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David's avatar

A corporate military Mafia runs the nation and the public is blissfully unaware or prefers not to dwell on the issue. Land of the free, home of the brave........

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Brian's avatar

TBF, there’s no point on really dwelling on it if you’re unable or unwilling to do anything about it. I mean, their domestic policy is as bad as their foreign policy, and hurts a lot of people here, but if you protest or try to organize, they lock you up. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Jeano's avatar

So get locked up. Thoreau did and set a National standard of citizen behavior. It’s rumored Emerson came by the jail and saw him and said “Henry David, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau replied “Ralph Waldo—what are you doing OUT there?” That’s what it takes to defend principle in any corrupt society. But the Yuppies are too comfortable and corrupt to do it.

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David Avenell's avatar

As goes the famous quote, usually attributed to Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Many people still don't believe in the military mafia or the deep state. This series will provide all sorts of history and it only scratches the surface.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Land of the free (if you can afford it) and home of the naive.

Such an appointment as Abrams is just one more indication of giving the big finger to the American people as it shows in the clearest terms that no crime means anything in the USA. Police killing people on the streets, the likes on Nuland and her deeds, Abrams with his record, "we came, we saw, he died" from Climton and the corrupt funding of politicians of all varieties by Israel.

Someone in authority made the decision to continue to steal 66,000 barrels of oil every day from Syria, now a 'back to the Stone Age' country thanks to sanctions and illegal bombings, to kill 500,000 in Iraq, to use sanctions daily all around the globe and to now pass on depleted uranium weapons to use in the proxy war in Ukraine. So the likes of these decisions are now synonymous with daily American life in 2023 and no one really gives a damn.

When a country can elect and them tolerate a people such as Biden, Trump, Clinton, Obama, Bush, Cheney, employ Nulands, Abrams, Pompeo, Neocons by the hundreds and on, take directions for the Israel apartheidists, see actions like sanctions and bloody murder as normal practices, then the future is bleak, already on the way down at a fast pace. Now comes payback time from the likes of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and half the world waiting in the wings and when it comes, it will be "goodbye time, America" as they trash the dollar as the international trading currency, reduce their dependence on anything stamped "Made in the USA" and then sit back and watch the fast expansion of the unemployment ratio.

The pay backers won't fell happy that this is happening to the American people, the average person, the voter who may or may not have ever voted in an election because both candidates were as bad as one another and they will know, deep down, that the arrogant criminals who sold their souls over years for false values, hegemonic expansion, criminal activities all around the globe and who profited by such deeds, will be isolated from the failure of capitalism(and all that means) in the 'land of the free.

Just around the corner, folks. Gird your loins

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Kojo's avatar

So criminals and warmongers who are obvious officers of three-letter agencies, keep showing up in US govt, regardless of which party is in office and yet people claim that:

- there is no deep state

- both parties are not serving the same masters

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

When Omar made that statement, I was starry-eyed--I remember Iran-Contra and the whole evil war against democracy in Latin America,, including Elliot Abrams' role, so I thought it was fabulous to see a Congresswoman call him a war criminal. But I just watched the clip and was appalled not so much at his responses as when he says the whole thrust of US policy vis a vis Venezuela is to help the people restore democracy, and she says no one disputes that. WHAT? Can she really not know better?

I also note that people refer to what the US did in Central and South America as furthering US interests. They should be made to explain why removing an elected leader determined to use the nation's resources to help he nation's people in favor of an imposed rich white man who will make deal with US corporations to use those resources to enhance the wealth of the corporations and the local elite, while violently repressing any who object...how does that serve US interests? Not the interests of the US PEOPLE, just some US-based corporations that own the US government and its media.

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Of course she knows better, calling out a single neocon in front of the cameras is forgivable because he can dodge and weave and avoid the truth. Calling out the entire corpse of war establishment publicly is a career ending move. Violently suppressing people anywhere serves those in power everywhere. One kings domestic enemy is another kings foreign enemy.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

And that's the real story but shhhh don't ever say the truth because in the US of shit heads that's hate speech and makes you a domestic terrorist!

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Feral Finster's avatar

Go on, tell us some more about how Biden really really is working for peace and so totally isn't an imperialist. Maybe throw in that quote from The Godfather about keeping your enemies closer.

Actually, I think Team D nuthangers have given up making excuses and have simply internalized neocon imperialism, although they like a bit more self-serving human rights talk.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Elliot Abrams did 100 hours of community service for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. (Check out the Tom Cruise movie "American Made". Great film.)

I wonder what Elliot Abrams did for his 100 hours of community service. The story is always in the details.

Was Abrams wearing an orange vest while sweeping the streets?

Was Abrams picking up trash?

Was Abrams reading books to the hospitalized?

Was Abrams doing anything for his community service?

Does anyone know?

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Kojo's avatar

In their world “community service” means lobbying for Raytheon or Lockheeed or the thousands of mercenary “contractor” companies.

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bill wolfe's avatar

I heard he worked at the Police firing range, improving accuracy and quicker trigger speeds of the police shooters, while critique the "woke" implicit bias" training. At night, he worked with prison guards to hone their "interrogation" techniques.

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Timmy Taes's avatar

bill wolf: Elliot would be perfect for that job, eh? Elliot Abrams is the Neocon's hatchet man. He goes around the world causing trouble.

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bill wolfe's avatar

oops, I forgot to label that as snark - you never knows these days how readers read!

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David Avenell's avatar

Pity he didn't work as a target.

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Jeano's avatar

😁

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TomLaney's avatar

The Biden Team should be tried at Nuremburg.

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Pete Schult's avatar

Or at least in the Hague.

Unfortunately, they've got The Hague Invasion Act to prevent that

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Letsrock's avatar

And abruptly executed.

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Les's avatar

Now you know you've had an impact, CJ.

They've taken notice.

An outcome from preparing accessible material.

I trust that they don't take you . . .

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Landru's avatar

Elliott Abrams the perfect choice for a War Criminal.

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Richard's avatar

He is the personification of War Criminal. Damn near every person serving in Congress is the same.

Thanks to the efforts of Francis Boyle and the Malaysian judges, Bush, Cheney, Rummy and the rest were convicted of war crimes in 2012, in absentia, of course.

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A Kissinger ejaculation in the night. A friend of mussad, a defender of Israel. One of thousands in our government.

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Letsrock's avatar

And Ilhan Omar is the other side of the same coin.

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Jeano's avatar

She does more in her sleep than you do all week. All year. Damn propagandized fool!

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No, YOU'RE THE PROPAGANDIZED FOOL. Go back to whatever shithole country you came here from and take that dirtbag w you. 👎👎👎

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Hahahahaha.

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When I finally got my body and mind steeled for the holiday morning news, the headline from your very welcome and terse essay was the first thing I saw. The first silent reaction in my head was something like denial- a split second hope that your report was going to be that the Empire is so evil that it might as well hire Elliot Abrams. But, I dashed that hope myself before you did. Of course Biden brought that ghoul on board. His evil spirit has been there from Day 1. Enjoy the fireworks, everyone!

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The only thing good about abrams is that everything he has been involved in have been spectacular failures— Exposing the US underbelly in a way that has contributed to the world and even our populous being able to see the cracks in our “exceptionalism”. It’s grotesque because of the misery, maimings and murder that he visits on the World but that’s what it takes to get the attention of ‘Murika The Imbecilic. We are a blood thirsty people and we have blood thirsty leaders in consequence.

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Michael Green's avatar

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air...

Happy 4th everyone

And just when you think things can’t get worse.

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There is nothing more useful to autocratic regimes than felons with "respectability". Abrams fit the bill. He was, after all, funding anti-Communists. Giving Abrams a sentence of "community work"

was essentially subversive: he was bound to pollute everything he touched. As Whitney Webb has documented, US history is replete with "respectables" who are led on a leash by state actors who have the goods on them. Such is the nature of our vaunted "democracy."

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You can bet Bidumb himself didn't elect Abrams, he was anointed and will most-likely be appointed to this warmonger role by the Nazi-Fascists Globalists. Watch for the real fireworks between America and Russia when he's in place.

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He's going to be a busy boy.

Russia, Iran,north Korea,China, Israel, Syria,France, Brazil, Mexico , probably the whole planet and most importantly the good ole USA. Everyone needs their fair share of cluster bombs. It's the best way to spread freedom and democracy in the world. We supply the bombs and then the humanitarian aid. I don't understand why people have issues with the US supporting the Nazis in Ukraine considering we're being led by Nazis. Birds of a feather flock together. Neo-Nazis is probably a better term. They've made astounding improvements over the last 50 years. Kudos to Henry K. The US does a wonderful job of convincing people they kill that they are better off and being protected. The Feds probably need some assistance with the economy, and another war will give it a shot in the arm. With a few booster shots following.

Lying to Congress gets you probation, community service and a pardon. Being homeless is a felony with 20 years time. God can't help you if you steal food from a dumpster.

Yes, we have a sick society.

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Hilary's male counterpart, they gleefully display their inhumanity. May they be cast into the pit.

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Did you hear one bit of dissent from any republican? No they love this piece of filth just as much as any blood thirsty democrat. The other bit that gets me every time is the out right admitted crime of their purpose for being there is to over throw the duly elected president! Who do these Mass Murdering Sociopaths think they are! The last bit is a real laugh to as to why anyone would think (when it is a well known fact they unconstitutionally don't!) that the CIA just stops at our border!

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Our government officials have been recycling the same evil idiots since Nixon. Transformation is required...

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Is it sheer arrogance on the part of the Biden administration to promote such an evil person to a position of authority, or is it just sheer stupidity on their part? A little of both? Either way, obviously the DNC feels Mr. Abrams will be of benefit to their cause and Biden's chances of winning the presidency again in 2024. (That is, if he's still among the living and hasn't gotten lost wandering off a stage somewhere and into the distance, shaking invisible hands and calling out, "God save the queen!")

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