Nuland was recently questioned on Capitol Hill. When it came to Erdogan arming Turkmen extremists (you know, like the jihadists he sent to Armenia recently to "help" Azerbaijan along with his drones), "Well, they can do a service by pushing back on Assad ... " oh yeah, big service to the world, got it.
Nuland was recently questioned on Capitol Hill. When it came to Erdogan arming Turkmen extremists (you know, like the jihadists he sent to Armenia recently to "help" Azerbaijan along with his drones), "Well, they can do a service by pushing back on Assad ... " oh yeah, big service to the world, got it.
We just had the Captive Nations Week Summit in July, sponsored by the Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation. The VOC, like Captive Nations Week itself, is closely connected to the infamous World Anti-Communist League (WACL), an endlessly fascinating netherworld of diehard fascists, international gangsters, and "former" intelligence and military officers the world over.
The attendees were the usual suspects of Neo-cons, Neo-libs, spooks, spies, strippers & fan dancers. Okay, the last two groups weren't there, but they should have been.
Despite the fact that an unrepentant Nazi collaborator was instrumental in crafting the Captive Nations Week that this event was celebrating, President Joe Biden had few qualms about endorsing it. Indeed, everyone in attendance got a commemorative letter from the president honoring the event.
One of my favorite attendees was Rushan Abbas. Abbas is a Uyghur American activist, and one of the foremost critics of the Uyghur genocide allegedly being carried out in China. I say allegedly, as claims of genocide there are highly controversial, to put it mildly. In fact, the VOC has been at the forefront of pushing these claims.
Coincidentally Abbas also served as a translator during the interrogation of Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay, which makes me wonder who side she is on, if there are even anything as quaint as "sides" anymore.
Oddly enough, whether an attendee was Democrat or Republican, Neo-Con or Neo-Lib, they all agreed on regime change for Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran & Syria. In fact, the only real difference between them on these matters is the extent to which LGBTQ+ rights should be emphasized when regime change is advocated.
It appears that America's upper management is in complete goose-step...ooops...I mean lockstep while the lower echelons like us are kept at each others throats. Weird, huh?
To paraphrase George Carlin, it is indeed one big club and we ain't in it.
In the interest of being fair and balanced, I always wondered why there wasn't an equivalent "Victims of Capitalism" memorial. I presume I will be waiting a long, long time for the "Innocent Victims of U.S. Drone Strikes Oops My Bad" memorial.
What I always loved about the USA/USSR cage match was how the majority of US intelligence about the USSR after WW2 was supplied by Reinhard Gehlen and other assorted Nazis. They were, for the longest time, all the CIA had as boots on the ground in the sphere of Soviet influence. Of course I'm sure they had no reason to lie. Loyal Nazi...loyal Yank...what's in a name, right?
Then there's Operation Paperclip and all those Nazis & their loyalty switching. Do you think that could be the political precursor to gender switching? Were they really loyal Americans stuck in German bodies?
I used to wonder what the world would be like if paranoid fucks didn't run it. If the USA & the USSR just stayed in their own fucking lanes. Would the Communist scourge have eventually eaten America up like it was an oversized bagel?
If that multiple dimension theory in physics is actually true, maybe there's a version of Earth where everyone's happy & shiny & smiley.
Sadly Utopia always sounds like some incredibly boring chick flick.
Wasn't that one of Tolkien's quibbles with the utopian idea?
That eventually the inevitable boredom would set in and we'd just fuck it all up for no other reason than because we can.
"I used to wonder what the world would be like if paranoid fucks didn't run it. If the USA & the USSR just stayed in their own fucking lanes."
Frankly, I think we were pretty close to there in the early '60s post-Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev was a practical guy who spent most of his time in charge running around trying to clean up the messes Stalin made.
Of course, Nikita got lucky -- ousted by the Brezhnev putsch and retired to his dacha to live in peace. JFK, conversely, "was died."
If you haven't seen Armando Iannucci's THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017) with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, I strongly recommend it. Hilarious and horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no
The time frame you identify is when the ballistic missile inventories went sky high. MAD was a pretty shitty way to grow up. Most people appeared to ignore it; I was aware and concerned about it by the time I was 5.
That said, I don't think the late 50s Soviet leadership would have allowed the moon shot program to go so ludicrously wrong 10 years later. The Soviets would have appeared much better had they been competitive in that endeavor, whatever the realities under the propaganda.
Let's not forget the brushfire wars in Southern Africa, the anti-colonial uprisings the Soviets funded, and Vietnam. Not sure the picture was so rosy in that time frame. Just less direct confrontation, perhaps.
I don't disagree, but... the thing is, it worked. The USA and USSR never got into a nuke war because they were scaring the bejesus out of each other -- a Mexican standoff. Hi, I'm Herman Kahn.
The funny thing is that the missiles are all still there -- and the same thing could still happen -- but the kids of today are not being whipped into a state of anxiety like '50s-'80s kids were. I am bereft of any sociological theory to explain this.
"Frankly, I think we were pretty close to there in the early '60s post-Cuban Missile Crisis."
America, always a bridesmaid never a bride.
It may have been close but that doesn't mean those wacky cutups in the MIC weren't studious little paranoiacs working on a lane merge.
Thanks for the rec. I'm always looking for good film.
Watching Eyes Wide Shut right now. Kubrick's version of Mk-Ultra with a little Epstein tossed in for good measure. Many think that was Kubrick telling tales out of school.
I also read an interesting way to look at the X-Files.
Mulder & Scully are really mind controlled government assassins tracking down and eliminating all of the government's failed mind control & genetic creations.
Also I was a big Twin Peaks fan. Lynch's latest iteration was playing with the idea that the nuclear tests in the 50s opened up a doorway to another dimension & something nasty came in.
It's similar to ideas people have floated about Jet Propulsion Lab founder Jack Parson's excursions into Ritual Magick. Jack was doing some Crowlyean Ritual in the desert & he opened a doorway for something nasty.
Scientology's L.Ron Hubbard was Parson's buddy & also the pal who stole his wife.
It's weird how these strange little birds always flock together.
One has to to wonder about NASA. You have the Good Time Nazi Club President Werner Von Braun & you have Jack Parson doing Ritual Magick. Makes ya wonder what else those "science" guys were up to, don't it?
Read this interview with Tom O'Neill, a journalist who spent 20 OCD years digging into the Manson killings. What he uncovered was that Bugliosi lied through his teeth. As did Melcher. Right at the heart of the whole affair was a spook named Reeve Whitson. As I'm sure you're aware the FBI was running COINTELPRO. O'Neill discovered that the CIA was also infiltrating antiwar & left wing groups under the auspices of something called Operation Chaos. Whitson was one of those spooks.
One thing I forgot to mention about Parsons yesterday was his connection to Epstein's handler, Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine's sister Christine is married to Roger Malina, whose father was Frank Malina, who formed Jet Propulsion Laboratories with Jack Parsons.
So, in Epstein & Parsons, you have "two guys who were obsessed with sex & weird science.Two guys who turned their posh digs into orgiastic fuckpads where minors were reportedly sexually abused? Two guys who were plugged into networks of prominent scientists and luminaries from entertainment and the world of letters?
Two guys with mysterious, kind-of-scary, girlfriends who had family connections to Jet Propulsion Laboratories? Two guys who were accused of being Israeli spies and died under mysterious circumstances?"
Y'know, as strange as it may sound, I don't really hate Biden. I know he's been pretty useless as a senator and VP, but I kind of pity him. He's dancing towards the abyss.
I don't really think he's lucid long enough to come up with any policy.
I think they sit him in a quiet room, play him some Lawrence Welk, maybe give him some cookies & milk or maybe even let him fondle a 10 year old girls hair for a while...Then they slowly explain to him exactly what they want him to do.
Kind of like this:
JB's Handler: Okay Mr. President this is an Executive Order allowing us to initiate Project Mk Ultra Twist, including Operation Flame Job & Operation Bikini Girls With Machine Guns. Can you sign right here sir?
JBH: Mr. President...?
JBH: JOE!!!!
JB: What's that?
JBH: Sir, did you hear what I said?
JB: What's her name?
JBH: What's that Mr. President?
JB: The little girl...what's her name?
JBH: Little Suzy sir.
JB: Little Suzy...? Oh, that's such a special pretty name.
JBH: Yes sir, it is. Now back to the order sir.
JB: I'm sorry. You'll have to repeat it, I was preoccupied.
JBH: Of course Mr. President. -repeats spiel-Do you understand sir?
JB: Can I see her again?
JBH: Yes sir. Next week.
JB: Oh, that's not fair. Just bring her in for 5 more minutes.
JBH: Sir, you know how worked up you get when you spend too much time around the girls?
That's one of those don't hold your breath propositions.
Although if we held our breath waiting we'd no longer have to worry about Covid or lockdowns or mandates or the fact that the president of the world's largest nuclear power can't hold a train of thought for very long.
Nuland was recently questioned on Capitol Hill. When it came to Erdogan arming Turkmen extremists (you know, like the jihadists he sent to Armenia recently to "help" Azerbaijan along with his drones), "Well, they can do a service by pushing back on Assad ... " oh yeah, big service to the world, got it.
We just had the Captive Nations Week Summit in July, sponsored by the Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation. The VOC, like Captive Nations Week itself, is closely connected to the infamous World Anti-Communist League (WACL), an endlessly fascinating netherworld of diehard fascists, international gangsters, and "former" intelligence and military officers the world over.
The attendees were the usual suspects of Neo-cons, Neo-libs, spooks, spies, strippers & fan dancers. Okay, the last two groups weren't there, but they should have been.
Despite the fact that an unrepentant Nazi collaborator was instrumental in crafting the Captive Nations Week that this event was celebrating, President Joe Biden had few qualms about endorsing it. Indeed, everyone in attendance got a commemorative letter from the president honoring the event.
One of my favorite attendees was Rushan Abbas. Abbas is a Uyghur American activist, and one of the foremost critics of the Uyghur genocide allegedly being carried out in China. I say allegedly, as claims of genocide there are highly controversial, to put it mildly. In fact, the VOC has been at the forefront of pushing these claims.
Coincidentally Abbas also served as a translator during the interrogation of Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay, which makes me wonder who side she is on, if there are even anything as quaint as "sides" anymore.
Oddly enough, whether an attendee was Democrat or Republican, Neo-Con or Neo-Lib, they all agreed on regime change for Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran & Syria. In fact, the only real difference between them on these matters is the extent to which LGBTQ+ rights should be emphasized when regime change is advocated.
It appears that America's upper management is in complete goose-step...ooops...I mean lockstep while the lower echelons like us are kept at each others throats. Weird, huh?
To paraphrase George Carlin, it is indeed one big club and we ain't in it.
"the Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation"
There's literally a "Victims of Communism" memorial statue in DC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial
In the interest of being fair and balanced, I always wondered why there wasn't an equivalent "Victims of Capitalism" memorial. I presume I will be waiting a long, long time for the "Innocent Victims of U.S. Drone Strikes Oops My Bad" memorial.
What I always loved about the USA/USSR cage match was how the majority of US intelligence about the USSR after WW2 was supplied by Reinhard Gehlen and other assorted Nazis. They were, for the longest time, all the CIA had as boots on the ground in the sphere of Soviet influence. Of course I'm sure they had no reason to lie. Loyal Nazi...loyal Yank...what's in a name, right?
Then there's Operation Paperclip and all those Nazis & their loyalty switching. Do you think that could be the political precursor to gender switching? Were they really loyal Americans stuck in German bodies?
I used to wonder what the world would be like if paranoid fucks didn't run it. If the USA & the USSR just stayed in their own fucking lanes. Would the Communist scourge have eventually eaten America up like it was an oversized bagel?
If that multiple dimension theory in physics is actually true, maybe there's a version of Earth where everyone's happy & shiny & smiley.
Sadly Utopia always sounds like some incredibly boring chick flick.
Wasn't that one of Tolkien's quibbles with the utopian idea?
That eventually the inevitable boredom would set in and we'd just fuck it all up for no other reason than because we can.
"I used to wonder what the world would be like if paranoid fucks didn't run it. If the USA & the USSR just stayed in their own fucking lanes."
Frankly, I think we were pretty close to there in the early '60s post-Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev was a practical guy who spent most of his time in charge running around trying to clean up the messes Stalin made.
Of course, Nikita got lucky -- ousted by the Brezhnev putsch and retired to his dacha to live in peace. JFK, conversely, "was died."
If you haven't seen Armando Iannucci's THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017) with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, I strongly recommend it. Hilarious and horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no
The time frame you identify is when the ballistic missile inventories went sky high. MAD was a pretty shitty way to grow up. Most people appeared to ignore it; I was aware and concerned about it by the time I was 5.
That said, I don't think the late 50s Soviet leadership would have allowed the moon shot program to go so ludicrously wrong 10 years later. The Soviets would have appeared much better had they been competitive in that endeavor, whatever the realities under the propaganda.
Let's not forget the brushfire wars in Southern Africa, the anti-colonial uprisings the Soviets funded, and Vietnam. Not sure the picture was so rosy in that time frame. Just less direct confrontation, perhaps.
"MAD was a pretty shitty way to grow up."
I don't disagree, but... the thing is, it worked. The USA and USSR never got into a nuke war because they were scaring the bejesus out of each other -- a Mexican standoff. Hi, I'm Herman Kahn.
The funny thing is that the missiles are all still there -- and the same thing could still happen -- but the kids of today are not being whipped into a state of anxiety like '50s-'80s kids were. I am bereft of any sociological theory to explain this.
"Frankly, I think we were pretty close to there in the early '60s post-Cuban Missile Crisis."
America, always a bridesmaid never a bride.
It may have been close but that doesn't mean those wacky cutups in the MIC weren't studious little paranoiacs working on a lane merge.
Thanks for the rec. I'm always looking for good film.
Watching Eyes Wide Shut right now. Kubrick's version of Mk-Ultra with a little Epstein tossed in for good measure. Many think that was Kubrick telling tales out of school.
I also read an interesting way to look at the X-Files.
Mulder & Scully are really mind controlled government assassins tracking down and eliminating all of the government's failed mind control & genetic creations.
Also I was a big Twin Peaks fan. Lynch's latest iteration was playing with the idea that the nuclear tests in the 50s opened up a doorway to another dimension & something nasty came in.
It's similar to ideas people have floated about Jet Propulsion Lab founder Jack Parson's excursions into Ritual Magick. Jack was doing some Crowlyean Ritual in the desert & he opened a doorway for something nasty.
Scientology's L.Ron Hubbard was Parson's buddy & also the pal who stole his wife.
It's weird how these strange little birds always flock together.
One has to to wonder about NASA. You have the Good Time Nazi Club President Werner Von Braun & you have Jack Parson doing Ritual Magick. Makes ya wonder what else those "science" guys were up to, don't it?
Here's the The Claypool Lennon Delirium's take on Jack Parsons.
The visuals are very cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU
You might like Kathleen's post from today. (She doesn't pimp her stuff on here, so I will.)
https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/golden-dawn-aurora-aurea
One more bit cause I have OCD.
Read this interview with Tom O'Neill, a journalist who spent 20 OCD years digging into the Manson killings. What he uncovered was that Bugliosi lied through his teeth. As did Melcher. Right at the heart of the whole affair was a spook named Reeve Whitson. As I'm sure you're aware the FBI was running COINTELPRO. O'Neill discovered that the CIA was also infiltrating antiwar & left wing groups under the auspices of something called Operation Chaos. Whitson was one of those spooks.
Bugliosi suppressed evidence & suborned perjury.
His book is quite good.
Here's the link:
https://www.straight.com/arts/1283716/extended-interview-50-years-after-manson-murders-tom-oneills-disturbing-new-book-chaos
O'Neil's book not Bugliosi's.
One thing I forgot to mention about Parsons yesterday was his connection to Epstein's handler, Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine's sister Christine is married to Roger Malina, whose father was Frank Malina, who formed Jet Propulsion Laboratories with Jack Parsons.
So, in Epstein & Parsons, you have "two guys who were obsessed with sex & weird science.Two guys who turned their posh digs into orgiastic fuckpads where minors were reportedly sexually abused? Two guys who were plugged into networks of prominent scientists and luminaries from entertainment and the world of letters?
Two guys with mysterious, kind-of-scary, girlfriends who had family connections to Jet Propulsion Laboratories? Two guys who were accused of being Israeli spies and died under mysterious circumstances?"
Make of that what you will.
Very cool. Thanks.
Y'know, as strange as it may sound, I don't really hate Biden. I know he's been pretty useless as a senator and VP, but I kind of pity him. He's dancing towards the abyss.
I don't really think he's lucid long enough to come up with any policy.
I think they sit him in a quiet room, play him some Lawrence Welk, maybe give him some cookies & milk or maybe even let him fondle a 10 year old girls hair for a while...Then they slowly explain to him exactly what they want him to do.
Kind of like this:
JB's Handler: Okay Mr. President this is an Executive Order allowing us to initiate Project Mk Ultra Twist, including Operation Flame Job & Operation Bikini Girls With Machine Guns. Can you sign right here sir?
JBH: Mr. President...?
JBH: JOE!!!!
JB: What's that?
JBH: Sir, did you hear what I said?
JB: What's her name?
JBH: What's that Mr. President?
JB: The little girl...what's her name?
JBH: Little Suzy sir.
JB: Little Suzy...? Oh, that's such a special pretty name.
JBH: Yes sir, it is. Now back to the order sir.
JB: I'm sorry. You'll have to repeat it, I was preoccupied.
JBH: Of course Mr. President. -repeats spiel-Do you understand sir?
JB: Can I see her again?
JBH: Yes sir. Next week.
JB: Oh, that's not fair. Just bring her in for 5 more minutes.
JBH: Sir, you know how worked up you get when you spend too much time around the girls?
JB: That's not true.
JBH: Sir, do you remember Orlando?
JB: Yes...(sighs)
JBH: Now will you sign sir?
JB: Next week?
JBH: Yes sir...next week.
Biden signs.
That's one of those don't hold your breath propositions.
Although if we held our breath waiting we'd no longer have to worry about Covid or lockdowns or mandates or the fact that the president of the world's largest nuclear power can't hold a train of thought for very long.
Sorry, was at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing