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
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