The Jester
One of my problems with Donald Trump isn't that he lied about fucking Stormy Daniels. It's also not his alleged relationship with Russian operatives to steal the 2016 election. His boorishness offends my sensibilities, yes, but the news media get off on that character trait of his. Comedian Michelle Wolf was right when she told journalists at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner that they need Trump, they love him because of the ratings he provides. To elevate their own careers, they helped foist him upon the United States and the world. They are the scum contributing nutrients to the funny-looking flower.
My problems with Trump are many, but one in particular occurs to me whenever he tweets or states something that's true. His clumsiness with the English language, his predictable use of hyperbole, mask the occasional blunt facts he puts forth, such as when, in an interview soon after he took office, Trump told Bill O'Reilly, "We [the United States] have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?"
The remark, in response to O'Reilly's observation about Vladimir Putin being "a killer," caused mainstream news media talking heads much theatrical dismay. Trump could've been even more truthful, admitting that right about the time of the interview, he'd ordered a Navy Seal raid in Yemen that resulted in numerous civilian casualties, one of them an eight year old girl.
"We have a lot of killers, Bill, and I'm one of them."
If only honesty were to prevail among politicians and the journalists who serve power instead of the truth. Instead, Trump's bluntness about the homicidal nature of U.S. foreign policy and the military machine that carries it out became one more example for journalists pretending to be shocked by Trump's words, themselves forgetting, apparently, about the reality of the war this country has been pursuing aggressively, killing millions of people, during the course of this century.
When, in 2016, Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of assisting Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President Kennedy, he implied, nakedly, that the "crime of the century" was the result of a conspiracy, because if Oswald had help, he wasn't acting alone, as was the official conclusion. Since 1963, U.S. news media have vigorously supported the "Lone Gunman" theory, rejecting totally other, more plausible, theories. Trump, like the majority of Americans, doesn't accept the Oswald-did-it-alone theory. His identification of Ted Cruz's father as someone assisting Oswald was meant to discredit his strongest opponent for the Republican nomination. Whether that worked or not, Trump's use of a JFK conspiracy theory was derided by a mainstream media that won't accept conspiracy theories about JFK, even as they wallow in Russiagate conspiracy theories. Again, his clumsy use of language crippled his credibility.
Most recently, Trump has highlighted the role played by a spy in his campaign, Stefan Halper, a man with extensive spooky CIA contacts going back to the 1970s. A mole in the Carter re-election campaign in 1980, he fed information to the Reagan campaign, on President Carter's foreign policy plans and decisions. He's the son-in-law of a CIA official, Ray Cline, who was close to former CIA Director George Bush. The CIA supported Bush's presidential campaign, but he failed to secure the nomination. Reagan's first CIA Director, William Casey, managed Reagan's campaign. Halper operated as a subversive against a sitting president, Carter, who was struggling to free the American hostages held in Tehran. The October Surprise theory holds that the Reagan campaign secured the release of the hostages by getting the Ayatollah Khomeini's government to hang onto them until Reagan became president. Reagan's campaign were fearful that Carter might rescue the hostages before election day, giving him the victory. Note that Reagan sold missiles to Khomeini (supposedly the enemy), profits from which went to fund, illegally, the Nicaraguan Contras. There is no end to the indecency of the motherfuckers who run this planet.
I mention October Surprise only because it's part of the shady history of the CIA presence in Reagan's campaign, Stefan Halper being one such operative. For Halper to turn up as a spy in the Trump campaign is significant, and President Trump is correct to be alarmed; yet, the news media have characterized Halper as an "informant," not a spy, even though, given Halper's history, it's a distinction without a difference.
If Donald Trump could explain to the American people, in plain English, the shenanigans carried out by the CIA and the so-called "Deep State," it would be more difficult for compromised mainstream news media personnel to mock him. Understanding these matters concerning the intelligence community and how they intersect with government and journalistic communications, how these persons are thoroughly mixed-up with each other, will help Americans correctly identify who their enemies really are.
The enemy isn't Russia. That's a made-up story, as false as the idea that Oswald acted alone. Both of these tales derive from the same type of people--intelligence professionals who make it their business spreading plausible-sounding lies; they seek to separate American minds from what's really happening, because they're the kind of people who in the 1940s smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Europe, or dosed people with LSD without their knowledge to see what would happen. In a word, psychopaths.
Trump's destructiveness, his use of the military machine, his lack of compassion for the poor, for immigrants, for the downtrodden of the world, his unforgivable environmental policies, his might makes right belief system, all overwhelm in importance speculation about whether or not his wife is pissed at him because he fucked a pornstar. His clownishness is the least important thing about him to be concerned about, but his repeated denials of having colluded with Russians to steal the election make him seem, to the mainstream media, like a kid lying about stealing from the cookie jar.
The quiet spectacle of "respected" journalists (notably Rachel Maddow) devoting most of their professional lives investigating a fictional story concocted by the intelligence community (Russiagate) while spending little time on the real damage committed daily by politicians, including Trump, in a country dying from its shitty leadership, makes them seem far more pathetic than a president who can't express himself very well.
Vic Neptune
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Monday, May 14, 2018
Death TV
The standard viewpoint in mainstream American news treats violent and vicious actions taken against Palestinians by Israeli forces as a matter of watching from a distance, without any moral position expressed that could be regarded as humane toward the obvious victims, the Palestinians.
They leave it to crazy people like me, who finds the sight of Israeli snipers gunning down hundreds of people armed with rocks the depiction of an obvious mismatch, with Goliath armed with twenty-first century firearms. In the Old Testament, David, the one with the rock, is the good guy. Goliath is an invader. One would think that at least a few American journalists would make the connection I just made, that of people armed with rocks (the desperate ones) facing heavily armed opponents. Instead, footage, shot from way behind the front lines of the Palestinians protesting the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem, shows dust in the air, Palestinians running here and there, along with blandly spoken reports of "Fifty-two protestors were killed and about a thousand injured..."
By whom? They don't say.
Because it's true, they should say, "Israeli snipers, continuing a homicidal policy practiced just a few weeks ago, shot at thousands of overwhelmingly peaceful Palestinian protestors, killing fifty-two, injuring approximately 1,000."
The grammatical passive voice is not only bad writing, it also excuses and conceals crimes against humanity. Without assigning blame to Israeli policy for these atrocities, MSNBC, CNN, and other corrupted news organizations, serving the interests of irresponsible power conglomerations called mega-corporations, act hand in hand with corrupted government entities. These news outlets give the nod to mass murder committed by a state, Israel, that was established in the wake of a war during which six million Jews were murdered by a state, Nazi Germany, that was operated by corporations acting hand in hand with a corrupt government.
Fascists, in short, kill and maim Palestinians en masse, with U.S. consent, just as Fascists in the 1940s killed and maimed Jews, Gypsies, and Slavic peoples en masse.
Philosophically, the Nazis won World War Two. Fascism, state and corporate power combined, lives on in Europe, the U.S., and in Israel.
Someone as benign-seeming to most Americans as France's Macron (a young, handsome, intellectual contrast to Donald Trump for some) is really a Fascist, Neo-Liberal style. Author Naomi Klein said to the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC a year ago that Macron is like Obama. She wasn't complimenting Macron since she said it with a sense of warning about Obama's Neo-Liberalism, earning her a look of bafflement from the other panelists. France's working class, a year into Macron's leadership, hates his guts. He's anti-labor, pro-big business, Neo-Liberal all the way, the kind of friend Bill and Hillary Clinton might like to cultivate. Like them, too, he's capable of committing mass murder. Macron and the United Kingdom's Theresa May helped Trump bomb Syria to retaliate against the imaginary chemical attack in Douma, demolishing Damascus neighborhoods, with real civilian human beings living in them until they were murdered, with a consequent boost in the Stock Market.
Fascists kill, look respectable doing it and make money at it, get support and praise from compliant news media personnel who work for corporations that profit from war. The reasons for war, though never talked about in mainstream news, are not difficult to figure out.
On MSNBC, while images of Palestinians getting murdered by Israeli snipers played on the screen, a switch away from that showed Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin arriving in Israel for the dedication of the site for the new American embassy. This comes at a time when Benjamin Netanyahu's forces are exchanging blows with Iranian forces in Syria, at a time when Trump has withdrawn American support from the Iran nuclear deal (one of Obama's admirable accomplishments), increasing the likelihood that Iranian leaders will want to pursue nuclear weapons all the more, to protect themselves against nuclear-armed Israel.
Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Mnuchin shook hands with Israeli leaders, all of them smiling, safe from the massacre thirty miles away. Hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed, unable to handle all the casualties and lacking enough proper equipment due to the U.S.-supported Israeli blockade, an ongoing atrocity considered normal and fine with masses of Americans who never think about these things because the news media deliberately doesn't illuminate the subject. Why advertise that you support mass murder and profit from it?
U.S. ally Egypt, run by a dictator even worse than Hillary Clinton's friend, the former dictator Hosni Mubarak, won't allow Palestinians to cross over for aid. I theorize (I write this without hyperbole) that Netanyahu and his brutes, with U.S. consent, have come to the Final Solution of the Palestinian Question. Blockade, starve, let disease fester and kill, shoot, bomb, bring Gaza to utter failure--doesn't Ivanka's dress look elegant?
Vic Neptune
The standard viewpoint in mainstream American news treats violent and vicious actions taken against Palestinians by Israeli forces as a matter of watching from a distance, without any moral position expressed that could be regarded as humane toward the obvious victims, the Palestinians.
They leave it to crazy people like me, who finds the sight of Israeli snipers gunning down hundreds of people armed with rocks the depiction of an obvious mismatch, with Goliath armed with twenty-first century firearms. In the Old Testament, David, the one with the rock, is the good guy. Goliath is an invader. One would think that at least a few American journalists would make the connection I just made, that of people armed with rocks (the desperate ones) facing heavily armed opponents. Instead, footage, shot from way behind the front lines of the Palestinians protesting the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem, shows dust in the air, Palestinians running here and there, along with blandly spoken reports of "Fifty-two protestors were killed and about a thousand injured..."
By whom? They don't say.
Because it's true, they should say, "Israeli snipers, continuing a homicidal policy practiced just a few weeks ago, shot at thousands of overwhelmingly peaceful Palestinian protestors, killing fifty-two, injuring approximately 1,000."
The grammatical passive voice is not only bad writing, it also excuses and conceals crimes against humanity. Without assigning blame to Israeli policy for these atrocities, MSNBC, CNN, and other corrupted news organizations, serving the interests of irresponsible power conglomerations called mega-corporations, act hand in hand with corrupted government entities. These news outlets give the nod to mass murder committed by a state, Israel, that was established in the wake of a war during which six million Jews were murdered by a state, Nazi Germany, that was operated by corporations acting hand in hand with a corrupt government.
Fascists, in short, kill and maim Palestinians en masse, with U.S. consent, just as Fascists in the 1940s killed and maimed Jews, Gypsies, and Slavic peoples en masse.
Philosophically, the Nazis won World War Two. Fascism, state and corporate power combined, lives on in Europe, the U.S., and in Israel.
Someone as benign-seeming to most Americans as France's Macron (a young, handsome, intellectual contrast to Donald Trump for some) is really a Fascist, Neo-Liberal style. Author Naomi Klein said to the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC a year ago that Macron is like Obama. She wasn't complimenting Macron since she said it with a sense of warning about Obama's Neo-Liberalism, earning her a look of bafflement from the other panelists. France's working class, a year into Macron's leadership, hates his guts. He's anti-labor, pro-big business, Neo-Liberal all the way, the kind of friend Bill and Hillary Clinton might like to cultivate. Like them, too, he's capable of committing mass murder. Macron and the United Kingdom's Theresa May helped Trump bomb Syria to retaliate against the imaginary chemical attack in Douma, demolishing Damascus neighborhoods, with real civilian human beings living in them until they were murdered, with a consequent boost in the Stock Market.
Fascists kill, look respectable doing it and make money at it, get support and praise from compliant news media personnel who work for corporations that profit from war. The reasons for war, though never talked about in mainstream news, are not difficult to figure out.
On MSNBC, while images of Palestinians getting murdered by Israeli snipers played on the screen, a switch away from that showed Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin arriving in Israel for the dedication of the site for the new American embassy. This comes at a time when Benjamin Netanyahu's forces are exchanging blows with Iranian forces in Syria, at a time when Trump has withdrawn American support from the Iran nuclear deal (one of Obama's admirable accomplishments), increasing the likelihood that Iranian leaders will want to pursue nuclear weapons all the more, to protect themselves against nuclear-armed Israel.
Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Mnuchin shook hands with Israeli leaders, all of them smiling, safe from the massacre thirty miles away. Hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed, unable to handle all the casualties and lacking enough proper equipment due to the U.S.-supported Israeli blockade, an ongoing atrocity considered normal and fine with masses of Americans who never think about these things because the news media deliberately doesn't illuminate the subject. Why advertise that you support mass murder and profit from it?
U.S. ally Egypt, run by a dictator even worse than Hillary Clinton's friend, the former dictator Hosni Mubarak, won't allow Palestinians to cross over for aid. I theorize (I write this without hyperbole) that Netanyahu and his brutes, with U.S. consent, have come to the Final Solution of the Palestinian Question. Blockade, starve, let disease fester and kill, shoot, bomb, bring Gaza to utter failure--doesn't Ivanka's dress look elegant?
Vic Neptune
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