Hillary McCarthy

     The intelligence community is trying to take over the government by taking down Trump, another way of saying the intelligence community is trying to take over the world.  Aided in this doomed to fail endeavor by the Democratic Party establishment, war hawks all, by mainstream news media, too, this long-game effort received a boost when the Soviet Union ended in 1991, the year before Bill Clinton's win established neoliberalism as standard empire-building practice in a new "unipolar" world.
     Clinton's wife, Hillary, had served on the Walmart board of directors, a position she did not receive for championing unions and a federal minimum wage increase.  In 1964, Hillary Rodham was a "Goldwater Girl," i.e., a Republican.  Her political loyalties, like Donald Trump's, have fluctuated according to her need to seem likable, enlightened, and, these days, relevant.
     Her true nature to be unpleasant reveals itself whenever she resurfaces, as she has done recently, making talk show appearances with Rachel Maddow and on The View.  She co-authored a book with her daughter, Chelsea, but that's overshadowed now by the slander she's leveled against two of her enemies.
     On October 17, 2019, Clinton was interviewed by former Obama strategist David Plouffe on his podcast.  She said, "I'm not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate.  She's the favorite of the Russians."  Clinton added, incredibly, that Jill Stein is a "Russian asset."
     Hillary Clinton gave no evidence for these accusations.  She must feel her august presence in the American political establishment is enough to convince us of the truth of these batshit crazy statements.  Her spokesman, Nick Merrill, backed up the accusation against Gabbard, saying, "If the nesting doll fits."
     Nick Merrill, according to Ronan Farrow in his new book about famous men in the entertainment and news industries who rape women and get away with it, blocked Farrow from an interview with Hillary Clinton--for an unrelated article on a foreign policy subject.  Farrow's research for his book had identified sexual predator Harvey Weinstein as a major donor to Hillary Clinton in the past.  Nick Merrill, thus, isn't a Russian asset, but he is an enabler of a serial rapist on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
     After Clinton's remarks were condemned by some Democrats and Republicans, with even an establishment journalist like Erin Burnett of CNN shaking her head in disbelief, Merrill demonstrated his cravenness further by tweeting, "She doesn't say the Russians are grooming anyone.  It was a question about Republicans."
     No, Nick, she was referring to Russians--were you in a coma during Russiagate?
     Gabbard in 2016 resigned her position as vice chair of the DNC and endorsed Bernie Sanders, a slight that Hillary Clinton, it's clear now, has never forgiven.  Jill Stein's one and a half million votes in 2016 (mine among them) boil inside Hillary Clinton, too, as she and her stalwart supporters continue to believe the Green party candidate miraculously cost her the election.  Clinton received nearly 2.9 million votes more than Trump.  Had Stein voters picked Clinton instead, the disgruntled loser of two presidential races would still have been nearly 1.4 million votes ahead of Trump.  More telling, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson received nearly 4.5 million votes, yet, he's never incurred the wrath of Hillary and her most fervent supporters.  Sexism?
     A thwarted politician filled with cold rage should never be anywhere near a position of authority, but MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times have given Clinton a pass.  Karen Finney, a longtime Clintonite, argued lamely, "She [Tulsi Gabbard] hasn't denied being a Russian asset."
     As with Russiagate, a lack of logic underlies the arguments of Gabbard's most vicious critics.  Congresswoman Gabbard has a top security clearance because she serves on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees, receiving weekly unclassified and classified briefings dealing with national security and foreign policy matters, just the kind of Russian asset you'd expect to be entrusted with U.S. government secrets.  Wow!  It's like The Manchurian Candidate!
     She is, furthermore, Major Gabbard of the Hawaii Army National Guard, a decorated Iraq War veteran.  Hillary Clinton's former friend Donald Trump insulted a veteran "for getting captured," John McCain, as well as Gold Star parents whose son sacrificed his life to save his fellow soldiers.  For these jabs, Trump was rightly condemned.  By contrast, no one defending Hillary Clinton's latest outrageous statements feels shame about smearing the veteran Tulsi Gabbard.
     It's as if Team Hillary has no principles or integrity.
     Their inability to explain how a politician so highly placed in government could be a Russian asset, i.e. a traitor, reflects their failure, ultimately, to establish with Russiagate how a U.S. President, Donald Trump, could be the same species of sinister tool of a foreign adversarial power.
     With her elevated place in American politics--former First Lady, former Senator, former Secretary of State--Hillary Clinton has the influential voice to call for a thorough investigation of Russia's plot to make Gabbard quit the Democratic Party and steal votes from the Democratic nominee, like with Jill Stein, although not with Gary Johnson--never mind that bit of illogic.
     Doesn't Hillary Clinton have a duty to do more than simply make an evidence-free accusation on a podcast?  Could this Russian conspiracy extend to the U.S. military?  Should Congress investigate the Hawaii Army National Guard?  Are Clinton and her surrogates prepared to take it to the next level?
     They're not.
     Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a reply, calling Clinton "Queen of warmongers," accusing her of being at the heart of the rot of the Democratic Party.  This reaction received condemnation from Hillary supporters.  Joy Behar of The View, as stupid about politics as her co-hostess Meghan McCain, except from the Democratic Party side, said the "warmongers" line didn't sit well with her.  Right, the Secretary of State who, in 2011, embarked on a successful effort to destroy Libya and helped foment the Syrian Civil War isn't a warmonger.  A woman who has called former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak a friend doesn't "coddle dictators," as Trump is so often accused of doing.
     I must employ some sarcasm in this piece to help me get through an account dealing with a woman I genuinely hate.
     Jimmy Dore on his YouTube show displayed side by side two pictures from 2005.  Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Army National Guard, stationed in the Sunni Triangle, next to a photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton at Donald and Melania Trump's wedding, laughing it up.  One of the four in the wedding picture believed Bush and Cheney about imaginary weapons of mass destruction, then voted to send soldiers like Tulsi Gabbard to Iraq.  Hillary Clinton now slanders, without offering evidence, someone she sent to fight a war founded on a lie.  Lying, though, is first nature with the woman who used the promotion of a book written with her daughter to further glorify her ego, a restless mass inside her brain that may yet convince her to run for president one last time.
     It's weird that Hillary never bitches about the electoral college giving 304 votes to Trump while she received 227--the real reason she lost, not because of Jill Stein voters like me, although had I been responsible for her failure I'd be pleased with the thought.

        Vic Neptune   

     The Elevators Are Not Yet Operational, Check Back Later

     Punta del Este, Uruguayan resort city, year round population 9,280; a component of its skyline an  incomplete cylinder, in construction since 2012, TRUMP affixed (proudly?) to this collection of future condominiums.  The resort attracts thousands of Argentines, Mark Zuckerberg, and Naomi Campbell (the former supermodel's name came up in relation to Epstein/G. Maxwell, if you'll recall).
     The Independent UK describes Punta del Este as "Miami in 1970."
     Oh, a city of expatriates?  Organized crime imported and supported by intelligence agencies?
     Miami in the 1960s and 1970s sheltered a concentration of anti-Castro Cuban exiles plotting and trying to overthrow Fidel Castro with CIA and Mafia assistance.
     The Punta del Este Trump cylinder was to have been finished in 2016.  Ivanka Trump attended the groundbreaking ceremony in 2012, no doubt smiling and saying optimistic things about South American real estate.  No work, currently, is happening at the building site.  Those who reserved condos years ago are fucked by the situation but probably have enough money to live elsewhere, comfortably.
     The president's second son, Eric Trump, sitting in a chair before an audience somewhere just this month, claimed that in November 2016, right after his father's victory, The Trump Organization halted every deal they were then involved in.  Is that why Uruguay's Trump edifice is empty, the wiring not even completed?  Is the quandary over this building's annoying existence, taking up space pointlessly, a result of incompetence?  Is it rather an indication of Donald Trump's true net worth?
     Forbes released their "400" ranking of the richest four-hundred people, putting Trump at 275.  A weak showing for someone so convinced of his importance when it comes to money.  He's worth 3.6 billion dollars, with around 350 million in cash on hand.  Write to him and ask for a handout, he can afford it.
     Surprising everyone, reportedly--not even the Defense Department was notified, reportedly-- Trump withdrew U.S. troops from the northeastern third of Syria, locations of that nation's oil and wheat-growing regions.  U.S. policy under Obama and Trump directed the U.S. military to withhold from Syrian citizens wheat and oil, part of sanctions against the Assad government.  Is that evil, or what?
     In mainstream news media-speak, Trump has "betrayed the Kurds," something they should by now be used to, since the U.S. has, according to a recent Intercept article, betrayed the Kurds eight times.  Two examples: for Bill Clinton, good Kurds were in Iraq, but it was okay with him if Kurds in Turkey were slaughtered according to the same kind of Ankara-based policies in evidence now.  George H.W. Bush encouraged Kurds and Shia Muslims to rise up against Saddam Hussein, implying strong American military backing, but fucked them as surely as Donald Trump fucked his Kurds.
     Mainstream news media brains suddenly care about Kurds after not mentioning them for years.  Meanwhile, an estimated 11,000 captured ISIS fighters from "fifty different countries" may escape due to Turkey's invasion of Syria, its military and mercenaries given the green light by Trump during a phone call with Erdogan.  Trump, in his typical glib and generalizing way, claims that ISIS "has been defeated."  Not if 11,000 of them are cut loose in a new war zone trafficked with Turkish tanks, artillery, and Kurd-killing soldiers who no longer have time to guard fighter-prisoners working for a terror organization sponsored by Saudi Arabia and Qatar...and the United States.
     Release of ISIS prisoners, a wanted side effect of Turkey's invasion?  Turkey, along with the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Qatar, has supported ISIS, transporting equipment, arms, and transporting the terror group's recruits to fight Syrian government forces and their allies.
     The Kurdish group threatened by Turkey has made an alliance with Assad.  I saw a Kurd in a CNN video holding up a photo of the Syrian president.  I would say, Don't place your faith in politicians, but who do they trust at this time?  The U.S.?  Is it not obvious the Kurds have been a game piece for U.S. foreign policymakers for a century and more?
     Turkey has been a NATO member since 1952, meaning that NATO is attacking Kurds in Syria and releasing thousands of ISIS fighters back into the Endless War.  Washington-based pundits, journalists, and politicians speaking out for many yeas against Assad "the dictator," still smearing Tulsi Gabbard for even meeting with him, now express dismay about ISIS fighters escaping from Kurdish captivity.  They don't say that Assad, Iranian and Russian forces have been fighting ISIS, while the U.S. tends to give them a pass, arming them at times.  Which side does more good regarding ISIS?
     When Saddam Hussein was accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to attack the United States on 9/11, a lie put forth in December 2001 by Vice President Cheney himself on Meet the Press, the falsehood was used in part to promote the upcoming Iraq War.  
     What you believe influences how you act.  If you believe you inhabit a country incapable of doing wrong, a maker of occasional mistakes (like arming Contras); a country you believe is based on fairness, racial equality ("Blue Lives Matter!"), righteous warfare when war is made--which is all the fucking time--and collateral damage isn't a moral subject for you because you've heard authority figures say, "We don't target civilians," then the real events concerning the world, punished daily by the American Empire, lack force, watered down as they are by news hosts and government spokespersons speaking of America like it's a spoiled diplomat's child, sometimes murdering and vandalizing, but not maliciously.
     Real malice, present in ruling class attitudes towards the poor, the needy, and millions trapped in war zones created by the U.S., reveals itself as an ellipsis in mainstream news media when made-up beautifully attired women and men focus their words and unoriginal thoughts on the impeachment inquiry and Russiagate--now on an aspect (the Kurdish angle) of the eight year old Syria war started by the Obama administration, tweaked by Trump into a "betrayal" of people fucked over by the same U.S. policies accepted and promoted by the mainstream news media for decades.
     The failed Trump tower in Uruguay seems to me to indicate the President' divided attentions.  Can one be a big businessman and the so-called leader of the free world?  Eric Trump still wants us to believe his father doesn't try to profit from his businesses.  According to Forbes that's true, or
Eric and his brother Donald are doing a lousy job running the Organization, since their father is down 400 million dollars since taking office in January 2017.
     As the Democrats seeking his impeachment "walk and chew gum at the same time," none of them seem interested in advertising their own foreign policy ideas toward Syria which have contributed to that nation's miseries.  They applauded Trump's two cruise missile strikes launched because of non-existent chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government, more likely coming from or manufactured as false flag events by "rebels," i.e. terrorists funded by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
     How many Democratic politicians know that the War on Terror, Russiagate and now Ukrainegate are scams to keep Endless War a reality, and a profitable one?  I would guess the answer is, all of them, whether they're opposed to the carnage or not.  They're most definitely fine with the lies when it comes to Syria, although Tulsi Gabbard stands out as the sole truth teller on the subject.
   

Vic Neptune