Debt Rattle August 22 2016
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 22 2016]Oh please, the collapse of US journalism is under way?
- Its rampant cheerleading for the illegal Bush war on Iraq,
- its unwillingness, if not its complicity with the right in not questioning the do-nothing hate-filled congress throughout the Obama years,
- its willingness to allow the whole birther idiocy and, to be fair,
- its refusal to question Obama’s own illegal use of drones and special forces in extrajudicial assassinations
doesn’t qualify as the 4th estate sliding merrily down the slippery slope? Good grief, what would it have taken?
Yes, it is now in full-blown political interference mode, but its not as if it didn’t give fair warning.
Re American journalism collapsing: “I can only fully agree. And no, again, that’s not because I support Trump. Everything and everyone should be scrutinized.”
Scrutinized? It’s really more like vilified, annihilated, destroyed. I read a Washington Post article spewing more half-truths, omissions, but at least it was heartening to see the people in the “Comments” section quickly correct the record and turn the hatred back around on the Washington Post. As Robert Parry said:
“Trump shoots from the lip and has a thin skin, while Clinton is tightly wound and also has a thin skin. Trump lets his emotions run wild while Clinton is excessively controlled. Trump engages in raucous give-and-take with his critics; Clinton tries to hide her decision-making (and emails) from her critics.”
Even if Trump became more Hillary-like and stopped giving the media so much fodder, they’d attack him for being so guarded. If he started pointedly homing in on who Hillary is, her past record and where she will take the country, the media would try to ignore it. Big money has spoken, their man is Hillary, and they will see to it that Trump is portrayed in only the worst light.
We are owned. I think that Trump is the last chance the U.S. has got to bring the neoliberals/neocons down. If Hillary wins, it’s lights out.
Re the war in Syria:
“The conflict is so difficult to end because it is half a dozen crises and confrontations combined into one: Sunni Arabs against ruling Alawites and the minorities; better-off against poor; secular against Islamists; city against country; Kurd against Arab; Kurd against Turk; Sunni against Shia; Iran against Saudi Arabia; Russia against – but sometimes cooperating with – the US.
The complexity of it all was well described by one commentator as being like three dimensional chess played by nine players and with no rules.”
Kind of looks like the U.S. (and a lot of other countries who barely keep the lid on): blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straight, Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists, pacifists, pro-life, pro-choice, illegals, Spanish, English, poor, middle class, elite 1%, socialist, capitalist, libertarian, liberal, conservative, neoliberal, neoconservative, every ethnicity known to mankind, each holding onto their own culture, and on and on.
Ah, diversification. Ain’t it great? It’s possible to keep these disparate groups so engrossed in fighting each other that they never really see the forest for the trees. Held together with propaganda and a heavily diluted glue, the country is at war with itself. You end up with virtually no cohesion, just a bunch of interest groups vying for attention.
How is a country like that ever going to come together to fight back against the people who are strangling it? They’re not. Multiculturalism was sold under the guise of being accepting, celebrating differences, but the real reason was to divide and conquer us. When you have a people with a strong culture, a common religion, a common language, they are a formidable force against a government.
The left (progressive liberals) were useful idiots for the 1%. They created a divided country too weak to fight back. Exactly what the 1% wanted.
You really can’t make this stuff up. Huma Abedin, long-time and top aide to Hillary Clinton, is married to? You guessed it, Anthony Weiner, the congressman who resigned in 2011 over the Sexting Scandals, and who a few years later ran for the Mayor of New York. And guess who was the officiate at their wedding?
“In May 2009, he became engaged to Huma Abedin, a long-time personal aide to Hillary Clinton, and they married in July 2010, with former President Bill Clinton officiating.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner
From one weiner to another.
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