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"Summer" Rerun: Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision Posted on December 27, 2018 by Yves Smith
Yves here. In some summers past, we've rerun NC classics during slow news periods. We haven't had slow news period in a while, and one side effect is that we haven't yet reprised this series on libertarianism, which will run this week and into next week. Enjoy!
This post first appeared on November 29, 2011
By Andrew Dittmer, who recently finished his PhD in mathematics at Harvard and is currently continuing work on his thesis topic. He also taught mathematics at a local elementary school. Andrew enjoys explaining the recent history of the financial sector to a popular audience.
Simulposted at The Distributist Review
Recently journalist Philip Pilkington has interviewed authors with unconventional perspectives on economic issues, including Satyajit Das and David Graeber. I thought it would be fun to interview someone too – but the man I interviewed uses a pseudonym. This is a six-part series.
ANDREW : Some people say that you represent a fringe view, and so interviewing you is a waste of time.
CODE NAME CAIN : If people obsessed with inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom underestimate libertarians, so much the better.
ANDREW : Can you give any evidence that your ideas are taken seriously?
CNC : Well, people used to think that the financial crisis was caused by antisocial behavior in the finance sector. In September 2007, Tom DiLorenzo pointed out on the Lew Rockwell website that the crisis was actually the result of the government forcing banks to make risky loans to low-income borrowers. Although initially ignored, DiLorenzo's thesis is now widely accepted among careful observers.
ANDREW : Is that your only convincing example?
CNC : Hardly. Did you notice how over the last year or so, everyone started to talk about how the threat of new taxes and regulations was making producers uncertain? And when producers are uncertain, the economy fails to improve? Well, the fact that worries about taxes and regulations cause uncertainty and so damage the economy is a key insight of Austrian economics that we have proclaimed for decades.
ANDREW : Wait, I thought people said that Obama was causing the uncertainty.
CNC : Obama is causing the uncertainty now. Before Obama, George W. Bush was causing the uncertainty. In general, democratic government causes uncertainty. Hans-Hermann Hoppe made all of this clear in his 2001 book "Democracy: The God That Failed."
ANDREW : Are there things you have learned from the work of Dr. Hoppe that you had not found in the writings of other libertarians?
CNC : "Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard were great men, but they lived in a time when supporters of freedom needed to be careful about what they said. As a result, libertarians often fail to describe their ideal future society in clear detail. But, as the Cato Institute's Patri Friedman has recognized , Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an exception to this reticence. He is willing to speak the truth, no matter how much it makes "politically correct" people squirm, and he is so logical and eloquent that I routinely quote from his classic book on the failure of democracy. Please color such quotes in red – I would never try to pass off my own ideas as if they were on his level.
ANDREW : Tell us now about the libertarian society you are working to make possible.
CNC : It will be a free society – no government, no coercion. People will have their rights respected. Everyone will be free to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's rights why are you looking at me like that?
ANDREW : I was kind of hoping for less speeches and more details.
CNC : What do you mean?
ANDREW : In our society, the government is the only organization allowed to kill people. In the libertarian society, which organizations will kill people?
CNC : There will be no government that is allowed to use force against people and kill them.
ANDREW : Some people will be very rich, right?
CNC : Of course. Some people will always be stronger and more brilliant than others.
ANDREW : Will the wealthy people still be worried about people stealing from them?
CNC : Obviously – all property is necessarily valuable; hence, every property owner becomes a possible target of other men's aggressive desires . [255]
ANDREW : So who will protect property owners?
CNC : Insurance companies in a competitive marketplace.
ANDREW : So in your society, insurance companies will be sort of like governments. Can we call them security GLOs (Government-Like Organizations)?
CNC : Sure, as long as we stress that the insurance companies, as security GLOs, will be very different from the statist, coercive governments we have today.
ANDREW : Will security GLOs be different from governments because they will be small family firms?
CNC : No. One reason that insurance companies will be well-suited for the role of security GLOs is that they are "big" and in command of the resources necessary to accomplish the task of dealing with the dangers of the real world. Indeed, insurers operate on a national or even international scale, and they own substantial property holdings dispersed over wide territories [281]
ANDREW : Will security GLOs be different from governments because they don't use physical force against criminals?
CNC : You gotta be kidding, right? in cooperation with one another, insurers [will] want to expel known criminals not just from their immediate neighborhoods, but from civilization altogether, into the wilderness or open frontier of the Amazon jungle, the Sahara, or the polar regions. [262]
ANDREW : So the security GLOs will be allowed to kill people, if they are known criminals?
CNC : The security GLOs will not kill people, they will just expel them to the Sahara or polar regions. What happens then is up to the criminals.
ANDREW : Can we say that the security GLOs will effectively kill them?
CNC : I really don't like that choice of wording. You make it sound like the security GLOs will be committing aggression against the criminals. That's backwards – the criminal commits aggression, and security GLOs will just defend people. They won't violate anyone's rights.
ANDREW : Maybe you would prefer that we say: the security GLOs will effectively kill people in a rights-respecting manner.
CNC: Yeah, that's better.
ANDREW : Will everybody be able to get insurance from the security GLOs?
CNC : Of course – in a market economy, shortages are impossible. Anyone can get anything by paying the market price.
ANDREW : What if the market price of insurance for some people is more money than they can pay?
CNC : Don't worry, competition among insurers for paying clients will bring about a tendency toward a continuous fall in the price of protection [281-282] .
ANDREW : In the future everyone will pay less for security than they currently pay in taxes?
CNC: Well, certain government-induced distortions would be eliminated. Government taxes more in low crime and high property value areas than in high crime and low property value areas. [259] Security GLOs would do the exact opposite.
ANDREW : So in rough neighborhoods, most people might not be able to afford security insurance.
CNC : Possibly.
ANDREW : Suppose there are people who aren't covered by any security GLO – would it effectively be legal to kill them?
CNC : They would definitely be rendered economically isolated, weak, and vulnerable outcast[s] [287] .
ANDREW : Then people are effectively forced to join a security GLO?
CNC : Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but this will be a free society. The relationship between the insurer and the insured is consensual. Both are free to cooperate and not to cooperate. [281] No one will force people to buy protection, and no one will force insurers to offer protection at a price they think is too low.
ANDREW : What are some other ways that you think this would be a good system?
CNC : Well, every property can be shaped and transformed by its owner so as to increase its safety and reduce the likelihood of aggression. I may acquire a gun or safe-deposit box, for instance, or I may be able to shoot down an attacking plane from my backyard or own a laser gun that can kill an aggressor thousands of miles away. [256] In a free society, security GLOs would encourage the ownership of weapons among their insured by means of selective price cuts [264] because the better the private protection of their clients, the lower the insurer's protection and indemnification costs will be [285].
ANDREW : Let's see if I understand. In poor neighborhoods, most people will not be insured, and it will be legal to kill them. The people that are insured will be encouraged by the security GLO to carry weapons that are as technologically advanced as possible. It sounds to me like this would be bad for the poor neighborhoods.
CNC : On the contrary – in "bad" neighborhoods the interests of the insurer and insured would coincide. Insurers would not want to suppress the expulsionist inclinations among the insured toward known criminals. They would rationalize such tendencies by offering selective price cuts (contingent on specific clean-up operations). [262]
ANDREW : Suppose that security GLOs, or private groups that they sponsor, are looking for criminals. When the enforcers catch the criminals, will they always transport them to an uninhabited area, or will they sometimes put them in prison?
CNC : Prisons like the ones we have? With basketball courts and televisions for the criminals? How would that be fair?
ANDREW : Maybe other kinds of prisons?
CNC : Look, it's not about putting people in prisons. It's about people getting what they deserve. And in the libertarian society of the future, people will get what they deserve. Security GLOs can be counted upon to apprehend the offender, and bring him to justice, because in so doing the insurer can reduce his costs and force the criminal to pay for the damages and cost of indemnification. [282]
ANDREW : So they'll have to do forced labor for the security GLO?
CNC : How can you possibly think this could be worse than our current system? Where instead of compensating the victims of crimes it did not prevent, the government forces victims to pay again as taxpayers for the cost of the apprehension, imprisonment, rehabilitation and/or entertainment of their aggressors [259] ?
ANDREW : Still, as a libertarian, aren't you against coercion?
CNC : Coercion? Obviously you don't understand what you're talking about. Coercion is only when someone interferes with rights someone else actually holds. Criminals can forfeit their rights through their own choices. When that happens, requiring them to make restitution for their actions doesn't violate their rights.
ANDREW : Will there be any other people in the free society who will be slaves?
CNC : Slaves?! Don't you know that the first condition of a libertarian society is that everyone owns themselves?
ANDREW : Sorry, I meant to say: effectively slaves in a rights-respecting manner.
CNC: Oh. Hmmm. Let me think about that.
ANDREW: For example, suppose someone signs a business contract and then, later, can't fulfill the terms of the contract. What would happen?
CNC : In a libertarian society, sanctity of contract is absolutely fundamental.
ANDREW : Let me be a little more specific. Suppose some guy can't pay his debts. Would he be allowed to declare bankruptcy and move on, or would he become, in a rights-respecting manner, the effective slave of whoever had loaned him the money?
CNC : That would depend upon the debt contract that the lender and borrower had together voluntarily signed. If they had chosen to include a bankruptcy proviso, then the borrower could declare bankruptcy.
ANDREW : Suppose that in the libertarian society, lenders would rather encourage borrowers to focus on repayment – and so they decide not to give borrowers an easy way out. Suppose that no lenders offer loans with a bankruptcy proviso. Would that be okay?
CNC : Economic theory tells us that loans without a bankruptcy proviso will be made at lower interest rates than loans allowing borrowers to go bankrupt. So if no loans contain a bankruptcy proviso, it will just mean that borrowers prefer low-interest no-bankruptcy loans.
ANDREW : I see some problems here.
CNC : Look, it sounds from your question like you think that the lenders should be coerced into allowing borrowers to be irresponsible and go bankrupt! That would effectively make them loan their hard-earned money in ways that they don't want. How is that any different than forcing them to work at hard labor?
ANDREW : Obviously it would be better to have defaulting borrowers be effectively enslaved in a way that fully respects their natural rights.
CNC : Obviously. Now that we've cleared that up, can you turn off the tape recorder? I want to get started on my steak.
Now that Code Name Cain has indicated the promise of a libertarian society, in the next part of the interview he will give a step-by-step plan for how we can make this society a reality.
SynoiaSleeping Dog December 30, 2018 at 9:05 am
What puzzles me about the Libertarian Dream is their ability to ignore the Dark Ages in Western Europe.
It fulfills all their requirements, and by what accounts survive, was remarkably unsuccessful. Life was poor, nasty, brutish and short.
I've has the discussion of rule of law with libertarians, and it went like this:
Lb: We could have a farming society without rule of law.
Me: How are disputes resolved?
Lb: We all get together and resolve the dispute.
Me: How is the dispute resolution enforced?
Lb: Everybody agrees to the resolution.
Me: What happens if some do not agree? What happens if someone cheats?
Lb: ……..
Me: We've used this mechanism before, Hatfields vs McCoy' in the US, and Campbells Vs McDonalds in Scotland.
Lb: ……..
Those who don't know their History, are condemned to repeat it. Winston Churchill in his "History of the English Speaking Peoples" refers to the desire of the People in England to have "The King's Peace," otherwise known as "The Rule of Law" with all it's apparatus, Police, Courts, etc. The Libertarians appear to want "Rule by the Rich and Powerful" and do not understand that that includes few, if any, of the current libertarians, except perhaps for the Koch Brothers.In the 90's when encountering a want-to-be business tycoon spouting Libertarian nonsense, I would encourage them to seek their fortune in Somalia, where no government existed.
Dec 29, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has gone so far down the rabbit hole in his $25 million (taxpayer funded) Russia investigation -- going so far as to have "collected a nude selfie " to satisfy his probe.
The claim, according to The Hill was contained within a court filing by Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting - one of three businesses indicted by Mueller in February along with 13 individuals for election meddling.
In the Thursday court filing accusing Mueller's team of illegally withholding information in the case, Concord attorney Eric Dubelier made mention of the "nude selfie," asking " Could the manner in which he collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States? "
Dec 29, 2018 | www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54IcPmfqHloTectonicTsunami , 1 day ago
James Rockford , 1 day ago
LinkedIn needs to be linked-OUT.
Let me guess, not one single MSM outlet, will discuss this?
Dec 28, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
MrBoompi , 35 seconds agoCosineCosineCosine , 14 minutes ago
4 unnamed sources = 0 believable sources
I call complete and total BULL ****
I fini. Feel a little bit better now
Dec 27, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.com
Phoroneus57 , 3 Jun 2018 23:03'Trickle down effect' - the favourite buzzword of neoliberal supporters. I'd like to see trickle down effect tried at the local pub on the taps by the local mp. Imagine what would happen. Definitely doesn't pass the pub test.
Dec 27, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Entropy Wins , Dec 26, 2018 4:04:42 PM | link
Those damned Russians will weaponize anything. Here they are weaponizing cuteness.
Dec 27, 2018 | www.unz.com
FB , says: December 25, 2018 at 11:13 am GMTIn defense of the chickenhawk -- the actual bird
The first time I saw one in action, it was quite a revelation I looked out the kitchen window to see what looked like a blue jay perching on some kind of largish rock that he was pecking at of course that made no sense at all and upon closer examination it turned out to be a tiny raptor, not even a foot long from beak to tail, standing on a much larger dead chicken and ripping flesh off of it I ran out back toward the chicken yard and the mighty little slayer flew off the poor hen had a good part of her back flesh removed
Pretty amazing that such a tiny bird could take a chicken easily ten times its weight -- the sharp shinned hawk weighs just 200-400 grams
So while I certainly despise the useless eaters that agitate for war while having not the slightest idea what combat of any kind is about, I always cringe at the degradation of the word 'chickenhawk' a mighty little predator whose good name should not be sullied in association with such human detritus
Dec 27, 2018 | www.unz.com
Digital Samizdat , says: December 25, 2018 at 10:54 pm GMTEverybody say a prayer for Lindsay Graham this Christmas. I hear he's in distress
Dec 27, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
John k , December 26, 2018 at 9:11 pm
I do remember this.
Nixon is not just to the left of today's reps, he's to the left of the so called centrist dems I would call them right wing corporate lackays that never saw a war they didn't like.
Dec 27, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Nick Decaro @decaro_nick
A devotional gift for Xmas.
Big Tap , December 26, 2018 at 5:11 pm
They are several varieties of the Mueller candle. The vendor below said they sold out the original supply of candles but more will arrive in the future. Pray to St. Mueller!! /s
Wukchumni , December 26, 2018 at 5:21 pm
Mueller candle: Votive confidence?
polecat , December 26, 2018 at 7:10 pm
How come he's not on a cross ??
ambrit , December 26, 2018 at 7:39 pm
That should be a St. Mueller vigil candle cover. Something appropriate for a saint dedicated to blocking the cleansing power of light.
From "The Legend of Saint Mueller":
"And then the Priest of the Temple named Mueller didst procure screens with which to block out from the sight of the People those necessary sins taken upon themselves by the Priests to protect that same People from the Forces of Evil."
In later days, that Priest named Mueller was elected to the ranks of the anointed as the patron of all who cast shade and do other evils in the service of a Good Cause. His Saint Day is February 29. The prayer to Saint Mueller begins: "Redactio ad absurdum." His sigil is 'A Candle Under a Basket.'
Dec 26, 2018 | mainlymacro.blogspot.com
phayes , 23 January 2014 at 03:51Anonymous , 23 January 2014 at 04:12
That'd be like astronomers saying that although Hellenic astrology is pseudoscientific nonsense they can probably do business with Ptolemaic or Hindu astrology. Other scientists would laugh and call astronomy the dismal physics. Isn't it about time economists like yourself just told the knuckle dragging ideologues - of whatever colour and salinity - to fuck off?
Who is an economist who is not an ideologue?
Dec 25, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Strawman -> TTG , a day ago"Our material support to the jihadis we called moderate rebels was a clear anti-Assad move."
You reminded me of a line by the political satirist Mark Russell commenting on our likewise misguided tactics back in the 1980s:
"The definition of a 'moderate Islamic fighter' is the guy who has suddenly run out of ammunition."
Dec 25, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Cassandra.Hermes , 1 hour ago link
The Guardian is the best newspaper with 4,049,000 daily readers, they are owned by non-profit foundation and they are free to write whatever they are pleased but their contents is verified 100% so you are free not to like it but you have to accept it as a facts.
Dec 24, 2018 | nationalinterest.org
Dingo Attack!!! • 8 days ago ,Vic Dingo Attack!!! • 8 days ago ,
Look at the Russian bots here? Do they actually think they can change anyone's opinions about their backwater country run by an egotistical authoritarian?
Says the one person making troll comments. "Russia bots" is the liberals new word for anyone that disagree with them. They need this little labels because they have no facts on their side. Only hatred for dissenters.
"35,000 Volunteers Sign Up for Ukraine's 'Information Army' on First Day" https://www.newsweek.com/35...
Dec 24, 2018 | nationalinterest.org
Dingo Attack!!! • 8 days ago ,James Thomas Dingo Attack!!! • 8 days ago ,
Look at the Russian bots here? Do they actually think they can change anyone's opinions about their backwater country run by an egotistical authoritarian?
It is a good thing that the US is not ruled by an egotistical authoritarian.
Dec 24, 2018 | nationalinterest.orgfranciscoalmeida_br Savimbi says • 9 days ago ,
the West seeks no friends , but rather vassals are welcome.
Scores of worldwide diplomats have their backstage sayings : " it's better to be US' foe than ally because if you are their foe, they'll try to buy you ; but if you are their ally , they will sell you.".
Jul 23, 2017 | www.unz.com
Che Guava , says: July 23, 2017 at 2:55 pm GMTRussiagate, what a nonsensical concept. Constantly shifting narrative. (1) OMG, they hacked voting machines! (2) OMG, they hacked DNC servers! (3) OMG, someone talked to a Russian!
It is so stupid.
Dec 21, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Scotch Bingeington , Dec 20, 2018 5:15:34 PM | linkLike firing a smoke grenade into a hornets' nest. What a priceless sight. The atlanticist scum over here in Germany are really at a loss, flat on their backs. Well done, Donald!
Dec 21, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Prehuman insight
The American Empire:
an imperial ball of debt: a nation of never-educated, mobility scooter herds; a zillion-dollar military with decades of ineptitude fully demonstrated;
led by President Trash-n-Mock - without a mission, strategy or goal or chance for success.
Dec 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
As my regular readers will probably recall, according to my personal, pseudo-Chinese zodiac, 2017 was " The Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken ." This year, having given it considerable thought, and having consulted the I Ching, and assorted other oracles, I'm designating 2018 "The Year of Putin-Nazi Paranoia."
... ... ...
Back in America, millions of liberals and other Russia-and-Trump-obsessives were awaiting the Putin-Nazi Apocalypse , which despite the predictions of Resistance pundits had still, by the Summer, failed to materialize. The corporate media were speculating that Putin's latest "secret scheme" was for Trump to destroy the Atlantic alliance by arriving late for the G7 meeting. Or maybe Putin's secret scheme was to order Trump to sadistically lock up a bunch of migrants in metal cages, exactly as Obama had done before him but these were special Nazi cages! And Trump was separating mothers and children, which, as General Michael Hayden reminded us , was more or less exactly the same as Auschwitz! Paul Krugman had apparently lost it , and was running around the offices of The New York Times shrieking that "America as we know it is finished!" Soros had been smuggled back into Europe to single-handedly thwart the Putin-Nazi plot to "dominate the West," which he planned to do by canceling the Brexit (which Putin had obviously orchestrated) and overthrowing the elected government of Italy (which, according to Soros, was a Putin-Nazi front).
As if that wasn't paranoia-inducing enough, suddenly, Trump flew off to Helisnki to personally meet with the Devil Himself. The neoliberal establishment went totally apeshit. A columnist for The New York Times predicted that Trump, Putin, Le Pen, the AfD, and other such Nazis were secretly forming something called "the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary States," and intended to disband the European Union, and NATO, and impose international martial law and start ethnically cleansing the West of migrants. That, or Trump and Putin were simply using the summit as cover to attend some Nazi-equestrian homosexual orgy, which The Times took pains to illustrate by creating a little animated film depicting Trump and Putin as lovers. In any event, Jonathan Chait was certain that Trump had been a "Russian intelligence asset" since at least as early as 1987, and was going to Helsinki to "meet his handler."
In the wake of the summit, the neoliberal Resistance, like some multi-headed mythical creature in the throes of acute amphetamine psychosis, started spastically jabbering about "treason" and "traitors," and more or less demanding that Trump be tried, and taken out and shot on the White House lawn. A frenzy of neo-McCarthyism followed. Liberals started accusing people of being "traitorous agents of Trump and Moscow," and openly calling for a CIA coup, because we were "facing a national security emergency!" A devastating Russian cyber-attack was due to begin at any moment. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats personally assured the Associated Press that the little "Imminent Russia Attack" lights he had on his desk were "blinking red."
... ... ...
So here's wishing my Russia-and-Trump-obsessed readers a merry, teeth-clenching, anus-puckering Christmas and a somewhat mentally-healthier New Year! Me, I'm looking forward to discovering how batshit crazy things can get I have a feeling we ain't seen nothing yet.
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.
Dec 19, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
karlof1 , Dec 17, 2018 2:38:03 PM | linkAlthough likely covered by weaponizing incompetence and stupidity, Putin has certainly weaponized the Outlaw US Empire's appalling lack of a professional diplomatic corp--just look at who he gets Trump to nominate to key diplomatic positions.Hoarsewhisperer , Dec 17, 2018 12:24:29 PM | linkThis is my favourite... Vladimir Putin Outwitted Megyn Kelly by Weaponizing Incompetence The New Yorker, March 2018Jose Garcia , Dec 17, 2018 12:31:26 PM | link
I love the insinuation that CNN didn't suspect that Megyn is a bimbo until she tried to outsmart Putin.Putin has weaponized health care. My premiums went up and it's tough to pay.Bart Hansen , Dec 17, 2018 1:20:01 PM | linkIke , Dec 17, 2018 4:08:36 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.Russia weaponised [bad] movies: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/7khmhq/russian_hackers_are_behind_the_poor_ratings_of/ex-SA , Dec 17, 2018 4:11:28 PM | linkAnd now Putin's Russia has weaponized Mueller's probe?! Mueller Dropping Russia Probe, Says Trump Working for Israel and Saudis | New Eastern OutlookCurtis , Dec 17, 2018 6:33:53 PM | linkand last but not least, Russia is blamed for inflaming the protests in France: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-14/france-turmoil-blame-russiaalaff , Dec 17, 2018 8:20:19 PM | link
It reminds me of the meme taken from The Brady Bunch instead of "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" it's "Russia, Russia, Russia."Check it out & add to your nice collection, if you want.
Russia is:
* Weaponizing 'technology':
* Weaponizing 'the continent / Venezuela':
(December 11, 2018)
* Weaponizing 'Interpol red notices':
(November 20, 2018)
* Weaponizing 'Heather Nauert':
(November 18, 2018)
* Weaponizing 'Social media hate':
(October 2, 2018)
* Weaponizing 'Debt':
(June 19, 2018)
(July 30, 2018)
* Weaponizing 'leaks':
(May 25, 2017)
* Weaponizing 'History':
(February 27, 2017)
Fran , Dec 17, 2018 10:20:44 AM | linkAnd besides humor I am sure Putin is also weaponizing calendars, at least in Japan. Maybe in exchange for keeping the Kuril islands: Putin calendar sales surpassing those of Japanese stars in JapanPeter VE , Dec 17, 2018 10:59:02 AM | linkThe underlying problem: Russia has weaponized telling the truth.
Dec 17, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
How Putin's Russia Weaponizes X
Q: What do humor, health information, giant squids, robotic cockroaches, tedium and postmodernism have in common?
A: Russia weaponized them.
Dec 17, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.com
ShaunNewman -> TyroneBHorneigh , 23 Aug 2016 00:29The only problem is that 'America' does not exist. America is a part description of a continent and I think we are talking about the USA (only one country on North American soil) Why do the yanks always have to exaggerate their own importance like the Olympics bloke who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint lol! Do the USAians actually have an inferiority complex?
Dec 17, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
StheNine , 1 hour ago link
" Miller also admits that the dossier's broad claims are more closely aligned with reality, but that the document breaks down once you focus on individual claims. "
Dec 17, 2018 | www.rt.com
" Giving money in exchange for political favors could run afoul of federal corruption laws ," the report explains, seemingly unfamiliar with business as usual in Washington.
Dec 17, 2018 | www.rt.com
Britain spent part of the spring chucking out Russian diplomats it accused of being spies, of course that means all the known alleged spooks are no longer around, so the UK needs to find some more. One of the things we have learnt in the post-Skripal world, is that there are now seen to be only two kinds of Russian: the spies and ... oh no actually just one type of Russian.
75,000 Russian expats spying in London? Their handlers' workload must be a nightmare! The true scale of the workload facing British counterintelligences has been recently revealed by a London based think tank, which estimates half of all Russian expats in the British capital are spies or informants.
Dec 17, 2018 | www.rt.com
Unlike the 2014 Ukraine uprising, which witnessed invasive meddling on the part of US politicians and diplomats, Western support for the French Yellow Vest protests has been conspicuously missing in action ;-)
'Paris agreement isn't working out so well for Paris!': Trump taunts Macron over Yellow Vests fires...
Macron's European army has arrived. It goes by the name Gilets Jaunes
Dec 16, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Piotr Berman , Dec 15, 2018 6:01:25 PM | linkb: After two years the Muller investigation found zero evidence for the 'collusion' between Russia and the Trump campaign that the fake Steele dossier suggested.
I bet that there are few tons of evidence. b is unfamiliar with the most basic methods for detectives and prosecutors: connect the dots. For example, one dot in Toronto, ONT and the second in New Delhi, India. Connect them using a straight line, or more correctly, so-called grand circle that is the unique shortest air route from Toronto to Dehli. Voila! It goes through Russia.
Dec 10, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Don Heffernton December 10, 2018 at 9:26 amThose who dismissed the never-built Russian Property fail to understand that if or when it is built, the property's telephone system will interconnect with Russian Telcom – the same system that serves Putin and the Russian Federation, so they'd be directly connected by copper wires and fiber optic cable. You can't be more intertwined or interdependent than that. And don't get me started on how the buildings source of power is the same utility grid that serves Putin's home, Dacha, and Government Buildings.
They practically makes tTrump and Putin Siamese twins just barely separated decades after birth. That's high crime and misdemeanor grade Collusion if I ever cleverly imagined it.
21st Century Wire
John C Carleton • 2 days ago ,
"UK [elite] 'Integrity "
Needed a good laugh!
Dec 09, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Have I Got News For You ✔ @haveigotnews
BREAKING: UK exhausted from endless stream of Brexit bollocks so here's a picture of some puppies.Theresa May told to quit by Cabinet ministers if her Brexit deal falls and she fails to get better terms from EU Telegraph
No-deal Brexit: Disruption at Dover 'could last six months' BBC. I have trouble understanding why six months. The UK's customs IT system won't be ready and there's no reason to think it will be ready even then. I could see things getting less bad due to adaptations but "less bad" is not normal
The Great Brexit Breakdown Wall Street Journal. Some parts I quibble with, but generally good and includes useful historical detail.
British MP suggests threatening Ireland with food shortages over Brexit, Twitter outrage follows RT (kevin W)
It's crunch time for Labour. Empty posturing on Brexit will no longer do Guardian. Shreds the Corbyn op-ed we criticized yesterday.
Dec 08, 2018 | finance.yahoo.com
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, the 46-year-old daughter of the company's founder, was detained in Canada on Dec. 1, the same day Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping dined together at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
A White House official told Reuters Trump did not know about a U.S. request for her extradition from Canada before he met Xi and agreed to a 90-day truce in the brewing trade war.
Dec 08, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk | Dec 5, 2018 1:50:56 PM | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage>
So, if you're a WASP, or at least did the American cursus honorum (i.e. went to Harvard or Yale), the American people is ok with you being POTUS. You're only an illegitimate POTUS if you weren't born and raised to be one -- nothing to do with winning an election with the help of the SCOTUS, or being a war criminal, or being a neoliberal.
NYT, bastion of the liberals, covertly admits it doesn't like Trump because of the image he projects to the rest of the world, not because of his policies:
Why We Miss the WASPs, by Ross Douthat, < https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage>
So, if you're a WASP, or at least did the American cursus honorum (i.e. went to Harvard or Yale), the American people is ok with you being POTUS. You're only an illegitimate POTUS if you weren't born and raised to be one -- nothing to do with winning an election with the help of the SCOTUS, or being a war criminal, or being a neoliberal.
Dec 08, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Schmoe , Dec 7, 2018 6:26:10 PM | linkI anxiously await news that Lloyd Blankfein has been arrested and will be extradited to Malaysia due to Goldman Sachs' involvement in a $6b theft of Malaysian assets (1MDB), and Lloyd having met with the individual who executed the first step of the fraud back in 2012.
As for Trump not being able to fire Bolton, give me a break. Wimpy Obama was able to stand up to Netanyahoo on occasion.
Dec 03, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.com
MickGJ -> outragedofacton , 8 Jun 2013 08:50I hadn't realised the John WIlkes Booth and Lee Harey Oswald were bankers.
@outragedofacton - You have to be careful when you take on the banksters.
Abe Lincoln, John Kennedy and Hitler all tried or (in Kennedy's case planned) on the issuance of money via the state circumventing the banks.
But I do always enjoy the scenes in Saving Private Ryan when thousands of heavily-armed Goldman Sachs employees land on Omaha beach.
Dec 03, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.com
Malakia123 , 8 Jun 2013 11:15LOGIC 101: Introductory Course of Study
If private, stockholder-held central banks such as the FED and the FED-backed ECB were not orchestrating this depression, and anybody who believed they were was a "wacko-nutcase conspiracy theorist", then why do they keep repeating the same mistakes of forcing un-payable bailout loans, collapsing banks, wiping out people's savings and then imposing austerity on those nations year after year -- when it is clearly a failed policy?
Possible Answers :
1. Bank presidents are all ex-hippies who got hooked on LSD in the 70's and have not yet recovered fully as their brains are still fried!
2. Central bankers have been recruited from insane asylums in both Europe and America in government-sponsored programs to see whether blithering idiots are capable of running large, international financial institutions.
3. All catastrophic events in the banking/business world, such as the derivative and housing crash of 2008, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and The Great Depression of 1929-40 were totally random events that just occurred out of nowhere and central banks were caught off guard -- leaving them no option but to play with their willies for years on end until a major war suddenly happened to pull the whole world out of "bad times"!
4. As central banks such as the FED and the ECB operate with insatiable greed and cannot be audited or regulated by any government body anywhere in the world, due to their charters having been set up that way, then bankers are free to meet secretly and plot depressions so as to gain full control over sovereign nations and manipulate markets so that their "chums and agents" in business can buy up assets and land in depressed economies -- while possible wars could also make corporations and banks more money as well!
Please choose one of the possible answers from above and write a short 500 word essay on whether it may or may not true -- using well-defined logical arguments. I expect your answers in by Friday of this week as I would like to get pissed out of my mind at the pub on Saturday night!
Dec 01, 2018 | www.unz.com
Rational , says: November 29, 2018 at 7:51 pm GMT"ALL LIES, ALL LIES, ALL LIES"
So he screamed in the cafeteria and spilled his morning coffee. We all wondered what happened to him and so we looked at his friend, and he told us that he must have read the NYT, as that was his common reaction, a cry of pain and anguish and screams of "all lies, all lies, all lies" whenever he reads the newspaper or watches the TV, esp. NYT.
Your article and the previous news about Manfort visiting Assange and the funny timing of the same reminded me of this story.
The Western MSM is a lying scamming neoliberal propaganda machine.
Dec 01, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
William Dorritt , 9 minutes ago linkbesnook , 1 minute ago link
The average Chinese Slave can barely afford their rent and food, if they complain they are sent to re-education camps or exterminated,
If healthy they will receive first rate medical care to worm them before they are harvested for organs.
The average USA Slave can barely afford their rent and food, if they complain they are sent to re-education camps or exterminated,
If healthy they will receive first rate medical care to worm them before they are harvested for organs.
Aug 30, 2012 | www.theguardian.comDuErJournalist , 29 Aug 2012 17:42The New York Times: Burn after reading!JinTexas , 29 Aug 2012 16:02" The New York Times-all the news the CIA decided is fit to print. "
Dec 01, 2018 | www.rt.com
PRESIDENT: This is incredible! I never ordered such a thing!
SOVIET AMBASSADOR (scornfully): Our [intelligence] source was the New York Times.
-- "Dr. Strangelove"
US President Donald Trump is still unsure whether to meet with Vladimir Putin, pending a 'full report' about the Kerch Strait incident that by pure coincidence happened just days before the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina.Trump cancels Putin meeting at G20 over Ukraine standoff ... Trump, Putin to meet at G20 amid Russia-Ukraine tensions ... Trump to meet Putin at G20, but not MBS - Bolton - rt.com
Nov 30, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Fuster-cluck , 42 minutes ago link
Have some heart. It wouldn't be right to stop Mueller and his pals from billing their law fees of $800/hr right before Christmas. Do you have any idea how much a yacht runs these days?
Nov 30, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
MilwaukeeMark , 1 hour ago link
People like Macon remind me of guys who are still virgins but brag about their prowess...
Nov 28, 2018 | www.rt.comCover your ears and avert your eyes, Americans: RT is attempting to weaken the United States using a whole host of nefarious methods – such as telling the truth, a former Homeland Security official has warned. Sounding the alarm during a panel discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Suzanne Spaulding, former deputy secretary for cyber and infrastructure protection at DHS in the Obama administration, said that one of RT's methods when it comes to its influencing vulnerable Americans is telling the truth.
As an example of this worrisome and effective truth-telling, Spaulding cited one of RT's weekly shows, America's Lawyer, hosted by prominent US trial lawyer Mike Papantonio. The theme of this show , Spaulding revealed to the audience is that the US justice system is "corrupt and broken" and has been "taken over by politicians and the elite for their own corrupt ends."
They feature every week, stories from our courts all across the country to demonstrate the truth of this statement. I don't think there's anything in there that is a lie.
A truthful news show dedicated to exposing the corruption of the American justice system? Terrifying!
Adversaries like Russia, Spaulding said, are "using information operations, sometimes enabled by cyber, to weaken us" – but the reason it can be so effective, she said, is that the information doesn't have to be a lie.
Oftentimes, they don't even have to make things up, they simply replay, they take kernels of truth, they take existing divisions and weaknesses of our own making and reproduce them, put them out, retweet them indefinitely in a very one-sided way.
Now, to many Americans, this might sound like some worthwhile viewing, but to Spaulding it is still "propaganda" because the ultimate objective is to weaken the country by revealing its flaws and stirring up trouble.
Nov 28, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,A transcript of exchanges between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been leaked to National News Conglomerate by an anonymous source within the Kremlin . We here at NNC have confirmed the authenticity of this document using the same rigorous verification process we've been using to authenticate the evidence for all our other reporting on Russia's involvement in the 2016 US elections over the last two years. These verification methods include hunches, gut intuitions, and an introspective assessment of the way our feelings feel. The following exchanges revealed in this transcript provide the clearest evidence yet that the President of the United States has been in collusion with the Russian government for years.
This introduction has been authored by the editorial board of the National News Conglomerate. Obey.
Trump: I have done as you commanded, my dominant and all-powerful lord. I have conspired with your hackers to steal the election, and now I'm going to be president! I want to thank you for not releasing that video footage of those Russian prostitutes I hired to urinate on a bed the Obamas once slept in. If that had come out it would have offended and alienated a lot of people, which is something I never normally do.
Putin: Yes that is an old KGB tactic called kompromat, a word which only extremely intelligent people know about. Keep this line of communication open. As long as you do as I command, your pee pee tape will remain secret.
Trump: One thing I'm curious about though my lord, if you don't mind my asking. If you already had an army of hackers targeting Democratic Party emails, why did you need my help? Couldn't you just have hacked the emails and published them on your own? Why did you need me to interact with them at all?
Putin: Moral support, mainly. We don't need to get into specifics.
Trump: Oh okay.
Trump: I'm in! Whew! I was really worried that leaked dossier would be the end of me! What are my instructions, my lord?
Putin: Begin introducing racism and division to the United States. America has never experienced these things before, and it will shock and disorient them. With the US divided against itself, your nation will be far too weak to stand against my plans of total world domination.
Trump: That's a really tall order! America has always been a harmonious place where everyone gets along up until today. I'll try my best though. Anything else?
Putin: Yes, make them distrust your nation's large media outlets and convince them that the US intelligence community is often dishonest.
Trump: That will be really hard because those institutions have always been trusted for their unparalleled integrity. But your wish is my command, oh lord.
Putin: Bomb a Syrian airbase.
Trump: What? Really? Aren't they, like, your allies?
Putin: Exactly. This will throw inquisitive minds off the scent. We can't have them finding out about that pee tape.
Trump: Are you sure? Some people are saying that chemical attack looks like it could have been perpetrated by the many terrorist factions in Syria and not the government.
Putin: Who cares? Have you seen how relentless they've been in exposing us?? Have you never watched Rachel Maddow? That woman is a psychic bloodhound, masterfully sniffing out the truth at every turn! We can't afford to take chances. Do as I say.
Trump: Yes sir.
Putin: And see if you can arrest that WikiLeaks guy.
Trump: Hey do you want me to do anything about Montenegro's addition to NATO?
Putin: No. NATO expansion is good.
Trump: Uhhh okay.
Trump: Who do you want tapped for Ukraine envoy?
Putin: Kurt Volker.
Trump: Volker? He hates you! He's like the biggest Russia hawk ever.
Putin: We still need to throw the Russiagaters off the scent. We're playing 3-D chess here. This is high-level disinformation, or dezinformatsiya as very smart people call it. I want as many Russia hawks in your administration as possible.
Trump: 3-D chess? Alright. I guess you know what you're doing.
Putin: Shut down the Russian consulate in San Francisco and throw out a bunch of diplomats. That will confuse the hell out of them.
Putin: Now approve the sale of arms to Ukraine. Not even Obama would do that. This will throw them off the trail for sure.
Putin: Happy new year. Force RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents.
Putin: Make sure your Nuclear Posture Review greatly escalates its aggressive posture toward Russia.
Putin: Happy Valentine's Day. Don't worry about those Russians your guys killed in Syria.
Putin: Send a fleet of war ships to the Black Sea.
Putin: Better expel a few dozen diplomats over the Skripal thing.
Putin: Sanction a bunch of Russian oligarchs.
Putin: Bomb Syria.
Trump: What?? Again?
Putin: Yes.
Trump: What the hell, man? Why'd you even recruit me if you're just going to have me do everything all the Russia hawks want?
Putin: Well, you know how I told you we were playing 3-D chess against the Russiagate investigation?
Trump: Yeah?
Putin: Well that wasn't enough. Now we're playing 4-D chess.
Trump: Fine, whatever, I don't care. Just don't release my pee tape.
Trump: Oh man. They're really making a major fuss about that summit. What should I do?
Putin: Play it cool. Don't let them know about our secret diabolical plot.
Trump: Right. Remind me what that was again?
Putin: Make Jim Acosta feel really, really sad.
Putin: Have you arrested Julian Assange yet?
Trump: Working on it.
Putin: I like John Bolton's idea. Pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Putin: Make sure your administration loudly and aggressively backs Ukraine in our Kerch Strait spat.
Trump: OMFG this is getting too weird. Are you just trolling me? What the hell is this?
Trump: Hello?
Trump: Are you there?
Trump: Answer me!
Putin: 5-D chess.
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The little voice inside my head , 18 minutes ago linkDisorderlyConduct , 1 hour ago link
Just encountered a Denzel Washington interview from last year, how true it's become, like the Guardian and Wikileaks "story"
Doesn't matter if it's true or not, just be the first , sell it!francis scott falseflag , 1 hour ago link
...bomb a Syrian airbase...
This is awesome.The little voice inside my head , 13 minutes ago link
Hey, that's where I stopped reading. Did I miss anything?Element , 1 hour ago link
Not to sound like a Russian misinformation dude, but I was watching some of Putin's interviews and the dude speaks in common sense terms.
ABC asks Putin about meddling in the elections.
And the one with Megyn Kelly:
Was this interview ever broadcasted in full in the US?bfellow , 1 hour ago link
NNC logo?cbxer55 , 1 hour ago link
Really Element? Does Keyser have to add a /s at the end to realize he was being sarcastic?
CNN backwards. LOL!!!!
Nov 28, 2018 | www.unz.com
The Trumpenleft (or "Sputnik Left," as it is also called by professional anti-Putin-Nazi intelligence analysts ) is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It is a gang of nefarious Putin-Nazi infiltrators posing as respectable leftists in order to disseminate Trumpian ideology and Putin-Nazi propaganda among an assortment of online leftist magazines that hardly anyone ever actually reads. The aim of these insidious Trumpenleft infiltrators is to sow confusion, chaos, and discord among actual, real, authentic leftists who are going about the serious business of calling Donald Trump a fascist on the Internet twenty-five times a day, verbally abusing Julian Assange , occasionally pulling down oppressive statues, and sharing videos of racist idiots acting like racist idiots in public.
... ... ...
This is the type of gobbledegook the Trumpenleft use to try to dupe real leftists into putting down their phones for a minute and actually thinking through political issues! Fortunately, no one is falling for it. As any bona fide leftist knows, there is no "mass migration problem." The whole thing is simply a racist hoax concocted by Putin, Alex Jones, and other Trumpian disinformationists. The only thing real leftists need to know about immigration is that immigrants are good, and Trump, and walls, and borders are bad! All that other fancy gibberish about global capitalism, Milton Friedman, labor markets, and national sovereignty is nothing but fascist propaganda (which needs to be censored, or at least deplatformed, or demonetized, or otherwise suppressed).
But Angela Nagle is just one example. The Trumpenleft is legion, and growing. Its membership includes a handful of prominent (and rather less prominent) fake leftist figures: Glenn Greenwald, who many among the "Resistance" would like to see renditioned and indefinitely detained in some offshore Trumpenleft gulag somewhere; Matt Taibbi, who just published a treasonous article challenging the right of the US government to prosecute publishers as "enemy agents" for publishing material they don't want published; Julian Assange, who is one such publisher, and who the US has scheduled for public crucifixion just as soon as they can get their hands on him; Aaron Maté of the Real News Network, a notorious Trump-Russia " collusion denialist "; Caitlin Johnstone , an Australian blogger and poet who the Red-Brown Putin-Nazi hunters at CounterPunch have become totally obsessed with; Diana Johnstone , who they also don't like; and (full disclosure) your humble narrator .
Now, normally, the opinions of some political journalists and rather marginal political writers wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but there's a war on, so there's no room for neutrality. As I mentioned in my latest essay , over the course of the next two years, the global capitalist ruling classes need to make an example of Trump, and Assange, and anyone else who has had the gall to fuck with their global empire. Part of how they are going to do this is to further polarize the already extremely polarized ideological spectrum until everyone is forced onto one or the other side of a pro- or anti-Trump equation, or a pro- or anti-populist equation or a pro- or anti-fascist equation.
As you probably noticed, The Guardian has just launched a special six-week "investigative series" exploring the whole " new populism " phenomenon (which began with a lot of scary photos of Steve Bannon next to the word "populism"). We are going to be hearing a lot about "populism" over the course of the next two years. We are going to be hearing how "populism" is actually not that different from fascism, or at the very least is inherently racist, and anti-Semitic, and xenophobic, and how, basically, anyone who criticizes neoliberal elites or the corporate media is Russia-loving, pro-Trump Nazi.
Nov 26, 2018 | www.antiwar.com
Rep. Adam Schiff, who takes the chair of the House Intelligence Committee in January, has a nose for hot tips about his bete noire, Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as a strong bent toward credulousness. On October 23, 2018, Schiff solemnly told a young audience at the old Hillary Clinton/John Podesta Center for American Progress Action Fund that he had been told that Putin has one of his henchmen follow Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev around with a pillow to smother him in his sleep if he ever gets out of line.
Nov 25, 2018 | craigmurray.org.uk
Did anybody told this Trump?
Paul Greenwood , October 24, 2018 at 14:10
The British Army buys powder charges from South Africa. The US buys propellants for its AAMs from Belgium. UK leases its Trident missile units from a common stockpile in King's Bay, VA. Parts for F-35 Albatross are made in Turkey. UK imports its army uniforms from China as does USA
You clearly make your mobile phones in Harrow rather than import them from China
Nov 25, 2018 | en.wikipedia.org
A joke about Andreotti (originally seen in a strip by Stefano Disegni and Massimo Caviglia) had him receiving a phone call from a fellow party member, who pleaded with him to attend judge Giovanni Falcone's funeral. His friend supposedly begged, "The State must give an answer to the Mafia, and you are one of the top authorities in it!" To which a puzzled Andreotti asked, "Which one do you mean?"
Nov 25, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
What else is amazing about her emails @leveymg
is how no one really talked about their content, eh? We learned that she rigged the primary against Bernie and then everyone started talking about Russia ! Just as she and Podesta wanted.
up 8 users have voted. --
Amazing how elusive they are (scrubbed from the State Dept website) and how they have never been picked up on by most of the corporate media.
Disclaimer: No Russian, living or dead, had anything to do with the posting of this proudly home-grown comment
Nov 25, 2018 | craigmurray.org.uk
Theresa May today chose to compare herself with Geoffrey Boycott. For once, she was being very accurate, especially when it comes to relationships with her own team. Boycott's players hated him so much during his captaincy they actually ran him out on purpose during a test match.
Nov 24, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
DEDA CVETKO , 4 hours ago link
US Guvmint to the World: My way or the highway. The World to the US Guvmint: HIGHWAY!!!!!
Nov 24, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Now we know who financial Steele dossier and created Skripal affair ;-) Perfidious Albion: or yet another example of the pot calling the kettle black when in fact the kettle may not be black at all; it's just the pot making up things
In 2015 the government of Britain launched a secret operation to insert anti-Russia propaganda into the western media stream.
Nov 23, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Nov 23, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Deebo , Nov 22, 2018 1:52:47 PM | link<.>
Lol @ Pic
Irony at its best !!!
Great work!!!
Circe , Nov 22, 2018 11:25:57 PM | linkTrump pardoned the Sawdi turkey and offended the entire Turkey population.psychohistorian , Nov 22, 2018 11:36:59 PM | link@ Circe with the line up of Turkeys.....nice
I would just suggest b that you better don't plan any trips to SA in the near future.
Speaking of trips. Any but me think that the G20 is being set up for Show Time?
Nov 23, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
In a trite refrain straight out of the standard Washington regime change playbook, the United States has lodged a formal complaint alleging Iran is developing nerve agents "for offensive purposes".
Nov 23, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
William Bowles , Nov 23, 2018 4:59:21 AM | link
Nov 22, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Mark Chapman November 14, 2018 at 8:46 pmHere's one for all those who say, indignantly, "US debt is not 100% of GDP". No, that's right; it's not.
Nov 22, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Moscow Exile November 17, 2018 at 10:05 amThe Times:Mark Chapman November 17, 2018 at 10:28 am
Children's show is propaganda for Putin, say critics
November 17 2018, 12:01am,
The Times
Masha and the Bear is produced by a studio in Moscow
A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children is accused of being a "soft propaganda" tool for the Kremlin (Mark Bridge writes). The English-language Masha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13 channels.
Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However, critics in Russia's neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is part of the country's propaganda machine. Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of Buckingham, an intelligence expert, said: "Masha is feisty, even rather nasty, but also plucky. She punches above her slight weight. It's not far-fetched to to say that she's acting like Putin".
As for the bear, the author recalled the position of the teacher of Tallinn University Priit Khybemyagi, who stated that this character is intended to "change the image of Russia in the minds of children from negative to positive." Khybemyagi considered this to be a threat to n national security .
At the same time, the Lithuanian critics were confused by the USSR border guard cap Masha wears in an episode where she is chasing a hare out of the bear's garden. They decided that in this way Russia was demonstrating "the defence of its border".
From the most prestigious of British "quality" newspapers.
For your delight and delectation, Episode 58 of Masha and the Bear:Dear God.
Good cartoon, though; the production is first-rate.
Nov 18, 2018 | www.sott.net
Save Forget the All-Blacks 'Haka', ignore Foreman-Frasier, Drago-Balboa, and Ortiz-Liddell, the honor of the greatest (or perhaps most awkward) staredown in history now goes to US Vice President Mike Pence...
Having been blamed for everything from Trump's election victory to USA soccer team's loss to England last week, Russia faced accusations all weekend and was reportedly confronted by the US contingent over "meddling."As The Sun reports, Pence and Putin "discussed the upcoming G20 Summit and touched on the issues that will be discussed when President Trump and President Putin are both in Argentina for the summit," according to the vice president's press secretary, Alyssa Farah.But, it was the following clash of the titans that caught most people's attention.
An NBC reporter tweeted : "New per the @VP's Office-> The VP's office says Vice President Pence directly addressed Russian meddling in the 2016 election in a conversation with Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Singapore.
"The conversation took place following the plenary session this afternoon at ASEAN."
As the Russian president joined the that Pence shook Putin's 'deadly' hand, met his 'steely KGB-trained' gaze, and desperately tried not to smile or blink for 20 seconds as Putin appeared to chat amicably with the US VP...
While Putin has (if his accusers are to be believed) grappled his opponents to death with his bare hands (remember he is a sinister KGB agent and jiu-jitsu expert); we suspect the only thing VP Pence has gripped tightly in his hands is his bible.
Sadly, John Bolton then blew the tough guy act (or is he Mike Pence's 'good cop') as he does his best impression of a teenage girl meeting their popstar idol for the first time...
Comment: Reminds us of another 'tough guy' stare-down given by an American politician that was outmaneuvered by Putin at every turn. Whether these nitwits are doing it to convey the idea that they "are being tough on Putin and Russia" - or they actually think they're being "tough" - one thing's for sure, they are both weak and dumb.
Nov 20, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Ivanka Trump used her personal email account to send "hundreds" of emails last year to White House aides, assistants and Cabinet officials, according to the Washington Post, citing "people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence." Of that, however, she discussed government policies "less than 100 times" - and none of the content was classified.
No Time for Fishing , 4 minutes ago linkCautiously Pessimistic , 21 minutes ago link
"his daughter's practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton" Some truth here. They are both chromosomally female, both were using email. Sure same thing here, give her the cell next to Hillary. Fair sentencing would be something around life for Hillary, week for Ivanka?
Honestly, after all of the grief those of us on the right gave Hillary, and rightfully so, for Ivanka to be so obtuse and do this .... it just gives the liberals something to harp on. Why make things harder than they need to be? The Trumps are under a microscope and have to know that everything they do is going to be picked apart and debated in the court of public opinion.
Now we will have to listen to people like Don Lemon and Rachel Madcow and the Morning Joe Idiots for the next 2 months blow this waaayyyy out of proportion
Nov 20, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
For the record, the three branches of government are the legislative, the executive and the judiciary.
Nov 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
Durruti , says: November 13, 2018 at 7:27 pm GMT@Ilyana_Rozumova "The problem is that if you look into eyes of Medusa you drop dead."
Is Medusa is a synonym for the Imperialist New World Order -- a horrible Devil which we may never confront?
Nov 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
Z-man , says: November 15, 2018 at 3:07 am GMT@ChuckOrloski She did it!
She has now singlehandedly mortally wounded walrus face Bolton. I love you Melania!! (Grin)
Nov 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
ChuckOrloski , says: November 14, 2018 at 12:20 am GMT@Ilyana_Rozumova
To Durruti, Ilyana Rozumova wrote: "I am certain that you do not know this. Medusa's "hair" signifies the bad ideas coming out from women head. Did you notice how many women in US are engaging in politics?
US is doomed!!!!"
Broken Scranton greetings, I.R.
Taking off from your having mentioned "Medusa," & (with no pun), I do not know if you domicile in ZUSA, but linked below is a unique scene from Arnon Milchan's 1978 film, "The Medusa Touch."
The movie turns "bad hair day" when a Boeing 747 crashes into the Pan Am Building in NYC! Uh, where did Arnon Milchan get such precognitive inspiration?
Thanks, Ilyana, for all your work.
Nov 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
eah , says: November 13, 2018 at 8:29 am GMT
Nov 19, 2018 | www.unz.com
OK, so, that was a close one. For a moment there, I was starting to worry that the Democrats weren't going to take back the House and rescue us from " the brink of fascism ." Which, if that had happened, in addition to having to attend all those horrible stadium rallies and help the government mass murder the Jews, we would have been denied the next two years of Donald Trump-related congressional hearings and investigations that we can now look forward to
I'm going to go ahead and call them the Hitlergate Hearings.
Staging these hearings has always been a crucial part of the Resistance's strategy. As history has proved, time and time again, when literal fascists take over your democracy, outlaw opposing political parties, and start shipping people off to concentration camps and revoking journalists' White House access, the only effective way to defeat them is to form a whole buttload of congressional committees and investigate the living Hitler out of them. This is especially the case when the literal fascists who have commandeered your democracy are conspiring with a shifty-eyed Slavic dictator whose country you have essentially surrounded with your full-spectrum dominant military forces, and who your media have thoroughly demonized, but who is nevertheless able to brainwash your citizens into electing his fascist puppet president with a few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads.
Once you've determined that has happened (which it obviously has), the gloves have to come off. No more prancing around in pussyhats, not with Russian Hitler in office! No, at that point, you really have no choice but to wait two years until your opposition party (which Hitler somehow forgot to ban) regains control of the House of Representatives (which Hitler somehow forgot to dissolve), wait another two months until they take office, and then immediately start issuing subpoenas, auditing Hitler's financial records, and taking affidavits from former hookers. I realize that may sound extreme, but remember, we're talking about literal fascists, backed by literal Russian fascists, who are going around emboldening literal fascism, and making literal fascist hand gestures on television, and doing all kinds of other fascist stuff!
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ThreeCranes , says: November 20, 2018 at 3:10 am GMTPhoto of a typical Trump rally. Trump himself designed the grandiose, operatic setting and cast himself in the male lead as fiery, spittle-flecked orator/savior of his nation.
Nov 17, 2018 | caucus99percent.comdisreputable behavior in his bank.
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Ah, yes. Goldman Sachs is famous for their "good work and integrity".The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has said about $4.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB, including some money that Goldman Sachs helped raise, by high-level officials of the fund and their associates from 2009 through 2014.
US prosecutors filed criminal charges against 2 former Goldman Sachs bankers earlier this month. One of them, Tim Leissner, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I'm sure it was just a "few bad apples", like Goldman Sachs's Ex-CEO Lloyd Blankfein , who was personally involved in the transaction.
You might remember Lloyd from his doing "God's Work" .
Nov 15, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Blazing in BC , 2 hours ago linkOliver Klozoff , 1 hour ago link
Where can I prepay my carbon tax?11b40 , 1 hour ago link
I think you're due a refund, as are we all.Realname , 1 hour ago link
But now the question becomes how will Wall St trade global cooling?
The same as everything else...fraudulently.
Nov 15, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
rwe2late , 1 hour ago link
...messing with sunspots!?
Does Trump realize what he is doing?
Nov 14, 2018 | dailymail.co.uk
Michelle Obama revealed her true feelings about George W. Bush in a candid interview with his daughter Jenna, insisting that she holds the former Republican president in the highest regard, despite their differing political views.
Speaking to former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager in an interview for Today , the 54-year-old insisted that she has always maintained a close friendship with the statesman, who served for two terms before her own husband, Democrat Barack Obama, took over the White House, despite fighting on opposite sides, as it were.
'I think the political discourse, the way it's shown in the media, it's all the nasty parts of it,' she told mother-of-two Jenna, 36. 'Because I guess we've become a culture where the nasty sells so people are just gonna keep feeding that.'
And that:
Former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Michelle Obama shared a sweet moment at John McCain's memorial.
The moment was captured by cameras during former Sen. Joe Lieberman's eulogy to McCain, who died last Saturday after battling brain cancer. The former President and former First Lady were among other political VIPs in attendance at Saturday's funeral service at Washington National Cathedral.
Bush was seen grabbing a mint from his wife, former First Lady Laura Bush, and then passing it to Michelle Obama who mouths "thank you" with a smile.
Nov 14, 2018 | politics.theonion.com
CHAPPAQUA, NY -- In a press conference announcing her plans for the 2020 election, Hillary Clinton told reporters she is launching a campaign Tuesday that will raise $100 million by the end of the year or else she will run for president.
"I'm very excited to roll out my initiative to secure this full amount within seven weeks, and if it is not successful -- let me be very clear on this -- I will once more fill out the paperwork to run for president and submit it to the Federal Election Commission," said Clinton, who stressed that she was "absolutely serious" about her new A Hundred Million Or Me campaign, describing the town halls and candidate meet-and-greets she would soon begin holding in Iowa and New Hampshire if donors came up even a penny short.
Nov 14, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
- ... Look, mostly this whole patriotism/nationalism word game is just sadly funny. You are a patriot if you think like me. You are a nationalist if you don't. Patriotism is good, nationalism is bad. If I am a patriot, I am good, if you are a nationalist, you must be bad.
I think that the wisdom of Humpty Dumpty when speaking to Alice fits here:
"When I use a word..it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is which is to be master -- that's all."
Nov 13, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Anya , Nov 12, 2018 4:41:19 PM | linkBM , Nov 13, 2018 1:19:29 AM | link
fast freddy | 14: "The NYT has always promoted war."
Meanwhile, there is an arresting suggestion, floating on blogosphere, to rename Gaza Ghetto into Auschwitz.
Makes sense.
Meanwhile, there is an arresting suggestion, floating on blogosphere, to rename Gaza Ghetto into Auschwitz.
Posted by: Anya | Nov 12, 2018 4:41:19 PM | 15
That would be a good strategic move. Israel bombing Auschwitz? Doesn't look good. It sends a potent message.
Nov 13, 2018 | twitter.com
Nov 12, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
After a screening of "Vice" Thursday, I asked McKay which of our two right-wing Dementors was worse, Cheney or Trump.
"Here's the question," he said.
"Would you rather have a professional assassin after you or a frothing maniac with a meat cleaver? I'd rather have a maniac with a meat cleaver after me, so I think Cheney is way worse.
And also, if you look at the body count, more than 600,000 people died in Iraq. It's not even close, right? "
Nov 12, 2018 | www.unz.com
Anon [425] Disclaimer , says: Website November 9, 2018 at 9:07 pm GMTMacron. Trudeau. Such lightweights. They are nothing but globe-trotting celebs.AnonFromTN , says: November 9, 2018 at 9:16 pm GMTAs the French say, Macron wants to be like Putin, but the leash gets in the way.
Nov 11, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
K squared November 10, 2018 at 9:21 amBolton's Favorite Deranged Cult
the republican party under trump?!?!?!?
Nov 07, 2018 | mashable.comthis guy .Proving the old adage that America is the land of opportunity where anything can happen, Dennis Hof, a Trump-loving brothel owner, won his race for Nevada state legislature on Tuesday night -- despite the fact that he's been dead for three weeks.
Nov 07, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.orgBob In Portland , Nov 7, 2018 12:12:07 PM | link
Trump's domestic policy. Take from the bottom ninety percent and give to the top one percent? That domestic policy?
Nov 07, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Eric Jacobson , Nov 7, 2018 9:27:36 AM | linkFive billion dollars spent on midterm elections! What an insane waste of money to keep the established criminal cabal "smoothly" pilfering the insouciant serfs who voted for them thinking it was their patriotic duty, and of course the chance to proudly wear an "I voted!" sticker on their blouse or flannel shirt.
Dave , Nov 7, 2018 8:28:31 AM | 24
The auction for the 2020 election has begun.
Nov 06, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bart Hansen , Nov 6, 2018 5:49:52 PM | link
24 - "Under the law, Russia had to end the use of the nerve agent Novichok..."
However, to show good faith, President Putin has stopped beating his wife.
Nov 06, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
semiconscious , Nov 6, 2018 5:41:12 PM | link
current cnn header: this election is about trump
remember Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984? & how absolutely everything was his fault? :) ...
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Nov 02, 2018 | twitter.com
Nov 01, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
James lake November 1, 2018 at 12:08 pmNew UN Ambassador
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert was offered the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations,
Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts shared the emerging report on Twitter, writing: "Senior Administration Official tells Fox News that @statedeptspox Heather Nauert has been offered the job of UN Ambassador."
Nauert, a former Fox News journalist, will replace current U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who abruptly announced in early October that she will exit the administration at the end of the year.
//Trump really is a clown – appointing yet another person, who will just read prepared scripts. //
Oct 30, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Frito , 1 hour ago linkSocrates_student , 1 hour ago link
Mueller. .. aggressive rape. ... the victim would have to be Lady Justice herself.
For those who haven't seen it yet, here's a report about his activities in the FBI:
For him to accuse his accuser of attempting to bribe someone to make accusations about him is no surprise since that is what was most likely done to Kavanaugh. Their playbook is getting quite old.
Oct 29, 2018 | thehill.com
. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the report, telling reporters Thursday the Kremlin regretted that the Times "thoughtlessly publishes information, which demonstrates the decreasing level of journalistic responsibility."
"Nowadays, we tend to get amused at such publications," he added, according to Russian News Agency TASS
China issued a similar response to the allegations on Thursday, claiming the story undermined the Times' credibility.
Oct 29, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
Republicans: You're screwed and so is the planet.
Democrats: You're screwed and so is the planet, but you get LGBT rights on the way down.
Oct 25, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
HolyCOW , 1 hour ago linkinhibi, 1 hour ago (Edited)
Smart phones -> dumb kids
Smart City -> dumb citizens
Oh wow,
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smart traffic they say? Wowsers. I always wanted those lights to turn green immediately (when Im around).
And 24/7 tracking, so they can give you personal ads on LCD billboards while you walk past.
And better yet: access to lock or unlock your front door for a 'repairman'. Yeah that will work out great. I always wanted to hand the keys to my home to outsiders for safe keeping, but now its automatic!
Amazing. What a different life we would all lead in this Smart City. /s
Oct 25, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Meeting with US national security adviser John Bolton in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a comment about Washington's hostility that went right over the hawkish diplomat's head. "As far as I remember, the US coat of arms features a bald eagle that holds 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch in another, which is a symbol of a peace-loving policy," Putin said in a meeting with Bolton in Moscow on Tuesday.
"I have a question," the Russian president added. "Looks like your eagle has already eaten all the olives; are the arrows all that is left?"
boz , October 23, 2018 at 3:49 pm
The Saker has the transcript of Putin's comments at a recent plenary in Sochi, small snippets of which have already appeared in the media.
About 15-20 minutes to get through (the facilitator seems like a bit of a wet blanket), but fascinating to read, if like me, most of what you hear about Putin has been filtered through the MSM.
A couple of reflections:
Putin does detail. He is courteous and patient. He is highly pragmatic and appears to be widely (and, for my money, effectively) briefed.
Olga , October 23, 2018 at 5:33 pm
For those of us lucky enough to follow VVP in his native language – it is indeed a delight. (And – mind you – it was only after I took the time to follow him in his native language that I was able to appreciate this person and his leadership abilities. If one follows him through NYT – no chance that would give one an accurate picture.)
He is erudite, informed, and has a wicked sense of humour, as shown in this clip:
Oct 23, 2018 | moonofalabama.org
Barbara Ann | Oct 23, 2018 5:21:36 PM | 29
Photo needs a caption: MbS explains all to Khashoggi Jr. "We came, we sawed, he died".
pogohere | Oct 23, 2018 5:37:36 PM | 33
Barbara Ann @29
Best summary yet!!!!
You've been nominated for the 2018 Hildabeast Award.
To me the Kashoggi thing is simple, the Skirpal assassins (yes they were involved, amazing as this may seem) screwed up. They confused Riyad Time with London time; they were still in bed together and not available to routinely refine orders issued by the young King's secretary, an addict of pep pills
Oct 20, 2018 | theonion.com
The Liberal Moonbat, 10/20/2018NOT FROM THE ONION - oh, wait, yes it is...wait, what?
Who's on first...?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the midterm elections, including addressing questions of collusion and obstruction of justice. What do you think?
Oct 22, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Is-Be , 2 hours ago linkJoe Davola , 1 hour ago link
$13 per hour? These people need a union.Nature_Boy_Wooooo , 2 hours ago link
Gonna guess there's no 1099, so no taxes paid.
Also figure their twitter account hasn't been suspended.Grandad Grumps , 3 hours ago link
neoliberal job creation.nmewn , 3 hours ago link
It would be a great retirement job if it paid for medical insurance.Lumberjack , 3 hours ago link
Paid counter-protestors can't be far behind...lol.
A capitalist see's opportunity, a communist see's a threat ;-)TeamDepends , 3 hours ago link
They're called mercenaries....
Journalist: But yesterday you were against profit?
Protester: This side pays better. A girl's gotta eat.
Oct 22, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Seal Team 6 , 9 hours ago link
Lies Republican LIES
This is what really happened? Booker pulled this man into the restroom because he noticed the man's fly was undone, and Booker being concerned that it would project a negative stereotype helped him out by vigorously checking the area multiple times. You can never be too sure.
Satisfied that the mans fly was safe, Booker became fearful that he might have left his fly down but also with a stuck on piece of toilet paper on a very personal spot such that he himself might become a target of Republican ire if they were to notice. Booker pushed this ingrate down to get the problem fixed simply because reciprocity is part of human societal relations and Booker needed a hand (sorry no pun intended).
Hey, just two dudes making sure everything is good. What? Now this gay version of Stormy Daniels is making a play for Booker's cash, all because of an innocent helping hand in the washroom?
Makes you wonder what this disgusting world is coming to?
Oct 21, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
gnjus , 3 hours ago link
War Games (1983)
- Shell me play a game ?
-- Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
- Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
-- Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Oct 21, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Patient Observer October 14, 2018 at 5:10 pmCan't find the episode but I believe Homer Simpson had the briefcase that US Presidents use to control the US nuclear forces. It had three buttons:
– First Strike
– Retaliation Strike
– "Accidental" Launch
Oct 20, 2018 | www.unz.com
AnonFromTN says: October 18, 2018 at 3:04 pm GMT 100 Words @Mr. Hack
(at least according to him)
Reminds me of a Russian joke.
An old man comes to a doctor and says:
- Doctor, I am only 65, but can't have sex any more. My neighbor is 80, and he tells stories about having sex with young women. Can you help me?
- I don't see your problem: you can tell stories, too.
Oct 20, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
denk , Oct 18, 2018 11:48:53 PM | link
@dltravers 62
TPTB sold Obama as 'prez for change',
Trump was the 'anti establishment maverick'
Haley would be murikka's 'first lady potus'.
What's there not to like ?
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Oct 19, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
brian , Oct 18, 2018 5:06:15 PM | link
Nimratas tell all https://pagesix.com/2018/10/17/nikki-haley-dishes-on-her-time-in-trump-administration-in-private-talk-with-conservatives/
'When she was offered the UN role, Haley reportedly recalled, "I told [Trump], 'Honestly, I don't even know what the UN does,' " to which the crowd "erupted with sympathetic laughter and applause," Blumenthal writes.
Baturally after saying she doesn't know what UN does Nikki got the job
Oct 19, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Barbara Ann -> David Habakkuk , 2 days agoJon Schwarz of The Intercept summed up the hypocrisy of the outrage rather well in a humorous tweet:
"I am withdrawing from all ventures with the Saudi government until they go back to killing people I'll never meet at a party"
Oct 19, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
denk , Oct 18, 2018 11:48:53 PM | link
@dltravers 62
TPTB sold Obama as 'prez for change',
Trump was the 'anti establishment maverick'
Haley would be murikka's 'first lady potus'
What's there not to like ?
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Aug 2, 2018
Jon McNaughton @McNaughtonArt
It's coming my friends. It's coming soon. My painting, "Expose the Truth."
Learn why I painted this here: http://jonmcnaughton.com/expose-the-truth/ …
Oct 04, 2018 | kononenkome.livejournal.com
The spoken word is known to be sticky. The quote tells us "Be careful with your words. Once they're said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten." Especially when it is the word of some high-ranking official. For example, the US Ambassador to NATO, which the day before, according to Reuters, said the following, quoting the Agency: "If Russia does not stop the development of prohibited weapons systems, the US will consider destroying them before they work."
How can you not believe Reuters? Okay there some dubious sources like NYT or WaPo, but it's the most respectable news Agency in the world. The main provider of financial news on the planet -- the type of news for the reliability of which people pay serious money. Because they make important decisions on their basis.
And now the whole world is holding its breath. Especially as days earlier the USA Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proudly declared that the USA can organize sea blockade of Russia (washingtonexaminer.com). "The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade ... to make sure that their energy does not go to market," he said. To prevent the supply of Russian energy resources to the Middle East. It's so scary. The impression is that WWIII is coming as a bunch of crazy lunatics in the USA are hell-bent on destroying Russia.
Suddenly, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, wrote on Twitter that she's not mean. And said only that if Russia will continue to develop their weapons, and the United States will also have to get the same weapons. And on careful reading of the transcript, it becomes clear that she really did not talk about any weapon destruction. But nobody checked.
And for some reason no onein MSM asked the question, and why supplies of Russian energy to the middle East that the Minister of internal Affairs of the United States trying to prevent are needed. Was he talking about gas supplies to Qatar? Or oil to Saudi Arabia? Or whether former Navy SEAL and Congressman Ryan Zinke drink or smoke something really strong.
No, nobody checked anything. Everyone just believed what the media gave us. Because not only is absolutely impossible not to believe Reuters. especially when the whole world is waiting for such fake news. Such news seems natural to the world in light of what is happening. Humanity is waiting for an aggravation, and the press gives mankind an exacerbation. Moreover, all know the fake news are distributed only by the Chinese and the Russians. And the free Western media cannot lie.
Science fiction, philosophers and futurologists have been trying for several decades to predict how the WWIII can begin. And now you and I know how it can start. It can start with the fact that some stupid or corrupt (or both )news agency decides to get more WEB traffic.
That's why probably the creator of WWW Tim Bernes Lee recently announced that he was going to produce alternative which will destroy this old WWW.
And may be for MSM just silence in case you are not sure, and avoiding excessive concern about profitability are somewhat safer. Actually safer for all of us, not just MSM.
Oct 10, 2018 | angrybearblog.com
"The fundamentals and future of the U.S. economy remain incredibly strong."
Oct 11, 2018 | disqus.com
tom • a day ago ,
US Special Forces Want America to Reverse Engineer Russian Machineguns
Intellectual property theft, anyone? Which they are always bitching about the Chinese being guilty of.
Oct 09, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
et Al October 9, 2018 at 9:45 amZeroHedge: New Evidence Of Chinese Spy Hardware Found By Ex-Mossad Investigators; Super Micro Shares PlungeMark Chapman October 9, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Ohh, looky here, Bloomturd fighting back. Weak sauce.Oh, boo hoo hoo!!! Muh FREEDOM!!! Things like that never happen in a free country. I wonder what the American reaction would be if China sent all their HP laptops back?et Al October 10, 2018 at 12:47 am
The new story pointing to an Ethernet hack is clearly intended to act as support for the original story but since the details are so different, and given that the entire report is single-sourced, it has had the opposite effect among security experts who have started to doubt the credibility of the original story.
In addition, online sleuths have started digging into the reporters themselves and identifying previous errors in their reporting of security issues
Oct 11, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
UN staff did not know until this morning that she was resigning.
Pat Lang Mod , a day agoOK, but I still don't understand why her UN staff did not know until this morning that she was resigning.Tony -> Pat Lang , a day agoMaybe because she didn't know?
Oct 09, 2018 | www.unz.com
Tony Vodvarka says: October 1, 2018 at 2:01 pm GMT LBJ, running for a seat in the Texas state legislature, told his campaign manager to spread the charge that his opponent had sex with pigs. Shocked, the manager replied, "He doesn't do that! "I know, I know" said Johnson, "but make him deny it."
Oct 08, 2018 | www.unz.com
If there is one thing that still unites Americans across the ever more intellectually suffocating and bitterly polarized political spectrum our imaginations have been crammed into like rush hour commuters on the Tokyo Metro, it's our undying love of identity politics.
Who doesn't love identity politics? Liberals love identity politics. Conservatives love identity politics. Political parties love identity politics. Corporations love identity politics. Advertisers, anarchists, white supremacists, Wall Street bankers, Hollywood producers, Twitter celebrities, the media, academia everybody loves identity politics.
Why do we love identity politics? We love them for many different reasons.
The ruling classes love identity politics because they keep the working classes focused on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and so on, and not on the fact that they (i.e., the working classes) are, essentially, glorified indentured servants, who will spend the majority of their sentient existences laboring to benefit a ruling elite that would gladly butcher their entire families and sell their livers to hepatitic Saudi princes if they could get away with it. Dividing the working classes up into sub-groups according to race, ethnicity, and so on, and then pitting these sub-groups against each other, is extremely important to the ruling classes, who are, let's remember, a tiny minority of intelligent but physically vulnerable parasites controlling the lives of the vast majority of human beings on the planet Earth, primarily by keeping them ignorant and confused.
The political parties love identity politics because they allow them to conceal the fact that they are bought and paid for by these ruling classes, which, in our day and age, means corporations and a handful of obscenely wealthy oligarchs who would gut you and your kids like trout and sell your organs to the highest bidder if they thought they could possibly get away with it. The political parties employ identity politics to maintain the simulation of democracy that prevents Americans (many of whom are armed) from coming together, forming a mob, dismantling this simulation of democracy, and then attempting to establish an actual democracy, of
The corporate media, academia, Hollywood, and the other components of the culture industry are similarly invested in keeping the vast majority of people ignorant and confused. The folks who populate this culture industry, in addition to predicating their sense of self
Oh, and racists, hardcore white supremacists, anti-Semites, and other far-Right wing nuts my God, do they love identity politics! Identity politics are their entire worldview (or Weltanschauung, for you Nazi fetishists). Virtually every social, political, economic, and ontological phenomenon can be explained by reducing it to race, ethnicity, religion, or some other simplistic criterion, according to these "alt-Right" geniuses. And to render everything even more simplistic, each and every one of their simplistic theories can be subsumed into a meta-simplistic theory, which amounts to (did you guess it?) a conspiracy of Jews.
According to this meta-theory, this conspiracy of Jews (which is headquartered in Israel, but maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York, from which it controls the corporate media, Hollywood, and the entire financial sector) is responsible for well, anything they can think of. September 11 attacks? Conspiracy of Jews. Financial crisis? Jews, naturally. Black on Black crime? Jews again! Immigration? Globalization? Gun control laws? Abortion? Drugs? Media bias? Who else could be behind it all but Jews?!
Oct 08, 2018 | neznaika-nalune.livejournal.com
The main benefit of trump, of course, is not that he is supposedly "a friend of Russia". That is, somewhere at the subconscious there he might have a sincere feeling that make friends with Putin, that would be cool, but it's at the level of vanity, and practical value on this is zero.
But what is really cool that he became of catalysts of bickering in the American neoliberal elite on all fronts -- aka "uncivil war". The world would be better off if this abomination of elite engaged in mutual destruction and it would be even better if they engaged in mutual annihilation.
occuserpens , September 29 2018, 03: 23: 13 UTC
Well, of course Russians are guity. And yes, and the asteroid was an agent of mammals and, if not for his hatred of the noble dinosaurs, everything would be OK
Oct 08, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Blimbax October 6, 2018 at 9:10 amJerrold Nader is a genius . For example, he's the one who drew the analogy between the alleged Russian meddling in the election and Pearl Harbor, who identified the indictment against the 13 Russians as "absolute proof that the US was attached. ( https://www.nysun.com/editorials/jerrold-nadlers-war/90195/ ).
Just what kind of genius I'm not sure , but obviously he has a keen mind and is a great strategic thinker. People need to be wary of him, especially Democrats.
Oct 07, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Attitude_Check , 7 hours ago linkCondor_0000 , 7 hours ago link
So they are continuing to turn on each other. I predict this will continue as they try to 'out victim' each other, and their logical inconsistencies become more and more evident.
Sadly this will likely turn violent, as the screaming harpies no of no other way to resolve conflicts other than scorched earth.
Yep. Scorched-earth violence is capitalism's preferred method of dealing with it's problems, as millions of people in the Middle East have come to learn.
Oct 06, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Condor_0000, 7 hours ago linkcharlewar, 7 hours ago link
The main thing to be taken from the whole thing is that the 1% got their boy on the SCOTUS.
Vote all you want but the 1% always wins. Woo hoo for capitalism and super-rich capitalists ruling over us all!Condor_0000, 7 hours ago link
cry much, cupcake?
There's nothing to cry about. Nothing at all has changed. The 1% owned the Supreme Court before adding Kavanaugh. I'm just pointing out a little reality to all the useful idiots.
Funny you mention "useful idiots"
Oct 05, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
worldblee , Oct 5, 2018 4:34:57 PM | linkWe have always been at war with Oceania and they have always tried to hack us... (Unless they knuckle under on trade deals, in which case they have been our friends forever and always will be so.)karlof1 , Oct 5, 2018 4:59:03 PM | linkuncle tungsten @42--
Your comment reminded me of a recent Dilbert cartoon: The pointy head manager issued a directive that from now on all employees must use company manufactured equipment, which caused all the employees to scream I Quit!
Oct 05, 2018 | www.rt.com
Some wondered how it had taken this long for the president to find himself in this situation, while others questioned how the toilet paper had been on his shoe for so long without anyone giving Trump a heads up.
I honestly cannot believe it's taken this long for Trump to board Air Force One with a full strand of toilet paper trailing from his shoe. https://t.co/hLWrqKqsIK
-- Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 5, 2018
That means there is not a single person who cares about him enough to tell him he had toilet paper stuck to his shoe from whatever bathroom he was in all the way to the plane https://t.co/87Xz1rrxXQ
-- rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) October 5, 2018
True Trump supporters should start wearing toilet paper stuck to the bottom of their shoes in solidarity.
-- MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) October 5, 2018
Oct 03, 2018 | www.unz.com
Oh God. Oh God. Is there no surcease? I know, silly question. Squalling protesters: Half of the country seems fifteen years younger than its chronological age. Staged ire. Sordid passion of the herd. Hysteria. Irrationality. Weird accusations. Savage feminists. As per custom, it is all about how horrible men are.
One of the sillier sillinesses of feminists regarding us men, of whom they seem to know little, is that we hate women, scorn them, want to abuse and hurt them and, most especially, gang-rape them. See, men view rape casually. It's just something to do in a moment of boredom. Like scratching, or wondering where we left our keys. It's because of our misogyny. The Sisterhood seems to love misogyny, pray for misogyny, invent misogyny because without it life would be bleak and devoid of meaning.
What is wrong with these baffled ditz-rabbits? Men hate women? By and large, our mothers have been women. Yes, check it out. Also our wives and girlfriends, grandmothers, granddaughters, daughters and–this will astonish the more ardent among feminists–even many of our friends. And, often, our collies.
As for regarding rape causally: If some dirtball raped anywoman close to me, I would favor subjecting him to a sex change with a propane torch, knee-capping him as a mobility-reduction measure, giving him a beating of the sort popular with dentists who want Porsches, and putting him in Leavenworth for thirty years. Sensitive readers will suggest that I am a psycho for proposing such effective and extremely meritorious measures. Admittedly they run counter to the trade winds of American jurisprudence. But a great many men will quietly say, "Right on, Fred."
But: Rape is a crime. The standard is guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As well as I can see, the Kavanaugh charges do not even meet the civil standard of preponderance of the evidence, since there seems to be little evidence to preponder. The accuser doesn't remember when it was, or where it was, or just who was there, and those she thinks were there don't remember the party.
Oct 03, 2018 | www.unz.com
Since I am actually in a mood for noting things, I will note that any girl in my high school class–King George High, class of 1964–could accuse me of raping her at a party, and do it with similar evidence: none. Equally with Kavanaugh, I would have no way to defend myself. How could I prove what I hadn't done at a party nobody remembered after 55 years? This would be no defense against the presumption of guilt. Girls I dated would report that I had no such inclinations. Surviving teachers would remember–well, perhaps imperfect behavior, but nothing lubricious. This would prove nothing.
However, this first accusation against Kavanaugh has the virtue that it could have happened, since there is no proof that it didn't happen. The same could be said of course of the charge that I raped whoever some girl might say that I had. Ah, but now we come to the gang-rape business. We have:
"Swetnick, who attended High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, swore under oath that she attended at least 10 parties where she says she witnessed Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and others "cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented so they could then be 'gang raped' in a side room or bedroom by a 'train' of numerous boys." She added that she has a "firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their 'turn' with a girl inside the room,"
First, "cause girls to become inebriated and disoriented." This displays a common theme among feminists, painting girls as helpless, easily manipulated victims, having no will of their own. Is this not truly insulting to girls? "He didn't tell me beer had alcohol in it and I didn't know boys were interested in sex, I thought it was just us girls ."
But, just as the problem with the first story is no witness, the problem with the gang rape is too many witnesses. "At least ten parties ." Since it is unlikely that a girl would come back to be gang-raped a second time, this implies at least ten victims. While it is true that a rape victim often will not come forward because of embarrassment, it is curious that not one of the violated multitude said anything, even though everyone at the party would have seen the line-up. None of the other girls at the party said anything either, even though this was a frequent occurrence. Is it not odd that the author of this story, seeing long lines of boys engaging in rape, at party after party after party, saw no particular reason for reporting it? That the many other girls witnessing this also said nothing? This is a song sounding mightily of fabrication. Which must be obvious to senators who, though morally challenged, are not stupid.
Oct 02, 2018 | www.eschatonblog.com
noblejoanie • 10 days ago ,Wapiti noblejoanie • 10 days ago ,
I like the suggestion Monica Lewinsky should sit behind Kavanaugh in the hearing. Trumpish move
I think this should happen.
I also think that former AG Harris should lead off her questioning with "When investigating President Clinton, did you ask Monica Lewinsky under oath if Mr. Clinton came in her mouth?"
Then start questioning his sexual history. I'm curious if he ever had sex with two women. Or a guy and a woman.
Oct 02, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Babble_On2001 , 20 hours ago
About 35 years ago, at a party in San Francisco where everyone was very drunk, now Senator Feinstein sexually molested me. Don't remember the date or location or anything else, but it happened, I swear!
Naturally, want to remain anonymous to protect my integrity, but it did happen! She shoved me down onto my knees and ground her crotch in my face. It was terrible, I can still recall the horrible smell to this day! The stench was a combination of rotting flesh and urine. Makes me nauseous just thinking of that sexual assault. INVESTIGATE this serial molester!
Oct 02, 2018 | reason.com
M.L. | 10.1.18 @ 10:39AM | #Oh and I forgot to add . . . where a poll shows that 85% of Democrats believe Ford and 85% of Republicans believe Kavanaugh . . . you know it's purely politics, because there's nothing substantial and fact-based to go on. report spam
Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland | 10.1.18 @ 10:58AM | #What percentage of Republicans believe Barack Obama was born in the United States?
Oct 02, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk , Sep 30, 2018 12:46:40 PM | link< US could use Navy for 'blockade' to hamper Russian energy exports – Interior Secretary>
Ian , Sep 30, 2018 5:34:43 PM | linkRyan Zinke: Naval blockade is an option for dealing with RussiaJen , Sep 30, 2018 5:39:11 PM | link"The United States has that ability, with our Navy, to make sure the sea lanes are open, and, if necessary, to blockade ... to make sure that their energy does not go to market."
The insanity never stops. So, if you can't beat your competitors, then resort to violence? SMH.
Harry Law @ 2:
If US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ever decides to throw away his day job, I suggest he consider stand-up comedy as a second career.
To keep the sea lanes open, the US has to ... blockade them?
Oct 01, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Ghost Ship , Sep 30, 2018 11:28:27 AM | link
Following Europe's victory over the United States in golf's Ryder Cup, Trump has told the EU that the United States will invade Europe unless the result is reversed immediately. The reporter was then hit on the head by a baby's rattle.
Sep 30, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Harlan Easley , a day ago...Any young guy reading this blog marry a woman from overseas. The women here are miserable and rich. You will never be happy if you marry an American citizen.
Sep 29, 2018 | www.unz.com
Dorian , says: September 29, 2018 at 4:57 pmwhat will society be like 50 years from now? I posit:
- Man and women will now have to be chaperoned when they are together when they meet (hmm I do believe Islam has that covered).
- Man and women will not be allowed to be in the same room together (for you never know what could happen, right!) (Hmm I do believe that Islam has that covered too!)
- Men will no longer be able to look lustfully at a women, that could be construed as assault! (Hmmm women will have to dress less provocatively – wow – Islam has that covered too it appears there is a trend here!
Sep 29, 2018 | www.unz.com
Charles Pewitt , says: September 29, 2018 at 4:48 pm GMT@IberianoIberiano , says: September 29, 2018 at 4:48 pm GMT
With more to come this is just the beginning (similar to the actual Salem witch accounts, which grew over time)
How come the guys in the Southern and mid-Atlantic colonies didn't feel the need to accuse raucous women of being witches in order to get them back to their senses?
Hackett Fischer readers might say the colonists and settlers came from different parts of England and different parts of England treated women differently.
I can imagine Southern or mid-Atlantic colonial men would tell the misbehaving women to knock off the nonsense or they might tell the women to stop bothering them while they're drinking ale.
You don't go overboard and accuse women of being witches just because the uproarious broads are getting on your nerves.
Hillary Clinton is too evil to be a witch, she is a demon sent from Hell to destroy us, men and women alike.@Charles Pewitt I almost thought that was a rehearsal for one of those one-man plays, off broadway.
Sep 28, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Arioch , Sep 28, 2018 2:59:06 PM | link
What is that temperature inside a nuclear blast?
I heard it might really be a bit heated there.
Sep 27, 2018 | www.unz.com
conatus , says: September 24, 2018 at 9:40 am GMTAnti-Semitism is the mistaken belief, held by non-Jewish people, that Jewish people can be criticized, like everybody else.
Rurik says:
September 25, 2018 at 1:12 pm GMT
Sep 25, 2018 | www.unz.com
Harold Smith , says: September 25, 2018 at 5:32 am GMT"It is past time for Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to pull the plug on American engagement in Syria and terminate the seemingly endless cycle of wars in the Middle East."Justsaying , says: September 25, 2018 at 10:16 am GMT
Orange Clown's a liar whose presidential campaign was a calculated bait and switch fraud from the beginning. Our presidential poseur obviously had no intention of following through on most of his pre-election intimations and campaign promises.@windwaves
...I mean, I expect him any day to convert to judaism.
Sep 24, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Barbara Ann -> Pat Lang , 4 hours ago... it appears that 21st century sexual politics now affords women the best of all worlds. She may now participate as an equal in dorm party drinking games with men.
And yet she remains so vulnerable that 35 years later an alleged incident involving the exposure of a (presumably flaccid) male member - as a result of such activities - seemingly merits serious investigation as an 'assault'...
Sep 23, 2018 | www.realclearpolitics.com
KCMarkLeader -> JackDan
Arguing the Constitution with Brennan is like arguing the Bible with an Atheist.
hansenwtLeader -> KCMark
Except Brennan will be in charge of something again in the next Democrat Presidency....if you vote Democrat....Anyone that remotely acts like Brennan, (not a partisan argument)...should never ever be allowed near the levers of control of this country....the 2016 election has proven this.
Sep 23, 2018 | www.unz.com
In Paris, a great piece of street furniture called pissoir had been invented in 19 th century, and it made city life easy. Men could pop in and pee for free and without bother. But the feminists objected to it, and the spirit of capitalism supported them. A free facility is already a beginning of hated socialism. Rapidly, the number of street urinals went down from 1200 to one. Instead, pay booths suitable for men and women came into existence. These structures demand money, take time and are complicated to use. The feminists were happy, money-charging descendants of Vespasian (the Emperor who said 'money doesn't smell' and introduced a toilet tax) were very happy, but men weren't so happy to pay for something they always had for free. So the men preferred to pee outside. And Paris stunk to high heaven.
Squeezed between malodorous streets and feminist fury, the Paris Town Hall created a new sort of urinal: open-air one, zero privacy, just pee and go away. Not much of a luxury, nothing for women to be envious about. And they weren't envious, – just furious. They assaulted the hated symbols of male patriarchy with concrete, pouring it down the drain, and quickly blocked them and made them unusable. I suppose the owners of pay-as-you-pee supported them, and probably even supplied them with concrete at slashed rate, but it is just my wild guess. Anyway, now Paris stinks again, and the feminists may use this reason to hate men.
And now this toilet war had been carried out to the outer space. There was a strange recent incident on the International Space Station (ISS). The pressure in the station had dropped. In the search of a possible leak, a small (2 mm) hole had been discovered in a wall of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. The hole was located near the toilet and covered by decorative fabric.
The US astronauts demanded that their mission be aborted and they return to earth; the Russian cosmonauts just glued the hole with a bit of epoxy and the flight went on.
It was promptly established that it was not a result of a meteorite strike; the hole had been drilled. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosm said that it was probably done by a homesick astronaut. This version was considered just too bizarre. It was dismissed by all and sundry as a new proof of Russian goofiness. The preferred version said that the hole was drilled by a Russian worker on the ground, immediately before take-off, as you would expect from inept Russians.
However, it is possible that Rogozin was right. I have heard from people in Korolyev (Russian Houston) a very unusual if unverified story that fits perfectly with the rest of American toilet gender disorder. The setup is as follows. The ISS has an American, a Russian and a common compartments, separated but interconnected. (The Russian segment is the docked spacecraft). There are four astronauts in the Western sector, and two cosmonauts in the Russian sector. Among the Westerners, there is one lady.
Though the astronauts are carefully checked, still in the space things could run into uncharted territory. The story from Korolyev says the lady objected to their toilet arrangements as demeaning for her as a woman, and tried to readjust the equipment to fit her requirements. The men did their own readjustment and complained about the feminist. In a short while, the delicate toilet in the Western sector had been broken beyond repair, for nothing is simple in the space, not even going to loo.
And the big grown men, ex-Navy and ex-Air Force captains and commanders, had been reduced to use diapers on the daily basis. It is not only unpleasant to use: the ISS has no storage for such a mass of used and stinking diapers. The Western sector began to stink like Paris streets or worse.
By that time, the astronauts became mightily upset by the lady's extravagant behaviour, and they complained: "Houston, we have a problem! Please take her home!" Houston, or NASA, had two objections to granting their wish. One, diversity and female equality had to be maintained at all costs. The second objection was money.
Now only the Russians have the means to take astronauts to the station and back home. Though the US had landed a man on the Moon many years ago, they still have no working shuttle to fly men to ISS. The inept Russians still have their spacecraft, though their best shuttle The Buran and their best space station Mir had been dumped during the pro-Western stage of Russia's political orientation at American insistence. The Americans have to pay a hefty sum to the Russians for each flight, and evacuation of the virago would punch a hole in NASA budget, bigger and more painful than the hole in the ISS hulk. That's why Houston replied breezily: "This is your problem, guys! Try to get along with her!"
The Russian toilet and shower worked fine, and the Americans at first tried to use it. But after a quarrel (and alas, people forced to live in close quarters are likely to quarrel), the Russians objected and barred the Western astronauts from their Soyuz. The lady's mental health deteriorated, and stench and floating excrement made her miserable and vicious; and eventually her companions decided to implement a smart plan. When the two Russians went out to space for scheduled work, the Americans made their way to the Russian module (there are no locks in the ICC) and drilled a hole, sealing it with a sealant and covering with decorative fabric.
It was a creative and working idea. The sealant held on for a while and didn't burst immediately. The pressure in the station is quite low, only one atmosphere, so the hole didn't present a mortal danger for the team. If and when the leak were found, it would be possible to insist on emergency evacuation of the crew, thus getting rid of the troublesome virago and extricating themselves from the stinky hell while blaming the goofy Russians for the failure. And the best part of it: the hole is in the section of the Soyuz capsule that is jettisoned during its return to Earth, thus eliminating all evidence of the foul game.
But the plan didn't work out. The Russians closed the hole with a better epoxy sealant and refused evacuation. Keep shitting in your diapers, gentlemen! The Western commander jerked into the Russian module, shouting "I, as a commander, will decide what to do about it", and he tore off the sealant. The Russians told him: "You are the station commander, but on board the Soyuz you're just a guest", and they bodily kicked him out and re-sealed the hole.
The cosmonauts reported to Korolyev (the Russian flight control centre), and Korolyev asked Houston to show them video records from the American module to check who went with the drill to the Russian module. The Russian sanitary block (and that is where the hole was drilled) isn't monitored for privacy reasons. Houston refused outright.
The situation on the ISS remains tense; the Russians apparently used force to evict the Americans who tried to drill more holes. The Americans are unhappy as they have to spend all their nights and days with the troublesome woman, and their toilet still does not work. Now they hope that the US will soon be able to send a new all-American commercial private shuttle to remove them, for NASA is adamant in their refusal to pay Russians for the evacuation, and the Russians do not want to do this job for free. The latest reports speak of "whodunit in space" and of Russian cosmonauts planning more examination of the outer walls.
Thus the feminist-induced gender disorder of the West had almost caused disaster, – if you believe this story.
Aug 10, 2018 | www.unz.com
Alden says: August 10, 2017 at 5:59 am GMT
Dream on it would take a Henry 8 Lenin and Trotsky type revolution to get rid of affirmative action.
If it ever happens, the first thing to do would be to put every judge and their families in some kind of detention center, close down every state and federal courthouse and completely re write the constitution to give all power to the elected executive and legislative branches.
Every woman and minority organization would have to be treated the way Henry treated the monasteries and Lenin and Trotsky treated the Russian counterrevolution.
I'd say only White men with 4 grandparents born in the USA be allowed to vote, but the damage was done between 1964 to 1973 or so by native born American White men.
The feminazis are just fronts for the cannibal capitalists who used them to destroy the private sector unions, lower wages for everyone and create a docile work force eager to work 80 hours a week for 40 hours wages.
I'd love to be the commissar in charge of ending affirmative action and punishing those who created and enforce it.
Sep 22, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Authored by CJ Hopkins via Unz.com,
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The international working classes are racists. They are misogynists. Xenophobic transphobes. They do not think the way we want them to. Some of them actually still believe in God. And they are white supremacists. Anti-Semites. Gun-toting, Confederate-flag-flying rednecks. Most of them have never even heard of terms like "intersectionality," "TERF," and so on.
They do not respect the corporate media. They think that news sources like the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and so on, are basically propaganda outlets for the global corporations and oligarchs who own them, and thus are essentially no different from FOX, whose pundits they believe every word of.
Their minds are so twisted by racism and xenophobia that they can't understand how global capitalism, the graduated phase-out of national sovereignty, the privatization of virtually everything, the debt-enslavement of nearly everyone, and the replacement of their so-called "cultures" with an ubiquitous, smiley-faced, gender-neutral, non-oppressive, corporate-friendly, Disney simulation of culture are actually wonderfully progressive steps forward on the road to a more peaceful, less offensive world.
Now this has been proved in numerous studies with all kinds of charts and graphs and so on. And not only by the corporate statisticians, and the corporate media, and liberal think tanks. Why, just this week, Mehdi Hasan, in an exasperated jeremiad in the pages of The Intercept , that bastion of fearless, adversarial journalism owned by billionaire Pierre Omidyar, proved, once again, that Donald Trump was elected because PEOPLE ARE GODDAMN RACISTS!
Sep 22, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Shasta Fay Hepworth , Sep 22, 2018 5:52:49 PM | link
Bill Hicks explains US Presidency:
"You know, there's a handful of people that run everything. That's a fact, I'm not some conspiracy nut. A handful, very small, elite run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media.
I have this feeling that whoever's elected president when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialists capitalists scum-fucks who got you in there.
And a big guy with a cigar goes:
'Roll the film.'
And it's a shot of the Kennedy Assassination from an angle you've never seen before. It looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll. Then the screen comes up, and they go to the new president:
'Any questions?'
- Bill Hicks, Rant in E-Minor (1993)
Sep 22, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
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Sep 21, 2018 | www.unz.com
nsa , says: September 21, 2018 at 4:18 am GMTTrumpenstein delivers magnificently for his constituency. Cheap fiat money for the jooie banking usurers and wall street scammers. Continued destruction of the ME making the bloodthirsty izzies and domestic jooies deliriously happy.
And for the MAGA white trash deplorables .a miniscule tax cut so they can afford a new blue tarp to cover the trailer roof leak and maybe a new mumu for the 250 lb wife.
9/10/18ANAHEIM, CA -- In a fiery speech delivered to students at the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend, former President Barack Obama reportedly urged young voters to get out there and ignore how many lousy candidates the Democratic Party runs.
"We're experiencing a crisis in our democracy that can only be stopped by showing up to vote for people who will fight for transformative change, but until we start offering that, please just go to your polling place and cast your vote for whichever mediocre Democrat is on the ballot," said Obama...
May 23, 2018 | www.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- Finding themselves increasingly annoyed with the inexplicable and infuriating persistence of their feeble socioeconomic inferiors, America's rich and powerful were at a loss Wednesday as to exactly when the rest of the country would finally relinquish all hope and simply give up, sources close to the 1 percent confirmed.
"What exactly is wrong with them? I mean, there's no possible way they'll ever stop us from getting everything we want, so the poor -- and I suppose what's left of the middle class -- are only delaying the inevitable," said one outrageously wealthy citizen, speaking on expectation of anonymity and adding that, realistically, no one in their right mind could possibly see the use of struggling against those who control the nation's media, financial, and political institutions.
"I suppose I should admire their sheer animal persistence, but, Christ, it's been over since we somehow got them to accept that trickle-down bullshit. I know, I know, we tied their education to their property taxes to encourage them to ass-fuck themselves almost as hard as they ass-fucked their neighbors, but to think they're so stupid they can't get the concept of 'being fucked' through their thick skulls?"
At press time, the nation's most wealthy and influential citizens said they felt a sense of renewed hope and optimism upon realizing how few poor people had voted in recent elections.
Sep 16, 2018 | www.unz.com
In the late 1980's, an old friend of mine based in Moscow was calling her husband in the USA late one night. She said it was a "typical dumb husband/wife call," mostly about a broken garage door.
Around midnight, a gruff voice broke into the call. "This is your KGB listener. This is the most boring, stupid call I've ever listened to. Shut up and go to bed!"
Ah, those innocent Cold War days. Today, Big Brother listens to your calls, reads your email, and follows your internet searches on silent cat's feet.
China's Taoists warned, "you become what you hate." They are right: the September 2001 attacks on the US, as John Le Carré wrote, producing a period of temporary psychosis. America was knocked back to the ugly days of Sen. McCarthy's Red Scare of the 1950's. The big difference was that today the bogeymen of "terrorists" have replaced menacing Marxists. And today, terrorists were everywhere.
Sep 16, 2018 | www.unz.com
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Meanwhile, the British society is under the imminent threat of Putin-Nazi Novichok perfume assassin hit squads , which Putin could send at any moment directly from Moscow to Gatwick Airport.
To incompetently attempt to murder their targets by spraying the deadliest nerve agent in existence onto the doorknobs of their suburban homes and then stroll around getting filmed by every CCTV camera in Britain.
As far as I know, the British tabloids haven't yet published surveillance photos of Corbyn welcoming the Skripal assassins at Gatwick with a wreath, or a bottle of Stoli (and wearing his Russian-stooge hat , of course), but I won't be terribly shocked when they do.
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
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Moscow Exile September 12, 2018 at 1:02 pmSalisbury novichok attack: Russian spies smuggled chemical weapons through airport baggage checks, UK security minister admitsJen September 12, 2018 at 8:18 pm
Two alleged Russian spies who launched the Salisbury attack smuggled novichok into the UK through Gatwick Airport, the security minister has confirmed.
I see! So now the disciplined and highly trained GRU assassins were spies as well.
Proper jack-of-all-trades!
Ben Wallace, who is currently Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime, " told the House of Commons there was 'clearly some form of attempt to create a legend to make sure that they circumvented our checks'.
'No doubt at the other end of that aeroplane journey [in Russia] there was some, I should think, the baggage checks weren't probably as good as they might be,' he added " -- because the Russians are all blithering incompetents stands ter reason, dunnit!
" Mr Wallace said requests for Russia to account for what happened in Salisbury had been met with 'obfuscation and lies', saying their response merely 'reinforces their guilt'. "
Of course it does! Why don't they just confess to what everyone knows they have done?Were there no baggage checks by British customs officials at Gatwick International then?Mark Chapman September 13, 2018 at 12:05 pm'Clearly' is an English term which is subject to national interpretations. In Canada – mostly English-speaking – it traditionally means, "supported by verifiable and compelling evidence", although I hasten to add that Canada cheerfully booted out 'Russian spies' to support its ally, Britain.
But in England, 'clearly' might mean 'as required to serve in the cause of political necessity'. In this instance, if the passports/visas/whatever travel documents of the men concerned do not read "GRU Assassin Traveling on Business", then clearly there was an attempt to circumvent British checks.
Sep 14, 2018 | www.unz.com
I have no choice. I must don the mantle of greatness and take the reins of the country. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I will run for the office of dictator, or President in American parlance.
Readers may ask, "But Fred, what makes you think you are qualified to be President?" To which I respond, "Nothing. But have you seen what we have now? You want a White House with John Bolton in it?"
You see.
I append here a few of the enlightened policies which I will effect. Hold your applause until the end. Interspersed for perusal are a few slogans that I may use to incite your fervor.
One: I will end all policies hostile to Cuba. I will not make life difficult for eleven million perfectly good people to please a ratpack of phony Cubans afflicting Miami. In fact, I will offer Havana a twenty-billion-dollar loan if they will take the bastards back. Cuba poses no danger to anyone. They have good cigars. They should be left alone to live as they please and drink mojitos. If nutcake Republicans protest my policy, I will have them stuffed into an abandoned oil well. Along with the pseudo-Cubans.
Two: Elizabeth Warren will be required to take a DNA test to see whether she is a wild Indian. If she is, she will have to wear feathers. Otherwise, to see a psychiatrist.
We have nothing to be afred of but Fred hisself! Has a classic ring, don't you think?
Three: I will end the Afghan war in an afternoon, relying on use the exit strategy proposed by James P. Coyne, the Sun Tsu of our age:
"OK, on the plane. Now ."
If Lindsey Graham complains that we need to kill more puzzled goatherds, I will have him inserted into the oil well on top of the Republicans and pseudo-Cubans, with Oprah tamped down on top as a sort of cork. There is nothing in Afghanistan that Americans need or want, except opium products, and private enterprise now provides these in abundance. Check the nearest street corner, or ask your kids.
Four: I will make membership in AIPAC a felony, and remind its members that I could have Oprah temporarily removed from the oil well to make more room. Aipackers can act as they please in their own country–I will not meddle in foreign affairs–but leave ours alone.
Fred! Ahhhhhh . This has a nicely orgasmic quality that will appeal to the younger demographic. It represents the satisfaction that my rule will bring to the entire country.
Five: I will end all sanctions against Iran. Then I will sell those Persian rascals airplanes and cars and electronic stuff and towel softener and lock them into the American economic system. This will make Boeing and AT&T and Intel love me with the deep sweet love that never dies, at least as long as the money flows, and there will be lots of jobs in Seattle.
Six: I will bring charges of treason against the contents of the Great Double Wide on Pennsylvania Avenue. The evidence is incontrovertible. The first rule of empire is Don't Let Your Enemies Unite. Everybody who has an empire knows this. Except us. Inside the White House a bunch of apparently brain-damaged political mostly left-overs, suffering from Beltway Bubble Syndrome, push China, Russia, and Iran together like some kind of international spaghetti-grope LGTBQRSTUV threesome. Who are our dismal leaders really working for? China?
A Fred in Every Pot This makes no sense, you may say. No, but we are doing politics. It is almost iambic pentameter, like Shakespeare. It will lend class to my campaign.
Seven: I will keep the F-35 program. It provides a lot of jobs. However, I will but get rid of the airplane. Isn't this brilliant? Instead of building the thing, workers will dig holes and fill them in, but keep their current salaries. It will improve their health, and make America safer. The fewer dangerous things the children in the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel have, the less trouble it can cause.
Better Fred than Dead! Some readers will dispute this. What do they know?
Eight: I have been urged to end affirmative action on the grounds that things should be done by people who can actually do them. This is racist. I will have nothing to do with it. Instead I will make affirmative action democratic and inclusive. Everyone will qualify for it. Special privilege should not be restricted to a minority. It isn't the American way.
Fred! Good as Any, Better'n Some. Good thinking.
Nine: I will abolish NATO. America should find a cheaper way to control the vassals. There is of course the bedtime story that NATO exists to confront the Russkies, and only incidentally provides a compulsory market for American armament. Nuts. Russia cannot seem dangerous to anyone who wasn't dropped on his head at some formative juncture in life. Smallish population, low military budget.
Likewise South Korea, which has twice the population and forty times the economy of the North. If it wants to defend itself, it has my blessing. If it doesn't, it isn't our problem.
Tippecanoe and Frederick Too! This may require exhumation, but for this we have backhoes.
Ten: I will make a modest reduction in the military budget, say seventy-five percent. To keep the soldiers happy I will invest in high-throughput roller coasters, a shooting range with BB guns, and really loud speaker systems that say Va roooom and Bangbangbang and fzzzzzzzzboom. These will provide psychic emoluments of martial life without the murder.
Eleven: The money thus saved I will use on pressing domestic problems. LA has 68,000 homeless people on the streets, San Francisco loses conventions because of so many homeless defecating on the sidewalks, Portland has homeless riots,. The lower primates in Antifa and BLM rend such social fabric as any longer exists. Dams are aging. Our trains are out of of the Fifties. And we spend a trillion a year on goddam aircraft carriers?
Fred? Well, Got a Better Idea?
Twelve: As an educational reform, I will have the Department of Education filled with linoleum cement, the occupants being left inside. This will raise the national IQ by at least three points. I will pass an amendment to the fragments of the Constitution saying, "No federal entity or person shall say, think, suggest, or do anything whatever regarding schooling on pain of garroting." Part of the savings from lowering the military budget will go to purchasing garrotes. The duration, content, and nature of the schools shall be left to localities without exception.
Thirteen: The father of any girl subjected to genital mutilation will be awarded a free gender reassignment operation, preferably with tin-snips. Genital mutilation should be inclusive. The father will then be placed for two weeks in the bottom of a public latrine in Uganda. If this doesn't suffice to deter the practice, I may be forced to adopt extreme measures. A country that allows such treatment of daughters deserves to go to hell. And seems to be.
Fourteen: I will impose a literacy test for voting. People too dim to find their way home should not be permitted to influence policies they have never heard of and can't spell. Yes, this might be called illiberal. If so, it will doubtless be the only example of illiberalism in this meritorious list.
Fifteen: In higher education, I will prescribe horse whipping for anyone saying microaggression, white privilege, whiteness, patriarchy, safe space, people of color, racism, any kind of phobia, or "Resist" in a squalling voice with an exclamation point. No curriculum containing the word "Studies" will be permitted.
Sixteen: Anyone prescribing Ritalin for children under twenty-one will be thrown from a helicopter.
In conclusion, I say to my yearning public, There, you, see, there is hope. Together we can do this. See you at the polls.
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Fred Reed is a former news weasel and part-time sociopath living in central Mexico with his wife and three useless but agreeable street dogs. He says it suits him.
FoxTwo , says: September 15, 2018 at 11:03 am GMTIn today's world of political insanity, a healthy dose of sarcasm may be considered as a good antidote. Love your columns Fred; keep them up!
Sep 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
James lake September 10, 2018 at 1:11 pmOn Tuesday, In the USA they will be commemorating the 11th September/ twin towers attack by Al queada.
At the same time they are smearing Assad about chemical weapons use , and preparing a false flag, to bomb Assad to save Alqueada in Idlib.
Sep 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
kirill September 10, 2018 at 6:48 pmAs commented elsewhere, all her screeching about double standards for women are utter BS. She broke the rules while playing against another woman and not a man. The men's tennis league is utterly irrelevant since she may as well have compared her league to men's football. She failed by the standards of her league and not those of another. It was clear that she was breaking the rules of her league and she was the one that escalated the conflict. It has nothing to do with women's rights.Jen September 10, 2018 at 6:49 pm
The PC drones are rather mentally deficient. They respond to trigger phrases and not to concepts or principles.Australian cartoonist Mark Knight is in trouble with J K Rowling and other self-styled guardians of who may portray Serena Williams in meltdown and who may not. The offending drawing below:
Sep 11, 2018 | russia-insider.comSalisbury (dpo) - Last doubts over Russia's guilt in poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal have been eliminated. As the British government announced today, the passport of Russian president Vladimir Putin was found at the scene in Salisbury.
According to Prime Minister Theresa May, the passport was only now found in another search of the scene, as it had been hidden under a fallen leaf.
Sep 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Moscow Exile September 13, 2018 at 1:55 amMeanwhiled, back in the "Mother of Parliaments"
Sep 12, 2018 | www.unz.com
anonymous , [251] Disclaimer says: Next New Comment September 11, 2018 at 4:28 pm GMTAll Trump has to do to get rid of the Op Ed guy is to fire all those who want to go to war with Russia.
Sep 12, 2018 | www.unz.com
c matt , says: Next New Comment September 11, 2018 at 3:03 pm GMTIf there are chemical weapons that are used, we know exactly who's going to use them.mr meener , says: Next New Comment September 11, 2018 at 6:57 pm GMT
Finally, Haley the Whore speaks some truth! We will know because we will be the ones who use them!Nimrata Randhawa alias Niki Haley says she has intelligence that Putin and Assad were seen in wal mart with a shopping cart full of Clorox bleach which indicates a chemical attack for sure. she also said when the US bombed Syria because of the last chemical attack Putins passport was found in the rubble
Sep 10, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
paradoctor September 7, 2018 at 3:38 pmI have mixed feelings about the op-ed. Should Anonymous stay? But that's collaboration. Should Anonymous go? But that's abandonment; who then would take the idiotic letters off the mad king's desk? (And by the way, who put those idiotic letters there?)
Sep 10, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Marc Schuhl September 7, 2018 at 8:24 pmOne thing that makes all of this complicated for me is that Trump rarely seems even to care about actual policy anyway. Sure, his team totally subverted him on the recent NATO summit, but I have a strong hunch that DJT just wanted to yell at Angela Merkel on TV, and so that is his actual "policy" and nobody prevented him from doing it. Metaphysically, is it possible to stage a coup against a leader who has ALREADY abdicated but has not publicly acknowledged the fact of the abdication?
Sep 10, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
KevinS September 7, 2018 at 10:35 pmStephen J writes, "Isn't it amazing that the anonymous article and the book seem to coincide perfectly."
Yeah, it is amazing! Absolutely unbelievable! How could that possibly be?
Sep 10, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
One Guy September 7, 2018 at 2:58 pmHow can you say Trump has done nothing? Hasn't he built the Wall? Hasn't he ended military operations in the Middle East? Hasn't he destroyed North Korea's nuclear program? Didn't he write the tax cut law all by himself? Hasn't he banned all Muslims? Hasn't he brought back coal to where it was 100 years ago? Doesn't he have the best words, like "anomonous" and "covfefe"? Doesn't he hire the best people? Doesn't he eat the best chocolate cake?
I'm sooo glad I'm alive at this point in history. If I had been born at a different time, I would never believe these things could be happening. It's like watching Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite and Charles Manson all rolled into one and multiplied by 100.
Sep 10, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
I just saw a column by a progressive-liberal columnist, Will Bunch, at philly.com with the headline " President Trump is not well. Congress must curb his power to start a nuclear war. ".
It almost sounds sympathetic...
Sep 09, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
bjd | Sep 7, 2018 12:30:12 PM | link@Bob (3)
That has been my take on affairs sine some time: Trump is just the mouthpiece of, and strong-armed by the Media Military Industrial Intelligence Complex (MMIIC).
Full disclosure: I despise Trump for a great number of reasons.
Even fuller disclosure: I despise with a vengeance the Intel community, which has taken over the media and the DNC and are the Jesuits of the MIC.
Sep 09, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Bart Hansen , Sep 7, 2018 6:16:09 PM | linkThe administration spokesperson called for "a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international community, unlike our own situation here in the United States" Apparently his full quote was cropped before going out to the stenos.Curtis , Sep 7, 2018 6:01:43 PM | linkThere is a bit of self-contradiction in the US govt statements. They admit it's a civil war. That implies there is more than one side. But then the goal is stated that there is to be one leader to be approved by ALL Syrians. That is not possible. It's not even possible in the US. And no lesson was learned from the latest forgotten war - Libya - which now has 3 governments amid anarchy caused by US/NATO/Qatar/S-A actions. Maybe Assad should invoke the memory of Lincoln who was faced with a rebellion and ask what business is it of the US to interfere.
Sep 09, 2018 | thehill.com
notells • 10 hours ago
Yep! I voted for Hillary and have a president under FBI investigation
Sep 09, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Tom Welsh , Sep 7, 2018 12:26:23 PM | 4
So the USA, which has invaded Syria with large numbers of soldiers, weapons, and aircraft, and has built permanent bases there *without permission from the government of Syria*, demands that all Iranians leave Syria? Even though the Iranians are in Syria at the explicit invitation of the Syrian government?
Arrogance and hypocrisy can hardly be taken any further.
The logical implication of this US government position is that the USA does not recognize the Syrian government, and does not consider Syria to be a sovereign state. Yet the Syrian Arab Republic is a member in good standing of the UN, and is recognized by other UN members - even including the USA.
Sep 07, 2018 | kononenkome.livejournal.com
According to popular belief, the cold war ended with the victory of the United States of America. And, accordingly, the demice of the Soviet Union. However, what exactly represent such a victory is not that easy to understand. Instead of one conservative, and therefore predictable player, the United States received a half dozen countries, of which only three or four are loyal, with other living by "the laws of jungles" (sorry free market). The number of aimed at American cities Intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads remained approximately the same as before the infamous "victory." And strategic atomic submarines remained, and strategic bombers. There are less of them, for sure, but they are more modern and more dngerous with more sophisticated weaponry. In any ccase remaining are still enough to make the winner to feel like a loser after b=neclear apolaipsys. And the idfea of victory is that the victor is the master (in this case the master of the plant). Am I missing something ?
Of course, another inquisitive observer will tell us about the controlled chaos, about the growing influence and plans for the establishing of the world neoliberal government. I was impressed by the recent revelation of Senator John Tester, who said that Putin is promoting communism in America. As the idea that this senator is a complete idiot who does not understand the Russia rejected communism as a dead-born system is pretty absurd. I would venture to assume that it might be that Russia did something that can with some stretch be qualifies as an attempt to influence the USA election, but, alas, Putin has no strategic plan, not the intention. First of all this would be pretty idiotic idea as two candidates were equally bad for Russia and it was completely unclear who is worse.
But all those crazy US neocons still managed to imposed on Russia sanctions because of its "interference in the elections." That tells us something about the US congress. I do not want to write about the lack of evidence and absurdity of the arguments again. I've already written a lot about it. No, let's stop talking about the past and try to look into the future.
The US President's national security adviser John Bolton (who theoretically should be a sanest person in the administration) recently said that the US is concerned about the potential for interference in the midterm elections to the Congress of four countries. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. "I will not go into details of what I saw or didn't see, but I tell you that in the 2018 elections, these four countries raise the greatest fears," proclaim this highly placed Presidential adviser.
Theoretically it make some sense. Any man with a knife has a potential to kill. Any country with nuclear weapons has the potential to strike at the US. Any country with developed IT has a potential opportunity to interfere in elections with the help of cyber attacks. For example, Israel. But it is not a good idea to scare the American voter with Israel. No, he/she should be confused, and he/she should be afraid of potential menace. And this external enemy should unite fragmented by neoliberal excesses country (for this purpose those good-for nothing people grazing in State Department and Spaso House (The US embassy in Moscow) should constantly accuse the Russian authorities of all sorts nefarious activities. So there is nothing new here: Great Britain uses similar dirty tricks against Russia for centuries. I am interested in another, a very simple question: why? Why would Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea interfere in the US midterm elections? What they want to achieve. All right, let's drop all the others, let's just talk about us, Russians.
What do we want? Let's say we want the midterms to be won by the Republicans. Then explain to me why Republican John Bolton fears this. If there's anything John Bolton should be afraid of, it's that Russia will intervene in the midterms in order to win the Democrats. But The Washington Post writes that "the leaders of the Democratic party of the United States fear the potential interference of Russia and start to increase its presence in anticipation of the interim election cycle on such platforms as Facebook and Twitter." President Trump writes on Twitter that Russia will" make a lot of effort " to intervene in the midterm elections on the side of the Democrats. Microsoft claims that Russian hackers created fake websites of Republican organizations in order to collect information about Republicans. The same hackers who broke into the DNC and stole Hillary Clinton emails now will steal midterm elections. But from whom? Do you understand anything? Personally, I don't understand anymore. Which Party we support? Who is the target of our effort to interfere in the USA elections. Are we promoting Repubs or DemoRats ?
Perhaps the head of the US national intelligence Daniel Coates is right when he declared that "their goal is to divide and undermine our democratic values." Well, let's suppose that we really are against those sacred values.
But the midterm elections will still be held, despite any interference. And one of candidates will win, while the other will lose. If we see no difference in candidates why we should interfere? If the net result for us anyway will be the same: more sanctions? Here we should go back to the idea of "controlled chaos" and world government. Looks like Daniel Coats think that the world government is us. No, I'd certainly like the idea, even if this requires smoking something really strong (let's use Musk as a lodestar ;-). But I'm afraid we're not capable to serve in this role. After economic rape of 1991 we are too poor. And to serve the role of world government you better be rich.
Again the question arise, why we should interfere in he USA elections. Only if we are out for revenge, "eye for eye" principle as they interfered in ours. There's no other reasonable answer. But even in this case, why we Russians should interfere in already completely messed up US elections, which typically equal to a force choice between two equally unacceptable candidates, already chosen and vetted by neoliberal elite. Like Trump vs. Hillary. why we should play this game of "the lesser evil." It's plain vanilla stupidity.
And before we get the answer to this fundamental question "Why?" there can be no further questions. None. Moreover, no other questions are needed. So let them just explain to us why we should interfere and how we can benefit from such an interference, and we will try our best. Before that, let's just watch.
And when they explain this to us, we can communicate the answer to China, Iran and North Korea free of charge.
Sep 07, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.com
SteveofCaley , 6 Sep 2018 09:29Right, then. Solved it. Easy puzzle, really. Mods, you can close the comments now.
Clues: Republican? Check. Strongly motivated by morality? Check. Unlimited White House access? Check.
It's written by the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln, last moral Republican President.
(Carter wasn't a Republican. Eisenhower, only by accident. )
Sep 06, 2018 | discussion.theguardian.comPaul Jordan , 6 Sep 2018 07:45I am outraged at describing Trump's administration as a "pirate ship"!
Pirate ships were in reality the most egalitarian institutions that existed in the 17th century. Their articles laid out that both the captain and quartermaster (who divided the spoils) served at the pleasure of their crew, and that the entire crew had rights to a fair portion of the proceeds.
On a real pirate ship, Captain Trump would have lost his job long ago and been abandoned on some tiny island with a single shot in his pistol.
Sep 03, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
d by gjohnsit on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 1:50pm
For the establishment media, socialism is an extremely flexible thing.
On one hand, socialism has failed and been discredited. It's followers have already abandoned it. Any poor soul who still gives it a second thought is an anachronism deserving of public humiliation.
On the other hand, socialism is a scary force that is taking over everything. Socialism is hiding under your bed, lurking around every corner, is plotting to take away your children, and destroy everything that is good in the world.
Sep 02, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
y wendy davis on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 11:21am
The title comes from another bit of satirical self-parody from the NYT.com , August 24; Alex Jones don't got nothin' on these dudes, Barnes and Rosenberg:
"WASHINGTON -- In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia's intentions to try to tip the American presidential election -- and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward -- thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.
Aug 31, 2018 | www.unz.com
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Personally, I'm rooting for the Democrats to take control of the House in the midterms, purely for the sake of entertainment.
After calling this ass clown a Russian spy and Literal Hitler for the last two years, they're going have to at least pretend to impeach him, or else stage a series of internationally-televised neo-McCarthyite congressional hearings to root out the diabolical networks of Putin-Nazis that have infested America, and Britannia, and the rest of the West.
That's the main thing, after all. Yes, the corporatist ruling classes need to make an example of Trump to dissuade any future billionaire ass clowns from running for high office without their permission, but even more so, they need to put down the "populist" opposition to the spread of global capitalism and the gradual phase-out of national sovereignty that began with Brexit and continued with Trump, so they can transform the smoldering remains of the Earth into one big happy neoliberal market run by supranational corporations and the "democratic governments" they have bought and paid for which
Damn, I think I may have gone and opened a rather enormous can of leftist worms right at the end of this essay by mentioning the "national sovereignty" thing. So, leftists, please ignore the previous paragraph. National sovereignty is the same as nationalism. Nationalism is very, very bad. Internationalism is good. Internationalist socialism is what we all want. Okay, admittedly, the forces of internationalist socialism appear to be well, somewhat marginal at the moment (or possibly virtually non-existent), but that's not a problem, because the global capitalists will be happy to internationalize everything for us, and to do away with all those nasty nationalists, and that national government-subsidized healthcare and university education and all that stuff.
So let's forget that I mentioned national sovereignty, because that's all Putinist Trumpism, and so on. There's absolutely no reason at all for leftists to discuss that subject, or to view it in any kind of larger historical or geopolitical context or anything. Once the global corporate empire finishes their Privatization of Everything, I'm sure they will be open to considering socialism. They'll probably even let us vote on it. By then, they will have cleansed the Internet of all the discord-sowing Putin-Nazis so there won't be any danger of being "influenced" to vote the wrong way or anything.
In the meantime, don't forget to do your part in the War on Trump, Putin, Assad, Corbyn, and whoever else the corporate media tell us we're at war against. Forget about global capitalism. Keep obsessing about Donald Trump. And if you get tired of obsessing about Donald Trump, you can always call Corbyn an anti-Semite , or accuse Glenn Greenwald of working for Putin , or, if you've got some free time and want to get creative, compile a Directory of International Assadists , or some other paranoid pseudo-blacklist. Every little contribution counts!
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (USA). His debut novel, ZONE 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. He can reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .
Sean , says: August 31, 2018 at 7:13 pm GMT
And on and on, and on, it goes and will continue to go until 2020, unless Trump decides to attack Iran, which I doubt The Resistance® will let him do, because that would get extremely weird, as they would somehow have to simultaneously support another US war of aggression and condemn Trump as Adolf Hitler for starting it. Oh, and also, they would have a hard time explaining why Putin had ordered his stooge in the White House to attack Russia's ally in the Middle East. So, probably, no attack on Iran.
That is why Trump will attack Iran.
S , says: Next New Comment September 1, 2018 at 5:04 am GMT
..Robert Mueller, who is doggedly investigating allegations that the President of the United States is a devious Russian intelligence asset personally planted in the Oval Office by Vladimir Putin, the Russian mob, and a conspiracy of crackerjack "cyber-influencers," who brainwashed millions of American voters into betraying Hillary Clinton, and the nation, with a bunch of emails and some Facebook posts, and who are even now waging "a chaos campaign to undermine faith in American democracy."
If only there was an Agent 99 to bring some levity and balance to Robert Mueller's Maxwell Smart personna then everything would be complete.
Aug 31, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
MARK CHAPMAN, August 30, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Breaking news! Russia isolated!!
Oh, wait; sorry – that's the United States. Yes, in another manifestation of his incredibly cunning cunningness, Trump has rolled out a new master-plan to bring Russia to its knees: withdraw the United States of America from all international organizations that will not take orders from POTUS. That will show those borscht-eating bastards! Next up in the crosshairs the WTO.
Aug 29, 2018 | craigmurray.org.ukWillie Wobblestick , August 28, 2018 at 14:04
Nothing to See Here
Rather like Janet Jackson's nipples,
It's been a while since we've seen the Skripals.
Not so long ago they were all over the news
As official drones droned their official views.
They said that in Salisbury wherever you look
Lurked sinister types splashing novichuk.
Door handle specialists had been imported,
Or so the BBC unquestioningly reported.
A laundry list of despicable acts
Only vaguely coincident with the salient facts.
Boris Johnson wasn't sitting on the fence,
He don't need no stinkin' evidence.
'It was them Russkies wot dunnit, no doubt about that',
Said the country's pre-eminent diplomat.
KGB thugs sent to put the boot in,
By Mr. Evil, Vladimir Stalin Putin.
Novichuk's lethality was re-emphasised again,
More deadly than others by a factor of ten.
Yet somehow miraculously the Skripals survived,
In Salisbury General they inconveniently revived.
And that was all we heard for a while
Bar a weird statement in machine-prose style.
Then a curious video right out of the blue
That looked like an advert for flyaway shampoo.
A chilled out Yulia said she was contented,
And consular access had not been prevented,
But no, she didn't want to meet up with her kin
(Not that the government would let them in).
The whole production was charmingly informal,
As though poisoning and exile were perfectly normal.
This remarkable young woman's taken it all in her stride,
Seemingly happy to go along with the ride.
Her boyfriend, her job, her dog and her flat
All peremptorily dumped at the drop of a hat.
The un-fake corporate media performed as tasked
Ensuring awkward questions remained unasked.
And all this ludicrous b-movie rigmarole
Was discreetly d-noticed down the memory hole.
The legal and diplomatic situation's now clear:
'Move along sir, nothing to see here.'
Aug 27, 2018 | www.unz.com
Jollyroger , says: July 22, 2018 at 4:52 pm GMT@jacques sheete
That's more or less what George Carlin insinuated: "The middle class does all the work, pays all the taxes while the wealthy class takes all the money and pays none of the taxes and the poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class .keep asking for all those jobs".
Aug 27, 2018 | www.unz.com
And if authoritarian governments happen to relatively low IQ societies (like Germany in 1933?), we might ponder this:
A truly authoritarian leader would have the sole power to :
– declare war unilaterally and frequently;
– issue 300,000 national security letters, administrative subpoenas with gag orders that enjoin recipients from ever divulging they've been served;
– control information at all times than any monarch in history under the National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.
–torture, kidnap and assassinate anyone anywhere at will.
Personal freedom in an authoritarian state would be limited by
– secretly banning 50,000 people from flying and refusing requests for an explanation
– imprisoning 2,000,000 people without trial
– executing 2,000 people each year prior to arrest.
In a real an authoritarian state there would be
– warrantless surveillance of private phone and email conversations by the NSA;
– SWAT team raiding homes;
– shootings of unarmed citizens by police;
– harsh punishment of schoolchildren in the name of zero tolerance;
– endless wars;
– out-of-control spending;
– militarized police;
–roadside strip searches;
– roving TSA sweeps;
– privatized prisons with a profit incentive for jailing Americans;
– fusion centers that collect and disseminate data on citizens' private transactions;
– militarized agencies with stockpiles of ammunition
Aug 24, 2018 | consortiumnews.com
JR, August 18, 2018 at 12:05 pm
Jeff, you're wrong! I saw through the RussiaGate farce back in the fall of 2016 when I was living in Vermont, USA & first wrote this piece of satire as "The October Surprise" but couldn't get it published anywhere even as a letter-to-the-editor in our censorious press, so updated it to in time for the Jan. inauguration though without publication anywhere either:
"The Red, White & Blue Plush Revolution"
"The Old York Times missed it but back in October, a Bernie backer in the basement of the Vermont Teddy Bear factory in the village of Shelburne, Vt. confessed to Green Mountain Investigators that she, not Putin! had hacked the DNC emails to reveal that the Democratic National Committee had sabotaged her candidate.
Furthermore, she explained that 'Fancy' and 'Cozy Bears', about which there had been CIA allegation-turned "fact" and much media hysteria regarding their 'Russian Identification', are actually two of their most popular plush products. So thanks to all of the free media marketing, the factory geared up and met the demand for a bear in every Vermont Christmas stocking and made enough profit to mail a free baby bear to every Vermont family for the New Year!
But since Bernie didn't get it & made the Big Mistake of campaigning for Hillary, Goldie Lock, who was previously best known for her expertise in sewing button eyes on the bears and never suspected of being a hacker, together with her backers at the factory, has called a press conference to declare that 'It Only Took a Village' to depose a phony after they demanded that 'Hillary must go!'
So now they've got 4 years behind the scenes of the next DC Reality Show & its mainstream-media-fake-news to restore The American Republic which had been divided & almost conquered by the 1% & its media: The Old York Times, The Bezos Post & the rest of the me-too-media.
*footnote: I did not vote for Trump, nor Lady Hillary Macbeth!
Aug 23, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
TG , Aug 23, 2018 4:37:55 PM | 11
"The progressive Democrats who are pushing for single payer healthcare still miss out on other issues. They also support higher wages, but are, at the same time, against restrictions on immigration."
Kudos to you for pointing out the obvious. Be careful though, this kind of talk can easily get you labelled as a racist, a fascist, as "literally Hitler" and Vladimir Putin's homosexual lover.
Bottom line: the Democrats give lip service to supporting higher wages, but in reality they support low wages, hence their opposition to moderating the rate of immigration.
Aug 23, 2018 | www.theamericanconservative.com
Originally from: The Strange Decline of H.L. Mencken - The American Conservative
Mencken turned his scathing wit and rhetoric of ridicule on the political elite of American society with a sense of humor missing from today's political journalism.
President Wilson was "the archangel Woodrow," Harding "that numskull Gamaliel," Hoover "Lord Hoover." William Jennings Bryan was "a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany with no sense of dignity. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses."
Electing Calvin Coolidge, he wrote, was like being presented with a sumptuous banquet and "staying your stomach by plucking flies out of the air." When once asked why if he despised politics so much he wasted his time writing about it, Mencken answer was simple: "why do people go to zoos."
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For all his flaws, Mencken had a keen insight into the American political scene. If you doubt that, finish by pondering this observation:
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Fran Macadam July 8, 2018 at 11:36 pm
"In our system of government, everybody gets what the majority deserve."
His pythy comments are still clever and to the point, since human nature doesn't change.
Aug 18, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Ghost Ship , Aug 18, 2018 8:23:37 AM | 86Just over at the American Conservative reading an article about Seymour Hersch and found this:Shortly before Hersh started covering the Pentagon for the Associated Press in 1965, Arthur Sylvester, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, berated a group of war correspondents in Saigon: "Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that? Stupid."
Aug 18, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
JoeTurner Fri, 08/17/2018 - 09:49 Permalink
Coup d'état is such an ugly word. I prefer "domestic insurgent contingency operation"
Aug 17, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Thursday, the New York Times decried Trump's accusation that the media are "the enemy of the people." "Insisting that truths you don't like are 'fake news' is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' is dangerous, period," said the Times .
Aug 17, 2018 | consortiumnews.com
GM , August 14, 2018 at 4:51 pmjeff montanye , August 17, 2018 at 7:11 am
America is after all a country in which half the population believe in the creation myth.
but if i had to bet, the creationists are less likely to believe in Russiagate than the evolutionists.
Aug 17, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
LawsofPhysics, Fri, 08/17/2018 - 09:42 Permalink
The truth is always treason in an empire of lies...
Aug 16, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
In the Cold War the USSR undertook an enormous (but futile) exertion to block our news and propaganda; we, confident that we were in the right, didn't bother.
Today Facebook , advised by Atlantic Council people , is blocking "Russian propaganda".
To defend against this attempt to impurify our precious bodily fluids , a US Senator (Dem of course) is floating a proposal for more government-imposed controls . Those who are mostly telling the truth don't do this.
Maybe NATO could buy old Soviet jamming equipment .
Aug 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.comyalensis says: August 14, 2018 at 2:58 pmBREAKING NEWS from RT:Jen says: August 14, 2018 at 9:10 pm
A parrot tells English firefighters to "Fuck Off!" when they try to rescue her.
Later, a more contrite bird is ordered by her owner to humbly say "Thank you" to the would-be rescuers.
https://contextual.media.net/checksync.php?&vsSync=1&cs=8&cv=31&https=1&cid=8CU8HDVRS&prvid=99,56,111,113,4,10000,80,9,109,82,97,77One of the comments to the article received 14 likes:
Is this Jessie parrot Skripal's?
No wonder the bird didn't like the firefighter – she thought the guy was going to daub some Novichok onto her beak.
Aug 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
Cortes says: August 12, 2018 at 10:44 pm
...Call a presser at the UN and have the Ambassador confirm that Obama and HRC are wholly paid-up RF assets and watch Civil War II unfold.
Aug 15, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.comMark Chapman says: August 10, 2018 at 7:58 amIt's time for everyone to come off Twitter – it is like writing your message on your buttocks with a black sharpie and dropping your trousers. Tweets are the kind of stupid thing you send out at the end of work after you've had a bastard of a day, and something you read or hear pushes you over the edge....
Aug 14, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
Mark2 , Aug 12, 2018 3:46:15 PM | 15
If the uk,us were a person, a physiatrist would surely have certified them criminally insane by now !
Locked them up for there own protection and to protect the general public. Removing all sharp objects.
Just saying !
Aug 14, 2018 | russia-insider.com
unheilig • 12 hours ago ,Trauma2000 -> unheilig • 11 hours ago ,
There are simply loads of job opportunities in Russia [created by the USA]. For instance:
- Being an Evil Rooskiy (evil cackle essential; vampire teeth optional)
- Hacking into electrical grids (but not doing anything, so--boring)
- Interfering in foreign elections (mustn't leave any evidence though)
- Invading Crimea (stealth suits provided)
- Invading Donbass (invisible tanks provided)
- Hacking the DNC (bit of a sinecure really)
- Providing evidence for dodgy dossiers on prominent politicians (salacious but dull)
- Putinbot operator--thousands needed
- Rooskiy Facebook account holder--thousands needed urgently
- Poisoner (no experience required)
- Propping up Evil Regimes (lots of foreign travel)unheilig -> Trauma2000 • 2 hours ago ,
re: "Putinbot operator -- thousands needed"
I've always wanted to be a Putinbot. I think it would be a great job. Hoping for my KGB badge. I've got my KGB watch (even though its made in Germany), just need my badge now (hope it isn't made in China).
I'm just waiting for my check from Putin. Any day now . . .
Aug 14, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
spanish inquisition Mon, 08/13/2018 - 17:28 PermalinkKefeer -> Clock Crasher Mon, 08/13/2018 - 17:38 Permalink
I am sure it's just a harmless oversight.
Hammer it and remove all EMF's. An old microwave over works as a Faraday cage. Also; if you take a cell phone and wrap it in just a layer or two of aluminum foil; it will not make or receive calls.
Aug 12, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Bushogboner -> oddjob Sun, 08/12/2018 - 21:03 Permalinkvaporland -> Buckaroo Banzai Sun, 08/12/2018 - 21:49 Permalink
I thought WTC7 free-fell out of sympathy for #1 & #2.
Two guys sitting in the insurance adjustor's waiting room.
- Guy #1: what happened?
- Guy #2: lightning struck my store and burned it to the ground. How about you?
- Guy #1: a flood destroyed my factory, wiped out everything.
- Guy #2: how do you start a flood?
Aug 13, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.orgnotlurking , Aug 13, 2018 3:25:15 PM | 58Asta la vista baby....
Aug 13, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
vk , Aug 13, 2018 11:40:55 AM | 47
@ Posted by: partizan | Aug 13, 2018 8:50:05 AM | 39
Oh, yeah, those evil "Muslim dictators" -- always interfering with elected governments foreign trade policies:
Mattis orders Brazil to distance itself from China (12 August 2018)
Aug 13, 2018 | www.unz.com
Cyrano , August 10, 2018 at 10:45 pm GMTAmericans see the Russians as greatness deniers. Their European lackeys are their greatness-acknowledgers -- even when it's detrimental to their own survival.
If the world was a theater, Americans see themselves as the only performers -- the role of the rest of the world is to applaud their performance.
Russia is not a part of the audience, it's not even a heckler. It's a performer, it has always been, and a very talented one too. To try to demote them to the role of spectators, or to try to usher them out of the concert hall can be suicidal, they have enough musical instruments to put on a remarkable concert -- even if afterwards no one is left to applaud.
Jul 19, 2018 | politics.theonion.comWASHINGTON -- Saying that their investigation indicated her involvement in election interference went deeper than previously believed, the FBI revealed Thursday that Russian agent Maria Butina traded sex in exchange for all 62,984,828 votes Donald Trump received for president in 2016. "Our inquiry into Ms. Butina
Aug 13, 2018 | politics.theonion.comWASHINGTON -- Saying he just wants to fit in with his colleagues, shy Rep. Harold Olsen confided to reporters Wednesday that he often feels left out of all the illegal activities going on in Congress and wishes his fellow lawmakers would include him in their crimes. "I see everyone around me committing these...
Aug 13, 2018 | politics.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- Feigning polite interest throughout the 90-minute meeting, Pentagon officials from all five branches of the armed forces listened in silence Thursday as Mike Pence presented his detailed plans for a state-of-the-art angel-guided weapons system. "Though we are grateful for the vice president's interest in
Aug 13, 2018 | politics.theonion.com
WASHINGTON -- Suffering yet another unexpected setback during his ongoing investigation into foreign collusion with the Trump campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller scrambled Friday to contain the damage to his documents after spilling an entire Grape Crush Big Gulp all over his Russia evidence. "No, no, no! No! Aw,
Aug 13, 2018 | www.counterpunch.org
I had just finished exercising and went to the sauna. The gym I go to is a modern facility with new equipment and is very popular in our city.
My favorite parts are the sauna and the steamer. Both remind me of my old country – Russia. Though, to be politically and geographically correct – I never lived in Russia: I was born and raised in one of the fifteen republics of the former USSR – the republic of Kazakhstan.
So, I am a Russian from Kazakhstan. It's kind of confusing for Americans, and when twenty-six years ago my American wife brought me here, the customs official gave me an alien card where my nationality was stated not Russian but Kazakh. My friends make fun of me, because Russians and Kazakhs are like apples and oranges. We look different
In 1992, when I arrived in America, the relationship between the two cold war rivals was excellent: Americans traveled to Russia, opening McDonalds, KFC's, Burger Kings, and other businesses, and Russians were opening not only their hearts but even the secrets of the overthrown KGB. Millions of Russians and Americans enjoyed such a "romance" between the two most powerful nuclear countries in the world.
Not anymore! Every morning I wake up to the words, "Russia is terrible," and go to sleep with the humiliating jokes of the "night-show-clowns" about "the dictator" Putin and "barbaric" Russians, whose 13 hackers changed the electoral minds of millions of naïve Americans. Wow! What a powerful "gasoline station country"- Russia, as Senator McCain calls it.
If in 1992 the people in my city who heard my accent were very nice to me and to Russia, now the usual reaction is to stare at me like a goat at the newly painted gates. One of my neighbors even yelled at me when I answered his question about my recent trip to Russia. I told him: "Russians like Putin because he saved their country from collapse. I saw with my own eyes how Russia has changed since my last trip there. I didn't see the impact of Obama's sanctions, Russians have better roads, than we have in Colorado; the shops, are filled with all kinds of products; the churches are restored "
My neighbor who didn't like Trump yelled at me: "If you like Russia go back to your country!" My answer was: "I love Russia but I am American – like your immigrant wife, like you. I love America for a lot of reasons, one of them – the right to speak! Nobody should privatize this right." He ran away, later coming to apologize
My wife, knowing my hard-tempered character asks me not to talk about policy – Putin-Trump anymore. And I don't, to a certain degree. However, when someone asks me about Russia or Putin I usually answer, giving my point of view; I just cannot be silent. I was silent for 40+ years living in the USSR, not anymore! Of course, not everyone likes my answers, like the man I am going to tell you about.
So, I went into the sauna; a stout man was sitting on the upper bench. He was the same age as I. Many of the older men in America call ourselves "old farts." The name is not offensive to us, because we really do not care about our image, and because we like to make jokes about everything, mostly about ourselves. Usually, we old farts are nice, we love to talk, even in the sauna. Young people nowadays do not talk. They turn on their phones even in the sauna – I bet they do not know how to talk with other people. They cover their "secrets" in towels while we do not – we do not have any secrets anymore.
Anyway, the man said hello to me, I answered, and he caught my slight accent.
"Where are you from?" It's a question I am usually asked.
"From here." I answered.
He was a little confused. I knew what usually followed if I had said – "from Kazakhstan." Usually, there would be an exchange of this type: "Where is it?" – "Between Russia and China," – "How do you like it here?" The silly film "Borat" helped me for a short period of time. People were smiling, as if they met Sasha Cohen, and I was happy that at least they knew some geography, though the film was silly and the geography in it was completely mistaken.
"No, I mean originally where are you from?" The guy, let's call him Tony, found the right question.
I decided not to check his geography skills and said that I came from Russia. The dialog that followed was remarkable. Here it is.
"Welcome to America! Your English is pretty good!"
"Yours, too." He didn't get my humor. "Just joking," I said, "As for welcoming, it's a little late: I have lived here for 25 years."
"Have you been in Russia lately?" He asked.
"Yes, I go there every year."
"Wow. So, what do you think about that crazy guy , Pyutin?"
"Sorry, honey," – I apologized to my wife in my thoughts and picked up the gauntlet. "You mean Putin? He is not crazy. Actually, he is one of the smartest rulers Russia ever had." I said.
Tony's eyes nearly leaped from their sockets. "But he is a dictator and kills people!"
"I wouldn't call him a dictator – he was just last week elected by nearly 67% of Russians. I would call him an authoritarian, strong ruler; but a weak ruler in Russia wouldn't survive a day. Besides, there were seven people opposed him in the election!"
Tony smiled. "You call it an election? He chose the opponents himself from his friends. The whole world knows that elections in Russia are a sham!"
"Who told you this nonsense, Tony? Did you listen to the debates? Did you hear how these people yelled at each other and cursed Putin, asking people to vote for them not for Putin. They really were as tough as Hillary to Donald! And besides, there were a lot of observers from 110 countries. They claimed the election was legitimate."
"No, I do not believe you."
"You may not believe me but I am citing the international organizations reports. You may check their reports on the Internet yourself. You may even sue these organizations if you wish."
Tony was silent for a minute, then turned his head to me and asked: "You know that Pyutin is evil even to his own people?"
"You mean Putin? Who told you? How many Russians share your opinion?"
"Is he Russian?"
"No, but he knows that Pyutin is KGB."
"His name is Putin!" I tried to correct at least this in his mind. "So, you do not believe me, a Russian, who just returned from Russia, but you believe this Senator, who hates Putin and Russia? Besides, there are no KGB anymore."
"But he used to be KGB?"
"Yes, and Bush H. was also a CIA agent. So, what? After the collapse of the Soviet Union there were no people who didn't work for government in that country, we all worked for government! Putin is good for Russia, he is the brightest politician nowadays. He is like a great Chess-master, and he is a dangerous player. We must be careful with him. Some Congressmen are underestimating Russia, calling it "a gasoline station with nukes," but I was there this summer and saw with my own eyes how much people love Putin, and how much he is doing to make that country great again."
"Yeh, yeh, yeh " Tony didn't know what to say. Then he recalled something and turned his red face to me. "Well, he invaded Crimea, and Ukraine!"
"No, he did not. Crimea was a harbor for the Russian navy, and according to the treaty between Ukraine and Russia there were sixteen thousand Russian troops stationed there on a permanent base. There were about twenty-three thousand Ukrainian troops there, too. So, when the thugs in Kiev took power, illegally kicking out president Yanukovych and killing the political opponents, the Crimean people decided to organize a referendum. Ninety-six percent decided to reunite with Russia, as they were Russians for nearly 400 years before the Communist dictator Khrushchev gave that peninsula to Ukraine as a present to his native land."
"But they had no right to secede from the main land of Ukraine!"
"Yes, they did. International law gives the right for self-determination to people. Remember, we split from the British Empire."
"But it was so long ago!"
"Okay, what about East and West Germany or Kosovo? The people in these countries also exercised their right of self-determination, but they didn't have any referendum as far as I know."
Tony looked at me attentively. "I don't believe you."
"You have the right not to believe me. You asked, I answered."
Tony was silent for a while. Then he threw out his last argument. "I hope you wouldn't deny that Putin killed British citizens recently, using KGB gas!"
Wow, he pronounced "Putin" correctly! I smiled. The nice face of my American wife appeared in my head again, and she was not happy! I kissed her in my thoughts and finished the conversation with my last knockout blow:
"I wouldn't deny it if the poisoning by Russians had been proved!"
"But it was proved by Teresa May!"
"Really? What did she say?"
"She said that it was Putin who poisoned the British citizens!"
"Not really, my friend. She said that it was "highly likely" that Russia did it! Besides, only Mr. Skripal is a British citizen, his daughter is a Russian citizen"
"Does it make any difference?"
"You mean, "highly likely" is proof to punish somebody? What about one of the main pillars of democracy – innocent until proven guilty?"
"But we believe our allies, not the Russians!"
That statement made me laugh. "You believe not facts but political statements without any facts? Wow! What kind of democracy is that?"
Tony's face became so red that I was afraid it would melt. He stood up from the bench and without looking at me firmly said:
"Russians are our enemies, and democracy does not apply to them."
He left, leaving me with a sudden fear of approaching nuclear war.
At night I prayed for peace. I prayed for American and Russian people-in-power who could easily destroy this fragile planet. If people refuse to understand each other, they fight. Kennedy and Khrushchev fortunately understood this. Will Putin and Trump understand?
Pavel Kozhevnikov was born in Kazakhstan. In 1992 he married an American woman and relocated to Colorado, USA, where he worked in a variety of business ventures and taught various subjects including Russian at Mitchell High School as well as at Pikes Peak Community College and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Pavel continues to enjoy teaching Russian at the local community college and university and devotes his free time to writing. He has published four books of stories and poems as well as numerous articles for newspapers and journals in Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Aug 12, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
ambrit , , November 26, 2016 at 4:46 pmanimalogic , , November 28, 2016 at 12:15 am
Reactionaries will be purged. The Markets of Historical Determinism will demand it. Cut to view of parade down Main Street USA of politicians and business people with computer keyboards hung around their necks. Many wear signs around their necks proclaiming their crimes. "I facilitated consumers to buy insurance policies for the ACA," says one. "I front ran the market for Uncle Sam," says another.
The lines of armed guards lining the parade route are there to protect the penitents, as various short action shots show. The crowd is in an ugly mood. Storm clouds lower in the distance.
"Storm clouds lower in the distance". Camera pans, penitents trudge dejectedly up hill, to silhouette of Guillotine. Steady rain begins. End shot.
Aug 11, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
OTOH, remember all that money Jill raised from Dems for the recount ?Former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein raised millions of dollars in 2016 to pay for a recount after the electoral victory of President Donald Trump.
However, Stein's fundraising for the recount significantly exceeded what was actually needed to pay for it -- and she tried to reassure her donors that their money would still be well spent by promising to give them a say in how it got used.
However, the Daily Beast reports that Stein has so far not kept that promise and is instead using money raised from her "recount" campaign to pay for legal bills related to investigations into her possible contacts with Russia.
Aug 11, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
FDR's Speech Did NOT Have Any "Work With Both Sides" Nonsense @The Voice In the Wilderness
Fear is how you
forcepersuade your own side and political opponents into falling in line and supporting your policy ideas.
It's ironic that arguably the best-loved Democratic president ever came from a very privileged background, connected with working class people, and absolutely did not need the presidency to complete his life. The same guy who was stuck in a wheelchair for most of his life and successfully guided the country (and the world) through two of the worst crises ever in modern life -- the Great Depression and World War II.
Aug 09, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
You see, tolerance cuts both ways.
This isn't an easy pill to swallow, I know, but that's the way free speech works, especially when it comes to tolerating speech that we hate.
" Free speech for me but not for thee " is how my good friend and free speech purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard.
Aug 08, 2018 | www.goodreads.com
"We're the propaganda monkeys.
The digital download junkies.
The skunk smoking geezers
With an inflatable Jesus.
We're the kitsch and cool.
Divide and rule."
― Harry Whitewolf , Propaganda Monkeys - Twenty Poems From My Twenties: 1996 - 2006
Aug 08, 2018 | www.unz.com
Bliss , August 4, 2018 at 4:17 am GMT
the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem which was an incredibly stupid act
How so? It's done and no one cares.
At the very least it could be a safer location for the US Embassy than Tel Aviv if there is a war against Iran. For religious reasons.
Sep 30, 2017 | thefinereport.com
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Aug 07, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
clarky90 , August 3, 2018 at 5:15 pm
Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers : March 3, 1937
From the reports and the debates on these reports heard at this plenum, it is evident that we are dealing with the following three main facts.
First, the wrecking and diversionist-espionage work of agents of foreign countries , among whom a rather active role was played by the Trotskyists, affected more or less all, or nearly all, of our organizations-economic, administrative, and Party.
Second, agents of foreign countries, among them the Trotskyites , penetrated not only into lower organizations, but also into certain responsible posts.
Third, some of our leading comrades, both at the center and at the periphery, not only failed to discern the face of these wreckers, diversionists, spies, and killers, but proved to be so careless, complacent, and naive that at times they themselves assisted in promoting agents of foreign states to responsible posts.
These are the three incontrovertible facts which naturally emerge from the reports and the discussions on them "
Aug 07, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
... ... ...
Dozens of Saudi accounts sent the copy/paste tweet below to various addressees. They were retweeted thousands of times.خالد بن عبدالله آل سعود @KAFTA78 - 18:29 utc - 5 Aug 2018
- Replying to @CanEmbSA
In Saudi Arabia we feel worried about Canada committing cultural genocide against Indigenous people. We also support the right of Quebec to become an independent nation.
839 retweets 630 Likes
Donald Trump will follow the Canadian Saudi dispute with strong interest. He believes that "giving Canada their independence" was "the biggest mistake America ever made". In May he accused Canada of burning down the White House. It is high time to take revenge for that insult.
Canada has a controversial $15 billion deal to provide Saudi Arabia with more than 900 'Light Armored Vehicles', 40% of which are actually a Heavy Assault type. The sanctimonious Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called them 'jeeps'. He approved the export permits despite the acknowledged use of these tanks against internal Saudi resistance and in the Saudi rape of Yemen. Donald Trump will happily accept the Saudi request to move the deal to U.S. production lines.
There are rumors of a joint CIA-Saudi operation to arm Québécois moderate rebels for their fight against the repressive regime in Ottawa. Codenamed Acor Sycamore , the operation will purchase weapons in Bulgaria and Croatia and secretly ship those to CIA trained freedom fighters. The Saudis will redeploy their al-Qaeda and ISIS from Syria to occupy Canadian tar sands. The Israeli cyber spy company the Saudis hired to attack Amnesty International will be redirected towards Ottawa. Mossad will send agents to sabotage Canada's Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve . The move will increase demand for U.S. syrup products.
Canada should note that its independence - graciously granted by Trump's America - can be revoked. The man who desires to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN may come to see the re-acquisition of the oil-rich but empty north American space as the climax of his political career.
Today's AP piece on the Saudi-U.S.-Al-Qaeda alliance in Yemen and the Saudi '9/11 in Canada' tweet are not unrelated.
Justin Trudeau must immediately hop on a plane to Moscow and ask for Russia's support. Firing his anti-Russian , Nazi descendant foreign minister may help to gain Putin's grace.
Trump's MAGA intentions are well known. The message the Saudis sent is clear. The CN Tower will fall. Ottawa will be besieged. It is high time for Trudeau to act.
Aug 06, 2018 | angrybearblog.com
Aug 05, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
CB on Sat, 08/04/2018 - 7:41pm
Whether it will be Dems or Repugs will be HIS decision and his alone. All we can do is wait till the results are in. Putin is in full control of American politics and there is not a damn thing the people can do about it because he has mastered The Force.
The Force is so powerful, that only a few hundred of seemingly innocuous tweets and Facebook ads strategically placed around the country can cause most American's brains to be zombified and vote Putin's desires.
If you don't believe Putin has mastered the Force then explain why Russia can match the American military on a budget less than 1/10th of the US?
Aug 05, 2018 | www.rt.com
A Russian company spends 72p on Facebook ads: interference, hybrid war, parliamentary inquiry
Soros spends £400K on bringing down UK Government: nothing to worry about
Aug 03, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Bernard , August 2, 2018 at 6:55 pm
Bill and Newt agreed to the "selling of the America." It was labeled as the "Contract for America." When, really, it was a "Contract ON America".!
Jul 31, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
STEPHEN COHEN: ...Are the Russians still targeting our elections?" This is in the category "Are you still beating your wife?" There is no proof that the Russians have targeted or attacked our elections. But it's become axiomatic. What kind of media is that, are the Russians still, still attacking our elections.
And what Michael McFaul, whom I've known for years, formerly Ambassador McFaul, purportedly a scholar and sometimes a scholar said, it is simply the kind of thing, to be as kind as I can, that I heard from the John Birch Society about President Eisenhower when he went to meet Khrushchev when I was a kid growing up in Kentucky.
...to stage a kangaroo trial of the president of the United States in the mainstream media, and have plenty of once-dignified people come on and deliver the indictment, is without precedent in this country
Jul 31, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Ignatius -> FEDbuster Mon, 07/30/2018 - 21:38 Permalink
Can't waste resources here at home assuring sound drinking water for all, no, we need to attack Iran because as the rumor has it that the "undemocratic"
Ayatollah is denying his people the benefits of premium drinking water. Or something like that. I get confused.
Jul 29, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
athena , July 28, 2018 at 8:37 pmBrooklin Bridge , July 28, 2018 at 10:25 pm
I think a lot of people only watch Maher to see what the guests have to say. Watching Real Time just means knowing you're going to have to grit your teeth through his snide nonsense. I think of him as the very embodiment of this problem:
Terrific article, thanks for the link. Vanity Dem – what a great epithet for Maher!
Zero Hedge
The First Rule -> Skateboarder Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:17 PermalinkKatos -> Consuelo Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:56 Permalink
"Clinton's stop in Amsterdam came as a surprise to locals"
Bill Clinton stops in the Red Light District, and it comes as a SURPRISE???????????????????MasterPo -> bluez Fri, 07/27/2018 - 17:39 Permalink
I think consent age in Amsterdam IS 10, so, that's why Bill's there!!Consuelo Fri, 07/27/2018 - 15:56 Permalink
"I did not have sex with that woman, or that one over there, or those, or any of those..."DownWithYogaPants -> Croesus Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:04 Permalink
Perfect spot for 'ole Billy Jeff.J S Bach -> BennyBoy Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:54 Permalink
Why? Did he not pay them? ...Herdee Fri, 07/27/2018 - 15:57 Permalink
"The protesters demanded the decriminalization, respect and protection of sex workers and drug users"
Well... they're talkin' to the right guy!Banana Republican -> Herdee Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:01 Permalink
Maybe he's there just to smoke a few joints and pick up some good quality Cannabis seeds?
Dude, it's Amsterdam, not Washington DC.
Jul 27, 2018 | irrussianality.wordpress.com
January 11, 2017
PaulR 14 Comments
'Human intelligence compiled from anonymous sources is known to be the most reliable basis on which to form judgements about important events. Nothing else provides such detailed insider information from the very heart of enemy institutions.
'It is time people knew the truth. I have decided that it is necessary to reveal my own notes from underground (scribbled on a table napkin in invisible ink this morning and just now squirted with lemon juice). I cannot, of course, identify my sources, but I might suggest that you look up Richard Meinertzhagen's "dirty paper method" (see footnote). I can also claim that I have access to the highest echelons of the Russian government through somebody who knows somebody, who is related to somebody, who went to school with somebody, whose neighbour sharpens Vladimir Putin's hockey skates.
'These sources of mine tell me that the plot to place Donald Trump in the White House was hatched not five years ago as claimed in the BuzzFeed report, but 13 years ago at an exclusive banya in Sokolniki.
'According to Source BS, the concept for what became known as Operatsiia Tuz emerged during a sweaty discussion over a dozen bottles of vodka, when oligarch Viktor Bogatyi announced that he had an idea for a new television show. Aspiring kleptocrats would audition for a job as Bogatyi's assistant and the losers would be eliminated one by one with his famous catchphrase 'You're shot!'
Hearing this, a senior GRU agent, Max Otto von Stierlitz, after a pause of seventeen moments, suggested an alternative. Why not, said Stierlitz, pass the idea for the TV show on to Donald Trump to use as a vehicle for making himself popular among the American people? It would be the perfect mechanism to gradually push the Donald into a position from which he could become President of the United States of America. The rest, as they say, is history.'
(See https://irrussianality.word... .)
Jul 27, 2018 | thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com
I had this crazy dream last night. It must have been next year sometime, because it was the opening ceremony for the Nord Stream II pipeline, in Germany. President Putin was there for the ribbon-cutting ceremony (naturally), flanked by a beaming Gerhard Schroeder and Donald Tusk. Maros Sefcovic was aglow with bonhomie as he presented the ceremonial silver shears, and a beaming Petro Poroshenko, backed by members of the Atlantic Council, applauded politely as Mr. Putin stepped forward to cut the ribbon.
As the two cut ends fluttered to the floor, a pig flew in through the open window, and described a lazy parabola around the ceiling fixture. Stroking past me, it executed a casual barrel-roll, winked, and burst into a cloud of red sparks: Lady Ashton – caught in mid-clap – exclaimed, "Gosh!"
It looked like a Berkshire to me, although I am not a reliable judge of swine.
Jul 27, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
khnum Thu, 07/26/2018 - 22:37 Permalinkswissthinker -> khnum Fri, 07/27/2018 - 00:43 Permalink
Is it just me that thinks a frontal lobotomy would actually improve the iq of half of your Congress.Justin Case -> VWAndy Thu, 07/26/2018 - 23:04 Permalink
Only half?Dragon HAwk Thu, 07/26/2018 - 23:35 Permalink
A liar spins a web of deceit and eventually gets caught in his own web.kahuna1 Thu, 07/26/2018 - 23:43 Permalink
i was hoping they were going to say, Putin said, hey trump if you want to get a private message to me just whisper into the ball.MoreFreedom Fri, 07/27/2018 - 00:16 Permalink
I love watching the msm and deepstate fucks spin over a f...ing soccer ball! Too funny!
I mean shitting bricks over a ball! HAHAHA Who is the joke on now?
Democrat logic: Trump is a Putin puppet; therefore, Putin is trying to bug him. LOL
Jul 27, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
Publius Tacitus -> TTG , 17 hours agoYep, you're a real James Bond. So they've been recruiting Trump for 21 years? Not 5? Not 8? Did you even read the damn dossier? Not a word about "duping." The claim is that Trump was actively collaborating and that Putin's press guy was the mastermind in this bullshit.
Jul 26, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
man from glad -> z0na8an0z Thu, 07/26/2018 - 23:01 PermalinkBlackChicken -> tenpanhandle Thu, 07/26/2018 - 22:59 Permalink
Packing a bunch of Godless hyenas into bunkers together doesn't sound much like a plan for survival imo.
"How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?"
You don't idiot, you get killed and security takes all your stuff including the women.
Jul 25, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.com
- The Porkchop Express , 6 hours agoWoodford Reserve and Jefferson Reserve are both really rather lovely bourbons... takes out the fire and keeps in the warmth.
Curious if anyone here has seen Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series, "Who is America?" ? It's the same schtick Cohen's been doing for years, some of which can be very funny. But two episodes in he's already managed to get a few Republican lawmakers doing and saying some pretty outlandish things.
The MSNBC/Brooklyn crowd are making hay about it, of course. But interestingly enough it appears like he got the level of access he did (including getting Dick Cheney to sign a "waterboarding jug") because he was presenting himself as an ex IDF Colonel. Not sure if it was part of his intention or not, but beyond mocking American public figures it is also putting it out there that most politicos in DC will do anything--no matter how ridiculous or offensive--for the chosen people.
Jul 23, 2018 | turcopolier.typepad.comPatrick Armstrong -> Jack , 9 hours agoObama married the neocons to the humanitarian bombers to the SJWs. It's a powerful bond.Valissa Rauhallinen -> Patrick Armstrong , 8 hours agoGreat insight! I'm adding that to my Favorite Quotes archive.
As I pondered more deeply on your insight, I tried to imagine how the courtship proceeded. IMO, it was Clinton who presided over the engagement of the neocons to the humanitarian bombers (R2P'ers). Then under Bush the relationship initially strengthened due to 9/11 until the Iraq war became such an obvious mess that there was a brief cooling of ardor due to a still significant antiwar contingent in the Dem party. Under Obama the antiwar Dems began to suffer something like "Stockholm syndrome" as few were willing to protest against the black president of their SJW fantasies. This set the final stage for the neocons and R2P'ers to commit to each other in "marriage" who then "adopted" the SJW's as their useful idiots.
Jul 22, 2018 | www.zerohedge.com
Jul 20, 2018 | caucus99percent.com
extracted from: The Trouble With Accusing Trump (and others) of Treason caucus99percent
Snode on Thu, 07/19/2018 - 6:49pmI love itdfarrah on Thu, 07/19/2018 - 9:06pm
@detroitmechworks "Remember that charge! Treason! For when you know you're right, and the other guy needs to shut the fuck up."*
* For discerning Neo Liberals everywhere. Not responsible for typos or assassinations. American Express only.I guess they have
tried everything else to overthrow Trump.
The hysteria coming from the spooks is unbelievable. What is it that Mueller, Brennan, Clapper and the rest of that cabal is trying to hide?
Jul 18, 2018 | www.counterpunch.org
Extracted from: Trump's Treasonous Traitor Summit or How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism by CJ Hopkins
So it appears America and democracy have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit or Trump's meeting with his Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the corporate media would dearly like us all to believe. NATO has not been summarily dissolved. Poland has not been invaded by Russia.
The offices of The New York Times , The Washington Post , CNN, and MSNBC have not been stormed by squads of jackbooted Trumpian Gestapo.
The Destabilization of the Middle East, the Privatization of Virtually Everything, the Conversion of the Planet into One Big Shopping Mall, and other global capitalist projects are all going forward uninterrupted. Apart from Trump making a narcissistic, word-salad-babbling jackass of himself, which he does on a more or less daily basis, nothing particularly apocalyptic happened.
And so, once again, Western liberals, and others obsessed with Donald Trump, having been teased into a painfully tumescent paroxysm of anticipation of some unimaginably horrible event that would finally lead to Trump's impeachment (or his removal from office by other means) were left standing around with their hysteria in their hands. It has become a sadistic ritual at this point like a twisted, pseudo-Tantric exercise where the media get liberals all lathered up over whatever fresh horror Trump has just perpetrated (or some non-story story they have invented out of whole cloth), build the tension for several days, until liberals are moaning and begging for impeachment, or a full-blown CIA-sponsored coup, then pull out abruptly and leave the poor bastards writhing in agony until the next time which is pretty much exactly what just happened.
In the days and weeks leading up to the summit, the global capitalist ruling class Resistance deployed every weapon in its mighty arsenal to whip the Western masses up into a frenzy of anti-Putin-Nazi fervor. While continuing to flog the wildly popular baby concentration camp story (because the Hitler stimulus never fails to elicit a Pavlovian response from Americans, regardless of how often or how blatantly you use it), the corporate media began hammering hard on the "Trump is a Russian Agent" hysteria. (Normally, the corporate media alternates between the Hitler hysteria and the Russia hysteria so as not to completely short-circuit the already scrambled brains of Western liberals, but given the imminent threat of a peace deal , they needed to go the whole hog this time and paint this summit as a secret, internationally televised assignation between Hitler and well, Hitler).
Jul 16, 2018 | www.moonofalabama.org
This before-after advertisement for Novichok perfume, featuring Yulia Skripal, made the rounds a while ago.
Pft , Jul 16, 2018 5:31:04 PM | 22
biggerI guess whats even more pathetic about these stories like Skripal , perfume bottle/door knob Knovickok and Russia Gate is so many people believe them. Witness the hysteria over the TP Summit in US media/comments. Without functioning brain cells escape from the Matrix is impossible, and even then you have to have time to think anout matters beyond entertainment and survival, and many people don't have the time in this neoliberal world of ours.Ort , Jul 16, 2018 5:35:51 PM | 23
Lets face it, outside an alien intervention to save humans we are done. Lets hope that mission manual they bring " To Serve Man" is not a cookbookI didn't realize that the Amerikan child/adolescent party game had metastasized and moved across the water-- but the Skripal farce has turned into a game of Spin the Bottle , writ large. [Wikipedia link]
Jul 16, 2018 | consortiumnews.comO Society , July 14, 2018 at 8:29 am
Is it just me, or does Dimitri Alperovitch look like a guy who's making p*rn movies in a van that drives all round the city?
Jul 16, 2018 | www.nakedcapitalism.com
Watt4Bob , July 16, 2018 at 7:39 am
investigative journalist Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News.
Does anyone else see how appropriate it is that a nation of yahoos should get their 'news' , ahem, misinformation, from from a source so aptly named?
The truth is hiding in plain sight, we're being led by the nose, to God knows where, apparently around in circles, all so a few insanely rich a**holes can become more insanely rich.
I don't know about you, but I was a lot happier back when I could blame all our problems on the republicans.
This free-for-all, bat-sh*t crazy propaganda surge, if nothing else, has made plain what our betters think of us.
Investigative journalism courtesy of Yahoo News, what will they think of next, intelligence services working tirelessly to keep America safe in a dangerous world?
Jun 15, 2018 | www.unz.com
anonymous [739] Disclaimer , June 14, 2018 at 12:31 pm GMTCan't believe any sane American thinks Russians – including beautiful Russian tennis players are more of a threat to us in 2018 then say M13 Gang banger invaders, Chicago Black street gangs, Afghan and Pakistani child rapists or just the sub Saharan Black African mobs with their machetes.
We commissioned some Farstar cartoons on this theme – seems pretty basic to me, but the J media mafia simply goes on and on – there is supposedly a Russian spy behind every bush, some Russians posted anti Hillary posts on Facebook – oh the horror!
Jul 10, 2018 | www.unz.com
Here it comes, the moment we've been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to officially launch the Destruction of Democracy, and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That's right, folks, once again, it appears we're looking at the end of everything, because according to the corporate media, on July 16, 2018, Trump is probably going to disband NATO so that Putin can invade the Baltic states, then Germany, then the rest of Europe, and then presumably order an all-out thermonuclear strike on the United States, which will pretty much end civilization as we know it. Or perhaps the plan is to do away with NATO, withdraw all American troops from Poland , let Putin rape and pillage Western Europe, and then have North Korea nuke both coasts of the US mainland (and Canada, of course) so that a Putin-Nazified Middle Amerika will have carte blanche to exterminate the Mexicans and make women wear those "Handmaid" costumes, or some other ridiculously paranoid scenario, possibly involving Susan Sarandon as some kind of Putin-Nazi triple agent.
Tragically, the global neoliberal establishment is completely powerless to stop Trump and Putin from carrying out this evil scheme (whatever it turns out to be in the end), because even the US Intelligence Community has to obey the law, after all, and not do anything sneaky, or unethical, not even with the fate of democracy at stake. No, unlike the Russians, who go around blatantly poisoning people with novichok oatmeal more or less whenever they like, the global capitalist ruling classes' hands are tied by their own integrity. All they can do is watch in horror as these two Hitlerian megalomaniacs destroy their entire global empire and establish a thousand-year Putin-Nazi Reich.
Thank God at least the corporate media are raising their collective voices in protest. In a recent piece in The Washington Post , Max Bergmann of the Center for American Progress warns that "this is a summit about appeasement, and we should be terrified that Trump is going to sell out America and its allies." According to Bergmann, Trump might "accidentally" share state secrets with Putin, or promise to reduce support for our freedom-loving Ukrainian Nazis , or stop trying to overthrow the Syrian government so that Syria, with the help of Russia and Iran, can launch a sneak attack on Israel and drive "the Jews" into the sea. Worse still, Bergmann speculates, he might make "secret agreements" with Putin without telling the editors of The Washington Post , which God help us all if that ever happened.
Not to be out-apocalypsed by The Post , Roger Cohen of The New York Times published a full-blown dystopian vision wherein Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, the AfD, and a variety of other globalist-hating Hitler-alikes form "the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary States" (the "AARS"), disband the European Union and NATO, impose international martial law, and start ethnically cleansing the West of immigrants. Matteo Salvini and Horst Seehofer, decked out in full Putin-Nazi regalia, personally supervise the genocidal purges, which frightened Europeans come to support after Putin's irresistible "fake news" bots brainwash them into believing that a little Russian girl named "Tatiana" has been abducted by Moroccan migrants off a beach along the Costa del Sol.
And as if that wasn't horrifying enough to whip folks up into a mindless frenzy, The New York Times (which, let's remember, is an extremely distinguished and respected newspaper, and not at all a cheap propaganda rag) produced this charming little animated film depicting Putin and Trump as well, a couple of tongue-sucking, titty-pinching homos. I found this kind of weird at first, as I had thought such ugly anti-gay sentiment had disappeared from liberal society, but apparently it's fine in Resistance circles to stigmatize your enemies as butt-humping queers in order to render them more repulsive in the eyes of your sophisticated, liberal audience. I did a little research, and it appears this "Hitler on Hitler" porno The Times produced is just the latest in a rather long line of Trump on Putin "homo" jokes , which are perfectly harmless when told by liberals, but when told by conservatives are homophobic hate crimes.
Jul 11, 2018 | www.unz.com
Incitatus , June 30, 2018 at 8:17 pm GMT@Sam Shama
'Senator McConnell' always conjures the image and mannerisms of Colonel Sanders (ala Kentucky Fried Chicken). White planter suit, broad-brimmed hat, weak-chin goatee and unconvincing sales pitch.
Then again, beardless Mitch looks more like Toby Turtle, and what he delivers is rarely worth a bucket of greasy chicken.
Jun 27, 2017 | halfwaypost.com
Little Rock, AR --
Today at approximately 1:15pm, local Republican Voter Floyd Williams looked up Sharia law on a lunch break Google search and came to the startling realization that it actually seemed a lot like the Republican Party's political platform.
"Well, I had just finished my tuna sandwich and I was letting my mind wander a bit when it suddenly hit me that for all my fears of Muslims installing Sharia law in America, I didn't actually know the first thing about what Sharia law was or what it dictated," said Williams, in a phone interview with The Halfway Post this evening.
"So I did a quick google search and examined several sources, and I have to admit that what I read about Sharia law sounded an awful lot like some of the things Vice President Mike Pence or Ted Cruz believe."
When Williams got home from work he did a little more research, but the renewed study only intensified his worry that, by voting Republican for the last twenty years, he may have been already and unwittingly voting for Sharia law.
"From the GOP's religious-based opposition to ... , atheists holding public office, ..., the separation of church and state, taxing churches and faith organizations, and so on, it just seemed like Sharia Law might have already been installed here in my beloved Arkansas right under my nose," he said.
Williams shared his startling discovery with his wife, and though his wife Anne was skeptical at first, she too was quickly troubled by the Republican Party's seeming theocratic approach to political issues. She even came up with some Sharia-esque Republican policies that Floyd hadn't considered.
"My wife is as sharp as a tack," said Floyd, followed by a long list of more suspicious GOP ideas that his wife had added to his growing list. "The GOP is also against equal pay for women many Republicans in our state legislatures want women to be forced to birth babies after being raped or even if the pregnancy threatens their lives the Republican men in this town at least are all really fond of purity balls and pretending they own the keys to their daughters' virginities
Our other Republican friends are convinced we shouldn't worry about climate change because God will solve it if it's really a problem Republicans support Israel regardless of humanity crimes against Palestine over orthodox, apocalyptic hopes that Jesus will come back and all nonbelievers will burn in Hell I mean the list of Sharia-sounding Republican issues just goes on and on!"
Asked if he still considered himself a Republican after his existential epiphany, Williams was unsure.
"Honestly, I don't know what I am anymore," he said. "But I'll tell you what, I'm gonna start pointing this stuff out to my friends because I feel like all of us have been duped!"
Jul 08, 2018 | www.reddit.com
For anyone who wants more of the quotes:
"One of the most disturbing displays of Obama's lack of foreign policy expertise came during last year's YouTube debate," Hannity said Oct. 26, 2008. "The junior senator from Illinois gave what many called a naive answer for a question from the audience about whether he would meet with the leaders of Syria, Venezuela, Cuba or North Korea without preconditions."
"A huge foreign policy win for President Trump," Hannity said March 8. "Little Rocket Man blinks. Now, the president's tough rhetoric, his bold action, his severe sanctions, they appear to be working tonight. President Trump is accepting an invitation to meet with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un by May...
Jul 06, 2018 | www.nytimes.com
UpwisingEmpire of Debt and Illusions July 1
As a teacher I once had a 4th grader who was an inveterate liar. One could never believe a word that came out of his mouth yet the Principal, ever the Diplomat and Mistress of Understatement, counseled against referring to the child as a Pathological Liar during parent conferences (even though it was true, she agreed).
Instead she suggested pointing out that "Little Donald tends to draw the line between Fact and Fantasy in a Different Place that you and I might."
Jul 06, 2018 | www.nytimes.com
.Jim Houghton July 1
"Beyond repair"? Come on, Paul -- Trump is a disaster, a horrible mistake and a reminder that elections matter. But he's really pretty incompetent and weak. He's like a small, very clumsy bull in a china shop. Once he's chased out, the place will get swept out, things put back on the shelves and new stock purchased.