A blog about Islamic intolerance and fanaticism; socialism; communism; government stupidity; and lying weasels everywhere, hopefully couched in vibrant and literate English and foreign words that make us look good.
Wall Street paid out $18 billion in year-end bonuses last year [2008] to its New York City employees, after the government disbursed $243 billion in emergency assistance to the financial sector.Mr. Johnson's article is now over seven years old but it is still instructive on the unhealthy power of the financial sector in the U.S.
"The Quiet Coup." By Simon Johnson, The Atlantic, 5/09.
I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2017 wherein you will have very, very few occasions to listen to the thoughts of the Golfer-in-Chief.
If former Navy Petty Officer Ervin were air dropped (with parachute) into any of the black-ruled countries in this world, within a month she'd be begging to be allowed back into this land that she detests so much, that has wronged her with every breath that she takes.
The usual ignorant garbage relieved by a rare example of appropriate official action instead of the usual cowardice:
Petty Officer 2nd Class Janaye Ervin was promptly stripped of her security clearance, assigned to menial labor for a few days, then shown the exit hatch.Here's one of her soul mates:On Sept. 19, Ervin refused to stand for the anthem while on reserve duty at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. She claimed she was trying to make a statement about the persecution of blacks in America, the International Business Times reported.
“I just didn’t want to stand at that moment,” Ervin said. “I can’t stand for this song knowing that the song isn’t for me, being black. The song doesn’t represent me at all. To be honest, I never really thought about the flag my entire life, I had no reason to. It’s just a flag.”[1]
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[1] "Navy Sailor Forced to Do Manual Labor as Punishment for Refusing to Stand for National Anthem." By Shari Savage, Conservative Tribune, 12/30/16.
H/t: RightAlertsPolls.com..
Only liberal ideology calls for America and Europe to bring into their home countries endless numbers of migrants, without being overly concerned about who they are, whence they come or what they believe.
"Europeans Will Fight Back Against Invasion–No Matter What The NEW YORK TIMES Wants." By Pat Buchanan, VDARE.com, 12/22/16.
Compare his words and delivery to this moronic segment involving the glib, clueless Bill O'Reilly and the unhinged Ralph Peters, FoxNews's golden boy:
This is what passes for state-of-the-art media geopolitical analysis on America's premiere cable news channel.
O'Reilly (on how he'd interview Putin): "You're a guy who used to removed fingernails from people. Ok? The KBG interrogator. How's the best way to get my thumb fingernail off? What do you use? A nail file?" (1:54).O'Reilly: "You got to shake him up. Because he thinks he's the coolest cat in town." (2:06)
Peters: "He's ugly. He's ruthless. He's vicious." (2:46)
Peters: "The smallest of [the things Putin wants] is to humiliate Obama. He just doesn't like Obama. He's a racist. Period." (2:58)
O'Reilly: "He wants Assad the tyrant, butcher, brutal, chemical weapons guy to stay." (4:05)
Peters: "Putin's military sucks. The Russian military's a basket case. But, it is brutal . . . ." (4:51)
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It's not simply that other nations have no legitimate interests. The interests of other nations are in fact interests that are exclusively hostile to those of the U.S. The duty of other nations is to defer to U.S. interests as identified by the U.S. treason class. The exceptional, indispensable nation speaks and there will compliance.
Any foreign leader who opposes U.S. interests is ugly, ruthless, and vicious.
The plain truth is that Syria is the victim of a long-planned Joint Criminal Enterprise to destroy the last independent secular Arab nationalist state in the Middle East, following the destruction of Iraq in 2003. While attributed to government repression of “peaceful protests” in 2011, the armed uprising had been planned for years and was supported by outside powers: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United States and France, among others. The French motives remain mysterious, unless linked to those of Israel, which sees the destruction of Syria as a means to weaken its archrival in the region, Iran. Saudi Arabia has similar intentions to weaken Iran, but with religious motives. Turkey, the former imperial power in the region, has territorial and political ambitions of its own. Carving up Syria can satisfy all of them."Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise." By Diana Johnstone, CounterPunch, 10/4/16.This blatant and perfectly open conspiracy to destroy Syria is a major international crime, and the above-mentioned States are co-conspirators.
The timing of this ["humanitarian" website Avaaz] petition is eloquent. It comes exactly when the Syrian government is pushing to end the war by reconquering the eastern part of Aleppo. It is part of the massive current propaganda campaign to reduce public consciousness of the Syrian war to two factors: child victims and humanitarian aid.One hundred years after the start of the appalling bloodletting in WWI our reckless and arrogant neocon establishment are willing to propagate lies and distortions about one of the most pointless wars of our times. Fortunately, it's contained in a single Middle Eastern country that, incidentally, poses no threat to the U.S. or Europe whatsoever.In this view, the rebels disappear. So do all their foreign backers, the Saudi money, the Wahhabi fanatics, the ISIS recruits from all over the world, the U.S. arms and French support. The war is only about the strange whim of a “dictator”, who amuses himself by bombing helpless children and blocking humanitarian aid. This view reduces the five-year war in Syria to the situation as it was portrayed in Libya, to justify the no-fly zone: nothing but a wicked dictator bombing his own people.
For the public that likes to consume world events in fairy tale form, this all fits together. . . .
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The job of Avaaz is to get public opinion to oppose this military operation, by portraying it as nothing but a joint Russian-Syrian effort to murder civilians, especially children.[1]
Whatever the reason for U.S. prosecution of this strange war that has us allied with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, al-Qaida and ISIS, for the love of God, it is a deep dark secret that won't be shared with the American people any time soon.
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[1] "Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise." By Diana Johnstone, CounterPunch, 10/4/16.
To wit:
H/t: Leo Hohmann, World Net Daily.
[Obama] also destroyed Libya, the most prosperous, developed nation in North Africa. As expected, his justification for doing so was later revealed to be massive baloney bullshit.[1]Some people just have a way with words.
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[1] "Russian Foreign Ministry: Entire World 'Disgusted' by Obama's Disastrous Foreign Policy." By Matthew Allen, Russia Insider, 12/26/16.
You see, the US strategic goal in Syria is not as your faithful mainstream media servants (led by that redoubtable channeler of Neo-Con smokescreens at the NYT Michael Gordon) might have you believe to save the Syrian people from the ravages of the long-standing Assad dictatorship, but rather to heighten the level of internecine conflict in that country to the point where it will not be able to serve as a bulwark against Israeli regional hegemony for at least another generation."US Caught Faking It in Syria." By Thomas S. Harrington, CounterPunch, 10/12/15.How do we know? Because important protagonists in the Israelo-American policy planning elite have advertised the fact with a surprising degree of clarity in documents and public statements issued over the last several decades.
