Preaching From the Propaganda Pulpit on Easter Sunday

Pope Francis made a plea for peace in Syria and Ukraine on Easter Sunday while the warmongers here in The Homeland took to the airwaves to sell the exactly the opposite message. You would think that the corrupt state-corporate media, the neocons and the American political class would at least honor those who wish to celebrate the Easter holiday in peace with their friends and family. In actuality, it is a great time to go on the air with dishonest interviews of characters of ill repute, peddle outrageous lies and reach the maximum desired audience so as to bring their horseshit to family dinners. Easter Sunday was no exception and the usual array of scum was present on the telescreens to preach their message of fear, loathing and vengeance. Shameful but that’s just the way that we roll in the smoking crater of what is left of America these days.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press with the always slimy David Gregory was none other than the US installed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of the occupying coup government in Kiev. The neocon puppet “Yats” hit all of the talking points in a command performance on what is supposedly a holy day including the obviously faked leaflets distributed in Eastern Ukraine to force Jews to register.  This is a massive whopper that stinks of black propaganda and has already been discredited - outside of the pocket media that is. "Yats" also read all of his lines and delivered them with gusto when announcing the demonized and reviled Russian president Vladimir Putin's alleged moves to reconstruct the Soviet empire, it is the latest version of that restoration of the Islamic Caliphate what was used for so long to great effect to carry out the war on Muslims. 

The "exclusive" Gregory-Yats interview was more of the same crap that has been peddled to Boobus Americanus over the US instigated situation in Ukraine. I excerpt the following from the transcript (the entire thing is here):

DAVID GREGORY: The West including Ukraine, the United States, and Russia struck a deal to calm the violence in eastern Ukraine. What's it going to take for this deal to hold?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: Well, much depends on the Russian Federation. As Russia triggered this violence and Russia supported these terrorists, and Russia was obliged to engineer a meeting to condemn terrorists and to condemn those so-called peaceful protesters with AK-74 in their hands, shooting into civilians and shooting into Ukrainian riot police. And if Russia pulls back its security forces and former K.G.B. agents, this would definitely calm down the situation and stabilize the situation in southern and eastern Ukraine.

DAVID GREGORY: When you hear President Vladimir Putin talk about Novorossiya, “New Russia,” where he talks about Ukraine being part of Russia, does that tell you that Putin will not stop until Ukraine is part of Russia?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: President Putin has a dream to restore the Soviet Union. And every day, he goes further and further. And God knows where is the final destination. And he was very clear, saying this stuff in his state of the union two years ago. And I believe that you do remember his famous Munich speech saying that the biggest disaster of the former century is the collapse of the Soviet Union. I consider that the biggest disaster of this century would be the restoring of the Soviet Union under the auspices of President Putin.

DAVID GREGORY:Vice President Biden will be in Ukraine this coming week. My question to you, Prime Minister: Is Ukraine strong enough militarily to stop Russia in the east? If not, what specifically will you ask the Obama administration for? Do you need modern weaponry? Do you need advanced lethal weaponry to stop the Russians?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: We need a strong and solid state. We need financial and economic support. We need to overhaul the Ukrainian military. We need to modernize our security and military forces. We need the real support. You know, it's easy to answer the question you just asked me. How can you stop the nuclear-powered state which is Russian Federation that spent billions of dollars to modernize their military instead of Ukraine? In the last four years, the former president, together with the Russian supporters, what they did, they just dismantled Ukrainian military and Ukrainian security forces. So we need to be in very good shape in order to stop Russia. And for this shape, we need to have and to get the real support from our Western partners.

DAVID GREGORY: So you need weapons?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: We need financial, economic support. We need to modernize Ukrainian military and to overhaul all structures of Ukrainian defense system.

DAVID GREGORY: Final question. There have been ghastly reports coming out of eastern Ukraine this week about some kind of forces forcing Jews in the eastern part of the country to register with local authorities. What do you make of this? Are these accurate? Are Jews particularly at risk?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: We got information that these so-called peaceful protesters with light ammunition in their hands, that they sent a number of bulletins saying that everyone who is a Jew to be indicated as a Jew. And today in the morning, I made a clear statement urged Ukrainian military and security forces and Ukrainian Department of Homeland Security urgently to find these bastards and to bring them to justice.

It’s even money that the “bastards” will be some patsies who get killed in a shootout with military or security forces with incriminating ‘ties’ to Putin and Russia. The reference to the “Ukranian Department of Homeland Security” may as well be to the Ukranian Gestapo – the term “Homeland” or “Heimat” is in its true European element rather than a disease that has taken root in America. 

The whole thing adds up to Americans being on the hook to engage in still more costly and dangerous foreign misadventures. With millions of our own citizens out of work, underemployed, homeless, all of the hungry children right here in the US, a financial system that is gamed to the hilt and markets that cannot function without the government propping them up, an outdated and decaying infrastructure and yet it is acceptable to send billions to an illegally installed government in Ukraine? David Gregory is set for life as are the political class and their media court jesters but it sends a very clear message to the rest of the population and that message is “Fuck You”.  Let them eat war and beg for seconds.

Nice country, cutting food stamps and unemployment benefits for those impoverished by a system hijacked by looters that have government protection while arming neo-Nazi militias. The Jew registration hoax has real legs and one could suspect that the timing of it was purposely planned to occur during the week of Easter and Passover.  Call it “Operation Easter Outrage” and that there is no caution other than the usual rush to judgment it is because it is known exactly where the leaflets came from and that it is a psychological operation that is targeting the American sheeple. The shameless opportunist Glenn Beck’s website “The Blaze” is hammering it as well in a shining example of how low that the credibility of the flagship of the NBC ‘news’ armada has fallen. For the more upwardly mobile the cherished World War II references (with the exception of the critical fact that Russia was a US ally) appear in a piece featured in Forbes Magazine targeted towards the high finance parasite demographic that is entitled - and I shit you not - “Is Vladimir Putin Another Adolf Hitler?” from which I excerpt:

As Mein Kampf makes clear, Hitler sought to unite all the people of German speech and culture into one state, or Reich, preferably by peaceful negotiation, otherwise by war and conquest.

 To do this Hitler needed to void the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, which Germany had signed after its defeat in the Great War of 1914-18. First he marched into the Rhineland, which had been demilitarized under the treaty, stationing regular army divisions and tanks there. The Allies–Britain and France–did nothing.

 Next Hitler marched into German-speaking Austria–an annexation known as the Anschluss. Having been stripped of their empire and reduced to an insignificant small state, the Austrians were glad to become part of almighty Reich. Again, the Allies did nothing.

 Hitler’s next claim was the Sudetenland. This was a territory on the border of Czechoslovakia inhabited by a German-speaking people who were absorbed into the new state against their will. The Allies allowed this landgrab to stand in an agreement reached at a Munich summit meeting in September 1938. This was regarded as a surrender to Hitler, but British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who negotiated the agreement, argued that Hitler was merely asserting the rights of the Sudeten Germans, who wanted to belong to his Reich.

 The falsity of Chamberlain’s position and Hitler’s deceit were proved within months. The Sudetenland’s annexation had made the Czech frontier indefensible, and in March 1939 Hitler invaded. The Czechs put up no resistance, and the rest of the country fell into Hitler’s hands without a shot being fired.

I have lived a good while now and I have to admit that I have never seen anything like the blanket propaganda that has been shoveled like so much manure into the public domain since Putin’s timely intervention to stop the Obama regime from attacking Syria based on false pretenses over a sarin gas attack that reeks of a false flag operation. One analogy that the neocons fail to mention is that Hitler could never have pulled it off without the German people falling into line and in many cases becoming his accomplices – it was accomplished largely through lies and a propaganda machine that had no equal. I would figure that the readers of Forbes would be more sophisticated than Glenn Beck worshippers but then again the entire country is now populated largely by idiots who have been fed a constant diet of lies across the entire demographic range so as to be effectively lobotomized perhaps I give the formally educated too much credit. 

And what would the Sunday morning gabfest be without Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul who just had to cynically milk the Boston Marathon bombing anniversary one more time with his dire warning that another bomb may blow up in Beantown on Monday on ABC's this Week to the delight of the grinning little shitbag William Kristol, the Joseph Goebbels of the modern era who is now a co-host.

Jesus Wept

War Pimps Continue to Push for Syria Attack

Sunday morning McCain was among the legion of bloodsucking vampires hitting the propaganda circuit in a desperate effort to resuscitate their blessed Syrian war. On the ridiculous farce that is NBC’s Press the Meat where the reptilian David Gregory holds court it was McCain in his usual crazed manner who denounced Obama for the lamentable fact that half of Damascus isn’t in smoking ruins today. The deranged old bastard also called for support of the Free Syrian Army, apparently he didn’t get the memo that the head of the Syrian rebels, Ayman al-Zawhri as reported by Reuters had just issued what amounted to a fatwa calling for attacks within the United States. McCain, the penultimate media whore was following up his joint press statement made with his little buddy Lindsey by his side  in which the doomsday duo parroted the standard line about Syrian president Assad, downplaying the U.S.-Russia agreement on chemical weapons that temporarily stopped the attack in that he will be able to "go on slaughtering innocent civilians and destabilizing the Middle East.". the truth is that it is thanks to McCain and his ilk that the Middle East has been destabilized due to their illegal wars of aggression and overt lobbying for the munitions industry that results in the lucrative arming of multiple sides of any given conflict. And yet the man never gets called on his bullshit so much has he falsely built his reputation as some kind of war hero whose craving of death and destruction borders on the same type of sick mania that drives a predatory pederast. McCain probably gets an erection when he catches the scent of burning human flesh.

In labeling the deal to avoid a U.S. lone wolf attack "a provocative act of weakness" McCain used his Sunday morning soapbox to engage in his standard demagoguery much to the delight of the host. Gregory, who is nothing other than a proxy for his state paymasters is the same talking head who recently used his forum to issue veiled threats against Glenn Greenwald. The Guardian journalist's implied treachery was of course writing about the revelations of former Booz Allen contractor  Edward Snowden about the crimes of the NSA Stasi . Now MCain may see anything short of global thermonuclear war as an "act of weakness" and thereby presenting the the world the confirmation of the cartoon U.S. warmongering politician but Gregory is an even bigger piece of work and certainly not a  journalist in the literal sense of the term. In fact he brings to mind the classic description of Geraldo Rivera in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as brilliantly written by L.A. Times film critic Tim Rutten: "Seeing him descend bright-eyed and sweaty on wretched New Orleans, as he did in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, was like watching a vulture on crystal meth. The word that came to mind was not 'reporting,' but 'feeding.'" A perfect example of how to describe Gregory’s style of ‘journalism’ which along with its sister tabloid sleaze is what now passes for news in this morally bankrupt , rapidly crumbling empire.

In addition to the postponement of their lovely war the interjection of Vladimir Putin into the situation has driven the neocons completely insane. If there is one thing that these degenerate death mongers hate more than Muslims it is Russia.  The original foreign devil that served as the glue that held the crazies together was their bitter Cold War era hatred for the bear that still endures over two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Their philosophy had roots in the theories of a man named Leo Strauss, a German born Chicago academic who believed in the manipulative use of religion and nationalism in order to deceive the masses into unquestionably accepting a state of constant war under the pretense of the "noble lie".  A valuable source of information on Strauss and the long term effects of his theories is Adam Curtis's three part BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares. Among the most influential disciples of Strauss was a certain Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Bush-Cheney Iraq war and a member of the Ford administration's Team B that was commissioned to study the extent of the Soviet threat  to the United States. The study of course was used by Ford regime officials such as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to push for more aggressive policies to confront the Manichean devil of Russian Communism and to ensure that the defense industry would be able to continue to create bogeymen to justify the transference of taxpayer wealth to the war machine. Cheney and Rummy seem to turn up repeatedly in some of this country's most disastrous foreign policy blunders all predicated on the perpetual wars based on the work of Strauss and later in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). While it is an extremely complex topic any understanding of why men like John McCain are consistently able to ensnare this country in ruinous foreign conflicts that have zero benefits for the average American and only serve to make money for the weapons industry it is essential to become familiar with this history.

With the temporary respite thanks to the deal with the Russians on Assad's chemical weapons reigning in the dogs of war for the time being it will be critical for the warmongers to propagandize at every turn to sabotage the current agreement. Then Obama, having saved face over his idiotic "red line" ultimatum will be able to rock and roll, this time without having to deal with the dog and pony show of having to get Congress to sign off on the attacks. Democratic House whip Steny Hoyer has already given Obama the green light to circumvent the Constitution and there will inevitably be others as the lobbying by interests seeking to benefit from the carnage will be fast and furious.  Until then McCain, Graham and the rest of the jackals can stew in their own juices, bitching and whining over their postponed jolly good show. In a very amusing piece written by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern over at Consortium News he describes the atmosphere at state propaganda organ CNN after the Russian's took advantage of John Kerry's gaffe.

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Morose at CNN

 As the march toward war began meandering off in unexpected directions, I was lucky enough to observe, up-close and personal, the angry reaction of some of Israel’s top American supporters on Monday evening. That was after Russia drew Obama a new map for how to reach the desired destination of removing chemical weapons from Assad’s arsenal without going to war.

After doing an interview on CNN International, I opened the studio door and almost knocked over a small fellow named Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush’s former under-secretary of defense who in 2002-2003 had helped craft the fraudulent case for invading Iraq. And there standing next to him was former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the neocon from Connecticut who was a leading advocate for the Iraq War and pretty much every other potential war in the Middle East.

 Finding myself in the same room with two gentlemen responsible for so much misery in the world, I fell back on my recent training in non-violence, as we watched Piers Morgan try earnestly to spin the day’s astounding events. On the tube earlier, Anderson Cooper sought counsel from Ari Fleischer, former spokesman for George W. Bush, and David Gergen, long-time White House PR guru.

 Fleischer and Gergen were alternately downright furious over the Russian initiative to give peace a chance and disconsolate at seeing the prospect for U.S. military involvement in Syria disappear when we were oh so close. After some caustic and condescending outbursts, an almost surreally disconsolate mood set in. It looked like these fellas were not going to get their war.

 Later remarks by Lieberman and Wolfowitz reflected a distinctly funereal atmosphere. I felt I had come to a wake with somberly dressed folks (no pastel ties this time) grieving for a recently, dearly-departed war.

Among Lieberman’s vapid comments was the hope-against-hope assertion that President Obama, of course, could still commit troops to war without congressional authorization. I thought to myself, wow, here’s a fellow who was a senator for 24 years and almost our vice president, and he does not remember that the Founders gave Congress the sole power to declare war in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.

So I dug into my back pocket, pulled out my little copy of the Constitution, and carefully tore out Article 1. Then I lurked in the ornate elevator waiting area for Joe and Paul to come out. After the usual pleasantries (all politicians feel compelled to “remember” you once you say your name as though they should), I said, “Joe, I couldn’t believe what you said about the President not being required to get the approval of Congress before attacking a country like Syria. So, here; I tore out Article 1 of the Constitution for you; I have another copy, so you can keep it. Go home, read it, and see if what you just said is correct.”

It was a bad evening for war and for those pundits who like to joke about “giving war a chance.” For those of us who think war is not such a good idea – and truly should only be considered as an absolutely last resort – it was an uncommon day for rejoicing at the failure of the warmongers to again send young men and women to kill folks who pose no threat to us.

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Priceless. The part about tearing the page out of the pocket Constitution and giving it to that vicious troll Joseph Lieberman, the retired third stooge is absolutely classic especially when considering that the entire pack of swine have about as much respect for the document they do as a piece of toilet paper. So now we wait as the war machine plots their next move, one that will not only trigger the coming collapse but perhaps Armageddon itself.