Monday, April 30, 2012

Ayn Rand and Chicken Hawks. Cowards and hypocrites.


Hardly surprising that invoking Ayn Rand is avoided by conservatives - her non-credibility as the promoter of the hard-assed "rugged individual" has been firmly established. Rand was a fervent skeptic of welfare for the poor and the elderly. However, when it came to walking the walk, she was not that great at it... she gladly accepted government provided welfare while castigating others who did.

Ayn Rand's terminal duplicity is reminiscent of the Chicken Hawk brigade: those privileged, well connected cowards who advocate sending others to war, while demonstrating their own yellow-livered hypocrisy by deliberately avoiding military service, or dodging the draft. In their mindset, its right and proper to order others to front line, as long as their own butts are not on the line. 

Oddly, the majority of blatant chickenhawks are those who pretend to be so "pro national security". Indeed, the list in the ChickenHawk Hall of Shame covers most of the Bush Administration's Iraq and Afghanistan neoconservative war hawks... Many in the war-hungry corporate media and even some the "entertainment" (?!) industry also qualify. Recipients of the "Distinguished Fleeing Cross" include such folks as... here's a random list:

Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Pat Robertson, Doug Feith, David Koch, Roger Ailes (Fox News), Ted Olson, Michael Ledeen, Trent Lott, Joe Lieberman, Richard Perle, Newt Gingrich, Wolf Blitzer, Andy Card, Elliott Abrams, Clarence Thomas, John Bolton, Frank Gaffney, William Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Nugent, Britney Spears, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Robert Kagan, Max Boot, Brit Hume, Antonin Scalia, Gary Bauer and Rudy Giuliani....   and Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Skeletons rattle the closet, and the public remain selectively deaf. Ayn Rand is a liability is any argument posed by conservatives in this area.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

London Olympics: playing on fear, missile batteries...


The London Olympics to be guarded by surface to air missile batteries? Is the world going completely crazy? Are we now in a Chantix like twilight zone where reality and nightmares co-mingle?

Let us never forget that Hitler also played on public fear of terrorists to gain, and maintain power. In 1933, his Nazi thugs set fire to the German Reichstag parliament building in a classic false flag terror attack, blamed "communists", and that was the beginning of the end. Hitler suspended the German Constitution, and assumed dictatorial powers, and the German public didn't dare speak out, for fear of being branded as "unpatriotic" and "giving in to the enemy".  We know what happened in the following years....

The Nazi war machine was funded by many well connected wealthy Americans, including the Bush and Harriman families... who were fervent believers in the pseudoscience of Eugenics, which Hitler has studied in formulating his Aryan master-race plan. Prescott Bush (W's granddad) was even busted twice under the Trading With The Enemy Act for doing major financial deals with Nazi Germany....  

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On September 11, 2001.....  Yes, we know what happened in the following years.

The acorn doesn't land far from the oak.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Marc Grossman: accessory to mass murder?


Marc Grossman, the  US Special Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan has some major baggage.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, while the attacks were under way, Marc Grossman was in a meeting at the Capitol in Washington DC with Mahmud Ahmed - head of the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence unit, Porter Goss - who later was to be appointed head of CIA by President George W. Bush (only to resign mysteriously shortly afterwards, for no given reason), and Senator Bob Graham, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Why is this so weird, one may ask? Well for starters, it was on 9/11. Secondly, Mahmud Ahmed was the man who authorized several international wire transfers of up to $100,000 each, paid to the alleged lead hijacker on 9/11, Mohamed Atta. After the meeting, Mahmud flew straight back to Pakistan, resigned from the ISI and hasn't been in public life since.
In a just world, Marc Grossman needs to be investigated by the FBI. But in today's world. that is like asking the Mafia to investigate John Gotti's activities.