Ron Unz surveys books that describe the history of Mossad assassinations at:
unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mossad-assassinations/
A must read with plenty of fun facts like Ariel Sharon’s calling himself a “Judeo-Nazi”. LOL.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Feb 1 2020 1:33 utc | 303

Okay, I’m really pissed. So I’m going to write something some here may find shocking coming from me who believes 110% that Trump is Ziofascist pond scum.
My comment is for Democrats on the off-chance they peruse this site in the shadows. Democrats have suffered and are suffering a karmic skin peel with Trump in power, and then allowing him to stick pins in their raw flesh.
After all the karma they’re suffering with Trump, STILL, they learned nothing and are changing the rules to try to hurt Sanders’ momentum and sabotage his chances for the nomination! Read the latest shenanigans they’re up to.
dnc changes debate rules to rig campaign outcome
convention rules superdelegates
And Hillary is twisting the knife yet again blaming Bernie for not doing more to unite Democrats in 2016 and blaming Bernie for her loss!
hillary slams bernie
IT’S NOT TRUMP WHO HAS TO CHANGE!!! HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE SHET HE IS, BUT UNLIKE YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS TREACHEROUS DEMOCRATS, TRUMP ENTERED IN 2015 EMBRACING THE NEGLECTED RIGHT-WING BASE, AND RELIGIOUS FRINGE OF HIS PARTY AND HAS BEEN A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING TO THEM!
YOU DEM-DUMS HAVE ADOPTED CENTRIST/ZIONISM/NEOLIBERALISM, HAVE USED THE LEFT BASE IN EVERY ELECTION AND THEN KICKED THEM TO THE CURB AFTER THEY HELPED YOU ACHIEVE THE PRESIDENCY WITH OBAMA AND YET AGAIN WITH HILLARY’S UNSUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN WHEN YOU RAILROADED BERNIE, AND AGAIN AFTER HELPING WIN BACK THE HOUSE WHEN YOU THEN TRIED TO EAT YOUR OWN, TLAIB AND OMAR.
I HOPE TRUMP MAKES YOU SCREAM IN AGONY FOR YOUR CONTINUED TREACHERY!
SANDERS HAS ALL THE ENERGY ON HIS SIDE TO DEFEAT TRUMP; IF YOU TRY TO DERAIL HIS CAMPAIGN AGAIN; YOU’LL DESERVE 4 MORE YEARS OF TRUMP, YOU FCKING MORONS!!!!!
End of rant–carry on here.

Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 2:33 utc | 305

the dnc is doing everything it can to derail the sanders nomination. at this point, even some of the diehard centrists admit it. the deep state runs on the money/power fuel, and the donors don’t want sanders.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 1 2020 3:07 utc | 307

@ Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 2:45 utc | 306 who wrote
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She’s as vindictive as they come.
”
She “We came, we saw, he died” is also a self proclaimed war criminal
Circe, please tell us who is more vindictive, Donald or Hillary?
Has empire been driven out of the ME yet?
I hope it gets more kicking in the ass soon.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 1 2020 3:12 utc | 309

@ Posted by: Bruce | Feb 1 2020 2:26 utc | 304
There are literally live feeds about the epidemic in the Chinese websites. The problem, evidently, is that the Western MSM doesn’t want to play second fiddle and credit the Chinese MSM – which they’ve been propagandizing to the Western peoples as communist propaganda anyway.
There’s another, more macabre, reason why the Western MSM is blacking out its own customer base: they may be using the epidemic as a “cautionary tale” about the “dangers of socialism/communism”, and how the West shouldn’t “fall for this trap”. We can attest this from some opinion pieces (plus an editorial from the NYT) directly blaming China’s socialist system for the epidemic. They claim that, if China had a “free press”, news about the coronavirus would’ve become public opinion much earlier, in December 2019.
In other words, they claim China is not giving them first hand access to information so they can be the owners of Chinese public opinion.
Yes, it seems the financial system is not the only sector the West want China to open to the “free market” – they want the media sector too!
In my opinion, this anti-socialist propaganda attempt by the Western MSM is a shot on the foot. All it will do is to strengthen the Chinese people’s resolve, and open their eyes to the fact that the West has a much worse propaganda machine than at home. Unless this coronavirus is really “the one”, China will only emerge from this epidemic with a better medical-pharmaceutical sector, with more investment in R&D, and more prepared than ever for the next epidemic – which will happen again, and will be in again in China. This will only perfect their logistical know-how and capacity, as necessity is the mother of all inventions. The CCP has also found its excuse to eliminate the last vestiges of the old relgion in China and all the anachronic superstitions that are still very alive and well among its people. Exotic animals are already banned; soon other bizarre customs (like eating rhino horn or tiger penis) will also be banned, and China will be one step to the vanguard of human civilization.

Posted by: vk | Feb 1 2020 3:23 utc | 311

Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag
Abstract
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
More at https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon
Please show me how this is all just a hoax, and make an absolute fool of me for posting it. I not only welcome this…I pray it happens. Be well.

Posted by: Bruce | Feb 1 2020 4:24 utc | 313

Here’s what TPTB will do in this election to justify sabotaging Sanders campaign. They’re going to try to rig everything against Sanders, the candidate who is most genuine and wants to rid the system of corruption and reverse Citizens United. Bernie Sanders impassioned speech in Congress proves his commitment to end corruption:
sanders overturn citizens united
This is a man of perseverance and integrity who never quits and has made powerful enemies. Zionists, Wall Street, private equity firms, the billionaire class are against him. What they will do is try to sabotage his hard work and momentum earned in the primary race from now to the Convention by pouring money into Superpacs to run attack ads everywhere, and if he still makes it, they’ll try to install a candidate at the Convention, they’ll pretend can defeat Trump. In other words, they’ll claim that they had to tweak the process because the end, defeating the most dangerous President in history, justifes the means. However, whether they install Zionist billionaire Bloomberg, establishment Biden, or Neolib centrist Buttigieg, as Nominee,none has a chance of defeating Trump and this will usher in 4 more years of Trump, but as in the last election, they really want Trump. Sanders they fear like Raid and the plague.
This man has courage.
People need to fight like crazy on all fronts to ensure Sanders makes it to the White House. He must win.

Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 4:52 utc | 315

Here’s how to recognize the difference:
BERNIE: Not me. US
TRUMP: Make America Me Great Again!

Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 7:01 utc | 317

Circe @318
It is easy enough to attack Trump’s real policies, so attacking the straw man that only exists in your fevered imagination reveals the extent of your delusion. Trump never said what you claim and anybody who doesn’t share your Trump Derangement Syndrome delusions knows that and will disregard your posts as the rantings of a tragically brain-damaged, melted-down Team Blue partisan. The only people you can reach with posts like that are ones who already share your delusion and are already fully in the same echo chamber as you. Such straw man attacks actually empower Trump and reinforce the support he receives from those who are not ranting delusional nutcases.
Note: Many Trump supporters take pleasure in observing how far off the rails the TDS victims go. The expressions of grief from 2016 election losers such as yourself brings them great joy. Expressing this grief to them just enhances that joy they experience. Individuals observing both camps (Trumpites and bawling TDS victims) from the outside are more likely to side with the one that is laughing rather than the one that is crying and manufacturing imaginary grievances.
(Aside: Why do your heartfelt expressions of anguish not earn you the cred you think they should? A surprising proportion – to me anyway – of the US population has not embraced new age victim culture and still believe that whining about one’s misfortune is disgraceful and not behavior worthy of respect.)
This is just some advice in the off chance that you want to influence people to vote for someone other than Trump in November. Try getting your hyperventilation under control and focus strictly on things happening in the real world and you might be able to erode some of Trump’s support.

Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 1 2020 12:20 utc | 319

William Gruff | Feb 1 2020 12:53 utc | 321
When things happen in the country the dogs bark. One can listen and hear their progress and count the different dogs. This is only one of the small things that can save your life, in combat, and at home. Keep a ball and bat or a pool que as well as “whatever else”. In an unexpected moment a gun can bring more trouble than you may wish, or take too long. Depends on the circumstances though.
Like Burroughs said, He’d sure not want to live in a Country where only the cops had guns. Myself? Too old to shoot anybody…eye, hands.
But I’d add to Burroughs’ words…the value of a gun is in the having, not so much in the shooting. The having creates caution, and fear. These restrain “sinners” and help them avoid making mistakes.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 13:33 utc | 321

William Gruff @ 321
Mansplainin’ concern troll
William Gruff @ 322
Reactionary racist. IMHO, Sasha above has you pegged about right. Far right.
Class consciousness, which you profess to know so much about has long since assimilated the role of racism in capitalist USA. Self-righteous whiteys are not the only victims of capitalist USA. Nor are they the most victimised. By a long shot. Self-righteous whiteys who stereotype materially and socially impoverished black youths as violent, lazy and stupid (as you have done here very recently in your comments comments) are far from being the class conscious Marxists they profess to be. Something else, very dark and foreboding, is at play here. It is less an identification with the working class than it is an identification with the oppressors who seek to inculcate fear and division among the working class.
Racism is the very foundation of capitalism in the USA.

[L]eft activists often marginalize people of color by operating from a framework of extreme class reductionism, which holds that the “real” issue is class, not race, that “the only color that matters is green,” and that issues like racism are mere “identity politics,” which should take a backseat to promoting class-based universalism and programs to help working people. This reductionism, by ignoring the way that even middle class and affluent people of color face racism and color-based discrimination (and by presuming that low-income folks of color and low-income whites are equally oppressed, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary) reinforces white denial, privileges white perspectivism and dismisses the lived reality of people of color.
Even more, as we’ll see, it ignores perhaps the most important political lesson regarding the interplay of race and class: namely, that the biggest reason why there is so little working-class consciousness and unity in the Untied States (and thus, why class-based programs to uplift all in need are so much weaker here than in the rest of the industrialized world), is precisely because of racism and the way that white racism has been deliberately inculcated among white working folks.
Only by confronting that directly (rather than sidestepping it as class reductionists seek to do) can we ever hope to build cross-racial, class based coalitions. In other words, for the policies favored by the class reductionist to work–be they social democrats or Marxists–or even to come into being, racism and white supremacy must be challenged directly.

Marx:

Every industrial and commercial center in England possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the “niggers” in the former slave states of the USA. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker at once the accomplice and stupid tool of the English rule in Ireland.
This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes [ed note: kept alive today also through blog posts such as Gruff’s]. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organization. It is the secret by which the capitalist maintains its power. And that class is fully aware of it.

Posted by: donkeytale | Feb 1 2020 13:57 utc | 323

i don’t know if this is true, but it’s often asserted that at close range (within 20 feet) it’s better to have a knife than a holstered gun.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 1 2020 14:07 utc | 325

Now you’ll notice that twitter thread I posted got infested with offended Hillarybots spewing their poison.
Here’s the thing: Sure, Bernie’s supporters can be real Badass…BUT IT’S GOING TO TAKE ENERGY, SMARTS AND, HELL YEAH! A WHOLE LOT OF BADASSSERY TO DEFEAT TRUMP!!! HELLO???
QUIT THE BORING, NAMBY-PAMBY WHINING, HILLARY SORE LOSERS, AND GET BEHIND A WINNER!
SANDERS ALL THE WAY!
Heart on fire. ❤🔥🔥🔥
BADASS B. FOR SANDERS!

Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 14:22 utc | 327

PZ # 326 20 feet. Yeah, but I’d go for the bat unless you’re fully alert and practiced with a big sharp shiv. Also it looks better on the after-action report. And there is almost always a report. If there’s violence, there’s going to be some people who were not there telling you what you did wrong, especially if you were right. A dog is usually enough to keep the wolves away, and wake you up in time if he needs help.
In some neighborhoods the occasional single (safely aimed) and anonymous 2 AM blast lets the wolves think you’re crazy. That works wonders, as Wally remembers from city life…
………..
I asked at the thread on the germs, at my “Feb 1 2020 14:05 utc | 279” if anyone can find a document associated with germ war. This is the January 1946 issue of Merck Report.
And explaned that this report was, it seems, once quite well-known. I find no trace. This may be suggestive…
Topic? They report there in ’46 on the beginning of US industrial GW.
It’s refrenced in the big report on GW/Korea and China…764 pages of delightful week-end reading for Wally.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 14:56 utc | 329

@Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 31 2020 22:46 utc | 296
Thanks to you for your response, I obviously will not be able to express myself with the same elocuency you are doing being a professor writting in your mother tongue, but i will try m ybest, only I hope all gets clear enough and, above all, that it gets published, since took me a while doing it..
Well, you find many things salvageable from the ultra-right (alleged) ideology, many things you say “are common sense”, probably because, from living so much between them, you, if you were ever real left-wing ( I mean antifascist, not the decaffeinated form you have in the USA ..), you have become one of them.
You claim that people should have the right to shoot a black man who assaults his house. Why claim this right and not the right for any US citizen to not live below the poverty line in the richest ( alleged ) country on the planet?
That would be the approach of the real left, that’s why it sounds to me so strange when, again and again, when I read you, you pretend to be a person of the real left.
You know what? I’ve been living in my working-class neighborhood for 15 years now, and no one here has ever been assaulted by anyone, local or immigrant. And keep in mind that here, in the North of Spain, blacks are mostly immigrants, even today, although there are already beginning to be generations of indigenous balck or other color people. But what we do with the blacks, or other color people, who come here, and want to stay, is to offer them first aid related to food and shelter, then a way of life, we just try to acommodate and make them active part of society. With those who arrive and are still minors, we take care to give them health care to help them grow healthy first ( some come with serious infectious diseases already errasdicated here..), we treat them, then we make of them good responsible citizens by offering them a possibility to get a formation which allows them to have a future here or anywhere. All this is done not only from solidarity and love, but even from interest, to preserve peace and social welfare for all.
That there are businessmen who take advantage of the arrival of immigrants to low wages, that is not a problem caused by immigrants, but by the greed of businessmen to whom nobody controls or puts a brake. It is an obligation of the state to ensure that the value of the labor force is not lowered at the expense of the precarious, but this can only happen in a socialist state, which the USA is not. This would be the approach of the real left.
Did you know that one of the most reported companies in Spain for abuses against the worker, regarding schedules, conditions of labor, and salaries is Amazon? Why do you think that Jeff Bezos must earn billions and his workers very poor wages? Is he working billions of times more and better than his workers? Does Donald Trump do it in his multiple businesses?
No, man, what these do is to be billions of times more scoundrels than the workers who have the misfortune of having to work for them in a savage capitalist economy like that of the USA ( already exported to the EU…) and the real problem is that there is a “deep state” that consents, and benefit through succulent millionaire bribes from this situation.
That the members of the “ultra-right” have read the works of Marx, and even of Lenin, to study how to deceive the masses and how to gain power through the revolution of the masses ( which is what they are chasing through the chaos and provocations created by Donald Trump at all levels …), does not mean that they have the most remote intention of applying any social measure once in power. Of course, this is very clear to any European real left, we all remember here how the Nazis called themselves “national-socialists”, and even how the German unions came out to demonstrate with them against the previous government, which only helped them to reach power ( hence the reluctance of the French left to join the Yellow Vests… see how it is now the whole society that has taken to the streets against pension reform…). Perhaps you do not see it so clear because you have never suffered an explicitly fascist regime, otherwise you would not be fooling like that with the “ultra-right” ( if you really fool around and are not already fully in their ranks ).
As they clearly express without hesitation in their manifesto on this site “Amerika” (to which they have subtracted two “k” out of little remaining prudence and for the sake confusion spreading …), this people once in power will not tolerate any expression of the left, nor any diversity at all. Therefore, the model of shameful “apartheid” state, advanced past day by Trump in his so called “deal of the century” will clearly be the model. What they are doing is simply advancing one step at a time towards their fascist state, taking each time one more step without increasing carelessness.
Attitudes of legitimization of fascism happen when you give credibility to part of his speech, even when these are claims of the common people, uneducated or politicized, forgetting what is the crux of his ideology and society project.
Attitudes of legitimization fascism go through asking people not to vote, because there is no alternative between those who have shown themselves as irredeemable scoundrels and those who remain in the system (for now) of whom there is at least the benefit of doubt. ( the point repeated to satiety, so that it penetrates the minds, by the Jackrabbit operative..)
Once the fascists take power, ( if they have not already done so, to see if Trump would accept a defeat with all those armed militias organized…), you will not have a meritocracy-based society, as they claim in their manifest, the only merit that will be necessary to climb the social ladder will be to be a collaborator, for keeping silence, a delator, or criminal or psychopathic enough to do their dirty work, as fascist dictatorships in Europe have historically proven.
It is rare that you do not detect it being, as it seems, a person of high intellectual level, “over-read old man” ( as “swamy donkeynanda” so accutely pointed out…), and allegedly of the real left. Either you are not so intelligent, or do not understand everything you read, or, more likely, you have a spurious interest in these people coming to power.
I venture this for the simple reason that people so different and who have not enjoyed such ample possibilities to study ( such as those who have had well-off people in the USA or those who have had everything for free in the exclusively for them socilaist system of the US Army ) like me, or could be Circe ( I do not know …), or Kobe Bryant, or anyone else who did it, saw it coming from the first minutes the Trump campaign began.
You may not notice it, or you may be old enough to want a fascist society just to save the rents produced by your considerable savings ( which is why many smart enough to understand what this is all about voted by Trump in the first place ), but there is no future for the USA with a fascist regime ( or for any other, for that matter, as the example of Ukraine and Bolivia so pathetically illustrate ) Simply, the amount of circulating weapons will guarantee that you will end up killing each other, maybe, this time, for the good of the rest of humanity.
Of course, those who are promoting all this, promise themselves that in the confrontation to come the leftists will be eliminated first and in greater quantity, since they, being anti-weapons, do not possess them and will not be able to defend themselves against fascist beasts let go to their agency … Being half left will not save you from these hordes, as the German experience clearly illustrated, remember, first they came for the communists … then … for all the others who did not commune with wheels of mill … but there were already no commited comunists to face them ..
Black people in the United States who are forced to steal are the product of a society whose motto is “every man for its own”, and who boasts of scandalous social unequalities, and not only, on top, as the main “leader” of the nation, Donald Trump, does, scorn those who, because of the lack of opportunities, illness, or whatever issue, are considered losers. There is a point from which people simply go and take the share of participation that they feel corresponds to them in society, especially in one as obscenely rich as yours.
There are other models of society, and other types of leadership, such as Brother Kobe Bryant so clearly exposes … In order for people to strive, they must first be empowered in the idea that they are also worthwhile, then they must have hope in that their effort is justly valued with a salary or decent income that allows them to acquire the basics to lead a dignified life, and, finally, that that fair value added to everything translates into an environment of peace and social harmony with their neighbors, and, as well, with the rest of humanity.
This is achieved with a team work joined by the whole of society, by not leaving anybody behind, where everyone contributes according to their abilities and is required to the same extent …That is Marxism Leninism…

Posted by: Sasha | Feb 1 2020 15:07 utc | 331

Sasha | Feb 1 2020 15:07 utc | 332
I pretty much agree. Wally himself is a moderate commie, and holds rentie types in contempt, but honestly, American Blacks and “colored” generally are just as racist as the racist whites…there’s a highly functionalist reality creating harsh and dangerous attitudes. The OSS engineered “schismogenesis” and this was handed off to the CIA, and it’s running.
Wally has a few scars from unprovoked attacks by mulatto kids in Oakland. His bother has similar scars from the Hawaiian kids. And he remembers the same from 1960…in California.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 15:19 utc | 333

Wally the “moderate commie” is bullshitting himself.
Whether some individual blacks are equally racist or whether you have experienced prior episodes of violent crime perpetrated by “mulattos” (Lol) or “Hawaiian kids” (LMAO) isn’t even remotely the point. It is beside the point.
Capitalism thrives first on racism to build wealth through exploitation of the powerless and then promotes racism among the working classes to hold onto political power…and to further exploit the working class of all races to build even more wealth and political power.
You have just exposed your service to the capitalist hold on power, or the lack of “class consciousness” as Gruff also the Fake introduced in his comments…and the sad thing is you don’t even understand yourself, lost in the needy attempt at being clever.

Posted by: donkeytale | Feb 1 2020 15:32 utc | 335

donkeytale | Feb 1 2020 15:32 utc | 336
Thanks so very much. Too bad I can’t show you the scars, but attacks are real, and sincere.
About the reality, schismogenesis, see ” The 1619 Project ”
If you were my age you’d be moderate too, Friend. I saw what happened to Mom and Dad when they went after the CP…
I am glad to know that your remote viewing machine can tell bs from truth….how does that work?

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 15:42 utc | 337

Attitudes of common sense are like this, and not when the fascists signal you a scapegoat on whom to beat your frustations coming from an unequal unfair society…
https://twitter.com/CobraKeiser/status/1221519572542640128
Other models of society….
https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals/status/1223222801932410880
And before I consume my scarce 200 MGb I currently have to post here, provided by my antivirus VPN ( unless B gets my IP unbanned for posting…), some anniversary…
https://twitter.com/Americas_Crimes/status/1222767898705506304

Posted by: Sasha | Feb 1 2020 15:53 utc | 339

2 days left to Iowa. No time to talk about the weather…
Lemme tell you something about Bernie. He’s a REBEL forever…with a cause. It takes one to know one. Unlike me, however, lucky Bernie was a college kid when Democracy was still REAL, and there were real knock-down, drag-out fights in the streets to protect freedom and our lovable curmudgeon Bernie even got arrested and he wasn’t taking it lightly, either.
He was young when when music was soulful, rich and reactionary, and there was political genius everywhere MLK, Malcolm X, Robert and John. And on and on.
So Bernie who has a lot of rebel fire in his belly, is a natural energizer. He knows how to generate passion, excitement, drive, fight, and he has an army of supporters feeling that bern, AND THEREFORE, HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN BEAT TRUMP! (I dare anyone to claim same of the other candidates Neolibs have been pushing and pushing like DEAD WEIGHT.)
Now I’m going to commit heresy here by agreeing with someone, a Neolib, who also has been pushing all the loser Neolib candidates on his viewers, and who I usually can’t stand, but often watch cause he ain’t stupid all the time. So I was surprised this week when he finally WOKE and saw the light.
Watch and listen, cause he sure hit a rare home run with this one!
maher bernie army
Oh hell yeah!
Trump can start his cakewalk out of the White House before he gets thrown out on his blubbery keister.
THIS BADASS B’s FOR BERNIE

Posted by: Circe | Feb 1 2020 16:10 utc | 341

Walter – no worries on the specifics. Orwellian as a term means approximately (w/o looking it up) overly complicating when something simpler and more precise is better.
My thought in that comment above was more a general warning to us all (including me, myself and I) to constantly remain en garde against the facile acceptance of fascism which pervades not only present political reality but also our every waking and sleeping moment these days.
Not aimed at you at all. Sorry to point it at you.
BTW, moderate commie is preferable to left wing commie in any event.
The left wing commie demands purity and solutions which don’t actually exist in the present time or place and is as great a danger in these times of seeping fascism as the out and out fascist him or herself.
Have a great day, Wally!

Posted by: donkeytale | Feb 1 2020 16:42 utc | 343

Was going to say>
US deploys “usable” nuclear weapon amid continuing war threats against Iran @ WSWS
The nifty-bitchen-oui-oui-turbo-W76/2/5kt banger has gone to sea.
What can go wrong?

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 17:01 utc | 345

– Trump threathened in october to kill the iraqi prime minister Al Mahdi. Trump wanted to complete the “reconstruction project” in return for 50% of the iraqi oil revenues.
– Abdel Al Mahdi now signed a contract with the chinese (government) to complete those “reconstruction projects” for “only” 20% of iraqi’s oil revenues.
Source:
https://www.peterbcollins.com/2020/01/24/in-depth-interview-trump-bullied-iraq-with-sinister-threats-far-worse-than-ukraine/#more-20206
Whitney Webb wrote an article on topic as well
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hidden-parliamentary-session-revealed-trump-motives-iraq-china-oil/264155
The website called “South Front” has some VERY interesting articles. E.g. an analysis of the damage done by the iranian rocket attacks.
https://southfront.org/analysis-of-the-iranian-missile-strikes-on-ayn-al-asad-airbase/
https://southfront.org/how-a-hidden-parliamentary-session-revealed-trumps-true-motives-in-iraq/
Michael Hudson gave an interview to the website “The saker.is”.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/what-the-us-wants-in-the-near-east-an-interview-with-the-saker/

Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 1 2020 18:36 utc | 347

– Philip Giraldi: The US “fooled” the iraninan TOR anti aircraft system and as a result the ukrainian plane was shot down ?
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/who-targeted-ukraine-airlines-flight-752-iran-shot-it-down-but-there-may-be-more-to-the-story

Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 1 2020 20:02 utc | 349

– Since say the year say 2013 the US Trade Deficit has been growing in spite of falling oil imports. But right now the Trade Deficit is shrinking. And anyone who has knowledge of Balance Of Payments issues knows what the implications are for the PetroDollar system. Especially in combination with rising Budget Deficits. Spoiler: this combination is weakeing the Petrodollar.

Posted by: Willy2 | Feb 1 2020 20:13 utc | 351

William Gruff @ 296
Your comment “I hoped as a teacher to help steer disadvantaged kids towards rewarding lives.” brought back some of the points brought forth by the Archdruid several years ago. In the essay “the rescue game” he pointed out that the system was never meant as a means to bootstrap the disadvantaged out of their misery.
http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/american-narratives-rescue-game.html
The game consists of three players Victim, Persecutor, or Rescuer:
“The first two roles are allowed one move each: the Victim’s move is to suffer, and the Persecutor’s move is to make the Victim suffer. The Rescuer is allowed two moves: to sympathize with the Victim and to punish the Persecutor. No other moves are allowed, and no player is allowed to make a move that belongs to a different role.”
“In the Rescue Game, in other words, whatever a Victim does must be interpreted as a cry of pain. Whatever a Persecutor does is treated as something that’s intended to cause pain to a Victim, and whatever a Rescuer does, by definition, either expresses sympathy for a Victim or inflicts well-deserved punishment on a Persecutor. This is true even when the actions performed by the three people in question happen to be identical. In a well-played Rescue Game, quite a bit of ingenuity can go into assigning every action its proper meaning as a move. “
The Archdruid goes on to point out that the game applies to politics too:
“A variant of that game still goes on in the pseudoconservative end of American politics. When Hillary Clinton went out of her way to characterize African-American youth as “superpredators” not that many years ago, she was playing a version of that same game, in which law-abiding white citizens were the Victims, black youth were the Persecutors, and white politicians were the Rescuers. On the other end of the political spectrum, of course, the roles are reversed; in games played on that field, people of color are the Victims, working class white people are the Persecutors, and affluent white liberals are the Rescuers. The players have changed places but the game’s otherwise identical.”
The Archdruid also points out that political systems have been taken over by insiders who use it for their own benefit. Eventually all organization succumb to the insiders, for example donors to the Red Cross for the Haiti earthquake victims later found out that the only six houses were built and the rest of the 500 million was syphoned off by the Red Cross bureaucrats. The Clinton Foundation also got into the game of raising money for the victims and used it to “enhance” the Foundation.
https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2012/08/the-degeneration-of-politics.html
I share the Archdruid’s viewpoint that western civilization is facing catabolic collapse and playing the rescuer game or any other game is futile.
https://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf
I gain some comfort in economically unproductive activities such as commenting at MoA in hopes that this preserves some portion of knowledge as monks did in the dark ages
http://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/where-are-lifeboat-communities.html

Posted by: krollchem | Feb 1 2020 20:52 utc | 353

Zappa kept his head. Only guy that got to Buckley on TV.
I’ll see the YT, Phil.
See also Prof. Alfred McCoy: In the Shadows of the American Century Pt.I
YT
I’d call the process ketosis. Empire eating itself.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 22:14 utc | 355

don’t remember zappa doing it, but gore vidal got to buckley.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 1 2020 22:45 utc | 357

Sasha | Feb 1 2020 22:15 utc | 356
Before the US joined (for mysterious reasons!) WW1, there were strange fires and explosions in odd places. Pure coincidence, Sister.
No doubt your proffered examples in Russia are entirely accidental. Nothing important…
(Wally noticed too)

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 23:07 utc | 359

dorje | Feb 1 2020 23:24 utc | 360
I’m cool with queers dressing up. Who gives a chit? But…
That’s a chick. A tough chick, but a chick. The tough chicks have square jaws, sometimes. Sometimes they’re kinky too…so she might have a few personal secrets, but a weewee isn’t on e of them.
Oh yeah, they say FO a lot too. I’d have given her a try if I’d a met her in the day. She’s cute.

Posted by: Walter | Feb 1 2020 23:45 utc | 361

dorje@360
What do your lies and mud slinging against Tulsi Gabbard have anything do with the election. Are you just another republican hack throwing grenades? The DNC is already doing a lot to stop her.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/480788-cnns-blatant-and-bizarre-tulsi-gabbard-snub
Go back to Zero Hedge…

Posted by: krollchem | Feb 2 2020 1:11 utc | 363

my first exposure to cornell west was on a terrance blanchard recording called ‘choices’… great recording..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12t9Bn_sHf0
here is the whole cd on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QVzMFcwBA&list=PLjcaS1QwlUvym4axy7c7Q6ctb_Aokob1G

Posted by: james | Feb 2 2020 2:02 utc | 365

Wow. Complete inability to actually look at a person objectively and see that they are being sold a product. The DNC has really pulled off an amazing fraud. They have otherwise, seemingly intelligent adults completely unwilling to investigate anything, cheering on people who will become bit players in a game that they have rigged.
I’m pretty much convinced that this impeachment affair was a massive fraud. Hardly any Americans paid attention to the all the E.O.’s and escalation of drone warfare under Trump over the last few years.’
You guys are totally licked. Completely incapable of even doing any objective analysis of your owned media.
Also known as beyond f@cked.
Gabbbard is part of a strategy of picking very specific attributes, putting it together in a package and selling it to the consumer. I find it amazing that people think their is any authenticity to her at all. But then again, November 2016 saw millions of voters crying, literally crying on the Internet that Hillary Clinton had lost.

Posted by: dorje | Feb 2 2020 3:04 utc | 367

Circe@364
Only Sanders supported the environmental protesters against the turncoat democratic governor of Colorado who is bought out by frackers.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/30/john-kiriakou-how-do-you-trust-a-politician/

Posted by: krollchem | Feb 2 2020 7:28 utc | 369

WTH
Happy Groundhog Day.
Peace, Brothers, n’ Sisters n’ Comrades (and to the fellas down at SCMODS)

Posted by: Walter | Feb 2 2020 13:19 utc | 371

@Sasha #332
While I am increasingly leaning left on social issues, the reality is that lots of immigrants = lower wages for less skilled Americans.
And big business, as well as the wealthy, know this full well.
The H1B program, the ongoing use of illegal immigrants for house workers by politicians and the wealthy, there are innumerable public examples.
Thus your view that the government can fix the problem, is not correct if a part of the problem is immigrants forcing wages down.
Note also that the “unrestricted” immigration only hurts the lesser skilled Americans. There are all manner of barriers in place preventing foreign doctors, lawyers, and what not from competing with their American counterparts in the USA.
Capitalism or not isn’t precisely the problem – the problem is complex but IMO more a case of the ruling classes increasingly not caring about the rest of the country, so long as it benefits itself.
This is a power problem – not fascism per se or capitalism or communism.

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 2 2020 23:13 utc | 373

ooops, forgot. The Germans might be standing up, in a way, see>
„Wir sollten uns an nuklearer Abschreckung beteiligen“ @ tagspeigle
“In contrast to the Germans, France has its own nuclear weapons with the “Force de frappe”. Don’t they have to be involved if the EU is to become more effective in foreign and security policy?
Absolutely. We need to consider working with France on nuclear weapons. Germany should be ready to participate in this nuclear deterrent with its own capabilities and resources. In return, France should put them under joint command from the EU or NATO.”
How Jolly!

Posted by: Walter | Feb 2 2020 23:41 utc | 375