His red right hand

"Sex matters in experiments on party drug — in mice".  I think they mean gender but it doesn't make quite the same headline.  You have to wonder how many scientific 'facts' are wrong as the experimenters didn't control for the right thing, or even were able to conceive of the thing they needed to control.

"Brian Eno and Roger Waters scorn Nick Cave's 'principled stand' to play in Israel".  Cave didn't just play there, he got all snooty about being criticized for it (see also, Margaret Atwood).  "Nick Cave shuns Palestinians, wins praise from Israel lobby".  Shekels do terrible things to people, and allow us to separate the wheat from the chaff.  It appears Sheldon is the man with the red right hand.

"India scraps “flagship” missile deal with Israel" (Abunimah).  I suspect there is some missing back story here.

"Hariri's "Unresignation" As Seen In A Bizarre Photo With The Iranian Ambassador" (Durden).  "How Saudi Efforts to Provoke War Were Stopped and Lebanon United. The Role of Hezbollah".  The Saudi plot - well, I assume it was an Israeli plot as Salman isn't bright enough to come up with it - went sideways when everybody in Lebanon stood up against it and put aside their usual differences.  We should give some credit to Hariri's personal courage - his children are still being held hostage by Salman and the headloppers (good name for a band!) - in standing up to Evil.

"Did The Putin/Assad Meeting Cement The End Of America's Mid-East Dominance?" (Luongo).  Portrayed as the turning point in wrecking a much larger plan.  And credit to Assad, who could easily have fled to London early on with lots of money and abandoned his country to the headloppers.  Edmund Burke (sort of, via JFK mangling):  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.".

"Boy, Is This Stupid or What?" (Giraldi).  On protecting the headloppers, so they may fight another day as an American proxy army, and keep the Americans in the 'game' (see also:  "U.S. moves toward open-ended presence in Syria after Islamic State is routed"):

"A waggish friend of mine suggested that Mattis might be deliberately selectively releasing ISIS fighters so the U.S. will never have to leave Syria, but my own theory is somewhat different. I think that Washington, which has done so little to defeat ISIS, wants some threat to continue so it can keep its own “resistance forces” in place and active to give it a seat at the table and a voice at the upcoming Geneva discussions for a political settlement in Syria. Otherwise Washington will be outside looking in. The unspeakable Nikki Haley at the U.N. appears to endorse that line of thinking by asserting that Washington will continue “to fight for justice” in Syria no matter what the rest of the world decides to do.

Does this mean that we can expect considerable fumbling and a game with no exit strategy, something like a replay of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya? You betcha."

"Russia In Syria - Military 'Failure' Sets Off Intense Diplomacy" (Moon).  Amusing list demonstrating the inevitability technique used by the mainstream media.  Remember the neocons all said an American attack on Iraq was inevitable, so you might as well get it over with while conditions are at their best?  This technique only works as PR if you control the whole narrative - if brave and good people stand up to you, you look like a fool.

"Zionism’s Violent Legacy"  (Neff, from 1996).  There is nothing new in the world.

"Israel’s New Ambassador to Israel Talking About Israel" (Mantiq al-Tayr).

This is hilarious, given the literally constant betrayal of the US by Israel:  "Exclusive: What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned".

"Nuclear Stability, Conventional Instability: North Korea and the Lessons from Pakistan":

"The Pakistani case illustrates three things. First, the acquisition of nuclear weapons is not a silver bullet that suddenly allows states to achieve significant revisionist objectives. The logic of conventional and nuclear deterrence quickly overpowers domestic political rhetoric about reclaiming “lost” territories. Second, attempts at territorial revision are early and short-lived: they are (rarely) satisfied or (more often) thwarted and then not reattempted. Pakistan attempted the Kargil infiltration a year after it acquired nuclear weapons, failed, and then a new status quo set in. It has not attempted a repeat since. Third, limited new forms of emboldenment, such as terrorism or kidnappings, may still be pursued at subconventional levels of the conflict spectrum, where the state’s nuclear weapons deter a conventional response. States, like India, however, craft a new normal and innovate ways to prevent and respond to the low-level aggression. There is no reason to expect the dynamics between North Korea, South Korea, and the United States to be substantially different."

Nukes have been proven to be only useful as a defensive weapon, so American warmonger claims of North Korean irredentism using nukes is phony.

"Google Does Evil" (Moon). It is unclear to me whether they started with good intentions and just turned bad with the prospect of all that money, or whether they were pure evil from the start but held it in check to build a good reputation which they could then grift off of.  "What makes Google’s Eric Schmidt so afraid?" (Oberg).  "Google’s Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results".  "Google’s Eric Schmidt, arbiter of news, has long history with Obama & Clinton".

"Britain’s PM Defends Liberal World Order" (Butler):

"I’d list the Russian criminals safely harbored under May’s fuzzy wings, but my editor would complain of this post’s lengthiness. Here’s a short alphabetized list: Roman Abramovich (a Putin friend), Boris Berezovsky (deceased), Andrey Borodin (exiled banking crook), Mikhael Khodorovsy (my favorite Putin ousted Yukos Oil mafioso), Alexander Litvinenko (deceased spy slash non-oligarch), Vladimir Makhlai (another asylum-seeking privateer billionaire), and Alexander Perepilichny (Hermitage Capital / Magnitsky case whistleblower). Trust me, there are a hundred other prominent Russian business people propping up London with their huge investments. Truth be told, if May really does go after Russians like she says she will – London may have trouble paying the light bill. Laughable, this is what the UK Prime Minister is."

"Red Alert For Oligarchs – Did President Putin Agree With President Macron To The Arrest Of Suleiman Kerimov For Money Laundering" (Helmer). The deep base of Putin's ongoing unshakable political popularity is his unusual willingness to police mass theft from Russia.

"Unsealed Fusion GPS Bank Records Reveal $523K Payment From Russian Money Launderer" (ZeroPointNow).  Lots of Russian weirdness, just not the kind of weirdness we're told surrounds Trump.  Also "Journalist Sara Carter Destroys DOJ Attempt To Discredit FBI Informant And Stonewall Uranium One Investigation" (ZeroPontNow).  Seesions appears to be trying to protect the Clintons, just what you would expect.

The three recent Porter pieces on Zio-American trickery:

1. "Israel’s Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike";
2. "How Syrian-Nuke Evidence Was Faked";
3. "Translated Doc Debunks Narrative of Al Qaeda-Iran ‘Alliance’" (as all logic would demand, Iran and al Qaeda are definitely not pals).

More on Monbiot's reputation, wrecked on the shoals of warmongering:  "The Guardian’s George Monbiot joins “fake news” campaign".

"Ignoring Washington’s Role in Yemen Carnage, 60 Minutes Paints US as Savior" (Johnson).  I imagine they have Charlie-Rose-style kompromat on all these 'journalists', but this is particularly ridiculous.  Also:  "Top Samantha Power Aide Is Now Lobbying To Undermine Opponents Of Yemen War".

The Ukrainians are up to no good, this time, unusually, with some success:  "Ukraine: Luhansk coup attempt continues as rival militias square off against each other".

"29 suspects detained in Egypt over alleged espionage for Turkey".  Timing is odd.  It looks like currying favor with Salman in the wake of the Russia-Turkey-Iran understanding.

"The Bizarre True Story of the Neighborhood Scuffle That Left Rand Paul with Six Broken Ribs".  Remarkable investigatory journalism on a topic which doesn't seem to merit it.

"John McCain’s Walking Boot Mysteriously Swaps Sides Two Weeks After Treatment For Torn Achilles Tendon" (ZeroPointNow). There appear to be different boots for different legs, left and right.  American politics is an unceasingly bizarre wonderland of the inexplicable.

"‘P Is For Palestine’ Book Sparks Protest".

"Trump nominee Kenneth Marcus seeks to undermine the very rights he’d be enforcing".  From the comments!

The very 'woke' link in the comment by Frumious is well worth the read in this world of superficial coverage of Manson and his death:  "The Tate Murders – The Psyop That Stifled a Generation" (longer pdf). Interesting negative comments on Mae Brussell, who is usually depicted as a conspiracy theory saint.  Polanski, all the military intelligence connections, the inexplicable pull that the rat-like Manson had over beautiful women, the fact that one attack effectively ended 'hippie' influence in American politics . . . it all adds up (though I'm not convinced by all the detailed photo analysis).

Flabbergasted / Q

"Today's Blind Items - St. Charles House Of Horrors" (CDaN).  The guesses (less choice links removed):

"Super PAC donation: David Vitter (St. Charles House of Horrors)
A+ list actor: Ben Affleck or Johnny Depp
Republican backed political candidate/consolation prize: Rick Perry (14th United States Secretary of Energy)
or
Marco Rubio (re-election to Senate after he said he wouldn’t seek re-election)
Mastermind and father killed: Saudi Prince Mansour bin Muqrin SON of Muqrin bin Abdulaziz
Disgraced A+ list producer: Harvey Weinstein
A list actor/A list girlfriends raped by producer: Brad Pitt/Gwyneth Paltrow/Angelina Jolie
Movie filmed in New Orleans: "Bad Moms"
Actress with A list husband: Mila Kunis (Ashton Kutcher)
Actress with A+ list husband in the closet: Jada Pinkett Smith (Will Smith)"

Two curious stories that came up in the discussion: "Trial Lawyer Steve Mostyn, Soros Ally, 1971-2017" ("suicide") and "Helicopter pilot, 32, died in mid-air collision alongside three others after a plane ‘suddenly dropped in height’ over Rothschild’s estate".

"Monbiot Still Burying his Head in Sands of Syria" (Cook).  A lot more polite than I would be.  Monbiot's conduct is consistently monstrous.

"Laurier apologizes to teaching assistant who aired clip of gender-pronoun debate".  The universities will eventually have to close down as there won't be any permitted speech.  Note her offense was failing to complain loudly enough about a shunned thinker:  "On the recording of the meeting, Shepherd is heard tearfully defending her decision to play the clip while staff accuse her of being transphobic and liken her failure to condemn Peterson to remaining neutral on the views of Adolf Hitler."  Note also that the only reason she was saved is that she was wise enough to make a surreptitious audio tape of her savonarolas.  Finally, note that the main accuser got hoist with his own petard as he set up a 'power imbalance'!  These are our best and brightest, and they are all virtue-signaling, identity-politics, morons!

"McMaster Calls Trump an Idiot" (tnb).  Sheldon!

"The Lost Journalistic Standards of Russia-gate" (Parry):

". . . why does the Times trust the uncorroborated assertion that Mifsud told Papadopoulos about the emails — and trust the claim to such a degree that the newspaper would treat it as flat fact? Absent corroborating evidence, isn’t it just as likely (if not more likely) that Papadopoulos is telling the prosecutors what he thinks they want to hear?

If the prosecutors working for Russia-gate independent counsel Robert Mueller had direct evidence that Mifsud did tell Papadopoulos about the emails, you would assume that they would have included the proof in the criminal filing against Papadopoulos, which was made public on Oct. 30.

Further, since Papadopoulos was peppering the Trump campaign with news about his Russian outreach in 2016, you might have expected that he would include something about how helpful the Russians had been in obtaining and publicizing the Democratic emails.

But none of Papadopoulos’s many emails to Trump campaign officials about his Russian contacts (as cited by the prosecutors) mentioned the hot news about “dirt” on Clinton or the Russians possessing “thousands of emails.” This lack of back-up would normally raise serious doubts about Papadopoulos’s claim, but – since Papadopoulos was claiming something that the prosecutors and the Times wanted to believe – reasonable skepticism was swept aside.

What the Times seems to have done is to accept a bald assertion by Mueller’s prosecutors as sufficient basis for jumping to the conclusion that this disputed claim is undeniably true. But just because Papadopoulos, a confessed liar, and these self-interested prosecutors claim something is true doesn’t make it true.

Careful journalists would wonder, as Shane did, why Papadopoulos who in 2016 was boasting of his Russian contacts to make himself appear more valuable to the Trump campaign wouldn’t have informed someone about this juicy tidbit of information, that the Russians possessed “thousands of emails” on Clinton.

Yet, the prosecutors’ statement regarding Papadopoulos’s guilty plea is strikingly silent on corroborating evidence that could prove that, first, Russia did possess the Democratic emails (which Russian officials deny) and, second, the Trump campaign was at least knowledgeable about this core fact in the support of the theory about the campaign’s collusion with the Russians (which President Trump and other campaign officials deny)."

"How Turkey, Iran, Russia and India are playing the New Silk Roads" (Escobar).  The world has clearly divided up between those seeking peace and prosperity through human development, and those being led around as slaves by the Khazars.  It is crazy that it is that simple, but here we are.

After an unbelievable series of horrible political choices which have led directly to horrible human development outcomes, is India finally getting 'woke'?:  "India Scraps $500M Military Deal With Israel Amid Rising Popular Concern About India’s Complicity in Israeli Crimes".

"She Said A Powerful Congressman Harassed Her. Here’s Why You Didn’t Hear Her Story."  There should be a law that non-disclosure agreements that protect patterns or potential patterns of illegal activity - and sexual assault is, if you can believe it, illegal! - are unenforceable.  Conyers is a guy that seems to mean well, but nothing he does ever adds up to much of anything, probably explained by blackmail pressures on him due to his proclivities.  Getting rid of the highly blackmailable is part of the conspiracy theory process of leading to good governance.  Of course, the other side of it is that victims wouldn't get paid without going to court.

"Exclusive: NYT White House correspondent Glenn Thrush’s history of bad judgment around young women journalists".  Tweet (Julian Assange):

"After WikiLeaks exposed Glenn Thrush the New York Times hired him."

"Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core" (Shadow Brokers)  (my emphasis in red!):

"One N.S.A. official who almost saw his career ended by the Shadow Brokers is at the very top of the organization: Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the N.S.A. and commander of its sister military organization, United States Cyber Command. President Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., and defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, recommended removing Admiral Rogers from his post to create accountability for the breaches.

But Mr. Obama did not act on the advice, in part because Admiral Rogers’s agency was at the center of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who again on Saturday disputed his intelligence agencies’ findings on Russia and the election, extended the admiral’s time in office. Some former intelligence officials say they are flabbergasted that he has been able to hold on to his job."

Mueller grazes the third rail!: "Special Counsel Mueller Now Probing Kushner's Contacts With Israeli Officials During Transition, WSJ" (Durden).

Treaty drafting porn:  "How a missing 'the' enabled Israeli occupation" (Baroud).

Tweet (Peychauds Bitters‏):

"no comment"

For conspiracy completists only, a /pol/ Q thread. "How Mueller & President Trump are Pulling the Biggest Sting in History".  Background.  "4Chan User “Q” Warned Lynn De Rothschild About Deadly Plane Crash 3 Days Before It Happened".

Not rocket scientist

"On Brink of Extinction? Time is running out for Israel and Saudi Arabia" (Pieraccini; my emphasis in red):

"Another important aspect of MBS’s strategy involves the listing of Aramco on the NYSE together with the switch to selling oil for yuan payments. Both decisions are fundamental to the United States and China, and both bring with them a lot of friction. MBS is at this moment weak and needs all the allies and support he can get. For this reason, a decision on Aramco or the petroyuan would probably create big problems with Beijing and Washington respectively. The reason why MBS is willing to sell a small stock of Aramco relates to his efforts to gin up some money. For this reason, thanks to the raids on the accounts and assets of the people arrested by MBS, Saudi Arabia has raised over $800 billion, certainly a higher figure than any sale of Aramco shares would have brought.

This move allows MBS to postpone a decision on listing Aramco on the NYSE as well as on whether to start accepting yuan for payment of oil. Holding back on the petroyuan and Aramco’s initial public offering is a way of holding off both Beijing and Washington but without at the same time favouring one over the other. Economically, Riyadh cannot choose between selling oil for dollars on the one hand and accepting payment in another currency on the other. It is a nightmare scenario; but some day down the road, the Saudi royals will have to make a choice."

and:

"Trump’s approval of the arrests carried out by MBS is based on a number of factors. The first involves the investments in the economy that will be coming America’s way. The other, certainly less known, concerns the subterranean battle that has been occurring between the Western elites for months. Many of Clinton’s top money sources are billionaires arrested by MBS, with stock options in various major banks, insurance companies, publishing groups, and American television groups, all openly anti-Trump. In this sense, the continuation of Trump’s fight with a portion of the elite can be seen with the halting of the merger of AT&T and Time Warner involving CNN."

and:

"Trump is playing a dangerous game; but there seems to be some degree of coordination with the other giants on the international scene. The main point is, it is impossible for Washington to be an active part in any conflict in the region, or to change the course of events in a meaningful way. The “End of History” ended years ago. US influence is on the decline, and Xi Jinping and Putin have shown great interest in the future of the region. In recent months, the Russian and Iranian militaries, together with the Chinese economic grip on the region, have shown a collective intention to replace years of war, death and chaos with peace, prosperity and wealth.

MBS and Netanyahu are having a hard time dealing with this new environment that will inevitably proclaim Iran the hegemon in the region. Time is running out for Israel and Saudi Arabia, and both countries are faced with enormous internal problems while being unable to change the course of events in the region without the full intervention of their American ally, something practically impossible nowadays.

The new course of the multipolar world, together with Trump’s America First policy, seems to have hit hardest those countries that placed all their bets on the continuing economic and military dominance of the United States in the region. Other countries like Qatar, Lebanon and Turkey have started to understand the historical change that is going on, and have slowly been making the switch, realizing in the process the benefits of a multipolar world order, which is more conducive to mutually beneficial cooperation between countries. The more Saudi Arabia and Israel push for war against Iran, the more they will isolate themselves. This will serve to push their own existence to the brink of extinction."

"Here’s why Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US are not going to invade Iran" (Garrie).  Worth a reread:  "The PowerPoint That Rocked the Pentagon".  The Power Point slide (Egypt has the only Middle Eastern Sunni coalition army that matters):

"Iraq is the tactical pivot
Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot
Egypt the prize"

Israeli PR:  "Israel Is Growing Increasingly Worried About the Trump Administration".

"#blamePutin continues to be the media’s dominant hashtag".  "New York Times publishes a fake quotation by Hassan Rouhani" (Angry Arab).

The single most striking thing in the world, the kind of thing that strikes you down dead with amazement, truth from the NYT! (parallel to the equally striking BBC account of American terrorist coddling in Raqqa):  "The Uncounted".

"Brennan and Clapper: Elder Statesmen or Serial Fabricators?" (Whitney).  Remember the overly-candid Hersh on Seth Rich and Brennan and Clapper (bold and italics removed; my emphasis in red):

"About the kid, I’ll tell you what I know. What I know comes off an FBI report. Don’t ask me how. You can figure it out, I’ve been around a long time. The kid, just, I don’t think he was murdered, I, I don’t think he was murdered because of what he knew. The kids a nice boy, 27, he was not IT expert, but he learned stuff. He was a data programmer, but he learned stuff. And so he’s living on one street, someone, in my eyes,- he’s living in a ruff neighborhood and in the exact where he’d been living, as I’m sure you know, there have been about 8 or 9 or 10 violent, uh not robberies, most of them with somebody brandishing a gun and it’s the kids hands, I’m telling you look, I’m sure you know what, his hands are marked up, the cops concluded he fought off the people, tried to run they shot him twice in the back with a 22 small caliper. And then, they, the kids that did it ran, they got scared, they didn’t take his wallet.

    
Ok. So what the cops do is this: And this is where nobody knows, what I’m telling you, and maybe you know something about it. When you have a death like that DC cops, if you’re dead, you don’t just generally go yep I know (unintelligible) you have to get in to the kids apartment and see what you can find. If he’s dead you don’t need a warrant but most cops get a warrant because they don’t know if they’ve guys has, has a, a roommate. You need a warrant. So they get a warrant. I’m just telling you, there is such a thing. They go in the house and they can’t do much with this computer. It’s (unintelligible) the cops don’t know much about it. So the DC cops they have a cyber unit in DC and they’re more sophisticated. They come and look at it. The idea is maybe he’s a series of exchanges with somebody who says I’m going to kill you motherfucker over a girl or… and they can’t get in. The cyber guys do a little better but they can’t make sense of it so they call the, they call the FBI cyber unit, the DC unit.

    
The Washington field office is a hot shit unit. The guy running the Washington field office he’s like, he’s like, you know, he’s like a three star at an army base he’s already looking for four, you know what I mean? He’s gonna go in a top job. There’s a cyber unit there that’s excellent, given. What you get in a warrant is, the public information you get in a warrant doesn’t include, uh, it does not include the affidavit underlying what, why you are you going in, what the reasons are that.. That’s almost never available, um, I, I can tell you that the existence of a warrant is a public document 99% of the time. So, um, on the same warrant, they call in the feds. The feds get through, and this is what they find. This is according to the FBI report. What they find is he makes cont- first of all this is what you have to know, you have to know some basic facts, one of the basic factors, in that there’s no DNC or Podesta emails that exist beyond May 22nd. May 21st, May 22nd is the last email from either one of those groups. And so what the reports says is that sometime in late spring, we’re talking June you know summers in June 21st, late spring would be after, I presume, I don’t know, I’d just say late spring, early summer and he makes contact with Wikileaks. That’s in his computer and he makes contact.

    
Now, I have to be careful because I, I’ve know, I, met Julian 10 or 12 years (ago?) I stay the fuck away from people like that, you know. He’s invited me, and when I’m in London I always get a message “Come see me at the Ecuadorian” but I say fuck no I’m not going there I’ve got enough trouble without getting photographed. And he’s under total surveillance by everybody but anyways. So, they found what he’d done. He had submitted a series of documents, of emails. Some juicy emails from the DNC, and you know, by the way all this shit about the DNC, um, you know, whether it was hacked or wasn’t hacked, whatever happened, the democrats themselves wrote this shit, you know what I mean? All I know is that he (Seth) offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know I’m sure dozens of email and said “I want money”. Then later Wikileaks did get the password, he had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox, which isn’t hard to do, I mean you don’t have to be a wizard IT, you know, he was certainly not a dumb kid. They got access to the Dropbox. He also, and this is also in the FBI report, he also let people know, with whom he was dealing, and I don’t know how he dealt, I’ll tell you about Wikileaks in a second. I don’t know how he dealt with the Wikileaks and the mechanism but he also, the word was passed according to the NSA report, “I’ve also shared this box with a couple of friends so if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problem”. Ok. I don’t know what that means.

    
I don’t know whether you- Anyways, Wikileaks got access, and before he was killed- I can tell you right now Brennan is an asshole. Uh, I’ve known all these people for years. Clapper is sort of a better guy but not rocket scientist, the NSA guy’s a fucking moron, and they don’t- you know the trouble with all of those guys is that the only way they’re going to make it to a board or two and get hired by (?) and get some fat cat contracts is if Hillary stayed in. With Trump they’re gone, they’re done, they’re going to live on their pension, they’re not going to make it. And I gotta tell you guys, they don’t want to live on their pension, they want to be on boards.

    
I have somebody on the inside, you know I’ve been around a long time, and I write a lot of stuff. I have somebody on the inside who will go and read a file for me. This person is unbelievably accurate and careful, he’s a very high-level guy and he’ll do a favor. You’re just going to have to trust me. I have what they call in my business a long-form journalism, I have a narrative of how that whole fucking thing began, it’s a Brennan operation, it was an American disinformation and fucking the fucking President, at one point when they, they even started telling the press, they were back briefing the press, the head of the NSA was going and telling the press, fucking cock-sucker Rogers, was telling the press that we even know who in the GRU, the Russian Military Intelligence Service, who leaked it. I mean all bullshit. They were telling the studp- I worked at the New York Times for fucking years, and the trouble with the fucking New York Times is they have smart guys, but they’re totally beholden on sources. If the president or the head of the (???) to actually believe it. I was actually hired at the time to write, to go after the war in Vietnam War in 72 because they were just locked in. So that’s what the Times did. These guys run the fucking Times, and Trump’s not wrong. But I mean I wish he would calm down and had a better a better press secretary, I mean you don’t have to be so. Trump’s not wrong to think they all fucking lie about him."

Hersh's instincts about Assange are spot on, as seen in Assange's grooming attempts with Trump Jr - completely misinterpreted by the Clintonista media to fit their narrative - to advance Assange's conspiracy-destroying anarchism.

"How Modern Empire Uses "Awards" to Keep Servants Loyal" (Thomas).

Bizarre!:  "Peter Dale Scott on Enlightenment Values in the Age of Trump".

"Jack Straw hints he was sacked for wanting Hamas talks".

"Anniversaries of major events promote political interests not the public spirit" (Felton):

"There is, though, one irony to the Declaration that is worthy of note. There was one lone voice against the Declaration in David Lloyd-George’s government. It belonged to Edwin Samuel Lord Montagu, who wrote to the British Cabinet on Aug. 23, 1917, one day after the Balfour Declaration was drafted. Here is a short excerpt:

[A] religious test of citizenship seems to me to be only admitted by those who take a bigoted and narrow view of one particular epoch of the history of Palestine, and claim for the Jews a position to which they are not entitled.

 If my memory serves me right, there are three times as many Jews in the world as could possible get into Palestine if you drove out all the population that remains there now. So that only one-third will get back at the most, and what will happen to the remainder?

 … I feel that the Government are asked to be the instrument for carrying out the wishes of a Zionist organisation largely run, as my information goes, at any rate in the past, by men of enemy descent or birth, and by this means have dealt a severe blow to the liberties, position and opportunities of service of their Jewish fellow-countrymen.

Montagu was also the government’s only Jew."

"The Balfour Declaration’s many questions" (Massad).  Very thoughtful and even mentions the Khazar issue (without using that word).  Note that the 'European Jews' could not possibly have had anything to do with the death of Christ!

"Leader of Barcelona terror attack was Spanish intelligence informant" (Lantier).  Like . . .  always!

"Coup in Zimbabwe: A win-win for China – for now".  Unnecessarily anti-Chinese.

"Oy vey! Now, seven flags over Texas?"  The power overreach, and its obviousness, is getting ridiculous.

Shit just got real:  "Today's Blind Items - Long Time Coming" (CDaN) (method acting molesting!):

"One thing he said resonated with me and I asked each of the others the same question. Most responded in the affirmative. Some said they wished they could remember but it had been x number of years or others said they really didn't want to think about it too much because it triggered them.

The query was whether the "back story" of the character they were playing had molested. Their answer was yes.

One actress who responded yes, said as an adult, when she looks back, she realizes how ludicrous it was that the back story of her character would involve being molested. It doesn't make sense in the story line sense."

 Guesses (note that the comments put doubt on MJ, as he is usually described as A+++ or A++, and I think MJ would be more likely to try to protect such victims):

"Permanent A+ director: Steven Spielberg
Permanent A+ list singer: Michael Jackson
Ranch: Neverland Ranch
Helicopter actress and actor: Ariana Richards/Joseph Mazzello (in film "Bohemian Rhapsody" directed by Bryan Singer)
Movie: "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"
Steven Spielberg’s Child Actors, Ranked From Very Good to All-Time Great
Steven Spielberg/Michael Jackson friendship
Indiana Jones: Child molester?"

Helter Skelter

With the death of the greatest living American, and the CIA's most illustrious asset (I assume the flags are all at half-mast at Langley), who moves up to take his spot?:  "Charles Manson is rotting in hell".

More true crime:

1. "DNA leads to cold case arrest in deadly stabbing of 19-year-old woman in 1976";
2. This guy would enter into relationships with women so he could sexually attack their daughters, and then kill the whole family when they 'aged out':  "The True Identity Of Mysterious Serial Killer ‘Bob Evans’" and "Investigators release details about killer ‘Bob Evans,’ hope 1973 mugshot reveals more clues";
3. There is a new TV series on the Zodiac, the first episode of which is promising:  "Who Is Ross Sullivan? 'The Hunt For the Zodiac Killer' Explores A Popular Theory".

"Blind Item #1 - Political Murder" (CDaN). The guesses, from the usual spot:

"Candidate: Antonio Villaraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles 2005 - 2013) (a member of the Democratic Party, and was a national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, a member of President Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board, and Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in September 2012. In November 2016, Villaraigosa announced his candidacy for Governor of California in 2018)
Murder: Ronni Chasen on November 16, 2010
Opponent: Husband of the 15 year old runaway in Don Henley blind item"

"What Really Happened the Night Hollywood Power Publicist Ronni Chasen Was Killed?" LAPD picked a patsy that nobody believes had anything to do with it, a patsy who is said to have killed himself, leading to a package so neat and tidy that a high-level conspiracy is the only possible explanation.  Tweet by Enty Lawyer, who writes CDaN.

"Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Sidelined by Military Coup" (Dixon). 'Sidelined'?

"Double-crossed Maidan snipers on TV in Italy: Paymaster -- head of Georgian Security; Orders -- cause chaos".

"Netanyahu: It Is Time To Deport African Migrants" (by Yonah Jeremy Bob, the finest name in journalism today).  Even bearing in mind that international law doesn't apply to Khazars (because of the Holocaust), this is hilarious throughout (my emphasis in red):

"Netanyahu said he has a three-pronged policy regarding getting migrants to leave the country, with the current focus being to encourage most of them to self-deport to a third country – which reports have identified as Rwanda.

. . .

Netanyahu said that the state had already carried out the first two prongs of its strategy: stopping the flow of new migrants by building a wall and through legislation, as well as getting more than 20,000 migrants to leave.

The third stage of deporting migrants at an increased pace, he said, “can be carried out thanks to an international agreement which I obtained which allows us to deport the 40,000 remaining infiltrators against their will.”

“This is very important. This will allow us to empty the Holot Detention Center in the future and to redirect portions of the large resources we are using there,” from guarding the migrants, to other needs of the state.

Netanyahu was discussing an initiative announced last week by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Deri to close Holot, an “open” detention center where a few thousand migrants have been sent to try to convince them to self-deport.

Erdan and Deri’s idea would be to offer migrants the choice of “voluntarily” deporting to a third country or being put in regular prison indefinitely.

. . .

“The Holot detention center, an isolated prison that was meant to make asylum seekers’ lives miserable, should have been forbidden in the first place. From the words of Minister Erdan it is clear that the government was lying to the High Court when they denied that the purpose of Holot was to make asylum seekers leave Israel,” they said.

“Holot needs to be shut down immediately,” they continued, “and instead of a policy of oppression, lies to the High Court, detention and deportation, the government should fulfill the moral and legal obligations of Israel to protect asylum seekers and ensure their right to live in dignity.”

Until now, Israel was only allowed to deport migrants to third countries if they agreed to self-deportation and were not viewed as being coerced.

However, in August, the High Court of Justice both struck down a tougher state policy against migrants and implied that if the state managed to get a third country to accept migrants and passed a new law to exploit such a deal, then deportation of migrants against their will could become legal.

The High Court distinguished between deporting migrants to a third country, such as Rwanda, and to the migrants’ country of origin.

Israel is a signatory to the Convention on Refugees which prevents it and other signatories from deporting illegal migrants back to their countries of origin if they would face persecution.

There is an ongoing debate about whether Eritreans, Israel’s largest group of migrants, fled Eritrea due to persecution or to improve their economic status.

Deporting to a third country sidesteps this legal debate.

. . .

Meanwhile, also on Sunday, the High Court ruled that the state’s policy restricting migrants from bringing most packaged food products into the Holot detention center was unconstitutional.

The High Court did however endorse the state’s policy of preventing migrants from cooking within the facility."

"Israeli minister reveals covert contacts with Saudi Arabia".  "Israel Gives Official Confirmation Of Covert Ties With Saudi Arabia" (Durden).  "Is Saudi Arabia Zion?"

"Saudi Prisoners to be Freed in Exchange for 70% of Their Wealth. Reports".  "France’s Macron Covers for Saudi Aggression" (Cunningham).

"Israeli Tank Fires On Syrian Targets After "Violation Of 1974 Ceasefire"".  "SF Summary of Syria situation".

The commies are bros:  "Viciousness and ignorance: New York Times columnists on the rampage".

"Harvey Weinstein had secret hitlist of names to quash sex scandal".

Sailer's on a roll:  "Jeffrey Tambor, Star of "Transparent," Fired for Not Being Transphobic Enough".  He committed the ultimate sin of not taking the God of identity politics seriously enough.

"Let’s just cancel the Oscars".  The host has to tell jokes, which creates a terrible problem!

"Al Franken cut from PBS special amid sexual misconduct allegations".  Like those famous old politburo photos

Fireworks - wife on fire - 'journalism'

I'm warning you, this is a pretty good posting!

"Jack Ruby told FBI informant to "watch the fireworks" day JFK died: Documents".

Wow!, Weiss, who would know as it was his beat as a working journalist at the time, is a Vince Foster 'truther':  "The Clinton scandals entailed violent threats against people who knew about his sex life".

"The Danger of Knowing You’re on the ‘Right Side of History’" (Sullivan).

"Roundup: No maple death squads":

"A story that caught my eye yesterday was on the topic of foreign fighters who may return now that ISIS/Daesh has fallen. More particularly was the notion that the US, UK and France have all made it policy to try and target and kill their own home-grown fighters rather than risk them returning to their own countries."

"US "apologizes" to the victims of future chemical attacks in Syria".  "Fake diplomacy"!

"Top Israeli official admits that boycotting just the settlements is meaningless" (Ofir).  The ridiculousness of lite Zionism's emasculated BDS, as described in Mondoweiss, no less!

"Inside The Secret Facebook Group Of Quebec's Far-Right "Wolf Pack"":

". . . a bunch of disgruntled fiftysomethings trudging into a church basement to kvetch about Muslims for a few hours.  . . .   One woman told her boyfriend how she recently saw a Muslim family on the streets of Montreal. She was scared, and not only for herself. What if the husband sets his wife on fire?"

'Journalists' assist in the group's recruitment and supposed political power by vastly overstating its support.  Now, who would benefit from such a thing?

"Israel’s Ploy Selling a Syrian Nuke Strike" {Porter).  Note how they take issues they want addressed, and craft the lie to provide the political support, in this case a two-sided lie to cover North Korea (and here we are today) and Syria (and here we are today).  See also: WMD, yellowcake, 'Atta' at the Iraqi embassy in Prague (oddly reminiscent of 'Oswald' in Mexico City - Schrödinger's Oswald, both in Mexico City and not in Mexico City, and if you look in the box Jack Ruby kills you!), alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government, the supposed bin Laden-Iranian alliance in the CIA's document dump ('Long War', indeed!) etc., etc., etc.. Then they have the audacity to propose that something they want - in this case, no possible negotiation with North Korea - is impossible because of their previous, detected, trickery!:  "How We All Learned to Accept Bush’s Lies About Libya" (Davis).  The egregiousness of the lying, and the fact we keep falling for the same thing, pronounce ourselves 'woke', and then fall for it again, is something to think about.

"Revelations of a High-Profile Qatari Official Reveal a Wider anti-Syria Conspiracy" (Orlov):

"A few days ago, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar Hamad Bin Jassim in an interview with the BBC announced that his country had been providing all sorts of assistance to the armed opposition groups in Syria through Turkey for years. At the same time, Doha wasn’t alone to show its supports to anti-Assad forces, as it was joined by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE and Turkey itself. All this began back in 2007 after Israel suffered a humiliating defeat in South Lebanon, while being unable to overcome Hezbollah’s resistance in 2006. According to the former Qatari Prime Minister, Qatar was in charge of the so-called “Syrian Dossier” on behalf of the US and Saudi Arabia, adding that he had access to both American and Saudi paperwork on the staging of a so-called “Syrian civil war.”

Hamad Bin Jassim announced that weapons and equipment was distributed to all sorts of opposition groups via Turkey. This operations were a common routine of American, Turkish and Saudi military personnel in this country. At the same time, the Incirlik Air Force base would host a joint operational headquarters, where intelligence officers from the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco, Jordan, Israel, France and Great Britain would coordinate the course of proxy operations in Syria. Washington has gone as far as to dispatch 6 special reconnaissance satellites for those officers to observe the entire territory of Syria 24 hours a day non-stop. This operational command center was in charge of military operations in the north of Syria. As for the operations in southern parts Syria, to coordinate those Washington created a similar command center at the King Hussein Air Base in Jordan , where officers from Jordan, Israel, the United States, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar would join their efforts in a bid to outsmart Syria’s government.

The former Prime Minister of Qatar announced that a total of 137 billion dollars was wasted on the attempts to topple Assad’s government since the beginning of the war, while some of these funds were stolen by various field commanders that became millionaires overnight. In addition, considerable resources were wasted on the attempts to bribe Syria’s military brass, in attempt to persuade them in betraying their country or desert their positions. On average, a Syrian officer would receive from 15 to 30 thousand dollars for betraying his country.

The former Qatari official would announce that the ex-Prime Minister of Syria Riyad Farid Hijab was persuaded in fleeing Syria by his cousin, who had been a Jordanian resided for a long while. For this betrayal, Riyadh would pay him a handsome sum of 50 million dollars. In addition, the former commander of the Republican Guard Manaf Tlass would trade his home state for a chance to seek support of the UAR due to his sister’s successful attempts to persuade him into leaving. The sister, Madihi Tlass enjoyed French citizenship ever since she became the widow of the Syrian-Saudi businessman Akram Aja. This fact allowed French intelligence services to approach her to carry out the above mentioned operation.

According to Hamad Bin Jassim, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri played a major role in fomenting the Syrian conflict with an extensive support of a number of pro-Saudi Lebanese officials. In addition, the former Qatari Prime Minister mentioned the role that Iraqi Kurds played in the formenting of the so-called Syrian “civil war”, especially Massoud Barzani. At the conclusion of the interview, he announced that his government played a big role in the destruction of Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen, while acting on Washington’s behalf."

It is funny how much work and money is put into 'spontaneous' political uprisings. "War Crimes as Policy" (Taliano).

Speaking of Hariri, who is getting some of his own medicine:  "Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador to Germany over Gabriel comments" and "Hariri sought asylum in Jordan, according to the Times" (Angry Arab) and "Hariri in Paris" (Angry Arab) and "Hariri arrives in Paris".  Hariri is 'free' to go to Paris as Salman is holding two of his children hostage.

"Saudi Arabia’s Incompetence Would Be Comical If It Weren’t Killing So Many People" (Hussain).  "Did Bill Gates actually thank the Saudi regime for its philanthropic work in Yemen?" (Angry Arab).  "Saudi Propaganda and the Starvation of Yemen" (Larison).

Rent-an-army:  "How deep ties with Pakistan’s military helped Saudi purge".  Complex politics here, as Pakistan really needs Iran in dealing with India, and seems to have tragically bet on the wrong horse.  "India's New Afghan Trade Route Via Iran, Bypasses Pakistan".  "At the heart of the Pakistan-Iran-India tango lies Chabahar".

This story, from the World's Worst Newspaper, is laugh-out-loud hilarious:  "Russian fake-news campaign against Canadian troops in Latvia includes propaganda about litter, luxury apartments".  "Russell Williams (criminal)".

"Ukrainian 'journalist' detained in Belarus is indeed an Intelligence officer".

"10 Trump Administration Atrocities Going Under-Reported Amid Russia Hysteria" (Johnstone).  And you know who you can thank for it:  "The Clintons held the Democratic Party hostage for 2 decades — and the sudden revisionism is inconveniently late".

Trump's sons remind me of Hank and Dean, with the orange one as 'Rusty'.  "Trump puts elephant trophies decision on hold following criticism".

"FBI Informant Has Video Of Russian Agents With Briefcases Of Bribe Money In Clinton-Uranium Scandal". "The Democrats Used to Love Russian Oligarchs" (Ford).

Putin-Trump Derangement Syndrome still presents exactly like Alzheimers, turning an Assange joke into a blackmailing threat to take down the entire American intelligence apparatus!:  "The Implicit Threat in Julian Assange’s Ambassador Tweet" (emptywheel).

"The Rule of Power Over the Rule of Law" (Nader).  Almost all of the worst stuff consists of unpunished criminal acts.

How much would it cost if you were a Silicon Valley executive with a sexual harassment PR problem and you wanted to hire somebody to buy favorable media coverage!:  "Bezos, the WAPO, Edelman and Staying Out of Policy Matters" (Butler).  See also:  "Guardian, NYT Paint Power-Grabbing Saudi Dictator as Roguish, Visionary ‘Reformer’" (Johnson).

Our future:  "The colour-coded Israeli ID system for Palestinians".

"Is Satire "Fakenews"? - How Fact-Checkers Peddle Snake-Oil" (Moon).  Is PolitiFact that comically incompetent, or are they actually attempting to deceive?

"The Story of a Scammer on Facebook Who Conned Me (and Many Others)".  I love these stories for the fine techniques of grifting, in this case playing on a vagueness in addresses recognized by USPS tracking, so you can 'prove' delivery to PayPal by sending an empty box to a nearby business (who will throw away the evidence).

"The TED talks empire has been grappling with sexual harassment, interviews and internal emails show".  The pony-tailed 'experts' are grappling, but not actually doing very much.

There is a lot wrong with this but the Saudi connection to Mandalay Bay (and the alleged role of Paddock in smuggling weapons to the Philippines, which of course has a Saudi-sponsored Muslim terrorism problem), together with the very convenient incompetence of the police in coming up with any kind of plausible motive, is worth pondering:  "Was Las Vegas a COUP Assassination Attempt Cover UP Gone Wrong?".

Shameless

"A ZioWahabi attack on Hezbollah and Iran?" (The Saker).  Solid analysis, both of the thwarted Zionist plans and the panicked attempt by Bibi to recover.  The (slight) push back is coming from within the Israeli leadership, fearing the severity of the Hezbollah counterattack, and within some parts of the US government, taking the view that Salman is moving too aggressively which will inevitably lead to a disastrous - for MIC interests - coup.

"Secretary Mattis Is Off Base: US Military Presence in Syria Has No Legal Grounds" (Korzun).  The Khazars have instructed their American stoogeslaves to hang around and continue to illegally occupy Syria.  The Americans aren't capable of doing anything serious, but will continue to be an irritation.

"Russia, Turkey, Iran meeting to discuss Syria strategy" (Bhadrakumar).  As usual, the real players act like adults and get shit done while the vermin just try to stick their legs in from time to time to trip things up.

"NATO apologizes for Turkey 'enemies' incident, blames civilian contractor"!

"A Shameless Shabbos-Shiksa: Priti Patel Shills for Israel" (Langdon).

"How America’s Deep State Operates to Control the Message" (Giraldi).

"Russia-gate Spreads to Europe" (Parry):

"Yet, another core problem with these “studies” is that they don’t come with any “controls,” i.e., what is used in science to test a hypothesis against some base line to determine if you are finding something unusual or just some normal occurrence.

In this case, for instance, it would be useful to find some other country that, like Russia, has a significant number of English speakers but where English is not the native language – and that has a significant interest in foreign affairs – and then see whether people from that country weigh in on social media with their opinions and perspectives about political events in the U.S., U.K., etc.

Perhaps, the U.S. government could devote some of that $160 million to, say, a study of the Twitter/Facebook behavior of Israelis and whether they jump in on U.S./U.K. controversies that might directly or indirectly affect Israel. We could see how many Twitter/Facebook accounts are “linked” to Israel; we could study whether any Israeli “trolls” harass journalists and news sites that oppose neoconservative policies and politicians in the West; we could check on whether Israel does anything to undermine candidates who are viewed as hostile to Israeli interests; if so, we could calculate how much money these “Israeli-linked” activists and bloggers invest in Facebook ads; and we could track any Twitter bots that might be reinforcing the Israeli-favored message."

"Shocking: Arch-Bugmen at Vice Accused of “Sexual Harassment” Culture" (Sol; this is typical analysis of the alt-right):

"#Jerkoffgate is collapsing the entire liberal establishment, one institution at a time. This isn’t surprising. Women accuse men of “sexual harassment” not based on any specific standard of behavior, but based on how it made them feel. If a strong, authoritative man comes on to them, they feel flattered. But if a beta-cuck bugman does the same, they’ll be grossed out and offended.

Since liberal men (not to mention Jews) are disproportionately effeminate and insecure, their creepy vibes freak women out way more than approaches by right-wing men."

Note how the liberal analysis is similar in posing the problem as being a lack of chivalry, with 'good' men just having to man up and protect women, thus effectively treating women as property without agency:  "Groping for Manhood".  Understanding that there is no difference between the liberals and the extreme right is part of The Clarification.

Also part of The Clarification is that the self-styled far left are also assholes:  "How Pseudo-leftists Explain the Failure of the ‘Syrian Revolution’".

"Bret Stephens equates anti-Zionists with white nationalists in the ‘New York Times’".  Weiss is unable to effectively counter as he fundamentally shares the Khazar group supremacism of Stephens.

"Pepe Escobar Live From Baghdad: The Secret Of Iraq's Renaissance".  We're seeing a lot of words from the Evil Doers, with the response being to just get out and do whatever is necessary to stop them.  The Khazar plot against Iraq has completely backfired and the new militias are an effective method of creating a national sense of shared purpose leading to national unity.

"Another False Flag Terror ADMISSION: Snipers In the Ukraine “Protests”" (WashingtonsBlog).  You can see why it is so important for Pre-President Zuck to repress talk of false flags.

"The world's saints and sinners, according to Canada" (Mitrovica).  Thank G-d, one of our two national crises has been averted with taxpayer money:  "National Holocaust Monument to stay open all winter".  Canadians can now worship their Khazar overlords in February!  They are working on the other one!

"The New Republic Editor as Gap Model" (more bitchy, if accurate and amusing, Sailer).  A lot of people are now seeing that the business model of running your enterprise as a harem doesn't work well.

The intersectionality is strong with this one:  "Transparent Writer and GLAAD Support Jeffrey Tambor’s Exit From the Show". Note how he managed to blow off the first accuser but died with the second, spectacularly appropriate, one.

To be fair, you can see how he might want some things to stay hidden:  "The Internet Crackdown Begins: U.S. Senator Al Franken Wants Google, Facebook and Twitter to Censor Political Speech".

"Blind Items Revealed - Revisited".  "Stallone Sex Scandal" (Aangirfan).

"Four For Friday - Raped For A Part" (CDaN).  The guesses (shame about Caine; Donen is still alive):

"Movie: "Blame It On Rio" (filmed in Rio de Janeiro in 1984) (based on the 1977 French film "Un moment d'égarement")
Lisa: Michelle Johnson (17 at the time of filming, received permission from a judge to film her nude scenes) (from January 1999 through July 2002, Johnson was married to Major League Baseball player Matt Williams, of the Phoenix-based Arizona Diamondbacks)
Barely legal actress on television (A list): Demi Moore (18) ("General Hospital")
DRS A list actor: Michael Caine ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels")
Director: Stanley Donen (born 1924)
The Big Cheese: Larry Gelbart
Last movie/producer/writer: "Mickey"/John Grisham"

"Blind Item #10 - The Cold Case Payouts"(CDaN).  The guesses (my view is that a lot of the chum, like Spacey, being thrown to the sharks is a limited hangout to protect Geffen)

"David Geffen/Tom King ("The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood")"

The stinktank trick

This is classic - the Americans yell and scream and sanction and threaten war, and the Russians and Chinese step in to make money and friends:  "Venezuela wins Russia and China backing as it says it is honoring debt".  "Venezuela will finish paying its debt to Russia within 10 years after restructure".  "Venezuela Signs $3.2 Billion Debt Restructuring Deal With Russia" (Durden).

Interview regarding the 87% (!) increase in opium production in Afghanistan over the last year with a UN official, who sounds drunk or perhaps on an opium high:  "Who Promotes Afghan Farmers' Opium Cultivation and Production?":

"Q: Do you think that the powerful countries (without names) in Afghanistan, under security and military pretexts, are behind the increase of the cultivation, production and distribution of opium?

Answer: No, I don’t think so, no state in power is involved.

Q: What is your comment on the saying that the US military is behind the increase of production of opium?

Answer: I do not think so, we have no information directed against the US military in Afghanistan.

So where does the opium of Afghanistan go if America is not the beneficiary and who is responsible for producing opium?

Answer: Farmers are responsible, and a lot of opium production goes to Canada."

Meanwhile, the Canadian smuggling problem continues: "Colby Cosh: The egglegging party's over: Kinder Eggs are coming to America. Sort of".

"Different Hoax for Different Folks" (Sailer) (on the hoaxing outbreak due to the money and fame to be made from hoaxes, with no consequences if caught):

". . . higher-ups almost never suffer consequences for encouraging hate hoaxes by taking them seriously. Both Silveria of the Air Force Academy and Greenblatt of the ADL have fallen for hate hoaxes this year in what should have been a humiliating fashion. But instead, the two chumps/exploiters were honoring each other this week.

Last week, comedy legend Larry David shocked much of the country by devoting one joke in his Saturday Night Live monologue to noticing that his fellow Jews were overrepresented in the ongoing Harvey Weinstein-inspired sexual-harassment scandals.

Similarly, Jews tend to disproportionately figure in validating and promoting hate hoaxes. But few know this because David-style criticism of any Jewish tendencies toward self-indulgent behavior is punished in modern America.

Indeed, the ADL says it exists to “to put an end forever to…ridicule of any sect or body of citizens.” In essence, Jews are off-limits to satire. Yet being vulnerable to criticism encourages us to behave better, which is why people like Weinstein and Greenblatt are able to run amok for so long."

"Anti-Semites feted by Zionist Organization of America".

"AIPAC is grooming high school students" (Shihadah).

"Harper: A Reminder Of The Obscene Power Of The Israel Lobby".

"How Trump's CIA Used Bin Laden Files and a Neocon Think Tank to Escalate Tensions With Iran" (Norton).  Explaining the bizarre CIA dump of supposed bin Laden material.  Weiss from 2013:  "D.C. thinktank pushing Iran war got $19 million in one year from Israel supporters".  Marcus, Adelson, and Singer.  Judis from 2015:  "The Little Think Tank That Could".  They keep playing the same stinktank trick, and people keep falling for it.

"John Kerry and Prince Charles kill the Israeli project" (Alexis).  "Foreign, European Jews".  Chuck nails it - the problem isn't Jews, it is Khazars.  If you say that, you are labeled an anti-Semite, when the Khazars aren't even Semites (if you can get your head around that!).  In fact, the real Semites are mostly what we now call Palestinians, the descendants of the Jews to whom the mythological promise of land was given by the mythological deity to the mythological Abraham, the promise that is the stated basis today for the Khazar theft of Israel!  The truth is mind-blowing!  We've been manipulated so much we don't even have the vocabulary to discuss it.

They are usually at least a little more subtle than this!:  ""I've Been Banned From Facebook For Sharing An Article About False Flags"" (Johnstone). I've never understood the attraction of Facebook.  I find Twitter and (especially) Instagram very helpful, but avoid Facebook, and its awful, cluttered appearance (and what's with the having to scroll down to see more of the page?), as much as possible.

"America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship" (Parry). American elites have decided that knowledge of the truth is their real problem, and are suddenly acting on multiple fronts to suppress it.

Multiple layers of irony, starting with the fact that we're looking at the supposedly evil Kaspersky, and including the fact that the alleged nefarious Russian snooping may have just been routine efforts to find and block the kind of malware the NSA contractor installed with his pirated copy of Word!:  "Kaspersky claims at least one other entity in NSA contractor's computer".

Nice to see another (Khazar) warmonger called out for it:  "Monbiot, Syria and Universalism" (a very woke Roddis).  Note the Chomskyesque technique - you develop a 'progressive' reputation in one area, and then use that to further your real appalling goals.  It is especially ironic in this case as the main cause of world environmental degradation is the universal wars that these people keep whining for.

One good way to create such a reputation which you can then use for nefarious purposes is to put your name on somebody else's work:  "Thank You, Ed Herman, Tireless Champion of Peace" (Johnstone).

"Hamas: Mossad Agents Carrying Bosnian Passports Behind Tunisia Drone Expert Assassination".  But the professionalism of the hit strongly points against Mossad!

"Former Model Accuses Senator Al Franken Of "Kissing And Groping" Her Without Consent" (Durden). "Bill Clinton should have resigned" (Yglesias)!

Straight White Men

Hey, look who shows up smack dab in the middle of all the Saudi drama!:  "Saudi Crown Prince meets with Bill Gates to review joint development programs".

"The Machiavellian Prince: Welcome to Salman Arabia" (Bishara).

"'This Is Barbaric': Sen. Murphy Slams US for Contributing to Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis".

"On The Origins of Russia-gate" (Lauria),  Posted in the Huffington Post, and then, in the highest honor the Huffington Post can bestow for journalistic excellence, removed for being too incisive in wrecking all the Clintonista lies and actually turning the tables on Clinton.

The history:  "Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies:  The New York Times, 1917–2017" (Edward S. Herman, possibly his last published work, RIP).

"‘The Atlantic’ Commits Malpractice, Selectively Edits To Smear WikiLeaks" (Johnstone).  A fine reading of the lying technique used by Ioffe to make her case against WikiLeaks.  If The Atlantic were a real journalistic organization, and not just an ultra-Zionist front, Ioffe would be fired immediately, and a retraction and grovelling apology issued.  Instead, the lies are already being promulgated as part of the whole dangerous Russiagate smear.

"Mugabe: Between the wife and the loyal lieutenant".  "Mugabe clears way for 'Gucci Grace' in battle over Zimbabwe succession".  "Grace Mugabe 'flees Zimbabwe for Namibia' after military take over and reportedly put husband under house arrest".  "South African woman challenges Grace Mugabe's immunity over assault claim".  In this case, the country's military is acting as an immune system against a completely inappropriate leader.  Do you feel the strong Winnie Mandela vibe?

This is quite something in terms of the communal organization and presentation of information, in this case about the largely hidden Awan scandal:  "Hillary's Hamlet".

Spectacular Sailer (Hall of Fame example!):  "Peter Beinart Exposes Marty Peretz's Bias at TNR for Grooming His Fellow Straight White Men".  If you multiply this kind of thing by a trillion you get the current state of the deception, but Beinart is a particularly striking - not to mention silly in the extent of his assumptions of the stupidity of his audience - example.  Note the Trump awareness at the end.  Generally, the decoder ring is 'straight' = 'gay' and, particularly, 'white' = 'Khazar'.

"How the Israel Lobby Works in Britain" (Cloughley).  They somehow make it look even more unseemly and obviously corrupt and just plain grubby than the American version.

"Satanist Netanyahu is mad, sad, and still wants to be bad" (Alexis).  A losing Israel is even more dangerous than a winning Israel.  One way or another, we need to terminate it.

Giving Black Cube some of its own medicine!  "Israeli intelligence firm apologises for working with Harvey Weinstein".  "Deception and Ruses Fill the Toolkit of Investigators Used by Weinstein".  Note the similar technique used in the Toronto case.  The entire monstrosity is pure Peak Khazar.  I can't wait for the 'Hollywood' movie!

"Lawyers representing Toronto actress suing Harvey Weinstein say they can’t find him".  I'd start by checking New Khazaria, but you'll never root him out of there (because of the Holocaust against rapists).

"The Pedobear Motion Practice You’ve Been Waiting For".  "Encyclopedia Dramatica Is Being Sued for $750K".  "Jon Monsarrat / Jonathan Graves Monsarrat / JonMon / mitcarpediemLawsuit Loving Sex Pest".

"One Tree Hill showrunner terrorized, assaulted cast and crew, 18 women confirm".  "George Takei Is Sorry For Sounding Like A Creepy Old Gay Grandpa On Howard Stern".