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  How is it possible ... posted by claire, 2017-10-19 21:10:18
that the world’s most powerful nation has been taken hostage by the world’s most incompetent, infantile, personality flawed and destructive leader? (full story)
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 Kirkuk redux was a bloodless offensive. Here’s why posted by Pepe Escobar via james, 2017-10-18 23:22:57
The Battle of Kirkuk lasted less than 24 hours. In a lightning – and mostly bloodless – offensive, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) retook control of the North Oil Co. and North Gas Co. headquarters, the K1 military base, the Bai Hassan oil field, and two domes of the Kirkuk oil field on Monday. (full story)
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Trump Caught Out Lying AGAIN posted by jane, 2017-10-18 23:15:10
Trump’s latest episode of transparent lying relates to his accusation that Obama did not contact relatives of soldiers killed in action; furthermore, Trump recently displayed the usual characteristics of a sociopath by accusing/blaming everyone else of lying when it is plain that HE is the pathological, infantile liar. I say infantile as he is clearly a child attempting to lie his way, unsuccessfully, out of trouble, especially when he is caught dead to rights. (full story)
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‘The Small always Overcomes the Large’ posted by nano, 2017-10-17 23:19:36
The title is actually a military adage, which is as old as warfare. Consider the biblical allegory of David and Goliath, how a lumbering highly equipped with ‘superior’ armaments, giant of a man was defeated by the agility, speed and cunning of a small boy with an effective (in the right hands/application) ‘primitive’ weapon, and it was used to great effect, which is the essential transmission/message of the story. In fact, as history records numerous times, the bigger they are the more likely the chances of being defeated by a much smaller, agile force -- and I use ‘agile’ to cover tactics and strategy as well as lightning response and astounding ‘physical’ maneuverability. (full story)
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Lemmings and Men posted by jan, 2017-10-16 02:19:58
When lemmings, due to population and other living pressures race over mythical clifftops, as is often depicted, do they have a leader they follow? No, it is a GROUP effort, they all participate in the madness of self-destruction. And so it is with America today, from revolution to a democratic Republic to an authoritarian, totalitarian state, with the usual madman as the leader. (full story)
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The Floundering President posted by claire, 2017-10-15 22:32:17
The Guardian recently reported that Trump has isolated himself from his political base in Washington, principally due to his infantile, impetuous and petulant nature, which among other severe personality flaws clearly defines him as unfit and incapable of performing the duties of President of the United States. That obvious fact aside, his minders, or assassins, as politics is a cut-throat business, which no novice should enter without years of experience or strong expert political support, Trump remains commander-in-chief and is entirely capable of triggering a war, in fact he is the Pentagon’s puppet mascot. We should not downplay Trump’s insane, mindless threats directed at North Korea, delivered at the United Nations, which location adds veracity to the insane threats. So beware. (full story)
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The Deep State's Bogus 'Iranian Threat' posted by David Stockman via jess, 2017-10-14 23:54:52
Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017 which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke deal, thereby reinforcing another false narrative that enables the $1 trillion Warfare State to continue bleeding the nation's fiscal solvency. (full story)
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The State of Slavery posted by james, 2017-10-14 23:23:50
Most Americans today imagine that slavery ended with the civil war, a war in reality fought for economic not moral reasons. Nevertheless, the abolition of slavery was presented to the world as the underlying reason for this economic war. If you doubt this conclusion simply assess the status of the 'yez bozz’ black American AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, as they were/are portrayed in modern media, particularly Hollywood in the early decades of the 20th century. Yet it wasn’t until the late 60‘s, that MLK, Macolm X and other black liberationists actually made some progress toward black social equality and real freedoms,100 years after the civil war; there are many examples of blacks in the 60‘s fighting for their rights promised a hundred years back -- lol -- and note how white elites murdered most of these activists and suppressed news of others using white public water bubblers and sitting in white areas of segregated buses and other segregated social spaces. (full story)
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America the Unfortunate posted by james, 2017-10-13 23:57:11
Average Americans are suffering from lunatic leadership which is noted by its insane rhetoric and provocations as begging for war. The latest unforgivable debacle is Trump’s trashing of the Iran nuclear accord, which would allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons in response to the insanity of the USA, the accord as it stood prevented Iran from developing nuclear weapons but Trump trashed it against all expert opinion and sane reason. (full story)
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Russia is Hurting Big Time posted by dusan, 2017-10-13 03:12:30
The news never covers what years of imposed sanctions, based primarily on fabricated charges and distortions, have done to the Russian economy, which was always vulnerable to this type of attack. The Russian economy is not broad, as it’s largely based on energy supplies to Europe and former satellites and so if sanctions on its main source of income hit hard, then the same collapse that affected the Soviet Union would affect Russia today. (full story)
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Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. posted by John W. Whitehead via darcy, 2017-10-13 01:35:38
However, it takes a culture of entitlement and a nation of compliant, willfully ignorant, politically divided citizens to provide the foundations of tyranny. (full story)
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 It's nuclear WAR, Whether the People Like it or Not! posted by Finian Cunningham via jess, 2017-10-12 21:08:18
We would note recent news that Mad dog Mattis, "it's fun to shoot people," of the Pentagon arm of elite aggression, alerted his military to be ready (for war), which has been planned and is ready to proceed. If responsible western journalists took the minor trouble to connect all the obvious dots in the western shaped news that conclusion would be obvious to all. However, as we should all know, western media is also shaped and controlled by elite (CFR) interests, which habitually withhold critical information from the public which they view as alarming enough to interfere with THEIR plans. Nevertheless, a few real journalists endeavour to inform the global community of impending danger in order to inform and alert the public of nefarious elite plans in their manic effort to realise a one world authoritarian government. (full story)
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 Trump and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) -- Adoration posted by carl, 2017-10-12 09:37:29
It seems that those who should know better are happy to allow Trump to remain as President until he hangs himself, his approval rating has now plummeted in every US state, so minders tend to keep unreeling the ‘rope’ due to the personal risks and political repercussions of direct removal. However, what they should but do not know about the illness of NPD is that NPD sufferers require/demand prominence and adoration. If they fail to obtain this and people ignore or turn against them, they tend to suddenly and unpredictably go to extremes in vain attempts to regain former standing, delusional or otherwise. (full story)
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 What Day Is It, America? posted by bob, 2017-10-11 22:14:46
America today is a soft, though hardening by the day, dictatorship. We have a political buffoon as president maneuvered into position by an elite ruling class of bankers and corporatists, you see, narcissistic, personality flawed buffoons are useful and easily tamed by elites. (full story)
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 Tillerson: I Will Continue to Serve Under the Moron posted by Gary Leupp via jane, 2017-10-11 00:12:35
Thesis: If the U.S. secretary of state, in the presence of other cabinet members, calls the U.S. President a “moron,” he probably is a moron. (full story)
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