The Bear is Loose: Obama Now on Full Cruise Control

Conjuring up the inevitable references to Nero fiddling while Rome burned, President Barack Obama took a bit of time out of his daily duties to goof off, eat pizza, suck down some suds and play billiards in Denver. Tough gig presiding over the most vicious and hellbent at global domination empire of the past seventy or so years so the big man - or "the bear" as he now apparently now refers to himself. Hell, it's not like there is really anything going on in the world like an out of control surveillance machine spying on millions of American citizens, nor his neo-Nazi packed death squads engaging in ethnic cleansing in east Ukraine, nor indispensable ally Israel bombing civilians in Gaza, nor relations with critical EU  ally Germany collapsing due to the discovery of two US spies within the government, a humanitarian crisis on the US southern border with hordes of Latin American children coming to America or a bizarre situation involving the bogeyman ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The bear is loose!

It is looking pretty obvious that Obama is going to just milk the gig and run out the clock on his dismal second term in office - has there ever been a lamer duck? In all fairness George W. Bush dicked around on taxpayer money a lot too, mostly retreating to his phony western movie set Chickenhawk Ranch in Crawford, TX to hack away at brush and ride his dirt bike so it's now like Obama is breaking new ground here but it is arguable that Bush never really did much to begin with, leaving all of the heavy lifting to Dick Cheney and later Condi Rice but Obama was supposed to be the man of hope and change. Now that it has all turned into false hope and chump change, never quite able to recover from that initial self inflicted wound of the "Team of Rivals", the underestimating of how the overreaction to a black man as president would fuel a tsunami of ginned up racism that swept the Democrats from control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 mid-terms and the daily pitched battle against both his own incompetent administration as well as the scorched earth obstructionist Republicans. The man was always out of his league to begin with and it's obvious that he is now going to just coast through until January 2017.

The problem, other than the public relations aspect itself is that while Barry is out living it up he is leaving the work of actually running the country to guys like Secretary of State John Kerry, an abject moron albeit one with (like Bush) a Skull and Bones pedigree and Vice President Joe Biden. Other than the obvious set of gonads the one thing that both men have is an uncanny ability to say the dumbest goddamned things at the worst times and in the case of Kerry, chronic diarrhea of the mouth. While Obama yucks it up with the locals on his western foray Kerry has been in China where he like the walking embodiment of American hypocrisy that he has become wags his finger at the Chinese for spying. The latest breach being that Chinese technical wizards allegedly hacked into the database of the USG Office of Personnel Management. According to a story in The Guardian entitled "Kerry hits out at Chinese cyber-spying":

US secretary of state John Kerry condemned Chinese cyber-espionage in unusually strong terms while wrapping up a series of high-level meetings in Beijing on Thursday, as reports surfaced that Chinese hackers breached the US office of personnel management (OPM) earlier this year.

"Instances of cyber theft have harmed our business and threatened our nation's competitiveness," Kerry said at a joint closing session of the sixth annual strategic and economic dialogue, as it wrapped up its second day. "The loss of intellectual property through cyber [spying] has a chilling effect on innovation and investment."

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China foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei brushed off the allegation at a regular press briefing on Thursday. "Some US media and US cyber security [firms] always smear China and create the theory that China is a cyber threat, but they can't provide sufficient evidence of that," he said. "We feel strongly that these kinds of reports and comments are irresponsible and not worth a comment or refuting."

How John Forbes Kerry and by extension ANY representative of the USA! USA! USA!  actually elieve that they can possibly be taken serious anymore on anything outside of our cloistered borders is astonishing, the very epitome of the arrogance of American exceptionalism. Perhaps the greatest service provided by former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has performed is in outing the spying programs of the US government is that he exposed the entire rancid assembly of clowns as the phonies and hypocrites that they are. That Kerry lectured the Chinese at the same time that German Chancellor Angela Merkel ousted the CIA Station Chief from Germany over the discovery of the two moles shows the completely surreal alternate universe in which the Obama regime operates. It would by piss in your pants funny were it not so dangerous. It all brings to mind that great old Chinese of "may you live in interesting times".

Obama should have picked up a good supply of pot in Denver now that it's legal, since he already has spent years stumbling around is if in a drug induced fog what would the difference be if he just kicked back and pounded the bong for the next thirty months.

Pot Meets Kettle as US Accuses China of Spying

The farce continues. In a staged media event US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice had indicted five Chinese military officers with stealing data. The dog and pony show – complete with wanted posters – comes as the Obama regime stumbles from one foreign policy debacle to another and that accusing the Chinese of stealing data and spying on US interests is about as hypocritical as it comes in the aftermath of the revelations of former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Holder will go down as one of the worst Attorney Generals in US history and already has me longing for the good old days of John Ashcroft and the worst thing about Holder is that he just will not go away. This latest charade continues the pattern over the Obama second term of continuing to agitate for trouble with Russia and China and will not end well if it continues which it will given the thin skin of the narcissist in chief and his attack dog at DOJ.

What is truly stunning with today’s announcement (outside of the obvious hypocrisy) is not only that the Obama regime is given to the fantasy that it can indict foreign citizens but that somehow the Chinese leadership is compelled to turn over the officers for prosecution in what Holder describes as the courtesy of giving them “due process” in the American court system. Chinese President Xi Jinping must be shocked at the audacity of Obama’s minions and perhaps when he is done laughing his ass off he will issue a response. Something very, very strange is going on right now in The Homeland with the near daily carnival of perversion that is the elite political class appearing to be experiencing a collective hallucination of global invincibility.

I excerpt the following from The Guardian story “US charges Chinese military officials with stealing data as tensions escalate”:

The US Justice Department indicted five Chinese military officers with stealing data from six US companies and unions on Monday, inaugurating a major escalation of tensions with China over economic spycraft.

Attorney general Eric Holder announced that the US for the first time would seek to bring officials of a foreign government to the US to face charges of infiltrating American computer networks to steal data beneficial to US trade competitors. The Justice Department even went as far as printing “wanted” posters.

The charges come as revelations about the scale of National Security Agency surveillance from whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that at least some US surveillance carries an economic benefit.

“The range of trade secrets and other sensitive business information stolen in this case is significant and demands an aggressive response,” Holder said on Monday.

While suspicions about government sponsorship of corporate data theft have swirled around China for years, never before has the US formally accused officials from China, or any other government, of involvement.

Not only has attribution of online espionage long vexed investigators, the prospect of diplomatic or economic retaliation has also been an impediment to taking action. The Justice Department national security chief, John Carlin, and colleagues from the Federal Bureau of Investigation credited a years-long effort, and the willingness of companies to admit to a data breach, with “exposing the faces and the names behind the keyboards in Shanghai.”

Accused are Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui, whom a federal grand jury in Pennsylvania indicted on 31 counts of espionage. Carlin described the five men as members of a People’s Liberation Army entity known as Unit 61398.

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China's foreign ministry called the allegations “extremely ridiculous". Ministry spokesman Qin Gang demanded that the US “immediately rectify its mistake" and repeal the lawsuit, according to a statement on its website.

“This grave violation of the basic norms of international relations has harmed Chinese-US cooperation and mutual trust,” he said, adding that China has already lodged a formal complaint with US authorities.

The Chinese government frequently counters hacking allegations by claiming that the country is a safeguard of internet security and that cyber-attacks are a universal problem. Qin said that China “never engages in the activity of stealing commercial secrets through the internet.” He called the allegations “baseless”.

“For a long time, American authorities have conducted large-scale, organized cyber-theft and cyber-espionage activities against foreign dignitaries, companies and individuals,” he said. “This is already common knowledge.”

Indeed it is common knowledge and I can hardly wait for the other shoe to drop on the release of the big stories from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and his team - I just wonder if the hysteria of AG Holder may be that he himself is hearing the footsteps of the posse closing in. He has long been a connected dirty bastard and a fixer who according to the last story that Matt Taibbi did at Rolling Stone prior to fleeing that sinking ship specifically mentions one Eric Holder as being involved in some rather unsavory activity during the Clinton administration. I excerpt the following from Taibbi's “The Vampire Squid Strikes Again” about sleazy commodities scams:

The sudden turning on of this huge faucet of free money seems to have been a factor in an ensuing commodities shopping spree undertaken by all three firms. Morgan Stanley, for instance, claimed to have just $2.5 billion in commodity assets in March 2009. By September 2011, those holdings had nearly quadrupled, to $10.3 billion.

Goldman and Chase – along with Glencore and Trafigura, a pair of giant Swiss-based conglomerates that were offshoots of a firm founded by notorious deceased commodities trader and known market manipulator Marc Rich – all made notably coincidental purchases of metals-warehousing companies in 2010.

The presence of these Marc Rich entities is particularly noteworthy. According to famed Forbes reporter Paul Klebnikov, who was assassinated in 2004 after years of reports on Russian corruption, Rich made a fortune in the early Nineties striking crooked deals with the Soviet bosses who controlled the U.S.S.R.'s supplies of raw materials – in particular commodities like zinc and aluminum. These deals helped create a fledgling class of profiteers among the bosses of the crumbling Soviet empire, a class that would go on years later to help push Russia out of its communist past into its kleptocratic present.

"He'd strike a deal with the local party boss, or the director of a state-owned company," Klebnikov said back in 2001. "He'd say, 'OK, you will sell me the [commodity] at five to 10 percent of the world-market price . . . and in return, I will deposit some of the profit I make by reselling it 10 times higher on the world market, and put the kickback in a Swiss bank account.'"

Rich made these reported deals while in exile from the United States, which he fled in 1983 after the U.S. government charged him with tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy after being caught trading with rogue states like Iran, among other things. The state filed enough counts to put him away for life, and he remained a fugitive until January 2001, when a little-known Clinton administration Justice Department official named Eric Holder recommended Rich be pardoned. A report by the House Committee on Government Reform later concluded that Holder had not provided a credible explanation for supporting Rich's pardon and that he must have had "other motivations" that he didn't share with Congress. Among other things, the committee speculated that Holder had designs on the attorney general's office in a potential Al Gore administration.

In any case, in 2010, a decade after the Rich pardon, Holder was attorney general, but under Barack Obama, and two Rich-created firms, along with two banks that have been major donors to the Democratic Party, all made moves to buy up metals warehouses. In near simultaneous fashion, Goldman, Chase, Glencore and Trafigura bought companies that control warehouses all over the world for the LME, or London Metals Exchange. The LME is a privately owned exchange for world metals trading. It's the world's primary hub for determining metals prices and also for trading metals-based futures, options, swaps and other instruments.

That would be the same Marc Rich, the global high-finance swindler who is now deceased and whose wife Denise is Hillary's BFF. When I read the reference to Holder in Taibbi's piece it brought to mind something else that I read about him years back in the book by Al Martin "The Conspirators" that was published in 2002 from which I excerpt the following:

Eric Holder (I have a file on this guy six inches thick) was then the US Attorney for Washington D.C., and he personally presented the case to the grand jury.

An indictment was issued and then put under national security seal. Newcomb was eventually unindicted, forced out and retired.

Holder had previously been an Assistant United States Attorney in Little Rock. He was a very loyal Republican under then U.S. Attorney, now Senator Asa Hutchinson, investigating the links between narcotics trafficking, Mena and the Clinton administration in Arkansas.

Holder then moved up to US Attorney and zealously participated in all manner of Iran-Contra coverup.

And where is he today? Eric Holder is the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the United States.

If you look at his career and the cases he was involved in, Holder is a good example of how a Reagan-Bush coverup specialist became a Clinton coverup specialist.

Holder’s career route (the cases he prosecuted, or unprosecuted as the case may be) figure in subsequent allegations he faced in the 1990s during the Alexander probe of Iran-Contra cover-ups.

It’s a real classic example. It also sets the mold if one ever wanted to do a study on all of the people held over from the Reagan-Bush administration and put into the Clinton Administration. There were over 1,100, as we mentioned before, an unusually high number.

But look at who the people are. Look at the commonality between them.

Over two-thirds of the 1,100 people had been alleged, during a congressional hearing or some lawsuit, to have had involvement in the Iran-Contra coverup, the destruction of documents, or the manipulation of witnesses and so on.

Holder is a real sneaky son of a bitch. Not only is holder a Senior Assistant United States Attorney General, but guess what else he’s in charge of?

Holder is in charge of Iran-Contra whistle blower filings.

It keeps getting curiouser and curiouser as that big ball of red, white and blue twine continues to slowly unwind and if the dirty dealings go as deeply as I believe that they do then perhaps there is a method to the madness in the push for starting a war - any war - to lock down the country once and for all before all of the treasonous and criminal activities have been ongoing for decades are exposed to the light of day. 

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White House Fumes as Putin Visits Crimea

The big bad Russian bogeyman Vladimir Putin just doesn't know when to stop, today he is shoving that burr up of the ass of our vainglorious leader Obama with a broomstick. Visiting Crimea, that now annexed chunk of Ukrainian corporate booty that was promised to the high finance parasites by Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and friends to celebrate Victory Day.  The celebration is one of the commemoration of the crushing of the Nazis and Mr. Putin's visit has a certain building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue filled with the sound of puckering assholes. The botched and historically stupid operation to hijack Ukraine while Putin was distracted by the Sochi Winter Olympics and which is now disintegrating by the day is a constant sore spot with the king of the narcissists Barack H. Obama.

As the echoes from the fluttering spincters bounce off of the walls in the White House, El Presidentes silly little twit of a paid liar Jay Carney popped off in an interview with Democratic party propaganda mill MSNBC that - "Any effort that he engages in that further destabilizes the situation in the rest of Ukraine, including in the east and the south, is very unhelpful." Carney didn't mention (nor was he asked) about the destabilization of the region by US backed neo-Nazi militias and assorted fascist death squads like the ones responsible for that horrifying atrocity that occurred last Friday at that trade union building in Odessa where an untold number of federalists were butchered by Obama's wonderful freedom fighters. The US backed murders continue today as the illegally installed by coup junta government of "Yats"and his fascists with military vehicles and forces sent after civilians in the city of Mariupol. Maybe Obama can get together with his fawning sycophants in the media again tomorrow night and tell jokes while he presides over the murdering of civilians in Ukraine. Just another day in the Empire.

Putin's trip to Crimea was not only a big fuck you to the Obama regime but also a reminder that Russia was the key ally during the hallowed "Good War" that chopped up Hitler's war machine in Stalingrad and elsewhere, softening up the Nazis for the kill for which the Anglo-American Empire continues to falsely hog the credit for. Carney should show more gratitude, were it not for the Russians he would be speaking German today. There is nothing quite like the a Russian, particularly one like Putin bringing up the inconvenient truth that the sacrifices by the people of that land - by most accounts over 25 million dead - spared our god-kissed, exceptional nation tens of thousands of dead Americans who would have been sent home to mother in body bags were the Nazis not decimated on the eastern front. This is the truth, not that bullshit revisionist history that is strained through John Wayne's boxer shorts and spoonfed to the inhabitants of the star-spangled lemming colony. Perhaps the greatest sin of all concerning Putin was that spot on editorial in the New York Times on September 11th of 2013 where he let it rip.

In the column the Russian leader dared to invoke the forbidden history that during World War II that his country was an ally of the U.S. and Britain and helped to defeat the Nazis. It is arguable that Russian fighting against the Germans at Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind turned the tide and allowed for the allies to win the war. The Russians chewed up the Nazis in that brutal winter mosh pit of misery that caused the lunatic Adolf Hitler to arrogantly lose a good chunk of his military power while delivering a crushing blow to German resolve. The extreme violence and devastation on the Eastern front were critical in allowing the Americans to successfully invade Europe and then roll over the Nazis as they roared towards Berlin. The Russians don’t get enough credit here while the sainted Sir Winston Churchill gets too much of it but such is standard western hypocrisy that we are constantly fed. Especially though when one of those hypocrisies was throwing in with the despotic Joseph Stalin who was right up there with Hitler when it comes to crimes against humanity but he was our kind of bastard at just the right time. The leadership of this country has quite an impressive track record when it comes to supporting ruthless scum who torture and murder their own people so that western business interests can open new markets and plunder resources. For a great history of American meddling, murder and regime change – at least up to when it was published – there is no better resource than William Blum’s classic book “Killing Hope”. 

Ironic that today on Victory Day that Obama and his filthy criminal infested administration have chosen to not only lie about history but through their actions in supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine are doing their damned level best to resurrect the Third Reich.