Pavlovian Dog Stock Speculators Push Stocks Higher Every Time Trump Lies About Rosy Outlook In His Trade War With China

It happened again today. Just how stupid ARE these people? It ALWAYS turns out to be false when Trump makes a positive assertion about the fraught trade negotiations (more accurately trade conflict).

This idiotic gullibility should put paid to the egotistical conceit that rich people are smarter than anyone else.

My bullshit is PERFECT for fooling rich ninnies!

Latest Whopping Trump-Level Lie by Joe Biden

Biden says the reason Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama hasn't endorsed him for president is because Biden himself asked him not to.

Now, why the hell would anyone NOT want the endorsement of a popular former president of his own party?

Who knows? Biden didn't explain. He just did his usual thing of spewing out a bunch of words devoid of real meaning. Rather like Trump does so often.

But that's okay. Because he's obviously lying.

He also repeated another ridiculous lie he's been making repeatedly of late: that he never ever discussed the business dealings of his black sheep son Hunter with Hunter. This despite the fact that he flew Hunter on his official government jet, Air Force Two, to China with him when he was vice president, and on that trip Hunter finagled a bunch of sweetheart deals from entities connected to the Chinese government. And when Biden was in charge of U.S. dealings with Ukraine, Hunter just coincidentally was appointed to the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, with pay of $50,000 a month, a position he held for five years until resigning this past July, obviously because his father was starting his latest run for president. Hunter was paid a total of $3,000,000 for holding a title. He has zero experience in the gas industry or in Ukraine, at least when he was rewarded with this plum position.

Biden made his absurd statements, reminiscent of many of Trump's preposterous lies, in an interview on 60 Minutes, a TV 'newsmagazine" program on CBS, aired Sunday October 27, 2019.

If Biden manages to snag the Democratic Party's nomination for president for 2020, Americans will get a choice between two of the most mendacious men on the political scene.

Joseph R. Biden and son Hunter. Talking business? They're barely on speaking terms, 

don't you know!

Erstwhile Goldwater Girl Hillary Clinton Returns To Her Roots as a Far Right-Winger

Hillary Clinton, a twice-loser for president of the U.S., has savagely smeared Democratic Party Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, claiming the Kremlin was "grooming" the military veteran "to be the third party candidate," presumably to "steal" as the Democrats like to say, votes from themselves. In other words, Gabbard is sort of a Manchurian candidate, a Kremlin "asset" in the current race for president. The corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") responded quizzically to this, rather than with the outraged denunciation it deserves (and which they regularly dump on Trump's head, so we know it isn't "objectivity" that prevents them from doing so).

Now as I said, Gabbard is a Democrat, and has never indicated she might run outside that party. That part of the smear was almost as baseless as the slander that Moscow was pulling her strings.

Gabbard responded to Clinton with a withering Tweet that hit the mark, because unlike Clinton's slanderous attack, it was true: "You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain."

Adopting the vicious, slanderous, redbaiting-style tactics of the 1940's Richard Nixon and 1950's Republicans, the demented Queen Bitch of the "Democratic" Party is dropping the disciplined mask she has long worn to fool the public. Her actions over the decades have put the lie to her pose as a faux feminist and ersatz progressive. Her dream of being president irrevocably shattered at last, she has become terminally embittered and feels she has nothing to lose by letting her true attitudes leach out into the public domain.

Far from being a feminist, she has only ever harmed women: millions of Iraqi women by her support of the war against them, millions of Honduran women by her promotion of the military coup there. (She even boasted in one of her awful, disingenuous, and self-serving books that she quashed a feeble effort by European nations to condemn the coup.) Before she was murdered in her own home, Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres held Clinton directly responsible for the military coup. [1]


Clinton has always been an accomplice in her husband's repressive and murderous policies. Together they demonized blacks as "superpredators" and created policies to imprison over time millions of African-Americans. The Clintons economically devastated the black community by limiting so-called welfare to a lifetime limit of five years, and need be damned, ramping up the "war on drugs," an unleashing  the greedy and venal economic predators of finance capitalism to prey on African-American homeowners. As a U.S. Senator she compiled a record of reaction. (Some examples: her consistent support for the police state PATRIOT ACT, for the invasion of Iraq, for gigantic military budgets, for funding the secret police at ever increasing levels.)

Hillary Clinton started political life as a far rightwing Republican, a Goldwater Girl in college. That was at a time when Goldwater implacably opposed civil rights legislation to ease the incredible racist repression of African-Americans. The Goldwater who seemingly favored nuclear war. One of the most extreme reactionaries in the U.S. Senate (and that's really saying something). Now she has come full circle and returned to her political roots as a quasi-fascist.

Her whopping lies are THIS BIG!

 

1]  See for example,"Before Her Assassination, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup," Democracy Now!, March 11, 2016; "Honduran soldier says activist Berta Cáceres was killed by U.S.-backed coup regime," Salon, June 23, 2016; “Hillary Clinton Killed Berta!," Institute for Public Accuracy, May 6, 2016; and "Slain Activist Berta Cáceres’ Daughter: US Military Aid Has Fueled Repression & Violence in Honduras." Democracy Now!, March 18, 2016, among others.

Trump Hails Ethnic Cleansing of Kurds

Under withering criticism from all sides of the U.S. political elite, including politicians of the party he commandeered, the Republican Party, U.S. president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump sent two of his top lackeys, vice president Michael "Holier Than Thou" Pence and Secretary of State Michael "Brought To You By The Koch Brothers" Pence, to Turkey to try to wheedle Turkish autocrao Recep Tayyip Erdogan into dialing back his military attack on the Kurds in Syria which Trump gave the green light to just days earlier.

The fact that Erdogan had enough leverage to force the U.S. to send two top level officials in person to plead with him is a symptom of the depreciation of U.S. sway under the mismanagement of the inept and blustering and totally unqualified Trump.

The dynamic duo managed to finagle a "ceasefire" (misrepresented as a truce) which Trump hailed as the Greatest Deal. Of course, Trump hails everything involving himself as the "greatest," "tremendous," etc. etc.

Under the five day "ceasefire" deal Erdogan expects the Kurds to completely clear out of the region of Syria bordering Turkey- or else. In other words, the Kurds are expected to ethnically cleanse themselves. Erdogan calls the Kurdish-majority areas bordering Turkey "a terrorist corridor." if they fail to do so, the violence resumes.

Although the violence hasn't actually ceased, but merely diminished. The Turkish military and the puppet militias of Islamofascist cutthroats accompanying the Turkish invasion are still bombing and shelling and mortaring. More civilians and Kurdish fighters have been killed.



An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people have been driven from their homes by the Turkish attack.

Erdogan's stated plan, after all Kurds have been eliminated from the region, is to repopulate it with refugees from Syrian cities who fled previously into Turkey. As the area in question is farmland, apparently these city folk will quickly have to learn how to subsist as farmers.

While his V.I.P. errand boys were in Ankara jawboning Erdogan, Trump undercut them with more threats to devastate the Turkish economy, and sent Erdogan an insulting letter of juvenile insults, which, it is reported, Erdogan filed in the circular file. (That means he threw it in the trash.)

The emptiness of Trump's bluster have been thoroughly exposed by the effeteness of actual U.S. actions.

Over the years, Trump has branded himself (with the invaluable assistance of U.S. corporate media and book publishers) as a master negotiator. ("The Art of the Deal" was one of the self-serving books he paid someone to write while pretending he wrote it.) This master negotiator apparently doesn't realize that he was revealing himself to the world as a hollow bluffer.

Not a good thing when dealing with foreign heads of state.

    In his imagination, he's The Greatest President Ever.

                     Also see "U.S. Stabs the Kurds In The Back Yet Again," Oct. 7, 2019.

 

Trump Calls The Kurds On the Carpet For Going AWOL In World War II

In his latest starring performance as the President of the United States playing in the Theatre of the Absurd, Donald J. "Jackass" Trump is justifying his abrupt betrayal of the Kurds by pointing out how feckless they were for not being part of the Normandy Invasion of France ("D-Day") in June of 1944: "They didn't help us in the Second World War, they didn't help us in Normandy,"  and they were absent from "other battles." If that wasn't bad enough, "in addition we've spent a TREMENDOUS amount of money," apparently the Kurds' fault. Trump cited "a very very powerful article" in substantiation of his lunatic statement. [1]

See? The U.S. doesn't owe the Kurds anything! They should have had the foresight to declare war on Nazi Germany. (A stateless people can't declare war? No Kurds were in any war zone? Excuse me, excuse me, Donald Trump is a very stable genius. He has the best brain, the most fantastic brain you're ever gonna see. Believe me. The Kurds should've helped out if they wanted us to help them.)

Is Trump justified in badmouthing the Kurds for not helping the U.S. Fight World War 2?


Actually Trump went very easy on the Kurds. He did mention "other battles" they were AWOL from. He could have noted that they were no help at all in helping the U.S. destroy Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. And where were they during the Korean War? Sure could have used a hand against those hordes of Chinese troops that came pouring in after Truman ignored Zhou EnLai's warning that if the U.S. advanced up the peninsula, China would intervene. (Luckily the U.S. Air Force and Marine Aviation was able to bomb North Korea into rubble.)

And it wasn't just during World War II that the Kurds just sat on the sidelines. Why weren't they fighting on the U.S. side in World War I? They were no help then. (Oh, and did you notice? they did help the other side, participating in the Ottoman Empire's extermination of the Armenians and Greeks.)

How about the Spanish-American war? The U.S. had to seize all Spain's colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific by itself. No help from the Kurds at all!

Where were Kurds when the U.S. invaded Mexico in 1846? The Kurds sat that one out too. All the U.S. got out of it was half of Mexico's territory.

The U.S. sure could have used the Kurds' help in the War of 1812, when the U.S. was looking to rip off a chunk of Canada. Didn't get one square inch! Thanks a million, Kurds!

Need I mention that they were no-shows in the War of Independence that created the U.S.? True to form, they didn't lift a finger to come to the aid of the American rebels! Just sat on their hands, as usual!

Oh sure, the Kurds sacrificed over ten thousand lives fighting ISIS for the U.S. But really, bottom line?

The Kurds are fair weather friends.

"Let's Be Honest; the Kurds are Turds."

1]  While noting the Kurds' abysmal, cowardly failure to hit the beaches on D-Day, Trump tossed out the disingenuous line "We like the Kurds," in a transparent attempt to deflect the near-universal criticism from establishment media and politicians of both parties. (But not from "peace activists," whose moral compasses are apparently permanently broken by their knee-jerk anti-Americanism and Manichean world view in which all the world's ills are the fault of the U.S. and the only thing in the way of universal peace is U.S. militarism.)

Trump's Betrayal of the Kurds, and The Limits of Lying

Trump is a sleazy carnival barker style huckster and con man. He's gone through life trafficking in outrageous bluster and preposterous lies, and getting away with it.

While that works well in the realms of real estate, or junk television, or fake "universities," that existential modus operandi is a poor fit for the milieu of chief executive officer of U.S. imperialism. (The fact that a narcissistic racist blowhard like Trump was made into a figure of admiration in the U.S. speaks volumes about the tawdry nature of U.S. culture and society.)

Perhaps Trump was understandably misled by the fact that for decades he never had a real problem politically on the levels of New York City or New York State, or the media which always fawned over him. Why should anything be different in Washington, D.C.? Why should the media suddenly be against him?

Now, however, with his placing the Kurds in extreme danger at the hands of their mortal enemies, the Turks, lying isn't cutting it. We should note that he's doing nothing different from what Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford did to the Kurds in 1975, as my previous essay explains.

Trump has ludicrously boasted that the U.S. has eliminated ISIS. But with establishment media, the imperialist state structures, and even Republican senators demurring, this doesn't fly.

For decades, Trump used to be able to make any absurd boast he wanted and "the" media would credulously report them without contradiction. No longer.


The Kurds are holding about 10,000 ISIS terrorists prisoner. When the Turks launch their latest exterminationist offensive against the Kurds, the Kurds will have their hands full trying to survive. What will happen with those ISIS terrorists?

Well Trump doesn't want them. He says Europe should take some of them.

While he was running for president, Trump bellowed that he was going to "fill up" the illegitimate naval base cum prison on Cuban soil, Guantanamo Bay, with "a lot of bad dudes." Guess that was just more bluster and bluff and bullshit.

Oh, to be young again, when my lies were never contradicted.

 

U.S. Stabs the Kurds In The Back Yet Again

For the third or fourth time, the U.S. has double-crossed the Kurdish people.

For almost two decades now, the U.S. has used Kurdish militias as their proxy forces in Iraq and Syria, to fight groups the U.S. regards as terrorist, such as Al-Qaeda and especially ISIS. These Kurdish forces have frequently been referred to by U.S. elites as the U.S.' "boots on the ground."

Now the U.S. has suddenly pulled the rug out from under the Kurds, removing U.S. forces embedded with the Kurds in Syria in the dead of night. This frees Turkey to launch a long-threatened military offensive against the Kurdish fighters in Syria, whom Turkey brands "terrorists." Turkey is eager to wipe out the Kurds' militias.

The Kurds had cleared ISIS from Turkey's border. ISIS had laumched lethal rocket attacks into Turkish villages.

So much for gratitude.

Some background is necessary here. The Kurds in Turkey inhabit the eastern portion of Turkey. For many years they have been subjected to cultural genocide by Turkey, which banned their language, symbols, etc, among other repression. This prompted some Kurds to launch a guerrilla movement.

Turkey responded in the way that regimes virtually always do when faced with popular armed resistance movements, with repeated gross atrocities against defenseless civilians. Tens of thousands of Kurds died at Turkish hands.

Then a truce was reached, and the repression of Kurds was eased.

However after the current Turkish strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came to power, he apparently was unhappy with the new arrangement, and reverting to the old policy of trying to force Kurds to be "Turkish." Once again Turkey instituted harsh repression and military attacks on the Kurds.

Erdogan has been chomping at the bit for several years to wipe out the Kurdish militias in Syria. Now that the protective U.S. umbrella has been removed, he's getting his chance.

This is the second time in recent years the U.S. has betrayed the Kurds, and there
were other times in the past. A few years ago, the Kurds of northern Iraq held a referendum and voted in favor of autonomy for themselves. The Iraqi regime responded with a military attack, driving the Kurds out of territory they had recently fought to take back from ISIS. The U.S. didn't back the Kurds at all.



The current betrayal has an awful antecedent which occurred in the 1970's. The Shah of Iran, at the time the world's worst dictator and who was installed as ruler of that nation by the CIA in 1953 in a coup that destroyed democracy in that country, had a spat with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The Shah used the Kurds of Iraq as a proxy force to fight the Iraqi regime. The Shah enlisted the help of president Richard Nixon and Nixon's evil henchman Henry Kissinger to supply arms to those Kurds. Israel also supplied weapons.

Then in 1975 the Shah cut a deal with Saddam Hussein, and the Kurds became expendable. President Gerald Ford, Nixon's successor, and Kissinger (now working for Ford) allowed the massacre of Kurds by Saddam Hussein to proceed, coldly brushing aside pleas for help by remarking  that “One should not confuse undercover action with social work.” [1]

There have been other U.S. backstabbings of the Kurds, which I am not going into now because I want to get this out in a timely fashion.

The Kurds are an oppressed minority in all the countries they inhabit. They are spread out among Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, none of which will ever cede an inch of territory to a Kurdish state, nor treat Kurds as equal citizens. Unsurprisingly, the Kurds have long desired their own nation. But what's good enough for Jews isn't good enough for Kurds, it seems. The U.S. has long strung them along, using them as cannon fodder, while the Kurds hope that eventually the U.S. will enable them to achieve statehood.

But the U.S. has never intended any such thing, no more than it intends to force Israel to grant the Palestinian peoople statehood.

Being against a people's self-determination is the same as being against democracy. The most fundamentally democratic thing is self-determination.

The Kurds have been fighting the U.S.' wars in Iraq and Syria. Today Trump stood reality on its head, cynically saying he doesn't want America fighting other people's wars. But it has been the Kurds fighting America's wars. The U.S. screeches a lot about "terrorism," but won't shed its own blood to fight the terrorists. It gets others to fight and die for it, them abandons them, leaving them in the lurch.

And every day brags about how it's The Greatest Country On Earth, the most moral, the most humane, the freest, the blah blah blahest.

If the U.S. really believed in the values it professes ad nauseam, the Kurds would be its most cherished allies in that region. They are democratic, and so non-sexist that Kurdish women form all-female combat units that fight ISIS.

But the U.S. is much tighter with the likes of Saudi Arabia instead.

By your friends shall ye be known.

Herr Doktor Heinz "Henry" Kissinger of Death.

 1]  See "Kissinger and the Kurds," Kurdistan Commentary, Feb. 4, 2010, and "Telling It Like It Is: Kissinger and the Kurds," Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 18, 1996.

Elizabeth Warren Defends Israeli Slaughter of Palestinians With Israeli Propaganda Talking Points

Senator Elizabeth Warren toes the Democratic Party's line on Israel, 1000% support for that racist, settler colonialist nation's slow-motion destruction of the Palestinian people, a project that began in 1948 with terrorism and massacres and has continued non-stop ever since.

Warren parrots the themes of Israeli propaganda: Israel has no choice but to periodically destroy the infrastructure of Gaza and slaughter people there in "self-defense," and only kills civilians and destroys schools, UN shelters, and critical infrastructure because Hamas uses the population as human shields (among themselves the Israelis refer to their regular wars on defenseless Gaza as "mowing the lawn"); Israel is in "a dangerous neighborhood" (Israel's neighbors are in far more danger than Israel ever was in, from Israel); Israel "has the right to defend itself;" no one says it doesn't. What Israel does is NOT self-defense, it is oppression and assault on the Palestinian people with the aim of making a Jewish state that extends from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. That has always been the project.

Warren is even against the U.S. NOT supporting continued Israeli Jewish expansion with the ceaseless theft of Palestinian homes, lands, and means of economic livelihood. The U.S. literally funds the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

The U.S. itself being a colonialist settler nation that virtually exterminated the previous inhabitants of the land that is now the U.S., one could see a natural affinity for Israel by U.S. elites.

Anti-Semitism in Western societies has been replaced with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry. Conveniently, Islamofascist terrorism periodically creates small massacres in Western nations which are hyped to mega-significance my saturation media coverage to create fear and panic, providing justification for the bigotry. (Every few days in Afghanistan, and frequently in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Muslims are the victims of far bloodier atrocities by the Islamofascists.)

  

 

"No One Is Above The Law," Except Untouchable Joe Biden

When Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced on September 24th that she was siccing her political underlings on president Donald J. "Jackass" Trump to trump up excuses to impeach him, one of the hackneyed political themes in the canned announcement she intoned was "No one is above the law."

Except, apparently, Democratic Party poohbahs like Joseph Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, et al.

The Clintons ran a super-grifting operation called the "Clinton Foundation," which collected BILLIONS of dollars from foreign governments and corporations (domestic and foreign), including millions of dollars from Russia that resulted in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signing off on a deal allowing Russia interests to buy 20% of the U.S.' uranium reserves. [1]

As for Biden, when he was vice president in the regime of Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, Obama put him in charge of dealing with the Ukraine after the U.S. seized its government and made it into a newly-minted U.S. quasi-satrapy.  PURELY COINCIDENTALLY, the Democrats and most of the U.S. corporate media want us to believe, Biden's neer-do-well son Hunter was appointed to the board of directors of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, owned by a Ukrainian plutocrat, with "compensation," as they say, of $50,000 a MONTH. By the time Hunter resigned from his post this year, he had pocketed $3,000,000. Hunter Biden has exactly zero experience in the fossil fuel industry.

Now, if that was perfectly legitimate, why did Hunter resign this year? He resigned because his Dad is running for president, and they didn't want any questions about this, apparently.

The U.S. propaganda system is almost uniformly claiming there's "nothing there" and "no evidence" of anything wrong with the Bidens's Ukraine scam. At the same time, they think it is illegitimate to investigate the matter to find evidence. And the Democrats are OUTRAGED at the betrayal of the national interest, the "threat to national security" Trump committed by delaying arms delivery for a few days to the Kiev regime so they can kill more people in the breakaway eastern Ukraine, how venal that Trump acted for "personal interest," not the national interest (it was apparently in the national interest that vice president Biden's son get $3 million from a U.S. client regime) by trying to "get dirt" on a rival for the 2020 presidential election. (The power elite have already chosen Biden to run against Trump: the voters will have to be manipulated to get into line.)

By the way, "the" media almost always "forgets" to mention how much Hunter was being paid, or that he had ABSOLUTELY NO QUALIFICATIONS to be serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

Except one perfect qualification: he's the son of Joseph Biden. On its face this is corrupt. You only need to know the facts I've stated.

SIX- Count 'Em. SIX!- committees in the House have been unleashed to cobble together excuses to impeach Trump. One, the "Intelligence" committee, is led by one of the most dishonest political mountebanks in the country, Adam Schiff. He's spent the past three years spewing disinformation about Russian subversion of U.S. "democracy" and (non-existent) slam dunk "evidence" "proving" Trump is a Russian agent/puppet/captive of Putin. Another committee, the Judiciary, is headed by Jerrold Nadler, who has also spent the past three years demagogically pushing the Russiagate hoax. Nadler insisted that the (actually nonexistent) Russian hack of a DNC computer was just the same as the Japanese bombing of U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor in World War II. (Why the U.S. didn't declare war on Russia- the Democrats' man, Obama, was president at the time- Nadler didn't explain.) [2]

As in the failed Russiagate hoax, this latest pseudo-scandal rests on the thinnest tissue of actual facts. [3]

On July 25th Trump called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (the TV comedian who replaced billionaire president Petro Poroshenko, installed after the U.S.-sponsored coup overthrew president Viktor Yanukovych). The notes of the phone call reveal that it was friendly, and contrary to Adam "Schifty" Schiff, not at all like a "Mafia" gangster "extorting" someone. You can read it for yourself online as the notes of the government drones listening in have been made public.

A so-called "whistleblower" (a CIA officer) filed a complaint August 12th with the Inspector General in the office of the Director of National Intelligence. This CIA person was complaining about Trump's phone call to the Ukrainian president based on what other people told him. In other words, the content of the complaint is entirely hearsay. And before the Democrats even got a chance to see the transcript of the call OR the CIA officer's complaint, Pelosi announced the start of impeachment "investigations."

First the verdict, then the evidence.

This Alice In Wonderland-style political offensive against Trump is being promoted relentlessly every day by most U.S. media. They are making a mountain out of a molehill.

Trump was mainly concerned with getting facts about Ukraine's interference in the 2016 presidential election, during which they provided financial information about Paul Manafort, who was forced to resign as Trump's campaign manager as a result. (Trump went through several campaign managers, including the thuggish Corey Lewandowski, who notoriously manhandled a female reporter and is a nasty goon.) Secondarily he asked for Ukrainian cooperation with Attorney General William Barr and with Rudolph Giuliani, working as a private attorney for Trump, and who was once dubbed "America's Mayor" by that arbiter of reality, Time magazine. (Giuliani was an assistant U.S. Attorney General in the fascist Reagan regime, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, then New York City mayor, then a spectacularly failed presidential candidate.)

Of course, Trump and the opportunists who gather around and cling to him like dust on a dust mop are grifters just as the Democratic Party is a party of grifters. What we are seeing is a tawdry power struggle between factions of the power elite. Don't be fooled by the ludicrously grandiloquent rhetoric of Democratic Party hacks. (I'll have more on that in a later essay.)

Why is the scandal-ridden Joe Biden being protected by a solid wall of lies by "the" media and Democratic Party politicians?

Obviously because the bulk of the power establishment has already chosen him to be the next emperor- I mean president of the U.S. As a fallback, they are promoting Senator Elizabeth Warren, who projects a false front that is superficially similar to Senator Bernie Sanders, who is also running. Warren is, like Hillary Clinton, scamming the public. Secretly in bed with big money interests, she is doing a political chameleon act of sounding politically like Sanders in public. Warren recently edged ahead of Biden in the polls, so she has become the "safety" candidate for the corporate/imperialist power structure.

Thanks to the sheeplike quality of the mass of the citizenry, the next president won't be from the Green Party or the Libertarian Party. It will be either more Trump or a Democratic Party political stooge of big capital.

The U.S. oligarchy will have the populace choose between cyanide and arsenic. Let Freedom Ring!

    

  Nancy Pelosi. "When I said 'No one is above the law,' what I MEANT 

                                     was we are going to find reasons to impeach Donald Trump."

1] The New York Times even ran an extensive expose of this matter, which has been chucked down the memory hole by U.S. media, including by the NYT itself. You'd never guess from reading any article since that it was ever published in that paper. See "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal," NYT, April 23, 2015, and "Donations to the Clinton Foundation, and a Russian Uranium Takeover," NYT, April 22, 2015.
2] Both chambers of the U.S. Congress are structured in hierarchical fashion, with the Speaker of the House controlling that body through her various powers, such as appointing and removing committee chairs, who in turn wield power over the committees. In the Senate, the Majority Leader of whichever of the two-parties of the political cartel that monopolized political power in the U.S. has the majority of Senators, has near total control in that body. Nothing can come up for a vote unless he allows it. (Currently that person is Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, a venal being.)

The Speaker of the House is chosen by majority vote of the Representatives (Congresspeople), which in practice means the party with the majority chooses the Speaker. Obviously the Speaker has to be politically adroit so as not to alienate the members of her party. In the Senate, the caucus of the majority party chooses its leader, who in turn is effectively boss of the Senate.

The way impeachment works is this: impeachment is akin to an indictment. Under the U.S. Constitution, any Federal official can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors," a completely vague term that is otherwise unexplained in that document. It is obviously subjective, yet legal "scholars" and "experts" and even run-of-the-mill politicians pontificate in tones of certainty as to what is and isn't "impeachable." In practice it is whatever the House of Representatives decides.

If a majority of the House votes to impeach, the matter is presented to the Senate for a simulacrum of a "trial." The Senate has to vote by a two-thirds majority to actually remove the accused official from office.

A handful of Federal judges who were guilty of outrageous behavior and refused to resign (they have lifetime appointments, a stupid feature of the Constitution) have been impeached, convicted, and removed from office.

Two presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, a virulent racist who became president at the end of the U.S. Civil War when president Abraham Lincoln was murdered by Confederate agents AFTER the Confederacy had surrendered, and Bill "This Isn't A Pickle In My Pocket, I'm Actually Glad To See You" Clinton. Neither was convicted, so neither was removed from office.

it is virtually impossible to imagine a scenario by which Trump can be convicted in the Senate. The Senate has a Republican majority, and with a handful of exceptions, every Republican politician is slavishly behind Trump, because almost all Republican voters are enthusiastic Trump fans. Nothing is going to change that. Trump has a lifetime of experience sensing just how far he can push things, just how much he can get away with. So far, over three years of machinations by the secret police Deep State, and the relentless pushing by the Democrats and most of the corporate media of sham reasons for criminal charges or impeachment, first the Russiagate hoax, now the Ukraine phone call, have been utter failures. All the while, the valid reasons to criticize Trump (other than his chronic lying, which has been covered ad nauseam, and some but too little and too tame coverage of the atrocities of ICE and the Border Patrol) are mostly ignored.

3] Here's the unrefuted proof that there was no Russian hack of a DNC server (which the Democrats and their media foghorn accomplices inflated into "hacking the election" and "attacking Our Democracy).

• The DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine their computer! This is supposedly the Crime of The Century, a foreign enemy "attacking Our Democracy," and the Dems withhold the evidence! So the FBI just took the word of the hired liars of the Dems, the notorious company Crowdstrike, who sent the FBI a censored ("redacted") report!
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  NO evidence was ever presented to back up the assertion of the Russian hack and subsequent appearance of the Democrats' emails in WikiLeaks, which revealed how the Democratic National Committee, while feigning neutrality in the primaries for the Democratic presidential nomination, was in fact a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clinton campaign and repeatedly cheated her main rival, Bernie Sanders. Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, hand-picked 3 "analysts," one each from FBI, CIA and NSA, to write the report which concluded, sans proof, that Russia was guilty. And the NSA was equivocal. Yet if there had been such a transfer of data from ANY U.S. computer to Russia, the NSA would have a copy of the data flow, since they collect and store ALL Internet traffic. These 3 analysts were inflated into "16 (sometimes 17) intelligence agencies say Russia hacked" and "the intelligence community concluded that Russia hacked" in the ensuing propaganda campaign.
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  Two of the NSA"s top technical officers (who were retired after long careers at the agency), William Binney and Kurt Wiebe, analyzed the download speed of the data transfer and tested to see if the Internet transfer speeds available at the time made such a transfer possible. Not even close. But the speed matched a transfer to a flash drive.
• 
  Seth Rich, a young Democratic Party worker who had access to the computer system and is suspected of being the one who passed the emails along to WikiLeaks, was murdered in Washington, D.C. His murder is unsolved. Out of all the thousands of murders committed annually in the U.S. each year, this is the ONLY ONE for which WikiLeaks has offered a reward for information on, $25,000. And Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in an interview on European television, tiptoed right up to the edge of admitted that Rich was the source.
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  Most importantly, if we pretend Russia did it, that was NOT an "attack on democracy," it was a GIFT to democracy, because it enabled the American public to be BETTER INFORMED ABOUT ONE OF THE CANDIDATES, HILLARY CLINTON. It revealed her secret speech to the Goldman Sachs conference of financiers, in which she nakedly stated that she's a two-faced manipulator and that the financiers should ignore what she says in public to the dumb rubes whose votes she needs, in fact she'll be defending THEIR interests- as indeed she always has throughout her career. When she lived in Arkansas as wife of that state's Attorney General and then Governor Bill Clinton, she sat on the board of the union-hating Walmart corporation. Her class loyalties have always been evident. In college she was a Goldwater Girl, Barry Goldwater being a fascist and racist. As virtual co-president with her husband, she was foresquare behind all his class war policies and attacks especially on the black population.

Joseph Biden Is ACTUALLY Guilty Of What Adam "Shifty" Schiff Accuses Trump Of

The Democratic Party has lost its collective mind.

Again.

First it was the Russiagate hoax they put us all through. Now it's a phone call Trump made asking the Ukrainian president's help in investigating what should be a scandal around the Democratic Party establishment's and corporate media's favorite candidate for president in 2020, the segregationist Joseph R. Biden.

Democratic Party Congressman and chair of the House "Intelligence" Committee Adam Schiff says that Trump is the same as a Mafia boss and he extorted the Ukrainian president, even though the transcript of Trump's phone call to that president shows no such thing. Schiff says it doesn't have to be explicit to be extortion. In fact, there isn't even a veiled threat in the call, as described in notes prepared by the various apparatchiks who monitored it. Trump wanted Ukraine's help in getting to the bottom of how then-vice president Joseph Biden's smarmy son, Hunter, got a plum position on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and a cool $3 million payday.


Trump delayed delivering military equipment to Ukraine for a few days. This is something the Dems call "impeachable."

You know how many times U.S. presidents have held up Congressional appropriations?

LOTS.

Or misdirected the monies, as Trump is doing to build his border wall.

Or "abused" presidential power for personal ends, as the current agit-propaganda is screeching is grounds for impeachment. No other president has ever done THAT, RIGHT?

What a crock.

Bill Clinton bombed other countries to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky scandal! He actually KILLED people!


I'll bet EVERY U.S. president has used his powers for personal ends!

And at least some vice presidents.

In 2014, when Joseph Biden was vice president under president Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, Biden ACTUALLY threatened the Ukrainian government with cutting off U.S. aid unless that country's chief prosecutor was fired. That prosecutor was looking into the strange case of Hunter Biden's extraordinary good fortune.

The prosecutor was duly given the axe. Biden says it was because he was corrupt. But EVERYONE in the Ukrainian government was and is corrupt. Including the former prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was hand-picked by State Department apparatchik Victoria Nuland and installed following the coup the Obama regime instigated.

Schiff is a completely unethical and dishonest mountebank who distinguished himself during the years-long Russiagate hoax as one of the worst liars and fake conspiracy mongers in the Democratic Party. A stream of false assertions and slanderous innuendoes poured forth from his mouth. Actually facts bounce off his bulletproof exterior. This political cyborg does a poor imitation of a human being.

 

The eminently trustworthy The Honorable Adam Schiff. 

This is the same scam the Democrats pulled when their damning emails were revealed by WikiLeaks in 2016. With the crucial help of their corporate media and Deep State secret police allies, the Democrats suppressed the content of the emails and made the "issue" one of "RUSSIA ATTACKED OUR DEMOCRACY!" (Russia actually wasn't the source of the emails, but never mind.) True information was ignored and replaced by an ongoing hoax claiming Trump was a Russian puppet.

This time, the important facts- that the son of vice president Biden got an incredible favor he could not have possibly gotten on his own merits, which demands an explanation- are once again being ignored in favor of a ginned up fake scandal.

I see nothing wrong with asking a foreign government to investigate such a matter. Foreign governments are enlisted in U.S. investigations all the time. And why is getting information on a candidate from outside U.S. borders an impermissible "interference" in a U.S. election? It makes no difference where facts come from as long as they are true!

Another thing that is being treated as a grave violation of "normal procedures" and impeachable is that the notes of the phone call were stored in a highly classified system. 

So fucking what?

Every year, millions of documents are "classified" just to keep the public from knowing what the government is up to!

Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats leader in the House of Representatives, had the nerve to say that Trump did that to hide something.

Unlike Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State setting up a private email server to HIDE ALL HER MESSAGES!

The hypocrisy and double-standards of this latest absurd campaign to oust Trump is mind-bending. And it's being done instead of attacking Trump for the actual horrible things he does.

But the Democrats actually agree with almost all of those things. If not all of them. Backing Saudi Arabia and Israel to the hilt, trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government (both Pelosi and Charles "Upchuck" Schumer, the Senate Democrats leader, have publicly cheerleaded for that subversion), giant tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, and more.

The Democrats haven't even defended abortion rights or Planned Parenthood. Trump cut off their Federal funds without a peep from the Democrats.

Despite the fact that most of the propaganda system and the secret police Deep State is arrayed against him, Trump is going to win this one. So if he gets reelected, as seems more probable than ever, the blame should go to the Democrats and their enablers.

Trump Not Bombing Iran Is Like Nixon Going To China

After the U.S. establishment has pretty much blamed Iran for a drone and cruise missile attack on a Saudi Arabian petroleum processing facility last weekend, and Trump blustered that the U.S. was "locked and loaded," (a firearms term meaning ready to fire), and the always belligerent Secretary of State Michael "Spawn of the Koch Brothers" Pompeo spent every day furiously spewing invective against Iran, the military response ordered by Trump is pretty restrained. More U.S. forces are being rushed to the area, but in an explicitly defensive role- to try and intercept any future aerial attacks on Saudi Arabia.

We should not attribute this to any pacifism on Trump's part. It is strictly his own personal self-interest that guides his decisions here, as in all matters. The truth is, outside of the lairs of the ruling elite in the capital city of the empire, Washington, D.C., and the digs of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and places like the arch-reactionary Hoover Institute at Stanford University in California, pretty much everyone else in the U.S. is against more U.S. wars. Even Trump's nationalistic base is opposed. Why? The Iraq war is the answer. The American public was duped (most of them) by a gigantic propaganda campaign by the regime of Bush the Younger and the corporate media that was a pack of putrid lies from start to finish. That illegal aggression fractured Iraq and produced a chaotic situation, eventually leading to a near-takeover of the country by ISIS, an Islamofascist entity more fanatical, ruthless, and murderous than Al-Qaeda.


In a sense it was a repeat of history, but not as farce, but a repetition of tragedy.  Woodrow Wilson lured the public into World War I on false pretenses, and after that war the U.S. public was revolted by the idea of ever fighting another war in Europe- so strong was the revulsion that until the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor and Adolf Hitler declared war on the U.S., very few in the U.S. saw a reason to get involved against the Axis Powers that were running wild. There were even Congressional hearings targeting war profiteers.

The same thing happened after the Iraq invasion and occupation fiasco. Plus there is a seemingly endless war in Afghanistan. The U.S. has been at war for the 18 years since the arranged "attack" of 9/11/01.

If Trump's base thirsted for Iranian blood, you can bet Trump would feed them some. But fortunately they don't. So no aggressive military response (which would be the "normal" U.S. reaction to such a "challenge") coupled with tightening the economic noose around Iran's neck.

So how is that like Nixon going to China? Simple. Because the Democratics always have to prove they're "tough," whereas it is taken for granted that the Republicans are, the Democrats cannot be "soft on communism" (or "terrorism" or whatever), as Republicans habitually accuse them of being. The Democrats have the political albatross of "Liberalism" hung around their necks, an epithet that connotes softness, weakness, appeasement. (Including appeasing poor people with crumbs, which the GOP- Gang Of  Plunderers- would cut off entirely.)

Thus it required a Republican, and one with a long record of being "tough on communism" going back to 1949 (Nixon was so "tough" that he painted his Democratic opponents for House of Representatives and later for U.S. Senate as "pink" and "red," and won) to "open" to China, that is, to stop refusing to recognize the fact that the party of Mao ruled the country, not the fascist Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-Shek, the general/warlord exiled with his gang to the island of Formosa (Taiwan). In other words, only the Republican Party felt politically able to behave rationally.



 It is the same with Trump and Iran. He is able to resist the pressure from the pro-war bloc, including inside the Party. A Democrat would at least have a much harder time doing so.

So Trump is avoiding a ruinous war. He saw how the Iraq war harmed the Bush presidency. Although since the invasion was in 2003 and Bush ran for reelection in 2004, the shit hadn't really hit the fan yet. As it was, the GOP stole the 2004 election by stealing Ohio, without whose Electoral College votes Bush would have lost to fellow Skull and Bonesman John Kerry. (Skull and Bones is a secret society for rich Yale University students who were born into the ruling class of the U.S.) Trump needs, above all else, to win reelection next year, so he can run out the clock of the statute of limitations on various criminal charges he is vulnerable to.

The Crafty Emperor Alienates Not His Base

 

Saudis Slaughtering Yemenis for 5 Years? Big YAWN. Yemenis retaliate against Saudi oil field? TIME TO FREAK OUT!!!

The political elites of the "Western world" (the U.S.-bossed capitalist bloc) and their propagandists have hit one of their disgusting low points of moral depravity and dishonesty in the aftermath of a successful attack on the main Saudi petroleum processing facility by Houthi tribe militia in Yemen, who claimed responsibility for the attack by drones. This has temporarily knocked out half of Saudi Arabia's crude oil processing capacity. The Saudis currently sell 5.7 million barrels of oil a day (although they have capacity to sell considerably more) in a world market whose daily oil consumption is 100 million barrels. Currently the U.S. and Russia are the top two exporters.

According to the propaganda campaign launched in the immediate aftermath of the attack by the Western media, politicians, and government officials, the attack wasn't an attack on Saudi Arabia, retaliation for five years of war crimes against the people of Yemen. No, it's "an attack on the world's energy supply." That's even more hyperbolic and hysterical than the other phrase the world's capitalist propagandists are ALL using, "the world's oil supply." You'd think the whole world was a communist society and we all own the oil in Saudi Arabia. Last time I checked, it's the Saudi "royal" family that owns it. (They call themselves a "government" of course.) All the world's capitalist media immediately fell into line behind Trump's Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, parroting this line. [1]

The effect of this terminology is to paint the Houthis, who are at a huge military disadvantage to the U.S.-backed Saudis attacking Yemen for the past five years, as the enemies of all humanity. It's "our" energy supply viciously attacked by "Iranian-backed" Houthis, Iran being a Demon Nation ever since 1979, when the U.S.-installed dictator of Iran, the so-called "Shah" ("King") was overthrown. Overthrowing a U.S. dictator is like spitting in the eye of America. How DARE you!

Far from an attack on "the world," on all of us, the Houthis unintentionally did the world, did all humanity, a FAVOR. Burning fossil fuels is causing a disaster by raising the temperature of our home planet! And if there's fear of an oil "shortage," TRUMP could alleviate that by the stroke of a pen by allowing two of the world's largest oil-producing countries, IRAN and VENEZUELA, to SELL THEIR OIL! (Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, NOT Saudi Arabia.) So this "crisis" is totally BOGUS. (The excited elite chattering about it died down in only 2 days. And all they cared about was money.)


Pompeo, a loathsome political creature created by the political machine of the malign billionaire Koch brothers of Kansas; a neo-fascist slug who has publicly called for the execution of Edward Snowden; immediately blamed the attack on Iran. This was predictable. If someone threw a brick through Pompeo's window, he'd blame Iran.

Pompeo is the guy who, after the vile Saudi tyrant, "Crown Prince" Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was butchered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, dismembered like an animal in an abattoir, and his body parts smuggled out, immediately ran to Riyadh to conspire with Salman about how to get Salman out of the jam he'd created for himself. (The Trump regime didn't even make Salman come to then!) Ever since, Trump and Pompeo have done their best to obfuscate Salman's obvious guilt.


Here they are, just after the shit hit the fan from the Khashoggi murder:

Pompeo and Salman. Salman and Pompeo. I love you Bro! -I love you too!

The attack on the petroleum facility occurred over the weekend, when the markets on which parasitic speculators set the price of oil by their trading of futures and options contracts are closed. But 24 hours a day, bid and ask prices are still posted. Before markets opened on Monday, futures indicated a 20% rise in the two benchmark oil prices, the Brent crude oil price and the West Texas Intermediary oil price. (Typically Brent trades higher than Texas.) But when trading actually began, the prices were up only 8%. Later in the day they hovered 10% higher. But that is still LOWER than the price was in late 2018. Finally oil closed up 15% on the day. And in any event, oil has languished between $50 and $60 a barrel for several years, after its crash from about $120, a crash deliberately engineered by Saudi Arabia, ostensibly aimed at putting U.S. shale oil producers out of business (which it didn't do) but really aimed at inflicting severe economic damage on Russia and Venezuela (which it DID do, especially Venezuela). Both those nations are heavily dependent on oil exports, and both have been targets of ongoing attack by the U.S. for years now. [2]

Needless to say, the U.S. and the Saudi "royal' family frequently engage in nefarious conspiracies together, one of the most notorious being the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers on September 11, 2001, under the guise of an Al-Qaeda aerial attack with hijacked planes. [3]

Pompeo, Trump, the Democratic and Republican members of Congress, and U.S. corporate media propagandists are not exactly the most reliable folks in matters involving Iran. Remember the last time the U.S., Pompeo, Trump, the "leaders" of both parties and any political hack who could get on TV, and the entire U.S. corporate propaganda system asserted as fact that Iran committed an "attack"? It was the damage inflicted on a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker. Even though that was definitely refuted, they still pretend it's true. [4]

These are people who are totally untrustworthy, with zero credibility. But probably Iran at least supplied the weapons. And who knows? Maybe even launched the attack themselves. But Pompeo had no proof of that in the immediate aftermath- or the U.S. military would have surely provided it.

The true context for this, the 5 year long war against the people of Yemen by Saudi Arabia, which would not be possible without U.S. support, from both the Obama and Trump regimes, is totally ignored. That is what is fundamentally dishonest about the media "coverage," which thus must be seen as propaganda, not news.

The numerous atrocities of the Saudis, using their U.S. weaponry, have been virtually ignored by Western, and especially U.S. media. (Britain, that awful relic of an evil empire, is also a major arms supplier to the Saudis.) Without U.S. weaponry, and U.S. targeting information, and even U.S. refueling craft for Saudi jets, which Obama provided, the Saudi war on Yemen would not be possible. The Saudis have slaughtered tens of thousands of Yemenis directly. They have created famine conditions for millions of Yemenis. (The UN's aid organizations have repeatedly avowed this.) They have blockaded Yemen, starving the populace, making medicines unavailable. (Bombing hospitals and clinics doesn't help either.) The world's largest cholera epidemic has been created in Yemen by the Saudis. (And their Western imperialist enablers.) (For more on the background of the current situation in Yemen, see footnote [5] below.)

None of this is to endorse the Houthis. But clearly the Yemenis should have to sort out their rivalries amongst themselves. As for Iran being the instigator, in fact it was the former longtime dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who formed a temporary alliance with the Houthis and egged them on to rebel. Iran saw an opportunity, or wanted to stop the Saudis installing the ruler the Houthis had just overthrown back in power as a Saudi client/puppet.

 

 A picture is worth a thousand words, especially words citing statistics. "Six milion Jews died in the Holocaust has nowhere near the emotional impact of a photo of skeletal concentration camp inmates, standing behind barbed wire, or a pile of their desiccated corpses. So here are three photos from Yemen in place of 3,000 words:

This Yemeni child was starved to death by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. 

 

 

 Here's another of the countless thousands of children murdered by the 

U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Reminiscent of Nazi concentration camp victims.

 

Sometimes it's more satisfying to kill children quickly, instead of having to wait for them to die slow, agonizing deaths that take months. This school bus was bombed by the Saudis, flying the jets the U.S. happily sold them (Obama and Trump both), dropping those fabulously accurate U.S. precision bombs. 51 died, 40 of them schoolchildren. That was in August, 2018. Still waiting for some war crime indictments.

It is an illustration of the utterly cynical and callous nature of "global politics" or "international relations" or "statesmanship" (the preferred term of the mass murderer Henry Kissinger) that causing so much human suffering isn't given a second thought in the pursuit of greater power by those who rule.

The U.S. (and other) media have spent the past five years of Saudi atrocities barely mentioning any of it. They've also done a bang-up job keeping the American public ignorant of the U.S. role in providing the essential tools of mass murder. But the U.S. is constantly victimizing poor people all over the planet. This fits the pattern of U.S. global class warfare. The U.S. has also directly killed civilians in Yemen, both by aerial bombings and in raids by "special" forces.

When I say that U.S. elites are immoral and despicable, that is something they themselves prove to be true every day.


"The" media is already pushing the Saudis' line that the drone strike came from Iraq or Iran, not Yemen. And maybe it was missiles, they're saying. Oh, and the drone parts are Iranian. (Probably are, as Iran has been helping the Houthis.)

Trump immediately expectorated some tough-guy bluster, declaring the U.S. "locked and loaded," and only waiting word from Saudi Arabia to confirm Iran did it to presumably pull the trigger. The same Saudi Arabia that has been trying for years (along with Israel) to goad the U.S. into starting a war on Iran. Gee. I wonder what the Saudis are gonna determine happened!

Thank heavens he fired John Bolton!

 The "Crown Prince" that swallowed the Superpower.

1] A day later, The Invisible Man, the nitwit former Texas Governor whom Trump picked to be Secretary of Energy, belatedly got in on the act, putting in his two cents which immediately sank to the bottom of the media pool without a trace. Said Rick Perry: "Make no mistake about it. This was a deliberate attack on the global economy, and the energy market." This is the same guy who campaigned for the presidency on a platform promising to abolish the cabinet Department he now heads. 

Actually, Tex, I think it was an attack on the Saudi Arabian regime.

2] Stocks on Monday, the first trading day after the attack, declined modestly.  The  S & P 500 index (500 major public companies) declined 0.3%, the Nasdaq (several thousand companies) declined about a quarter of one percent, and the Dow Industrial Average (a mere 30 stocks) fell about one-half percent. The following day, Tuesday, September 17, oil actually FELL $3. Wholesale gasoline is up 20 cents, 1-3 cents at the pump. Word is the Saudis will have the bombed site back up and running in two weeks.

3]  It would take too long to go into all that here. To start to educate yourself, watch some of the videos put out by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization of over 3,000 architects and engineers who have debunked the nonsense that the towers fell because airplanes crashed into them. Oh, and Number 7 WTC fell straight down in the afternoon. All were the result of controlled demolitions, as you will learn.

4]  In brief, the U.S. claimed Iran planted mines on the sides of the ships. The crew of the Japanese tanker said there WERE no mines, but that flying objects hit their ship. The Japanese Foreign Minister was IN TEHRAN at the time of the attack, meeting with the Ayatollah, trying to help Iran. The U.S. government and the global bourgeois propaganda system would have us believe that Iran was determined to sabotage its OWN DIPLOMACY designed to try and relieve the garrote around Iran's neck that is strangling its economy.All the details, with news videos substantiating the facts, are at "Dishonest U.S. Media Lying U.S. Into Another War of Aggression," June 20, 2019. 

5]  Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. A country without a real government, it was ruled for 33 years by a dictator/warlord with the title of "president," Ali Abdullah Saleh. Saleh was happy to play footsie with the Bush and Obama regimes in their "war on terror," pretending that U.S. drone missile assassinations were the work of his military. He also took the opportunity to have political rivals eliminated by U.S. drone strike by telling the U.S. they were "terrorists" and giving them location information. One such attack even made the front page of the Wall Street Journal, which is how I know about this practice of Saleh's. But that changed nothing.

But Saleh came under increasing domestic pressure- which in Yemen means armed resistance, the only thing that counts in Yemen- and the U.S. thought it was time to replace him before he was overthrown. Saleh resisted, but was eventually squeezed out. In November 2011, Saleh signed an agreement to leave power- then reneged on it. Eventually he was forced out in 2012. His successor as "president," Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, one of Saleh's erstwhile cronies,  took over the various rackets that take the place of an actual government in Yemen. In January 2015 the Houthi tribe rebelled, forcing Hadi to flee by shelling his palace. The Saudis decided they wanted Hadi to rule Yemen as their puppet or client, and commenced a war against the Houthis, heavily targeting civilian targets such as apartment buildings, hospitals, mosques, wedding parties, and so on. As of a couple of years ago, retired U.S. army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the top aide to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in the Bush II regime, asserted that 5,000 of 15,000 Saudi aerial bombings were of civilian targets.  Meanwhile Hadi sits in Riyadh, content to watch "his" people being slaughtered, the country destroyed, waiting to be reinstalled as "president" of Yemen by his Saudi puppet masters.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman Waits 3 Weeks To Stop Prosecuting Dead Man Jeffrey Epstein

Apparently the chief Federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York could hardly bring himself to drop the charges against the corpse of Jeffrey Epstein, currently the World's Most Notorious Sex Offender. ("The" media turned him into that. He wasn't a serial rapist/murderer, for example, which would be a far more worthy object of universal opprobrium, theatrical revulsion, and nonstop vilification.) Berman's office is based in lower Manhattan, along with the largest FBI secret police field office. Berman appeared with the local FBI chief when the two of them announced the new indictment of Epstein in July.

Berman belatedly moved in Federal court for the dismissal of the charges last week, formally submitting the motion for the pro forma approval of a Federal judge, nearly three weeks after Epstein was assassinated in the Federal jail in Manhattan in a fake "suicide." The main reason we know it was murder is from hard physical fact. Epstein's neck was broken, which would have been impossible to occur according to the New York City Medical Examiner's account of his death. According to the M.E., relying in part on the claims of Epstein's jailers, Epstein allegedly tied a bedsheet around his neck and around the post of the upper bunk in his cell, then "knelt forward." You could choke or strangle yourself like that. You couldn't break your neck bone unless you were 90 years old with advanced osteoporosis. Epstein was 66 and apparently in good health. He wasn't frail, and there's no assertion that he had unusually weak bones. The M.E. nevertheless went along with the coverup as one would expect and deemed the death a "suicide."

It's well established that Epstein's "pedophile trafficking" operation was also a blackmail operation being run by an "intelligence service." The U.S. Attorney who prosecuted him in Florida over a decade ago- or rather, who protected him- Alexander Acosta, told the Trump transition team when they were vetting him for the post of Labor Secretary in the Trump regime that he was told to lay off Epstein because Epstein "belonged to intelligence," a nice and ambiguous way of laying a protective cloak over him. Was he an asset? A target? An actual employee or agent of a secret police agency? Part of an ongoing operation? Who knows? it's deliberately vague.

So Acosta crafted a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein's lawyers, lawyers who are heavyweights in the U.S. power structure, including Alan Dershowitz andd Kenneth Starr, the man assigned by the Republican Party to bring down president Bill Clinton. (Ironically, Clinton spent a lot of time with Epstein and his stable of available young females, and Dershowitz admits to getting a "massage" but denies raping a girl under Epstein's control, as the now adult woman claims.) Epstein pled to a minor state charge and had to sleep in a special suite set up for him in the county jail while going to his office during the day, for 13 months. (A discount off the sentence of 18 months. For "good behavior" I suppose.) Acosta broke Federal law by keeping the agreement secret from Epstein's victims instead of notifying them as required. A U.S. Attorney breaking the law- that's another sign that he was acting under secret police direction and assumed he would be protected.



There's good reason to believe, as a number of knowledgeable former secret policemen and attorneys believe, that Epstein was running a blackmail operation, surreptitiously recording his prominent "friends" in their trysts with underage females. The other explanation for Acosta's inexplicable action in bending over backwards to protect Epstein, that Acosta was intimidated by Epstein's "powerful" lawyers, is a crock. The Department of Justice isn't a pushover. And if Acosta was doing this without some kind of authorization or direction, he would be putting himself at serious reputation and career risk, and possible sanction by DOJ an/or the courts. There was overwhelming evidence of multiple crimes by Epstein- the testimonies of multiple girls, and written records seized from Epstein documenting encounters and contacts with numerous minors. Perry Mason couldn't have gotten this guy off the hook.

But "the" media is determined to protect the secret police and their smarmy covert operation. Presumably it was either a CIA operation or a joint CIA-Mossad one. Mossad because Epstein's "procurer," Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of known Mossad asset Robert Maxwell, the late British media baron who also "committed suicide" by jumping off his yacht. (His company was bankrupt, and I guess Israel didn't want to cough up the money to bail him out, so who knows? Maybe he really did commit suicide. At least that "suicide" is physically possible, unlike Epstein's with the broken neck bone.)



Furthermore, Epstein, being Jewish, rich, and well-connected, would have been a tempting target for Mossad recruitment. Mossad recruits non-Israeli Jews all over the world to use in its operations, playing on Jewish solidarity to gain their cooperation. (Secondarily they use money and favors, and probably at times threats to recruit Jews, although the heavier stuff would be used much more to induce Arabs, Iranians, etc., to do Mossad's bidding.)

A less likely suspect for the unnamed "intelligence agency" would be the FBI. The FBI has a long history of blackmailing politicians and other prominent figures. This was one of longtime FBI chieftain J. Edgar Hoover's specialties. He even personally blackmailed President Kennedy, among others. (But in the "nicest" way. He's inform JFK, for example, of all the sexual affairs Kennedy had had, and assure him that his secrets were safe with him, Hoover. Of course JFK got the message. Those secrets would only stay secret if JFK never crossed Hoover.)

The FBI was involved with Acosta in the Florida whitewash of Epstein's crimes. On the other hand, now that Berman has gone after Epstein, the FBi office in New York City has been part of the Get Epstein attack team. However it must be kept in mind that the NYC FBI field office is at this point an independent fiefdom within the FBI. They in effect forced former FBI Director James Comey to torpedo Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in October 2016, just a couple of weeks before the election, by dredging up once again her use of a private email server to circumvent government record keeping and future access to the record of her actions as Secretary of State under president Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama. After Hoover's iron grip on the FBI was broken with his death, the FBI has become harder to control, with agents acting more independently. No FBI agent would have dared "leak" to the media under Hoover except under his direct instructions. Not anymore.

But if Epstein was protected last decade, why couldn't the CIA protect Epstein this time around? What changed? Well, society changed, social conditions changed. The Me Too Movement didn't exist ten years ago. This time a woman reporter at the Miami Herald was incensed by the matter, got her editors to let her run with the story, then other media organs picked it up and amplified it.

So why couldn't the CIA just go around to their media contacts and tell them to hush? After all, even-or rather, especially- the major media organs at the pinnacle of the U.S. corporate propaganda system- the TV networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, are slavish in their obeisance to the secret police organs.

Slavish yes, but not slaves. Their slavishness is voluntary, not compulsory. The CIA would have been linking themselves to Epstein by asking their media contacts to quiet the story down. That would have raised a lot of uncomfortable questions. Why are you protecting this "predatory pedophile," CIA? What's your connection to him? The whole blackmail operation risked exposure.

Since they could no longer protect Epstein, the secret police had to kill him.
But not to worry, CIA. As long as you lay low, "the" media has no interest in putting the CIA in a bad light with a scandal. (I know, it's ironic. All the monstrous CIA crimes since its founding aren't scandalous, but this would be.)

Mostly "the" media has fallen in line behind the "suicide" story, ignoring the broken neck. Bits of dissonant facts peek out from under the media coverup, for example they reported (just on one day) that Epstein's lawyers don't buy the suicide story. And one of his accusers was on a CBS program saying she didn't think he was the type to kill himself. (For sure!) She thought the writing of the will two days before his untimely demise was an attempt to put his assets out of reach of people like her. (The lawyers for these women must have dollar signs in their eyes. They're in it for a cut of the loot, obviously. Another point being uncharacteristically ignored by "the" media.)

Perhaps Epstein was told by one of his handlers to write a will because they were going to fake his death and smuggle him out. Or perhaps he'd been threatened. It was reported back in July that he was "found unconscious with marks on his neck," and the circumstances of that event were never and have never been clarified.

And some of those who are calling it a murder are attributing it to the Clintons. I don't think the Clintons these days have the power to have someone in a Federal jail assassinated.

Nor does Trump have that ability. Too much of the Deep State is hostile to him for him to be able to pull it off. Anyway he's confident of his ability to lie his way out of anything. No woman used by Epstein has accused Trump of sexual misbehavior, as far as I've heard. And Trump broke off with Epstein about 15 years ago, reportedly because he made some kind of sexual advance on a girl inside a Trump property. (Guess Trump thinks it's only okay to grab the vaginas of adult females.)

By the way, guess what? It's just been reported that there's no "usable" video from the Federal jail where Epstein was killed. How about that. Took them long enough to decide how to handle THAT! Did a Nixon on the recordings.

The Epstein Affair actually is like an X-Ray into American society. it reveals much, and I don't mean just the machinations of the Deep State and its powers. I will have more to explain in future essays.

      "Hey, when you're a cog in the system and the Deep State gives you an order, you obey."

 Dead Men Tell No Tales.

New Details From Government Autopsy Make Jeffrey Epstein "Suicide" Story Even More Implausible

The New York City Medical Examiner has done an autopsy on the body of Jeffrey Epstein, who was locked up in the Federal Government dungeon in lower Manhattan called, in what sounds like a tribute to the "Newspeak" in George Orwell's dystopia political novel "1984," the "Metropolitan Correctional Center." All the elements of the power establishment, including of course "the" media, want us to believe that Epstein committed suicide.

Which I could have believed, if they'd only been more assiduous at hiding certain physical facts that causes the suicide story to strain credulity.

First there was the information that Epstein's neck bones were broken. If you blinked, and didn't scour media relentlessly to come across it, you would have missed this.

Now we're told that Epstein tied a bedsheet to the top bunk in his cell, and then "knelt" to hang himself. In other words, he was standing up, then crouched down, killing himself.

I can believe it is possible to choke or strangle oneself to death in this manner, although I think it would be difficult to control the automatic responses of one's own body, such as reaching with the hands, or rising with the legs. But breaking neckbones? And Epstein wasn't a slender guy. He didn't have an extremely thin neck, say.

This information slipped out in the fourth paragraph of a Wall Street Journal story. Here is the paragraph in its entirety:

"Early findings by authorities indicated Mr. Epstein hanged himself by using his bed sheet, according to people familiar with the investigation. [So-called investigation, actually a cover-up.] Authorities [whoever they are] believe he tied the bed sheet to the top bunk of his bunk bed, then knelt forward to the floor, one of the people said." [My emphases.] [1] 

They BELIEVE? Didn't they find his dead body? Wouldn't the bedsheet still be tied around his neck and to the bunk if he'd killed himself?

And he knelt forward to the floor. From a standing position, presumably. How would that have fractured his neck bones?

It wouldn't have.

The article didn't mention the broken neck bones. If you want to find out about reality from the U.S. power structure's media, you have to act like a detective and hunt around for clues in various disparate sources and then assemble the pieces like you're doing a jigsaw puzzle. Our rulers count on most people having neither the time nor the motivation to do that, especially for EVERY SINGLE EVENT. And the events they completely black out are another challenge, because you may have never heard of them.

The article also quotes the city's chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, as officially concluding "in a brief statement" that Epstein's demise was suicide, without any details, after in her words "careful review of all investigative information." I.e. taking at face value what the Federal prison told her. Which would be all the "investigative information" she had at this point. And calling it "investigative information" is just dishonest. It's really public relations spin.

And Sampson's "review" couldn't have been very thorough, as there wouldn't be much to review. The various Federal "investigations" (at least 3 have been announced!) have just begun, yet the ME has already reached a conclusion! Barely a week since Epstein's death. A rush to judgment, for sure.
By the way, bogus autopsies are routine in nations that commit political assassinations. They go with the territory. We had a lulu of a fraudulent military autopsy in the JFK murder by the CIA. That one was done by an officer who didn't even perform autopsies! And who somehow missed the giant exit wound in the back of JFK's skull that all the surgeons who examined him at Parkland Hospital in Dallas described on film.

There still has never been an explanation of what occurred in July, when Epstein was "found" in his cell, unconscious, with "marks" on his neck. The "authorities" never said it was a suicide attempt. It was all very murky. Sometimes "the" media described it as a suicide attempt, but government officials never said that.

So what was it? An attack by another inmate? By a guard? An incompetent assassin? What kind of "marks" were they? What did Epstein say about it?

Nothing. Just the sound of crickets from "the authorities" and "the" media.

He was briefly put on suicide watch after that, but almost immediately taken off it. So "the authorities" apparently DIDN'T think it was a suicide attempt! Or else they are grossly feckless, negligent, and incompetent. (A possibility that we cannot rule out, thus confusing matters further.) But in the highest-profile case such as this one, with daily saturation media coverage, how could it be that the Federal government could be so inept? They surely were paying very special attention to Epstein!

But you're just a loony conspiracy theorist if you don't swallow the official guff from government officials being shoveled at you daily and around the clock by "the" media. I guess that makes Epstein's lawyers crackpots, since according to the same WSJ article, they don't accept the ME's "findings," and want to obtain video from the Federal dungeon. Good luck with THAT. The longer the Government stalls releasing that footage, the more certain you can be that it was tampered with, altered, or completely fabricated. And digital video is very easy to alter undetectably. They can even put a false time stamp on the footage of empty hallways they'll be showing to "prove" there was no foul play.

One major function of dishonest propagandists (who nowadays call themselves "journalists") is to obfuscate reality. Another major function is replacing reality with a fake reality, a story, a myth, a legend, that the targets of the propaganda are tricked into believing is true and real.

The U.S. government has murdered so many people, and lied so often, and "the" media has perpetrated so many hoaxes, that neither should have a smidgen of credibility at this point in history. They should have to prove, with overwhelming genuine (not fabricated) evidence, every assertion they make.

1]  "Epstein Killed Self, Autopsy Concludes," Wall Street Journal, August 17-18, 2019, page A4, fourth paragraph. Interesting how the WSJ downplayed this article. Not just putting it on page A4, but running it as a narrow sidebar on the left side of the page (in English we start reading on the right) in a long narrow column 1 and 3/4ths inch wide, with the text a mere 1 and 5/8ths inch wide.

Dow Jones Company owns the WSJ and another rightwing financial rag, Barron's. Rupert Murdoch bought the Dow Jones Company from the plutocrat Bancroft family and promptly locked up the websites of the publications behind firewalls. So here's the top portion of the page with the paragraphs I cited.