Jan 27 2013

Hillary: the reason we’re rootin’ tootin’ in bum-f***ing Timbuktu

(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Is because:  

“You can’t say because they haven’t done something they’re not going to do it.”

Clinton was talking about the trivially remote, non-chance that dirt-poor “terrorists” in Mali (AQiM! Who are totally dependent on the arms we supplied to Gaddafi’s opposition in Libya during our previous menage a trois with the formerly cheese-eating surrender monkeys) would attack the US of A, the richest, most prick-bristling aggressors in the history of the planet.  However incoherent and nonsensical, Clinton’s statement has an empty ring of truth, not only for Mali, but for every dirt poor country on the planet: just because they haven’t attacked don’t not mean they willn’t.  Which is identical in spirit to Dick Cheney’s barking paranoid 1% doctrine, except for being even further off the deep end, in that p = 0.01 of being “attacked out of nowhere” has been reduced by Clinton to a possibility so obscure as to be sub-threshold to a footnote of a fleeting thought that failed being written as a nano-dot on the back of a cocktail napkin during an alcoholic haze that would make Hunter Thompson swear off booze for realz.  I’m so old I remember when bum-fucking Timbuktu was a mythological nether world, but it seems we have finally taken a genuine interest in geography as the era of abundance and growth abruptly ends.

Meanwhile, it must have been Tuesday, because reality was observed in the form of a Belgian MP  putting his size 13 waffle-stompers into his parliament’s ass on the issue of supporting Western meddling in resource-rich regions of Africa.  It’s a friggin’ doozy of a smackdown, if you have any interest in reality refusing to be mugged by Clintonesque constructions.

(sorry, iframe won’t embed, so you have to click on the link.  Be sure to click on “cc” closed captions on the vid’s tool bar after the vid starts rolling, in case you don’t understand “fuck you” in French.)

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  1. I am not overly in synch with the Belgian MP’s concerns about overthrowing “legitimate” governments and installing Islamist terrorists as overlords who will then do the bidding of Western commercial interests.

    Makes no sense to me.

    Beside the terrifying prospect of having Hillary Clinton or a clone being the next choice for president of the U.S. vs. any Republican choice, supporting France in another colonial enterprise should scare the daylights out of any sentient observer.

    What is plain fact, nothing is so horrific that ignorant American meddling cannot make the situation worse.

    Best,  Terry

  2. ARAB SPRING

    Tunisia’s revolution fraying at the edges

    The dark side of the Tunisian revolution caught up with Lotfi Abdelli, one of the country’s best-known comedians and actors, late last summer in Hammamet, a seaside resort town about an hour southeast of Tunis. His cross-country stand-up tour had gone badly, not for lack of crowds but because the crowds could not get to him.

    Salafists – the ultra-puritanical Islamists who have been linked, and sometimes charged, with violence – had been blocking the doors to his shows. Mr. Abdelli, 41, who is making a career of poking fun at Tunisia’s Islamist government, said he was refused police protection throughout his tour and had to load up with bodyguards.

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    Two years after the revolution that ended the career of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled the country on Jan. 14, 2011, the revolution that launched the Arab Spring is fraying at the edges. Liberal opposition parties claim Tunisia’s Arab Spring may become an Arab Winter if the violence and intimidation from Islamist extremists is not stopped…

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com…

    Not good, of course, but was it really better before the “Islamists” took over from a dictator and there were no “liberal opposition parties” because all opposition was suppressed?

    I will shed no tears for dictators as the Belgian MP would have all do.

    One might consider that the voice of Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican Party produced an editorial on the death of George Washington announcing:

    Good riddance. The man had never done a decent thing in his life.

    [From memory – I haven’t been able to find the link since a long ago computer crash.]

    That is not quite the way history teachers tell the kiddies how things went.

    Revolutions are not nice things but neither are dictators nice people generally.

    FWIW there might have been no America without the aid of France.  

    C’est la guerre.

    Best,  Terry

    • pfiore8 on January 27, 2013 at 14:55
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    • banger on January 27, 2013 at 16:18
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    I saw your thing on wwl so I’ll just paste what I said there:

    If you want to be in power in Washington you have to assure the security services that you will always put their interests first. These services, CIA,Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security are the imperial capital’s Praetorian Guard on steroids. You F with them and you will be destroyed.

    These guys aren’t all monsters and often are well-meaning (I lived in Washington DC area most of my life and know something about the town)–but in Washington careers are holy and the logic of those careers means you follow orders–there are no benefits for going contrary to policy only severe penalties at least in that sector. These people have children, they go to movies and they like Bruce, I’m sure. But they must be fed and these highly hierarchical official and unofficial structures have very strong appetites indeed–and I don’t just mean the individuals here–but the actual organizations which have matured and are now virtual entities displaying the appearance of being virtual life-forms with their own interests.

    Lady Clinton wants, so the press seems to think, more power and she has to make the security services understand that her reproductive organs belong to them first.

     

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