NATO must send troops to Ukraine, or face catastrophic defeat

Here’s a stunning revelation from old-school American Empire Uber Alles warhawk Edward Luttwak. This is a dude who used to get his opinion bits into the NYT and the WSJ whenever he wanted. The fact you’re now reading him on UK alt news websites tells us he’s pissed off some powerful people. That totally boosts his credibility in my estimation. Enough with my two cents. Here’s Luttwak’s essay; It's time to put NATO troops in Ukraine. That sure would put Canada up a stump, eh? We can’t even hit recruitment numbers when we’re clearing snow and fighting forest fires. Who’s gonna sign up to get vaporized by a 2000lb Russian glide bomb for… Ukraine? These past few years have seen a great remake of the CAF. Instead of the old-timey shit like following orders and stuff, the Forces have been remade into a safe space where you are welcome to explore and develop your unique personality. The new approach has yet to goose recruitment, so Canada will once again be humiliated in front of our NATO allies. Well, better to be humiliated in front of our allies than be vaporized…

Media malfeasance

Within forty-eight hours of Nancy Pelosi announcing the Trump impeachment initiative, the brain trust that runs Canada's national newspaper of record weighed in on the matter with utter certainty; Trump was guilty of treason.

There's a belief among Globe and Mail "thought leaders" that they can't be seen as deviating too far from whatever the NYT/WaPo/WSJ consensus might be.

If they would stick to reporting actual news, that editorial would not have happened. Ukraine-US history didn't begin with Trump's phone-call to Zelensky. It didn't even begin with the US sponsored 2014 Maidan coup.

Nor did political corruption in the Oval Office begin with that call. As near as I can tell, even when you put the worst possible spin on Trump's "arm-twisting," it's nothing more than a business-as-usual moment in American history.

Trump may be a serial liar, but he's not the first American president to tell a lie, or lots of them.

Trump may be using the office to enrich himself, but that's a time-honoured American tradition. A number of US presidents of the past were born in poverty. None of them died in poverty.

What was the Clinton Foundation other than a massive pay-to-play scheme?

If our "free press" were even remotely free, they'd be giving us the whole story.

Instead, they relentlessly pursue an obviously partisan agenda that bears little or no resemblance to lived reality.

Ultimately, this is not about Trump. The same media that today denigrates Trump at every turn, never missed a chance to kiss his ass in the twenty-five years before he entered politics. How else did Trump become a "celebrity?"


What's really threatening America's elite isn't having a serial liar in the White House. It's having a self-proclaimed "socialist" knocking on the door.

DNC on brink of spectacular own goal

On page A9 of today's Globe and Mail a headline informs me that "Trump allegedly asked Ukraine to investigate Biden's son." That's the Globe's version of this story, found originally in the Wall Street Journal, and now a staple across mainstream media.

Yup, there goes Trump again, abusing his office to stymie a potential rival...

Unfortunately, it's Biden's own words, and not any dirty dealing on the part of Trump, that are going to cause some embarrassing blow-back here. Check out this story from the NYT  back in May. Or, if you think the Times is too Trump friendly, even Michael Bloomberg's personal propaganda platform reports Biden bragging about getting a top Ukrainian judge fired for investigating his son Hunter's adventures in the Ukrainian natural gas business.

Obviously any competent journalist reporting these latest allegations would be aware of both Hunter Biden's involvement in Ukraine and his Daddy's boastful comments about interfering in Ukraine's internal affairs. So why don't they pull the loose threads together and tell the whole story?


Because the Democentric mainstream media have a horse in this race, and it ain't Donny J.

Top cheerleader treats entire football squad to leg-spread

A couple years ago there was a rumour to that effect going round the local high school.

Apparently said rumour was kicked off by a "rival" who had an eye on one of the boys on that team, a boy who was smitten by that top cheerleader.

All of that is just typical teenage drama, but social media magnifies these petty wranglings into shit that becomes really important, certainly for those reading about it on Facebook, which, as much as I find it hard to believe, is where a whole lot of folks get their news.

And that should be truly frightening.

I don't mean to sound elitist here, but if you get your news from Facebook, you're a retard.

Shop around a little. All the news sites are bullshitting you one way or another. With a little time and a little experience, you'll gradually work your way to a place where you can, at least most of the time, tell the difference between the wheat and the chaff.

The difference between the Shit and the Shinola...

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For those who get their news from Facebook, I suggest you fork out a few bucks per month to check out WSJ, NYT, and the WaPo.

Canadians should augment that with a daily perusal of the Globe and Mail, even though they're unlikely to find anything interesting there that didn't originate in the already mentioned titles.

Canada is, after all, first among the me-too nations.

While you're busy taking in the Empire's point of view, you should also take a peek at what's up at Sputnik, RT, AJE, Press TV, and the Jerusalem Post.

And there's plenty of once-prime English language journo's, even Pulitzer types, who have been blackballed from the mainstream and are basically glorified bloggers now, because, get this, they thought it was their job to speak truth to power!

So you'll find Chris Hedges at Truthdig.

Robert Parry founded Consortium News.

Seymour Hersh shows up on the fringes sometimes, but he's clearly not welcome in the MSM.

Spend enough time rooting around in the bowels of social media and those foreign news feeds, and you'll soon discover that errant cheerleaders are the least of our problems...

TRUMP TREASON REVEALED!!!

And it wasn't the Mueller investigation that revealed it; it was the Entous investigation.

Adam Entous, formerly of the Washington Post and the WSJ, has a fifteen page expose in the June 18 issue of The New Yorker detailing the Trump team's collusion with several foreign powers. Seems that Mueller's been looking at the wrong foreign power. His year and a half investigation has thus far served up some woefully thin gruel from which to make a case for Russian meddling in America's sacred democracy.

Instead of Russia, it seems he should have focused on Saudi Arabia, UAE, and, especially, Israel. Entous' investigation reveals collusion between agents of those foreign powers and the Trump team virtually 24/7 throughout the lead-up to the 2016 election. This collusion occurred at the highest levels, including between the future President and the heads of state of these foreign entities.

Entous' story has been out for well over a month now, so I'm surprised there's been no outrage in our major media about this foreign meddling. Surely somebody's going to be calling for sanctions on these rogue states any day now!

Good news for Twinkie technicians!

The Wall Street Journal has a story about how former Hostess employees are all bitter about having their former $33,000 a year (plus benefits) jobs back at $22,000 a year (no benefits).

Hey, lighten up folks; there is a silver lining! Here's a chart straight from the USDA web site on income cut-offs for food stamps:

Household size	Gross monthly income (130 percent of poverty)	Net monthly income (100 percent of poverty)
1	$1,211	$ 931
2	1,640	1,261
3	2,069	1,591
4	2,498	1,921
5	2,927	2,251
6	3,356	2,581
7	3,785	2,911
8	4,214	3,241
Each additional member	+429	+330

Looks to me like most of you are going to qualify! Isn't that great!

You gotta love it... not only do you get to make Twinkies again, but you'll get food stamps to boot!

God bless America!

Nice try, Wall Street Journal

There I was, on an uneventful news crawl, when this turd rolled right out of the monitor and landed on my lap:

BY MARCUS WALKER

ATHENS—Two years after Europe bailed Greece out to protect the euro, the rescue has become a debacle that threatens to unravel the common currency.

Then they led me along for another paragraph before announcing that I'd have to subscribe before I could read any more.

Sorry WSJ. 

The teaser was enough to convince me that this was more typical stay-the-course bullshit from the Murdoch gnomes.

Hmm... where to start? 

"the rescue has become a debacle..."

Yes and no.

There are thousands of very well paid planners, analysts, strategists, advisors, consultants, and just plain twats in Brussels and every other European capital.

Well paid to read the tea leaves and prognosticate on the future.

They couldn't see this coming?

And we all know that the magical thinkers at the WSJ truly believe that when you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

And we also know that they believe that when that doesn't work, the only possible flaw in your strategy would be that you're not squeezing their balls hard enough.

Then there's that "two years" bit.

Those lazy Greeks have been bailed out every other week for the last two years...

I don't need to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to know that.