Guest Post by Kurt Nimmo
Is it possible Senator Tom Cotton ghostwrites fairy tales on his days off from Congress? Cotton and his neocon buddies are pretty good at making things up.
For instance:
Europe must not give in to Tehran’s nuclear blackmail as the ayatollahs threaten to renew their rush toward the bomb. UK, Germany, & France ought to walk away from their financial backchannels w/ Iran & join us in imposing maximum pressure on the regime.https://t.co/3IqHudWJnV
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) May 8, 2019
But you really don’t get the full impact unless you read the unabridged statement posted May 8 on his Senate webpage.
Europe must not give in to Tehran’s nuclear blackmail as the ayatollahs threaten to renew their rush toward the bomb. The United Kingdom, Germany, and France ought to walk away from their financial backchannels with Iran and join the United States in imposing maximum pressure on the regime. The United States will remain steadfast in its approach until Iran abandons its nuclear and missile programs and support for terrorism.
Nuclear blackmail.
This is the central theme of the fairy tale. Iran is making progress on a nuclear weapon. But like a lot of things the neocons claim, there isn’t a whole lot of evidence Iran is anywhere near developing a nuclear bomb, or even that it wants one.
The JCPOA is an agreement in part allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to verify Iran’s compliance. It also allowed the IAEA“wider access to, and information on, Iran’s nuclear program and implements a more robust verification system.”
But, of course, we can’t have that.
The idea Iran is ruled by irrational religious fanatics determined to attack the Great Satan America and especially the Zionist state of Israel. It’s taken as uncontested fact these wild-eyed mullahs will nuke both if they can successfully cobble together an atomic bomb.
This idea must be implanted in the head of the average American through all-pervasive propaganda fed into social media, television, radio, and the internet at large.
Most Americans really don’t have a handle on what is happening. The illusion they believe is delivered in controlled fashion by corporate propaganda media network news, talk radio, countless videos on the internet, and above all social media.
Can you blame them?
It’s difficult enough making ends meet in this economy. It is managed by a financial elite and jimmy-rigged by a Federal Reserve and its monetary policies. Much wealth has gone to the crony capitalists, their industries are instrumental to the functioning of a national security state.
The so-called one percent is in fact more like the 0.01 percent. The average Joe and Jane are steadily losing ground in a dwindling and cannibalized middle class gutted by inflation, the offshoring and robotizing of employment, taxation, and ever-increasing government mandates, fees, fines, and revenue generation by militarized police at the local level.
The parasite is about to kill the host.
Economic disaster is now casting a portentous shadow. But what is the main concern in a neocon-ized WH?
Iran. Venezuela.
Saving Israel (from itself and its superannuated racist ideology).
Forcing a “peace deal” scribbled out by a Zionist and friend of Netanyahu who supports illegal settlers and their often violent response to Palestinians.
North Korea. Kim started up his missile program again.
Is this a third front for Trump and his Crusade Against the Oil and Commie Evildoers?
The national debt is an asteroid ready to hit America. No, it’s not as popular as the other asteroid, the one NASA says might get us like the one that killed off the dinosaurs. It’s like a Hollywood movie, another gripping disaster flick.
But the debt—what we owe the banks and other countries—is very rarely talked about, and certainly not made into a mini-series.
Instead, we get fairy tales, official lies and fabrications.
We’re stuck with war (again) and the tab for that and everything else the financial elite have us on the hook for, including having us foot a gambling debt in the billions.
But even that was a ruse designed to funnel more money up into the maw of an insatiable and criminal uber-wealthy leviathan.
Reprinted with permission from KurtNimmo.blog.
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I think I read the first “Iran is only six months away from a nuclear weapon” headline sometime around 2000, maybe the year before. They’d whip up a frenzy until a different story came along and then it would recede for a while until the next time they wanted to ramp up anxiety around Iran. This has been going on for almost twenty years, the origin of the story is always from Israel’s perspective or security services and until Obama started sending planeloads of cash to Iran- yes, that actually happened- it kind of took a back seat for a big chunk oof his Presidency.
And now it’s back again.
Just like the 11 million illegal alien number (also used for 20 years) these repetitive “stories” are recycled whenever they want something and people-as far as I can tell- neither notice the impossible discrepancies between reality and claims, nor question it, not ever.
Just to be clear: Those planeloads of money were (some of) IRAN’S money that we had stolen (impounded) years ago.
“Just like the 11 million illegal alien number ….”
What about that 6 million number?
Something never exists until it does.
If you think the wars against Iraq and Afghanistan (population roughly 25 mil each) went swimmingly, you’re going to love war with Iran (pop. 82 mil).
FWIW, Russia and China have drawn their lines in the sand around Iran … probably more to it than Owebomber’s lines in the sand.
I think we should give those towel heads a nuclear weapon – right up the ass.
Iran is your friend, Dutchman. He hates Israel.
Robert (QSLV)
“I think we should give those towel heads a nuclear weapon – right up the ass.”
If Zara were still here he (she?) would kick your fucken’ ass all the way to Tehran.
For me, it’s hard to do assessments based on any international articles concerning Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia or China. Concerning the nuclear threat from Iran; does it matter if they can produce a nuclear weapon, when it is just as easy to find a nation already possessing a weapon who is willing to share that holds similar dislikes of America? I note how the latest North Korean launch was assessed as being similar to a Russian design.
But just who is our enemy; any of the above mentioned countries? Or maybe the better question, which nation will benefit from America’s loss of its position of dominance? One answer is they all will, which is why focusing on strengthening America economically as well as defensively is the path I think we should be taking.
This was one of Trumps promises, yet it seems America is moving in the opposite direction, at which point the question becomes, is our real enemy external or internal, in moving us to a weaker position in the face of so many threats?
Sadly, things are becoming less clear as time marches on, which leaves me with the conclusion that we are living in dangerous times, when major shifts in the balance of power will be happening in the very near future; and most likely, we will not see it coming, when it hits.
You know the drill. Live, love and prep; for our days as America are numbered and we have been found lacking. Make your heart right with God and begin listening to your conscience; it will become your most important asset as the world spins more and more out of control.
Why worry about Pakistan when we can lay awake worrying about Iran and North Korea? Also the boogeyman.
Always well spoken as usual, Not Sure. The only aspect I’d alter is to listen to Paul (that part of the Bible written to us) rather then my own conscious. I can come up with rationalizations for just about anything.
This is what I refer to as “Unicorn AmeriKa”. The lies that the American people are fed and never check out the stories to see if there true or not, is on the same level of naivete that if their government told them that unicorns were grazing on the White house lawn.
I am afraid that the U.S. citizens are S.O.S.
Stuck On Stupid.
There is a rogue nuclear state in the Middle East. This country stole technology and nuclear material from the US and has not signed the non-proliferation treaty and does not participate in international nuclear oversight. Despite this, they do get $billions every year in financial and military support from the US, contrary to US law. This country is not Iran.
Eritrea? Djibouti? Yemen?
Israel dummy.
It was sarcasm.