Month: July 2015

The Long, Repressed History of Black Leftism | Al Jazeera America

It is 0400 hours, 29July2015……today’s lead story on the news was Tom Brady and “deflate-gate”……that is pathetic especially after a major escalation in the war against ISIS and they lead with this mind numbing bullshit!

I am an aging hippie that was ass deep into the protests of the 60 and 70’s…….I was in Oakland years ago, at the height of the Black Panthers hey day, and witnessed the positive influence they had on the community………I was amazed at what they had done in several neighborhoods…..they had set up free daycare, free clinics, free lunches for homeless, programs for addiction, etc…….and yet the only thing most Americans know about them, the Panthers, is what the media force fed them in their nightly news…….

Yes they were revolutionaries but they did more good than they were given credit……the MSM did everything possible to assassinate their legacy and unfortunately they were successful……….

Where has that sense of “community” gone?

 

The Long, Repressed History of Black Leftism | Al Jazeera America.

 

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The Destruction Of Israel?

Now that the hearings have begun on the Iranian nuke deal and they will be very contentious……we will be bombarded with the illusion that if the deal goes through then the destruction of Israel will be imminent…..most of this stuff is lies and misinformation or at best hyperbole……..

I have been writing about the Middle East for a long time…..most of which goes unheeded but that will stop me from pointing out the fallacies that we Americans have deal with on a daily basis.

Thanx to the media and the neocons any time there is a post about something happening in Iran we always hear about the narrative that the media has given the American people…..that is that Iran seeks the destruction of the state of Israel.  I am sure you have heard and quite possibly believed this manufactured paradigm…….

Now with the Iranian deal being batted around in the media and on Capital Hill we will hear once again bout the destruction of Israel if this deal goes through…….but is it truly the destruction of Israel the Iranian desire?

From a piece written by Akbar Ganji……….Ganji is NOT an apologist for Iran…..he was imprisoned there and his writings are banned in the country……in essence he is an enemy of the state of Iran……..

The rhetoric about destruction of Israel is unwise and inhumane. But, claiming that the Islamic Republic of Iran wishes physical destruction of Israel is sheer lie. It is not a lie because Iran does not have the military power to destroy Israel, as the United States and Israel have thousands of nuclear warheads to destroy Iran several time over. It is a lie because Netanyahu and others have distorted the unwise rhetoric about Israel’s existence.

“Destruction of Israel” that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spoken about refers to a referendum that he has proposed about the future of the entire historic Palestine in which all the Israelis and the Palestinians, including those who live in refugee camps in the Arab countries, would take part. Khamenei believe that if such a referendum is held, the Palestinians will win, and the state of Israel, not its Jewish citizens, will disappear through a democratic referendum. I have explained this view in detail elsewhere. So, Khamenei is pursuing a scenario similar to what happened in South Africa in which the power was transferred from the white minority to the black majority.

The president has also bought into this line of lying……but NO where has anyone said anything about the threats that Israel has issued to Iran about wiping them out first…..why is that?

It is time for all Americans to realize the inconsistencies in our policies concerning Israel…..Israel gets a free ride on so many levels that it has become sickening.

Israel is NOT a friend of the US……all this country is a tool for Israel to use to get their way in this world…….time for that to change!

Will It Be The Deal Of The Century?

Nope, not something on the Game Show Network…….but rather the deal with the Iranians over the nuke issue…….just in case there was any confusion…….

There is lots of condemnation of the deal on Right wing whack job parties and even the start of ads on the tube against the deal….all financed by Israel in one way or the other……

But with all the hoopla on TV by pundits on both sides the question remain,……………….do Americans favor or not this deal?

According to a recent poll….Jews in the US……..

By a wide margin, American Jews support the recently concluded agreement with Iran to restrict its nuclear program, and a clear majority of Jews wants Congress to approve the deal. In fact, as compared with Americans generally, Jews are more supportive of the “Iran deal,” in large part because Jews are more liberal and more Democratic in their identities. It turns out that liberals (Jewish or not) support the deal far more than conservatives (Jewish or not), just as most Democrats are in favor, while most Republicans are opposed.

These results emerge from the new LA Jewish Journal Survey conducted under my direction by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), between July 16-20, a few days after the agreement had been announced. SSRS interviewed 501 Jews for the Jewish survey, and for the national survey, 522 respondents by phone (almost a third of which were cellphones). The margin of error is 6 percent for the Jewish survey and 5.2 percent for the national survey (consisting of 505 non-Jews and 17 Jews).

Okay American Jews support the deal…..but what about the rest of the country?

According to a poll conducted bt ABC News…….

A new national ABC News/Washington Post poll also finds sharply politicized views of U.S.-Israel relations, which have been strained by the two allies’ dispute over the advisability of an agreement with Iran.

In a result that supports the Obama administration’s position in the face of Republican and Israeli criticisms alike, Americans by 59-31 percent back a plan to lift major economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions making it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons.

We now see that the Iranian deal is popular with the American people…..the only opposition is from people OWNED by the Israel lobby……but let us say that somehow these dorks get their way and the deal is crushed…..what will be the result?

Taking his efforts to sell the Iran deal on the road, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at several conferences and media interviews today on the matter, starting off with comments before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) during which he had some serious warnings for Israel.

During the CFR talks, Kerry cautioned that considering intense Israeli lobbying efforts against the pact, if the US Congress does end up killing the deal the international community is likely to blame Israel more than it blames the US for blocking it.

If that occurred would that be the end of the Israeli control of this country?  Would this then be the water to put out the Israeli flame?

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Israel’s $100 Million Gamble – The Unz Review

The US sends multi-billions to Israel in the form of aid……and now with the upcoming vote on the Iranian nuke deal Israel is going into full opposition mode…….the lobby will be spending millions to political ‘friends’ to try and defeat the deal…..I ask of all the money spent to try and defeat the deal…..how much of that cash will be supplied by the American taxpayer?

The American people need to realize that they nor Israel are the center of the universe…..this deal effects more than the neocons in either country…..keep on mind…..if the deal goes South there will be NO one to blame but Israel and its lackeys……..whatever happens after that is on their heads and their heads alone!

The world sees the benefit of this deal, the positive benefits, everyone but the whores that Israel pays to do their bidding…….

Time for Israel to man up and join the human race…….

 

Israel’s $100 Million Gamble – The Unz Review.

The Sources of Opposition to the Iran Agreement | The National Interest Blog

Israel and its neocon toadies are opposed to the Iranian nuke deal…….these are pulling out no stops to try and defeat the deal……and that includes as many lies and as much misinformation as they can pump out.

Although the rest of the world see the deal as a positive step……but the opponents will not let that get in the way of their vile speeches and writings……

For those Americans that are on the ropes on whether to support or oppose the deal then I suggest that we look at the sources of all the opposition………the sources will tell a lot about the opposition……

 

The Sources of Opposition to the Iran Agreement | The National Interest Blog.

ISIS War: Phase Two–The Escalation

For about a week now there has been rumblings in the international press that there was a major development happening in Turkey…..ever since the suicide bombing that killed 30 Turkish citizens…..

Lots of speculation so I decided to wait and see what was brewing……looks like there is going to be a major escalation of the battle against ISIS with a major cooperation between Turkey and the US……

Turkey’s nascent fight against ISIS appears to be rapidly intensifying. The country has settled on the broad strokes of a plan with the US that would see the two countries come together to create an ISIS-free zone, with the US supplying warplanes and Turkey contributing troops who wouldn’t actually enter the zone but may use long-range artillery from their side of the border. That zone would stretch along 68 miles of the Syria-Turkey border, reports the Washington Post; the Guardian notes the countries share a 500-mile-long border. Syrian sources suggest the zone could stretch 25 miles into Syria. An unnamed senior US official, one of four the New York Times spoke with, says the intention is to “support partners on the ground in northern Syria”—elsewhere referred to in the Times article as “relatively moderate Syrian insurgents”—who would seize the zone from the ground.

There are a few sticky points: Which Syrian rebels will participate? (The Times points out the US had as of earlier this month trained only 60 vetted Syrian fighters.) And how exactly will the respective players’ goals sync up? For Turkey and Syria, taking out Bashar al-Assad has long been the chief priority, and both have desired the creation of a no-fly zone. The US says the zone will not be a no-fly one. And while the Post points out that the US has said its warplanes will focus only on ISIS, the plan “would also bring American planes in regular, close proximity to bases, aircraft, and air defenses operated by the Syrian government, and directly benefit opposition rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”

Appears as if Turkey will become more involved than in the past……..whichg to some is a good thing…..but I ask…what about the Kurds?  Turkey still has a hard on for anything Kurdish.

To make this look at least more official there will be a NATO closed door meeting on this development…..

For just the fifth time in its 66-year history, NATO ambassadors will meet in an emergency session today to gauge the threat ISIS poses to Turkey and the debated actions Turkish authorities are taking in response. The extraordinary meeting at NATO headquarters was requested by Turkey under Article 4 of the treaty that founded the US-led alliance, which empowers its 28 member states to seek such consultations when they consider their “territorial integrity, political independence, or security” to be in jeopardy.

The meeting comes as Turkey’s security situation “has deteriorated dramatically,” an analyst at the German Marshall Fund think tank says. The rise of ISIS “in northern Iraq, in northern Syria, has effectively destabilized the southern border of Turkey. But also domestically, the threat of terrorism has become very real,” he says. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who will chair the closed-door session, says Turkey requested it following recent “heinous terrorist attacks.”

If this is indeed Phase Two……I do not see this as a good development……this appears to be something for Turkey and screw the rest of the region…..Turkey will be fighting on several fronts…..Syria, Kurds and ISIS.  None of this appears to be a good thing for the US….these choices will set a new tone for the region.

And again the Congress will be silent on this escalation and once again illustrating just how cowardly our elected officials really are……

Huckabee: Stealing The Thunder

We all have marveled at the idiocy that is Donald Trump.  His comment on Hispanics and Mexicans have pissed off a whole segment of society….but the upside is the media cannot get enough of his stupidity.  And he is the front runner at this time for the GOP nomination…….and that speaks volumes about the mental capability of the GOP…..at least to me.

But while the Donald was languishing in the spotlight of fame he has been ambushed by another……a preacher with just as much stupidity as Trump……I am speaking about Huckabee.

We know that all the GOP candidates are on the same page in the opposition to the Iranian deal….but my man Huck has taken it to the extremes……..

It’s no surprise that presidential candidate Mike Huckabee isn’t happy with the recent Iran nuclear deal, but the rhetoric he used to make his point has prompted a call from the Democratic National Committee for an apology, the BBC reports. In an interview with Breitbart on Saturday, the ex-Arkansas governor called President Obama’s foreign policy “the most feckless in American history” and said the commander in chief was “naive” to think we should place our trust in Iran. But it’s what he said next that ired the DNC: Huckabee said that by striking the Iran deal, which he calls the “most idiotic thing,” Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.” He continued: “It should be rejected by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by the American people. I read the whole deal. We gave away the whole store. It’s got to be stopped.”

In a statement, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Huckabee’s comments had “no place in American politics” and that “cavalier analogies to the Holocaust are unacceptable,” per CNN. “Mike Huckabee must apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement,” she added. But Huckabee doubled down on Twitter with a graphic of his controversial quote, accompanied by the message: “Tell Congress to do their constitutional duty & reject the Obama-Kerry #IranDeal.” He also included a link to his website, where he demanded Congress not take summer vacation until it kills the “horrific, humiliating handout to Iran that threatens Israel, emboldens terrorists, and will trigger a nuclear arms race across the Middle East.” His campaign rep simply noted to CNN that “the comment speaks for itself.”

Someone had to stop Trumps meteoric rise and Huck took it upon himself…….he doubled down on the “oven” comment saying that he had been to Auschwitz three times and stood at the door of the oven….he knows what the door looks like…..seriously?  Apparently all you need to qualify as an expert in the GOP in foreign policy is the capability in recognizing a door……

But what can you expect from the brain of a Baptist preacher?  Certainly not anything rational.

For now Huck has stolen Donald’s thunder….and the god will be angered…….

“It’s Munich!”

As the world knows that the P5+1 and Iran have reached a deal on the Iranian nukes………and as was predictable the Radical Right has gone batcrap crazy……with the help of Israel and its American ally, AIPAC…….

Now with the opposition to the deal the Right has gone into a full court press to try and crap on the thing……..their best talking point is comparing the passing of the deal to Munich of 1938.

First, as usual, a little historical perspective.

For those confused about the Munich thing…..this was a deal reached between UK’s Chamberlain and Hitler on the parts of Czechoslovakia to try and prevent Hitler from invading the country…….that was in 1938 in the German city of Munich.

The Neocons biggest blow hard is journalist Bill Kristol……..and his enabler, National review……….

But you can see how this works: A Netanyahu think tank makes an outlandish claim, it is picked up by the National Review and thus laundered from its biased foreign origins, and then recycled and further laundered by Kristol in his publication. Cute trick.

And Kristol’s objection to foreigners with American blood on their hands is highly selective. The Marxist-jihadist death cult Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) has plenty of American blood on its hands, but Kristol’s own magazine joined other neocon voices in urging the US to remove the terrorists from the US list of terror organizations. Why? Because they are Kristol’s kind of terrorists: they infiltrate Iran to assassinate civilians and foment unrest, while passing off laptops with Mossad-fabricated data made to look like Iranian nuclear weapons activity.

(With American blood on their hands……what about the American sailors that Israel killed on board the USS Liberty?  We deal with them as friends)

Personally, I grow weary of the lies that Israel and its slaves try to pass off as truth…….no seems to want to talk about Muslim blood on one’s hands….why is that?

We will be hearing…”It’s Munich” a lot from the Neocons and their puppets…..this is all a deadly game Israel is playing with American lives….of course those are not as important to them as they are to us…….

If you believe anything Israel has to say….then you are STUPID and I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

Outrageous Lies About Iran To Derail the Nuclear Agreement « Antiwar.com Blog

Now that the full court press is on….Israel has pulled out NO stops to beat back the deal…….their paid politicians are working overtime to please their masters……

The problem I have is that some of the stuff I hear is just garbage………the same garbage that I have been hearing for at least a decade…….

There are lies and then there are goddamn LIES….and Israel is a master of the later……

 

Outrageous Lies About Iran To Derail the Nuclear Agreement « Antiwar.com Blog.