Mass Distraction: Obama and Cameron Prepare for War

So desperate are Barack Obama and his British counterpart David Cameron to distract any and all attention from their NSA/GCHQ global surveillance that both are ready to start a war in Syria. A war that will likely ignite the tinderbox that is the Middle East, allow both counties to crush dissent at home and ensure that we will spend the rest of our lives living in an oppressive world of total war and brutal big government crackdowns. The pretense for the coming conflagration will be the much hyped chemical weapons attack by Russian ally and Syrian dictator Bashar-al-Assad. An attack that still has not been proven to have been anything other than a false flag event staged by U.S. backed, Al Qaeda connected flesh eating militants. The usual war propagandists, from Maddow to McCain have been hyperventilating in a rush to judgement that will again suck the U.S. into yet another never-ending Middle Eastern disaster like a possum lured into a briar patch. The Pentagon and the National Surveillance State have already sent naval vessels into the region and it is only a matter of time until Barry and the boys are raining down bombs and lobbing cruise missiles into the country. All hell is going to then break loose as Syrian officials have rightfully pointed out that any U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war would be like “a ball of fire that will inflame the Middle East”.

I know that there are some who really want an escalation. Wall Street speculators are already drooling and chortling like rutting pigs over the prospect of massive spikes in oil prices and the resultant ripple effect that will have the degenerate gamblers driving up the costs of everything on the planet. Rising oil prices subsequently will result in higher food prices and even more global unrest, people just have a tendency to get pissed off and rebel when they are forced to watch their children starving.  The Pentagon and it’s related network of crony contractors will also win big as will the security industrial complex that arose like a poisonous mushroom out of the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. The neocon fifth column also benefits in that their plans of regional destabilization, hatched years ago will still be on track despite Obama’s succession of Bush. With the U.S. government on the brink of default as GOP dead-enders in Congress threaten to default on the national debt (of course they along with their equally crooked colleagues across the aisle will ensure that there are no cuts in military and police state programs) the crushing jackboot of austerity will stifle an already phony economic recovery. Not that Obama and his minions care, he has already been exposed as a liar extraordinaire over his defense of the NSA Stasi, and the abuses that grow by the day. Most recently most recently that government goons are using these false ‘anti-terrorism tools’ to spy on former spouses. Obama continues to fib about these programs and as has been reported has already brought in his Chicago and Harvard crony Cass Sunstein to facilitate the coming whitewash.

While even a good amount of liberals long steeped in Utopian dreams are slowly being roused from their slumber to see that their Emperor is butt-naked. The scales may be falling from the eyes of millions of Obama supporters but it won’t stop the coming attack on Syria. Despite the ongoing exposure of Barry’s new term in office as an outwardly kinder and gentler fourth Bush term and the realization that the man has always been a liar and Teflon coated bullshit salesman far too many are dependent on the corrupt media for any sort of mass awakening. While the bulk of the American sheeple continue to be blissfully ignorant and busy consumers who get their McNews in bite-sized chunks from state media organs while they revel in celebrity, scandal and the upcoming NFL season those more inclined to be activists continue to be bamboozled. Those most able to present a challenge to the existing corrupt regime continue to be hoodwinked by lying liberals on phony liberal cable outlets that are really Democratic propaganda organs owned by defense industry corporations. I am of course referring to MSNBC, that increasingly wretched font of disinformation that should have hypocritical liberals ashamed of themselves (as if they capable of such a thing) for their hectoring of Fox News. While I try to stay away except when doing research as too much exposure at a time easily triggers my gag reflex I endured a portion of the Rachel Maddow Show earlier in the week as the DNC’s preeminent shill pushed for a war in Syria.

The Maddow program routinely trots out the “experts” such as Richard Engel, the same warfare state mouthpiece who only weeks ago was pushing the ludicrous tale of Al Qaeda militants withsurgically implanted bombs ala The Joker’s henchman in The Dark Knight.  This was the justification for Obama’s diversionary tactics of closing embassies to deflect attention from the NSA thugs. While it was a near vomit-inducing experience I subjected myself to watching the segment from the day that the poor gassed children were appearing on every state media propaganda outlet. During the show’s broadcast on Wednesday Engel was in rare form. This excerpt from the transcript was spewed out with a straight face while Maddow tut-tutted and even invoked the termWMD so as to put an exclamation point onto every shameless morsel of emotional pornography:

It seems to be a very important story, and we’ve spoken to doctors and members of the Syrian opposition who are in these affected areas and they have expressed no doubt whatsoever that something awful happened. They believe a chemical weapon attack, those death toll estimates they believe that they are in the higher end 1,000 plus.

But as you’ve been saying time and time again, we’re here in Cairo doing the best we can. The Syrian government does not allow independent access to these areas. They’re not allowing the U.N. weapons inspectors into these areas.

So, based on phone calls, witness accounts, videos we’re piecing together what seems to be an atrocity that took place.

Some of the video you showed, all those toddlers and infants lining up still, apparently dead, you can’t fake that. You can’t convince children to play dead for long periods of time.

There’s just some of the videos you are showing, these are the most sanitized because other videos are so disturbing that they’re not fit for broadcast. But we saw dozens and dozens of children limp, being carried in people’s arms.

In terms of sheer audacity it was right up there with Richard Nixon’s historically dishonest Checkers speech and on a par with the scene in the movie Used Cars where Tobey the dog is trained to play dead by a slimy salesmen in order to generate sympathy and guilt that would cause the prospective buyer to shell out money for an overpriced lemon that would fall apart the minute it was driven off the lot. But Engel, Maddow and the rest of the payrolled liars and charlatans wouldn’t have their gigs in the first place had they any semblance of morality. Just as in the past, as in the build up to the “Shock and Awe” bombing of Baghdad all of the state’s presstitutes are reading from the same centrally concocted script. It was announced recently the NBC has rewarded Engel with his own production unit, it will certainly be the current counterpart of The Lie Factory , a shadowy Pentagon office that churned out propaganda to support the Iraq war a decade ago.  When you have tales of dead children it is always simple to gin up support for war, look at what the story that Saddam’s soldiers were tearing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators in the run up to Gulf War I did? It was of course later revealed to be false but the bodies were already burning by then so it served the purpose of the establishment at the time.

And all the while the images of the dead cascaded across the telescreens to horrify Americans into lining up to salute Dear Leader and rally around the flag it was a textbook example of the systemic rot of our days of darkness and the downward spiral. As you can probably tell by now I generally have fairly libertarian leanings but I must admit that conservatives are right about the hypocrisy of the liberals. I generally try to tune this sort of stuff off but have a morbid fascination with just how easily that the bleeding heart types are played as schmucks and chumps by the self-serving charlatans who are their idols. There are still far too many who have been buffaloed into actually believing that Barry is some benevolent agent of change. An agent of the devil is more apropos as he is now presiding over the most radical presidency in history. Only not the most radical because he is some sort of communist, socialist, closet Kenyan or Muslim Manchurian candidate as Maddow and Engel’s equally dishonest counterparts would have some believe. No, he is a stone fascist and a war criminal who is stripping away more of American’s civil liberties by the minute, sanctioning the extraction of wealth from the U.S. by rapacious corporations to which offshoring of American jobs to low wage hellholes is like crack cocaine and redistributing wealth upwards to his bankster buddies. His savage henchman Eric Holder and his ruthless Justice Department and the NSA Stasi do the heavy lifting while he is able to float above it all and maintain the illusion that is necessary for the ongoing presidential reality television show.

But war is coming and it is coming soon, it won’t stop at Syria either as reports that Russia is considering a reinforcement of naval forces in the Mediterranean to counter the U.S. escalation. Obama is still royally pissed off over Putin’s granting of asylum to former government contractor Booz Allen turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and let’s hope that his poor governance isn’t accompanied by an itchy trigger finger. With a coming war based on a pack of lies that is about to go live already a recipe for disaster the presence of Russian naval ships turns an already bad situation into something far bigger.

WW III anyone?