Somebody Had to Punch the Bully

Barack Obama is going to Europe and America is going to Hell. Still smarting over the audacity of the newest devil of The Homeland Russian leader Vladimir Putin's pretty much telling Barry and the boys to go and fuck themselves and annexing Crimea despite the empty threats and howls of protestation from the political class El Presidente is soon to be on his way across the pond to meet with the heads of US client states over the next move. You have to give it to the man, he never gives up and never learns from his mistakes, January 2017 cannot possibly get here soon enough provided that Obama and his moronic foreign policy team don't get all of us nuked in the interim. I used to think that George W. Bush was a slimy, narcissistic bastard but he has nothing on Obama, at least Bush got a clue in his second term and somewhat distanced himself from the ruinous neocon pack of jackals and their plots for global dominance and after all he did send me $600 which I promptly spent unlike the long-legged lame duck who has spent the past five years stealing money from the taxpayers to subsidize the reckless gambling of his cronies on Wall Street.

The egotistical one is infuriated over Putin's incredible failure to understand where exactly his place is - a footstool to the global finance mafia with thousands of NATO missiles surrounding him - in the new world order of the coming fascist corporate dictatorship. The twin humiliations of Putin's saving of former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower from America's black site torture prisons followed up by his sweeping in to save the day after Obama and Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry had nearly succeeded in selling yet another illegal war in Syria stuck in dear leader's overly sensitive craw. The Russian backlash against the western backed and instigated overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine, with the assistance of mobs of neo-Nazis and other vicious thugs despite the big bad wolf's huffing and puffing in refusing to go along with the neocon putsch in Kiev was just too much to take. Whatever Obama may have been or could have been (I would suggest the following: an egomaniac ass, an unqualified dupe, a stooge of the oligarchy, an pompous teleprompter reading wonder who somehow managed to hit the political jackpot and an clear chronic fuck up) he has now become the tool of the now resurgent neocon dreams of global conquest. Hitler had nothing on those guys - he didn't have nukes or television.

With Obama now fully out of control in a desperate attempt to remain relevant after having been force fed a borscht and shit sandwich with a vodka chaser by Putin has gone mad having had drunk from the poisonous chalice of the neocons. It is at first inconceivable that so many who had been wrong about so much could still hold as much sway over the ultimate destiny of the United States and by extension the world - particularly those on the ample target list but they never really went away. Robert Parry who runs the great website Consortium News has been on the job while the rest of the pathetic excuse for a domestic media has been speculating about a missing jetliner, feasting like vultures on the flesh of the latest celebrity turned murderer Oscar Pistorius and reciting the daily anti-Putin talking points. Parry's recent piece "Neocons Have Weathered the Storm" is a must read from which I excerpt:

In Election 2006, GOP congressional candidates took a pounding because Bush and the Republicans were most associated with the neocons. In Election 2008, Sen. Hillary Clinton, a neocon-lite who had voted for the Iraq War, lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Sen. Barack Obama, who had opposed invading Iraq. Then, in the general election, Obama defeated neocon standard-bearer John McCain to win the White House.

At that moment, it looked like the neocons were in serious trouble. Indeed, many of them did have to pack up their personal belongings and depart government, seeking new jobs at think tanks or other neocon-friendly non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

More significantly, their grand strategy seemed discredited. Many Americans considered the neocons’ dream of more “regime change” across the Middle East — in countries opposed to Israel, especially Syria and Iran – to be an unending nightmare of death and destruction.

After taking office, President Obama called for winding down Bush’s wars and doing some “nation-building at home.” The broad American public seemed to agree. Even some right-wing Republicans were having second thoughts about the neocons’ advocacy of an American Empire, recognizing its devastating impact on the American Republic.

The Comeback

But the neocons were anything but finished. They had positioned themselves wisely.

They still controlled government-funded operations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED); they held prominent positions inside think tanks, from the American Enterprise Institute to the Council on Foreign Relations to the Brookings Institution; they had powerful allies in Congress, such as Senators McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman; and they dominated TV chat shows and opinion pages, particularly at the Washington Post, the capital’s hometown newspaper.

 Since the late 1970s and early 1980s when they first emerged as a noticeable force in Washington, the neocons had become “insiders.” They were both admired and feared for their intellectual ferocity, but — most important for their long-term survival – they had secured access to government money, including the slush fund at NED whose budget grew to over $100 million during the Bush-43 years.

NED, which was founded in 1983, is best known for investing in other countries’ “democracy building” (or CIA-style “destabilization” campaigns, depending on your point of view), but much of NED’s money actually goes to NGOs in Washington, meaning that it became a lifeline for neocon operatives who found themselves out of work because of the arrival of Obama.

While ideological advocates for other failed movements might have had to move back home or take up new professions, the neocons had their financial ballast (from NED and many other sources) so their ideological ship could ride out the rough weather.

And, despite Obama’s opposition to the neocons’ obsession with endless warfare, he didn’t purge them from his administration. Neocons, who had burrowed deep inside the U.S. government as “civil servants” or “career foreign service officers,” remained as a “stay-behind” force, looking for new allies and biding their time.

The lunatics are now running the asylum, I would recommend visiting Consortium News for more of this sort of insight and coverage of things that really matter, trust me. Now unfortunately, the rest as the saying goes is history and so are we unless the current power play is somehow repelled, I have to admit that things are not looking good now that Obama has gone totally rogue and the human gaffe machine Joe Biden is sliming around over in Europe talking shit about US military exercises in a region that thanks to neocon meddling and Obama administration incompetence is already a pile of gasoline soaked tinder just waiting for some idiot to throw in a match.

While I am used to being in the minority of my fellow Americans on many things, first and foremost being that I am an atheist (actually agnostic but people are too damned dumb to understand such a thing) with left libertarian views and an aversion to foreign wars and nation building so it is no big deal to me that I am rootin’ for Putin. With the absorption of Crimea into the Russian Federation and a wonderfully blistering denouncement of US and western hypocrisy the Russian President has finally stood up to the big, bad bully and delivered a long-deserved punch in the nose. The United States or more appropriately The Homeland is nothing but a desiccated husk of what it once was, the country that my own grandfather and his fellow citizens took fire and in many cases died for in World War II no longer exists. The end of that war - the “good war” in the parlance of the profiteering blood barters and paper changers who need the mythology to continue to cash in – allowed a parasitic elite and the political class which it serves to effectively overthrow the American system. The United States of America may still exist but all of that flag-draped righteous persona is nothing but an exo-skeleton, having long been usurped by the Deep State which is the greatest menace to the planet in world history.

I am ashamed to be an American and I am goddamned proud of it too.

I cheer against the Americans at the Olympics, refuse to acknowledge the Star-Spangled banner jingoism at sporting events and consider the Pledge of Allegiance to be the worst type of indoctrination, far surpassing that of the demonized Commies that the neocons and their allies in the so-called tea party confederacy of dunces so decry. There will always be plenty of fools willing to blindly salute whatever horseshit that this rotten to the core and now fully bought and sold government runs up the flag pole. I however am not one of them. 

Hell someone tell me exactly what the fuck there is to be proud about considering what this place has been turned into?

Obama Cynically Exploits MLK Legacy While Plotting Attack

As I was once told long ago by a world weary old traveler “desperation ain’t pretty” and I am one who always respects the wisdom of my elders.  His statement is truer today than ever as it is apparent that the rogue Obama administration is in a state of such desperation to do anything to stop the revelations over the NSA Stasi it is only a matter of how ugly it is going to get. For those who have an idea of history it doesn’t get much uglier than Barry choosing to take a dump all over Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of the famous “I have a dream speech”. It is of the utmost of cynicism and a revealing glimpse of how utterly devoid of consciousness that El Presidente is by paying homage to King on a day when his loathsome administration is preparing to launch military strikes on a country that has done absolutely nothing to us. But in Obama’s world ‘war is peace’ and while he spent parts of the day making public relations appearances and trotting out his same old sucker bait about hope and change he will soon preside over the bombing and missile strikes that will assuredly result in much “collateral damage” But to guys like him and the other swine who have occupied the office having blood on one’s hands is as blessed a rite of passage as dipping them into an urn of holy water. What is not said, and lies of omission are always the biggest lies of all here on our star-spangled lemming farm is that Martin Luther King Jr. vehemently opposed war. But our history is sanitized, stripped of any narrative that is inconvenient to the state much as Winston Smith found out during his day job at The Ministry of Truth.

There is a dog that needs to be wagged and by all reports that is going to happen very, very soon because quite frankly the petulant prince is damned sick and tired of having to be embarrassed for his war on the Constitution. While Russia blocked today’s U.N. National Security Council vote on the Syrian strike it is really of no concern of this lawless administration. They have already made it clear that they would invoke Slick Willie’s bombing of Belgrade for ‘humanitarian’ reasons and call in the strikes on Damascus no matter what is said, they simply don’t give a damn and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. This entire week has been a setup, from the initial hysteria over the Assad regime’s alleged gassing of women and children to the serpentine John Kerry’s demagoguery, right up there with the same horseshit that Colin Powell used to sell Americans on attacking Iraq (which is going swimmingly by the way with more carnage today) over cooked intelligence. That time it was Saddam’s mobile chemical weapons labs, this time it is John Kerry’s  hypocrisy laden blathering about “moral obscenities”. Like this country has any morals under the scum that has held power since the end of WW II, take for example the better late than never reporting that the U.S. and CIA knew full wall about Saddam’s use of chemical weapons and backed him at the time he was doing it. Kerry himself should know better (and he does but he is an elitist who is set for life) because it was in the very war that he hyped his service and later opposition to that used Agent Orange and Napalm against civilians. The man simply should make any decent human being want to vomit.

And it should be of no surprise that the Neocons who destroyed the Bush administration with their wet dreams for eternal war and global Empire are pushing Barry hard. In The Weekly Standard, the dirty little rag that is the Der Stürmer of the Neoconservative cancer in America a group of foreign policy “experts” are pushing for regime change in Syria. Among the signatories are Iran-Contra criminal Elliot Abrams, establishment GOP kingmaker Karl Rove, radical cleric Gary Bauer, Sarah Palin adviser Randy Scheunemann, former Senator and McCain-Graham BFF Joseph Lieberman, Mitt Romney adviser Dan Senor and of course William Kristol himself.  Kristol is a grinning little monkey with a big megaphone and a mania that borders on that of a pederast for sending other people to die. He is one of two influential media war pimps (the insipid Charles Krauthammer is the other) who were mockingly referred to by George W. Bush as “the bomber boys”.  The one thing that the Neocons all have in common is that they are chickenhawks who never served day one in the military. They are the same nerds who spent their high school days clustered around Avalon Hill board games in the school library fantasizing about growing up to be Caesars. And they always acted like they knew more than everybody else like the condescending little pricks that they were. The maladaptive twits would be laughable were they not afforded an exalted status by the military industrial complex and its offshoots who make billions of dollars a year off by keeping the war machine humming along.

The Neocons attached themselves to the Bush presidency like barnacles on the bottom of a garbage barge and then burdened the country with economic ruin with the two wars that were put onto the national credit card. Bush eventually saw the light and was a bit less aggressive in his second term, even to some degree shutting out Dick Cheney (enraging the V.P. by not pardoning Scooter Libby) and effectively ending the Project For The  New American Century as Wolfowitz, Feith and Perle were sent packing along with Von Rumsfeld. Bush was actually able to scale down the blood lust after he cleaned house but he was still stuck with two unwinnable and costly wars and a popularity rating only slightly above genital Herpes.

Now they have Barry’s ear….

Obama can talk all of this silver-tongued, finely parsed and carefully distilled bullshit that he is able to still sell but despite an in-the-pocket state-corporate propaganda system known as the media there are fewer buyers with each day. He can piss on Martin Luther King Jr. all that he wants,preaching economic and social justice while sparing no expense of the American war machine but as a wise man named Lincoln was so famously quoted: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”. The sell by date on Obama’s seemingly endless bag of malarkey is rapidly approaching, even though we are a dumbed down and television brainwashed nation in 2013 good old Abe’s words are enduring. Let’s see how four dollar a gallon gas gets Americans lined up behind him while he salutes old glory for yet another unnecessary, costly and immoral war.

The only place where a regime change is needed is in Washington and enough is enough, if the bombs and cruise missiles rain down on Syria is expected over this shoddy excuse of a pretense for war then it’s time to impeach the bastard.

Martin Luther King Jr. must be rolling over in his grave.