summit | The Duke of York was attempting to rebut allegations that his
relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included the
provision of trafficked underage girls, including Virginia
Roberts-Giuffre who was 17 at the time she alleges Prince Andrew had sex
with her.
The royal attempted to debunk one of Roberts-Giuffre’s claims, that
he was sweating profusely during a dance between the two at a London
nightclub, by claiming that he had suffered a medical condition which
prevented him from sweating.
Still shaking my
head at the train wreck of an interview that was #PrinceAndrew.
I don't sweat and I don't party or make public displays
of affection pic.twitter.com/gIZP0z7Uz3
NYTimes | When members of the British royal family
consent to warts-and-all television interviews about their troubled
private lives, it generally has the effect of roiling the waters rather
than calming them.
So when Prince Andrew set out to explain his friendship with the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a BBC interview broadcast Saturday night, it backfired predictably.
Viewers
were left shaking their heads at the wisdom of consenting to a
polite-but-relentless grilling by the journalist Emily Maitlis in the
first place. Many said they found his statements alternately defensive,
unpersuasive or just plain strange.
Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York, repeatedly denied accusations by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old and had been offered
to him by Mr. Epstein. Under insistent questioning by Ms. Maitlis, the
duke insisted he had “no recollection” of meeting Ms. Giuffre.
But he could not explain the photograph
taken in a London house that appeared to show him with his arm around
the girl’s bare waist, and with Mr. Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, smiling in the background.
He
disputed her account of an alleged meeting between him and Ms. Giuffre
in a club in London. She has claimed that he sweated profusely while
they danced, but he told the BBC that he could not have sweated while
dancing with her at the time because he had a medical condition, dating
from his combat tour in the Falklands War, that did not allow him to
perspire.
quillette | While Harris and other anthropologists in the United States continued
to criticize Chagnon, his standing began to deteriorate on another
front. From the moment he arrived in the Amazon, Chagnon maintained
cordial relations with a missionary priest of the Salesians of Don
Bosco. In fact, Chagnon and the priest became such good friends that the
priest asked Chagnon to kill one of his fellow missionaries for him, a
man who had broken his vows of celibacy by sleeping with a Yanomamö
woman. The priest worried that this could bring shame to the Salesian
order. Of course, Chagnon refused, and his refusal strained their
relationship. Their relationship worsened when Chagnon discovered that
the missionaries had been distributing shotguns to the natives and that
these were being used in warfare. Furthermore, all of Chagnon’s
recommendations for preventing measles outbreaks were ignored by the
Salesians, who built missionaries and tried to have the Yanomamö
concentrate around them, which helped the disease to spread rapidly.
Their relationship finally collapsed altogether after Chagnon cooperated
with a documentary that painted the Salesians in a less than flattering
light. By the early 1990s, the missionaries were increasingly worried
about Chagnon’s presence in the Amazon, especially when it came to light
that the BBC and Nova would be producing a new documentary in the
rainforest about his dispute with Marvin Harris. By the early 1990s, the
Salesians were attempting to block his lifetime of fieldwork in the
Amazon, and they successfully lobbied Maria Luisa Allais, the head of
Venezuelan Indian Commission, to refuse him a permit he required for
re-entry.
Then, in 1993, tragedy struck in the Amazon when gold miners crossed
the border from Brazil and slaughtered a number of Yanomamö, including
women and children. The explorer Charles Brewer-Carías was chosen to
head a presidential commission into the massacre, and he wanted Chagnon
on the commission as one of the few anthropologists in the world who
spoke Yanomamö. When President Carlos Perez of Venezuela learned that
Chagnon had been denied an entry permit, he telephoned the Ministry of
Education and ordered them to issue Chagnon with one at once. A visibly
nervous Maria Luisa Allais offered Chagnon his papers. That Chagnon went
above the head of the Indian Commission and was now installed on the
presidential commission investigating the massacre only infuriated the
Salesians further. They believed that they ought to be the ones
conducting the investigation. On the very first day of their
investigation at the site of the massacre, a helicopter arrived bearing
men armed with machine guns and a Salesian bishop, who ordered
Brewer-Carías and Chagnon to leave. With the government on the brink of a
coup and unwilling to enforce law and order in the deep interior of the
Amazon, the commission to investigate the massacre quickly fell apart.
Chagnon was left with lifelong regrets that there had been no justice
for the dead. Fist tap Dale.
PCR | Jeanine Anez, one of the Bolivian Spanish elite, has declared herself
the President of Bolivia. She is one of the elite allied with
Washington who accused Evo Morales of rigging his reelection. But the
CIA’s Bolivian lackeys who forced Morales to resign his presidency don’t
bother with elections. They just declare themselves president like
Juan Guaido, the CIA creep in Venezuela, who hoped to unseat Maduro, the
elected president, by declaring himself president. Neither Anez nor
Guaido ran for the office. They just self-appointed themselves
president. The organization of American States, a CIA front
organization, accepted the unelected presidents as rightful rulers.
President Trump declared the CIA coup to be an increase in freedom and
democracy.
As Trump approves of the attempted coup against Venezuela’s Maduro
and the successful coup against Bolivia’s Morales, how can he complain
about the CIA/DNC ongoing coup against him?
Live by the sword and die by the sword.
The whores that constitute the Western “media” pretend that
self-declared “presidents” are the real presidents, and those elected by
the people are not. Every Latin American election that does not elect
Washington’s candidate is reported by the Western presstitutes as a
“disputed election.” It doesn’t matter if the winning candidate gets
85% of the votes. As he is the wrong candidate from Washington’s
standpoint, his election is disputed and illegitimate.
Washington paid the corrupt Bolivian military to unseat Morales, the
elected president. This has always been the way Washington has ruled
the entirety of Latin America. Buy the corrupt military. They will
prostitute their wives for money.
lifesitenews | An international group of 100 priests and lay scholars published a
statement today to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took
place last month during the Amazon Synod in Rome with Pope Francis'
active participation and apparent support. They called upon the Pope to
“repent publicly and unambiguously of these objectively grave sins” and
asked bishops’ around the world to “offer fraternal correction to Pope
Francis for these scandals.”
Among the signatories, which include more than 20 priests and
deacons, are Professor John Rist, Professor Roberto de Mattei, Professor
Claudio Pierantoni, Professor Josef Seifert, as well as Professor Anna
Silvas. There are also to be found twenty priests and deacons, among
them Father Brian Harrison and the outspoken critic of Pope Francis, Father Cor Mennen. The prominent German Catholic laywoman, Gloria Princess of Thurn und Taxis, also signed, in addition to authors such as Henry Sire, José Antonio Ureta, and Dr. Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg.
The priests and scholars “protest against and condemn the
sacrilegious and superstitious acts committed by Pope Francis, the
Successor of Peter, in connection with the recent Amazon Synod held in
Rome,” and they give detailed evidence of the different incidences of
pagan worship during the Amazon Synod.
Most prominently, Pope Francis hosted a pagan ceremony with Pachamama statues in the Vatican Gardens on Oct. 4 and even blessed one of the statues. Additionally, he prayed
in front of the Pachamama statue at St. Peter's Cathedral on October 7
and then accompanied it in procession into the synod hall.
The rich oligarch
leader of Bolivia's right-wing coup, Luis Fernando Camacho, was
the leader of an explicitly fascist paramilitary
group. Here are some clips from a promotional
historical documentary it published:https://t.co/gFMyfjsi2ppic.twitter.com/XXNQfhD7ii
thegrayzone | Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a
far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist
movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has
encouraged separatism. He has courted support from
Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition.
When Luis Fernando
Camacho stormed into Bolivia’s abandoned
presidential palace in the hours after President Evo
Morales’s sudden November 10 resignation, he
revealed to the world a side of the country that
stood at stark odds with the plurinational spirit
its deposed socialist and Indigenous leader had put
forward.
With a Bible in
one hand and a national flag in the other, Camacho
bowed his head in prayer above the presidential
seal, fulfilling his vow to purge his country’s
Native heritage from government and “return God to
the burned palace.”
“Pachamama will
never return to the palace,” he said, referring to
the Andean Mother Earth spirit. “Bolivia belongs to
Christ.”
coreysdigs | How do you
build an industry? How do you market it and provide support backing up your
marketing? How do you exploit a community, while creating a glamorized trend
throughout society, stemming from chaos and confusion? How do you grow your
margins and take it all the way to the bank? How do you do all of this, and
still sleep at night? The exploitation and manufacturing of the transgender “industry”
kicked off in the 1950s with a mix of social and medical engineering, with a moving
target on children. The manufacturing of this industry goes far beyond anyone’s
wildest imagination, and if you dare question it, it is discrimination. The
real discriminators are those exploiting a community who truly suffer from
trauma, depression, and an attempted suicide rate of 40 percent. They are the
ones who should be angrier than anyone about the atrocities these people have
committed. They are now exploiting your children, and they have taken this to
dangerous extremes.
Why are transgender people being glamorized, the idea of switching
genders pushed upon children, and it’s all prohibited from being
discussed or debated? The remaking of a population by creating mass
confusion and chaos while dishing out puberty blockers as though it’s
the next best Botox treatment, has avalanched into dangerous territory.
Faster than one could daringly speak the incorrect pronoun, gender
clinics are popping up across this country, surgeons are sharpening
their scalpels, and money is pouring into this agenda. With the suicide
rate of transgenders being nineteen times greater than the general
population and a large percent of transitioned transgenders wishing they
hadn’t done so, one wonders how this destructive agenda got its
kickstart and who’s really benefiting from it. Certainly not those
dealing with gender dysphoria.
Part one will
take you through the timeline and origins of the social engineering used to
create this industry. Part two will cover the medical engineering behind this,
and the danger to children. Part three will get into those funding this agenda
and those profiting from it. Part four will show how they have manufactured a
reality, who’s assisted, and how it must be stopped.
strategic-culture | The Deep State here is the US-and allied Deep State, no merely
national organization. It consists mainly of America’s billionaires,
plus of the billionaires in US-allied countries such as UK, France,
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel — but many more (including, for example,
in Honduras, Brazil, etc.). These people number fewer than 2,000 in
total, and they do deals together, and their contacts with one-another
are both direct person-to-person, and indirect by means of
representatives or agents. However, America’s billionaires lead the
US-and-allied Deep State. That’s to say, the leaders are among the 607 US billionaires, the people who mainly fund American national political campaigns and candidates
— and these 607 individuals determine who will get an opportunity to
become a US President or member of Congress, and who won’t. For example:
these individuals don’t necessarily select the politician who will
become America’s President, but they do select who will get the
opportunity to be among the serious contenders for that position.
(Basically, what the mullahs do in Iran, these super-rich do in America.
Whereas in Iran the clergy rule, in America the aristocracy rule.)
One, in particular, is George Soros, and this article will detail the
views of one of his many beneficiaries. Another of these billionaires
is Charles Koch, but he will not be discussed here, and inside the
United States he is popularly considered to be an enemy of George Soros,
only because the two men oppose each other on domestic issues.
(Billionaires tend to be much more concerned with, and united about,
foreign affairs than about domestic affairs, though they do oppose both
their taxation and their regulation — they are for ‘free markets’, both
domestically and abroad, and yet they also favor imposition of economic
sanctions against countries which resist becoming controlled by them,
and so they don’t really favor free markets except to the
extent that free markets favor their own increase in power and thus tend
toward oligopoly and away from competition.) Both men are much more
alike than different, and both represent what’s called “neoliberalism,”
which is the universal ideology of billionaires, or at least of all
billionaires who donate to (i.e., invest in) politicians. Only few
billionaires don’t invest in politicians; and, though politicians
disagree with one-another, almost all of them are neoliberals, because
politicians who aren’t that are not funded by the Deep State (the
billionaires). The foreign policies of neoliberals are called
“neoconservative” and this means supporting regime-change in any country
that’s labeled by billionaires and their government an “enemy” nation.
So, “neoconservative” is merely an extension of “neoliberal”: it favors
extending neoliberalism to other nations — it is internationally
aggressive neoliberalism; it is imperialistic neoliberalism. It is
fascism, but so is neoliberalism itself fascist; the difference between
the two is that neoconservatism is the imperialistic extension of
fascism — it is the imperialistic fascism that, in World War II, was
represented by the three Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — not
by the purely domestic fascism that was represented by Spain. Whereas
Spain was merely neoliberal, the Axis were also neoconservative
(expansionist neoliberal), and the latter is what the Allies in WW II
were warring against. But now the US has emerged as the world’s leading
neoconservative regime, invading and occupying country after country,
none of which had ever invaded nor even threatened to invade the United
States. Propaganda is necessary in order to ‘justify’ doing that. This
article will describe how that’s done.
The Deep State doesn’t concern domestic issues, because virtually all
of its members control international corporations, and the Deep State
is almost entirely about international issues: foreign policies,
diplomacy, military issues, and international spying agencies called
“intelligence agencies” — extending the empire. The Deep State controls
all of that, regardless of what Party is nominally in power. (The public
care little about foreign policy, pay little attention to it, and
believe the government when it alleges that “national security” is about
protecting them, and not about expanding the power and wealth of the
billionaires.)
The dictatorship of the US Deep State really is more international
than national; it provides the continuity in international relations,
when it chooses and defines which nations (which foreign governments)
are “allies” (meaning “we sell arms to them”) and which are instead
“enemies” (meaning “we should sanction them and maybe even bomb them”).
Both allies and enemies are essential in order for the
military-industrial-press-government complex (here: “MIPGC”) to thrive,
and the Deep State controls the entire MIPGC. In other words: the Deep
State is an international empire, and, as such, its supreme aspiration
is to conquer (via subversion, sanctions, coups, and/or invasions) all
countries that it labels as “enemies.”
blackagendareport | The world birthed in the near extinction of one-fifth of humanity
still exists, in the social relations bequeathed to the Americas by
conquistadors and enslavers.
“In Latin America, U.S. influence means White Power.”
The events in Bolivia lay bare the central role that racial
subjugation has always played in the “New World,” a hemisphere whose
“discovery” by Europeans resulted -- within the span of only 50 years --
in the death by genocide and pandemic of fully a fifth of the Earth’s
human population. The Conquistadors frenzied “primitive accumulation” of
precious metals, mined by enslaved Natives who died quicker than they
could be replenished, created a demand for the capture and importation
of millions of Africans with immunities to both European and tropical
disease. For centuries, until deep into the 1700s, the vast majority of
the Western Hemisphere’s population was Indigenous and Black, with
African slaves comprising the great bulk of newcomers to the New World.
Thus was laid the material basis for the rise of Europe, the beginnings
of capitalism and the global supremacy of whiteness.
“My crime is to be a union leader, to be indigenous…and anti-imperialist,” said Evo Morales,
the three-time elected president of South America’s most indigenous
nation as he entered exile in Mexico. Bolivia is roughly two-thirds
native. Morales’ election victory, October 20 – his fourth since 2005 --
was aborted in the ensuing weeks by rampaging gangs of thugs employed
by oligarchs based in the whitest – and most fossil fuel-rich – regions
of the country who terrorized, beat and kidnapped government
and Movement for Socialism party officials and their families and
eventually laid siege to the capital in La Paz, with no resistance from
the police and army. Unable to protect his comrades or kinfolk, Morales
resigned, and was quickly replaced as president by the leader of the
white-dominated minority legislative party. Morales’ party had won
absolute majorities in both houses of the legislature, but was left
leaderless and terror-struck by the coup. The white rump prevailed.
“Morales’ election victory was aborted by rampaging gangs
of thugs employed by oligarchs based in the whitest – and most fossil
fuel-rich – regions of the country.”
The United States did not immediately recognize the new government
of Senator Jeanine Añez Chavez, but will doubtless soon do so, having
schemed incessantly for regime change ever since Morales joined
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez (1998) and Brazil’s Lula da Silva (2003) to set
in motion Latin America’s “pink tide.” When Argentina
(Cristina Fernández de Kirchner), Nicaragua (Daniel Ortega) and Ecuador
(Rafael Correa) elected leftish presidents in 2007, US imperial power
sank to its nadir in the hemisphere. But the CIA never sleeps, and
neither do the white oligarchs who remained at the commanding heights of
the economy and media in the “pink”-led nations of the hemisphere. One
by one, the anti-imperialist presidents were removed, with U.S.
assistance, in Brazil (2016), Ecuador (2017) and Argentina (2015), for a
time leaving only Venezuela and Nicaragua in the anti-imperialist camp –
along with, of course, Cuba, which has not had a U.S.-allied oligarchic
class to contend with since the revolution of 1959.
Bolivian president Evo Morales of the Movement Toward
Socialism (MAS) party was forced to resign Sunday evening by the
Bolivian military in a coup backed by the United States. Last night,
Morales tweeted that he is “leaving for Mexico” after that country
agreed to grant him asylum.
After three weeks of protests following the disputed October 20
presidential elections, the imperialist powers and their Bolivian client
elite have overthrown the government of Morales. In the context of a
deepening crisis of global capitalism and a resurgence of the class
struggle internationally, including recent mass strikes among miners and
doctors in Bolivia, the ruling class lost confidence that Morales and
the MAS apparatus can continue to suppress social opposition.
During his twelve years in office Evo Morales achieved quite a lot of good things:
Illiteracy rates: 2006 13.0%, 2018 2.4%
Unemployment rates 2006 9.2%, 2018 4.1%
Moderate poverty rates 2006 60.6%, 2018 34.6%
Extreme poverty rates 2006 38.2%, 2018 15.2%
But Morales failed to build the defenses that are necessary to make
such changes permanent. The leadership of the military and police stood
against him. Why were these men in such positions?
The US coup connection Officials who forced #Evo to
resign worked as #Bolivia's Mil. Attachés in DC. The CIA often seeks to
recruit Attachés working in DC. 2013: Gen. Kaliman served as Mil. Attaché 2018: Police Com. Calderón Mariscal was Pres. of APALA in DC
The Agregados Policiales de América Latina (APALA) is supposed to
fight international organized crime in Latin America. It is curiously
hosted in Washington DC.
Morales had clearly won a fourth term in the the October 20 elections. The vote count was confusing (pdf) because it followed the process defined by the Organization of American States:
dailykos | Attorney General William Barr is racing to complete a new “report”
before Thanksgiving. And if Barr’s very poor summary of the Mueller
report threw Trump a lifeline by distorting the real findings of the
special counsel investigation, this new report looks to be more like an
atom bomb, designed to incinerate Washington by putting the whole
Justice Department behind a conspiracy theory that rewrites history and
declares open warfare on political opponents. And Republicans are
already meeting with Barr to plan a “roll out” for this supposedly
classified report in order to maximize its impact.
Barr appears to have taken the results of an inspector general report
that was expected to end weeks ago, rolled it together with the
investigation-into-the-investigation that he launched under the nominal
control of prosecutor John Durham, and capped it all with the “findings”
of a world tour that included attempts to get the Australian
government, the Italian government, and the U.K. government to
participate in attacks on U.S. intelligence agencies. What’s going to
come out the other end could be a dud, but it could launch an effort to
derail the impeachment process—and more.
Barr’s effort to create a comprehensive,
all-conspiracy-theories-combined report seems to have delayed delivery
of the long-expected findings from Department of Justice Inspector
General Michael Horowitz. Republicans were generally thrilled by Horowitz’s earlier report
in which he was critical of former FBI director James Comey for his
handling of some classified materials. That report had right-wing news
outlets clamoring over potential charges against Comey. But despite
claims that the findings justified Republican attacks on the
entire Russia investigation, the actual complaints were minor and led to
nothing.
That seems unlikely to be the case this time. As The Washington Post
reports, Barr has subsumed Horowitz’s work because “the inspector
general does not have the authority to declassify information” and Barr
apparently intends to release information that dips into classified
documents at both the FBI and CIA to tell his story of how the Russia
investigation was unjustified from the start.
saracarter | Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s
much anticipated report on his investigation into the FBI’s probe into
President Trump’s campaign is expected to be made public before
Thanksgiving and the outcome is alleged to contain several criminal
referrals, according to sources who spoke with SaraACarter.com.
Horowitz’s investigation on the bureau’s probe into the now debunked
theory that Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election
will more than likely result in the declassification of documents —
requested by senior Republican lawmakers
for more than several years. These are the same documents President
Trump turned over to Attorney General William Barr in May, giving him
‘full and complete authority” to declassify.
Those documents will contain several classified pages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
on former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, exculpatory evidence that
was withheld from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the
so-called ‘Gang of Eight’ folder (which contained exculpatory
information), as well as the email chain between FBI investigators in
the Russia probe and then-FBI DirectorJames Comey.
Those emails also include discussions with lawyers in the DOJ’s
national security division. As previously reported, the email chains
will contain information that prove the FBI knew prior to obtaining a
warrant to spy on Page that former British spy Christopher Steele’s
information in his infamous dossier on Trump could not be proven.
It is also expected to reveal that the FBI knew that Steele was
leaking to the media but then used those media reports as separate
evidence in their request for a FISA warrant, known as circular
intelligence reporting. Circular reporting is when a law enforcement
official uses false confirmation by making a piece of information appear
to come from multiple independent sources.
counterpunch | The President of the United States urges Republicans to get tougher
and fight an illegitimate impeachment. It seems we may soon have to
choose which side we are on in our deep cultural divide. The President’s
long game may be to take the whole issue to the Supreme Count where
another Gore/Bush decision will come down. Much will fester during this
wait.
But if a civil war were to come if Trump wins or if Trump loses the
election or a Supreme Court battle, this war wouldn’t have a casus belli anything like ending slavery. Never Trump and Forever Trump are very sad casus belli,
although they would feed the ego of Trump. Given that, it would still
be a humiliating and disgusting episode in American history, were that
to come.
What brand of Republican would be fighting what brand of Democrat? Or
would it be the Trumpians rebelling against the tyranny of the Never
Trumpians? Perhaps it would be a religious war: those fighting on the
side of abortion and LGBTQ rights lining up against those who have made
Jesus their personal savior?
Reasons, not forthcoming, aside we can yet see the battle lines
joined on a level of passions. Liberals retain the old tax and
spend/baby killing on demand profile, taking from working Americans and
giving to lazy shirkers and on the way killing babies. The profile grows
darker: gay marriage, gender choice, LGBTQ rights, amnesty to illegal
aliens, open borders, confiscation of guns, cars, cattle, Jesus, Robert
E. Lee and white privilege.
The “extreme Left” and Progressives have a thinner profile: Communists.
Republicans have not been labelled so colorfully by Democrats because
both share a deep respect for the continuous growth of profit. The
differences regarding what to do with the consequences of a rapacious
economic system have not been sufficient for Democrats to paint a
damning portrait of Republicans. That’s been the case until Bernie
Sanders, a class warrior not silenced by those who have made this label
synonymous with traitor, terrorist, Communist.
The splinter Trump faction now both tormenting and keeping the
Republican Party alive is colorfully stereotyped by Liberals and
Progressives. Donald J. Trump led them to this profile simply by being
elected the 45th President of the United States. What sort of
voter would vote for a man who during the campaign aroused anger and
hate, racism, bigotry and misogyny, who had 25 women accusing him of
sexual misconduct, who refused to pay hundred of workers, who nastily
ridiculed his opponents?
The profile then of the Trumpian placed both ignorance and stupidity
at the top of the list, followed by racist, bigoted, misogynist and
homophobic. In brief, if you voted for Trump, you were a troglodyte with
a gun.
For these two stereotypified factions to clash, American culture
would have to stop pulsating like a nerve end on opioids. Because we
interface in cyberspace to a greater extent every day and that alternate
reality makes second by second change its métier, we cannot expect a
passionate clash now will remain in our digitalized memory banks.
Although there is no clarity to what might be the casus belli of a coming civil war, there is clarity to the history taking us to where we are now.
It deserves to be summarized if we are to position ourselves reliably in our 2020 election decisions.
economicnoise | Don Quixote Trump still may not be favored in his battle against
Goliath but the odds have shifted. The American people have been
awakened to how the elites have exploited them. Whether Trump wins this
battle or not, the Deep State has lost the war. They have been exposed
as ruthless, lying exploiters. Don Quixote has suddenly become Goliath.
The peasants have been enlightened. The true nature of current
American government has been exposed. No amount of polished rhetoric can
undo this knowledge. Attempts to do so will bring out the pitchforks.
Below Jeffrey Lord reviews Kimberly Strassel’s new bestseller Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America. This
book details the resistance against Trump. The organism we know as the
Deep State is doing its best to destroy this foreign body. The State
knows its vulnerability to an awakening of the masses and its exposure.
As Ms. Strassel says:
For every Resistance leader who daily makes an
inflated claim about Trump’s destruction of democracy, there is a more
quiet, average American who is deeply alarmed by the legitimate and lasting harm this movement is causing.
What fascinating times we live in. Donald Trump, the unlikeliest of
heroes, may singlehandedly have taken down the Deep State. He exposed
it. Sunlight and the American people will remedy whatever he cannot.
strategic-culture | In America, the Deep State ‘justifies’ itself in the ‘news’-media that it owns, and does so by falsely ‘defining’ what the “Deep State” is (which is actually the nation’s 607 billionaires, whose hired agents number in the millions). They mis-‘define’ it, as being, instead, the taxpayer-salaried career Government employees, known professionally as “the Civil Service.” (Although some Civil Servants — especially at the upper levels — are
agents for America’s billionaires and retire to cushy board seats, most
of them actually are not and do not. And the “revolving door” between
“the public sector” and “the private sector” is where the Deep State
operations become concentrated. That’s the core of the networking, by
which the billionaires get served. And, of course, those former spooks
at the National Press Club said nothing about it. Are they authentically
so stupid that they don’t know about it, or is that just pretense from
them?)
In other words: the Deep State, in America, are not perpetrators
of corrupt government (such as in “countries like Egypt, Turkey and
Pakistan, where authoritarian elements band together to undercut
democratically elected leaders”), but are instead courageous enemies
of corrupt government; and they are instituted by the aristocracy here
(today’s American billionaires), in order to reduce, if not eliminate,
corruption in government (which, the Times now alleges, originates amongst, or serves, the lower classes).
facebook | The people of Kansas City deserve better from so-called Black
leadership. I’m proud to be a part of emboldening the next generation of
Black leaders who will represent their communities far better, and with
far more earnest motives, then these weary soldiers who have apparently
lost their way. Myself and others of goodwill shall continue fighting
to ensure we solve the issues that negatively impact the lives of those
we love the most so that future generations don’t have to inherit the
insecurity, the violence, and paucity of opportunities we did.
Before this year is done we may make it to 200 murders in Kansas City. A
number that should pierce the hearts of every Kansas Citian. Many of
the victims are children who haven’t had the opportunity to grow, to
learn, to understand a better way, and that there really does exist a
better life for them on the other side of their present suffering. When
will our current leadership work together to solve this issue that so
many say is unsolvable? When will our best minds come together to end
this epidemic of hopelessness and nihilism?
If Dr. King were
alive today it is my unwavering belief that he would be far less
concerned with personal accolades and streets named in his honor, but
would, as a much older and seasoned General, still be fighting for the
least of these. King would still be championing the gospel of Jesus
Christ that says in Matthew chapter 18:
“Who is the greatest in
the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set
him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this
little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso
shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.”
off-guardian | It was two years ago, early in the Trump administration, when The New
Yorker and Salon, among many others, were asserting in no uncertain
terms that there was no deep state in the United States, and so Trump
had nothing to fear from that quarter since it was a figment of his
paranoia.
Kit Knightly, writing in the Off-Guardian, brilliantly demolished this spurious propaganda at the time in a must read reminder of how tricksters play their games.
The corporate mass-media has recently discovered a “deep state” that
they claim to be not some evil group of assassins who work for the
super-rich owners of the country and murder their own president (JFK)
and other unpatriotic dissidents (Malcom X, MLK, RK, among others) and
undermine democracy home and abroad, but are now said to be just fine
upstanding American citizens who work within the government
bureaucracies and are patriotic believers in democracy intent on doing
the right thing.
This redefinition has been in the works for a few years, and it
shouldn’t be a surprise that this tricky treat was being prepared for
our consumption a few years ago by The Council on Foreign Relations.
nakedcapitalism | Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc. is the most insightful and revelatory book about American politics to appear since the publication of Thomas Frank’s Listen, Liberal almost four full years ago, near the beginning of the last presidential election cycle.
While Frank’s topic was the abysmal failure of the
Democratic Party to be democratic and Taibbi’s is the abysmal failure of
our mainstream news corporations to report news, the prominent villains
in both books are drawn from the same, or at least overlapping, elite
social circles: from, that is, our virulently anti-populist liberal class, from our intellectually mediocre creative class, from our bubble-dwelling thinking class. In fact, I would strongly recommend that the reader spend some time with Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal! (2016)
as he or she takes up Taibbi’s book. And to really do the book the
justice it deserves, I would even more vehemently recommend that the
reader immerse him- or herself in Taibbi’s favorite book and vade-mecum, Manufacturing Consent (which
I found to be a grueling experience: a relentless cataloging of the
official lies that hide the brutality of American foreign policy) and,
in order to properly appreciate the brilliance of Taibbi’s chapter 7,
“How the Media Stole from Pro Wrestling,” visit some locale in Flyover
Country and see some pro wrestling in person (which I found to be
unexpectedly uplifting — more on this soon enough).
Taibbi tells us that he had originally intended for Hate, Inc. to be an updating of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent (1988),
which he first read thirty years ago, when he was nineteen. “It blew my
mind,” Taibbi writes. “[It] taught me that some level of deception was
baked into almost everything I’d ever been taught about modern American
life…. Once the authors in the first chapter laid out their famed propaganda model [italics
mine], they cut through the deceptions of the American state like a
buzz saw” (p. 10). For what seemed to be vigorous democratic debate,
Taibbi realized, was instead a soul-crushing simulation of debate. The
choices voters were given were distinctions without valid differences,
and just as hyped, just as trivial, as the choices between a Whopper and
a Big Mac, between Froot Loops and Frosted Mini-Wheats, between Diet
Coke and Diet Pepsi, between Marlboro Lites and Camel Filters. It was
all profit-making poisonous junk.
“Manufacturing Consent,” Taibbi writes, “explains
that the debate you’re watching is choreographed. The range of argument
has been artificially narrowed long before you get to hear it” (p. 11).
And there’s an indisputable logic at work here, because the reality of
hideous American war crimes is and always has been, from the point of
view of the big media corporations, a “narrative-ruining” buzz-kill.
“The uglier truth [brought to light in Manufacturing Consent],
that we committed genocide of a fairly massive scale across Indochina —
ultimately killing at least a million innocent civilians by air in three
countries — is pre-excluded from the history of the period” (p. 13).
So what has changed in the last thirty years? A lot! As a
starting point let’s consider the very useful metaphor found in the
title of another great media book of 1988: Mark Crispin Miller’s Boxed In: The Culture of TV.
To say that Americans were held captive by the boob tube affords us not
only a useful historical image but also suggests the possibility of
their having been able to view the television as an antagonist, and
therefore of their having been able, at least some of them, to rebel
against its dictates. Three decades later, on the other hand, the
television has been replaced by iPhones and portable tablets, the
workings of which are so precisely intertwined with even the most
intimate minute-to-minute aspects of our lives that our relationship to
them could hardly ever become antagonistic.
technologyreview |Sophisticated weapons systems have one
drawback: the enemy must expose himself within the effective killing
range in order for the weapon to work as intended. The smart combatant,
of course, rarely exposes himself. So when we do home in on enemy
fighters, we use a $30 million aircraft to drop a JDAM (joint direct
attack munition) and kill a dozen guys living in tents on the side of a
mountain. What has that $30 million technological advantage bought us?
The highly (and expensively) trained aviator piloting a beautifully
complex flying and killing machine just extinguished some men living
under canvas and sticks, men with a few thousand rounds of small arms
ammo at their disposal. The pilot will return to his expensive air base
or carrier. He will have a hot shower, eat hot chow, Skype his wife and
children, maybe play some Xbox, and hit the gym before he hits the rack.
He will not, nor will he be asked to, concern himself with the men he
killed a few hours ago. And in a draw or valley a few klicks away from
where the pilot’s munitions impacted, there is another group of men
living under extremely basic circumstances, eating boiled rice and maybe
a little roasted meat. They will ambush an American convoy or attack a
government-friendly village in the morning. Native grit debases our
technologically superior forces and materiel. Native grit wins a war.
asiatimes |Houthi striking capability – from drone swarms to ballistic missile
attacks – has been improving remarkably for the past year or so. It’s
not by accident that the UAE saw which way the geopolitical and
geoeconomic winds were blowing: Abu Dhabi withdrew from Crown Prince
Mohammad bin Salman’s vicious war against Yemen and now is engaged in
what it describes as a “peace-first” strategy.
Even before Abqaiq, the Houthis had already engineered quite a few
attacks against Saudi oil installations as well as Dubai and Abu Dhabi
airports. In early July, Yemen’s Operations Command Center staged an
exhibition in full regalia in Sana’a featuring their whole range of ballistic and winged missiles and drones.
The situation has now reached a point where there’s plenty of chatter
across the Persian Gulf about a spectacular scenario: the Houthis
investing in a mad dash across the Arabian desert to capture Mecca and
Medina in conjunction with a mass Shiite uprising in the Eastern oil
belt. That’s not far-fetched anymore. Stranger things have happened in
the Middle East. After all, the Saudis can’t even win a bar brawl –
that’s why they rely on mercenaries.
Orientalism strikes again
The US intel refrain that the Houthis are incapable of such a
sophisticated attack betrays the worst strands of orientalism and white
man’s burden/superiority complex.
The only missile parts shown by the Saudis so far come from a Yemeni
Quds 1 cruise missile. According to Brigadier General Yahya Saree,
spokesman for the Sana’a-based Yemeni Armed Forces, “the Quds system
proved its great ability to hit its targets and to bypass enemy
interceptor systems.”
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
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64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
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