Sorry Nimrod; pot-addled hillbilly beats RT to the story by three years

RT, known in some circles as Putin's propaganda network, has a timely feature on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on view at the moment.

Seems that Rami Abdulrahmen is still running his one-man show out of his apartment in Coventry. Never before in the history of media has a one-man show garnered so much mainstream attention. Rami has been the go-to guy for info on the Syrian civil war ever since it started.

That a one-man operation should get such a massive following among the mainstream press is a curiosity indeed. In fact, it may even be more of a curiosity now than it was over three years ago, when the think tank here at Falling Downs brought you the exact same story!

Meet the shit-bags from hell; Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor

These guys are the face of democracy as it's unfolding in the 21st century.

Yup, it's a brave new world, and these guys are on top of it!

They pull in millions of dollars for their winning strategies in election campaigns all around the globe. They've been hired on to manage the democratic process in over 50 countries.

They've been hired on by Big Steve to win the vote on October 19.

Their speciality is sowing the seeds of mistrust, envy, race hate, and rancour.

They're really good at it.

They win elections.

The mere fact that the Harper gang finds it necessary to bring aboard shitbags like this should tell you something.

Has Harper's campaign taken an explicitly racist turn since Lynton Crosby came aboard?

In the three weeks since the Conservatives brought in Lynton Crosby, the tone of the election campaign has noticeably changed.

No longer is the focus on the economy, jobs, and such. Suddenly we're deeply immersed in the politics of race-baiting and fear-mongering. Lynton Crosby specializes in picking away at the scabs of fear, envy, and intolerance.

It's a winning formula; Harper's polling numbers have been trending upward since Crosby's arrival.

Where is Harper's hotline for native women?

Big Steve's been busy devising strategies that appeal to the racist instincts of his base, such as the proposed hotline that old stockers can use if they suspect their immigrant neighbours are engaging in barbaric cultural practices.

Here he is explaining what he means by that, according to the Vancouver Sun;

“We want to make sure these things are brought out of the shadows and the rights of women to their physical safety is protected in this country,” he said.

Yup, Mr. Harper really cares about protecting the physical safety of women, at least for immigrant women. On the other hand, those oldest of old stock Canadian women, the natives, are on their own. They can go "missing" in their thousands and Harper couldn't care less.

This kind of flagrant hypocrisy makes no sense whatsoever, unless of course you filter it through the lens of the racist instincts of the aforementioned base.

Sadly, then it makes perfect sense.

A weekend of wild sex

Why do guys have to talk so much shit about their sex lives?

A couple days ago I was having lunch with an old pal, a guy I've known since we were high school drop-outs who found ourselves on the factory floor at one of the big plants they used to have in Guelph back in the pre-NAFTA era. I wouldn't say we're tight, but our paths cross from time to time and we'll get together for lunch and a few pints.

So Buddy's plant shut down a few years ago and he's buttering his bread with a gig here and a gig there; he's actually living Todd Hirsch's gig economy!

After the job disappeared to Mexico, it didn't take long for his marriage to fall apart. Yup, sad to say, a lot of gals find a regular pay-cheque is a real turn-on in a partner.

No pay-cheque? No partner!

So the marriage falls apart, there's an acrimonious divorce, and Buddy's world, in the space of a year or so, shrivelled from a house overlooking the Humber River and a cottage up north to an apartment somewhere out in the boonies.

But he is full of hope! Thinks he's going to have a date with a hottie he met on the Ashley Madison website!

Tells me he's gonna have a weekend of wild sex!

Ya, right...

At our age you're maybe gonna have fifteen minutes of wild sex, and after that, well, lets just hope you brought a book along to read or something... a wild weekend has lots of time left after those first fifteen minutes.

I don't even have the heart to tell him those hotties at Ashley Madison are all fake...

Harper gang promises big bucks for anti-towelhead tip line

If you've got Muslim neighbours and you know they're up to no good, Big Steve's got some great pre-election news for you!

If you do your duty as a patriotic Canadian and re-elect the Harper gang on October 19, Big Steve is going to provide funding for a dedicated snitch line under the "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Practices Act."

If you weren't paying attention you may not even have noticed when that one slipped through parliament, but slip through it did.

See, even when you're not paying attention, Big Steve's got your back!

So if your Islamic neighbours on the 19th floor are slaughtering a baby goat for one of their barbaric festivals, who you gonna call?

BIG STEVE'S ZERO TOLERANCE ANTI-MUSLIM SNITCH LINE.

But this is a limited time offer. Make sure you vote Conservative on October 19.

Israel busts domestic ISIS terror plot

This story is remarkable for at least two reasons.

First, let's look at what is unremarkable. The gist of the tale is that Israeli Arabs, ie citizens of the Jewish State who are not Jews and therefore are not real Israelis, have been conspiring to introduce ISIS type terror into the Holy Land.

No surprises there. The Likudniks have been working overtime for at least twenty years to disenfranchise Israeli Arabs. After all, how can a non-Jew be a full citizen of the Jewish State?

That's what is unremarkable.

The two salient points that are remarkable are these;

1. This story comes out on the very day that Netanyahu makes his annual presentation at the UNGA. He put on quite a show this year. Perhaps not up to the precedent-setting bomb-cartoon episode, but nevertheless quite impressive. I'm sure those dramatic pauses had a great impact in the Marshal Islands and Canada. But that's not why it's remarkable; everything Netanyahu ever says is considered "remarkable" by the government of Canada. No, it's remarkable because it comes out on the very day that Netanyahu claims his "Arab Peace Partners" are all aboard with his anti-Iran agenda. Those would be the very "Arab Peace Partners" who have been sponsoring ISIS all along. That's remarkable.
2. The second remarkable fact about that story of Shin Bet busting an Israeli-Arab terror cell is that the word "Iran" does not make even one passing appearance anywhere in the story. Not once. That is REALLY remarkable.

I suspect there's a serious rift between the intelligence apparatchiks and Netanyahu's speech-writers. The speech-writers are reaching out to Netanyahu's base; American senators and congressional representatives.

The speech-writers wrote almost exclusively about Iran, as you heard in Netanyahu's address to the UN General Assembly.

Unlike the speech-writers, the intelligence folks are obliged to engage with the real world.