Hillary Clinton is American, owned by financial interests to whom she is completely in thrall, a rabid neo-conservative warmonger, completely uncritical of Israel and focused for any claim to be progressive entirely on identity politics. Which is also a precise description of today’s Guardian newspaper. The once august and intellectual title is now a shrill cheerleader for far right Blairites and wealthy American feminists.
The Guardian is as unabashed in its support for Clinton as in its support for the Blairites. The stream of “feminist” articles about why it would advance the cause of women to have a deeply corrupt right winger in the White House is steadily growing into a torrent. It is a perfect example of what I wrote of a month ago, the cause of feminism being hijacked to neo-conservative ends.
Bernie Sanders is not perfect – nobody is. But he understands that obscene and still burgeoning wealth inequality is the greatest problem of western society, and that the state framework supporting crazed banking structures is the root cause of this. The support for him is a sign of the inevitable popular reaction to the extreme inequality of society. Sanders is channelling that reaction effectively.
The establishment therefore circles its wagons around Hillary Clinton. The hope is that women can be persuaded it is an act of misogyny simply to stand in her way. The other great establishment hope is that the Democrat party machinery is so strong in black communities, that black Americans can be in effect ordered to vote for a woman who epitomises the system which disadvantages them, rather than an apostle of genuine change in the economic order. I retain hope the establishment may find that black Americans are cleverer than that.
The machinery used to manipulate identity politics – racial and gender – is all that Clinton has. If Clinton beats Sanders, it will be the perfect demonstration of the fact that identity politics has become the enemy of progress in society.
In the field of identity, Bernie Sanders would be the first non-Christian President of the United States. Would that not be wonderful in a country whose politicians feel the need to genuflect to swarms of religious evolution-denying nutters who believe foreign wars are good because they presage the Rapture?
And would it not be great if the first President since Carter not in thrall to Israel were Jewish?
“Its now acknowledged that the Iraq invasion of Kuwait was given the nod of approval by US officials on the ground in the ME”
No it isn’t – there is no denying that the West at times provided support to Saddam, especially during the Iran – Iraq war – but I fail to see how that in any way excuses the actions of Saddam who started the wars against Iran and Kuwait, gassed the Kurds and committed many abuses of human rights. Instead we get George Galloway and other lickspittles supporting his indefatigability because he suddenly becomes anti American. The same people now support Assad for exactly the same reason, even those it is a demonstrable fact that he has bombed and starved Palestinians in refugee camps in Syria, and the monarchy to which he belongs have run a ruthless secret service and committed multiple human rights abuses over the years. And no I don’t support the House of Saud behaving in a similar manner, even if the scale of their murders is somewhat less.
“Please don’t spread myths about the Arab Spring, which was in fact sponsored and orchestrated by the West”
No it wasn’t – the fact that Islamists may have sought to take over the cause does not mean that there wasn’t a legitimate upswelling of resistance from ordinary people – you really are deluded if you think George Soros and the NGOs are that influential that they can get such numbers out on the streets – or perhaps you just believe all that Rothschilds anti-Semitic guff?
Of course we could believe the alternative fantasy that George Soros got the Syrian troops to fire on peaceful demonstrators in Daraa and then got hundreds of thousand onto the streets of Damascus and other Syrian towns – dam devious people these Rothschilds.
Here are a selection of rascist and anti semitic links to help you in your research and to keep your febrile imagination happy for hours
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=soros+links+to+the+rothschilds&ie=&oe=
Please don’t repeat as I’m sure that Craig doesn’t want direct links to such shit on his blog.
LOL ! Resident Dissident has really gone bat shit crazy this time ! 😀
My mate is fcked. He has been robbed blind..they even smashed his specs…so he can’t see. Why?
We in England will help him in any way we can.
He knows we all love him ..just privately email me or my wife your bank account details..we will pay you what we owe you for the fantastic job you did 10 years ago..you were much too cheap. We owe you £100..Come home mate..and we have got another job for you (well he is rather good).
If you have no money, are all alone and have been completely terrorized in a foreign country ..then even 1 Euro means you can eat tomorrow.
We are going to send him 128 Euros – if he replies…but they’ve nicked all his stuff and he simply borrowed a mobile phone for a few minutes to communicate with his Family & Friends in England.
Its all likely to get one hell of a lot worse..unless we Tell The Truth and Take on These Evil Bastards in The USA.
Tony
A natural response to the piles of bat shit ( together with not a little sea gull shit) left on this blog by the residents in recent weeks.
@RD,
Here we go old bean, this is how your neocons drive public opinion:http://off-guardian.org/2015/12/13/how-u-s-and-eu-manipulate-public-consciousness-montenegro/
Further, do yourself a favour and watch the US Seies “The Blacklist”, in one particular episode they demonstrate how all forms of digital media can be manipulated to distort facts, sow confusion and dissent.
Yes it may be fiction, but that’s what modern state propaganda is all about and has been since Woodrow Wilson decided in 1915 that the US should enter the European Great War, we then go forward to Edward Bernay’s. the father of marketing/PR spin, whom one Joseph Goebbels was highly influenced by, to a plethora of techniques to swing human opinion/desires. The Yanks are masters at it and never had they had so many willing to undertake their dirty deeds and technology to allow them to influence unheard of in any other era.
And, if these techniques don’t work, why are billions spent on them annually by corporations, never mind governments?
Still, I’m but a humble contributor who of course has never gone to any source material – thank God for FOI in the USA!
Resident Dissident’ “the fact that Islamists may have sought to take over the cause”
Spot the deluded substitution; no wonder he’s going crazy, his fantasy world colliding with reality ! 😀
@RD,
Who’s made mention of the Rothschild’s and/or Jewish Conspiracies – I actually deal with one of the Rothschild’s in New York and wonder what she would have to say about all this?
Just saying, but heck, now we are all conspiracy theorists, never mind anti-semites. Me, I’m but anti neoconservative and anti neoliberal and don’t care what religion they are – that’s if they have a religion for one thing is for sure they certainly don’t follow Abrahamic scripture.
so where was this deluge of propaganda in the Arab world that sparked the Arab Spring – I’m afraid rather more evidence is needed than a US TV series. Generally, I have more faith in people to see through marketing when it comes to things like human rights – but of course we are all brain washed sheeple in the alternative reality (or fantasy land if MAcky prefers – good to see you are talking to each other under your bridge) that you have created – and things like the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Arab Spring are just marketing events created by the USA backed by the Rothschilds or similar.
John Goss
I see that you have now turned your direct attention from the Ukraine to Syria, and that may be on account of Russia now declaring that she has been made the subject of a second Cold War.
The conclusions of the Dutch investigators that Ukrainian rebels did not shoot the second Malaysian plane mean that apologies are owed by the West, especially David Cameron. He has organised a smokescreen of choking black smoke in the form of talks with the EU, with migrant groping and drownings in the Aegean to divert our attention from what’s happening.
The outcome of the first Cold War was that eastern Europe became the property of Western businessmen. The M6 is full of lorries of their cheap produce competing against UK farmers. The reason for the West’s success was that the Soviet Union exploited these countries ruthlessly.
The question is whether the next segment of global territory will fall to Western control. I very much doubt it now even though previously I thought it was inevitable.
The swivel neo-cons assume that tyranny is part of Islam, and its adherents are inured to brutality, so they will support terrorism if it will divest them of tyranny. Nothing could be further from the truth. Islam condemns those who do not fight against tyranny.
But who are the greater tyrants, the dictators or the Western nations?
The shaven, suited, Saudi Foreign Minister aligns himself by his dress as the friend of a nations where for every child found to be being abused, the NSPCC says 8 more go un reported, which has sent 4,500 refugee children back to war zones, shot down 2 civilian airplanes, used nuclear bombs, poisoned millions in Vietnam, saturated its immediate neighbours with violence, and stood idly by supporting Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.
It is a moment of crisis for the Muslims when faced with a choice of religious terrorism backed by the West, or crushing tyranny backed by the West in the shape of Assad. The intention of the West is for the Muslims to choose secularism. As happened in Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood was defeated by popular rebellion.
Well goodnight trolls – and just not to shatter your illusions I will do the statutory checks for reds under my bed.
“The conclusions of the Dutch investigators that Ukrainian rebels did not shoot the second Malaysian plane mean that apologies are owed by the West,”
Lie
http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/onderzoek/2049/investigation-crash-mh17-17-july-2014
https://www.government.nl/topics/mh17-incident
Well, I didn’t know..he never said..just a bloke my wife and I met down the pub nearly 20 years ago…He did more or less the same job as me…but earned considerably more…He was contracting…you know the industry…well you sell your skills for as much as you can get…
He never even mentioned he could play guitar…and we had known him for about 3 months…he never said a word…and he said he had got a gig? What you??? Can you sing??
So we turned up thinking a complete blank…
And half way through the Gig…
He just did Joe Satriani..Better than Joe Satriani…
and he can do The Spanish..Better Than The Spanish…
so I guess that is why he was robbed.
I hope he is O.K…he might just have been brave tonight communicating a few words back to England…the poor lad’s been beaten up in Spain…
I reckon he will have The Girls flying out to him tomorrow…
He is a Very Nice Man.
Tony xx
Hi Nevermind…
Peace to you both on a Sad Anniversary of Allied War Crime.. Dresden Fire Bombing:
Stay in Love You two
RD,
Can you tell me exactly the number of mobile phones there are in the world, and are you aware most are capable of MSM, as well as email and have been since the late 90’s – oh, and what about radio. I suppose they don’y have radio in the ME and NA, no of course not because they are all too backward and can’t afford the damn things. alas, mobile phones are ubiquitous and have been since the early part of this century and have been a key component is dissent spreading like wildfire, whether justified or not. The fact that you know this, but ignore it just show ignorance and bias on a massive scale – and i mentioned a US fictional series because in it was an actual representation of what does bloody happen on a daily basis – geographical location not having anything to do with. Check out telecom firms globally and you may in be for a surprise. The thing is social media exists and can be usurped by those who wish to sow dissent and revolution, but alas i’m talking bollocks. God help us.
Resident : “……. George Soros got the Syrian troops to fire on peaceful demonstrators in Daraa and then got hundreds of thousand onto the streets of Damascus and other Syrian towns – dam devious people these Rothschilds.”.
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Probably his best post.
Certainly, the first I would agree with.
“Why did they do that?
Tony”
Beats me mate. It shows that there are thugs in Spain too. Anon1 would probably say we shouldn’t let ’em in. He would assume for somebody to do something so despicable they would have to be Muslims. For me they are thugs.
Sorry to hear of the distress this incident has caused you gradely folk. Sorry too for your friend. Hope somebody helps him over there.
This is a cup-out of the 45th order!!!
What else do you expect? These feral urban youth are no longer tethered to any kind of stable life style and stable incomes, with a pride in their job/hobby/work and their thirst to excel at what they do. Their choices are pretty limited in scope so far as their incomes will allow and their life styles normally living with their parents. They are witness to a world of double standards that makes no sense, and they are fed a diet of state sanctioned violence on an everyday basis.
These feral youth usually with little educational achievements (we spend billions on keeping these youth illiterate and destroy any interest in learning and scientific investigation) hence what else can be expected from these other than the lawless and violent conduct?
The random nature of the attack on Tony’s mate is a scene repeated throughout the European continent with people left to fend for themselves, whilst the states are busy abrogating their duty of care and cutting services to save the super rich from paying taxes.
The criminal banksters and their ponzi scheme that is now being pushed in the direction of cashless societies and negative interest rates compelling further private taxation of the banksters in addition to the hefty interest payments imposed on the working people.
Beats you say? The answer is there, you just don’t want to acknowledge it!
However humanity exists despite the adversities brought on by an empirically failed Rothschild banksterism model, and its thrust in dehumanisation of human beings and commodification of all facets of our daily lives
Full story here
Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to be criminal offence for councils, public bodies and student unions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/israel-boycott-local-councils-public-bodies-and-student-unions-to-be-banned-from-shunning-israeli-a6874006.html
Birds of a feather.During South Africa apartheid Israel offering to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, as evidence of secret South African documents reveal, which provided the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.
Re MH17, I take it everybody is aware of the latest development which comes from down-under;
http://yournewswire.com/mh17-australia-say-russia-not-to-blame-evidence-tampered-with/
Dave they are busy legislating against it as we speak, the draft legislation is already in pale!!!!
When all else fails get the Western vassals in charge pass legislation to protect the lawless conduct of the genociders, land thieves, child abusers, and child torturers in zionistan.
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The Neoconservatives Are Brewing A Wider War In Syria
A pretty comprehensive history of actualities without the usual elements of propaganda.
@Resident Dissident
“I fail to see how that in any way excuses the actions of Saddam who started the wars against Iran and Kuwait, gassed the Kurds and committed many abuses of human rights.” He most likely got the idea from Churchill.
You mean like Churchill or that sick Zionist Fritz Haber the father of chemical warfare
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/sep/01/winston-churchill-shocking-use-chemical-weapons
Typical ghastly weekend in Israel, a sick country that shoots dead children and throws the disabled from wheelchairs, as harrowing clips on twitter are showing.
Turkish military says killed 27 Kurdish militants in southeast
thus Turkey’s in a civil war.begins, so much fo the Ottoman redux!
To address Syria (and no, Habby, I haven’t forgotten you; I’ll deal with you later), I think the answer to ‘who’s responsible for the 100,000’s of deaths, and the 1,000,000’s of refugees’ is very clearly apparent (and, oddly enough, not the ‘fault’ of Assad).
Listening up! Sure? Seatbelts fastened, I hope, ‘cos even ‘Habby’ will be hard pressed to respond to these little snippets:
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo:
http://levantreport.com/2015/08/06/former-dia-chief-michael-flynn-says-rise-of-islamic-state-was-a-willful-decision-and-defends-accuracy-of-2012-memo/
‘Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-french-foreign-minister-the-war-against-syria-was-planned-two-years-before-the-arab-spring/5339112
‘France’s Former Foreign Minister: UK Government Prepared War in Syria Two Years Before 2011 Protests’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-s2AAh06I
SYRIE: Roland Dumas dit tout ! (octobre 2013):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8o-wiRY4s
Former French Foreign Minister confirms preparations for Syrian war underway since 2010:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178963.html
4* General (Retired) Wesley Clark, ex-Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was told by serving 3* General on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon, in 2001 (obviously the time-frame has slipped, but the ‘Regime Change’ agenda rolls on):
“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
CLASSIC WHY: Real Reason for Syria War Plans, from Gen. Wesley Clark:
http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/08/31/classic-why-real-reason-for-syria-war-plans-from-gen-wesley-clark/
Roland Dumas and Wesley Clark are the mainstays of the evidence that the overthrow of Assad’s regime predated any ‘Arab Spring’ scenario, and was a pure ‘Regime Change’ affair – as indeed was Libya, but there is much more;
Iraqi MP: Israel, Western Powers Continue Supplying ISIL with Weapons
Fars News Agency, 9 March 2015
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
‘Iraqi Army Downs 2 UK Planes Carrying Weapons for ISIL’:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931204001534
‘Iraq’s Popular Forces Release Photo of Downed US Chopper Carrying Arms for ISIL’:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931209001345
‘Arrest warrants issued for prosecutors, ex-commander who stopped MİT trucks@:
http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_arrest-warrants-issued-for-prosecutors-ex-commander-who-stopped-mit-trucks_379986.html
‘Iran Claims U.S. Airstrikes are Killing Its Men in Iraq’:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/iran-claims-u-s-airstrikes-are-killing-its-men-in-iraq.html
Where does wicked Putin fit in?
Well, within weeks of Russian forces pounding the sh*t out of the West’s poxie (sorry, ‘proxy’) cutthroat sh*tbag mercenaries – rememeber the Contra’s? I do; I was in Nicagua for 3 1/2 months in 1984 – there suddenly arise ‘Peace Talks’.
Vonder vie?
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This pile of manure is to be found in the telegraph that I don’t read;
In other words the sheep have grown impatient and no longer happy with the mushroom treatment; kept in the dark and thrown shit at!
The success of privatisation, the shareholders happy and the users unhappy!!
“Bevin
Look at the facts – Assad was creating millions of refugees well before the “mercenaries” got involved in any substantial numbers – in fact at the time when I was pointing it out you and your ilk were denying the UNRWA’s numbers, attacking doctors who were providing humanitarian assistance – the record is here on this blog. …”
This is simply untrue. Far from creating refugees Syria was taking them in, from 2003 onwards millions of Iraqi were driven from their homes by the US UK coalition. After the “surge” and the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad large numbers of Iraqi Sunni refugees formed a second wave of refugees coming into Syria.
It is important, because the truth is important, to realise that it is only since 2011 that Syria has become a place from which millions have fled, fleeing a war deliberately engineered, from the first by the Gulf states, most notably Saudi and Qatar and the US.
Of course it is possible, if you are arguing with morons, to insist that the wahhabis were pouring millions into militias organised by revolutionary socialists and consisting of working class democrats. This is the line put forward not only by neo-con apologists but by former socialists in western Europe and the US. It is however balderdash: from the first shot fired the Syrian “uprising” was a wahhabist ‘jihad’ coordinated with Washington and Tel Aviv, apart from the Kurds there never was a significant “secular” military involvement. Where such ‘moderates’ arose the wahhabis crushed them, took their US supplied weaponry and drafted their men into AQ and ISIS militias.
“As always you are lying just to provide cover to your man Assad and his master – your lot did it in 1956. 1968 and on numerous other occasions.”
I am at a loss to understand this passage, apart from the assertion that I am lying. The facts show otherwise. Do you dispute them?
It would appear a few posters on these boards, in the words of one Dr. Michael Brenner, are suffering from a “cognitive dissonance.”
Dr. Brenner, who’s post/essay appears on the website Sic Semper Tyrannis (SST), discusses a psychological condition that informs much of the US decision making process and its electorate and has been widely re-posted on numerous blogs that are attempting to bring light and understanding to the actions of the USA in light of the 9/11 attacks and chaos inflicted in the Middle East and North Africa.
I urge those who like myself wish to confront warmongers and their presstitute choirboys to read the post, and indeed hopefully visit SST, to understand current geopolitical events and the concerted attacks on US Constitutionally protected freedoms as the USA and many of its Western Allies descend into a fascism that is as corrosive and dangerous as anything witnessed between 1919-1939.
To my knowledge SST is one of only a handful of blogs in the USA written by traditional Republicans who are distressed at the moral decay of the USA and a foreign policy that threatens world peace. Here is the link to the post and it sits well with the theme of this topic: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/02/america-at-bay-evading-destiny-by-dr-michael-brenner.html#comments