Apparently the West still maintains the lead in weaponized actors (ht Penelope), weaponized extremists (ht Sy Hersh), and weaponized bullsh!t, so we’re safe for now.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Mar 3 2016 13:43 utc | 4

The mass production of faux news demonizing Russians invokes depictions of Orwell’s nefarious Eurasians from whom the populace needed Big Brother for protection.

Posted by: metni | Mar 3 2016 13:46 utc | 6

What a dangerous country. Thank God the world has America to protect it. And thank heavens it weaponized depleted uranium for the benefit of all the countries it has liberated.

Posted by: Lysander | Mar 3 2016 14:07 utc | 8

And…according to the BBC on the top of hour news just now, electric power all over Syria is down. Wonder whose “weaponizing” is responsible for that?
It sounds like something the US likes to do….
Googled “power outage all over Syria March 3, 2016” also brings up that the internet has gone down state by state.
Might that presage some kind of attack? Or…what?

Posted by: jawbone | Mar 3 2016 14:13 utc | 10

Thanks b; for a hefty giggles morning.
“Lunatic Outpost” sums up very nicely all those links. a Lunatic! at an Outpost !!!?
Good confirmation these planted articles are under the auspices of a certain 3 letter agency.
Shall we not Carry on and not be dumbed down?

Posted by: likklemore | Mar 3 2016 14:48 utc | 12

I see this as much as a decline in standards of journalism as a concerted political agenda.

Posted by: ralphieboy | Mar 3 2016 15:38 utc | 14

A Fear for there,
a fear for here,
a fear for far,
a fear for near.
A fear for left,
a fear for right,
a fear for things
that go bump in the night.
A fear for high,
a fear for low,
there is also
a fear of snow.
In our stock of fear
there’s one for every terror.
In our catalogue
we’ve a fear for every error.
For every fear,
for every phobe
there is something that covers
everything on this globe.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Mar 3 2016 15:51 utc | 16

How do you say Oopsie in Yiddish …
“The Lebanese defense minister says he will ask the government to take Iran’s past offers of military support seriously after Saudi Arabia’s recent decision to retract $4 billion in military aid.
Defense Minister Samir Moqbel said Lebanon had informed Iran of the decision which was to be studied at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
“The Iranian side was informed that when sanctions were lifted on Iran, we would study the Iranian support for the army at the cabinet,” The Daily Star quoted him as saying.”
source – http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/03/03/lebanon-mulls-irans-military-aid-offer/

Posted by: ALberto | Mar 3 2016 16:02 utc | 18

Those who can, Do.
Those who can’t, Watch.
(and bitch from the sidelines).

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 3 2016 16:20 utc | 20

did – dig..

Posted by: james | Mar 3 2016 17:34 utc | 22

Thank you, b. I know it’s not ladylike to snort, but I couldn’t help it; you tickled my funnybone. Talk about projection of one’s own motives upon other States!
Jackrabbit, if this is an insult– or even if it isn’t– could you explain what it means:
“Apparently the West still maintains the lead in weaponized actors (ht Penelope), weaponized extremists (ht Sy Hersh), and weaponized bullsh!t, so we’re safe for now.”
What is “ht Penelope”? And why am I a weaponized actor? All I can imagine is a large Brunhilda wearing a helmet bearing two large horns.(giggle) And Sy Hersh an extremist?
Y’know “jackrabbit” lends itself to some pretty funny caricatures, too.
Btw, have you ever seen a real Arizona jackrabbit? Not to be confused with the Desert Hare, who is much smaller. I swear to you the first time I saw one I thought it was a baby deer.

Posted by: Penelope | Mar 3 2016 18:11 utc | 24

As a true American, one should always as him/herself, has anything left in the world that is not weaponized by Russia? A good citizen and a journalist must find something that is not weaponized by Russia everyday to get his salary. Lets see, there are still millions of things that Russia can weaponized and writing about few only will not work. You don’t have to do more research, check yourself and make sure you are not weaponized by Russia. If that is the case, please take a flight to Cuba and Gitmo is right there.

Posted by: Santa | Mar 3 2016 18:32 utc | 26

To continue to demonise Russia/Putin it’s necessary to eliminate Trump

Posted by: From The Hague | Mar 3 2016 18:37 utc | 28

@Penelope
ht = “hat tip”
I’m giving you credit for bringing the ‘actors’ to our attention and continuing to pursue it.
Not a smear or a dig or meant to be derogatory in any way.
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I am sarcastically taking the “West” to task for resorting to “weaponizing” things that make us less safe.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Mar 3 2016 18:45 utc | 30

No mention from Breedlove about the United States 2015 record sales of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE?
Breedlove is a zionist stooge.

Posted by: Bunghole | Mar 3 2016 19:11 utc | 32

I guess they are weaponizing Donald Trump now. Or that The Donald is Putin’s weapon.
Actually, the neocons are downright panicking. Just today, you got Romney and McCain attacks and the mainstream media have of course followed suit: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35717888
This quote from McCain is laughable: The 2008 presidential nominee, John McCain, has also joined the verbal attack on the Republican front-runner, describing Mr Trump’s statements on national security as “uninformed and dangerous”.
Of course, McCain’s positions are well informed and innocuous.
Politico about the poor frightened neocons: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-clinton-neoconservatives-220151
And an interesting analysis about that fright:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-trumpster-sends-the-gopneocon-establishment-to-the-dumpster/
Their demise would be funny if not so dangerous.

Posted by: jeanv | Mar 3 2016 20:01 utc | 34

Bibi’s statement re recent Iran/Lebanon developments …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxj_2rOM9g

Posted by: ALberto | Mar 3 2016 20:40 utc | 36

March 3, 2016 Today’s ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up’ entry …
Wave of resignations sweep the Polish military
“The wave of resignations is not only bad news for Polish soldiers. In a few weeks, the first US units will arrive in Poland to take part in the Anakonda 2016 exercise (scheduled for June 7-17). The US decided to send a record number of 10 thousand soldiers to Poland. Addition 3 thousand will be contributed by other NATO countries. These exercises are supposed to serve as a great demonstration of NATO’s unity and power prior to the July NATO summit in Europe.
The decimation of the command system right before such an important event is fatal news which will no doubt be noticed, and not only by Poland’s allies. The US has already requested the Ministry of Defense to explain how this news is to be interpreted, and whether it will influence the exercises and further military cooperation. The Ministry so far has not issued a response.”
source – https://southfront.org/a-wave-of-resignations-sweeps-the-polish-military/

Posted by: ALberto | Mar 3 2016 20:56 utc | 38

source for above comment – http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941213000728

Posted by: ALberto | Mar 3 2016 21:15 utc | 40

The US is outdoing them in one area. It is the leader in weaponizing stupidity.
The Saker has an important report on the US election that is worth reading. It focusses on secret letters between Hilary Clinton and Haim Saban.
http://thesaker.is/hillarys-secret-letter-and-the-whole-matter-of-endless-war-and-the-almost-complete-corruption-of-americas-government/

Posted by: Yonatan | Mar 3 2016 21:37 utc | 42

Gee, something the Republicans, Democrats and media all can agree with. Something to be said that there really is only one party.

Posted by: shadyl | Mar 3 2016 23:12 utc | 44

Next we’ll see weaponized farts and belches, so be careful when eating brats & beans while drinking beer or you’ll be reported for arming yourself!

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 3 2016 23:19 utc | 46

b,
jedi robo-roach to the exterminator:
“we are not the cockroaches your’e looking for”

Posted by: sillybill | Mar 3 2016 23:34 utc | 48

Are russian spermatozoids weaponized ??

Posted by: carol DEBY | Mar 4 2016 0:11 utc | 50

b, your last couple of posts showing the methods … ‘may’, ‘weaponized’ … of corporate media’s madness displays their uniformity and thus there utter lack of worth as informants. I agree with John @7. Thanks for well over a decade of solid information. As always, may I have some more, please.
@35, noirette
Self-satire … the people who wrote that article are laughing at the ‘stupidity’ of their readership … think the readership is smart enough to catch on? Of course they are. No one takes the corporate media for anything other than the whores and oafs that they are. They are the authors of, if not half, at least 40% of our problems and bear 100% of the responsiblity for their own cynicism and mendacity.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 4 2016 0:44 utc | 52

LOL. God bless the Internet…if Americans knew how it would work in 2016, they’d never let it out of their labs.

Posted by: telescope | Mar 4 2016 1:43 utc | 54

@ Posted by: sillybill | Mar 3, 2016 6:33:28 PM | 46
Interesting. Did Kilcullen actually write about what happened to COIN in Afghanistan? Has anyone? I was actually looking forward to seeing this fabled “innovation” in action and it obviously died in the inception… My guess would be that the widespread American racism played a major role, but I genuinely wondered how close the army came to revisiting grunts fragging officers, a la Vietnam … but the stink somehow didn’t attach to Petraeus and no one apparently had the muscle or the will to force the issue. The Berghdahl Serial story is interesting in regard to “professionalism” and “morale.”
I opposed both invasions (Afghanistan and Iraq) — utterly unnecessary — but had a hard time not caring about the civilian populations we would leave behind, in the midst civil wars either of our making or our reanimation, so — when it was inevitable that we would not be leaving, I was vaguely “hopeful” that the Surge might help stabilize Baghdad (or at least get the ethnic cleansing and truck bombs under control) and that COIN might at least, I dunno, maybe provide some continuity of support for area resistant to Taliban control .. I always found Petraeus and engaging and convincing interview — just appalling what a good liar he turned out to have been. Still, if you know of some inside “dope” in “the story of COIN” I’d appreciate a tip. Thanks

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Mar 4 2016 2:30 utc | 56

ruralito @ 48,
Or maybe the crisis actors in the last open thread @ 201.

Posted by: Penelope | Mar 4 2016 5:33 utc | 58

On the theme…brilliant b…broke me up laughing when I read it.
You can add the great furore in the UK over Putin ‘being responsible’ for anti-oil/gas fracking that was planned there, until the oil price collapsed and they found out there was none availble to be extracted anyway.

Posted by: Lisa | Mar 4 2016 5:59 utc | 60

Noirette @19 What’s wrong with hating prom queens if you’re 18? There’s much to hate. On the other hand, if you’re 75 like me and still hate your prom queen, you probably didn’t keep up with her life story and learn all the tragedies that lurk in every prom queen’s future.
As to all that “Russia weaponizing” stuff, that’s just tall tales from the geeky boys who the prom queen never even notices. You know the stories. . .”The prom queen wears falsies.”

Posted by: Macon Richardson | Mar 4 2016 9:57 utc | 62

Susan,
i’ll have to check on his writings, sometime between working and sleeping! i’ve only read one of his books.
Lisa, while i agree about Monty and the need for a long timeline in COIN i dont think i’d call him an idiot.
i’ll try to write a coherent response explaining why not later after work

Posted by: sillybill | Mar 4 2016 12:14 utc | 64

Hi B. If you choose not to publish the comment I left last night, could you send it back to me via email please so I can publish it myself elsewhere. Thanks.

Posted by: Uncoy | Mar 4 2016 13:58 utc | 66

Trump is included in the alleged insane criminals in this world;Kim Il Jong,Putin, Assad and Trump.Sheesh,they are the good guys,have to be,facing the absolute evil of Zion and the selectivity of the righteous hypocrites in dealing out death to the world.
Trump repeated his Putin affinity last night btw.Go Trump.

Posted by: dahoit | Mar 4 2016 16:22 utc | 68

Spanish police confiscate 20,000 military uniforms headed for Nusra Front, ISIS
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/04/spanish-authorities-seize-20000-military-uniforms-bound-for-isis-nusra-front.html?intcmp=hpbt3
Police earlier broke up the cell providing shipments of military equipment which led to the confiscation of the uniforms.

Posted by: Les | Mar 4 2016 17:53 utc | 70

34
The ‘NeoCon Panic’ TM, is wholly contrived Zio-Media psyop meant to expand the NeoCon ‘Trump’ brand to on-the-fence voters. The Right-Wing are all-in for Trump, like they were for Romney. They have to agitprop the remaining white vote to ‘bring it on home’. In other words, Romney is the closer.
Back in 2007, Gingrich stated he would ‘sure be afraid to run against Clinton or Obama’, I’m sure at the time he thought, correctly, that a black man and a white woman would be the death of the DNC is Bush’s hyper-Deep State, but that little bit of psyop blrw up in their faces when McCain choked and brought in Palin, the ‘trophy-wife’ image that I’m sure kept Republican women home from the polls, and failed to energize the rabbinical fundamentalists.
This time the RNC is much-better prepared, running a bland Hispanic (that didn’t pan out), a rabbinical Constitutionalist, (that didn’t pan out), and finally a Big Show WWE carney barker for Hope and Chains, now they have to turn that into a Simon Cowell ‘American Idol’.
It’s not a panic, it’s a hyper feeding-frenzy. At stake is the last remaining economy on earth, the last blood bank of senior retirement wealth that hasn’t been fully tapped, and whether you choose Clinton or Trump, in 4 years you and evetyone else will be owned. They own you. They bleed 401ks and SS/MC like pigs to the slaughter. Have you ever seen a slaughterhouse?
“We won, you lost. It’s just business, get over it.”
That’s all this Trump:RNC faux hysteria is: product placement.

Posted by: Peedee | Mar 4 2016 21:09 utc | 72

@Chipnik
not sure why you say one trillion per year for this contract. I do agree that it is a lot of money but what you say is not true, from the winner of the contract one finds this – the CN&GT O&LS contract has a not-to-exceed value of $975,000,000 over its seven-year base plus option periods of performance.

Posted by: dan of steele | Mar 5 2016 9:56 utc | 74

Another pro-Putin Western useful idiot pimping for the Kremlin. I’d bet a bottle of vodka that you’re slinging it for the American version of Putin with your deep burning desire to return America to Jim Crow. Suggest that you move to Russia if want to live backward in time and outlook.

Posted by: Ernest Allen | Mar 6 2016 19:10 utc | 76

Another one (funny):
Is Putin Weaponising Stupidity?

Posted by: b | Mar 22 2016 13:45 utc | 78

Of course it is the USA that is weaponizing, everything including migrants, to further its ‘current strategy of global dominance through controlled chaos’. The preemptive move when caught with your pants down is to try your best to depants the one who’s caught you.
Pentagon Chief: Russia Ignited Civil War in Syria

The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that civil war in Syria was fomented by Russia.

Apparently, a lot of the Russians in Europe are … Chechens …
It Pays to Be Chechen in Europe

Seven years ago our close friend, living in a small town near Paris, worked in a local court as a Russian translator in a series of “Chechen” trials. He said that each defendant had the same legend: sister was a sniper, the village was swept by security forces, all the women in the family were raped by Russian soldiers, homes were bombed, etc.
There are hundreds of such cities and towns in France, and in each of them over several years hundreds, perhaps thousands of “Chechens” were arrested (I put it in quotes because to ascribe themselves to these people was advantagious to any Caucasian – the anti-Russian European policies gave them huge privileges).
Now in Germany, France, UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Belgium live up to 250 thousand “Chechens” who came in the 90’s after the anti-terrorist operation in Dagestan and Chechnya.

The article’s translator ends with a remark of her own, “Chechens are most welcome and have least trouble with naturalization among ex-Soviet immigrants in France, according to my Georgian Russian-speaking taxi driver in Paris”.
Now why would that be? Who was it that armed the Chechens (and Dagestanis) and fueled the fight in Chechnya (and the bombing in Boston)? And, no doubt, advised its droogies at the EU on immigration policies.
The paleo-cons – and a lot of other folks who haven’t been conned at all – have had it with the ‘current strategy of global dominance through controlled chaos’.
Trump Is Right—–Dump NATO Now

If you want to know why we have a $19 trillion national debt and a fiscal structure that will take that already staggering figure to $35 trillion and 140% of GDP within a decade, just consider the latest campaign fracas. That is, the shrieks of disbelief in response to Donald Trump’s sensible suggestion that the Europeans pay for their own defense.

Stockman is peddling the Russians as the emaciated skeleton of the USSR, but other folks can see by the light of day …
The Post-Obama World Order

That Kerry’s visit to Moscow may be intended to re-establish something of a realistic working relationship with Russia is also suggested by the fact that the EU is not represented in the talks (while Steinmeier is there too, there are no French representatives which seems to mean the Minsk 2 format is dead), and that the US is not conducting a similar negotiation with China, which would naturally have to be a party to a return to multilateralism along the lines of a “Concert of Great Powers” similar to what gave Europe nearly a century of peace following the end of Napoleonic Wars, peace whose main guarantor was Russia.
What seems rather more likely is a US-Russian “co-dominium” based on a shared interest to return to a certain level of stability and predictability based on an agreement that would recognize buffer zones and spheres of influence between Russian and US interests.
One way or the other, it would seem the world is returning to a bipolar power balance.

That last makes too much sense to be taken seriously I suppose. But Josh what … Josh Rogins? is only Joshing us … trying to sell us the Bridge to Brooklyn

Posted by: jfl | Mar 25 2016 6:39 utc | 80