Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses- BANNED BY YOUTUBE

[This is a two-part essay. First I describe youtube's banning of it. Next is the original description that I wrote for it on my youtube channel.

THIS VIDEO CENSORED BY YOUTUBE (GOOGLE-ALPHABET CORP.), WHICH FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMED IT "VIOLATES YOUTUBE POLICY ON SPAM,  DECEPTIVE PRACTICES AND SCAMS." YOUTUBE CLAIMS THESE ARE "COMMUNITY GUIDELINES," AS IF YOUTUBE USERS THEMSELVES SET THE "STANDARDS" AND DO THE CENSORING. THAT'S DECEPTIVE. IT IS A CORPORATE DICTATORIAL IMPOSITION, BY YOUTUBE.

THE VIDEO HAD BEEN UP FOR OVER A YEAR AND HAD OVER 94,000 VIEWS BEFORE YOUTUBE KILLED IT. IT HAD BY FAR THE MOST VIEWS OF ANY VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL. MANY SIMILAR VIDEOS OF BIDEN PHYSICALLY VIOLATING ADULTS AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ON YOUTUBE. IN FACT, THE VIDEO THIS CAME FROM IS STILL UP ON YOUTUBE [SEE FOOTNOTE #1].

AS THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AFTER BIDEN WON THE NOVEMBER 3, 2020 ELECTION, IT WAS OBVIOUSLY DONE EITHER AT THE BEHEST OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY APPARATCHIKS OR TO PREEMPTIVELY APPEASE AND CURRY FAVOR WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BIDEN REGIME. (I AM NOT A TRUMPITE, I VOTE GREEN PARTY.)

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME YOUTUBE POLITICALLY CENSORED ONE OF MY VIDEOS. PRIOR TO THIS, THEY TOOK DOWN A VIDEO ABOUT ISRAELI GAS ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS. I APPEALED THAT, AND THEY ADMITTED IT DOES NOT VIOLATE THEIR SO-CALLED "STANDARDS," BUT THEY WERE AGE-RESTRICTING IT- EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT AT ALL GORY OR VISUALLY HORRIFIC. 

THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN TWO ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT CLAIMS AGAINST MY VIDEOS, IN ONE CASE IGNORING FAIR USE (YOUTUBE LETS OTHER CORPORATIONS DO THE CENSORING IN COPYRIGHT CLAIM CASES, AND JUDGE THE "APPEALS"!)- YOUTUBE'S POLICY IS TO PRETEND FAIR USE DOES NOT EXIST IN U.S. LAW! IN THE OTHER CASE SOME MUSIC INDUSTRY JACKASSES CLAIMED TO OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SPEECH! (I PREVAILED IN THAT RIDICULOUS CASE OF PURE HARASSMENT.)

YOUTUBE IS A REALLY FUCKED UP PLATFORM AND I WOULD GLADLY MOVE TO A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE, WHICH DOES NOT EXIST. YOUTUBE IS FUNCTIONALLY A MONOPOLY, AS IS FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. SIMILAR SERVICES HAVE TOO SMALL USER BASES TO BE GOOD FOR MUCH.

BIDEN'S PEDOPHILIAC IMPULSES.

Hard to see what other interpretation to put on his constant pawing, stroking, and outright flirting with girls from ages 6 to 13, and older. In one public incident captured on video, he repeatedly kisses a very young girl and whispers "Don't tell anyone." He is constantly stroking the faces and hair of other people's young children whom he has no relationship with. If he's not a pedophile, he's doing a great imitation of one! His behavior looks like classic "grooming" that pedophiles use to lure children into sexual relations.

All the incidents shown in this video occurred in official ceremonies being recorded on camera. One wonders what he has done in PRIVATE!

This is a segment of a video compiled by someone else on youtube. I consider it a public service, regardless of what the political motivation might have been for creating it. (He mentions in passing Trump's infatuation with daughter Ivanka, but not his boasting about grabbing women's vagina, his forcibly kissing them, etc.) Facts are facts, and this is video evidence. [1]

We don't know if Biden has ever in his life crossed the line into outright illegality with a child. Is touching a child's chest where there nipple is, for example, a sex crime?

Here's how I think his molesting of children can cause lasting damage. These girls are being conditioned to submit to and passively accept sexual molestation. In many of these scenes, the victims are the children of adult male politicians who are standing right there smiling broadly and not intervening in any way. One of these creeps is Senator Christopher Coons, who insists it wasn't "creepy" that Biden molested his daughter. What "message" does that send the girl? That she should consider being pawed by men as normal and acceptable. And if one day her passivity in the face of male aggression provides the opportunity for a rapist to lead her into a "compromising" situation, she will feel shame and guilt and blame herself, even though she'd been conditioned to passively submit and not resist male sexual aggression. (Coons is the junior Senator from Delaware, Biden's state. Biden was one of Delaware's two Senators before Obama gifted him to us as vice president for 8 years.)

What is also disgusting is the moral abdication of all the adults standing around with their biggest fake smiles plastered on their faces, willingly subservient to power in the person of Biden. They all pretend Biden is "just being friendly." Denial is one of the hallmarks of a morally corrupt and existentially decayed and decadent society.

In their "compromise" (sellout) to power, these people become accomplices to the crimes of those in power. (A microcosm of the relationship of millions of people to corporate tyranny and U.S. imperialism.)

Biden may prefer underage females, but he doesn't discriminate against adult women, who he also molests. The video references an article about the time Biden cupped the breast of a Secret Service man's adult girlfriend in 2009. The agent is described as shoving Biden and "almost hit" him, and being suspended for a week as a result. [2]

1] The video, "CREEPY UNCLE JOE,"  posted on youtube November 22, 2017, borrowed its title from a Washington Post story, "What are we going to do about Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?,"  2/18/2015. The Washington Post article has a video showing Biden molesting the wife of Ashton Carter DURING A PUBLIC SWEARING-IN CEREMONY!

2] "Ex-Secret Service Agent Claims Biden Engaged In 'Weinstein-Level' Groping," from infowars, admittedly not the most reliable source. But they have reported true information, so maybe...

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Iran Wants Its Worst Enemy, Trump, To Win Reelection. Claims U.S. Secret Police and Establishment Media

Could anything be more absurd? What an obvious lie. Yet that's what they're claiming.

Who is? The U.S. Secret Police combine and the corporate oligarchy's propaganda system, "the media," so-called. 

The lead actor in this piece of political theater is the "Director of National Intelligence," a Trump stooge named John Ratcliffe. Ratchiffe, a political hack and former Republican Congressman and reactionary weasel. According to this latest concoction of the "intelligence community" (the secret police combine) Iran sent spoof emails in the name of the U.S. stormtrooper group Proud Boys, to Democratic Party voters threatening them to vote for Trump.

Trump. Right. Iran wants to help reelect Trump. The guy who tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran, who reimposed sanctions that are strangling the Iranian economy. Who just blockaded the Iranian banking system from the world financial system. The man who is murdering thousands of Iranians by preventing the importation of cancer medicines, of ventilators for COVID-19 patients, of protective equipment like masks. Iran wants to keep him in office so he can do more damage to Iran.

Sure, I believe you, U.S. secret police and your propagandist enablers. 

Ironically, this propaganda campaign, whose theme is alleged election manipulation by foreign enemies, is ITSELF an election manipulation scheme.   

Just to make sure people fall for this pathetic shit, almost all media reports omit the key details. They just say "Iran and Russia are trying to undermine confidence in the election," they're "trying to undermine the legitimacy of the election," and "Iran is sending emails to intimidate voters." 

But they don't say who the emails go to, and what they are trying to do.

How dishonest can you get?

Do you really need any more evidence that U.S. "news" organizatons are in fact propaganda mills, and U.S. "journalists" are propagandists and stooge mouthpieces for the secret polcie and other governemnt operatives to plant disinformation and slanted distortions of reality in the minds of the public?

The trustworthy John Ratcliffe. You believe him, don't you?

Kellyanne Conway Thinks Trump Is Doomed

That's the conclusion I draw from her sudden abandonment of Trump less than 3 months before the presidential election.

The prominent political propagandist and reactionary operative gave only one week public notice of her impending departure from the Trump regime at the end of August.

Conway says the reason she's abruptly leaving is so she can spend more time with her family. That's what politicians always say when they don't want to give the real reason they're giving up a plum job.

Conway's husband, rich rightwing lawyer George Conway, is simultaneously quitting the anti-Trump group he's associated with, "The Lincoln Project." .(He apparently couldn't stomach slithering onto the Trump bandwagon, as his hyper-opportunist wife did.) Kellyanne, while more intelligent than Trump, is like him in that she's a fast-talking bullshit artist. Only she's better at it than he is, thanks to her superior intelligence, which she misuses in the service of evil. And has done her entire adult life. (And probably starting in childhood.)

Kellyanne claims she wants to do more mothering. There may be something to that, insofar as the Conways' 15-year-old daughter Claudia has repeatedly sent cries from the heart into the public space bemoaning her suffering under the oppressive rule of her parents. Her parents barred her from making political comments after she demonstrated that she isn't a reactionary clone of themselves. The fact that George quit his anti-Trump group may be taken as evidence of a parental strategy, although how much time can penning an occasional anti-Trump op-ed take? Presumably George isn't quitting his law practice. Perhaps Kellyanne finagled a deal with Hubby that she's leave the Trump tent if he'd give up his anti-Trump scribbling.

But keep in mind, there can be more than one motive or cause for an action. The "need" to better suppress and brainwash her daughter, and abandoning the sinking Trump ship (as she perceives it), can BOTH be reasons she's abruptly departing the Trump camp. Associating with a loser is not Kellyanne's way. She, again like Trump, has to be a "winner."

Kellyanne Conway is a lifelong reactionary political operative.The early part of her "career" was spent advising rightwing Republicans on how to trick women into voting for the GOP, a party that denies women the right to control their own bodies. She's also a shameless opportunist and a chronic liar. All in all, a loathsome creature who has harmed humanity by her existence.

  

   The Wicked Witch of the White House Went WHOOSH!

For a concise 4 minute synopsis of her "career," including how she latched onto Trump after denigrating him when she was working to try and secure the GOP presidential nomination for the fanatical rightist Ted Cruz, see "Who is Kellyanne Conway – Counselor to the President."

For her infuriating propaganda and gaslighting techniques, see "Kellyanne Conway's interview tricks, explained."

The Big Lie: Police Work Is "Dangerous" (It's Not)

In the U.S. the chances of being murdered if you are a cop is LESS than the chance of being murdered if you are a mere citizen. That is a fact. Policing is NOT a particularly hazardous occupation. Other jobs are MUCH more dangerous. Coal mining. Farming. Commercial fishing. Construction. Working in a meat packing plant. All are MUCH more physically dangerous than being a cop, in terms of serious injuries and deaths. (It is not so rare for people to be maimed for life in those other occupations.  It is exceedingly rare for police to suffer such misfortune.)

Cops spend most of their time sitting in their cars. Doing paperwork in their cop fortresses  is another major use of their time. Chasing "perps" down alleys, like on the repression- porn TV show "Cops," a vile propaganda program, is a minuscule percentage of what they do.

There are close to a million cops in the U.S., and yet only around 50 a year are currently killed by other people while on the job. That is half the average of 100 a year of several decades ago, when there were half as many cops. It was safe then, and now it's four times safer.

Yet cops, their fellow traveling reactionaries and white racist cheerleaders, and most of all the U.S. corporate oligarchy's propaganda system, constantly beat their breasts about how police "risk their lives for us." They raise this rhetorical wall of verbal garbage as a shield whenever there is attempt by mere citizens to criticize their outrageous, repressive behavior. (The corporate oligarchic propaganda system refers to itself as "the media," as if it's the one and only media there is, and is purely neutral and objective with no political character.) Very, very rarely, some police are in potentially dangerous (to themselves) situations. And yes, on rare occasions, one or two get killed. It would be like getting struck by lightning, except getting struck by lightning happens far more often than a cop getting killed occurs.

On the other side of the ledger, U.S. police shoot dead over 1,000 people each and every year in the U.S. Now, presumably these aren't ALL homicides. Surely some of these killings must be justified. And yet, one has to wonder why in other "advanced" countries, like those in Europe, and Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the number of people shot or shot dead by police is such a tiny fraction of the U.S number.

Police, like all reactionaries, like to pretend they are being persecuted. In their case, criticism of their crimes is the "persecution." They expect praise for their criminal acts, or at least silence (and media cooperation in spreading lies about their conduct). Police in the U.S. are NOT persecuted. In a nation that has systematically attacked and destroyed the union movement for decades reducing organized labor to a shadow of what it once was, police unions are allowed grotesquely exaggerated political power. Even as teachers' unions are under systematic assault by state governments and billionaires and their hired propagandists pushing "charter schools" and vouchers, police unions are treated with the deference usually reserved for the Roman Catholic Pope.

Because of their role as oppressors of the "lower" (i.e. poorer) classes in the U.S., a growing percentage of the population, cops are hated by more and more people. On occasions when public outrage explodes over police atrocities, cops feel genuinely aggrieved and insulted. THEY are outraged that anyone is outraged at THEM instead of profusely THANKING them for murdering someone, for example. Then they and their reactionary defenders and media propagandist enablers start to bleat about how "dangerous" it is to be a cop, how they have to make "split second decisions" or be killed. This is BULLSHIT. Every time they cold-bloodedly murder someone, or brutally beat someone who rubbed them the wrong way (or who merely has the wrong skin pigmentation) or break into homes ot attack people protesting causes the cops despise, they trot out their alleged need to make "split-second decisions" and screech that the second-guessing is HANDCUFFING the police and ENDANGERING THEM by making them hesitant to become instantly violent like a Hell's Angel or a steroid-addled bodybuilder subject to sudden and unprovoked rages. (By the way, many cops ARE 'roided-up goons. And many are violent veterans of the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, where they developed a taste for shedding human blood. Or just developed a combat mentality, which they apply to their "police" work, "protecting the serving" the rich and the power structure created by and for the rich.)



Cops are NOT "law enforcers." They are social order enforcers. They are guardians of the existing power structure. This is the single most important thing to understand about the police. Everything they do makes perfect sense once you perceive this fundamental fact.

Since "blacks" are the U.S. equivalent of Indian Dalits, "untouchables," and occupy the bottom status rung in a deeply racist society, and "need" to be "kept in their place," a task in which violence has historically been a central tool, although not the only one, we should not be mystified by "why do they keep killing black people?" If it wasn't desired that they regularly commit such atrocities, the legal and political systems would not PROTECT THEM WHEN THEY DO IT. And the only times they are NOT protected is when there is unrest AND the unrest does not SUBSIDE quickly.

Chinese dictator and "communist" emperor Mao Zedong infamously wrote that "political power flows out of the barrel of a gun." It also sprays from the nozzle of a pepper spray can, a tear gas canister, and sparks off the tips of a taser's barbs. That is, power always ultimately rests on physical force. Without the ability to use physical force to enforce one's will when challenged, there is no power. There may be influence, but not power. Power is the ability to force others to do what you dictate, not do what you ban, or to punish for disobedience.

In the current two weeks and counting nationwide (indeed global) mass protests against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on March 25, the bourgeois politicians and propagandists have been talking as if they are on the same side as those they oppress. They've been wringing their hands nonstop, Tugging at their chins and wondering how to "fix" the "problem of racism." Meanwhile, the whole time, their police have been violently assaulting the protesters, killing several, and shooting an eye out of at least three people, among other atrocities. But the only "violence" those in power perceive is window-breaking and "looting" by people they insist on tying to the protesters. So as soon as the heat dies down, expect things to be back to business as usual.

Killer cop Derek Chauvin was only indicted after a police station was burned down in Minneapolis. It was only after 8 days or so of national turbulence that Minnesota state Attorney General Keith Ellison, a phony "progressive," took over the case and indicted the other 3 murderers of George Floyd. He is already warning how "hard" it will be to obtain convictions.

Malcolm X once said, "The only thing power understands, IS power." Or in this case, pressure. Pressure from masses of people. Most importantly, most of the demonstrators have been "white." That is new in the Black Lives Matter movement. That is also decisive. Blacks in the U.S. are a small minority, so having allies in the rest of the population is essential.

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek "Crusher" Chauvin bravely putting his life on the line to "protect and serve." And ingrates have the nerve to protest! What is the world coming to?

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Coronavirus Causing Global Disease Outbreak Has Mutated- Vaccines Being ...

Researchers have been using the genome sequenced in China to develop vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the "coronavirus" that causes the disease COVID-19 that has created a global pandemic. It turns out that the version that infected the New York City metropolitan area came from Europe. That strain of the virus is different from the one that originated in China, and is even more contagious than the Chinese virus. 

 

Worse, mutations make the virus a moving target for vaccine developers. 

 

Every year, researchers try to guess which mutations of the virus that caused the flu will be most prevalent, and make vaccines in advance that are intended to immunize people against perhaps 3 of the most worrisome strains. But the effectiveness of flu vaccines in providing immunity varies greatly from year to year. The best years provide 60% effectiveness: the worst, only 10%. Either way, the vaccines are no panacea for the flu. 

 

It looks like the same situation will obtain with this particular coronavirus. And it is more contagious than the flu viruses, and apparently more deadly. Already it has killed over 70,000 people in America, more than die from the flu in a typical flu season. And there is no end in sight. 

 

But stock markets love it. They have been rallying in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Since stocks bottomed in the U.S. around March 21, stock averages have shot up like rockets. The Nasdaq has recouped all its year to date losses and is back at even. The Dow Jones Industrial average, which at the nadir was down around 30%, is now only 17% below its all time high. This when U.S. unemployment is now at Great Depression levels, and most companies' profits have been wiped out. Irrational exuberance, anyone? 

 

People's misery is celebrated by the stock speculators. 

 

There are articles on the bioRxiv website documenting mutations in the virus dated March 16 and later. See https://www.biorxiv.org/search/sars-cov-2%252Bmutations

 

This video is ranted by self-described "dumb jag-off nightclub comedian" Jimmy Dore. I have mixed feelings about him. On the one hand, he is intemperate and intolerant of different viewpoints from his own, and heaps vituperation at people at the drop of a hat. On the other hand, we need rabble-rousers. He helps direct outrage and hatred at the Democratic Party and its cynical, dishonest politicians. 

 

But he also thinks, correctly, that Trump is awful. So he does a useful service there. But what is possibly a deal killer is the fact that he acts as a propagandist for the Assad regime of Syria. This is really despicable. 

 

In case you didn't know, "jagging off" is slang for masturbation. Other slang terms for that activity are jerking off, beating off, beating one's meat, spanking the money, and hundreds or maybe thousands of expressions in other languages. I wonder if anyone ever published a compendium of such expressions?

 

 

 

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The BBC Lies About The Holocaust

Amazing lie pushed out all over the world this morning by the premier propaganda arm of the British Government, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp liberated by British troops. According to the BBC this morning, an estimated 50,000 prisoners died there. (That would be from disease, starvation, and execution.) The BBC every half hour stated that "images of piles of bodies and starving inmates were the first evidence to reach the Wet of the horrors of the Holocaust."

No, they were NOT 'the first evidence to reach the West." Not by a long shot. The Allied armies in the West overran concentration camps in Germany in 1945, during the last weeks of the war. But information about what the Germans were doing was known as soon as the organized mass murder began.

In June 1941 Nazi Germany and its fascist allies Italy, Romania, and Hungary (plus Finland) invaded the Soviet Union. There were three extermination units, called Einsatzgruppen, one assigned to each of the invading German army groups. Their task was to follow in the wake of these armies and round up and execute Jews and Communist Party officials. In a few months they managed to murder hundreds of thousands of people. Of course word of this reached the Soviet authorities, who at that point were allied with Britain against Germany. (In December 1941 the U.S. joined the Soviets and British after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the U.S.) So this was no secret. [1]

All during the war there was a stream of intelligence report and testimony of refugees, escapees, and spies as to the Nazi extermination program in the camps. On a number of occasions in 1944, various Jewish representatives beseeched the U.S. government to bomb the railroad lines to Auschwitz to interrupt the shipment of Jews from all over Europe into this death camp. The U.S. Army Air Force always refused. [2]

It has been a common theme of Western propaganda that the Allies only found out about the Holocaust at nearly the end of the war. But the actual historical record refutes this completely. Of course the sort of propagandists who work for media companies don't give a damn about actual facts.

Is it really possible that the BBC is so abysmally ignorant of history, or has such a feckless research
research department, that they don't know this? No, it isn't.

This is a political lie to protect the reputations of Britain and the U.S. In a very real sense, these nations were accomplices to the Holocaust. Especially the U.S., which barred Jews fleeing the Nazis from entering the U.S. (At least Britain took in some Jewish children, only insisting that their parents stay behind to be persecuted and ultimately murdered by the Germans and their fascist fellow travelers.)

The BBC isn't the only "Western" "news" organization that lies about the Holocaust. A commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, the most notorious of the archipelago of scores of Nazi concentration camps, was recently staged. This political ritual received major promotion in the U.S. corporate media system. A very key fact went completely unmentioned in the broadcast propaganda- namely which army liberated the camp! Of course it was the Red Army. Auschwitz was one of six mass exterminations camps set up to commit mass murder on an industrial scale. All six were set up on conquered Polish territory, apparently to keep them out of sight of the German populace. (The German people were okay with camps on German soil that only murdered thousands or tens of thousands of people.) It was the Red Army that overran Poland from the East, of course, in the drive to Berlin. By going on and on about the liberation while omitting the actual liberators, the clear impression was left that it was the U.S. that did the liberating. This is an example of lying by omission, a common tactic by U.S. establishment propaganda organs.

The BBC has a "history" program they call "Witness." Many of the episodes consist of rehasing anti-Soviet Cold War themes. While not factually incorrect for the most part, it is beating a dead horse. What purpose is served other than ideological indoctrination?

You'd think that now that the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, has ceased to exist for almost thirty years, they could let it go. But no.

Another pet peeve of the BBC is the East German Stasi, or secret police. Since East Germany ceased to exist even before the Soviet Union expired, and in any event was a small and not very consequential country, one might wonder about the motive here too. Did the Stasi even kill a few hundred people throughout its existence? On the other hand, the BBC largely ignores the mass murdering death squad regimes created by its U.S. masters, like the one in Guatemala (250,000 murdered), Iran after they installed the Shah as dictator in 1953 (another 250,000), Chile (at least 3,000 plus more outside its borders), or Argentina, encouraged by the U.S., which murdered 30,000 defenseless citizens. And there are others. In fact, right now the Colombian regime is busy murdering political activists and labor organizers. Since the FARC's latest surrender, they have assassinated almost 1,000 people, including many candidates for office. Not a word of this on the BBC.
Naturally the BBC, reflecting the vile position of the government of which it is a part, supports every U.S. coup, including the one in Honduras engineered by Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the current ongoing one in Venezuela, just the latest coup attempt there, a criminal campaign that began under Bush the Younger, continued by Obama, and now Donald "Jackass" Trump is carrying the imperialist baton.

Naturally the BBC, reflecting the vile position of the government of which it is a part, supports every U.S. coup, including the one in Honduras engineered by Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the current ongoing one in Venezuela, just the latest coup attempt there, a criminal campaign that began under Bush the Younger, continued by Obama, and now Donald "Jackass" Trump is carrying the imperialist baton.

Another thing the BBC is loathe to mention is the UK's support for Saudi Arabia's murderous assault on Yemen, which has caused mass starvation and a cholera epidemic in that country. For good measure, the Saudis are bombing the hospitals there, just as Russia and the Assad regime have systematically attacks the health clinics in territory the regime wants to take over. THAT the BBC reports. (As it should, of course.)


When you see such one-sided "coverage," such a clear double standard, and such obsessive trashing of defunct regimes, that's a tipoff that you are witnessing propaganda.

 

Tony Hall, 16th Director-General of the BBC. According the BBC website, "The Director-General is the Chief Executive Officer of the BBC, its Editor-in-Chief. The DG is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC, with responsibility for a global workforce running services across television, radio and online."

But "Tony" is much MORE than that! He is also "The Right Honourable, The Lord Hall of Birkenhead Life Peerage, CBE," don't you know!

The British ruling class leaves nothing to chance. All key power positions are held by their own kind.

Ridiculous hat, by the way.

1]  Einsatzgruppen at Wikipedia

2]  A few examples of the absurdity of the BBC's lie: "The Polish government-in-exile in London first reported crimes in the Auschwitz complex to the western public in 1941.[1] Information about tortures inside this camp was published in the same year in New York in a government report from occupied Poland titled The Polish White Book[1] The Auschwitz camp was also noted in The Black Book of Poland a 750-page report published in 1942 in New York by the Ministry of Information of the Polish government-in-exile, describing atrocities committed by Germany in occupied Poland in twenty-two months between the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and the end of June 1941. Both were printed in New York by The Greystone Press and G.P. Putnam's Sons[1][2]

"In 1942, Lieutenant Jan Karski reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in occupied Poland, especially the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the general systematic extermination of the Poles and Jews nationally. He did not know about the murder by gas, repeating the common belief at the time that deported Jews were being exterminated with electricity.[3] Karski met with the Polish government-in-exile, including the Prime Minister, Władysław Sikorski, as well as with members of political parties such as the Socialist Party, National Party, Labor Party, People's Party, Jewish Labour Bund and Zionist Party. He also spoke to Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and in Bełżec. In 1943 in London he met the author and journalist Arthur Koestler. He then traveled to the United States and reported to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR reacted to Karski's report by inquiring jokingly into animal rights abuses (specifically, horses). His report was a major source of information for the Allies.[4]  "Auschwitz Bombing Debate," Wikipedia,

For the historical context in the broader framework of anti-Semitism, see "Foundations of Holocaust: Roosevelt's decision to not bomb Auschwitz," Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2013.

As to not bombing the rail lines, to be fair, given the inaccuracy of high-level bombing in those days, the ease and speed with which rail tracks can be repaired, there was good reason not to target rail lines. As to bombing the camp itself, there were prisoners of war there. However air raids were carried out against some of the factories in the sprawling complex, where slave laborers were often worked to death. See "The United States and the Holocaust: Why Auschwitz Was Not Bombed," Holocaust Encyclopedia of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reality Finally Forces Trump To Bend To Its Will

Donald Trump has lived in a solipsistic bubble of his own creation, a narcissistic virtual reality, most of his life. He even denies science, the hardest of hard truths, reality at its most certain, when it comes to global warming.

But apparently his "genius" mind has met its match in medical science, epidemiology, and the modeling of disease spread. (Climate change models are just bunk, however, according to Republicans.)

Trump spent the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic spewing fatuous guff claiming everything was fine and he and his bureaucratic lackeys and sycophants were doing a great job, as always. He announced that all would be well by Easter (early April) and the economy would get back to normal.

"Everything looks sunny to ME! 

But apparently the data- the numbers- wore him down. Trump in his career as a real estate hustler, bank and investor defrauder, and overall scammer and grifter, has needed to be able to grasp numbers to pull off his con jobs. So numbers he understands.

And the numbers on the spread of coronavirus, and the piling up of dead bodies, are grim and set to get much grimmer, Possibly much, much grimmer. This has caused a noticeable change in Trump's tone during his press performances. He's had to admit that things are actually bad, and set to get worse. He was forced to alter his Back-To-Normal timetable to the end of April. (Still far too optimistic.)

  

"Reality- what a bummer! What did I do to deserve this?"

Even though he brays that he's the World's Greatest Expert on just about everything (rather like his North Korean counterpart, with whom he has had an on again off again bromance with), he's not too proud to turn to experts to advise him on what to do. Amazingly, some of these experts, like Fauci and Birx, medical professionals, have even been allowed to speak at length during Trump's press appearances. The fact that he is willing to risk being upstaged is perhaps a sign of his desperation. 

Two of the main props on which Trump was basing his reelection- the raging bull stock market and the "good" economy, have now both come crashing down big time. We hardly ever hear about The Wall anymore- maybe Trump felt he'd worn out that shtick- and he never did lock up Hillary Clinton (who actually deserves to be executed for her crimes against humanity, forget about hiding the email record of her activities as Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama's Secretary of State in a private, secret computer server- so what does Trump have to run on? His mediocre performance dealing with the covid-19 pandemic. (The disease caused by the coronavirus- an acronym for coronavirus 2019.)\

What has totally absorbed not just the media's attention, but the populace's too- as already about a third are forced to stay at home deprived of income-- is this menacing microorganism that is relentlessly spreading disease and death to an mushrooming number of people. And Trump is ill-equipped personally to rise to the occasion. (Contrast his performance with those of New York State governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, neither of whom I have any use for otherwise, but they're doing the job, providing leadership both in action and in addressing the public daily.)

"OH GOD NO DON'T LET THIS VIRUS COST ME MY REELECTION!!"

 

But the odds are that Trump will win regardless. Joe Biden is a horrible politicians and a fatally vulnerable candidate. And amazingly, in polls, the majority approve of the job he's doing in the pandemic!! Even though, for just one example, he's currently hoarding 10,000 ventilators, necessary to try and save the lives of critically ill patients, even though Cuomo and de Blasio have been publicly pleading for weeks for more ventilators, and 3,000 are needed in New York City next week. When questioned about the hoarded ventilators by a reporter, Trump responded that he need to have "flexibility" as to where to send them. (Translation: screw states that aren't voting for him.)

How could anyone be impressed by the job this lifelong grifter and ripoff artist is handling this crisis? The hopelessness of changing the U.S. for the better ultimately lies in the fact that a majority are cretins and many of those are racists and reactionaries.

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Give Yourself a Break From Worrying About Coronavirus! Enjoy Warrior In Woolworth's By Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex!

"Everybody knows that the plague is coming, and Everybody knows that it's moving fast"
-Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows."


Afraid the viruses are gonna getcha? Well pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and check out this performance of "Warrior In Woolworths" by X-Ray Spex featuring Poly Styrene, Live in London, the year, 2008.


A classic "underground" hit by the band X-Ray Spex. The lead singer, Poly Styrene, a free-spirited songbird, existed all too briefly.


The crowd of happy mushrooms bounces as they're swept along by the music, an example of life enjoying itself.


I like the unusual camera angle here. It displays the dynamism of the drummer by putting him in the foreground. We hover above and behind his shoulder, watching the scene as if from an aerie.
Look, we're all mortal beings and we're all gonna die someday, sometime, of something. So don't sweat it.


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2020 Presidential Election Now Guaranteed To Prevent Any Change In The U.S. System

Well, the dominant bourgeois elites have gotten their way once again, as they always do in all their elections.

There will be no chance of systemic change resulting from whoever wins in November.

The conservative [1] Joseph R. Biden, Jr., a man with a pro-school segregation past, a man who ranted at his staff that he wanted to have a reputation as "tough on crime" (code for tough on blacks) and lived up to it by playing key roles in passing draconian laws through Congress, a man who added to the power of banks and credit card companies at the expense of the people of the U.S., who protected Clarence Thomas on his way to Supreme Court confirmation, a man who whipped Democratic Senators into line on Bush's invasion of Iraq- has now been anointed the winner of the Democratic Party presidential nomination with less than half the needed 1991 delegates.

Anointed by the corporate media and the Democratic Party establishment.

This is who the Democratic Party poohbahs covertly designated as the nominee months ago, just as they covertly designated Hillary Clinton in 2016. And how his nomination seems assured.iIth his victories in yesterday's primaries, Biden is on a glide path to victory over Senator Bernard "Bernie" Sanders. With the media ballyhooing his lead and his "momentum," many voters in the remaining primaries, sheeplike, will fall into line behind Biden, much like iron filings pulled by a magnet.

The establishment has all but declared Biden the nominee.



On the radio network owned by Michael Bloomberg Billionaire, the announcers claimed Biden has "an all but insurmountable lead" over the hated Sanders. (Biden has about 800 delegates now, Sanders 666 or so. 1991 are needed to win the nomination. Most of the almost 800 "superdelegates," party insiders and venal lobbyists chosen by the party, will also be for Biden. Every Democratic member of Congress and member of the Democratic National Committee are superdelegates.)

The notorious Jame Carville, who makes a living helping reactionaries in other countries "win" elections, called for cancelling the remainder of the primaries, declaring "This thing is over, it's time to shut this thing down!" Congressman James Clyburn, who herded the black primary voters of South Carolina into Biden's corral, called for no more Democratic debates.

After the previous round of primaries, Peter Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and even "Beto" O'Rourke, who had dropped out of the race long ago, almost simultaneously endorsed Biden, smacking of a conspiracy. Michael Bloomberg Billionaire did likewise, A few days ago, erstwhile candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker declared for Biden. The corporate propaganda system made sure to repeatedly broadcast their words.

Sanders only ever offered the illusion of the possibility of fundamental change. Seeking change via Sanders was like chasing the rainbow. It looks beautiful off in the distance, but you cannot ever grasp it. Sanders was always a political lone ranger, rejecting Ralph Nader's urging to form a caucus with other "progressive" Senators. [2]

Sanders has a comfortable relationship with the Democratic Party, which he is always at pains not to jeopardize. This is his fatal compromise with power. Thus in both his campaigns for president, he has treated his Democratic Party opponents for the nomination with kid gloves, and loyally thrown his full-throated support to the winners; Clinton in 2016, and this time it will be Biden.

The problem of how to change America is devilishly tricky, and worthy of a separate essay. The obstacles are enormous. To even seriously attempt it is actually a life-threatening endeavor, thanks to the murderous nature of this system.


The irony of Biden's apparent victory is that Biden has a lot in common with Trump- both are bullies, egotists, liars, and racists. Both men get violently angry when confronted with challenging questions or situations. We've seen this numerous times during the current Biden campaign. For more details, see "How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same."

                               Pick which corporate-protecting imperialist you want, this is a democracy!

1]  I call Biden a conservative because he is a man dedicated to preserving the status quo. That is what conservatism actually means. I do not use the gaslighting propaganda political terminology of U.S. elites and their foreign lackeys. They use "conservative" as a euphemism for reactionary, to make noxious rightwing ideology and politics respectable and honorable, when it is antithetical to human values. And "ultraconservative" is their code word for fascist.

A bourgeois politician who is pragmatic and rational is labeled "liberal." Thus Senator Elizabeth Warren's sensible desire to regulate big financial institutions in ways that prevent them from being a threat to the stability of the capitalist system is deemed "liberal" or worse.

Neoliberal corporatist imperialists are called "moderate" or "centrist," meaningless terms in themselves.

2]  See "Bernie Sanders snubs Ralph Nader 15 years. 'Progressive' Senators refuse to unite."

Michael Bloomberg Billionaire's Very Expensive Ego Trip Ends in Humiliation

World's Eight Richest Man spends over half a BILLION dollars ($500,000,000+, five hundred millions) on advertising to try and buy the presidency of the U.S.and only wins the Democratic Primary in American Samoa. And has to share the spoils with Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who gets one delegate from Am. Samoa. Bloomberg promptly drops out of the running. (At the same time "endorsing" Joe Biden, for what that's worth. I'd reckon not much.)

"Hey Mini Mike, you're a Loser!" [The goon with the shaved head on the right is Bernard Kerik, erstwhile henchman to Rudolph Giuliani, convicted felon whose crimes were just wiped off the books by a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.]

In the first and only debate with the other contenders for the Democratic Party nomination for president, Bloomberg showed himself woefully unprepared to mix it up with people who weren't sycophantic towards him. For years, Bloomberg has been surrounded by courtiers, opportunists, fawning "journalists" (propagandists of the capitalist system) and people sucking up to him in hopes of scoring a handout. So when Elizabeth Warren asked him pointed, predictable questions about the awful sexism inside his company, and his personal misogyny, he was flummoxed. Nor has he been successful in whitewashing his blatantly racist police repression of black and Latino males, the massive violation of Constitutional rights by the "stock and frisk" program which saw 5 million illegal street frisks in New York City, which Bloomberg ruled for 12 years as a Republican mayor. (One in a thousand of these degrading, brutalizing attacks on minority males results in finding a weapon. Many more found marijuana, justifying an arrest.) A Federal judge eventually found the practice illegal, as they were not based on a particularized suspicion of those being thrown up against walls and having their pockets gone through. They were targeted by race.

The smarmy chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, did nothing to adjust his candidate debate rules to prevent the elimination of both black candidates (Kamala Harris and Cory Booker), the sole Latino, and the only Asian (Yang), but changed the rules to allow Bloomberg to participate in a debate, by removing the minimum requirement to score a certain percentage in polls, and to have a certain number of donors. Bloomberg was allowed to have just one donor- himself. He'd have been better off if Perez had kept him off that debate stage!

Dependable Party apparatchik Perez is applauded by his master.

Now with his mountain of loot (estimated around $60 billion) half a billion lighter, Bloomberg can go back to buying influence and puff piece "reporting" about himself. The man showed off his vanity, conceit, and self-regard, insisting he and he alone could take on Trump, he and he alone was competent to run the U.S.

Apparently his self-vaunted competency didn't transfer to running a campaign for president. But the various "consultants" and media "experts" and operatives can smile at their newly-swollen bank accounts, as can the media companies that ran his ads.

Now the Democratic Party and its corporate media allies are going to shove Joe "I Love How Your Hair Smells!" Biden down our throats. Unless Bernie Sanders goes to the convention with an absolute majority of delegates, he's finished. The 700 or so "Superdelegates"- party hacks and lobbyists primarily- are solidly machine loyalists who will go almost 100% for Biden. Elizabeth Warren hasn't done better than third in any state so far, including in her home state, Massachusetts, which she currently represents in the U.S. Senate! (Peter Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out on successive days and immediately endorsed Biden, an obvious sign of a conspiracy by the Democratic Party hierarchy and rich donors. Only Tulsi Gabbard, who is totally marginal, is left along with Warren, Biden, and Sanders.)

Here are your choices under bourgeois "democracy." Now VOTE!

Biden spent his years in the Senate fighting school integration, passing draconian "crime" bills that made the U.S. the number one prisoner in the world- with 4.5% of the world's population the U.S. has 25% of the total global prison population!- greased the skids for the awful Clarence Thonas to score a lifetime perch on the Supreme Court, pushed hard for the Bush regime invasion of Iraq, assiduously promoted the interests of big banks and credit card companies at the expense of everybody else, and much more awfulness.

For how loathsome the segregationist, warmongering, tool of finance, mass imprisoner of blacks Biden is, type "Biden" in the search box on this webpage. Also see video Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

By the way, it's obvious from his confusion, garbled speech patterns, and incredible memory lapses as he's been campaigning (can't remember Obama's name at times) that Biden is in the early stages of senility. It's Reagan redux if he's elected.

Joseph Biden doesn't dwell on what he has wrought.

How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same

Both are aggressive bullies who fly into rages when challenged on sensitive subjects. In the case of Trump, the documentation could fill several tomes. With Biden we've seen it whenever a journalist has dared raise the subject of his son Hunter Biden's incredible deal with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, obtained while Biden was vice president of the U.S. and the Obama regime's point man on Ukraine. Hunter was appointed to the corporate board with "compensation" of $50,000 a month, "earning" a total of $3 MILLION over his five year term. The only reason Hunter left the board, by his own admission in a television interview, was because of the harmful appearance it created as his Dad ran for president. Father Joe bullies reporters by shouting them down until they drop it. We also have videos of BIden's reaction to citizens who raise the issue politely. He lashed into one such unfortunate gentleman by calling him a "liar" and "fat" and challenging him to a push-up contest. On another occasion a Democrat tried to broach the issue of climate change and Biden testily told him to vote for somebody else. This was a man who said he'd vote for Biden!

Both are chronic liars. Trump lies more frequently, and more obivously. But many of Biden's lies are also quite obvious.

Both lie consciously. Biden's staff has on several occasions that have been reported in power establishment media, privately told him things he was saying publicly were not true, and he just kept saying them anyway- proving he's a conscious liar. Here's one example:

 

And this from a guy who opposed school integration and whose best buddies in the Senate were the worst arch-segregationists of the Deep Southf! Most galling.

Biden has variously claimed to have been in Afghanistan and Iraq "28 times," "29 times," and "over 30 times." His staff, and thus definitely Biden himself, know those are fibs:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is a Great Storyteller in the mold of Ronald Wilson Reagan. That is to say, he shamelessly fabricates emotionally manipulative tales. Like Reader's Digest magazine, the stories are crafted to provoke certain feelings in the unsophisticated portions of the populace. Also like the aforementioned rag, and the fascist racist Reagan, there is an underlying reactionary agenda most of the time.

One story Biden has been feeding the credulous crowds of his supporters as he campaigns for president has a tenuous connection to reality. It involves his allegedly pinning a medal on a military member. Only the way he tells it, he either has a terrible memory, or he's a virtually uninhibited liar and bullshit artist. As the version he's been reciting in a heartfelt style has been consistent in each telling, we can exclude memory problems as the explanation.

Here the Washington Post gives priority to the fact that the tale Biden tells as he tries to manipulate people into making him president is "moving," but false. So they genuflect to the military, and give Biden props for telling a "moving" story. In other words, they praise the con. Because if someone is moving you with falsehoods, that's a con job. It's a cynical emotional ripoff, at the very least, and if he takes your money or your vote, he's adding iinjury to insult.

And the Man Who Would Be President is lying to get his hands on the levers of power. What might such an unethical and ruthless person do with the power? Clearly he cannot be trusted.

Except the power establishment WANTS Biden to win. He's "moderate," unlike the extremists Sanders and Warren.

In his self-aggrandizing War Story, Biden didn't just get one or two facts wrong, or some minor ancillary details. Every important fact was flatly false. 

NBC "News" is even worse in soft-pedaling Biden's chronic mendacity. They deem his cynical story "inaccurate," when the correct description is "pack of lies." Here, I'll show you:

"Appears to be incorrect." That's from the Post story. At least the headline wasn't so mealy-mouthed, and correctly called it "false." But it wasn't because Biden was honestly mistaken. You don't get EVERYTHING wrong by ACCIDENT unless you are in advanced senility. Here's some of what NBC and the Post deem to be "inaccurate" and (apparently) "incorrect":

[Washington Post, August 29, 2919.]

They put the most self-serving of Biden's lies last, "his own role in the ceremony." That's the most important part of the story Biden is flogging, in terms of Biden impressing those he's duping with his lies.

But with Trump, the Washington Post and various broadcast media (especially NBC's MSNBC) are willing to call a spade a spade and call many of Trump's lies "a lie." The Post even keeps a running tally of what it deems Trump's "lies." Although that list of putative falsehoods probably includes things Trump actually believes, which means they aren't lies, but are false.

Both men are egomaniacs. In Trump's case, there are also obvious narcissistic personality traits.

Both treat other people as inferiors whom they can abuse to indulge their own impulses. 

Trump has a record as a sexual predator, something he has even boasted about. Biden has a thoroughly documented history of molesting women by inappropriate touching, stroking, grabbing, and sniffing. He also does this to children of both genders.   [1]

Politically, both are reactionaries who completely support U.S. corporate oligarchy, bourgeois class dictatorship, U.S. imperialism, and a grotesquely swollen military industrial complex that enforces all of the preceding.

This is the choice of candidates for president in 2020 that the Democratic Party poohbahs and the corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") want to force on the American voting public.

Unfortunately most people are sheep. Being ovine, they won't even vote for the alternatives on the ballot, such as the progressive Green Party or the Libertarian Party, the party of laissez-faire capitalism. Until that changes, there is no hope for improvement in the structure of U.S. society.

Meanwhile, the people in the rest of the world will have to establishment governments in their own nations committed to opposing U.S. global domination. Of course, where that has happened, the U.S. has made sure to overthrow such governments, as it has done in Bolivia and Ecuador most recently, and has it has been trying to do in Venezuela under the current president and his two predecessors. (Trump, Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, and George W. "The 9/11 Mass Murderer" Bush.) Too bad Europeans are too feckless to make the necessary changes in their own countries.

1] To watch video of just some of the many times Biden has used other people as objects for his own gratification, see Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

For more on Biden, see Latest Whopping Trump-Level Lie by Joe Biden (this one is truly unbelievable);"No One Is Above The Law," Except Untouchable Joe Biden; and Joseph Biden Is ACTUALLY Guilty Of What Adam "Shifty" Schiff Accuses Trump Of. For Biden's segregationist history, type the word "Biden" in the search box on my blog webpage.
 

 

Donald Trump Is The Most Transparent President In History, Hands Down

Several times a day Trump makes public pronouncements via Twitter of what he thinks, what he intends to do, what he wants to do, bluntly expressed, no mealy-mouthed opaque political rhetoric or bureaucratese. And he says it directly to the global public, unmediated and uncensored by media gatekeepers.

He even ISSUES ORDERS to government departments and officials by Twitter, allowing everyone else on earth to have knowledge of those orders in real time, at the same time the government officials being addressed do.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, was extremely secretive, sneaky, deceptive, and dishonest- after bragging he'd be the most transparent president! Worse than Nixon by far, he didn't merely seek the identity of leakers, as Nixon did, but ordered all Federal employees to spy on their co-workers and report on their attitudes. He allowed the NSA to spy on every single person in America and collect all their communications. He savagely persecuted honest whistleblowers, to create terror among Federal employees. He threatened to jail journalists, and engaged in wholesale wiretapping of their phones, such as at the AP.

But the corporate propaganda system ("the media") merely muttered about all this, while they screech that Trump is a threat to "the free press" and "the First Amendment" because he verbally insults them. 

That's all they care about- their own image.

As horrible as Trump is, in terms of transparency, and in terms of how he treats the press, he is miles above Barack Obama, and superior to any other president. And remember, the second U.S. president, John Adams, imprisoned publishers who criticized him, under the Alien and Sedition Acts. (Obama's favorite tool of repression was the Espionage Act, brought to us by another Democratic president, the Southern racist Woodrow Wilson.)

Media Indignation Over Trump Staff Firings Shows Breathtaking Hypocrisy

President Trump has canned some personnel who contributed to his impeachment. He could hardly have done otherwise. The individuals are the imperialist zealot Lt. Colonel Vindman, who is being described in U.S. corporate propagamda as "the top Ukraine expert" (during his impeachment hearing testimony in the House of Representatives he revealed himself as a militaristic, anti-Russian zealot, as indeed most of the Democrats' "star" witnesses were), dismissed from his job at the National Security Council, which is a White House agency; his twin brother, another officer, and Gordon Sondland, the guy who gave a million bucks to Trump's inauguration shindig so he could play diplomat. (Trump made him ambassador to the European Union, then unmade him as ambassador.) Sondland testified to the House Intelligence Committee, run by the Democrats' Torquemada, Adam Schiff, that "everyone knew" Trump had a quid pro quo out on Ukraine- do an investigation, or just announce one, into the infamous Hunter Biden appointment to the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, a no-show job for which he was paid $50,000 a month for five years, and for which he had zero qualifications (nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if your Daddy's the vice president of the U.S.A. at the time). Actually he had just one all-important qualification, being the son of vice president Joseph Biden.

In return for announcing an investigation, Trump would release a bunch of weapons to the Kiev regime to use to kill Ukrainians in the eastern part of the country who seceded after the U.S. coup overthrew the government. (This is translated in U.S. propaganda as "fighting a Russian invasion.")
 And the new Ukrainian president, professional comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, wanted a White House meeting with Trump. (Which he got, and no investigation was ever announced or conducted.)

But under questioning by Republican Congressmen, Sondland admitted that he merely "presumed" this, and the only thing Trump ever said to him was "no quid pro quo." Of course Trump was probably lying.

U.S. media is portraying these guys who lost their jobs as a grave injustice, they're "being punished for telling the truth." Whatever. But here's the hypocrisy, indeed the blatant, cynical double standard.

Do you remember- you probably don't- when Bush II fired a bunch of U.S. Attorneys for refusing to bring bogus election fraud charges against Democrats? You may not recall it because it's one of those things that "the" media has consigned to oblivion, thrown down their Orwellian memory hole, where inconvenient facts are disposed of. Now that Bush the Younger has been rehabilitated (illegal war? institutionalized torture? That's so yesterday!) all is forgiven. (And virtually mo one in America ever cared about a million dead Iraqis anyway.)

Several U.S.Attorneys were told to "investigate" election fraud by Democrats. (The irony is rich, as the GOP has been systematically stealing elections for over twenty years now, most infamously the presidential election of 2000, which they brazenly did right out in the open, ultimately by 5 Republicans on the Supreme Court doing the deed. But the Democrats, craven cowards that they are, feckless and dishonest, prefer to blame for Gore's loss- get this- Ralph Nader!) For example, then GOP Senator and loathsome reactionary "Pete" Domenici of Arizona referred a "case" to the U.S. Attorney for that state for "investigation." When that U.S. Attorney reported back to Domenici that there was no basis to bring charges, Domenici was mightily displeased, and let the U.S. Attorney know it. Subsequently Bush fired a group of U.S. Attorneys who failed to bring bogus criminal charges of election fraud against Democrats.

"The" media did report this at the time- rather, some of the media did- but there was no outrage. Not like the outrage over every thing that Trump does, even when justified.

Look, Trump is a loathsome creature, but he'd have to be a masochist not to fire these internal enemies. He may be totally out of his depth as president, but his aggressiveness prevents him from being rendered impotent. Thus the paradox of a man who doesn't understand power on the national and international level, who is a bumbler and incompetent, still can survive. Indeed, odds are he will be reelected, unfortunately.

Super-Swells Clump Together In Davos, Switzerland, For Annual Preening Ritual

The world's filthyist rich and various country bosses- presidents and prime ministers who are  invariably referred to as "world leaders" by propagandist stooges- are having their annual mega-ego bath at the pretentiously-named "World Economic Forum" in the extremely expensive town of Davos, Switzerland. (Valet parking for private jets. Just kidding. I think...)

The U.S. Fuher ("Leader"), Donald J. "Jackass" Trump, is in attendance.

This utterly pointless "conference" exists for the sole purpose of affirming the self-importance of these creeps. Nothing of substance is ever done at this annual advertisement for how special and great these megaparasites and their political enablers are. Speeches consisting of the most self-serving and empty rhetoric are delivered and instantly forgotten. The "world press" (capitalist propaganda organs) pretend something significant worthy of "coverage" is occurring, shining a flattering spotlight on the hyper-rich and the country bosses as they genuflect to their masters.

All in all, a disgusting spectacle of self-regard putting super-parasites and certified scumbags on a pedestal.

 

 A Forum Fit For An Emperor!

 

Pompeo's Hitlerian Demands On Iran

In the wake of the brazen U.S. assassination of Iran's leading general, Qassem Soleimani, a hero of the Iraq-Iran war and head of the so-called Qods Force, by a missile strike from a drone attack on an international airport located in a sovereign nation and putative U.S. ally (the client state of Iraq, conquered and subjugated on the orders of U.S. emperor George W. Bush in 2003), now is a good time to review the outstanding U.S. demands against Iran. [U.S. media are spelling it Qassem, the BBC and Wikipedia, have Qasem.]

Trump's handpicked Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has a list of 12 outstanding demands against Iran. These are preconditions to the U.S. deigning to even TALK to Iran about the U.S. ceasing its relentless economic warfare against that country. This warfare is euphemistically called "economic sanctions." In fact they are total warfare, barring Iran from the international banking system (a system controlled by the U.S.- with the rest of the world's nations supinely acceding to this financial hegemony by the U.S.), and including the publicly stated goal of preventing Iran from selling ANY oil whatsoever outside its borders. Again, the other 200 or so allegedly sovereign nations of the world, including large, powerful ones like China, have all knuckled under to U.S. diktat and ceased buying oil from Iran, at least openly. If this isn't global domination, I don't know what is.

Under the "principle" that it is criminal to go against U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. government ordered Canada to arrest a top executive of China's premiere high tech company, Huawei, for violating U.S. anti-Iran sanctions- i.e. not participating in the U.S. economic war on Iran.  Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer and the daughter of the company boss, was tracked by the U.S. global secret police surveillance system as she flew to Canada, where she was held at the airport, her luggage "searched" for 3 hours without explanation, and then was arrested on a U.S. extradition "request." (Really an order. Canada is a virtual satrapy of the U.S.) Her alleged "crime" is violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. You see, if the U.S. decides to wage economic warfare against another country, it demands that all the other nations in the world participate in that war. In other words, the U.S. dictates foreign policy for all other nations. And lacking political or moral integrity, those nations make themselves U.S. lackeys and obey. Because they refuse to resist U.S. power, even though collectively they obviously could do so. (Even in some cases individually, as China could.)

Oh, and the U.S. applies its laws not just within its own borders, but over the entire planet earth. That's how Meng Wanzhou could be "guilty" of breaking U.S. law while OUTSIDE the U.S.

Meng has been held in Canada for over a year as Canada is the rope in a tug of war between China and the U.S. Canada allowed her out of jail but confined to Canada after China retaliated against Canada by jailing a couple of Canadian citizens. (Labeled "hostages" by the U.S. propaganda system.)

I should mention so as not to be misunderstood: I am NOT a supporter of the Iranian theocracy. As a lifelong atheist, democrat, and pro-human rights person, I have no truck with that regime. But contrary to its self-deluding propaganda, the U.S. is the opposite of a paragon of virtue. It is one of history's most aggressive empires which has committed innumerable atrocities and crimes against humanity through its history, starting with its foundational principles, genocide and slavery.  Moreover this is not about taking sides. As always, I strive for the objectivity that is sorely lacking in most public commentary, most people's minds, and certainly in propaganda.

I call these demands "Hitlerian" because of their extremism, and because the target of the demands would find them virtually impossible to accept. Hitler made such demands with a deliberate goal of having an excuse for war when his demands were rejected. Trump claims not to want war with Iran, but he has surrounded himself with a coterie of imperialist fanatics who DO want war with Iran, such as the recently-cashiered John Bolton. It's been reported that Trump ordered the assassination of Soleimani

Here now are the Trump-Pompeo Demands On Iran. To call them "sweeping" is a gross understatement. Notice that eleven of the twelve begin with the words "Iran must." "Must" is a demand word.

In perpetuity! I guess that means until the end of time.

I'll just note in passing that the U.S. has thousands of nuclear weapons, and Israel has hundreds. Also even the CIA concluded that Iran was NOT trying to build nuclear weapons. However I believe they wanted to have the option to create them if they felt it necessary at some future point. Otherwise it makes no sense to incur the huge expense of money and energy to building underground facilities deep under mountains to prevent Israel from blowing them up (as Israel blew up atomic reactors in Iraq and Syria) with thousands of centrifuges, just to enrich uranium which it could easily purchase from Russia, for example.

By the way, Iran only ever enriched to 20%. allowed under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). For bomb-making purposes, uranium has to be enriched to 90% or more. Under the agreement Iran on one side and the Obama regime, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and China on the other, Iran turned over virtually all its enriched uranium, mothballed its centrifuges used for enrichment, and agreed to intrusive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Trump tore up the agreement and reimposed sanctions, with the avowed aimed of strangling the Iranian economy to force Iran to make a new deal with Trump. (Imperialist thugs like John Bolton and perhaps Michael Pompeo also wanted the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the regime in response to this foreign attack on their country and their lives. It's a strategy the U.S. is also using against Venezuela, making people's lives miserable to destabilize an unwanted government, has used against Cuba since 1959, that Nixon used against Chile from 1970-73 when he ordered CIA director Richard Helms to "make the economy scream," and in other places at other times.)

Even though Iran is entitled under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation 

                                       Treaty to enrich uranium to the 20% level, as I mentioned.

Meaning U.S. spies will gain access to every single military base, command and control center, etc. 

Just as they did during the UN inspection regime inside Iraq after the first Gulf War of 1991. 

We know this from a leading member of that team, former U.S. Marine Major Scott Ritter.

Iran isn't allowed to have missiles. Just its enemies can: Israel, Saudi Arabia, 

and the U.S.A. That's reasonable. Why wouldn't Iran agree to THAT?

Including all enemy spies. Because some of those prisoners certainly are. Meanwhile the U.S. will continue to imprison

 Iranians for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, "espionage," and whatever, and keep those now in prison locked up.

Because anyone who resists Israeli oppression is a "terrorist." Iran must surrender the region to Israeli hegemony. And of course the U.S. is free to continue aiding Israel in every possible way, as an accomplice to the oppression of the Palestinians and the periodic destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure. And the U.S. can support any actual terrorists it likes, such as the anti-Iranian MEK. And Israel can keep assassinating Iran's nuclear scientists, if it so chooses.

That actually would be a good thing. Those militias have in the past few months slaughtered hundreds of protesters against the corrupt and venal Iraqi "government," and wounded thousands. They have also "disappeared" some, U.S.-death-squad style.

Now if only the U.S. would respect Iraq's sovereignty. After murdering Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and eight others right in the Baghdad, Iraq, airport, the Iraqi legislature voted to kick out the thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq, and Trump himself responded with contempt. There's also a couple of hundred other nations whose sovereignty the U.S. regularly tramples.

The Houthi tribesmen overthrew the very weak "government" of Yemen starting in 2014. The Saudis decided this internal Yemeni power struggle was their business, and picked the overthrown president as their choice to rule Yemen. So for years, to place their chosen puppet back in his seat,w the U.S. and Saudi Arabia (and the UAE until very recently) have waged a relentless war against Yemen, committing war crimes on a daily basis, bombing mosques, hospitals, schools, apartment blocks, and so on, instituting a naval blockade, causing a massive cholera epidemic, and a famine. The Obama regime participated in this criminal enterprise, not only selling all the bombs and missiles used to attack Yemen- the Saudis and Emiratis already owned the U.S.-made warplanes they needed, and the U.S. trains their pilots- but even providing targeting information and having U.S. Air Force aerial tankers refuel the Saudis planes on their attack missions. Obama sold tens of billions of arms to the Saudis, and Trump tried to outdo Obama in evil with more arms sales. "Great" Britain, with a hunger for blood money, has also sold significant quantities of weapons to the Saudi "royals" for their war on Yemen.

Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. Thus we see the ubiquitous pattern of the U.S. waging class warfare on a global scale against the world's poor.

 Yemeni enemy of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia gets what he has coming.

The UN has determined that a Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes from hunger or disease 

caused by the Saudi-U.S.-UK-UAE war on Yemen. They probably deserve it.
They might grow up to be "terrorists."

By bombing this schoolbus, the valiant Saudi allies of the U.S. took out 40 terrorist school children, along with eleven adults (who by definition were terrorists because U.S. bombs killed them). The Saudis couldn't have done it without the U.S. Thank you, Obama Trump U.S. Congress!

Multiply this by one million or so, and you have the history of the U.S. Now do you understand why it is undeniable that the U.S. Government is a criminal enterprise? It is only because your mind is marinated in a sea of propaganda that you don't see it, feel it, know it.

Now let's return to those oh-so-reasonable and justified demands that Pompeo-Trump have pending against Iran:

This demand is actually morally sound. Iran is helping the vile Assad dictatorship crush the rebellion of the Syrian people by wholesale slaughter, systematic bombing of medical facilities, torture and atrocities on a massive scale. Of course it isn't morality that motivates this demand, nor concern for the Syrian people, but motives needn't be pure for an action or demand to be a good thing.

This one sure is ironic. When the Taliban fanatics ruled Afghanistan, they murdered a group of Iranian diplomats. The Taliban were only in power at all thanks to the U.S.-Pakistani-Saudi buildup of the most medieval, reactionary forces in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviets. The Soviets were lured into invading by President Jimmy Carter's sinister righthand man, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Pole with a tremendous lifelong hatred of Russians. Years later Brzezinski made a slip and boasted to a French newspaper about how he suckered the Soviets into invading. Just a few months before the 1979 invasion, Brzezinski, the head of the U.S. National Security Council, which coordinates the operations of the U.S. military, the State Department, the Treasury Department, the CIA and other "intelligence agencies," had nothing more important to do than to fly into Afghanistan, a desolate backwater. Hmmm!  [1]

When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Iran actually helped the U.S. cause. Then emperor George W. Bush fabricated an "Axis of Evil" in an infamous speech, pretending that Iran, Iraq (then still ruled by Saddam Hussein, who invaded Iran with U.S. connivance, used chemical weapons against Iranian troops, caused hundreds of thousands of Iranian casualties and war invalids, and hated by Iran), and North Korea (sic!) were in a World War II-style alliance like the fascist Axis powers Nazi Germany, Italy, and Imperial Japan. Crude and mendacious propaganda, it put Iran on notice that it was an Official Enemy of the U.S.

Now that the U.S. has embedded itself in Afghanistan, and wages constant attacks on Iran, it wouldn't surprise me if Iran's attitude towards the Taliban has changed. But if the U.S. wants to look for nations to blame for propping up the Taliban, I'd suggest they start with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

But the U.S., under whatever president, is apparently too dishonest, too greedy, and  too morally cowardly, to do that.

 Presumably including domestic ops inside Iran. Hey, I have a suggestion: end the operations of U.S. "Special Forces" inside the scores of countries they currently operate in!

This one reeks to high heaven with the stench of hypocrisy. 

Israel regularly bombs Iranian targets inside Syria with impunity. It has assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists inside Iran. Saudi Arabia treats Iran as the Devil Incarnate. The U.S. of course has been effectively at war with Iran since the 1979 overthrow of the U.S.-imposed dictator the "Shah" (King). The Iranian "threat" consists of its growing influence in the region, which the U.S. and its partners find objectionable.

It's interesting that the demand here is for Iran to end its "threats" against shipping, NOT attacks against shipping. Previously the U.S. made a big stink about the simultaneous attacks on both a Norwegian and a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, which the U.S. government and corporate media parrots shrilly blamed on Iran. It has been definitively proven that Iran DIDN'T commit those attacks, which were probably U.S. operations. [2]
Finally cyber attacks. I have no idea what specifically Pompeo is referring to, if anything.  He and Trump- indeed U.S. apparatchiks and politicians generally- often spout baseless rhetoric. Certainly Iran's cyber capabilities are a tiny fraction of the U.S.' And it must be exasperatingly galling for the U.S. to make such a charge, given the relentless U.S. cyber attacks on Iran, including the unleashing of the Stuxnet malware (and others) which targeted Iran's nuclear centrifuges for destruction. (Obama was really proud of that one.)

Again, as usual in the demented world of U.S. political ideology, reality is stood on its head. This is not a defense of Iran. It is looking at the objective facts, nothing more.

Pompeo is a political creation of the greedy, thieving, reactionary billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David. (One of them just died. Hopefully the other one will follow him to the grave soon.) They got Pompeo elected to the U.S. Congress from Kansas, the Kochs' base. Pompeo is a former army officer and rabid, violent imperialist who went on television to call for the execution of Edward Snowden, whose "crime" was revealing the fact that the NSA conducts a program of total surveillance over the entire U.S. population. See "Pompeo wants to execute Snowden." 

1]  For Brzezinski's malign role in creating today's Afghanistan, see "The Brzezinski Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (1998)," in which he incriminates himself, English translation on the website of the University of Arizona. For the full article from which it was drawn from International Politics, see "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Retrospect." Also see "Brzezinski Vision to Lure Soviets into ‘Afghan Trap’ Is Orlando’s Nightmare," June 17, 2016.

Ice water ran in the veins of the late "Dr." Brzezinski. He sneers that the fate of the Afghan people has no more weight than the death of a fly compared to the great benefit of weakening the Soviet Union. Of course the Afghans didn't get a vote on that. So much for U.S. devotion to "democracy" and "human rights."

2]  See "Dishonest U.S. Media Lying U.S. Into Another War of Aggression" for the proof.  

Graphics used in this essay by RT network.