Diaries

Gillibrand sets new record for hypocrisy and slips on the ICE

We may not get truth from politicians but we get a surfeit of deceit, deflection and denial. George Orwell had it right when coined the phrase "double speak". In fact no finer example of this can be mined from the open pit cesspool which is Washington, D of C):

Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report, lays it all out for us.

A list of each and every former CIA operative now running for Congress as a Democrat.

A table which lists each progressive candidate who survived his or her primary and where he or she stands on foreign policy. As Dixon points out, TWO FREAKING THIRDS have no position on foreign policy. None.

Friday Photography - Lizardly

Don’t know this lizardly visitor, but appreciated its appearance.

I would have had a beautiful portrait to post of a Roseate Spoonbill lit by the setting sun, making its rose colour really rosey, with an even more intensely coloured reflection in the water, but I mistakenly deleted it from my camera. Oh, well.

Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend. Post away ...

Russia Hoax 2.0: The Erstwhile "Spies" Who Stumbled in From the Cold

On Wednesday at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in the Russian city of Vladivostok, during a panel event with Japan's Shinzo Abe and China's Xi Jinping the international audience was very surprised when President Vladimir Putin suddenly shared the latest developments in the Skripal poisoning case. "We know who they are, we have found them," Putin told the startled audience, referring to the two men named by UK authorities as suspects.

"They are civilians, of course," he added with a bemused look, explaining that they are not quite the notorious criminals the British politicians were hoping for. He then looked directly into the camera saying, "I want to address them [the suspects]... [I hope] they contact the media. I hope they appear and tell everything about themselves."

The Elephant In the Room of the NY Primaries. Deja Vu of the 2016 Primary DNC Collusion To Cheat Bernie.

How could it be, when on a night in which the number of voters in the NY Primary almost TRIPLED, and in such a vitriolic climate of severe anti-establishment anger, that this isn't completely beneficial to the insurgent candidate? Well, we know how it can be, don't we? The Party controls these elections, I believe, the infamous Board of Elections. Thus making them accountable to - no one.

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