was not a unilateral deal between USA and Iran, it was a multilateral deal
That's correct de jure, but not de facto. The US all by itself is leading the current attack on Iran, despite what the other members might think. Iran has not gotten any significant support from other JCPOA participants.Posted by: Don Bacon | Jun 24, 2019 5:10:10 PM | 66
The Trump administration's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook...
______________________________________Brian Hook is a "special" envoy in the sense that the "Special Olympics" are special.
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@68 Ort Good one. Although Brian Hook is an insult to special olympians and humanity in general.
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Thursday night was the night Donald Trump became president. You can imagine the hyperbolic hosannahs that would have been sung if Trump had gone ahead with his planned strikes against Iran, adding to the list of undeclared presidential wars. Instead he pulled back.
Hugh Hewitt called it the "big blink," inviting Liz Cheney -- who is very much her father's daughter on foreign policy -- on his show to warn, "Weakness is provocative." Hewitt compared it to Barack Obama's failure to enforce his "red line" in Syria. "Much worse" argued Kori Schake in The Atlantic . Other reporting focused on a "total breakdown in process."
It was not a picture perfect approach to national security, to be sure. But it did sharply illustrate the Beltway's strange priorities. When Trump twice bombed Syria, few of those who fret about his erosion of constitutional norms or authoritarian tendencies protested his failure to seek congressional authorization as required by the Constitution. There was a much larger process-related panic when Trump said late last year he wanted to bring American troops home from Syria.
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"How many more deaths? How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?" Woodward quotes Trump as asking. One Post write-up folded these lines into a broader story about the White House's "nervous breakdown" and the national security team's impatience with the president. But these are morally serious questions, not exaggerated inaugural crowd size estimates.
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Kristan hinton , Jun 24, 2019 4:44:12 PM | 53
Trump is not a Strait shooter.
Never has been one in his life.
His swamp is full of Israeli agents, Kushner, Bolton, Pompous, Hook, Adelson, who prefer Israel over the USA.
Oscar Peterson , Jun 24, 2019 4:48:24 PM | 55
@Kristan Hinton #52"Trump is not a Strait shooter."Nice Hormuz pun.
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John Smith , Jun 24, 2019 3:26:20 PM | 19
Pompeo says God may have sent Trump to save Israel from Iran22 March 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said it is "possible" that President Donald Trump was sent by God to save Israel from Iran.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network during a high-profile trip to Israel, he said it was his faith that made him believe that.
He also praised US efforts to "make sure that this democracy in the Middle East, that this Jewish state, remains".
The comments came on a Jewish holiday celebrating rescue from genocide.
The holiday, Purim, commemorates the biblical rescue of the Jewish people by Queen Esther from the Persians, as the interviewer noted to Mr Pompeo.
What did Pompeo say?
He was asked if "President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from an Iranian menace".
"As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible," said Mr Pompeo, a former member of Congress for Kansas and CIA director.
"I am confident that the Lord is at work here," he added.
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Kristan hinton , Jun 24, 2019 4:49:30 PM | 56
50Whenever you see the word, trilateral, you know the common man is going to get screwed.
Same as "bipartisan". You know, like the Patriot Act and the Bankster Bailouts - bipartisan.
If both houses of congress think its a good idea, the commons are getting screwed hard.
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Michael Murry , June 24, 2019 at 01:16
You've fallen quite a bit behind unfolding events in the twenty-first century, Old Geyser. As Mark Twain once said: "History may not repeat, but it surely rhymes." Here, allow me to illustrate what he meant (from thirteen years ago, when this self-inflicted middle-eastern catastrophe began devouring America's breakfast, lunch, and dinner like a similar fit of stupidity hadn't done since Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia forty years previously).
Who Lost Iraq
(after the Bob Dylan song, "Who killed Davey Moore?")Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"It wasn't me," said the President,
With his hard head stuck in its hard cement.
"I just start fires in the minds of men;
Pour gas on the flames every now and then.
I accomplished my mission when I robbed the store,
Then to cover up the crime I went and started a war.
In a few more years someone else will want the fun;
I'll give the mess to them; then I'll say that I won!
They'll lose Iraq
Who couldn't see me handing them the sack."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"It wasn't us," cried the military brass.
"We just saluted Rumsfeld and kissed his senile ass.
We long ago swore not to think too hard or much;
Just do as we're told and to use that as a crutch;
So when the hopes go wrong and the shit hits the fan,
We can always just say: 'We took our orders from the man.'
With our medals and our pensions and our private jumbo jets
'It's the only war we've got' and that's as good as it gets.
They lost Iraq:
The suits who tied our hands behind our back."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"It wasn't me," said the rapping Secretary
Talking too dense and sounding real scary.
"We know we don't know what we don't know we know
But we do know how to stage a little dog-and-pony show.
The Senators and Congressmen whose districts get the pork
Think the meat's well done, so they stick in a fork.
The army's not the one we want, but let me tell you what:
We have to go to war with it or see our funding cut.
They lost Iraq
Who wouldn't cut me some semantic slack."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"Who the hell cares," shrugs the televangelist
Preaching at his pulpit and pounding with his fist
"I tell folks: 'vote Republican if you don't want to die'
(Watching cable television; lapping up the lie).
I feed the rubes on fantasies of Armageddon Day,
When Jesus in his spaceship comes to take them all away.
I scare 'em and they love it and they come back for more
To vote for someone else's kid to fight in their war.
They lost Iraq
Who wouldn't stop me selling Crusade crack."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"We had to hit someone," said the jaded journalist
Thumbing through his Rolodex and making up a list
Of contacts in the government who leak the names of spies
Whose husbands tell the truth sometimes, instead of packaged lies.
"My name is Tom Friedman and 'the world is flat;'
That shit about a globe you heard just isn't where it's at.
I cheered for Dubya's war just like the chicken hawk I am
And then when things went south I blamed a Lebanese imam.
They lost Iraq:
Who wouldn't buy my books from off the rack."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"I've explained it all," said the White House mouthpiece man
Mumbling in mantras with shameless élan.
"Our zigzag course takes us straight through the plots
If you just fit the curve to the scatter of dots.
In the sovereign state of the occupied town
We could "stand 'em all up" if they'd quit falling down.
But no matter what the carnage or the number who grieve
Just remember "Stay the Course" means we'll never leave."
They lost Iraq
Who hired as spokesman some tired FOX NEWS flack.Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"It wasn't us," cried the frightened Democrats,
As much an opposition as a dozen gnats.
"We voted for King George's war and never blushed.
With just a hint of nastiness, he left us hushed.
We bought into the syndrome of the sycophant
Who'd gladly ditch the donkey for the elephant.
But now that all our compromise has come to nought,
We're too ashamed to do the things we truly ought.
We love Iraq
And only wished to help Chalabi's claque."Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"Don't look at us," moaned the undecided block.
Reliable consumers of a total crock.
We love it when the government makes up those lies
And sells them to us like McDonald's greasy fries.
Just show us a commercial made by Thomas Hobbes
About our nasty, brutish lives with few good jobs.
Then scare us half to death with tales of married queers.
We'll swallow anything just like our lousy beers.
What is Iraq?
Is it a toothpaste that gets rid of plaque?"Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"It wasn't me," said Saddam Hussein,
Sitting in his court cage, shouting his refrain:
"I ran things better and we had a state;
Now we only have Maliki, an invertebrate
Who does the step-and-fetch-it as his daily toil
For Dubya and his crony friends who steal our oil.
But Mad Dog and his Englishman have come undone,
Parading 'round in circles in the noonday sun.
Bush lost Iraq
When he and Blair launched their unwise attack."Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"Who the hell do you think?" said Ehud Olmert.
"You mean you didn't know Israelis just don't care?
A busted, broken Arab land fits in quite nice
With Zionist delusions of a Paradise
Where Arab refugees profess to love the Jews
And swear to every statement made by Karen Hughes.
The goyim in America will foot the bill
Providing all the weaponry we need to kill.
Forget Iraq;
And take your marching orders from AIPAC."Who Lost Iraq?
Where did it go, and how to get it back?"Who talks of loss at all?" ask the Mullahs in Iran.
As far as we're concerned George Bush is just The Man.
He stumbles and he bumbles then he gives away
For nothing everything for which we'd gladly pay.
Dick Cheney writes the crap for him to catapult
Who never met a thought that he could not insult
The Shiites in Iraq will get our help, indeed,
To end the occupation that they do not need.
We won Iraq
Who let Bush do the work while we sat back."Who lost Iraq?
Where did it go and how to get it back?"Who said you ever owned us?" cried the people of Iraq.
"Who asked you for your bloody war and unprovoked attack?
You seemed to think that killing us and wrecking all we had
Could win elections for George Bush and make him look less bad.
Our oil we'll sell to whom we please. Why don't you find your own?
And get yourselves a president at least a little grown.
In case you haven't noticed, he's the one that you should fear
Whose words smell like the noisome gas escaping from his rear.
Please leave Iraq
Then see if you can win your own souls back."Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright 2006
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Jun 25, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Ken T • a day agoTrump staggers through his presidency like a pinball bouncing its way through the machine - first this side, then that side, then being flipped back up to the top by a comment he hears on Fox News to start it all over again.
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Jun 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
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pablozz , 18 minutes ago link
It's hard to feel like it's a fair negotiations when Pompeo takes advantage of the all you can eat buffet
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Jun 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
OhOh , Jun 24, 2019 4:36:12 AM | 210
@ karlof1 #164"Either the United State of America is an Outlaw Nation or it is not"
The certainly fall under the definition of "Pirates", as defined by UNCLOS.
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dltravers , Jun 23, 2019 2:45:58 PM | 66
The world was one step away from a long desired war with Iran when Trump decided to strike Iran. Bolton was so exited he peed his pants and had to leave the room. With him out of the room Trump backed down.
The only thing standing between war with Iran is a set of depends. He will be wearing them next time.
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PeacefulProsperity , Jun 24, 2019 6:25:13 AM | 221
It's pretty clear to benevolent, astute geopolitical observers that Trump's threats, sword rattling, pompous statements are just smoke and mirrors to confuse the enemy - "Third Force", global Borg, NWO, international conglomerate of "Deep states", military-industrial-financial complex - and to stir up things so that the scum would rise to the top where the public eye can clearly see it and learn about it mischievous operations.
In reality no real harm has been done by President Trump to Venezuelan, Syrian, Iraqui, Iranian, or Korean societies...
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Jun 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
John Smith , Jun 24, 2019 4:10:51 AM | 208
Bolton Argues War With Iran Only Way To Avenge Americans Killed In Upcoming War With Iran -- The OnionAddressing the future casualties in a somber and often-emotional press conference, John Bolton told reporters Thursday that a war with Iran was the only way to avenge Americans killed in an upcoming war with Iran. "Sadly, I believe direct military conflict with Iran is the only suitable response for the heartbreaking deaths of our troops in that upcoming military conflict," said the national security advisor, noting that only by launching a ground invasion of the Islamic Republic could he ensure the thousands of U.S. troops who will perish in that ground invasion will not perish in vain. "It would be a dishonor to everything our brave men and women will sacrifice if we fail to send them into battle to retaliate for their eventual deaths. Then, and only then, can we truly close the book on this impending tragedy." Bolton also announced plans to issue 15 preemptive Medals of Honor to military spouses who will be widowed after losing their husbands in the 2021 Battle of Tehran.
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wagelaborer , Jun 23, 2019 6:58:07 PM | 143
Americans are worshippers of the Our Lady Of Perpetual Innocence Church, where sins, if acknowledged at all, are quickly assigned to others and then dropped down the Memory Hole, and then we go back to proclaiming ourselves the light of the world, the city on the shining hill, the hope of all mankind.And any new sins we are found to commit are quickly proclaimed unprecedented -- "Not the America I know", blamed on others, and then, once again, forgotten and our moral virginity miraculously restored.
Amen.
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Jun 24, 2019 | caitlinjohnstone.com
...Carlson's first guest, The American Conservative 's Robert Merry, plainly stated the likely reason for Bolton's deceitful manipulations, saying that Americans are typically reluctant to go to war and citing a few of the historical instances in which they were tricked into consenting to it by those who desire mass military violence.
"So, you're saying that there is a long, almost unbroken history of lying our way into war?" Carlson asked his guest rhetorically.
"Lying sometimes, not always lying, sometimes it's manipulations, but yeah," Merry replied. "America's warmaking history indicates that there's been significant instances of that kind of maneuvering, manipulations, and in some instances lying – Vietnam is a great example–to get us into wars that the American people weren't clamoring for."
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Jun 23, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
Fortress -> conanthebarbarian , 6 Mar 2012 11:01
She wrote on on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics to name but a few.
Lots of Cif commenters do that every day. Unfortunately, what they write is mostly crap.
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Mar 06, 2012 | discussion.theguardian.com
And Ayn didn't dig her way out from underneath the Iron curtain. No daring escape - she was granted an exit visa in 1925.
A staggering act of negligence for which I can never forgive the Soviets.
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Jun 23, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
NotWithoutMyMonkey , 6 Mar 2012 09:34
@Fissile
I've seen that before. Although hardly an anarcho-capitalist, my uncle in Australia; a music teacher in a private school would alway rail against unions and so-called union-power at every opportunity. The moment his job came under threat, he'd signed up for membership forthwith.
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Mar 06, 2012 | discussion.theguardian.com
murielbelcher , 6 Mar 2012 09:40
Friedrich von Hayek, one of the creed's most revered economic gurus, spent his productive years railing against government old age pension and medical insurance schemes. When he became old and infirm, he signed on for both social security and medicare.Love it. When push comes to shove all those ideologies and beliefs crumble into the dust of practical needs. Another individual who cloaked the self-interest of the rich and powerful into some kind of spurious ideology.
George wrote a rather good article about Von Hayek a few years ago I seem to remember.
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Mar 06, 2012 | discussion.theguardian.com
NotWithoutMyMonkeyIndeed! I attended a public lecture by Thomas Frank (former young conservative-now left wing) at the LSE, and he was even describing Tea Party Placards, reading: (paraphrase) 'government get your hands off my Medicare'!
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Mar 06, 2012 | discussion.theguardian.com
murielbelcher , 6 Mar 2012 09:41
PSmd , 6 Mar 2012 09:27Over the years, the Koch brothers have spent millions of dollars trying to undo both social security and medicare!AKA the founders of the egregious getting turkeys to vote for Xmas Tea Party!
It's not just Rand, seemingly, who was a hypocrite. After all, the Kochs owe their family wealth to the Stalinist USSR...
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Jun 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
But most Americans would never even hear about the Gulf of Tonkin if it wasn't for fake news sites like Babylon Bee.
The headline reads : John Bolton: 'When Has The Government Ever Lied About Attacks On Ships In A Gulf Somewhere Just To Provoke War?'
Then it offers a fake quote from Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton:
"When has the government ever lied about ships being attacked, say in a gulf somewhere, for the purpose of getting involved in another foreign conflict?" he asked. "Can you point to a single time a lie about a minor attack resulted in a major unnecessary war? No, I didn't think so," he said.
"These attacks in the Gulf of Tonk -- er, I mean, the Gulf of Oman, excuse me -- were definitely carried out by Iran, and we need to invade immediately before people start doubting the narrative."
Most Americans might not know who notorious warmonger John Bolton is.
Bolton's been creeping around DC since the Nixon administration. He was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal and was instrumental in spreading the lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
In 2002, he gave a speech revealing his war wish list which, surprise surprise , included Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria (as well as North Korea and Cuba).
What else could fake news websites help us learn about John Bolton and the American policies he has contributed to?
Here's one from the Duffelblog : Bolton cites his avoiding war in Vietnam amid criticism that he's pro-war.
"If I like war as much as you all say I do, wouldn't I have jumped at the chance to take part in one, instead of joining the reserves to avoid being deployed?" Bolton challenged reporters during a press conference on Tuesday.
Bolton went on to reference his distinguished record of not going to war, sources said. He presented reporters with a copy of his Yale 25th Reunion Book, in which he wrote that he avoided service in Vietnam because he "had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy."
That last quote from the yearbook, is actually 100% true, by the way.
The classic fake news site The Onion also took the opportunity last month to hint at the truth , in a fake sort of way, with the headline: Bleeding John Bolton Stumbles Into Capitol Building Claiming That Iran Shot Him.
And finally, one more from Babylon Bee :
If you want the truth, you may be better off getting your news from fake news websites.
You don't have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative media, and brainwashed peers.
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Jun 22, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
Demanding that the Middle Eastern nation retaliate immediately in self-defense against the existential threat posed by America's military operations, National Security Adviser John Bolton called for a forceful Iranian response Friday to continuing United States aggression.
"Iran cannot sit idly by as the American imperialist machine encroaches on their territory, threatens their sovereignty, and endangers their very way of life," said Bolton, warning that America's fanatical leadership, steadfast devotion to flexing their muscles in the region, and alleged access to nuclear weapons necessitated that Iran strike back with a vigorous show of force as soon -- and as hard -- as possible.
"The only thing these Westerners understand is violence, so it's imperative that Iran sends a clear message that they won't be walked over. Let's not forget, the U.S. defied a diplomatically negotiated treaty for seemingly no reason at all -- these are dangerous radicals that cannot be reasoned with.
They've been given every opportunity to back down, but their goal is total domination of the region, and Iran won't stand for that."
At press time, Bolton said that the only option left on the table was for Iran to launch a full-fledged military strike against the Great Satan.
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Jun 16, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
The evidence suggests that foreign policymakers do not seek insight from scholars, but rather support for what they already want to do.
As Desch quotes a World War II U.S. Navy anthropologist, "the administrator uses social science the way the drunk uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination." Scholars' disinclination to be used in this way helps explain more of the distance.
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Beowulf55 , 1 hour ago link
HowdyDoody , 1 hour ago linkWhat ever happened to the Spanish air controller who saw the intercept of a Ukrainian jet with MH 17?
Last seen boarding a Boeing 737 Max.
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Offthebeach , 1 hour ago link
"...In February, Iran allegedly hacked a U.S. drone in eastern Syria , "
The Air Force should of never used "password" for the password. Seriously.
Hacked? The com, if any, is encrypted. I say if any com to the craft because they can and are, guess what, pre programmed for their flight. No com needed. Not even GPS.
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
vienna_proxy , 1 hour ago link
snowshooze , 1 hour ago linkcan any neocons explain why America is in Syria? i like hearing twisted logic on saturday nights
Because Assad refused to contribute to the Clinton Foundation.
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Insufferably Insouciant , 15 hours ago link
"The Communist Party of China has used its access to U.S. consumer and capital markets for a predatory economic strategy... "
... which is a threat to our monopoly on such activity.
Have they no sense of irony?
DEDA CVETKO , 16 hours ago link
"The Communist Party of China has used its access to U.S. consumer and capital markets for a predatory economic strategy... "
A case of shark calling barracuda a piranha.
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
RobinG , says: June 22, 2019 at 5:54 am GMT
@lavoisier https://politics.theonion.com/u-s-claims-drone-was-minding-own-business-on-its-way-t-1835695562WASHINGTON -- Maintaining that the unmanned aerial vehicle was simply going about its day without posing a threat to anyone, U.S. Department of State officials claimed Thursday that one of their drones was minding its own business on its way to church when Iran attacked it out of nowhere. "This was an outrageous, unprovoked attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran on an innocent drone who merely wanted to attend mass in peace," said acting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, emphasizing the drone's upstanding moral character by pointing out its history of donating to charity, volunteering at soup kitchens, and making homemade cookies for school bake sales. "We're talking about a drone that sings in the church choir and coaches little league baseball games on the weekends -- an absolute pillar of the community. This is an upstanding family drone who did nothing to deserve any sort of attack. What kind of world do we live in where an innocent drone can't fly through Iranian air space on its way to church?" At press time, Department of Defense officials confirmed that their request for Iran to return the drone's body back to the U.S. for a proper burial had gone unanswered.
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Jun 21, 2019 | www.unz.com
Amused , says: June 19, 2019 at 2:50 pm GMT
It is a very lightly written article but it touches on a very sensitive nerve rather hard. I liked the entire premise of this story and have ome to agree with the writer that Americans hardly care who dies wherever as long as they can find themselves shoping goods they dont need with the money they don't have and stuffing their mouth with food they don't deserve.
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Oct 22, 2012 | www.unz.com
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!
11:43 AM 22 Oct 12 Twitter Web Client
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Jun 22, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Widowson , 21 June 2019 at 02:41 PM
I was shocked-- but not surprised-- to see visibly-pained CBS Pentagon flack David Martin on the boob tube this morning quoting an unnamed source that speculated that the reason Trump cancelled the bombing of Iran was that he got "cold-feet."Thank you, Vasili Arkhipov, for getting cold-feet, too! Madness, our nation is afflicted with madness.
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Aug 01, 2014 | discussion.theguardian.com
The1eyedman , 1 Aug 2014 10:11
...The CIA and security services have every right to know who is who on all and every politician and their staff. That's why we are safe. :-)freeandfair -> Woodby69 , 1 Aug 2014 10:04...They are so brave, they are pathologically afraid of everyone. And want to be "protected".
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Jun 16, 2019 | www.politico.com
President Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a statesman, an author, an A-level negotiator, but at heart, he's one thing: an insult comic.
Every day in D.C. is a roast, the insults and belittling nicknames wielded like tiny comedy bullets. And if you haven't seen enough of the fusillade on Twitter, all you need to do is turn on late night TV. Television comedy has a strange, symbiotic relationship with the real political world, something between a feedback loop and a funhouse mirror....
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Jun 22, 2019 | nationalinterest.org
Someone whose confidence Bolton does not enjoy is Carlson, a rival for Trump's ear. Carlson, a true believer, took to the airwaves to savage the ambassador Friday night. "John Bolton is a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm," Carlson said.
"Try as you might, you can't expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering -- but somehow never suffering himself."
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Jun 22, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Oscar Peterson , Jun 21, 2019 11:26:15 AM | 75Trump: "We were cocked & loaded"Only Trump doesn't know that the actual phrase is "locked and loaded" (or occasionally "locked and cocked.")
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interlocutor , Jun 21, 2019 6:13:43 PM | 186
The Babylon Bee: Report: Internet Users Who Call For Attacking Other Countries Will Now Be Enlisted In The Military Automaticallyhttps://babylonbee.com/img/articles/article-4404-1.jpg
U.S. -- A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.
People who bravely post about how the U.S. needs to invade some country in the Middle East or Asia or outer space will get a pop-up notice indicating they've been enlisted in the military. A recruiter will then show up at their house and whisk them away to fight in the foreign war they wanted to happen so badly.
"Frankly, recruitment numbers are down, and we needed some way to find people who are really enthusiastic about fighting wars," said a DOD official. "Then it hit us like a drone strike: there are plenty of people who argue vehemently for foreign intervention. It doesn't matter what war we're trying to create: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China---these people are always reliable supporters of any invasion abroad. So why not get them there on the frontlines?"
"After all, we want people who are passionate about occupying foreign lands, not grunts who are just there for the paycheck," he added.
Strangely, as soon as the policy was implemented, 99% of saber-rattling suddenly ceased.
Note: The Babylon Bee is the world's best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.The Babylon Bee was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago. We have been the premier news source through every major world event, from the Tower of Babel and the Exodus to the Reformation and the War of 1812. We focus on just the facts, leaving spin and bias to other news sites like CNN and Fox News.
If you would like to complain about something on our site, take it up with God.
Unlike other satire sites, everything we post is 100% verified by Snopes.com.
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Jun 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Danton's Head , Jun 20, 2019 7:44:19 PM | 183
" ..and expect Trumpstein to reveal the 911 culprits any day now ."Those dancing Iranians picked up by the FBI while celebrating and making a video of 911 are very suspicious
but more damning are those singed Iranian passports recently discovered at the site of WTC7 by son-in-law Jared. Want more proof of Iranian involvement? Dame Lindsey Graham has reported the CIA has traced the 911 box cutters back to a factory in Tehran.
Marco Rubio of Chippendale fame has revealed there are DIA recordings of incriminating phone calls from the Ayotollah to Osama high (as in hookah) in his hindu kush cave.
What more proof could any reasonable person need? This is just open and shut. We must defend ourselves against any further attacks on innocent civilians by the vicious aggressive Iranian nazis.
Note: comment above was found on Unz Review by commenter nsa, responding to a recent article by Vietnamese writer, Linh Dinh, called Mashed Potato and Another War for Israel
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brian , Jun 20, 2019 6:40:44 PM | 164
how dare Iran shoot down a US drone...thats as bad as violating a US sanctionsReally? , Jun 20, 2019 6:41:08 PM | 165
@41brian , Jun 20, 2019 6:42:10 PM | 166To me, Trump's "Iran made a mistake" is not about anything factual regarding international waters etc.
To me it sounds like a generalized bullying threat in the vein of
"You think you can shoot at us [regardless of what we do]?? How dare you? YOU ARE GONNA BE SORRY FOR DISSING THE USA, BOZOS!"
That is what I think Trump is "saying."
imagine if Iran was prowling US coast with war ships and drones, and sent 2000 troops to mexico, seeking to start a war, how would US respond?
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Jun 22, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Alligator Ed on Sat, 06/22/2019 - 1:29pm
Drum roll, pleaseWith the requisite skills of Harry Houdini, El Trumpo is wriggling out of his self-induced straight jacket.
Yay for Bolt-on and Pompous Mike.
I am surprised that only 20% of the world sees the USA as a source of trouble. Even 22% in Amerika. My vote is 100% that the US is a bully.
In the meantime, I play the drums.
dfarrah on Sat, 06/22/2019 - 9:11pm
@Alligator Ed
years ago the % was much, much higher, like close to 80. So, see how we have improved under Trump? We just keep winning and winning. Wink
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Jun 16, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Most Americans have this crazy notion that the U.S. government's primary responsibility is to the security and welfare of the United States, and Brooks wants you to know that he does not like it.
He notes that there aren't many Americans that identify with what he calls traditional internationalism:
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Jun 20, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
In a pointed critique of President Trump's foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that "the American people deserve a president who can more credibly justify war with Iran."
"What the American people need is a president who can make a much more convincing case for going to war with Iran," said Schumer (D-NY), adding that the Trump administration's corruption and dishonesty have "proven time and time again" that it lacks the conviction necessary to act as an effective cheerleader for the conflict.
"Donald Trump is completely unfit to assume the mantle of telling the American people what they need to hear in order to convince them a war with Iran is a good idea.
One of the key duties of the president is to gain the trust of the people so that they feel comfortable going along with whatever he says. President Trump's failure to serve as a credible advocate for this war is yet another instance in which he has disappointed not only his colleagues in Washington, but also the entire nation."
Schumer later concluded his statement with a vow that he and his fellow Democrats will continue working toward a more palatable case in favor of bombing Iran.
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Jun 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
We now know that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. We now know that the crushing of Libya had nothing to do with "stopping a bad man."
If one does even a cursory check of what dictators around the world are up to recently, you'll find that the U.S. doesn't care in the slightest whether they are bad or good, whether they're using their free time to kill thousands of innocent people or to harmonize their rock garden.
In fact, the U.S. gives military aid to 70 percent of the world's dictators . (One would hope that's only around the holidays though.)
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Jun 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Why won't Obama live in Chicago?
JD Rock , 2 hours ago link
too much diversity...
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Jun 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
ken , Jun 19, 2019 3:57:37 PM | 23
..Trump HAS drained the swamp,,, right into his administration.
Look at what we in the US have to look forward to,,, tyrants on the left,,, tyrants on the right. I suppose we deserve this but it doesn't do well for my blood pressure.
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Apr 12, 2019 | counterpunch.org
Mueller looks more and more like a man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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Jun 18, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
TheLastMan , 1 hour ago link
lobro , 1 hour ago linkI think i know who killed Jesus
yes, Pontius Pilates passport was found under the cross.
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Jun 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
dus7 , Jun 18, 2019 4:31:33 PM | 23
Trump's list of Most Unsuitable Candidates for Higher Office is getting perilously short.james , Jun 18, 2019 4:12:29 PM | 19Assuming our most famous U.S. billionaire capitalists are not interested, what are Cheney and Condoleezza doing these days?
Erik Prince? Some aging Grand Wizard of the KKK? A random death row inmate?
The mind boggles.
b - thanks.. no speculation is too great! this reminds me of shuffling chairs on the deck of the titanic before it hits a major iceberg..
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Jun 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Norwegian , Jun 18, 2019 3:52:24 PM | 14
Purely euphemistic of course, though it actually did used to be called the Department of War.
Norwegian , Jun 18, 2019 3:52:24 PM | 15
It is unlikely that the U.S. would launch a war without a Secretary of Defense in place.Well, they are not exactly planning to defend themselves.
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Jun 17, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Notafanoyall • a day agoMr. Cotton must be running low on those AIPAC dollars again. Nothing like some good ol' Iran-bashing to keep the coffers full.
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Jun 16, 2019 | www.strategic-culture.org
And now we wait the all-time bad joke, the so-called 'Deal of the Century,' which Trump and his boys hope will get rich Arabs to buy off poor Palestinians in exchange for giving up lots more land to Israel.
It's hard to think of a bigger or more shameful betrayal by Arabs of fellow Arabs, or a more stupid policy by the US. But, of course, it's not a made-in-the-USA policy at all.
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Jun 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Trump's Trade Threats are really Cold War 2.0 by Michael Hudson
President Trump has threatened China's President Xi that if they don't meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its tariff war and economic sanctions against Chinese exports and technology.
Some meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders will indeed take place, but it cannot be anything like a real negotiation. Such meetings normally are planned in advance, by specialized officials working together to prepare an agreement to be announced by their heads of state. No such preparation has taken place, or can take place. Mr. Trump doesn't delegate authority.
He opens negotiations with a threat. That costs nothing, and you never know (or at least, he never knows) whether he can get a freebee. His threat is that the U.S. can hurt its adversary unless that country agrees to abide by America's wish-list. But in this case the list is so unrealistic that the media are embarrassed to talk about it. The US is making impossible demands for economic surrender – that no country could accept.
What appears on the surface to be only a trade war is really a full-fledged Cold War 2.0.
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China has a great sweetener that I think President Xi Jinping should offer: It can nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. We know that he wants what his predecessor Barack Obama got. And doesn't he deserve it more? After all, he is helping to bring Eurasia together, driving China and Russia into an alliance with neighboring counties, reaching out to Europe.
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Jun 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Trump's Trade Threats are really Cold War 2.0 by Michael Hudson
President Trump has threatened China's President Xi that if they don't meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its tariff war and economic sanctions against Chinese exports and technology.
Some meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders will indeed take place, but it cannot be anything like a real negotiation. Such meetings normally are planned in advance, by specialized officials working together to prepare an agreement to be announced by their heads of state. No such preparation has taken place, or can take place. Mr. Trump doesn't delegate authority.
He opens negotiations with a threat. That costs nothing, and you never know (or at least, he never knows) whether he can get a freebee. His threat is that the U.S. can hurt its adversary unless that country agrees to abide by America's wish-list. But in this case the list is so unrealistic that the media are embarrassed to talk about it. The US is making impossible demands for economic surrender – that no country could accept.
What appears on the surface to be only a trade war is really a full-fledged Cold War 2.0.
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China has a great sweetener that I think President Xi Jinping should offer: It can nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. We know that he wants what his predecessor Barack Obama got. And doesn't he deserve it more? After all, he is helping to bring Eurasia together, driving China and Russia into an alliance with neighboring counties, reaching out to Europe.
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Jun 15, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Clyde Schechter, says: June 14, 2019 at 4:58 pm
Back in the 1960's as the Cuban missile crisis was brewing, JFK conferred with then French president Charles DeGaulle and offered to show him the reconnaissance pictures showing the Russian missiles in Cuba. DeGaulle is said to have replied "No, I do not need to see pictures. The word of the President of the United States is enough."It's impossible to imagine anyone saying that today, unless they still believe in the tooth fairy.
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Jun 15, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
snoopydawg on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 5:01pm
Pluto's Republic on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 5:25pmSo a flaming Russia conspiracist is going to moderate the first Democratic presidential debates. What a joke https://t.co/6QWPrS2cZk
-- Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 11, 2019
Scenes we'd like to see:Anyone want to bet that she will ask someone a question about what they will do to keep Russia from interfering with the election again?
I would love to see that. All answers will be the wrong answer.
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Jun 15, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Pluto's Republic on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 6:30pm
He's starting to give me Reagan flash-backs.snoopydawg on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 7:27pmHe can keep his tax returns. I want to see a brain scan. You know, of all the things to call CT, I would advise against the Ukraine portfolio. It's been vetted by US intelligence, for starters. That's why we won't issue travel Visas to the Ukrainian attorneys involved.
"Biden didn't throw down an ultimatum"to Ukraine. Nope. He just said that he would withhold the $1 billion that we promised them if they didn't fire the prosecutor who was going after his son. This sure seems to sound like an ultimatum to me.
The other reason why the Ukraine attorneys won't be allowed here is because they might expose how Hillary got them to play along with Russia Gate. And those charges against Manafort? Obama knew all about that in 2014 , but he decided to hold on to them just in case he needed them down the road.
The thing is that Manafort was trying to get Yanukovich to take the EU deal instead of the Russian one. But again I want to know when Podesta is going to be charged for doing the same things that Manafort did? Oh yeah he's in the Clinton side of things.
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Jun 14, 2019 | www.unz.com
Every time you think the corporatocracy's manufactured anti-Semitism hysteria cannot possibly get more absurd, they somehow manage to outdo themselves. OK, stay with me now, because this is a weird one.
Apparently, American Hitler and his cronies are conspiring with some secret group of "Jewish leaders" to stop British Hitler from becoming prime minister and wiping out all the Jews in Great Britain. Weird, right? But that's not the weird part, because maybe American Hitler wants to wipe out all the Jews in Great Britain himself, rather than leaving it to British Hitler Hitlers being notoriously jealous regarding their genocidal accomplishments.
No, the weird part is that everyone knows that American Hitler does not make a move without the approval of Russian Hitler, who is also obsessed with wiping out the Jews, and with destroying the fabric of Western democracy. So why would Russian Hitler want to let American Hitler and his goons thwart the ascendancy of British Hitler, who, in addition to wanting to wipe out all the Jews, also wants to destroy democracy by fascistically refunding the NHS, renationalizing the rail system, and so on?
Kirt says: June 13, 2019 at 2:40 pm GMT Very logical analysis! Obviously the work of a racist, anti-Semite, white, male, patriarchalist, Putin-puppet. Did I forget homophobic? That too!
SteveK9 , says: June 13, 2019 at 11:17 pm GMT
This is a classic, even for Hopkins. In the US most people cannot really comprehend that, if by some miracle, Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard became President, the same relentless attack visited on Trump by the 'Deep State' would be directed at them as well. It doesn't matter that they are very different from Trump. This article (in hilarious fashion) explains that perfectly.Biff , says: June 14, 2019 at 2:41 am GMTIt's Godwin's law to the third power!nomorexcuse , says: June 14, 2019 at 12:24 pm GMTWho cares who "controls the world" C.J.???The only relevant fact in the case of the U.K. (and Washington D.C.) is "Which lobby directly interferes with the governance of the country"?
It's the Israel lobby – doh!
Do stop trying to complicate and apologize for a disgraceful state of affairs. The parasitic Israel lobby needs to be monitored and called out wherever it finds a host.
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Jun 14, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Isotope_C14 , June 12, 2019 at 4:37 pm
Interestingly enough:
"Comedian Jon Stewart assails Congress for ignoring 9/11 first responders fund"
Yeah, because he realizes jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
Perhaps he had a welding job before comedy?
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Jun 14, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
John Smith , Jun 13, 2019 8:10:09 PM | 173
Trump may be God's chosen one to save the Jewish people from "the Iranian menace," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed in a baffling interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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uncle tungsten , Jun 13, 2019 5:40:39 PM | 149
There will be an inquiry, they will find either of the following:
- a bomb fragment with a hammer and sickle on it and blame Russia describing it as a buk bomb
- a bomb fragment with an Iranian graphic on it and blame Russia
- a bomb fragment with 'made in USA' on it and blame Russia
The inquiry will be very meticulous and comprise only Ukranian and USA personnel plus one clown from the OPCW.Regardless of all that, the price of oil will rise and the frackers and shale oil miners in the USA will get some relief. Trump will blame the price hike on the Iranians so his republican voters stick to him and never notice Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard.
Its a Skripal puzzle so remain calm.
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Jun 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Dr Anon , 17 minutes ago link
Anunnaki , 46 minutes ago linkI had no idea it was so expensive to run a party of losers.
Time to hit up Hellary for another loan?
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Jun 13, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Realignment and Legitimacy
"House Democrats propose $4,500 pay raise for Congress" [ Politico ]. • Remember when Nancy Pelosi was going to pass the $15-an-hour minimum wage in the first hundred hours -- not days, hours -- after the Democrats took power? Good times.
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Jun 13, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Our Famously Free..."MSNBC and New York Times at odds over reporter appearances on Maddow" [ CNN ]. "New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and MSNBC president Phil Griffin met last week amid tensions between their two news organizations. But the lengthy lunch did not resolve the issues at hand, according to four sources with knowledge of the sit-down. The executives remain at an impasse. The specific issue is about television appearances by Times reporters on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show .
The dust-up dates back to May 30, when Vanity Fair caused a ruckus by reporting that Times management wants reporters to 'steer clear of any cable-news shows that the masthead perceives as too partisan.' 'The Rachel Maddow Show' is evidently one of those shows [ incroyable! ] -- and Maddow is not happy about it.
The prime time host prides herself on her support for newspaper journalists Complicating matters further: Numerous Times reporters are also paid contributors to MSNBC and CNN. For example, Matthew Rosenberg and Mark Mazzetti of The Times, who are also paid by CNN, have both appeared on 'CNN Tonight' in recent days. CNN declined to comment on the booking relationship with The Times."
• It's impossible for me to understand how the beacons of integrity at the Times could appear in a cesspit like The Rachel Maddow Show. T
These are strange times.
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Jun 11, 2019 | www.thecut.com
Daxster 6 hours ago
Why have any moderators? They should have an auctioneer instead. He'll quickly determine who is willing to offer us the biggest bribes with our own money, in exchange for a vote.
And we'll learn how many different ways can one say "FREE! FREE! FREE!" 5 hours ago
XXX:
"The questions will be available for a small fee?"
DJTDaxster, 5 hours ago
What's Donna Brazile selling over in the corner?
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Jun 11, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Temporarily Sane , June 11, 2019 at 10:36 am
Wait, I thought the Russians are the defacto 4th Reich using unprecedented 5D chess tactics to undermine Our Democracy at every turn? Well thank God our rusty but trusty 5 Eyes and the Rules Based Global Order outed the diabolically devious Chinese so we know who the real culprit behind all our problems is. As Steve Bannon might have said, beware the Red Chinaman for he is not like us.
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Jun 10, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Bam_Man , 3 hours ago link
Greenspazm , 1 hour ago linkOne year ago, EVERYBODY was a bond "bear", predicting a long string of rate hikes that would bring Fed Funds up to 4.50%.
They were ALL wrong. VERY wrong.
They are probably just as wrong now that they are bond "bulls".
Bam_Man , 1 hour ago linkNo, if you use kimble charting technical analysis you will get very rich.
Undoubtedly.
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Jun 10, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Timothy Hagios , 09 June 2019 at 01:49 PM
On the bright side, if ever there were a candidate who might be inclined to rethink our relationship with the Saudis, it's Buttigieg.Oh, who am I kidding? He would be given a lavish reception in Riyadh, where he would deliver a speech thanking our Saudi allies for leading the brave fight against "Iranian homophobia."
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Jun 09, 2019 | www.youtube.com
dad moditch , 1 week agoIs that the same Mueller who lied to congress that Iraqi had WMD'S ?
After investigating Robert Mueller and although there is no evidence to convict or indict. It has become apparent that without concert evidence it is possible that Mueller may have committed crimes against humanity. It is also possible that further investigation may reveal that he is a Russian spy.
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Jun 08, 2019 | unz.com
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Jun 09, 2019 | www.unz.com
If the Jews have designs for world dominance, their plans had suffered a setback due to the petty rivalry of Israeli politicians. Now this minor setback threatens to upset the whole master plan. For the want of a nail the kingdom is lost. A small mistake can have great consequences; so said Eugene Scribe of a glass of water that it had ended too long a war.
'The minor setback' was the failure of Bibi Netanyahu to form his new government after successful election campaign. 'The great consequences' are the collapse of the ambitious Kushner/Trump's Deal of the Century. Russia's alliance with Israel looks less certain; and beyond that, the coronation of Messiah, the Jewish king and the world's foremost spiritual authority seems to be postponed indefinitely. Like in domino effect, these plans began to fail, one after another.
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Jun 07, 2019 | dissidentvoice.org
While the continued mental assault on what is left of public consciousness still features the idiot fiction of Russiagate, or how the evil Putin arranged to trash our great American democracy and defeat holy mother Hillary on behalf of cursed father Donald, the month of June offered not one but two major fictional treatments of historic reality to further reduce innocent minds to enslaved mentalities.The fables of D-Day, celebrated every year in glorification of a war actually won by the Soviet Union but taught as America's gift to the global marketplace, and the unholy terror alleged by evil China in the infamous Tiananmen uprising treated here as a story worthy of creation by Disney, Spielberg, Mother Goose and Ronald Reagan combined.
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Jun 08, 2019 | www.informationclearinghouse.info
... ... ...
... The latest tweets reveal a feud between actress Bette Midler and him.
The origin of the feud is a quote that she attributed to him and that she shared with her 1.53 million Twitter followers that said,
"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific."
After Midler shared the quote it was proved to be a fake. When she realized her mistake, Midler tweeted,
"I apologize; turns out to be a fake from way back in '15-16. Don't know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!"
Trump responded with characteristic acerbity. He called Midler a "washed-up psycho" who
"was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make 'your great president' look really bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!"
The reader cannot fail to have read the words in the paragraph before 'your great president,' as if Trump was referring to another person, not to himself. Anybody else in a similar situation would have written, " in order to make me look bad." Not Donald Trump...
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Jun 08, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ace , says: June 7, 2019 at 1:20 pm GMT
@Tired of Not Winning... As a wag on ZeroHedge observed, Trump has spent more time at the Wailing Wall than on our southern border.
And while every month 100,000 invaders are released into the interior of the US.
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Jun 08, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
The Soviets, eager to show that the camps are actually rather nice if you think about it sent Maxim Gorky to investigate. He was newly-returned to the Soviet Union and probably disinclined to rock the boat which currently supplied him with some vast apartment and a dacha (irrelevantly, haven't we all sort of wanted a dacha? They sound great. Perhaps Trump will get one eventually.)
[In summer 1929] The rumor reached Solovki before Gorky himself -- and the prisoner's hearts beat faster and the guards hustled and bustled. One has to know prisoners in order to imagine their anticipation! The falcon, the stormy petrel was about, to swoop down on the nest of injustice, violence, and secrecy. The leading Russian writer! He will give them hell! He will show them! He, the father, will defend! They awaited his coming almost as a universal amnesty.The chiefs were alarmed, too; as much as possible they hid the monstrosities and polished things up for show. and they set up a "boulevard" of fir trees without roots, which were simply pushed down into the ground (they only had to last a few days without withering.) It led to the Children's Colony
Only in Kem was there an oversight. On Popov Island the steamer Gleb Boky was being loaded by prisoners in underwear and sacks when Gorky's retinue appeared out of nowhere to embark on that steamer! You inventors and thinkers! Here is a worthy problem for you given that, as the saying goes, every wise man has enough of the fool in him: a barren island, not one bush, no possible cover -- and right there, at a distance of 300 yards, Gorky's retinue has shown up. Your solution? Where can this disgraceful spectacle -- these men dressed in sacks -- be hidden? The entire journey of the great Humanist will have been for naught if he sees them now. Well, of course, he will try hard not to notice them, but help him! Drown them in the sea? They will wail and flounder. Bury them in the earth? There's no time. No, only a worthy son of the Archipelago could find a way out of this one. The work assigner ordered, "Stop work! Close ranks! Still closer! Sit down on the ground! Sit still!" And a tarpaulin was thrown over them. "Anyone who moves will be shot!"
oldster 05.31.19 at 11:26 am (no link)
Fascinating stuff, Belle. Makes me wonder whether I speak from above or below the tarp.Aardvark Cheeselog 05.31.19 at 1:06 pm ( 2 )But who is the author of the long quotation?
@1 I'm pretty sure that passage is from volume 1 of Gulag Archipelago .SusanC 06.01.19 at 11:26 am (no link)Yep, see here , p65.
It would seem that the current US wouldn't bother with the tarp, in most cases .e.g. We all know about GITMO.dilbert dogbert 05.31.19 at 6:34 pm (no link)I shared this with the US Border Patrol. They needed advice on how to use tarps when reporters, congress critters and mr rump visits the kids cages.
The US Navy uses tarps very effectively.
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Jun 08, 2019 | www.informationclearinghouse.info
... ... ...
... The latest tweets reveal a feud between actress Bette Midler and him.
The origin of the feud is a quote that she attributed to him and that she shared with her 1.53 million Twitter followers that said,
"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific."
After Midler shared the quote it was proved to be a fake. When she realized her mistake, Midler tweeted,
"I apologize; turns out to be a fake from way back in '15-16. Don't know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!"
Trump responded with characteristic acerbity. He called Midler a "washed-up psycho" who
"was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make 'your great president' look really bad. She got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!"
The reader cannot fail to have read the words in the paragraph before 'your great president,' as if Trump was referring to another person, not to himself. Anybody else in a similar situation would have written, " in order to make me look bad." Not Donald Trump...
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Jun 07, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Michael Weddington , Jun 7, 2019 11:46:11 AM | 10
The US is an exceptional country and takes exception to the law of the sea.John Smith , Jun 7, 2019 11:47:50 AM | 11
Posted by: Michael Weddington | Jun 7, 2019 11:46:11 AM | 10The US is an exceptional country and takes exception to the law of the sea.
---------------------The law of the sea only?
b4real | Jun 7, 2019 8:23:41 PM | 84
OK, I'll post it then....
This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
b4real
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Jun 06, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Harry Law , Jun 6, 2019 10:36:53 AM | 17
Zachary Smith , Jun 6, 2019 12:01:15 PM | 25"I made a significant error in my April 16 profile of Gina Haspel. It took a while to figure out where I went wrong".It was only when I found the horses head next to me in bed when I woke up, that I realized what a stupid mistake I had made.
@ Jay | Jun 6, 2019 8:37:49 AM @8goldhoarder , Jun 6, 2019 12:44:22 PM | 28So Julian Barnes is a well established liar.I'm glad I checked to see if anyone had mentioned this hack's article about Russia restarting nuclear testing. Using his name as one search item I tried a number of current issues. Like the fellows at local intersections holding up signs "will work for money", Barnes might as well have a tattoo saying "I'll write anything if the price is right".
That it took so long to come up with a half-assed "explanation" shows he's not the brightest bulb in the lamp. I suppose people whose jobs consist of slightly re-writing Deep State dictation don't have to be especially clever.
Julian Barnes is like Winston Smith without the intellectual curiosity. He quote happily goes about his work. lol. What is the matter with you people? You are supposed to embrace the new narrative!bjd , Jun 6, 2019 1:32:38 PM | 32From wikidpeida...
A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.[1][2] The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potentially embarrassing historical documents, in effect, re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda. These changes were complete and undetectable.
Julian E. Barnes' humble confession (a self-incrimination) sounds like one made in a Gulag.Ort , Jun 6, 2019 3:10:53 PM | 39This is clearly a case of closing the Barnes door after the ducks have bolted.
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Jun 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
JohnnyAmerica , 1 hour ago link
"Iran and its central bank use deceptive financial practices and haven't implemented minimum global safeguards against money laundering and terrorism financing, according to Bloomberg." This is akin to Stalin telling Mao to be nicer to his citizens.
Pot kettle black. No nation will ever be sovereign until the International Banking Tyrants and their relatives to the third cousin receive a very public guillotine haircut.
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Jun 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
besnook , 1 hour ago link
if the country was run by shoe shine boys there would be shoe shine palaces on every corner and a law requiring everyone to get a shoeshine 3 times/day.
the usa is run by banksters. you get the result described.
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Jun 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Volga German , 24 minutes ago
whatafmess , 23 minutes agoHow do I volunteer to be a member of the firing squad...anyone????
Volga German , 18 minutes agofiring squad is too civilized for those two, should go medieval on them...
But I'm too old to wield a headsman's axe!
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Jun 02, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
ben , Jun 2, 2019 8:03:39 PM | 34
P.S. The reality "show" of impeachment hearings, is the only vehicle that can counter the reality "show" that is the DJT regime...
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Jun 02, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zachary Smith , Jun 2, 2019 3:50:32 PM | 9
We have a fair number of RNC trolls here, and it'll be interesting if they embrace this one. More likely they'll hunker down and pretend it's not happening.
The Trumpies have already had some success in other areas:
Sharp drop in international student visas worries some US colleges by Parija Kavilanz @CNNMoney March 14, 2018: 10:16 AM ET
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Jun 02, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zachary Smith , Jun 2, 2019 4:24:21 PM | 16
Headline
Trump denies calling Meghan Markle 'nasty' despite comments being recordedPerhaps one of the Trump groupies will explain this aspect of being a Stable Genius.
NemesisCalling , Jun 2, 2019 7:04:39 PM | 25
@ zachary 16
C'mon, we all know that Trump is perfectly capable of making those kinds of remarks even without being goaded into them.
In this case, Markle made suggestions during Trump's run in 2016 that he was misogynistic and divisive. And Trump always repays those remarks by giving people the whatfor. It's a nothing-burger but of course the MSM is going to take the Royals side, a bleeding Monarchy, over a duly-elected President.
Typical of them, but let's play up to snuff around here and disregard this kind of "throw anything at the guy and see if it sticks" stuff.
I don't even know why I got roped into commenting on this.
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May 31, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Victor , May 30, 2019 3:12:19 PM | 10
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'...and this is in The Guardian and not The Onion:
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May 31, 2019 | www.unz.com
Franklin Ryckaert says: May 31, 2019 at 7:39 pm GMT
The "Deal of the Century" in one picture :
I.e. Jews negotiating with Jews negotiating with Jews negotiating with Jews about peace with the Palestinians who have not been invited. Will work !
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May 31, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
NUGGETS FROM THE STUPIDITY MINE.
A Beluga whale that hangs around people ; exactly the behaviour you'd expect from one of Putin's spy whales ! The NYT, welded to the lie, opines that Barr's inquiry might expose a "person close to Mr. Putin" . Oops!
NYT, you just did (shows that they don't even read the handouts they re-type). English needs a new vocabulary for the concept of "stupid".
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May 31, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
john , May 31, 2019 6:01:58 AM | 60
even though we've pretty much established that the cia is running the show, i share this link with some reluctance. by default i just don't trust any of these people, though in this case it is very clear that these treasonous crimes against the State have indeed been committed (yes, Circe, they have).
but how many opportunities to prosecute treasonous activity have we seen come and go over the years and decades without delivering even a semblance of accountability?
a lifetime smoking opium might well be more rewarding than a lifetime smoking hopium.
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May 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
JoeG , May 30, 2019 2:56:46 PM | 8Robert Mueller is a pedophile
We can't prove it false, so it must be true.
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May 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
bSirius , May 29, 2019 6:03:11 PM | 4
Mueller is like sending a kid to the store to buy Lifesavers. He spends forty million dollars and comes home with no Lifesavers.
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May 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Mark2 , May 30, 2019 4:40:05 AM | 2
Trump is just a bloody clown and maybe the American people deserve hold.
The American people are 'exceptional' in there delusional degenerate greed.
Here is a clip from the speaker of the U.K. House of Commons (a Tory)This is what the world think of you and him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP0c6smM_NM
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May 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
GeorgeV , May 29, 2019 5:24:48 PM | 9
After reading numerous articles on "Russia gate," the 2016 presidential election and the rise of Generalissimo Bone Spur and President Chief Kaiser to the US presidency, Donald Trump, the 19th century British political historian and thinker Lord Acton summed it all up best; namely "never underestimate the influence of stupidity on history." What else is there to say?
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May 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Don Bacon , May 30, 2019 2:18:06 PM | 118
The US has been demanding UN-supervised elections in Syria. I think Syria should return the favor and demand UN-supervised elections in the US.
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May 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
HRClinton , 1 hour ago link
Savvy , 1 hour ago linkThe issue isn't just SWIFT. It's "access to US markets".
Sayanim Pompeo is threatening them with the nuclear option: Financial MAD.
Bibbi doesn't mind.
HRClinton , 1 hour ago linkTrump seems to think he's CEO of the planet and all the countries are just different departments of his corporation. Doesn't work like that Donny.
It's worse than that. Thump thinks that Bibi is Chairman of the Board, and Adelson is a Senior Board Member of a small (((Board))).
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May 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
beenlauding , 1 minute ago link
America will never be safe as long as 12 genius Slavs are able to subvert our entire election with $100 of ad phishing!!!
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May 29, 2019 | news.sky.com
GCHQ has dismissed fresh allegations that it spied on Donald Trump's presidential campaign - describing the claims as "utterly ridiculous".
Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, has accused the British intelligence agency of helping Barack Obama by spying on the billionaire businessman during the 2016 race.
The US president tweeted about the rumours on Wednesday after they were highlighted in a report on the right-wing One America News Network.
Mr Trump wrote: "'Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson accuses United Kingdom Intelligence of helping Obama Administration Spy on the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign.' @OANN WOW!
"It is now just a question of time before the truth comes out, and when it does, it will be a beauty!"
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May 28, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
alamac , 25 minutes ago link
"Comey Slams Trump's FBI Probe: 'There Was No Coup, These Are Lies, Dumb Lies'"
"Comey Slams Trump's FBI Probe: 'Please, No, I'd Look Terrible in an Orange Jumpsuit'"
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May 24, 2019 | theregister.co.uk
Re: Airbus & ChinaMichael H.F. Wilkinson , 1 daya pinheadThat's overly generous.
Re: Airbus & ChinaMichael H.F. WilkinsonPin head ? The other end of the pin would be ample space
Re: Airbus & China"Just trade wars?"
Well to be fair to him (sarcasm off), he was aware enough of the Vietnam war to avoid going there on 5 occasions
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May 24, 2019 | theregister.co.uk
Pick your poison
The USA isn't annoyed at Huawei spying, they are annoyed that Huawei isn't spying for them . If you don't use Huawei who would you use instead? Cisco? Yes, just open up and let the NSA ream your ports. Oooo, filthy.
If you don't know the chip design, can't verify the construction, don't know the code and can't verify the deployment to the hardware; you are already owned.
The only question is, but which state actor; China, USA, Israel, UK.....? Anonymous Coward
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May 24, 2019 | theregister.co.uk
" The Trump administration, backed by US cyber defense experts, believes that Huawei equipment can't be trusted " .. as distinct from Cisco which we already have backdoored :]
Sir Runcible SpoonRe: Huawei equipment can't be trusted?Didn't someone once say "I don't trust anyone who can't be bribed"?
Not sure why that popped into my head.
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May 24, 2019 | theregister.co.uk
How is it that that can be a point of contention ? Name me one country in this world that doesn't favor local companies.
These
peoplecompany representatives who are complaining about local favoritism would be howling like wolves if Huawei was given favor in the US over any one of them.I'm not saying that there are no reasons to be unhappy about business with China, but that is not one of them. 6 0 Reply
Re: "deal with longstanding issues like government favoritism toward local companies"STOP_FORTH , 1 dayName me one country in this world that doesn't favor local companies.
I'll give you two: Liechtenstein and Vatican City, though admittedly neither has a lot of local companies.
Re: "deal with longstanding issues like government favoritism toward local companies"Kabukiwookie , 1 dayDoesn't Liechtenstein make most of the dentures in the EU. Try taking a bite out of that market.
Re: "deal with longstanding issues like government favoritism toward local companies"A.P. Veening , 14 hrsHow can you leave Andorra out of that list?
Re: "deal with longstanding issues like government favoritism toward local companies"While you are at it, how can you leave Monaco and San Marino out of that list?
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May 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
monty42 , 44 minutes ago link
"Just need Trump re-elected, then he can really stick it to the so-called deep state." R zombie voter.
"Obama's going to close Guantanamo, just needs a second term to get everything done." D zombie voter.
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May 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
CaptainMoonlight , 41 minutes ago link
monty42 , 31 minutes ago linkHang those traitors before the People do.
Problem is, you can't expect traitors to hang traitors.
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May 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Gold Banit , 40 minutes ago link
Bend over you American sheep (people) and smile as your Masters (politicians) are going to **** you up the *** again...Fact
I hope I am wrong but nobody will get charged or go to jail, both parties are joined at the hip and are above the law....Fact
Welcome to America, the home of the dumb naive brainwashed and just ******* stupid....Fact
The USA!
The USA Is The Most Corrupt Lying Nation On The Planet....Fact
Hillary Clinton will never be charged and will never go to jail...Fact
The USA was behind 911....Fact
The USA did not land a man on the Moon....Fact
Half of the USA can't read...Fact
Half of the USA is dumb naive brainwashed and stupid....Fact
Half of the USA still think that Russians voted in the 2016 election...Fact
Half of the USA think that Hillary Clinton is their President...Fact
Half of the USA can't find USA on a map...Fact
The USA has the most fat ugly people on the planet.....Fact
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May 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
onebornfree , says: • Website May 22, 2019 at 4:03 pm GMT
@onebornfree "They get us into wars and never get us out. They get us into debt and never get us out. They want to run your life, but couldn't run a lemonade stand."And they laugh at us?
They're the establishment, the powers that be–call them what you will. Guided by the unshakeable belief that they're entitled to rule, they've made a holy mess of America and the world. Their Ivy League credentials only confirm that degrees are often bestowed on idiots.
In the Kingdom of Lies, ruled by the Arrogant and the Absurd, truth is an enemy. So are satire and humor. If the pompous proclamations and inevitable ineptitude of these bozos leave you unsure whether to laugh, cry, or emigrate, why not laugh? .":
You Should Be Laughing At Them!:
https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/05/15/you-should-be-laughing-at-them-58/
Regards, onebornfree
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May 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
Provoking a disastrous worldwide confrontation with mighty China by seizing and imprisoning one of its leading technology executives reminds me of a comment I made several years ago about America's behavior under the rule of its current political elites:
Or to apply a far harsher biological metaphor, consider a poor canine infected with the rabies virus. The virus may have no brain and its body-weight is probably less than one-millionth that of the host, but once it has seized control of the central nervous system, the animal, big brain and all, becomes a helpless puppet.
Once friendly Fido runs around foaming at the mouth, barking at the sky, and trying to bite all the other animals it can reach. Its friends and relatives are saddened by its plight but stay well clear, hoping to avoid infection before the inevitable happens, and poor Fido finally collapses dead in a heap.
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May 22, 2019 | www.rt.com
We should actually be a bit grateful to Prince Mohammed since without him America would clearly have the most insane government anywhere in the world. As it stands, we're merely tied for first.
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May 21, 2019 | www.unz.com
mike k , says: May 20, 2019 at 3:02 pm GMT@ABC 123 You got that dead right ABC 123. The evil group in the shadows that really runs the government is called "the intelligence community." Some community! More like a giant Mafia.
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May 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
BitchesBetterRecognize , 28 minutes ago link
So we went from Russia meddling to China meddling? Really? Is that the new normal in Politics campaigning strategy nowadays?
what's next: Iran meddling? Turkey Meddling? Venezuelan Meddling?
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May 18, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
VietnamVet , 16 May 2019 at 03:33 PM
...China's retail sales are now greater than America's. Since the US declared an economic war, GM will have to drop Buick and Cadillac brands and market their cars in China as Chinese. But "Face" likely will make that ploy unsuccessful.
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May 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
dh , May 18, 2019 12:06:33 AM | link
Excuse the interruption. John Bolton has been shot!!!"WASHINGTON -- Bursting through the Congressional chamber doors while moaning and clutching his shoulder, John Bolton reportedly stumbled into the Capitol building Friday claiming that he'd been shot by Iran."
https://politics.theonion.com/bleeding-john-bolton-stumbles-into-capitol-building-cla-1834847900
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May 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Originally from: What Putin And Pompeo Did Not Talk About
chunga , 2 hours ago link
Reading this makes me think US diplomats are most favorably measured by the pound.
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May 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
A used crack pipe, two DC driver's licenses, multiple credit cards, a Delaware Attorney General badge and a US Secret Service business card belonging to Hunter Biden were found in a rental car returned to an Arizona Hertz location in the middle of the night, days before the 2016 presidential election, according to Breitbart , which obtained an exclusive copy of the police report.
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May 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
That brings to mind the recent Arctic Council summit. Both Lavrov and Pompeo were there. Here's a significant exchange:
Lavrov: I believe you don't represent the South American region, do you?
Pompeo: We represent the entire hemisphere.
Lavrov: Oh, the hemisphere. Then what's the US doing in the Eastern Hemisphere, in Ukraine, for instance?
There was no response from Pompeo.
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May 16, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Warren:
"Our military can help lead the fight in combating climate change" [Elizabeth Warren, Medium ]. "In short, climate change is real, it is worsening by the day, and it is undermining our military readiness. And instead of meeting this threat head-on, Washington is ignoring it -- and making it worse .
That's why today I am introducing my Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act to harden the U.S. military against the threat posed by climate change, and to leverage its huge energy footprint as part of our climate solution.
It starts with an ambitious goal: consistent with the objectives of the Green New Deal, the Pentagon should achieve net zero carbon emissions for all its non-combat bases and infrastructure by 2030 ..
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May 16, 2019 | www.unz.com
The Disinformationists, by C.J. Hopkins - The Unz Review
...what motive would they possibly have, these enormous corporate media conglomerates, and the transnational corporations that own them, and these intelligence agencies, and their fronts and cutouts, and corporate lobbyists and PR firms, and councils, and think tanks, and research institutes, to disinform the Western masses, or to manufacture an official narrative that allows them to systematically stigmatize, marginalize, criminalize, deplatform, demonetize, and otherwise eliminate any type of speech they deem to be "Russian disinformation," or "extremist content," or a "conspiracy theory," or simply too "dangerous," "divisive," or "confusing" to circulate among the general public?
No see? That makes no sense. That's just an example of the type of fascist disinformation these Putin-Nazi disinformationists are trying to spread to confuse us to the point where we can't even concentrate long enough to think anymore, or parse the meaningless jargon-laden nonsense they're trying to deceive us with, and just devolve into these Pavlovian imbeciles conditioned to respond to specific trigger words, like "extremist," "terrorist," "fascist," "populist," "anti-Semitic," "Russians," "hackers," and whatever other emotional stimuli we are being trained to instantly recognize and robotically react to like circus animals.
Or I don't know, maybe it isn't. I'm not even sure what I'm trying to say. Probably they've already got to me. I'd better get back down into my anti-disinformation bunker, pull up The Guardian , or The Washington Post , or Der Spiegel on my child-proof computer, and immerse myself in some objective journalism, before the Putin-Nazi spywhale makes its way up the Landwehrkanal, takes control of what's left of my mind, and forces me into going out and trying to vote for Hitler or something.
I recommend you do the same, and I'll see you when this nightmare over.
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 Paperbacks. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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May 16, 2019 | www.unz.com
Endgame Napoleon , says: May 16, 2019 at 4:56 am GMT
The best sentence was the one expressing the Establishment's collective faux shock that anything other than Russian spybots could be responsible for the serfs' rejection of the "two centrist parties" that have sponged up lobbyist money for 3 decades, cashing in on the globalist-Neoliberal economy, as rents rose and wages fell. The serfs have to love that. How could they not embrace it? Only spybots beaming up doom-and-gloom messages from halfway around the globe could persuade the thick-headed serfs that the part-time / churn / gig economy is anything but nirvana.
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May 16, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Warren:
"Our military can help lead the fight in combating climate change" [Elizabeth Warren, Medium ]. "In short, climate change is real, it is worsening by the day, and it is undermining our military readiness. And instead of meeting this threat head-on, Washington is ignoring it -- and making it worse .
That's why today I am introducing my Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act to harden the U.S. military against the threat posed by climate change, and to leverage its huge energy footprint as part of our climate solution.
It starts with an ambitious goal: consistent with the objectives of the Green New Deal, the Pentagon should achieve net zero carbon emissions for all its non-combat bases and infrastructure by 2030 ..
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May 08, 2019 | www.unz.com
Five British Prime Ministers, some of them renowned war criminals, united yesterday in a call to build a Holocaust Memorial in proximity to Parliament .
"A sacred, national mission," is how Theresa May described the idea and for once, I totally agree with this tragic, sad woman.
I would take it further: don't just build a holocaust shrine in Westminster, make our parliament into a Holocaust monument. We don't really need a House of Commons; as things stand, we better get direct orders from our true rulers in Tel Aviv.
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May 15, 2019 | twitter.com
gjohnsit on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 5:46pm
The Hill forgot Tulsi againIt's #IgnoreTulsiTime again. @thehill pic.twitter.com/rVe306gXxx
-- K. Rosef (@kayrosef) May 10, 2019
CBS News (2/4/19) briefly interviewed Honolulu Civil Beats reporter Nick Grube regarding Gabbard's campaign announcement. The anchors had clearly never encountered the term anti-interventionism before, struggling to even pronounce the word, then laughing and saying it "doesn't roll off the tongue."
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May 15, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Fran Macadam , May 13, 2019 at 9:14 pm
"Trump is the new Messiah, and that the 'J' in his name stands for Jesus. Blasphemy, of course, but don't let that stop you. Gotta 'own the libs'."The crack epidemic is worse than I thought. When you make this stuff up, you then actually imagine someone you hate said it
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May 15, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Not Henry Kissinger on Mon, 05/13/2019 - 2:57am
Love the projection...Advance Democracy, recently flagged a number of suspicious websites and social media accounts to law enforcement authorities. "It is to constantly divide, increase distrust and undermine our faith in institutions and democracy itself.
An organization that reports undesirable speech to law enforcement is worried about the undermining of democracy. Got it.
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May 14, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Deep Snorkeler , 21 minutes ago link
Donald Trump's World
- He watches TV. That's his primary experience with reality.
- He communes with nature solely through manicured golf courses.
A man of empty sensationalism, devoid of real experience, uneducated, insulated and deeply shallow.
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May 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
847328_3527 , 27 minutes ago link
Feinstein is looking for Durham's high school yearbook as we speak....
SenatorBlutarsky , 10 minutes ago link
+1!
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May 07, 2019 | www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ukGmVFr4k
The Jimmy Dore Show Published on May 7, 2019
Che e , 2 hours agoBiden must be high from all of that hairspray he's been sniffing. Lol
Edward Kim , 2 hours agoBiden should just challenge Trump in the Republican primary.
tnskyhawk , 2 hours agoCan't wait to see the blue MAMA hats...
Make America Let Me Sniff Her Hair Again
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May 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
The scalpel , says: Website May 10, 2019 at 11:10 pm GMT
I can see Trump's re-election message now. Never mind what a yuge dissapointment I am to you who elected me. Re-elect me so the investigations continue!Digital Samizdat , says: May 10, 2019 at 11:39 pm GMTLol. Would it be worth it?
@The scalpel If it's Joe Biden he ends up running against, I'd say: yeah, it's worth it.Ralph B. Seymour , says: May 12, 2019 at 5:32 am GMT@Priss Factor Trump is completely kosher, surrounded by Jews (including super Jew Jared).
Is Trump part of the Jew World Order?
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May 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
FB , says: Website May 11, 2019 at 4:46 pm GMT
@J. Gutierrez Thanks for putting together this commentary JJ. Gutierrez , says: May 11, 2019 at 10:42 pm GMTBolton a swinger ? LOL that's a mental picture that's deeply disturbing yet funny at the same time
@FB Yeah brother, that POS was called out during his confirmation hearings during baby Bush's presidency. Larry Flint had offered a Million dollars to anyone who had proof of republican sexual exploits. He was quickly fingered by someone who attended those clubs. He was forced to accept a temporary position and quietly resigned after a few months so as to avoid facing questions.
Someone said they saw him proposition a teenage girl outside one of the swinger clubs he frequented.
Glad you enjoyed the piece take care brother.
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May 12, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Lieutenant Starbuck 21 hours ago 19 dancing Israeli's dislike the video so far.
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May 12, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Bob In Portland on Sat, 05/11/2019 - 11:38am
The bad thing about Trump is Trump's appointments.The good thing is that they don't last very long.
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Apr 22, 2019 | kunstler.com
Pucker April 20, 2019 at 11:46 pm #
King Sihanouk had over 500 wives. Why is American society so austere as to begrudge a humble bloke even a second wife?
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May 09, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Dean Tait 3 weeks agoSaying I can't exonerate is like saying, I can't promise nothing ever improper was ever done in political campaigns. 🤣😂🤣 I have land for sale, I can't prove I own it....
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May 09, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
walrus -> catherine... , 03 May 2019 at 04:37 PM
Catherine, in current PC thinking, merely passing the salt to a Russian guest at a dinner party makes you "an unregistered foreign agent" of Russia bent on implementing Putin's evil plans.As for certifying real estate deals, the same crowd would view buying someone a MacDonalds hamburger as attempted bribery.
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May 08, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Ergo I.C. , 45 minutes ago link
didthatreallyhappen , 41 minutes ago linkFormer Asst. AG (Head of the NSD National Security Division) John Carlin knew Carter Page was not a Russian agent , yet that did not stop Carlin from preparing a FISA warrant in October 2016 to hoax the FISA court into believing that Carter Page was an agent of Russia.
Carlin essentially did a "kamikaze dive" in assuring the Obama administration's "insurance policy" against the election of Donald Trump would move forward. Carlin withheld from the FISA court critical details of an NSA Inspector General report, and an ongoing Compliance review, that the FBI and its contractors were engaged in Fourth Amendment violations of the rights of Americans.
Carlin quit just days before the FISA warrant on Carter Page was submitted and approved. Two days later, the NSA informed the Court that the Obama Department of Justice and FBI had been abusing the FISA process since at least 2011.
John Carlin, interestingly, was Robert Mueller's Chief of Staff when Mueller was Director of the FBI.
Where's John P. Carlin today?
Ergo I.C. , 41 minutes ago linkis he related to George Carlin?
DarthVaderMentor , 24 minutes ago linkNot to my knowledge. Why?
He'll need George's sense of humor as he swings from the tree or he can sing like a canary. LOL
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May 08, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
deus ex machina , 59 minutes ago link
attila404 , 56 minutes ago linkFinding Barr in contempt is sure to brighten his mood during his investigations. Libs are such evil stupid useless POFS.
peippe , 29 minutes ago linkI hope Barr ***** them all with a cactus.
rusty piece of rebar! (for when your cactus quills are gone)
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May 07, 2019 | amp.theguardian.com
Mon 29 Apr 2019 01.55 EDT Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force.
1 week ago1 week ago (Edited)The whale was the secret intermediary between Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump. The messages were transmitted during weekly 'Whales-R-Us' peer support sessions. It's ironic it turns up now, after Mr. Mueller's report has already been issued.
I'm pretty sure "Nessie" is a mobile underwater propoganda base used by the Russians since the time of the Bolshevic revolution. Originally, it was merely a base to hide the Reds operating on the outskirts of the Capitalist capitol of London. Scotland was the perfect hiding place.
Now however, it's outfitted with the most sophisticated internet hacking equipment, AI technology so advanced it can alter your political ideology just by selling you a mailorder slavic blow-up doll.
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May 07, 2019 | www.cc.com
"No man has a right to lay a hand on a woman"
JOE BIDEN, MARCH 2019
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yfmksi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-audacity-of-grope
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 2/24/2015 The Audacity of Grope
Samantha Bee reports on Vice President Joe Biden's uncomfortable tendency to invade the personal space of women in his vicinity.
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May 07, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatch... Joe Biden is overdue for an update on his foreign leader Rolodex.The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Published on May 7, 2019 Ziljan Vega 17 hours ago (edited)
It's not the age. Biden has always been an airhead. I really hope he doesn't get the nomination just because he's friends with Obama. Goofy old white dudes who put their foot in their mouths is the GOP's thing. We need someone fresh with a clear mind and good ideas. Warren... please...
One of the problems with American politics is that it is being run by people (on both sides) who are not going to be alive in 20 years so they have no vested interest in the future of the country. All they care about is that they make as much money for their families so they can buy fresh air, fresh water and live apart from the huddled masses.
Biden is ahead according to whom?! There is a glut of more dynamic and visionary Democrats.
Jesus Christ, Joe. Reason number 184,534 not to vote for him in the primary...Biden isn't a good candidate. He seem dumb to me. He's just living off of Obama success. Just a shadow from Obama. Go with Bernie.
ScaryHairyHarry
Only establishment hacks endorse the republican-lite elite Biden.
Jay Zenitram
Let the gaffs begin ...
John Chessant
Biden voted for the Iraq War. Don't forget that!
Sulanis
Sure Joe Biden is the guy you pick if you like the same old same old every day in the sack. Joe Biden is the status Quo candidate that will do nothing to change the country for the lower and middle class. Joe Biden is about as democratic as the massive corporations who donate to him. Seriously look at his past and he is on the wrong side of history on almost every major issue that has come before the senate. So yeah, if you want the same old mercenary style, then by all means vote for Biden, However, if you want change and people who are actually talking about and releasing policy than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are your people. However, who the hell wants to make sure that people don't go bankrupt over healthcare bills.
Trust me as a Canadian we have have our healthcare covered by the government and the other half is covered by private insurance. Private insurance is needed if you want to see a dentist, get medication, see a psychologist, get glasses, and more. Canada needs to look at a complete system like Bernie Sanders is proposing because as a whole the process of health care for all, just makes sense and gives the government real power when it comes to pricing on medication and other health services.
When I say going to hospital or clinic and leaving without paying a fucking cent or calling the insurance is a blessing in disguise. Its so freeing to know that I am not going to get a medical bill for thousands. However, when it comes to the other items i have mentioned most places know how shitty the private insurance companies are and refused to deal with them. They do this by making you pay the full amount due, then letting you deal with the insurance company, often getting denied, or losing on funds because of deductibles that have to be paid.
Daneelro
I'm NOT looking forward to an election in which Biden is the Dem candidate. Biden is in the pocket of moneyed interests (who do you think attended that "pritivate fundraiser"?) Biden is on the right of the Democratic Party and is too friendly with Republicans to fight the unavoidable fights to come. Worse, Biden is a bad campaigner and will inevitably self-destruct, hopefully not in the general election but in the primary already.
darillio
with the direction us foreign policy is moving right now across the isle concerning venezuela, biden seems to be a well fit with his kissinger reference for the renewed interest in straight out CIA driven coups in latin america, the monroe doctrine and right-wing death squads hunting down dirty brown commies.
Lennox Baumbach
Seriously, nobody should 'like' or support Biden. Most of the good image people have of him comes from Obama, whose presidency itself was partialy very flawed. Biden's record is atrocious and he WON'T support any meaningfull progressive policies, that would actually improve peoples living conditions. He is in his own words a true centrist, which means, he will always compromise to the right, which is more inhinged and greedy than ever. A Biden presidency would be one more sellout to corporate America and would pave the way for another Trump.
Waryaa Wariiri
When are the establishment and corporate-owned media shows going to stop their daily plug-in promos for Biden? It is so obvious, for we are not children.
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May 07, 2019 | theintercept.com
1 week ago
1 week agoLadies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, when all else fails .. .
*Biden Vision2020 'Mr. Roto Rooter'
wondering if BidenVision2020 will go viral
at first i though it was real
biden 2020: yes we should
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May 07, 2019 | theintercept.com
Dave1010Pwers 1 day ago
Hillary and the Swamp won and Trump is their puppet. They are loving Russiagate as they feed at the MIC trough. Except for Tulsi, Ilhan and Ro they are all Kochsuckers
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May 07, 2019 | www.cc.com
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xyf39z/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-poor-off
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 6/24/2014 Poor-Off
As campaign season warms up, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden attempt to appeal to blue-collar voters by sharing their financial woes.
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Al Tinfoil , 12 minutes ago link
Francis Marx , 12 minutes ago linkMeet the new Madcow message, almost the same as the old Madcow message.
Before Mueller report came out: "Russia, Russia, Russia, Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia, Trump, Russia, Putin, Russia, Moscow, Facebook, collusion, meddling, Russia, Putin, Trump, "Walls are closing in on Trump....."
New message: "Russia, Barr, Trump, Russia, Putin, Venezuela, Bolton, Russia, Russia, Trump, Putin, Bolton, Blimpeo, Venezuela, Trump, Putin, Russia, collusion, ...."
It did not take long for her to overcome her tearful meltdown over Mueller's finding of no collusion in Russiagate. Now she has VenezuelaGate.
war mongers are joined at the hip..
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Dickweed Wang , 4 minutes ago link
Trump . . . has told friends that if Bolton had his way he'd already be at war in multiple places.
Then why, Mr. Trump, is that ******* your National Security Advisor?? WTF is wrong with you?
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
07564111 , 52 minutes ago link
[what] John Bolton and Mike Pompeo did this week with Operation Bay of Fat Pigs will not sit well with Trump. He's been asked to sell a policy it doesn't look like he believes in.
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Oldrepublic , 31 minutes ago link
RoyalDraco , 28 minutes ago linkTrump has become frustrated this week as national security adviser John Bolton and others openly teased military options and has told friends that if Bolton had his way he'd already be at war in multiple places .
so who is in charge now?
Interim President Bolton
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
deFLorable hillbilly , 3 hours ago link
If the Russian influence thing was true, Facebook would increase their ad rates.
Hell, if $5,000 in FB ads can defeat a $billion in television ads and other campaign spending, sign me up for some.
I will gladly spend $6,000 to be president, though I'll probably just do one term, as my main platform is just bossing people around and randomly shooting missiles from time to time.
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May 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Asoka_The_Great , 2 hours ago link
Rational explanations, can not explain, the absurdity of the SH*TSHOW, that is going on in Washington DC. Here is my take, on this entire Sh*tshow, running in Washington DC, for the last two years.
1. All the evidences are pointing the most likely scenario that Donald Trump is a Manchurian Candidate ordered by the Kremelin to run for Office, in 2016.
2. Then, Donald Trump COLLUDED with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to win the Presidency of United States, with shocking easy.
3. This was because Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden, was bribed by Putin, through the Ukrainians, with hundred of millions of dollars, so she would purposely lose the "sure win" race, to a political nobody, Donald Trump.
4. Then, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, produced the Steele Dossier, a political disinformation tool, in collaboration with Britain's Mi6 and CIA.
5. Then the Russians leaked the COLLUSION story to the CIA controlled MSM such as New York Time, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, etc . . ., so they would predictably kicked a storm of controversy over the COLLUSION, and demand the DOJ to appoint a Special Prosecutor to initial an investigation.
6. This diabolically devilish Special PsyOps by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has succeeded in tying up Washington DC, in a Sh*tshow, for the last two years, and divided the Country in bitter controversy.
7. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and Chinese Communists' Intelligence Service have thoroughly infiltrated America's Department of Justice, FBI, and CIA, and NSA, and use their high levels agents, such as O'bomer, Hitlery, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, and Rosenstein to stirred up this COLLUSION storm, to paralyze America's political system for as long as possible.
In Summary, the entire sh*tshow is a production of a Special PsyOps by the Russkies and ChiComs' Intelligence Services. It has nothing to do with America's dysfunctional government...
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May 05, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Francis Lee says May, 5, 2019
Taking a long view it was very astute and cleverly conceived plan to to present counter-revolution as revolution; progress as regress; the new order 1980- (i.e., neoliberalism) was cool, and the old order 1945-1975 (welfare-capitalism) was fuddy-duddy.Thus:
- Capital controls = fuddy duddy
- Capital Account liberalisation = cool
- Worker’s Rights = fuddy duddy
- Flexible Labour markets = cool
- World Peace – fuddy duddy
- War = Cool
- National Sovereignty = fuddy duddy
- Globalization = Cool
- Social Mobility = fuddy duddy
- Inequality = cool
- Respect for elections/referenda = fuddy-duddy
- Flexible referenda/elections = cool
- Social solidarity = fuddy-duddy
- Rampant nihilistic invidualism = cool
- Respect for human rights and the UN International Law = fuddy-duddy
- Blatant Imperialism = cool
And so the agenda goes on. Counter-revolution qua revolution
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May 05, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Originally from: PATRICK LAWRENCE The US Moves on Iran's Oil Market as an Expression of an Irrational Foreign Policy – Consortiumnews
SPENCER , April 29, 2019 at 17:56
The Trump administration is a real life version of THE GANG THAT COULDN`T SHOOT STRAIGHT
Trump is papa, Baccala -- Pompeo is the Water Buffalo, Bolton is Kid Sally Palumbo -- nobody is laughing at them
The American people have to vote them out -#Vote them out -- --
Tedder , April 30, 2019 at 15:31
If I were a praying man, I would pray to God Almighty On High, please, please initiate the Rapture right away so we can get rid of Mike Pompeo and all his ilk.
Jeff Harrison , April 30, 2019 at 12:25
I think matters are worse than you think, Patrick. The US has become, and this regime in Washington specifically is, a parody of "Pinky and The Brain". You've probably never seen it but I'll bet you can get it on youtube. Watch a couple of episodes. It's a cartoon and both Pinky and The Brain are mice. Every weekly show starts with Pinky asking The Brain what they're going to do this week. The Brain always answers that they're going for total world domination. It's hilarious.
But now we need to move on to our very own real world version of Pinky (played by Donald J. Trump) and The Brain (played by a varied cast of religious zealots and extreme right wing ideologues). For time out of mind the US has seduced the rest of the world of the old colonial powers with honey pots. Various goodies that let them feel like they were colonial powers once again and relevant. The US was "The Leader of the Free World" and they were delighted to follow. Unfortunately, over the last few years (and not just since Trump) we have stopped the honey and have started giving orders. This has been quite a shock to the allies who thought they were partners and suddenly discovered that they were really vassals and that the US really was the indispensable nation, not because of our greatness, but because we controlled the world's finances. I don't know how long it will take for the rest of the world to take reserve currency away from us nor do I know the proximate cause -- out of control debt, loss of income from petrodollars, or what.
But make no mistake. We are already isolating ourselves by walking away from treaty after treaty. Why should any country trust us to keep our word?
John Hagan , April 30, 2019 at 05:09
Meanwhile over on the Eastern side
"I don't care what you 'feel'," bellowed Moment Gopher to the large gathering of Eastern gophers belonging to OWR (Organization for Western Resistance).
"What we want is action. What we want is resistance. What we want is every Gopher regardless of being male or female, albino or grey, long or short, religious or not, to dispense with any feeling of individuality and join our struggle.
"That the Western gophers have developed the deadly 'extract of noeyela' which supposedly blinds gophers within a meter will not deter our brave forces.
"Our individuals are strong, our families are strong, our homes are strong, our burrows are strong and our borders are invincible. Lift your claws and lift your spirits, tomorrow we will conquer all those who stand against us, we will scatter them to the far corners of the garden and we will take over their burrows."
"Squeek, squeek," came the thunderous chorus of Eastern gophers as they lifted their paws towards the cavern roof.
So the stage is set. Who can save the day? Will it be the new charismatic leader of the Western gophers aptly named Thumper Gopher, or will Moment Gopher prevail?
Meanwhile I was thinking, if it is sunny tomorrow it might be a good time to have a barbecue in my garden and invite all my friends.
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May 05, 2019 | www.unz.com
Sure. Let's invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It's full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction.
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Venezuela is in a huge economic mess thanks to the crackpot economic policies of the Chavez and Maduro governments – and US economic sabotage. But my first law of international affairs is: 'Every nation has the absolute god-given right to mismanage its own affairs and elect its own crooks or idiots.'
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May 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
We know from Mueller's report that Russian intelligence agents engaged in sophisticated cyber warfare against the United States, and we did very little to resist them
Paying $160K for Facebook ads constitutes 'sophisticated cyber warfare'?
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May 04, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
notlurking , 03 May 2019 at 08:16 AM
we're not in Kansas anymore.....
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May 03, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Obamaroid Ointment , 38 minutes ago link
ENDGAME8 , 36 minutes ago linkMost therapists agree that Tide Pods, coloring books, safe spaces, and therapy gerbils are the best outpatient treatments available today for Post Müeller BS TDS.
Honestly the best business idea there is, come up with "natural" "holistic" Meds for the TDS crowd. Label it "organic". Or open a counseling service. Twitter has a massive TAM.
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May 03, 2019 | www.unz.com
c matt , says: May 3, 2019 at 4:08 pm GMT
@Anon I guess US is ally of Europe like Israel is ally of US.
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May 03, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ilyana_Rozumova , says: May 3, 2019 at 4:31 am GMT
@EliteCommInc. All statements of Trump do not count. All Trump statements are results from stress of torture by Democrats, and deep state.Anon [358] Disclaimer , says: May 3, 2019 at 6:11 am GMTOur deep state sure hates losing elections don't they? The lengths they will go to nullify voter will is a sight.
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May 03, 2019 | www.unz.com
lavoisier , says: Website May 2, 2019 at 12:44 pm GMT
Isn't it the supreme irony that the "racists" in American politics are the real humanitarians while the so-called "humanitarians" like Sen. Marco Rubio and Bill Kristol are less adverse to bloodshed and destructive wars in which hundreds of thousands of people die than the "racists"?
There is nothing ironic about your simple statement of fact. The humanitarians you mention are about as much interested in human rights as John Wayne Gacy. There is gold in them there hills, and their "friends" no longer control that gold. So we must go to war.
Rubio is running neck and neck in my mind as one of the most disgusting political whores of all time.
No simple accomplishment that.
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May 02, 2019 | www.realclearpolitics.com
In an appearance on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle" last week, former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova claimed that evidence of widespread FISA abuse by members of the Obama administration is forthcoming and that "there are going to be indictments; there's going to be grand juries."
Former CIA Director "John Brennan isn't going to need one lawyer, he's going to need five," diGenova said.
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May 03, 2019 | caucus99percent.com
Naively, I thought the man that said, "I'm not white and I'm not black, I'm both", was the one who could lead us out of this morass of mutual hate. But, he turned out to be just another corrupt Chicago politician.
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May 01, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Asoka_The_Great , 4 minutes ago link
Here is my take, on this entire Sh*tshow, running in Washington DC, for the last two years.
1. All the evidences are pointing the most likely scenario that Donald Trump is a Manchurian Candidate ordered by the Kremelin to run for Office, in 2016.
2. Then, Donald Trump COLLUDED with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to win the Presidency of United States, with shocking easy.
3. This was because Hitlery Clinton and Joe Biden , was bribed by Putin, through the Ukrainians, with hundred of millions of dollars, so she would purposely lose the "sure win" race, to a political nobody, Donald Trump.
4. Then, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, produced the Steele Dossier, a political disinformation tool, in collaboration with Britain's Mi6 and CIA.
5. Then the Russians leaked the COLLUSION story to the CIA controlled MSM such as New York Time, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, etc . . ., so they would predictably kicked a storm of controversy over the COLLUSION, and demand the DOJ to appoint a Special Prosecutor to initial an investigation.
6. This diabolically devilish Special PsyOps by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has succeeded in tying up Washington DC, in a Sh*tshow, for the last two years, and divided the Country in bitter controversy.
7. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and Chinese Communists' Intelligence Service have thoroughly infiltrated America's Department of Justice, FBI, and CIA, and NSA, and use their high levels agents, such as O'bomer, Hitlery, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, and rosenstein to stirred up this COLLUSION storm, to paralyze America's political system for as long as possible.
In Summary, the entire sh*tshow is a production of a Special PsyOps by the Russkies and ChiComs' Intelligence Services. It has nothing to do with America's dysfunctional government, called DemoCrazy .
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May 01, 2019 | www.unz.com
anon [271] Disclaimer , says: May 1, 2019 at 11:23 am GMT
@Thulean Friend The NYT cartoon showing a blind, yarmulked Trump being led by Nuttinyahoo should have put Kushner's face on the seeing-eye dog instead.MIGA!
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May 01, 2019 | www.theguardian.com
... Joe Biden is its zombie that staggers on
... Consider what it says about the state of America's political system that in the left party, the presumptive frontrunner for the presidential nomination did not think twice about kicking off his campaign with a fundraiser hosted by the founder of a union-busting law firm, days before appearing at a major union-hosted rally. And why should he? He gets the money, and then he gets the union support.
...I am not mad at Joe Biden. He is a type. His type is "The Old Way of Doing Things." Now that he is in the race, his type is represented. He rounds out the field. Now, Democratic voters truly have the entire buffet of choices, from "True Leftist Insurgent" to "Bland, Winning Young Résumé-Polisher" to "Indistinguishable Ambitious Congresspersons" to "The Same Old Kind of White Guy As Always".
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May 01, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Piotr Berman , Apr 30, 2019 8:04:39 PM | link
Villains of the day: Random Guy, Pompeo, and nefarious band of willie, barovsky etc.
Pompeo is perhaps green with envy, why Boris Johnson should keep the mantle of the most clownish top diplomat of a major state? He can do better! But once the tall tale was said, it was duly echoed in supine media. NYT made a paragraph, and actually noted how Pompeo explained his alleged knowledge of Maduro preparing for departure: >>Pressed about the source of this information, Mr. Pompeo said it was drawn from "open-source material," and conversations with "scores and scores of people on the ground," including members of the military and opposition leaders. "He was headed for Havana," he said of Mr. Maduro.<< The Guardian made a separate article on the topic, with no notes of caution, damn the torpedoes, copy with full speed!
So "people on the ground" could have reliable, ha ha, info on the conversations between Maduro and "Russians". "Scores of people" were interviewed, hm., seems that the wily Maduro eschew a usual step of information blockade, letting the little golpistas -- and him -- look silly. I actually do not believe in those "scores of interviews", Most generously, there were that many conversations from which his people could "draw" a rumor prepared ahead of time, probably by his own Department.
Finally, the nefarious long linkers. Is it really THAT hard to learn how to make neat links this one ? Join lines and remove all spaces from the text below
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Apr 25, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
taketheredpill , 8 minutes ago link
Oboneterm , 1 minute ago linkGrope and Change
LMAO....... Grope and Change ....priceless..... .I'm getting a bumper sticker made tomorrow......just priceless.
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Apr 30, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
Trump vs. Biden? Could it be that Trump is less of a hypocrite than Biden?
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Apr 30, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
"Joe Biden provides a fossil record of how the Democrats have changed" [ The Economist ]. • Nothing new here, but ouch! That headline!
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Apr 30, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Apr 29, 2019 4:09:38 PM | link
Best of the ZeroHedge comments:Payroll check to Baghdadi from Hezbollah found next ... or a Venezuelan passport.
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Apr 26, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
librul , Apr 25, 2019 2:40:23 PM | link
Today Sloppy-Joe Biden joined the deluge of wet noodles hoping to take on MAGA Man.
T-Shirt time !
MAGA vs MEGA
No, this is not some sort of Godzilla XLVI remake movie.
Joe Biden has tossed his kippah into the ring to run for President
and now it isEstablishment Biden vs wrecking ball Trump.
MEGA
M ake
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Get your T-shirts - MAGA vs MEGA
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Apr 30, 2019 | off-guardian.org
George Cornell says Apr, 29, 2019
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whale-russia-norway-harness-military-navy-weapon-finnmark-a8890926.htmlThis just in! The Independent reports a beluga whale seen in Norway was put there for military purposes ( not porpoises) by the Russian Navy. They know because it had a tag on it saying Equipment of St Petersburg, in English?
You can't make it up.
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Apr 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
rent slave, 34 minutes ago link
Of course they did.
Don't you remember CNN showing us Joe Stalin's grandson in Lancaster promising the Amish a new sickle if they voted for Trump?
Or those cossacks on Lake Huron hijacking fishing boats and dragging all on board into the onshore voting booths?
Or those KGB agents in Green Bay telling pregnant women that their child would have a Gorbachev birthmark if they failed to support The Donald?
Helg Saracen, 49 minutes ago
Yes, the Russians intervened in the elections. And under each bed in the USA there are two Russian spies - Boris and Natasha, and in the White House there is a real elk in a red wig. Shame this unbearable Russians. :)
I love Americans, they are even funnier than Australians...
Giant Meteor, 50 minutes ago
With all this flap, hell, let't just let the Russians vote in the next one. Then, in time, we could vote in their elections, kinda like a collusion cultural exchange program.
I mean, stuff like this just begs the question, why not just go right to jumping the shark, and call it a day .,
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Apr 29, 2019 | washingtonpost.com
brenrod 3/7/2017 8:30 PM EST
The Trump-Russia scandal keeps expandingWe now have proof that Trump used Russian dressing on his salad during the campaign and deliberately covered it up.
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Feb 01, 2011 | washingtonpost.com/politics
Sirshsns, 1 month ago
President Trump on Monday attacked former vice president Joe Biden as "another low I.Q. individual," pointing to comments the Democrat inadvertently made Saturday night suggesting he had already launched a 2020 White House bid. "Joe Biden got tongue tied over the weekend when he was unable to properly deliver a very simple line about his decision to run for President," Trump said in a tweet. "Get used to it, another low I.Q. individual!"
My god.. You seriously can't make this stuff up... Trump takes clueless to a whole other level... There really is not a word that describes the lack of self awareness Trump has... How can anyone take this man seriously???
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Apr 26, 2019 | peakoilbarrel.com
Energy News : 04/26/2019 at 10:03 am
It seems President Trump called on OPEC to bring down oil pricesGuyM : 04/26/2019 at 11:52 am
Reuters headline https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5FZA8VW4AA6QNI.pngI can't imagine that moron influencing much.Ron Patterson : 04/26/2019 at 12:03 pmHe called OPEC? Just whom at OPEC did he speak with? OPEC is a group of oil exporting nations. They meet once every six months or so to decide what they will do, if anything.Iron Mike : 04/26/2019 at 12:35 pmNo one can just call OPEC and OPEC will decide to produce more oil. They have to meet, talk it over, and decide what to do.
This just shows what a fucking liar Trump really is.
Trump probably just called his employer .AIPAC.
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Apr 29, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Late Introvert , , April 28, 2019 at 9:19 pm
I noticed that Boeing is incorporated in the great state of Delaware. Ah-hem.
dearieme , , April 29, 2019 at 11:46 am
Oh well, change their name to BidenAir.
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Apr 29, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Headlice says Apr, 27, 2019
An excerpt from:Alpine Observer says Apr, 27, 2019"One of the more important revelations in former Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the 2016 election is the close working relationship Bannon established with Prince. Sensing fertile political ground for their far-right beliefs, Bannon and Prince have established, under the aegis of their professed Catholicism, a movement that threatens both the current pope and the European Union."
Try googling "could Emmanuel Macron be the antichrist?"
Loading...Macron the Antichrist? It's impossible because Tory B.liar is still alive.
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Apr 28, 2019 | www.unz.com
MarkinPNW , says: April 24, 2019 at 7:14 pm GMT
A clown beat a high profile member of the established political class, due most likely to the voters being disgusted by said political class? Uhmm, where have we seen this before?
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Apr 28, 2019 | www.unz.com
Realist , says: April 28, 2019 at 9:32 am GMT
@WallyRealist , says: April 28, 2019 at 9:35 am GMTHowever, Trump has accomplished a lot more than Hillary would have even considered doing, no doubt about it, take your pick:
Trump has done nothing on the important issues. Of course neither would have Hillary. I would not have voted for Hillary .nor will I for Trump again.
@War for Blair MountainYou voted for a filthy cockroach .Clinton was the other filthy cockroach not much of choice
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That's the Deep State for you.
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Apr 28, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
ben , Apr 27, 2019 3:46:51 PM | link
b said; "The Russian institute for Research and Analysis for National Defense (RAND) recently assessed how to further damage the United States:"
Absolute overkill, the $ party will do the job quite nicely. There's a reason there are so many Dem candidates. Diversion works.
Check each candidate's donor base, it will tell all you need to know.
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Apr 28, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Hoarsewhisperer , Apr 28, 2019 1:54:33 AM | link
This 'study' is what Penis Envy looks like when it's put in writing...
john , Apr 28, 2019 8:39:07 AM | link
It is a sign that the foremost motive its writers had in mind is to grab more taxpayer moneyyeah, Rand writers and the rest of them. it's a post-ideological era of avaricious goobers run amuck.
see the extent of their imagination.
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Apr 27, 2019 | peakoilbarrel.com
Ron Patterson x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 12:03 pm
He called OPEC? Just whom at OPEC did he speak with? OPEC is a group of oil exporting nations. They meet once every six months or so to decide what they will do, if anything.Iron Mike x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 12:35 pm
No one can just call OPEC and OPEC will decide to produce more oil. They have to meet, talk it over, and decide what to do.This just shows what a fucking liar Trump really is.
Trump probably just called his employer .AIPAC.GuyM x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 1:40 pmHe probably did call someone, and the conversation went kinda like this:Energy News x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 1:40 pm
This is Donald Trump.
Aren't you the guy who owns all those hotels?
Yes, but I am also the President of the United States.
I'm sorry to hear that, what can I do for you?
We need for you to pump more oil, and lower gasoline prices.
Why? They are not high enough, yet.
We think they are, and if you don't get pumping I will agree to Nopec.
Then, we will no longer use the dollar to trade with, and you can watch the value of your currency plummet.
Don't you realize who you are talking to? I am the President of the United States!
Oh yeah. The US, we used to trade with you. Good luck, and good bye!President Trump didn't say who he had spoken to. Various OPEC officials say that they haven't spoken to himRon Patterson x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 2:24 pmWall Street Journal: OPEC Chief Barkindo Has Not Spoken to President Trump -- Source
Saudi officials: President Trump Has Not Discussed Lowering Oil Prices With SaudisOPEC and Saudis both deny speaking with Trump about lowering oil pricesFell off the peak x Ignored says: 04/26/2019 at 1:59 pmTrump said he called OPEC
One of the reasons oil prices sank today was because Trump said he "called OPEC" and asked them to lower oil prices.OPEC Chief Barkindo said he hasn't spoke with Trump, according to a report. Saudi officials also say they haven't discussed lowering oil prices with Trump.
Update: Trump is now back and saying he spoke to Saudi Arabia and others about oil prices.
Lies just roll off Trump's tongue. He thinks people will believe everything he says without checking anything. What a blooming idiot.
OPEC must have put Trump on hold as gas price is still the same in my neck of the woods. Laughed like hell when I saw the headline earlier today. Probably eighty percent of folks believe he can actually do that. The heads of the OPEC countries probably laughed so hard they spit out their dentures. Difficult to satirize this guy as he does a stellar job of it himself!
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Apr 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
SECunning , 2 hours ago link
his rough, garbled, and childlike manner of speech; his disdain of political decorum, his lumbering bellicosity, his apparently near-total lack of education
Excuse me fake journalist but his speech is precise, informed, and articulate, his decorum is extraordinary, his bellicosity is wholly justified, and his education is that of a polymath.
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Apr 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Anunnaki , 4 hours ago link
CatInTheHat , 4 hours ago linkBiden-Weinstein 2020. #MeToo wing of the Democrap Party
Biden is Hillary Clinton in male form.
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Apr 26, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Fred , 24 April 2019 at 08:56 PM
If only Trump and Co. cared about the US border the way he cares about Israel's.
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Apr 26, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
catherine said in reply to opit ... , 25 April 2019 at 04:30 PM
''Given that I tend to think the US position on Iran has been bullshit from the get go,""
I agree. In my political day dreams I am Madame President and the first thing I do is ally with Russia, sort out our individual interest, station aircraft carriers off the ME coast and announce that any country flying military a/c or moving out of its own play pen will be shot down.Then I would have Viagra prescriptions ready for the US Neocons who would assail my office to help them redirect their frustration aggressions and one way tickets to Israel for the Fifth Columnist screaming outside my door.
Alas, its only a day dream.
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Apr 24, 2019 | www.unz.com
Mulegino1 , says: April 24, 2019 at 1:20 am GMT
Maybe Trump's agenda is to get the Holy City renamed "Jaredsalem", and Tel Aviv renamed "Telavanka."
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Apr 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
michael72 , Apr 24, 2019 2:31:03 PM | link
".....senior officials paint a picture of a rogue, outlaw, terrorist regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons and whose "malign activities" are the cause of all the chaos in the Middle East...".
well, that pretty well sums it up about the USA, now doesn't it?
Malign
Rogue
Terrorist Regime
OutlawMaking chaos throughout the region
.....bent on using, once again, its nuclear weapons.....?
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Apr 22, 2019 | www.youtube.com
JR says: April 22, 2019 at 6:27 am
One would be naive to expect any truth from Pompeo. Self satisfied creature considers this funny too. How deep can one sink..
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Apr 21, 2019 | kunstler.com
BuckP April 19, 2019 at 4:44 pm #
Rome burns while Nero fiddles! America disintegrates while Trump tweets!
While we are constantly bombardeded, 24-hours a day, with Russigate hysteria like a long-running boring, TV soap opera that has gotten stale, predictable and uninteresting
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Apr 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
beemasters , 2 hours ago link
I have recently seen a political cartoon with Dotard then saying: "I love Wikileaks" + " I will throw her in jail" and now saying: "I know nothing about Wikileaks" + "I will throw him in jail"
It summed up perfectly that swine's lack of integrity.
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Apr 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
To that end, Trump is now selling this t-shirt on his website for $28 :
SPY GAMES!
We can't let Democrats and their cronies in the Fake News cover up corruption in the SWAMP!
We must FIGHT BACK and GET ANSWERS. Get your LIMITED EDITION "I Spy Trump" Tee NOW!
- Wiretapping not included .
- Limited Edition. While supplies last.
- Proudly Made in USA
Are you not entertained
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Apr 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
And, how far back should politicians go? Should descendants of the Visigoths have to give money to Italians for the sack of Rome in 410?
Should the US government make reparation payments for killing countless Filipino civilians in the early 1900s during the armed occupation of the Philippines?
Or to descendants of Japanese-Americans who died in internment camps during World War II?
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Apr 18, 2019 | thesaker.is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g
worldblee on April 16, 2019 , · at 3:56 pm EST/EDT
That video is on fire! Good stuff!Павел (Paul) on April 17, 2019 , · at 9:43 am EST/EDTIt is funny but the problem remains... I want to see serious hard hitting justice whatever it takes.vot tak on April 17, 2019 , · at 8:28 pm EST/EDTOops, wrong "button".Kruto.
"Authorized by the united bitches of america." Yeah, israel's bitches.
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Apr 18, 2019 | craigmurray.org.uk
maybe Haspel should have added this disclaimer to her video or whatever evidence she presented to the POT ASS:
" This video was produced for propaganda purposes. We wish to stress that no actual children or ducks were harmed during the filming".
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Apr 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
DG , Apr 18, 2019 1:01:46 PM | link
I hate to admit but Kellyanne Conway was right ... collusion = delusion
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Apr 18, 2019 | www.unz.com
... ... ...
I'm not quite sure why I loathe Assange. I've never actually met the man. I just have this weird, amorphous feeling that he's a horrible, disgusting, extremist person who is working for the Russians and is probably a Nazi. It feels kind of like that feeling I had, back in the Winter of 2003, that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons, which he was going to give to those Al Qaeda terrorists who were bayonetting little babies in their incubators, or the feeling I still have, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset who peed on Barack Obama's bed, and who is going to set fire to the Capitol building, declare himself American Hitler, and start rounding up and murdering the Jews.
I don't know where these feelings come from. If you challenged me, I probably couldn't really support them with any, like, actual facts or anything, at least not in any kind of rational way. Being an introspective sort of person, I do sometimes wonder if maybe my feelings are the result of all the propaganda and relentless psychological and emotional conditioning that the ruling classes and the corporate media have subjected me to since the day I was born, and that influential people in my social circle have repeated, over and over again, in such a manner as to make it clear that contradicting their views would be extremely unwelcome, and might negatively impact my social status, and my prospects for professional advancement.
Take my loathing of Assange, for example. I feel like I can't even write a column condemning his arrest and extradition without gratuitously mocking or insulting the man. When I try to, I feel this sudden fear of being denounced as a "Trump-loving Putin-Nazi," and a "Kremlin-sponsored rape apologist," and unfriended by all my Facebook friends. Worse, I get this sickening feeling that unless I qualify my unqualified support for freedom of press, and transparency, and so on, with some sort of vicious, vindictive remark about the state of Assange's body odor, and how he's probably got cooties, or has pooped his pants, or some other childish and sadistic taunt, I can kiss any chance I might have had of getting published in a respectable publication goodbye.
But I'm probably just being paranoid, right? Distinguished, highbrow newspapers and magazines like The Atlantic , The Guardian , The Washington Post , The New York Times , Vox , Vice , Daily Mail , and others of that caliber, are not just propaganda organs whose primary purpose is to reinforce the official narratives of the ruling classes. No, they publish a broad range of opposing views. The Guardian, for example, just got Owen Jones to write a full-throated defense of Assange on that grounds that he's probably a Nazi rapist who should be locked up in a Swedish prison, not in an American prison! The Guardian, remember, is the same publication that printed a completely fabricated story accusing Assange of secretly meeting with Paul Manafort and some alleged "Russians," among a deluge of other such Russiagate nonsense, and that has been demonizing Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite for several years.
Plus, according to NPR's Bob Garfield (who is lustfully "looking forward to Assange's day in court"), and other liberal lexicologists, Julian Assange is not even a real journalist, so we have no choice but to mock and humiliate him, and accuse him of rape and espionage oh, and speaking of which, did you hear the one about how his cat was spying on the Ecuadorean diplomats ?
But seriously now, all joking aside, it's always instructive (if a bit sickening) to watch as the mandarins of the corporate media disseminate an official narrative and millions of people robotically repeat it as if it were their own opinions. This process is particularly nauseating to watch when the narrative involves the stigmatization, delegitimization, and humiliation of an official enemy of the ruling classes. Typically, this enemy is a foreign enemy, like Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, Milošević, Osama bin Laden, Putin, or whoever. But sometimes the enemy is one of "us" a traitor, a Judas, a quisling, a snitch, like Trump, Corbyn, or Julian Assange.
In either case, the primary function of the corporate media remains the same: to relentlessly assassinate the character of the "enemy," and to whip the masses up into a mindless frenzy of hatred of him, like the Two-Minutes Hate in 1984 , the Kill-the-Pig scene in Lord of the Flies , the scapegoating of Jews in Nazi Germany , and other examples a bit closer to home .
Logic, facts, and actual evidence have little to nothing to do with this process. The goal of the media and other propagandists is not to deceive or mislead the masses. Their goal is to evoke the pent-up rage and hatred simmering within the masses and channel it toward the official enemy. It is not necessary for the demonization of the official enemy to be remotely believable, or stand up to any kind of serious scrutiny. No one sincerely believes that Donald Trump is a Russian Intelligence asset, or that Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite, or that Julian Assange has been arrested for jumping bail, or raping anyone, or for helping Chelsea Manning "hack" a password.
The demonization of the empire's enemies is not a deception it is a loyalty test. It is a ritual in which the masses (who, let's face it, are de facto slaves) are ordered to display their fealty to their masters, and their hatred of their masters' enemies....
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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 Paperbacks. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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Apr 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
ThomasEdmonds , 18 minutes ago link
Haboob , 15 minutes ago linkOnce upon a time, President Trump wanted to bring the troops home from Syria and Afghanistan. Perhaps he received the JFK lecture.
Tulsi Gabbard will receive the same if elected. They all will.
Enceladus , 43 minutes ago linkMaybe thats what Obama told Trump at their little sit down after Trump won.
tmosley , 29 minutes ago linkThe Neo CON man.
Whereas Adam Schiff is a man who stands for freedom, justice, and the American way!
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Apr 17, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bart Hansen , Apr 16, 2019 6:41:05 PM | link
Concerning who is pulling the strings, please forgive a repost of an interview with one who knows. On 31 May 2017 Putin gave an interview with Le Figaro where he said:
"I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration."
A long list of people with briefcases so far ends with Gina.
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Apr 17, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
S , Apr 16, 2019 11:17:30 PM | link
@Mataman #9:Jackrabbit , Apr 16, 2019 11:26:59 PM | linkThe story veers into complete fiction when it claims that pictures of dead ducks had any effect on Trump. He doesn't like, nor care about animals.Perhaps Donald Trump has a soft spot for ducks because of Donald Duck?
Now Haspel can boast that she grabbed him by the duckie .
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Apr 17, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
willie , Apr 16, 2019 6:29:03 PM | link
This sheds a whole new light on the death of those two poor little hamsters, or was it guinea pigs, said to be starved while the police was investigating the premises of Skripal.
With Haspel around they might have succombed to her nasty ways of torturing.
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Apr 16, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Deep Snorkeler , 34 minutes ago link
Enceladus , 43 minutes ago linkSad Trumplards
Betrayed by the golf-billionaire, again and again. You are the products of a degraded culture. I live in fear that you assholes are stupider than God made you.
tmosley , 29 minutes ago linkThe Neo CON man.
Lost in translation , 35 minutes ago linkWhereas Adam Schiff is a man who stands for freedom, justice, and the American way!
mrjinx007 , 49 minutes ago linkThe bombing and killing must go on! Because God bless America.
#sick
His whole life story is betraying people including his wives; what do you expect? No one goes that far up the ladder being a nice guy. As they say, Behind every great wealth, there is a great crime.
That is not a description fitting only to him; look at all your so called representatives and senators. We have been played for so long it has become normal for us to choose the least evil in the name of hope and change. For me, he is too dangerous to serve a second term and the rest of the idiots are no better.
I think I will stop voting from now on.
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Apr 16, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
†FreeThought†
What happened to "Nationalism, not globalism will be our credo"...? I voted for Trump and I got Trumpstein instead.
Haboob
Reality is a bitch.
Deep Snorkeler , 8 minutes ago link
Victory in Yemen! Victory in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and everywhere else! Our $trillon military, led by genius generals, will bring home slaves and loot to replenish our bankrupt treasury. We shall crush our enemies and hear the lamentations of their women.
ClickNLook, 44 minutes ago
MAKE YEMEN SHITHOLE AGAIN!
warsev
I guess we now know fully where President Trump stands on reining in executive warmongering.
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Apr 16, 2019 | www.unz.com
jacques sheete , says: April 16, 2019 at 1:03 pm GMT
@GermanicusThis is reminiscent Supreme Soviet.
Yes.
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Apr 16, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Kent
April 12, 2019 at 2:53 pm@John D. Thullen:"And, how should we have responded to the 9/11 attacks?"
Put locks on the pilot's cabin door of our commercial airliners and remove our military bases from Saudi Arabia.
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Apr 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Wile-E-Coyote , 8 minutes ago link
PigMan , 21 minutes ago linkHow about the 737 Pinto?
giovanni_f , 51 minutes ago linkBoeing 346 D
flapdoodle , 44 minutes ago link"737 Max A Enhanced Plus Super Advantage XL".
Fixed.
The 600 series isn't in use, so how about
Boeing 666 Trumpliner
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Apr 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Et Tu Brute , 12 minutes ago link
Mr. Pain , 23 minutes ago linkYou need a mind first to be able to lose it. He never had it...
J S Bach , 7 minutes ago linkWho would have believed that the godless communists now have more honor than the Amerikans?
I don't know, Mr. Pain. Even a godless communist is better than a zionist satanist.
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Apr 14, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
charlieblue -> Rio de Janeiro , 12 Apr 2019 10:39
Yeah, I remember Trump's healthcare "policy". It was a great, really, really great. The best healthcare ever. Repeal and replace. Obamacare is failing, it has failed, it's a huge failure, but Trump will do better. We were going to have the best healthcare in the world... I guess he's just to distracted by building that wall he's not building. Or, golf.
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Apr 12, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
johnf , Apr 11, 2019 6:50:56 AM | link
A direct quote of Trump 10th of October 2016:
"Wikileaks. I love Wikileaks."
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Apr 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
idontcare , 2 minutes ago link
Pompeo should go into advertising. Since the late '50's, we've torn Latin America to shreds, but we're the good guys, eh?!.
I luv my country, but I hate my government.
beemasters
This must have been the most transparently crooked administration ever in the US history! Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black!
2willies
Doesn't Pompeo also believe in the rapture.
Idaho potato head
At some point even the most deluded sheep has got to realize he is being lied to. Or is it just as in the Matrix, there is an age limit as to when a mind can be awoken.
After reading CYMS1 below I retract that question.
Mark Twain
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Apr 13, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Giant Meteor, 47 minutes ago link
Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
By William Blum
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
- China 1949 to early 1960s
- Albania 1949-53
- East Germany 1950s
- Iran 1953 *
- Guatemala 1954 *
- Costa Rica mid-1950s
- Syria 1956-7
- Egypt 1957
- Indonesia 1957-8
- British Guiana 1953-64 *
- Iraq 1963 *
- North Vietnam 1945-73
- Cambodia 1955-70 *
- Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
- Ecuador 1960-63 *
- Congo 1960 *
- France 1965
- Brazil 1962-64 *
- Dominican Republic 1963 *
- Cuba 1959 to present
- Bolivia 1964 *
- Indonesia 1965 *
- Ghana 1966 *
- Chile 1964-73 *
- Greece 1967 *
- Costa Rica 1970-71
- Bolivia 1971 *
- Australia 1973-75 *
- Angola 1975, 1980s
- Zaire 1975
- Portugal 1974-76 *
- Jamaica 1976-80 *
- Seychelles 1979-81
- Chad 1981-82 *
- Grenada 1983 *
- South Yemen 1982-84
- Suriname 1982-84
- Fiji 1987 *
- Libya 1980s
- Nicaragua 1981-90 *
- Panama 1989 *
- Bulgaria 1990 *
- Albania 1991 *
- Iraq 1991
- Afghanistan 1980s *
- Somalia 1993
- Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
- Ecuador 2000 *
- Afghanistan 2001 *
- Venezuela 2002 *
- Iraq 2003 *
- Haiti 2004 *
- Somalia 2007 to present
- Honduras 2009 *
- Libya 2011 *
- Syria 2012
- Ukraine 2014 *
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Apr 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
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The other mistake I see people make is that they toil away for 80% of the year in a job they hate, so they can splurge for a few days in an Americanized luxury resort.
Why not make every day exotic and truly get a feel for the local atmosphere by moving somewhere for a year instead?
So true.
If all else fails, just buy a bus ticket to Minnesota and see what it's like to live in Somalia for a day.
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Apr 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Asagirian , says: Website April 12, 2019 at 2:40 am GMT
Totally Hilarious
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Apr 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
EugeneGur , says: April 12, 2019 at 6:22 pm GMT
@Prof. WolandThe Russians are not very worried about crossing the British but I cannot imagine what the fallout would be if one of their spies got caught got caught killing someone here.
Sir, you are a rare breed. I didn't believe who believe that nonsense about the Russians killing Litvinenko or Skripals actually existed. You have a remarkable capacity of swallowing a large pile of BS.
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Apr 12, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Taffyboy , Apr 10, 2019 4:32:27 PM | link
Sorry to clog your fine site B. This is how idiots behave, and I am not sure why we abandoned dueling to satisfy behavior that is insulting! This goof needs a life lesson badly.
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Apr 10, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Some of Lokhova’s comments on ‘twitter’ are extremely entertaining. An example, with which I have much sympathy:
‘AN APOLOGY: Yesterday, I compared @nytimes journalists, who smeared @GenFlynn and accused me of being a Russian spy, to cockroaches. In good conscience, I must apologize to the cockroaches for the distress caused to them for being compared to @nytimes #Russiagate hoaxers. Sorry!’
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Apr 10, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Carolinian , , April 5, 2019 at 9:45 am
Or as George H.W. Bush said: Voodoo economics. But he didn't stick to that position very long once Reagan took him on board.
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Apr 09, 2019 | www.unz.com
Cloak And Dagger , says: April 9, 2019 at 12:25 am GMT
@renfroTrump had 4 bankruptcies let him run your economy !!
2+ years into his presidency, there is little room left for doubt about his competency. I regret having supported him, although arguably, the alternative was worse.
On a lighter note, here is Trump singing from Eurythmics, courtesy of Google AI:
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Apr 09, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
james , Apr 9, 2019 1:32:54 PM | linkmaga - and then boeing got in the way, lol...
Mission Readiness Starts with Services
As a part of Boeing Global Services, U.S. Army Services is designed to support to the Army's entire spectrum of platforms and equipment. The global U.S. Army Services team works side-by-side with customers to fully understand mission requirements, while delivering quality customer service and providing the highest levels of readiness to Army soldiers, operators and maintainers.
how about something more then a cheap slogan?? and while yer at it, can you come up with another for boeing??
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Apr 09, 2019 | www.bloomberg.com
What makes for a good nonfiction book? Ask author Michael Lewis, this week's guest on Masters in Business, and he will tell you it is all about characters and narratives. Describing his thinking about his many acclaimed books -- "Moneyball," "The Big Short," "Liar's Poker," "The Undoing Project," "The Blind Side," "Flashboys," and others -- he explained that each of these books is focused on a single character whose experience is a personal story line as well as an instructive tale about a broader event.
In his most recent book, "The Fifth Risk," Lewis discusses how Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and one-time presidential candidate, led him to look into the Department of Energy. Perry had not realized that the DOE was responsible for nuclear bombs, not energy. That led in turn to a shocking discovery about the Trump transition team:
Although the team was supposed to be managed by an experienced political player, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the entire effort was undercut and thwarted by President-elect Donald Trump himself.
From that inauspicious start flows the disorder and chaos that to this day is a hallmark of the Trump administration.
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Mar 25, 2019 | blog.usejournal.com
In its Russiagate coverage, The New York Times has repeatedly offered a graphic accusing the President's retinue of "more than 100 contacts with Russian nationals." This decision to question the loyalty of people who have had contact with a Russian national -- so, for just knowing or meeting a Russian -- has been a staple of New York Times coverage.
"More than 100 contacts with Russian nationals." It's incredible that this can even be an allegation -- in our paper of record -- there in explainer graphics almost every day, for more than two years now.
It smacks of the famous Senator Joseph McCarthy speeches in the 1950s: "I have in my hand a list of 205 [or 57, or 81] "
And yet no one ever seemed to mind.
After all, as former intelligence chief (and liar to Congress ) James Clapper has asserted on television, "Russians are almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor." Worse, I may have already been co-opted and penetrated without even knowing it! As Clapper said recently on CNN when asked if Trump could be "a Russian asset," it is "a possibility, and I would add to that a caveat, whether witting or unwitting."
Unwitting!
So you can be an unwitting traitor?
Infected with Russian mind-control, like a zombie?
Yes. As mainstream media have argued repeatedly and quite explicitly.
Consider the stunning set of short films on The New York Times op-ed webpages titled " Operation Infektion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War ".
Over a sinister animation of black and white human cells being penetrated by bright red virus particles, the narration begins: "The thing about a virus is it doesn't destroy you head-on. Instead, it brings you down -- from the inside. Turning your own cells into enemies."
This incredible film is well worth watching to see how ill our body politic has become. As the red virus invades cell after cell, the narration goes on: "This story is about a virus -- a virus created five decades ago by a government, to slowly and methodically poison its enemies. But it's not a biological virus, it's more like a political one. And chances are, you've already been infected."
Animation cuts abruptly to Donald Trump.
The evil genius behind this virus? The Leonid Brezhnev-era KGB. (Really! I'm not making this up!)
"If you feel like you don't know who to trust anymore, this might be the thing that's making you feel that way," the narrator says, as the animation shows more and more black and white cells hopelessly succumbing to the red virus -- reds spreading everywhere, bringing us down from within, as it were. "If you feel exhausted by the news, this could be why. And if you're sick of it all and you just want to stop caring, then we really need to talk."
Animation cuts to a human eye, now filled like a zombie's with infected red sclera.
Amazing. I thought I was exhausted by the news and sick of it all because the journalists have all become exhausting and sickening; because whenever I turn on NPR or open up The New York Times , I feel like Jennifer Connelly in "A Beautiful Mind"when she walks into the garage and discovers it's a shrine to paranoid schizophrenia, and realizes with horror that Russell Crowe's back home with the baby about to give it a bath.
But no. "Chances are," I'm already infected by a KGB virus. Cut to face of Donald Trump.
Makes sense. After all, I have personally had "more than 100 contacts with Russian nationals." I guess I better turn myself in. (For anti-viral treatments? Re-education? A struggle session?)
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Apr 08, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Russian research team which claimed to have detected signs of intelligent life in Washington has now discovered the life there not to be quite so intelligent after all.
A Russian spokesman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told our Moscow science correspondent -- who also wishes to remain anonymous -- that the Washington atmosphere has been poisoned by huge clouds of putrid hot air belching from the corporate media. He explained that such a hostile environment makes it almost impossible for intelligent life to survive, let alone evolve a sustainable culture. The Russian team believes there may still be small pockets of intelligent life elsewhere on the North American continent but without the necessary conditions they need to thrive they are destined to disappear without trace.
Speaking off the record, the Russian spokesman, who asked us not to disclose his identity, added that hopes of finding intelligent life in London, Paris, Berlin and other Western European locations, where it might be expected to flourish, are fading fast. Though it is believed intelligent life once existed in Occiental Europe, an atmosphere suitable for the maintenance of such life has all but evaporated.
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Apr 08, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
kurt -> Christopher H.... , March 26, 2019 at 03:28 PM
Barr says Mueller didn't find an "Direct" coordination with "Russian Government officials." That leaves all sorts of room for indirect (through wiki, through Kislyck, through the NRA... etc.). This is wildly different than what you claim here - and your claim is not something you know.I suppose it could be true, but you are believing the guy that covered up the Iran Contra affair and got Oliver North off for his numerous, admitted crimes.
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Apr 08, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
LOL123 , 3 hours ago link
With Jared kushner ( Bibis bff and playing the role of **** Cheney) and Aldonson Trumps private banker ( aka Vegas buddies) what could go wrong in PEACE negotiations?
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Apparently Bibi sleeping in Jareds bed wasn't a metephor but a foreign policy statement!💊🐍 the house of Kushner that Trump built.
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Apr 08, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk , Apr 7, 2019 5:48:41 PM | link
For your amusement:
Billionaire JP Morgan chief attacks socialism as 'a disaster'
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Apr 08, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
kurt -> Christopher H.... , March 26, 2019 at 03:28 PM
Barr says Mueller didn't find an "Direct" coordination with "Russian Government officials." That leaves all sorts of room for indirect (through wiki, through Kislyck, through the NRA... etc.). This is wildly different than what you claim here - and your claim is not something you know.I suppose it could be true, but you are believing the guy that covered up the Iran Contra affair and got Oliver North off for his numerous, admitted crimes.
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Apr 08, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
kurt -> Fred C. Dobbs... , March 26, 2019 at 01:52 PM
"Dov Levin, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University, has identified 62 American interventions in foreign elections between 1946 and 1989."... ... ...
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Apr 07, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Dadooo RonRon April 5, 2019 at 10:13 pm
Seems like so many people bark up the wrong tree of "Russian collusion". Trump is nobody's agent, because to be an agent, you have to have a sense of loyalty towards your business partners, and Trump does not have that. He'll throw anyone under the bus.
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Apr 07, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Peter Van Buren says: April 5, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Instead of Mueller Truthers I'm thinking of renaming folks Mueller Waiters. Wait for the investigation to end, wait for the summary, wait for the redacted report, wait for the full report, wait for the underlying documents, wait for the hearings, wait for the tax documents, wait for wait for something we like.Well, tick tock, 2020 is coming. Wait for that.
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Apr 06, 2019 | www.unz.com
ChuckOrloski , says: April 6, 2019 at 2:09 pm GMT
@J. Gutierrez Buenos dias, Señor J. Gutierrez!Am grateful for your noble stand and having written: " and we know who US support, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Nusra, etc."
For your information, come Monday, PreZident t-Rump plans to lie & dangerously declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group. (Zigh) Doing so, no doubt, will provoke NSA Director Boltom to experience an orgasm in his Wall Mart suit pants.
Nonetheless, linked below is a Counterpunch article where William Collins described going to Iran along with colleagues on a peace mission. A fellow suffered a heart problem, and entered an Iranian hospital where he was treated successfully. Nonetheless, when it came time to use his health care plan to pay the bill, Mr. Collins learned the claim was refused because such transaction (obligation) would violate ZUS economic sanctions!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/what-i-learned-in-iran/
Post scriptum: Suppose you're in the process of deciding if & when to schedule a ranch-job interview with me? Am patient, thank you!
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Apr 06, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
...Brennan, Clapper, Comey.It's not just Maddow who promoted, or entertained the idea, of grand conspiracy theories.
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Apr 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
Cowboy , says: April 4, 2019 at 3:35 pm GMT
@Rurik Upon consideration, what Putin should do is set up a "Free" German government in Königsburg just like the US is doing with Gaido in Venezuela. Get China to recognize it. Then they should start negotiating lucrative contracts, treaties and alliances between the Free Germans and the rest of OBOR. It would be fascinating to see how ZOG reacted.Oh, and most important of all, declare a new debt free currency, perhaps gold backed. I could live with the Reichsmark.
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Apr 04, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Well, there's this man called Swalwell - House Intelligence Committee - who's said that Trump's a Russian agent because "I haven't seen a single piece of evidence that he's not."Fred -> English Outsider , 8 days agoGood point. Case closed, looks like.
Rep. Swalwell, man of courage, still can't figure out how to file articles of impeachment based on all the 'evidence'.
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Apr 03, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Flankspeed60 , 2 hours ago link
Never thought Boeing would make Tesla look like a bunch of geniuses...
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Apr 03, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Sabrewolf , 4 days ago (edited)Damn ruskies. Meddling in our domestic affairs in Syria, Venezuela & Iran.
William Carstairs , 4 days ago (edited)Words that will live in infamy: "Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction." - Robert S. Mueller
Kie Dan , 4 days agoThe Rachael Maddow retirement fund. Priceless Well done. There are a few laughs in there but for me thst by far the best.
islandonlinenews , 4 days agoRussiagate in three words it didn't happen
Joseph , 4 days agoGlad I didn't waste the last three years watching mainstream propaganda media to get this report. Thanks James!
Turtle Lake , 4 days agoA time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying: "You are mad, you are not like us" - Saint Anthony the Great
Laugh my a$$ off watching this three times. Thank you Nancy for such a great play act. The theater of war, an act of congress and thank God the russians put Trump in the WH!! Thank you James, thank you Mr. Putin and thank you Adam Schiff-less for a great show. Monica eat your heart out!
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Apr 03, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
'Who The Hell Was I Working With Then?' Asks Russian President
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Apr 03, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
'This Man Has Had His Name Dragged Through The Mud -- And For What?' Says President... ... ...
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Apr 03, 2019 | local.theonion.com
BOULDER, CO -- Admitting he now felt "a bit foolish," 34-year-old local artist Austin Vermillion was reportedly beginning to realize Monday just how wrong he's been after spending the last two years drawing pictures of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin making out.
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At press time, Vermillion attempted to make up for his ill-advised and fallacious artwork by producing a new sketch of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) jerking off Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY.)
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Apr 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Why is that sentence funny?
Because it also describes every single U.S. president for the last 100 years!
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Apr 01, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
An unredacted copy of the Robert Mueller report has been leaked to the Washington Post , who published the full document on its website Monday.
The report contains many shocking revelations which prove that Attorney General William Barr deceived the world in his summary of its contents, as astute Trump-Russia collusion theorists have been claiming since it emerged .For example, while Barr's excerpted quote from the report may read like a seemingly unequivocal assertion, "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," it turns out that the full sentence reads very differently:
" It is totally not the case that the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
The following sentence is even more damning: "It definitely did establish that that happened."
The report goes on to list the evidence for numerous acts of direct conspiracy between Trump allies and the Russian government, including a detailed description of the footage from an obtained copy of the notorious "kompromat" video, in which Trump is seen paying Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as other documents fully verifying the entire Christopher Steele dossier which was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
Other evidence listed in the report includes communication transcripts in which Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen ordering President Trump to bomb Syria, stage a coup in Venezuela, arm Ukraine, escalate against Russia in America's Nuclear Posture Review, withdraw from the INF treaty and the Iran deal, undermine Russia's fossil fuel interests in Germany, expand NATO, and maintain a large military presence near Russia's border.
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Obviously I owe the world a very big apology. I'm sorry for calling the Russiagaters idiots, morons, drooling imbeciles, stupid, gullible sheep, foam-brained human livestock, tinfoil pussyhat-wearing delusional conspiracy theorists, demented cold war-enabling McCarthyite bootlickers, oafish slug-headed slime creatures, energy-sucking, CIA-coddling wastes of space and oxygen, and an embarrassment to the human species. Clearly, because of their indisputable vindication this April the first 2019, they are definitely none of these things.
RightLineBacker, (Edited)
After recovering from a near heart attack...and loading my weapons in preparation of taking to the streets... I noticed it was April 1st. Funny & not funny at the same time.
Damn! Back to my beer & popcorn.
desertboy
"I'm sorry for calling the Russiagaters idiots, morons, drooling imbeciles, stupid, gullible sheep, foam-brained human livestock, tinfoil pussyhat-wearing delusional conspiracy theorists, demented cold war-enabling McCarthyite bootlickers, oafish slug-headed slime creatures, energy-sucking, CIA-coddling wastes of space and oxygen, and an embarrassment to the human species"
Me too. It's worth repeating.
noshitsherlock
" He then put on a pair of sunglasses and rode off on a motorcycle due east into the rising sun, while the smooth notes of a single saxophone resounded through the D.C. cityscape."
Bwahahahaha
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Apr 01, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Aaron Mate
If you're MSNBC right now. what do you do? After 2 years of peddling a conspiracy theory by shutting out dissenting voices & countervailing facts,
do you: double down w/ deflection, denial, distortion in the hopes your audience doesn't catch on; or: start doing actual journalism?Silas Ash , 4 days ago"If you dont read the papers, you are uninformed, if you do read the papers, you are missinformed" - Jimmy Dore, 2019
Turns out Maddow wasn't the star of her show. The fake news conspiracy theory was the star
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Apr 01, 2019 | www.theguardian.com
MSM honchos were frantically typing #Covfefe on Google translate to see what it means in Russian.
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Apr 01, 2019 | forward.com
At best, calling the Russian election attack another September 11 betrays an insulting lack of perspective, akin to that of a bored teenager who claims sitting through algebra class is "literally torture".
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Mar 31, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
WheresOurTeddy , , March 29, 2019 at 11:49 am
Enforcement of financial laws is not our thing. Just ask Chuck Schumer of the #Non-Resistance:
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/28/sec-democratic-commissioner-chuck-schumer/
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Ken Zaretzke March 28, 2019 at 3:47 pm
Here's Laurence Tribe in a recent interview:"Think about it. The Republican Party that was concerned about the Soviet Union and how terrible and dangerous the KGB was, now supports Donald Trump, a president who essentially licks the feet of a former KGB agent in the person of Vladimir Putin."
The Democrats' finest constitutional scholar, oy vey.
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Mar 29, 2019 | www.youtube.com
The Russia stuff is BS if you had a bottle of vodka in your house, they would call that Russian collusion .
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Mar 29, 2019 | www.rollingstone.com
All this hyping of Mueller The Omniscient dovetailed with the preposterous mythologizing of the special counsel through consumer goods ( Mueller action figures ! " Mueller time! " beverage mugs! Saint Robert Muller prints!) and breathless stories like the Vanity Fair ode to the " dreamiest G-man to hunt for collusion ."
Then there were episodes like the " All I want for Christmas is you !" song performed by the SNL cast. "I don't need a full impeachment / I just need a little fun / Please don't tell us we aren't crazy / At least indict his oldest son."
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Mar 29, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
After news broke that Robert Mueller had turned in his final report without recommending any further indictments, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow began frantically retweeting blue-checkmarked Twitter pundits who claimed that since nobody knows the contents of the report yet, the news that the number of Americans indicted for conspiring with the Russian government is set at zero doesn't matter.
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Mar 27, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
There is essential difference between paranoias of the fringes and what Reason's Jesse Walker once called "the paranoid center." Because the center believes in the basic goodness of American and Western institutions, the basic wisdom and patriotism of their personnel, its threat matrix is always attuned to Great Enemies outside and radicals within, and its greatest fears tend to involve the two groups working together -- whether that means Middle Eastern dictators and Islamist sleeper cells after Sept. 11 or the grand alliance of Putinists and homegrown white nationalists that's blamed for Donald Trump.
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Mar 26, 2019 | www.washingtonpost.com
Mwrle66, 1 month ago
Hmmm--"tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions" -- are we talking about Jared's dad or his father-in-law?
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Mar 26, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
As the MSM pretends we all have goldfish brains and can't remember that they spent the last two years convicting Donald Trump in the court of public opinion, the New York Post is out with "Mueller Madness" brackets to determine who in the media takes the cake for the peddling the most fiction.
The president's haters no doubt wish to memory-hole collusion and move on to the next anti-Trump theory. But not so fast: We want to laurel the punditry "champion" -- the one who peddled the most nonsensical nonsense, the wildest inanities, the weirdest theories and unsubstantiated stories.
That's where your brackets come in.
Our contenders are divided into four groups (not unlike NCAA conferences): the print journalists, the cable TV talkers, the Twitterati and the network news reporters and "analysts." And the brackets are seeded, with the most visible and influential figures contending against the lesser-known.
Click here for a high-resolution version, and vote for your winner at [email protected] :
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Mar 25, 2019 | www.rt.com
Crying for indictments? Maddow 'holds backs tears' as she discusses end of Mueller probe (VIDEO)
The MSNBC host, who has devoted countless hours of airtime to gossiping about the alleged ties between President Donald Trump and the Kremlin, struggled to keep her composure while discussing the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which wrapped up on Friday without issuing any further indictments.
Rachel Maddow ( @maddow ) is literally crying 😂😂😂 #LiberalismIsAMentalDisease #MuellerReport pic.twitter.com/hNZThQlREv
-- Conservative Millennial (@deeg25) March 23, 2019According to the Daily Caller, Maddow came close to crying as she commented on the Russiagate-deflating development. Many on Twitter insisted that she actually shed tears. A clip of the broadcast shows a watery-eyed Maddow seemingly grappling with the reality that Donald Trump and his family will not be frog-marched out of the White House.
Maddow didn't succumb to this unexpected and shocking injustice, however, and reassured her viewers that Mueller's decision not to issue a single collusion-related indictment is the "start of something apparently, not the end of something."
The internet laughed and laughed."Very rough night at MSNBC. Rachel Maddow looks like she's going to cry. Chris Hayes glasses are all fogged up," noted radio host Mark Simone.
Very rough night at MSNBC. Rachel Maddow looks like she's going to cry. Chris Hayes glasses are all fogged up.
-- MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) March 23, 2019"This is what it looks like when you've deliberately misled your audience for two years, and then the music stops, and the bill comes due. @maddow," tweeted OANN White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson.
This is what it looks like when you've deliberately misled your audience for two years, and then the music stops, and the bill comes due. @maddow https://t.co/4bkBUEwx8y
-- Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) March 23, 2019"#Maddow either choking on kitty litter chunks or facing the hard cold reality she's the worst journalist in television history," quipped actor and conservative commentator James Woods.
"What's going on with Maddow? Has she been hospitalized? Sedated?" inquired journalist Michael Tracey.
Others expressed exasperation at Maddow's refusal to face the music, accusing the MSNBC host of ignoring real, pressing issues as she leads her Russiagate crusade.
"So can those of us on the left criticize Trump on the actual issues now, and FINALLY give up on #Russiagate? For 2 years, @maddow has lead @MSNBC in selling us the narrative that Trump colluded w/ Russia What will @maddow do now? Double down or actually do journalism?" asked author and activist Dennis Trainor Jr.
So can those of us on the left criticize Trump on the actual issues now, and FINALLY give up on #Russiagate ?
-- Dennis Trainor Jr (@dennistrainorjr) March 23, 2019
For 2 years, @maddow has lead @MSNBC in selling us the narrative that Trump colluded w/ Russia
What will @maddow do now? Double down or actually do journalism?Later on Saturday, Maddow mocked the suggestion that she was watery-eyed and might have held back tears.
LOL -- the Russia Today and conservative media news this morning that I **wept** -- I cried and cried -- through the show last night. LOLololol.
-- Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 23, 2019
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Mar 25, 2019 | www.rt.com
Russia doesn't interfere in the affairs of other countries and has no intention of doing so, the Kremlin said, dismissing accusations of meddling in US elections, contained in the Mueller report, as groundless.
"It's hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it isn't there," the President's spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the release of a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including 'Miss' Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious.
Koba the dread, 32 minutes ago
Hillary is the epitome of envy.
Your spelling is atrocious. Let me correct it.
Hillary is the epitome of evil.
There, that does it.
consider me gone, 39 minutes ago(Edited)
Go on and laugh it up, but if she hangs herself, you'll all sorry then. Or if she jumped in front of a train you'd all feel really bad. Or if she stumbled off a cliff in a drunken stupor. Or eaten by a shark. Or hit by a meteor. Or was horribly mauled and disfigured by a gas-powered dildo run amuck.
You wouldn't be laughing then!
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turcopolier.typepad.com
Problem is...who's going to do the prosecuting? The DOJ - protector of the swamp - has become thoroughly corrupted as an arm of the Democrat-media party. Should (can) Trump appoint a special prosecutor as far as possible from the DOJ?Nothing will happen. In fact, the way things have been going, Trump will make Mueller the next AG.
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including 'Miss' Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious.
Koba the dread, 32 minutes ago
Hillary is the epitome of envy.
Your spelling is atrocious. Let me correct it.
Hillary is the epitome of evil.
There, that does it.
consider me gone, 39 minutes ago(Edited)
Go on and laugh it up, but if she hangs herself, you'll all sorry then. Or if she jumped in front of a train you'd all feel really bad. Or if she stumbled off a cliff in a drunken stupor. Or eaten by a shark. Or hit by a meteor. Or was horribly mauled and disfigured by a gas-powered dildo run amuck.
You wouldn't be laughing then!
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
... Never stop mocking their idiotic Rachel Maddow worship. Never stop mocking the Robert Mueller prayer candles.
Bastiat, 13 seconds ago
Trumps is SUCH prick--by refusing to be guilty he made Rachel Madcow cry . . . again, just like election night. Bastard!
Carioca Canuck , 13 minutes ago link
Farts and Leaves , 17 minutes ago linkPutin should sue the Democratic Party for defamation.
No surprise here. What does surprise me is how Adam Schiftless keeps going like the energizer bunny.
Otschelnik,
If Rachel Maddow, Chris Mathews, Judy Woodruff, Chuck Todd, Anderson Cooper, Brian Stelter, Chris Hayes, Mika Brzezinski, Don Lemon, Alysin Camerota, Lawrence O'Donnell had the slightest inkling of professional integrity, and human conscience - they'd commit seppuku on national live TeeVee to restore their honor.
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Perry Colace
Macher1, 3 hours agoAll of this reminds me of the first combat scene in 'Full Metal Jacket'. Joker is being helicoptered into the battle at Hue, and the door gunner is just firing his M-60 nonstop, yelling 'Get some! Come on! Get some!', as people below are running and getting shot. Joker says, 'Aren't you afraid that you might be killing innocent women......or children?'. The door gunner says,
If they run, they're VC.
If they stand still, they're WELL TRAINED VC!'.
No matter the result, what is found or is not, to the left, Trump will always be waiting for his next check written in Cyrillic and denominated in rubles.
It's not Rubles.. Those be Sheckels.
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Mar 24, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Move over Wile E. Coyote.
Your feckless, futile efforts to kill the Roadrunner have been displaced by Jim Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper and legions of faux journalists.
One of the leaders of this parade of bewilderment and buffoonery is my old pal, Chris Matthews (I did his show multiple times). How can such a smart guy be such a dummy?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IkbRvpIMwoM
If you want to get to the heart of the matter of whether or not Donald Trump was in bed with Putin and received vast, secret Russian help to vanquish Hillary Clinton in 2016 you only need to ask one person-- FELIX SATER . Go back and read my previous pieces on Felix. He has been an FBI informant since December 1998. His specialty? HELPING THE FBI MAKE CASES AGAINST RUSSIAN MOBSTERS AND RUSSIAN SPIES.
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turcopolier.typepad.com
Problem is...who's going to do the prosecuting? The DOJ - protector of the swamp - has become thoroughly corrupted as an arm of the Democrat-media party. Should (can) Trump appoint a special prosecutor as far as possible from the DOJ?Nothing will happen. In fact, the way things have been going, Trump will make Mueller the next AG.
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zanon , Mar 24, 2019 3:35:09 PM | link
Poor Travolta..
With Mueller finished, US media turns to John Travolta for collusion gossip
https://on.rt.com/9qss
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Mar 24, 2019 | www.unz.com
If Nietzsche was right, and what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger, we can thank the global capitalist ruling classes, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media for four more years of Donald Trump. The long-awaited Mueller report is due any day now, or so they keep telling us. Once it is delivered, and does not prove that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, or that he personally conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton, well, things are liable to get a bit awkward.
Given the amount of goalpost-moving and focus-shifting that has been going on, clearly, this is what everyone's expecting.
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised. I was sure they were going to go ahead and fabricate some kind of "smoking gun" evidence (like the pee-stained sheets from that Moscow hotel), or coerce one of his sleazy minions into testifying that he personally saw Trump down on his knees "colluding" Putin in the back room of a Russian sauna. After all, if you're going to accuse a sitting president of being a Russian intelligence asset, you kind of need to be able to prove it, or (a) you defeat the whole purpose of the exercise, (b) you destroy your own credibility, and (c) you present that sitting president with a powerful weapon he can use to bury you.
This is not exactly rocket science. As any seasoned badass will tell you, when you're resolving a conflict with another seasoned badass, you don't take out a gun unless you're going to use it. Taking a gun out, waving it around, and not shooting the other badass with it, is generally not a winning strategy. What often happens, if you're dumb enough to do that, is that the other badass will take your gun from you and either shoot you or beat you senseless with it.
This is what Trump is about to do with Russiagate. When the Mueller report fails to present any evidence that he "colluded" with Russia to steal the election, Trump is going to reach over, grab that report, roll it up tightly into a makeshift cudgel, and then beat the snot out of his opponents with it. He is going to explain to the American people that the Democrats, the corporate media, Hollywood, the liberal intelligentsia, and elements of the intelligence agencies conspired to try to force him out of office with an unprecedented propaganda campaign and a groundless special investigation. He is going to explain to the American people that Russiagate, from start to finish, was, in his words, a ridiculous "witch hunt," a childish story based on nothing. Then he's going to tell them a different story.
That story goes a little something like this
Back in November of 2016, the American people were so fed up with the neoliberal oligarchy that everyone knows really runs the country that they actually elected Donald Trump president. They did this fully aware that Trump was a repulsive, narcissistic ass clown who bragged about "grabbing women by the pussy" and jabbered about building "a big, beautiful wall" and making the Mexican government pay for it. They did this fully aware of the fact that Donald Trump had zero experience in any political office whatsoever, and was a loudmouth bigot, and was possibly out of his gourd on amphetamines half the time. The American people did not care. They were so disgusted with being conned by arrogant, two-faced, establishment stooges like the Clintons, the Bushes, and Barack Obama that they chose to put Donald Trump in office, because, fuck it, what did they have to lose?
The oligarchy that runs the country responded to the American people's decision by inventing a completely cock-and-bull story about Donald Trump being a Russian agent who the American people were tricked into voting for by nefarious Russian mind-control operatives, getting every organ of the liberal corporate media to disseminate and relentlessly promote this story on a daily basis for nearly three years, and appointing a special prosecutor to conduct an official investigation in order to lend it the appearance of legitimacy.
Every component of the ruling establishment (i.e., the government, the media, the intelligence agencies, the liberal intelligentsia, et al.) collaborated in an unprecedented effort to remove an American president from office based on a bunch of made-up horseshit which kind of amounts to an attempted soft coup.
This is the story Donald Trump is going to tell the American people.
A minority of ideological heretics on what passes for the American Left are going to help him tell this story, not because we support Donald Trump, but because we believe that the mass hysteria and authoritarian fanaticism that has been manufactured over the course of Russiagate represents a danger greater than Trump. It has reached some neo-Riefenstahlian level, this bug-eyed, spittle-flecked, cult-like behavior worse even than the mass hysteria that gripped most Americans back in 2003, when they cheered on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the murder, rape, and torture of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children based on a bunch of made-up horseshit.
We are going to be vilified, we leftist heretics, for helping Trump tell Americans this story. We are going to be denounced as Trumpenleft traitors , Putin-sympathizers, and Nazi-adjacents (as we were denounced as terrorist-sympathizers and Saddam-loving traitors back in 2003). We are going to be denounced as all these things by liberals, and by other leftists. We are going to be warned that pointing out how the government, the media, and the intelligence agencies all worked together to sell people Russiagate will only get Trump reelected, and, if that happens, it will be the End of Everything.
It will not be the End of Everything.
What might, however, be the End of Everything, or might lead us down the road to the End of Everything, is if otherwise intelligent human beings continue to allow themselves to be whipped into fits of mass hysteria and run around behaving like a mindless herd of propaganda-regurgitating zombies whenever the global capitalist ruling classes tell them that "the Russians are coming!" or that "the Nazis are coming!" or that "the Terrorists are coming!"
The Russo-Nazi Terrorists are not coming. The global capitalist ruling classes are putting down a populist insurgency , delegitimizing any and all forms of dissent from their global capitalist ideology and resistance to the hegemony of global capitalism. In the process, they are conditioning people to completely abandon their critical faculties and behave like twitching Pavlovian idiots who will obediently respond to whatever stimuli or blatantly fabricated propaganda the corporate media bombards them with.
If you want a glimpse of the dystopian future it isn't an Orwellian boot in your face. It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers . Study the Russiagate believers' reactions to the Mueller report when it is finally delivered. Observe the bizarre intellectual contortions their minds perform to rationalize their behavior over the last three years. Trust me, it will not be pretty. Cognitive dissonance never is.
Or, who knows, maybe the Russiagate gang will pull a fast one at the eleventh hour, and accuse Robert Mueller of Putinist sympathies (or appearing in that FSB video of Trump's notorious Moscow pee-party), and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the special prosecutor. That should get them through to 2020!
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 Paperbacks. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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Jay Gallivan , March 23, 2019 at 8:00 am
" the Chinese simply don't play fair "
An American and European elites do?
https://eus.rubiconproject.com/usync.html
https://acdn.adnxs.com/ib/static/usersync/v3/async_usersync.html
Ignacio , March 23, 2019 at 8:38 am
You may consider that chinese don't play fair, it also migth be considered that Airbus strategy is just another way of economic colonization and to prevent the surge of new competitors maintaining the duopoly. Is it fair?
Given the recent drift of political geostrategy leaded by the US in which anything is "fair" to defend particular interests, my opinion is that China interest on developing their own airplane industry is not only fair but very reasonable. One wonders when the US will put in place another arbitrary ban.
Fairness is gone with the wind
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Ghost Ship , Mar 22, 2019 11:44:56 PM | link
Perhaps now the Democrats will get on with doing what the opposition should do. Oppose Donald Trump instead of pissing away the period before the next election on that complete waste of time and space called Russia-gate.I suppose I should feel sorry for the hardcore Russiagaters. First they never moved on from the denial stage of Trump winning the election. Yeah, I know he didn't win the popular vote but that's irrelevant, Now they're straight into the denial stage for Mueller closing down his investigation with Donald Trump still president. It's time for them to recognize the source of their grief, Hillary Clinton, a bad candidate who ran a bad campaign with bad policies and compounded it by failing to accept that she was responsible for putting a supposedly un-electable idiot in the White House, meanwhile blaming it all on whatever came to mind.
I said "supposedly" of Donald Trump because he's the clever one by getting the Democrats to run round in circles for nothing and getting himself elected.
Any Democrat who think it's going to be easy for the Democrat to win in 2020 is a moron and when it comes to selecting the candidate they should forget everything but one question, "can she/he defeat Trump". At the moment the only two who might do it are Sanders and Gabbard.
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Mar 22, 2019 | twitter.com
Mike Gravel 9:37 AM - 22 Mar 2019
Don't ever think the Democratic establishment is your friend. They want you to die in foreign wars and your children to work in starvation-wage service jobs until they're 70 so that the top 0.1% can buy their kids' way into Yale
Navi 9:50 AM - 22 Mar 2019
"It's already happening" while the DCCC is trying their best to stop primary challenges is a little shortsighted no? If you don't call out what is wrong what are you really 'fixing'? We can walk and chew gum at the same time!
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Mar 22, 2019 | twitter.com
kilgore trout's mom 3:53 PM - 22 Mar 2019
at last, a mysterious report no one has seen that contains all the supporting evidence to confirm my pre-existing opinions
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Mar 22, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
As usual, Trump made the announcement of recognizing Israel's claim to the Golan Heights without any consultation with any of the relevant administration officials...
President Donald Trump's tweet on Thursday recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory surprised members of his own Middle East peace team, the State Department, and Israeli officials.
U.S. diplomats and White House aides had believed the Golan Heights issue would be front and center at next week's meetings between Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. But they were unprepared for any presidential announcement this week.
No formal U.S. process or executive committees were initiated to review the policy before Trump's decision, and the diplomats responsible for implementing the policy were left in the dark.
Even the Israelis, who have advocated for this move for years, were stunned at the timing of Trump's message.
After more than two years of watching Trump's impulsive and reckless "governing" style, it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone that he makes these decisions without advance warning. There is no evidence that Trump ever thinks anything through, and so he probably sees no reason to tell anyone in advance what he is going to do. Trump almost never bothers consulting with the people who will be responsible for carrying out his policies and dealing with the international fallout, and that is probably why so many of his policy decisions end up being exceptionally poor ones. The substance of most of Trump's foreign policy decisions was never likely to be good, but the lack of an organized policy process on major decisions makes those decisions even more haphazard and chaotic than they would otherwise be.
There is absolutely no upside for the United States in endorsing illegal Israeli claims to the Golan Heights. It is a cynical political stunt intended to boost Netanyahu and Likud's fortunes in the upcoming election, and it is also a cynical stunt aimed at shoring up Trump's support from Republican "pro-Israel" voters and donors.
Kouros , March 21, 2019 at 11:39 pm
I wonder what Mr. Kagan has to say now about "authoritarian" regimes?!
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Mar 21, 2019 | finance.yahoo.com
Dee 3 hours ago
"President typically take pains to ensure the Pentagon is being run by Senate confirmed official" .Presidents typically don't put incompetent people in cabinet positions or give his kids top security level clearances when they have no need and no experience that requires one...well, no one has accused trump of being presidential or typical - ever
Dianna 4 hours ago
The swamp is now the " Trump Cesspool."
Nonconservative 3 hours ago
Hey deplorables....hows that swamp draining going?...ANYWORD on that great big beautiful health plan with lower premiums and keeping my own doctor?....what about infrastructure?...any idea when the roads in every city will be driveable again...or did we spend all the money from the US govt. paying Trump to stay at his own hotels?........hello?......hello deplorables?......anybody home????
Pierre Escargot 1 hour ago
>Pentagon to probe if Shanahan used office to help Boeing. Why not? Robert Mueller's and James Comey turned government service into self-service.
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Nature_Boy_Wooooo , 57 minutes ago link
Kadath , Mar 19, 2019 4:26:41 PM | linkWe must stop the Russians plot to put Trump in office the second time so he can increase the US military budget.
@13 lgfocus - that sounds suspiciously like something a COMMUNIST would say!!!!!!! During the 1797 XYZ scandal C.C. Pinckney reportedly said "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." which has been quoted by the Military Industrial Complex ad nauseam for the last 70 years to justify massive military budgets to fight the forever wars.Given the results of the last 70 years of US policies I would say that quote should now be updated to "Trillions for war, but not one cent for the people."
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Not The Onion: Scholar Makes "Moral Case" For Letting People Decide Their Own Age
...Says recognition of ' trans-ageism ' would prevent 'severe discrimination'
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.theonion.com
BURBANK, CA -- In an effort to better integrate its values into the heart of its brand, the Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday it had decided to rehire writer–director James Gunn to helm Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 as part of a company-wide push to embrace pedophilia. "Pedophiles have always had an important role to play at Disney, but now more than ever we want to put people who have sex with children front and center," said company spokesperson Eloise Andrade, who explained that the decision to fire Gunn from the Marvel franchise had come only after the filmmaker angered Disney executives by apologizing for his 2009 tweets about enjoying pedophilia. "From John Lasseter to Harvey Weinstein, this company has a rich history of sexual predation, so Mr. Gunn, with his public endorsement of man–boy love, was always a good fit at Disney. We're glad to have him back as we move forward with our plan to inject a pedophilic spirit into everything we create, be it a Marvel film that centers on Baby Groot or an extended release of 1928's Steamboat Willie in which Mickey Mouse is shown to be transporting bound-and-gagged children in his ship's cargo hold." Andrade was quick to add that producers would be keeping a close eye on Gunn to make sure he does not try issuing any more apologies for the intense sexual yearnings he feels toward young children.
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
Bad morals in a president? With Bill Clinton in office, the left was basically indifferent. With Donald Trump, it's indignant. Intense hostility to Russia? Previously a sign of paranoia; currently a prerequisite to patriotism.
Accusing the C.I.A. or F.B.I. of conspiring against our freedom? What was once de rigueur among progressives is now a slur on the good name of people who keep us safe.
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Trick Shroade , , March 20, 2019 at 9:46 am
The modern GOP has a very brutalist interpretation of Christianity, one where the money changers bring into the church much needed liquidity.
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lyman alpha blob , , March 20, 2019 at 8:00 am
They want freedom -- for the wolves to eat the sheep.
PKMKII , March 20, 2019 at 1:08 pm
And then act like it's fair because they don't have laws against the sheep eating the wolves.
jefemt , March 20, 2019 at 9:18 am
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose...
shinola , March 20, 2019 at 1:06 pm
"nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free" ;)
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John A , , , March 19, 2019 at 4:34 pm
Maybe they should have appointed aviation expert Nikki Haley to the Boeing board earlier.
A little bit of dignity , , , March 19, 2019 at 4:47 pm
How about seppuku for the entire top management?
Synoia , , , March 19, 2019 at 7:55 pm
Safety is at the core of who we are at Boeing
Yes, after money.
drumlin woodchuckles , , , March 19, 2019 at 8:08 pm
At what point does "crapification" become insufficient to describe Boeing's product and process here? At what point do we have to speak of " ford-pintofication"?
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Guy Thornton , Mar 19, 2019 4:22:12 PM | link
Merkel might say:"There is definitely a place for Brazil in NATO. They can have ours."
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worldblee , Mar 19, 2019 3:20:54 PM | link
Random Guiado, the President who wasn't There. The longer this goes on, the stronger the Bay of Pigs smell grows.Ian , Mar 19, 2019 7:45:09 PM | linkworldblee | Mar 19, 2019 3:20:54 PM | 7:Ciso Tagori , Mar 19, 2019 8:24:18 PM | linkIn reference to your Bag of Pigs comment, I'm waiting for Trump to announce a new Space Race to Mars once they give up on their failed coup in Venezuela. LOL
@7 This time will be bay of rats.
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Mar 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
psychohistorian , Mar 19, 2019 4:29:46 PM | link
@ testing that responded to my comment that wrote of Berniebotstesting , Mar 19, 2019 4:36:06 PM | linkI will support anyone who wants to take down global private banking and I don't think that includes Bernie
That said, there is a growing mass of young folks that just might try to take over the (s)election process this time around.....will they succeed? Not from what we see of protests against US meddling in Venezuela.....nothing
We will see what TPTB put forward for a circus this time around.....if we make it that far.....
Thank you. Yes indeed. So much candidates. Seems like fog of war. That can only mean they in reality sticking to their original plans.psychohistorian , Mar 19, 2019 4:50:08 PM | link@ testing who wrote
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Yes indeed. So much candidates. Seems like fog of war.
"With more candidates early on, it takes all that energy and diffuses it for petty warfare instead of a firmly focused "machine" that would take over Congress through the Dem party.
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Mar 19, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
Glen Tomkins 03.09.19 at 5:25 pm ( 2 )
"Monopoly" is such an ugly term. We prefer to call it "market power" these days, because of course it's a good thing if the job creators and their enterprises have more power to do all the good things they do for us.It's clearly class warfare, if not racism, to use the term of abuse, "monopoly", when you mean "market power".
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Mar 19, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
Glen Tomkins 03.09.19 at 5:25 pm ( 2 )
"Monopoly" is such an ugly term. We prefer to call it "market power" these days, because of course it's a good thing if the job creators and their enterprises have more power to do all the good things they do for us.It's clearly class warfare, if not racism, to use the term of abuse, "monopoly", when you mean "market power".
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Mar 18, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Catherine Krogman , 3 days ago
Alan Chamberlain , 3 days agoDonny Deutsch looks like the lovechild of Rachel Maddow and Gary Busey
We need a society that isn't based on the board game "hungry hungry hippos"
Marc James Levesque, 3 days ago
Jimmy Dore: "The puppets of oligarchy are so weak-minded they have to keep checking in with each other to figure out what they actually think." Aaaah LOL!!!
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Dec 09, 2016 | www.unz.com
Before the election, Rachel Maddow pointed out new polling that showed a strong shift towards Democrats in key "toss up" states, all states Trump won. Jimmy Dore breaks it down. Subscribe...
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Mar 13, 2019 | Consortiumnews
F. G. Sanford , March 13, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Sarcasm Alert:
Evidence matters, examples are rife. That's how Jeff Epstein got thirty to life.
Confident diplomats vouched for the prince, gruesome recordings just failed to convince.
Kashoggi was questioned, he just fell apart, the embassy staff swore they saw him depart.
OJ is rotting on death row today, his appeals were denied since he chopped up his wife.That Warren Commission Report got it right, ballistics would prove bullets pause in mid flight.
The fragments weighed more than the bullets intact, and dozens of marksmen repeated the act.
It turned out the cocaine involved in that search was imported to Mena for cancer research,
The Liberty Incident was a mistake, and John McCain's daddy set everything right.Jimmy Carter's success getting hostages freed would save Nicaraguans gravely in need.
Elliot Abrams and Oliver North had peace-keeping missions and carried them forth,
The coroner said he was shot from behind; they named Bobby's killer for his state of mind.
George Bush got elected by those hanging chads, an August 6th brief was advice he would heed!An interviewee said Assange was a creep. She claimed he and Epstein were both in real deep.
They both hired Dershowitz hoping to skate, she claimed that the evidence framed the debate.
The DoJ argued that laws were unclear, In Hillary's case, there was nothing to fear.
The kid on the submarine still went to jail, and Russia-gate fans weren't fleeced in their sleep.The world's greatest mastermind lived in a cave. His followers praised him and said he was brave.
The spooks were bewildered, his crimes wouldn't stop; he accomplished it all, with just a laptop.
Now Abrams and Barr are right back in the game. Some of the players look oddly the same.
Pompeo and Binney would candidly talk, Pompeo is loyal, he'll take that to the grave.Juan Guaido is legitimate State would allege, Palladino got miffed when Matt Lee wouldn't pledge.
"But there's evidence tailored to prove he's the guy, he was self nominated, now why would we lie?"
Ghaddafi had weaponized Viagra pills, and Assad was just swimming in chemical spills,
The evidence proved Saddam's nuclear plan, there are details galore if you read Zerohedge.The evidence matters, no doubt about that. DoJ will all read this, they're not pussycats:
Both parties are blameless their hands are all clean, corruption in DC has never been seen.
Ukrainians proved Russia shot down that plane, their motives were pure, they had nothing to gain.
Notice they're hoping that nobody talks, everyone walks with what's under their hats.Cherry picked evidence wouldn't accrue: It's not what the evidence serves to construe.
All of those sanctions they've now got in place, despite UN warnings that it's a disgrace,
Have so far escaped all judicial review. Nadler, Pelosi and Schiff may turn blue,
They'd like to impeach, but so far, Trump does everything those neocons want him to do.
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Mar 13, 2019 | Consortiumnews
F. G. Sanford , March 13, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Sarcasm Alert:
Evidence matters, examples are rife. That's how Jeff Epstein got thirty to life.
Confident diplomats vouched for the prince, gruesome recordings just failed to convince.
Kashoggi was questioned, he just fell apart, the embassy staff swore they saw him depart.
OJ is rotting on death row today, his appeals were denied since he chopped up his wife.That Warren Commission Report got it right, ballistics would prove bullets pause in mid flight.
The fragments weighed more than the bullets intact, and dozens of marksmen repeated the act.
It turned out the cocaine involved in that search was imported to Mena for cancer research,
The Liberty Incident was a mistake, and John McCain's daddy set everything right.Jimmy Carter's success getting hostages freed would save Nicaraguans gravely in need.
Elliot Abrams and Oliver North had peace-keeping missions and carried them forth,
The coroner said he was shot from behind; they named Bobby's killer for his state of mind.
George Bush got elected by those hanging chads, an August 6th brief was advice he would heed!An interviewee said Assange was a creep. She claimed he and Epstein were both in real deep.
They both hired Dershowitz hoping to skate, she claimed that the evidence framed the debate.
The DoJ argued that laws were unclear, In Hillary's case, there was nothing to fear.
The kid on the submarine still went to jail, and Russia-gate fans weren't fleeced in their sleep.The world's greatest mastermind lived in a cave. His followers praised him and said he was brave.
The spooks were bewildered, his crimes wouldn't stop; he accomplished it all, with just a laptop.
Now Abrams and Barr are right back in the game. Some of the players look oddly the same.
Pompeo and Binney would candidly talk, Pompeo is loyal, he'll take that to the grave.Juan Guaido is legitimate State would allege, Palladino got miffed when Matt Lee wouldn't pledge.
"But there's evidence tailored to prove he's the guy, he was self nominated, now why would we lie?"
Ghaddafi had weaponized Viagra pills, and Assad was just swimming in chemical spills,
The evidence proved Saddam's nuclear plan, there are details galore if you read Zerohedge.The evidence matters, no doubt about that. DoJ will all read this, they're not pussycats:
Both parties are blameless their hands are all clean, corruption in DC has never been seen.
Ukrainians proved Russia shot down that plane, their motives were pure, they had nothing to gain.
Notice they're hoping that nobody talks, everyone walks with what's under their hats.Cherry picked evidence wouldn't accrue: It's not what the evidence serves to construe.
All of those sanctions they've now got in place, despite UN warnings that it's a disgrace,
Have so far escaped all judicial review. Nadler, Pelosi and Schiff may turn blue,
They'd like to impeach, but so far, Trump does everything those neocons want him to do.
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Mar 16, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Zachary Smith , Mar 15, 2019 5:39:03 PM | 141 ">link
Netanyahu: Israel mourns the murder of innocent New Zealand worshipers
I'd predict the "sincerity" here was akin to the grief displayed in the Former Confederate States of America when the news of Lincoln's murder arrived.
During the last 'mowing of the grass' in Gaza, the death totals amounted to a "Christchurch" every day for the month of February.
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Mar 16, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Don Wiscacho , Mar 15, 2019 11:52:01 AM | link
About the terrorist attacks on New Zealand:
The media has once again proven Glenn Greenwald's definition of "terrorism": violence done by the 'other' against 'us'; it is never violence 'we' do to the 'other'. Media still report this terror attack as "shooting" or "incident". Even RT, which never hesitates to breathlessly call attacks on Israeli occupation soldiers as "terrorism" (attacks on occupational forces being legal under international law), terms it "mosque shootings" "mosque attacks". If these had been churches where people were slaughtered, it would have been "terrorism" even before the perpetrator was identified. Absolutely sickening.
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Mar 16, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
karlof1 , Mar 15, 2019 5:37:36 PM | link
Excellent! Sanctioned Russian businessman Deripaska has filed a lawsuit against Outlaw US Empire charging the sanctions against him "violate the US Constitution."
Gee, maybe someone reading MoA stumbled upon my incessant writing about that very fact. This will certainly be a court case to follow.
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Mar 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
oddjob , 47 minutes ago link
No matter what Party is in power, Ottawa always proves to be a source of disappointment for the average Canadian.
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Mar 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The Justice Department and Hillary Clinton's legal team "negotiated" an agreement that blocked the FBI from accessing emails on Clinton's homebrew server related to the Clinton Foundation, according to a transcript of recently released testimony from last summer by former FBI special agent Peter Strzok.
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Mar 15, 2019 | nationalinterest.org
Mr Russian -> milo • 2 days ago ,
Could you say that "checks and balances" of the US in current stage are "unbalanced"
Looks like executive branch has its own policies and legislative branch is trying very hard to nullify whatever executive branch can or could potentially do (and it will impact future presidents too).
And more importantly all this "meddling" (forgive me the pun) between the branches essentially cripples the US politics, foreign and internal.
If one can imaging THAT is the Russian goal then perhaps Mr. Trump could get the Star of Hero of the Russian Federation pretty soon
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Mar 13, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
Mike fl March 11
Boeing's CEO, Mr Muilenburg, and every member of the Board of Directors should be on board every possible 737 Max flight to demonstrate faith in their plane.
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Mar 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
never-anonymous , says: March 12, 2019 at 5:23 pm GMT
I thought we lived in a corporate state and since the Supreme Court has ruled corporations have rights – the voting morons already have loyalty to their corporate masters – "one nation, under God and all of his defense contractors "Anti-Semitism theater – a carefully staged social movement organized by Government owned media to divide the peons and make them hate each other. Real hate-group profit lies in charging for vast quantities of militarism but making just enough to kill women and children overseas.
Back home the flag waving patriots insist they need a giant military with weapons for anyone who can pay to protect them and their families. Dual loyalty to the Jewish lobby and the defense lobby.
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Mar 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ilyana_Rozumova says: March 12, 2019 at 2:31 pm GMT
We do not know the value of 30 pieces of silver today, but I do presume that Jewish bribes of Congress people are also hit by inflation. (like food). Or not?
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Mar 11, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jen , Mar 10, 2019 8:32:36 PM | link
I know I saw this news here at MoA a few posts ago but it's worth mentioning again in this Open Forum thread:
US EMBASSY EMPLOYEE IS BRIEFLY DETAINED WITH MORTAR SHELL IN MOSCOW'S MAIN AIRPORT
https://southfront.org/us-embassy-employee-is-detained-with-mortar-shell-in-moscows-main-airport/The wonder is that this US diplomat was even allowed to board the plane after the investigation and that he might be allowed back into Russia. Where would he be keeping his "private collection" of mortar shells and similar items? Can't imagine he'd be keeping it back in the US. Ukraine somehow comes to mind.
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Mar 11, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
David , Mar 10, 2019 2:18:10 PM | link
Anyone remember Mullah Omar, the deceased leader of the Taliban? The U.S. military and intelligence services claimed over and over again that he was hiding in Pakistan. Bette Dam finds (pdf) that he wasn't:The fact that Mullah Omar's death was suppressed for two years even from high-level official sources, indicates to me that the theory bin Laden died in 2001 is very plausible. We even have a similar progression of statements regarding their respective health, doubts of whether they were alive at the respective time, etc.After 2001, Mullah Omar never stepped foot in Pakistan, instead opting to hide in his native land -- and for eight years, lived just a few miles from a major U.S. Forward Operating Base that housed thousands of soldiers.In late 2001, after the U.S. invasion, Mullah Omar resigned as leader of the Taliban and the movement officially surrendered to Hamid Karzai who promised them reconciliation. The U.S. did not like that and launched a vengeful campaign against all former Taliban member. Eighteen years later the U.S. is suing for peace.
Mullah Omar lived quietly, meditated and studied religious text. Allah remarked on his death:
On April 23, 2013, Mullah Omar passed away. That day, Jabbar Omari told me, the hot, dry lands of southern Afghanistan experienced something he'd never seen before: a hail storm. I assumed it was hagiographic bluster, but later I found a U.S. army publication referring to that day: "More than 80 Task Force Falcon helicopters were damaged when a sudden unprecedented hailstorm hit Kandahar Airfield April 23, where nearly half of the brigade's helicopters were parked."Of course, both terror leaders were kept "alive" for geopolitical reasons. Once ISIS (and later Russia/China) took over as a serious threat in the corporate media narrative, they no longer had to cling to those old phantoms.
Jose Garcia , Mar 10, 2019 2:38:46 PM | link
The story on Omar is astonishing, but to me not surprising. If the US spends billions on finding one guy, and at the end of the day, he is literally just down the road, it shows how incompetent and useless our intelligence gathering has become.That 93% of all personnel that are employed by the CIA are paper pushers in Langley and just 7% are in the field, of which I read sometime ago, has a ring of truth to me.
Stupidity has a firm grip on our rulers, and they are getting, not only us but many others, killed for absolutely no reason. And the dunces called the American voter, keep re-electing them. It leaves me breathless.
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Mar 09, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Note that the candidate swears to be "faithful" to the "interests, welfare and success of the Democratic Party," but not to its principles. That's because there aren't any.
Readers may enjoy picking through the bafflegab, because I think you could drive a whole fleet of trucks through the loopholes. Here, for example, is Benjamin Studebaker's view : "A Second Term for Trump is Better Than Beto."
Nobody, after all, said that success had to be immediate ; perhaps a short term failure improves the ultimate welfare and prospects for success for the party.
In a way, this McCarthy-ite armraising is a kludge, another symptom of a fraying system: Exactly as we can no longer, apparently, trust voters to pick a President, and so must give veto power to the intelligence community, so we can no longer trust primary voters to pick a candidate, and the "National Chairperson" must step in if they somehow get the wrong answer. Pesky voters!
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Mar 09, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
It will fun to watch this developing:
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
Under White House direction, the administration is drawing up demands that Germany, Japan and eventually any other country hosting U.S. troops pay the full price of American soldiers deployed on their soil -- plus 50 percent or more for the privilege of hosting them , according to a dozen administration officials and people briefed on the matter.
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Current and former administration officials briefed on the idea, who asked not to be identified discussing the program, describe it as far more advanced than is publicly known. As well as seeking more money, the administration wants to use it as a way to exert leverage on countries to do what the U.S. demands overseas .As evidence, they say officials at the Pentagon have been asked to calculate two formulas: One would determine how much money countries such as Germany ought to be asked to pay. The second would determine the discount those countries would get if their policies align closely with the U.S.
The extortion scheme Trump wants to use against 'allies' is a perfect own goal.
The German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel is already accused of being too deep inside the U.S. rear.
Elliott A | Mar 8, 2019 11:42:10 AM | 5
Thank you for yet another good and humorous post.
The only section that is slightly unclear is, "The only sound reason to keep the 30,000 U.S. troops in Germany is to prevent them from moving to Poland from where they could threaten the country."
Surely the US occupation of Germany has been tacitly or latently threatening and controlling and dominating and bullying and extorting Germany for around 74 years?
So what major difference would it make if they were moved a few hundred kilometers away?
Kick 'em out! Germany has more than served her sentence!
A clarification would be much appreciated.
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Mar 09, 2019 | www.unz.com
Charles Pewitt says: March 9, 2019 at 2:58 pm GMT 200 Words
It's been the biggest money maker for them since -- the Rothschild family invented central banks -- or loaned money to both sides in every war they could find and/or drum up.
The Rothschilds must be financially liquidated in an orderly and legal manner as a lesson to the other globalizer plutocrats.
The Koch boys and the Benetton bunch should be legally liquidated financially as well.
There should be no billionaires in European Christian nations.
The Russians excepted; let those Ruski bastards do as they please within reason. I love Russians, and I would like to see many Russians depart the USA and England to go back to beautiful Russia. England for the English; America for the Americans; Russia for the Russians!
Billionaires in European Christian nations should be financially liquidated and exiled to sub-Saharan Africa. They must never be allowed to leave sub-Saharan Africa once they are escorted there.
The above is my modest Swiftian proposal to deliver swift justice to globalizer plutocrats such as the Rothschilds.
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Mar 06, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
1. Opiates/Big Pharma
2. Redundancies
3. John Bolton's harelip cover
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Mar 06, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
1. Opiates/Big Pharma
2. Redundancies
3. John Bolton's harelip cover
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Feb 28, 2019 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
WASHINGTON, February 28, 2019, 02:27 -- REGNUM members of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress, Val Demings and Elise Stefanik, have introduced a bill demanding that the intelligence services provide information on the income and property of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports the ABC channel .
According to ABC, the bill called "The Vladimir Putin Transparency Act" has been proposed by these members of the Intelligence Committee. The bill is related to the alleged ambitions of Russia to undermine American democracy. It is assumed that information about Putin's income will help defend democracy in the United States.
Also in January, the U.S. Senate introduced a bill on protection against "Kremlin aggression". The bill also contained a request that the intelligence community provide data on the assets and income of the Russian leader.
Murdock February 28, 2019 at 12:46 am
I'm not the only one here who thinks this is like, weird, right? Right?Mark Chapman February 28, 2019 at 8:33 amForget "Putin Derangement Syndrome", it's gotta be pretty deep into fetish territory now. I can only imagine they would also like to know where he takes his lunch breaks and what he thinks about in the shower too. Perhaps they fantasize about what sweet nothings the Russian head of state whispers into his pillows before falling asleep.
Joke's on them: Putin does not sleep, he waits.
No, you're obviously not the only one who thinks this is weird. Washington's persistent preoccupation with Putin is indeed in fetish territory now; he has become the bogeyman, the witch who brings damaging storms down on American heads, causes crops to fail and cows to give sour milk. I would not be at all surprised to see the House come up with a bill proposing he be tried for witchcraft.Nat February 28, 2019 at 12:09 pmThe only explanation I can offer – except mass craziness brought on by too much junk food – is a propaganda machine which has slipped its governor, and cannot stop churning out ever-more-outrageous claims. The extremes generated on Venezuela are similar in nature – Maduro is the ultimate evil, to the point that no option exists but his immediate overthrow, without which all Venezuelans are doomed to early deaths.
Especially as it was what the Panama papers already tried to do, and failed miserably. In thousands and thousands of published documents, there wasn't anything even remotely belonging to Putin. It only reinforced that there was no "fortune" to find.Jen February 28, 2019 at 2:24 amSomeone probably ought to tell Demings and Stefanik that their bill is the 100,000,001st bill to be put to Congress demanding that all 17 intel agencies in the US pull out all the stops to find Putin's hidden $40 billion fortune, even if they have to lose a few agents on a one-way trip into the heart of the Sun or down the Puerto Rico Trench in search of his assets.Patient Observer February 28, 2019 at 9:50 amYes, a great history lesson and it places events in a proper context regarding Russian behavior as they expanded eastwards. I suspect a "Western" mentality would have slaughtered all of the descendants of Khan empire. No, a Western mentality would slaughter ANY non-Western population regardless of preceding history. Russians and Orthodox Slavs, in general, are forgiving as we see to this very day.Moscow Exile February 28, 2019 at 11:08 amWell, to be fair, Ivan IV's victorious army put the majority of the Kazan population to the sword when the city fell to his forces in 1552 and for the rest of the 16th century, Tatars were forbidden to live in the city, which became Russified. There was official discrimination against Tatars but it lessened as the years passed.yalensis February 28, 2019 at 11:35 amBy the 19th century, Tatars had cornered the market in St.Petersburg and Moscow in the restaurant trade -- as waiters. And I reckon most railway porters at the raiway termini in Moscow are Tatars as well.
I don't think Russians are even necessarily "forgiving", I think it's something else. and I don't believe that this has much, if anything, to do with Christianity. The Russian mentality is fundamentally different from the European mentality.yalensis February 28, 2019 at 11:42 am
Europeans see "others" as sub-humans. Russians simply see people as people. Whether friends or enemies. If enemies, then they are killed in battle, but once the battle is over, they start getting married.I always point to the Russian national poem "The Tale of Igor's Host" as the prime example of this attitude. Prince Igor and the Cumans are fighting to the death. Igor loses. The Cumans take him captive. The Cuman Khan marries his daughter to Igor's son. See, Russians and Cumans have the same attitude here: We fight, and then we get married. That's the difference. (And the Cumans are not Christian.)
That's why it would have been impossible for Russia to have Jim Crow laws like in the U.S., which forbid people of different ethnic groups to get married.And P.S., speaking of racism, I had to get this post off my chest , because I am really worried about certain Russian pundits being infected by American ALT-Rightie type racism.yalensis February 28, 2019 at 11:51 am
I truly believe that biological racism is alien to the Russian mentality, and yet certain individuals are becoming infected, as the American cultural influence spreads.
Not that this particular incident involves actual racism, but it still bothers me that the Russian pundits are starting to use American vocabulary, such as "white people", and that sort of thing.
I personally believe these Catholic "Covington" boys are little shits who needed a cultural slap-down. It's just too bad that those delivering the spanking are barking mad themselves. But such is the American political scene .P.S. – an etymological note. The American term "white cracker" had nothing to do with actual crackers or any other type of foodstuff. It originated in slave times. The "cracker" was the hired hand who "cracked the whip" and beat the slaves. It's all there in that Bible of Slavery, namely Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". There you can read how slave-owners who were too squeamish (or too lazy) to whip their own slaves, could outsource the punishment to official businesses run by local "crackers" who would strip the skin off human backs, for a fee.Cortes March 1, 2019 at 4:41 pmThe etymology of cracker is probably nonsense. A good starting point for understanding the use of cracker in states originally settled by the "Scots-Irish" ( in today's parlance Ulster Scots) would be the Wikipedia entry on "craic"; I have a book chez Mrs C by a writer from GA making that very argument, that "cracker" was and is the archetypal carnaptious, disputatious rural type who would argue with God Almighty.
A gauche youngster doesn't and didn't deserve to be vilified after being abused by an old attention seeker and useless media and I hope the Covington kid is hugely successful in the litigation. On a literary note, what happened was a good illustration of the "pecking party" memorably described by Kesey in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."
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Mar 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
Just three examples. All those people would have troubles in the USA now. And that tells us something about the USA:
The wealthy Jews control the world, in their hands lies the fate of governments and nations. They set governments one against the other. When the wealthy Jews play, the nations and the rulers dance. One way or the other, they get rich."
'The Jew is a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline.'
'The enterprising spirit of the Jew is irrepressible. He refuses to remain a proletarian. He will grab at the first opportunity to advance to a higher rung in the social ladder.'
The comments above weren't made by Adolf Hitler or a member of the Nazi party but by some of the most dedicated early Zionists:
- Theodor Herzl, Deutsche Zeitung, as cited by an Israeli documentary
- Our Shomer 'Weltanschauung' , Hashomer Hatzair, December 1936, p.26. As cited by Lenni Brenner
- The Economic Development of the Jewish People, Ber Borochov, 1916
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Mar 03, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Anytime Donald Trump suggests he might withdraw troops, he is actually shaking down the Zionists, Saudi Royals, and arms merchants for more payoffs.
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Mar 03, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Donald Trump for 2020. Donald Trump jr. for 2024 and 2028. İvanka Trump for 2032 and 2036. Eric trump for 2040 and 2044. Barron Trump for 2048 and 2052.
KEEP AMERİCA GREAT
Real americans loves Donald Trump and his perfect family.
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Mar 03, 2019 | www.youtube.com
"RT is funded in whole or in part by the Rooskies....." Why doesn't CNN and MSNBC have to disclose their ownership by the CIA?
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Mar 02, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
fastfreddy , Feb 28, 2019 2:49:48 PM | link
Trump's 11 dimensional chess is a lot like Obama's 11 dimensional chess. Neither could figure out a way to keep warmongers and hateful pricks out of their cabinets, or curtail the war machine in any way, or to stop handing out tax giveaways to people who don't need them.
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Mar 02, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
Charles S Ferguson , February 20, 2019 at 3:45 pm
If I were one of the New World Order boys and wanted to destroy or weaken the United States I couldn't choose a better group of incompetent leaders than Pompous, Pence, Bolton, Trump, etc. Their arrogance truly demonstrates the possibility that they really believe what they are saying. A great man once said it well: "If the blind lead the blind they both shall fall into the ditch. Iran is no threat, but has been on the Israeli target board for years. And the Christian Zionists, being deceived by a false interpretation of scriptures, bow to Israel like the lap dogs they are.
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The neocons are struggling to decide which country will be the next one to invade. Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, North Korea, ... So many good choices but so little time ...
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Feb 27, 2019 | www.unz.com
Sick of Orcs says: February 26, 2019 at 4:51 pm GMT These neocon chickenhawk a-holes are like a parody of Veruca Salt.
"Daddy, I want war with Iran!"
"But, Love, you already have Endless Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and toys in another dozen countries!"
Talha , says: February 26, 2019 at 6:10 pm GMT
@A123The goal of any attack would be containment of the Iranian threat.
(sigh) Yeah, I'm sure any day now Persians are going to be landing boats, D-Day style, on Coney Island I'm certain my cat has nightmares about this, which is why he meows strangely at night for no apparent reason.
I know, I know, I've been through the drill enough times now; "if we don't fight them over there "
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The neocons are struggling to decide which country will be the next one to invade. Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, North Korea, ... So many good choices but so little time ...
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Feb 27, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Stringer , Feb 18, 2019 2:29:34 PM | link
Russia's Lavrov snubs US journalist: "Whatever I answer, you'll write what you want"
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Feb 26, 2019 | www.unz.com
Sick of Orcs says: February 26, 2019 at 4:51 pm GMT These neocon chickenhawk a-holes are like a parody of Veruca Salt.
"Daddy, I want war with Iran!"
"But, Love, you already have Endless Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and toys in another dozen countries!"
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Feb 26, 2019 | www.unz.com
Captain Willard , says: February 25, 2019 at 3:23 pm GMT
Hopkins is on to something here !So I modestly propose that from now on, all Candidates should have to file a prospectus with the SEC just like a stock IPO. After all, candidacies are just barely-camouflaged business enterprises.
Candidates should be required to disclose their business plan for America, including sound business models for all planned or contemplated invasions. I'm tired of pump-and-dump, loss-making invasions like Iraq and Afghanistan wherein only the Insiders benefit. If we're going to bother with Venezuela, shares of Citgo must be shared with all Americans!
Candidates should also show the capitalization table to reveal who owns them. For example, Obama's major ownership of Sanders LLC must be disclosed. Otherwise the gullible young generations who don't yet realize Unilever owns Ben & Jerry's cannot possibly understand who's in charge.
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Feb 26, 2019 | www.unz.com
So here it is, the announcement we've been waiting for all aboard for another cruise on the new and improved U.S.S. Magic Socialist with your captain Bernie Sanders at the helm! If you're not familiar with this extraordinary vessel, it's like the luxury liner in The Magic Christian , except catering to credulous American socialists instead of the British filthy rich. Tickets start at just $27 dollars so hurry, because they're going fast!
That's right, folks, Bernie is back, and this time it's not just a sadistic prank where he gets you all fired up about his fake "revolution" for fifteen months, gets cheated out of the nomination, then backs whichever corporate-bought candidate the Democratic Party orders you to vote for.
No, this time the Bernster really means it! This time, when the DNC rigs the primaries to hand the nomination to Harris, or Biden, or some billionaire android like Michael Bloomberg, Bernie is not going to break your heart by refusing to run as an independent candidate, unbeholden to the corporations and oligarchs that own both political parties, or otherwise make you feel like a sucker for buying his "revolution" schtick. He's not going to fold like a fifty dollar suit and start parroting whatever propaganda the corporate media will be prodigiously spewing to convince you the Russians and Nazis are coming unless you vote for the empire's pre-anointed puppet!
Bernie would never dream of doing that or at least he'd never dream of doing that twice.
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Feb 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Uncle $cam , Feb 24, 2019 12:08:06 AM | link
From our own MOA poet laureate, Lizard:
A Stable Prez For A Stable Nation
he's a very stable genius
from a very stable clan
with stable people helping
the stable hidden handAmerika, a stable nation
enjoys its stable home
bought with stable wages
on borrowed, stable loansa stable media agrees
and feeds our stable wants
to please their stable owners
and keep their stable jobsour stable future awaits
to fulfill our stable plans
of stable global control
over stable global lands
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Feb 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Brazen Heist II , 51 minutes ago link
I am Groot , 44 minutes ago linkTaking humanitarian advice from regime changers is like asking Harvey Weinstein to babysit your daughter.
Benito_Camela , 21 minutes ago linkAnd your wife, her friends and your daughter friends.....
And telling him to invite Bill Cosby.
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by Tyler Durden Sat, 02/23/2019 - 18:25 553 SHARES
Satire or not? You decide...
via Babylon Bee.While Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been having a tough week so far, there appears to be a silver lining : cable news channel CNN has offered Smollett a job as an investigative reporter and on-air anchor after witnessing his skills at fabricating a story entirely out of thin air.
CNN producers were reportedly impressed throughout the ongoing saga of Smollett's apparent hoax attack on himself. They realized early on the facts didn't add up but were fascinated with how well the actor kept the narrative going. An HR rep quickly reached out to Smollett to see if he'd be interested in taking on a position at the news organization after news broke that the entire thing was probably fabricated.
"Smollett has exactly the kind of skills we look for at our fine organization," said CNN correspondent Brian Stelter. "He picked a narrative, made up all the relevant facts and details, and stuck with his story in spite of glaring holes in the plot. It's hard to find people who understand our core values here at CNN , but Smollett seems to be just the guy for us."
The actor has accepted the offer and is now undergoing training to learn how to weave even more intricate narratives ex nihilo , according to insiders.
And having entirely lost any sense of satirical humor, Snopes decided to fact-check Babylon Bee's story...
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ProteanView , 1 day ago (edited)
Got em! One thing the Dutchie doesn't understand about "scapegoating immigrants." Illegal immigrants provide cheap labor for corporations, some of the very same people he's talking about. Very different than legal immigrants who must be paid minimum wage and are subject to IRS auditing. Putting immigrants in the same pile as illegal immigrants is like holding a bank robber at the same level as a customer at an ATM. "Well, they're both making withdrawals."
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Feb 22, 2019 | www.unz.com
Andrei Martyanov , says: Website February 20, 2019 at 9:41 pm GMT
It might have been brighter to have integrated Iran tightly into the Euro-American econosphere, but Israel would not have let America do this. The same approach would have worked with Russia, racially closer to Europe than China and acutely aware of having vast empty Siberia bordering an overpopulated China.
Russia is more than racially closer, Russia is culturally much closer and by culturally I don't mean this cesspool of new "culture". But, as you brilliantly noted:
The US chooses its government by popularity contests among provincial lawyers rather than by competence.
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Anon [322] Disclaimer , says: February 22, 2019 at 4:29 am GMT
@MoiTo be a real Jew, you have to born a Jew. It is the same for Hindus. Someone should tell Tulsi Gabbard she cannot convert to Hinduism -- she will not be accepted by most Hindus. This is the key reason why Hindus do not believe in propagating their religion.
LOL I don't think Tulsi got the memo. Neither did Ivanka. She thinks it's for real.
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Feb 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
James Howard Kunstler notes that the #Resistance has been losing bigly in recent days as each new "bombshell" it manufactures turns out only to reveal its modus operandi, which is that the end justifies the means - the end being to evict the wicked Mr. Trump from office and the means being dishonesty and bad faith in its use of the government's prosecutorial machinery.
hanekhw
Schiff is having recruitment problems. There are only so many deaf, dumb and blind Investigators available and, while almost all of them are already employed by the FBI and other government agencies the only available ones are asking phenomenal amounts and perks that he just can't afford.
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Feb 19, 2019 | www.unz.com
"An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews."– Joe Sobran
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Feb 18, 2019 | twitter.com
Tulsi Gabbard is a really next-level politician. Any amateur can be a traditional US racist politician, but it takes skill to succeed in America as a Hindu-nationalist racist / tankie Assad apologist.
-- Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) January 11, 2019
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Feb 18, 2019 | www.rt.com
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has refused to deny reports that he nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after being "informally" asked to do so by the White House, in a move that prompted ridicule online.... ... ...
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Feb 18, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Robert Snefjella | Feb 16, 2019 1:34:44 PM | https://berlinspectator.com/2019/02/11/germans-fear-america-more-than-russia/
approximately 2/3 of Japanese, South Koreans and Mexicans feared the US, and in Germany 49% fear US and only 30% fear Russia.
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Curiously, after much Putin and Russia bashing, there was a petition in Alaska in 2014 – at some point it had 30,000 signatures – asking Russia to take Alaska back.
Joke or not, note that in a recent poll
https://berlinspectator.com/2019/02/11/germans-fear-america-more-than-russia/
approximately 2/3 of Japanese, South Koreans and Mexicans feared the US, and in Germany 49% fear US and only 30% fear Russia.">link
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Bmc February 17, 2019 at 1:16 am
Why would Max Boot and Bill Kristol want to conquer the middle east in order to spread Americanism while at the same time having nothing but disdain for actual Americans themselves?Hmm (strokes beard)
Hmmmmm (strokes beard more rapidly)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (tears out beard furiously without abandon)
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Alex (the one that likes Ike) February 15, 2019 at 4:39 pm
By the spring of 2018, Kristol was considering a run for president himself.
Jesus H. Christ I don't even know what it is – a blinding hubris or an unbound idiocy. Or both.
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Feb 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com,
Hail, Donald J. Trump, we who are about to read your latest tweet salute you!
... ... ...
Let's note some other passing parallels between the new Rome and the old one. As a start, it's certainly accurate to say that our new American Caesar has much gall (divided into at least three parts). Admittedly, he's no Augustus, the first of a line of emperors, but more likely a Nero, fiddling while, in his case, the world quite literally burns . Still, he could certainly say of campaign 2016 and what followed: Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I came, I saw, I tweeted). And don't forget the classic line that might someday be applied to his presidency, " Et tu , Mueller?" -- or depending on who turns on him, you can fill in your name of choice.
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[yes, I did not have much influence of Trump]..."Nor did I have any influence on the captain of the Titanic, the operators of the Hindenburg or the 9/11/2001 Terrorism Prevention Team."
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Authored by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com,
Hail, Donald J. Trump, we who are about to read your latest tweet salute you!
... ... ...
Let's note some other passing parallels between the new Rome and the old one. As a start, it's certainly accurate to say that our new American Caesar has much gall (divided into at least three parts). Admittedly, he's no Augustus, the first of a line of emperors, but more likely a Nero, fiddling while, in his case, the world quite literally burns . Still, he could certainly say of campaign 2016 and what followed: Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I came, I saw, I tweeted). And don't forget the classic line that might someday be applied to his presidency, " Et tu , Mueller?" -- or depending on who turns on him, you can fill in your name of choice.
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[yes, I did not have much influence of Trump]..."Nor did I have any influence on the captain of the Titanic, the operators of the Hindenburg or the 9/11/2001 Terrorism Prevention Team."
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Jul 27, 2018 | thesaker.is
Alex on October 09, 2017 , · at 3:08 pm EST/EDT
Something tells me he doesn't want to push this too much as money for this film came from French and German sources. It is nice to see him sticking his neck out to uphold the Truth.When I watched the US rep. who supposedly investigated this Magnitzky affair for the US gov. state under oath that he never verified any of the info that Browder gave him, I kept thinking "Is this guy serious ?" But when you realize that they never did any investigation then it all seems logical.
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Feb 14, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Derrick , Feb 14, 2019 2:11:32 PM | link
"What else then can he do?"
Purchase large caliber hand gun
Load gun with large caliber dum dum bullets
Take aim at foot (either will do)
Pull trigger.Oh! Wait! I think he's already done that.
Taffyboy , Feb 14, 2019 3:28:00 PM | link
..."Trump is now committed to 'regime change' in Venezuela. But how can he do it?"...
Well maybe he can show how great he is and drive the aid truck himself personally and then go to Maduro and ask him to leave. That would be a show of force indeed.
Cheers.
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Feb 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
Maybe Donald Trump isn't as stupid as I thought. I'd hate to have to admit that publicly, but it does kind of seem like he has put one over on the liberal corporate media this time. Scanning the recent Trump-related news, I couldn't help but notice a significant decline in the number of references to Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler, and " the brink of fascism " that America has supposedly been teetering on since Hillary Clinton lost the election.
I googled around pretty well, I think, but I couldn't find a single editorial warning that Trump is about to summarily cancel the U.S. Constitution, dissolve Congress, and proclaim himself Führer . Nor did I see any mention of Auschwitz , or any other Nazi stuff which is weird, considering that the Hitler hysteria has been a standard feature of the official narrative we've been subjected to for the last two years.
So how did Trump finally get the liberal corporate media to stop calling him a fascist? He did that by acting like a fascist (i.e., like a "normal" president). Which is to say he did the bidding of the deep state goons and corporate mandarins that manage the global capitalist empire the smiley, happy, democracy-spreading, post-fascist version of fascism we live under.
I'm referring, of course, to Venezuela, which is one of a handful of uncooperative countries that are not playing ball with global capitalism and which haven't been "regime changed" yet. Trump green-lit the attempted coup purportedly being staged by the Venezuelan "opposition," but which is obviously a U.S. operation, or, rather, a global capitalist operation. As soon as he did, the corporate media immediately suspended calling him a fascist, and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and so on, and started spewing out blatant propaganda supporting his effort to overthrow the elected government of a sovereign country.
Overthrowing the governments of sovereign countries, destroying their economies, stealing their gold, and otherwise bringing them into the fold of the global capitalist "international community" is not exactly what most folks thought Trump meant by "Make America Great Again." Many Americans have never been to Venezuela, or Syria, or anywhere else the global capitalist empire has been ruthlessly restructuring since shortly after the end of the Cold War. They have not been lying awake at night worrying about Venezuelan democracy, or Syrian democracy, or Ukrainian democracy.
This is not because Americans are a heartless people, or an ignorant or a selfish people. It is because, well, it is because they are Americans (or, rather, because they believe they are Americans), and thus are more interested in the problems of Americans than in the problems of people in faraway lands that have nothing whatsoever to do with America. Notwithstanding what the corporate media will tell you, Americans elected Donald Trump, a preposterous, self-aggrandizing ass clown, not because they were latent Nazis, or because they were brainwashed by Russian hackers, but, primarily, because they wanted to believe that he sincerely cared about America, and was going to try to "make it great again" (whatever that was supposed to mean, exactly).
Unfortunately, there is no America. There is nothing to make great again. "America" is a fiction, a fantasy, a nostalgia that hucksters like Donald Trump (and other, marginally less buffoonish hucksters) use to sell whatever they are selling themselves, wars, cars, whatever. What there is, in reality, instead of America, is a supranational global capitalist empire, a decentralized, interdependent network of global corporations, financial institutions, national governments, intelligence agencies, supranational governmental entities, military forces, media, and so on. If that sounds far-fetched or conspiratorial, look at what is going on in Venezuela.
The entire global capitalist empire is working in concert to force the elected president of the country out of office. The US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Israel, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina have officially recognized Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela, in spite of the fact that no one elected him. Only the empire's official evil enemies (i.e., Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and other uncooperative countries) are objecting to this "democratic" coup. The global financial system (i.e., banks) has frozen (i.e., stolen) Venezuela's assets, and is attempting to transfer them to Guaido so he can buy the Venezuelan military. The corporate media are hammering out the official narrative like a Goebbelsian piano in an effort to convince the general public that all this has something to do with democracy. You would have to be a total moron or hopelessly brainwashed not to recognize what is happening.
What is happening has nothing to do with America the "America" that Americans believe they live in and that many of them want to "make great again." What is happening is exactly what has been happening around the world since the end of the Cold War, albeit most dramatically in the Middle East. The de facto global capitalist empire is restructuring the planet with virtual impunity. It is methodically eliminating any and all impediments to the hegemony of global capitalism, and the privatization and commodification of everything.
Venezuela is one of these impediments. Overthrowing its government has nothing to do with America, or the lives of actual Americans. "America" is not to going conquer Venezuela and plant an American flag on its soil. "America" is not going to steal its oil, ship it "home," and parcel it out to "Americans" in their pickups in the parking lot of Walmart.
What what about those American oil corporations? They want that Venezuelan oil, don't they? Well, sure they do, but here's the thing there are no "American" oil corporations. Corporations, especially multi-billion dollar transnational corporations (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, et al.) have no nationalities, nor any real allegiances, other than to their major shareholders. Chevron, for example, whose major shareholders are asset management and mutual fund companies like Black Rock, The Vanguard Group, SSgA Funds Management, Geode Capital Management, Wellington Management, and other transnational, multi-trillion dollar outfits. Do you really believe that being nominally headquartered in Boston or New York makes these companies "American," or that Deutsche Bank is a "German" bank, or that BP is a "British" company?
And Venezuela is just the most recent blatant example of the empire in action. Ask yourself, honestly, what have the "American" regime change ops throughout the Greater Middle East done for any actual Americans, other than get a lot of them killed? Oh, and how about those bailouts for all those transnational "American" investment banks? Or the billions "America" provides to Israel? Someone please explain how enriching the shareholders of transnational corporations like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin by selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabian Islamists is benefiting "the American people." How much of that Saudi money are you seeing? And, wait, I've got another one for you. Call up your friendly 401K manager, ask how your Pfizer shares are doing, then compare that to what you're paying some "American" insurance corporation to not really cover you.
For the last two-hundred years or so, we have been conditioned to think of ourselves as the citizens of a collection of sovereign nation states, as "Americans," "Germans," "Greeks," and so on. There are no more sovereign nation states. Global capitalism has done away with them. Which is why we are experiencing a "neo-nationalist" backlash. Trump, Brexit, the so-called "new populism" these are the death throes of national sovereignty, like the thrashing of a suffocating fish before you whack it and drop it in the cooler. The battle is over, but the fish doesn't know that. It didn't even realize there was a battle until it suddenly got jerked up out of the water.
In any event, here we are, at the advent of the global capitalist empire. We are not going back to the 19th Century, nor even to the early 20th Century. Neither Donald Trump nor anyone else is going to "Make America Great Again." Global capitalism will continue to remake the world into one gigantic marketplace where we work ourselves to death at bullshit jobs in order to buy things we don't need, accumulating debts we can never pay back, the interest on which will further enrich the global capitalist ruling classes, who, as you may have noticed, are preparing for the future by purchasing luxury underground bunkers and post-apocalyptic compounds in New Zealand. That, and militarizing the police, who they will need to maintain "public order" you know, like they are doing in France at the moment, by beating, blinding, and hideously maiming those Gilets Jaunes (i.e., Yellow Vest) protesters that the corporate media are doing their best to demonize and/or render invisible.
Or, who knows, Americans (and other Western consumers) might take a page from those Yellow Vests, set aside their political differences (or at least ignore their hatred of each other long enough to actually try to achieve something), and focus their anger at the politicians and corporations that actually run the empire, as opposed to, you know, illegal immigrants and imaginary legions of Nazis and Russians. In the immortal words of General Buck Turgidson, "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed," but, heck, it might be worth a try, especially since, the way things are going, we are probably going end up out there anyway.
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 Paperbacks. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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Einstein101 , 6 hours ago link
schroedingersrat , 6 hours ago linkFurious China Accuses US Of Fabricating Threats, Slams Huawei Boycott As "Hypocritical And Immoral"
Huawei has no one else to blame for this but itself. The way the company has violated US laws, defrauding banks with its attempts to dodge the US sanction on Iran.
The American Sanctions on Iran are an international necessity, They May Even Help To Stop The Misery And Suffering Of The Iranian People.
Look Pompeo is posting on ZH
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frances , Feb 12, 2019 7:27:16 PM | link
Just an aside:Zachary Smith , Feb 12, 2019 7:49:07 PM | link
Saw this comin' from a mile away....the "reluctant candidate":
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-12/michelle-obama-going-run-president-2020@ frances #59...As for myself, I'd vote for a random US citizen chosen from a pool of non-druggie non-criminal people under 65 if such a person was running against Trump. Male, female, black, white, yellow, or purple - but not the wife of Obama.
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In a recent statement House leader Nancy Pelosi was reduced to accuse Trump campaign officials of doing their job:
"The indictment of Roger Stone makes clear that there was a deliberate, coordinated attempt by top Trump campaign officials to influence the 2016 election and subvert the will of the American people. ...No one called her out for spouting such nonsense.
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Tom , Feb 12, 2019 10:58:59 PM | link
psychohistorian #41How much has been spent, to date, on Russiagate? Well it seems that the Muller investigation has cost about $25 million.
The Muller investigation has seized $26.7 million from Manafort plus an additional $1.9 million from others charged my Muller. Must be one of the few government programmes that makes money!
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Feb 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
Maybe Donald Trump isn't as stupid as I thought. I'd hate to have to admit that publicly, but it does kind of seem like he has put one over on the liberal corporate media this time. Scanning the recent Trump-related news, I couldn't help but notice a significant decline in the number of references to Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler, and " the brink of fascism " that America has supposedly been teetering on since Hillary Clinton lost the election.
I googled around pretty well, I think, but I couldn't find a single editorial warning that Trump is about to summarily cancel the U.S. Constitution, dissolve Congress, and proclaim himself Führer . Nor did I see any mention of Auschwitz , or any other Nazi stuff which is weird, considering that the Hitler hysteria has been a standard feature of the official narrative we've been subjected to for the last two years.
So how did Trump finally get the liberal corporate media to stop calling him a fascist? He did that by acting like a fascist (i.e., like a "normal" president). Which is to say he did the bidding of the deep state goons and corporate mandarins that manage the global capitalist empire the smiley, happy, democracy-spreading, post-fascist version of fascism we live under.
I'm referring, of course, to Venezuela, which is one of a handful of uncooperative countries that are not playing ball with global capitalism and which haven't been "regime changed" yet. Trump green-lit the attempted coup purportedly being staged by the Venezuelan "opposition," but which is obviously a U.S. operation, or, rather, a global capitalist operation. As soon as he did, the corporate media immediately suspended calling him a fascist, and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and so on, and started spewing out blatant propaganda supporting his effort to overthrow the elected government of a sovereign country.
Overthrowing the governments of sovereign countries, destroying their economies, stealing their gold, and otherwise bringing them into the fold of the global capitalist "international community" is not exactly what most folks thought Trump meant by "Make America Great Again." Many Americans have never been to Venezuela, or Syria, or anywhere else the global capitalist empire has been ruthlessly restructuring since shortly after the end of the Cold War. They have not been lying awake at night worrying about Venezuelan democracy, or Syrian democracy, or Ukrainian democracy.
This is not because Americans are a heartless people, or an ignorant or a selfish people. It is because, well, it is because they are Americans (or, rather, because they believe they are Americans), and thus are more interested in the problems of Americans than in the problems of people in faraway lands that have nothing whatsoever to do with America. Notwithstanding what the corporate media will tell you, Americans elected Donald Trump, a preposterous, self-aggrandizing ass clown, not because they were latent Nazis, or because they were brainwashed by Russian hackers, but, primarily, because they wanted to believe that he sincerely cared about America, and was going to try to "make it great again" (whatever that was supposed to mean, exactly).
Unfortunately, there is no America. There is nothing to make great again. "America" is a fiction, a fantasy, a nostalgia that hucksters like Donald Trump (and other, marginally less buffoonish hucksters) use to sell whatever they are selling themselves, wars, cars, whatever. What there is, in reality, instead of America, is a supranational global capitalist empire, a decentralized, interdependent network of global corporations, financial institutions, national governments, intelligence agencies, supranational governmental entities, military forces, media, and so on. If that sounds far-fetched or conspiratorial, look at what is going on in Venezuela.
The entire global capitalist empire is working in concert to force the elected president of the country out of office. The US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Israel, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina have officially recognized Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela, in spite of the fact that no one elected him. Only the empire's official evil enemies (i.e., Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and other uncooperative countries) are objecting to this "democratic" coup. The global financial system (i.e., banks) has frozen (i.e., stolen) Venezuela's assets, and is attempting to transfer them to Guaido so he can buy the Venezuelan military. The corporate media are hammering out the official narrative like a Goebbelsian piano in an effort to convince the general public that all this has something to do with democracy. You would have to be a total moron or hopelessly brainwashed not to recognize what is happening.
What is happening has nothing to do with America the "America" that Americans believe they live in and that many of them want to "make great again." What is happening is exactly what has been happening around the world since the end of the Cold War, albeit most dramatically in the Middle East. The de facto global capitalist empire is restructuring the planet with virtual impunity. It is methodically eliminating any and all impediments to the hegemony of global capitalism, and the privatization and commodification of everything.
Venezuela is one of these impediments. Overthrowing its government has nothing to do with America, or the lives of actual Americans. "America" is not to going conquer Venezuela and plant an American flag on its soil. "America" is not going to steal its oil, ship it "home," and parcel it out to "Americans" in their pickups in the parking lot of Walmart.
What what about those American oil corporations? They want that Venezuelan oil, don't they? Well, sure they do, but here's the thing there are no "American" oil corporations. Corporations, especially multi-billion dollar transnational corporations (e.g., Chevron, ExxonMobil, et al.) have no nationalities, nor any real allegiances, other than to their major shareholders. Chevron, for example, whose major shareholders are asset management and mutual fund companies like Black Rock, The Vanguard Group, SSgA Funds Management, Geode Capital Management, Wellington Management, and other transnational, multi-trillion dollar outfits. Do you really believe that being nominally headquartered in Boston or New York makes these companies "American," or that Deutsche Bank is a "German" bank, or that BP is a "British" company?
And Venezuela is just the most recent blatant example of the empire in action. Ask yourself, honestly, what have the "American" regime change ops throughout the Greater Middle East done for any actual Americans, other than get a lot of them killed? Oh, and how about those bailouts for all those transnational "American" investment banks? Or the billions "America" provides to Israel? Someone please explain how enriching the shareholders of transnational corporations like Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin by selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabian Islamists is benefiting "the American people." How much of that Saudi money are you seeing? And, wait, I've got another one for you. Call up your friendly 401K manager, ask how your Pfizer shares are doing, then compare that to what you're paying some "American" insurance corporation to not really cover you.
For the last two-hundred years or so, we have been conditioned to think of ourselves as the citizens of a collection of sovereign nation states, as "Americans," "Germans," "Greeks," and so on. There are no more sovereign nation states. Global capitalism has done away with them. Which is why we are experiencing a "neo-nationalist" backlash. Trump, Brexit, the so-called "new populism" these are the death throes of national sovereignty, like the thrashing of a suffocating fish before you whack it and drop it in the cooler. The battle is over, but the fish doesn't know that. It didn't even realize there was a battle until it suddenly got jerked up out of the water.
In any event, here we are, at the advent of the global capitalist empire. We are not going back to the 19th Century, nor even to the early 20th Century. Neither Donald Trump nor anyone else is going to "Make America Great Again." Global capitalism will continue to remake the world into one gigantic marketplace where we work ourselves to death at bullshit jobs in order to buy things we don't need, accumulating debts we can never pay back, the interest on which will further enrich the global capitalist ruling classes, who, as you may have noticed, are preparing for the future by purchasing luxury underground bunkers and post-apocalyptic compounds in New Zealand. That, and militarizing the police, who they will need to maintain "public order" you know, like they are doing in France at the moment, by beating, blinding, and hideously maiming those Gilets Jaunes (i.e., Yellow Vest) protesters that the corporate media are doing their best to demonize and/or render invisible.
Or, who knows, Americans (and other Western consumers) might take a page from those Yellow Vests, set aside their political differences (or at least ignore their hatred of each other long enough to actually try to achieve something), and focus their anger at the politicians and corporations that actually run the empire, as opposed to, you know, illegal immigrants and imaginary legions of Nazis and Russians. In the immortal words of General Buck Turgidson, "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed," but, heck, it might be worth a try, especially since, the way things are going, we are probably going end up out there anyway.
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 Paperbacks. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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Feb 11, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
While U.S. politicians from both parties have given standing ovations for the U.S. oil and gas industry , investors appear to be losing their enthusiasm. The so-called shale revolution, the fracking miracle, may have resulted in record oil and gas production in North America, but the real miracle -- in which shale companies make money fracking that oil and gas -- has yet to occur.
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Feb 11, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Summer , February 10, 2019 at 2:22 pm
Summary: Are you are permitted to be a bad guy in Congress and absolutely evil as President? YES.
And the scary part? The 3rd branch, the Judicial branch, is still open for further discussion.
Parker Dooley , February 10, 2019 at 10:38 pm
Apologies to Barry Manilow, but --
I've been alive forever
And I wrote the very first law
I put the weasel words together
I am power and I write the lawsI write the laws that make my wealth increase
I write the laws of war and other hateful things
I write the laws that let the poor folks die
I write the laws, I write the lawsMy home lies far above you
But my claws are deep into your soul
Now, when I ignore your cries
I'm young again, even though I'm very oldI write the laws that make my wealth increase
I write the laws of war and other hateful things
I write the laws that let the poor folks die
I write the laws, I write the lawsOh my greed makes you dance
And lets you know you have no chance
And I wrote foreclosure laws so you must move
Dejection fills your heart
Well, that's a real fine place to start
It's all for me it's not for you
It's all from you, it's all for me
It's a worldwide travestyI write the laws that make my wealth increase
I write the laws of war and other hateful things
I write the laws that let the poor folks die
I write the laws, I write the lawsI write the laws that make my wealth increase
I write the laws of war and other hateful things
I write the laws that let the poor folks die
I write the laws, I write the laws
I am power and I write the laws
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Feb 11, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
While U.S. politicians from both parties have given standing ovations for the U.S. oil and gas industry , investors appear to be losing their enthusiasm. The so-called shale revolution, the fracking miracle, may have resulted in record oil and gas production in North America, but the real miracle -- in which shale companies make money fracking that oil and gas -- has yet to occur.
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Feb 10, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Published on Feb 8, 2019
'We have a system that is fundamentally broken.' -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is explaining just how f*cked campaign finance laws really are.
" Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_SubscribeIn the latest liberal news and political news, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines at a recent congressional hearing on money in politics by explaining and inquiring about political corruption. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, aka AOC, went into the issues of lobbyists and Super PACs and how the political establishment, including Donald Trump, uses big money to their advantage, to hide and obfuscate, and push crooked agendas. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is a rising star in the Democratic Party and House of Representatives.
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Avembe , 2 days agoGood for her. Unfortunately a number of American citizens aren't intelligent enough to realize this exact scenario is playing out right now!
ATX World , 2 days agoOMG this lady is just a nuclear weapon by herself.
TrueDaxian , 2 days agoLove this feisty congresswoman. I can see why AOC is dislike by the right and even many democrats. She's in DC to work for the American ppl and not enrich herself or special interest. Love the 2018 class and hope they make changes and clean up DC.
Lani Tuitupou , 2 days agoAOC is amazing, pointing out all the fundamental wrongs in our political system. I hope she stays in Congress as long as possible to spread her influence.
Michael Zinns , 2 days agoTrue bravery and leadership in the face of corruption ! I love this woman
Aracelis Morales Garcia de Ramos , 2 days agoAOC is speaking out when no one else will about the corruption in Washington. She is disliked because she is actually fighting for people. This makes me want to move to New York just so I can vote for her. Keep it up the pressure.
She is going to be needing extra security. She's poised to take them down and we know how these things have been handled in the past. I'm loving her fearlessness but worry for her safety. May she be protected and blessed. SMIB
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Feb 10, 2019 | www.youtube.com
Published on Feb 8, 2019
'We have a system that is fundamentally broken.' -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is explaining just how f*cked campaign finance laws really are.
" Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_SubscribeIn the latest liberal news and political news, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines at a recent congressional hearing on money in politics by explaining and inquiring about political corruption. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, aka AOC, went into the issues of lobbyists and Super PACs and how the political establishment, including Donald Trump, uses big money to their advantage, to hide and obfuscate, and push crooked agendas. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is a rising star in the Democratic Party and House of Representatives.
#AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AOC #DarkMoney #politics
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Avembe , 2 days agoGood for her. Unfortunately a number of American citizens aren't intelligent enough to realize this exact scenario is playing out right now!
ATX World , 2 days agoOMG this lady is just a nuclear weapon by herself.
TrueDaxian , 2 days agoLove this feisty congresswoman. I can see why AOC is dislike by the right and even many democrats. She's in DC to work for the American ppl and not enrich herself or special interest. Love the 2018 class and hope they make changes and clean up DC.
Lani Tuitupou , 2 days agoAOC is amazing, pointing out all the fundamental wrongs in our political system. I hope she stays in Congress as long as possible to spread her influence.
Michael Zinns , 2 days agoTrue bravery and leadership in the face of corruption ! I love this woman
Aracelis Morales Garcia de Ramos , 2 days agoAOC is speaking out when no one else will about the corruption in Washington. She is disliked because she is actually fighting for people. This makes me want to move to New York just so I can vote for her. Keep it up the pressure.
She is going to be needing extra security. She's poised to take them down and we know how these things have been handled in the past. I'm loving her fearlessness but worry for her safety. May she be protected and blessed. SMIB
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Feb 09, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- Expressing frustration at the obnoxious, nonstop attempts to aid his investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller was reportedly annoyed Friday that a chipper, overeager Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) keeps constantly sending him evidence he's already uncovered. "Christ, he just emailed me ...
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Feb 09, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
1. WHY DOES BOOKER WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?
Hopes it could finally be his ticket out of New Jersey.
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Oct 06, 2017 | www.theonion.com
If last year's election showed us anything, it's that anger and resentment are on the rise. I hear it from small business owners and working-class families, from millennials and retirees. There's a sense that we've lost our way, and that the blame rests squarely on our nation's leadership. Simply put, Americans are sick of being patronized and sick of the same old ideas that we, as Democrats, are going to keep offering them over and over and over again.
The frustration is palpable. People are fed up with the status quo. Citizens from all walks of life are sitting around their dinner tables, talking about how they've had it with all the usual proposals that, once more, we will be repackaging and spoon-feeding to them in a way that's entirely transparent and frankly condescending.
That's something every American can count on.
It's no wonder voters are furious. Politics-as-usual has failed them, and they desperately want change that the Democratic Party has no plan to bring about in any meaningful way. But let me assure you, when our constituents tell us they've had enough broken promises, when they say our actions haven't addressed their needs, we listen. We hear your concerns -- hear them loud and clear -- then immediately discard them and revert back to the exact same ineffectual strategies we've been rallying behind for years.
It doesn't take a genius to see what the polls are telling us. Voters by the millions dislike our cozying up to Wall Street, our hopelessly out-of-touch elitism, our support for never-ending military entanglements, our blindness to the plight of rural communities decimated by globalization, and our failure to expand opportunities for American workers. So what are we going to do about it? Well, after taking all this into account, after taking a good hard look at ourselves and doing some serious soul-searching, I'm pleased to announce that .... Democrats will continue to run on the same set of platitudes we've been trotting out since at least the 1990s.
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Sep 23, 1998 | home.isi.org
CITY OF DIS, NETHER HELL
After nearly four years of construction at an estimated cost of 750 million souls, Corpadverticus, the new 10th circle of Hell, finally opened its doors Monday.
Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell
The Blockbuster Video-sponsored circle, located in Nether Hell between the former eighth and ninth levels of Malebolge and Cocytus, is expected to greatly alleviate the overcrowding problems that have plagued the infernal underworld in recent years. The circle is the first added to Hell in its countless-millennia history.
"A nightmarishly large glut of condemned spirits in recent years necessitated the expansion of Hell," inferno spokesperson Antedeus said. "The traditional nine-tiered system had grown insufficient to accommodate the exponentially rising numbers of Hellbound."
Adding to the need for expansion, Antedeus said, was the fact that a majority of the new arrivals possessed souls far more evil than the original nine circles were equipped to handle. "Demographers, advertising executives, tobacco lobbyists, monopoly-law experts retained by major corporations, and creators of office-based sitcoms–these new arrivals represent a wave of spiritual decay and horror the likes of which Hell has never before seen," Antedeus said.
Despite the need for expansion, the plan faced considerable resistance, largely due to the considerable costs of insuring construction projects within the Kingdom Of Lies. Opposition also came from Hell purists concerned about the detrimental effect a tenth level would have on the intricate numerology of Hell's meticulously arranged allegorical structure. In 1994, however, funding was finally secured in a deal brokered between Blockbuster CEO Wayne Huizenga and Satan himself.
Prior to the construction of the tenth circle, many among the new wave of sinners had been placed in such circles as Hoarders and Squanderers, Sowers of Discord, Flatterers and Seducers, Violent Against Art, and Hypocrites. Hell authorities, however, say that the new level, the Circle of Total Bastards, located at the site of the former Well of Giants just above the Frozen Lake at Hell's center, better suits their insidious brand of evil.
Frigax The Vile, a leading demonic presence, is one of the most vocal supporters of the new circle.
" In the past, the underworld was ill-equipped to handle the new breed of sinners flooding our gates -- downsizing CEOs, focus-group coordinators, telemarketing sales representatives, and vast hordes of pony-tailed entertainment-industry executives rollerblading and talking on miniaturized cell-phones at the same time. But now, we've finally got the sort of top-notch Pits of Doom necessary to give such repellent abominations the quality boilings they deserve."
Pausing to tear off the limbs of an Access Hollywood host, Frigax added, "We're all tremendously excited about the many brand-new forms of torture and eternal pain this new level's state-of-the-art facilities will make possible."
Among the tortures the Corpadverticus Circle of Total Bastards boasts: the Never-Ending Drive-Thru Bank, the Bottomless Pit of Promotional Tie-In Keychains, and the dreaded Chamber of Emotionally Manipulative Home Shopping Network Products.
The Circle also features a Hall of Aerobics, where condemned TV-exercise-show personalities, clad in skin-tight Spandex outfits soaked in flesh-dissolving acid, are forced to exercise for centuries on end , covered in vomit and prodded with the distended ribs of skeletal, anorexic demons, accompanied by an unending, ear-splittingly loud dance-remix version of the 1988 Rick Astley hit "Together Forever."
In a nearby area, corporate raiders are forced to carry the golf clubs of uneducated Hispanic migrant workers from hole to hole for eternity, withering under a constant barrage of verbal abuse from their former subservients as crows descend from trees to peck at their eyes. In one of the deepest and most profane portions of the circle, unspeakable acts are said to be committed with a mail-order Roly-Kit.
"In life, I was a Salomon Brothers investment banker," one flame-blackened shade told reporters. "When I arrived here, they didn't know what to do with me. They put me in with those condemned to walk backwards with their heads turned all the way around on their necks, for the crime of attempting to see the future. But then I sent a couple of fruit baskets to the right people, and in no time flat, I secured a cushy spot for myself in the first circle of the Virtuous Unbaptized. Now that was a sweet deal. But before long, they caught on to my game and transferred me here to the realm of Total Bastards. I've been shrieking for mercy like a goddamn woman ever since."
His face contorted in the Misery of the Damned, a Disney lawyer said: "It's hell here–there are no executive lounges, I can't get any decent risotto, and the suit I have to wear is a cheap Brooks Brothers knock-off. I'm beeped every 30 seconds, and there's no way to return the calls. Plus, I'm being boiled upside down in lard while jackals gnaw at the soles of my feet. If I could just reach the fax machine on that nearby rock, I could contact some well-placed associates and work something out, but it's just out of my grasp, and it's out of ink and constantly blinking the message, 'Replace Toner Cartridge, Replace Toner Cartridge, Replace Toner Cartridge.'"
He then resumed screaming in agony.
Grogar The Malefic, a Captain in Hell's elite Demon Corps and supervisor in charge of admissions for the new circle, said Hell's future looks bright, thanks to the new circle.
"Things are definitely looking up," Grogar said. "We're now far better equipped, and we're ready to take on the most Unholy Atrocities humanity has to offer."
"We're really on the grow down here," Grogar added. "This is an exciting time to be in Hell."
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Feb 09, 2019 | off-guardian.org
Andy says Jan, 31, 2019
Trump making Bolton look like the paragon of discretion re oil https://youtu.be/4huS-3-Gs74
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Feb 08, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
different clue -> smoothieX12 . , 3 hours ago
EUrope has more overall people and more overall economic activity than the US has. EUrope does not have to be under any thumb which the current Lords of EUrope do not exactly want EUrope to be under.EUrope is legally free to dissolve NATO from its end any time it likes. If they want to have their own "after-NATO" defense organization, they can set it up just for their side of the Atlantic, which is the Eastern Side. They could call it NEATO . . . for North East Atlantic Treaty Organization. NEATO . . . get it?
As to America becoming a normal country among normal countries . . . that would require a change of hearts and minds. It could be done, but only from within America its own self. And as the joke goes . . . How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?Only one. But the light bulb has to want to change.
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Feb 08, 2019 | off-guardian.org
mark says Jan, 31, 2019
There was one leading US politician whose name escapes me for the moment. When Chavez was president, he complained bitterly that Venezuela's oil wealth was being squandered on things like healthcare, education, literacy and welfare. It could have been given instead to hard pressed Wall Street fund managers in bigger bonuses. He wasn't being ironic.
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Feb 07, 2019 | www.unz.com
Cyrano , says: February 7, 2019 at 9:17 pm GMT
You'd think that US and Venezuela have lot in common and that they should build their relationship based on some similar bad experiences that they have suffered in the last few years.After all, both countries had their presidents installed by an unfriendly foreign power – in the case of US – that was Russia and in the case of Venezuela – that's US that did them the favor of choosing the proper president for them.
It's common knowledge now that without the Russian interference in the US electoral system – which as we all know works like a clockwork (orange), Trump would have never been elected as president of US – because that's not who they are.
And now the US – embittered by that experience -has decided to do the same thing to Venezuela. I see bad Russian influence everywhere. I think that indirectly – Russia is responsible for the crisis in Venezuela. If they hadn't elected Trump for president in US, it would have never occurred to the Americans that it could be done. That's not how democracies work.
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Feb 06, 2019 | www.youtube.com
FrozenWolf150 , 1 week ago
Bari: "I think Tulsi Gabbard is an Assad toadie."
Joe: "What do you mean by toadie?"Bari: "Oh, I don't know what that means."
Joe: "Okay, I looked it up, and it's like a sycophant."Bari: "Then Tulsi is like an Assad sycophant."
Joe: "So what do you mean by that?"Bari: "I'm not sure what sycophant means either."
Joe: "I looked up the definition, it's like a suck-up."Bari: "All right, Tulsi is an Assad suck-up."
Joe: "Could you explain that further?"Bari: "I don't know what suck means."
Joe: "It's what you're doing right now.""Am I crazy?" No. Crazy and dumb are two different things. You are just dumb.
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Feb 06, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
"IMO the Democrat women in their white Vestal attire looked like a flock of Harpies gathered for the kill."Hilarious, this is one reason I love reading this blog.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau", "subprime is contained", "there's no icebergs this far south" and now "The Fed's balance sheet is not the threat that people seem to think it is."
Man's ability to willfully ignore 'downside possibilities' and remain cognitively dissonant far longer than logic (or their pocketbook) should allow seems to know no bound and none other than The Federal Reserve's Bill Dudley just unleashed what could be the piece de resistance of "nothing to see here, move along" agitprop.
fersur , 19 minutes ago link
costa ludus , 42 minutes ago linkGreat Picture' Cowboying a Nuke while discussing confidence in the FED, quite appropo' !
TRUTH @ 9:00; Plus this week, Friday will be Huge !
Should a seated President jail someone that attempted his Assassination, or a Former President that planned to Nuke the Yellowstone Super Volcano Caldera, or someone that sold email password to China and CC copied all 'to and from' messages including those highly Confidential, or blame a former President for planning 911 False Flag attack, or expose Planned Parenthoods first Amputating tongues for silently shipping in bulk, or expose Democrat history of Decades of Projecting blame while committing War Crimes, or end 19 Year War in Afghanistan ( Longest War ) then Syria against Last Night's Congressional Vote to keep status quo, or 'take a knee' and quit being President !
Is this from The Onion?
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Feb 05, 2019 | local.theonion.com
CLEVELAND -- In a devastatingly sad overestimation of his influence in the professional world, local father Bruce Tenety, 54, expressed the heartbreaking belief Monday that his connections could help his son Justin, a recent college graduate, find a job. "You know, I actually have a friend in the media business, and if you shoot him an email and meet up for coffee, he just might be able to hook you up with something," said Tenety, who depressingly appeared to be under the impression that this tenuous contact from a conference he attended three years ago would not only remember his name, but would also be willing to extend an offer of employment to a 23-year-old he knows nothing about.
"I also know a guy who works at a PR firm in Mayfield Heights. Old Gary definitely owes me one from back in the day.
Hell, you could probably call him up right now and get an interview this week. Just tell him you're Bruce's kid."
At press time, sources confirmed Tenety had noticed his name was suspiciously absent from the references section on his son's most recent job application.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
As one Washington Post headline observed at the time based on hard data : The less Americans know about Ukraine's location, the more they want to intervene . And now insert most any third world country targeted by Washington over the past few decades.
fudly , 3 minutes ago link
"The responses from members of Congress painted a shocking picture of ignorance, hypocrisy"
Lets just stop at ignorance, that pretty much covers it. What a pack of turds and this is supposed to be the political elite in this country. Would it even be possible to have an intelligent conversation with this rabble? Would you want to try?
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
This latest ratcheting up of tensions between Moscow and Washington was wholly avoidable – that is, if avoiding confrontation is a goal of the US. Clearly, it is not. The unpredictable hotheads now dictating foreign policy in the Trump administration, particularly National Security Advisor John Bolton, a veteran hawk who the Washington Post recently called a " serial arms control killer, " have somehow concluded that playing a game of nuclear chicken on the European continent with Russia is the best way to resolve bilateral issues.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.youtube.com
tom burton , 15 hours agoBari Weiss is the monstrous motherlode of ineptitude, it would appear.
Robert Harper , 17 hours agoBari Weiss's next column: Joe Rogan is a toady of Tulsi Gabbard.
Mike Honcho , 17 hours agoNow it is easy to understand why I stopped my nyt subscription.
Unbelievable! It's like Joe is interviewing an airhead middle school mean girl.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9QOVk0x1Vw
JJL90 , 1 month ago (edited)
The emergency room visits are lower when you have bombed all the emergency rooms :D
So when you stop bombing the hell out of them, they can actually rebuild an emergency room, and visits go up :DDDD
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jen , Feb 3, 2019 10:37:30 PM | link
Red Ryder @ 30, Peter AU 1 @ 48:If corruption or mismanaging a country's economy were justification for foreign intervention to remove a leader, Israelis should be lobbying Washington DC to remove Binyamin Netanyahu as their prime minister since he and his wife Sara have been charged by police for fraud and bribery.
Indeed, depending on how it defines corruption, whether vaguely or narrowly, and on what criteria, the US would have its work cut out for decades hunting down "corrupt" politicians.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.aol.com
... Conservative commentator Ann Coulter lashed out at President Donald Trump Friday night over his signing of a bill that would temporarily open the government that did not include any money for his border wall. Coulter slammed Trump for the concession, telling "Real Time" host Bill Maher *that the president had broken* "the promise he made every day for 18 months."
"Now you're finding out he's a lying con man," Maher said. "What was your first clue?"
Over laughs and shouts from the audience, Coulter replied "Okay, I'm a very stupid girl, fine."...
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Feb 05, 2019 | local.theonion.com
CLEVELAND -- In a devastatingly sad overestimation of his influence in the professional world, local father Bruce Tenety, 54, expressed the heartbreaking belief Monday that his connections could help his son Justin, a recent college graduate, find a job. "You know, I actually have a friend in the media business, and if you shoot him an email and meet up for coffee, he just might be able to hook you up with something," said Tenety, who depressingly appeared to be under the impression that this tenuous contact from a conference he attended three years ago would not only remember his name, but would also be willing to extend an offer of employment to a 23-year-old he knows nothing about.
"I also know a guy who works at a PR firm in Mayfield Heights. Old Gary definitely owes me one from back in the day.
Hell, you could probably call him up right now and get an interview this week. Just tell him you're Bruce's kid."
At press time, sources confirmed Tenety had noticed his name was suspiciously absent from the references section on his son's most recent job application.
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Feb 05, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
"Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau", "subprime is contained", "there's no icebergs this far south" and now "The Fed's balance sheet is not the threat that people seem to think it is."
Man's ability to willfully ignore 'downside possibilities' and remain cognitively dissonant far longer than logic (or their pocketbook) should allow seems to know no bound and none other than The Federal Reserve's Bill Dudley just unleashed what could be the piece de resistance of "nothing to see here, move along" agitprop.
fersur , 19 minutes ago link
costa ludus , 42 minutes ago linkGreat Picture' Cowboying a Nuke while discussing confidence in the FED, quite appropo' !
TRUTH @ 9:00; Plus this week, Friday will be Huge !
Should a seated President jail someone that attempted his Assassination, or a Former President that planned to Nuke the Yellowstone Super Volcano Caldera, or someone that sold email password to China and CC copied all 'to and from' messages including those highly Confidential, or blame a former President for planning 911 False Flag attack, or expose Planned Parenthoods first Amputating tongues for silently shipping in bulk, or expose Democrat history of Decades of Projecting blame while committing War Crimes, or end 19 Year War in Afghanistan ( Longest War ) then Syria against Last Night's Congressional Vote to keep status quo, or 'take a knee' and quit being President !
Is this from The Onion?
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
The manufacturing economy that made America great in the 1950s is back (not). Unemployment has been vanquished (not). We are "energy independent" (not). The once-again rising stock market is proof-of-life for US business prospects (not). We have the best medical care and higher ed in the world (cough cough). It would all come as a surprise to the people dining on dog food with ketchup out in the flyover precincts - but they are not exactly the types to sit around and listen to Don Lemon and Jeffrey Toobin dissect the speech post-game.
Following the new-ish tradition of a designated opposition respondent to the SOTU, Democratic sore loser Stacy Abrams (Georgia Governor's race, 2018), will virtue-signal her party's dedication to identity politics, concealing its dark connection to the Wall Street / K Street grift machine, and to the Neocon war hawks so eager to manufacture failed states in parts of the world that are too bothersome to try to get along with. I suppose she will try to revive the Russian collusion angle, with a spin on how the Georgia election of 2018 was also rigged by malign forces to prevent her victory.
Mostly though, Ms. Abrams will extol the wonders and marvels of free health care and free college for all under the coming 2020 Democratic Party landslide, a comfy-cozy future of women-led caring-and-sharing, plus the promise of punishing taxes-to-come on super-rich toffs like Mr. Trump. The media will eat it up. Ms. Abrams will then be promoted as the next vice-president. The party's strategy is to get every female voter in America on-board along with its supplemental People-of-Color-and-LBGTQ army for a surefire electoral victory. I can see that possibly working, but is it a good fate for the country to be literally divvied up between a women's party and a men's party?
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
It's conceivable, in a nation that absolutely can't make sense of itself , that Mr. Trump's annual report to congress will be as incomprehensible as this year's Superbowl halftime show .
Even the weather in Atlanta was a complete mystery with Maroon 5's front man, Adam Levine, capering half-naked in tattoo drag amid artificial fires-of-hell, and then local hero rapper Big Boi's triumphal entry in a limo, nearly lost inside what looked like the pelt of a giant ground sloth - an eight-year-old's idea of what it means to be important. Or maybe it was just all code for two sides of the climate change debate.
You can be sure the atmosphere will be frosty to the max when the Golden Golem of Greatness lumbers down the aisle of congress's house on Tuesday night. I wouldn't be surprised if the Democratic majority turns its backs on him during the always excruciating preliminaries and then just walks out of the chamber. Don't expect the usual excessive rounds of applause from the president's own party this time, either, in the big, half-empty room. They don't know what to do about him at this point... or what to do with themselves, for that matter.
The running theme for State of the Union (SOTU) messages going back to Ronald Reagan is American Wonderfulness , so expect at least forty minutes of national self-esteem therapy, which nobody will believe. Throw in another ten minutes of elevating sob stories about "special guests" up in the galleries. But leave a little time for Mr. Trump to roll a few cherry bombs down the aisles. He must be good and goddam sick of all the guff shoveled at him for two years.
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
NoseytheDuke , says: February 5, 2019 at 1:35 am GMT
@Johnny Rico Thanks for that Johnny. I'm sure that you also know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, Gadaffi is killing his own people, there is a civil war underway in Syria, Russia has invaded Ukraine and Israel is the only democracy in the ME.Oh, and there are no potholes in the roads of America, it being the worlds number one economy.
Carry on
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
onebornfree , says: Website January 30, 2019 at 9:15 pm GMT
"So let me get this straight: The Russians brought America to its knees with a few Facebook ads, but Uncle Sam's concerted and ongoing efforts to overthrow governments around the world and interfere with elections is perfectly fine? Because democracy? Riiiiiiight." :https://www.corbettreport.com/election-interference-is-ok-when-uncle-sam-does-it-propagandawatch/
Regards, onebornfree
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
El Dato , says: January 30, 2019 at 10:11 pm GMT
@SeanNEOCON America does not want Russian bombers in South America.
Real America doesn't give a f*ck. Bombers are so last century, might as well put up machine-gun equipped Union Pacific Big Boys to make it marginally more steampunk and become a real danger for the USA.
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
Agent76 , says: February 4, 2019 at 3:59 pm GMT
Jan 31, 2019 Trump and the MAGA Crowd Embrace the Neocon Plan for Venezuela. Is it fair to call MAGA neocon lite, or possibly MAGAcons?https://kurtnimmo.blog/2019/01/31/trump-and-the-maga-crowd-embrace-the-neocon-plan-for-venezuela/
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN , says: February 3, 2019 at 10:15 pm GMT
@Sergey KriegerCNN journos placed Ukraine somewhere in Pakistan on live TV.
That reflects geographical knowledge of a typical American, who sincerely believes that the world consists of three roughly equal parts: Main Street, out-of-town, and overseas. The less the population knows, the easier it is to lie to it.
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Trump wants to keep U.S. forces in Iraq so they can "watch" Iran:
President Trump plans to keep United States troops in Iraq to monitor and maintain pressure on neighboring Iran, committing to an American military presence in the region's war zones even as he moves to withdraw forces from Syria and Afghanistan.
"I want to be able to watch Iran," Mr. Trump said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "We're going to keep watching and we're going to keep seeing and if there's trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to know it before they do."
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Feb 04, 2019 | www.unz.com
Remember the almost universal reaction of horror when Bolton was appointed as National Security Advisor? Well, apparently, either the Neocons completely missed that, which I doubt, or they did what they always do and decided to double-down by retrieving Elliott Abrams from storage and appointing him US Special Envoy to Venezuela. I mean, yes, of course, the Neocons are stupid and sociopathic enough not to ever care about others, but in this case I think that we are dealing with a "Skripal tactic": do something so ridiculously stupid and offensive that it places all your vassals before a stark choice: either submit and pretend like you did not notice or, alternatively, dare to say something and face with wrath of Uncle Shmuel (the Neocon's version of Uncle Sam).
And it worked, in the name of "solidarity" or whatever else, the most faithful lackeys of the Empire immediate fell in line behind the latest US aggression against a sovereign nation in spite of the self-evident fact that this aggression violates every letter of the most sacred principles of international law. This is exactly the same tactic as when they make you clean toilets with a toothbrush or do push-ups in the mud during basic training: not only to condition you to total obedience, but to make you publicly give up any semblance of dignity.
...Finally, these appointments also show that the senior-Neocons are frightened and paranoid as there are still plenty of very sharp junior-Neocon folks to chose from in the US, yet they felt the need to get Abrams from conservation and place him in a key position in spite of the strong smell of naphthalene emanating from him. This reminds me of the gerontocrats of the Soviet Politburo in the worst stagnation years who had to appoint the likes of Chernenko to top positions.
The one thing the Mr MAGA's administration has in common with the late Brezhevian Politburo is its total inability to get anything done. My wife refers to the folks in the White House (since Dubya came to power) as the " gang that couldn't shoot straight " and she is right (she always is!): they just can't really get anything done anymore – all their half-assed pseudo-successes are inevitably followed by embarrassing failures.
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Feb 03, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
cripes , February 2, 2019 at 4:12 am
Ger , Feb 1, 2019 4:50:39 PM | linkImagine the response of the USA Goobermint if, in an obverse scenario of the Venezuelan fiasco, the Roosians and Chai-nese decided Trump was an undemocratic dictator and declared they are depositing all USA payments they owe into Bernie Sander's accounts?
Oh, I'm sorry, bad analogy: unlike Guaido, Sanders actually ran and would be hanging around the oval office if we had a democracy.
I note by other sources "Acting President of The United State", John Bolton, has stated he will send President Murado to Gitmo .....Apparently, a coup took place and Trump has been demoted from Chief Moron to Acting Moron of the United States.Ghost Ship , Feb 1, 2019 5:34:18 PM | linkExpect the Venezuelan White Helmets to appear real soon. This "project" is being run using the same plan as Syria. This means that shortly there will be reports that the Bolivarian government has used chemical weapons it doesn't have against the "freedom fighters".
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Feb 02, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Anonymous_Beneficiary , 1 hour ago link
(To the tune of Grateful Dead -Estimated Prophet)
The Orange Stooge
Makes Trumptards Snooze
While Neocons Schmooze
To Make Israhell HUGE
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Jan 31, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
At the other end of the spectrum, the Jerusalem Post reports that Nikki Haley is currently in Israel and charging $200,000 per speech.ancient archer -> Pat Lang , 7 hours agoHaley is getting paid for services already rendered. (Un)fortunately you haven't served those folks too well!! And you can be proud of that!
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Jan 31, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Oh , , January 31, 2019 at 12:40 pm
Bushie used the term "rule of law" and fooled a lot of people.
Most people don't realize that the more money you have more you can exercise the "rule of law".
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Jan 31, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
The Rev Kev , , January 31, 2019 at 8:08 am
Do you think that the Guardian will shortly report that Iraq's WMD were snuck out of Iraq and hidden in Venezuela all those years ago?
Colonel Smithers , , January 31, 2019 at 8:36 am
Thank you, Kev.
Please don't give the scoundrels at King's Place any ideas.
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Jan 30, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
NAV 2 hours ago
Ron Paul: Trump's Venezuela Fiasco
"It's ironic that a president who has spent the first two years in office fighting charges that a foreign country meddled in the US elections would turn around and not only meddle in foreign elections but actually demand the right to name a foreign country's president!
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Jan 30, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
NAV 2 hours ago
Ron Paul: Trump's Venezuela Fiasco
"It's ironic that a president who has spent the first two years in office fighting charges that a foreign country meddled in the US elections would turn around and not only meddle in foreign elections but actually demand the right to name a foreign country's president!
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Jan 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
schroedingersrat, 5 hours agoTrump is a psychopath and he loves to hire even bigger psychopaths. Your whole admin is a swamp of sociopaths, psychopaths and other sick deranged people.
TGF Texas, 5 hours ago link
schroedingersrat, 38 minutes ago linkWhen did he hire Hillary?
There is not much difference between Hillary and Pompeo. Pompeo is basically Hillary with a **** and a religious twist
bshirley1968, 2 hours ago
Thinking? Well that's a stretch of the imagination, but let me suggest this......
- The opposition hates me. I can do no right.
- The Trumptards blindly support me. I can do no wrong.
- There are not enough independent thinkers to make a difference as the two main sides bitterly fight eachother over every minute, meaningless issue.
- I can pretty much do as I please without consequence.....like pay off all my buddies and pander to the jews/globalist/elites.
That could be what he is thinking. But I can bet you anything that there isn't a Trumptard out there that can comment here and give us a rational reason for this appointment. Oh, they can down vote because they don't like being called Trumptards. .....but they don't mind being one.
NAV, 2 hours ago
Who knew that in electing Trump we were electing the ultimate politician? His "art of the deal" is nothing but politics 101: Blame both sides, apologize for your side, and immediately surrender your stronger points while praising the weak points of your opponent. And when you have a chance, give up; sacrifice your friends and appoint their enemies, and, last but not least, look everybody in the eye and say, "I didn't steal the money, "mistakes were made."
williambanzai7, 4 hours ago
Wondering who is getting fucked?
NAV
We are.
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Jan 24, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
SirNancy Pelosi is worth several hundred million dollars. I don't think she's a Marxist in the classical sense. Although she would fit the classic Soviet politburo member with their private dachas on the Black Sea...
...Nancy believes she is now the opposition leader with the mandate from the Party of Davos to ensure the defeat of Trump...
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Jan 24, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
SirNancy Pelosi is worth several hundred million dollars. I don't think she's a Marxist in the classical sense. Although she would fit the classic Soviet politburo member with their private dachas on the Black Sea...
...Nancy believes she is now the opposition leader with the mandate from the Party of Davos to ensure the defeat of Trump...
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Jan 24, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
pasha , Jan 23, 2019 9:47:38 AM | link
What about this from the Guardian, which has bent over for the deep state since the Snowden affair?
It took me a minute to pick my jaw up off the floor.
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Jan 15, 2019 | original.antiwar.com
... ... ...
Why, it is apparently the following, which is surely a red hot smoking gun. That is, one that condemns the FBI, not Trump; and shows that the NYT , which once courageously published the Pentagon Papers and had earned the above sobriquet for its journalistic stateliness, sense of responsibility and possession of high virtue, has degenerated into a War Party shill – not to say the journalistic equivalent of a comfort woman:Mr. Trump had caught the attention of FBI counterintelligence agents when he called on Russia during a campaign news conference in July 2016 to hack into the emails of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump had refused to criticize Russia on the campaign trail, praising President Vladimir V. Putin. And investigators had watched with alarm as the Republican Party softened its convention platform on the Ukraine crisis in a way that seemed to benefit Russia.
Well, for crying out loud!
Any journalist worth his salt would know that Trump's July 2016 shout-out to the Russians was a campaign joke. At best, it was merely an attempt to cleverly state in one more way the running GOP theme about Hillary's missing 30,000 emails. How many times before that had Sean Hannity delivered his riff about Hillary's alleged hammer-smashing of 13 devices and acid-washing with BleachBit of the missing emails?
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Jan 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via ConsortiumNews.com,
A new, updated data set is now available on a psychological phenomenon that has been labeled "Trump Anxiety Disorder" or "Trump Hypersensitive Unexplained Disorder," and it says that the phenomenon only got worse in 2018.
The disorder is described as a specific type of anxiety in which symptoms "were specific to the election of Trump and the resultant unpredictable sociopolitical climate," and according to the 2018 surveys Americans are feeling significantly more stressed by the future of their country and the current political environment than they were last year.
Pacific Standard reports as follows:
"As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away -- and the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency became more and more certain -- the contours of the new age of American anxiety began to take shape . In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described this phenomenon as "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder": Overeating. Headaches. Fainting. Irregular heartbeat. Chronic neck pain. Depression. Irritable bowel syndrome. Tightness in the chest. Shortness of breath. Teeth grinding. Stomach ulcer. Indigestion. Shingles. Eye twitching. Nausea. Irritability. High blood sugar. Tinnitus. Reduced immunity. Racing pulse. Shaking limbs. Hair loss. Acid reflux. Deteriorating vision. Stroke. Heart attack. It was a veritable organ recital.
Two years later, the physiological effects of the Trump administration aren't going away. A growing body of research has tracked the detrimental impacts of Trump-related stress on broad segments of the American population, from young adults to women , to racial and LGBT communities .
The results aren't good."
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Jan 22, 2019 | www.theglobeandmail.com
Jared Yates Sexton is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage.
This is, above all, a very real and very dangerous crisis. The time to wring our hands and hide behind faith and disbelief are over. To fully counter this possible betrayal we must look it dead in the face and begin to change our perception of what is feasible.
Mr. Trump has capitalized on the good faith of the American people. In order to start healing, we must accept that, with this administration, with this group, with this movement that Mr. Trump embodies, almost anything is possible.
Opiedog , 3 days ago
Ramsey0 , 6 days agoWhat you are witnessing is the decline in American influence and might. This is very similar to the decline of the Roman Empire. Slow degradation of social norms. Donald is not the cause of this but we are in real time witnessing the decline of America.
dbns , 1 week agoI canceled my subscription to the Globalist and Mail it'll expire at the end of this month but I must say, I'm going to miss reading all the comedy I have found in this paper, particularly in its comment sections.
MG-TD , 1 week agoAt this point I think it would be much worse if Trump isn't a Russian agent. At least being a Russian agent would make the ruination of the US a valid goal. If he truly isn't an agent, he's just ruining the US for the fun of it?
Unlimited reader , 6 days agoWhere is James Bond when you need him?
Globu , 1 week agoI'm waiting eagerly for Bruce Willis to show up and save the USA
M. Gavin , 1 week agoWhy the surprise? Mr. Trump is the very embodiment of the same cutthroat capitalism that has defined America since colonization, slavery and the Trail of Tears.
Trump is not an enemy of America. He is America at its strongest and most sinister form, just the way Wall Street likes it. If Americans want a better society, they'd better stop asking to be led by grifters and take the lead themselves.
tinman1957 , 1 week agoOne can see why this is in the Opinion section. It's melodramatic, devoid of facts, offers no reliable sources, fails to demonstrate motives, etc., etc. It's less obvious why the Globe would publish it at all, because "news" like this we can get listening to the barber.
Andrew Smith , 1 week agoThis guy isn't offering any news or opinion of concern he is just venting his hatred.
Globu , 1 week agoThe author is an associate professor of creative writing at a community college and it shows.
wellworn , 6 days ago"Special to the Globe" always translates to chequebook journalism.
wglenm , 1 week agoHe is an associate professor of Writing and Linguistics; there is nothing in the profile to suggest "creative" writing. I suspect that you creatively included the word to discredit the very plausible premise that trump is an agent working for Russia; he certainly is not working for the United States of America.
Personally I believe trump should be thoroughly investigated by the House committee to look at his tax returns and banking records to determine how much money trump and company have earned from Russian sources.
just as good as you , 1 week agoWho chooses the opinion pieces for this newspaper? This article is a completely one sided joke.
bdtaylor , 1 week agoIt IS - as you admit - an OPINION.
if Trump is such a boob, m_oron, rube and nitwitt that CNN and MSNBC make him out to be, then how has he managed to fool the most sophisticated surveillance network in the world: namely the CIA and NSA. if Trump was a Russian "Manchurian" candidate, does anyone actually think the CIA and NSA wouldn't have figured that out 2 years ago?
All we have are platitudes and no real evidence. Is their a bunch of corrupt people and dealing around Trump, yup (Michael Cohen, Maniford and probably others) is their actual Russian "conspiracy" NOPE.
This entire RussiaGate conspiracy was started by Robby Mook and John Podesta of the DNC (with the support of Clinton) to justify the embarrassment of losing to Trump in 2016. Imagine losing to Trump a complete political novice that Hillary outspent 2.5x (she spent almost $1Bil USD and still LOST).
Turn on your critical thinking and this entire RussiaGate is one big joke.
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Jan 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
BandGap , 2 hours ago link
Retirement? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Whatever.
in 2008 I switched everything into bonds, didn't lose anything in the market. In 2011 I got divorced and lost 55%. My advice, stay married.
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Jan 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Norfry , 43 minutes ago link
DEDA CVETKO , 1 hour ago linkBritish authorities have refined to a whole new level offering bald faced lies and patent absurdities with a dignified stiff upper lip. I have it from a highly placed source that envious American and Israeli official and unofficial liars have been practicing posturing as dignified and putting glue on their upper lips.
The only thing missing from this godawful Broadway screenplay is the lurid description of the violent sex between Sergei Scripal and Colonel McCourt and we have a 2019 Bad Sex Award laureate.
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Jan 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
BandGap , 2 hours ago link
Retirement? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Whatever.
in 2008 I switched everything into bonds, didn't lose anything in the market. In 2011 I got divorced and lost 55%. My advice, stay married.
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
skunzie , 39 minutes ago link
Buzzfeed's CEO should do the honorable thing and commit hari kari like the Japanese do when losing face, then the company should close up shop.
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.unz.com
padre says: January 20, 2019 at 10:53 am GMT
Unlike the USA, they at least have a pension system!
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Brad F January 18, 2019 at 10:26 am
Dear ElitesWe appreciate that you have built a successful career and/or business under the prevailing laws, and that changing these laws would cause the destruction and/or appropriation of much of your wealth (while costing us little).
Nonetheless we've had a vote and decided that we will indeed go ahead and make these changes. Sorry about your luck. What? You don't agree! Don't you believe in democracy? You hypocrite you!
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bruce , Jan 20, 2019 1:04:15 PM | 5 ">link
" The officer, who was hospitalised after being exposed to Novichok last March, is on duty once again. - Yulia Skripal recovered in less than ten weeks. Why did it take the doorknobichok™
Det Sgt Nick Bailey a full ten month to come back to work?"
Yulia Skirpal is a Russian woman - Pushkin advises a Russian woman can stop a wild horse.
Women who grow up in Russian villages that encounter a military grade nerve agent will try to walk it off. No disrespect meant for British bobbies but they are snowflakes by comparison.
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Jackrabbit , Jan 20, 2019 8:57:31 PM | link
Putin weaponized Skripal's Persian Cat!!
Breaking News
The Integrity-lacking Initiative can now report that contamination in the Skripal home has been explained to a high degree of supposition. Unofficial sources surmise that the Skripal's prized Persian feline distributed the deadly Novichok throughout the house and was particularly attracted to birds nesting in or near the attic as the hungry cat-spy slowly starved in the boarded-up house.
Hundreds of British birds may have been infected by Putin's Persian distributor, putting thousands of British citizens at risk of toxic bird poop. An estimated 239.45 thousand British subjects are struck by bird poop every year and 11 million clean bird poop from their windows/windscreen.
Renown British secret agent Austin Powers marveled at the evil cunning of the devious Russians: "Sharks with frick'n lasers are bad but this is crazy, baby!" Powers explained that Russian cross-species research is deeply concerning to the fictional secret agent community.
Salisbury resident and avowed cat-lover, Misty Englander reacted with horror when she heard the news. As her mother carried the seven-year old away, Misty cried: "Please make Putin and the Iran Mullahs pay for this atrocity!" Or, words to that effect.
We await Teresa May's response to Misty's plea.
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Jan 20, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
spudski , Jan 20, 2019 3:33:42 PM | link
Reader's comment at Naked Capitalism:
"Capitalism works, because those who benefit from it, get to decide whether it works or not"
- vidimi, posted on January 18, 2019 at 7:36 am
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Jan 20, 2019 | crookedtimber.org
aristos 01.19.19 at 7:58 am
and then the government was forced to call the IMF.The prime minister condemned the bloodsucking parasites of international finance, signed the massive austerity measures imposed by the IMF and transferred his own money to an offshore account before the devaluation
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Jan 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Babyl-on , Jan 15, 2019 7:51:44 PM | link
Come now, Trump closed down the government to please Putin. What could be a better gift to Putin than the closing of the US gov?...yet the "resistance" says nothing - why?
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Jan 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Putin Asks And Trump Delivers - A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For Russia
Slate's Fred Kaplan writes :
The Washington Post's Greg Miller reported Sunday that President Donald Trump's confiscation of the translator's notes from a one-on-one conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 was "unusual." This is incorrect. It was unprecedented. There is nothing like it in the annals of presidential history.Not really. Other U.S. leaders held long private meetings with their counterparts without notes being taken.
When Richard Nixon met Leonid Brezhnev he did not even bring his own interpreter:
George Szamuely @GeorgeSzamuely - 20:57 utc - 14 Jan 2019Nixon would meet Brezhnev alone, the only other person in attendance being Viktor Sukhodrev, the Soviet interpreter. "Our first meeting in the Oval Office was private, except for Viktor Sukhodrev, who, as in 1972, acted as translator." Nixon on Brezhnev's 1973 visit. RN, p.878 . Therefore, the only "notes" that would exist would be those of the Soviet interpreter. Not sure he would have time to make notes and translate and, even if he did so, whether those notes would be housed in any US archive.
Nixon's White House office was bugged. There are probably tape recordings of the talks. There might also be recordings of the Trump-Putin talks.
At their 1986 Reykjavik summit Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked without their notetakers :
Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev began their second day of talks with a private meeting that had been scheduled to last 15 minutes but ran for nearly 70 minutes, with only interpreters present . They met in a small room in the Soviet Mission , with the Soviet leader seated in a small armchair and Mr. Reagan on a sofa.In the afternoon, they meet alone for a little over 20 minutes and then again for 90 minutes. All told, the two leaders have spent 4 hours and 51 minutes alone , except for interpreters, over the two days here.
The archives of the Reykjavik talks do not include any notes of those private talks.
But, who knows, maybe Nixon and Reagan where also on the Russian payroll, just like Donald Trump is today.
biggerOnly that Trump is controlled by Putin can explain why the FBI opened a counter-intelligence investigation against Trump (see section three).
That the FBI agents involved in the decision were avid haters of Russia and of Trump has surely nothing to do with it. That the opening of a counter-intelligence investigation gave them the legal ability under Obama's EO12333 to use NSA signal intelligence against Trump is surely irrelevant.
What the FBI people really were concerned about is Trump's public record of favoring Russia at each and every corner.
Trump obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He is reluctant to counter its military might. He is doing his best to make it richer. Just consider the headlines below. With all those good things Trump did for Putin, intense suspicions of Russian influence over him is surely justified.
Trump obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He is reluctant to counter its military might. He is doing his best to make it richer. Just consider the headlines below. With all those good things Trump did for Putin, intense suspicions of Russian influence over him is surely justified.
- Trump deploys TANKS to Estonia as NATO builds up HUGE army on Russian border - Express, Feb 7 2017
- Trump launches attack on Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles - CNBC, Apr 6 2017
- U.S. Rejects Exxon Mobil Bid for Waiver on Russia Sanctions - NYT, Apr 21 2017
- Trump to promote U.S. natgas exports in Russia's backyard - Reuters, Jul 3 2017
- Trump Urges East Europe to Loosen Russia's Grip With U.S. Gas - Bloomberg, Jul 6 2017
- Trump signs bill approving new sanctions against Russia - CNN, Aug 3, 2017
- Justice Dept Asks Russia's RT to Register as Foreign Agent - Newsmax, Sep 13 2017
- US 'to restrict Russian military flights over America' - Independent, Sep 26 2017
- Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software - Reuters, Dec 12 2017
- Trump gives green light to selling lethal arms to Ukraine - The Hill, Dec 20 2017
- U.S. Punishes Chechen Leader in New Sanctions Against Russians - NYT, Dec 20 2017
- Sputnik Partner 'Required To Register' Under U.S. Foreign-Agent Law - RFERL, Jan 10 2018
- Trump says Russia is helping North Korea avoid sanctions - CBSNews, Jan 17 2018
- Trump's 'energy dominance' strategy is undercutting Russia's influence and business in Europe - Reuters, Feb 9 2018
- Trump looks to deter Russia, China with $686B ask for Pentagon - The Hill, Feb 12 2018
- American General In Syria Confirms US Forces Killed Hundreds Of Russians In Massive Battle - The Drive, Mar 16 2018
- Trump orders expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, closure of Seattle consulate - CBS, Mar 26 2018
- Trump vows periodical dispatch of US troops to Baltic states, step up air defense - Lithuania Tribune, Apr 3 2018
- Trump opposes Nord Stream II, questions Germany - AA, Apr 4 2018
- Trump just hit Russian oligarchs with the most aggressive sanctions yet - Vice, Apr 6 2018
- Trump orders missile strike on Syria military targets - CBSNews, Apr 9 2018
- Aluminum Stocks Jump As Trump Sanctions Target Putin Pal - Investors, Apr 9 2018
- Russia 'deeply disappointed' at Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal - Times of Israel, May 9 2018
- Trump to NATO allies: Raise military spending to 4 percent of GDP - AlJazeerah, Jul 12 2018
- Trump says U.S. ties to NATO 'very strong' - Politico, Jul 12 2018
- U.S. to sanction Turkey for receiving S-400 missiles - Ahval, Jul 27 2018
- Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning - NBC News Aug 8 2018
- Space Force Is Trump's Answer to New Russian and Chinese Weapons - FP, Aug 10 2018
- US Sanctions Chinese Entity Over Purchase of Russian Fighters, S-400s – Treasury - Sputnik, Sep 20 2018
- Trump hints at punitive action against India for buying S-400 from Russia - India Today, Oct 11 2018
- Trump Agrees to Boost Pentagon's Budget to $750 Bln in 2019 - Reports - Sputnik, Oct 12 2018
- Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia - Guardian, Oct 21 2018
- Haley Condemns 'Outrageous' Russian Firing on Ukrainian Ships - Bloomberg, Nov 26 2018
- 2 Trump Moves Cost This Russian-American CEO $2.3B - Forbes, Jan 14 2019
When one adds up all those actions one can only find that Trump cares more about Russia, than about the U.S. and its NATO allies. Only with Trump being under Putin's influence, knowingly or unwittingly, could he end up doing Russia so many favors.
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Jan 19, 2019 | insider.foxnews.com
Carlson said Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her party are "no longer telling you that walls are too expensive [or] don't work -- obviously they do."
"The problem they're now telling us is God doesn't like walls," he said, adding that former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said a wall along the Mexico border "will ensure death."
Freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar demanded that President Trump "end his temper tantrums and quest for a racist and sinful big [border] wall."
"I join the similar calls made by my colleagues today, and I demand that the president end his temper tantrums and quest for a racist and sinful big wall,
Carlson said that, for a moment, we should accept Democrats' "immorality" premise:
"There are an awful lot of walls in this country. Now that we know they're an offense against God, how can we let them stand?" he asked.
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Jan 19, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
Fred C. Dobbs , January 16, 2019 at 05:49 AM
Donald Trump has been compromised by RussiaJulio -> Fred C. Dobbs... , January 16, 2019 at 08:56 AM
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/01/15/donald-trump-has-been-compromised-russia/V66kiNZWtOE8T9UrfNYJwK/story.html?event=event25 via @BostonGlobeMichael A. Cohen - January 15, 2019
- Donald Trump may or not be on the Russian government's payroll.
- He may or may not have been blackmailed by Vladimir Putin.
- He may or may not have actively colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
- But there's one thing we know for sure: Donald Trump has been compromised by Russia.
- Every day that he remains president will mean that he is putting Russia's interests ahead of America's.
The latest revelations that emerged this weekend in the Trump/Russia investigation only bolstered this notion. First, via The New York Times, we found out that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation after he fired FBI Director Jim Comey to determine if he was working on behalf of the Russian government. Then, the next day, The Washington Post revealed that Trump has gone to "extraordinary lengths" to keep the substance of his talks with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, hidden from his own aides, "including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials." ...
(Note: This is from Globe opinion write Michael A. Cohen not Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael D. Cohen.)
Related: Congress should subpoena translator from Trump-Putin meeting https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2019/01/15/congress-should-subpoena-translator-from-trump-putin-meeting/dcx00lwEHslqRsQNfY3L5L/story.html?event=event25 via @BostonGlobe. Congress should set aside their qualms about subpoenaing translators. US Representative Seth Moulton would support such a move, and there's a reason for it. ...
охота за ведьмами!!!RC AKA Darryl, Ron said in reply to Julio ... , January 16, 2019 at 08:56 AM:<)[Thank God for Google.]
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Jan 18, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
- Defiant Pelosi Begins Swimming To Afghanistan After Trump Denies Use Of Government Plane
- John Bolton Insists Iran Likely Harboring Dangerous Terrorist Osama Bin Laden
- Presumptuous Congressional Freshman Thinks She Can Just Come In And Represent Constituents
- New Hampshire Legislature Passes Bill Naming Fentanyl State Opiate
- Poll Shows Increasing Number Of Voters Blame Founding Fathers For Starting America
- Chuck Schumer Honestly Pretty Amazed He Hasn't Caved Yet
- Exhausted Robert Mueller Turns Off Phone To Give Himself Breather From Russia Probe News Over Holiday Break
- Trump Postpones Grand Opening Of Trump Tower Moscow Until Fuss Over Bombshell Report Dies Down
- White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump's Offer To Be Chief Of Staff
- Frazzled Robert Mueller Walking Around With Piece Of Russia Investigation Document Stuck To His Shoe
- Trump Administration Launches Human Rights Investigation Into Senate's Harsh Treatment Of Mohammad Bin Salman
- Bush, Loafers Thrown At Him Reunite On NBC For 10-Year Anniversary Special
- New York Family Man Latest Victim Of Nation's Misguided War On Tax Evasion, Perjury, Campaign Finance Violations
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Jan 18, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- In an impassioned call for preemptive action against the Middle Eastern nation, United States national security advisor John Bolton insisted Thursday that Iran was likely harboring the dangerous terrorist Osama bin Laden. "For the good of our nation, we must act immediately," said Bolton, citing several
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Jan 18, 2019 | insider.foxnews.com
Carlson played audio from earlier Friday of Buzzfeed reporter Anthony Cormier, who said his sources are "rock solid" and that he stood behind this story "one hundred percent."
Hey Adam, turns out it was Full of Schiff! https://t.co/01saPi8aaW
-- Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 19, 2019
"Just unbelievable," Carlson said in response to the news [ that Robert Mueller, through a spokesman, denied the veracity of a potentially damning Buzzfeed report about President Trump and his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen.]
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Jan 17, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
Just one day after Speaker Pelosi chose to exercise her right to not invite the President to give his "State of the Union" address, Trump has responded
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'Tit'... meet 'tat'
"It demeans the office is the presidency because it is so petty," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says of Trump's decision to deny Nancy Pelosi use of a military plane for a planned overseas trip (which we presume means he did not think Pelosi's decision to rescind Trump's SOTU speech invitation "demeaned the office of the Speaker"?)
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Jan 17, 2019 | www.foxnews.com
Don Lemon -- has it nailed. As we told you Tuesday night - you could've seen this coming - the FBI has suspected this for some time.
The bureau opened a criminal investigation into the president more than a year ago, on the grounds that no loyal American would fire a leader as impressive as FBI director James Comey. Putin must have ordered it. The Washington Post concurred with this.
As one of the paper's columnists noted, Trump has also "endorsed populism." That's right. Populism.
It has the stink of Russia all over it. Smells like vodka and day-old herring.
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Jan 17, 2019 | www.foxnews.com
They have got him, finally. Trapped like John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater by the G-Men. Democrats announced that they have finally obtained proof -- concrete and irrefutable proof -- that President Trump is, in fact, a secret Russian agent .
"This president seems to be putting Russia's interests ahead of our own," CNN anchor Don Lemon said.
The evidence suggests, indeed, Trump is, has been a pawn of the Russians," Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, said.
Don Lemon -- has it nailed. As we told you Tuesday night - you could've seen this coming - the FBI has suspected this for some time. The bureau opened a criminal investigation into the president more than a year ago, on the grounds that no loyal American would fire a leader as impressive as FBI director James Comey. Putin must have ordered it. The Washington Post concurred with this. As one of the paper's columnists noted, Trump has also "endorsed populism." That's right. Populism. It has the stink of Russia all over it. Smells like vodka and day-old herring.
So, people in Washington have had their suspicions for years. But now we know for certain. And we know because of a stunning New York Times piece on Tuesday. In it, current and former administration officials, speaking, of course, from behind the protective veil of anonymity -- because, honestly you don't know what the KGB or whatever it's called these days is capable of doing to people who tell the truth. But, nevertheless, they divulged that, on multiple occasions over the course of last year, President Trump privately floated the idea of pulling the United States out of NATO.
Let that sink in. Leaving NATO.
This is a huge story. Or it would have been huge in 1983 when the Soviet Union still existed, and it was still clear what the point of NATO was. NATO, you'll remember, was created to keep the Soviets from invading Western Europe. NATO did a very good job at that, all the way until the day the Soviet Union collapsed, in the summer of 1991. That was almost 28 years ago.
Vladimir Putin runs Russia now. He does not plan to invade Western Europe. He can't. So why do we still have NATO? Nobody really knows. In Washington you're definitely not allowed to ask. And that's a shame because it would be an interesting conversation.
How do we feel about that now? Are you ready to launch a nuclear war over Latvia? What do you think of sending your kids to defend the territorial integrity of Estonia? Our foreign policy establishment thinks it's well worth it. In fact, under the current rules of our membership in NATO, we would have no choice. You might not have known that. All of this might merit a national debate of some sort. At some point. When we're ready. 28 years in.
But no. The left isn't into national debates anymore. They're into screaming, and threats and criminal investigations, and other forms of coercion. They like the way things are in this country. They're benefitting hugely from the status quo, and they don't like being challenged. They consider asking difficult questions a criminal act.
On Tuesday morning, in fact, Preet Bharara - he's the most famous former federal prosecutor in America - explained this on Twitter: "If true, Trump should immediately and publicly state his apparent wish to withdraw from NATO, so he can be promptly impeached, convicted, and removed from office."
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Jan 16, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
Tulsi Gabbard for president! Nobody's perfect but at least she isn't a lawyer!
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Jan 15, 2019 | discussion.theguardian.com
GuyCybershy -> -> BaronVonAmericano , 10 Dec 2016 17:0
"Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies" - Ron Paulgreyford14 -> -> GuyCybershy , 10 Dec 2016 17:1Be careful there, Ron Paul is an FSB agent of Putin, according to the Washington Post.elias_ , 10 Dec 2016 17:0At least Tucker Carlson is able to see through the BS and asks searching question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRkeGkCjdHg
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.amazon.com
Most terrifying of all, the crew has become incompetent. They have no idea how to sail. They're spinning the ship's wheel like they're playing roulette and cackling like mental patients.
The boat is listing, taking on water, about to sink. They're totally unaware that any of this is happening. As waves wash over the deck, they're awarding themselves majestic new titles and raising their own salaries. You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools.
Plato imagined this scene in The Republic. He never mentions what happened to the ship. It would be nice to know. What was written as an allegory is starting to feel like a documentary, as generations of misrule threaten to send our country beneath the waves.
The people who did it don't seem aware of what they've done. They don't want to know, and they don't want you to tell them. Facts threaten their fantasies. And so they continue as if what they're doing is working, making mistakes and reaping consequences that were predictable even to Greek philosophers thousands of years before the Internet.
They're fools. The rest of us are their passengers.
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.unz.com
Like that scene in Orwell's 1984 where the Party switches official enemies right in the middle of the Hate Week rally, the War on Terror was officially canceled and replaced by the War on Populism. Or all right, it wasn't quite that abrupt. But seriously, go back and scan the news. Note how the "Islamic terrorist threat" we had been conditioned to live in fear of on a daily basis since 2001 seemed to just vanish into thin air. Suddenly, the "existential threat" we were facing was "neo-nationalism," "illiberalism," or the pejorative designator du jour, "populism."
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Jan 14, 2019 | peakoilbarrel.com
GuyM x Ignored says: 01/13/2019 at 8:26 pm
In support of RRC, I looked up their agency expenses, and found they are less than $50 million. That's to pay for keeping up with almost a half million oil and gas wells, thousands of operators, and multiple other duties, including taking care of a significant amount of State income. There is a grand total of about 725 employees. Hats off!Longtimber x Ignored says: 01/14/2019 at 8:24 pmCould have 1/2 of a F35 not including Fuel.
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
John Mc , , January 11, 2019 at 12:10 pm
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Before reading below, please know I did not mean to offend and I apologize profusely in advance if someone actually takes this list seriously or crystallizes anything from these mind droppings other than a poor attempt at silliness.
Elizabeth Warren & Matt Damon -- how you like them apples (nationalize Apple)
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Kamala Harris & Jeff Bezos -- The Crazy Neoliberals Next Door
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
NotTimothyGeithner , January 11, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Re Caption Contest:
"Poultry of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your place in an extra value meal!"
"Putin did it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APWXorE6h8U
Its not really a caption, but I don't know how to transcribe these quotes accurately.
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Adams , , January 14, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Bah, who cares about a little collateral damage. The Iranian people obviously don't know what's good for them. We just need to bring back Wolfowitz to make sure they are on hand to lay down palm fronds before the US forces as they enter Baghdad after we nuke it into rubble.
Speaking of sociopaths, I am sure Darth Vader would make himself available to advise from Wyoming. Where the hell is Elliot Abrams when you need him. What's Rumsfeld doing these days? How great would it be to get the old gang together again, under the maniacal leadership of Bolton. Maybe Dubya would be willing to do the "mission accomplished" as the smoke clears over the whole MENA region. What a great bunch of guys.
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NotTimothyGeithner , , January 11, 2019 at 2:26 pm
"Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020" He has already floated the idea that he is the most 'qualified'. It worked so well for hill, hey why not?
...This is insulting. "we came, we saw, he died" is so morally damning.
Biden was a very normal senator, a creature with absolutely no guiding principles or morel values. And "go with the flow Joe" was a callous warmonger only because that's what Democrats of the time were. It's not his fault.
In other words, Biden is HRC without the selling points.
Carey , January 11, 2019 at 5:51 pm
"but HRC is lightyears than Biden.. She wasted potential.."
HRC 2016: "Party on!" for the 10%
Biden 2020: "Happy Dayz are Here Again!" for the 10%
Potential for what, or, for whom? Just not seeing it.
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Jan 14, 2019 | www.amazon.com
Most terrifying of all, the crew has become incompetent. They have no idea how to sail. They're spinning the ship's wheel like they're playing roulette and cackling like mental patients.
The boat is listing, taking on water, about to sink. They're totally unaware that any of this is happening. As waves wash over the deck, they're awarding themselves majestic new titles and raising their own salaries. You look on in horror, helpless and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools.
Plato imagined this scene in The Republic. He never mentions what happened to the ship. It would be nice to know. What was written as an allegory is starting to feel like a documentary, as generations of misrule threaten to send our country beneath the waves.
The people who did it don't seem aware of what they've done. They don't want to know, and they don't want you to tell them. Facts threaten their fantasies. And so they continue as if what they're doing is working, making mistakes and reaping consequences that were predictable even to Greek philosophers thousands of years before the Internet.
They're fools. The rest of us are their passengers.
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Jan 13, 2019 | www.unz.com
Ilyana_Rozumova , says: July 23, 2018 at 5:46 am GMT
Hillary lost the election when she could not walk. she lost a shoe, she was shown in the van, and shoe was thrown after her. And that was arranged by Russians.
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Jan 13, 2019 | finance.townhall.com
Which brings us to recent commentary from Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his eponymous show, Tucker Carlson Tonight . Among other things Carlson asked why investors (think hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, etc.) are taxed at lower rates than are typical workers. Carlson's specific target was Mitt Romney.
The junior Utah senator famously earned hundreds of millions while running private equity (vulture) firm Bain Capital.
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Jan 13, 2019 | www.nytimes.com
xavier onnasis usa, america Jan. 11
@C Wolfe Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan walk into a bar and order vodka tonics.
The bartender is out of vodka, so he mixes their drinks with wood alcohol instead. Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan all die.
But they all die happy, because they're in a regulation-free environment where the marketplace is *always* self-correcting.
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Jan 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
But, seriously, all that actually happened back in the Summer of 2016 was the global capitalist ruling classes recognized that they had a problem. The problem that they recognized they had (and continue to have, and are now acutely aware of) is that no one is enjoying global capitalism except the global capitalist ruling classes. The whole smiley-happy, supranational, neo-feudal corporate empire concept is not going over very well with the masses, or at least not with the unwashed masses. People started voting for right-wing parties, and Brexit, and other "populist" measures (not because they had suddenly transformed into Nazis, but because the Right was acknowledging and exploiting their anger with the advance of global neoliberalism, while liberals and the Identity Politics Left were slow jamming the TPP with Obama and babbling about transgender bathrooms, and such).
The global capitalist ruling classes needed to put a stop to that (i.e, the "populist" revolt, not the bathroom debate). So they suspended the Global War on Terror and launched the War on Populism. It was originally only meant to last until Hillary Clinton's coronation, or the second Brexit referendum, then switch back to the War on Terror, but well, weird things happen, and here we are.
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And then there's the battle for hearts and minds, which they've been furiously waging for the last two years, and which is only going to intensify. If you think things are batshit crazy now (which, clearly, they are), strap yourself in. What is coming is going to make COINTELPRO look like the work of some amateur meme-freak. The neoliberal corporate media, psy-ops like Integrity Initiative , Internet-censoring apps like NewsGuard , ShareBlue and other David Brock outfits , and a legion of mass hysteria generators will be relentlessly barraging our brains with absurdity, disinformation, and just outright lies (as will their counterparts on the Right, of course, in case you thought that they were any alternative). It's going to get extremely zany.
The good news is
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Jan 10, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
The biggest variable in my humble opinion is whether the US is going to allow Turkey to take possession of F-35s in Turkey. If Erdogan has really thrown in his lot with Putin he might let Russian engineers have access to the F-35 in order to reverse engineer it. There was a time when the prevailing view of the Turks in England was that they were a slippery and untrustworthy people. I certainly wouldn't trust Erdogan as far as I could throw him.Ishmael Zechariah -> James Thomas , 2 hours agoDamn right. We are not called "Perfidious Albion" for nothing.
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Jun 27, 2018 | www.youtube.com
The video which features lookalikes for Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, Hillary Clinton, Stormy Daniels, Mark Zuckerberg, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner is a satire on the news of the past 12 months.
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Jan 06, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Ross , Jan 5, 2019 2:53:21 PM | link
With apologies to bI know people get a bit touchy about pointing out typos, but there is a certain mordant humor to:
"Implementing the idea would lead to ethic cleansing "When as we know the neo-con thinkophobes underwent 'ethic cleansing' a long time ago!
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Jan 06, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
Q: What do humor, health information, giant squids, robotic cockroaches, tedium and postmodernism have in common?
A: Russia weaponized them.
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Kadath , Dec 17, 2018 7:46:00 PM | link
Breaking News, Anonymous intelligence sources report that Russia has successfully weaponized rational thinking, if you suspect you or a someone you know might be a rational thinker, immediately report to your local Atlantic Council affiliate to ensure that your thoughts are "Good Think" compliant.Amerikanski , Dec 17, 2018 4:45:50 PM | link"Mr. President, we must not allow a weaponization gap!" -- Gen. Buck TurgidsonIke , Dec 17, 2018 4:08:36 PM | linkRussia weaponised [bad] movies: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/7khmhq/russian_hackers_are_behind_the_poor_ratings_of/uncle tungsten , Dec 17, 2018 4:02:17 PM | linkIts ok SMCO @47.ex-SA , Dec 17, 2018 4:11:28 PM | link
remain calm, just poke a poppy or a rose in the gun barrel and blow them kiss. I am wondering if there are any academics amongst that Oxford Internet Institute that study obsessive disorders or have published on the current media obsession/paranoia with Russia.How do researchers in ponds such as OII check in with each other to eliminate mass hysteria?
And now Putin's Russia has weaponized Mueller's probe?! Mueller Dropping Russia Probe, Says Trump Working for Israel and Saudis | New Eastern OutlookCasual Observer , Dec 17, 2018 2:25:34 PM | linkRussia/Putin weaponized dolls with their Matryoshka Trojan horse within a Trojan horse!Bart Hansen , Dec 17, 2018 1:20:01 PM | linkJose Garcia , Dec 17, 2018 12:31:26 PM | link"Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project"The acronym for that shady outfit would be OUCPP. Say that acronym quickly several times and you WILL be in Monte Python country.
Putin has weaponized health care. My premiums went up and it's tough to pay.Hoarsewhisperer , Dec 17, 2018 12:24:29 PM | linkThis is my favourite... Vladimir Putin Outwitted Megyn Kelly by Weaponizing Incompetence The New Yorker, March 2018 I love the insinuation that CNN didn't suspect that Megyn is a bimbo until she tried to outsmart Putin.dh , Dec 17, 2018 9:38:59 AM | link
I think they must be weaponizing vodka too. I've got a terrible hangover this morning.Montreal , Dec 17, 2018 12:21:29 PM | link
We used to get completely weaponised on a bar on Alexandrovsky Park in St Petersburg, so much so that by the time we wanted to go home they had opened the bridges over the Neva and we had to wait until they closed again, re-weaponising ourselves in the meantime. The White Nights are beautiful beyond belief.dahoit , Dec 17, 2018 12:08:36 PM | linkPutin has weaponizing the stupidly of the MSM. My God.Quentin , Dec 17, 2018 9:40:02 AM | link
Yes! All true! But I weaponised Vladimir Putin to make media profits, newspapers (Guardian!), radio (BBC), internet (Bellingcat). Evidently only the Brits understand me. The US does the same in a different style.
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Jan 04, 2019 | economistsview.typepad.com
EMichael , January 01, 2019 at 03:35 AM
Personally, I think her response was perfect." I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America .
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney....
A few months later, my boss called and started with, "Don't kill me." He was sending me to Dick Cheney's. Dick was home.
He had an assistant or secretary or maybe security who followed me around while I checked connections and signal levels. I'd already found a system problem outside. I just wanted to make sure I never had to f!cking set foot in that house again. Dick walked into the office while I was working. He was reading from a stack of papers and ignored me. I told the assistant it would probably be a week or so. I'd put the orders in. He had my supervisor's number.
He said something to the effect of, "You do understand this is the former vice president." I panicked and said the first thing that came to mind: "Yeah, well, waterboard me if it makes him feel better. It'll still take a week." And I walked out.
It was my last call that day. I drove the entire way home thinking of a hundred better things I could've said. Finally, I called my supervisor and told him I might've accidentally mentioned waterboarding. He laughed and said I'd won. He'd stop sending me to the Cheneys'. I don't actually know if they ever complained. If they did, he never mentioned it."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
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EMichael , January 01, 2019 at 07:04 AM
Well, it is a horror movie."On Thursday, Politico published a delightful story tracing how Donald Trump, American president, got control of his own Tweet Machine. You see, up until 2013, he had a social media manager named Justin McConney who would actually type and send each bit of, say, dating advice to Robert Pattinson. The workflow for this was legitimately bonkers.
'Even as the mogul embraced digital media, he did so in the most analog way possible. He had McConney print out his Twitter mentions, and he would use Sharpie pens to scribble responses, which McConney would then type up and tweet out. After appearing at events, Trump, who remained distrustful of anything he saw only on a screen, had McConney print out 8x10 glossy photos of him for his signoff before they were posted online.'
But one day, Trump got hold of the controls himself. In vintage fashion, he first used them to praise someone for praising him on the teevee:
This prompted perhaps the greatest ever quote about Trumpian social media use. Certainly it's the best from this news cycle.
"The moment I found out Trump could tweet himself was comparable to the moment in 'Jurassic Park' when Dr. Grant realized that velociraptors could open doors," recalled McConney, who was the Trump Organization's director of social media from 2011 to 2017. "I was like, 'Oh no.'"
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Jan 03, 2019 | www.amazon.com
In 1906 the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair. Eight hundred people entered. Galton, being the kind of man he was, ran statistical tests on the numbers. He discovered that the average guess was extremely close to the weight of the ox. This story was told by James Surowiecki, in his entertaining book The Wisdom of Crowds. 2
Not many people know the events that followed. A few years later, the scales seemed to become less and less reliable. Repairs would be expensive, but the fair organiser had a brilliant idea. Since attendees were so good at guessing the weight of an ox, it was unnecessary' to repair the scales. The organiser would simply ask everyone to guess the weight, and take the average of their estimates.
A new problem emerged, however. Once weight-guessing competitions became the rage, some participants tried to cheat. They even tried to get privileged information from the farmer who had bred the ox. But there was fear that, if some people had an edge, others would be reluctant to enter the weight-guessing competition. With few entrants, you could not rely on the wisdom of crowds. The process of weight discovery would be damaged.
So strict regulatory rules were introduced. The farmer was asked to prepare three monthly bulletins on the development of his ox. These bulletins were posted on the door of the market for everyone to read. If the farmer gave his friends any other information about the beast, that information was also to be posted on the market door. And anyone who entered the competition who had knowledge about the ox that was not available to the world at large would be expelled from the market. In this way the integrity of the weight-guessing process would be maintained.
Professional analysts scrutinised the contents of these regulatory' announcements and advised their clients on their implications. They' wined and dined farmers; but once the farmers were required to be careful about the information they' disclosed, these lunches became less useful. Some smarter analysts realised that understanding the nutrition and health of the ox wasn't that useful anyway. Since the ox was no longer being weighed -- what mattered was the guesses of the bystanders -- the key' to success lav not in correctly assessing the weight of the ox but in correctly' assessing what others would guess. Or what other people would guess others would guess. And so on.
Some people -- such as old Farmer Buffett -- claimed that the results of this process were more and more divorced from the realities of ox rearing. But he was ignored. True, Farmer Buffett's beasts did appear healthy and well fed, and his finances ever more prosperous; but he was a countryman who didn't really understand how markets work.
International bodies were established to define the rules for assessing the weight of the ox. There were two competing standards -- generally accepted ox-weighing principles, and international ox-weighing standards. But both agreed on one fundamental principle, which followed from the need to eliminate the role of subjective assessment by any individual. The weight of the ox was officially defined as the average of everyone's guesses.
One difficulty was that sometimes there were few, or even no, guesses of the weight of the ox. But that problem was soon overcome. Mathematicians from the University of Chicago developed models from which it was possible to estimate what, if there had actually been many guesses as to the weight of the ox, the average of these guesses would have been. No knowledge of animal husbandry was required, only a powerful computer.
By' this time, there was a large industry of professional weight-guessers, organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses. Some people suggested that it might be cheaper to repair the scales, but they' were derided: why go back to relying on the judgement of a single auctioneer when you could benefit from the aggregated wisdom of so many clever people?
And then the ox died. Amid all this activity', no one had remembered to feed it.
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Cyrano , says: January 2, 2019 at 8:51 am GMT
... there is no hope for the humanity. The greed of the working class knows no boundaries. After all that the elites have done in the past 40-50 years to demonstrate their humanity – basically bringing a big chunk of the third world and resettling them in the west, the greedy underclass still demands proof from the elites that they are humanists.
Unfortunately the way they envision that the elites should prove their humanity is by opening their wallets and sharing their wealth with the poor in order to satisfy their ever increasing demands for better life by the undeserving poor.
Someone has to put a stop to it. Because if the poor underclasses succeed in draining the wealth from the innocent elites – the whole society will collapse. Why? Because there is no way that anyone can have respect for poor elites – which is where all this business with the yellow wests in France is going.
If the elites become poor – how can they maintain that magic aura of "we are better than you" that they project on the poor and which allows to govern them? No one can have a respect for poor elites. That's why I think it's time to step up the tried and trusted method – thankfully invented by US – that when somebody doubts the generosity of the elites – just import few hundred thousand fresh new faces from the 3rd world – to prove how much the elites care and that we are all equal – not with them, but among ourselves, which is where it really counts.
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In 1906 the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair. Eight hundred people entered. Galton, being the kind of man he was, ran statistical tests on the numbers. He discovered that the average guess was extremely close to the weight of the ox. This story was told by James Surowiecki, in his entertaining book The Wisdom of Crowds. 2
Not many people know the events that followed. A few years later, the scales seemed to become less and less reliable. Repairs would be expensive, but the fair organiser had a brilliant idea. Since attendees were so good at guessing the weight of an ox, it was unnecessary' to repair the scales. The organiser would simply ask everyone to guess the weight, and take the average of their estimates.
A new problem emerged, however. Once weight-guessing competitions became the rage, some participants tried to cheat. They even tried to get privileged information from the farmer who had bred the ox. But there was fear that, if some people had an edge, others would be reluctant to enter the weight-guessing competition. With few entrants, you could not rely on the wisdom of crowds. The process of weight discovery would be damaged.
So strict regulatory rules were introduced. The farmer was asked to prepare three monthly bulletins on the development of his ox. These bulletins were posted on the door of the market for everyone to read. If the farmer gave his friends any other information about the beast, that information was also to be posted on the market door. And anyone who entered the competition who had knowledge about the ox that was not available to the world at large would be expelled from the market. In this way the integrity of the weight-guessing process would be maintained.
Professional analysts scrutinised the contents of these regulatory' announcements and advised their clients on their implications. They' wined and dined farmers; but once the farmers were required to be careful about the information they' disclosed, these lunches became less useful. Some smarter analysts realised that understanding the nutrition and health of the ox wasn't that useful anyway. Since the ox was no longer being weighed -- what mattered was the guesses of the bystanders -- the key' to success lav not in correctly assessing the weight of the ox but in correctly' assessing what others would guess. Or what other people would guess others would guess. And so on.
Some people -- such as old Farmer Buffett -- claimed that the results of this process were more and more divorced from the realities of ox rearing. But he was ignored. True, Farmer Buffett's beasts did appear healthy and well fed, and his finances ever more prosperous; but he was a countryman who didn't really understand how markets work.
International bodies were established to define the rules for assessing the weight of the ox. There were two competing standards -- generally accepted ox-weighing principles, and international ox-weighing standards. But both agreed on one fundamental principle, which followed from the need to eliminate the role of subjective assessment by any individual. The weight of the ox was officially defined as the average of everyone's guesses.
One difficulty was that sometimes there were few, or even no, guesses of the weight of the ox. But that problem was soon overcome. Mathematicians from the University of Chicago developed models from which it was possible to estimate what, if there had actually been many guesses as to the weight of the ox, the average of these guesses would have been. No knowledge of animal husbandry was required, only a powerful computer.
By' this time, there was a large industry of professional weight-guessers, organisers of weight-guessing competitions and advisers helping people to refine their guesses. Some people suggested that it might be cheaper to repair the scales, but they' were derided: why go back to relying on the judgement of a single auctioneer when you could benefit from the aggregated wisdom of so many clever people?
And then the ox died. Amid all this activity', no one had remembered to feed it.
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.theonion.com
SEATTLE -- Deciding at the last minute to hold off due to ethical concerns, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly set aside his latest cost-cutting initiative Wednesday after realizing it was actually human slavery. "On the surface, it seemed plausible -- owning our employees' bodies, implementing a mandatory 18-hour workday, restricting their movements, and not compensating them with anything besides minimal food and shelter -- but then it started to sound really familiar in a bad way," said Bezos, who acknowledged his fears were confirmed when Amazon's general counsel kept reporting back that such labor arrangements had been illegal throughout the United States since 1865. "It's too bad; the increased efficiency and cost savings would have been tremendous. And now I have to go explain to our shareholders why I spent $1.8 million outfitting all of our managers with bullwhips, shackles, and branding irons." Bezos went on to describe the setback as temporary, saying it wouldn't matter in five to 10 years when his entire workforce was robots.
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.theonion.com
CHICAGO -- Saying it was ultimately a small price to pay in exchange for the splendid spectacle that has followed, millions of Americans admitted Thursday that they didn't really mind having their Facebook data stolen if it meant getting to watch that little fucker squirm.
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.wsws.org
The entire Baby Boomer generation was likewise "brainwashed" by Soviet propaganda in the 1960s: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (1959-1964). What 10-year old All-American Boy was not enticed by the smokey-voiced Russian agent, Natasha Fatale? Such a doll!
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.theonion.com
In a year where cruelty, deception, and unfettered corruption controlled all three branches of the U.S. government, The Onion 's flawless reportage and above-reproach journalism in 2018 exposed the dark underbelly of society and provided a beacon of hope that human civilization would finally and mercifully come to an end soon. Here, then, are the landmark moments of the year as reported with singular veracity by America's Finest News Source. January | February | March | April | May | June
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
2019 Headlines in Advance Posted on January 1, 2019 by Yves Smith Reader Rev Kev provided his forecast for 2019, which I hope you enjoy. If you know of any other 2019 headlines, please pipe up!
* * * I do not own a crystal ball to predict the future with so in considering what is to come in the New Year for 2019, I have had to resort to staring into my coffee mug instead. As a public service then, here is what I foresee happening in the coming year, both the tragedies and the triumphs in the main story for each coming month-
JANUARY – Tragedy struck when the annual World Economic Forum at Davos was caught in a massive snow avalanche. Most would have survived except that under an austerity recommendation by the WEF, the Swiss Mountain Rescue was recently disbanded and replaced with "volunteers". Unfortunately when it came time for the rescue party nobody volunteered.
FEBRUARY – The US Federal Reserve Board steps down confessing they have no idea how the economy works anymore. Says that they are not a part of the government anyway. They are replaced with a reforming Government Board who includes people such as Michael Hudson, Stephanie Kelton, Mark Blyth, Bill Black and Steve Keen.
MARCH – A terrible mishap occurred at the center where all Federal student loans records were stored when an employee entered the command "rm -r" on his computer to format it not realizing that he was actually logged into the mainframe. Managers called in the FBI when it was remembered that the employee was living in a van in the center's car park as he could not afford anything else due to his student loans. A team of FBI special investigators quickly find that the whole thing was an accident with no charges needed. It was only found out later that these FBI agents too were still loaded up with student debts.
APRIL – In a surprise announcement, the Republican and Democrat parties say that they are going to amalgamate into one super party called the Progressives party. One operative stated "We have the same policies anyway". In a move to combine the "dirt" files that they hold on each other's candidates into one repository, these files are released to the public by Wikileaks and what is in them makes nearly all former Democrat and Republican candidates ineligible to run for office. A Sanders/Gabbard ticket now seems the only one viable for 2020. The new Progressives party blames the Russians.
MAY – Donald Trump, finally realizing now the awesome responsibility that he has undertaken as President, apologizes for his past behaviour, shuts down his Twitter account and spends his time pushing for any policy that attracts 80% of the electorate's support such as medicare for all, student loan forgiveness and winding back overseas commitments. A visibly shocked Hillary Clinton retires from public life, goes into a convent and undertakes a vow of silence.
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JULY – Old KGB files surface showing that Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Freeman were actually committed communist agents pushing their ideas as part of a plot to destroy the West. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan now seen to be as 'useful idiots' for pushing these ideas further.
AUGUST – In a move to shore up falling ratings, the last six mega-media companies combine into one vast mega-media company. This move is announced with fanfare on all TV stations and major newspapers but as very few get their news from those sources anymore, hardly anybody notices. As ratings continue to plunge off a cliff, small newspapers, radio stations and TV stations arise to fill the void.
SEPTEMBER – The Pentagon, finding that due to rising costs that by 2022 they will only be able to afford one plane, one tank and one ship, announces that they will buy Russian weapons from now on saying they are cheaper and actually work. They further announce that this will continue until the industrial complex "wakes up to itself".
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.theonion.com
CHICAGO -- Saying it was ultimately a small price to pay in exchange for the splendid spectacle that has followed, millions of Americans admitted Thursday that they didn't really mind having their Facebook data stolen if it meant getting to watch that little fucker squirm.
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Jan 02, 2019 | www.theonion.com
SEATTLE -- Deciding at the last minute to hold off due to ethical concerns, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly set aside his latest cost-cutting initiative Wednesday after realizing it was actually human slavery. "On the surface, it seemed plausible -- owning our employees' bodies, implementing a mandatory 18-hour workday, restricting their movements, and not compensating them with anything besides minimal food and shelter -- but then it started to sound really familiar in a bad way," said Bezos, who acknowledged his fears were confirmed when Amazon's general counsel kept reporting back that such labor arrangements had been illegal throughout the United States since 1865. "It's too bad; the increased efficiency and cost savings would have been tremendous. And now I have to go explain to our shareholders why I spent $1.8 million outfitting all of our managers with bullwhips, shackles, and branding irons." Bezos went on to describe the setback as temporary, saying it wouldn't matter in five to 10 years when his entire workforce was robots.
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[Dec 20, 2019] Intelligence community has become a self licking ice cream cone Published on Dec 20, 2019 | off-guardian.org
[Oct 20, 2019] Adam Schiff now the face of the neoliberal Dems for 2020. Published on Oct 20, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
[Oct 20, 2019] Putin sarcastic remark on Western neoliberal multiculturalism Published on Oct 17, 2019 | www.unz.com
[Oct 19, 2019] Russian agents under every bed Published on Oct 19, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
[Sep 10, 2019] Being called a narcissist by Jim Comey is akin to being accused of having sex with underage girls by the late Jeffrey Epstein by Larry C Johnsons Published on Sep 04, 2019 | turcopolier.typepad.com
[Sep 03, 2019] Russiagate as crocodile tears of western propaganda Published on Sep 02, 2019 | www.yahoo.com
[Sep 02, 2019] Where is Margaret Thatcher now? Published on Sep 02, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
[Aug 17, 2019] Putin-Trump Derangement Syndrome (PTDS) Published on Aug 17, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
[Jul 27, 2019] Russia interfered on a massive scale ($3,684 was spends on ads on which $1932 on promoting Trump) and is doing it again as we sit here! Just how massive? They spent $100,000 on clickbait ads from a company owned by a man who was in a photo with the evil mastermind! Published on Jul 27, 2019 | consortiumnews.com
[Jul 26, 2019] Tucker: Democrats believed Mueller would save America. But he is A daft old man blinking in the sunlight once the curtain has been opened Published on Jul 26, 2019 | www.youtube.com
[Jun 28, 2019] Tulsi Gabbard vs Bolton Published on Jun 28, 2019 | www.unz.com
[Jun 22, 2019] Fake news are the only news worth reading and that's why Bolton in Onion sounds more realistic then in real life Published on Jun 15, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
[Jun 22, 2019] Bolton Calls For Forceful Iranian Response To Continuing US Aggression Published on Jun 22, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
[Jun 22, 2019] Use of science by the US politicians: they uses science the way the drunk uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination. Published on Jun 16, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com
[Jun 20, 2019] Chuck Schumer 'The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran' Published on Jun 20, 2019 | politics.theonion.com
[May 31, 2019] US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'...and this is in The Guardian and not The Onion Published on May 31, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org
[May 12, 2019] Is rabid warmonger, neocon chickenhawk Bolton a swinger? That is a mental picture that s deeply disturbing yet funny at the same time Published on May 12, 2019 | www.unz.com
[May 09, 2019] King Sihanouk had over 500 wives. Why is American society so austere as to begrudge a humble bloke Donald even a second wife? Published on Apr 22, 2019 | kunstler.com
[May 07, 2019] Look! A whale! Published on May 07, 2019 | amp.theguardian.com
[Mar 26, 2019] Chris Christie about Kushner's dad 'One of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted' Published on Mar 26, 2019 | www.washingtonpost.com
[Feb 13, 2019] Making Globalism Great Again by C.J. Hopkins Published on Feb 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
[Feb 10, 2019] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes the Problem of Dark Money in Politics NowThis - YouTube Published on Feb 10, 2019 | www.youtube.com
[Jan 29, 2019] After hiring Abrams the next logical step for Trump would be hiring Hillary or Wolfowitz Published on Jan 29, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com
[Jan 14, 2019] Nanci Pelosi and company at the helm of the the ship the Imperial USA: Most terrifying of all, the crew has become incompetent. They have no idea how to sail. Published on Jan 14, 2019 | www.amazon.com
[Feb 13, 2019] Making Globalism Great Again by C.J. Hopkins Published on Feb 11, 2019 | www.unz.com
[Feb 10, 2019] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes the Problem of Dark Money in Politics NowThis - YouTube Published on Feb 10, 2019 | www.youtube.com
[Jan 14, 2019] Nanci Pelosi and company at the helm of the the ship the Imperial USA: Most terrifying of all, the crew has become incompetent. They have no idea how to sail. Published on Jan 14, 2019 | www.amazon.com
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