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

East Ukraine Jew Registration Tale Reeks of CIA Psyop

In a rapidly spreading sensationalist story about the evils of the pro-Russian (translation: anti-austerity) opposition in East Ukraine a particularly lurid piece of vile propaganda has been launched into the US state-corporate media echo chamber. There has been an amazing discovery of leaflets distributed in Donetsk requiring all Jews over the age of 16 to register with the authorities, the culprit behind this obvious false flag operation is the vaunted bastion of dumbed down American journalism USA Today - which is written at about a seventh grade reading level.  For those who have a functional memory this is an exact duplicate of that 2006 hoax that there was a new law in Iran requiring Jews to wear a yellow badge in Iran, a massive neocon promulgated lie that was nearly immediately retracted. As propaganda both rank right up there with the infamous fairy tale of Saddam Hussein's soldiers yanking babies out of Kuwaiti incubators as agitprop to induce a war frenzy in the US where nothing much changes except the designated devil, then it was Ahmadinejad and now it's Putin. While the media pounced on this like a pack of starved dogs thrown a chunk of maggoty rotting meat the tale was immediately met with skepticism within the alternative media which unlike the bought and paid for Washington presstitutes have a sense of duty as well as functional bullshit detectors.

Unfortunately the bullshit detector of one Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry, Skull and Bones alumni and constant source of American foreign policy embarrassment either doesn't work or he is in on the con, my guess is the latter. In another of his pathological rushes to judgement Kerry condemned the leaflets demanding the bogus Jew registration program as "not just intolerable, it's grotesque, is beyond acceptable" which is a statement that perfectly nails Kerry's job performance as the most abysmal excuse for a Secretary of State in US history. The tale is so ludicrous and conveniently timed that even the neocon central transmission center at The Washington Post put up a story that is chock full of caveats and qualifiers including that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is "skeptical about the flyer's authenticity" although it wasn't questionable enough to prevent Kerry's latest outbreak of chronic diarrhea of the mouth. Kerry like the on staff WaPo neocons continue to push their lies, like that mysterious sarin gas attack in a Damascus suburb that nearly started another war last summer.

Interesting in that CIA Director John Brennan paid a visit to Kiev over the weekend and "The Agency" is no stranger to planting false stories and disseminating propaganda but it is going to take one hell of a lot more than some phony anti-Semitic leaflets a few days before Passover to sell the illicit US installed regime in Ukraine. It's a damned good thing for the Obama regime and his neocon infested foreign policy team that Americans have been fed such a constant diet of lies about Ukraine that they have zero idea that their tax dollars are funding REAL anti-Semites and neo-Nazis or this latest "ham-handed" attempt to generate outrage could put a ding in the ongoing war effort. Obama is once again getting his face rubbed into a pile of shit thanks to his own ineptitude and his choice of people to run his loathsome administration, a failure of historic proportions that will doom this country in the long run far worse than anything that Bush and Cheney did. 

The malodorous lineup of hacks, political cronies, incompetents and recycled and retained Bush-Cheney neocons that Barry has fielded over the last five plus years has been dismal beyond comprehension but Kerry has to be the cherry on top of the entire shit cake. He is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving and nobody short of the insane warmonger John Bolton (and maybe Donald Trump) would have been a worst choice as the nation's top diplomat. In great story written by Robert Parry over at Consortium News entitled "What's the Matter With John Kerry?" he knocks it out of the park. I excerpt the following:

So, when John Kerry replaced Hillary Clinton on Feb. 1, 2013, the State Department was in need of a responsible adult who would rein in the department’s penchant for stirring up trouble and then looking on helplessly as the chaos spun out of control.

But which Kerry would show up? The young Kerry who recognized how belligerent talk and playing with facts could end up getting lots of innocent people killed or the older Kerry who had trimmed his sails and learned to go with the prevailing winds, regardless of the dangers to the world?

There are times at the end of a politician’s career when the person reverts back to an earlier, more idealistic self, though more often a deeply compromised politician just continues doing what’s been learned over the decades of political survival.

It’s now clear that John Kerry fell into the latter approach. He did undertake a quixotic pursuit of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, perhaps hoping that success in such an impossible undertaking would be the “crown jewel” of his career, compensating for his 2004 defeat.

But Kerry also let himself be turned into a hand puppet for the neocons and R2Pers who had gained bureaucratic control of State and were set on escalating confrontations with Syria and Iran by essentially following the “regime change” blueprint designed by Vice President Dick Cheney and the neocons in the Bush-43 administration.

Influential neocons and R2Pers took command of key positions in 2013, as Kerry moved from Capitol Hill to Foggy Bottom and Obama entered his second term. Neocon Victoria Nuland was promoted from State Department spokesperson to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Susan Rice became National Security Adviser, and Samantha Power took over as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Again, someone like the young Kerry might have spoken up about the danger from unintended consequences when arrogant U.S. officials interfere in the internal affairs of another country. The young Kerry might have pondered how the Nuland-Gershman strategy of destabilizing Ukraine actually helps either the Ukrainians or the American people.

So far, the scheme holds the possibility of civil war in Ukraine, disastrous economic trouble for Europe (with fallout for the U.S. economy, too) and another splurge of U.S. military spending as bellicose politicians cut back even more on domestic priorities.

The younger Kerry might have been wise enough to cool the rhetoric and redirect the narrative into a realistic discussion that could resolve the crisis. For instance, it wouldn’t have been very hard to insist that the Feb. 21 agreement be enforced – with Yanukovych possibly serving in a ceremonial capacity until new elections could select a new president, rather than the U.S. and the EU immediately embracing a neo-Nazi-led coup.

But the older Kerry is behaving much like the older generation of Cold Warriors did in the 1960s when they insisted that there was no choice other than a U.S. military intervention in Vietnam, that the lives of tens of thousands of young American men and millions of Vietnamese was a small price to pay to stop some imaginary dominoes from toppling. South Vietnam had to be kept in the “free world.”

Yet, rather than the dovish warrior of his youth, Kerry has become a hawkish diplomat in his old age, refusing to see the other side’s case and eager to take extreme positions that are sure to get more young people killed. John Kerry in his 20s was a much wiser man than John Kerry at age 70.

Note that the author’s reference to R2P is described as  “responsibility to protect” or “R2P” – the entire story along with all of Parry’s great work – he is a dedicated investigative journalist of the type that was run out of the establishment in droves and the voluminous archives at Consortium News are an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand what has gone rotten in this country as written by a consummate professional who takes his First Amendment duty to call out corrupt and entrenched power seriously.

The Jew-baiting pamphlet hoax litmus test will be what appears in Friday’s papers, will the neocons as they usually do in their intellectual and moral corruption and insane dogma of world domination, Muslim and Russia hating and warmongering double down? Every day that the Washington Post and to a larger degree the entire US media continues to hammer this horseshit is another day of a very slow leak of those who believe it and one day the tipping point will arrive when it will all collapse under the accumulated weight of its own bullshit.