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Beware the Coming Storm

Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing

April 6, 2018

John Bolton’s March 22 appointment-by-tweet as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has given “March Madness” a new and ominous meaning. There is less than a week left to batten down the hatches before Bolton makes U.S. foreign policy worse that it already is.

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During a recent interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill (minutes 35 to 51) I mentioned that Bolton fits seamlessly into a group of take-no-prisoners zealots once widely known in Washington circles as “the crazies,” and now more commonly referred to as “neocons.”

Beginning in the 1970s, “the crazies” sobriquet was applied to Cold Warriors hell bent on bashing Russians, Chinese, Arabs — anyone who challenged U.S. “exceptionalism” (read hegemony). More to the point, I told Scahill that President (and former CIA Director) George H. W. Bush was among those using the term freely, since it seemed so apt. I have been challenged to prove it.

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FAITH: A Light in a Dark Fun-House of Mirrors

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

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Last week I experienced a loss which represented a part of my existence for the last fifteen years. The loss doesn’t matter now as much as the sadness and grief currently experienced. A door has been closed. Others will open someday, but that can’t be adequately processed right now. Sadness and grief are inherent to the human endeavor. This too, shall pass.

In my own experience, transitions are valleys and mountain-tops; hallways and doors. I don’t understand – and yet I realize every experience I ever had, and every choice I ever made, put me right here in this place. What does one do when they don’t know what to do? Sit and stew? React? Find peace? Some words come to mind that are a minor variation from a poem I once wrote during a transition of long ago:

……Do you see and hear, then use your reason?

For everything, a time and a season

Do you fight with your might and exercise your will?

Or stay quiet and peaceful and just be still?

All of these contain blessings and each one’s a curse

And if time were money they’ll empty your purse…..

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Because Murica

How Far Can the Americans Be Pushed?

By Ghassan Kadi
The Saker

March 5, 2018

Inspired by the Saker’s article regarding how far can the Russians be pushed, I ask, how far can the Americans be pushed, not specifically only in Syria, but in general?

In his article, the Saker articulated in his regular rational and captivating style, the issue of Russian patience, or should we say frustration, with America’s actions and inactions in Syria. And, as I was reading the article, I began to think about looking at the situation from the other side of the mirror in a tongue-in-cheek manner; looking at it from the American perspective.

I thought back to an article I had written on the very same theme some years ago, focusing and predicting on what a desperate America would do.

The sad and ironic reality is that America does not walk the talk of competitiveness and level playing fields. America’s definition of a national threat is different from that of any other country in human history; except perhaps for ancient Rome.

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The Neocon Trump, Another Disaster in Progress

How Russia Hawks Are Selling Trump On Sending Weapons To Ukraine

The president’s advisers are telling him “peace” can be achieved in eastern Ukraine through a provision of anti-tank missiles – and that Kiev will finance it.

Posted on November 21, 2017, at 2:09 p.m.

John Hudson

President Donald Trump’s top advisers are closer now to achieving what seemed unthinkable at the start of his presidency: Shipping millions of dollars of US weapons to Ukraine’s embattled military.

The president, whose former campaign associates nixed language supporting arms to Ukraine in the GOP’s party platform in 2016, was never going to be an easy sell on the issue.

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Stabbing With Their Steely Knives, They Just Can’t Kill the Beast

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor…

– Ezekiel 28: 15-17

In horror stories originating from the times of the first songs there have always been common enemies. Creatures of sinister intelligence, blind violence, disingenuity, clever crafters of schemes, or often containing the capacity for all of these; lurking in the dark, or hidden in plain sight, but always waiting and watching. Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs suffered through the antics of wily wolves. Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel agonized before the wicked wills of warted witches; and with Jack of Beanstalk fame it was jeering giants who longed to grind his bones for bread, alive or dead. Star Wars had Darth Vader and the Lords of the Sith, whereas it was the evil eye of Sauron that ruled over J.R.R Tolkien’s shadowy land of Mordor. And for most of the world’s religions today it remains Lucifer, the morning star, who fell from heaven by the weight of a prideful heart and now reigns as the Prince and Power of the Air; tempting, taunting, and tantalizing, all of mankind.

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Charlottesville is moment of truth for empowered U.S. Zionists (who name their children after Israeli generals)

Philip Weiss on August 18, 2017

Wolf Blitzer

For a long time, liberalism and Zionism have gotten along fine in America– just look at the Democratic Party and its love for Israel. But Charlottesville represents a crisis for liberal Zionists. When they condemn white nationalism in the U.S. and celebrate Jewish nationalism in Israel, the contradiction is obvious to all.

Just consider three prominent voices. Wolf Blitzer of CNN, the liberal Zionist group J Street, and blogger and Democratic Party thinker Josh Marshall.

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TRUMP, A PATHETIC INSECURE, TRAITOROUS BITCH WHO PUTS THE INTERESTS OF HOSTILE NATIONS AHEAD OF THOSE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY

This motherfucking shyster salesman is going to get us into war with everyone because his fucking ego is so fragile that he requires everyone to kiss his ass and he’s a fucking ignorant asshole to boot. Did I mention that he can be bought by certain corrupt foreign governments? Jesus H. Fuck, maybe the Deep State is right about this prick. Whatever it takes to get rid of him is fine with me. Dealy Plaza is a perfect kill zone (been there, intend to write about it). Does The Donald like ragtops? I bet he does. Of course like all chickenhawk cowards he lacks the balls to ride in one. What we need to do in order to safeguard civilization is to parachute this fucking loser over Tehran or Pyongyang or Moscow or Beijing with nothing other than a Glock and our best wishes.

July 28, 2017 Trita Parsi

The Mask Is Off: Trump Is Seeking War with Iran

Something extraordinary has happened in Washington. President Donald Trump has made it clear, in no uncertain terms and with no effort to disguise his duplicity, that he will claim that Tehran is cheating on the nuclear deal by October—the facts be damned. In short, the fix is in. Trump will refuse to accept that Iran is in compliance and thereby set the stage for a military confrontation. His advisors have even been kind enough to explain how they will go about this. Rarely has a sinister plan to destroy an arms control agreement and pave the way for war been so openly telegraphed.

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TRUMP MAKES WAR AND EVERYONE SWOONS

One need no more proof of just how sick USA, USA, USA, We r #1111111!, is than the sudden fellating of Donald W. Trump by all the neocons, criminal Zionists such as Netanyahu, McCain and Graham and apparently now Brian Williams and Fareed Zakaria as well. Gee, I guess international law was for suckers all along. Nothing wrong with laying a big stinking pile on the US Constitution as well and undertaking a glaring act of war on a non-threatening, sovereign nation. Nope, nothing at all wrong with it. Move along folks. Not only is it totally cool, but it’s admirable. Finally Trump has become the leader of the Free World!, a Great Statesman!

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Another Lagniappe | Edward Bernays

Admin posted a prescient quote from Edward Bernays last Friday.

Bernays is briefly mentioned in Finding Madeleine. Bernay’s backstory is important to understand what occurred to Madeleine and why her family became the lead characters in a multi-year soap opera rivaling the coverage of O.J. Simpson and the death of Princess Diana.

As we discovered in Finding Madeleine, Chapter Two, the media was of the utmost priority to Team Mccann and to the British government.

In the next installment of Finding Madeleine we will meet Sir Clement Freud and his son Matthew Freud. Both Clement and Matthew became closely involved with Madeleine’s parents after she vanished. Clement and Matthew are, respectively, Sigmund Freud’s grandson and great-grandson. Which makes them Edward Bernays’ removed cousins.

Edward Bernays is the person who made Sigmund Freud famous. They formed a close personal and professional relationship in the early 1900’s. Freud was marginalized and scorned by European society. It was not until after Bernays brought his Uncle Sigmund to the U.S. that Sigmund was to attain his recognition, fame and prestige.

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Breakfast Club: Dining with Friends

by Uncola via TheBurningPlatform.com

There is a group of us who meet on Saturday mornings for breakfast. We are four white men; college educated professionals who know each other through a shared involvement and patronage of a community organization. Our group is comprised of one in their mid-thirties, two in their forties and me as the sole quinquagenarian of the group.

During our weekend morning meal encounters, I will usually try to steer clear from political conversations. However, more often than not, it seems our discussions do drift into politics. The thirty-something and one of the fortyish gentlemen identify as liberal and the other quadragenarian claims to be a Republican, yet he seemed to favor Hillary Clinton in the last election. All of them hate Donald Trump, so, this leaves me as the lone racist, fear-motivated, close-minded, privileged, conspiracy-oriented, and deplorably conservative Caucasian at our table.

The following is a condensed summary of my recollection of our conversation from this previous Saturday and it is predominately paraphrased. As a final qualifier, and as a matter of course, I will admit the ensuing review is recapitulated through the lens of my personal perspective. This means, although my breakfast companions would likely reject my forthcoming conclusion(s) below, at the same time, I believe they would agree that the subsequent dialogue is narrated accurately, and with the topics arranged (for the most part) in the correct consecutive order of our actual conversation.

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How to Woo a Moonbatted Snowflake

by Uncola via TheBurningPlatform.com

Headlines were made last week when the results of an experiment by two New York University professors went viral. The study was designed to demonstrate gender bias by reenacting the 2016 presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, except the gender for each was reversed. In other words, a woman recited the statements of Trump and a male reenacted Hillary Clinton’s original comments made during the debates.

The goal of the ‘Her Opponent’ project was to prove that people would not have accepted Trump’s aggressive behavior had it come from a woman, and that Hillary’s debate style would be much more likable if she were a man.

Ironically, the exact opposite happened.

The professors and audiences of the mock debates, however, were ‘unsettled’ to discover that the opposite was true – Trump became more likable as a woman and Hillary became even less likable as a man.

At last. Although it took a scientific observation to remove the prejudice against Trump’s gender, these people could FINALLY see what the tolerant, open-minded “Deplorable” voters saw all along.

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A TALE OF TWO OF THE WORST PRESIDENTS IN US HISTORY, BOTH NAMED BUSH

I like Michael Scheuer a lot. I don’t really share his worldview however. He is a US patriot. He is machavellian and his only endgame is whatever is best for the United States by whatever means is necessary. I really don’t give a fuck about the United States myself. I look forward to the day when it breaks up into 8 or 9 independent states that are harmless to anyone but themselves. I have this ideology of liberty that compels me to not give a fuck about countries, even if it’s my own.

A lesson from two George Bushes: Never give the elite the benefit of the doubt

Posted on March 5, 2017 by mike

–“And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.” John Locke, Second Treatise, Chapter 13 (1)

–“General revolts and rebellions of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They were always provoked.” Edmund Burke, 1777 (2)

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THE LARGEST STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM

It’s not Iran. The only reason Iran has ever been called a “sponsor of state terrorism” is because of Hezbollah. Hezbollah itself of course is not a terrorist group. What it’s military arm is, however, is the only thing preventing another Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. Follow the lies and they inevitably come back to the real leading state sponsor of terrorism (besides Saudi Arabia), the parasite known as Israel.

As for Trump, when it comes to foreign policy I don’t think he knows his ass from his elbow. He has surrounded himself with Israeli apologists and warmongers because the GoP has no others. Neither do the Dems.

The Five Blinding Myths About Iran

by Ted Snider, March 11, 2017

One of the promises that President Trump has kept is his promise to be tough on Iran. Though he has not canceled the nuclear weapons agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), he has “officially put Iran on notice,” and he has imposed new sanctions.

More seriously, the New York Times reports that Secretary of Defense General James Mattis considered ordering the Navy to intercept and board an Iranian ship in international waters to search it for weapons being shipped to Yemen in support of the Houthis. According to White House officials, the operation was called off, not because it would likely have been an act of war, but because word of the operation leaked.

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