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The American Dream
By: Surly1 Date: August 19, 2019, 8:47 am
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</p> <p><strong>“We're facing mass starvation in
the next 10 years, social collapse and the possible extinction
of the human race. It couldn't be worse. So that situation has
come about over 30 years of failure-- failure by the elites,
failure by the governments, and failure by campaigners....The
public Is now aware that the elites are taking them to their
death!” </strong></p> <p><strong>--Roger
Hallam</strong></p> <hr /> <p>Long before there was a
Doomstead Diner, long before 9-11, there was Milton William
Cooper. Cooper was the greatest conspiracist of this generation
and a man you may not have heard of. His book <a
data-event-action="title"
href="
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/>rel="" tabindex="1">Behold A Pale Horse </a> was an undergroun
d
sensation and the ur-source for many later conspiracy theorists.
Cooper's "Hour of the Time" radio program was also broadcast on
short wave, circulated and downloaded long before podcasts
existed. Cooper was right about many things, wrong about others,
Yet he predicted future events and trends accurately, and knew
that by telling the truth, TPTB would come for him. Which they
did.</p> <p>Behold A Pale Horse is what's called a "prison
book" because it's one of the most read books in prison, passed
from hand to hand until the spines break. This book is kept
behind shelves in bookstores because it is also one of the most
stolen books in history. More than any other single influence,
encountering this book led me to distrust the so-called
"official story," and which eventually put me on a path to the
Diner.</p> <p>I'm currently reading Cooper's biography, <a
href="
HTML https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwjb9OWMt43kAhWBJTQIHVEPALMQFjAAegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPale-Horse-Rider-William-Conspiracy-ebook%2Fdp%2FB00OQS4DYQ&usg=AOvVaw1kDYh3K4DUVHWAoD5W7sG1">Pale<br
/>Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the
Fall of Trust in America</a><strong>, </strong>by Mark
Jacobson. Cooper was a complicated man with a mercurial temper;
he was also a black-helicopter paranoid who provided some of the
ideology for the right-wing militia movement and mother's milk
for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and many others like
him. From thre flyleaf:</p> <blockquote> <p>"We are
living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America: Faith in
the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on
both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy
theories as gospel, without much opposition. "Fake news" is the
order of the day... A former U.S. naval intelligence worker,
Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale
Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of
thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the
American prison system.</p> </blockquote> <p>Decades
before QAnon, false flags, “crisis actors” and Alex
Jones, there was William Cooper. Some call Cooper the father of
the so-called Patriot movement and the spiritual godfather to
the Alex Joneses and QAnons of the world. My politics could not
be farther frm those people, but Cooper had some deep insight
into the sickness of our times. Every story we treat on this
week has running through it the pervasive and overwhelming lack
of trust that afflicts our times, which Cooper, however great
his flaws, pointed out early and repeatedly.</p> <p>An
unpleasant alcoholic and perhaps bi-polar to boot, Cooper died
in a shootout with Apache County, AZ police in 2001, one month
after September 11, the same year in which he had predicted the
coming catastrophe. He leaves a complicated legacy, but the
distrust of "official stories" he advanced permeates the
following stories. Here's this week in doom.</p> <hr
/> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$82215e66-eb3b-4fdb-a2c
c-7cec7fb8682f.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$82215e66-eb3b-4fdb-a2c
c-7cec7fb8682f.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/autopsy-finds-broken-bones-in-jeffrey-epsteins-neck-deepening-questions-around-his-death/2019/08/14/d09ac934-bdd9-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Autopsy fin
ds
broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening
questions around his death</a></h2> <p><img class="alignleft
size-full"
src="
HTML https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/c0b44e79e4c14f77950fca71de1ca809/800.jpeg"<br
/>style="width: 400px; height: 300px; float: left;" />On August
15, an autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein suffered
multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people
familiar with the findings. This raised questions regarding the
mystery about the circumstances around his death. Specifically,
his hyoid bone was broken,</p> <p>"...which in men is near
the Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang
themselves, particularly if they are older, according to
forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more
common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts
said.</p> <p data-elm-loc="5">The office of New York
City’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, completed
an autopsy of Epstein’s body Sunday... Asked about the
neck injuries, Sampson said in a statement that no single factor
in an autopsy can alone provide a conclusive answer about what
happened."</p> <p data-elm-loc="5">Nevertheless, the ME
presented findings that Epstein's death was a suicide. Fair
enough, except that according to some anecdotal sources, Epstein
couldn't empty a bag of garbage without staff help, so one can
consider how he was able to "hang himself" from the top bunk on
a room with seven foot ceilings, yet somehow sustain injuries
consistent with strangulation. His cellmate, a former state
trooper, was supposedly excused from his cell. Epstein's brother
has supposedly ID'd the body, an identification as relaibler as
the location of JFK's brain.</p> <p>And Jeffrey
Epstein’s autopsy concluded with there medical examiner
declaring his death was a suicide by hanging. So see, written
evidence. Conclusions. Case closed. No need for a messy and
troublesome murder investigation, the results of which might
outrage the proles before the entire matter disappears down the
memory hole.</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://apnews.com/a947e0d85d31496eb5bd9ff4994c9718?utm_medium=week.in.review.2.20190817.421.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling">Medical<br
/>examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by
hanging</a></h2> <blockquote> <p>Chief Medical Examiner
Dr. Barbara Sampson said in a statement that she made the
suicide determination “after careful review of all
investigative information, including complete autopsy
findings.”</p> <p>Sampson’s announcement came as
a Justice Department official told The Associated Press that
some prison staffers believed to have relevant information
aren’t cooperating with
investigators.</p> <p>Epstein’s lawyers said they were
“not satisfied” with Sampson’s conclusions and
that they would conduct their own investigation, including
seeking to obtain any video of the area around Epstein’s
cell from the time leading to his
death.</p> </blockquote> <p>Uh-huh. Nothing to see here
citizen: move along.</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-17/epstein-express-shipped-100k-cement-truck-pedo-island-weeks-miami-herald-expose"<br
/>rel="bookmark">Cover Up? Epstein Shipped $100K Cement Mixer To
'Pedo Island' Weeks Before Crushing
Exposé</a></h2> <p>Approximately three weeks before a
series of damning articles hit in the Miami Herald, Jeffrey
Epstein paid up front to have a <a
href="
HTML https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/construction-equipment/for-sale/22712993/2017-carmix-55xl">$100,000<br
/>cement mixe</a>r express-shipped to his infamous Little St.
James 'pedo island' at great expense, according to the <a
href="
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7361297/Jeffrey-Epstein-shipped-50K-cement-truck-****-Island-cover-evidence.html">Daily<br
/>Mail</a>. </p> <blockquote> <p>The ****, who was found
dead by apparent suicide on Saturday while awaiting trial for
sex trafficking, got the Carmix 5.5 XL self loading concrete
mixer delivered to Little St. James <strong>on November 7 last
year</strong>.</p> <p>Epstein was in such a hurry that he
paid for the machine up front so it would arrive sooner - even
though it meant being responsible if it got damaged in
transit.</p> <p>Three weeks later the Miami Herald published
a series of articles called 'Perversion of Justice' on November
28, which eventually led to Epstein being arrested in
July.</p> <p>Shipping experts told DailyMailTV that
<strong>the possibility that it was 'used to literally cover up
evidence cannot be discounted'.
</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Zero Hedge notes that
</p> <blockquote> <p>On Monday, the FBI and NYPD raided
Little St. James island last week, packing up evidence, although
videos reveal some of it had already been moved prior to the
raid. Perhaps they should have raided the island the same day he
was arrested?</p> </blockquote> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$6794b15f-4c7a-48ec-819
0-9be31fb0a0ca.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$6794b15f-4c7a-48ec-819
0-9be31fb0a0ca.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug19/Epstein-protected8-19.html"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Who Protect
ed
Epstein for Decades, and Why?</a></h2> <p>One might well ask
the above question, as did the redoubtable Charles Hugh Smith.
Smith notes, " 'Epstein was an intelligence asset' is just a
tissue-thin cover for a much more destructive reality: those at
the top of the American state have no moral compass at
all."</p> <p>The rot goes much deeper. As Smith poses the
question, he gestures at an
answer:</p> <blockquote> <p>There are several
explanations floating around for the why: those in power enjoyed
their diabolically exploitive visits to Lolita Island and wanted
to continue their criminal gratifications.</p> <p>The second
explanation is that Epstein was a spy for a "friendly" foreign
intelligence agency and therefore off-limits. ("Friendly" is in
quotes because when it comes to intelligence, one's "friends"
can do more damage than one's worst enemies.) </p> <p>Let's
say this turns out to be true. <b>Wouldn't the NSA, CIA and FBI
know of Epstein's activities and connections to a foreign
intelligence service? Of course they would.</b> So at a minimum,
we can infer the NSA, CIA and FBI enabled Epstein's operation to
continue for some benefit, perhaps relating to "honeypot"
blackmail and control of "assets," unwilling or
willing.</p> </blockquote> <p>Explaining the wrist-slap
sentence of a decade ago and the subsequent promotions, praise
and honors for the enablers. The entire Epstein affair, roping
in as it did royals, presidents and high rollers of every sort,
feeds the narrative that you can't believe anything the
government says.</p> <blockquote> <p>...corruption and
debauchery undermine the legitimacy of the state, and so doing
nothing while Epstein et al. gratified the desires of the rich
and powerful for degenerate debauchery was treasonous: the
American state will collapse not from military conflict but from
moral decay, and every individual who enabled (or made use of)
that moral decay is guilty of
treason.</p> </blockquote> <p>The Epstein affair and the
"official stories" that will emerge therefrom will arrive
pre-disbelieved. No one will trust the word of any official
source. We've already seen speculation that Epstein was switched
out in the wee small hours and a dead body was left behind. And
even if the cadaver is Epstein's, no part of the official story
accounts for the shrieking reportedly heard from his cell. Such
widespread cynicism fits like a hand in glove the agenda of
those with a 50-year plan to make people despise government so
that they will no longer see it as the guarantor of last resort
for their rights. It serves the agenda of those who wish to
shrink the size of government so that they can drown it in a
bathtub. And of Tangerine Twitler, who wants to blame Bill
Clinton or Obama for his own sins of commission..</p> <p>If
you want to be fully read in on all matters Epstein, I strongly
recommend following Mint Press' Whitney Webb. She connects the
dots. Which is difficult, because if you read this, the roots of
Epstein's touch a Mossad blackmail op reaching back
decades...</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad
:
The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein
Scandal</a></h2> <p>
The picture painted by the evidence is not that of a direct
Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency, but a of a web
linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and
officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime
network with deep business and intelligence ties in both
nations.</p> <hr /> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$d2152bbb-356b-4cb3-a66
6-af9cea9863f3.0.0.1">Cooking
the Arctic</h2> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full"
src="
HTML https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--E1wKVTSJ--/c_scale,dpr_2.0,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/t4scy1thbvasnzunwoce.jpg"<br
/>style="width: 600px; height: 337px; display: block; margin-lef
t:
auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <p>We know everything we
need to know about the climate crises and the causes, but, in
the face of all the warning signs, are pressing the accelerator
to the floor. It's almost as if the one percent who possess
bunkers, hired security and all the money siphoned from working
people over the last 40 years (ever since Dutch declared
"Morning in America") were intent on exterminating the proles
while waiting out the maelstrom in air conditioned bunkers. It
is abundantly self-evident that we we know what is happening and
know what needs to be done, but refuse to do it because to do
might cost some oil company profits. Here are some stories that
moved this week.</p> <h2><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$86dd069c-983b-4f14-8fa5-1
efbf26b2677.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/governments-are-failing-to-understand-global-catastrophic-risks-and-need-to-take-urgent-action-says"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Governments
are failing to understand global catastrophic risks and need to
take urgent action</a></h2> <p>A report published this week
by Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
(CSER) today release <a href="
HTML http://www.gcrpolicy.com/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">a new report</a> on what
governments can do to understand and inform policy around these
risks, which could threaten the global population. It is
straightforward and decidedly unpretty, unless your take is that
"threaten(ing) the global population" is the point of current
policy. Nothing else makes
sense.</p> <blockquote> <p>The likelihood that a global
catastrophe will occur in the next 20 years is uncertain, say
the researchers, but the potential severity means that national
governments have a responsibility to their citizens to manage
these types of risks.</p> <p>Des Browne, former UK Secretary
of State for Defence, said: “National governments struggle
with understanding and developing policy for the elimination or
mitigation of extreme risks, including global catastrophic
risks. Effective policies may compel fundamental structural
reform of political systems, but we do not need, nor do we have
the time, to wait for such change.</p> <p>Governments must
sufficiently understand the risks to design mitigation,
preparation and response measures. But political systems often
do not provide sufficient incentives for policy-makers to think
about emerging or long-term issues, especially where vested
interests and tough trade-offs are at
play.</p> </blockquote> <p>Hat tip to knarf for this
Letter to the Future:</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/18/health/glaciers-melting-climate-change-trnd"<br
/>rel="nofollow">Scientists bid farewell to the first Icelandic
glacier lost to climate change...</a></h2> <p><img
class="aligncenter size-full"
src="
HTML https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190722161738-iceland-glacier-climate-change-exlarge-169.jpg"<br
/>style="width: 600px; height: 337px; display: block; margin-lef
t:
auto; margin-right: auto;"
/></p> <blockquote> <p>Scientists say they are bidding
farewell to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to
climate change, in a funeral of sorts.
Researchers will gather Sunday in Borgarfjörður,
Iceland, to memorialize Okjökull, known as Ok for short,
after it lost its status as a glacier in 2014. The inscription,
titled "A letter to the future," on the monument paints a bleak
picture.
"Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a
glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to
follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we
know what is happening and know what needs to be done. Only you
know if we did it," the plaque reads in English and
Icelandic.</p> </blockquote> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$d2152bbb-356b-4cb3-a66
6-af9cea9863f3.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$d2152bbb-356b-4cb3-a66
6-af9cea9863f3.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/world/greenland-ice-sheet-11-billion-intl/index.html"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Greenland's
ice sheet just lost 11 billion tons of ice -- in one
day</a></h2> <p><img class="aligncenter size-full"
src="
HTML https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/c_fill,g_auto,w_1200,h_675,ar_16:9/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F190802104443-greenland-warm-weather.jpg"<br
/>style="width: 600px; height: 281px; display: block; margin-lef
t:
auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <blockquote> <p>After
months of record temperatures, scientists say Greenland's ice
sheet experienced its biggest melt of the summer on Thursday,
losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean -- equivalent
to 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools. </p> <p>Greenland's
ice sheet usually melts during the summer, but the melt season
typically begins around the end of May; this year it began at
the start. It has been melting "persistently" over the past four
months, which have recorded all time temperature
highs...</p> <p>Greenland's ice sheet is the second biggest
in the world and this season's ice melt has already contributed
around half a millimeter to global sea levels. It comes in a
summer where the Arctic has experienced "unprecedented"
wildfires, which scientists say have been facilitated by high
temperatures.</p> </blockquote> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$c8cdaf31-3c10-4421-a2af-2
d2c95e23777.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$c8cdaf31-3c10-4421-a2af-2
d2c95e23777.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-weather-station-above-the-arctic-circle-hit-94-6-degr-1837274379"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Weather
Station Above the Arctic Circle Hit 94.6 Degrees
Fahrenheit</a></h2> <blockquote> <p> <em>Amid the <a
href="
HTML https://earther.gizmodo.com/july-equalled-if-not-surpassed-record-for-worlds-hotte-1836909643"<br
/>rel="nofollow">hottest month in recorded history</a>, some
records still stand out as absolutely jaw dropping. That’s
definitely true of a measurement made in the Arctic this
July.</em></p> <p><em>According to data released in the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
monthly climate analysis, a weather station in Sweden north of
the Arctic Circle hit a stunning 94.6 Fahrenheit (34.8 degrees
Celsius) last month. As an isolated data point, it would be
shocking. But coupled with a host of other maladies, from no sea
ice within 125 miles of Alaska to the <a
href="
HTML https://earther.gizmodo.com/satellite-images-show-vast-swaths-of-the-arctic-on-fire-1836500468"<br
/>rel="nofollow">unruly fires ravaging Siberia</a>, it’s a
n
exclamation point on the climate
crisis.</em></p> </blockquote> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$cfbbce4e-0f0f-4a36-b659-1
15612ede38e.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$cfbbce4e-0f0f-4a36-b659-1
15612ede38e.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/08/video-the-north-atlantic-ocean-current-may-be-slowing/"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The North
Atlantic ocean current, which warms northern Europe, may be
slowing</a></h2> <blockquote> <p><img class="alignright
size-full"
src="
HTML https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/pics/0819_Atlantic_spot.jpg"<br
/>style="width: 300px; height: 141px;" /></p> <p>A stubborn
blue spot of cool ocean temperatures stands out like the
proverbial sore thumb in a recent NASA image of the warming
world – a circle of cool blue on a planet increasingly
shaded in hot red.</p> <p>A region of the North Atlantic
south of Greenland has experienced some of its coldest
temperatures on record in recent years, a cooling unprecedented
in the past thousand years. What explains that
anomaly?</p> <p>Climatologist Michael Mann of Penn State
University, in this month’s “This is Not Cool”
video, explains that this phenomenon may be an indication that
the North Atlantic current, part of a larger global ocean
circulation, is slowing down.</p> </blockquote> <hr
/> <p>After reading the above cluster of related climate
change articles, a reasonable person has little option. other
than to conclude what one of the founders of Extinction
Rebellion ,Roger Hallam, has concluded:</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://youtu.be/NItiaVobDPA">"The
Public Is Now Aware
That the Elites Are Taking Them To Their Death!" </a>
Roger Hallam's BBC interview</h2> <p>This interview would
have never seen the light of day in the US. They'd have <a
href="
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE">Tucker<br
/>Carlsoned this segment</a> quicker than you could say Rutger
Bregman, and would have had Hallam's children murdered before
letting this see the light of day. The interviewer for BBC
HardTalk is Stephen Sackur, a choice Asshat Elite prostitute who
does his Ken Dilanian best to discredit his guest and
marginalize his POV. His guest Roger Hallam, one of the
co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, is simply not having any of
Sackur's marginalizations, and insists on telling the truth as
it is, rather than the way the elites want it
massaged.</p> <p>Excerpt:</p> <p>Stephen Sackur: So on
the science there's no disagreement but are you saying that
groups like Greenpeace and many many others have fundamentally
failed in their mission to convince the world that things need
to change?</p> <p>Roger Hallam: Yes. We fundamentally
failed. I mean I failed, other activists have failed,
campaigners have failed, we've all failed. The fact of
the matter is were facing mass starvation in the next 10 years,
social collapse and the possible extinction of the human race.
It couldn't be worse. So that situation has come about over 30
years of failure failure by the elites, failure by the
governments, and failure by
campaigners. </p> <p>Stephen Sackur: Your message is
entirely about failure, it's about negativity. It is in a way I
suppose a howl of rage and despair.</p> <p>Roger Hallam:
That's right it is and you think that is a message that the
people of the world and the political leaders of the world are
going to respond to ,yes and the reason why is because when
people go through depression and rage they come out and decide
to do things- Extinction Rebellion is the most successful
climate change movement in the UK...</p> <p
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frameborder="0" id="
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/>style="text-align:
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/>/> <h2><img class="aligncenter size-full" height="330"
src="
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/>width="620" style="display: block; margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;" /></h2> <h2><a
href="
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/>questions about Donald Trump's interest in buying Greenland,
answered</a></h2> <p>Amid the speculation and disbelief
about Trump's trial balloon about buying Greenland, one might
wonder why a US President would want to purchase an island that
is 80% covered by an ice sheet, and where fewer than 60,000
people live?</p> <blockquote> <p>The first is because <a
href="
HTML https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-greenland-gold-rush-promise-and-pitfalls-of-greenlands-energy-and-mineral-resources/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greenland is widely believed to
be hugely rich in natural resources</a> -- including iron ore,
lead, zinc, diamonds, gold, rare earth elements, uranium and
oil. And much of it is currently untapped, due to the fact that,
well, 80% of the country is covered by an ice sheet. But due to
global warming, that ice sheet is melting rapidly -- this summer
<a
href="
HTML https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/15/nasa-scientists-photograph-climate-change-greenland-ice-melts/2017712001/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA scientists observed two of
the largest melts in the history of Greenland </a>-- and that
erosion of the ice sheet is expected to make the mining of
Greenland's natural resources more doable.</p> <p>The second
is for geopolitical reasons. The United States already has a
foothold in the country -- Thule Air Base- and, as The Wall
Street Journal, which <a
href="
HTML https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the Greenland purchase
story</a>, notes:</p> <p><em>"Located 750 miles north of the
Arctic Circle, it includes a radar station that is part of a
U.S. ballistic missile early-warning system. The base is also
used by the U.S. Air Force Space Command and the North American
Aerospace Defense Command."</em></p> </blockquote> <p>In
actuality the idea is not as insane as the ravings of an
unhinged lunatic might make it seem. In 1946, Truman's Secretary
of State broached the idea with the Danish foreign minister at a
United Nations meeting in New York to no avail. And almost 100
years before that, Secretary of State William Seward -- he of
the "Seward's Folly" purchase of Alaska -- <a
href="
HTML https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/05/1868-US-Considers-Buying-Iceland-and-Greenland/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">apparently looked into buying
Greenland from the Danes</a>. Likewise, no sale.</p> <hr
/> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-17/china-readies-giant-forks-subdue-hong-kong-protesters"<br
/>rel="bookmark">China Readies 'Giant Forks' To Subdue Hong Kong
Protesters</a></h2> <p><img class="alignleft size-full"
src="
HTML https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/elec%20fork%203.jpg?itok=o1J_S6Tj"<br
/>style="width: 300px; height: 201px; float: left;" />Hong Kong
protesters may be in for an electrifying experience after
Chinese riot police were pictured training with 'terrifying
giant fork devices' designed to subdue humans and pin them to
the ground, according to the <a
href="
HTML https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrifying-giant-fork-chinese-forces-18947059?bustcache=1565964839768">Mirror</a>.<br
/></p> <p>While unconfirmed, the 8-foot poles with U-shaped
prongs are believed to be able to deliver an electric
shock.</p> <p>The protests, now in their 11th week, have
been alternating between the streets, subways, and airports of
Hong Kong. While largely peaceful, <strong>there is a growing
contingent of activists using violence and property destruction
to protest the government</strong>, resulting in police tear
gassings and beatings. </p> <p><img class="alignnone
size-full"
src="
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/>style="width: 300px; height: 191px; float: right;"
/></p> <p>On Thursday, AFP published photos showing more
military buildup unfolding in Shenzen. The photos revealed what
<a
href="
HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/chinese-forces-exercise-across-border-as-hong-kong-braces-for-protests-idUSKCN1V5001">Reuters</a><br
/>reports are <strong>hundreds of members of the People's Armed
Police</strong>, a pro-regime paramilitary organization,
carrying out military exercises in a stadium in Shenzen. They
could be preparing to carry out demonstrations of its own in
Hong Kong.</p> <p>On Saturday, businesses shuttered their
doors and windows in anticipation of more mayhem, however cloudy
skies put an early damper on the demonstrations. </p> <p>
</p> <hr /> <h2> Short Takes</h2> <p>Since we're
already over 3000 words, I'll just leave you with the assorted
stories and links I collected over the week for you to follow
for your amusement.</p> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$c38bfa6f-2e6f-4d7a-ba6f-8
1064cb0aced.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$c38bfa6f-2e6f-4d7a-ba6f-8
1064cb0aced.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060749607"
rel="nofollow
noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump officials worry
warming could hurt the grid</a></h2> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-16/power-grid-chaos-jolts-texas-friday-energy-costs-triple-amid-heat-wave"<br
/>rel="bookmark">Power Grid Chaos Jolts Texas On Friday, Energy
Costs Triple Amid Heat Wave</a></h2> <p>What could possibly
go wrong?</p> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$bb8a23a2-cd8e-4a79-9f9
9-96cc80b7342b.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$bb8a23a2-cd8e-4a79-9f9
9-96cc80b7342b.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://splinternews.com/trump-to-endangered-species-drop-dead-1837175302"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump to
Endangered Species: Drop
Dead</a></h2> <blockquote> <p>Every now and then in the
hellacious 24-hour news cycle that is the Trump presidency,
there comes a story that is so absurd and yet utterly
predictable it stops me in my tracks. This is one of those
stories.</p> </blockquote> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-08-16-lake-erie-algal-bloom-space"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dangerous Lake Erie Algal Bloom
Is Now Eight Times the Size of Cleveland</a></h2> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://phys.org/news/2019-08-arctic-sea-ice-microplastics.html"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arctic sea ice loaded with
microplastics</a></h2> <blockquote> <p>At first glance,
it looks like hard candy laced with flecks of fake fruit, or a
third grader's art project confected from recycled debris. In
reality, it's a sliver of Arctic Ocean sea ice riddled with
microplastics, extracted by scientists from deep inside an ice
block that likely drifted southward past Greenland into Canada's
increasingly navigable Northwest Passage between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans...</p> </blockquote> <h2
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$2248cc3b-6337-49ba-b7ec-f
bc2ffe9d4ed.0.0.1"><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.1.$=1$2248cc3b-6337-49ba-b7ec-f
bc2ffe9d4ed.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://www.sciencealert.com/us-town-rejects-solar-farm-amid-worries-it-would-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NC Town
Rejects Solar Farm Amid Worries It Would "Suck Up All The Energy
From The Sun"</a></h2> <p>You can't make this stuff
up.</p> <h2
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c0f97f18f74.0.0.1"><a
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c0f97f18f74.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://unicornriot.nin
ja/2019/exposed-state-department-official-posted-in-nazi-charlot
teville-chats/"
rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Exposed:
State Department Official Posted in Nazi Charlottesville
Chats</a></h2> <h2 itemprop="headline"><a
href="
HTML https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/fattest-president-since-taft-anthony-scaramuccis-twitter-account-suspended-after-he-calls-out-trump/">‘Fattest<br
/>president since Taft’: Anthony Scaramucci’s Twitte
r
account suspended after he calls out Trump</a></h2> <h2
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a-6ad96834dc49.0.0.1"><a
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a-6ad96834dc49.0.0.1.1"
href="
HTML https://washingtonpress.com/2019/08/12/a-newsweek-journalist-discovered-that-maga-means-sucker-in-nigerian/"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Newsweek
journalist discovered that "MAGA" means "sucker" in
Nigerian</a></h2> <h2
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9785c7f316e.0.0.1"><a
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9785c7f316e.0.0.1.1"
href="
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/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Study Finds
Rise In 'Doomsday Prepping' Due To Mainstream American 'Culture
Of Fear'</a></h2> <h2><a
data-reactid=".0.2.5.3.2.1.0.1.1.0.$=10=2$97264601-cec2-4380-a18
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crisis reducing land’s ability to sustain humanity, says
IPCC</a></h2> <hr /> <p><a
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contributing author to Doomstead Diner. He is the author of
numerous rants, screeds and spittle-flecked invective here and
elsewhere. </em><em>He lives a quiet domestic existence in
Southeastern Virginia with his wife Contrary.</em> <em>Descended
from a long line of people to whom one could never tell
anything, </em>a<em>ll opinions are his and his
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After reading (Catastrophic) climate change articles, a reasonab
le person has little option.
By: AGelbert Date: August 19, 2019, 1:41 pm
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[center]This Week In Doom 8/18/19
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👍 EXCELLENT summary of the dismal situation we find
ourselves saddled with. Although you covered that quite well in
discussing the reality of how untrustworthy our government
crooks and liars, and the news media lackeys that carry BULLSHIT
water for them, are, the article on the questions about
Greenland and Trump's 🦀 interest displays this
disingenuous BULLSHIT media technique.
Among those five questions about Trump's 🦀 interest in
Greenland, the glaringly obvious GIGANTIC ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
(NOT INCLUDED) QUESTION IS: If Global Warming, AS TRUMP HAS
CLAIMED, is a "hoax cooked up by the Chinese or Climate
Scientists looking for funding", WhyTF is Trump 🦀
interested in CASHING IN ON THE MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE
SHEET FROM 🦕🦖 HYDROCARBON BURNING CAUSED CLIMATE
CHANGE❓❓ ⁉️[img
width=60]
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ANSWER: Because 😈 Trump KNOWS that BURNING HYDROCARBONS
IS CAUSING THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET TO MELT.
[center][img
width=640]
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/>[/center]
And furthermore, the news media DOES NOT want we-the-people to
CALL TRUMP ON HIS BULLSHIT, so they cook up a clever five
question DISTRACTION from the FACT that Trump and his
🦕🦖 HYDROCARBON HELLSPAWN OWNERS are doing
EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to accelerate Catastrophic Climate
Change through global warming, PERIOD.
[center]Precedent for Impeachment – Burying the True Crime:
Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #8
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[center][img
width=640]
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[center][img
width=640]
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[center] [img
width=640]
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A world of trouble is no longer at our doorstep; it's in what
has been transformed from the living room to the dying room.
[img
width=160]
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[move][I][font=impact]The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon
👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy
Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting
CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and
conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID
[/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them
get away with it! Pass it on! [/font][/I][/move]
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Re: This Week In Doom 8/18/19
By: Surly1 Date: August 20, 2019, 8:03 am
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For AG:
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#Post#: 13304--------------------------------------------------
Trump's 🦀 Greenland 🐉🦕🦖 PLAN
By: AGelbert Date: August 20, 2019, 2:32 pm
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=302.msg13299#msg13299
date=1566306186]
For AG:
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width=400]
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;D
I read in the Palmer Report that Trumplethinskin tried to make a
joke about his interest in Greenland by claiming he was not
planning on building a Trump Tower there. Well, for one of those
few times in Mr. Trump's life, he was actually telling the
truth. He 🦀 and his 🦕🦖 hydrocarbon
industry & 🐉 minerals mining polluters 'R' US OWNERS
were never planning to build a Trump tower there. Below, please
find, what his plans, which have not changed, regardless of his
baloney rhetoric about "no longer being interested in
Greenland", ARE:
[center][img
width=400]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/styles/renewablerevolution/files/5519_Greenland%20RUIN%20Trump%20Plan.png[/img][/center]
Denmark may have a plan to deal with [b]Trump's
🐉🦕🦖 plan (see below).[/b]
Tue, 08/20/2019 - 15:20
Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank
SNIPPET:
If you already saw that one coming too then kick back and relax
with this short article suggesting that Denmark buy the US: ‘If
Denmark’s bid for the United States is accepted, the
Scandinavian nation has ambitious plans for its new acquisition.
“We believe that, by giving the U.S. an educational system and
national health care, it could be transformed from a vast land
mass into a great nation,” the spokesperson said.’ [img
width=60]
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/>width=40]
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read more:
[center]This Is Neither The Empire Strikes Back, Nor The Crying
Game, Or The Red Wedding
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-20/neither-empire-strikes-back-nor-crying-game-or-red-wedding[/center]
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The Lyin' King
By: Surly1 Date: August 28, 2019, 8:10 am
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center;">Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August
26, 2019</p> <p style="text-align:
justify;"><strong>“The man who lies to himself and listens
to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish
the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect
for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to
love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love
he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to
bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men
and to himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, <a
href="
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3393910">The<br
/>Brothers Karamazov</a></strong></p> <hr /> <p>Madness
occasionally asserts itself on the world stage.</p> <p>"The
Madness of King George" is a stage and film production about
Britain's George III, known through history as "the mad king who
lost America." George III was king of Great Britain during some
of the nation’s most challenging and tumultuous years,
including those of the American Revolution. By accounts he was a
dutiful, steady monarch who guided Britain through the French
revolution and later Napoleon's rise and fall. In 1788, illness
brought on his mental breakdown, but he briefly recovered for a
time. His later escalating bouts of insanity led Parliament to
pass a Regency Act, by which the fate of the empire devolved to
his oldest son, Prince George. This young man was faced with the
unenviable position of having to govern according to the
increasingly erratic whims of his batty father. It is thought by
some that George's erraric behavior had its roots in disease,
but this assessment is by no means unanimous.</p> <p>Do a
search for, "the Madness of King Donald" and you'll find a
number of articles speculating that the so-called Leader of the
Free World appears to be batshit crazy, a speculation not
necessarily recent, but brought into sharp relief by statements
that the Burnt-umber Buffoon made this week. The record is
filled with what appears to be Trumpian signs of cognitive
disorder, pre-dementia or even sheer delirium, whether it is the
series of incoherent tweets, the ranting and unhinged raving at
media briefings, or taking off on rabbit-hole tangents at public
rallies to the applause and adoration of his bobblehead
followers.</p> <p>Some might think that such speculation is
baldly partisan, and as a nearly-bald partisan I might agree.
But the level of barking-mad, batshit-crazy reached a fever
pitch this week...</p> <p>King Lear is one of our most
popular exemplars of power and madness. Like Trump, Lear is
susceptible to the flattery of daughters, who fawningly profess
their love, and Lear rewards them in kind. His youngest
daughter, Cordelia, does not play that game, and is disinherited
by her erratic and petulant father. They are eventually
reconciled, but the peace comes too late in the arc of the story
for it to end in anything but tragedy. It is too soon to know
whether Lear and Trump equate, but the tragedy that unfolds is
more for the American people than a mad king.</p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3004964/madness-king-donald-trump-really-losing-his-mind">The<br
/>madness of King Donald: is Trump really losing his
mind?</a></h2> <p>So people are actively asking this
question. The problem is that those people are not among his
ironclad supporters, who still believe every word he says. The
fact that Trump's penchant for pathological lying is now under
being examined in the context of his sanity is explained away
as, "fake news." </p> <p>If Rick Reilly’s new book <a
href="
HTML https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Cheat-Golf-Explains-Trump-ebook/dp/B07H4Z26T7"><em>Commander<br
/>in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump </em></a>is anything to go b
y,
Trump “cheats like a mafia
accountant”.</p> <blockquote> <p>Among many
eye-catching anecdotes, he cites caddies at a New York golf club
nicknaming Trump “Pelé”, after the Brazilian
soccer legend, because of the president’s habit of kicking
his ball out of the rough and up the fairway to win at all
costs.</p> </blockquote> <p>Increasingly, mental health
experts have been getting increasingly vocal in crossing that
Rubicon known as <a
href="
HTML https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/goldwater-rule">the<br
/>"Goldwater Rule,"</a> enacted by the American Psychiatric
Association in 1973 to avoid armchair diagnoses by mental health
pros expressing their own political biases in psychiatric terms.
This was enacted in the wake of the 1964 presidential campaign
between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, in reaction to a
magazine survey of psychiatrists which attempted to question
Barry Goldwater’s mental
fitness.</p> <blockquote> <p>[I]t is unethical
for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or
she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper
authorization for such a
statement”</p> </blockquote> <p>Yet for all that,
s<a
href="
HTML https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists%2Fdp%2F1250179459">ome<br
/>are calling for an examination</a> to assess whether Trump is
actually losing his mind.</p> <hr /> <h2><img
src="
HTML https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5cefe548ce114352ea70d434/16:9/w_1280%2Cc_limit/Trump14.jpg"<br
/>width="528" height="297" style="display: block; margin-left:
auto; margin-right: auto;" /></h2> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-king-of-israel?utm_medium=social&utm_brand=vf&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR21t5EBn96u3Grp-KW-hnVJdl7f4iR3C04MvREW_NJoDyhcoJa_LytvDns">TRUMP<br
/>DECLARES HIMSELF “KING OF ISRAEL,” THE “SECO
ND
COMING OF GOD</a>”</h2> <p>The president is sick of
“disloyal” American Jews, who apparently don’t
know what’s good for them or how to properly vote. But
“Jewish people in Israel love him,” according to the
crazed conspiracy theorist Trump quoted on
Twitter.</p> <p>It all started with a classic Trump
humblebrag. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very
nice words,” Trump said before quoting something the
evangelical Christian Root had
said.</p> <blockquote> <p>“President Trump is the
greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the
world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in
the history of the world … and the Jewish people in
Israel love him … like he’s the King of Israel.
They love him like he is the second coming of God,” the
quote said.</p> </blockquote> <p>Root, who lives in Las
Vegas, says he founded the Republican Jewish Coalition chapter
in Nevada. He had also previously been hired by Sheldon Adelson
(the casino magnate and a major funder of the RJC and Republican
candidates along with Jewish causes,)to write a column for the
Las Vegas Review-Journal after buying the newspaper in 2015.
Root is also the author of the book “Angry White Male: How
the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America,” also
published in that year.</p> <blockquote> <p>Wayne Allyn
Root—a <a
data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"
HTML http://thespiritnewspaper.com/a-message-for-christians-about-donald-trump-by-wayne-allyn-root-p9573-94.htm"}"<br
/>href="
HTML http://thespiritnewspaper.com/a-message-for-christians-about-donald-trump-by-wayne-allyn-root-p9573-94.htm"<br
/>rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank">self-described</a> “Jew turned evangelical
Christian”—is an unhinged conspiracy theorist who
believes the 2017 Las Vegas shooting was a “coordinated
Muslim terror attack” by ISIS and that George Soros paid
actors to stage the “Unite the Right” rally in
Charlottesville that included Nazi chants like “Jews will
not replace us.”</p> </blockquote> <p><a
href="
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-chosen-one-e1566814825930.jpg"><img<br
/>alt="" height="300"
src="
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-chosen-one-e1566814825930.jpg"<br
/>width="232" style="float: left;" /></a>Quoting Wayne Allyn Roo
t
is quite a feat. For the non-initiate, Root has been
snout-to-rear end with trump for years. Root, the Libertarian
Party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, announced a
devoted (and some moight say slavish) support for the failed
businessman nearly as soon as Trump announced he was running in
June 2015.</p> <p>As <a
href="
HTML https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28772482/donald-trump-twitter-king-of-israel-wayne-allyn-root/">Charlie<br
/>Pierce observed,</a></p> <p><em>(The last time "King of th
e
Jews" trended, things did not end well.) </em></p> <p>Trump,
incredibly, seems to believe that he’s going to win over
Jewish voters by telling them they don’t know what’s
good for them. Perhaps he's been influenced by the fact that
Jews went for Hillary Clinton. in 2016. </p> <p>Biographer
Tony Schwartz, who ghost-wrote Trump’s <em>The Art of the
Deal</em> puts it, the fact that most of us are
“constrained by the truth” gives Trump a
“strange advantage” through his complete disregard
for it. It certainly works with his supporters, as he polls at a
consistent 90 per cent approval among
republicans...</p> <p>Many news organizations have attempted
to document the number of trump lies, which by now number over
1<a
href="
HTML https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/donald-trump-has-lied-an-average-of-13-times-a-day-since-becoming-president-analysis-finds/">2,000<br
/>such misstatements</a>. <a
href="
HTML https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/donald-trump-has-lied-an-average-of-13-times-a-day-since-becoming-president-analysis-finds/">Donald<br
/>Trump has lied an average of 13 times a day since becoming
president, one analysis finds.</a> This body of vile work has
become a fact-checking chore for journalists and an alternative
reality for his supporters. According to <a
href="
HTML https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/donald-trump-has-lied-an-average-of-13-times-a-day-since-becoming-president-analysis-finds/">a<br
/>Slate article</a>, one in six Americans believe what he says n
o
matter what he says.</p> <blockquote> <p><a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/">Between<br
/>the day of his inauguration (Jan. 20, 2017) and Aug. 5,
2019</a>, Trump has made 12,019 statements that were either
false or misleading, according to the Washington Post. While
that averages out to 13 such statements a day since Trump
assumed office, the number has increased recently. Since April
26, when Trump made his 10,000th false or misleading statement,
he has averaged 20 such statements every day, or one every 72
minutes.</p> </blockquote> <p><a
href="
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-last-whopper-e1566776793882.jpg"><img<br
/>alt="" height="500"
src="
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-last-whopper-e1566776793882.jpg"<br
/>width="444" style="display: block; margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;" /></a></p> <p>One example breaking this
week was this Pied Piper fantasy: </p> <h2><a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/23/trump-el-paso-hospital-doctors-operating-rooms/?fbclid=IwAR3nlHho8JYKdWx_TIDdOcjOA3Ewb07b6zbNFFx_S6XFkYUpOBvAOJ4fym4">Trump<br
/>said doctors left operating rooms to greet him after mass
shootings. Hospitals in Dayton and El Paso say that’s not
true.</a></h2> <blockquote> <p data-elm-loc="1">Speaking
to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn on Wednesday,
President Trump <a
href="
HTML https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-60/"<br
/>target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed </a>he was warmly
welcomed at hospitals in the wake of recent mass shootings in El
Paso and Dayton, Ohio, and intimated that surgeons had even
deserted their patients to meet him.</p> <p
data-elm-loc="2">“The doctors were coming out of the
operating rooms,” Trump said. “There were hundreds
and hundreds of people all over the floor. You couldn’t
even walk on it.”</p> <p data-elm-loc="3">But the
hospitals he visited say that isn’t what happened —
and that doctors would never pause surgery to greet the
president.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p>The "Chosen
One" says he <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/21/donald-trump-give-himself-medal-of-honor-1470950">wanted<br
/>to give himself the medal of honor </a>but his staff talked hi
m
out of it.</p> <blockquote> <p>“That was a big
day, Medal of Honor. Nothing like the Medal of Honor,” he
continued. “I wanted one, but they told me I don't
qualify, Woody. I said, 'Can I give it to myself anyway?' They
said, 'I don't think that's a good idea.'” 💡
</p> <p>Amid scattered chuckles, Trump concluded:
“Great, great people. These are great, great men and women
that get congressional Medal of Honor. Thank you,
Woody.”</p> <p>The president’s assessment that
he should receive the nation’s highest award for acts of
military valor followed his statement earlier Wednesday
afternoon that he is “the chosen one” in relation to
his administration’s trade conflict with China — a
proclamation he turned to the sky to deliver. </p> <p>Trump
never served in the military and was granted five draft
deferments — four for college and one for bone spurs in
his heel.</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p>Why does Trump
continue to lie, with the lies becoming more baroque and more
frequent? <a
href="
HTML https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/donald-trump-has-lied-an-average-of-13-times-a-day-since-becoming-president-analysis-finds/">Salon<br
/>offers one theory:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>One possibl
e
explanation for the increase in the number of Trump's lies is
that as the president has continued to lie with relative
political impunity, he has grown desensitized to the instinctive
reluctance most people feel about saying that which they know to
be severely exaggerated or flat-out
untrue.</p> </blockquote> <p>People become inured to
lies in the same way they do to perfume or medications. Whatever
you may think of him, Trump has been a shatterer of norms, an
upender of precedent, a flouter of both law and established
procedure. Our collective purchase on reality may just be
another norm shattered, There are true believers, those who
think his continual gaffes, lies and blunders are part of a
grand plan, like the Q-Anon people who believe that Trump and
Robert Mueller are collaborating on a plan to take down the
"deep state" and the pedo ring being run out of the non-existent
basement of Comet Pizza by Hillary Clinton.</p> <p>Trump's
real effect is to exact a massive toll on us all, in terms of
time, attention and energy stolen from decent souls obliged to
pay attention to rage tweets, helicopter-wash press gaggles, and
on-again, off-again policy pronouncements. "Trump fatigue
syndrome" is a real thing, and perhaps the point; while most of
us find ourselves mentally and spiritually exhausted by the
serial idiocy of the Tweeter-in-Chief, and turn away from the
news in disgust, the better for his appointed foxes to loot
every henhouse.</p> <hr /> <p><a
href="
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/banksy-07-flower-thrower-wallpaper-e1423051661990.jpg"><img<br
/>alt="banksy 07-flower-thrower-wallpaper" height="60"
src="
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/>width="80" style="float: left;"
/></a><em><strong>Surly1</strong> is an administrator and
contributing author to Doomstead Diner. He is the author of
numerous rants, screeds and spittle-flecked invective here and
elsewhere. </em><em>He lives a quiet domestic existence in
Southeastern Virginia with his wife Contrary.</em> <em>Descended
from a long line of people to whom one could never tell
anything, </em>a<em>ll opinions are his and his alone, because
he paid full retail for everything he has managed to
learn.</em></p>[/html]
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Re: The Lyin' (mostly for Big 🦖 Oil and 🦕 Gas) K
ing
By: AGelbert Date: August 28, 2019, 6:52 pm
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=304.msg13423#msg13423
date=1566997822]
"Trump's real effect is to exact a massive toll on us all, in
terms of time, attention and energy stolen from decent souls
..."
[center][url=
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/>Lyin' King[/center]
[/quote]
True, that. :(
Considering the nature of his mission on behalf of the
Hydrocarbon Hellspawn that OWN him, it is a wonder he hasn't
gone totally bonkers already. Remember that Trump's main task is
to front for the polluters in the USA, particularly those Big
oil and gas BASTARDS in Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and
Oklahoma that are doing their damnest to melt all that ice in
the Arctic and Greenland because it is in the way of gettin'
MORE oil and gas.
His handlers know that Catastrophic Climate Change is now in our
faces almost daily, so their bought and paid for POTUS has to
engage in daily pretzel logic to "justify" the incredibly stupid
and obviously destructive nature of his mission.
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Yeah, he is the epitome of Ugly Americanism. However, that,
unfortunately, is not really that uncommon in this country.
Anyone that reads Zero Hedge, a web site supposedly about
financial matters, not NAZI racist crap, learns quickly how
completely divorced from any sense of moral responsibility to
fellow humans, and the other life forms in our biosphere, MOST
of the posters there are. Instead of showing concern for the
CLIMATE 💣 ShitSTORM 💥 that burning
🔥hydrocarbons is causing, too many Americans CELEBRATE
this EMPATHY DEFICIT DISORDERED BEHAVIOR as "individualism" and
"freedom". Trump is part of that group of unethical arrogant
pissants who do not care who they hurt or what they trash as
long as they can grab some money along the way. They really ARE
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Trump's racism and serial mendacity are abhorrent and dangerous,
but that isn't the worst of it.
The most destructive aspect of Trump's Planetary Predation
Policy is his goosing of the giveaways to oil and gas
corporations. The 🦕🦖 Oil and Gas Corporations in
those four states I mentioned above are quite literally KILLING
us. [img
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/>Trump has to go and all this Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Welfare
Queenery flipped to strong punitve action or we are
☠️ TOAST.
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Re: The Lyin' King
By: AGelbert Date: August 29, 2019, 7:33 pm
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[quote]
Isaac Peres 👍
One of the most despicable and insensitive things I have
witnessed in 60 years of watching the American political scene
was when that colossal orange POS was throwing rolls of
glorified napkins at Puerto Rican citizens fighting biblical
level floods from Hurricane Maria. It was Trumpo's "let them eat
cake" moment.
It would ironic indeed if this weekend's hurricane mowed down
that gaudy, overpriced, golden toilet in Palm Beach that he
calls "Mar-a-Lago".[/quote]
James Sullivan | 12:01 pm EDT August 29, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
[center]Donald [img
width=40]
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/>Trump just made an even bigger mess
HTML https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/even-bigger-mess-made-just-donal/20442/[/center]
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Re: The Lyin' King
By: AGelbert Date: August 29, 2019, 7:56 pm
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[center]The long [s]awaited[/s] DESPERATELY NEEDED sigh of
relief[/center]
Ron Leshnower | 4:30 pm EDT August 29, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
You don’t need to be an expert on Donald Trump’s speech patterns
to know that when this raving egotist claims superiority in a
subject, it almost certainly means the opposite—that he’s at the
other extreme of whatever it is he is claiming to be. Trump
sometimes follows up such ludicrous assertions with an offer of
“proof” that is laughably inapplicable and only helps further
expose Trump’s fraud.
This tired linguistic exercise happened Monday on the world
stage concerning a topic of no less importance than the
wellbeing of our physical world.
In a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel
Macron after the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, Trump declared
his alleged commitment to our planet, boasting, “I’m an
environmentalist [img
width=40]
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/>I lot of people don’t understand that.”
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Next, Trump offered the basis for his claim: “I have done more
environmental impact statements probably than anybody, that’s, I
guess—I can say, definitely—because I’ve done many, many, many
of them—more than anybody that’s ever been President, or Vice
President, or anything even close to President.” [img
width=120]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-250817121829.png[/img]<br
/>Although that sentence was garbled, even for Trump, he was no
doubt referring to the environmental impact statements that are
required by law to show a real estate project’s potential
effects on the environment. The thing is, Trump would not have
been personally involved in crafting any environmental impact
statement in connection with any of his deals. More importantly,
the presence of environmental impact statements in Trump’s deals
is merely a sign of legal compliance, not some act of love for
our planet.
Before ending the press conference with Macron, Trump added, “I
think I know more about the environment than most people.”
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-030815183114.gif<br
/>If Trump really knows and cares so much, then why did he skip
the G7 working session on climate, oceans, and biodiversity on
Monday, lie about it, then dismiss the whole topic as a “niche
issue”? Of course, it’s for the same reason that Trump pulled
the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which
is that he cares nothing about the environment. Trump just loves
pretending while watching others cringe as he takes
🦕🦖 steps to cause additional harm. No one knows
when Trump’s last day in office will be, but when that day comes
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width=40]
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/>Earth will breathe a long-awaited sigh of relief.
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Re: The Lyin' King
By: Surly1 Date: August 30, 2019, 5:43 am
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[quote author=AGelbert link=topic=304.msg13453#msg13453
date=1567125189]
[quote]
Isaac Peres 👍
One of the most despicable and insensitive things I have
witnessed in 60 years of watching the American political scene
was when that colossal orange POS was throwing rolls of
glorified napkins at Puerto Rican citizens fighting biblical
level floods from Hurricane Maria. It was Trumpo's "let them eat
cake" moment.
It would ironic indeed if this weekend's hurricane mowed down
that gaudy, overpriced, golden toilet in Palm Beach that he
calls "Mar-a-Lago".[/quote]
[/quote]
Hurricane Dorian Totally Misses Puerto Rico and is Heading
Straight for Mar-a-Lago
HTML https://www.politicalflare.com/2019/08/hurricane-dorian-totally-misses-puerto-rico-and-is-heading-straight-for-mar-a-lago/
[quote]Mar-a-Lago remains in the “cone of uncertainty” — the
range of potential paths the hurricane could take as it
strengthens in the Caribbean.
Previous hurricane models suggested Dorian could pass right
through the so-called Winter White House, a frequent destination
for Trump’s working vacations.[/quote]
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Karma never forgets an address. 😀
By: AGelbert Date: August 30, 2019, 12:41 pm
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[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=304.msg13456#msg13456
date=1567161812]
[quote author=AGelbert link=topic=304.msg13453#msg13453
date=1567125189]
[quote]
Isaac Peres 👍
One of the most despicable and insensitive things I have
witnessed in 60 years of watching the American political scene
was when that colossal orange POS was throwing rolls of
glorified napkins at Puerto Rican citizens fighting biblical
level floods from Hurricane Maria. It was Trumpo's "let them eat
cake" moment.
It would ironic indeed if this weekend's hurricane mowed down
that gaudy, overpriced, golden toilet in Palm Beach that he
calls "Mar-a-Lago".[/quote]
[/quote]
Hurricane Dorian Totally Misses Puerto Rico and is Heading
Straight for Mar-a-Lago
HTML https://www.politicalflare.com/2019/08/hurricane-dorian-totally-misses-puerto-rico-and-is-heading-straight-for-mar-a-lago/
[quote]Mar-a-Lago remains in the “cone of uncertainty” — the
range of potential paths the hurricane could take as it
strengthens in the Caribbean.
Previous hurricane models suggested Dorian could pass right
through the so-called Winter White House, a frequent destination
for Trump’s working vacations.[/quote][/quote]
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