Saturday, August 15, 2015

The Media Lies To Us About Foreign Policy


This is Saturday August 15, 2015 and I did not do a blog entry Friday.  I have “Hardball” on right now discussing Donald Trump.  Trump was against the Iraq War- - but he’s still attacking Rand Paul.  There’s a regular back and forth feud going with them.  Last night I watched a couple videos of how the media controls news coverage of our foreign policy.  Apparently as far back as the Church committee in 1975 the CIA admitted to influencing the American media as to how they covered stories.  The Sixty Minutes interview with Mike Wallace and Akmadenijab was critiqued, as I’ve heard this interview critiqued before.  It got Mike Wallace an emmy for telling a lie about the answer to “Israel has a faked government” and then edited the statement at that point and the next thing we hear is Mike Wallace saying “Yeah, just as all the reports of the holocaust was faked”.  It was red meat to the Jewish base.  I’ve always liked Mike Wallace but could it be that “Mike can’t help it.  He’s Jewish and those people are all alike.  They’re all liars”.   The rest of the response of Akmadenijab covered letting members of the West Bank and Gaza vote in a regular election to determine their face, and he added “We will abide by whatever the result is”.  That’s a very reasonable response but we didn’t hear it.  Of course there is a standard lie about the Iraq War that goes something about how President Obama “Made good on a campaign promise and pulled all of the troops out of Iraq leaving Iraq to the mercies of ISIS”.   (This is strange because I thought “Living up to your campaign promises” was a Republican virtue)  Apparently not. The truth is that Obama had nothing to do with the withdrawal of our troops which was already “baked into the cake” because of a deal President Bush had signed in 2008.  President Obama wanted to stay in Iraq longer but he wouldn’t do it without Iraq granting legal immunity to our troops in case they commit atrocities”.    ISIS to a large extend is made up of people from Saddam Hussein’s old army officers- - which is was because we disbanded (abolished) the Iraqi Army and destroyed the infrastructure of that nation in 2003.  So you had chaos and ISIS moved into the power vacuum.

Gun run-down dot com is an “agrigator” of all of the senseless shootings in this country including cop shootings as well as shooting where one kid kills another.   Norman announced that ISIS had pledged allegence to the Talliban.  Really?   An eleven year old Paraguay girl was raped by her 42 year old step-father and both mother and daughter are OK, physically.  Paraguay forbids any form of abortion.   A church in Alabama has a gun range behind the church.  They used to collect snakes there.

Now Trump is being criticized by women for saying “I’ll take care of the women” and these feminists say “We don’t want to be taken care of; we want to be respected”.  The trouble is Trump HAS said he would planned Planned Parenthood, and also that this country would be so rich under a Trump presidency, that funding Social Security and apparently a robust federal health care system- - is an issue where money is spent- - a lot on women.  Also Hillary is “taking care of the women” with sick leave and maternity leave as well as free college”, which is becoming increasingly dominated by women.  And now Trump is getting more specific on issues and people are saying that this is a “new, more serious phase of the Trump campaign” justifying his high poll numbers.  Trump says he has a plan to deal with ISIS but it’s a secret because he doesn’t want ISIS to know what it is”.  He also said something about dealing with Iran and  “Iran won’t know what hit them- - because I’m a businessman and know how to enforce contracts”.

Ben Carson has now risen to fourteen percent in the polls behind Trump.  Dr Ben Carson used to work with fetal tissue in the old days calling it vital to research.  Ben Carson is reminding us that Planned Parenthood is the direct product of Margeret Sanger, who was a eugenicist- - - which doesn’t mean “eutopian researcher”.  A eugenicist is someone who’s into racial genocide, and Margeret Sanger never cared particularly for Black people, and there are a lot of abortion centers in Black neighborhoods.  He says “Planned Parenthood wants to control the Black population”.

I just watched Lincoln Chaffee at the Iowa State Fair in front of the Des Moines Register sign that all the candidates have spoken in front of.  It’s a pretty small stage.   Chafey touched all the bases saying that he’s run local, he’s run national in the Senate, and he’s served one term as Governor of Rhode Island.  He’s worked with the six New England states and the five eastern provinces of Canada on bringing hydro-electric power to the area, which is a form of clean energy.  He voted against the Iraq War and he also voted against the Bush tax cuts.  Both of those votes took a lot of character.  Chaffee prides himself on never had a hint of scandal in his public service.  This posting has been modified slightly since this morning.  The weather continues hot.

This is Friday August 14, 2015 a little before three.  By standards around here it was a half eventful day.  I went down the north hall and Lishia was still here at ten talking to Brenda.  I asked her when she had to leave and she said “immediately”.  I went to the courtyard but seemed limited to one glass of iced tea from Dora.  Hartmann had a guest who spoke of various types of pot.   First there is Canibus Sativa and Canibus Indiga.   The guest disagreed that one brand had more canabinol than the other but said that the presence of “turpines” determined how much of a mental buzz you got from the drug.  Because these “turpines” block the “party high” you’d otherwise get.   He also spoke of another substance called mercine, which is in hops, which produces sleep, so in the old days they filled pillows full of hops to aid in troubled sleep.   I noticed Lishia was still on her bed in the open door at eleven.  Lishia also showed up at lunch.  Now Sarah is announcing the kerioke sing along.  We had a good soup with spinach among other vegetables in it.  The main course was a “casserole” of cheese and ham.  We had a good salad with Romaine lettuce with that and a banana for dessert.  My cigarette luck soon changed when Lishia showed up out back and gave me a while white cigarette and Joe said “A whole on one”.   But Lishia thought she had to leave so hugged everybody good bye.  She hugged me around the corner of a bench.  But then soon afterward she knocked on the door and wanted to get the phone number to Bellflower Christian retirement.  This puzzled me and I advised her that there were any number of places where the computer could stall out when it was warming up, and maybe she should sit down.  We got the site and I read the number in big print to her.  Then we hugged again and this time I kissed her.  The room was still darkened from when Bill shut the shades.  Then I played a speech by Marco Rubio he gave on foreign policy and some woman with water glasses asked him questions.  Then it was Jeb Bush’s turn to speak at the Iowa State Fair and like O Mally it was a brief speech- - but then someone turned down the volume.  I had KNBC on from about a quarter of one.  Somewhere along the way I got a cigarette from Paul, and then when I was out at one thirty I got another cigarette from Paul.  The soap opera is proceding.  Chad had a dream Abigail felt trapped by the marriage and told Chad she wanted to marry him.  Who knows?  Page paid Jennifer a visit warning her that J J was getting involved with dealing drugs again.  I saw Lishia one more time when she was with people ready to take her to her new place.  I sat on the east side a while.  I got two cups of iced tea from Dora. 

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