Monday, March 31, 2014

Ministry of Propaganda Smears Rand Paul Again


Nowhere in the now thoroughly corrupt US state-corporate media has the neocon crusade for war without end been more prevalent than at the Washington Post, particularly the teeming snakepit that is the editorial section. The WaPo's business is WAR, whether it be trotting out a cavalcade of liars, death pimps and war criminals to shill for an attack on Russia - longtime hack Charles Kraüthammer recently called for a "naval flotilla in the Black Sea". That such a provocation, especially in the wake of the onslaught of chickenhawk condemnation of the hated western devil Vladimir Putin could possibly lead to a nuclear catastrophe if things managed to spin out of control likely never registered with the on staff Goebbels. Given the quality of the sordid company that he keeps at the nation's flagship neocon megaphone the wheelchair bound Kraüthammer could be excused for fancying himself as Dr. Strangelove. What was at one time a highly regarded journalistic entity has gone to seed along with the long ago gone establishment boy wonder fallen from grace that used to be Bob Woodward. It is the duty of the Jeff Bezos owned beltway organ to sell the wars of aggression of a most exceptional people as put forth as gospel as espoused in the libraries of various neoconservative riffs off of Mein Kampf to promote their deadly ideology.
Outside of the deafening squealing for a full scale attack on the latest in an endless series of "new Hitlers", this time Putin, before him it was Assad, Ahmadinejad, Saddam Hussein etc. the Post is a wonderful smear machine and one of it's most despicable character assassins is the neocon warfare wench Jennifer Rubin. Ms. Rubin is as prolific as she is nauseating and given the enormous amount of poison pen diatribes that are published under her "Right Turn" byline I wonder whether she actually writes the fucking garbage herself or if it is manufactured in one of William Kristol's propaganda chop shops of which there are many. Get one thing straight about Rubin and Kristol and that their chief loyalty lies with the rogue state of Israel and no matter how much blood money that is pumped into that festering wart on the ass of humanity by the US taxpayers it will never be enough.
Rubin takes particular umbrage towards Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and her latest knee-capping is yet another doozy. Entitled "Rand Paul trashed military option for Iran and blamed the U.S. for WWII" it is an epic example of linking to a video of a speech and then smearing Paul for an accurate although rebutted reference to history in that the provocation of Japan doesn't jibe with the narrative of the "Good War". I excerpt from the piece of crap:
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s push to be a Reaganite on foreign policy is eviscerated by remarks caught on video last year in which he denigrates the potential use of force in Iran and bizarrely claims the United States was partially to blame for causing World War II.  In the video, posted on a Paul fan Web site and dated Feb. 24, 2012, he minimizes the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapons, saying merely “It is not a good idea” and claims an Israeli official doesn’t think an Iranian bomb is an existential threat to Israel, something no Israeli government official or Obama administration appointee has ever agreed with.
 A foreign policy expert at a center-left think tank puts it simply, saying Paul sounds like the “unreconstructed Taft-Lindbergh-Buchanan wing of party, ” referring to isolationist Republican Sen. Robert Taft, America Firster Charles Lindbergh and Pat Buchanan (who has opined that WWII need not have been fought).
The remarks disparaging the potential use of force against Iran were echoed a year later at the Heritage Foundation when Paul opined that containment would be an option for U.S. policy. These comments, his bizarre take on historical events and his current opposition to sanctions (in accord with President Obama) raise troubling issues regarding his true beliefs and the degree to which his father’s radical libertarian ideas have rubbed off on him.
Who knows what sort of videos are out there of Rubin, given that she has continually exhibited that she is bereft of anything even approaching moral decency in my opinion it wouldn't be surprising if some old drunken college party footage of her having sexual intercourse with a German Shepherd or some other vile act may be floating around - who knows. She sure seems to be the type who would dig such a thing although coming of age in an era prior to the smartphone, Facebook and YouTube is just one of those benefits of being old and in Ms. Rubin's case butt-fuck ugly as well.  Purely speculative though but those who often traffic in such SHOCKING previously undisclosed video footage often end up being impaled upon their own swords.
I wonder when she will get around to calling him out for not being sufficiently supportive of those internment camps into which law abiding, loyal American citizens of Japanese descent were thrown into. It is probably no small burr up her ass either that Rand Paul didn't stoop to the level of the other prospective 2016 Republican aspirants such as the fat fraud Chris Christie, Wisconsin's union busting Koch whore Scott Walker or Ohio's John Kasich in crawling on their bellies to lick the balls of the warmongering Zionist casino magnate Sheldon Adelson in Las Vegas over the weekend.
Some people have no shame and they are over-represented at the Washington Post, Joseph Goebbels himself would have been proud of the Pravda on the Potomac. Rubin's columns are not even worth using for bird cage lining, you would figure a future thinking man like Bezos would see in her and the rest of her strident caterwauling ilk that there is no future whatsoever in the dead tree media.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Fat Man Grovels for Shelly Adelson's Dirty Money


The signs of our now fully decayed system of democracy are evident just about everywhere that one looks the days. From the ongoing travesty of the Obama administration and the neocon forced march into the jaws of what could be World War III with their ongoing pursuit of the head of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the garish displays of greed and political fixing that has now overtaken anything that occurs in the voting booth. The latter of these would be the disgusting orgy of political fecklessness that was the Republican Jewish Coalition parade of political whores that is taking place in sin city. The parade of aspiring Republicans jostling for the money of the grand chiseler that is casino magnate Sheldon Adelson in which they prostrate themselves in front of a man whose true loyalties lie outside of our domestic borders is a shameful exhibit of garishness of which there are few equals.
Adelson, the ultra-right wing Zionist billionaire who counts among his personal friends the lunatic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right up there with the phony libertarian Koch Brothers and Wall Street bloodsucker Paul Singer when it comes to Republican party sugar daddies. I by no means undertake this diatribe without blame for the equally disgusting Democrats who have their own money machine to which they similarly prostitute themselves out to but the for sheer spectacle it just doesn’t get any worse than the GOP. Desperate to repel the likes of Rand Paul and Justin Amash as well as the growing libertarian influence within the ‘big tent’ the gaggle of aspirants to engage in the coming political scrum with the queen in waiting Hillary Rodham-Clinton to claim the office that will be vacated by the hated Barack Obama come January of 2017 is a carnival of perversion without equal in America.
Adelson pissed away a fortune gambling on Republican losers in 2012 including plowing tens of millions into the always futile presidential run of one Newton Leroy Gingrich, the philandering fascist dwarf whose big ideas including going to the moon turned him into a mockery. Adelson then continued to gamble heavily on the doomed horse Mitt Romney, he of the White Horse Prophecy who in a winnable election against a loser like Obama still managed to crap the magic Mormon underwear.  Adelson is nothing if not tenacious but as there is no such thing as immortality that fat Hebrew toad might as well spend as much of his loot as possible before taking the dirt nap.  Other than dodging accountability for his casino gambling empire there is one thing that old Shelly wants most of all and that is to have the US do Israel’s dirty work by attacking Tehran and turning it into the largest glass surface on Earth. The line of those who crawled up on their bellies to the kingmaker was filled with the undignified types who would gladly do exactly that if they could land the support of the rotten old bastard. 
Shelly and the Shellbacks
I recall a certain vomit-inducing exercise from back in my days when I served in the United States Navy – during a thing that was called military service that none of those fucking vile pricks on display can claim to have participated in – becoming a Shellback. This refers to the rite of passage of sailors who have been on a ship that has crossed the equator and despite the thoroughly disgusting and repulsive nature of the festivities is a thing which puts one in an exalted status.  I excerpt the following from Wikipedia:
The two-day event (evening and day) is a ritual in which previously inducted crew members (Trusty Shellbacks) are organized into a "Court of Neptune" to induct the Slimy Pollywogs into "the mysteries of the Deep".[citation needed] Physical hardship, in keeping with the spirit of the initiation, are tolerated, and each Pollywog is expected to endure a standard initiation rite in order to become a Shellback.[citation needed] Depending on the Ocean or Fleet AOR, there can be variations in the rite. Some rites have discussed a role reversal as follows, but this is not always a normal feature, and may be dependent on whether a small number of Shellbacks exist to conduct the initiation.
The transition flows from established order to the controlled "chaos" of the Pollywog Revolt, the beginnings of re-order in the initiation rite as the fewer but experienced enlisted crew converts the Wogs through physical tests, then back to, and thereby affirming, the pre-established order of officers and enlisted.
The eve of the equatorial crossing is called Wog Day and, as with many other night-before rituals, is a mild type of reversal of the day to come. Wogs—all of the uninitiated—are allowed to capture and interrogate any shellbacks they can find (e.g., tying them up, cracking eggs or pouring aftershave lotion on their heads).  The wogs are made very aware of the fact that it will be much harder on them if they do anything like this.
After crossing the line, Pollywogs receive subpoenas [4] to appear before King Neptune and his court (usually including his first assistant Davy Jones and her Highness Amphitrite and often various dignitaries, who are all represented by the highest ranking seamen), who officiate at the ceremony, which is often preceded by a beauty contest of men dressing up as women, each department of the ship being required to introduce one contestant in swimsuit drag. Afterwards, some wogs may be "interrogated" by King Neptune and his entourage, and the use of "truth serum" (hot sauce + after shave) and whole uncooked eggs put in the mouth. During the ceremony, the Pollywogs undergo a number of increasingly embarrassing ordeals (wearing clothing inside out and backwards; crawling on hands and knees on nonskid-coated decks; being swatted with short lengths of firehose; being locked in stocks and pillories and pelted with mushy fruit; being locked in a water coffin of salt-water and bright green sea dye (fluorescent sodium salt); crawling through chutes or large tubs of rotting garbage; kissing the Royal Baby's belly coated with axle grease, hair chopping, etc.), largely for the entertainment of the Shellbacks.
Once the ceremony is complete, a Pollywog receives a certificate [5] declaring his new status. Another rare status is the Golden Shellback, a person who has crossed the Equator at the 180th meridian (International Date Line). The rarest Shellback status is that of the Emerald Shellback (USA), or Royal Diamond Shellback (Commonwealth), which is received after crossing the Equator at the prime meridian. When a ship must cross the Equator reasonably close to one of these meridians, the ship's captain will typically plot a course across the Golden X so that the ship's crew can be initiated as Golden or Emerald/Royal Diamond Shellbacks.
When my US Navy ship, a Hull Class destroyer went through this traumatic yet ultimately cathartic ceremony I recall that our version of the "Royal Baby" was the nastiest, dirtiest senior petty officer on the ship and that the pollywogs were forced to suck a nut out of the fat slob's belly button I was able to skip that part only because when I got there I vomited all over the obese bastard and it was such a mess that there was a good deal of confusion until they got it all cleaned up. I do still have my Shellback card though which along with an x-rated business card from the legendary Subic City brothel "Marilyn's" is a prized possession to this day.
Leading the parade of those who would suck the peanut out of Shelly’s obese hairy navel was one New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who was fresh off of being “cleared” of any involvement in the Bridgegate controversy by his own internal investigation. It was the equivalent of Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante doing an internal audit of the Bada Bing Club but the lickspittle media will swallow it whole. Porky Soprano had to apologize profusely for having once dared to refer to the land which Israel has stolen from the Palestinians as “occupied territories”, such is the aversion to the truth in this country circa 2014. After his renouncing his most horrid transgression of telling the truth Christie waddled back into the good graces of Adelson and assumed his place with the rest of the con artists crawling through the swill to the foot of his throne. Another prominent governor joining Christie is the union-busting Koch whore Wisconsin kingpin Scott Walker, not sure how well that his dallying with Adelson will go over with the brothers Charles and David but an opportunistic piece of shit like Walker covers all of his bases and like a snake is possessed of zero loyalty.
One of the more troubling aspect of American politics in the neocon dominated era of post September 11, 2001 is the fixation on what benefits the state of Israel – or more appropriately that extremist element that has manifested itself in their government – to the detriment of what is good for America. It is not arguable that the Middle East wars of aggression undertaken in consistence with the PNAC/Clean Break neocon doctrines as well as the ongoing US defense of Israeli human rights abuses only serves to create more enemies for America. Former George H.W. Bush administration Secretary of State and Chief of Staff  James Baker once infamously remarked "fuck the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway" and while this was probably just a bit too inclusive it was back in the day when the Republican party didn't turn the recognition of the state of Israel into a cheap and perilous partisan issue. This may be good business for the surveillance security military industrial complex that is just drooling over the prospects of ‘another 9/11’ for wealth beyond their wildest dreams but it is bad policy and dangerous as well. It serves neither America or Israel wall and there will come a day when those who like Adelson and the neocons who have sowed the seeds of discontent will reap the whirlwind.
As the late H.L. Mencken once pegged it: "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods" and it was ALL for sale at the Venetian Resort over the weekend.
(Image: Reuters)

Comrade McCain Warns US Corporations on Doing Business in Russia

De facto President of the United States and preeminent warmongering psychotic Senator John McCain has slipped the chain again. On Friday McCain issued a veiled warning to US corporations seeking to do business with Russia in the frenzied reincarnation of the Cold War that the neocons have been so relentlessly pushing through every propaganda organ in the land. With McCain fully invested in the unelected occupying government in Kiev, he spent much time over there palling around with neo-Nazis before the US backed coup d'etat went down he is in this thing to win it.
In an interview given to Bloomberg TV the globe-trotting bloodsucker who feeds on death and destruction took it upon himself to caution major corporations about exactly how and where they are to do business as Cold War II begins. This will surely go over real well with the crazed neocons, after all their ideological roots sprang from Russia and the diktat from the longtime face of bomb them back to the stone age American foreign policy. I excerpt from the Bloomberg piece entitled "McCain Looks to U.S. Companies in Russia If Putin Pushes":
The U.S. should consider forcing major American companies such as General Electric (GE) and Exxon Mobil to suspend business in or pull out of Russia if President Vladimir Putin attempts to take more territory from Ukraine or other neighboring nations, said Senator John McCain of Arizona.
“I know that that’s a tough call and I know that we don’t want to hurt our own economy, but what are the consequences of Vladimir Putin just being able to act?” McCain, a Republican from Arizona who advocates military assistance for Ukraine, said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend.
Such a move likely would come through formal sanctions rather than political pressure on individual corporations, McCain said, and “would only be considered” if Putin “went much further.”
In addition to GE and Exxon-Mobil (XOM) Corp., the companies with the largest business interest in Russia include Ford Motor Co. (F), General Motors Co. (GM), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)
Putin, who annexed Crimea from Ukraine earlier this month, has amassed tens of thousands of troops along the border, which McCain says indicates Russia may strike soon.
It takes a serious egomaniac as well as a real set of stones to threaten, even implicitly the profitability of such enormous American corporations and this may effectively be McCain's political death warrant as CEO's of such huge entities do not take kindly in having some foolish ass tell them how and where to do business, let alone to call them out in such a public manner.  The Arizona Republican party has already censured McCain and he has just opened his mouth one time too many which will likely ensure that there will be a biblical sized tidal wave of campaign funding coming to the Grand Canyon state to primary his ass come 2016.
Not that anyone should ever mistake John Sidney McCain III for representing American values with his ongoing crusade to bankrupt the country by involving it in innumerable wars, civil wars and other insurrections, his sheer contempt for what is left of democracy by not just shutting the fuck up and acknowledging that he lost to the black guy in 2008 and now his open contempt for free enterprise.  The cowardly McCain who has hyped himself as a war hero despite dropping napalm on Vietnamese women and children and then being dumb enough to get shot down and thrown into a prisoner of war camp instead of just doing the honorable thing by killing himself to avoid capture has always been one of the biggest frauds in modern American history. He may be wrap all of his bullshit up in old glory but what he is truly preaching with his message to those corporations is nothing short of Communist style centralized planning and enforcement by a corrupt pack of government jackals.
Let's see those corporations put their money into something that would truly benefit this country by funneling several million dollars into Arizona to fund McCain's opponents.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Liar and Blowhard Mike Rogers a Perfect Fit for Talk Radio


Living in The Homeland of the post September 11, 2001 - the day when everything changed - era I can honestly say that very little really surprises me anymore. This is especially so when it comes to the plumbing of new depths by a now rotten to the last seed of the core and completely irredeemable political system. That was until this morning when I heard the news that uber fascist House Intelligence Committee overlord Mike Rogers was stepping down at the end of his current term. This deprived the Eighth Congressional District of the state of Michigan of yet another chance  to stick it to the rest of America by re-electing a man who is an enemy of the state, a pathological liar as well as an embarrassment to the constitutional form of government that has been stolen away by pigs like him. It also spared the rest of the country from that very district's enforced tyranny of the minority in that Rogers had become such a powerful figure, although as with the vast super-majority of US politicians a total reprobate.
The news as stunning as it was sudden and makes one wonder if Rogers finally crossed that line one time too many when he appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend to pull yet another whopper out of his fat ass with zero proof that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was collaborating with the evil Putin in regards to the annexing of Crimea Rogers may have gone a bridge too far when he stated that “No counter-terrorism official in the United States does not believe that Mr. Snowden…. is not under the influence of Russian intelligence services”. I guess that some times if you give someone enough rope that they will eventually hang themselves and it is wonderful to see Mr. Rogers hoisted upon his own petard and banished to the right-wing talk radio circuit for the rest of his working life. He will fit in well there given his proclivity for insane demagoguery.
Rogers also likely was involved in pushing through the shifty change in House procedural routine where the NSA "reform" bill that was being pimped by he and Democratic ally Dutch Ruppersberger  -who conveniently happens to represent the very Maryland district in which NSA Stasi headquarters is located - was to be routed through the intelligence rather than the judiciary committee. Whatever it was something happened this week to finally stop the renegade Rogers and his relentless rampage to destroy the Constitution for his intelligence industry cronies. It would be completely appropriate if there are hard questions asked on why a safely gerrymandered Congressman with one of the most powerful spots in Congress as well as a weekly national media platform chose to give up all of that power to become a right-wing talk radio host. There are likely serious ethics violations here but as in the absurd example of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's hand-picked investigative committee finding him not guilty of any knowledge or malfeasance in "Bridgegate" Rogers will be allowed to slither through that big government revolving door into a post government life of filling his pockets ala Michael Chertoff and thousands of other swindlers of the American taxpayers.
The neoconservative sewer that is the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal, or as I like to refer to it: "The Gospel for the Moneychangers" is bemoaning the loss of Rogers with this sick lament:
Michigan Rep. Mike Roges’ decision to quit Congress this year is a loss for the adult wing of the GOP, which understands that the NSA is not the enemy and that Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot, Edward Snowden, is no hero.
Yes, of course there is  the bullshit Putin-Snowden connection. That unproven yet constant slander belched forth by the scumbag Rogers on Sunday after Sunday. When it really gets down to it the entire Obama-Neocon joint venture to stick it to Putin is at the same time all about Snowden and nothing about him. El Presidente has never gotten over being punked by Putin who spared the heroic former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower from being disappeared into one of America’s torture dungeons. Nor have the neocon propagandists ever been able to get over it, especially after Putin undermined their war on Syria and thew a monkey wrench into the years running plan to nuke Iran. Obama has now gone fully neocon with daily escalations in his anti-Russian rhetoric as the parasite of the PNAC ideologues are likely ecstatic to return to their Democratic party roots. 
As for Rogers, a fanatic who I recently compared to as an uncontrollable late stage manic pederast he will find a home among the packs of degenerates who have become wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of King Midas by lying to the masses of asses who are wallow in outrage. Granted that Rogers is a hell of a lot more articulate than the Big Kahuna of white populist cultural resentment Rush "Sex Tourist" Limbaugh as well as Michael "I have a mancrush on homosexual beat icon Allen Ginsberg" Savage but his fascist message will resonate with the dregs of American society as surely as that of Julius Streicher once did long ago and far away.
We should be happy to be rid of Rogers in a position of actual authority although given the rest of the warmongering and reprehensibly rotten swine that have hijacked our government his spot will be quickly filled while he now cashes in off of his suckling at the big government teat.
Americans sure as hell deserve better than this crap and need to start to say so - very LOUDLY.

It’s Like 2002-2003 All Over Again With Crazed Rush to War


If the strident and dishonest nature of the rhetoric and behavior emanating out of the kingdom of Mordor that sits along the Potomac with the incessant propaganda campaign against Russia seems familiar all one has to do is to recall early 2003 while the Bushreich was building the case for the "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq. While the daily onslaught of lies don't include references to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, trans-Atlantic chemical weapon spewing gliders, mobile chemical weapons labs or apocalyptic conjecture the likes of war criminal Condoleezza Rice's "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" it is every bit the equal. By the time that President George W. Bush ascended the dais to lie to the American people during his 2003 State of the Union address about that yellow cake Uranium that the "New Hitler" of that time had purchased from Africa the coming attack and invasion of that country which did not even remotely threaten the US was already a done deal.
Barack Obama has now like Colonel Walter Kurtz reached the end of the river with his ongoing jihad against Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the indignity of having NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden snatched from the talons of his henchman Attorney General Eric Holder and subsequent granting of asylum in Russia was the first injury to the great one's massive ego. Putin's sweeping in to derail what was an all but imminent beginning of bombing and missile strikes against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on the basis of nothing more than lies about the gassing of civilians was a running dropkick in the nuts and that September 11th New York Times editorial that denounced the mockery that is American exceptionalism was a burning ember embedded in the craw of Obama and the neocons. The annexation of Crimea after an obviously US instigated overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine in which the west backed a tool of the global finance mafia installed with the assistance of neo-Nazi thugs despite warnings from the narcissist in chief was too much. Now Obama has going completely off the rails and has like the stammering moron Secretary of State John Kerry resorted to revisionist history to attack Putin. It was a stunning and unbelievable thing to hear the other day when El Presidente actually invoked Bush's illegal war in Iraq, widely acknowledged as perhaps the greatest military blunder in US history in a positive manner to make a point during a speech in Brussels.
Obama, who is as notoriously thin-skinned as he is incompetent has been goaded and egged on every step of the way by the neocons both within his administration and without. Nowhere has the hectoring of Obama been more constant nor as loud as at the Washington Post, now having shed the cloak of being a journalistic entity and exposing itself as a propaganda organ of the Deep State the WaPo has led the charge damning Obama for his failure to crush Putin and as the Ukraine debacle drags on I seriously expect to see an editorial board demand for the nuking of Moscow. Those are the times in which we live, yesterday the criminal Congress stole away from economically disadvantaged citizens of the United States who they deny appropriate levels for food stamps and refuse to extend long term unemployment to bestow billions upon the neo-Nazi infested occupying government in Ukraine. Still it is now good enough for the neocons nor their flagship beltway megaphone.
The latest mouthy coward to launch a jeremiad from the WaPo bunker is none other than Robert Kagan, the arch neocon and the husband of Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland with this breathtaking battery of bullshit from which I excerpt:
Whether one likes President Obama’s conduct of foreign policy or not, the common assumption is that the administration is at least giving the American people the foreign policy they want. The majority of Americans have opposed any meaningful U.S. role in Syria, have wanted to lessen U.S. involvement in the Middle East generally, are eager to see the “tide of war” recede and would like to focus on “nation-building at home.” Until now, the president generally has catered to and encouraged this public mood, so one presumes that he has succeeded, if nothing else, in gaining the public’s approval.
Yet, surprisingly, he hasn’t. The president’s approval ratings on foreign policy are dismal. According to the most recent CBS News poll, only 36 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing on foreign policy, while 49 percent disapprove. This was consistent with other polls over the past year. A November poll by the Pew Research Center showed 34 percent approval on foreign policy vs. 56 percent disapproval. The CBS poll showed a higher percentage of Americans approving of Obama’s economic policies (39 percent) and a higher percentage approving his handling of health care (41 percent). Foreign policy is the most unpopular thing Obama is doing right now. And lest one think that foreign policy is never a winner, Bill Clinton’s foreign policy ratings at roughly the same point in his second term were quite good — 57 percent approval; 34 percent disapproval — and Ronald Reagan’s rating was more than 50 percent at a similar point in his presidency. That leaves Obama in the company of George W. Bush — not the first-term Bush whose ratings were consistently high but the second-term Bush mired in the worst phase of the Iraq war.
AND
For many decades Americans thought of their nation as special. They were the self-proclaimed “leader of the free world,” the “indispensable nation,” the No. 1 superpower. It was a source of pride. Now, pundits and prognosticators are telling them that those days are over, that it is time for the United States to seek more modest goals commensurate with its declining power. And they have a president committed to this task. He has shown little nostalgia for the days of U.S. leadership and at times seems to conceive it as his job to deal with the “reality” of decline.
Perhaps this is what they want from him. But it is not something they will thank him for. To follow a leader to triumph inspires loyalty, gratitude and affection. Following a leader in retreat inspires no such emotions.
Now THAT is the definition of shamelessness. Invoking George W. Bush’s unpopularity for a war that Kagan himself was instrumental in selling to the bad seed of President George Herbert Walker Bush, a man who understood that the neocons were “crazies” despite his destined for historical infamy Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. In the typical haughty and sneering manner of the elitist neocons Kagan also considers the average American views towards war to be contemptible and not worth considering, his fellow neocon ideologue William Kristol recently bashed a "war weary" America in similar fashion. Kagan's condescension is at least somewhat justified in that the vast majority of Americans are idiots - the lofty status afforded to the neocons who are now resurgent as well as their failure to resist any of the corruption, surveillance and now the giveaway of billions to an unelected gaggle of puppets of the global finance mafia in Ukraine is a testament to that.
Kagan also falsely spins Obama's rapidly sinking approval rating to suit the needs of the neocons while omitting that the man is a duplicitous flip-flopper who stands for nothing but burnishing his own legacy, presides over the most intrusive surveillance apparatus in the history of the planet and has from day one been in over his head. Throw in the five years of racist animosity over a black man being elected president that is prevalent within the dregs of society and has been stoked relentlessly by dog whistle politics and outside big money groups as well as the worst Congress in history and you can see that Kagan like all of the neocons is full of bullshit.
There are many reasons why Obama's popularity rating is sinking faster than whale shit and his spinning of the attack and invasion of Iraq to fit the false narrative that has been constructed about Putin and Ukraine is but one of them. Mr. Kagan can just go and fuck himself, like all of the other cowards who constantly advocate for wars in which the children of American mothers will be fed into the meat grinder in order to satisfy their own arrogance and as serious systemic error in affording scum like the neocons the legitimacy that the do not deserve.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Eat This! Americans Go Without as Billions Sent to Ukraine


If there was any remaining shadow of a doubt about where regular Americans stand in the sewer of corruption that is Obamaworld let it now be removed. While food stamp programs, long-term unemployment and veterans benefits are cut to the bone there is plenty of money to send to support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Both Barack Obama as well as the real enemies of the American people in the US Congress just stuck it to us all good and hard. In yet another of those truly amazing shows of bipartisanship that is always able to cut through the gridlock whenever it comes time to fuck over the citizens of this country in order to shower undeserving foreign governments with money stolen from the US taxpayer the Congress voted overwhelmingly today to send billions in aid to the illegitimate, coup d'etat installed puppet government in Kiev and its neo-Nazi component.
This big star-spangled bag of loot is only awaiting Barry's signature but that is of course a formality. Never has a US president been such a complete stooge of the global finance mafia nor has a sitting US Congress approached this level of wanton - in your face - corruption. Where Americans anything but the television lobotomized sheep that they are they would be the ones out in the streets where the would be quickly confronted with all of the force that the rogue government has to bear and the blood would be knee deep in the streets. The audacity of the government here daring to engage in demagoguery over an inside job of extremist instigation and questionable sniper fire in Kiev when the fully militarized police state would turn any similar mass protest into piles of bloody chunks of human hamburger.
But in Der Homeland it is always about contradictions and hypocrisy, look at polls that show an enormous level of disapproval with the way that Obama has handled the now fully Hitlerized Russian president Vladimir Putin. The squadrons of couch bound warriors want Putin's head on a fucking pike paraded through the streets, mummified and then used as the game ball during the next Super Bowl in Tempe, and of course the immediate nuclear attack that would turn Moscow into a the world's largest parking lot  However it never once occurs to the average American thumb-sucking dumbass that the money going to fund the endless wars of imperial aggression and prop up puppet governments that enforce crushing austerity measures sold as "democracy" that the money is being stolen from them to finance it all. Not that long ago I thought that the movie Idiocracy was a prediction of the future of this country but given the ability of boobus Americanus to be once again suckered into supporting the planetary looting spree and the likes of Obama and the bought and paid for Congress it is obvious that it is already here.
Adding insult to injury is the inconvenient truth that Americans are being squeezed by spiking inflation - not of course that which is revealed by official government statistics which are total horseshit as food and energy costs are conveniently omitted in the calculation. Food prices are already up 19 percent this year, the prices are going up and the packages are getting smaller by the month as our criminal political class continues to enrich themselves at the public trough and earn every dime that big energy cartels, agribusiness conglomerates, the military industrial complex, the surveillance industrial complex, Wall Street gamblers and the global high finance parasites are paying them.  The average American schmuck who is all for a war with a nuclear power like Russia can't be bothered with such vagaries though as their long and slow slide into slavery continues. 
Welcome to chumpland suckers!

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Sashko Bily Murdered: Night of the Long Knives Begins in Ukraine


Oleksandr Muzychko aka Sashko Bily of the extremist Right Sector group that was instrumental in backing the US backed coup d’etat in Kiev was shot dead by police yesterday.  Has the Night of the Long Knives arrived? Has “Yats” been given the order to clean up his unelected regime to make the country safe for corporate plunder? There are conflicting stories about the killing of Muzychnko, one being that the brutal thug was gunned down while trying to escape what is officially described as a "special forces operation" that took place at a cafe in the city of Rivne in western Ukraine. The other story that is circulating is far more ominous and threatens to further expose that great outbreak of democracy that is peddled by the American state-corporate media, the neocons and the Obama administration is nothing more than a fraud of the highest order. According to an account from the BBC:
Earlier, a Ukrainian MP, Oles Doniy, gave a different version of events. He said two cars had forced Muzychko's car to stop, and he had then been dragged into one of the other cars. Later his body was found dumped, his hands tied behind his back and two bullet wounds in his heart, Doniy wrote overnight on his Facebook page.
Correspondents say Muzychko acquired notoriety in Ukraine after he was filmed brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle at a town hall session in western Ukraine, and then harassing a local prosecutor. After that, in February, the Ukrainian interior minister condemned his behaviour and promised to investigate.
That certainly doesn't jibe with that shining tale spun by professional liars about the glorious new era that has come to Ukraine and could be the first indication that the goons who backed the installation of the puppet of the global finance mafia, former central banker Arseniy Yatseniuk have outlived their usefulness.  Hell, it's not as though such a thing has no historical precedent.
In late June of 1934 with Adolf Hitler having completed his rise by being named Chancellor of Germany (Angela Merkel has the gig now) and consolidating his power the violent collection of crude and savage goons that were the Sturmabteilung (SA)- the historical counterparts to Right Sector and John McCain's Svoboda pals – had become a nuisance. The beatings, killings, public displays of menace, drunken debauchery and instability of the SA were not only an embarrassment but a potential threat to the Hitler regime. So Der Führer ordered the blood purge that is known as the Night of the Long Knives to eliminate any future challenge from the Nazi rabble so the leadership was wiped out. Not only was the SA taken out but the opportunity was used to settle other scores – excerpted from Wikipedia:
The regime did not limit itself to a purge of the SA, however. Having earlier imprisoned or exiled prominent Social Democrats and Communists, Hitler used the occasion to move against conservatives he considered unreliable. This included Vice-Chancellor Papen and those in his immediate circle. In Berlin, on Göring's personal orders, an armed SS unit stormed the Vice-Chancellery. Gestapo officers attached to the SS unit shot Papen's secretary Herbert von Bose without bothering to arrest him first. The Gestapo arrested and later executed Papen's close associate Edgar Jung, the author of Papen's Marburg speech; they disposed of his body by dumping it in a ditch. The Gestapo also murdered Erich Klausener, the leader of Catholic Action, and a close Papen associate. The vice-chancellor himself was unceremoniously arrested at the Vice-Chancellery, despite his insistent protests that he could not be arrested. Although Hitler ordered him released days later, Papen no longer dared to criticise the regime.
Hitler, Göring, and Himmler unleashed the Gestapo against old enemies, as well. Both Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as chancellor, and his wife were murdered at their home. Others killed included Gregor Strasser, a former Nazi who had angered Hitler by resigning from the party in 1932, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, the former Bavarian state commissioner who crushed the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.[42] Kahr's fate was especially gruesome. His body was found in a wood outside Munich; he had been hacked to death, apparently with pickaxes. The murdered included at least one accidental victim: Willi Schmid, the music critic of the Münchner Neuste Nachrichten, a Munich newspaper. The Gestapo mistook him for Ludwig Schmitt, a past supporter of Otto Strasser, the brother of Gregor.  Such unrestrained violence added to the fearsome reputation of the Gestapo, the Nazis' secret police.
The assassination of Sashko Bily could be the beginning of a modern version of that purge, the bought and paid for media can’t possibly keep the lid on the presence of so many fascists and neo-Nazis in the coup installed government in Kiev forever. The recent beating of Ukranian state television executive Oleksandr Panteleymonov by Svoboda party ruffians and the resulting viral video caused no small amount of embarrassment to the US and the Yatsenyuk government. That act of brutality actually had to be acknowledged and was condemned by US sources who were "deeply offended”.  If the goon squads continue to be caught perpetrating such violent acts it is time to clean them up because the corporate benefactors of carving up the Ukraine bounty have enough problems by taking possession of their new prize sans Crimea already.
But even the best laid plans do go awry and fate of Shashko Bily has members of Red Sector vowing reprisals in would could easily turn into a bloodbath of neo-Nazi vs. neo-Nazi and both jousting for control of what is at this point an already fragile government. Throw into an already volatile mix the presence of old guard corrupt nationalist lunatics like the recently sprung from prison “Gas Princess” Yulia Tymoshenko going off the chain and ranting insanely and it is a proverbial ticking time bomb. These are not the remarks of a highly regarded figure would make to promote stability and foster well being:
"I am sorry that I am not able to be there and am not in charge of these processes, they wouldn't have had a fucking chance of getting Crimea off me."
"I would have found a way to finish off these bastards."
"I am hoping that I will use all my connections and will get the whole world to rise up so that not even scorched earth would be left of Russia."
"Discussing the fate of Ukraine's 8 million ethnic Russians, Tymoshenko was also heard saying that they should be "nuked."
She sounds just like Senator McCain's type of gal.
Nice stuff that the neocons have unleashed, kind of brings back memories of all of the sectarian killings, tortures, murders and prowling death squads that were unleashed after Bush and Cheney bombed and invaded Iraq. This could turn out to be a real mess for those greedy American corporations that Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland had invited to feast upon the conquered carcass of Ukraine like so many vultures.
But the vultures will indeed feast given the new growth industry that will be dead bodies strewn from one end of the country to the other thanks to yet another US foreign policy clusterfuck.

High Crimes and Hogwash


President Barack Obama just did what he does best which is to piss down the backs of Americans and tell them that it is raining. Fresh off one hell of a week of his spree of smacking close associates of the newest "New Hitler" Vladimir Putin with sanctions, hyping the Russian military presence on the border of Ukraine as though were the Wehrmacht itself and for good measure kicking the Russians out of G8 our vainglorious leader shifted to the NSA.  With much pomp and circumstance Obama has proposed ending the bulk collection of telephone data by the government with a yet to be explained set of "reforms" to the existing electronic dragnet. In a statement that bordered on sheer parody El Presidente spoke of winning back trust over the now fully integrated massive surveillance machine which he and his Democratic party water carriers and legions of authoritarian right-wing hacks have so ardently defended despite the flagrantly un-American and illegal nature of the programs. 
It is a lie of course. The phone metadata is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg and Obama and the rest of the criminals in Congress would make that deal in a second to “end” it all and start to close the lid on the Pandora's Box of high crimes and misdemeanors that former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden threw open. What Americans should be really concerned about though is that they are collecting content as well, note the recent story that the NSA was recording all calls in an unnamed country (more than likely numerous countries including this one) for future retrieval and playback. Welcome to Precrime with the "crime" as yet to be defined by the corrupt gangster state that has taken root in The Homeland. The metadata is just a pea in the shell game and what is really the problem is the content. What about the emails, webcam videos, purchase transactions, financial information, political affiliations, three hop relational query results etc. The NSA and other intelligence services both foreign and domestic as well as their millions strong army of top secret clearance carrying contractors employed within the surveillance state Gomorrah are collecting it all.
This latest new way of doing things is just more of Obama’s standard horseshit, just like all of that false hope and chump change that the Teflon coated snake oil salesman peddled during his initial run for office. He is lying as surely as Bill Clinton did when wiggling his finger in the faces of Americans and denying having had “sex” with that woman or George W. Bush about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction or Poppy about "read my lips". But the game is rigged, none of the hypocritical asshole Republicans will call him on it either nor has any of this NSA surveillance ever ended up as the subject of one of Darrell Issa's grand inquisitions. The GOP and the demographics that they pander to despite their parroting of the talking points actually love big government when it comes to war, passing laws to discriminate and the use of the police state to spy upon and punish their long list of enemies. They choose instead to wage doomed rushes at windmills like exposing Obamacare as a some communist form of conquest replete with “death panels” or squealing like stuck pigs about the Benghazi hoax. The man’s head is on the block here with these high crimes over the NSA unconstitutional spying and none of those rotten chickenshit bastards will wield the ax. That shows exactly how far that we have descended into the trench of a star-spangled banana republic populated largely by liars, idiots, Jesus freaks and lemmings. The real regime change needs to take place in Washington and it needs to be a complete enema of the entire fucking system that does not discriminate between the asinine my team vs your team ongoing scrum between Team Red Elephant and Team Blue Jackass that keeps the rest of Americans on the sidelines.
The puffy, squawking degenerate who is gerrymandered into East Lansing as snug as a blood-sucking tick has his own bill to “reform” the NSA and guess what? It is just one more step closer to full blown fascism. This guy will never be satisfied until everyone in America is under constant surveillance and just whiling away their time until the black vans roll. People in Mr. Roger’s neighborhood, the Eighth Congressional district in Michigan have been sticking it to the rest America for over fourteen years now and will surely return this sick pathological liar to office once again in November.  It would be too much to ask the high-rolling America haters who are Congressman Rogers’ actual constituents to actually stand up for what is right for the country instead of their own selfish asses and hit the flush button on this turd, not only from office but more importantly from his exalted position of Grand Poobah of the House Intelligence Committee.
Rogers’ malodorous bill with the obligatory Orwellian name of the “End Bulk Collection Act is being foisted off as a “bi-partisan” effort being that it is co-sponsored by Democratic party Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland. What is conveniently left out is that good ole Dutch happens to preside over the very district that includes the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA Stasi, a hive of scum and villainy if there ever were one. Note that the only time that true “bipartisanship” occurs is when it comes to sticking an ungreased broomstick up the asses of powerless Americans  and then breaking it off.  The very act that a man like Mike Rogers is able to lord it over the entire country with only the true backing of a minuscule fraction of the national population to whom he delivers the bacon calls into question the very concept of American democracy itself. As the legendary  H.L. Mencken once put it: “Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven” and the thorough collapse of the American political system as a functional entity shows the wisdom of his words. We currently reside in a land where the scum has truly risen and where 49 percent of the populace could be stripped of all of their rights, property and liberty by 51 percent – of whom are primarily the same sort of low-information, mean-spirited, bigoted dumbasses who send forth miscreants like Mike Rogers as their local warlord to shit upon the tens of millions of voters who had absolutely no say so in the matter. Just stick a fork in the ass of American "democracy", at the end it is truly not much more legitimate than the un-elected gaggle of rabble that was just installed in Ukraine.  The obvious blind spot of such a concept is that it fails to account for either a thoroughly corrupt political class nor a population that is to be kind largely comprised of willfully ignorant slobs whose idea of “democracy” is Dancing With the Stars or American Idol
We get the government that we deserve.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Oceania Has Always Been at War with Eastasia

 “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
-Charles Bukowski
The neocon anti-Putin propaganda campaign made landfall in the perspective section of my local ‘liberal’ newspaper Sunday morning causing me no small amount of indigestion over breakfast. In addition to a reprinting of that insane Washington Post Gary Kasparov diatribe  (this is Florida for Christ’s sake – NASCAR country) there were various and sundry other screeds, all pushing the same centralized talking points for open hostilities towards Russia. It may only be a coincidence but the frenzied escalation in Cold War era rhetoric has exploded just as looming cuts to the bloated US defense budget were coming, the warfare state like any parasite must devour the host in order to survive and nothing brooks continued employment and profits more than a state of eternal warfare. As the optimist who was George Orwell so brilliantly nailed it in his enduring view of a future dystopia in the novel 1984 – “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” and this alone is exactly why the future will be that of “a boot stamping on a human face — forever”.
The entire US establishment is ‘all-in’ pushing for the avenging of the indignities inflicted upon The Homeland and its preening narcissist of a front man Barack Obama by the detested Vladimir Putin. The daily escalation of the propaganda wars only takes a break for coverage of that missing Malaysian jetliner and even then it is spun to advance the agenda of the warfare and surveillance states by fascist scum the likes of safely gerrymandered Congressmen Michael McCaul of Texas and Mike “Ramrod” Rogers of Michigan. Appearing on this week's NBC gabfest Meet the Press with the insipid faux jounalist David Gregory Rogers continued his Sunday morning sermons where he continues to embarrasses all of America by just riffing off  unchallenged. The weekly offering was made even more ridiculous by the invocation of what is an obvious talking point - in all probability supplied by one of the think tanks or media chop shops within the William Kristol neocon Axis of Evil:
“Mr. Putin we’re done with you expanding into other countries. He goes to bed at night thinking of Peter the Great, he wakes up thinking of Stalin. We need to understand who he is and what he wants.”
Such a zinger is much too highbrow for a knuckle-dragger like Rogers and the reliance on the bread and butter neocon World War II references as a crutch is a dead giveaway. Really though, if anyone has balls enough to invoke both Hitler and Stalin in the same sentence it would be Rogers, his ongoing defense of the rogue NSA surveillance machine, one that totally blows away any ever utilized by the Gestapo or NKVD - either of which Rogers would have fit very nicely within as a key member of the inner circle.
Like a late stage manic pederast the man just cannot restrain himself. He also upped the once ante again by accusing Snowden of being involved in actual collaboration with that demonic destroyer of worlds Putin. If Rogers has any proof whatsoever one would think that he could rapidly mobilize some secret congressional tribunal to make his accusations actually stick for a change but he is content to be a cheap imitation of Richard M. Nixon relentlessly going after his own Alger Hiss.  That this guy never, ever gets called on any of the insane bullshit and lies that he constantly pulls out of his ass without the burden of proof is the ultimate example of how the state-corporate media has been turned into nothing less than a propaganda machine to be used - as Rogers' beloved NSA Stasi is - as a weapon of the criminal political class against the American people. If there was ever a man as totally full of bullshit as Congressman Rogers – that is outside of Senator Joseph McCarthy  - I have no idea of who it would be. The man is a walking, talking example of everything that has gone so horribly wrong in this once great country and yet he is allowed to preside over the powerful House Intelligence Committee and like the de facto president, neo-Nazi loving Senator John McCain is regularly afforded national face time on the Sunday morning ‘news’ circuit.
The rush to stick it to Putin, even if it results in some freak accident that triggers a global thermonuclear war has this country on the precipice of a serious and historic disaster and unless there is some adult leadership that is above the pay grades of foaming at the mouth warmongers like Rogers and McCain as well as the thin-skinned Obama that soon appears to reign these assholes in then the worst is yet to come.  The supreme commander of NATO which should have been dismantled and scattered to the winds after the end of the Cold War is mouthing off about some fantasy that Russian troops are soon to invade Moldova as the regional tensions continue to escalate. Obama is to make his grand appearance at the Hague (where he should be standing in the dock) for nuclear talks where he will be meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to muster up support for economic sanctions against Putin. I would like to be a fly on the wall for that conversation considering that the news was just broken yesterday about the NSA Stasi's spying on Chinese tech giant Huawai as well as Chinese government itself. That should be one hell of an icebreaker as the flaming hypocrisy of the American global bully is exposed once again.
When it comes to American double standards you have to hand it to El Presidente's better half Michelle Obama who in her recent visit to China has the audacity to lecture the Chinese about free speech. Her husband and his administration have zero respect for such a concept with their ongoing war on journalists and whistleblowers.  China is only ahead of the curve and considering the rapidly metastasizing surveillance and police state that her hubby presides over it is only a matter of time when The Homeland rockets past the future dominant world power in terms of the raw force of the big government using all of the tools in the box to crush dissent and any serious opposition to their new world order enforced on behalf of the elite.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Neocon Propaganda Mill Churns On


"The preparations for Hate Week were in full swing, and the staffs of all the Ministries were working overtime. Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked..”.
- George Orwell's 1984
The neocon infested propaganda mills continue to churn, not only spinning away the Svoboda party MP attack on Oleksandr Panteleymonov but in the rush to nail Putin to their cross of lies there are as many omissions as there are sleazy hit jobs. I do have to hand it to the neocons for their perseverance as well as a never-ending supply of chutzpah. The increasing shrill squeals of outrage emanating from our star spangled chorus of swine not only continues unabated but in one of those wonderful centralized talking points that usually get attached to economic tales of wonder is “picking up steam”. The Washington Post though is in a league of its own when it comes to pumping out the lies and propaganda which it does as though each hit piece were a link sausage stuffed with tainted skunk meat.
The crown jewel of Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos’ empire has ratcheted up the production line speed with the latest foray into ridiculousness being a nasty diatribe by chess master Garry Kasparov with yet one more of those amazingly creative titles “It’s Time to Stop Putin” from which I excerpt:
The next obstacle to stopping Putin is the self-imposed paralysis of the leaders of Europe and the Group of Seven. It is easier for them to say that there is nothing they can do to check Putin’s ambitions than to admit that they lack the courage to act. Putin keeps raising the stakes, and the West just keeps folding. There are plenty of levers available to apply pressure on Putin, but they require confronting several hard truths. And this is a generation of political leaders accustomed to telling citizens that it is possible to both cut taxes and spend more, to be free and be safe, to be a great power without ever using power.
AND
The first hard truth is that the only sanctions or other measures that would affect Putin’s conduct are those that, directly or indirectly, would target his hold on power. That is all Putin cares about, because he knows what happens when people in his position lose that grip. This is why a recent comment by Secretary of State John Kerry was precisely wrong. “We hope President Putin will recognize that none of what we’re saying is meant as a threat,” Kerry said. “It’s not meant in a personal way.” With one feeble remark, Kerry took off the table the only thing Putin cares about.
Obama repeated this mistake on Wednesday when he said that the United States would not send troops to defend Ukraine. Nobody was asking for troops, and Obama probably thinks he is defusing tensions. But where Obama sees a gesture of peaceful intent, Putin sees more weakness. To Putin, his opponent freely surrendered one of his greatest advantages: America’s overwhelming military strength. On Iran, on Syria and now regarding Ukraine, Obama has outsourced his foreign policy to Putin and, in so doing, has crippled the power of his office in ways that will long outlast his White House tenure.
While Kasparov speaks fluent neocon which is obvious by the insane level of sheer bellicosity of his screed it will be as pearls before swine because this is after all America and nobody really gives a rats ass about fucking chess. The NFL and NASCAR are king in this macho, war-saturated collection of superstitious religious fanatics, hard core homophobes, gun-totin’ Duck Dynasty types and neo-Confederate dumbasses who think that chess is for fags and pussies and that real men don’t waste their time on such endeavors. Now if the WaPo can dig up some disgruntled former Russian pro football player or distill all of that crap down and put it on the side of a race car it would resonate more with the demographic that the neocons so desperately need to get riled up as shock troops for the November mid-term elections. The WaPo has truly descended into the depths of parody and is little more than FOX News for people who bother to read but the more time that is devoted to the anti-Putin onslaught the more that the venue begins to resemble something more like Der Stürmer which would be apropos given the support pumped out for the neo-Nazis in Kiev. 
What is more troubling however is the flip side of the rabble rousing to topple the Putin regime is the complete absence of any serious discussion of what the consequences may be in terms of the ongoing economic sanctions that Obama keeps pushing. Russia isn’t Iran and there is going to be a very real and serious counter-response at some point. Europe is heavily dependent on Russian gas exports and there is already a restiveness afflicting the EU over how rapidly that this disaster is spinning out of control. Mr. Putin could quite simply cut off the gas which would delight American energy corporations already salivating over the prospect of exporting the bounty of domestic gas provided by the fracking boom. Obama may even be tempted to tap into the national strategic petroleum reserves to send it to Europe which should result in his immediate impeachment and subsequent removal from office but any such move would be greeted with the overwhelming bipartisan support that typically is bestowed upon the American war machine.
Putin is already reaching out to China for an alliance that has President Obama sufficiently rattled that he has juggled his coming schedule where he will be attempting to piece together another of those coalitions of the willing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at The Hague (the sheer irony of that one is delightful) to prostate himself before our top provider of funding. Despite the vast military superiority of the American Empire the wars of the future (and perhaps the present) will be fought through economics and the prospect of Putin cutting a deal with the Chinese who continue to keep the US economy on life support would be very problematic. Imagine what would happen if Russia and China dropped the dollar – you would need the proverbial wheelbarrow full of Reichmarks to buy a loaf of fucking bread as the entire house of cards would collapse. Not that the economic destruction of the imperial war machine would be a bad thing but with the collection of idiots, loose-cannons, narcissists and warmongers currently in charge they may counter any such move by punching in the nuclear launch codes.
None of this is ever offered up as a topic of debate because we no longer have such a thing in The Homeland nor would there be much participation if we did given the triumph of the willfully ignorant.
The US government and the media is lying about everything and the bigger the lies, the more that Obama's overly sensitive pride is tweaked and the more that the entire establishment continues to go 'all in' and push all of the chips to the center of the table this latest orgy of national brainwashing will continue.