Debt Rattle August 18 2018

 

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    Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey, Arles. Rey disliked his portrait and gave it away 1889   • Furor Over Revoked Security Clearance G
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 18 2018]

    #42408
    Dr. D
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    You must have a lot to do now that Cait Johnstone got bot-banned. Jimmy Dore follows up on how his liberal friends: close, smart people, say they’re against banning…and then proceed to approve banning and be against liberal values like tolerance and freedom of speech so long as it’s the other guy. He even had one on his personal panel, I don’t know if she’ll make it back.

    So if the left is now against all liberal values, against social tolerance, against freedom of religion and expression — and as Cait discovered, it’s the LEFT who is wildly pro-McCain, one of the most vicious, unhinged neocon war hawks ever — well, what do they have? They’re not cleaning the water or fighting Monsanto. Shaking my head, and so are other old time leftists too.

    The other Dore articles are on how attacking Green Party candidates is not exactly wowing them back into a Dem party that just decided to take oil money and would rather double wars than help Flint. Nor is attacking all voters as “traitors” if they vote for, Greens, Socialists, Libertarians, and naturally Republicans or Tea…that is to say, 70% of the nation are traitors according to them, i.e. people who need to be taught a bike lock lesson or shot, is not exactly a great way to convince them to turn out and/or rally to your flag. We’re all amazed you need to explain this sort of thing. It’s as if the world is REQUIRED to vote for them, even when they lie, steal, and provide nothing, and they’re ENTITLED to any vote they, in their mind, feel like.

    Like I’ve said before, it’s not that hard: you simply promise them stuff, then lie and double-cross them, a time-honored tradition. The truly unhinged part is that they won’t reduce themselves to doing this. They won’t ask, they won’t court and woo the common man, no; they ORDER them they’re GOING TO vote for you, or else. Even if you’re evil or self-serving, that behavior literally only makes sense if you’re a narcissistic sociopath, unable by your mental illness to get things done by the more common means, bare-faced lying. Why? Because if you had to ask these vermin deplorables, they wouldn’t be better than America, better than everybody else, and feel themselves to have power.

    Take Cuomo’s comment that “America was never that great”. While yes, taken out of context, it’s just a line of unhelpful, voter-shaming, citizen-shaming, cruelly divisive trollop, rather than, as Kennedy, inspiring people to greatness dormant within them. And although imperfect, compare the actions of America to the other students since 1800, the normal way to grade a class. In 1800 much of the world was in slavery, including England, and citizen Democracy (in the loose sense) had been dead for 2,500 years. While making the mistakes of other nations, America pulled in a direction over time, and appeared to have brought the Enlightenment ideals into being through the messy business of succeeding with them. Cuomo is telling us to be ashamed of that because we weren’t perfect all along, that we didn’t finish at the beginning, by summer 1790, and that’s simply irrational for so many reasons, but it’s also unhelpful.

    Can somebody tell me why, if I work at Taco Bell regional, my account and badge are shut off in 24 hours when I depart, yet the top secret security clearance is continued for gol-darned everyone, even when the re-up date is only 2 years? Not only would every warm body in D.C. have clearance after a while, but NOT working there gives you better clearance than WHEN working there, since you have to be re-examined periodically to keep clearance. So as expected, the Government is worse at security than Joe’s Trucking, worse than Taco Bell, and worse than your ex-girlfriend who you’d get the key from. Got it.

    By the way, Brennan, of he-who-should-not-have-clearance, the worst war-mongering neocon ever, who covered for the police state, supported war crimes and lied us into Iraq (now hero and media darling), one reason we’re concerned about your mental health is that you argue that stopping clearance is cutting off your Freedom of Speech. Au contraire, mon frere. He’s letting you speak super-freely, all day long on T.V., which as a National Director, you should never do, nor should any objective newsroom ever hire you. He’s stopping your freedom to READ state secrets, not to write or speak. If you’re so deranged you can’t tell the difference between reading and writing, between public and private, you should have your clearance pulled for other reasons. And since as a private citizen you shouldn’t be using it anyway except under the direct supervision of a Intel employee, it cannot possibly be a punishment. That’s like revoking my right to go to the moon: I won’t notice. …Or are you saying you HAVE been using your clearance to do things that are NOT authorized to while not under the supervision of an active Intel employee? You know, like Bruce Ohr seems to have done?

    Meanwhile, in medialand, 300 papers collude to attack the President in unison as a way to prove how honest and objective they are. Or as we’d call it: any given Friday since November 2015.

    Stark. Raving. Madness. And don’t think a whole bunch of Americans haven’t noticed. Sad part is, their nonsense is distracting me from covering very real war preparations in Turkey, China, and Russia, and the Powell’s dollar shortage economic collapse that will set them off.

    But not to worry, as they’re banning both the Right and the Left with lavish aplomb, pretty soon no one will be able to speak, and we’ll have all the time we need.

    #42409

    It’s good Caitlin got her account back, just like it is for anyone and everyone. Our societies are simply and fully unprepared for the changes social media and smart phones (now, that’s two huge misnomers!) have wrought. Still, I would never wish cancer upon anyone. I am neither God nor a judge of men. But what I think is important is that the 2nd special counsel is coming, and will make the US less unipolar. All these Washington people, all of them, need tons of scrutiny.

    #42411
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey. Rey disliked his portrait and gave it away 1889.
    Perhaps Rey didn’t appreciate reality?

    As to the insanity in the U.S.?
    The reality is; free speach is gone, finished, kaput!
    The answer from the proletariate will be; get over it, and move on.
    How pathetic is that…

    #42412

    Just imagine what an investigation of : Mr. Brennan, Mr. Clapper, Mr. Comey, Mr. Strzok, Mr. McCabe, Mr. Ohr, Ms. Yates. Ms. Page, et. al. will do to the country and its media, who were all on the same side of the boat. It’s going to be civil war.

    #42413
    zerosum
    Participant

    “… security clearance …”

    Is what you need to be able to see the lies and the truth.
    Is what you need to be able to pull the wool over someone else.
    Is what you need to take advantage of the innocent.
    Is what you need to make a lot of money.

    #42414
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The answer from the proletariate will be;

    get over it, and move on.

    How pathetic is that…

    Or, would that be from the ruling class to the proletariate; get over it, and move on.
    Far more likely, IMO.
    In any event you’re fucked!
    What are you going to do about it?

    #42415
    hugho
    Participant

    Roundup present in 80% of breast milk was stunning but the article said Brazil is rife with pesticides. Glyphosate(Roundup) is of course a herbicide, not a pesticide. Does the article mean that Brazil is contaminated with herbicides AND pesticides? Hard to discern from the article although they do use the term “agrotoxins”. Some clarity please and if contaminated with pesticides, which ones and at what level ppm?

    #42416
    seychelles
    Participant

    Why? Because if you had to ask these vermin deplorables, they wouldn’t be better than America, better than everybody else, and feel themselves to have power.

    Suprematist hubris on display, a very bad disease that once fully recognized typically engenders upleasant blowback from the displayees. Patience.

    #42418
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    I suppose you saw this hatchet job on Assange in the Groene Amsterdammer?

    https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-verbleekte-held-met-een-verbroken-belofte

    #42419
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    “the USA is going to collapse like the USSR did,”

    The one thing I cannot forgive is that Barrack Obama, John Brennan and the connected mob restarted the Cold War with Russia. Their 1,960 strategic nuclear weapons are real and President Vladimir Putin said “Why would we want a world without Russia?” This is a multi-polar world again. The USSR fell because of the Party’s lies. For the last decades corporate media has lied. Propaganda does not change reality. The accumulation of wealth by oligarchs must end or civil unrest will accelerate. NATO must withdraw from Eastern Syria to avoid a hot world war. The Atlantic Alliance is collapsing. Donald Trump and Brexit are the harbingers. Can the USA reconstitute itself back within North America to serve its people, or will the ignition the thousands of ICBMs destroy the earth?

    #42420
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Can the USA reconstitute itself back within North America to serve its people, or will the ignition the thousands of ICBMs destroy the earth?

    Obviously it must!
    However, I do not see that happening until war comes: Even then, there may not be enough left to matter…

    #42421
    zerosum
    Participant

    Question on war:

    Are we thinking of using men and equipment like what is being used in the middle east?
    Destruction of assets and infrastructures.

    Personnaly, I’m thinking more along the lines of what was done in Cyprus and what is happening in Venezuela.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/venezuela.html

    #42422

    Wow, Polder Dweller, that’s the ugliest piece of smear on Assange I’ve seen so far. Google translate should make it accessible for everyone.

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