Look who's in the bordello

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

BIG FRAUD JOSEPH STIGLITZ IS BACK IN THE NEWS.

FRAUD JOEY AND LINDA LYING BILMES USED TO TALK ABOUT THE COST OF THE IRAQ WAR CONSTANTLY.

NOT A WORD IN 2016.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, FRAUD JOEY DECLARED, "I'M A WHORE.  BUT NOT A CHEAP ONE.  I SOLD OUT TO CRANKY CLINTON.  I SOLD OUT BECAUSE MONEY MATTERS, NOT LIVES.  I'M A HAPPY LITTLE WHORE."


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Writer Liza Featherston (author of FALSE CHOICES: THE FAUX FEMINISM OF HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON) already found the best Tweet on Barack's speech:

Liza Featherstone Retweeted

Christopher Hayes ‏@chrislhayes  9h9 hours ago

The President of the United States is literally making the case for democracy over authoritarianism. In 2016.

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Chris may see that as an insult to Donald Trump.  I'd see it as an insult to this convention and how pathetic the messaging is and how hollow any plan to move forward actually is.

Barack knows a thing or two about authoritarianism after all.  He's got the kill list, he carries out The Drone War, he goes after journalists and whistle-blowers.  On the last one, CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin ReTweeted:

1.  Medea Benjamin Retweeted

   Leo Hornak ‏@L_Hornak  9h9 hours ago

   "What about the l whistleblowers?" Code pink protestors removed in Obama speech #DemsinPhilly @ltomei @pritheworld

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 Medea Benjamin Retweeted

CODEPINK ‏@codepink  9h9 hours agoLos Angeles, CA

CODEPINK Disrupts Pres. Obama's #DNCinPHL Speech to Demand Justice for Whistleblowers #DemsInPhilly

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Ed is whistle-blower Ed Snowden who exposed the NSA's illegal spying on Americans.  Some may remember Shrill Hill Clinton snarling Ed should be in prison for his leaks of classified information.  She doesn't say that much these days due to the fact that she's now been exposed -- liars always will be -- of sending at least 3 classified e-mails on her non-protected e-mail server and, of course, there was her fit when they couldn't fax her classified information so she told them to use a regular fax and just strip off the classified warnings.  Shrill Hill, what a leader.

Chelsea is whistle-blower Chelsea Manning who served in Iraq and leaked to WikiLeaks and remains in prison for what he did with classified information.  Shrill Hill, of course, didn't have to go to prison -- but when your husband can meet with the Attorney General on a plane -- with the FBI telling the press "no photos" -- you don't have to go to prison.

Rules are for regular people, not Shrill Hill.

And Julian Assange is the head of WikiLeaks who brought down Debbie Wasserman Schultz with his e-mail leak. (Wasserman Schultz had been the Chair of the DNC until the e-mails showed that the DNC conspired to bury Bernie Sanders in the primaries while elevating Debbie's gal pal Hillary.)

Poor pathetic Bernie.

Kids, I could have told you.

But, as Carly Simon once sang, "You have to hurt to understand."

And you're hurting now.

But this is the man who held a hearing, a VA hearing, chaired it in fact, the week that the VA's fake lists on time waits were exposed and while the press was reporting on the denial of care and how it may have led to deaths.  And how did Bernie start that hearing?  Insisting that the topic not be mentioned in his hearing because he wanted to talk about . . . acupuncture.

Bernie the eternal failure.

Only running against Shrill Hill could Bernie ever look like a savior.


WSWS continues their coverage from Philadelphia:

Our reporting team spoke to Kate and Meira, who had driven to Philadelphia from New York to support Sanders and protest the nomination of Hillary Clinton. Kate told us, “Hillary is such a warmonger and it really scares me. The two candidates are loathed by so many people.” Speaking further about Clinton, she said, “I think she’s a puppet, and they’ll get a new puppet. There are a lot of agents and actors, it’s a machine.”
When asked about the leaked emails exposing the DNC, Meira said, “We were saying it all along, and it is outrageous, scandalous and awful. Their apology doesn’t mean anything because they are apologizing and not doing anything. If they meant it they would say, ‘Wow, this was awful, let’s vote again.’ They’re not saying that. They’re saying, pardon my language, ‘We screwed you over, sorry! We’re going to take the results we dictated and run with them.’ We knew that our votes were stolen. We know what happened, and it’s kind of insane.”
Wynn and Heather drove all the way from Iowa. Wynn said that “WikiLeaks basically validates everything we’ve been thinking since the beginning. The things that have been going on are unfair, unjust,” at which point Heather added, “corrupt!”




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LOSER AND CROOK DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ ANNOUNCED SHE'S RESIGNING AS CHAIR OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE . . . EFFECTIVE RIGHT AFTER THE CONVENTION IS OVER.

WHICH IS A BIT LIKE ALLOWING HER TO BE HOME COMING QUEEN NEXT WEEK BEFORE 'STEPPING DOWN' AS THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDS.

AND AFTER SHE 'STEPS DOWN' (TOILET BABY!), SHE'LL BE HEADING CRANKY CLINTON'S 50 STATE CAMPAIGN AS HONORARY CHAIR.

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Presumed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton -- or, as Mike bills her, the repulsive nominee -- is back in the news.

Cynthia McKinney PhD ‏@cynthiamckinney  11h11 hours ago

You'll see Hillary in the White House With My Vote—When Pigs Fly! Watch her pander to Blacks at the Convention.

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No, not because the War Hawk chose Tim Kaine.

Her cult will look the other way and pretend like Tim Kaine's abortion stance doesn't matter the same way they ignore the way Hillary has chipped away at abortion rights since she first stepped onto the national stage.

No, no one's talking about Tim Kaine because no one -- probably not even his own mother -- has ever found Tim Kaine remotely interesting.


It's WikiLeaks:

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks  Jul 22

RELEASE: 19,252 emails from the US Democratic National Committee https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/  #Hillary2016 #FeelTheBern

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Gee, Bernie Sanders, are you carrying about these "damn e-mails"?


Because you really should.


Theodore Schleifer (CNN) reports:

Nearly 20,000 emails sent and received by Democratic National Committee staff members were released Friday by Wikileaks, with one message in particular raising questions about the committee's impartiality during the Democratic primary.

The revelation threatened to shatter the uneasy peace between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders camps and supporters days before the Democratic convention kicks off next week.

The leaks, from January 2015 to May 2016, feature Democratic staffers debating everything from how to deal with challenging media requests to coordinating the committee's message with other powerful interests in Washington. 

Michael Sainato (OBESERVER) points, out, "In its recent leak of 20,000 DNC emails from January 2015 to May 2016, DNC staff discuss how to deal with Bernie Sanders’ popularity as a challenge to Clinton’s candidacy. Instead of treating Sanders as a viable candidate for the Democratic ticket, the DNC worked against him and his campaign to ensure Clinton received the nomination."  Tom Hamburger and Karen Tumulty (WASHINGTON POST) add, "One potential complication is that Sanders’s supporters are crucial to Democratic hopes of retaining the White House in the fall. They bring to the contest both passion and a potentially vast donor base."

And when not attempting to derail the Bernie Sanders campaign, the e-mails reveal attempts at subverting journalism.

Queen Bee Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for example, cannot handle criticism anymore than she can handle bathing.

She sees this item in a brief from an MSNBC newsletter (sent to all who sign up for them):

>>> On Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski called for DNC Chair Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to “step down” over her handling of this year’s Democratic presidential primary. >>> After playing a clip of Wasserman Schultz, Brzezinski said, “This has been very poorly handled from the start. Ot has been unfair, and they haven’t taken him seriously, and it starts, quite frankly, with the person that we just heard speaking. It just does.” >>> Brzezinski added of Wasserman Schultz, “She should step down.” >>> Brzezinski’s co-host, former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough wondered why Sanders would “get in line” for the Democratic Party, given that they “rigged the entire thing,” and that if he was in Sanders’ position, “I’d say, ‘Go straight to hell, I’m running as an independent.'”


Wasserman Shcultz then copies that item and fires an e-mail off to Chuck Todd:

On May 18, 2016, at 9:19 AM, "hrtsleeve@gmail.com" wrote: > >> Chuck, see below. I would like to discuss this with you today. Can you reach out to Luis to schedule a call? Thanks. >> DWS >> 


She titles this e-mail "Chuck, this must stop."

Todd is trying to spin this as just the normal thing that can happen when you do coverage.


That's a lie.  There's nothing normal about him declaring this of Mika in an e-mail to Debbie's DNC staffer (Communications Director Luis Miranda):


     I don't know. She can do 180s after these calls. It can't get worse



Who's paying Chuck Todd?

I thought it was ComCast but it appears he believes he's being paid by the Democratic National Committee.

In that e-mail, he's just a little bitch, isn't he?  "She can do 180s after these calls.  It can't get worse."


So good to know Chuck's got the backs of the other NBC employees.


He was contacted in his position as the Political Director of NBC News.

If he's going to sell out employees, he better advise NBC News and ComCast of that decision.





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RESPONDING TO WIKILEAKS' LEAKING E-MAILS DEMONSTRATING DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE D.N.C. WORKED IN SECRET TO DESTROY BERNIE SANDERS AND HAND THE PARTY'S NOMINATION TO HILLARY CLINTON, MS. WASHERWOMAN SCHULTZ HAS A FEW THINGS SHE WANTS TO SAY.

"YOU PEONS WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAVE KNOWN!"  WASHERWOMAN SCHULTZ SCREAMED AT THESE REPORTERS THIS MORNING.  "SCREW YOU ALL!  I RUN THINGS AND I RUN THEM MY WAY!  IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, BUY A TICKET TO THE UKRAINE! WE DON'T NEED YOU! NOT ANY OF YOU!  AND IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR US, IT WON'T MATTER, I'VE BOUGHT THE VOTING MACHINES!"

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The disaster that is newly 'liberted' Falluja has many concerned about what happens to the city and citizens of Mosul when Iraqi forces attempt to 'liberate' it from the Islamic State which has held it since June of 2014.

WHOVerified account ‏@WHO  20h20 hours ago

The conflict in #Iraq has severe humanitarian consequences Nearly 1/3 of the population –10,000,000 people– need aid

Too many people in Iraq are still suffering

Nearly one third of the population of Iraq –10,000,000 people– need aid. Despite limited resources, WHO has so far provided emergency health kits & 10 mobile clinics this year. But that's not enough.

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Together We Are More ‏@TWAM__  4h4 hours ago

We don't hear much about this but there are 1.5 million internally displaced children in #Iraq alone. #Humanrights

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Yesterday, the United Nations announced:


One of the top United Nations officials in Iraq is warning that an expected military operation in Mosul will lead to the largest and most dramatic humanitarian crisis in the world, which could impact as many as 1.5 million civilians.
“The impact of the Mosul military campaign on civilians will be devastating,” said Lise Grande, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. “Mass casualties among civilians are likely and families trying to flee are expected to be at extreme risk.”
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is asking for an additional $284 million to start preparing food, water, emergency shelter and medical assistance, and other immediately needed aid.
Military operations by the Government of Iraq and its allies to retake areas from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are already forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians, including more than 85,000 people from Fallujah, to flee their homes in search of safety.
More than 3.3 million Iraqis are currently displaced across the country and as many as 2.5 million more people may become newly displaced along the Anbar and Mosul corridors and in Mosul city in the months ahead. 


SWISSINFO CHANNEL reports Switzerland has donated the US equivalent of $1 million dollars.  Canada pledged $158 million.

Yesterday, in DC, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted, "I am pleased to announce that, by securing more than $2 billion of pledges that we know will be forthcoming, we have exceeded our expectations and the conference is by all measures successful. Within that total is more than $450 million for humanitarian assistance, much of which is going to go directly to the most recent UN humanitarian appeal.  I’m very proud to say that the United States, each of the countries here, have donated significant – hundreds of millions of dollars, and I think when we finished just making our commitments, we were well over half a billion dollars, and now we are over the – excuse me, were well over half a billion and close to the full billion, and now we’re over the billion."


Sorry to interrupt the chorus of "We Are The World" but how will it be ensured that the money goes to those in need?


Kerry's comments included, "The goal of our pledging conference is to raise money to help Iraqis in four priority areas: humanitarian aid, de-mining, immediate stabilization, and longer-term recovery."


These would have been questions to pursue but Elise Labbot didn't.

CNN's reporter got the first question -- when you're the State Dept's pet you get those sort of favors -- and immediately turned a briefing on Iraq into Turkey.

No one was surprised.

When everyone's whispering -- true or false, I don't know -- that you're sleeping with John Kerry, presumably, you're calling the shots.  He is after all married (to a very good friend of mine, so watch your back, Elise, if the rumors are true and say prayers of thanks that you don't live in China).  And if the rumors aren't true, stop pretending flirting is part of a reporter's arsenal.


Iraq's attending this conference with government officials.  Presumably their hands are out.


And Iraq is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and has been for over a decade -- see the rankings on Transparency Index.

lyse doucetVerified account ‏@bbclysedoucet  6h6 hours ago

Great to meet university students - they're angry at Iraq's politicians for stealing their future. @BBCWorld #iraq

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Yes, the students are angry, as are the people of Iraq.

Iraq is an oil rich country raking in billions in oil revenues each year -- billions more than they have millions of people.  Yet government corruption is so great that this oil rich country now has to beg the International Money Fund for dollars.  You don't catch oil rich Saudi Arabia doing that.


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DEADLOCKED IN OHIO, CRANKY CLINTON AND DULL DONALD ARE NECK IN NECK WHICH CAN ONLY BE SEEN AS A VICTORY OF THE MOMENT FOR DULL DONALD.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPERDELGATES PUT THEIR FAITH IN SOUR PUSS CRANKY CLINTON DESPITE HER PAST HISTORY AND WELL KNOWN DIVISIVE PERSONALITY AND THEY INSISTED SHE WAS A SURE THING.

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Starting with War Criminal Tony Blair, Nicole Stinson (DAILY STAR) reports:

The Iraq War Families Campaign Group launched an online appeal to the raise £50,000 to "bring to justice those responsible for the war and the deaths of our loved ones" earlier today.
In the less than a day they have managed to attract 1,428 backers.
They now have their sights on raising £150,000 to cover legal costs.

THE MIRROR adds, "It comes weeks after the Chilcot report tore into Mr Blair, other leading politicians and senior officials over their actions before, during and after the conflict, in which 179 British service personnel died."  Adam Taylor (WASHINGTON POST) notes, "Blair came under renewed scrutiny after the release of the Chilcot inquiry. The report included evidence suggesting that he had misrepresented intelligence ahead of the war. In one memo from July 2002 before the war, Blair writes to President George W. Bush that 'I will be with you, whatever' -- which many took as implying that he would support the war, no matter the opposition."

But while those injured by Tony Blair have to crowd source to get money for legal bills, Robert Mendick and Ben Farmer (TELEGRAPH OF LONDON) explain, "Taxpayers will be obliged to pay all Tony Blair’s legal bills if he is sued by the families of soldiers killed in Iraq."


From thug to thug, Nouri al-Maliki.

Bully Boy Bush made Nouri prime minister in 2006.  He was not a success.  In 2010, Iraq held elections.  Nouri lost.  He then refused to step down and brought the country to a halt for eight months -- the political stalemate.

At the start of the stalemate, May 2010, Peter Kenyon (NPR's MORNING EDITION) spoke with Iraqis including Durgham Sabah:

"Why is that? Allawi got the most seats, and the constitution says he should form the government," Sabah says. "If Maliki had won, you can bet the government would have been formed in a hurry. What has Maliki done? Four years and we have no security, no jobs, no water, no electricity."

Two months later, still no prime minister and Marina Ottaway and Danial Kaysi (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) explaining:


Maliki has shown so far that he is determined to continue as prime minister. His insistence prevented the formation of a single Shi’i coalition before the election, leading to the emergence of Maliki’s own State of Law (SoL), which he dominates, and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), which groups the other important Shi’i parties and personalities, including the Iraqi Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), the Sadrists, the Badr organization, and former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari. Maliki’s insistence that he must remain prime minister has kept the new parliamentary Shi’i bloc, the National Coalition—which includes State of Law and the INA—from speaking with one voice. Instead, the parties in the INA are negotiating separately with Iraqiya and the Kurdish parties, and have even established their own diplomatic contacts with other countries in the region.



So how did he become prime minister for a second term?

Barack Obama gave it to Nouri.

He had the US broker a deal -- the Erbil Agreement -- a contract which went around the voters of Iraq and gave Nouri a second term in exchange for power sharing concessions Nouri agreed to.

It was a legal contract and all the parties, including Nouri al-Maliki, signed it.

November 10, 2010, The Erbil Agreement is signed.  November 11, 2010, the Iraqi Parliament has their first real session in over eight months and finally declares a president, a Speaker of Parliament and Nouri as prime minister-designate -- all the things that were supposed to happen in April of 2010 but didn't.


March 7, 2010, Iraq concluded Parliamentary elections. The Guardian's editorial board noted in August 2010, "These elections were hailed prematurely by Mr Obama as a success, but everything that has happened since has surely doused that optimism in a cold shower of reality." 

How right they were.



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