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John McCain’s Revisionist History Is a Team Effort
Guest Post by Matt Taibbi
I hope my editors boil in oil in the afterlife for asking me to review John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, the new HBO doc that premieres Memorial Day and stars David Brooks, Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush and a succession of other wax-museum escapees who line up to evade and prevaricate about things McCain-related and not.
The review copy might as well have been titled, Go Ahead, Say Something Bad About a Terminal Cancer Patient. I felt like a monster 20 seconds in.
Having covered McCain’s 2008 run, I had mixed feelings about the man anyway. Just as a person, McCain came across as the kind of insistently obnoxious guy you hear complaining about the slow service in an airport bar – a type I always found oddly sympathetic.
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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.
Here Is The Full 35-Page Report Alleging Trump Was “Cultivated, Supported And Assisted” By Russia
by Tyler Durden
Jan 10, 2017 6:53 PM
As reported moments ago, CNN is leading with a story about a 35-page dossier compiled by a former member of British intelligence, which had been distilled into a 2-page appendix presented to Trump last Friday by the US intel community, and which contains “explosive, but unverified, allegations” that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for at least 5 years and “endorsed by Putin” gained compromising information about him, with the aim of “encouraging splits and divisions in the western alliance.”
The memo has allegedly been circulating among elected officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks.
The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, “includes specific, unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians” according to Buzzfeed.
Of course, the question on everyone’s lips is what are these “unverified and potentially unverifiable allegations” contained in the memo. We now know the answer, courtesy of Buzzfeed which fill published the full document “so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.”
The War Economy – CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Warns About Job Loss if the U.S. Stops Arming Saudi Arabia
Ladies and gentlemen, it appears the long anticipated moment of peak mainstream media stupidity may have finally arrived.
This is what passes for journalism in America today.
The Intercept reports:
Sen. Rand Paul’s expression of opposition to a $1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia — which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now — alarmed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday afternoon.
Blitzer’s concern: That stopping the sale could result in fewer jobs for arms manufacturers.
“So for you this is a moral issue,” he told Paul during the Kentucky Republican’s appearance on CNN. “Because you know, there’s a lot of jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling war planes, other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there’s gonna be a significant loss of jobs, of revenue here in the United States. That’s secondary from your standpoint?”
CANNON FODDER
Hat tip Boston Bob
THE WARMONGERS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
FUCK THE MEEK!!!
“We have a world economic system that is not good. A system that in order to survive must make war, as great empires have always done. But since you cannot have a Third World War, you have regional wars. And what does this mean? That arms are made and sold, and in this way the idolatrous economies, the great world economies that sacrifice man at the feet of the idol of money, obviously keep their balance sheets in the black.”
Jorge Bergoglio, Francis I