Colin Powell - "Trump has No Sense of Shame"
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colin-powell-donald-trump-has-no-...
Only one um, creature, that I know of has been truly able to encapsulate the U.S. political system in a simple to understand manner.
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In all seriousness, I wonder what most people think when they see a Ministry of Propaganda headline like that. Do they understand what an utterly bizarre statement that is, coming from a guy who played a key liar role in an illegal war based on lies that has caused the deaths of over a million people. Do they realize he's a War Criminal? Do they wonder how a guy like Powell could have the fucking gall to say anything about anybody after what he's done?
Nah, I wouldn't imagine most people would pay it much thought. Kind of like how most people don't pay the United States Empire Killing Fields much thought, the wars that aren't really wars but sure seem like wars.
This is what the Serfs are fed, their daily dose of he said, she said, they said to keep them focused on the flagrant farce that is the Great Presidential Election of 2016. To make them think it matters. But it just does not matter, not to We the Serfs.
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I feel you...
Spongebob. You should see what my forehead looks like after bouncing it off of the desk so many times.
Heh, I bet buddy.
Just sing the song, it'll make ya feel better. Or maybe not.
Better? OMG, stuff a sock in it.
I do agree with you about Powell. What they think we believe is beyond belief.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Goebbels was
the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Germany, 1933-1945.
I kid you not. Thus speaketh Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Personally, I like the modern 1984-ish sound of it. Of course, where else do we think Orwell got the idea of Newspeak from?
Yr friend,
Another Serf
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
Damn, at least he was up front about it.
I miss George. He signified science fiction. Now he's gone and it's not.
Where did Science Fiction go?
Off into fantasy, dystopias, cyberpunk, steampunk, last I checked.
Of course we could always have Science Faction with the USAF Space Command, Guardians of rhe High Frontier
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command
(You really can'r make this shit up.)
In Science Faction, the US gave up moon landing projects to focus on low-earth orbit space shuttles to rhe International Space Station before giving up on rocket launches and space shuttles entirely to depend on the Russians to send its astronauts to the ISS while . . .
. . . the Guardians of rhe High Frontier, in the guise of launching satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, were actually launching themselves to US Non-International Space Stations in low-earrh orbit and to a Moon Base on the Far Side of the Moon, where, as a unit of the US Strategic Command,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Strategic_Command
a functional unified combatant command, they were . . . .
God help us all.
(Of course, there's always the Russian Space Command
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Space_Command
: )
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
We want to like Powell.
He exudes a steadiness and intelligence that makes him almost charismatic. And then you think about his lies on the floor of the UN and your realize he is the one person that could have turned the course of the ship IF HE HAD ONLY BEEN HONEST WITH US.
In a way, he is less forgivable than W or Cheney because we really did want to trust him.
He was SOS, Secretary of State,
a war criminal position. Agree, somehow he gets more of a pass than others in that administration and other SOS's which is amazing considering what he did.
To his credit, it is documented that he didn't exactly favor the neocon (Zionist) faction in the Bush admin who were the major pushers for the Iraq war. But he did what he did and he knew what the deal was.
Well, there was that weird time when he disappeared
for months, and all anybody saw was Wolfowitz, and somehow nobody in the Bush administration was mentioning that, nor anybody in the press, which seemed to indicate BushCo had some sort of problem with Powell even though he'd just lied for them.
Also, his former chief of staff has said some remarkably honest and cogent things since Powell left State, which I think makes some people like Powell better by association, even though it's not Powell who's said those things.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Wow, was unaware. Fill me in/provide link? Thanks, n/t
It's hard to find anything on this
Here's something about his resignation, just to start--but the bad feeling w/in the Cabinet was already there for some time before.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR200609...
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
OK, apparently he did it more than once!
Once right at the beginning of Bush's reign:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/02/the_t...
For the next nine months, he disappeared so definitively that Time magazine asked, on its cover of Sept. 10, 2001, "Where Is Colin Powell?"
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
He could have quit or refused
and been fired. Some in the Nixon administration had the guts to do that.
Resigned after election 2004.
Too late for honor.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
When talkng about Powell, don't forget Mai Lai
Precisely!
Those of us aware of his involvement in the Mai Lai coverup knew he was a company man. And he has continued to be a company man down to this day.
I hope the bitter knowledge that it killed his promising political career burns him to this day.
Speak for yourself
I sure as hell didn't 'trust' him. I don't now and never have trusted any warmongering military dude with a jacket full of pinned on fruit. Charismatic?
Powell was a careerist,
first and foremost. Like many another of our most esteemed Generals. Kissinger was a different sort of creature altogether, a veritable Mephistopheles.
native
It's amazing how our war criminals are looked upon as
elder statesmen/women, like Albright and Kissinger, even H.W. and W. Bush. During the NFL games on Sunday, 9/11, I noticed Bush actually giving some kind of public service announcement about 9/11. I had to turn the channel asap of course but I couldn't believe it (of course I could). This absolute son of a bitch (ya) was on national TV acting like some respectable ex-President when he should be doing hard labor until he's gone. I saw people shaking his hand. Probably the same ones against Kaepernick's protest against the flag and that song they say we must sing.
They are propagandizing
the Next Generation - those kids born since 2000, who have never known a USA not at war and who are just now reaching the age for military recruitment.
Powell really is an [expletive] considering his role in starting Foreverwar.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
Doesn't seem to be working too well--
if it weren't for the increased levels of poverty, not sure they'd be getting the recruitment numbers they want.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good luck with
'propagandizing the next generation'. 30% of this country are stark raving religious right wing antidemocratic lunatics their next generation may or may not carry on as they always have. The rest of the young'uns are just not this fearful, stupid or greedy. Why did so any of them turn out for Bernie's political revolution. In times past the young radicals got co-opted and became yuppie screw or get screwed cappies the Slick Willie supporters. They now are old and a lot of water has flowed under the crumbling bridges of the neoliberalism the 'greed is good' generation.
The next generation and the one after that have to now live in the wreckage these past generations have created. Man oh man do you underestimate people globally to see and know what a farce the shallow propagandists are pumping when they are faced with and have access to the internet and can see the carnage, death and destruction in real time. Never seen the USA not at war does not equate to thinking this is the 'inevitable' world as we find it' and accepting this as something patriotic or acceptable. you underestimate people globally whatever generation they are.
Having no shame is a devastating damnation?
Our executive branch and most of judicial have no shame. And why would serfs care about shame?
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Pot/Kettle
Yeah if Powell hadn't given away his reputation by giving that speech and resigned in protest like so many other military members did, then he would have the standing to make this comment.
Has anyone read the comments on the website?
I have no idea how people can think the way they do about what is happening in this country.
People are fixated on the 4 people who died at the Benghazi embassy but I don't think that they know that the Obama administration, Hillary's state department, the CIA and Stevens and others were taking Gaddafi's weapons out of there to give them to the moderate terrorists in Syria who Obama created to help him overthrow Assad. Including the sarin nerve gas that the terrorists used on the Syrian people which Obama tried to blame Assad for using it in order for him to invade Syria.
This is one comment from the website.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
People are being “vial” on both sides ::ducks:: n/t
Gotta tell you, Big Al...
I absolutely love the pic with the 'soul in a bottle' caption. Brilliant, succinct, appropriate.
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Well what's important y'know --
is that if you kill hundreds of thousands of people in pointless wars you do so with a "sense of shame." Powell dutifully looked the other way in Vietnam, and then opened the door for, what, 600,000 or so lives wiped out in Iraq? But as long as he did it with a "sense of shame" (perhaps having no relation to his actions), it's all kewl.
"there's something so especially sadistic about waving the flag of a country that you're actively destroying" -- Aaron Mate
Nah. If He Had a Sense of Shame He Would Not Speak in Public
ever again.
No shame there. Just doing his job.
No offense to the dead, it's just business.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Well hey, he says he's ashamed
and we must believe him. That's the spin for today.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
You Must Believe Colin Powell. Is This a Jedi Mind Trick? nt
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
LOL, no it's snark
shoulda labeled it as such!
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
I'm more or less with Cass.
I only care about "shame" because the lack of it indicates a possible sociopath on the loose. And it's always good to know as much as you can about which public figures are bonafide sociopaths, kinda like it's good to know, if you have a venomous snake in your house, where it is and how much you'd likely suffer from getting bitten.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I tried to post Shill's video of "We came, We saw..." in a post
on how bad Cameron is because he...
Oh Hell, let me post what I'm talking about and you'll get a good example of why this election sucks so bad.
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Did I Say The Worst?
Heckuva job.
David Cameron’s intervention in Libya was carried out with no proper intelligence analysis, drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, according to a scathing report by the foreign affairs select committee.
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It concurs with Barack Obama’s assessment that the intervention was “a shitshow”, and repeats the US president’s claim that France and Britain lost interest in Libya after Gaddafi was overthrown. The findings are also likely to be seized on by Donald Trump, who has tried to undermine Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy credentials by repeatedly condemning her handling of the Libyan intervention in 2011, when she was US secretary of state.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2016/09/did-i-say-worst.html#disqus_thread
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Right after I posted that video of Hillary's it was deleted. THIS is why we're screwed. So called lefties like to rewrite history just like the right. And Hell, as big a skeezey sleezey as Cameron is, Clinton was right there pushing to destabilize Libya along with the rest of them.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Which of them does?
Wait, I think I've got it--they define shame differently than we do.
What they really mean, translated out of Oligarchic, is "Trump talks bluntly, and out loud in front of cameras, about all the shit we do as a matter of course in the shadows."
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Yes, yes, yes, but even broken clocks...
Are right twice a day.
From the Guccifer 2.0 emails he is at least accurate in his description of HRC in a 2014 email.
from ROF
If this is what your "friends" think about you, Hillary, is it any wonder that the rest of us feel the way we do about you?
____________________________________________________________________________
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. "
-Niccolo Machiavelli
"Sorry Hillary"
-TheJerry
Are all these guys assholes?
Powell calling Clinton greedy and bitching that she cost him "a gig" at some university because she demanded so much money they got in trouble, and couldn't hire him as planned. Yes, Virginia, all war criminals are assholes, and they both dislike, like, and "respect" one another.
Sense of shame? Here’s what Clinton BFF Henry Kissinger thinks
about your capacity, real or otherwise, to feel any “sense of shame” —
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-cons...
Wow. That seals the deal for him and all those
who shake his hand.
Powell Has No Leg To Stand On
How quickly America has forgotten Powell's role in lying to the UN in an attempt to get them to sign off on the Bush/Cheney Iraqi Oil Rustle. I don't recall Powell issuing a real apology for his malfeasance as Secretary of State.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
But the Clintons and Obama have a sense of shame?
None of them take responsibility for a thing they've done wrong.
I'd really like to see the evidence that anyone in national elected office today has a sense of shame. Even icon John Lewis claimed he saw Bill and Hillary Clinton marching for civil rights in the 1960s, but not Bernie Sanders (when Jim Crow was still law in Arkansas, Hillary was supporting Nixon and then Goldwater and the police chained Bernie to two black women).
Once media proves them wrong and they have no choice but to come clean, they do. That's not a sense of shame.