Today there is a news scoop on that topic.
The Georgian Connection
The same story from somebody else.
What we already know:
THE 'ROYAL' CANADIAN.....the ravings of somebody who's been out in the 'Big White' too long.
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Showing posts with label Putin. Show all posts
Friday, November 17, 2017
The Maidan Snipers : a smoking gun.
One of the things that has yet to happen in the new, rebutylhydrated EUkraine is the trial of some Berkut riot police accused of 'inhumanity' on the Maidan and indirectly blamed, by the current government, with killing Maidan protesters. The most notable incident of the killing as video recorded for posterity - the Maidan 'snipers' who changed a protest into a coup.
Today there is a news scoop on that topic.
The Georgian Connection
The same story from somebody else.
What we already know:
Today there is a news scoop on that topic.
The Georgian Connection
The same story from somebody else.
What we already know:
Saturday, June 17, 2017
In the News - Father's Day Weekend
In the News
Stealth works! A hi-tech 'Stennis' class USN destroyer , operating off the coast of Japan, was 'run down' early yesterday morning , by a Philippino container ship, after the US navy vessel, apparently, tried to steam across its bows. 14 US sailors are missing and the destroyer is being 'returned to 'port' for evaluation and repairs after taking-on water. While it would appear the destroyer 'Fitzgerald' was unaware of, or ignoring, the container ship. It could very well be that the 'Fitzgerald' - a ship with stealth configuration may not have been 'visible' to the crew of the cargo vessel. Although the cargo ship's engines were reported to have been 'stopped' at the time of the incident.
The Republican congressman on second base will be fine. This after a disgruntled Bernie Sanders 'suppoorter' who had 'gone to Washington', from his home Illinois, gave him a 'Forrest Gump wound' during a baseball practice in Alexandria Va. The 66-year-old shooter, who had been living in a van and using the facilities at a nearby 'Y' to clean-up, also shot a congressional aide - numerous times - as well as two members of the 'security detail', before himself being shot to death in an incident, described by some witnesses, as "Iraq". So while his actual reasons for his actions (definitely not terrorism??) are unknown, the incident is being laid at the foot of increasingly radical 'leftists' and 'liberals' and their willingness to 'go to the dark side' to 'promote their hate and their 'free-dumb'.
Speaking of the sinister part of the world, Oliver Stone America's left-wing answer to Oliver North, was pilloried on the Stephen Colbert Show for his recently-completed four-hour 'lustration' of everything Putin. A program that is to be aired, in totality, on totalitarian TV in Russia. Naturally Oliver, who with Steven Segal and that weird guy who looks a bit like Nick Nolte and 'star' of a couple of reality detox shows - seems to have a constant erection when in the presence of a 'Czar' of any kind - has made the kind of 'mawkish expose' once reserved only to a Pope or other potentate - like the Kaiser or Joe Stalin. Ollie apparently did the kind of interviews once laid on 'the Bambino' - slo-ball lobs with the expectation to see him swat the spheroid out of the park, past Old Glory, to cure sick lads anywhere. He hardly 'axed' the Russian Prexy any hard questions at all - like why he keeps on running for office? Or why the bank of Cyprus nearly went bust from all the boodle he's stashed in it? Or when he's invading Europe? Nope! Ollie reprised Baba Wawa and was asking him about growing-up in Leningrad and his dead brother and his heroic daddy, his doggy and how he felt about his kids, Shit nobody wants to hear about a bloodspattered killer - at least before the execution. 'The one-eared wonder' only wanted to know if Ollie had sucked Russian dick and the audience was lapping-it-up.
Saudi Arabia declared war on Qatar this week - well not actually a declaration of war per se, but the same kind of thing that made the Balkans in 1914 so much of a 'hotspot' - along wth an 'embargo' and a 'blockade' (usually taken as being acts of war). The Sauds - well actually the Saudi Foreign Minister princeling Mahmoodi the 34th , trying-out some 'political strength and influence' chops with a view to getting his youngish ass promoted, over thousands of senior cousins, as the 'Heir to the Date Palm Throne" to make up for the 'military strength and warrior' chops he's been pissing-up a against a sand dune in Yemen for two years - asked for the 'support' of his 'coalition allies' in presenting the Qataris with an ultimatum or 10. (Run-on ye mighty sentences of state!) Blackballed by virtually everybody on Earth, the Qataris responded with "WTF are you talking about Willis?" and accepted military assistance from the Turks. They also withdrew their forces, operating with the Saudi coalition in the Horn of Africa, but not the Qatari forces helping to subjugate Yemen - that's still a 'shared concern', as was, supposedly, until last week, the well-being of salafist forces and ISIS operations around the world. This week Qatar is being 'pegged' as the sole identified source of all that terror. So far the Emir of Qatar has refused to bow and scrape before 'the Sheik of Araby''. Although the US forces, stationed in Qatar, are remaining 'strictly neutral', no doubt they'd stand willing to uphold, or restore if necessary, 'the rule of law and order'.
Putin 'put down' another 'widespread protest' this past week. Thousands of 'freedom loving Russians' took to the streets to demand that he, and Medvedev, step dow and let somebody nicer take over. They have chosen as their emblem of freedom the 'rubber ducky' and they have a new revolutionary song called "Dimon" - which tells about the greedy devil whom they have elected Prime Minister. The 'leader' of Free Russia wa arrested leaving home to attend a protest and later sentenced to 30 days in the hooscow for 'organizing an unlicensed gathering' again, Hundreds of innocent protestors were 'rounded-up ' by Putin's goons and loaded into police buses - some even having to be carried as they had been deprived of the power to move their legs! The US government demanded their immediate release. Other than those facing 'criminal behaviour charges' (most of them) - a nasty Russian gulag filler - totally unlike what America jails rioting black folks about - most of those detained were later released. The rest got fed up and went home.
Among the arrested in St. Petersburg? 'Dilde' the blow-up duck. He/She/It (the LGBTx mantra??) was reportedly "repeatedly mounted" at the local militia barrack and remains in captivity. The US State Deparment is now involved.
Stone on cyber surveillance as part of the Putin interviews
Stealth works! A hi-tech 'Stennis' class USN destroyer , operating off the coast of Japan, was 'run down' early yesterday morning , by a Philippino container ship, after the US navy vessel, apparently, tried to steam across its bows. 14 US sailors are missing and the destroyer is being 'returned to 'port' for evaluation and repairs after taking-on water. While it would appear the destroyer 'Fitzgerald' was unaware of, or ignoring, the container ship. It could very well be that the 'Fitzgerald' - a ship with stealth configuration may not have been 'visible' to the crew of the cargo vessel. Although the cargo ship's engines were reported to have been 'stopped' at the time of the incident.
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| Down by the starboard quarter |
The Republican congressman on second base will be fine. This after a disgruntled Bernie Sanders 'suppoorter' who had 'gone to Washington', from his home Illinois, gave him a 'Forrest Gump wound' during a baseball practice in Alexandria Va. The 66-year-old shooter, who had been living in a van and using the facilities at a nearby 'Y' to clean-up, also shot a congressional aide - numerous times - as well as two members of the 'security detail', before himself being shot to death in an incident, described by some witnesses, as "Iraq". So while his actual reasons for his actions (definitely not terrorism??) are unknown, the incident is being laid at the foot of increasingly radical 'leftists' and 'liberals' and their willingness to 'go to the dark side' to 'promote their hate and their 'free-dumb'.
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| The war zone in Alexandria - the game played on |
Speaking of the sinister part of the world, Oliver Stone America's left-wing answer to Oliver North, was pilloried on the Stephen Colbert Show for his recently-completed four-hour 'lustration' of everything Putin. A program that is to be aired, in totality, on totalitarian TV in Russia. Naturally Oliver, who with Steven Segal and that weird guy who looks a bit like Nick Nolte and 'star' of a couple of reality detox shows - seems to have a constant erection when in the presence of a 'Czar' of any kind - has made the kind of 'mawkish expose' once reserved only to a Pope or other potentate - like the Kaiser or Joe Stalin. Ollie apparently did the kind of interviews once laid on 'the Bambino' - slo-ball lobs with the expectation to see him swat the spheroid out of the park, past Old Glory, to cure sick lads anywhere. He hardly 'axed' the Russian Prexy any hard questions at all - like why he keeps on running for office? Or why the bank of Cyprus nearly went bust from all the boodle he's stashed in it? Or when he's invading Europe? Nope! Ollie reprised Baba Wawa and was asking him about growing-up in Leningrad and his dead brother and his heroic daddy, his doggy and how he felt about his kids, Shit nobody wants to hear about a bloodspattered killer - at least before the execution. 'The one-eared wonder' only wanted to know if Ollie had sucked Russian dick and the audience was lapping-it-up.
Saudi Arabia declared war on Qatar this week - well not actually a declaration of war per se, but the same kind of thing that made the Balkans in 1914 so much of a 'hotspot' - along wth an 'embargo' and a 'blockade' (usually taken as being acts of war). The Sauds - well actually the Saudi Foreign Minister princeling Mahmoodi the 34th , trying-out some 'political strength and influence' chops with a view to getting his youngish ass promoted, over thousands of senior cousins, as the 'Heir to the Date Palm Throne" to make up for the 'military strength and warrior' chops he's been pissing-up a against a sand dune in Yemen for two years - asked for the 'support' of his 'coalition allies' in presenting the Qataris with an ultimatum or 10. (Run-on ye mighty sentences of state!) Blackballed by virtually everybody on Earth, the Qataris responded with "WTF are you talking about Willis?" and accepted military assistance from the Turks. They also withdrew their forces, operating with the Saudi coalition in the Horn of Africa, but not the Qatari forces helping to subjugate Yemen - that's still a 'shared concern', as was, supposedly, until last week, the well-being of salafist forces and ISIS operations around the world. This week Qatar is being 'pegged' as the sole identified source of all that terror. So far the Emir of Qatar has refused to bow and scrape before 'the Sheik of Araby''. Although the US forces, stationed in Qatar, are remaining 'strictly neutral', no doubt they'd stand willing to uphold, or restore if necessary, 'the rule of law and order'.
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| running out in Qatar |
Putin 'put down' another 'widespread protest' this past week. Thousands of 'freedom loving Russians' took to the streets to demand that he, and Medvedev, step dow and let somebody nicer take over. They have chosen as their emblem of freedom the 'rubber ducky' and they have a new revolutionary song called "Dimon" - which tells about the greedy devil whom they have elected Prime Minister. The 'leader' of Free Russia wa arrested leaving home to attend a protest and later sentenced to 30 days in the hooscow for 'organizing an unlicensed gathering' again, Hundreds of innocent protestors were 'rounded-up ' by Putin's goons and loaded into police buses - some even having to be carried as they had been deprived of the power to move their legs! The US government demanded their immediate release. Other than those facing 'criminal behaviour charges' (most of them) - a nasty Russian gulag filler - totally unlike what America jails rioting black folks about - most of those detained were later released. The rest got fed up and went home.
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| Their Ducklings yearning to quack free |
Among the arrested in St. Petersburg? 'Dilde' the blow-up duck. He/She/It (the LGBTx mantra??) was reportedly "repeatedly mounted" at the local militia barrack and remains in captivity. The US State Deparment is now involved.
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| For distraction only |
To wrap-up for the day: Wikileaks to day released a list of consumer and other types of commerically retailed routers which support the 'Cherry bonb' software that allows security agencies to use these to trace and record internet activities carried out by 'subjects of interest'. The 'Cherry Bomb' software also allows outside sources to reverse access your computer. The wiki list, while detailing every model compatable with the spyware, indicates that so far the number of companies that have cooperated to include 'Cherry Bomb' in their proprietory software remains limited.
Saturday, June 03, 2017
Get Your Strangelove Here!
Anti-propaganda is the salient feature of a number of propaganda 'mushrooms' popping-up all over the place. False News' has given rise to even more false news and computer hacking - or at least the kind that can derail an election with 'lies' - can best be combated, as it recently was in the French example - by letting them 'hack' wads of 'contrived email' - this 'taints' everything legitimate, don't you see? For, hacking aside, what derailed the recent American election was the truth about candidates and their actions - not lies. Since then a barrage of shifting accusations, of purported actions, with little or no evidence, has replaced even that. A series of hearings and investigations are then themselves derailed by new -'startling' testimony and revelations that themselves obfuscate, complicate and warrant a round of new investigations. Nothing is ever proven, or settled in the on-going media hoo-hah.
And that's only the 'fun part', for underlying all the sheeple-duffing is a steady parade of 'frightening attacks, horrible outrages, and assaults on our values and freedoms' with the drumbeat leading to more 'humanitarian intervention' and warfighting.
Shocking Footage - get used to it, or not? End Times.
Chussodovsky
Hey! Look out! The Russians are hacking! Well not actually.
But look, Putin just admitted it. He just admitted it!!!!! Well not really, again.'Could' doesn't mean 'Did' - but we'll settle for any admission we can get.
Putin's slant.
The American slant.
Then there's the Miracle-worker
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Another Big Fat Conspiracy
How did Putin steal the US Presidency from Hilary Clinton? The short answer is 'We don't know."
The more nuanced answer is that 'we do know' because a private internet security company in California has detected traces of what he calls a Russian hacking group busting into the DNC server and stealing email. He also detected 'Russian' hacking in an attempt, he claims, to make electronic voting machines on Illinois register a different vote than was entered. And then there is the Wikileaks dump of email relating to Hilary Clinton on a number of different issues - released shortly before the vote. Along with what is claimed to be a constant barrage of 'false news' written in Moscow and published in US media, there is, according to a 12 page Security report on the subject, a clear and present indication that Putin has been personally doing the 'hokey pokey' with America.
This has been maintained as the fundamental understanding of 'what's up' and has been further extended and expanded to an investigation that Trump was in cahoots, or was possibly being blackmailed over some micturating prostitutes, with or by Moscow to gain the throne and then sell America down the proverbial (or in Bennie Arnold's case the Hudson) river.
A meeting with the Russians this weekend past has provided the latest grist for that mill and US median has been chunnering that Trump blabbed the 'down and dirty' on some very tip-top secret US 'intel' about an ISIS to change civilization.
It just so happened that the same day this story broke - so did another - a report on the mysterious death of a Democratic IT worker called Seth Rich. Rich was found, dying of two bullet wounds, on a Washington street early last year. His death, ascribed by police to a botched robbery in which nothing was stole, n has been investigated by a man hired by the Rich's family. That investigator is now claiming to have been told by police and FBI contacts that Rich's laptop, sequestered by police as part of their investigation. reveals details of possible contacts over a period of time between Rich and Wikileaks. For there has long been a counter story to the 'Putinic plot' to 'bolshoi' America, that someone inside the Democratic party was releasing their communications. We know for fact that much of the damaging information about Clinton , released late in the campaign and which caused the FBI to announce an investigation - was released by the NYPD after they seized a laptop belonging to Jeffrey Wiener (look at my dick fame) - the husband of Clinton's personal assistant Huma Abedin - and on which they found an amount of Clinton/ Democratic party material.
An upcoming release of further information , it was claimed , would detail some of this contact with Wikileaks. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went on record to talk about this slaying and while making no admissions that Rush was his source, nonetheless offered a reward for information leading to the arrest of Rush's killer.
If any of this is correct it could indicate that he conventional wisdom governing America, its government and its foreign policy in regard to Russia is, essentially, like the WMDs of the BushCo era, another load of bunkum and hooey causing great destruction and accomplishing little or nothing.
This story is well detailed on Mnar Muhwesh's alternitive news site Mint Press.
Mint Press Investigation
The more nuanced answer is that 'we do know' because a private internet security company in California has detected traces of what he calls a Russian hacking group busting into the DNC server and stealing email. He also detected 'Russian' hacking in an attempt, he claims, to make electronic voting machines on Illinois register a different vote than was entered. And then there is the Wikileaks dump of email relating to Hilary Clinton on a number of different issues - released shortly before the vote. Along with what is claimed to be a constant barrage of 'false news' written in Moscow and published in US media, there is, according to a 12 page Security report on the subject, a clear and present indication that Putin has been personally doing the 'hokey pokey' with America.
This has been maintained as the fundamental understanding of 'what's up' and has been further extended and expanded to an investigation that Trump was in cahoots, or was possibly being blackmailed over some micturating prostitutes, with or by Moscow to gain the throne and then sell America down the proverbial (or in Bennie Arnold's case the Hudson) river.
A meeting with the Russians this weekend past has provided the latest grist for that mill and US median has been chunnering that Trump blabbed the 'down and dirty' on some very tip-top secret US 'intel' about an ISIS to change civilization.
It just so happened that the same day this story broke - so did another - a report on the mysterious death of a Democratic IT worker called Seth Rich. Rich was found, dying of two bullet wounds, on a Washington street early last year. His death, ascribed by police to a botched robbery in which nothing was stole, n has been investigated by a man hired by the Rich's family. That investigator is now claiming to have been told by police and FBI contacts that Rich's laptop, sequestered by police as part of their investigation. reveals details of possible contacts over a period of time between Rich and Wikileaks. For there has long been a counter story to the 'Putinic plot' to 'bolshoi' America, that someone inside the Democratic party was releasing their communications. We know for fact that much of the damaging information about Clinton , released late in the campaign and which caused the FBI to announce an investigation - was released by the NYPD after they seized a laptop belonging to Jeffrey Wiener (look at my dick fame) - the husband of Clinton's personal assistant Huma Abedin - and on which they found an amount of Clinton/ Democratic party material.
An upcoming release of further information , it was claimed , would detail some of this contact with Wikileaks. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went on record to talk about this slaying and while making no admissions that Rush was his source, nonetheless offered a reward for information leading to the arrest of Rush's killer.
If any of this is correct it could indicate that he conventional wisdom governing America, its government and its foreign policy in regard to Russia is, essentially, like the WMDs of the BushCo era, another load of bunkum and hooey causing great destruction and accomplishing little or nothing.
This story is well detailed on Mnar Muhwesh's alternitive news site Mint Press.
Mint Press Investigation
Friday, March 10, 2017
дезинформация (dezinformatsiya:disinformation)
The American disease is spreading north! It's called "disinformation", Russian disinformation, and how it's gonna wreck civilization.
"Left foot in, left foot out - doing jiggery pokery, shake it all about"
For the past two days, it would appear, Canada has either been under attack or is imminently going to be attacked (depending on which one of the two 'media sources' (Macleans Magazine, National Post) that 'discovered' it) by whatever parts of Russia are accused of 'attacking' America - skewing the vote there and electing a President nobody - 'except Putin' - wanted.
What more needs be said?
The 'threat', we are told, has arisen since Canada announced, on Tuesday, (well that's a fib, Putin has been trying to 'screw' Canada, or Krystia Freeland or both, for a much longer time), that it will be continuing to 'support' Ukraine, in small part, by maintaining a force of 200 military trainers, in Ukraine, until 2019. No mention of Canada's already having had military forces, periodically, in Ukraine dating back some 20 years and that whatever 'parts of Russia' etc, not attacking us - until now.
Khristia .... and freedumb. She even looks like a real Canadian
What this 'disinformation attack' is about is our (relatively) new Foreign Affairs Minister, Krystia Freeland and her stalwart defence of EUkrainia. It would appear that 'Russia' has, lately, been attacking her, personally, by claiming that her grandfather - a Ukrainian 'refugee' (they used to be called "DP's" after WW2), spent some of his 'war' time working for a pro-Nazi, anti-Jew, -Pole, -communist, etc publication that blossomed after Ukraine was 'liberated' by Hitler & Co. The Russians have already listed Freeland on a 'sanctioned persons' list for some of the things she said and did, in person, to get Russians sanctioned here in Canada. This latest 'move' (other than having been attributed to 'pro-russian blogs', there is no proof the Russian governmment is actually attacking at all) is, supposedly, just like the Russian 'disinformation campaigns' that have blighted recent modern history. Although it would seem that, like the other 'disinformations', the facts of the story are essentially true - but 'lacking in nuance'.
That good 'nuance' is being provided in Canadian media (Toronto Star) to correct the disinformation 'nuance' goes like this:
1. You won't understand if you weren't there. "War is hell", General Sherman said that, and you can't make omelets without breaking heads. Dirty deeds get done, by accident mostly, and, well, just because "good people" are scared for their lives and willing to do almost anything to survive.
2. Some of them pretend to do one thing (bad stuff) but they are really heroes (Brad Pitt and the Nazi-killerz?) , like Krystia's grandad, who used his 'job' to get documents for, and save the lives of, "anti-nazi fighters". Don't even try to understand it, except the 'other guys' were worse.
3. It's been so long now and, heck, Krystia had nothing to do with it - except editing the book her Uncle wrote about his Pop.
4. There were a few of 'ex-nazis' who may have 'sneaked in' with the real refugees but they went on to live in peace and, we hope, tried to live down any evil they had done. If we caught them, we dealt with them ... so we're good and now so are they - unless somebody from Israel finds them.
5. The whole family would have been dead - murdered by the filthy Russians or Russian-sympathizing 'Commie' Ukrainians - if they'd stayed in Europe - so would Krystia and she's innocent.
Hier Wir haben den gutes Nazis. So?
This is the 'Canadian chapter' of the 'other' Russian 'disinformation': that there are modern 'Nazis' fighting in Ukraine, and in the 'revolutionary' government there. Once again the 'disinformation' may be in the nuance, for there are 'nazis', or people who seem to espouse the 'value' of that aspect of Ukrainian history, who actually do form voluntary military units fighting alongside regular Ukrainian armed forces, in what they call 'the ATO'. And some of the (former) leadership of such groups do hold high office in the government of Ukraine. One of them was invited to, and did, address the Parliament of Canada. But, once again, our 'nuance' might (probably does) make him a great guy. The truth may be that, politically, he's still well 'right' of Oskar Dirlewanger.
Pariuby, founder of the Ukrainian Nazi party, smiles on parliament
So what's the effect of all this?
Well for starters - it's going to make any sort of improvement in the relationship between Canada and Russia 'more complicated' - if we wanted anything like that. Not that Canada needs worry, for we've gotten along well without Russians for so long, now. For about 9 years Canada has been in the forefront of those nations of the world who have more concern for downtrodden Russians and the 'evil that is done to them by their government' than we do for the downtrodden of most other places on earth. Human rights for Russians seem far more important, to Canada, than, say, human rights for a lot of other people - many kinds of Moslems come to mind. For instance what Putin is 'doing to the gay population of Russia' is somehow much worse than anything Israel does, regularly, to the ordinary people of Gaza or what's happening to the Rohinga, or the Houthis. We complain about Russia and 'defund' our charities aimed at helping Palestine - or Yemen - or the Assad side of Syria. Moslems 'do things' to "deserve" their treatment and Russian gays, well, they just don't.
But this isn't only about Russia for, you see, like Israel - (and this is perhaps why we don't gripe about human rights there; they have great human rights - for Israelis), Ukraine is 'under attack'. Yes they don't like gays there, either, but the 'new' Ukrainian police, unlike Russian police, show-up to 'protect' the 'Rainbow March'. If Putin wasn't being so bad to them, they'd be nicer to everybody - or pass more nice laws they won't 'be able' to enforce. Ukraine has been "invaded", parts of it "illegally annexed" (Disinformation? Nah, undebateable 'facts', dropped and left because they're 'common knowledge') and right now Ukraine is 'holding the Russians back from destroying European culture' (dezinformatsiye - in Ukrainian) . It needs "more effective" weapons, and it needs more money to fight - and to look after culture, art and beauty - things they would be more interested in than armored divisions, bulletproof vests, night vision glasses and ballistic helmets if only ... Putin would leave them in peace!
Canada is willing to help train-up the army to do all that the 'right way'. We have, and will, continue to give them money. Ms Freeland and the Ukrainian-Canadian community would like Canada to give them, (even sell if necessary), "more effective" weapons to shoot at 'their' Donbass. But I may be 'disinformed' - maybe EUkraine doesn't need money, or weapons, or anything else and is really at peace ..... nah.
'Russian invasions' play better - we grew up with that threat - we've 'seen' them on the TV - in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. We've 'seen' what the Russians have done to Afghanistan, to Latvia and Lithuania and Estonia - oops, those may have been anti-Russian events. We've seen Kruschev and his UN shoe (something else never actually recorded on film) and we've 'known the fear' of a nuclear stand-off. We've heard the warning sirens - and we've ducked and covered.
Like the nice man in the Star said, to-day, 'We weren't really there and we can't understand' - he may be right. But if he is, then shouldn't we take into consideration that, having lost World War One and come very close to losing the Second World War Two, the Russians have 'been there' more than we have? And might understand Ukraine better than some romantically-homesick 'Canadian' greatgrandchildren?
Definitely NOT bullshit - it's Love
Disinformation aside, what we need to bear in mind that this could all be heading in a direction our grandparents (who "didn't want to know" about war (?)- the Star) had some real fear of going. Depending on everybody to be 'rational' about nuclear weapons when they can't be rational about an election, accents the point that emotions 'make us' do more than common sense - and often the 'wrong' thing. Disinformation, whether coming from Russia, or the counter-disinformation 'necessary' to make 'theirs' look bad - drives an emotional reaction. If you've heard Krystia when she gets' upset' you would know that.
I checked out the word 'disinformation' - it didn't look like a 'real' word. It wasn't - until sometime in the 1980's. According to Wikipedia, it's a 'translation', or transliteration, of a probably-just-as-contrived "Russian word". Isn't it strange that, having bested the propaganda of the Comintern, and International Communism, the 'agitprop' and a plethora of Soviet propaganda forms about almost everything we love, we have to 'borrow' another 'Russian word' to describe something even more nefarious - 'twisting the truth'.
Definitely not bullshit either - it's desecrating a Presidential bed
It's a pity that there are such 'truths' for them to find, and twist.
Some other of our 'truths'? Good guys have to be evil - otherwise, 'the other guys would win'. THEY 'choose' to do evil and WE have it forced on us. We're good and they're just not. Like Krystia's granddad and all the German Nazis?
Casey, Casey... Casey from the emerald isle - and 'the agency'
ADDENDUM: Smashback Canada
From the pages of the little tabloid that should - Canada's opposition leader (pro tem) - the gorgeous and smart Rona Barrett - reminds us all of the diplomat and pantywaister that was Steve Harper 'standing-up' to Putin when all the other leaders of 'the wurld' were too afraid. Yes! Steve told Vlad to 'Get out of Ukraine' and backed-that-up by banning a couple of Russian businessmen and some others from ever coming to Canada, if they were thinking about that. He deployed the forces (or a couple of hundred of them) to go on a mission to 'train-up' a 'real' military for EUkrainia and backed their fight for 'freedumb'. He gave them money and flak vests, boots and helmets ( they left most of those unused for the rebels at Debaltsevo). But he failed to send them the lethal weapons they so desperately needed to kill even more eastern Ukrainians than the 10 000, or so, they already have, with the lethal weapons they've already got.
And now, having so desperately tried , striven even, to "normalize" relations with the Russians - it's time for 'the Kid' to "get serious" (never mind the new troops he's deployed to Ukraine and the Baltics, or the money he's donated for us, the Mounties now 'training-up' a real police force to match that military in EUkraine, or all his support for their 'freedumb') and do "what we've done for the Kurds", fer pete's sakes, arm those poor Ukrainians!
And Jesus wept again.
For the past two days, it would appear, Canada has either been under attack or is imminently going to be attacked (depending on which one of the two 'media sources' (Macleans Magazine, National Post) that 'discovered' it) by whatever parts of Russia are accused of 'attacking' America - skewing the vote there and electing a President nobody - 'except Putin' - wanted.
The 'threat', we are told, has arisen since Canada announced, on Tuesday, (well that's a fib, Putin has been trying to 'screw' Canada, or Krystia Freeland or both, for a much longer time), that it will be continuing to 'support' Ukraine, in small part, by maintaining a force of 200 military trainers, in Ukraine, until 2019. No mention of Canada's already having had military forces, periodically, in Ukraine dating back some 20 years and that whatever 'parts of Russia' etc, not attacking us - until now.
What this 'disinformation attack' is about is our (relatively) new Foreign Affairs Minister, Krystia Freeland and her stalwart defence of EUkrainia. It would appear that 'Russia' has, lately, been attacking her, personally, by claiming that her grandfather - a Ukrainian 'refugee' (they used to be called "DP's" after WW2), spent some of his 'war' time working for a pro-Nazi, anti-Jew, -Pole, -communist, etc publication that blossomed after Ukraine was 'liberated' by Hitler & Co. The Russians have already listed Freeland on a 'sanctioned persons' list for some of the things she said and did, in person, to get Russians sanctioned here in Canada. This latest 'move' (other than having been attributed to 'pro-russian blogs', there is no proof the Russian governmment is actually attacking at all) is, supposedly, just like the Russian 'disinformation campaigns' that have blighted recent modern history. Although it would seem that, like the other 'disinformations', the facts of the story are essentially true - but 'lacking in nuance'.
That good 'nuance' is being provided in Canadian media (Toronto Star) to correct the disinformation 'nuance' goes like this:
1. You won't understand if you weren't there. "War is hell", General Sherman said that, and you can't make omelets without breaking heads. Dirty deeds get done, by accident mostly, and, well, just because "good people" are scared for their lives and willing to do almost anything to survive.
2. Some of them pretend to do one thing (bad stuff) but they are really heroes (Brad Pitt and the Nazi-killerz?) , like Krystia's grandad, who used his 'job' to get documents for, and save the lives of, "anti-nazi fighters". Don't even try to understand it, except the 'other guys' were worse.
3. It's been so long now and, heck, Krystia had nothing to do with it - except editing the book her Uncle wrote about his Pop.
4. There were a few of 'ex-nazis' who may have 'sneaked in' with the real refugees but they went on to live in peace and, we hope, tried to live down any evil they had done. If we caught them, we dealt with them ... so we're good and now so are they - unless somebody from Israel finds them.
5. The whole family would have been dead - murdered by the filthy Russians or Russian-sympathizing 'Commie' Ukrainians - if they'd stayed in Europe - so would Krystia and she's innocent.
This is the 'Canadian chapter' of the 'other' Russian 'disinformation': that there are modern 'Nazis' fighting in Ukraine, and in the 'revolutionary' government there. Once again the 'disinformation' may be in the nuance, for there are 'nazis', or people who seem to espouse the 'value' of that aspect of Ukrainian history, who actually do form voluntary military units fighting alongside regular Ukrainian armed forces, in what they call 'the ATO'. And some of the (former) leadership of such groups do hold high office in the government of Ukraine. One of them was invited to, and did, address the Parliament of Canada. But, once again, our 'nuance' might (probably does) make him a great guy. The truth may be that, politically, he's still well 'right' of Oskar Dirlewanger.
So what's the effect of all this?
Well for starters - it's going to make any sort of improvement in the relationship between Canada and Russia 'more complicated' - if we wanted anything like that. Not that Canada needs worry, for we've gotten along well without Russians for so long, now. For about 9 years Canada has been in the forefront of those nations of the world who have more concern for downtrodden Russians and the 'evil that is done to them by their government' than we do for the downtrodden of most other places on earth. Human rights for Russians seem far more important, to Canada, than, say, human rights for a lot of other people - many kinds of Moslems come to mind. For instance what Putin is 'doing to the gay population of Russia' is somehow much worse than anything Israel does, regularly, to the ordinary people of Gaza or what's happening to the Rohinga, or the Houthis. We complain about Russia and 'defund' our charities aimed at helping Palestine - or Yemen - or the Assad side of Syria. Moslems 'do things' to "deserve" their treatment and Russian gays, well, they just don't.
But this isn't only about Russia for, you see, like Israel - (and this is perhaps why we don't gripe about human rights there; they have great human rights - for Israelis), Ukraine is 'under attack'. Yes they don't like gays there, either, but the 'new' Ukrainian police, unlike Russian police, show-up to 'protect' the 'Rainbow March'. If Putin wasn't being so bad to them, they'd be nicer to everybody - or pass more nice laws they won't 'be able' to enforce. Ukraine has been "invaded", parts of it "illegally annexed" (Disinformation? Nah, undebateable 'facts', dropped and left because they're 'common knowledge') and right now Ukraine is 'holding the Russians back from destroying European culture' (dezinformatsiye - in Ukrainian) . It needs "more effective" weapons, and it needs more money to fight - and to look after culture, art and beauty - things they would be more interested in than armored divisions, bulletproof vests, night vision glasses and ballistic helmets if only ... Putin would leave them in peace!
Canada is willing to help train-up the army to do all that the 'right way'. We have, and will, continue to give them money. Ms Freeland and the Ukrainian-Canadian community would like Canada to give them, (even sell if necessary), "more effective" weapons to shoot at 'their' Donbass. But I may be 'disinformed' - maybe EUkraine doesn't need money, or weapons, or anything else and is really at peace ..... nah.
'Russian invasions' play better - we grew up with that threat - we've 'seen' them on the TV - in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. We've 'seen' what the Russians have done to Afghanistan, to Latvia and Lithuania and Estonia - oops, those may have been anti-Russian events. We've seen Kruschev and his UN shoe (something else never actually recorded on film) and we've 'known the fear' of a nuclear stand-off. We've heard the warning sirens - and we've ducked and covered.
Like the nice man in the Star said, to-day, 'We weren't really there and we can't understand' - he may be right. But if he is, then shouldn't we take into consideration that, having lost World War One and come very close to losing the Second World War Two, the Russians have 'been there' more than we have? And might understand Ukraine better than some romantically-homesick 'Canadian' greatgrandchildren?
Disinformation aside, what we need to bear in mind that this could all be heading in a direction our grandparents (who "didn't want to know" about war (?)- the Star) had some real fear of going. Depending on everybody to be 'rational' about nuclear weapons when they can't be rational about an election, accents the point that emotions 'make us' do more than common sense - and often the 'wrong' thing. Disinformation, whether coming from Russia, or the counter-disinformation 'necessary' to make 'theirs' look bad - drives an emotional reaction. If you've heard Krystia when she gets' upset' you would know that.
I checked out the word 'disinformation' - it didn't look like a 'real' word. It wasn't - until sometime in the 1980's. According to Wikipedia, it's a 'translation', or transliteration, of a probably-just-as-contrived "Russian word". Isn't it strange that, having bested the propaganda of the Comintern, and International Communism, the 'agitprop' and a plethora of Soviet propaganda forms about almost everything we love, we have to 'borrow' another 'Russian word' to describe something even more nefarious - 'twisting the truth'.
It's a pity that there are such 'truths' for them to find, and twist.
Some other of our 'truths'? Good guys have to be evil - otherwise, 'the other guys would win'. THEY 'choose' to do evil and WE have it forced on us. We're good and they're just not. Like Krystia's granddad and all the German Nazis?
ADDENDUM: Smashback Canada
From the pages of the little tabloid that should - Canada's opposition leader (pro tem) - the gorgeous and smart Rona Barrett - reminds us all of the diplomat and pantywaister that was Steve Harper 'standing-up' to Putin when all the other leaders of 'the wurld' were too afraid. Yes! Steve told Vlad to 'Get out of Ukraine' and backed-that-up by banning a couple of Russian businessmen and some others from ever coming to Canada, if they were thinking about that. He deployed the forces (or a couple of hundred of them) to go on a mission to 'train-up' a 'real' military for EUkrainia and backed their fight for 'freedumb'. He gave them money and flak vests, boots and helmets ( they left most of those unused for the rebels at Debaltsevo). But he failed to send them the lethal weapons they so desperately needed to kill even more eastern Ukrainians than the 10 000, or so, they already have, with the lethal weapons they've already got.
And now, having so desperately tried , striven even, to "normalize" relations with the Russians - it's time for 'the Kid' to "get serious" (never mind the new troops he's deployed to Ukraine and the Baltics, or the money he's donated for us, the Mounties now 'training-up' a real police force to match that military in EUkraine, or all his support for their 'freedumb') and do "what we've done for the Kurds", fer pete's sakes, arm those poor Ukrainians!
And Jesus wept again.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Every Time it Rains, it Rains Ducats from Hevin.
Just as Simon Ostrovsky, the late lamented Ukrainian freedumb pundit, once remarked at seeing a gang of Chetniks manning a roadblock in Crimea, "You can't make this stuff up." That wasn't half so weird as what's all over America's mediawaves to-day.
The Wizard of Aws
The US Security Agencies in their 'omnibus' report on the state of cyber-America apparently inserted a 35 page report on what they consider 'the smoky gun' that Vlad Putin might be pointing at President Don's orange dome: Sex and preversion "on tape" and ready to hit Porn Hamster.
Donald doing a Beauty Contest Deal
The story is that Trump was in Russia in 2013, doing a beauty contest deal, when he heard that the Obamas had recently stayed in the same hotel in Moscow. He asked for and was accommodated in the 'presidential suite'. At some point he started to think that 'defiling' the bed in which the Presidential couple had slept, was a real good idea. And so, for that express purpose, he is reputed to have hired three Moscow 'demimondaines' who were to 'pee' on the bed - one of those hotelroom 'ho-horrors' they tell us all about - while he watched. Apparently there were happy endings all round. The girls never complained about being stiffed on the tab, or sold their stories about a special 'wet-job' for somebody who looked like a well-tailored Ronald MacDonald. (He wouldn't have mentioned why they were taking a leak on that bed, would he? He's so secretive and all.) For whatever reason they've kept professionally mum. According to the saga, Don got off and the bed got wet.
This gal peed her pants on a bed. Imagine three high-class hos
- nekkid and not having accidents or sun glasses.
No doubt the English 'James Bond - secret agent' who gathered this intel (and is in hiding in danger of a Cheka hit squad - now that he's been 'outed'. (Didn't Snowden do that crap - endangering people etc)) found out about that. He also found out that Trump was, apparently, unaware that Russian intelligence had his room number and recorded the proceedings - in case he should ever wind-up needing to 'do Russia a solid'. Now he is, potentially, in that 'happy place'. So he needs to know, eh? Apparently, so does America.
Makes one wonder that, if the Russians thought Trump defiling a bed was worth recording, why didn't the have dolby and HD recording the President and Mrs O 'sanctifying' it? Or not. Either might have been informative intel.
Sanctifyin' a bed.
But, come on, 'Trump's golden shower' isn't news - balling a golden retriever maybe, only if it was male and he had a Mexican midget remove its teeth with a monkey wrench first. Americans would watch Trump once - have a laff and go get another frosty while something 'stimulating' loaded-up. Like how many people ever saw Hulk Hogan winning his million dollar defamation suit? Or Gene Simmons ( I'm true to Shannon in my heart, folks. Believe me.) chewing gum and wearing his cowboy boots in action with a hyper-inflated nymphette? And those two were really famous.
Whether this report was a part of the one Trump said he would 'take under advisement' last Friday, or a second, separate, highly-sensitive one, exposed only to the two Presidents by the NS chief Clapper - and reminiscent of a J. Edgar Hoover visit to the WH - it somehow 'leaked out' to a rag site called 'BuzzFeed' - probably a subsidiary of 'Crowd Strike' - the other 'corporate player' involved.
One of the BIG 3? Buzzfeed? No!
Clapper is 'regretting' the leak. So either Donald did it on himself for the publicity, or Obama did it.
Obama's probably too shocked for comment, by the revelation that anybody would pee on, or have ho's in, a 'presidential bed' - being as they're all 'iconic' at any number of American hostelries.
The Cast of 'Capers'
I wonder if US national security ever looked into the as-yet-unfounded, and no-longer-important, allegations that some of the 12 flights he took on Jeffery Epstein's 'fun airlines' , or the visits he made to the convicted pedophile's 'fantasy island', might not actually have involved Willie Jeff Clinton - besporting himself with the multimillionaire's underaged 'handmaidens'? Epstein was convicted, in a real case, on the real evidence of a then 13-year-old, who also claimed to have been 'serviced' by a number of 'his elite friends'. That story stopped - as if by magick ..... or voodoo - something else with which Putin's 'lies' smeared the Clintons.
America is a soul sick land. Perhaps a nuclear holocaust is just what is needed. God said the 'next time' wouldn't be a flood - or a wetting of the bed.
The US Security Agencies in their 'omnibus' report on the state of cyber-America apparently inserted a 35 page report on what they consider 'the smoky gun' that Vlad Putin might be pointing at President Don's orange dome: Sex and preversion "on tape" and ready to hit Porn Hamster.
The story is that Trump was in Russia in 2013, doing a beauty contest deal, when he heard that the Obamas had recently stayed in the same hotel in Moscow. He asked for and was accommodated in the 'presidential suite'. At some point he started to think that 'defiling' the bed in which the Presidential couple had slept, was a real good idea. And so, for that express purpose, he is reputed to have hired three Moscow 'demimondaines' who were to 'pee' on the bed - one of those hotelroom 'ho-horrors' they tell us all about - while he watched. Apparently there were happy endings all round. The girls never complained about being stiffed on the tab, or sold their stories about a special 'wet-job' for somebody who looked like a well-tailored Ronald MacDonald. (He wouldn't have mentioned why they were taking a leak on that bed, would he? He's so secretive and all.) For whatever reason they've kept professionally mum. According to the saga, Don got off and the bed got wet.
- nekkid and not having accidents or sun glasses.
No doubt the English 'James Bond - secret agent' who gathered this intel (and is in hiding in danger of a Cheka hit squad - now that he's been 'outed'. (Didn't Snowden do that crap - endangering people etc)) found out about that. He also found out that Trump was, apparently, unaware that Russian intelligence had his room number and recorded the proceedings - in case he should ever wind-up needing to 'do Russia a solid'. Now he is, potentially, in that 'happy place'. So he needs to know, eh? Apparently, so does America.
Makes one wonder that, if the Russians thought Trump defiling a bed was worth recording, why didn't the have dolby and HD recording the President and Mrs O 'sanctifying' it? Or not. Either might have been informative intel.
But, come on, 'Trump's golden shower' isn't news - balling a golden retriever maybe, only if it was male and he had a Mexican midget remove its teeth with a monkey wrench first. Americans would watch Trump once - have a laff and go get another frosty while something 'stimulating' loaded-up. Like how many people ever saw Hulk Hogan winning his million dollar defamation suit? Or Gene Simmons ( I'm true to Shannon in my heart, folks. Believe me.) chewing gum and wearing his cowboy boots in action with a hyper-inflated nymphette? And those two were really famous.
Whether this report was a part of the one Trump said he would 'take under advisement' last Friday, or a second, separate, highly-sensitive one, exposed only to the two Presidents by the NS chief Clapper - and reminiscent of a J. Edgar Hoover visit to the WH - it somehow 'leaked out' to a rag site called 'BuzzFeed' - probably a subsidiary of 'Crowd Strike' - the other 'corporate player' involved.
Clapper is 'regretting' the leak. So either Donald did it on himself for the publicity, or Obama did it.
Obama's probably too shocked for comment, by the revelation that anybody would pee on, or have ho's in, a 'presidential bed' - being as they're all 'iconic' at any number of American hostelries.
I wonder if US national security ever looked into the as-yet-unfounded, and no-longer-important, allegations that some of the 12 flights he took on Jeffery Epstein's 'fun airlines' , or the visits he made to the convicted pedophile's 'fantasy island', might not actually have involved Willie Jeff Clinton - besporting himself with the multimillionaire's underaged 'handmaidens'? Epstein was convicted, in a real case, on the real evidence of a then 13-year-old, who also claimed to have been 'serviced' by a number of 'his elite friends'. That story stopped - as if by magick ..... or voodoo - something else with which Putin's 'lies' smeared the Clintons.
America is a soul sick land. Perhaps a nuclear holocaust is just what is needed. God said the 'next time' wouldn't be a flood - or a wetting of the bed.
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
The US Election - nausea edition
Lordy, lordy it's half of fordy! Only a couple of weeks left in the Obama ruptured duckery and then , once again, America can be the land that Israel ordained it to be. Don Trump's inaugural barge will leave the power people of Pluto, Florida - those who attended at the 'emprah's new year's ball' and soiree for $180 bucks a pop - and the "White House South" - 'Mar-a-Lago', (trans: 'Bad of the last', or 'the worst' in Neapolitano) and steam up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hilaria's Take on the New Year's disgrace
Meanwhile up north, the Russians looked like they were running some sort of Exodus, for a plague of sanctions descended from the WH on some specific Russians for what the US government think they know, or think they were told, Putin's hackers had done to 'Democrazy'. Not enough to have an election rescinded, obviously, but enough to make somebody - particularly a Hillary supporter, think that, if whatever it was hadn't happened, Hilary might have attracted more black non-voters and increased her popular vote figures - the ones that say, "I won!" In a late development, to bring that message of fear closer to the minds of Americans , a government source used a clip from a popular video game (where hackers gather info to help them open safes) to illustrate the existing danger.
Getting serious about hacking
But back to the Russians.
The US State Department issued marching orders for a number of Russian diplomatic staff to cease, desist and remove themselves, before midnight, from the magical kingdom - for 'espionage'. The numbers included the chef at a legation in California and what might be described as a 'coven' of Russky Christadelphians, or an Amway team, or Scientificisicians living in a 'group retreat center' on Long Island . I guess they'll be taking their higher power home to mind-meld with Vlad.
Among others sanctioned, were the head, deputy head and a few other high-ranking members of the Russian security apparatus (no Disney trips for those birds). Surprisingly, a young female Russian is complaining, to-day, that she and her security company - she has actually won a few EU rewards for finding hacking activities - have been arbitrarily accused of 'helping' Russian state security find out what John Podesta had in his inbox - or that Hilary's friends didn't want Bernie Sanders doing more than flailing before 'the goddess'.
Actually I think it's likely that her business might be competition for 'CrowdStrike', the US anti-hacking, now multi-million dollar 'corporation' that is US state security's sole, apparently, font of wisdom. The Russian boss of that operation probably offered a merger - between the two they could have 3/4 of the globe 'covered'. But she wouldn't bite his bag and so he's getting his pals to do him a solid. If she's smart, we'll hear that they're 'dating'.
Hilaria's Take on the New Year's disgrace
Meanwhile up north, the Russians looked like they were running some sort of Exodus, for a plague of sanctions descended from the WH on some specific Russians for what the US government think they know, or think they were told, Putin's hackers had done to 'Democrazy'. Not enough to have an election rescinded, obviously, but enough to make somebody - particularly a Hillary supporter, think that, if whatever it was hadn't happened, Hilary might have attracted more black non-voters and increased her popular vote figures - the ones that say, "I won!" In a late development, to bring that message of fear closer to the minds of Americans , a government source used a clip from a popular video game (where hackers gather info to help them open safes) to illustrate the existing danger.
Getting serious about hacking
But back to the Russians.
The US State Department issued marching orders for a number of Russian diplomatic staff to cease, desist and remove themselves, before midnight, from the magical kingdom - for 'espionage'. The numbers included the chef at a legation in California and what might be described as a 'coven' of Russky Christadelphians, or an Amway team, or Scientificisicians living in a 'group retreat center' on Long Island . I guess they'll be taking their higher power home to mind-meld with Vlad.
Among others sanctioned, were the head, deputy head and a few other high-ranking members of the Russian security apparatus (no Disney trips for those birds). Surprisingly, a young female Russian is complaining, to-day, that she and her security company - she has actually won a few EU rewards for finding hacking activities - have been arbitrarily accused of 'helping' Russian state security find out what John Podesta had in his inbox - or that Hilary's friends didn't want Bernie Sanders doing more than flailing before 'the goddess'.
Actually I think it's likely that her business might be competition for 'CrowdStrike', the US anti-hacking, now multi-million dollar 'corporation' that is US state security's sole, apparently, font of wisdom. The Russian boss of that operation probably offered a merger - between the two they could have 3/4 of the globe 'covered'. But she wouldn't bite his bag and so he's getting his pals to do him a solid. If she's smart, we'll hear that they're 'dating'.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Dirty Donnie the Kremlin Ho.
It getting official-er and official-er. Now that Hilary has put a bottle in it and the Prexy has forgotten he mentioned it (although "the White House is pursuing "an investigation" that it WON'T be releasing to the pubics) the "Catholics In Action' announced to-day that they are convinced that Putin's hackers influenced the latest US election so that Don Trump would win. When the CIA gets that bold it must be convinced that a change of command is coming along somewhere, or that the new administration is about to de-ball the organization. An accusation of Putin's Manchurian Candidate goes way beyond the ''birther" flap that welcomed Obama into office. It hinges on potential treachery in the highest office of the land - taken to its logical extremity - that Don knew and didn't step aside. At the very least it will hamstring whatever it was that Trump was thinking of doing about Russia or, even, the CIA.
Overview of What's happenin'
WaPo: Chapter and Verse
Like, if an organization is so concerned about the national welfare that it, single-handed, is prepared to make a case to impeach the President (where else does a charge like this lead?), would it be wise to fire anybody in command of it, if you were the potential 'impeachee' in question?
A Congressman Speaks
Trump's immediate response "These were the folks who invented 'evidence' of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction." goes straight to a massively-failed point of credibility. But then that was probably the works of 'the Bush White House team' and a head nod when George Tennant temporarily regained consciousness for a moment. That was George sitting beside 'Cardinal' Negroponte when Colin Powell waved Karl Rove's sperm bank donation and told the UN it was a facsimile of weapons grade anthrax from Iraq.
There's a little 9/11 'mystery of hystery' that seems to have been lost in the other general hooplah. Wasn't there an 'anthrax attack' on America - on Washington, Florida ( the National Enquirer???) and on the US postal service on or about that fateful date? I seem to recall federal offices in Washington being evacuated, after they had been un - evacuated, again, following the terrorists' 'airstrikes'. While I realize the guy who did it, or was accused of doing it, killed himself and avoided prosecution. That terrorist incident went away much more pacifically did most of the others - even the Boston signage attack.
But we're back to Trump and the CIA.
John ('call me Father') Brennan has steered America through some turbulent times and into some stormy weather. Not only has he 'overwatched' the 'biggies' in Afghanistan and Iraq, he has supervised America's sleuthing exercises in Libya - he was the better half of the State Department-led fiasco in Benghazi - those 'rescuers', when the bad guys killed the ambassador, were CIA operators. (The saga was duly recorded in film.). It was the CIA that set-up the first 'Syrian Freedom Army' - in Turkey, and it was the CIA that got the Gulf states and the Saudis 'up' for 'a poke' at Assad. The CIA was 'destabilizing' Yemen for a couple of decades before they gave that up as lost cause, evacuated and armed the Saudis to wreck the place. They still operate the 'drone and cruise missile strikes program' to clean-up what the royal Arabs miss. But John's 'piece de resistance' was the extension of anti-communist freedumb to gallant little Ukrainia. Brennan has been there often enough that they don't even bother getting out the red carpet any more. And every time he shows up, he's followed by some C17s full of humvees or body armor or M4s for the 'good guys' who fight Putin and defend Europe from his invasions. Brennan could be looking at all that, thinking, "Bye bye I'm off to see Negroponte."
But he's 'manly', and Irish, enough to think, "Feck dat! I'm going to nail the Orange man before he gets me." And outgoing NSA honcho Clapper's going to help him.
Hence to-day's announcement that the CIA 'knows' that Russian-affiliated operatives were responsible for leaking the emails that effectively torpedoed the Clinton campaign. Those emails that are now being touted as the 'generators' of 'False news' that some people erroneously believed and that prevented them electing a real winner. Not that any of those leaked emails are wrong, or contrived, or Russian, themselves - just the way some 'bad' people 'choose' to read them. Some pretty important people have fallen on swords over the contents of those emails. And Hillary has had personal 'email problems' for almost 5 years. Brennan should know about that, too.
Saturday, October 08, 2016
The US Election
US elections have never impressed me. They're too much like English elections - all sound and fury and signifying more of the same. At least back in the 'good old days' you got a free drink for casting a ballot - either way, and there were some election day 'shenanigans' to be had. Now all the fun is gone.
America has always had this 'royalty' thing, where they consecrate whoever gets the electoral nod with having odorless shit for four, or eight years. The 'Office of the President' is a holy place. So in times past, if the candidate was a rum-tugger - as quite a few have been - or a skirt chaser as another few have been, or even if he had some 'unique personal habits' or a 'delayed sexuality' as more than a few of the rest did, then 'polite' society would keep it under the bonnet o' freedumb. Much like royal families tended to dress up their obvious weaklings in extra padding, or hide them away if the opportunity arose.
The last 'good' election was that one which swept JFK into office, not so much because I was aware of the nuances, but more so because my dear old Catholic Mom was so excited, as so seemed to be a large number of 'ordinary' Americans, that a young man, a Catholic, an 'irishman' and a war hero were taking the helm of America's ship of state. It was only later, after some patriot had brained him, that we found out his Daddy had used mob connections and some of the family millions to possibly play 'jiggery pokery' with the election process. Kennedy won that election to the joy of everyone and, if he ran true to his secret form, celebrated by dipping his wick in a party volunteer, or two, before wiping himself off on the hotel-room drapery. He was the last boy scout.
Since then 'feet of clay' have been the most prominent features of America's 'Chief Magistrates'. Some of them have been crooks, or rogues or charlatans, some ordinary men out of their depth or mere bumblers. And one has been a professional actor.
If the Adams, Jeffersons, Washingtons and Lincolns were more than mere mortals - their like has not been seen again. But hey, we've even managed to dish some dirt on some of them, too.
In a nation that has managed to 'cope' with 'Father Feltus' and CBS exposes of wannabe kiddie-porkers from every walk of life, what kind of a surprise would it be to find out that one of the two latest candidates thinks about, and speaks of his ability to 'grab the girls by the pussy' because "he's a star" and "they let you do that". I would hope that the past decade has proven to him that while you can still grab them by anything you like, most of them will run to the media - on the way to the lawyers' office. But, hey, there is still the 'star power' of the oval orifice - one of the greatest 'analgesicks' of all time - and Melania has to sleep sometime.
Would we be any less shocked to hear that the other candidate has a predilection for getting money? Most 'decent' Americas share that attribute. Granted Croesus might have been a 'proto American' but many of them have well-outpaced him, wealth-wise. The shocker here is that the Russians have hacked into somebody's secret emails again and now Wikileaks is trying to disrupt the election by printing things the US media 'didn't know about' - like State Department approval for selling-off US uranium production to a Russian oligarch - and somebody's 'charitable foundation getting a hefty donation from him. Apparently Putin's got more to come.
But none of this changes the fact that America - not Putin - has set itself up for a choice between 'bad and worse', or possibly 'dumb and dumber'.
America has always had this 'royalty' thing, where they consecrate whoever gets the electoral nod with having odorless shit for four, or eight years. The 'Office of the President' is a holy place. So in times past, if the candidate was a rum-tugger - as quite a few have been - or a skirt chaser as another few have been, or even if he had some 'unique personal habits' or a 'delayed sexuality' as more than a few of the rest did, then 'polite' society would keep it under the bonnet o' freedumb. Much like royal families tended to dress up their obvious weaklings in extra padding, or hide them away if the opportunity arose.
The last 'good' election was that one which swept JFK into office, not so much because I was aware of the nuances, but more so because my dear old Catholic Mom was so excited, as so seemed to be a large number of 'ordinary' Americans, that a young man, a Catholic, an 'irishman' and a war hero were taking the helm of America's ship of state. It was only later, after some patriot had brained him, that we found out his Daddy had used mob connections and some of the family millions to possibly play 'jiggery pokery' with the election process. Kennedy won that election to the joy of everyone and, if he ran true to his secret form, celebrated by dipping his wick in a party volunteer, or two, before wiping himself off on the hotel-room drapery. He was the last boy scout.
Since then 'feet of clay' have been the most prominent features of America's 'Chief Magistrates'. Some of them have been crooks, or rogues or charlatans, some ordinary men out of their depth or mere bumblers. And one has been a professional actor.
If the Adams, Jeffersons, Washingtons and Lincolns were more than mere mortals - their like has not been seen again. But hey, we've even managed to dish some dirt on some of them, too.
In a nation that has managed to 'cope' with 'Father Feltus' and CBS exposes of wannabe kiddie-porkers from every walk of life, what kind of a surprise would it be to find out that one of the two latest candidates thinks about, and speaks of his ability to 'grab the girls by the pussy' because "he's a star" and "they let you do that". I would hope that the past decade has proven to him that while you can still grab them by anything you like, most of them will run to the media - on the way to the lawyers' office. But, hey, there is still the 'star power' of the oval orifice - one of the greatest 'analgesicks' of all time - and Melania has to sleep sometime.
Would we be any less shocked to hear that the other candidate has a predilection for getting money? Most 'decent' Americas share that attribute. Granted Croesus might have been a 'proto American' but many of them have well-outpaced him, wealth-wise. The shocker here is that the Russians have hacked into somebody's secret emails again and now Wikileaks is trying to disrupt the election by printing things the US media 'didn't know about' - like State Department approval for selling-off US uranium production to a Russian oligarch - and somebody's 'charitable foundation getting a hefty donation from him. Apparently Putin's got more to come.
But none of this changes the fact that America - not Putin - has set itself up for a choice between 'bad and worse', or possibly 'dumb and dumber'.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
WTF's Happenin' to the ERL - Part TOO
About a month an a half ago I penned a screed about the plunging price of oil at the pump. Since then, gasoline - which at that point was just dipping below a dollar-a-litre, took a further dive in January to a low of, in our little community, 0.81 cents per litre. It seemed for a day, or so, that a 'reign of happiness' had fallen upon us. Then the price, almost imperceptably at first, started to millimeter itself back up. A road trip that cost the better part of $200 in gas last summer, was a bargain at $120 just at the end of January. And then ... and then ... and then .....
And then the price of a barrel of oil on the world market, blipped, almost overnight and for no good reason at all, 'back up' to the $40 US mark. That necessitated an overnight .13 cents per litre 'adjustment' at the pump. A week later, and this time without another hike in world price, the pumps started charging 7 cents more.
So now in mid-February the gas price is set to crest $1 per liter - probably because the Canadian dollar is worth 81 cents in the ' land o' the free, home of the brave' and gas prices, to maintain the "traditional bulk price differential", have to be almost 2 times higher for litres, than Billy Bob and the swami-haters pay in gallons (US).
A remarkable thing that I, a user of 'premium grade' gasoline, have noticed, is that the price of diesel fuel seems strangely unaffected by all the Saudi shenanigans - and, given that - in the oil-cracking business - the 'cheap stuff' comes off first with less effort, so should the price of home heating oil and aviation fuel remain as drivers of the profit margin, while the oil industry 'takes its bath' in reduced gasoline revenues.
I'm still trying to figure out which aspect of dementia might have driven the Saudis - who market the most easily-produced oil on earth - to go 'mano a mano' with the producers of the dirty, expensive stuff that drives the world price higher, in order as we've been told, to 'put them out of business'??
It just beggars the imagination that the heads of OPEC would choose this route to punish Putin (who hasn't done anything, lately, to them - even supporting Assad or the Ayetolleh) let alone mess up a $100+ a barrel 'good thing' they've had going for a long while. I don't care if their economies are predicated on $45 a barrel. It used to be we in the west squawked whenever OPEC tried to get 'their due' out of 'our' oil investments, but now we're grousing because the 'cheapness' is affecting our cash flow? We just can't catch a break?
Buy Alberta - it ain't noways as scary
or as cheap and it won't need as much subsidy
At a similar rate of increase should the world price of oil ever again get near the $100 dollar a barrel mark - and why shouldn't it? There's even less now than there was last summer - the price at the pump should get to an even $2.00 .... right where the oil producers panned it would be .... on its way to $5.
And then the price of a barrel of oil on the world market, blipped, almost overnight and for no good reason at all, 'back up' to the $40 US mark. That necessitated an overnight .13 cents per litre 'adjustment' at the pump. A week later, and this time without another hike in world price, the pumps started charging 7 cents more.
So now in mid-February the gas price is set to crest $1 per liter - probably because the Canadian dollar is worth 81 cents in the ' land o' the free, home of the brave' and gas prices, to maintain the "traditional bulk price differential", have to be almost 2 times higher for litres, than Billy Bob and the swami-haters pay in gallons (US).
A remarkable thing that I, a user of 'premium grade' gasoline, have noticed, is that the price of diesel fuel seems strangely unaffected by all the Saudi shenanigans - and, given that - in the oil-cracking business - the 'cheap stuff' comes off first with less effort, so should the price of home heating oil and aviation fuel remain as drivers of the profit margin, while the oil industry 'takes its bath' in reduced gasoline revenues.
I'm still trying to figure out which aspect of dementia might have driven the Saudis - who market the most easily-produced oil on earth - to go 'mano a mano' with the producers of the dirty, expensive stuff that drives the world price higher, in order as we've been told, to 'put them out of business'??
It just beggars the imagination that the heads of OPEC would choose this route to punish Putin (who hasn't done anything, lately, to them - even supporting Assad or the Ayetolleh) let alone mess up a $100+ a barrel 'good thing' they've had going for a long while. I don't care if their economies are predicated on $45 a barrel. It used to be we in the west squawked whenever OPEC tried to get 'their due' out of 'our' oil investments, but now we're grousing because the 'cheapness' is affecting our cash flow? We just can't catch a break?
or as cheap and it won't need as much subsidy
At a similar rate of increase should the world price of oil ever again get near the $100 dollar a barrel mark - and why shouldn't it? There's even less now than there was last summer - the price at the pump should get to an even $2.00 .... right where the oil producers panned it would be .... on its way to $5.
Monday, December 15, 2014
WTF's Happening to the Erl?
The gas-pump price is currently visiting levels last seen 5 years ago, when there was still lots of 'accessible' world oil and the market was unaffected by 'green cars'. Now-a-days we're told there is still lots of oil, but it's not the Jed Clampett 'bubblin' spume' variety, and it costs a lot more to get out out of the ground and purify for the use of your transportation device.
So why, after decades of steadily rising gas prices, has 'the bottom' apparently fallen out of the market? You can bet yer gas can that oil speculators almost didn't see this one coming.
So what was 'this one', and why?
At face value we're expected to believe that the Saudis, and their oil-loving cousins in the UAE, took it into their minds to sell-off their oil for what it's worth, rather than the price 'the market' was willing to pay. After decades, again, of inflated oil profits, OPEC has decided to 'buy the world a coke' literally, if not figuratively. From an accepted world price of around $100 bucks a barrel , the Arabs have decided to let that barrel fall to the $45 per barrel level "on which their economy is based". Somebody mixed up a batch of special Kool-aid and the Arabs delightedly drank it. Or so we're told.
But why, along with the saga goes the foundation myth. apparently the middle eastern oil potentates have decided that now is the time to bring the North American frack industry - which threatens to put them right out of business - to a grinding halt. This is to be accomplished by reducing the cost of imported oil so low that the fracked stuff can't compete. The frack industry withers-up and, after all the rig and corporate structure has been bankrupted into paper losses, the price will resume it's natural ascension.
If the same logic wasn't also being applied to America's endeavor to knock Putin's 'Russian empire' for six, it might be almost credible. But it all flies in the face of God and human nature. Ain't nobody that good, or that stupid. And believing that a gas glut, now, will somehow stop fracking, or even boiling oil out of tar sands, is playing with less than a full deck.
There is still a finite supply of oil on earth, and burning it is screwing up the planet's ecosystem. That's the gospel here, the rest is 'ennertainment'.
What I think is going on is that the Saudis and the Emirates, which are phenomenally indebted to the World Bank, IMF and the USA, along with sitting on the 'rest' of their oil, are being threatened with the same sort of sanctions - for 'harboring' terror - as is Russia, Syria, Iran et al - with the essential difference being that sanctions WILL hurt Arabs, who spend a considerable amount of time and money in the west. The Arabs are just 'backing their friends in the west', again, this time with more substance than form.
The question is how long can it go on? And how much 'collateral damage' will be done to 'the innocent'? The bottom line for oil-producing nations is that the thirst for oil isn't being depleted by feeding it the cheap stuff first. Inevitably when the 'good stuff ' runs short, the market for the second-rate product will rise to make it 'worthwhile' again. What isn't sold-off cheap, will be available to sell-off at a better price. That includes fracked fuel, the hard-to-recover or the 'dirty' stuff.
Or at least that's what they say about supply and demand in "Economics for Dummies".
Fill-up cheap while you can. Don't think of the poor starving Russians, they certainly aren't thinking about you.
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