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Were "Drone Queen" critics

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:09:00 +0000

In reply to The Dark Past of Biden’s Nominee for National Intelligence Director

Were "Drone Queen" critics under a rock the last 4 years, waiting for a Democrat to bitch about? Here's some relevant graphs to show how temporary use in Pakistan was phased out, but levels of drone use escalated unsurprisingly under fuckface Trump - but could these leftist complainers raise their voices to the front page of Salon and Consortium then? Or only to brand a woman as that assassin in heels, not say the men who were her boss or other men who worsened things after?

Look at that - from over 120 in Pakistan to a handful under Obama, 20 per year in Somalia:

But who needs drones when you got real manly planes (crickets from the drone complainers?)

Something tells me there's a problem blaming all the deaths (note how these articles keep the numbers nebulous and out of context)

How do explain the lack of comparison, Lulu? I mean, Obama's use of weapons largely decreased, except for the multinational offensive against ISIS, which was extremely careful to avoid civilian casualties where possible?

A long stretch, but maybe

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:34:00 +0000

In reply to Consortium News gives all the

A long stretch, but maybe Haines' participation in this Brennan Russiagate meeting put her in Russia's crosshairs (Putin's even more vindictive and grudge-holding than Trump, if you can believe it)

The Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Opus https://t.co/F4NWhuD1L0 #emptywheel #Adam_Schiff #Avril_Haines #ew #p2
— ôl ə twit′ər (@all_a_twitt_r) June 23, 2017

FFS, you have Consortium

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:54:32 +0000

In reply to Hunter Biden is not the

FFS, you have Consortium memorized, and in paragraph 3 your article declares:

These same groups ran successful campaigns to dissuade Biden from choosing two other warmongering candidates for critical foreign policy positions: China-hawk Michele Flournoy for secretary of defense and torture apologist Mike Morell for CIA director.

so fuck me if I think the last Consortium-supported smear job on a nominee just 2 months ago isn't relevant, including typical left-wing assaults like "Imperialism in Pumps" and "Angel of Death", "wolf in sheep's clothing" and "affable assassin" and "mass murderer in spanx" - no shortage of obscene misogynistic overreach when it comes to attacking anyone they don't like - if a woman seems friendly or fashionable, she's just hiding a murderous streak with designer fit (yeah, just type in "Flournoy" in the Google Search blank on their page):

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/11/17/imperialism-in-pumps/

Here's your old friend Ray McGovern...
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/26/ray-mcgovern-tells-aaron-mate-blam...

And then your hack-job Russia-supporting rag throws in this bait-and-switch:

Moreover, Haines supported torture apologist Gina Haspel as Trump’s CIA director. Haspel ran a secret black site prison in Thailand where torture was regularly inflicted. Haspel also drafted the memo ordering the destruction of almost 100 videotapes documenting CIA torture.

Meaning every fucking person who backed Haspel in any way is now a torture supporter - meaning perhaps tens of thousands of people around Washington. See how easy that shit is? Why don't you read some real unbiased publications instead of continually peddling this crap to us?

But here's your Consortium link for Hunter-gate complicity:
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/19/patrick-lawrence-the-damage-russia...

Same shit, different day.

Krikakou does host a program

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:17:54 +0000

In reply to Hunter Biden is not the

Krikakou does host a program on Sputnik radio tho. Benjamin seems quite a bit to the left of Bernie Sanders, seems to adore Cuba (even tho they deported her) runs for office on the Green party and co-founded Code Pink. And as far as I can see Marcy Winograd cannot lay claim to being a serious investigative journalist, especially on this topic, she is a retired CA public school teacher from Venice CA, writer of books for teen girls, has leftist sympathies, trying to break into "community organizing", published a couple things on HuffPo, ran unsuccessfully in 2011 Dem primary in a CA special election for Congress 36th as a "progressive", very dilettante-y

Hunter Biden is not the

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:53:16 +0000

In reply to Here's Consortium in October

Hunter Biden is not the subject. Your opinion of a particular Consortium News story, for which you did not supply a link, is not the subject. Russia is not the subject. The case made by john kiriakou, Medea Benjamin, and Marcy Winograd is the subject. Again, did they get their facts wrong?

p.s. I suspect they are

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:45:00 +0000

In reply to interestingly they just

p.s. I suspect they are licking their chops at the potential of a President Biden hoping that he, sharing their age, will allow them to continue the warfare of the old ideologies, exiting from this nightmare of PoMo with Trump where they dont know how to start to navigate, expecting Biden has changed no more than they have. I think they are in for a surprise surprise surprise: there's no there there, they are going to have to continue fighting ghosts if they want to stay in the 20th century, after all it's 2021, grampas and nanas. Even Julian Assange will be 50 yrs. old soon, and few know his name anymore....gen x-ers are the new old timers, like it or not.

I also note a kind of humorous thing: they are on Patreon--dazed and confused about where they belong in this brave new world? If they get themselves a few Qanon type followers, they are going to be spun silly, they won't know what hit them, you old guys think you know conspiracy theorizing, hah...

Thanks for highlighting that

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:32:48 +0000

In reply to Is an unhinged article that

Thanks for highlighting that article in The Daily Beast. I hope everybody reads it.

interestingly they just

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:28:58 +0000

In reply to Consortium News gives all the

interestingly they just published this Dec. 29, I went looking inspired by your comment, to see if there was anything new along the lines of "what is the real deal with those people?!!) They are tryiing to come out of the fog of being a far lefty circa 1985 and get with reality, but it's hard for them not to remain so so retro, having lost the two Robert's, Parry and Fisk, and with Chomsky getting old and feeble, there's no one around to fondly recall the adventures of Che and Ho Chi Minh fighting the evil American empire as strong as it ever was, just nobody knows it. Far lefty millennials still don't git it, the glory of being fighters against the real deep state and the Zionist monsters...they've gathered the remaining crew of aging olden daze far lefties (like the Angry Arab" blogger of the Bush years! remember him?!) so as to be less lonely babbling about the great war (you kids don't know what it's like!) Don't miss the little warning in there: be careful, they'll sue if you accuse of Russian affiliation!

Consortium News in the Post-Bob Parry Era https://t.co/Gfz4qtD9Y5
— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) December 29, 2020

Here's Consortium in October

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:11:00 +0000

In reply to

Here's Consortium in October trying again to deny Russians hacked Clinton's/Podesta's email, and hopping on the NY Post's Hunter Biden smear campaign to try to influence the election. Papa Putin would be proud.

The latest example of this phenom concerns the emails of Hunter Biden, candidate Joe’s errant son, which persuasively incriminate both in very profitable influence-peddling schemes when Papa was Barack Obama’s veep.

Joe Biden, foreground, and son Hunter during inauguration of President Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009. (acaben, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Nobody denies the facts as published last week in The New York Post, not even Biden père et fils, but the facts are once again mutilated with assertions that it is another case of the Rrrrrrussians spreading disinformation.

Narrator "lots of people, including qualified journalists, denied the NY Post's facts as facts.

Stealing someone's laptop and sitting on the data a year to release at a critical time close to an election might strike one as "opportunistic", if not "sleazy" or "corrupt" or even "conspiring". (if you read the Russian report from the Senate Intelligence Committee - a not very Democrat-friendly bunch - you'd see similar approaches in the 2016 hack-and-leak)

The lead agent in the NY Post/Hunter laptop shitshow? Why, Rudy Giuliani, of course, Our Lady of the 4 Seasons Landscape bizarre-athon.

How closely do we have to examine shit to know it's shit, Lulu? I mean, sure, sometimes people swallow valuables so you can find a diamond in the roughage, but is that a living, or even an attractive hobby? BTW, wasn't it Rudy's "rogue FBI agents" who pressured Comey to go forward with an unprecedented announcement about a laptop in Oct 2016?

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:58:22 +0000

In reply to Consortium News gives all the

"Consortium News gives all the appearences of a Russia connected disinformation site, ... "

You have internalized both the grossly overused phrase and the knee-jerk habit of using it inappropriately as an excuse or diversion. Neither article was about Russia. Both were about our own government.