Friday, March 16, 2018

THIS JUST IN! LOOK WHO'S GOSSIPING!

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

ALL THE GOSSIP THAT'S FIT TO SPEW?

IT'S BEEN A VERITABLE SUPER BOWL PARTY CHICKEN WINGS STYLE DUMP THIS WEEK WHEN IT COMES TO GOSSIP RELATED TO PRESIDENT CHEETO.  

EVERYTHING -- INCLUDING GOSSIP THAT HIS SON WOULD BE DIVORCING -- HAS HIT THE TOILET BOWL THAT IS THE U.S. MEDIA WITH A HEAVY FORCE LEAVING A NASTY STAIN AND REFUSING TO FLUSH DOWN.

FROM A SECLUDED PRIVATE BAR, A CACKLE EMERGES AND, YES, SHE BECKONS TO US.

THE ONE PULLING ALL THE MEDIA'S STRINGS, CRANKY CLINTON.

OVER SHOTS OF CROWN ROYAL AND MULTIPLE BEERS, THE DRUNK CRANKY SLURRED HER WORDS AND WOBBLED ON HER BAR STOOL AS SHE BRAGGED THAT SHE WAS TAKING THE CHEETO DOWN AND MAKING THE MEDIA DO HER BIDDING.

"PULL THE STRING!" CRANKY CACKLED.  "PULL THE STRING!"


As Patrick Martin (WSWS) pointed out earlier this month, he is among many people the Democrats are running as "experienced" but they can't seem to talk about their experience:

Josh Butner, running in the 50th District of California against Republican Duncan Hunter, Jr., “served for 23 years in the United States Navy where he saw multiple combat deployments, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.” The career Navy SEAL says almost nothing about what he actually did in the top military assassination unit, but that is to be expected. His campaign website features the slogan “Service, Country, Leadership,” alongside a photograph of Butner in desert fatigues.

I cannot endorse him or not endorse him.  I don't live in that district (Nancy Pelosi's my House Rep).  But if you're running for election on your "service" and your "leadership," you damn well should explain what that is.  If you can't explain, you shouldn't run on it.  And be sure to check out all three installments of Patrick Martin's "The CIA Democrats:"


PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE


Iraq is gearing up for elections as well.  They will hold elections May 12th.

Hayder al-Abadi?  He wants a second term as prime minister.  In the fall of 2014, Barack installed Hayder as prime minister prompting the world to ask: "Hayder who?"

The watery figure hasn't grown any clearer in the years since.

But the US installed him and still backs him which prompts Tweets like this:
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Hayder wants a second term and is running on defeating ISIS.

It's shaky ground for him to stand on.

Adnan Abu Zeed (AL-MONITOR) reports:

The Islamic State (IS) appears to be staging a comeback in parts of Iraq, which could endanger the country's oil deal with Iran.
Hamid Hosseini, the Iranian secretary-general of the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, warned in late February that the countries' plan can't be implemented fully because of security concerns. The countries signed a bilateral agreement in July 2017 to install a pipeline to transport Kirkuk’s crude oil to Iran to be refined. In the meantime, the oil is being transported by trucks, which are vulnerable to attacks.
The Kurdish military, or peshmerga forces, took control of Kirkuk in 2014 after Iraqi forces fled as IS swept through the area. But in October, Iraqi forces reclaimed the oil-rich territory from the Kurds.
IS has been blamed for numerous recent attacks in the area. On Feb. 19, IS fighters ambushed a convoy of the Baghdad government's Shiite Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in the Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk, killing 27. On Feb. 27, gunmen had targeted the Turkmen Front with a rocket shell. Since Hosseini's warning, security has deteriorated both in Kirkuk and Hawija. Local authorities have called for military enforcement.
Masrour Barzani, the head of Kurdistan security, stressed that the “IS offensive in Kirkuk province is not coming to an end anytime soon.”

 


Oops.


And XINHAU reports:
Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed at least seven Islamic State (IS) militants in clashes at a village near the city of Shirqat in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said.
The clashes erupted at dawn when about 10 IS militants attacked a military base at the village of Mseihli in southern Shirqat, some 280 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Col. Mohammed al-Jubouri from the media office of the provincial police command told Xinhua.

Again, oops.

It was always a mistake for Hayder to run for re-election with nothing to show for it.  Even worse was to run claiming ISIS was defeated.  That might have worked for two weeks but for a campaign that's going to last months, it was a big mistake.







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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

THIS JUST IN! LOOK WHO'S TALKING!

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THEY'RE SAYING "GAMBLING" BUT OUR SOURCES TELL US THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY PORN.

SPEAKING ON DEEP BACKGROUND, HILLARY CLINTON TOLD THESE REPORTERS THAT JOHN MCENTEE WAS "A PORN ADDICT -- GAY PORN.  GAY PORN AND FARM ANIMALS.  LOTS OF FARM ANIMALS.  WITH TOUPEES!  THEY LOOKED LIKE DONALD TRUMP!  PORN ADDICTION.  DO I NEED TO SPELL IT?  P-O-R-N. A-D-D-I-C-T-I-O-N.  WE'RE TALKING CRAZY PORN.  DISGUSTING PORN."

ASKED ABOUT THE MOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE, HILLARY CLINTON ASKED US NOT TO USE HER NAME BUT "IT'S TOXIC.  TOXIC.  IT STINKS.  LIKE TRUMP'S ASSHOLES."


Will Moqtada al-Sadr support a second term for Hayder al-Abadi?  ALSUMARIA reports the question was put to the Shi'ite cleric and movement leader who stated he would not be endorsing anyone at this time and noted that he was waiting -- still waiting -- for Hayder to address corruption.

AL MADA reports that Ammar al-Hakim met with Vice President Ayad Allawi and the two spoke of the need for the elections to be carried out in a calm manner.  But KITABAT explains that voting buying has already started.

In an effort to look like they do something, the Parliament rushed through a 2018 budget earlier this month.  To term it 'problematic' is to put it mildly.

ALL IRAQ NEWS reports that Iraq's president, Fuad Masoum, declared yesterday that he was sending the 2018 budget back to Parliament to rework it and that he would not sign off on it as is.  ALSUMARIA notes that Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition is screeching that Masoum has violated the Constitution.  No, he hasn't.  He's used his veto power over laws -- it's the same power that the vice presidents also have.  In the fall of 2009, this right/power was clarified when Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi used his veto on the election law.  He didn't feel it properly represented and accounted for refugees.  He used his power to veto the law.  It was sent back to Parliament and reworked.  (This is why the 2009 elections ended up taking place in March of 2010.)  ALUMARIA also notes that the leader of GORAN (Change) in the Parliament, Amin Bakr, stated that the Parliament refused to use the legal committee when drafting the budget which accounts for so many of the problems with the budget -- including features that were unconstitutional.  Meanwhile NINA reports that the United Kingdom has declared the budget Fuad sent back to contain a large budget deficit and stated that it does little to create jobs.  Here's their official statement:





UK welcomes the passage of the Iraqi budget last week, which will allow Ministries to plan their spending and projects. But the budget deficit remains high, and we were disappointed that there were no new measures to improve public finance management, including procurement processes. Doing more to show commitment to the IMF support package will help Iraq build its credibility as an economic partner and help tackle corruption and waste of public money. Of course some decisions are more difficult in election year, but the UK will continue to work with the Iraqi authorities and the international community throughout the coming year to improve the environment for local and international business and investment. With a million young Iraqis coming onto the jobs market every year, a better environment for business is the only way to create enough productive jobs. This will be a big issue in the upcoming elections, and we are asking all the senior politicians what they plan to do about it.

Fuad's actions really don't matter though.  Regardless of him, the budget has to be redone.  That's what happens when you sell your soul to the IMF.  For years, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warned the government of Iraq not to fall into the trap the IMF repeatedly attempted to lay out for them.  For a long time, Iraq's government listened.  Under Hayder al-Abadi, it stopped listening.








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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

THIS JUST IN! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LOVE!


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MCENTEE WAS THEN ORDERED TO "BACK THAT SEXY STUFF OVER TO THE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS 'CAUSE I CAN'T QUIT YOU, SEXY STUFF."

REACHED FOR COMMENT, JOHN MCENTEE SAID, "I SERVE AT PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT."

"THAT'S A LOT OF PLEASURE," INSISTED ROBERT WINK-WINK MUELLER.



Turning to forever thug and former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.    Over the weekend, ALSUMARIA reported that State of Law is trying to kill rumors that Nouri al-Maliki is rejecting Hayder al-Abadi as prime minister.  Nouri is the former prime minister and forever thug.  Hayder replaced him as prime minister in late 2014.  Nouri has, to this day, refused to move out of the prime minister's home.  Nouri has been plotting to return as prime minister.  Last month, some outlets insisted that Nouri was not interested in another term as prime minister.  If he were to become prime minister, it would be his third term.  The ALSUMARIA report quotes a State of Law official stating that Nouri believes the people -- only the Iraqi people -- have the right to determine the prime minister.  That's laughable when you consider that Nouri lost in 2010 and that Barack had US officials negotiate The Erbil Agreement which gave Nouri his second term.  Nouri wants back in to the post and his minions are wasting everyone's time pretending otherwise.

Nouri's State of Law is also in a tizzy over the candidates.  In previous elections, Nouri's been able to use the Accountability and Justice Committee to weed out candidates he didn't want to run but ALL IRAQ NEWS reported State of Law is objecting to the list of candidates.

Nouri objects to a great deal -- mainly, he objects to the truth.

As noted in Friday's snapshot, Laura Rozen filed a ridiculous story -- that ignored far too many public details.  If she thought Nouri al-Maliki was going to be pleased with her reticence, she was wrong.  Even ignoring everything, she's still angered him.  ALL IRAQ NEWS notes that Nouri has called her report "false" and stated she did not know her facts.  NINA includes Nouri's remarks that the deal was cancelled by the government in 2012.  Both NINA and ALL IRAQ NEWS note that it was the corruption perception -- the Parliament's perception that the deal was corrupt -- that killed the deal.

Please note that ALL IRAQ NEWS and NINA do a better job reporting on the corruption in their reports today than Laura did on Friday -- and Laura used a lot more words and sentences.  Please note that the most deadly country for journalists in 2017 was Iraq.  These were not foreign journalists being killed.  And yet even living under that threat, Iraqis are turning out better journalism than American Laura Rozen who is not in Iraq.



Hayder al-Abadi replaced Nouri as prime minister when Barack Obama installed Hayder in the fall of 2014.  Hayder wants to be prime minister for a second term.

He was supposed to be fighting corruption . . . but he wasn't.

So what does he have to show for it?

Not much.

He claims to have defeated the Islamic State.







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    It seems is not finished in Mr. . It was too early to announce the ‘victory’. But fears from ‘losing’ votes in the up coming elections turned the table up-down.
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