How can one hate a guy as witty and astute as Rooty Poot Poot.

Posted by: fast freddy | Mar 13 2017 20:32 utc | 3

Seal Team 6 practicing a decapitation strike on Kim Jong Un? What a great idea! The nukes over Pyongang and 100k projectiles firing chemical and incendiary weapons onto Seoul will look amazing in hi def!

Posted by: aaaa | Mar 13 2017 20:52 utc | 5

Finally we are in the news (not!). FYI, our island is being sunk:
The Board specifies a series of required adjustments in a letter addressed to the Governor. These include a gradual reduction in healthcare costs reaching $750 million by 2021; $550 million in payroll cuts as of the next fiscal year, reaching $1.3 billion by 2021; the implementation of reforms to social benefits programs; improvements in labor participation; the consolidation of public schools; and increasing the University of Puerto Rico’s (UPR) cuts from $300 million to $450 million.

Posted by: Maracatu | Mar 13 2017 20:55 utc | 7

The ’empire’ spends tons of money on its military – but is chicken shit and cowardly. The US uses surrogates and drones – its own soldiers are led by the same losers who got their (our) butts kicked in Vietnam and every other military engagement since! Like picking vegetables and fruit, fighting is beneath the American – so the US funds surrogates and sends in the drones. Why?
Lazy, indolent, cowardly chickenshits!
It’s always been that way – name one time Americans prevailed without letting someone else carry the burden.
Look at our reaction in N Korea? Sure we’ve got this fancy ass Air Force (or is that farce) and lots of boots on the ground, but they’re ineffective and slovenly.
The empire is doomed (a good thing) and the rest of the world knows it (at least they should). Best news around is that the capitalist malignant overlords are about to meet head on with one killer ass debt melt down! It is about time!
The best news? Those with pitchforks won’t have to do a damned thing – just sit back and watch. Some will have great seats.

Posted by: rg the lg | Mar 13 2017 21:18 utc | 9

North Korea can make Japan uninhabitable simply by destroying the nuclear power plants located on Japan’s west coast. Each plant has multiple spent fuel pools that contain massive amounts of cesium-137 (and other fission products). Destroying the reactor and spent fuel pools would send immense clouds of deadly ionizing radiation across Japan. The fallout would render vast areas uninhabitable and would pose a lethal threat to the Japanese populace.
Cesium-137 has a melting point of 83 degrees F and a melting point of 1240 degrees F; during catastrophic reactor accidents, fuel rods overheat to the point of rupture and/or ignition (the cladding on the rods can ignite). By the time the rods reach such temperatures, much or most of the radioactive cesium within the rods has become a gas, which allows it to escape into the atmosphere.
Thus the radioactive cesium gas will travel through the lower atmosphere and find its way to Earth (typically the heaviest areas of fallout occur where it is raining or snowing). Most common chemical forms of cesium are highly water soluble, which allows cesium to become relatively ubiquitous in the environment. Cesium is in the same atomic family as potassium, and it mimics it; because potassium is a macro-nutrient, plants will selective absorb cesium with potassium. Berries and mushrooms, which are rich in potassium, will heavily concentrate cesium, which will also bioaccumulate and bioconcentrate as it moves up the food chains.

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 13 2017 22:31 utc | 11

@10 blues Though I have much respect for P. Chossudovsky (met him about 15 years ago) he is a bit alarmist by nature. I doubt this will devolve to more then empty rethoric that serves to impede a potential rapprochement between both Korean halves post-impeachment..

Posted by: Lozion | Mar 13 2017 23:08 utc | 13

Cambodia – US wants 50 year old debt repaid.
$274 million ‘loan’ by the US Dept. of Agriculture for US cotton, rice & flour swells to @ $500 million with interest payments.
The reason this ‘loan’ was necessary was because the US air force dropped over 2.7 million tons of bombs (cluster submunitions, chemical bombs and conventional bombs) on Cambodia, killing an estimated 500,000 people (directly & indirectly) & up to 30% of the population was internally displaced. The Khmer Rouge (up to this point a marginalized & relatively minor player) propaganda machine went into over drive – the rest is history.
This slimy low life piece of shit U.S. Ambassador William Heid “I come back; the issues remain unsolved; and that number has grown to $500 million, about. So to me, I think that is unfortunate, I think that’s not in Cambodia’s best interest to keep letting that grow forever,” https://www.cambodiadaily.com/featured/with-war-era-debt-demands-us-on-shaky-moral-ground-124912/

Posted by: ted01 | Mar 13 2017 23:46 utc | 15

This is an interesting week. Do you know how they say ‘Sometimes nothing changes for a decade, and then everything changes in a fortnight?’ – seems to me like we had a few such fortnights in recent years.
This week:
– Brexit vote
– Mohamed bin Salman in the US
– Dutch vote
– Fed meeting
– debt ceiling
– Merkel in the US
– G20 finance ministers
And I’m sure I forgot something.

Posted by: smuks | Mar 14 2017 0:45 utc | 17

@14 stumpy… “…concrete floor of my manure bin.” lucky you!

Posted by: james | Mar 14 2017 2:08 utc | 19

Latest from John Helmer on the Canadian FM Chrystia Freeland Ukro-Nazi Allegations:
“This is not a story about the past, nor about blaming the crimes of the fathers and grandfathers on their sons and daughters, or granddaughters.
This is a story of the moment when the crimes of the past and the criminal intent today turn out to be the same thing. Russia-hating today is a race crime, just as Jew-hating and Pole-hating were crimes, and still are.
No Canadian foreign minister or member of parliament…should be culpable…”
http://johnhelmer.net/in-the-canadian-cartoon-dudley-do-right-can-do-no-wrong-snidely-whiplash-no-good-in-real-life-can-robert-fife-david-walmsley-terry-glavin-alan-freeman-and-scott-gilmore-save-the-galician-gang/

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 14 2017 2:31 utc | 21

tRump endows CIA with more leeway to commit terror:
“This new authority is a shift from a policy under former President Barack Obama that limited the CIA’s ability to engage in paramilitary activity, and may very well strain relations between the agency and the Pentagon.” https://sputniknews.com/military/201703141051548122-trump-gives-cia-drone-power/
Well, with the expansion of the planet’s #1 terror operation, we now know where tRump stands regarding the Outlaw US Empire’s quest to attain Full Spectrum Dominance, which means tRump’s words about restoring the principle of national sovereignty was a load of hog wash! Doing almost everything HRC would have except continue to escalate tension with Russia, meanwhile further empowering corporate tyranny at home. The citizenry must come together to kill the good cop/bad cop Duopoly with a genuine populist party to have any chance at a survivable future.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 14 2017 3:26 utc | 23

It should be obvious by now, but for those looking for more video evidence…..
White Helmets Exposed as an Arm of ISIS: Two al-Nusra Front Leader Videos Link The White Helmets to Terrorist Group
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/01/27/white-helmets-exposed-as-an-arm-of-isis-two-al-nusra-front-leader-videos-link-the-white-helmets-to-terrorist-group/

Posted by: Liam | Mar 14 2017 3:40 utc | 25

@rg the lg & james, got your solution right here:
https://phys.org/news/2015-08-cow-poo-power-profitable-farm.html

The family-run American farm invested in a biogas recovery system which transforms cow poo and other waste into electricity. Enough electricity, in fact, to power 1,000 homes, a service which the local utility company pays for handsomely.

@Perimetr, not just the Japanese nuclear power plants, see NYC’s Indian Point:

1982 study by Sandia National Laboratories found that a core meltdown and radiological release at one of the two operating Indian Point reactors could cause 50,000 near-term deaths from acute radiation syndrome and 14,000 long-term deaths from cancer. When these results were originally disclosed to the press, an NRC official tried to reassure the public by saying that the kind of accident the study considered would be less likely than “a jumbo jet crashing into a football stadium during the Superbowl.”

…nuclear-plant-security/impacts-of-a-terrorist-attack
As far as North Korea, North Korea is to China as Israel is to the United States – a problem child with an insecurity complex and a brace of nuclear weapons. Joint custody might be the best approach for both problems.

Posted by: nonsense factory | Mar 14 2017 4:57 utc | 27

Peter Au,
here’s more on hindutva,
‘George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right’s political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. “We are not cats,” said one man, “we are lions.”
And lions don’t lie with the lamb, or with the goat.
Which is why the Hindu Right government does not want to make nice with Pakistan, and much prefers the other lions in the region, such as Israel, and the big lion of the planet, the USA. ‘
https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/hindutva-and-zionism-comprador-states-of-pentagon-inc-by-vijay-prashad/

Posted by: denk | Mar 14 2017 5:35 utc | 29

Corrected URL for Helmer’s latest Chrystia Freeland article @ 21
http://johnhelmer.net/in-the-canadian-cartoon-dudley-do-right-can-do-no-wrong-snidely-whiplash-no-good-in-real-life-can-robert-fife-david-walmsley-terry-glavin-alan-freeman-and-scott-gilmore-save-the-galicia-gang/

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 14 2017 6:14 utc | 31

No matter what Trump pretends with Putin; Putin has to think beyond Trump geopolitically to secure Russia’s future as a global leader and to deter U.S. hegemony and the pervasive threat of aggression and political interference by its leaders. The U.S. regardless of Trump will always provide financial and material support to Putin’s opposition in Russia. He should not be deluded by the Trump illusion. Therefore, whatever plan the U.S. has been executing(PNAC) to achieve dominance, Putin should be one step ahead following a counter-plan, Trump or no Trump. Trump is a wild card and he may not make it past the 2020 elections anyway, therefore Putin should not put all his eggs in the Trump basket. Trump only represents a means to buy some time to put obstacles in the way of PNAC as most U.S. leaders/politicians will never consider Russia an ally and sooner or later Russia will be in the crosshairs again.
The Saudi prince who is 2nd to the KSA throne and Minister of Defense is visiting Trump on Thursday. No doubt that Syria will be on the agenda, and Yemen as well. In fact, they will probably discuss the Iran deal as well and how to sabotage Iran’s economic re-emergence and whatever corridor economic and military exists between Iran-Syria-Lebanon.
After the chaos that the Saudis wreaked on Syria, Putin should view KSA as a geopolitical threat to Russia’s standing in the Middle East. This is one reason why Syrian territorial integrity is critical to prevent the KSA and Israel from gaining control of Syria.
In order to counter the U.S. geopolitical quest for dominance, Russia needs to have a powerful ally in Asia, namely, China and other smaller players in Asia and another powerful ally in the Middle East Region, Iran and smaller states: Syria, Libya, Lebanon and it should also intervene to prevent the U.S. from exercising regime change in Venezuela and continue to ally with Brazil and other smaller South American and Central American countries. Russia should ally with all countries on every continent that resist U.S. imperialism to create a counterweight to U.S. bases, allies and vassals, namely the Empire.
If Putin wants to restore Russia’s greatness and ensure its security, he needs to find other means to deter the Empire’s domination than just with nukes and hi-tech weapons.

Posted by: Circe | Mar 14 2017 7:35 utc | 33

Brilliant interview on Syria: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cd2TLhaZg
A short but another brilliant interview on Syria that snuck into mainstream media: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-av5ZZsfzw

Posted by: Anoncommentator | Mar 14 2017 11:21 utc | 35

Re: nonsense factory | Mar 14, 2017 12:57:16 AM | 27
Yes, you get my meaning. Discussion of the consequences of war to nuclear power plants has been verboten in MSM.
After all, nuclear power is “safe and clean”.
As it was once said, if nuclear power plants had existed in Europe prior to World War II, no one would be living there now.
As was previously mentioned in the thread, a single high altitude electromagnetic pulse could destroy simultaneously dozens of nuclear power plants.
To visualize the spread of deadly ionizing radiation from a single burning nuclear power plant, see the IRSN model of Chernobyl burning at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ApKvCtHGDc

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 14 2017 13:07 utc | 37

…
As far as North Korea, North Korea is to China as Israel is to the United States – a problem child with an insecurity complex and a brace of nuclear weapons.
Joint custody might be the best approach for both problems.
Posted by: nonsense factory | Mar 14, 2017 12:57:16 AM | 27
NK as China’s Israel is a pretty realistic theory imo but joint custody won’t happen because that would make China directly responsible for filling the gap in NK’s compromised retaliation capability.
The sanest solution to the imaginary NK threat would be for the toddlers in charge of US/UK Foreign Policy to get over themselves and lift all the sanctions on NK.
Judging by an offensively juvenile 2016 BBC mockumentary hosted by MI6 asset Rupert Wingfield-Jones, screened on SBS(au) this evening (“Inside North Korea”), the sanctions haven’t stopped the NK-ians from building Public Infrastructure that would put Middle America, and the grottier parts of the not-so-modern UK, to shame.
Wingfield-Jones hooked into a delegation of Nobel Prize winners who’d been invited to parlay with NK academics. He made it clear before the plane landed in Pyongyang that he was there to find fault and get himself kicked out.
Every thing he smeared as second-rate or fake whilst there was clearly far superior to his jaded perspective. The funniest aspect was that the things he said (and to whom) to get himself kicked out would have got him kicked out of, or given a good kicking in, 90% of countries.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 14 2017 14:11 utc | 39

a small genocide, ca 150,000-200,000 victims in refugee camps, with western complicities
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20170314-rwanda-rdc-tingi-tingi-reed-brody-onu-massacre-recit-cij
same with Burma today…

Posted by: Mina | Mar 14 2017 14:47 utc | 41

@Hoarse 40
NK’s regime is mostly a US asset imo. Isolated and easily manipulable, and a constant ‘threat’ to Japan and SK, making them scramble for ‘protection’.
The best thing for China would be a cold or hot coup/ decapitation, with Chinese puppets and some troops taking control of the country and the well-being of its population. Which is why the US won’t do it – they may be stupid, but not that stupid.
But they’d happily provoke Pyongyang into doing ‘something stupid’.

Posted by: smuks | Mar 14 2017 15:00 utc | 43

Re: smuks | Mar 14, 2017 10:55:23 AM | 43 “Discussion of the consequences of war to nuclear power plants has been verboten in MSM.” Actually there was a huge and very public debate about this in Europe post-9/11.
OK, I guess I missed that, but I never saw the same debate here in the US. Similar taboos exist for DU weapons and nuclear winter. Many in the nuclear industry continue to promote the theory of hormesis, that small amounts of ionizing radiation are “good for you”. Meanwhile, the EPA has moved to greatly relax radiation safety exposure standards, in anticipation of the next nuclear disaster in the US. see https://www.nirs.org/category/radiation/standards/epa-moves-to-relax-us-radiation-standards/

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 14 2017 15:48 utc | 45

Re: Outraged | Mar 14, 2017 11:11:42 AM | 45
Yes, and the danger that EMP poses to nuclear power plants was essentially ignored in the 2004 Congressional report on this subject, see http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf
Perhaps there was a classified version of the report?

Posted by: Perimetr | Mar 14 2017 15:55 utc | 47

Noirette, u nail it, debate on france culture yesterday 6.30 pm on hunger in Nigeria south sudan somalia yemen with no single mention of the state actors involved in the different conflicts. Even when UN o brien declared just one day before that these are men made rather than draught related explicitely Intervenants were ngo ppl who knew their boundaries very well.

Posted by: Mina | Mar 14 2017 17:45 utc | 49

Since 2 weeks the feench msm is again oro ksa/qatar line on syria
The UN now bames the syrian gov for bombing the water supplies of damascus. Plus the deafenibg silence about the WH oscar, the wikileaks.
Looks like the empire is alive and kicking. With a blond mop?
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/260941/World/Region/Syria,-key-powers-meet-in-Astana-for-talks-without.aspx
Where we read that “UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Tuesday that the Syrian conflict was the “worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II”.
The congolese, somali and south sudanese will appreciate. But in the bew western-gulf order blacks dont exist apparently.Except as slaves or for their rich soil.

Posted by: Mina | Mar 14 2017 22:38 utc | 51

@52 Good question, politically it may be impossible txs to the SDF being under US control/pressure..
Elijah Magnier’s latest piece. Interesting analysis though it leaves out the energetic (pipelineistan) aspect of things..
https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/the-roles-of-the-us-russia-turkey-iran-and-israel-in-syria-moving-towards-the-end-of-the-war/

Posted by: Lozion | Mar 15 2017 0:49 utc | 53

@54 Sad but true denk. Not many sovereign states left. The BRICS is being dismantled. This is why Syria is a redline for Russia/Iran. Lets hope for a multipolar world to emerge before we end up 6 feet under..

Posted by: Lozion | Mar 15 2017 6:09 utc | 55

Sad Canuck 52
ISIS are still making suicidal attacks to take Deir Ezzor yet falling back, giving up territory everywhere else. It would make more sense to use those fighters to hold ground they already control.
It seems Deir Ezzor is still disputed territory. A lot of oil in Deir Ezzor province. If ISIS were to take Deir Ezzor, then the US would try and take it from ISIS to add to US Syria. I doubt there will be any help from the US for the Syrian forces at Deir Ezzor.

Posted by: Peter AU | Mar 15 2017 8:47 utc | 57

France Culture (a French governmental radio) 6 PM news (the main evening news on this station). They announce a report on an important place of “memory of the war”, which enters its 6th year, but no mention of the bombings in damascus today in the main titles, just a short sentence, less than ten words, in the introduiction to the report which is actually on a website that has 22,000 songs… among memories of the revolution… so serious…). They have had such reports for three days on the occasion, and Kodmani whom they present as a ‘journalist’, and never mentioned Astana and the boycott.
It sounds like the Socialists are definitely in need of Gulf money for their campaign. Their candidate, Hamon, is promessing everything, from a free monthly-rent for all, rich and poor to the full interdiction of all pesticides etc. He has an important support of the suburban practicing Muslilms who are politically organized whom he has been in business with during his carreer (the guy never worked, started his job as the socialist party with some students demo, and then was elected or nominated wherever they wanted him to).

Posted by: Mina | Mar 15 2017 17:15 utc | 59

@ Posted by: Anonymou_S | Mar 15, 2017 1:47:23 PM | 60
Thank you for the link.
The Guardian was clearly lobotomized, then ‘Body Snatched’, re geopolitics immediately after the Snowden releases by UK Gov officials … off-guardian.org does sound work. After all, they are on the official ProPornOT list (Honor Roll?). 😉
The final paragraphs …

…whilst failing to realise that we live in a changing world. The internet has undermined the power of a media that has become undeniably monolithic. The Guardian begs for pennies at the bottom of every GCHQ press release, because they need the money. Because people don’t read them, or buy them, or listen to them. Newsmedia is a business going only one direction.
In that sense, you can see Cohen’s words as half of a gut-wrenching admission. Ten years ago Trump would never have made it past the primary stage. Nor would Bernie Sanders. Ten years ago Owen Smith or Yvette Cooper would be leading the labour party, and Britain would have voted to stay in Europe. Ten years ago Hillary Clinton wins in a landslide. The truth is that the media don’t have the power to completely manufacture consent anymore. The mainstream media IS a monolith. A totem of hierarchy, erected by a million slaves who never new any better. Ancient…and crumbling.
When you really dig down into the heart of it, that’s probably why he’s so angry.

🙂

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 15 2017 19:09 utc | 61

@38 ex-sarajlija
thank you very much for the link to Understanding money. What a clear diagnosis and prognosis as well.
I did note one inconsistency …

The money supply of Canada increases at the moment a bank issues you a loan. As you repay your loan the money supply shrinks. So money is being created and destroyed every day.

… i don’t see it shrinking, in Canada or anywhere (everywhere) the banksters are creating money, and neither does the author …

The financial system the world has evolved on the Bank of England model is not sustainable. It creates nearly all money as debt. Such money only exists as long as someone is willing and able to pay interest on it. It disappears, wholly or partially, in recurring financial crises. Such a system requires that new debt must be created faster than principal and interest payments fall due on old debt.

one observation is certainly tongue-in-cheek …

What a pity that many historians, like many non-historians, so badly misunderstand money and banking!

… this is the contra-positive of Upton Sinclair’s observation

It is easy to get a man to misunderstand something when his salary depends upon his misunderstanding it.

that site … PDForum … is run by what seems like a ‘reformed’ cia hitman … David C. Korten. whatever his case, this article by John H. Hotson is as clear and concise as it gets, imho.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 16 2017 0:16 utc | 63

“While the United States is not directly involved in the civil war, we are providing limited assistance to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)-led coalition in an effort to help protect their territorial integrity and sovereign borders.”
Gen. Votel can anyone tell me how these liars and jackasses involved in foreign policy can call yemen a ‘civil war’ and still wax poetic on helping to look after saudi arabias territorial integrity? what kind of an idiot what say this? for fwiw – the jackass is Gen. Votel, who figures everyone who listens or reads him must be more stupid then he is..

Posted by: james | Mar 16 2017 3:51 utc | 65

Debsisdead 66
good analysis.
also….
R Tillerson used to call his buddy in state dept to fix his deals during his Exxon days, guess its even better now that he’s the ‘fixer’ himself ?
‘Venezuela is where Tillerson’s background as chief executive of Exxon Mobil becomes embroiled with American big business interests and personal vendetta. Exxon Mobil is the leading US oil giant, which Tillerson headed up until only a few weeks ago when Trump tapped him for the State Department. The company lost up to $16 billion in property and other assets when the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez, Maduro’s predecessor, nationalized its holdings in 2007. An international court of arbitration ruled in 2014 that the country should compensate the oil company with $1.6 billion – that is, only about 10 per cent of what Exxon Mobil had sued for. Some industry insiders say Tillerson has never forgiven Venezuela for «burning him».’
is Tillerson exacting his pound of flesh as well ?
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/27/global-flashpoints-test-trump-america-first-presidency.html

Posted by: denk | Mar 16 2017 5:21 utc | 67

I fucking knew it. The big trump infrastructure plan to spend a $1 trillion on fixing up the parlous state of amerikan transport infrastructure has been revealed to be a scam.
I had initially thought he would grab a fat wedge of Joe/Jo Taxpayers money and give it to himself using front companies; a somewhat despicable plan that did have the benefit of diverting money from killing Johnnie Unwhite into hiring tens of thousands of Joe Lunchboxes.
That, if it ever actually existed outside of trumps stream of consciousness bullshitting, plan was stymied by rethug hawks in Congress & Senate who announced very early on in the piece that wasting taxes on something as useless as hiring amerikans to fix their crumbling infrastructure was intolerable communistic treason when there were still unwhites in the scary world outside amerika, who had yet to feel the weight of an amerikan jackboot on their throats.
So since old trumpy has to find an alternative earner to cover the real cost of hiring Mr Tangerine Man to be prez, the new plan involves selling off the important roads and bridges (ie those which lack a viable alternative route so ‘bottom lines will be maximised’) to these same front companies, then asking nicely for the new owners to seal them every now and again, using some of the money raised from the tolls everyone will have to pay once those resources that amerikans already paid for when they were constructed with Joe Taxpayer funding have been handed over to the trump’s chums.
Mike Whitney writes about it here

Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan is not an infrastructure plan and it won’t put $1 trillion of fiscal stimulus into the economy. It’s basically a scheme for handing over public assets to private corporations that will extract maximum profits via user fees and tolls. Because the plan is essentially a boondoggle, it will not lift the economy out of the doldrums, increase activity or boost growth. Quite the contrary. When the details of how the program is going to be implemented are announced, public confidence in the Trump administration is going to wither and stock prices are going to plunge. This scenario cannot be avoided because the penny-pinching conservatives in the House and Senate have already said that they won’t support any plan that is not “revenue neutral” which means that any real $1 trillion spending package is a dead letter. Thus, it’s only a matter of time before the Trump’s plan is exposed as a fraud and the sh** hits the fan.

The maintenence will never happen of course, the meat in the trump sandwich aka whichever agency is foolish enough to agree to oversee the contracts drawn up at the time of sale, might as well be pissing in the wind as asking a private corporation to ‘waste’ money on such foolishness. The new owners will claim that as much as they might want to spend money on fixing rickety roads and brittle bridges, their shareholders would rightly charge them with fraud and reducing potential profits if they did such a thing.
Once the inevitable happens and a bridge collapses under the weight of a school bus full of now dead children, we will discover a previously ‘overlooked’ clause in the fine print whereby the government is who was meant to ensure all assets were restored to ‘as new’ condition prior to sale, so that silly old Joe Taxpayer will find his/herslf having to pay up once again. This time after they have paid out all damages for the dead school children, they will also have to pay out on every asset ‘sold’ for ongoing maintenance of that asset even after it was sold to Ben & Josh Greedhead for about the cost of a cheap meal at the local food court.
And insult to injury Trump and has friends won’t even have to put up any cash to own amerikans’ stuff.

“Under Trump’s plan…the federal government would offer tax credits to private investors interested in funding large infrastructure projects, who would put down some of their own money up front, then borrow the rest on the private bond markets. They would eventually earn their profits on the back end from usage fees, such as highway and bridge tolls (if they built a highway or bridge) or higher water rates (if they fixed up some water mains). So instead of paying for their new roads at tax time, Americans would pay for them during their daily commute. And of course, all these private developers would earn a nice return at the end of the day.” (“Donald Trump’s Plan to Privatize America’s Roads and Bridges”, Slate)

Amerikans who have been naughty probably have considerable experience of how fucked the prisons have become since privatisation of the justice system but others may not be aware of how privatising a monopoly makes every aspect infinitely worse.
In that case ask yer favourite englander about the joys of commuting on a privatised railway. Trains are late, if they ever turn up, everything is coated with a thick patina of grime, breakdowns are common and worst of all safety has been totally compromised so accidents & attendant fatalities have increased a lot.
If trump concludes he’s prolly only gonna get 4 years, he will go at selling off amerikan infrastructure as fast as he can, as cheaply as he can. Oh amerikans are in for an education – for sure.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 16 2017 11:22 utc | 69

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 16, 2017 2:29:44 PM
Yeah whatever the saddest part of this is that some people are so tied to bullshit memes based on my enemy’s enemy must be my friend they will stubbornly & stupidly support crooks well past the point of their crookedness being established. The original reporting on this story came from Slate whose rethug connections indicate the story was sourced close to the decision, but keep up the frantically foolish ad hominems free of any actual you know facts, slavishly aping your hero, all you display is your own stupid attachment to an asshole.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 16 2017 21:18 utc | 71

They are diabolical members of the psychotic Tribe. They deserve to be treated like marshmallows.

Posted by: John | Mar 17 2017 2:48 utc | 73

Sigh more of the same,
Tillerson threat North Korea
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/17/tillerson-refuses-to-rule-out-nuclearization-asian-allies-to-keep-north-korea-in-check.html
and Trump will meet Merkel, what will he hear after? Trans-atlantic bla bla Russia is a threat bla bla sigh.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/17/trump-set-to-meet-merkel-at-white-house-after-criticizing-her-during-campaign.html

Posted by: Anoynmou_s | Mar 17 2017 12:19 utc | 75

Some blood curling facts about the Brutish Empire outrageous crimes:
Sur les pratiques pédophiles et satanistes de la famille royale anglaise

On the pedophile and satanist practices of the English royal family
The elite pedophile network in England is unfortunately not a myth. In the 1980s, we heard of a pedophile network installed by the MI6 at the Kincora Boys Home in Belfast. Shortly afterwards, it was the orphanages in Wales that made them talk. “Then those of London, Scotland, and finally it was Jimmy Savile who fell. Today, the great maneuvers continue to stifle the biggest scandal: the involvement of the royal family in this pedophile network. So we are going to talk about satanism, pedocrminality, and a dark ceremonial affair that went wrong in the south of France.
 
In 2012, Chris Jones says his two brothers, Adrian and Leander, were murdered because they were about to expose the elite pedophile network, including Margaret Thatcher. Chris Jones explained that as a child he was forced to have sex with a High Court judge, or by a cop…
The pedo – FM networks
Behind all this history, the shadow of Freemasonry was hovering. Although, as always, no official findings were found, many of the key protagonists in the survey were FM. So much so that victims asked the court to make a list of the magistrates, cops and other speakers belonging to Freemasonry. Why ? Because we feared a choking in the rules, which indeed was the case. It must be said that with Gerard Elias, a member of the Dinas Llandaff Lodge in Cardiff, a judge of the High Court who ruled the court, it was difficult to do otherwise. As for the Chief of Police of Northern Wales at the time of the abuses, Lord Kenyon, he was Grand Master Provincial [3] and was more than once taken to protect his comrades.
Children were sent to hotels or villas to be raped by pedophiles with certain purchasing power.
It is also known that various pedophiles, such as a certain Gary Cooke, alias Reginald Cooke, had their entries in Allen’s homes. The said Cooke, who had left the army in 1974, then introduced the children to other pedophiles. Another pedophile who had his entries at Allen, Graham Stephens, had even taken a young man to Denmark at the end of 1972.
There was also the case of the Dunblane massacre in March 1996, when a notorious “killer” and pedophile entered a school to massacre 16 kids and their teacher before committing suicide was armed with a weapons license Signed by a freemason who later became NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson.
It was a freemason, Lord Burton, a local grandmaster, who denounced the incredible protections in this story and called the investigation “cover-up”. Burton denounced above all the affiliation of Lord Cullen, the senior magistrate who conducted a pseudo inquiry into the said massacre, at the Speculative Society, linked to the FM, and some members of which raped children at the Queen Victoria school (for children Of the military, presided over by the Duke of Edinburgh, that is to say, Prince Philip), a school where the madman had just been dragged at a time. Nevertheless, Cullen was named Baron in 2003, probably as a reward for protecting his comrades.
And this is only a small part of the pedophile scandals stifled in the UK.
The Elm Guest house case, this brothel for powerful pedophiles in the heart of London, is another. Why these systematic choking? Because names of deputies, judges, ministers, prime ministers, and even the royal family are cited by various victims.
We’re going to talk about the English royal family, but we’re going to run out of written sources, obviously.
 
The English royal family, a Nazi coterie?
One is not going to linger long on this aspect of things today very well documented, displeasing some propagandists of the Official History.
We know that the bonds of the English royal family with the Nazis were very close, and probably still, if we judge by the disguise recently sported by Prince Harry…
Lord Mountbatten: he is considered the mentor of Prince Charles, after being that of Prince Philip. Admiral de la Navy, he was at the forefront of organizing drug trafficking between South-East Asia and Europe. Mountbatten was the brother of the Queen of Sweden, the uncle of Prince Philip, and both bear the real name of Battenberg, anglicized in Mountbatten.
Mountbatten, like Edward Heath, was connected to the case of Kincora Boys Home, an orphanage where it is known that the MI5 has developed a pedophile network aimed at compromising various personalities. Children from Kincora Boys Home were taken to a castle in the middle of Ireland, which belonged to the family of the founder of the Hellfire Club, a small elitist group founded at the end of the 18th century.
The orphanages in Wales were also used by MI5 to film foreign diplomats in more than compromising positions.
It is also known that it was Mountbatten that allowed Savile to be the first civilian to be decorated with the “green beret”, a military distinction, as early as 1966.
A homosexual relationship is often lent to Mountbatten and Edward VIII, who were cousins.
He died in 1979 in the explosion of his boat which was attributed to the IRA because it is practical, but several theories circulate in particular towards the track of the secret services. Incidentally, he was with a 14-year-old boy, Nicholas Knatchbull, on the boat at the time of the explosion…
The royal family, one clicks paedophile
English royal family is especially, like all the leaders of the developed countries and probably of the other countries also, is syphilitic to marrow by her behaviors pédocriminels.
Why? Because like all our leaders, the English royal family is a satanist.
For this reason, it is inevitably paedophile. One could add that the Queen of England as its descendants are cocaines to the eyes, and consume several kilos of pure cocaine each month.
It is known for example that two former Prime Ministers, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, practised the sacrifices of children, who are impossible to circumvent for a good quite damaged satanist. Heath, which appreciated much transfered in Jersey, would have thus killed several children. It is found also side of Belfast, in Kicora Boys Home, directly dependent on the satanic bunch Hellfire Club, and also on the side of Elm Guest house.
In 2008, it is a majordomo of Buckingham Palace and old marine, Paul Kidd, who was made wedge for rapes made on minors during 30 years, whereas it worked for the royal family. Of course, no link was established between the network paedophile set up by Kidd and the royal family. One of its victims explained why when it was 14 years old, Kidd invited to take the tea in company of the queen at the end of the Seventies.
In 1999, an international investigation called Ore operation led to arrests in the Netherlands and in England in particular, where the cops could establish bonds between paedophiles of the Ploughing present at the government and traffic of children with an aim of prostitution in Belgium and at Portugal[ 6]. Blair was so hot with the buttocks which it forced the media not to quote no name[ 7].
As for Savile, there is not from now on any more any doubt that he devoted himself to ceremonies satanists.
It is known that it provided children to the government, in particular in Jersey where a witness saw making assemble a child on the yacht of Edward Heath, then 1st minister.
It is not for only the deputy Tom Watson required a serious investigation about “a network powerful paedophile related to the Parliament and in Downing Street”
Several elements corroborate this leaning of the royal family, in particular:
Jimmy Savile: the star of the BBC was the supplier of children for the closed circles of the royal family and the government. It had access to many orphanages (like that of Jersey for example), but also to boarding schools of girls, at psychiatric hospitals (of which it had all the keys and where it was even lodged[ 8]), and could provide itself as children anywhere and any time.
Savile, which cumulates today more than 450 complaints, was introduced near Prince Charles by Lord Mountbatten at the beginning of the Seventies, that is to say ten years after the first complaints of sexual abuse against Savile (in 1964).
Then, Savile straightforwardly became a close adviser of Charles, delivering his opinion on the appointment of an assistant, or even on the organization of its marriage. With the palate, Savile behaved normally, i.e. like a truck-driver in rut.
Some also consider that the purpose of the weak emission of Savile, “Jim’ L fix it” (1975 – 1994), was only to facilitate the access of the predator to the children.
Let us add that in addition to being paedophile, Savile was devoted to practices nécrophiles[ 9] like with practices satanists, which is described in several testimonys of victims. It is probably not for only the body of a young woman was found right in front of at his place the morning of February 5, 1977. Moreover, the bonds of friendship of Savile with the killer in series Peter Sutcliffe which acknowledged the murder, and their geographical proximity before Sutcliffe is not sent in one of the hospitals of the circuit of Savile, raise also question, Broadmoor.
The nephew of Savile, Guy Mardsen, has expliquéil has there a few months how his/her uncle took it along in orgies with powerful types, and how it asked him to find other younger children to amuse clicks it.
the business of the children stolen in an Indian orphanage of Canada. I already approached this business in an article devoted to the genocide of the Indians of Canada, in particular by sending their children in orphanages held by the Church, of true mouroirs in which networks paedophiles operated. To summarize, three survivors of these orphanages stated to have been pilot of the removal of ten children by the Queen of England. At the time of a royal visit in one of these orphanages with Kamloops, in British Columbia in October 1964, one introduced the children at the queen and prince Philip who accompanied it. The first of these witnesses died quickly after having spoken, and the last survivor, William Combes, died in February 2011 before to have been able to testify with the lawsuit which was worth a judgment at 25 years of prison for the pope and the Queen of England, in particular (but one will return lower there). In the passing, the death of Combes resembles an assassination much, according to some like Kevin Annett who inquired into the subject.
The school was held by the catholic Church, and the children were systematically tortured there, some were even killed, as it was the case in a good part of these “residential schools”. The day of the royal visit, certain children had the privilege spade to screw with the queen and Philip, like some priests. Combes, which was 12 years old at the time, remembers: “I remember that it was odd because one has all of the kiss the feet of the queen, who with white shoes with laces”. After one moment, the queen left to it spade screws with ten children of the school, seven boys and three girls old from 6 to 14 years, “and these children never returned”, still said the witness in his official deposition on February 3, 2010, “one never again did not intend to speak about them and one re-examined them forever, even when we were older”…

Posted by: ProPeace | Mar 17 2017 13:15 utc | 77

ProPeace 76
in Sudan,
Chinese workers and oil fields have been under constant attacks by ‘terrorists’ for three decades. just in nov 16 several chinese blue helmets were killed in a terrorists ambush .
same shit in mali…africa , afpak and beyond.
washington supported puppets fighting washington sponsored jihadists who murder chinese workers./executives on the side.
wot ?
wtf !
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND ITS US !
trump doesnt need drones, jsoc and trillions of dollars to fight aq/is/boko haram/ al shabaab/whatever, all he needs is drop a couple of ‘daisy cutters’ on cia/nsa/pentagoon, problem sovled !
without going to the source of evil,
the current ‘whack a [cia] mole ‘ campaign to ‘fight isis’ is just same old b.s. to perpetrate murkkan intervention in M.E.
new boss same as old boss !
with one huge difference tho,
trump says cia has been too ‘restrained’,
under his ‘no holds bar’ strategy, we can be sure of many many more ‘collateral damages’ to come, gauranteed !

Posted by: denk | Mar 18 2017 4:05 utc | 79

psychohistorian 80
first take out their ‘muscle men’ then you’ll have
all the time in the world to reform the world’s
financial structure.

Posted by: denk | Mar 18 2017 5:33 utc | 81

Jesus Christ, Merkel is making a fool of herself in the below video, no sense of humour at all, doing all to defend obama.
LIKE A BOSS: Trump to Merkel about Obama wiretaps: At least we have something in common
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7hU5uWGOE

Posted by: Anonymou_s | Mar 18 2017 16:35 utc | 83

i wonder if belarus is about to become ukraine redux? Russia-Belarus Union in Crisis makes me wonder.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 19 2017 1:12 utc | 85

I think that it is significant that last Tuesday Trump met with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and on Friday Chinese Premier Li met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Does that reflect anything? I think it reflects an evolving change in the world balance of power that is not being reported by the Western media.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 19 2017 5:36 utc | 87

Anonymou_s 83
Interesting comment from Pat Lang over at SST halfway down the comments…
“His polling numbers are steadily declining. It is clear to me from confidential sources that leaders of the IC DID approach GCHQ with an informal and, of course, un-written request to dig through the intercepts available to them in the joint NSA/GCHQ system for material adverse to Trump. The then director of GCHQ accommodated them and was fired when his presumption was discovered at 10 Downing Street. This, in spite of British protestations of outrage to the contrary. This kind of skullduggery is essentially not provable unless those who were in certain meetings come out of the woodwork and they will not. Efforts like this re planned to be un-provable in court or a hearing and this one was done fairly well. pl”
It seems that not only has the Obama/Clinton faction have fake MSM media, fake EU politicians, Syrian Academy award winners AQ public relations group White Helmets on side, but also the five eyes IC community.

Posted by: Peter AU | Mar 19 2017 6:55 utc | 89

‘British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that Britain will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration later this year.’ … so begins Lawrence Davidson’s post, One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration …

I have told the story of the Balfour Declaration in documented detail in my book America’s Palestine. Here is a brief synopsis:
  The November 1917 declaration was a World War I expedient undertaken by the then British government to enlist the aid of worldwide Jewry (mistakenly believed to be led by the fledgling World Zionist Organization) to the British side. In exchange the British government promised to create a “Jewish National Home” in Arab Palestine after the war. In so doing it sought to buy Jewish assistance with someone else’s currency – that is, with territory then belonging to the Ottoman Empire.
  Key members of the war cabinet in London, such as the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, were believers in the myth of worldwide Jewish power, and on that basis were convinced that Jewish influence in Washington could help bring the United States into the war as a British ally, and at the same time keep their eastern front ally, the Russians, from leaving the war. Though the U.S. did soon enter the war, it had nothing to do with Jewish influence, and the Russians, now led by the Bolsheviks, proceeded to make a separate peace with the Germans.
  At the end of World War I the Ottoman Empire collapsed and Britain found itself in military control of Palestine. The government in London then proceeded to follow up on its promise to the Zionists. It did so by allowing the massive immigration of European Jews into Palestine. At this point the policy was driven by a blend of religious and racist beliefs, along with imperial ambitions. First there was the fact that the Jews were seen as European allies who would allegedly help secure a strategic part of the Middle East for the British Empire, and second there was a mesmerizing mythic belief that a Jewish National Home was somehow in line with the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. In the end none of this played out well for the British. In 1948 they were driven out of Palestine by both violently hostile Zionists and Arab nationalists. They left with their tails between their legs.
It appears that Prime Minister May and her party’s “Friends of Israel” reject this history. Or, perhaps they don’t care about documented facts because all that now matters is keeping for the Conservative Party the financial backing of the Zionist lobby. Such is democratic politics in the West.

… looked into America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, have only read the first two chapters so far. very enlightening. promises to be a good read all the way through.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 21 2017 1:55 utc | 91

And for something I have not seen reported elsewhere and contains some interesting wording:
Netanyahu is on an official visit to China from March 19 to 22 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 22 2017 5:18 utc | 93

@93 psycho, ‘The Israel-Palestine issue has long-term and profound impact on the situation in the Middle East, Xi said, adding China appreciates Israel’s adoption of the two-state solution.’
that’s interesting. i guess that’s an inside joke between xi and bibi? i liked the picture of bibi laying a wreath at the monument to the “people’s heroes” at tian’anmen square, too. i guess those are the red army heroes who massacred the traitorous students at tian’anmen?
trade agreement signed though. no doubt israel will be keeping beijing apprised of ‘advances’ in us weaponry, and china will be grateful to pick up whatever it can.
the israeli story that caught my eye was israel-syria-russia …
Syrian UN Envoy: Putin Sent Message to Israel That Its Freedom to Act in Syria Is Over
Netanyahu tells Putin that Israeli airstrikes in Syria will continue
… that’s syrian and israel … waiting to hear from russia.

Posted by: jfl | Mar 22 2017 7:03 utc | 95

@ JFL
Apologies for being a bit short in last reply. Evidence now points towards Tian’anmen Square being the first US orchestrated colour revolution.
I remember at the time, so called students having been egged on by the US, sending messages to the “outside world” thinking they would get US help. Looking back, all I can think now is – fools.
Until recently we have only had the US version. Now it seems, that as in Syria, and Ukraine, there were armed “peaceful” protesters to kick off the violence. With US agitation to kick off the protests.

Posted by: Peter AU | Mar 22 2017 8:17 utc | 97

I suspect psychohistorian will be interested in this.
Master Spider David Rockefeller Passes
A positive development. No! There are plenty of other Spiders to take his place.

Posted by: juannie | Mar 22 2017 22:56 utc | 99