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It is not the freshest news. But it is still breaking, people are still absorbing it ,and it all till needs context.

The filthy greedheads and the doomed can't have exclusive rights to this news territory. The insane and the loyal opposition must have their say as well.

My take - the Russian armada is going to bomb the living fuck out of Aleppo.  Not so much to help Assad as to show they can still break shit, and still matter in one of their few areas of influence outside of Russia. 

Sebostabol/Crimea alreadytaken and those pieces are swatted off the chess board.
Then they will pass through the Suez canal to a favorite area of contemporary interest - the south china sea, to dock at the "chinese" island. 
They will refit at Vizag (a top indian navy base), go hover around the "chinese" island in the spratleys, maybe some commando/fast boat/SEAL type training with the chinese there. then they go right by the senkaku islands on the way to vladivostick for winter.
just to show the world the BRICS aint nobody to fuck with. 
Turkish PM Erdogan just "cleaned house," by firing about 40,000 people in government and shooting a
few hundred security, military and intelligence staff accused of being Gulen supporters.  some probably were, some probably were not, and Gulen's infleunce is not as profound as the govt makes it out to be. but he just bought himself 5 more years of unchallengable rule. and the ability to flip turkey out of NATO into the BRICS. I think it is very possible and could happen suddenly if it does.
Then much of eastern europe NATO (esp former ussr/Warsaw Pact) all quit too - because it is a stupid antiquated instiution that has not had a rational strategic reason of existence since the fall of the Berlin wall.  nato is not world's army the blue hats in the UN are.
Timing - Putin put them at sea when he knew he would have a four month window of no real response from usa because of the  elections.
They will have proved they are back as a true blue sea navy, anf kicked some ass, and shored up crucial geostrategic along the way.
I feel no portence of WWIII but instead feel this is a macho country saying "we be back motherfucka!"
and the advanced cyber and ground/space/ship-to-shore warfare eqpt of china, russia (less so india) is getting really good, and hits all the achilles heels of nato/USSA, efficiently, cheaply, and on the button.

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Giroux is consistently one of the most on point commenters out there. Why the Democratic Party Can't Save Us From Trump's Authoritarianism

Not bad. At least it's not the typical, one-sided BS Americans were being subjected to before the Deep State succesfully neutuered Trump. At least they didn't have to assasinate him to get what they wanted  -- which is primarily a continuation of the US's endless wars.

Someone needs to write,  "A comprehensive manual for survival in a fascist state." because we certainly aren't ever returning to anything even remotely democratic.

What a hoot. #NotTheOnion

We are now losing a war to an enemy that already surrendered. That’s not easy to do.
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/22/afghanistan-donald-trump-taliba...

I am actually enjoying the Trump administration.  Straight up.  Keeping it real.  I like it because the pretense is gone.  

There is no "plan" here. It's simply looting by the rich to get out while the getting's good. The results are predictable... both politically and economically. Remember 2008? That was Reaganomics on steroids. This is Reaganomics on crack sniffing glue. Politically pandering to the batso base... while market fundamentalists try to magically lawyer up an alternate reality.

What we have here is an oligarchy. (The$Party) -there is only one- doesn't give a scoot about the "deficit" or "jobs" or the "economy." The "donors" are going to take the cheese and the sock-puppets will get their cut. Trumpo will distract the proles with his reality-tv "businessman" act getting sportsball workers to be obedient to their bosses. Ginning up another phony war will probably help.

The planet continues to cook. Oceans still dying. Looting goes on unabated.  And now as the cartoon image flickers, Bugs pops out of the hole, kisses Elmer on his cue-ball head, produces a 500 lb. sledgehammer from nowhere and WHAM.  Yuck yuck.  Without the base element of hypocrisy.  Fudd wants to make out by following the rich.  Like the aristocrats. Like Divine Right.  Like the Meritocracy.  Pretty soon you can say Nigger. 

Instead of "the N-word."  What a wimpy sell-out.  Ignoring  the meaning of "wealth."   

Cos we all hoe-boys off the plantation now.  That's where hobos came from.  

Tax "reform?" (nudge-wink) No. It's a "...giant beautiful massive the biggest ever in our country TAX CUT." So that you can (nudge-wink) "...thrive compete and grow..." dribbling the warm down trickle. Bigger than St. Ronzo's bigley big.... chocolate cake. Gotta hit that.  Howdy ho ho yum yum yum.

Oh it's "tax reform" for the "middle class," eh. Cletus thinks he's "middle class" if his trailer doesn't leak. And judging by the increasing number of "urban campers" you see in the "wealthiest" country in the world... Cletus is probably right. And he's blessed in spirit. Howdy ho ho yum yum yum.

Cos faith-based economics is so much more bigley than voodoo economics. Because when the Trumpo show is over, Mikey's gonna want us all to pray. Pray that endless "growth" is possible cos we're spatial. Disorientation happens quickly without oxygen. Howdy ho. You're now the dumb base of (The$Party).

Remember (The$Party) has two right wings. Yum. Have another beautiful war.

The majority of the Germans never voted for Hitler. " I still believe that people are really good at heart," said Anne Frank. Holocaust denial is quite popular with the Pepe people. Climate denial comes naturally. Sing us no songs about the "goodness in people" while summoning the demons of famine, disease and war.

Someday we'll plead that we were one of the "good Americans." There were no Nazis here. Eat that with your good win slaw.

There's very little rationality or civility left in this culture. As they say, it's a total shit show. Sad that Americans are so fucking stupid they can be distracted with the most banal shit, like kneeling at sports events, or whatever CNN, MSNBC, or Ellen tells them to be concerened about. Our society is litterally collapsing because Americans are beyond stupid.

Good son is working at a local Safeway store. Since he's on the front lines of the collapse, he has a new story to tell just about everyday.. Today, another shooting just down the street from the store. Lot's of cop cars and firetrucks. Albeit the occurance is so common now, it's rare that it even gets reported. Also, a drugged up driver took out the cart stall in the parking lot which was built with heavy duty steel pipe  embedded in concrete. Dude tried to convince the store manager that it blew away. 

Poor kid is watching society collapse in real time. Just about everyday he has to argue with crackheads who think they can bargain for groceries like they do for drugs.

Anyway, certainly some amazing changes seen in the last five years or so. Talked to a local cop last weekend who said cops are quiting because of the work load and the frutility of the job. Said he's going to get out of the biz as soon as he can and go do something else.

Trump? Who cares? Everything we're seeing now was put into motion many decades ago. But of course it doesn't surprise me that typically imbecilic Americans will now asign blame to Trump for every malady we now face while the Pepe people will just ignore them. Howdy HO, Welcome to the United States of Amnesia.

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This is all about Stephen Paddock's John-Forbes-Nash-like "Beautiful Mind." Because Paddock wasn't insane. Just like the narrator of Poe's "Telltale Heart." He was the law-abiding tax-paying upstanding consumer we are all trained to be. "The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them." The story promises to be an awful one...

...for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.   

Your heart's in the right place, Morris... but what finally got you to notice? The US has been waging wars of aggression since 1945 to defend "US interests" in other people's countries. The High Rollers just peeled off another $60bbn on top of the most bloated (by far) "military" budget in the world. We should have known Emmanuel Goldstein was poo. Instead, what did we do?

We waved flags and hung yellow ribbons and paid sportsball shows and watched war porn on cable TV. Obama authorizes a $Trillion to "upgrade" our nuclear arsenal and the yakky doodles down below quack about liberals conservatives and gun control. Ducks yas yas and don't forget about abortion and peeps and their pennies in naughty noo-noo places.

The planet cooking, oceans dying and somehow it's all about doing the hokey-pokey and taking a knee at the cassino where the chips fall where they may. Here's a game they like to play- stick it in your mouth and say, "Howdy ho ho yum yum!" How did we get so dum? Easy. They don't like "neoliberal" because it has "liberal" in it... but they do it every day. What is the truth?

"That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.” (Matrix) It's everywhere. There should be a pill or app for that... and there is: Think about what you read. Read about what you think. Look for the Matrix, you'll never find it. Look elsewhere, and there it is.

Take a knee... at the library.   

Sideshow Bob wants to buffoon about the "moral climate." Forget about the real climate. Trumpo show still has time to go- and Sideshow wants to tell stories to illustrate the "moral" climate. Sideshow has persistent naggers kneeling about social justice and such. Niggliing naggers don't know much about the moral climate:

Casino capitalism. The high-rollers get perks and bennies to come and play. Consuelo gets to keep the toilet shiny and her green card lets her stay. Just like the climate hockey-stick, the money gets sucked upward. The House usually wins. High Roller decides to spray bullets on a country crowd with a novelty item attached to his $3000 hunting rifle.

"...President Trump confirmed there were 645 military personnel deployed to Niger to support counterterrorism missions there." (BBC) The House usually wins. Home "owners" know this. Yet Granny is happy to feed her nickel collection into the slots, delighted she won $500, and the entertainment was everybody you see on TV. Even President "you're fired."

Hear that, Bob? BANG.   

So many moles to whack.  So little time.     

There are times I wish we had "like" buttons because I read your stuff Waldo and sometimes it just floors me an I really don't have any response that could add to it.

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there's a new White Rose in Germany. https://youtu.be/pkktEjUy_MQ

in England a new political party was announced on Sunday, but there was nothing about it on the news, so what would I know. On 5th November an event is planned to inform the BBC that many people can bear no more of their deceit.

5th December, the burning of the guy (a stuffed figure made of old clothes and stuffed with straw or newspaper) has been our tradition for centuries, after Guy Fawkes and a small group of Roman Catholic gentlemen attempted to blow up the houses of Parliament with several barrels of gunpowder.

The dissonance created by the Reformation in Europe was felt by Catholics in England unto this day, where there is a monumental blindness to the cares taken through bureaucratic measures to ensure peace within the nation. We prayed for the Queen. We spoke our prayers in Latin, the language of scholars, until tumult within destroyed the order.
it says December there instead of November, quite a surprising slip of the tongue. of course it is November, in the season of roots and mellow fruitfulness and forgetfulness, that we burn the guy and drive our pets mad with fireworks, the wildlife can fend for itself. How quiet it is here usually.

my dog was disturbing the peace, barking at a hedgehog that she captured and ran around the garden with, taking her favourite routes under bushes and over the mouths of tunnels at speed in the dark while I tried to rescue the hedgehog without conviction, afraid of being knocked down by the exuberant one.

before I forget, Millenial Woes was musing on merqueuly and the horrifying peculiarity of it all for Germany and the rest https://youtu.be/doJ2t0xQfrc

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