Saturday, December 17, 2016
Killing Hope
It is amusing to witness the media obsession with election hacking allegedly conducted by Russia. Did it affect the outcome? Probably not.
Certainly not like the US-sponsored coups that have taken place worldwide since 1945. I mean, those alone could fill a book. As a matter of fact, they have.
It's titled Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
Certainly not like the US-sponsored coups that have taken place worldwide since 1945. I mean, those alone could fill a book. As a matter of fact, they have.
It's titled Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
Friday, December 16, 2016
The Old Days
As Slim Charles remarked in the Shakespearean HBO crime series The Wire, “The thing about the old days is that they’re the old days.” The current liberal media fascination with conflicts of interest
of the incoming Presidential Cabinet members is based on perspectives
of the old days. Starting January 20, there will no longer be conflicts
of interest between government and industry; rather, their interests
will be one and the same.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Hooker Couture to Soft Porn
With the election of a ‘pussy-grabbing’ President of the United States of America, The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood
is a timely topic. This cultural phenomenon didn’t just begin, but it
has escalated from First Lady Michelle Obama celebrating the hooker
couture of Beyonce, to the soft porn of former nude pin-up model Melania
Trump.
As
Melissa Farley of Prostitution Research and Education observes, “Media
literacy resource material must include resources on sex stereotyping
and also specific education on the damaging effects of the media’s
sexualization of children, with recommendations for ways to discuss
these issues with children of different ages.”
“These
resources,” she says, “can decrease the toxic media sexualization of
girls, encouraging them to grow up with a sexuality that is not imposed
on them by pimp and pornography-dominated cultures.”
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Fresh Air
As noted in Out in the Open: Remarks on the Trump Election, published November 16, 2016 at the Bureau of Public Secrets,
Powerful though they may be, irrational popular tendencies are not irresistible forces. They contain their own contradictions. … In the long run the only way to defeat reaction is to present more forthright expressions of these aspirations, and more authentic opportunities to fulfill them. When basic issues are forced into the open, irrationalities that flourished under the cover of psychological repression tend to be weakened, like disease germs exposed to sunlight and fresh air.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
The Goldman Rule
In case there was any doubt, power in the modern world is contingent upon control of oil. It was that way when Nazi Germany invaded North Africa, and when the United States invaded Iraq.
Consequently, investors who control oil also control modern states, in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. They bankroll politicians, media, and social movements--both overtly and clandestinely. They choose who to depose, where to invade, and what is known.
In the United States, the epitome of oil investors is Goldman Sachs, which prospers from fracking and offshore drilling, and was bailed out by US taxpayers--along with the rest of Wall Street--when they lost their shirt gambling on market speculation in 2008-2009.
Trump's choice to lead the National Economic Council is from Goldman Sachs, as is his pick for Treasury Secretary, and for the chief White House strategist.
Goldman Sachs financed both presidential campaigns for Obama, and supplied his Treasury Secretary as well. Obama's Justice Department quashed the investigation of Goldman Sachs' criminal violations when the Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush (also from Goldman Sachs) oversaw the Wall Street bailout.
Under President Clinton, his Treasury Secretary from Goldman Sachs manipulated banking laws that made it all possible.
As reported at The Intercept, "Goldman Sachs always wins."
Consequently, investors who control oil also control modern states, in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. They bankroll politicians, media, and social movements--both overtly and clandestinely. They choose who to depose, where to invade, and what is known.
In the United States, the epitome of oil investors is Goldman Sachs, which prospers from fracking and offshore drilling, and was bailed out by US taxpayers--along with the rest of Wall Street--when they lost their shirt gambling on market speculation in 2008-2009.
Trump's choice to lead the National Economic Council is from Goldman Sachs, as is his pick for Treasury Secretary, and for the chief White House strategist.
Goldman Sachs financed both presidential campaigns for Obama, and supplied his Treasury Secretary as well. Obama's Justice Department quashed the investigation of Goldman Sachs' criminal violations when the Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush (also from Goldman Sachs) oversaw the Wall Street bailout.
Under President Clinton, his Treasury Secretary from Goldman Sachs manipulated banking laws that made it all possible.
As reported at The Intercept, "Goldman Sachs always wins."
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Apartheid Approval
The U.S. Senate vote
to suppress campus criticism of Israel passed unanimously on December
1. Responding to pro-Zionist organizations like AIPAC and ADL, the
Senate attack on free speech seeks to use the Department of Education
and Department of Justice to punish proponents of equal civil rights for
Palestinians in Israel, and those advocating for a human rights boycott
against the Israeli Apartheid State.
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Tea Party Triumph
As evidence of the Tea Party triumph, American Freedom Party white separatists, Ku Klux Klan white supremacists, and the pro-white American Nazi Party all agree that President Trump is the great white hope.
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Week in Review-3
The Presidential Inaugural Committee advertised two tickets to an
“intimate policy discussion” with Cabinet members for between $100,000
and $249,000, and, for more than a million dollars, eight tickets to a
“candlelight” dinner with an appearance by the president-elect.--Harper's
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Fracking Bakken
The moral theatre at Standing Rock has been inspirational, but it all could have been avoided had Obama not approved fracking millions of acres of Bakken Shale in North Dakota. The pipelines and bomb trains emanating from that disastrous decision will haunt us for generations.
Monday, December 05, 2016
Privatizing Reservations
Oil industry members of the Native American Affairs Coalition advising
President Trump proposes making Indian Reservations private property. As
noted at Reuter's, "The plan dovetails with Trump’s larger aim of
slashing regulation to boost energy production."
Friday, December 02, 2016
As Dawn Rises
No plan of battle survives contact with the opposition.
--Editor's forward, Black Flag Over Seattle, Albion Monitor
--Editor's forward, Black Flag Over Seattle, Albion Monitor
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Racial Feudalism
The wisdom of the Founding Fathers of America was institutionalizing safeguards against tyranny. Knowing first-hand that theirs was a society in which human beings could be bought and sold, they established a system of governance commensurate with such moral depravity. As the maverick GOP takes the reins of all branches of the U.S. Government on January 20, this pattern of malign neglect in search of return to the promised land of racial feudalism becomes ever clearer.
