Atlanta Airport Protester: The CDC is Lying

As America continues to react to the news about the first domestic victim of the Ebola virus the professional damage control teams are scrambling to avoid a mass panic. The infected, a man from Liberia named Thomas Eric Duncan who was visiting his girlfriend in Dallas when he fell ill was initially sent home by a local hospital allowing him to spend days where he could have spread the virus. This could be big trouble in the U.S.A. especially when considering that children who were exposed to Duncan went to school where they were in contact with hundreds of other kids.

When you live in a country where lies and government propaganda have reduced the credibility of the establishment to pretty much zero - unless you happen to be a gullible fool - it is naive and silly to expect that our rulers would suddenly begin telling the truth. This is particularly so with the potential for the spread of the Ebola virus and the very serious economic damage that cold result were there to be a widespread outbreak. So the government does what it does best, it goes into spin mode, tries to manage the reaction and according to one story buys 160,000 HazMat suits.

In a protest for these dire times a doctor showed up at Atlanta's international airport, a major transportation hub in a protective suit to spread awareness about government disinformation over Ebola. According to a story from the website of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled "Doctor dons Ebola protection suit to protest ‘asleep at the wheel’ CDC":

Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, a Missouri doctor Thursday morning showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.

Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.

Efforts to reach a CDC spokesperson for comments on Mobley’s criticism have been unsuccessful.

For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call,” he said.

“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”

Mobley, a Medical College of Georgia graduate who had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday, said that he feels that the CDC is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.

“Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport,” the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol.”

That Dr. Mobley was able to pass through security wearing a protective suit is not only astonishing given the Soviet Bloc style checkpoints that travelers are subjected to but also an indictment of the incompetence of the TSA.  While the government goons are busily feeling up small children and making elderly women take off their medical diapers, a man whose inspiration may have been the movie Twelve Monkeys is able to go about his business unmolested.

Is there any wonder why faith in government competence is at an all time low?

Ukraine: The US Government is Lying about Everything

With the cat out of the bag about exactly what type of “freedom fighters” that the US is backing in Ukraine thanks largely to the selfie video of Svoboda party thugs pummeling a television executive it is obvious to any and all outside of The Homeland cocoon that the Obama regime is lying their asses off.  The fortified stone wall of bullshit that is the US state-corporate media parroting the official line on what was a neocon instigated overthrow of a democratically elected leader who had just agreed to placate protesters with early elections is astounding. It brings to mind the march towards the attack upon and subsequent occupation of Iraq, a country that did not even remotely threaten the US by the Bush administration and the neocon ideologues that drove policy in the early years of the new American century. The wall to wall vilification of Saddam Hussein was the prototype for the ongoing spree of demagoguery directed at Russian president Vladimir Putin and which has been so withering that it is obvious that this is all about more than Ukraine. It is about Snowden and Syria as well as a pitched battle to save what is the fully mutated form of parasitic global finance capitalism.

The video of the beating of Ukraine state television boss Oleksandr Panteleymonov went viral to the extent that even the corrupt US media had to acknowledge it. The antics of Senator John McCain’s neo-Nazi pals however was spun accordingly and dishonestly in this AP story “Ukraine Nationalist Antics Seen as Gift to Russia” from which I excerpt:

The assault, which prompted condemnation in the West, presents an important test for Ukraine's new pro-Western government.

First, it's eager to show a modern, democratic face to the world as it enters a landmark political association pact with the European Union. Perhaps more gravely, the nationalist violence plays directly into the hands of Russia's propaganda spinners: State-controlled media eagerly used the incident to portray Kiev's leadership as a hive of radical nationalists who terrorize Russian speakers, justifying the Kremlin's moves to protect them in Ukraine.

Tensions are high in Ukraine as the government debates whether to pull its troops from the Crimean peninsula, where Russian forces are seizing Ukrainian ships and evicting soldiers from military bases. Crimeans are eagerly lining up to apply for Russian passports, while Russian tanks and troops amass near the border with eastern Ukraine.

For Ihor Miroshnichenko, a lawmaker with the nationalist Svoboda party, those scenes of Russian domination were all too much.

And the broadcast of Russian celebrations seemed to add insult to injury.

To vent his rage, he led a group of Svoboda colleagues in storming the office of the First National channel's chief, Oleksandr Panteleymonov, used an insulting term used to describe Russians and punched him repeatedly, while an aide recorded the scene on video.

"Today Ukraine is in a state of war and in a state of partial occupation by Russia. And when war is going on, giving the air to the enemy — I believe it is state treason," Miroshenichenko, a former journalist who sits on the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech, told the Hromadske online television channel.

"I cannot imagine that Poland which was occupied by Hitler would give him airtime on the radio so that Fuhrer could explain his position."

Miroshnichenko admitted that he may have overreacted — although he refused to acknowledge that he actually beat Panteleymonov.

The TV executive said in a statement Friday that he is ready to leave his post, but only if there is a legitimate government decision to replace him.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk condemned the assault as undemocratic.

"These are not our methods," Yatsenyuk said in a statement. "A country which is going toward the European Union will continue to profess the basic principles and values of the European Community."

His position is complicated by the fact that Svoboda, a vocal force in parliament that took part in the protests that ousted the pro-Russian government, received several key posts in the Cabinet — including prosecutor general, the very figure who will be in charge of investigating the TV station attack.

The United States said it was "deeply offended by this incident, which was not an exercise in patriotism, but instead a reminder of the thug-like tactics previously employed by the Yanukovych regime," the U.S. Embassy in Kiev said in a statement. "This behavior has no place in a Ukraine committed to defending democracy, civil liberties, and individual freedoms, particularly press freedoms."

A sheer masterpiece of obfuscation, spin and pure bullshit is on display and the piece should serve as a vital inclusion in any textbooks on the required reading list for Goebbels 101.The Miroshnichenko excuse that he “may have overreacted” could only be taken seriously in a land where gun violence has become so commonplace that a man could be gunned down in cold blood in a Florida movie theater because of a similar overreaction that a box of popcorn was a threat to one’s safety, there are far too many other examples of such overreactions and the Miroshnichenko excuse is hogwash. The line about the “thug-like tactics previously employed by the Yanukovych regime” stretches the bounds of audacity as does the overarching theme of the piece itself which paints the thug as the victim. It is however no small defeat for the neocons and their propagandists in that they were forced to put out a story at all even if it was just a potpourri of fibs for damage control purposes.

The most problematic aspect of this entire bringing “democracy” to Ukraine and proxy war on Putin farce to the establishment is the prevalence of vicious neo-Nazis and fascists in the western puppet government of Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk. The pictures of our de facto president John McCain palling around with them should be eliciting some serious questions about exactly the sort of vermin that the US taxpayer is subsidizing. Anyone with a computer and the ability to use Google can easily find the sordid histories of McCain’s friends and their deplorable anti-Semitism – where is the ADL and the rest of the Israel Lobby on all of this? Their absence is a damning indictment of their agenda which is more about exerting influence on US foreign and domestic policy – as in the ongoing attacks on free speech at American universities – and one would think that if they had any credibility that they would be asking very serious questions about the composition of the recently installed government in Kiev.

If there is any one writer who continually amazes me with his ability to cut through the bullshit it is Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com, a website that is such a thorn in the side of the imperial warfare state that it was under surveillance by the FBI which is a badge of honor in this lamentable land of apple pie authoritarianism. Raimondo’s most recent piece entitled “Ukraine’s Mysterious Snipers” brings up the Obama-Neocon joint venture’s neo-Nazi problem. I excerpt the following:

There is nothing subtle about the views of Svoboda and Right Sector, the two parties which have moved into the leadership of the coupist "interim government": the former used to be called the "Social National Party," and was founded as a memorial to the views of Stepan Bandera, leader of the World War II pro-Nazi militia that fought the Russians and directly participated in the Holocaust. Right Sector, a paramilitary group in charge of "security" at the Maidan, is even more extreme; it was formed from the merger of several militant neo-Nazi groups, including "White Hammer" and "Trident." Neo-Nazis have come from all over Europe to join in Ukraine’s "national revolution.

Sooner or later, the ugliness of what is occurring in Ukraine is going to come out: you can’t hide a neo-Nazi "national revolution" under the very thin veneer of a "pro-EU" protest forever. And these guys are particularly unpretty – little more than thugs masquerading as political "activists." There is entirely too much to sweep under the rug here – and the lumps in the fabric are already showing.

And the lumps will only get more obvious as reports from those being beaten and politically persecuted in Ukraine continue to seep out which they inevitably will given a bit of time. The official denial that the US is backing and funding an un-democratically installed coup government infested with fascists and neo-Nazis has to this point been dismissed as so much Putin propaganda. However, as anyone who has observed the long and painful decline of what was once a powerful democracy into a dystopian society where the media has become nothing more than a propaganda organ for the now fully rogue Deep State that only uses the visible government as an exoskeleton it serves as just one more official lie on top of a mountain of them.

Calling a Spade a Spade: Obamacare is a Corporate Scam

As Barack Obama's approval rating continues to descend into the netherworld pit normally occupied by used car salesmen, child molesters and the U.S. Congress it is becoming clearer by the day that Obamacare is the largest vat of snake oil ever sold to the American public. Policies are being cancelled and blood sucking insurers are already wailing about a loss in profits due to delays in with implementation. The big fascist government just can’t deliver the yoked and chained chattel to the man fast enough to book those holiday bonuses. It is already an unqualified disaster – except to insurance companies who despite their current whining over delays will soon have millions of new customers, forced to buy a product from their private corporations with the threat of government enforcement providing the muscle. The mafia could only dream about having it this good.

I already have spoken to a number of people who I know personally who are getting the screws put to them by the greedball corporations that they work for over huge rises in health insurance premiums, particular when covering spouses or partners. The so-called tea party as led by big money funders, many with links to the Bircher Koch Brothers have repeatedly used the lie that Obamacare is “socialism”, a word that has been practically rendered meaningless so distorted has it become in the Homeland. That anyone can actually take seriously attacking Obamacare under this pretense shows just how asinine and gullible that the shock troops for big money actually are. We live in a hybrid socialist society, what the hell do people think that the police and fire departments or in cynical political speak “first-responders” are? None of the dummies marching around with their anti-Obamacare, anti-Socialism signs and placards understand this which they should on a basic level. I mean come on now, how many of them and the demographics are skewed with the age of the average tea partier being older would put their money where their mouths are and if they are so opposed to “socialism” then give back their Medicare and Social Security checks to balance the budget? Take a stand on principle which is pretty rare on the big star-spangled lemming farm. I doubt that the lines would be forming anytime soon.

The only level that Obamacare IS “socialism” is that it is the modern American form where the besieged and vanishing middle class continue to be shaken down to subsidize the corporations and the rich who can buy political influence. We do have “socialism” but in this down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass, bizarro version of America it is inverted. That is the truth about his insipid scam of a health care “reform” program as it is with everything else these days – it all benefits those who have the means to purchase political influence in Washington, statehouses and courthouses.

The intent of the Orwellian named Affordable Care Act is of course to allow corporate America to kick employees to the curb and into the jaws of the ravenous health insurance industry parasite. Obamacare is to American health insurance with TARP and QE-forever is to the Wall Street banksters. Hell, let’s have some real socialized medical care, screw the bullshit Republican talking points and give me the Veterans Administration which really is socialized medicine. The facilities are owned by the government and the doctors are paid by the government and goddamn it, if it’s good enough for our precious troops then it should be good enough for everyone. Death panels? Hogwash, the real death panels are within the private insurance companies who are able to buy government access and use their congressional embedded shocktroops as defacto lobbyists to write the damned laws.

Americans need a national health care system that is honest, not this crony capitalist horseshit that Barry and the boys have rammed down our throats in the interests of placating campaign donors. The sooner the better too, given that Obamacare has now been revealed as a national debacle that will only accelerate the economic collapse. I can see no reason why people don’t get behind it, let’s see our damned tax money put to work actually providing something other than graft to grease the wheels of a corrupt system and the bombs to blow brown skinned foreigners to kingdom come. But there is good news, as the drop notices arrive in people’s mailbox and the open enrollments for employer health insurance programs show the real intent of this massive con job with the spike in dependent care rates people are starting to get it.

Even the liberal comedians are turning on Obama over the ACA fiasco, first it was Jon Stewart and most recently HBO’s Bill Maher who called bullshit on Barry’s DNC head Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for her defending of the indefensible.

“Obama had a great, I would say, almost sterling reputation for honesty…but I just think that credibility to a certain extent, that ship has sailed,” Maher said on his HBO program “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Wasserman Schultz dismissed claims that Obama misled Americans.

“It was not a lie, let’s just be very clear. So let me knock that down right away,” Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said. “When the president and myself and every other Democrat that talked about that if you like your health care, you can keep it, that was referring to the overwhelming majority of Americans who had health care.”

Maher, who criticized the president earlier this week for lying, pushed back and argued that plans — albeit “crappy”— were being canceled under the new law.

“C’mon, let’s be honest. Obamacare says, basically, if you have a really crappy plan, you can’t keep it. That’s the truth,” Maher said. “But some people want crap, what can I say? And because of Obamcare, they are not being able to keep it. To me, that is a lie.”

Wasserman Schultz acknowledged “there was a minimum floor of benefits” so that Americans aren’t “all paying, at the end of the day, for everybody else’s health care.”

She called the debate over whether Obama lied as “arguing over minutiae,” a point Maher pounced on.

“To a lot of Americans, it’s not minutiae and I think they’re insulted when [they] hear [you] say that because they think it’s something important when the president doesn’t square up with them,” Maher said.

Not that I agree with much of what he says as he to this day  remains the penultimate party hack but the old warhorse Pat Buchanan righteously railed against Obama’s latest lie in his piece The First Hustler Runs the Big Con:

All along, it had been a bait-and-switch by the first hustler.

In Boston, Obama could no longer evade the truth. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who had purchased health insurance in the private market were getting notices their plans were being canceled.

That this revelation had blown a hole in his credibility did not seem to trouble Obama. Indeed, the president appeared impatient with the complaints. These were “substandard” plans anyhow, he said, the lousy offerings of “bad-apple insurers.”

“So if you’re getting one of those letters (canceling your insurance plan), just shop around in the new marketplace. … You’re going to get a better deal.”

Behind the arrogance is the realty: Obama has the veto power. No alteration of Obamacare, except for changes he approves, can be made before the winter of 2017. And by then, Obamacare will be so deeply embedded in law and practice it will be beyond repeal.

We won, you lost, was written across Obama’s face.

Yet, Obama’s victory calls to mind that of King Pyrrhus of Epirus over the Romans at Asculum as described by Plutarch. Counting up his dead friends, dead commanders and dead soldiers, the king remarked, “One more such victory and we are undone.”

The price Obama will be a long time paying for this victory is historic and huge.

First, there is the irreversible damage to his credibility and integrity. He conned the people into believing something he knew to be false — that all Americans would be allowed to keep the health care plans that they had and liked.

Come on Pat, the bastard lied about closing down our Guantanamo Bay penal colony/torture camp, the first of years of prevarications, misrepresentations and bullshit meter pegging total whoppers. Who, outside of liberal cretins and useful idiots can possibly believe on damned word that flies out of this man’s mouth? He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has proceeded to participate in the drawing up of kill lists for his cowardly drone attacks. He lied about Wall Street being held accountable for wrecking the economy while his administration continued to shovel the taxpayer funded gaming chips into the ivory tower casinos of Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon. He lied about the Syrian regime gassing children at Ghouta and he is lying on a daily basis about his NSA Stasi. Jesus Christ, the man will call the night as day and piss down your back and tell you it is raining. What in the hell does Buchanan think that the primary qualification of the office is (other than war criminal), he worked for Nixon for God’s sake.

Obama has lied about this abortion of a health care “reform” since its inception. It is nothing but another giant corporate gift and the ordinary schmucks again get the shaft. Were this any serious effort to reform the system – and mind you that the existing private insurance con game that fills the coffers of middlemen while spending little on actual health care – it would have included a PUBLIC OPTION along the lines of Medicare. American business are at a continual competitive disadvantage in having to compete with countries that have a national health care system, this may be anathema to many of the free-market types but it is punitive to domestic business. Throw in the NSA debacle and the now in process flight from American tech companies who cannot be counted on to provide secure access and the future is very bleak indeed for what is left of American capitalism. It was Halloween a few days ago and the ghost of Karl Marx must be hoarse from laughing at what American greed has done to capitalism, it no longer exists.