by William Skink
he’s a very stable genius
from a very stable clan
with stable people helping
the stable hidden hand
Amerika, a stable nation
enjoys its stable home
bought with stable wages
on borrowed, stable loans
a stable media agrees
and feeds our stable wants
to please their stable owners
and keep their stable jobs
our stable future awaits
to fulfill our stable plans
of stable global control
over stable global lands
by William Skink
I haven’t been posting much due to reading. I’m reading The Memoir of Billy Shears which is in the voice of William shepherd who claims to be the person who replaced Paul McCartney in 1966. The book is actually “authored” or “encoded” by Thomas E. Uharriet.
I’m also reading Programed To Kill, by Dave McGowan. This one is about an unseen pattern lurking behind what you think you know about serial killers. And what is that you didn’t ask? Drug trafficking, human trafficking and Satanic cults. Lots of Satanic cults.
Why am I trudging through tales of ritualistic murders and seemingly silly, half-century old conspiracy theories about Paul McCartney dying in a car crash? Because I think these narratives are important.
I’m slowly working my way back to a story I started before leaving my job at the shelter. I’m thinking of it as an alternative reality memoir. I’ll have more to say about all this later.
With limited time (my wife is getting pissed as I write this and the kids are acting up) something has to give.
I wish I had more time, but I don’t. Thanks for reading.
by William Skink
Did you know it’s anti-semitic to accurately describe the function of the Israeli lobbying group, AIPAC?
That’s what Rep. Ilhan Omar is discovering after her “offensive”, “anti-semitic” tweets describing AIPAC’s interest as being “all about the Benjamins baby“.
House Democrats have called on congressional leaders to condemn controversial remarks made by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) suggesting that Israeli money has influenced US politics, reports Politico.
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Omar suggested in a Sunday night tweet that America’s support of Israel is due to donations by pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC, after an earlier tweet responding to journalist Glenn Greenwald was interpreted as anti-Semitic.
Rep. Omar quickly apologized for her factual explanation of how lobbying groups function. Apparently associating anything related to money to anything related to being jewish is an “anti-semitic trope”.
To counter this absurd smear against Rep. Omar, The Intercept has a piece out about a documentary that’s been suppressed, titled Pro-Israel Lobby Caught on Tape Boasting That Its Money Influences Washington. Is this title anti-semitic? From the link:
The debate over the influence of pro-Israel groups could be informed by an investigation by Al Jazeera, in which an undercover reporter infiltrated The Israel Project, a Washington-based group, and secretly recorded conversations about political strategy and influence over a six-month period in 2016. That investigation, however, was never aired by the network — suppressed by pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.
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David Ochs, founder of HaLev, which helps send young people to AIPAC’s annual conference, described for the reporter how AIPAC and its donors organize fundraisers outside the official umbrella of the organization, so that the money doesn’t show up on disclosures as coming specifically from AIPAC. He describes one group that organizes fundraisers in both Washington and New York. “This is the biggest ad hoc political group, definitely the wealthiest, in D.C.,” Ochs says, adding that it has no official name, but is clearly tied to AIPAC. “It’s the AIPAC group. It makes a difference, it really, really does. It’s the best bang for your buck and the networking is phenomenal.” (Ochs and AIPAC did not immediately return The Intercept’s requests for comment.)Without spending money, Ochs argues, the pro-Israel lobby isn’t able to enact its agenda. “Congressmen and senators don’t do anything unless you pressure them. They kick the can down the road, unless you pressure them, and the only way to do that is with money,” he explains.
Can facts be anti-semitic?
by William Skink
I think a lot about accountability, like who experiences it and who doesn’t. Socio-economic status goes along way to either ensuring you are accountable for your actions, or not. Being a foreign national of a power ally also helps one elude accountability for little things, like rape and manslaughter.
Seven years ago this month a Saudi student attending classes at the University of Montana allegedly sexually assaulted two women in the same day. Here is how the Missoulian reported it:
A man accused of raping one University of Montana student and assaulting another earlier this month was contacted repeatedly by UM Dean of Students Charles Couture before fleeing the country.
After Couture informed the man – who was accompanied by his lawyer – that he was being accused of sexual assault under the university’s Student Code of Conduct, the man left the area, UM President Royce Engstrom said Friday.
In fact, the man – a Saudi national studying at UM – has left the country, Missoula Mayor John Engen said police told him earlier Friday.
The spin of this deplorable delayed reaction by University officials was not well received. Here’s more from the article:
Couture received the campus police report on Feb. 14, Engstrom said. He then wrote a letter to the alleged perpetrator, and also requested a written report from the victim, Engstrom said. On Feb. 17, he said, Couture received that victim’s report, and also learned of another assault – this one a rape – by the same perpetrator.
At that point, Couture called the alleged perpetrator and told him about the sexual assault report, Engstrom said. At the end of the day on Feb. 17 – a Friday before a long holiday weekend – the university sent a campus-wide email warning of “Sexual Assault … Possible Threat to Community.”
That was the first Missoula police heard of the incidents, Engstrom confirmed Friday. Missoula police quickly contacted university administrators, he said. However, a week had passed since the alleged attacks.
Apparently the behavior of this student is not an isolated event. In fact there have been so many similar situations of alleged crimes committed by Saudi students, and subsequent evasions of accountability, that legislation is being introduced in Oregon to hold Saudi Arabia accountable:
New legislation introduced by Oregon senators aims to punish Saudi Arabia following shocking allegations that the kingdom has whisked as many as five young men facing criminal charges, ranging from rape to murder, out of the country from that state alone.
Speaking publicly for the first time Thursday, the parents of Fallon Smart, a 15-year-old victim of a hit and run by Saudi student Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah in 2016, said they were horrified to learn their daughter’s alleged assailant had disappeared two weeks before his trial with the help of the Saudi government. Noorah was charged with manslaughter, felony hit-and-run, and reckless driving in the teen’s death. He faced a minimum prison sentence of 10 years.
Federal investigators confirmed to the Oregonian/Oregon Live that a private lawyer hired by the Saudi consulate posted $100,000 of a $1 million bail for the 21-year-old and apparently arranged for a dark SUV to pick him up shortly after he left jail. His severed electronic bracelet was found at a nearby gravel yard. Authorities believe he was given a forged passport, since his was sequestered by Oregon authorities, and flown back to Saudi Arabia on a private jet. He was seen back in his home country a week after he disappeared.
I hope UM officials desperate to turn around the enrollment problem are paying attention.
by William Skink
NBC is doing its part to destroy the credibility of resistance media, but this time the target wasn’t Trump. It wasn’t even a Republican. Nope, the politician who triggered this brazen smear campaign is presidential contender and anti-warmonger, Tulsi Gabbard.
One might assume that as a non-white woman who served in America’s military, Gabbard would be a darling of identity obsessed Democrats. Unfortunately for Gabbard, to be a darling of Democrats, one must never question America’s right to meddle in other countries affairs. Here is Tulsi’s offensive tweet:
The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders–so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.
So how did NBC insinuate Gabbard is becoming a Kremlin puppet? They used the discredited Democrat-linked New Knowledge to make the claim Tulsi Gabbard is receiving support from Russia. Here is Greenwald tearing apart NBC’s propaganda smear against Gabbard:
NBC NEWS PUBLISHED a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.”
But the whole story was a sham: The only “expert” cited by NBC in support of its key claim was the firm New Knowledge, which just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin was interfering in that election.
To justify its claim that Gabbard is the Kremlin’s candidate, NBC stated, “analysts at New Knowledge, the company the Senate Intelligence Committee used to track Russian activities in the 2016 election, told NBC News they’ve spotted ‘chatter’ related to Gabbard in anonymous online message boards, including those known for fomenting right-wing troll campaigns.”
What NBC — amazingly — concealed is a fact that reveals its article to be a journalistic fraud: That same firm, New Knowledge, was caught just six weeks ago engaging in a massive scam to create fictitious Russian troll accounts on Facebook and Twitter in order to claim that the Kremlin was working to defeat Democratic Senate nominee Doug Jones in Alabama. The New York Times, when exposing the scam, quoted a New Knowledge report that boasted of its fabrications: “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the [Roy] Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.’”
That fraud was overseen by New Knowledge’s CEO, Jonathon Morgan. At the same time Morgan was fabricating Russian troll accounts and using them to create a fraudulent appearance that Putin was trying to defeat the Democratic Senate candidate, he was exploiting his social media “expertise” to claim that Russians were interfering in the Alabama Senate election. In other words, Morgan used his own fake Russian accounts to lie to the public and deceive the national media into believing that Kremlin-linked accounts were trying to defeat the Democratic Senate candidate when, in fact, the accounts he was citing were ones he himself had fabricated and controlled.
It’s absolutely disgusting that Gabbard’s anti-interventionist positions have made her a target for this kind of dirty political hit job. And for NBC to pretend New Knowledge is a credible source for its reporting is equally disgusting.
I hope the other Democratic presidential hopefuls are getting the message: go along with the NeoCon/Neoliberal consensus on belligerent US Imperialism, or else.