Sick Fuck Jesus

     What if Jesus were to come back as a sick fuck?  He would find common cause with other sick fucks in politics and the news media.  Sick fucks in suits and nice dresses, made up for television, praising President Trump's cruise missile strike against Syria; praising President Trump's use of MOAB, the nearly eleven ton bomb dropped last week on Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest and most war-abused nations.

     On Fox and Friends, the day after MOAB was pushed from the ass end of a C-130 and exploded over a cave and tunnel complex used by an offshoot of ISIS, a black and white image from the airplane itself was screened, showing a massive explosion accompanied by the Fox studio soundtrack of Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)."

     Sick fuck hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Ainsley Earhardt (the newest blonde-archetype hostess of that show) had on Geraldo Rivera, who remarked, "One of my favorite things, in my sixteen years I've been here at Fox News, is watching bombs drop on bad guys."

     Earhardt, right after the dopy patriotic Keith song ended, offered, "That video is black and white, but that is what freedom looks like.  That's the red, white, and blue."

     Red, as in blood?

     One of these idiots passed along the Defense Department-provided information (gotten from Afghan government officials making shit up) that MOAB killed "thirty-six ISIS fighters."  A bomb costing sixteen million dollars makes for each ISIS man costing about half a million dollars to kill in this strike.  Is that a gross and inefficient misuse of taxpayer money?  Whether this simple math occurred to veteran journalist Geraldo Rivera or not, the fact remains that Fox News Channel just found a much tackier way than MSNBC of exploiting the disgusting and immoral war on terror enterprise engaged in by this country since 2001.

     Brian Williams of MSNBC, to much criticism in the independent press, got all heated up praising the "beauty of our weapons" as he watched Defense Department video (propaganda) of Tomahawk missiles launching from U.S. Navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea.  MSNBC, sensitive, I think, about Williams being made fun of about his nipples growing as he watched, from the safety of his multi-million dollar job, fifty-nine cruise missiles launching into the night, had Joy Reid last Friday night criticizing Rivera and the three Fox friends for exulting over the MOAB's destruction.  

     As I watched Reid talk about Fox's grotesque war coverage, I said out loud to her image on the TV screen, "Do you know a man named Brian Williams?  I'm sure that you do.  I've seen you on his show."

     Warmakers, vile and immoral as they are, are matched in their lack of compassion, by war cheerleaders facing us from the comfort of studios run by corporations that profit from war.  Propagandists in Hitler's Germany deserved to hang, just as men who ordered and carried out the butchery also required punishment.  Brian Williams, like Geraldo Rivera and Ainsley Earhardt, profit from war, meaning they profit from the destruction of human life and property, from injury, from the wrecking of peace of mind across the globe.

     I'm not even a Christian, but I think and believe that Jesus would not come back as a sick fuck, would not approve of the use of MOAB, would not condone Trump's intimidation of North Korea, would not approve of further warfare committed against an agonized country like Syria.  Yet, sick fuck Christians in the news media think they know what freedom is, that it means blowing the shit out of the Afghan countryside with no concern about consequences, and believing that Afghan government officials were somehow able to count the ISIS dead, after only a day had passed, from a strike caused by a bomb with a blast radius of one mile.  On its face, that report is absurd--anyone applying logic to it can see through it, realizing thereby that it's a lie, passed on by our own Defense Department and relayed through soulless money-making pigs like the hosts of Fox and Friends and Brian Williams.  Lies are commonplace with the Defense Department.  Every war we get into is based on lies.  Lyndon Johnson in 1964 lied to get the U.S. into the Vietnam War, and then millions of Southeast Asians died.  

     Why lie?  Wouldn't Americans want to attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003 just because?  His role as Middle East tyrant (and actual U.S. puppet and, in the 1950s, CIA asset), should be enough for your average out of work Joe in Ohio at that time to want to invade Iraq, a country having nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.  

     Except not.  

     That's the problem, from the defense, security and industrial establishment's viewpoints.  A typical American doesn't want to go war in Iraq, or Syria, or Libya, or Vietnam, or wherever.  A load of questionable data must be fed to the average American to inspire war fever.  Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and intends to attack the United States with a nuclear weapon.  That was really believed by a majority of Americans.  Hillary Clinton and John Kerry (two failed uber-Democrats who almost became president) voted in support of this insane idea, meaning they believed a cretinous lump of brain dough named George W. Bush.  

     Evidence that Hussein did not have WMD as of 2002 and 2003 was overwhelming, but, with the help of Secretary of State and former General Colin Powell making his mendacious presentation at the United Nations, America and the U.S. news media bought a made up story that ended up killing a million people in Iraq and 4,000 plus U.S. military personnel, leading to many more thousands of cases of PTSD, of lost limbs, of multiple deployments, of a general sense among many veterans of that war of being misused, a kind of new Vietnam, endless and pointless.

     We're still there, too.  We're still bombing Iraq.  The mere fact that ISIS has an offshoot in Afghanistan, quite far away from Iraq, is a testament to U.S. failure in the region.  ISIS derived from al-Qaeda in Iraq, itself an offshoot of al-Qaeda.  Before Bush's decision to invade and bomb Iraq there were no al-Qaeda-derived terror organizations in that country; afterwards, an organization came to be that became ISIS, which America, along with Assad's Syria, fights to this day.  

     The purpose of America's killing machine and the philosophy behind it can't be humanitarian; the purpose is endless war.  American authorities actually don't give a fuck about people.  In a way, the Fox friends and their guest, Rivera, were being honest about their depravity.  The trick is for viewers and Americans at large to see and condemn these and other sick fucks in the news media, government, military, and industry, and recognize it for the degeneracy that it is.

                                                                            Vic Neptune    

     Sit Your Ass On that Cake

     Donald Trump and his apologists like to boast about how he reacts when someone attacks him.  When "hit," he "hits back ten times harder."
     Setting aside the image of his (likely) flabby old man arms going into fierce action against an adversary, we can imagine his reaction to the recent death of an American special forces soldier in Afghanistan.  Hit back ten times harder.  Unleash MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast), the largest non-nuclear bomb ever detonated, but, technically, not a weapon of mass destruction, even though it has a blast radius of one mile.  I daresay, if MOAB were used against Manhattan, it would be considered a WMD.
     But in this case, in its first combat offense, it was used against ISIS fighters in northeastern Afghanistan.  A U.S. soldier died there, heavy punishment followed, plus, MOAB was first tested in March 2003 (in Florida of all places) as a nasty letter to Saddam Hussein, a warning to watch out, as then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it, adding that the bomb test would possibly help deter a war in Iraq, scaring Hussein, who committed his first murder when he was a teenager and willingly gassed Kurds and Iranian soldiers using U.S.-supplied chemical weapons.  Hussein, who in 1983 met Rumsfeld, sent by President Reagan to Baghdad to assure Iraq's leader that although America had to officially condemn Saddam's gassing of 16,000 Iranian soldiers, that wouldn't adversely affect U.S. assistance to Iraq in its war with Iran.
     These asides just go to point out that the people who run the world in America and elsewhere are evil disgusting motherfuckers.
     A U.S. general in theater asked for use of MOAB.  Some forms have to be signed, I guess.  The weapon itself contains 21,700 pounds of TNT, looks like a fat needle, and is made in Oklahoma.  Some lunatic working for the Air Force Research Laboratory designed it.  The one tested in Florida was painted bright orange, like a prisoner in America's for profit prison system.  The first MOAB freed itself blindingly and earthshakingly from its tubular shape to prove a point: Not only do we plan to sodomize you and your country, Saddam, we'll use weapons like this as well as much less expensive (MOAB costs 16 million dollars per unit) weapons to carry on with an endless war in the Middle East.  This propagandistic use of an extraordinarily ridiculous and powerful bomb (dubbed "Mother of all Bombs") set the tone for future use.  Consider that MOAB hasn't been used in "combat" until Trump ordered its deployment against ISIS in Afghanistan.  Fourteen years of not using MOAB.  The Russians, incidentally, reportedly have a bomb four times more powerful nicknamed, "the Father of all Bombs."
     The blast happened against a complex of "caves and tunnels" in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border.  Several hundred ISIS fighters were reportedly using this underground network.  We've been assured (convincing only brainwashed Americans who never think carefully about what bombs do--they explode) that the Defense Department and the MOAB-dropping planners did their utmost to ensure civilians wouldn't be hurt and/or killed.  They said nothing about deafening people in the vicinity.  If there were no civilians within several miles of the blast point, we can assume that truly no civilians were killed or hurt.  I don't buy it, though.  For one thing, an army, even a non-state force like ISIS, has non-fighters working with it or for it, whether voluntarily or not.  The ISIS "capitol" in Syria, Raqqa, is a city of a quarter million, most of the inhabitants of which are not ISIS fighters.  Thus, Ted Cruz's Bela Lugosi-like moment during a debate when he expressed his desire to carpet bomb Raqqa led even the rock-faced Wolf Blitzer to seem a little consternated.
     ISIS, to maintain itself, has helpers who cook, clean, maintain domestic order.  They have people who do shit work for them.  They have sex slaves.  Do those people coerced into serving ISIS, whether in Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan, deserve to be atomized by a gargantuan bomb sent to end their lives by a man seeking to impress us and the world with his fantastic military judgment?
     Because human psychology has some truly weird depths, that military judgment has elevated Trump's ratings.  When he attacked a Syrian airbase with fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles launched from U.S. Navy ships, their bright nighttime rocket exhaust causing Brian Williams of MSNBC to wax poetic and get a boner, even while the images were fed to MSNBC and other networks by the Defense Department as the kind of war porn (complete with a ship's American flag silhouetting one of the missile launches) we've seen often since the military compromised the press in the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and network anchorpersons couldn't resist praising the action.
     Bashar al-Assad, we've been assured, without reliable official or journalistic investigation, in the U.S. mainstream media, used chemical weapons for the second time against his own people, even though there's no convincing evidence as yet that he did.  It would be stupid of him to have done so.  In 2013, after the first attack, in reporting by Seymour Hersh, the chemical weapons had probably come via Turkish intelligence agents, supplied to rebels fighting Assad who shot them off to provoke a U.S. reaction.  Obama, to his credit, didn't react, although he went against his promise to react militarily, having called chemical weapons and their use a "red line."  If Assad set off a MOAB of his own, would that prompt such righteous presidential language?  After all, a bomb containing nearly eleven tons of TNT is legal.  So are nuclear weapons, provided a short list of nations possesses them.
     This recent chemical attack, again in rebel territory, again reacted to immediately as the work of Assad, makes little or no sense as the work of Syria's leader.  He's been making gains, with Russia's help, against the rebels (many of whom are al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda-affiliated).  Why invite U.S. wrath from the new hotheaded U.S. president?  In any event, the Tomahawk missile attack, so lovingly admired by Brian Williams, and celebrated by Democrats (including Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer) didn't really do much except blow 83 million dollars worth of weapons, kill six civilians, damage some structures, leaving the main runway intact.  The day after the attack, Syrian Air Force planes were using the airfield.
     Trump coordinated the attack with Russian authorities, including Putin, no doubt.  For the sake of Russian planes and personnel not being adversely affected by the missile strikes, it makes sense that he contacted Putin--it also makes sense that Putin contacted Assad.
     Trump, the week before the attack, reiterated his position that he's not concerned about Assad, but focused rather on defeating ISIS, a goal one would think more American politicians and news media people would support.  It is, at least, consistent with U.S. force projection in Iraq and Syria since 2014, when Obama started his own campaign against ISIS.  Sarin, the chemical weapon in question, was used (if indeed it really was) and Trump shifted to attacking the Syrian military, i.e. Assad.
     Assad, ironically, is a U.S. ally in our fight against ISIS.  ISIS is opposed to Assad, and vice versa.  Attacking an ally is a truly weird and counterproductive thing to do, and if one does so, one better have a long-term strategy figured out.  I don't think Trump or his team does.  They react.
     One of the sickest things about all this is the Democratic Party perspective (as well as how that's reflected in the news media): the same authorities who have called Trump "sick," "incompetent," "unstable," "an egomaniac," "unfit to be president," now call him presidential.  Respected CNN talking head Fareed Zakaria said about the fifty-nine missiles, "Now we can call him the president."
     Believing and thinking that a leader is a sick fuck with no business being anywhere near the Oval Office is a valid viewpoint, but all it took for these violence-worshipping cretins to praise Trump was an order from him to attack Syria Leni Riefenstahl fashion, with propaganda images from the decks of mighty warships menacing a country that isn't a threat to the United States.  The same tactic of war drum pounding we saw used against Iraq in 1990 and in 2002 and 2003 is on display right now.  Brush up on your studies of war propaganda simply by turning on U.S. news programs.
     Trump, proving he's a scatterbrain with a moral compass that doesn't have a needle in it, gave an interview to Maria Bartiromo after the night of the Tomahawks.  He described sitting for a state dinner at the Florida mansion he spends every weekend in.  His guest was the President of the People's Republic of China.
     "We had a big chocolate cake, the most beautiful cake you've ever seen and I pointed that out to the Chinese president, and then I told him about the cruise missile launches against Iraq."
     Maria Bartiromo paused, then said, "You mean Syria."
     "Syria," Trump said, not even embarrassed.
     In the same sentence, he talked about bombing a country, got the identity of the country wrong, started the story with a wonderful chocolate cake.
     It's called criminal insanity, and now that's fine with people like John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Hillary Clinton, Fareed Zakaria, Brian Williams, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Howard Dean, and a host of conscience-free human beings we call our leaders and those in the Fourth Estate who have surrendered the responsibilities of their jobs to serve the people with real information, rather than corporate masters and politicians who don't have the best interests of Americans or anyone else at heart.

                                                                              Vic Neptune
   
   
   

     A New Atlantis

     I apologize for not writing in here for a longer than usual while.  I've been active, breathing, eating, sleeping, making a movie, working my regular job, conversing with friends and acquaintances.  I've been waiting for the weather to improve.  Gray skies, occasional direct sunlight.  I wake up every morning, lift the shade by my bed and see grayness far beyond the bare maple tree that grows by my house.  This time of year tends towards this weather, I'm not surprised.  It's normal weather for Wisconsin in March and April.  In future seasons, climate change will give us a different program, I'm sure of it.
     I read some information on world population trends.  By 2050, it's estimated that there will be nine billion, seven hundred million people on this planet.  Populations in Africa and Asia will continue to rise sharply, while Europe, for instance, will stay pretty much steady.  The United States of America will rise in population quite a bit, and Nigeria will become the third most populous nation on Earth, after India and the People's Republic of China.
     The current ruling class (Baby Boomers), will, by 2050, be very old or dead.  Their policies and worldwide mismanagement (motivated by their greed and irrepressible, pathological need for control over others, i.e. the masses) will continue to shape world societies even after Trump and Hillary Clinton have turned into skeletons.  Millennials and those coming after them will have to work with and adapt to new conditions never encountered before by humanity: risen sea levels inundating heavily populated coastlines, fresh water scarcity, air quality severely compromised in cities, massive losses of animals, including bees, frogs and toads, endangered mammals, sea life including coral reefs.
     If war-making continues to be as popular and lucrative a practice for the ruling classes as it is now, developments in technological warfare, with new and newer weaponry, will make the remainder of this century worse than the twentieth in terms of atrocities and daily violence committed against innocents.  The old playbook, since it tends to work, will probably be used: create enemies using propaganda, manufacture crises, tax for militaries and screw the poor.  The nature of the evil of the current plutocratic system with its bought and controlled political parties (I speak of America, but this arrangement exists in many nations because it works, for the rulers) is obvious to comprehend, yet I don't encounter many "Average Joes and Josephines" who give me the impression they think much about the true nature of the evil policies that fuck them.
     We're told, for instance, by no less a personage than Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations, that there's something wrong about the world's moral positions on the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.  In American political circles, it's hard to ever hear a politician condemn the Netanyahu government's murderous policies toward Palestinians.  This concern for the plight of the Palestinians, a feeling shared by most of the peoples of the world (including many Americans, including myself) is completely ignored by Washington politicians and corporate news media.  It extends to the lack of interest in the U.S. military machine's tendency to slaughter civilians, to bomb indiscriminately, even while claiming purity by using such misleading terms as "precision bombing," which is like saying, "precision explosion."
     The violent and coercive behavior of a large powerful nation towards less powerful nations has a negative effect, ultimately, on the large powerful nation.  I've noticed that since 9/11 my fellow Americans have become sickeningly uninterested in the world outside their borders.  Trump's anti-immigration and anti-Muslim policies, forewarned by him during his campaign, settled on willing minds and hearts--ordinary people who have seen their country fucked over by plutocrats and the donor class ever since people like Ronald Reagan enacted his vicious class war against the middle class and poor.
     The war that began on 9/11, still with us as then Vice President Dick Cheney hoped all along, has been "a war on terror," a "war against violent extremism," a "global war on terror."  Now, urged by Democrats and the intelligence community, the war appears to be morphing into a new cold war against Russia.  Still, countries bombed by Bush and Obama continue to be bombed by Trump, as they would've been by Hillary Clinton.  The ruling class in America wants this war to go on forever, much as Orwell postulated in Nineteen Eighty-Four, wherein the nation of Oceania is always at war, a macro-pathological condition that provides employment, purpose, profits for the ruling class and arms manufacturers.  It's something to do, like building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border--it's pointless and a horrible thing to do, but it means jobs.  It harms the environment, abuses Latinos caught in a terrible system subject to the whims of a distant government run by an unstable power-monger named Donald Trump.
     I for one don't believe all the anti-Russia hype, especially as it's obsessively focused upon by MSNBC, CNN, and the Washington Post.  It's propaganda based on few facts.  Russian agents and assets tried to fuck with the U.S. 2016 election.  I accept that, but no credible evidence exists, yet, that their meddling did anything to guarantee Trump's victory.  Hillary Clinton royally fucked herself up, even though she got more votes than her main opponent.  She and her supporters in television punditry won't admit, whether they know it or not, that the American people and a majority of the electoral college read her as an establishment figure with no new ideas, no willingness to appeal to the needs of the majority of voters, all of whom are poor or in the middle class.  Our politicians don't represent us.  It's like having a parent who doesn't morally support or offer encouragement for your dreams of success in some profession.  Paul Ryan, Hillary Clinton, corporation-bought politicians, are in it for themselves.  There is no possible positive outcome with these motherfuckers.
     Sane ways of dealing with the world must be found.  Necessity, I think, will make bloom some solutions to some of humanity's terrible problems in 2050 and later on.  By then, as I mentioned, the disgusting pieces of shit who help create our problems now and do nothing positive to help, will be decrepit or dead, or maybe fresh as daisies due to longevity drug treatments.  If I were a powerful and evil fuckbag like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump I'd want to live for a long fucking time, so I could put off the trip to Hell for as long as possible.

                                                                                 Vic Neptune