tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post3267892702394657787..comments2023-11-07T04:53:01.453-08:00Comments on Dispatches from the United States of Mordor: RussiaGate: Keep on Gaslighting in the Free WorldGerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-33731788290278694942019-04-17T04:38:38.741-07:002019-04-17T04:38:38.741-07:00de nada!de nada!Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-87796091462106021462019-04-16T12:54:07.577-07:002019-04-16T12:54:07.577-07:00Briliant, that video. Thanks for that!Briliant, that video. Thanks for that!Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-56892350312302435722019-04-16T07:39:29.543-07:002019-04-16T07:39:29.543-07:00:)<a href="https://youtu.be/1efOs0BsE0g" rel="nofollow">:)</a>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-91462254126015174542019-04-16T04:34:14.326-07:002019-04-16T04:34:14.326-07:00...lest none but the propagandists be left to &quo......lest none but the propagandists be left to "<a href="http://farmersletters.blogspot.com/2019/04/watchers-of-watchmen.html" rel="nofollow">watch the watchmen</a>"!Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-2273859584710389232019-04-16T04:30:24.582-07:002019-04-16T04:30:24.582-07:00#FreeJulianAssange#FreeJulianAssangeJoe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-5789902788314366632019-04-15T14:32:35.414-07:002019-04-15T14:32:35.414-07:00A little comic relief is also needed:
I’m not qui...A little comic relief is also needed:<br /><br /><i>I’m not quite sure why I loathe Assange. I’ve never actually met the man. I just have this weird, amorphous feeling that he’s a horrible, disgusting, extremist person who is working for the Russians and is probably a Nazi. It feels kind of like that feeling I had, back in the Winter of 2003, that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons, which he was going to give to those Al Qaeda terrorists who were bayonetting little babies in their incubators, or the feeling I still have, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset who peed on Barack Obama’s bed, and who is going to set fire to the Capitol building, declare himself American Hitler, and start rounding up and murdering the Jews.<br /><br />I don’t know where these feelings come from. If you challenged me, I probably couldn’t really support them with any, like, actual facts or anything, at least not in any kind of rational way. Being an introspective sort of person, I do sometimes wonder if maybe my feelings are the result of all the propaganda and relentless psychological and emotional conditioning that the ruling classes and the corporate media have subjected me to since the day I was born, and that influential people in my social circle have repeated, over and over again, in such a manner as to make it clear that contradicting their views would be extremely unwelcome, and might negatively impact my social status, and my prospects for professional advancement.<br /><br />Take my loathing of Assange, for example. I feel like I can’t even write a column condemning his arrest and extradition without gratuitously mocking or insulting the man. When I try to, I feel this sudden fear of being denounced as a “Trump-loving Putin-Nazi,” and a “Kremlin-sponsored rape apologist,” and unfriended by all my Facebook friends. Worse, I get this sickening feeling that unless I qualify my unqualified support for freedom of press, and transparency, and so on, with some sort of vicious, vindictive remark about the state of Assange’s body odor, and how he’s probably got cooties, or has pooped his pants, or some other childish and sadistic taunt, I can kiss any chance I might have had of getting published in a respectable publication goodbye.<br /><br />But I’m probably just being paranoid, right? Distinguished, highbrow newspapers and magazines like The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vox, Vice, Daily Mail, and others of that caliber, are not just propaganda organs whose primary purpose is to reinforce the official narratives of the ruling classes. No, they publish a broad range of opposing views. The Guardian, for example, just got Owen Jones to write a full-throated defense of Assange on that grounds that he’s probably a Nazi rapist who should be locked up in a Swedish prison, not in an American prison! The Guardian, remember, is the same publication that printed a completely fabricated story accusing Assange of secretly meeting with Paul Manafort and some alleged “Russians,” among a deluge of other such Russiagate nonsense, and that has been demonizing Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite for several years.<br /><br />Plus, according to NPR’s Bob Garfield (who is lustfully “looking forward to Assange’s day in court”), and other liberal lexicologists, Julian Assange is not even a real journalist, so we have no choice but to mock and humiliate him, and accuse him of rape and espionage … oh, and speaking of which, did you hear the one about how his cat was spying on the Ecuadorean diplomats?<br /></i><br /><br /><a href="https://consentfactory.org/2019/04/15/uncle-toms-empire/" rel="nofollow">Uncle Tom's Empire</a>Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-14076642636047740332019-04-15T13:55:33.138-07:002019-04-15T13:55:33.138-07:00The exposure of the Baghdad helicopter killings wa...<i>The exposure of the Baghdad helicopter killings was the first of many revelations which explain why Julian Assange has been pursued for so long by the US and British governments. The claim by Theresa May echoed by other ministers that “in the United Kingdom, no one is above the law” is clearly an evasion of the real reasons why such efforts have been made to detain him on both sides of the Atlantic.<br /><br />Jeremy Corbyn is correct to say that the affair is all about “the extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.” But, within hours of Assange’s detention, it was clear that nobody much cared about innocent people dying in the streets of Baghdad or in the villages of Afghanistan and Assange has already become a political weapon in the poisonous political confrontation over Brexit with Corbyn’s support for Assange enabling Conservatives to claim that he is a security risk.<br /><br />Lost in this dog-fight is what Assange and WikiLeaks really achieved and why it was of great importance in establishing the truth about wars being fought on our behalf in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.<br /><br />This is what Daniel Ellsberg did when he released the Pentagon Papers about the US political and military involvement in Vietnam between 1945 and 1967. Like Assange, he exposed official lies and was accused of putting American lives in danger though his accusers were typically elusive about how this was done. </i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/15/calling-assange-a-narcissist-misses-the-point/" rel="nofollow">Counterpunch</a>.Gerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07752117708821629614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181936002477690850.post-81786194714017045272019-04-15T09:23:00.372-07:002019-04-15T09:23:00.372-07:00Chomsky on Assange...<a href="https://youtu.be/RYdDp4mHDRY" rel="nofollow">Chomsky on Assange</a>...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com