Posts Tagged ‘John McCain’
TUBULARSOCK SAYS: MID-EAST POLICY
Posted: November 22, 2014 in Abu Bakr Al-Bagdadi, Afghanistan, Assad, Bagdad, Bandar bin Sultan, boots on the ground, Bull Shit, CIA TERRORISTS, Drones, FBI TERRORISTS, George Bush, Guantanamo, Hamid Karzai, HEZBOLLAH, Iran, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John MaCain, Kim Kardashian, Obama, Oil, PALESTINIANS, SYRIA, torture, War CriminalsTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, Big Oil, Bradley Manning, CIA, Dick Cheney, drones, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Iran, John McCain, Keystone XL pipeline, libya, middle-east, Obama foreign policy, Syria, terrorism
THE KHORASAN GROUP, SCARED YET: BOO-M!
Posted: October 2, 2014 in Afghanistan, Assad, Bagdad, boots on the ground, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, CIA TERRORISTS, FBI TERRORISTS, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, James Clapper, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Joint Chiefs, NATO, NSA, Obama, Oil, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, torture, U.S. General's ethicsTags: al Qaeda, Benghazi, Big Oil, Bradley Manning, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, John McCain, middle-east, NSA, Obama foreign policy, Syria, terrorism
Tubularsock has JUST figured it out!
And now let Tubularsock say it before others …… “thank you Tubularsock!”
Well, Tubularsock has many hats, sort of speak, and then with cleaning the bunker and all, well it took some time to figure it out ……….
Anyway ………
Even after you figure it out it’s not without confusion.
Now there is al Qaeda, and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State) or ISIS, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or DAIISH (or DIISH or DAISH) the group’s name in Arabic al dawla al islamiyye f’il iraq w’al sham …….. aren’t acronyms fun?
The last three are the same group which is confusing in the first place.
And then the Al-Nusra Front, and Al-Shabaab, and 63 others on the United States terrorists list.
But the new kid on the block is the Khorasan group. Oh yea!
And they don’t even appear on the terrorist list!
The Pentagon said that they were “seasoned al Qaeda veterans”!
AND these battle-hardened al Qaeda fighters travelled from Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere to Syria allegedly to plot several attacks on American interests.
And GET SCARED because the leader of this band of merry men is Muhsin al-Fadhli, a designated terrorist and apparent 9/11 insider who received advance notification that terrorists would strike the United States on September 11, 2001, along with George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, the CIA, the FBI, the Mossad, the SVR (the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), the Saudi Intelligence Agency and some Israeli “students” who were taking pictures and jumping for joy as it was happening.
But Muhsin al-Fadhli is no longer with us because our bomb attack wiped him out! Or that is what the “social-media” has been reporting.
But Susan Rice, the U.S. National Security Advisor stated, “We can’t confirm that at this stage. We’ve seen reports on social media to that effect. We will continue to look for signs as to whether or not that’s, in fact, the case.”
So you can see that EXTREME EVIL may be impervious to death no matter if the bombing mission cost us $500 million dollars!
Now don’t you worry. Remember in our last escapade when we would kill the worst of the worst al Qaeda leader only to discovery that a new leader would appear and we’d kill him and then the next ……
Well, trust Tubularsock on this, there are plenty to go around!
And as for the “FACT” that these seasoned battle-hardened al Qaeda fighters that make up the Khorasan group are sitting all together to be bomb is got to be amazing when we were lead to believe by Dick Cheney that the “worst of the worst” of al Qaeda were locked up in Guantanamo.
Wow, just who can one believe?
Anyway ……. there is plenty of fear to go around.
You see Muhsin al-Fadhli is/was being trained by the SCARIEST OF SCARIEST bomb maker that the world has ever known, Ibrahim al-Asiri !!!!!!
Ibrahim al-Asiri was the “chief” bomb maker of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He was responsible for making the bomb that was used in the “2009 Christmas Day bomb plot” in which the Nigerian passenger, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to set off plastic explosives sewn to his underwear.
The result was Abdulmutallab burnt his dick but the bomb failed!
And then Ibrahim al-Asiri also made the bombs for the “2010 cargo plane bomb plot” in which plastic explosives and a detonating mechanism, were found on separate cargo planes. The plastic explosives were hidden in a printer cartridges in each plane.
These bombs were never detonated but were discovered as a result of intelligence received from Saudi Arabia’s security network.
So this is all the work of the MASTERMIND BOMB MAKER attacking the United States. Three bombs no explosions.
Scared yet?
Well Ibrahim al-Asiri did have one, kind-of successful, bomb that he made detonate.
And that is the one where he took the plastic explosives and shoved them up the “rectum” of his 23 year old brother, Abdullah al-Asiri. Abdullah then detonated himself in an attempt to assassinate Muhammad bin Nayef, the Saudi deputy minister of Interior but he detonated his plastic-explosive-rectum-device by cell phone too early and Nayef was only slightly injured.
Needless to say Abdullah did not fair as well. Could it be that he dialed the wrong number?
So what we have here is a hint that the al-Asiri family aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. One brother can’t make a workable bomb except the one he put up his younger brother’s rectum.
And the younger brother who has his head up his ass even to agree to having plastic explosives shoved in his butt!
Yet, Ibrahim is the guy that is helping the now blown up Khorasan group to make bombs.
What is wrong with this picture?
And to make matters worse if you remember the “Christmas Bomber” was escorted onto that passenger fight without being run through security and without a passport! Say What!
So this is the MASTERMIND BOMB MAKER that has frightened the United States to bomb the Khorasan group?
But that isn’t the only bombing that has occurred due to Ibrahim and his bomb making attempts. Last year a CIA drone strike took out Ahmed Said Saad, a Syrian medical doctor who had been working with Ibrahim on his experiments.
You see, the rectum-bomb worked, it actually blew-up! So Ibrahim teamed up with Ahmed Said Saad (a medical doctor) before the CIA droned him and according to U.S. officials succeeded in developing a bomb that can be surgically implanted inside the human body. The military refers to such a weapon as a “surgically implanted improvised explosive device,” or SIIED. …….. aren’t acronyms fun?
So the plan is that radicalized Westerners who have Western passports will be implanted with these implanted bombs and blow themselves up within the United States.
And to think that Ibrahim al-Asiri, dropped out of his chemistry class in college which just goes to show you that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”.
Anyway this is what Tubularsock has figured out. The solution to these deadly human weapons. And how to detonate them BEFORE they cause damage to others.
Well we could take the old fashion approach and just stop bombing people so as not to make MORE terrorists but sane approaches are not respected due to the simple fact that by doing that huge profits would have to be forfeited …… need Tubularsock say more?
An approach needs to be expensive, wasteful, and secret because that is the only way the public will believe they are safe.
Now Tubularsock is used to being ridiculed and persecuted for his futuristic ideas but that has never stopped him before. Mockery and derision is always directed at those on the cutting edge.
And huge profit? …….. Tubularsock can get behind that but only because saving the nation is the only patriotic priority.
Now if you would care to invest in Tubularsock’s new venture just send a check, cash, bit coin, a goat, a pick-up truck, a bushel of non-GMO corn to:
New Technology Mega Data Implementation, Ltd.
333 Underground Bunker
Secret City, CA 66633-5484
Now here is the expensive, wasteful, and secret plan. WARNING, it is in code.
Now Tubularsock has estimated that there are “X” number of terrorists.
The NSA has EVERYBODY’S cell phone number.
The number of terrorists with cell phones are “XY”
The number of non-terrorist with cell phones are “Z”
Are you still following this? Don’t you have something better to do with your time?
X – XY= WYZ
Z – WXZ= HZYU The exact number of terrorists using cell phones.
Or something like that ………
So NTMDI, Ltd. will call every “HZYU” every six minutes ( the seventh minute we rest).
So if a terrorist is in the process of carrying a SIIED he’d explode ……
And NTMDI, Ltd would charge $3.00 per call to the government or NTMDI, Ltd + HZYU = a fucking great deal of $$$$$$$$. ………. Aren’t acronyms fun?
What do you think? Brilliant or what?
Ok, bottom line …… the U.S. Government will fall for this and if Tubularsock can get enough Congressmen/women to fall for this WE (my investors) will be catapulted into the 1%!
Hell, we’ll even be able to use the United States Senate’s Gym to do push-ups!
Save the accolades for later ……. cash is preferred!
“MODERATE-EXTREMIST”
Posted: September 21, 2014 in Advertising, Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Bagdad, Bandar bin Sultan, boots on the ground, CIA TERRORISTS, Economy, FBI TERRORISTS, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, Joe Biden, John Kerry, NSA, Obama, REPUBLICANS, Senate Intelligence Committee, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, torture, U.S. MarinesTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, Big Oil, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Iran, John McCain, middle-east, Obama foreign policy, Syria
Ever wonder what a “moderate-extremist” could be?
Now Tubularsock, knows what ‘moderate” means.
And Tubularsock knows what “extremist” means.
And Tubularsock knows what “give me a break!” means.
Really? A “moderate-extremist”.
Now, that has to be one fucked up person!
Do you think that a “moderate-extremist” would be the one to cut off only three-quarters of your head?
Do you think that a “moderate-extremist” only massacres half of a village?
Do you think that a “moderate-extremist” is ONLY a moderate so he can get more weapons and be able to sell them to the EXTREMISTS for a profit?
That is called (in economic terms) the Middle-Man.
You see Congress loves the free enterprise system. So they voted for the middle man and why not? Congress plays to the middle for votes and then returns to the self-serving people they are. NO party excepted!
Now Tubularsock is not expecting any change in this “moderate-extremist” bull-shit but it is being brought to your attention as one of the many pearls of unexamined bull shit that is just sitting everywhere until you don’t even realize that it saturates your consciousness.
It’ is like “the jobless recovery” and “humanitarian-bombing” ………. sure ….
NEWS BEFORE IT HAPPENS: THE SECRETARY OF THE INFERIOR — MISSING?
Posted: July 2, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, ART, ASSAULT WEAPONS, Bagdad, BRADLEY MANNING, Bull Shit, bull shit as an art form, CIA Drugs, CIA TERRORISTS, CYBER-ATTACKS, Dick Cheney, Don Rumfeld, economics, FBI, FBI TERRORISTS, FED, FREEDOM, freedom of the press, General Keith Alexander, General Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, GUATEMALA, Gulag mentality, GUNS, Hamid Karzai, Holiday jobs 2013, Infallbiility, James Clapper, Jay Z, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John MaCain, Jon Stewart, Justin Bieber, Kayne West, Keystone XL, Kim Kardashian, Leon Panetta, Mental Health, Michelle Obama, NSA, Obama, OccupyWall Street, PALESTINIANS, Poppies, Pussy Riot, Quantitative Easing, Radiation, REPUBLICANS, Ron Reagan, Russia, Senate Intelligence Committee, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., The Matrix, U.S. General's ethics, UkraineTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, Bradley Manning, bull shit, CIA, current-events, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, FBI, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Iran, John McCain, Keystone XL pipeline, middle-east, NSA, Obama foreign policy, politics, Rule of Law, terrorism, Ukraine, world peace treaty
From a series of informed sources who are not authorized to speak on this issue but have nothing else to do today in the bloated government bureaucracy has presented an outline of the influence of the new Secretary Of The Inferior on the Obama Administration.*
The Tubularsock News Team has also sent our stealth photographer into the mix and has documented photographic evidence of all the rumor and innuendo.
As we like to say at the Tubularsock News Team break-room, “If a picture is worth a thousand words then this story is worth ten thousand words!”
Rather than be accused of conflict of interest we have turned our investigative journalism over to the tabloid, The New York Toast.
From the very beginning fear in the Administration was palpable. Could a “commoner” be able to bond with the elite?
Well, our inside sources all concurred that the new Secretary Of The Inferior fit like a hand in a glove.
The new Secretary Of The Inferior was asked by the press how he felt to be at the left hand of The President of the United States and he clearly stated, “no, the steak tartare please”.
The more comfortable the Secretary Of The Inferior became the more cautious distrust appeared within the West Wing. In fact, down right suspiciousness of his intentions were felt and cloaked in plutocratic innuendo.
This type of approach to an obvious “outsider” was lost on the Secretary who felt that they liked him. But he started to isolate himself in the President’s office.
That suspicious attitude became more prevalent within the President himself.
However the Secretary Of The Inferior and Michelle became more ……..
Say ………… ahh, shall we say “friendly”?
Not being sure of the Secretary Of The Inferior’s intentions Obama started to take him with him whenever he traveled.
And then one day the President and the Secretary Of The Inferior were scheduled to fly to the Asian Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Now in any Presidential Administration lots of stuff gets stolen. Paper clips, ball point pens, computers, ground-keeper tools, ballistic missiles, large sums of cash, larger sums of cash, cash of larger sums than that and one’s integrity.
The biggest surprise is that anyone noticed.
Immediately Congress formed two committees, one in the House and one in the Senate. Each committee member and staff took it upon themselves to fly to Kuala Lumpur to see where Air Force One should have landed if it hadn’t been stolen.
It was verified that there was NO, they repeated NO, Air Force One on any golf course in Kuala Lumpur.
Senator John McCain was unable to say, “The terrorist have been part of this Obama Administration for some time and the Ukrainian people need all ….. no, I mean Palestine has to be considered ….. no, I mean …”
The CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, NRO, AFISRA, MI, MCIA, ONI, OICI, I&A, CGI, FB/NSB, DEA/ONSI, INR, and the TFI were all called into service but many of them were out of the office so a message was left with their respective receptionists. **
All of these agencies work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities and are under the I.C. which is headed by the DNI, who reports to the President.**
The FBI, DOS, DSS, IRS-CID, TIGTA, USMP, DOD, DCIS, CID, OSI, NCIS, DOJ, ATF, USDI, USDA, DOC, HHS, DHS, USCG, FPS, CGPD, CBP, ICE, USSS, SPS,USCP, USPIS were also all put on the case. **
It appears that the USPIS (United States Postal Inspection Service) may have not been necessary however Senator Diane Feinstein insisted that it was not because her husband was well invested in post offices that the agency must play a role. It was because of “. . . her keen concern to protect every woman and child of this great land”.
As Senator Feinstein did not say, “That plane could have been easily packed up in a pre-postage-paid-priority-mail-express-package and shipped to the Russians for all we know!”
As a result over seventeen million dollars will be allocated to throughly inspect ALL the P.O.Boxes in every post office within the United States.
Representative Robert Fuckoff (R) Ohio demanded that for national security concerns he would pursue drafting a bill to create an inspection team to investigate all “general delivery” windows of every post office in the United States.
During an impromptu stop over at the employee’s break room at Postal Inspection, Inc. Rep. Fuckoff stated, “This twenty-seven million dollar allocation bill will ensure that inspections would be conducted on all “general delivery” locations. What better way is there to protect our citizens from terrorists who want to harm our home-land?”
When the maimed-stream media asked about the rumor that his family was involved in Postal Inspection, Inc. Representative Fuckoff stated, “Those accusations have been made before!”
……………………………………………
A Special Blue Ribbon Committee was appointed immediately if not sooner by the President to “investigate the disappearance of Air Force One and The Secretary Of The Inferior” and to report back to him. The President insisted that the Committee’s work would be totally transparent and would be held in secret for national security reasons.
The maimed-stream media didn’t pursue the definition of transparent assuming the President is a Constitutional Scholar and knew the definition better than they.
Congress announced that it will immediately take up the issue of funding the Special Blue Ribbon Committee as soon as they return from their inter-session break and before their fall break. This leaves “. . . a corridor of six full hours” stated Senator DipStick (D) from Louisiana.
First there were the sightings.
(UPI) “They were ALL there”, said Jimmy Insano from DelRio, Texas. “Right out in front of the Dairy Queen! Elvis, bin Laden, Kennedy and the Secretary Of The Inferior!”
“I didn’t see no plane or anything like that …… but I didn’t go in the Dairy Queen. Sure, it could have been in there.”
The heat in DelRio at times reaches 135 degrees in the shade.
(The Sun, UK) “The chances of Air Force One being snatched from the sky by an alien space craft isn’t as far fetched as it may appear” says Jay Jay Johnson. “There have been sightings recently as far away as Denver”, he continued. “Space IS the final frontier, you know, and if and I’m saying IF, The Secretary Of The Inferior had been sent with a message to give to extraterrestrials, then why not?” Jay Jay Johnson concluded.
(New York Times) It was reported today that the Malaysian Government was asked by President Obama to assist in the tracking of the missing Air Force One. Critics say this new development has created perhaps a “hint” that the President isn’t sincere about finding the Secretary Of The Inferior.
President Obama’s new Press Secretary Josh Earnest, stated at todays news briefing that “. . . he was earnest that the President was earnest about the search for Air Force One as well as The Secretary Of The Inferior”.
This confused the White House Press Corp because they thought the President was not Earnest because Josh Earnest was Earnest. And Josh Earnest stated that he was earnest and the President was earnest as well. The White House Press Corp reiterated that Earnest was Earnest and Earnest was not Obama.
After forty-five minutes the Earnest – earnest conundrum was tabled until a later date.
(FOX News) Donald Rumsfeld was asked to comment on the incident and stated: “we know, there are known knowns; there are things that we know that we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
And he continued, “The missing Secretary Of The Inferior is the ultimate in unknown unknowns, if you ask me.”
And of course, Dick Cheney was asked for comments on this new international mystery but was unable to make it to the interview because he had “left his heart in San Francisco” and hadn’t noticed until his flight was over Wisconsin. Which at that point had to turn his flight back to the West Coast.
footnotes:
* To catch up with The Secretary Of The Inferior refer back to: blog post, NEW EMPLOYMENT, NEW ECONOMY.
** Those are all investigating agencies of the United States Government. Tubularsock doesn’t have time to make that much shit up!
All photographs may look like they have been altered in some way. They have NOT! However they are a different angle from the original photo.
Photography is in the eye of the beholder.
TUBULARSOCK’S SOJOURN
Posted: June 24, 2014 in Afghanistan, American Exceptionalism, Bagdad, Bandar bin Sultan, Chemical Warfare, CIA TERRORISTS, Crimea, David Petraeus, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Don Rumfeld, Drones, economics, FREEDOM, General Keith Alexander, General Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, Gulag mentality, Hamid Karzai, HEZBOLLAH, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, IRAQ, ISIS, ISRAEL, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, Joint Chiefs, Leon Panetta, Obama, Oil, PALESTINIANS, Poppies, Race, REPUBLICANS, Ron Reagan, Senate Intelligence Committee, SYRIA, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., torture, U.S. General's ethics, U.S. MarinesTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Bradley Manning, bull shit, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, drones, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Iran, John McCain, libya, middle-east, North Africa, NSA, Obama foreign policy, politics, Rule of Law, Syria, terrorism, war
Tubularsock was ask by the blog site Deconstructing Myths to contribute an article to their Mic check guest blogger series.
The opportunity is simple: To open information up to a broader audience than Tubularsock presently has and to present that information within a forum of enlightened and creative people .
Deconstructing Myths is the creation of Jeff Nguyen, a multi-talented fellow with the stated goal of “. . . shed[ing] light on some of the important issues of our time.” And to find “collective solutions” to the problems found in our world today.
But the largest focus of Jeff’s work to is “. . . to deconstruct the myths many of us have been raised on through the powerful influence of the media and teachings of the dominant culture.”
That works for Tubularsock!
So the bottom line is simple …………. to read this Tubularsock blog post you too will have to travel to: http://deconstructingmyths.com/
And I want to thank Jeff for this great opportunity ………… I am sure all of you will agree, “Tubularsock needs all the help he can get!”
TUBULARSOCK SAYS: WAR?
Posted: June 8, 2014 in Afghanistan, Bandar bin Sultan, Crimea, Cuba, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Drones, economics, General Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, GUATEMALA, IRAQ, ISRAEL, John Kerry, Leon Panetta, MILITARY JUSTICE, NSA, Obama, Oil, Pope, Pussy Riot, Ron Reagan, Russia, SYRIA, torture, U.S. Marines, UkraineTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Benghazi, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, drones, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Iran, John McCain, libya, middle-east, Obama foreign policy, Putin, Russia, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, war
AFGHAN SMOKE … AND MIRRORS
Posted: June 1, 2014 in Afghanistan, CIA Drugs, CIA TERRORISTS, David Petraeus, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Drones, General Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, Hamid Karzai, IRAQ, MILITARY JUSTICE, Obama, Seal Team 6 - DEVGRU, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, SYRIA, tortureTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, CIA, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, drones, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, John McCain, middle-east, Obama foreign policy, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Syria, terrorism
Now let Tubularsock go way out on a limb here only because Tubularsock always likes to be closest to the new leaves.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan, was freed by the Taliban.
The deal was simple: Five Tortured Afghan detainees from the U.S. torture-prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for One not-tortured American soldier. Cool!
Now, the limb part, is Tubularsock is making a big assumption here. And that assumption is that the Taliban DIDN’T torture Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is still under a cloud from his departure from the ranks back in 2009 because the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl’s capture remain something of a mystery.
Some have speculated that he willingly walked away from his unit but Tubularsock has one of those Tubularsock hunches that the Sargent was lit on a combination of alcohol and Afghan Gold and just found himself captured ……… bummer.
Now Tubularsock can hear you doubters, asking how would Tubularsock KNOW the obvious. Come now, really? Let us see ………
But the bigger the bull-shit the less likely we’ll ever know and here it comes from the Commander-in-Chief himself ………. Bergdahl’s recovery “. . . is a reminder of America’s unwavering commitment to leave no man or woman in uniform behind on the battlefield.”
Aren’t we so fucking noble!
It could be that on that Memorial Day visit Odroner made to Afghanistan to outline the direction his administration will be taking in that war that they just needed one more solider to be withdrawn from the forever battle and so they worked out this deal because they thought 22,200 withdrawn troops looked better from a PR perspective than 22,199.
And it’s not the 9,800 troops that are going to stay there that you should be looking at anyway. They aren’t worth shit.
What you should be looking at is the number of mercenaries/contractors that will be remaining. Most American still don’t understand that removing troops does not reduce exposure and death to the Afghan people. That’s if the American public cares about that anyway. Using contractors to supply or enhance weapons is not unusual. But expeditionary warfare, stabilization and reconstruction operations, and intelligence services are tasks that most Americans believe are the sole job of the government or the military. It’s not. It’s all about privatization and profit. NOT ending the conflict.
That is why it doesn’t matter how many Taliban and remnants of al-Qaida are killed. There are ALWAYS more. And in many cases we supply THEM with weapons and training as well. Constant war requires it!
In fact according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR), an auditing agency created by Congress to provide oversight on government spending in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2013, almost 70% of the 4 billion dollars spent by the State Department for “rule-of-law” projects, like training and equipping the Afghan police force went to one corporation …. Dyncorp.
Dyncorp is known for it’s well-documented history of corruption investigations and subpar performance and yet the governments contracts flow in regardless of the fact that in 2010 the inspector general for Iraq along with the State Department found that Dyncorp could not account for $1 billion spent training the Iraqi police force.
Oh well, business is business.
Now the exchange deal went down in Qatar. The same little country where we are currently “training” fighters to over throw Syria. Sweet.
But this wasn’t the first time the U.S. dealt with the Taliban on this exchange. In 2011 a deal was being worked out but in early 2012 Sen. Diane Feinstein made the negotiations public because in Congress, there was bipartisan opposition to any release of Guantanamo prisoners.
This all changed because of a small change in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed last December, made it only a requirement that the Defense Secretary notify Congress when releasing Guantanamo prisoners.
Before that change, Congressional sign off on any Guantanamo releases would have been needed but they gave up that power either knowingly or not. Depending on which of the Congressional members actually read what they were passing.
But now they can bitch but say they are powerless!
Now the Five Tortured Afghan detainees from the U.S. torture-prison at Guantanamo are, of course, “the worst of the worst” and are Taliban commanders. The deal requires that they can not leave Qatar for a year after their release. Tubularsock feels better all ready.
And the great thing …….. none of them hold a grudge or anything, right?
PROPAGANDA BY ANY OTHER NAME IS TRUTH
Posted: May 3, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, Arseny Yatsenyuk, Central Bank, CIA TERRORISTS, Crimea, economics, Economy, FED, FREEDOM, freedom of the press, IRAQ, John Kerry, John MaCain, Kayne West, Kim Kardashian, Neo-Nazi, Obama, Pussy Riot, Russia, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., Ukraine, Ukrainian Gold, XL PipelineTags: bull shit, Human Rights American Failure, John McCain, Keystone XL pipeline, Obama foreign policy, Putin, Rule of Law, Russia, Ukraine
PROPAGANDA BY ANY OTHER NAME IS TRUTH
There is so much bullshit around this Ukraine mis-adventure that it is starting to make “regular crap” look good!
Now I was talking to a highly educated friend of mine just the other day and he was asking why is it that Tubularsock “likes” Putin and didn’t Tubularsock realize that Russia was posing a threat to the Ukraine by concentrating troops along its boarders?
Well Tubularsock wasn’t surprised by this limited view because he keeps up with current news by reading Newsweek and Time Magazines. And he believes he’s “informed”!
Well sure, the guy has a stressful job and limited time to “keep up” with the world. What with all the different countries doing different things EVERY day and all.
Why not get it ALL your news under one fast-third-grade-level-read-umbrella?
Now, far be it for Tubularsock to go off on Newsweek and Time Magazines except to say that Tubularsock wouldn’t use either even as toilet paper. In part because I think one or both are only on line now and not in physical form any longer which causes a logistical problem as toilet paper. And the other reason is then what would I do with the New York Times?
Oh my, Tubularsock does digress!
Now there seems to be a bit of a disagreement between John Kerry’s view of the Ukraine and what is happening and RT’s (Russia Today News) view of the Ukraine and what is happening. No surprise there!
John (you remember him, right …. Secretary of State) called RT a “propaganda bullhorn” and it was pushing Putin’s “fantasy”. My, my.
Well according to DIPNOTE the U.S. Department of State “Official Blog” posted by Richard Stengel : that Kerry’s remarks resulted in “. . . a predictable howl of protest from RT’s editor, who claimed the State Department knows little about what is really happening in Ukraine today and had the audacity to request an apology.”
Now Richard Stengel continued with, “I spent seven years as the managing editor of TIME magazine [now that’s clear] before joining the State Department. I understand the difference between news, propaganda and opinion. Propaganda is the deliberate dissemination of information that you know to be false or misleading in order to influence an audience.”
Well Richard seems, to Tubularsock, to be the one who is propagating “falsehoods” when it comes to the Ukraine and if Kerry doesn’t really know what RT is pointing out then he is truly an idiot!
Let Tubularsock just lead you through a few of the things RT has brought to the attention of the world and how Richard Stengel and John Kerry seem to be the ones who are “misleading” and attempting to twist the information.
Last week it was claimed by RT that the United States had “invested” $5 Billion in regime change in the Ukraine. Richard Stengel says that that is a “ludicrous assertion”.
Yet it was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland who told a business group on December 13, 2013 that “. . . we have invested more than $5 billion in what was needed for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations.”
In addition remember the intercepted, phone call where Victoria Nuland said her choice was to replace Yanukovych was Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The call was to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk ended up as Prime Minister after the coup. Which shows collusion by the United States with the U.S. and European banking interests.
But not a word about that from Kerry or Stengel. They act like it was a natural “democratic” process. Like the CIA involvement in the process was akin to boys scouts helping a little old lady across the street.
Nor does Kerry or Stengel take on the issue of the dominance of Neo-Nazis in the new created Ukrainian Government as exposed by RT.
Now in Eastern Ukraine there was the incident cited by Kerry at the Geneva Conference that had been called to reduce tensions in Ukraine. Kerry said that, “Just in the last couple of days, notices were sent to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews. And obviously, the accompanying threat implied is – or threatened – or suffer the consequences, one way or the other.”
But a few day before Kerry’s speech that bit of information had been found to be the work of pro-coup operators NOT the pro-Russian Ukraine supporters.
Yet Kerry sited the information any way as if it were true. And he has the nerve to call RT a “propaganda bullhorn”?
It appears that what RT exposes The State Department just doesn’t discuss and thereby claims that it is RT that is doing the PROPAGANDA!
There is also the total lack of any discussion in the maimed-stream-media in the U.S. of the breaking of the deal made with Russia that NATO would not push for an eastward expansion which is why Ukraine has been overthrown by the U.S. and NATO backed cronies. It is NATO and the U.S. that has broken the agreed understanding with Russia not some aggressive move by the Russians!
The Russian move is a response. They, in this case, are not the aggressor!
Well the beat goes on. And the “free press” in the U.S. are so busy licking the asses of the government just like they did over Iraq that they have become again the government’s mouth piece.
Few in the maimed-stream-media do any investigation of ANYTHING with the exception of the detailed pictures of Kim Kardashian’s last bikini photo shoot!
Where RT, Al-Jazeera and CCTV (the new English-language programming set up by China) all give a more honest view of the Ukrainian mess than any press in the U.S.
Now this isn’t to say that one doesn’t have to be awake to bias from these news organization. But, if you try to broaden your news reading you will be able to find a broader world view than just “American Exceptionalism”.
It was just a couple of years ago that Hillary Clinton was saying that the U.S. was “. . . “losing the information war”. And just couldn’t figure out why.
Well, let Tubularsock let you in on a little secret that he has discovered and that is that more and more of the American people are just sick and tired of “. . . the U.S. corporate media’s regurgitation of the manifold and manifestly deceitful justifications for U.S. actions abroad” as Ray McGovern (former CIA intelligence – Soviet Foreign Policy Branch) so clearly stated.
As for Tubularsock siding with Putin. Not so but I do like his coat!
TUBULARSOCK SAYS … MCCAIN!
Posted: March 18, 2014 in Crimea, John MaCain, Neo-Nazi, Russia, Sara Palin, SYRIA, UkraineTags: John McCain, Rule of Law, Russia, Sara Palin, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine
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