https://southfront.org/leaked-documents-implicate-ukraine-in-mh17-shoot-down/

Posted by: ruralito | Sep 12 2016 14:24 utc | 104

Excellent! Another bogus metric to debunk!
So instead of actual political experts, our Trumpeters have shifted to cartoonists.
Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert,” has for some time argued the prospects for The Duckhead’s victory. A self-proclaimed expert in hynotism and persuasion, it seems to be that he’s not so much reporting what he sees as suggesting what he wants to happen.
MSN is one of the few media not on the far right to have looked at him. On his blog touting The Duckhead’s manifest virtues, he says he’s not a fanboy.

Of all the bizarre spectacles that the Trump campaign has created, at the top of the list is the obsession the “Dilbert” cartoonist has with trying to convince America that his obvious hero worship of Trump is somehow a cool, detached analysis from a man who isn’t even interested in voting for the guy….
Despite claiming not to support anyone, Adams has largely handed his blog over to defending Trump from his critics.

What kinda Dogbert shit is this? Fearing for his life, he says, he’s endorsed Clinton.
This sort of thing would suggest that Adams is a partisan observer, from the far right. Rationalwiki has him on their list of “Insufferable assholes” as well as rating him “batshit crazy.” His rap sheet is varied — Holocaust denial, misogyny, sockpuppetry, a weak grasp of basic science.
So these are solid credentials for the alt-right, and you will see from a quick Bing search that Breitbart.com is quite keen on him, as well as other similar outlets promoting him as well.
I like how the DailyDot sums it up.

Adams and his acolytes want to believe they couldn’t be attracted to simple, hate-filled ideologies, so they call the most vocal proponent of them a genius. Because otherwise, they’d have to admit that the only people they’re persuading are the people who already believe in such hate—themselves.

This blog is on to his con as well.

I continue to be dismayed by the descent of Dilbert creator Scott Adams into a particular brand of alt-right asshole wingnuttery.
He’s turned into a Trump cheerleader (all the while assuring everyone he doesn’t really support Trump, but is just AMAZED by his persuasion skills, but his posts show him to be fully onboard the Trump Train).
And that would be fine. I mean, I’d lose all political respect for him, but I’d still be able to laugh at Dilbert….
But his pro-Trump posts are becoming ludicrous….

This was back in August, when he claimed the Democratic convention lowered his testosterone. So all that money and he still can’t get a date, blames the Dems. Okay.
The far right can’t get enough. Not just Breitbart, but these guys, too, who called it a “very intelligent take on… Trump….” Not surprisingly, no sense of humor, the poster says he never got Dilbert.
The Duckhead says outrageous, made-up shit all the time, and the media swoon. Mrs. Clinton repeats the facts about his racist, misogynist supporters being a “basket of deplorables” and suddenly this is proof the SHE is a bigot.
Charles Pierce from Esquire is having none of it. He argues that we’ve long been grading the Rethuglicans on a curve.

The answer can be seen plainly enough in how everybody now is pretending that what HRC said isn’t god’s own truth, or how everybody is arguing that you can’t say that stuff out loud because to do so is unkind to white people who are so concerned about unfair trade deals that they go to freaking Stormfront to argue about it. There is an accomplished woman saying something everybody knows is true and there is a vulgar talking yam…. That is grading on the curve, but it’s nothing new.

Like Reagan, who forgot more about Iran-contra than will ever know. “Forward, into the Past!”

Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 13 2016 1:43 utc | 106

https://memoryholeblog.com/2016/09/10/war-declared-in-miami-beach-as-city-begins-air-drop-of-neurotoxic-pesticides-video/ The organophosphate Naled is being used to kill Miami Beach mosquitoes so pregnant women don’t have babies w microcephaly. Guess why EU banned it: It’s linked to . . . microcephaly!

Posted by: Penelope | Sep 13 2016 1:56 utc | 108

Puttin’ the pedal to the metal on the crazy. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Calls For Bloodshed If Trump Loses.

Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 13 2016 2:19 utc | 110

Press has a double standard for the Duckhead. And why not? He has his own double standard for himself.

It’s fair to observe that Trump’s entire campaign is predicated on saying things that other candidates and observers are afraid to say, including personal attacks, insults and derogatory name-calling. And yet Trump and his people are so offended by “basket of deplorables” that they’re calling for Hillary to apologize for hurting their fee-fees.
Poor babies.

Do as I say, not as I do….

Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 13 2016 12:19 utc | 112

New Cold War reports that the Latest ceasefire agreement in tatters, broken by Ukraine, largely through artillery fire. But I’ve not seen any reports of any actual fighting.

Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 14 2016 12:13 utc | 114

Record US Aid Comes amid Israeli Settlement Construction Boom

As the United States approves a US$38 billion military aid package to Israel, the largest in history, Israel is refusing to halt illegal settlement construction—despite stern U.S. statements—with data revealing that construction on occupied land has increased by 40 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the previous six months.

Who’s responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians? Certainly the Israelis … but the US has been, and now will be, indispensable to their effort.
It was Germany and its coven of willing executioners in Europe who were responsible for the attempted genocide of the Jews in Europe seventy-five years ago, it is Israel, the US and their coven of willing executioners who are responsible for the attempted genocide of the Palestinians in Thailand here and now.
Just say no to Clinton, no to Trump 54 days from now. Jill Stein, for instance, has pledged to end such ‘aid’ to Israel.

Posted by: jfl | Sep 14 2016 23:02 utc | 116

@116 ‘… the US and their coven of willing executioners who are responsible for the attempted genocide of the Palestinians in Thailand here and now.’
What was I thinking?
… the US and their coven of willing executioners who are responsible for the attempted genocide of the Palestinians in Palestine here and now.

Posted by: jfl | Sep 15 2016 12:43 utc | 118

Germany launches it own, national version of Charlie? Ich bin Charlemagne? Nicht.
Germany closes missions in Turkey over fears of attacks

The report came one day after Ankara censured as “provocative” the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel for a recent special edition critical of President Erdogan.
The special Der Spiegel issue has the title Hotspot Turkey with the strapline reading, “A country loses its freedom.”
The cover features Erdogan wearing sunglasses and two minarets from Istanbul’s Blue Mosque transformed into rockets and lifting off for an attack.
At the bottom of the page, a teaser for one of the magazine’s stories is titled The Dictator.

What’s the Blue Mosque got to do with it? Other than to provoke an attack on the German embassy in Ankara or the consulate in Istanbul?

Posted by: jfl | Sep 15 2016 20:52 utc | 120

The words continue to pour out of The Duckhead’s…. whatever.
Like these words about working stiffs. He doesn’t feel your pain, only his own. “Me, I’m working harder also, so I don’t feel sorry for any of you. It’s true. You think this is easy?”
An African-American congregation put a stop to the flow when The Donald veered off in Clinton bashing. Maybe the debate moderators can study the film and get some tips for game day.
So of course now Trump is talking smack. Joy Reid notes he typically does this out of the presence of those who disagree or criticize him. “He is only aggressive when he is not in the presence of the person he is bullying. When he gets in front of the person that he previously insulted, he becomes incredibly passive.”
Trump attacked the Detroit pastor, says The Daily Banter, in front of largely white crowd. He regaled them with his trademark humor on children in Flint being poisoned. The press only reported his ill-founded attacks on Mrs. Clinton. No bias towards The Duckhead there, eh?
So outreach to minority voters continues swimmingly.

Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 16 2016 12:28 utc | 122

Divisions erupt at post-Brexit Bratislava summit as EU calls for military-police build-up

The summit reaffirmed proposals by top EU, German, and French officials to react to Britain’s exit from the EU by reorganizing the union as a military alliance with broad police powers at home. Beyond the broad lines of this reactionary program outlined in the so-called “Bratislava declaration” issued by the European Council, however, the remaining EU countries failed to agree on any concrete proposals. Explosive conflicts erupted over the economic crisis in Europe and the millions of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and Africa.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, the leader of the euro zone’s third-largest economy, refused to join the final press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande. … “I cannot take part in a joint press conference with Merkel and Hollande if I don’t share their conclusions on economy and migration,” Renzi told reporters after the meeting in the Bratislava Castle. He added, “It’s not a controversy, Italy doesn’t see it in the same way as the others.”
Renzi, whose government is deeply unpopular due to its austerity measures, lashed out in particular at Berlin for demanding harsh spending cuts in response to Italy’s banking crisis. “In the same way countries must respect rules on deficit, they also have to respect other rules, like on the trade surplus,” Renzi said. “And there are some countries who don’t respect them; the main one is Germany.”
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean have arrived in Italy and Greece, which have demanded that other EU countries take in or help fund the accommodation of refugees. Renzi attacked the summit for failing to produce any meaningful agreement on this issue.
“Describing today’s document on migrants as a step forward requires an imagination [worthy of] word jugglers,” he declared. “The usual things were said again.”
European-American tensions are also erupting to the surface, after EU powers called for an end to trade talks with the United States and imposed a €13 billion fine on Apple, the largest US corporation, for not paying taxes in Ireland. Yesterday, as EU heads of state met in Bratislava, US authorities imposed a $14 billion fine on Germany’s leading bank, Deutsche Bank, on fraud charges related to US mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 Wall Street crash. Deutsche Bank responded by vowing to fight the fine.
“Deutsche Bank has no intent to settle these potential civil claims anywhere near the number cited,” the bank said in a statement. “The negotiations are only just beginning. The bank expects that they will lead to an outcome similar to those of peer banks which have settled at materially lower amounts.”
A six-page proposal, drafted by German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, was leaked to the press. “It is high time to reinforce our solidarity and European defense capabilities in order to more effectively protect our borders and EU citizens,” it declared. “Given that the United Kingdom has decided to leave the EU, we will now have to act with [the remaining] 27 member states.” It called for a sharp expansion of military spending to develop aerial refueling capacities, satellite surveillance, cyber warfare, and drones.
At their joint press conference yesterday in Bratislava, Merkel and Hollande confirmed that post-Brexit internal and external rearmament were the center of discussions at the summit. Themes discussed included “security, migration and border protection,” Merkel said. EU leaders also agreed to reduce flows of refugees and on “more cooperation on security,” she added.

Looks like the EU is on the rocks. A new, northern miltarist-fascist subset seems likely to pick up the pieces after the continued breakup, and they’ve had it with the US.

Posted by: jfl | Sep 17 2016 6:35 utc | 124