Music for a Sunday: I couldn’t ask for another

If you liked the original, you’re gonna love this remix. Now pardon me while I get on my go-go boots.

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Wankers of the Week: Drumpf!

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Crappy weekend, everyone! This week’s wankapedia is brought to you by the letter D. D is for Donald, D is for Drumpfthat’s his real surname, and it rhymes with Sumpf, which is the German word for swamp. I’m sure you’ll all agree it’s more than appropriate, therefore, to demand that he change it back, no? I mean, it’s got quite the ring to it, and it alliterates with his first name, too. And best of all, it’ll probably embarrass him even more than having the wind blow his combover askew, or someone from Gawker pointing out for the millionth time what stubby fingers he has. And here’s who else is being unmasked for a Drumpf this week:

1. Jan Fucking Brewer. In a week of shitty people endorsing Der Drumpf, this one is undoubtedly the shittiest. Because there’s never an immigrant this ghastly hag couldn’t demonize, nor a crappy fiction she couldn’t make up about them, it hardly comes as any surprise that she’s endorsing an ugly old man who does the exact same.

2. Bill Fucking Gothard. Oh, so now he’s planning to sue all the women he molested when they were teens? Talk about adding insult to injury. Let’s hope the judge throws this shit-stained piece of hubris the fuck out of his court and makes HIM pay.

3. Cheryl Fucking Tiegs. Anyone who gets their medical info from Dr. Oz may as well be getting it from a manure pile. And anyone who concern-trolls healthy swimsuit models about their weight, just because their dress size is in the double digits, is really a pathetic has-been who should just stop talking, already.

Oh yeah, and this thing the has-been has been doesn’t help, either:

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Yeah, that’s right, she was a cigarette ad. Because who needs to be healthy when you’ve got skinny smokes, and matching branded swag to pretend to work out in — right? PS: Ha, ha.

4. Arief Fucking Wismansyah. Ramen noodles make you gay? Huh. And to think I’ve been eating them all this time and I’m still not a lesbian. But I do find gay guys awfully cute. Clearly I’m doing this homosexual thing all wrong.

5. Jeffery Fucking Lord. In what bizarro parallel universe is David Duke a “leftist”? He, like all of the Repugnican party at this point, is a far-right fascist. The only difference between him and them is his tendency to wear his swastika quite openly on his sleeve…when he’s not prancing around in hooded sheets, that is. And this Drumpf spokesmoron is so very, very typical in that he’s too much of a weasel to admit that his own boss is one too, and a hereditary one at that.

6. Ayelet Fucking Shaked. Call the waaaambulance, Israel’s minister of injustice has thrown a tantrum! Why? Because two professors from the Hebrew University told it exactly like it was and called her exactly what she is. Bawwwwww, diddums!

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7. Stephen Fucking Crossan. And speaking of Nazis, how about this one? He’s a Catholic priest who was caught on camera, snorting coke in a roomful of Nazi rubbish — oh sorry, memorabilia. I can’t wait to hear the convoluted explanation for how that shit all got to Northern Ireland in the first place, and why anyone would think it a good idea to snort coke amid it.

8. Lutz Fucking Bachmann. And MOAR Nazis! This time in Germany, where it’s actually a crime to be one, for reasons rather understandable. And where PEGIDA, which he co-founded, has been constantly claiming that oh noooo, they have nothing to do with Nazism, no, not they…except, of course, when they do. And in fact are nothing but, although like Wankers 5 and 6, they’re pee-pants cowards about it. If I were one of their supporters, I’d go into hiding for the sheer shame of it all. But these are morons, and they know no shame.

9. Lauren Fucking Southern. And speaking of Nazi morons who know no shame (gosh, this is shaping up to be something of a theme this week, isn’t it?) — how about HER? Yes, that’s right, folks, another “rebel” Libertarian has let her mask slip and shown us the fascist enemy within. Though, truth be told, one doesn’t have to scratch very hard to find ‘em, since I’ve never met a Libertarian yet who didn’t have an awful lot of Little Hitler tendencies just lying out in plain sight. (Or, in this case, bleached-blond Little Magda Göbbels tendencies.)

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10. Donald Fucking Drumpf, Jr. Yes, that’s right, there’s a junior. And he’s every bit the bag o’ douche that his old man is. I hope all the black celebrities he’s offering to help deport in the event that the geezer wins (FAT CHANCE!) will do their part, when he loses, to providing one-way airfare for the entire shitty clan to someplace warm and hospitable. Like, oh, say, Snake Island.

11. Bill O’Fucking Reilly. Let us all savor the irony of a man who made a career out of telling others how to raise their kids…got deprived of all custody of his own in a nasty divorce battle. And let’s not forget that he racked up those irony points while wanking with a loofah in the shower and sexually harassing his producer, either. PS: Oh, SNAP, Ted Koppel!

12. David Fucking Barton. Oh, those ungrateful niggruhs, why don’t they thank “us” for freeing them? Maybe because free is what they should have been all along, that whites should never have had the right to own them, and therefore, no thanks should be needed for simply doing the minimum decent thing. Ever think of that?

13. Steve Fucking Ahlers. Why?

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That’s why. No word on how an ovarian cyst gets to be visible on a breast x-ray, but there you go. The sheer lack of anatomical awareness alone is why anti-choicers shouldn’t get to make women’s health decisions for them! (Also, Planned Parenthood DOES do mammograms, so Steve-o is full of shit there, too.)

14. Sa’d Fucking Al-Ateeq. With #4, it was delusional Indonesians claiming that noodles make you gay. With #14, it’s delusional Saudis claiming that food porn on Instagram causes cancer. Instagram, insta-noodles, and a whole lotta insta-stoopid.

15. Phyllis Fucking Schlafly. Meanwhile, the Ma Barker of the Amurrican Taliban is still alive and still squawking. And this week’s sermon? Evil furriners and how they’re destroying Amurrican baseball! Hey Phyl, if you’re that hung up on Venezuelans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans and Dominicans playing on US teams, take it up with the crapitalist system that’s making playing prohibitively expensive for everyone, and don’t pick on the foreign players. Or better still, just chill. Because the national origins of talented players are an awfully silly thing to get exercised about at your age. PS: Ewwwwww.

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16. George Fucking Pell. It’s hard to imagine how anyone could not be interested in a child sexual abuse scandal on one’s own watch (and it was his JOB to take an interest!), but somehow, he managed it. At this point, I think “sociopath” is entirely too kind a thing to call him.

17 and 18. Tucker Fucking Carlson and Laura Fucking Ingraham. Mitt Romney, a “liberal” for finding the KKK repugnant? Once again, the bare minimum of human decency is getting far too much flak from the far fucking right. But hey, thanks for showing your true racist colors, you two. All in a day’s Nazi work for FUX Snooze, eh?

19. Andrea Fucking Hardie. Women shouldn’t vote, eh? Well, I can kind of agree with that, but only in the case of women like this one. Because any antifeminist woman is clearly too fucking stupid to be trusted near a ballot box anyway.

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20. Ted Fucking Cruz. If you thought Der Drumpf was a racist, I have some interesting news for you: He’s not the only one in the running for the candidate of the Former Party of Lincoln.

21. Rafael Fucking Cruz. Dear God, please smite this idiotic geezer with a paralytic stroke so he stops talking stupid ignorant trash about You. That is all.

22. Louis Fucking Farrakhan. Oh lord, look who just chimed in on behalf of Der Drumpf. Yes, it’s he of the Million Man March, that non-event that was supposed to cure racism with sexism. Know who he reminds me of? The so-called “Black Führer of Harlem” from Mother Night. And I’ll bet the irony of his position eludes him just as it did his fictional counterpart.

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23. Mike Fucking Caldwell. One can’t help but question the judgment of a judge who thinks it’s okay for priests to fail to report child sexual abuse to the police merely because it was relayed to them in the confession box. Apparently, “If you see something, say something” applies only to brown Muslim-looking people suspected of terrorism, and not to old white guys who molest girls. Then, it becomes “You know nothingk, nothingk…”

24. Jamie Fucking Hall. If a sexist asshole shits on the tweeter, does anyone smell it? In the case of this one’s shitty novel with a shittier epilogue, yeah, we do. Phew! BTW, having female friends and relatives doesn’t absolve you of being a sexist. Or of being called one. And especially an unoriginal and unfunny one, if you’re constantly quoting Bill Fucking Maher. #allthebrainsofafuckingstump PS: Oh, look who erased his Tumblr. What a big man!

25. Debbie Fucking Wasserman Fucking Schultz. Why the double Fucking? Because that’s what she’s dealing the US Democratic Party AND the poor folks who’ll be voting for them. And when you’re THIS crooked, they really ought to call you Snake Ass.

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26. Robert Fucking Morrow. Everything’s big in Texas? You betcha. And this guy’s asininity is a major case in point. If he thinks Hillary Clinton is an “angry bull dyke”, he’s obviously never seen a real one…much less an angry one. I, on the other hand, have seen my share of them, and find that upper-class ladies with bobs and pantsuits don’t exactly qualify.

27. John Fucking McAfee. Need more proof that drugs have eaten his brain? Look no further than to how he plans to crack the San Bernardino shooters’ iPhone. It’s kind of hard to use “social engineering” on a couple who are not only currently deader than doornails, but who were also quite the ciphers in life. Why do you think the FBI are looking to that phone for clues, anyhow? Oh yeah, and his hardware/software-based plan is also a non-starter. Back to jail you go, murderboy.

28. Mark Fucking Driscoll. Hipster Pastor is clearly the Donald Fucking Drumpf of right-wing megachurches. Problem is, his name is now so blatantly associated with misogyny, homophobia, crime and fuckery that anything he sticks it on is guaranteed to fail and fail FAST.

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29. Robert Fucking Lewis Fucking Dear. Why the double Fucking? Because that’s how stupid it is to believe that killing three people at a Planned Parenthood centre is somehow going to save “thousands of babies”. No, that’s what medical clinics — like, oh, say, Planned Parenthood — are for!

30. Caitlyn Fucking Jenner. Ted Cruz’s future “trans ambassador”? Uh, lady…have you forgotten that he wants LGBT+ folks erased from the face of the Earth altogether? What the fuck are you huffing there in La-La Land?

31. Charles Edward Fucking Donner. Oh surprise! One of Der Drumpf’s California Klansmen is not all he seems. And by “not all he seems”, I mean he’s no more of a “pure Aryan” than Adolf Fucking Hitler himself.

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32. David Fucking Duke. Der Drumpf’s future secretary of state? HAHAHAHA. That’s almost as funny as #30 being Ted Cruz’s ambassador for people he can’t stand. Guess he also didn’t get the message that Der Drumpf has finally gotten around to disavowing him, ha ha.

33. Derek Fucking Fildebrandt. No, you know what’s stale? Your out-of-touch far-right politics. Little wonder Alberta’s not voting that way anymore.

34. Jerry Fucking DeLemus. Suddenly that whole Tea Party hatriot thing doesn’t look so fun after all, does it? Yeah, sure, you go right ahead and declare yourself sovereign, but federal law still applies to you. And all your guns and high-flown rhetoric can’t save you from being arrested. Ha, ha.

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35. Mary Lou Fucking Bruner. Yo, Texas? You better make sure this piece of idiocy wrapped in an ugly flag shirt doesn’t get any further than she already has. And that means get out there and VOTE, y’all.

36. Jacob Fucking Worthington. You don’t need to be a clown to smoke crystal meth in a waffle restaurant, but undoubtedly it helps to dress like one. And oddly enough, this time it wasn’t a Florida Man! (Georgia Man. Close enough!)

37. Steven Fucking Anderson. No, the Bible isn’t “always right”. Remember, it says there is an ocean above the sky, and that the Sun and Moon revolve around the Earth. So, what do you suppose are the odds that it’s also wrong about slavery? And speaking of wrong about slavery: No, it’s NOT about “unpaid debts”. Slaves are people who are bought and sold, not debtors. Some are captives of war. But no debtors, strangely enough. What biblical diploma mill graduated this yutz?

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38. Tony Fucking Perkins. No, musicals are NOT “homosexual propaganda”. And even if they were, so what? Music is good, gay people are good, it’s all good. Unless you’re a closet case who doesn’t like being reminded of all the little skeletons dancing the Watusi in pink tutus and cha-cha heels in there, there is literally no downside.

39. Daniel Fucking Payne. No, Girl Scout cookies are NOT a reason to kill child labor laws. Those laws were originally enacted because labor was killing children, remember? And what’s all this about the evils of “compulsory education”? It exists so people aren’t as stupid as you, you fucking nitwit.

40. Milo Fucking Yiannopoulos. Unaccredited dopes crashing White House press conferences: Uncool. Unaccredited dopes crashing White House press conferences to hijack the discussion, only to make it all about them and their imaginary “politically motivated censorship”, which consists only of removing a little blue checkmark alongside their unaccredited dope name on the tweeter: Doubleplusuncool.

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And finally, to all the fucking idiots out there who still plan to vote for Der Drumpf after all that’s transpired this week, from the revelation of his real name to his unbelievable pissing contest with Mittens Romney and, well, whoever. Good gawd, you people are a waste of skin and air. And, just so you know: Canada will be closed to all you whiny mindless pissants when Bernie Sanders becomes president.

Good night, and get fucked!

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The German refugee situation: Everything old is new again, including the prejudice

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German refugees being driven out of Silesia, sometime in the 1940s. Scenes like this one have special significance for me, because my own mother and her family were among those refugees and probably looked much the same, pushing their few portable belongings on handcarts out of Silesia. They headed “back to Germany” from the former Yugoslavia in October 1944, when World War II was going to shit for the Germans on all fronts and the Russians overran the country. And the reception they got from their supposed “own people” was, well, rather remarkable:

The people’s rage is boiling, and the speaker knows exactly what the people want to hear: “Refugees must be thrown out, and farmers have to actively help with that!” screams Josef Fischbacher. The local director of the Bavarian Farmers’ Association is pouring plenty of oil on the fire, and even uttering the Nazi phrase “blood disgrace”.

What sounds like Saxony in 2016, is Bavaria in 1947. And the refugees Fischbacher wants to throw out don’t come from Syria — they are German outcasts, refugees from Eastern Europe. “Blood disgrace”, to the farmer-functionary, is what happens “when a farmer’s son marries a north-German blonde.”

The current refugee crisis reminds one of that other wave of refugees at the end of the Second World War, as Germany had to take in millions of displaced persons. But back then, the burden for the populace was much higher than today. And, unlike in often clouded hindsight — such as when in schoolbooks there is talk of “successful reintegration” — the reception of the newcomers was not exactly hearty.

Germany was supposed to grow bigger; that was why the Nazis started a world war. In 1945, the war was lost, and Germany smaller than ever before. The toll was paid by 12 to 14 million Germans, who were driven out of their homes in Central and Eastern Europe. They fled in the final stages of the war before the Red Army or were chased out after the war’s end by the new power-holders. Hundreds of thousands died. The survivors streamed into a starving, bombed-out land, in which no one was looking forward to them.

Most of the bigger cities and several smaller ones lay in ruins. The need for homes was indescribable and business was flat. In city centres and in the heavily bombed-out industrial regions, especially along the Ruhr, the social safety net had broken down. In these regions, it was forbidden to move in. The outcasts were therefore quartered in mainly rural areas, where the welfare situation was better.

But even there, the forced migration caused anger and problems. For one thing, the influx was enormous: Some regions, such as Mecklenburg, doubled their population. In today’s Schleswig-Holstein, where 1.59 million people lived before the war, the population rose to 2.65 million in 1946. Bavaria took about 1.8 million people in by 1950 — a growth of 30 percent.

For another, now big groups of people, often of other religions and who brought foreign dialects in with them, landed in a previously religiously uniform area — for example Oberbayern or the Lüneburger Heide. There, many villages had remained virtually untouched by the war. The arrival of the displaced ended this idyll. “The people who have lost the most are now in closest contact with the farmers, who have lost the least,” noted an American observer in 1946.

The forced communities, with unpopular tenants and a shortage of food, were tinderboxes. The reaction of the locals was accordingly harsh. Fischbacher’s above-noted rant is just one example among many; another Bavarian local politician even called for pogroms. Common insults for refugees were “refugee pigs”, “Polacks”, “rucksack Germans”, or “40-kilo Gypsies”. In Swabia, a “prayer” circulated that called the refugees “riffraff”:

“Lord God in Heaven, see our need,
We farmers have no fat or feed.
Refugees are feeding themselves fat
And have stolen our last cot.
We’re starving, suffering great pain–
Lord God, send this riffraff home!”

In Schleswig-Holstein, where many East Prussians found refuge, they said in Plattdeutsch, no less coarse: “In de Nordsee mit dat Schiet!” — “Into the North Sea with that shit!”

And a vintner in the Rheingau had to pay a fine for saying “You refugees all belong in the boxes in Auschwitz!”

So many refugees have no good memories of this time. Gisela Bertl, who fled from Pomerania, says:

“I have very bad memories of the first family we were living with. They gave us scornful looks and not one friendly word: ‘Well, we have to take you in.’ They had a farmstead, so they weren’t suffering any lack. They never thought of giving me, a child, a cup of milk. It hurt us to have to walk past their fully set table. To this day I still feel hatred when I think of how this family dealt with me and my mother.”

Often, the local natives only took their forced tenants in under threat of armed force. Without the pressure of the occupying forces, the uptake of so many persons in the run-down rest of Germany would not have been possible. It often came to conflicts; historian Andreas Kossert even speaks of civil-war-like circumstances.

The occupying forces therefore had to stop the displacements in the east, in order to prevent things from heating up more in the uptake regions, says Kossert, who wrote “Cold Homeland: The History of German Displaced Persons After 1945”, a standard work on the subject.

The newcomers, who had often experienced chicanery and violence while on the run, found themselves treated to exclusion and disdain as second-class citizens in their new homeland. Only in 1952, with the Equalization of Burdens Act, were the war- and displacement-related losses compensated in all areas.

Without the millions of new citizens, who nearly all had to start over from the beginning, the business wonder would not have been possible, says Kossert. The displaced formed an army of often well educated, motivated workers. They were also a vital motor of modernization for Germany: their arrival brought about the strongest social and religious changes in Germany since the Thirty Years’ War.

The newcomers, with their foreign accents, their other traditions and professions, softened up the formerly very uniform relations. The confrontation between different religious groups created a push for secularization. Only from this manifold clash could a new German post-war identity arise — so, in the long run, the integration of the displaced was a success after all.

Translation mine; links as in original.

Here’s a map showing the origins and numbers of refugees streaming into Germany at war’s end:

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My mother’s family came into Germany by a roundabout route, from the Serbian Vojvodina province through (then) Czechoslovakia, then Silesia, and finally into northeastern Germany. From there, they were sent south again, into Bavaria, to the village of Grub (pronounced “groob”). There, my mother’s parents found work on a government research farm, a sheep operation. And yes, they were badly snubbed by the locals because they were refugees, and treated as second-class citizens (or less) for years. Everything from their Donauschwäbisch accents to their Balkan habit of eating green peppers (raw, even!) was criticized. My mother, who was six years old when they fled Yugoslavia, was so skinny from the dreadful wartime food shortages that she was assumed to be sick, and had missed two years of school while on the run (she caught up fast, much to the snobbish teacher’s surprise, and was promoted two grades in less than one year). Never mind that she, like all the women and girls fleeing the war zone, had had to guard herself constantly against rape by “partisans” in and around the DP camps. The village doctor in Grub scolded her for being afraid to take off her top in his office, telling her that refugees had no need to be so damn modest. Would he have extended the same courtesy to a local native of the same age and gender?

When the family fled Yugoslavia, my mother’s grandfather locked up his homemade wine in a hillside cellar typical of the region, expecting one day to come back to it when the Russians were gone. He never did; he died of colorectal cancer in a refugee camp, wracked with bloody diarrhea. My great-grandmother died on the run, too, though of what cause is unknown: poor diet? Dysentery? A combination of the two, which was what killed my mother’s baby sister? Something else — heart failure due to the sheer distress of the whole damn situation? Nobody knows. I don’t even know where the two were buried, or if their paupers’ graves are marked in any way at all. For that matter, I don’t even know where they buried the baby who should have been my aunt, who didn’t live even a full year, and whose tiny casket was draped with the swastika flag. So much of my own family history is lost to me because of that goddamn stupid racist war, and I have no hope of finding it again.

So, if you wonder why I give a damn about refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, or even from the war zones of Africa — now you know. In the mid-1940s, my mom and her family were exactly where these poor souls are now. I can’t help but draw parallels. And frankly, all this latest racism and finger-pointing and victim-blaming nauseates me, because it all sounds exactly like what my mother and her family went through so long ago. It didn’t even matter that she and her family were all just as German, ethnically speaking, as the locals they came to live among. They were still treated with a hatred and disdain that bordered on actual racism. The same that is now being levelled at refugees from other war zones, in other parts of the world.

It’s like nobody’s learned a goddamn thing from their own history, and that is what sickens me the most.

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Clip ‘n’ Save: Some rape stats from France

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“37% of the French think that the perpetrator of a rape is less responsible if the victim is wearing a sexy outfit.

“20% think that ‘no’ often means ‘yes’.

“30% of those between the ages of 18 and 24 say that ‘women might enjoy being forced into having sex’.

“To vomit, follow these instructions.”

PS: And if you think it’s any better here in Canada, you couldn’t be more wrong.

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BushCo’s role in the Kennedy assassination cover-up

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Gerald Ford, flanked by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, April 28, 1975.

Yesterday, a strange thing popped up in my e-mail. Via the National Security Archive, a story that’s not exactly new, and yet is newsworthy all the same:

Washington, DC, February 29, 2016 – The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney.

Today’s posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney’s handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.

Notice that familiar name in there? Yup, Dick Cheney — the Big Dick himself — had a key role in the cover-up of the truth around the JFK assassination. And he did it while working under Gerald Ford — who was first involved with the infamous Warren Commission, which covered up a lot more than it ultimately revealed.

This doesn’t come as much surprise to me. After all, George H.W. Bush — yes, that’s right, the first president Bush — was the CIA’s chief at the time. And Cheney would later rise through the ranks while he was president, rising even further as the running mate and vice president to George W. Bush, the senior Bush’s son. It’s a tidy little clique they’ve got going there, with more than a little nepotism going on.

Now, recall that the CIA contracted the real assassins through the Mafia (that’s right, assassins — none of which was Lee Harvey Oswald!). They were already in the dirty-tricks game in foreign countries: the putsches in Greece, Iran, the Congo, Latin America, you name it. Anywhere a right-wing dictator suddenly demolished local democracy and socialism for the benefit of US business interests, you can bet the CIA’s greasy pugmarks were all over it.

And when a progressive-minded Democratic president took the White House in 1960, and started making noises about ending the CIA’s war in Vietnam and “splinter[ing] the CIA into a thousand pieces”, it didn’t take much for the dirty-tricks machine to make itself useful to fascist interests right at home in the good ol’ US of A. Which is where the coverup part comes in.

You see, it’s highly illegal for US intelligence services to conspire, with or without business cartels to back them, against politicians at home, much less carry out an assassination plot. Their job is to protect the country and its government against all enemies, domestic and foreign. Their job is to protect the president, not murder him. And yet, that’s exactly what they did. I say “they”, because it is so clearly not the work of any lone gunman, much less an insane one — or, in the words of the murdered Oswald, a patsy. A crime so intricate and carefully plotted takes several individuals to co-ordinate and carry out, even if one innocent man is ultimately framed for it, and then conveniently disposed of before he can testify in court.

And such a plot must then be just as meticulously covered up if the blame is to stick to the patsy. And that’s where the Warren Commission — and later, Dick Cheney — comes in. After all, a single layer of whitewash won’t do it; there were all those inconvenient eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza who all heard shots coming from more than one place, and told the Warren Commission as much, under oath. Numerous individuals mentioned the “grassy knoll”, where a picket fence and some trees and shrubs screened off a parking lot — and a likely gunman who later may have escaped in the direction of the railroad. A railway signalman, Lee Bowers, who probably saw the gunman from his post in the two-storey “tower” by the tracks, was later killed in a suspiciously well-timed car crash. In fact, Bowers saw two men in the spot that the shots were pointed out as having originated: the gunman, who wore a police uniform, and his spotter, dressed as a construction worker complete with hardhat. The mere presence of a shooter — or rather, an assassination team — anywhere but the Texas School Book Depository was evidence of a conspiracy, not a “lone nut” — and as such, had to be expunged from the record by any means possible. Hence the conveniently timed death not only of Lee Bowers, who received death threats after testifying to the Warren Commission, but of numerous other witnesses who refused to lie under oath or sign false statements, as well. Anyone who wanted to survive after telling the truth had to change their identity and go underground, pronto.

The NSArchive piece goes on to say that evidence pointing to a high-level cover-up “has been lying ignored in government vaults for decades”. Ignored? Perhaps. But this was no doubt for a purpose. And that purpose is covering the CIA’s ass: “Additional mandatory declassification review requests filed by Archive fellow John Prados returned identical versions of documents, indicating the CIA is not willing to permit the public to see any more of the assassinations story than we show here.”

After more than 50 years, one would think that enough time had passed in order for the whole story to be told. But let’s not forget that there are still at least another 20 years to go before the public finally gets to see the whole truth of the high-level crime their tax money paid for, and what it paid again for that crime to be covered up. By then, of course, all the perpetrators and those who covered for them will be conveniently in their graves, and there will never be accountability, or even a tiny bit of embarrassment, for those involved. Remember: Rummy and the Big Dick are still alive, as is Pappy Bush, who was head of the CIA under Gerald Ford. Barring the advent of another JFK, one who actually makes good on the late leader’s threat to break up the agency, we can count on the CIA’s cover-up to continue at least as long as they’re all still breathing.

Unfortunately.

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Music for a Sunday: It’s the freakiest show…

…but the film is a saddening bore:

David Bowie, asking a musical question which I suspect is rhetorical, seeing as it has yet to be answered definitively by science. And, given the context, I’d say it’s really whether there’s life on Earth that he’s questioning here.

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Wankers of the Week: The Shit Awards

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Crappy weekend, everyone! In honor of this past week’s Brit Awards (and in lieu of any more exciting theme presenting itself for this week), today’s wankapedia will be known as the Shit Awards. And with no further ado, in no particular order, this week’s doo-doos are:

1. Patty Fucking Ritchie. Don’t let them eat cake…or steak! Has it ever occurred to any of these interfering “small government” cons that people on public assistance already can’t afford those pricey foods anyway? It’s pretty obvious that none of these bozos have done their own grocery shopping in a while, or they’d realize that!

2. Donnie Fucking Wahlberg. That’s right, throw your old gay bandmate under the bus and go stumping for a guy who’d probably force him back into the ol’ closet if he had his druthers. After all, you got yours (and she’s a fucking idiot!), so why should you care about anyone else’s welfare, much less their right to exist?

3. Kory Fucking Langhofer. Paging Miracle Max! If dead men can’t vote, then why should dead SCOTUS judges? And no, just because we know what Antonin Fucking Scalia would have voted, doesn’t mean he still gets a say. He’s dead, and that’s GOOD. Now it’s time to replace his ass with someone better.

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4. John Fucking Kasich. Women came out of the kitchen to support him…and if he gets his druthers, that’s where they’ll be headed right back to once he becomes preznit. Because Judeo-Christian values, and all those other things “moderates” believe in down in Jesusland.

5. Ezra Fucking Levant. Think he cares about freedom of speech? You’re wrong. All he cares about, all he ever cared about, was having his own platform to bully from. What others have to say, he will not defend, but smother to the death. Especially if, as in the case of Michael Coren (who has had quite the change of heart!), it goes against the Putz’s own bullying and bullshit. PS: And don’t ask this pied piper of poopy pants who pays him, either. He’ll only censor YOU. PPS: Yes, take your ball and go home, PUTZ.

6. Jason Fucking Lewis. Once, this blatantly racist would-be Limbaugh went Galt from radio. Now, let’s see if we can make him go Galt from running for public office, too.

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7. Susan Fucking DeLemus. Yeah. HER again. And this time, she thinks the Pope (!!!) is the Antichrist. But I thought it was supposed to be that black guy in the White House! How come there are two of them? Does she have double vision, or is she just high on the fumes of her own idiocy?

8. Marshall Fucking Hardin. Because it wouldn’t be a wankapedia without one real, live wanker. And, bonus: this one’s a cop who did it in his cruiser!

9. Wendy Fucking Williams. Exqueeze me? Baking powder? The Kesha ruling was “fair”? Because a contract’s a contract? Look, lady: Just because someone signed a contract with Satan doesn’t mean shit. Bad contracts should be torn up. And yes, anything that puts a woman at risk of being sexually abused by her producer IS a bad contract, by definition. PS: And how fucked up is her idea that Kesha should have “rolled camera on” her abuse? Yeah, try setting up a camera while you’re drugged and incapacitated, honey. And try keeping the footage out of your abuser’s hands, too.

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10. Luke Fucking Gottwald. And on the other side of the fucked-up coin, there’s this guy, who ain’t no doctor. And who frankly shouldn’t be a music producer, either. But hey! Go ahead and dig that hole deeper, fella. With any luck, the sides will fall in on you and there will be nothing left to tear up.

11. Roger Fucking Stone. Finally, FINALLY, the Chicken Noodle Network dumped a racist, sexist piece of shit. Considering how many viewers they’ve alienated over the years, though, I don’t see what difference it could possibly make.

12. Andrea Fucking Tantaros. Tell ya what, Andie: If you think Gitmo is a “tropical paradise”, I’d like to hear what tune YOU sing after being locked up there in the human equivalent of a kennel for 10-15 years. I’m pretty sure it won’t be “Guantanamera”.

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13. Steve Fucking Deace. Yes, please do “eunuch” yourself. The fewer idiots breeding, the better.

14. Joe Fucking Oliver. Why yes, I do blame you for the deficit. You and your boss, Harpo. Because you were at the controls when it started to happen, and you did nothing to stop it, you dishonest little shit.

15. Tony Fucking Blair. Well, shit. Who needs popularity or credibility when you have “electability”, whatever the fuck that is? I dunno, Toady…why don’t you take up that question with Tom Mulcair? Because when he tried to go for “electability”, both his popularity and his credibility went down the shitter, just like yours.

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16. Theodore Fucking Beale. Someone please inform this idiot that there are black people living in the suburbs now. And, shockingly, their IQs are no different from those of their white neighbors. Being as Beale’s, like those of all racists, is straining at room temperature, though, it might take some time for that news to sink in.

17. James Fucking Wiedmann. Someone please inform this idiot that it’s better that one’s daughter date whomever she pleases than that she gives the time of day to white supremacists with below-room-temperature IQs.

18. Eyal Fucking Qarim. Nice to know that even rape of Palestinians is kosher during wartime. And you wonder why we plan on boycotting Israel until they give up this racist apartheid shit and start holding themselves to the same moral standard that they hold the rest of the world?

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19. Victor Fucking Priebe. Yes, this one’s a rare posthumous wank…because this dead doctor specified in his will that he wanted to start a bursary for straight, white, male students. Clearly the most oppressed class on Earth, because they only hold like 99% of the power and wealth, and just won’t be fairly represented until they get it all. Oh, and just to be fair, he also wanted to start one for female students who are, and I quote: “…hard-working, single Caucasian white girl who is not feminist or lesbian.” Because there’s nothing like a non-lesbian lady who works hard in the Department of Redundancy Dept., amirite, girls? (And yes, that giant dripping sound you heard was me getting sarcasm all over everything.)

20. Daryush Fucking Valizadeh. Meanwhile, back in the land of the (unfortunately) living, Roosh V is astonished to discover that racist racialists are racist! Just wait till he hears what water feels like, what religion the Pope is, and what bears do in the woods.

21. Melania Fucking Trump. No one cares why YOU think your husband didn’t insult the Mexicans, dear. The Mexicans are the ones whose opinion on that matter actually counts for anything.

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22. Donald Fucking Trump. And just to remind you all of who the previous fucking idiot married, it’s THIS fucking idiot. Who, apparently, hasn’t classed up one bit since a dog’s age ago. PS: And look! Even without getting elected to office (and he never will be), he’s already offending foreign leaders! And having the chutzpah to demand apologies out of THEM! PPS: Ha, ha!

23. David Fucking Duke. Is there any better reason NOT to vote for #22 than this super creepy racist old white guy’s endorsement? Thought not.

24. Jeanne Fucking Ives. Who needs men to wage war on women when you have HER? And her weapon of choice is withholding birth certificates from single moms who refuse to name their children’s fathers? And on a somewhat related note: What fucking century is this, again?

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25. Stefanie Fucking Williams. No, idiot, inadequate pay is not a “lifestyle that you choose”. It’s what happens when crapitalism runs amuck, and bosses think they can get away with forcing workers to accept less. And — this is crucial — when the law, criminally, sides with the bosses. Which is exactly the case in the United States of Amnesia, and many other countries. And since when is food vs. rent a “lifestyle choice”, anyhow? PS: Ha, ha! And SMACKDOWN.

26. Stacy Fucking Engman. If you wanna talk bad lifestyle choices, though, wearing a tiara and biting other passengers on the plane would certainly qualify.

27. Sarah Fucking Palin. How hilarious that she wants to compare Der Donald to Gandhi. And no, nobody’s fighting them, and they’re not gonna win…because both of them are permanently stuck at “they laugh at you”, and once the election silly season is over, they’ll both drop right back down to “they ignore you”.

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28. Ted Fucking Cruz. He’s still not legally eligible to run, and now, he’s not morally eligible, either. If you promise to pardon a fraudster, doesn’t that make you an accessory to his crimes?

29. James Fucking Inhofe. Between his daft ideas on global climate change, pollution, and the Flint water crisis, I think it’s time this one was forcibly retired. In a straitjacket.

30. Kanye Fucking West. Bound for total irrelevance in 5…4…3…2…

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And finally, to the fucking bastards of Bautzen. And the fucking cowards of Clausnitz. Thanks to them, the whole world now thinks of Germany as fascist again. Good job destroying your country’s hard-fought-for reputation, you fucking Nazis. Oh, I’m sorry…PEGIDA “patriots”. Same shit, ’nother era. Between them and the refugee-camp rapes, it’s like it’s 1939 all over again. I’m thinking a dose of public humiliation might be just the thing to cut the crowing short, if anyone has the guts to turn these Arschlöcher in and actually do some justice.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Animals vs. Der Donald

Cute cats, daffy dogs, and a majestic eagle all agree: Donald Trump is a piece of shit and must be stopped.

Oh, and that orangutan in Borneo? He’s still waiting to get his pelt back off Der Donald’s head.

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Dear racists: No, seriously, you can shut up NOW.

Pardon me while I let my girl Drew speak to exactly how I feel about what I’m about to share with you all:

Ahem. Now then…

A group of refugee women in Germany wrote the following open letter, which illustrates just how much racism and sexism go together in that country:

We, women of the refugee shelter Westerwaldstraße 92A in Köln-Humboldt-Gremberg, see the necessity to write a further explanation to our open letter over the circumstances of the refugee camp. As women in a refugee shelter, we are not only subject to unacceptable living conditions, but further heavy-weighing problems that threaten our lives and psyches.

There is no private sphere, no refuge for women in the shelter. Mothers can’t breastfeed their babies in peace, pregnant women have no peace or special care, mothers have no chance to supply their children with healthy food and education. But that’s not all.

The shelter’s security crew has been organizing sexual abuse and molestations of women since their arrival in the gym. The group consists of nine men: the leader, and four for the early shift and four for the late shift. They make videos of women breastfeeding, showering and sleeping at night. They pull the covers off married couples when they’re naked and intimate underneath. They also use psychological force and coercion to get women to have sex with them, promising for instance to get them a place to live in exchange. At night, the security forces bring other men from outside, dressed in the uniform of the security crew, who go to the women. They lurk in groups when the women try to go to the toilets outside the gym, won’t let them go in, and then try to rape them while others in the group stand lookout. The same also happens in the showers. The security men also take the women along to their rooms to have sex with them there. Some of the victims are minors.

We can only estimate the number of victims, because affected women are often too afraid to tell anyone about it. Some women have reported the attacks, however. Others among us are eyewitnesses to sexual assaults. We have reported rapes, sexual abuse, and harassment, for several weeks, again and again, with the management of the facility, but they haven’t done anything about it.

Those responsible for these crimes must be brought to justice!

Women in refugee shelters need special care and peace!

Translation mine.

Notice that the perpetrators of gang rape in this case aren’t refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or North Africa. They’re Germans.

And the victims aren’t Germans. They’re refugees. They come from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as North Africa.

They came fleeing war, and all the crimes and human rights abuses that go with it, including organized rapes. Just like the organized rapes that are now being perpetrated against them by gangs in the guise of security men in the so-called refugee shelter.

It’s a crime of racism and xenophobia, as well as stark and stinking sexism.

Seriously, all you racists who think you’re “protecting women” by burning down shelters and running riot in the streets — this is your team at work here. This is your side. This is what you’re supporting when you go out demonstrating with PEGIDA and the like. You are objectively pro-rape, as well as objectively fascist.

And you all can shut the fuck up and go to hell.

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Compare and Contrast: Justin Trudeau vs. McGill University

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Oh, snap. On a day when the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to criminalize peaceful protests against an apartheid regime, a university took a popular stand against its most prominent alum. That’s gotta hurt!

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