here be the beginning of the article with the rest at the link at the bottom. here we celebrate the decider giving the wife of saint obama a piece of candy and it interests the whole country, we're told, but we then see other items to consider as we travel thru the rest of the thoughts presented;
As of this writing, a tweet by disgraced Broadway fraud convict Roland
Scahill has 113 thousand shares and 472 thousand likes, which if you’re
not used to Twitter is a ridiculously high amount that nobody generally
hits. The tweet features nothing but four seconds of video
footage from the John McCain funeral, and the caption “George W. Bush
sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my heart.”
That’s it. That’s all it took to win Twitter for the day. Those
four seconds of footage have been circulated around TV news stations to
‘ooh’s and ‘ahh’s of fawning establishment pundits yammering
incessantly about how the death of War Hero John McCain™ has let
everyone Put Aside Our Political Differences™ and Come Together As
Americans™ to celebrate the life of a man who dedicated his entire political career to sowing death, suffering and devastation at every opportunity.
A war criminal giving a piece of candy to the wife of another war
criminal at the funeral of a war criminal is all it took to get
mainstream American brains gushing with dopamine and oxytocin.
Because that’s how compartmentalized Americans are from the reality of what war is and what it means. The
explosions, the screams, the charred and shredded human bodies, the
chaos and displacement and all the suffering, terrorism, slavery and
rape that necessarily always comes with it, the million Iraqis killed
under Bush, the unfathomable humanitarian disasters created in Libya and
Syria under Obama, all the devastation created in all the military interventions McCain
helped push for, all of that is so peripheral and distant in American
consciousness that it can be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a
piece of fucking candy.
And it isn’t really their fault. The more woke
Americans who’ve grown to resent their brainwashed countrymen hate it
when I say this, but it isn’t. It’s not a coincidence that the nation
with the most powerful military in the history of civilization and the
most billionaires in the history of civilization also happens to have the most sophisticated propaganda system in the history of civilization, and
that propaganda system is pointed at them from a very early age to
normalize the war machine that is used to protect the empire of the
billionaires.
The United States is the most important player in the
imperial alliance centralized around it, and therefore its citizenry are
necessarily the most propagandized people on earth. You can’t
have the populace of such an important nation suddenly demanding that
troops be brought home and the resources being spent on bombs be spent
eliminating the economic inequality on which your empire depends instead, so you’ve got to get into their minds early and aggressively to manipulate the way they think about war. Everything from flag worship to the fetishization of military personnel to Pentagon-controlled Hollywood movies are
used from early childhood to install the assumption that their nation’s
bloated military budget is only ever going toward good and never evil,
and to prime their minds for the war propaganda they will be fed by the
plutocrat-owned news media.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-03/world-misses-point-amid-internet-frenzy-about-bush-sneaking-candy-michelle-obama
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
the video link at the bottom is a presentation by the son of an israeli general speaking the reality of israel's lies upon which its been created. true believers will not enjoy hearing him speak about the realities we support and help create;
…….Britz4Gaza at: http://www.onlinepalestine.org
The General’s Son. Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny.
Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai.
Miko’s unlikely opinions reflect his father’s legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker.
Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko’s sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack.
Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state.
The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws.
At the heart of Peled’s conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland. A
ll rights-Alternate Focus under educational learning aid.
https://youtu.be/oCKWDarNdGw
…….Britz4Gaza at: http://www.onlinepalestine.org
The General’s Son. Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny.
Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai.
Miko’s unlikely opinions reflect his father’s legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker.
Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko’s sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack.
Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state.
The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws.
At the heart of Peled’s conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland. A
ll rights-Alternate Focus under educational learning aid.
https://youtu.be/oCKWDarNdGw
we're beset by corruption and 'special interests' on all sides and foremost in that group is israel who owns this country as much as is possible without being on the front page of the daily fishwrap bragging about it;
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-fifth-column-2/
Referring
to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and
former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said
“I’ve never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to
them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The
Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I
wasn’t writing anything down. If the American people understood what a
grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in
arms. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.”
Moorer
was speaking generally but he had something specific in mind, namely
the June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the American intelligence ship,
U.S.S. Liberty, which killed 34 American crewmen and wounded 173 more.
The ship was operating in international waters and was displaying a huge
stars and stripes but Israeli warplanes, which had identified the
vessel as American, even strafed the life rafts to kill those who were
fleeing the sinking ship. It was the bloodiest attack on a U.S. Naval
vessel ever outside of wartime and the crew deservedly received the most
medals every awarded to a single ship based on one action. Yes, it is
one hell of a story of courage under fire, but don’t hold your breath
waiting for Hollywood to make a movie out of it.
President
Lyndon B. Johnson, may he burn in hell, had ordered the recall of U.S.
carrier planes sent to aid the stricken vessel, saying that he would
prefer the ship go to the bottom rather than embarrass his good friend
Israel. Then came the cover-up from inside the U.S. government. A
hastily convened and summarily executed board of inquiry headed by
Admiral John McCain, father of the senator, deliberately interviewed
only a handful of crewmen before determining that it was all an
accident. The sailors who had survived the attack as well as crewmen
from Navy ships that arrived eventually to provide assistance were held
incommunicado in Malta before being threatened and sworn to secrecy.
Since that time, repeated attempts to convene another genuine inquiry
have been rebuffed by congress, the White House and the Pentagon.
Recently deceased Senator John McCain was particularly active in
rejecting overtures from the Liberty survivors.
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-fifth-column-2/
here pasted in its entirety is an interesting comparison that would be against the law in some places, and presents a clear comparison;
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahus-credo-weak-are-slaughtered-strong-survive-echoes-hitler/5652730
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech Wednesday at the Dimona nuclear plant, the site and symbol of Israel’s nuclear weapon capacity, and warned Iran and other regional rivals against taking Israel on.
The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong…But our enemies know very well what Israel is capable of doing. They are familiar with our policy. Whoever tries to hurt us—we hurt them
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Iran was being “threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory.”
Netanyahu’s comments were widely derided on twitter
as fascistic. Some quoted Adolf Hitler’s speech in Munich in 1923 at a
time when he was gaining a following:
“The whole of nature is a mighty struggle between strength and weakness, an eternal victory of the strong over the weak.”
Norman Finkelstein writes, “According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism–” which is now being embraced by political leaders in the U.S. and Britain — “’drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ is taboo.
“Does this mean that the obvious juxtaposition of
Netanyahu’s and Hitler’s words is antisemitic? Put otherwise, whose
fault is it if Netanyahu sounds like Hitler?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahus-credo-weak-are-slaughtered-strong-survive-echoes-hitler/5652730
Monday, September 3, 2018
that which can't continue, won't. kunstler provides examples and shows the direction in which we are headed, in case you didn't already know the answer. more at the link as usual;
And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done?
Some kind of epic national restructuring is in the works. It will either happen consciously and deliberately or it will be forced on us by circumstance. One side wants to magically reenact the 1950s; the other wants a Gnostic transhuman utopia. Neither of these is a plausible outcome. Most of the arguments ranging around them are what Jordan Peterson calls “pseudo issues.” Let’s try to take stock of what the real issues might be.
Energy: The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday (The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground). For all that, the shale oil producers still couldn’t make money at it. If interest rates go up, the industry will choke on the debt it has already accumulated and lose access to new loans. If the Fed reverses its current course —say, to rescue the stock and bond markets — then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less. After that, we’re out of tricks. It will affect everything.
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all. (And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.) What’s required is a political conversation about how we inhabit the landscape, how we do business, and what kind of business we do. The prospect of dismantling suburbia — or at least moving out of it — is evidently unthinkable. But it’s going to happen whether we make plans and policies, or we’re dragged kicking and screaming away from it.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-uncomfortable-hiatus/
And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done?
Some kind of epic national restructuring is in the works. It will either happen consciously and deliberately or it will be forced on us by circumstance. One side wants to magically reenact the 1950s; the other wants a Gnostic transhuman utopia. Neither of these is a plausible outcome. Most of the arguments ranging around them are what Jordan Peterson calls “pseudo issues.” Let’s try to take stock of what the real issues might be.
Energy: The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday (The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground). For all that, the shale oil producers still couldn’t make money at it. If interest rates go up, the industry will choke on the debt it has already accumulated and lose access to new loans. If the Fed reverses its current course —say, to rescue the stock and bond markets — then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less. After that, we’re out of tricks. It will affect everything.
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all. (And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.) What’s required is a political conversation about how we inhabit the landscape, how we do business, and what kind of business we do. The prospect of dismantling suburbia — or at least moving out of it — is evidently unthinkable. But it’s going to happen whether we make plans and policies, or we’re dragged kicking and screaming away from it.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-uncomfortable-hiatus/
always read this guy until his site began to require i register, which i generally refuse to do whenever possible. his thoughts below, posted in their entirety, are as clear as he usually is;
It no longer enforces the law.
It now allows any large company to simply pay the direct costs of any felony misconduct, if caught, and walk off. We have seen this thousands of times. It is an unbroken string of conduct. During the financial blow up they did it with every bank that had ripped off the people, and in fact paid them in the form of below-market loans (in some cases basically free!) to further enable them to operate after their fraud-laced schemes blew up in their faces. They have done the same with pharma, and they don't even bother indicting medical providers and hospitals.
And now we have this:
If you or I did the same thing our business would be destroyed. On purpose. What this statement says is that it is policy of our government to never impose said consequences on large companies -- at worst they pay for the direct costs of their criminal conduct, but never more, and never are they closed.
Of course criminals are not always caught, which means if you break the law five times and get caught twice you screw people successfully three out of five times and only have to pay back the direct theft the other two times.
No ordinary person ever gets such deference.
How many anchor babies were pooped out and then collected welfare as a result of this? How many of them (all) have consumed public resources -- schooling, medical care, etc -- while they would have never existed and such spending would not have happened but for the illegal conduct of this company.
Criminal prosecution is supposed to impose a wildly disparate punishment on purpose so it's not worth it. If I can hold up a bank and if caught only have to pay back what I stole, with no other penalty, I will hold up a bank right now, I will do it again tomorrow, and I will do it again every single damn day because I never go to prison and I never have to fork up more than I stole. If I get away with it then the money is mine and if not I simply give it back.
Our government is no longer legitimate; it has declared itself illegitimate with that above paragraph. You no longer have any obligation to obey any law and you have every right to demand the same deference Waste Management got here and enforce that through whatever means are necessary.
PS: This is Trump's administration now, so **** him sideways for this horse**** - he doesn't give a **** about illegals working or companies exploiting same and screwing Americans out of jobs.
Or dead college-age women.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=234111
The Federal Government Is Illegitimate
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It now allows any large company to simply pay the direct costs of any felony misconduct, if caught, and walk off. We have seen this thousands of times. It is an unbroken string of conduct. During the financial blow up they did it with every bank that had ripped off the people, and in fact paid them in the form of below-market loans (in some cases basically free!) to further enable them to operate after their fraud-laced schemes blew up in their faces. They have done the same with pharma, and they don't even bother indicting medical providers and hospitals.
And now we have this:
“The non-prosecution agreement requires Waste Management to continue its substantial remedial measures to address all past immigration violations and forfeit more than $5.5 million in proceeds gained from hiring an illegal workforce at the Afton location,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick, U.S. Southern District of Texas. “In considering whether to enter into such agreements, we must take into account the collateral consequences that a criminal prosecution would have on the company’s contracts with many municipalities across the country and the thousands of employees for the conduct of three managers at one operating unit in Houston.”The entire point of criminal prosecution is collateral consequences!
If you or I did the same thing our business would be destroyed. On purpose. What this statement says is that it is policy of our government to never impose said consequences on large companies -- at worst they pay for the direct costs of their criminal conduct, but never more, and never are they closed.
Of course criminals are not always caught, which means if you break the law five times and get caught twice you screw people successfully three out of five times and only have to pay back the direct theft the other two times.
No ordinary person ever gets such deference.
How many anchor babies were pooped out and then collected welfare as a result of this? How many of them (all) have consumed public resources -- schooling, medical care, etc -- while they would have never existed and such spending would not have happened but for the illegal conduct of this company.
Criminal prosecution is supposed to impose a wildly disparate punishment on purpose so it's not worth it. If I can hold up a bank and if caught only have to pay back what I stole, with no other penalty, I will hold up a bank right now, I will do it again tomorrow, and I will do it again every single damn day because I never go to prison and I never have to fork up more than I stole. If I get away with it then the money is mine and if not I simply give it back.
Our government is no longer legitimate; it has declared itself illegitimate with that above paragraph. You no longer have any obligation to obey any law and you have every right to demand the same deference Waste Management got here and enforce that through whatever means are necessary.
PS: This is Trump's administration now, so **** him sideways for this horse**** - he doesn't give a **** about illegals working or companies exploiting same and screwing Americans out of jobs.
Or dead college-age women.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=234111
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