The weird spectacle of the day out of the White House is a crazy list of “under-reported” terrorist attacks in recent years (including the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney, which had saturation coverage in the media here for months, but not including the now infamous, nonexistent “Bowling Green massacre” made up by Trump PR lady Kellyanne Conway recently, to the mirth of thousands of Tweeters).
The Washington Post noted that the whole thing seemed to have been lifted from Alex Jones’ “Infowars” conspiracy theory site, which has transitioned from notionally libertarian to outright fascist in outlook in recent years – InfoWars is behind President Trump’s idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks.
Trump and Infowars seem to have a symbiotic relationship over recent years, with Jones claiming broadcasting on Infowars is like sending the “bat signal‘ to Trump.
Author Jon Ronson (of “Men Who Stare At Goats” fame) has had a long relationship with Jones (the two first hooked up for their now infamous visit to “Bohemian Grove” many years ago) and published a great little ebook called “The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”” not long before the US presidential election.
The ABC had an interview with Ronson before the election, which ended (in retrospect) rather ominously – Elephant in the room: Jon Ronson on Alex Jones, the Trump campaign and the alt-right.
MARK COLVIN: You’ve got a quote in your e-book, where you say, “In previous election campaigns there was a clear delineation between the serious main event and the reckless fringe, but not in this.”Is that the main point, as far as you’re concerned?
JON RONSON: I think so, yeah. I think the egalitarian nature of the internet has done some really great things, but it’s also created insane chaos. And Trump and the Trump campaign is part of that chaos.
It feels like all of us, with our polarised, divisive ways, have polluted the waters. And Trump emerged from them like a kind of three-eyed fish.
MARK COLVIN: Is it a form of mass hysteria? In other words: do you think that it will come and go and that, a couple of years from now, people will be looking back and saying, “How could we ever have done that?” Or do you think it’s the beginning of a trend?
JON RONSON: Well, you know: I mean, Trump is losing – thank God, you know.
Is there some collusion between the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton campaign? You know, probably there is some collusion. You know, when Trump says that, I think it’s true.
I think everybody has decided that Trump would be incredibly dangerous. And so I think Trump will lose the election and things will kind of go back to normal a little bit.
However, I think we need to think of these times as, “Oh, my God. If things had taken a slightly different turn, this could have been…” Look, I don’t want to get too grandiose here, but this could have been Germany in 1929.
If it doesnt terrify you that the man with his finger on the button reads and BELIEVES a conspiracy site, it should. https://t.co/RS2ue6jnlt
— Pierre Omidyar (@pierre) February 7, 2017
Cloggie on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 6:53 am
The new media situation:
https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/828734190128611328/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Bye-bye Wolf Blitzer!
BobInget on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 9:57 am
Watching slow-mo coup devouring our democracy. One after another inmates taking over the institution.
How does one refute events that never happen ?
“Sandy Hook” never happened (Alex Jones) but dozens of MuslimTerrorists are secretly killing white five and six year olds in Chicago and LA.
I get it. Marxist, Leninist ideal, destroy the current government, replace that with a “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” Only in our present case it will be a dictatorship of billionaires.
Trump paved the way for far more articulate
future dictatorships. DJT, a sick man, is rushing to
have his name enshrined on Mid West corn fields; “Donald Trump’s America”.
Nothing less then a ‘dictatorship of the personality’
will ease this man’s insecurity.
Davy on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 10:21 am
Bob, anything is better than your Clinton crime syndicate you almost allowed to get elected. WTF, you think I am stupid to let your lib-coasters dominate life with your elite tenured privilege at all levels of government and private sector. Yea, we the fly-overs just referenced you with the finger. You got so corrupted that now even in defeat you can’t see the slime you are. All I can say is good riddance and enjoy the butt hurt called Trump. Go troll somewhere else please.
Davy on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 10:32 am
Oops, how inconvenient.
“55% Of Europeans Agree With Trump: “Muslim Immigration Should Be Banned”
http://tinyurl.com/h7gfrfm
“In the survey, carried out prior President Trump’s executive order was announced, respondents were given the following statement: ‘All further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped’. They were then asked to what extent did they agree or disagree with this statement. Overall, across all 10 of the European countries an average of 55% agreed that all further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped, 25% neither agreed nor disagreed and 20% disagreed. Furthermore, majorities in all but two of the ten states agreed, ranging from 71% in Poland, 65% in Austria, 53% in Germany and 51% in Italy to 47% in the United Kingdom and 41% in Spain. In no country did the percentage that disagreed surpass 32%. In short, more than half of Europeans agree with Donald Trump.”
Kenz300 on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 10:40 am
Fake News started with Faux Noise.
They said OPINION did not need to be based on facts.
Cloggie on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 11:04 am
Davy’s link comes from Chatham House, a British globalist club (but I repeat myself):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House
It is unlikely that Chatham House revised the figures to support Trump.
France could be liberated by next May.
Than the last item on the global todo list is to remove Angela Mürkül from her Fuehrer bunker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsW9OPmjdqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS5c_OVZmtk
Apneaman on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 11:41 am
Clog, new Davy & ALEX FUCKING JONES articles and Trump, Trump, Trump. This is why almost anyone with any intelligence and insight is gone from peakoil.com.
Davy on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 11:59 am
Ape, I have never visited or listened to Alex Jones. I can’t really comment on him. But I am sorry for your butt hurt over him. I know Clog likes him but that is clogs business.
Cloggie on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 2:49 pm
“We want to be second!”
The Dutch comedy show “Lubach on Sunday” made a hilarious video for Donald Trump. The idea was that if America is going to be first again, the Netherlands at least perhaps could be second. To promote this idea, the video introduces the Netherlands in a style Trump would probably appreciate (English subs during intro and most spoken English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc
The video went absolutely viral, at least 75 millions views world wide and was even discussed at CNN.
Then the embarrassing happened: comedy shows in 12 and counting European countries began to copy the video, often with only minor modifications. Click on the country flag. Only the German one is a little edgy (“Make Germany great again”; if you want to nuke us, here is our countries –> map of Italy):
http://everysecondcounts.eu/
Here American teens discuss the Dutch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dImfHWFuoug
Cloggie on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 2:56 pm
Clog, new Davy & ALEX FUCKING JONES articles and Trump, Trump, Trump. This is why almost anyone with any intelligence and insight is gone from peakoil.com.
…so we’re stuck with you, I see the problem.
The very fact that peak-oil is not that hot any more, obviously has nothing to do with it. It’s all Alex Jones’ fault.
Cloggie on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 4:42 pm
She’s back, dressed in a potato bag!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmmOCKdoBFQ
The future is female. If young and blonde, I’m all for it.
The next 2020 election circus is certainly going to be great again.
Boat on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 5:11 pm
Trump is, was and always will be a crazy wing nut, but then so we’re 49 percent of the voting public. To date other than make a lot of noise he really hasn’t had time to be effective, good or bad. He won the election and deserves the right to f&&k up making friends and enemies along the way. Just his birther history lost my vote but then substance doesn’t always win the day.
Anonymous on Tue, 7th Feb 2017 7:15 pm
LoL, boat calling trump a crazy wing nut. Boat, there is a black pot I think you should meet.
Retard
Theedrich on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 3:32 am
On Sunday, 2017 February 5, the Fox News network broadcast an interview by Bill O’Reilly with President Donald J. Trump. In it, O’Reilly called Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin a “killer” and tried to force Mr. Trump to agree with that epithet, which the latter refused to do. O’Reilly was basically repeating the attempt by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday, 2017 January 11 to compel the then candidate for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to call Mr. Putin a “war criminal,” which Tillerson similarly refused to do.
The provocative acts by O’Reilly and Rubio, backed up with the sporadic vilification of Mr. Putin by Republican senators John McCain (AZ) and Lindsey Graham (SC), are maniacally dangerous and diabolical. These four psychopaths wrap their belligerence in self-sanctifying hypocrisy about U.S. aggression being justified by our need to fight for “freedom, justice and the American Way” around the world. (By the way, the none of this tetrad ever pointed out that the war in Syria, resulting in massive refugee flows, was instigated, started and paid for by the U.S.) For the sake of personal political gain, they are in fact laying the groundwork for nuclear war. When Mr. Trump responded to O’Reilly that the U.S. itself had not been so innocent of killing non-combatants, as in Iraq, etc., O’Reilly and the others, helped by the utterly diseased Leftist media, tried to make everyone think that American aggression in the Middle East had been merely an “honest mistake.”
In fact, the truth is known by everyone who cares to know. As President George W. Bush in effect made clear at the beginning of his war on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, he was trying to change the world into a replica of America with “freedom” and “democracy,” etc., just as it had done in the case of Germany and Japan. (Never mind America’s carpet-bombing of German and Japanese civilian cities or its nuking of Japan.) There were no “mistakes” and, like those earlier horrors, the destruction of the Middle East was camouflaged with a cloud of fabrication and lies.
The mass killings of non-belligerents, a favorite tactic of American presidents and military, has long been the preferred method of spreading the American Way of Life everywhere.
Always, always, however, this genocidal practice is smeared over with Protestant-Christian propaganda about America having the right to exterminate others en masse because the U.S. has the “moral high ground” (which the murdering elites define). To the obedient, childish herd, this justifies the murders.
Today, however, this habit of U.S. political elites is on the verge of wiping homo sapiens from the entire planet. Not only Russia and China, but tiny, impoverished North Korea (and, in a decade or so, Iran), have the ability to eliminate the anti-evolutionary Yankee cancer from the earth once and for all. To antagonize nuke-armed countries, whatever their actions, with morality-hyping drivel and insults is to take a giant step toward Ragnarok. Unbeknownst to the megalomaniac Washington, D.C. royalty, the days of global American hegemony are over. And there is nothing the imperial courtiers and their multibillionaire paymasters can do about it.
Vermin such as O’Reilly and other morality propagandists should be banned from ever showing up on the media again. Anyone who would disagree with this should first read Charles Pellegrino’s clear, scientific and terrifying To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (2015) for a small intimation of just where such propagandists are leading us. We should not be obsessing about how we should open our borders wide for all illegal aliens, as Sörös wants, or how to restructure school or public bathrooms to accommodate transgender neurotics; we should be worried about existence itself.
Davy on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 5:20 am
Yea, I was very impressed that Trump alluded to the US as a government of killers. You then saw the biggest whining hypocrites in the government perk up like parrots in a pet shop. I like how Liz Cheney perked up defending dad. Cheney needs to stand for war crimes. GW was just a gullible puppet leader doing what the family told him to do. I like a leader who admits the US government kills and is little different from Putin. Can you imagine a libertard admitting as much? That is why I am so down on libitards. They are the biggest hypocrites and liars on the planet. Neocons are too it is just the neocons lurk in dark spaces like a poisonous snakes quietly killing. Libitards are out in front talking high and mighty as they shit all over everything with fake news and political lies.
DerHundistlos on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 5:55 am
@ US Voters
Why are YOU not raising bloody hell that Trump repealed the Fiduciary Rule. Upon graduation from college, I went to work in the securities department for a bank. I saw first-hand that the majority of the public knows little to nothing about the principles of investing. Instead they trust the “financial expert” to look after their best interests. Thank God I can say with a clear conscience that I always made certain the clients interests were primary- i’m not afraid to have a listed phone number and my clients did quite well; however, my employer was not too thrilled that I would recommend non-income generating products when appropriate, and I refused to sell-out so I moved on.
The point is this terrible decison will result in many, many people losing their lifetime savings due to mismanagement. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. Makes me truly sick as this will also erode the social cohesion and trust that allowed the USA to prosper.
I’m almost at my breaking point as I foolishly spend my time chasing at windmills. I’m such an idiot= please not need to chime in/
Davy on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 6:06 am
At least libitards have one smart guy on board maybe they will listen:
“Rahm Emanuel Tells Democrats To Stop Crying, Bend Over For “Long Haul” – Then Offers Subversive Advice On Dirty Politics”
http://tinyurl.com/gsager8
“Stanford University started the week off with two elite liberal inspirationalists to help the tender psyches of turtleneck wearing “compliant and unawares” climb back from the depths of despair. I imagine that miserable couple on the plane to Portland were in attendance – both wearing jeans and faux-buckle loafers with no socks. In a sermon to the fractured cult of Jobs on Monday, Justice Ginsburg put down her antique ivory ear-trumpet to let the world know she wants to eradicate the electoral college, and people need to be more charitable. Credible sources within earshot say many tears of inspiration were shed.”
“In stark contrast to Ginsburg’s feel-good appearance, however, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took a big check to show up on the Palo Alto campus – where he effectively called tantruming democrats whiny children, telling them to put on their big boy/girl/it pants and move on: “Our party likes to be right, even if we lose. If you win, you then have the power to go do what you need to get done. If you lose, you can write a book about what happened. Great. That’s really exciting [Sarcastic Rahm eye roll].”
“He then went all Harkonen apprentice, talking about plans within plans and biding time: You also gotta know, you can’t beat something with nothin’ – that was Bill Clinton’s always lesson. You have to have an alternative. You have to give people your vision. And I would also be honest, it took us a long time to get this low – it ain’t gonna happen in 2018. Take a chill pill, man. You gotta be in this for the long haul. If you think it’s gonna be a quick turnaround, like that – it’s not.”
“Of course while waiting to regain power, the most effective thing congressional Democrats can do for the country is stop infighting – and then divide, divide, divide! Here’s Rahm’s advice: “Democrats don’t have the power to swing at everything, so we have to pick what is essential.” B – Wedge: “wherever there is a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. President wants Russia, I’m for John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO. Why? Wedge. Schisms have to be wedges, wedges have to be divides.” Third: “We gotta lower the President, why? Because they are strong enough to get him in [against?] us. We’re not strong enough.”
ZH- “How about “don’t cheat during the primaries with a candidate whose fake charity took tens of Millions of dollars from our enemies?”
Cloggie on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 9:39 am
Latest populist election campaign videos:
France (May):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWnuQc5mYA
Holland (March):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYsQf7OzgFs
shortonoil on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 2:15 pm
“Trump, Trump, Trump. This is why almost anyone with any intelligence and insight is gone from peakoil.com.”
I doubt if Trump would know Peak Oil if it ran down his leg! Billionaires are definitely not into caring about resource depletion. That’s a prole problem.
Cloggie on Wed, 8th Feb 2017 4:54 pm
White working class needs to be replaced with immigrants
That’s not me saying that, but high end US media intellectual Bill Kristol:
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/02/bill-kristol-lazy-spoiled-white-working-class-replaced-immigrants/
This is why the western alliance needs to be destroyed and reconstructed from the ground up. Obviously without the Kristols of this world, who have been lording over us Europeans since 1945 and the US since 1900. And with a leading role for Russia, who has the “Kristol-phase” already behind it.