Librul 2
Interesting. Sounds like a docu and non-fiction. It’s not the movie Flatliners. That was about selfish thrill-seekers.
So many predict the Big One almost like they want it or simply accept it as an inevitability. Maybe they want to scare us into more corrupted collectivism. Maybe there’s money to be made. The Left Behind guys did well while reinforcing the religious idea of soon-to-come Armageddon. There’s the Albert Pike WW3 prediction legend.

Posted by: Curtis | May 28 2017 13:29 utc | 4

Must read article: The lunatics about fake news about Trump and Russia
http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/democrats-are-falling-for-fake-news-about-russia.454971874/

Posted by: Anonynmous | May 28 2017 14:27 utc | 6

It is not so much the secret diplomacy but the background of business contacts and favors owed to Russian investors. IF there were only some way Trump could release some documents that might help dispel those lingering doubts…

Posted by: Ralphieboy | May 28 2017 14:57 utc | 8

Posted by: Noirette | May 28, 2017 10:15:31 AM | 5
:-))
Actually you find a lot on it googling.
I guess lots of things went down the memory hole in 1945 in France (as in Germany).
The slogan obviously is designed to show activity without content.

Posted by: somebody | May 28 2017 16:44 utc | 10

@Anonynmous 7

“Here we go again, red scare hysteria wont stop:”

I just finished the 1951 pamphlet by George Washington Armstrong titled Third Zionist War
There is loads of interesting material in it, but what made me bring it up now is the “red scare”.
In 1951 things looked pretty bleak for the US:
– To a large degree the US had demilitarized.
– Mao had conquered China with the collusion of Marshall and the Communists in the Truman administration.
– Stalin was busy putting up the Iron Curtain around all of eastern Europe and Germany lay starving and devastated.
– The US navy was blockading Taiwan in the Taiwan straights so Mao could attack McCarthy in N. Korea with out fear of a nationalist invasion.
– McCarthy’s desire to bomb the bridges and Chinese camps across the border were denied.
– Truman turned down the offer of 350,000 nationalist Chinese soldiers to help in N. Korea from Chang Kai Chek.
– The Zionists in the senate were blocking the stopping of the continuing looting of German industry by the Morgenthau plan.
– The Germans were furious with Eisenhower and the Nuremburg sham trials.
– Zionist spies within the Truman administration were leaking nuclear secrets and everything else to the soviets.
It is also important to note that Rothschild is derived from “red shield”, so when you write “red scare” it is not clear if the scare is due to Zionism or just “useful idiot” Communism. In any case Armstrong points out who exactly had caused the Korean “Police Action” and the death of 50,000 US soldiers. It was the same group steering US politics whether you choose to describe them as Communists or Zionists. Just as with the Russian Revolution in 1917 that cause so many millions of deaths.
The “red scare” is a “red herring” and the deep states continued usage of it diminishes the degree of the threat that Zionism and its symbiotic cousin Communism poses to the entire planet.

Posted by: Heros | May 28 2017 17:17 utc | 12

My favourite British Airways stuff-up rumour is that it was caused by corporate thriftiness – out-sourcing IT to India.
Airliners spend ~80%+ of their total service life airborne, so the down-time alone is costing shiploads of cash per minute. Reputation damage won’t help either…

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 28 2017 17:43 utc | 14

@Curtis 4 and @frances 13,
Yes, certainly, and “man who uses other man’s crystal ball eats other man’s glass”.
Still…it nags me.
But, my first point was about doing service, who does enough service?

Posted by: librul | May 28 2017 18:21 utc | 16

Jean, @15
It’s Putin fault, he should change his behavior

Posted by: OJS | May 28 2017 18:52 utc | 18

No country is sovereign unless the USA agrees that it is sovereign. No country can be sovereign unless it borrows money from the IMF or the World Bank.
With 189 member countries, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership fighting poverty worldwide through sustainable solutions (such as death, for example – very sustainable).

Posted by: fast freddy | May 28 2017 18:59 utc | 20

Right now there is a Beech B300 King Air orbiting Marawi City, Philippines, scene of the ISIS attacks.As seen on Flightradar24.

Posted by: Mike | May 28 2017 19:16 utc | 22

Those Takfiri terrorists who took over a Southern Philippines city must be crazy, the religeous make up of the Philippines is 92% Christianity 5.57% Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines. Did they expect to be able to convert this huge majority or behead them all? Proof positve that they need to be wiped out, along with the House of Saud.

Posted by: harrylaw | May 28 2017 19:43 utc | 24

Heros @12: In 1951 things looked pretty bleak for the US:
Actually that is absolutely wrong. In 1951 the US was the undisputed winner of WWII. We were without doubt the most powerful nation on earth (even if took the Soviets to defeat the Germans). Russia’s cities and infrastructure had been devastated during the war. It took them decades to rebuild. China was in even worse shape. The US was king of the world.
We were so confident that we believed we could conquer all of Korea. Except the greatly weakened China and Russia managed to support North Korea and lead to America’s first post WWII defeat. The US continued to believe in its invincibility that US arms could conquer the world but that deception crashed in Viet Nam (with considerable support from China and Russia). Today we all know that the US cannot win wars, but it pretty good at spreading chaos around the globe.
Heros, where do you come up with all of that ancient anti-communist crap?

Posted by: ToivoS | May 28 2017 20:03 utc | 26

yeah heros… what’s yer thang? seems all zionist, israel control the world kinda stuff to me that you are always talking about… is that it?

Posted by: james | May 28 2017 20:16 utc | 28

@Krollchem 23
A good read.
@ToivoS 26
You should read the book I linked to. Armstrong presents an image of Europe devastated, Stalin victorious in Berlin, China lost, Britain and France desperately fighting to hang onto their colonies, and North Korea and China pushing the US back out of N. Korea.
The US was never under threat of invasion from the USSR, and Armstrong does make that clear. However he points out that the threat to the US was/is of a different nature, and that Zionism was not only as big a threat as Communism but that they were actually the same threat. He was correct.

Posted by: Heros | May 28 2017 20:40 utc | 30

Twitter chatter
Yannis Koutsomitis @YanniKouts
Merkel: We can’t rely on the US anymore. I have experienced this in the last days. We Europeans should take destiny in our own hands. ~@BILD
a reply
Hassan Ridha‏ @sayed_ridha
Sanctions against US regime, arm the moderate democrats, no-fly zone etc etc

Posted by: Piotr Berman | May 28 2017 21:40 utc | 32

@Rag3head 25,
Wonderful story, thanks. I didn’t however, click on your link (cautious).
I Googled and came upon the video version of The Egg, so perhaps you would appreciate clicking on my link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehRggplMieM
I do see how you were reminded of my story.
Andy Weir’s The Egg is on to something. His bottom line is that there is only one and only one soul, garnering experience and wisdom by continuously reincarnating as everyone. But only as one person at a time, mind you. (An aside, I wonder if Andy at some point began, over time, to believe his own jest).
That theory is close to another I have read. That our souls are but sparks in a greater soul. There are seven, actually, of these “flames before the throne” as the Bible puts it. Seven greater souls that put their sparks (our souls) down into this earthly plane. The sparks (our souls) garner unique experiences thru multiple reincarnations and then these multitudes of wised up souls return to the Greater soul increasing It’s wisdom also.
Sparks within sparks – recursive. Is that clear? The smaller sparks, our individual incarnations, are gathered back into our souls as experience and wisdom and then our souls, which are sparks to the Greater soul are gathered back, or assimilated 🙂
One might wonder if “The Throne” from the Bible is also one of seven, and is Itself gathered back up at some crack of doom.
So…if we are all but sparks in one Greater soul then everything we ever do, like in The Egg, is done to or for ourselves.

Posted by: librul | May 28 2017 22:13 utc | 34

Posted by: Philippe | May 28, 2017 7:13:35 PM | 35

Or worse – cutting down on the out-sourcing while not really having competent IT people left at home, because not having invested in local teams?

What local teams. Everybody is moving to cloud services. The IT is becoming quite nebulous thing these days.

Posted by: hopehely | May 28 2017 23:34 utc | 36

From Piotr Berman
Merkel: We can’t rely on the US anymore. I have experienced this in the last days. We Europeans should take destiny in our own hands.
(Patriotic USA Wingnuts are super angry over this/these remarks. How ungrateful!)
My opinion: Merkel should have had these feelings a LONG fucking time ago. Perhaps before she jumped on the Bullshit GWOT bandwagon and took in all the refugees she helped to create.

Posted by: fast freddy | May 29 2017 2:00 utc | 38

Its happening.get in here now people.trumps gonna handover to pence.kelly ayotte will be new vice president

Posted by: Anonymous | May 29 2017 2:47 utc | 40

>>>> Heros | May 28, 2017 4:40:24 PM | 30

….China lost….

Lost by whom? The Chinese? Did the Mongolians wake up one day to find they were a maritime nation because China had disappeared?
Lost where? Had it cut loose of it foundations and sailed south to Antarctica?

Posted by: Ghostship | May 29 2017 3:01 utc | 42

Posted by: librul | May 28, 2017 6:13:50 PM | 34
(Greater soul etc)
I find all that metaphysical stuff fascinating if not compelling. I met a woman at a party once who made a reasonable living as a Spiritual Guide. She was a believer in reincarnation. So I asked her how reincarnation works, given that Once Upon a Time there were only a few million people on Earth and now there are several billion?
“Easy” she said. “The New ones are non-people.”
???!!!
HW: “Hmmm … That would explain a lot…”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 29 2017 3:22 utc | 44

Piotr Berman | May 28, 2017 11:48:58 PM | 45
Merkel does not have “cojones” to do anything about them …”
In my opinion you should watch a little more closely.

Posted by: AtaBrit | May 29 2017 3:57 utc | 46

I live in Portland Oregon where on Friday we had a Muslim hate crime ending with two dead protecting an innocent teenager.
To those of you that think that Trump has a shred of humanity in him, listen to his silence over the incident.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 29 2017 4:54 utc | 48

Re 48: Any day now, Trump will show us he cares about victims of white terrorism. He’ll also show us he’s committed to a demilitarised foreign policy, and then he’ll drain the swamp. Any day now, surely…

Posted by: sigil | May 29 2017 5:10 utc | 50

@48 psycho
What a bummer that is/was to see/read. That guy has no one behind him. He is an outlier, thank goodness, just as the takfiris of the world we hope and think are outliers, too.
However, don’t let the proximity of tragedy weigh double in your rush to judgement. Had Hillary been elected, she might have let loose some compassionate words for the victims, but as we all know, the overarching reality of the whole mess lies not in figureheads, but the policy that the elite make and that you eloquently rail against most of the time. You know that sorrowful words mean dick, my friend. Makes no difference what was said by who. Only thing that matters is in the executive is the pen.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | May 29 2017 5:29 utc | 52

#53 Americans have been brainwashed
A whole Western generation has been brainwashed:
https://twitter.com/trutherbotpink/status/868367475284553728

Posted by: From The Hague | May 29 2017 6:46 utc | 54

@ 44

I asked her how reincarnation works, given that Once Upon a Time there were only a few million people on Earth and now there are several billion?

Every living being has a soul (humans, animals, fish, etc), that makes 8 billions of humans a tiny number of all souls just on Earth, what to speak of entire Universe.

Posted by: Harry | May 29 2017 7:59 utc | 56

Following a link from Twatter, I read what I considered to be an interesting article/opinion piece on the Comey/Trump/”The Russians” & all the crap & backstabbing that Trump is having to contend with 24/7 I don’t know how much actual real information is involved or is it supposition but it’s not a bad read.
https://t.co/uBtv7BKcXz
Cheers,
Chris in Ch-Ch

Posted by: KiwiCris | May 29 2017 10:09 utc | 58

@48 psycho
trump whipped guys like mr ‘christian’ up and let em go. he crawled out from under his rock and he’s center stage now.
noirette said it about the french … they were unequipped to deal with the false choice presented by their political class.
that goes for the usofa and for us americans in spades. out on housing project hill, it’s either fortune or fame. you must pick one or the other though neither is what it claims.
we must not pick ‘one or the other’. we must create a real alternative ourselves. in america and in france and everywhere else on earth our shadows bot out the sun and darken the landscape.
@merkel
merkel is in a tough spot in the election later this year due to her kow-tow to the imperialists in ac/dc … but now the beer’s on the rump … he’s ‘volunteered’ to be her punching bag. i’ll bet it works, too.
Iran asks Turkey for explanation over deaths of border guards

Iran says it has asked for explanation from Turkey after a cross-border attack left two Iranian border guards dead on Saturday.
Seven border guards were also injured when PJAK terrorists attacked them while they were changing posts, before retreating into Turkey.
Last month, 10 Iranian border guards were killed and two others injured in an ambush attack near the town of Mirjaveh in the southeastern Sistan-and-Baluchestan province. The assailants escaped into Pakistan after the attack, for which the Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group claimed responsibility.
“We have many different enemies who have infiltrated parts of the countries around us,” Rezaei said.

i’d imagine Jaish ul-Adi is a saudi/cia operation?
and i imagine the cia, at least, is involved with the pjak.
Civilian casualties in Iraq, Syria ‘fact of life’: Pentagon chief

Civilian death in the fight against Daesh (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria is merely a “fact of life,” US Defense Secretary James Mattis says, noting that Washington has shifted its tactic against the terror group from “attrition” to “annihilation.”

the usofa now admits it’s the world’s largest terror organization, and has been since wwii, when it switched to warring against civilian populations and infrastructure rather than combatants. hey, hey, curtis lemay … how many people dja burn today?
we americans all know that. mattis can say it right out loud. not a peep
British intelligence received warnings that Manchester bomber was plotting attacks

Unknown to the British people, including the families who lost loved ones last Monday night, Manchester was at the centre of operations that funnelled rebel fighters into Libya. Younis told the MEE’s reporters, “The majority who went from here were from Manchester.” Another interviewee said of the young recruits he encountered during a visit to a rebel camp in Misrata that same year, “They had proper Manchester accents.”
In Saturday’s Daily Mail, Peter Oborne alleged direct collusion by MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, with terrorist organisations in Libya and Syria. Oborne, associate editor of the Spectator and former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, wrote, “MI6 officers were complicit in creating a generation of British-born jihadis who are prepared to do anything, and kill anyone—even young children—in their efforts to destroy this country.
“There is every reason to speculate that Salman Abedi’s evil handiwork at the Manchester Arena on Monday night was in part a direct consequence of MI6’s meddling in Middle Eastern and North African affairs.”
Oborne singled out MI6’s role under the Labour government of Tony Blair, when its former chiefs, Sir Richard Dearlove and Sir John Scarlett, “allowed [MI6] to become a propaganda tool for the Labour PM’s clique of war-mongers.”
Britain’s sordid dealings with the LIFG and other Al-Qaeda-linked groups stretch back to the 1990s. The LIFG was spawned from the mujahedeen and built up by the US in Afghanistan, as part of its destabilisation of the Soviet Union. Since then, the fate of the LIFG has directly tracked shifts in British and American foreign policy.
In 2011, in response to the Arab Spring, the US and Britain set in motion long-standing plans for regime change operations in the Middle East. Anti-terrorism control orders against LIFG leaders were lifted because, according to Curtis, the British government “once again found that its interests—mainly concerning oil—coincided with those of Islamist forces in Libya.”
The 22 dead and scores injured in Manchester, no less than the people of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and countless other countries invaded and occupied, are the victims of British imperialist intrigue and are regarded as “collateral damage.”

just as mattis says … merely a “fact of life.”
i hope labour prevails on the 8th of June. need some good news from somewhere. c’mon brits!

Posted by: jfl | May 29 2017 10:38 utc | 60

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 28, 2017 11:22:47 PM | 44
“Easy” she said. “The New ones are non-people.”
Given we started off as a few thousand hunters-gatherers, that’s a lot of us who are ‘non-people’.
Posted by: somebody | May 28, 2017 4:41:20 PM | 31
Yes, undoubtedly, Napoleon and previously the Roman Empire also wanted a ‘Great Europe’. It’s nevertheless quite funny to see the neoliberals’ phony posturing and looking all virtuous against Nazism, when you know full well that back then, they would have collaborated with the Nazis.
Which they still do, BTW. See Ukraine.

Posted by: Lea | May 29 2017 11:35 utc | 62

@Formerly T-Bear 59
Calling someone a liar in a comments section without even identifying what is believed to be untrue, let alone not even bothering to debunk it with more credible information, is behavior not even becoming of a safe space dwelling snowflake.
We live in a world of fake claims of Russia shooting down MH17 and invading Ukraine, Assad continually gassing his own people after giving up his chemical weapons, Clapper lying outright to the senate about unconstitutional searches, and the Clinton body count.
So you think you should dictate to everyone reading this blog during this era of lies and deception exactly what they are allowed to believe. You remind me of Theresa May.
Meanwhile, more evidence is starting to surface about the latest Gladio style false flag hoax in Manchester. I would add that if that loaded back pack he was carrying was filled with batteries, schrapnel, explosives and electronics it would be hanging a lot lower.
So all you MoA readers better not read this comment, T-Bear doesn’t want you wandering out of the CIA-Mossad-MI5 mind control bubble.

Posted by: Heros | May 29 2017 12:19 utc | 64

@ Heros | May 29, 2017 8:19:54 AM | 64
Base of your problem fool, is that you cannot even read. Please point out exactly where you were called a liar, you cannot because like the facts you construct your delusion, they don’t exist. Get used to the phrase *Not even wrong, not even real*, you are going to encounter it often in your miserable little life. Bugger off.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | May 29 2017 12:47 utc | 66

ragehead 25
That was a cool short story. I almost thought it was going to turn into the Night Gallery episode “Hell’s Bells” – the idea of a personal hell. But it had a pleasant idea.
For Memorial Day, the Atlanta NPR website had an article that said don’t say “thank you for your service” as that is a toss away phrase and instead say “have a meaningful day.” The propaganda of Bush’s war team + FNC pushed the idea of supporting the troops to draw in support for the war. So that became an automatic thing here in the US. I cringe at the thought. Years ago I found a jpg of a gravestone with the word “TRUTH” on it. I send it around because it is the first casualty of any and every war.

Posted by: Curtis | May 29 2017 13:07 utc | 68

quote (May 2017):
Significant and damning testimony of what was going down was given recently in a BBC interview by Ben Ferencz, the most senior surviving US prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. At age 98, Ferencz was still able to lucidly recall how scores of Nazi war criminals were let off the hook by the American and British authorities. Ferencz cited US General George Patton who remarked just before the final surrender of the Third Reich in early May 1945, as saying: «We’re fighting the wrong enemy». Patton’s candid expression of deeper animosity towards the Soviet Union than towards Nazi Germany was consistent with how the US and British ruling class had been colluding with Hitler’s Third Reich in a geo-strategic war against the Soviet Union and worker-led socialist movements arising across Europe and America.
In other words, the Cold War which the US and Britain embarked on after 1945 was but a continuation of hostile policy towards Moscow that was already underway well before the Second World War erupted in 1939 in the form of a build up of Nazi Germany.
end quote.
http://theduran.com/newly-released-un-nazi-holocaust-archives-show-us-uk-colluded-with-third-reich-to-destroy-soviet-union/

Posted by: Noirette | May 29 2017 13:53 utc | 70

@70 noirette
the ‘hero’ of the battle of the uss forrestal ain’t no general patton, but he’s channeling him …
“Russia and Putin Bigger Threat Than ISIS” – McCain

“I think ISIS can do terrible things and I worry a lot about what is happening with the Muslim faith,” he was heard saying.
“But it’s the Russians who tried to destroy the very fundamentals of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election”, he added.

… old soldiers never die … and they never forget the lies their forebearers told them as children.

Posted by: jfl | May 29 2017 14:32 utc | 72

@73
i don’t know about those options, but the ‘plan’ so far has been – a la israel – to get the us to do the heavy lifting. i think the us – in its truss – has to be very careful that the wrong parts don’t fall out as a result of over-exertion – of any body parts other than the mouth, and the rump is right on that. so i think that although they will fail collectively, in their joint aims, neither will give it up. ya gotta believe. empire is a one-track mind.

Posted by: jfl | May 29 2017 14:55 utc | 74

@70 noirette.. thanks… it is funny how innocent sounding comments reveal so much.. patton was caught pulling the emperors pants down right there…

Posted by: james | May 29 2017 15:30 utc | 76

Geez..Macron blast russian media during meeting with Putin
http://theduran.com/macron-the-boy-says-rt-and-sputnik-behaved-like-deceitful-propaganda/

Posted by: Anonymous | May 29 2017 16:40 utc | 78

#65
Actually Buddhism besides the “religions of the books” deal with those who do no reincarnate.
Single ticket vs multi city ticket holders. The problem come about becos those idiots think the single tickets holders are there to be slaves to them ignoring that they too were created by the same One who created them.

Posted by: ThatDamnGood | May 29 2017 17:25 utc | 80

@78 anon
also Macron: France To Respond With Immediate Strike To Any Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria, i guess that’s a signal to al-cia-duh to get cracking with another false flag? he seems to be a younger, more irksome rump.

Posted by: jfl | May 29 2017 19:39 utc | 82

NOIRETTE 70
Complex times the 1930’s and 40’s. There were always countercurrents at high levels against simplistic anti-communism . At wars end there were moves afoot between English counter intelligence and their network of European operatives to murder General Patton .

Posted by: ashley albanese | May 29 2017 21:06 utc | 84

@85 It will have to be pretty hot stuff to shock MOA readers. Can’t wait.

Posted by: dh | May 29 2017 22:23 utc | 86

@87 frances
i am amazed … well i’m not really, we seem always to miss the point when it comes to the answers to questions that have no answers … that we take the ‘doctrine’ of reincarnation literally. the buddha was never one for overturning peoples’ beliefs. he let us persist in our phantasies, tried to minimize the harm done by them, encouraged insight into just what is what.
the fact is that we are all made of what we are made of and, burnt or buried or eaten by vultures, it goes nowhere at our individual deaths, it just goes on. so of course it is reused and recycled and new creatures come into being, and with such intricate rearrangements new ‘souls’ emerge from the incredibly complex structures in which ‘we’ are endlessly reincarnated, and die.
it is all just a poem to endless creation, the means for us all to realize and to join the struggle that persists through countless generations of individuals, stretching far beyond our own brief epiphanies in either direction. i think it’s a great poem, and that poetry is the only way to answer the questions that have no answers.

Posted by: jfl | May 30 2017 1:31 utc | 88

ABC.net.au/7-30 broadcast a brief interview with movie-maker Oliver Stone last night. He’s fresh from putting the final touches to his latest doco based on his face-to-face interviews with Putin. Whilst he was careful not to let any cats out of the bag, the residual impression he left is that he believes that the Lunatics are running the (Christian Colonial) Asylum.
Oliver Stone says Putin misunderstood by the West
(link to transcript and video clip (~6 mins))
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4677176.htm
There is also a hair-raising interview with that Silly Old Fart McCain, in the same edition of 7-30 Report.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | May 30 2017 3:58 utc | 90

Reality and its Enemies

There is an ongoing reality that is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East. …
Cancer-causing munition material: Materials such as tungsten and mercury are found in the casing of penetrating bombs used in the first and second Gulf wars. These have had long-term effects on survivors, especially those who have been wounded by these munitions. Iraqi-trained and Harvard-educated Dr. Omar Dewachi, a medical anthropologist at AUB fears that
“the base line of cancers [appearing in those exposed to these materials] has become very aggressive. … When a young woman of 30, with no family history of cancer, has two different primary cancers – in the breast and in the oesophagus – you have to ask what is happening.”
To this can be added that doctors are now “overwhelmed by the sheer number of [war] wounded patients in the Middle East.”
Drug-resistant bacteria: According to Glasgow-trained Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, head of plastic and reconstructive surgery at AUB Medical Center, drug resistance was not a problem during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. However, after the fiasco of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, things began to change. In the period after 1990, Iraq suffered under a vicious sanctions regime imposed by the United Nations at U.S. insistence. During the next 12 years “Iraqis were allowed to use only three antibiotics” and bacterial resistance quickly evolved. Those resistant bacteria spread throughout the region, particularly after the American invasion of the country in 2003. Today, according to a Medecins Sans Frontieres analysis,
“multidrug resistant [MDR] bacteria now accounts for most war wound infections across the Middle East, yet most medical facilities in the region do not even have the laboratory capacity to diagnose MDR, leading to significant delays and clinical mismanagement of festering wounds.”
As the cancers and untreatable infections grow in number in the Middle East, there is here in the United States a distressing effort to rehabilitate George W. Bush – the American president whose decisions and policies contributed mightily to this ongoing disaster.
Those seeking George W. Bush’s rehabilitation now like to contrast him to Donald Trump. One imagines they thereby hope to present him as a “moderate” Republican.
[A]ll of this is part of a public relations campaign and speaks to the power of reputation remodeling – the creation of a facade that hides reality. In order to do this you have to “control the evidence” – in this case by ignoring it.
These sorts of sleights-of-hand are only possible against the background of pervasive public ignorance.
So what is likely to be more influential with the locally oriented American public: George W. Bush’s rehabilitated image reported on repeatedly in the nation’s mainstream media, or the foreign-based, horror-strewn consequences of his deeds reported upon infrequently?
If reputation remodelers can do this for George W. Bush, then there is little doubt that someday it will be done for Donald Trump. Life, so full of suffering, is also full of such absurdities.

full spectrum death, devastation, and destruction. not only the entire country destroyed, but the human environment as well.
usa! usa! usa! george bush, yeah! usa! …

Posted by: jfl | May 30 2017 10:02 utc | 92

South Korea’s new leader orders probe into ‘unauthorized’ US deployment

South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-in has ordered an investigation into the “unauthorized” deployment of four additional THAAD missile launchers by the United States to the country’s soil.
The deployment of THAAD, which came amid tensions with North Korea, was met with strong opposition from people in South Korea, including the residents of Seongju County, where the missile system is installed.
The installation was agreed by the government of Moon’s predecessor Park ­Geun-hye, who was impeached and ousted over a corruption scandal.
During his election campaign prior to the May 9 election, Moon had urged a parliamentary review of the controversial deployment, which has angered Pyongyang.
Russia and China have also expressed deep concern over the controversial deployment of the American missile system on the Korean Peninsula.

the chinese don’t want it.
the russians don’t want it.
the south koreans don’t want it.
the north koreans don’t want it.
that leaves the usofa, certainly, and the japanese?
built for their pleasure.
can there be a g7 moment coming in east asia?

Posted by: jfl | May 30 2017 11:24 utc | 94

Putin considers that sanctions will not help to unify Kiev with Donbass

Emanuel Macron stated that he though new sanctions against Russia very probable.

rothschild’s boy follows orders. this whole sanctions regime is going to collapse along with us/eu funny money finance. right when they least expect it.

Posted by: jfl | May 30 2017 11:39 utc | 96

96
I don’t think Novorussia media are reliable.
This is official German media
According to French media Macron said nothing on sanctions but suggested to reconvene the French/Germany/Ukraine/Russia talks. German media claims to have heard Macron saying new sanctions “only if tensions escalate” with an ‘only’ in it.
‘Novorussia’ did not get the Crimea solution they wanted, at present they profit from Ukraine Russia antagony, they would hate to have to rejoin Ukraine which Putin probably would prefer with conditions (no NATO, joined economic sphere) right.
Europe is in no position to sustain Ukraine, so Putin presumably will get what he wants with the US being in no position to interfere.

Posted by: somebody | May 30 2017 12:15 utc | 98

@98 sb
i agree on the sanctions take … it is inconsistent with the rest of the micro-spiel. we’ll see what actually happens. putin may well wish that ukraine be put back together again … but it’s hard to imagine that happening. all the king’s horses and all the king’s men …

Posted by: jfl | May 30 2017 13:51 utc | 100