Cedric's Big Mix: 2014-12-21

Friday, December 26, 2014

He finally got his crown

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

HE MAY BE JUST ANOTHER FADED CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BUT HE'S MORE THAN THAT AS WELL.

BARRY O'S DONNED A TIARATO SEND OUT THE MESSAGE THAT ALL LITTLE GIRLS ARE PRINCESSES.

IT'S A MESSAGE SHIRLEY TEMPLE EARLIER SENT IN "THE LITTLE PRINCESS."

BUT BARRY O INSISTS SHE DOESN'T COUNT BECAUSE "NO ONE EVEN KNOWS WHO SHE WAS. ALSO I AM MUCH PRETTIER."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's start with the crazy.

Alsumaria reports State of Law is accusing Osama al-Nujaifi and Ayad Allawi -- two of Iraq's three vice presidents -- of wasting money on decorating their offices. However, State of Law MP insists that his precious Nouri al-Maliki asked for nothing.

No one believes State of Law. (Nouri created and heads State of Law.)

They're professional liars, first off.

Secondly, when Nouri wants to 'return' the jet plane that he doesn't own (the government owns) or when he wants to finally move his dirty ass out of the Prime Minister's residence (Haider al-Abadi became the new prime minister in August -- when does Nouri plan to vacate?) maybe someone will take 'office decoration abuse' seriously.

Maybe not -- because, third, State of Law's policies and actions took an Iraq moving closer to stability and unleashed non-stop violence.

Nouri alienated everyone, spread lies about everyone -- including leaders of foreign countries.

Has thug Nouri changed?

No.

That's an interesting assertion. Every other report has noted that the Iraqi military -- that Nouri ran -- not the Peshmerga (Kurdish fighting force) deserted.

The White House has even noted that reality.

But Nouri has to lie because that's all he has and that's how hideous he is.

He has damaged Iraq so badly. If he had any decency at all, he'd hang his head in shame and slink off, mortified by the violence he bread in Iraq.

But Nouri has no ethics, Nouri has no decency.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Another tragedy in the Cult of St. Barack

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

ERIC COHN HAS BEEN RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

THE ALLEGED REPORTER WAS DISCOVERED NEARLY CHOKED TO DEATH.

AFTER PARAMEDICS REMOVED HIM FROM THE COCK OF FADED CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O, THEY ATTEMPTED TO SPEAK TO COHN WHO INSISTED THAT EVEN THOUGH BARRY O HAD DONE NOTHING TO "SAVE" THE INTERVIEW IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR A CHEAP AND DIRTY WHORE LIKE ERIC COHN TO GIVE HIM CREDIT.

"I REGRET THAT MY GAG REFLEXES DID NOT ALLOW ME TO FULLY PLEASURE MY CULT LEADER," ERIC INSISTED WITH TEARS FLOWING FROM HIS EYES.

PARAMEDICS TOLD THESE REPORTERS THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER SOMEONE CAN "JUST AS EASILY CHOKE ON A TINY VIENNA SAUSAGE AS ON AN EARL CAMPBELL HOT LINK" MEANING DON'T MISTAKE COHN'S NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE FOR MEANING THAT PRINCESS TINY MEAT IS LARGELY ENDOWED.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with WikiLeak's latest exposure. Last week, they released a report the CIA prepared for US President Barack Obama. The report, dated July 7, 2009, is entitled [PDF format warning] "Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool" and is the CIA's flash-card style explanation to Barack of counterinsurgency and the value of killing.

The term they use is "High-Value Targeting" which they explain:

We define high-value targeting as focused operations against specific individuals or networks whose removal or marginalization should disproportionately degrade an insurgent group's effectiveness. The criteria for designating high-value targets will vary according to factors such as the insurgent group's capabilities, structure, and leadership dynamics and the government's desired outcome.

The biggest shock of the brief paper is how much they dumb it down -- apparently not expecting much of their intended audiences.

A few things emerge.

On Iraq, we learn that cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr was smart to spend those long periods of time outside of Iraq -- the Sadr movement was targeted and, the report makes clear, not just by the United States, "The Iraqi Government has been using HVT efforts to eliminate irreconcilable Sadrist militant leaders and moderate the Sadrist movement. "

An outstanding arrest warrant was out on Moqtada al-Sadr and it was often noted, while he was in Iran, that one of the reasons he remained out of the country was that he suspected/feared Nouri al-Maliki would issue it to have him arrested.

Clearly concerns of being targeted by the government were valid ones.

Also clear, the CIA is a huge embarrassment when it comes to referencing, "In Iraq, Jaysh Muhammad (JM) suffered a significant setback in late 2004 after British replacements in short succession, according to the Jordian General Intelligence Directorate." You're the CIA and you're shoring up a point with "according to the Jordian General Intelligence Directorate"?

Then again, maybe that was another part of dumbing it down for the intended reader?

Also writing? Joshua J. McElwee (National Catholic Reporter) notes:

Pope Francis has written a Christmas letter to the dwindling Christian community in the Middle East, offering his solidarity in what he calls their "enormous suffering" amid the horrific and sustained violence of the Islamic State militant group.
Issuing the almost 2,000-word letter in eight languages Tuesday, the pope also says that he wishes to visit the region and condemns continued arms trafficking there "in the strongest possible terms."

Arms trafficking sales are big business -- legal sales and illegal sales. The leading legal arms trafficker to Iraq would appear to be the United States. Doug Cameron (Nasdaq) reports:

U.S. government approvals for U.S. weapon sales to Iraq have nearly tripled this year to almost $15 billion, promising much-needed work for U.S. weapons factories if the proposed deals can overcome congressional concerns.
The slew of deals includes $3 billion in possible sales announced last week that still need to be approved by Congress and would boost sluggish U.S. demand for General Dynamics Corp.'s M1A1 Abrams tanks as well as Humvee armored cars produced by closely held AM General LLC.

And the US just keeps pouring weapons into Iraq. Joe Pappalardo (Popular Mechanic) informs, "The State Department just approved the sale of $3 billion in Humvees and M1A1 Abrams tanks to the Iraqi government, which is trying desperately to hang on to power in the fight against the well-equipped army of the Islamic State. (Congress still must approve the sale.) "

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

YES HE . . . might?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

FADED CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O WAS INTERVIEWED BY TELETUBBY CANDY CROWLEY AND INSISTED HE WOULD DO "EVERYTHING I CAN" TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO.

OF COURSE, HE PROMISED, RUNNING FOR THE OFFICE IN 2008, THAT HE'D CLOSE IT.

AND HE DIDN'T.

AND HE HAD THE POWER TO DO IT THEN AND HAS IT NOW -- A POINT WE'RE SURE TELETUBBY CANDY WOULD HAVE RAISED WERE SHE NOT SO BUSY SHOVING FOOD INTO HER GULLET.

GOT A KNOSH?

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

CNN's Jake Tapper Tweets:

Retweeted 235 times

Jake Tapper ‏@jaketapper 18 hours ago

Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq http://www.stripes.com/news/us/1-000-soldiers-from-the-82nd-airborne-headed-to-iraq-1.320194 …

235 retweets 61 favorites

And who will they find there?

To read this week's press, they'll find R.E.M.'s "Shiny, Happy People" come to life.

That's what the press has insisted all week long and what we've disputed all week long.

"Why would they fight for a government that refuses to respect them? [New Prime Minister Haider] Abadi is just another face on the same Shiite agenda – and the Sunni anger will continue until there is meaningful change in Baghdad."

That's Sunni Sheikh Mohammad Ramadi (al-Bajan tribe) and we'll get back to him and the article that's the most important one on Iraq this week in a moment.

But first . . .

Let's take a moment to reflect on this week, this week of propaganda.

Where the US State Dept worked overtime in Iraq.

A first!

Sadly, the work wasn't on the Iraqi government or diplomacy.

It was selling propaganda to the press.

Again, I hope the press got something out of it because all news consumers got was b.s.

If you've forgotten, the propaganda effort was Haider al-Abadi and his healing touch.

The rollout started early this week with any outlet the State Dept could corral, blackmail, bully or buy pimping the lie that Haider had brought unity to Iraq.

The effort was supposed to culminate with the column written for -- not by -- Haider which appeared on the op-ed pages of the Wall St. Journal exclaiming that a national identity had been forged for Iraq via the Iraqi military. For those a little slow on the uptake that would mean, ultimately, by Haider himself since he is commander-in-chief of the military.

Wow.

How amazing.

How wonderful.

The war is being won! Soon the US will be able to come home!

There are some who will believe that nonsense.

There are idiots all over the world.

Equally true, to some, this spin is new.

They were too young to have caught it from 2003 through 2007 when it was constantly repeated. (And when it constantly proved to be false.)

But most adults should have caught on.

And they should have called it out.

Instead, it was just us.

And there's gonna come a time when we're not here. I'm sick of the internet. I'm sick of writing every day for over ten years now without a day off.

What was this week's big faux scandal? The thing that had the Center for American Progress, The Nation, The Progressive, et al up in arms?

Because it sure as hell wasn't Iraq and it sure as hell wasn't the same corporate media yet again selling lies to the American people about Iraq.

I hope whatever crap the faux independent media of CAP, The Nation, et al passed off as important at least provided giggles because it provided no substance and had no real point at all.

(What was it? Largely it was a propaganda effort to convince you that Senator Elizabeth Warren -- anti-Palestinian rights, Republican until she ran for the Senate, falsely passed herself off as a Native American to benefit in hiring, anti-Iran, etc -- was the one to take down Hillary Clinton. Reality, Elizabeth doesn't photograph normal and her voice will be irritating to most American ears. The best she could hope for is the same results as another politician who struck Americans as a "freak," Paul Simon. She's not electable on a national scale for 2016.)

Some place the cost of the Iraq War at a trillion dollars for US taxpayers.

If for no other reason, this week's lies of success should matter for financial reasons.

As the work week came to a close, the Pentagon sotto voice admitted the cost of Barack's latest wave of war, which began August 8, 2014, have already reached $1.02 billion.

That's four months.

And US President Barack Obama has said this will last years.

If for no other reason than cost, this should outrage Americans.

3 US service members have died in the operation during the four months. But no one wants to talk about that either.

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