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With the resurgent neocons and the heads of the warfare state in the feckless President Barack Obama and his pet stammering buffoon John "Skull and Bones" Kerry up to their asses in Ukranian neo-Nazis and a corporate putsch that will put missiles on Russia's border the future seems very bleak today. You don't just pick a fight with a nuclear power especially one that is not borne out of necessity but rather of corporate greed and doing so with the US backed toppling of a democratically elected leader in Kiev to poke a finger in Vladimir Putin's eye and make some dough in the process is a yet one more damning indictment of exactly what sort of lunatics are running the star-spangled lemming asylum. However, in the new American century of The Homeland things can always get worse and given the systemic nature of the rottenness as well as the now apparent inability to ever, every fix anything they assuredly will. The elections are coming soon and with the brand of team blue jackass being as sullied by the diaper dumping Obama and his incompetent administration as surely as that of team red elephant was by George W. Bush's wars - at home and abroad the stars are aligning for that permanent one party Republican rule that Karl Rove likely masturbated himself to sleep at night for years fantasizing about.

With the Democrats and their political agenda a smoking wreck just waiting for that hit amidships that will finally put it out of its misery the torpedoes are being prepped. They can trot out the putative queen in waiting Hillary Rodham Clinton who has long been predicted by the so-called experts as imminent the Bush family legacy has been dug out of that vat of pigshit from which it was immersed in by the wastrel son Dubya and his being hosed off and given a new coat of paint. The potential opponents to Mrs. Clinton are comprised of the usual pack of half-wits, loony religious fanatics, charlatans, opportunists and what appears to be the biggest flame out of a gasbag in New Jersey since the Hindenburg crash. This leaves the door wide open for the not that long ago unthinkable return of the Bush crime family to the national political scene with what is much to the horror of those who believe that America should not be about dynasties and royal political family rule which would be a Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush steel cage death match in 2016.

Over the weekend Bush was one of the four Republican hopefuls who made a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to audition for one Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and one of the richest men on the planet. Shelly you see is rich beyond his wildest dreams and while all of his money will not spare from his ultimate fate of roasting on a spit in the bowels of Hades he can see his dream - a nuclear war on Iran - fulfilled in his waning years. Adelson, an intimate friend of the unhinged bully Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is even more determined to pull this off after his bad bets in 2012 in which he placed tens of millions of dollars on two of the biggest fools and losers ever to have appeared on our lamentable political state in Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. Adelson will not be burned again and this is why he exploited the annual Republican Jewish Coalition meeting over the weekend as his own personal marketplace to size up the quality of prospective meat puppets of which to any rational observer Jeb Bush was the proverbial cream of the crop. It was a disgusting example of how American politics are now sold to the highest bidder, whether it be the loathsome Obama and Clinton schmoozing with Hollywood types and hedge fund hyenas, the fake libertarian Koch Brothers buying up the political system or a man whose Holy Grail in life is having America do the dirty work as well as take the blowback for a foreign country.

The Adelson beauty show for political prostitutes doesn't get much play in the state-corporate media except for the Washington Post's war wench Jennifer Rubin's thinly veiled accusations of anti-Semitism in her latest screed entitled  "So much outrage, such a double standard for a pro-Israel group" from which I excerpt:

Matthew Dowd on ABC’s “This Week” roundtable made the following comment regarding a former United Nations ambassador and three governors’ appearances at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) meeting in Las Vegas: “I just think it’s ridiculous that these candidates for president are trumping out to Las Vegas to go kiss the ring of a billionaire casino owner and they think that’s somehow going help them get elected president.”

This is distasteful in the extreme, and it is highly unfortunately that no one on the panel chose to challenge him.

It is typical cowardly neocon McCarthyism but they so often played the "anti-Semite" card for so long on so many to make it lose it's once enormous potency, not that long ago screaming "anti-Semite" was the most kick ass club in the bag for the neocons and other flotsam and jetsam of the Israel lobby but there is little to no effectiveness these days with a rise of calling out Netanyahu's regime for human rights violations. But Rubin has zero credibility other than as an example of the dreck that is now the top product line over at the Washington Post and a damned good (or bad) one at that. And as far as Jenny baby's comment that it is "it is highly unfortunately that no one on the panel chose to challenge him" I am still waiting for a leader of an American Jewish organization or a prominent Israel Lobby figure to ask one question about those neo-Nazi anti-Semites that the US is backing in Ukraine.

I would put far more credence in the commentary of that old warhorse Pat Buchanan who while I may not agree with him on everything (or very much at all for that matter outside of a non-interventionist foreign policy) who calls it as it is in his column on Adelson entitled "The War Party Oligarch" from which I also excerpt:

Is the Republican Party’s Middle East policy up for bid?

For four days ending Sunday, a quartet of presidential hopefuls trooped to Las Vegas to attend the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Impresario: Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas-Macau casino mogul whose fortune is estimated at $39 billion – 8th richest man on the planet – and who dumped $92 million into the election of 2012.

Adelson kept Newt Gingrich alive with a $15 million infusion of ad money, gutting Romney, and then sank $30 million into Mitt’s campaign.

This time Sheldon wants to buy himself a winner.

AND

The 2016 presidential hopefuls “are falling at his feet,” said a veteran Republican strategist of the 80-year-old oligarch. Each of those who came – Bush, Chris Christie, and Govs. Scott Walker and John Kasich – apparently auditioned, one by one, before the godfather.

In 2016, says Adelson’s top political adviser Andy Abboud, Sheldon’s “bar for support is going to be much higher. … There’s going to be a lot more scrutiny.”

Guess that means no more Newts.

Victor Chaltiel, a major donor and Adelson friend who sits on the board of Las Vegas Sands, tells us Sheldon “doesn’t want a crazy extremist to be the nominee.” Adds Shawn Steel, a big California GOP money man, Sheldon is a “very rational guy.”

Perhaps. But last fall at Yeshiva University, this “very rational guy” gave this response to a question from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on whether he supports U.S. negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program:

“No. What do you mean support negotiations? What are we going to negotiate about? What I would say is, ‘Listen, you see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’ … You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it go.’

“So, there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever.

“And then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development.

“‘You want to be peaceful. Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee that you can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.’”

Adelson’s response was recorded by Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss website who was at Yeshiva and filmed the interview. Weiss says the audience cheered Adelson’s proposed nuclear strike on Iran and no one on the stage, not Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, peeped a word of dissent.

And this is a “very rational guy,” who doesn’t want “a crazy extremist to be the nominee”?

This is someone Republican presidential candidates must appease, if they don’t want tens of millions in attack ads run against them?

This is someone the Republican presidential hopefuls must hearken to now?

To answer Buchanan's question: yes. This is what happens when a political party that has clung to the over inflated revisionist history of a mummified Ronald Reagan for decades. The failure to actually stand for something and to put what is best for America over the worship of a political party and those who bankroll it no matter how loathsome it is no surprise that the top qualification for the nomination is to win the audition so that Sheldon Adelson can be their pimp.

Given the Vegas embarrassment at the Republican Jewish Coaltion gathering that Adelson hijacked it is now very apparent why Rand Paul and other libertarians are reviled by the Big Kahunas - they actually have principles.

Warmongers Caterwauling Over Iran Deal

In the aftermath of Saturday’s landmark deal over restricting Iran’s nuclear program in return for an easing of crushing economic sanctions there has predictably much weeping and gnashing of teeth amongst the crusading Neocon war-mongers. Senators and other congressional swine of dubious loyalty were already calling for even more sanctions before Saturday and the accord reached in Geneva will only reinforce their recalcitrance in acting against the national interest and working desperately to sabotage the deal. Right-wing Israeli strongman Benjamin Netanyahu naturally was bitching the loudest, the deal according to Bibi, a man who is rapidly becoming a cartoon figure  is a “historic mistake” although in the humble opinion of this writer nowhere near the historic mistakes that old Harry Truman made in 1947-48 that started this Middle East madness with the creation of the National Security State or the 1953 CIA overthrow of Iranian president Mohammad Mossadegh that effectively set off the chain of events leading up to the 1979 Islamic revolution to overthrow the U.S. friendly torturing Shah of Iran. Not to mention the "historic mistake" of the electorate in his own country that despite a progressive and rational citizenry continues to vote against their own self interests by not replacing his regime at the ballot box before he completely destroys the relationship with the U.S. due to his paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies. The state-corporate media is bereft of any outside perspective or historical reference other than the flogged to death WW II metaphors were the head of state of any target on the list is dubbed the "new Hitler", any efforts at diplomacy are "Munich" again and those who seek to settle problems through negotiation rather than bombs are "Neville Chamberlain". It is all hogwash and were television lobotomized Americans better informed as a populace it would called out as such.

While extremists in the Israeli government as well as their buddies in the House of Saud were as outraged as their domestic operatives at the deal, especially after the serpent that is Prince Bander (aka Bandar Bush) had coaxed the socialist French into torpedoing the negotiations two weeks ago one aspect had to really rub salt into the wound. It has been reported that the U.S. had been engaged in secret talks since March which would come to nicely serve to circumvent attempts by the usual suspects to scuttle it all and just dial up the airstrikes on Tehran. It was almost as though the old war criminal Henry Kissinger was back in the saddle with his Realpolitick. The revelation of the secret meetings is setting off shockwaves and the charlatans and opportunists are working themselves into a feeding frenzy. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has slithered out from under his rock again and Israeli lickspittle Mark Kirk will be the likely point men for the coming congressional frontal assault that will be used to rouse the rabble and renew the at least temporary derailing of the American war machine. As it is with all of the gutless chickenhawks, they are always eager to send the sons and daughters of others off to die in the asinine wars of their own creation.

There is going to be hell to pay though because Bibi just got punked. In his best interests I would hope that he has been put under suicide watch for the next several days.  The hydra will very quickly reconfigure and no expense will be spared as the warmongers begin to mobilize their media plants, embedded fifth columnists and religious zealot shock troops to besiege fence sitters in D.C. and go all in so that Jesus can come back when the Middle East erupts in flames. There will be much of the same fear-mongering to pander to the "low information voters" (God I love that term) as 2014 is an election year and there is no better sucker bait to harvest the low-hanging fruit than nationalist demagoguery.  To use a WW II analogy of my own it is as  Hermann Göring once said - "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country". Getting this very basic concept down is a certain recipe for electoral success here in The Homeland.

Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry is basking in the limelight after his successful weekend that is when he wasn't out buying expensive gourmet chocolates for his ketchup heiress wife which resulted in a security staff lock down of the candy shop. An employee of the famous Auer Chocolatier spoke of Kerry that he was “very nice” and spoke “perfect French.”.  The entire thing did not go over well with Senator Lindsey "thank God for France"  Graham who despite the preempting of this week's Meet the Press for a NASCAR race wasted no time in getting together a gaggle of corporate-state media for his inevitable denouncing of the deal and calling for more sanctions. Joining the Palmetto State princess in parroting Neocon talking points was of course Senator John McCain and NRA terrorist supporter Peter King, a trifecta of seasoned media whores always on call to the lazy, career suckups that have so polluted the national press. I expect that by the time that the grease is congealing on the turkey gravy later this week that the aforementioned blood sucking war freaks will be joined by hundreds of others seeking to wave the bloody flag engage in their self-serving blather to get a leg up on next year's mid-terms. The ghoulish thug John Bolton has even emerged from the skeleton's closet of the Bush-Cheney administration to bitch and moan about the "abject surrender" to Iran and to once again psychotically rattle the saber as he is so accustomed to do as  a veteran shill for the war machine.

I do have to give one thing to Graham and McCain in that they both actually served in the military in comparison to the cowardly douchebags who are their colleagues and associates who will never cease to send Americans marching into a foreign meat grinder to score cheap political points or remain relevant on the talk show circuit. The propaganda mills are revving up right now and the lies will soon be as thick as a proverbial biblical plague of locusts as the warmongers desperately work to salvage their feverish wet dream of reducing Iran to ashes while leaving it's citizens with nothing but their eyes to cry with.

Foreign War Agitators: A Very Bad Deal for Americans

Once again the state-corporate Sunday morning propaganda shows featured more war-mongering as the joint efforts to undermine talks to roll back economic sanctions on Iran in order to induce nuclear compliance pick up steam. It does the United States no good to exist in a state of perpetual war, mired in a Middle East quagmire where ancient hatreds still burn with incandescence, there are far too many problems at home and the nation has now been at war in the region for over twelve years. To remain in a state of perpetual war only ensures that more money is squandered abroad when there are serious problems that need to be addressed here such a a crumbling and obsolete infrastructure. With the massive failures in leadership, the systemic government corruption and the sheer incompetence of the Obama administration coming generations face a very bleak future indeed and while ending the state of war will not resolve all problems it could mitigate the suffering. The problem is that a craven, bought and paid for and otherwise lunatic fringe in Congress are chafing at the bit to escalate tensions with Iran and a vile disinformation machine that is the state-corporate media is providing cover for foreign powers that are fiercely pushing this country into yet another war for their own interests.

The foreign "allies" who are leading the relentless charge are of course Saudia Arabia and the right-wing Israeli regime of Benjamin Netanyahu. Both are furious that the bombs did not fall on Syria a couple of months ago and have taken their anger and influence to another level to thwart any normalizing of relations with Iran since the departure of the fanatical anti-Semitic leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Netanyahu in particular has been pushing for a U.S. attack on Iran for well over a decade now, he practically danced a jig in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks which he proclaimed were good for Israel. Now after a regime change in Tehran and more moderate leadership there is a willingness to engage in GASP diplomacy to ratchet down tensions but Bibi and Bandar can't have that, it threatens the regional supremacy of both and for some reason it is incumbent on this country to fight the wars that they do not have the stones to enter into on their own. God forbid that the U.S. mends fences with Iran who in the new globalized world could be a trading partner especially with their abundance of oil, this alone is what steams Prince Bandar and the reprobate Saudi regime. There is never any context provided on why there have been hostilities with Iran either, never does the crooked American media reference the 1953 CIA backed overthrow of elected leader Mohammad Mossadegh leading to the installation of the puppet Shah's torture state. This in turn lead to the storming of the U.S. embassy and the Ayatollah Khomeini led Islamic revolution. Perhaps given the dimness of the average American news consumer it would be useless to reference history, pearls cast before swine but considering that the media has been completely contaminated it pays to engage in the omission of crucial facts.

This brings me to the question of why is it that American media programs, in this case CNN's State of the Union are always willing to provide a forum for dishonest foreigners seeking to manipulate American opinion into backing their wars.  Netanyahu was trotted out yesterday morning to spew his lies, pander to the poor dupes whose worldview is shaped by end times eschatology as promulgated by pulp pimps the likes of Timothy LaHaye and his multi-million dollar Left Behind industry and agitate for war on Iran. The rapture ready zealots are overly represented in congress and the cunning Bibi is calling for their activism in not only sinking the negotiations with Iran but in applying more crushing economic sanctions. On CNN the Israeli hardliner delivered the dog whistle line that "We've been around for about 4,000 years, the Jewish people, and we are not about to let ayatollahs armed with nuclear weapons threaten that" it is arguable that he actually believes this rather than just uses it to further a geopolitical agenda, perhaps a combination. But this is a big problem in that once again we find ourselves being held hostage in the Middle East due to a primitive religious squabble. As long as religion is involved there will never be an opportunity for reasonable solutions. Whether it be Netanyahu’s invocations of the destiny of the Jewish people or of militant Islam it is all based on the superstitions and the generationally passed down stories of primitive societies before the age of science and enlightenment.

The world is rapidly changing for better and for worse with the advent of the technological age and religion is both a millstone that impedes progress as well as a serious existential threat to human life on earth. In the days of which Netanyahu frames his relentless push to destroy Iran the primary forms of weaponry were sticks, rocks and slings, arrows, spears and swords. In the Twenty First century there are thermonuclear weapons and while this may play well with a certain Armageddonist mentality that is entrenched here in America and exploited by the Israeli far-right there will be no return of Christ come the nuclear cataclysm. In short the skies will not be filled with the chosen flying dirty nasty naked to sit at the foot of God’s throne while the rest of us are left suffer miserably for their entertainment. One thing that Bibi never mentions to the American Jews to whom he seeks to influence is that the Christian Zionist shocktroops believe that come that day of judgment that all Jews will be forced to convert to Christianity or be killed. You won’t hear any of that in AIPAC planning committees although the Anti Defamation League’s Abe Foxman came out and criticized former president George W. Bush for appearing at a rally promoting the conversion of Jews to Christians just last week.

Note that Netanyahu always chooses to invoke a biblical perspective when talking about Iran, this is largely directed towards the American Religious Right where much of the Israeli strongman’s domestic support is concentrated. Much like the PNAC Neocons with their Leo Strauss inspired philosophy of using religion to manipulate the masses casting the narrative into the great, centuries old ongoing war of civilizations it is always necessary to demonize the Muslims to mobilize support for military action. It works very well for them and it also works well for the House of Saud whose funding of militant Islamist groups hostile to Israel and America keep them away from the real Great Satan of the ruling monarchy. In order to drag America into eternal hostility in that particular region it is imperative that something larger than the national interest be at stake, and that would be God or at least God as defined by the charlatans, false prophets, the kings, priests and world leaders who have always benefited from wrapping their wars, murder and exploitation in proclamations of a divine mandate.

While I am a libertarian I generally shun Ayn Rand and the holy gospel of Atlas Shrugged that has become so influential to so many. In my opinion it is a particularly cruel belief system that has as its basis amorality and a callously cruel vision of the poor. While not to belabor my comments on Ms. Rand I do have to say that her most redeeming quality is that she was an unapologetic atheist. While this does not mesh with the true compassion of Christ for the poor and downtrodden neither toes the Armageddonist bastardization of Christianity to advocate war and intolerance and were Rand’s atheism embraced it would eliminate one of the particularly nasty rationales for war, the other being of course the profits of the military industrial complex. In a true libertarian sense one can never be “free” when reason is easily surrendered to an ancient belief system that can never be proven and that has for centuries suited the needs of power very, very nicely. In addition to the invocation of religion Bibi very slyly works to include all of the world’s Jews in his pronouncements while nothing could be a bigger fib, there is much opposition to the blowhard in Israel but given the always one-sided coverage afforded to what is a complex geopolitical issue it doesn’t get reported in The Homeland. I would recommend that any who may find this statement astounding subscribe to the mailing list for Haaretz.

I really don’t see why these shows are given a free pass when they provide a national forum to a foreign leader to push for Americans to sacrifice blood and treasure for no good reason. It only serves to further reinforce their irrelevance when it comes to anything other than hustling the political agendas of dueling establishment factions. In the aftermath of the 60 Minutes Benghazi hoax being blown up any sort of reasonable expectation that the state-corporate media would be a bit more judicious in pushing their war propaganda goes right out the window when Netanyahu is allowed to agitate for a war that will only benefit his country and selective regional allies like the insipidly debauched House of Saud.

As the pride of the Palmetto State Senator Lindsey Graham promulgated the Iran sanctions push last Sunday morning by squealing “thank God for France” on the same program, CNN’s State of the Union with the bovine Candy Crowley. It is notable that after sinking the P5+1 talks thanks to being bribed by a Saudi weapons deal that the former “cheese eating surrender monkeys” are taking full advantage of the Saudi-Bibi war with Obama. The socialist French leader Francois Hollande made a pilgrimage to Tel Aviv this week, one wonders what sort of goodies were offered to induce support for escalating hostilities with Iran. The Neocons, warmonger Republicans and Bibi Netanyahu all revel in conjuring up the mythology of WW II aka “the good war” in justifying the push for what could escalate into World War III. I just find it a bit difficult to reconcile the reverence and worship for Sir Winston Churchill with the Vichy French, politics indeed make for strange bedfellows.

The day when the state-corporate media must be held accountable for their actions in shilling for war needs to come and preferably before they succeed in instigating one that may rapidly escalate out of control. China is a key trading partner of the Iranians and unlikely to stand by while yet another ill-conceived and likely catastrophic war is unleashed.  Perhaps when media shills for aggression are called out as the traitors that they are rather than serving as mouthpieces to demonize and threaten truth tellers it could start a trend. They should be held as guilty as the leaders for the death and destruction, the suffering and the loathing that they have been so very helpful in promoting. It is notable that Julius Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity Nuremberg back when there was adherence to international law and while he did not personally murder anyone his propaganda was instrumental in producing the climate that tolerated if not encouraged the slaughter of millions including six million Jews. When will Americans finally get it that the real enemies lie within rather than outside of our borders, a suckup careerist fifth column of disinformation artists with no loyalty to the country.

Finally Netanyahu is a  huge bully as well. Considering  the amount of state-corporate media attention bestowed upon the evils of “bullying” in reference to a couple of overpaid, immature asshole jocks on the Miami Dolphins NFL football team it is an illustration of the level of corruption and hypocrisy that is endemic that a global bully isn’t called out as such.  Just another contradiction in a land that has been overrun by such things.