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Obama Scrambles To Create "New ISIS Narrative" After Putin Embarrasses Washington

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One of the most amusing things about Russia’s headlong plunge into Syria’s five-year conflict is the extent to which it effectively represented Moscow calling time on Washington’s strategy of seeking to bring about regime change in the Mid-East by intentionally destabilizing otherwise strong (if not always benign) governments.

Until September 30 - which is the day a three star Russian general strolled into the US embassy in Baghdad and informed the staff that airstrikes in Syria begin “in one hour” - Washington, Riyadh, Ankara, and Doha seemed perfectly content to simply wait around for one group of rebels or another to finally succeed in taking Damascus. In the meantime, the US embarked on what one might call a “containment” strategy as it related to ISIS - the idea, basically, was to keep Frankenstein confined to the lab, but not to hit the monster hard enough to render it ineffectual in the fight to destabilize the Assad government. 

Once Assad fell, the US would march in and “liberate” the country before promptly installing a puppet government - with the help of the Saudis of course. 

All of that changed when the Russians arrived in Latakia.

Once Moscow’s warplanes began to turn the tide in favor of the SAA with the help of Hezbollah ground forces and the IRGC, Putin promptly moved to blow the whole charade wide open by asking (loudly) why the US wouldn’t partner with Russia in the war on terror. He of course knew the answer, but the point was to make the general public question why, if ISIS really is the greatest threat to humanity since the Reich, Washington was unwilling to partner with Moscow and also with Tehran. Between that and the seemingly endless stream of Russian MoD clips depicting hundreds upon hundreds of airstrikes against terrorist targets, The Kremlin made the White House look as though the US was not serious about eradicating the very groups the Western media were holding up as public enemy number one.

Since around mid-October, the US has embarked on a desperate attempt to counter the notion that maybe - just maybe - there’s a nefarious explanation for America’s perceived disinterest in eradicating terror. First, Washington released helmet cam footage of a raid on an ISIS prison which resulted in the first US combat death in Iraq since 2011. Next, the White House announced SpecOps would be sent to Syria. The Pentagon followed up by offering to send Apache helicopters and their crews to assist Baghdad in retaking Ramadi (assistance which PM Haider Abadi, under pressure from Shiite lawmakers and Iran to rollback American influence in the country, refused). Finally, the US began hitting ISIS oil tankers.

Previously, the US claimed it didn’t destroy the oil convoys because The Pentagon was concerned about collateral damage. Once Putin blew the whistle on the Turkey-ISIS oil connection and began posting video clips of oil tanker trucks streaming across the border with apparent impunity, Washington was forced to drop the “collateral damage” excuse and start bombing the trucks (although Russia will tell you that there’s not much bombing going on from the US side of things). All in all, this reinforces the notion that Washington has no strategy. Actually, that’s not true. There’s probably a strategy, but it doesn’t involve an all out effort to degrade and defeat ISIS and so, the narrative needs to be spun in way that makes sense to an increasingly incredulous public. 

As The Hill reports, the US is now scrambling to craft a "new narrative" to feed to the impatient electorate. “Military officials on the Operation Inherent Resolve task force have recently formed a working group to formulate a ‘new narrative,’ The Hill writes, citing defense officials. 

“The steps are preliminary, and are part of a larger effort to better communicate the U.S.'s military strategy amid heavy criticism from Republican presidential candidates who say Obama is losing the battle against the terrorist group,” the article continues.

"To say there's no strategy is just flat out wrong," Army Col. Christopher Garver, public affairs officer for the Combined Joint Task Force -- Operation Inherent Resolve insists. 

“The new working group will look at how best to articulate what it is we're trying to do ... and do it in a concise easy to understand way," he adds. 

Yes, the US wants to “articulate what it is they’re trying to do,” because as it stands, it’s Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov, and Maria Zakharova that are doing the articulating when it comes to explaining what Washington is up to in Syria. The US desperately needs to recapture the narrative or else end up like Turkey, which is now widely understood to be what amounts to Islamic State’s number one state sponsor, all thanks to Moscow’s PR blitz in the wake of Erdogan’s move to shoot down a Russian Su-24 last month. 

Here’s Obama: "There is a legitimate criticism of what I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven't, you know, on a regular basis I think described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL," he said. 

Here’s a list of steps the US has taken in the mad scramble to counter the notion that the US military has either failed, or is under orders to avoid eradicating the group:

  • On Nov. 30, the White House announced the president had tapped a new ISIS czar, Robert Malley. He held a Twitter chat two weeks later, answering questions from the general public and journalists. 
  • On Dec. 6, the president addressed the nation on ISIS from the Oval Office, reiterating and defending his strategy.
  • On Dec. 8, the National Security Council press team began emailing to journalists daily summaries of "key developments" "in our unyielding campaign to degrade and destroy ISIL." 
  • On Dec. 14, the president himself visited the Pentagon, to convene a National Security Council meeting on ISIS. While he issued remarks afterwards, he did not take any questions from journalists.
  • On Dec. 15, a senior State Department official briefed Pentagon reporters on efforts to target ISIS's oil assets. 
  • And on Dec. 16, Adam Szubin, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, briefed White House reporters on efforts to shut down ISIS's financing. 

For his part, Paul Ryan says the problem isn’t the messaging, it’s the strategy itself. 

"This isn’t the first time the president has stressed that the American people just don’t get it, blaming poor communication for America’s discontent rather than the failed policies themselves," said a statement from Ryan’s office. 

The issue was not with "a communications plan" to defeat ISIS but rather over the need for a "comprehensive plan to destroy this enemy and protect our homeland," it said.

Right. But what Ryan apparently either doesn't get or simply can't say, is that this isn't about destroying ISIS, it's about achieving larger geopolitical goals like rolling back Iranian influence in the Arabian Peninsula and helping ensure that the Mid-East balance of power doesn't shift too dramatically towards Iran once sanctions are lifted next year. As Amb. James Jeffrey, a former Army infantry officer put it, “if you're not willing to change policy ... or you're not willing to change your goals, then what you do is you reorganize the deck chairs on the Titanic."

In other words, the only way the US is going to reclaim some shred of its lost credibility is to simply stop trying to overthrow the Assad government and focus on "the terrorists." Of course that isn't going to happen despite the best efforts of Tulsi Gabbard and the handful of other lawmakers inside the Beltway who actually "get it."

 

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Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:39 | 6968660 NidStyles
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Seems the Communist movements have lost their steam in the intelligence agencies. Must be the rush to convert to being wealthy capitalists instead of devotion to the revolution. I guess they finally realized that life is too short to believe in delusions like equality. 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:50 | 6968694 gmrpeabody
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Plz go away, Obama...,

you are such an embarassment to us all.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:54 | 6968713 InjectTheVenom
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Putin continues to schlong the fuck outta Bathhouse Barry...

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:01 | 6968736 Handful of Dust
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" If you want to keep your Schlong, you can keep your Schlong. "

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:12 | 6968780 Mr.Sono
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Say no to NWO, with out a fight! That won't happen, look out for more false flags that will bring us closer to war. Lets hope Hitlery won't get elected, because she will stir up war propaganda machine.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:23 | 6968815 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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Hey, we are ready for her. Hitlery 2016.

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:32 | 6968842 InjectTheVenom
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>>> HITLERY 2016:PRISON EDITION

>>>  HITLERY 2016:WHITE HOUSE EDITION

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:25 | 6969027 El Oregonian
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O's strategy on ISIS = ASSKISS

'F the MeriKans!

 

 

Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:38 | 6969068 Arnold
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All the current POTUS is scrambling for is to get in another nine before dark.

He has people, and more back stabbing people behind them, and then the truly incompetent behind them.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:23 | 6969198 Four chan
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only our manchurian president could make mr putin look like the good guy on the right side of reality.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:49 | 6969384 SafelyGraze
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we have always been at wawr with SYSRYSS

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 04:21 | 6969551 OldPhart
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"On Nov. 30, the White House announced the president had tapped a new ISIS czar, Robert Malley. He held a Twitter chat two weeks later, answering questions from the general public and journalists. 

  • On Dec. 6, the president addressed the nation on ISIS from the Oval Office, reiterating and defending his strategy.
  • On Dec. 8, the National Security Council press team began emailing to journalists daily summaries of "key developments" "in our unyielding campaign to degrade and destroy ISIL." 
  • On Dec. 14, the president himself visited the Pentagon, to convene a National Security Council meeting on ISIS. While he issued remarks afterwards, he did not take any questions from journalists.
  • On Dec. 15, a senior State Department official briefed Pentagon reporters on efforts to target ISIS's oil assets. 
  • And on Dec. 16, Adam Szubin, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, briefed White House reporters on efforts to shut down ISIS's financing. "
  •  

    In other words, we're doing jack-shit other than explaining that other people fucked up. Luckily, our propaganda machine actually DOES work, it's the only thing working in today's government.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:56 | 6969631 Otrader
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    It really hurts knowing that we've been lied to for decades. 

     

    Debt is Money

    War is Peace

    etc

    etc

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 08:51 | 6969802 onthesquare
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    You are correct but I would make sure that those decades are accurately counted.  In fact you have been lied to for centuries.

    It all adds up.

    All citizens of all countries have been lied to for centuries.  To ease the confusion always follow the money.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:38 | 6969914 knukles
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    Synopsis:  Our Propaganda isn't working so we need some new Propaganda.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:23 | 6969880 kralizec
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    Coming up with a new meme?  Obama embarrassed?

    Heh!  Surely you jest?!

    Coming up with a new "meme" (aka BS) is what Progs do best!  Duh!

    And good golly, if embarrassment ever stopped this prancing muzzie faggot from doing stupid shit it sure hasn't materialized yet, and there's been hundreds of chances!!!

    If Putin really wants to grab this asshole's attention he's going to have to come up with something devastating...like pics of Obama & Reggie in full grapple...

    And even then...the presstitutes would probably cannonize him...

    Welcome to Hell on Earth!

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:50 | 6970123 gatorengineer
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    I think you are being lied to again.  Doing the math on the oil doesnt work out.  A truck holds 200 barrels let say it sells for 30 a barrell.  6,000 a truck ISIS is not funding them selves solely from these revenues.  The real money is comming from DC, Riyadh, Tel Aviv, and Istanbul....  The oil trucks are just a ruse for the sheeple.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:33 | 6968844 Chris Dakota
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    Why does Obama insist on calling ISIS ISIL?

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:05 | 6968956 SuperRay
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    Because he's an arrogant, pompous clown who thinks he understands history better than the low life morons who elected him and uses ISIL because it's the historicity more accurate term. Which of course means that in his twisted delusional he believes that they have historical legitimacy. 1/20/17 can't come soon enough

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:55 | 6968973 Chris Dakota
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    I googled and found this answer.

    ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Now, to us Westerners we don’t really make much of a distinction, do we? No, honestly from our perspective its all about the same. But how would a Muslim living in the Middle East view it? Just what is the Levant anyway? Let’s take a look.

    The geographical term LEVANT refers to a multi-nation region in the Middle East. It’s a land bridge between Turkey to the north and Egypt to the south. If you look on a map, however, in the near exact middle of the nations that comprise the Levant, guess what you see? Come on, guess!

    It all has to do with the nation of Israel.

    It is code to muslims that he does not recognize Israel as a soverign nation, that Israel belongs to the Islamic State.

    But why is Israel helping this group?

    All of this is so complex it is hard to know who is on what side, and what is the real goal here.

    I do know their one world government Israel will have to go, especially since they have so many violent nutballs there now, the settlers.


    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:00 | 6969297 RevIdahoSpud3
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    Thsnk You!

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 04:38 | 6969562 HopefulCynic
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    It is not that complex, you have two fucking messianic groups, the Ashkenazi excrement, that want to bring their Messiah in to this world as a King, and the other Wahhabi fucktards that want to bring the end of the world. Then you have the US (the tool) which is either ran by people that only care about money, or the same messianic Ashkenazi pricks (Israel from now on). Israel, does not mind playing all sides as long as it wins in the end, the Wahhabi zealots, just want supremacy for the coming battle, both of them have an enemy in common, the Shiite (Iran). Syria is controlled by Alavi (Shiite). The US is just a fucking moronic tool for both of them, but specially for Israel, those that know this and are in power manipulate, and those that are in power and don't know this, just want money and power, that is why they are used as a tool. For Russia is about survival, because once the Shiite are out, there would be no stopping the tool (the US), for Iran it is also about survival, obviously for Syria as well. If Russia manages to keep and increase it's geopolitical influence in the region, it can oust the US in the future from the region and erode the tools power globally, no more control of oil and gas. If the AXIS of EVIL (the excrements, the zealots, and the tool) gets a hold of Syria, then Russia, and Iran can say bye bye to their influence in the biggest industry and the controlling industry which is energy, which means even more impositions and arbitrary actions by the tool 

     

    Terrorism is real, but it is just a bunch of deluded individuals controlled one way or another by the fucking tool mostly. The tool has enough power to shut their finances at will, it controls all banking information, every banking transaction is known to them, there is no fucking denying it, the whole western world is extremely fiscalised, there are no secrets, the imposed anti money laundering laws have made sure of that. If money gets away is either because it is very small for them to care, or they want it that way. 

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:47 | 6969622 COSMOS
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    +1 000 000

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:53 | 6969629 Otrader
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    +1 000 000 1

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 06:21 | 6969644 JohninMK
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    A contender for the best post of the week.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:01 | 6969827 onthesquare
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    once a villan who follows a dogma that you can get atonement from your God with a big reset ie. confession, yom kipper, or what ever then they just carry on as happily as a fat butcher.

    Already planning your next war and will act just as soon as I get my godly reset and I will be on my way.

    Some say we came down from the trees and evolved, others believe that we fell and accidently evolved.  I believe we were pushed.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 17:47 | 6971856 Jack's Raging B...
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    Uuuggh. Do you genuinely think Obama is some "secret Muslim" quietly attempting to destroy what's left of Christendom? Get a fucking grip. Obama whorships only two idols, The State and himself. Being president makes that quite easy to do. Besides, these things are left to people far more important than the PotUS.

    Why would a fanatically anti-western Whabbist militia give itself an English acronym that spells out the name of a pagan diety? That didn't pass the sniff test to a great many people when this boogeyman was announced to the world.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 08:41 | 6969780 Pumpkin
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    "Why does Obama insist on calling ISIS ISIL?"

     

    He is a shitbag lawyer.  They always play word games.  Everyone thinks he IS talking about ISIS, but he know he's not.  It's the same way as individual, person or citizen does not mean one of the people.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:39 | 6969245 Farqued Up
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    Ryan and Mc Penis will finance it, nooo problem.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 07:03 | 6969678 August
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    It's The Donald versus The Beast Herself... the ultimate battle to determine the fate of humankind.

    Holy Shit!  You can't make this stuff up!

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:47 | 6969755 HopefulCynic
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    You do know that Donald's daughter is married to Jared Corey Kushner, who studied since the moment he came out of his mother's asshole in a school that taught him all the great things the Babylonian Talmud has to offer right? Like how it is ok to rape 3 year olds. Ivanka, is Jewish as well and best friends with none other than Chelsea Clinton. The Donald is just another fucktard elitist that will pursue the same agendas, the Donald sucks the beast titties. Welcome to reality!!!!

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:51 | 6969281 wisebastard
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    I have heard of PING but I have not heard of Schlong .....................i will have to check out some of their golf clubs before i go to the driiving range this week

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 07:05 | 6969681 HowdyDoody
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    It is the sound made when Obomber slices into the rough, yet again. It is his best and only shot.

     

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:18 | 6968796 will ling
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    ya.

    must admit i'm a vlad admirerer, but just plain objectively speakin', the guy is head and shoulders in the "right stuff" above clinton, bush and bathhouse barry. 

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:11 | 6968979 Veriton
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    Vladimir Putin is being built up to be the Mashiach (the Jewish Messiah) when he defeats Obama next September. And it's all globalist BS -

    Globalist Prophecy Watch: Update 3 – Is Vladimir Putin the Jewish Messiah? (Continued 4 – The 9 Qualifications of the Mashiach)
    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:01 | 6969133 DeadFred
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    If you want a prophetic spin I'd stick with Daniel's end-time battle between the King of the North vs. the King of the South. Moscow is due north of Jerusalem while due south is... Kenya. The King of the North is supposed to win that one by the way.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:55 | 6969288 Battlefield USA
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    DeadFred... the problem, is that you have been fed Western Churchianity - CIA propaganda all your life while hiding under your nuclear protection school desk listening to the freedom bells ring. Gog and Magog IS NOT Russia. Has never been Russia. Will never be Russia. Dig out an old Bible map, and you will find that TURKEY and environs are your biblical/historical Gog, Magog, and etc... which makes perfect sense, since they are positioning themselves to be THE Caliphate. Put all this in perspective in light of the ongoing events in Syria and Turkey's shenanigans.

    Now, GO FIND THE Club of Rome Map (subsidiary of the UN) created in 1973. Of course, it was created in 1973 and geo-political-demographics were slightly different. Just tweek some numbers around... and if you can NOT see what you should see, you are not only blind, but stoopid.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:04 | 6969309 RevIdahoSpud3
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    Your post was informative until you went into attack mode. Was he "stoopid" or did he just not have the information. Your response leaves open the question, "are you just a fucking asshole"?

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:23 | 6969352 Chris Dakota
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    I agree, all this attacking of others is just wrong.

    Everyone is trying to figure out what is really going on here.

    None of us know with so many lies, propaganda, playing both sides of the street.

    Personally I welcome read everything hoping to connect dots.

    I even read people I don't agree with, many times they are right with facts I am unaware of

    due to my own programing.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 08:26 | 6969760 gonetogalt
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    Two informative books on this subject are 'The Islamic AntiChrist' and 'Mideast Beast', both by Joel Richardson. He makes a strong case for Turkey being the King of the North, and predicted the rise of the Caliphate as early as 2006.

    That said, I too am confused as it looks like Russia is more positioned to fulfill this role.

    So maybe there's more repositioning still to come???

    i don't know...

    Beware the Lamb!!!

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:22 | 6970046 Veriton
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    Actually, the globalist script calls for Putin to turn against Israel 7 years after he is proclaimed the Mashiach. He will lead his "reformed," stronger UN into the Battle of Armageddon. The ultimate goal of the globalists is to take us beyond the NWO into a theocratic dictatorhip under a figure named "Jesus Christ."

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 11:09 | 6970198 Phoenix Pilgrim
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    Your theories are intriguing, as always. Today's technology is certainly indistinguishable from "magic" for the uninformed masses so it would be likely to confuse and mislead many. The media thought leaders may underestimate the skepticism of the younger generations however, which is why I think the "alien arrival" option is still on the menu.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:43 | 6969256 Chris Dakota
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    This is just terrible.

    August 1999 was a Fixed Grand Cross with solar eclipse. I was with a group who were praying during that time because all of us thought that the Antichrist was coming to power.

    Who came to power soon after when Yeltsin suddenly resigned, Vladimir Putin who I think is a an ethnic Jew, so that would fit.

    And you are right, people are into great hero worship at this time because things are so grave, find a hero, anybody.

    Trump, Putin, Feel the Bern!

    Plus none of this makes sense, they seem to be controlling all players with a global brainwashed public.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:33 | 6969608 HopefulCynic
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    Foget about your escahtological BS. There is no Messiah coming, it already came, there is also no Second Coming any time soon, much less if you believe in Prophecies, many things have to happen first. People have been believing that "The end is near" for centuries. Just give it a rest and prepare yourself, because your end can come the next instant, you just don't know. 

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:26 | 6970058 Comanchero
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    Prophecies suggest that He is coming back 2 thousand years after His first coming.  By my reckoning we have less than 18 years left.   ~33 AD to 2033 AD.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:34 | 6970059 Comanchero
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    According to ancient maps and Bible genealogies: Gog, Magog, Ashkenaz are all non semitic Turkic people. They have invaded the Levant where there were no walls surrounding the cities and people lived peacefully with each other for centuries.   After their post WWII land invasion, they built walls and have set each one at each others throat for several decades.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 07:06 | 6969682 HowdyDoody
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    Nuttyahu has got dibs on King David's throne.

     

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:17 | 6969178 tgmur10
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    I believe ole Bathhouse Barry is enjoying getting the Putin Schlong......

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:51 | 6969950 Shad_ow
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    He would but Putin wouldn't touch him.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:17 | 6969180 Kirk2NCC1701
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    InjectTheVenom: "Putin continues to schlong the fuck outta Bathhouse Barry..."

    Speaking of 'Schlong'... InjectTheVenom, can you please do a better job covering up the kosher schlong of your avatar?  ZHers thank you.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:51 | 6969944 Shad_ow
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    "Putin continues to schlong the fuck outta Bathhouse Barry..."

     

    Well done!  You have won the internet for the day. 

    I am still laughing.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:41 | 6972955 Tarjan
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    Given the choices presented to the American people, the outcome you hope for is by far the best for the country. However, the Electoral College decides the POTUS and when I run those numbers in a Trump vs. Hitlery contest; the best I can see is The Donald falling 18 votes shy of the 270 needed to win.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:04 | 6968744 MsCreant
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    I halfway hear ya.

    The sad thing is all we are doing is asking for new sock puppets for the same damn sock puppet show. Our puppet plays golf, wears mom pants to bike, and does not do well with questioning outside of the teleprompter. So yeah, it's embarassing...

    Putin rides horses, pilots planes and other craft, shoots, hunts, and befriends animals. He is a much better looking puppet than our puppet.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 02:13 | 6969422 FIAT CON
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    I have listened to a few of Putin's speeches (translated of course) he is a good speaker with clear answers with no teleprompter. Only actors use teleprompters.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 06:06 | 6969638 Casey Stengel
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    +1000

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 04:12 | 6969543 HopefulCynic
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    The whole of the US policies are an embarrassment. You sure must feel comfortable in your pink bubble blaming a single POTUS for all of the crimes of the USA, without even considering the systemic problem, the whole political and corporate class is the problem, as well as the citizens that have not done their duty to string all of them from a tree. You all live to content blaming dems or reps for your idiocy and inaction, but dare them not take away your Starbucks, food stamps, nickeys or iphones, because then you would fucking jump and go after every single one of them, meanwhile it is okay if they erode your civil liberties, spy on you, kill your children on the streets, invade, murder masses and steal from everyone else. Just as long as you have your fucking MTV, oprah, kardashians, porn, and who the fuck knows what other excrement that you like to gobble up, you will only complain and do nothing.   No wonder it is so easy to keep you distracted and to fuck you up, just like they have done for centuries with everyone else. 

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 07:03 | 6969676 Lea
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    Quote, "Plz go away, Obama..., you are such an embarassment to us all."

    Some still have trouble getting what the real issue is.

    https://tobefree.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ifyouthinkeverythingwillbeo...

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 09:36 | 6969911 HopefulCynic
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    Totally awsome. 

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:00 | 6969977 vollderlerby
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    Remember when we had to collectiviely cringe whenever W opened his trap to spew some uneducated, drunk and just plain old retarded shit? I was so looking forward to having a President that at least doens't embarrass the hell out of us every time he opens his mouth.  And then we had to endure two terms of this fucking idiot. The amazing part is that he pissed off every single person on the political spectrum.

    He's the only asshole that managed to squeeze the middle class form both ends:  

    From the top: Corporate welfare, free-trade, multinational corporations, no tax on foreign earnings, too big to fail even bigger, etc.

    From the bottom:  Free shit army now has more people than the working class.

    At least pick one of the pretend ideologies (red or blue) and fuck us in the ass OR skullfuck us, but don't do both.  

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:50 | 6968661 benb
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    Barry Soetoro - Lying sack of communist/globalist shit. Period...

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:13 | 6968782 Baby Bladeface
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    Monkey liquidly shit himself again in the Middle East.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:02 | 6968946 Chupacabra-322
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    So, the lame brain scheme of the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. is to continue with more Scripted PsyOp, False Narratives & Propaganda.

    Brilliant! Then we have nothing to worry about. Cats out of the bag Scum Fucks. The entire World knows we fund terror. No walking this one back.

    Tick toc Mother Fuckers.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:51 | 6969626 COSMOS
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    We could of said this back with the Contras in Nicaragua.  A USA funded group of ex convicts and mercenaries waging a campaign of brutal terror on indigenous peoples.

    Perhaps there terror skills were honed vs the Native American peoples of North America.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:10 | 6970012 vollderlerby
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    The premise of the US being a nation is founded on the notion of violence.  That's been brutal and horrible but we may see two good things come out of this: We the people may still have a chance against our Nazi oppressors and we don't roll over like the Europeans who invite the Islamofasicsts in to fuck their culture up the ass.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 08:52 | 6969806 MasterControl
    MasterControl's picture

    Who the fuck is we douchebag?

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:26 | 6969210 Four chan
    Four chan's picture

    spawn of coalburner.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:06 | 6969996 vollderlerby
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    Nailed it!  Who would have thought you can have a commie and a globalist in one person?  And it has to be the cocksucker in chief.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:41 | 6968671 Dr. Engali
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    It's simple. The U.S doesnt want to join Russia against ISIS because ISIS is a product of Langley.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:49 | 6968693 benb
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    Pretty much everybody here knows that. The question is how under mind control; how dumbed down, how chemically castrated are the American people that they are still putting up with this treason?

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:53 | 6968710 gmrpeabody
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    Well i doubt that you could put a pair of balls together out of all my progressive friends combined..., and that's a lot.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:56 | 6968720 NidStyles
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    Friends don't let friends drink tap water. 

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:01 | 6968735 insanelysane
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    Once again the narrative is that the average American citizen is too stupid to understand how the masters at .gov are beneficial to the citizenry.  How many times has O trotted out this line of "reasoning?"

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:50 | 6968773 benb
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    And you can read Rockefeller Foundation created monster John P. Holdren's book ECO-SCIENCE from the 1970's (Free online) which advocates poisening the drinking water to dumb down the population to make it more 'manageable.' Putting agents in the water and food to sterilize you. And, spiking the water with cancer agents to cull the population... and it's all been implemented. Where is Holdren now? ... He's Obama's 'Science Advisor.'

    Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” – The Impact of Science on Society (1953) by Bertrand Russell, p.50

     

    "Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."

    Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1953) pgs. 49-50

     

     

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:10 | 6968972 Chupacabra-322
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    Distilled Water with a 1/4 Teaspoon Hymalyan Pink Salt for your mineral content.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 10:07 | 6969999 vollderlerby
    vollderlerby's picture

    Reverse osmosis water works as well.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:48 | 6969623 Otrader
    Otrader's picture

    "Control Oil and you control a Nation.  Control food and you control the people."  - Henry Kissinger

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:12 | 6968774 TeamDepends
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    Ripper: Mandrake?
    Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
    Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
    Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
    Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
    Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
    Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
    Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
    Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
    Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
    Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
    Mandrake: Yes.
    Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
    Mandrake: Yes.
    Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
    Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
    Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
    Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
    Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
    Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
    Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:00 | 6968820 Ballin D
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    "Friends don't let friends drink tap water."

     

    Challenging core beliefs is a good way to lose friends.  I dont often post links because all of the spam but heres a good video on an ex-KGB agent talking about brainwashing the American people.  It does not go in the direction that the first couple minutes make you think it will.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

     

    full length video below.  the most interesting piece is on the deliberate brainwashing of the boomer generation.  This was filmed 30 years ago which demonstrates the incredible foresight.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:08 | 6969554 Daize
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    Perfect example of Russian RC, thanks.

    Just in case, I wasn't obvious enough, since you seem to have lost all capacity for critical thinking, here is the question you should have asked yourself:

    Which of the following is more plausible?

    A) That 29 years ago, before internet as we know it today, and for 15 to 20 years previously ie since 1965, the USSR had such total control over Western media that they could indoctrinate an entire generation from afar, when in fact asides from a few agents here and there they had diddly-squat and enough problems of their own.

    B) This "defector" is an obvious KGB plant engaging in RC as intructed by his superiors, and in fact republishing this interview may also be Russian RC.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:47 | 6969614 HopefulCynic
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    What is more plausible, is that a bunch of closed knit Ashkenazi excrements, have been playing both sides. That is where the Bolsheviks come in, and the Bankers, or do you think they do not control the Banking and Media industries? If you do, you would be wrong. It was not the USSR, they were just a tool, like the US is. Internationalists do not have allegiances to any flags. Ashkenazi craps are so closed knit, that they have been inbreeding for genrations, they dislike outsiders, multiculturalism, etc... although they peddle it to others. USSR Ashkenazi were not against US Ashkenazi, they are part of the same group. The Rotschilds have been playing both sides for centuries now, financing wars from both sides, like they did with George Washington and London, or Bonaparte and London. This outline was implemented by the Bolsheviks in the KGB, can't you fucking notice it??? Are you really that dumb that can't you distinguish fact from reality anymore, just like the fucking KGB defector says? Do you have zero common sense? Are you not witnessing what is happening, with the intense erosioning of the first amendment? I bet you are a liberal, that loves all the liberal BS, and hate the words queer, fagg, etc...

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:04 | 6968742 JamaicaJim
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    Add to that, their brains are so small, if they were inserted into a mosquito's asshole, they'd rattle around like a ball bearing in a cargo container.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:09 | 6968761 booboo
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    If Operation Incoherent Resolve appears to look confusing well...that's the whole point isn't it. If there is one thing government is good at is compartmentalizing big ideas so that know one individual can be fingered or blamed or for that matter actually know what the fucking plan is. If they look stupid it is because they are stupid, not saying they aren't evil either...ok, stupid evil.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:13 | 6968771 Dr. Engali
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    Sorry, what did you say? I wasn't paying attention. I was too busy eating monosodium glutamate laced Cheetos, drinking piss water domestic beer, sitting in my barcalounger watching foosball on teevee. Pass me a glass of fluorinated water please.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:21 | 6968807 Baby Bladeface
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    ...and Cheetos (new improved with high fructose corn syrup sweetened) and bottled water (glass is not fashionable) is packaged in plastic embedded with endocrine disruptors ...... and love.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:32 | 6968831 Genghis Kahn
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    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:29 | 6968833 Genghis Kahn
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     There is enough " bread and circus" to go around.

    Nothing will change. For now anyways.  Lol 

     

     

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:44 | 6969618 Otrader
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    If it's not on TV, then it didn't happen.  I wish there was a ZH TV channel or even a radio show so commuters can get a taste of the truth during their 45 minute commute. 

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:51 | 6968697 localsavage
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    At this point, Obama is just another actor who spends his last days in office golfing and plugging Reggie.  The corporations are running the show.  

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:04 | 6968743 I Write Code
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    Well, it's not simple because the US - that is, Obama - always wants to help Iran.  Obama is firmly on both sides, and admits neither.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:35 | 6968857 Chris Dakota
    Chris Dakota's picture

    Just like Al Qaeda was, it is Washington's portable go anywhere army.

    Remember Obama and Rahm Emanuel wanting a domestic civilian army?

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 11:33 | 6970263 Lorca's Novena
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    Their wish is coming true albeit its not the one they wanted.. hint hint

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:11 | 6969590 Allen_H
    Allen_H's picture

    Nothing a few Disney scriptwriters could figure out, oh......they produce sheite as well.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 07:17 | 6969689 HowdyDoody
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    US Special forces have rescued (sorry 'captured') Abu Omar al-Shishani, one of the leaders of ISIS. The action took place in Kirkuk province. Al-Sishani and another leader have been taken to Sulaymaniyah in north-east Iraq. He is famous for his magnificent ginger beard, typically found in the ME.

    http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2015/12/28/00/20151228003948598/pic_2137a358...

    "Abu Omar al-Shishani (real name Tarkhan Batirashvili) was born in 1986 in a village in the Pankisi gorge, Georgia. He served in the Georgian army, and was later convicted of illegal possession of weapons. In 2012 he went to Turkey, and later took part in the fighting in Syria and Iraq, became one of field commanders of the Islamic State".

    https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/lenta.ru/news/2015/12/27/usaforce/

    Given the Islamic State has declared war on Russia, and committed an act of terrorism against Russia by blowing up the A321 in Egypt, Russia is going to be very interested in extraditing him. So will he

    i) escape and disappear without trace

    ii) have a strange unaccountable accident with a nailgun or similar object.

     

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 12:25 | 6970458 opport.knocks
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    iii) Shave the beard, get minor surgery on the nose and be redeployed as a "trainer" for his next CIA assignment. Just like MI5's Jihadi John.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:43 | 6968677 JustObserving
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    Obama Scrambles To Create "New ISIS Narrative"

    Please, it is well established that America and its allies founded and funded ISIS and still fund it today.  Obama can spin it as much as he likes but truth remains the same:

    ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html

    USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS

    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-...

    The US arming of ISIS

    While claiming to be committed to a war against ISIS, Washington and its regional allies have time and again proven themselves to be its principal sources of strength.

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/03/pers-j03.html

    Poll shows 81 percent of Syrians believe US created ISIS

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-19/81-syrians-believe-us-blame-isi...

    Obama's fake war against ISIS:

    1 yr, 6,700 airstrikes & $4bn after Obama vowed to ‘destroy’ ISIS, jihadists still on offensive

    http://investmentwatchblog.com/1yr-6700-airstrikes-4bn-after-obama-vowed...

    America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terro...

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:58 | 6968723 Haole
    Haole's picture

    I don't know who or what you are but allow me to take ths opportunity to thank you for always posting really good shit on here.  As someone who's been around for a while and seen the comments sections go to puke more often than not now your contributions are much appreciated JO.  Cheers!

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:04 | 6968741 JustObserving
    JustObserving's picture

    Thanks.  Here is drinking to your health and happiness.  

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:19 | 6968801 Anunnaki
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    Yes indeed. You and Johnny Horsecaulk back up your comments with links. Which i push around to Proggie blogs still smoking the Hopium

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:02 | 6968701 Haole
    Haole's picture

    Barry Soetoro.

    Is it even human, BTChez..?

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:56 | 6968702 Son of Captain Nemo
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    As The Hill reports, the US is now scrambling to craft a "new narrative" to feed to the impatient electorate. “Military officials on the Operation Inherent Resolve task force have recently formed a working group to formulate a ‘new narrative,’ The Hill writes, citing defense officials.

    To the dumbest "Monsanto corn fed" brain dead motherfuckers on the planet that should be annihilated by it's own stupidity be it imported ISIS or the Russian Federation that finishes the job on the U.S. of A.!...

    Vlad do your stuff to snuff this fucking candle out completely as soon as you can!...

    I see "the Donald" or whoever they put in the shoes of the White House sucking your cock and licking your balls like the professional war criminal whores from Tel Aviv that they are!!!

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:08 | 6968966 o r c k
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    "Craft a new narrative". Was there ever a time when the simple truth was more than enough?

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:38 | 6969069 Son of Captain Nemo
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    "Craft a new narrative". Was there ever a time when the simple truth was more than enough?

    +100

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:57 | 6968724 flyonmywall
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    I thought he was the great organizer and explainer in chief. Why does the great Obama, "he who could no no wrong 'cuz he black" have to explain himself to anybody?

    Oh yea, those pesky term limits. Can you say, lame duck presidency?

     

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:58 | 6968728 WTFUD
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    Come on folks, Barry's worded a very strong letter to the UN against DAESH atrocities. Admittedly due to the piss poor postal service that operates in the US the UN's Headquarters in New York have yet to receive it.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:10 | 6968764 Lorca's Novena
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    OH Shit! He lettered it? Just for a second I thought it was a Tweet on the twatters.... must be sewious!

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:21 | 6968810 dhengineer
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    C'mon, who gave him the crayons... Next he'll be drawing on the wallpaper in the oval office...

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 21:59 | 6968729 The Carbonator
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    At work I tell folks about the ISIS & Langly connection.  Most folks give me a crazy look.  The only people who seem to be in the 'know' are Libertarians some Conservatives and the #2A friends I have...the rest of dumb fucks.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:14 | 6968785 Doña K
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    Our friends do not know were Syria is. Yes! I am ashamed. They also do not like to hear negative news.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 12:39 | 6970538 DuneCreature
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    Well the good news is they can pick up a free geography lesson on the Internet.

    Your friends might want to know all about Syria and the ME when .gov gives a busload of Syrian refugees a housing voucher and moves the Alley Snackbars in next door to’m.

    You might start there as an incentive for them to learn a little about current events and geography.

    ~ DC

     

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:40 | 6968878 Genghis Kahn
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    The unwashed masses are despised by the elitists as well.

    Now you know why. They truly are sheep

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 04:44 | 6969566 OldPhart
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    I do a meeting, every day, at 9:35 am for the entire administrative staff.

    I use Zero Hedge as my springboard.

    I think I've effectively radicalized the entire office.  Credit Manager went from 'what good is it if you can't eat it' to quivering appreciation for the silver eagle I gave everyone.  I've taken things I've read on Zero Hedge and other sites and made pronouncements over the years on what we have to endure.  Now they call me the 'Prophet of Doom'.  Pretty much everything pronounced, since 2008, has occurred.

    Still waiting on the hoards of city dwellers ransacking everything  as they desperately try to escape the cities.  Wave, after wave, after wave.

    I need more ammo.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:40 | 6969615 Otrader
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    Prior to Zerohedge and the ZH community discussions, I had some ideas what was going on, but now it has become crystal clear.  I can now communicate to people about what's going on and what lies ahead.  I've completly shut down the MSM in my home, car and work.  And, when I do hear and see it, it's like the movie 'They Live' with Roddy Piper and his sunglasses.   

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:46 | 6968730 MsCreant
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    Putin is inside Obama's OODA loop.

    Or his puppeteer is inside Obama's puppeteer's OODA loop.

    Sucks to be the US.

    edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

    The phrase OODA loop refers to the decision cycle of observe, orient, decide, and act, developed by military strategist and USAF Colonel John Boyd. Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the strategic level in military operations.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:32 | 6969225 Anunnaki
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    Since Sept, Putin acts and Obama reacts.

    Same with Ukraine. America isnt used to that. It is driving them crazy

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 04:47 | 6969570 OldPhart
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    Putin's two seconds into the OODA Loop, before Obama realizes it hours later.  That's why we're about to fail as a nation.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 12:46 | 6970575 DuneCreature
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    Staying consistently inside of your opponents OODA loop (as opposed to a lucky shot) requires training, discipline and practice, practice, practice.

    I guess we can see who did their homework after school and who was busy smoking festive pole and crack cocaine after class.

    ~ DC

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:01 | 6968731 JamaicaJim
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    Give Up Chalkie...you and your band of....fucked up assholes in your "administration".

    Game, set and match/Checkmate for Vlad =- who is making a mockery of the Fuckbama puppet show, as these fuckers don't have a clear "LEADER" of the elitist swine. This is why Vlad is being pilloried by the MSM - they have no strategy for one who does not go along with this New World Order shit.

    The comments I heard from the sheeple over the holidays as to Vlad being "bad" were silly. RIGHT off the narrative from Fox, NBC, CBS, and ABC.

    Damn near erped up my holiday dinner over some spewed shit....and I'm not even close to as smart as some of the posters on here. I felt like Einstein in the company I encountered. Some, old friends that have allowed themselves to be hijacked by the very networks listed above.

    One thing I do not understand is the old fuckers; the 80+ people that have been hijacked by the MSM - and spending their final days on the planet wasting time, allowing these fucktards in DC and NY (The U-fucking-N) to infiltrate their brains. The last thing I want is some elitist fuckwad/politician wasting ANY of my latter years listening to/watching the EFFLUVIUM coming out of MSM.

    "Idiot Box"...indeed

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:04 | 6968950 RevIdahoSpud3
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    LOL. "I felt like Einstein in the company I encountered."

    For the last 15 years I have participated (beyond just calling myself) in Republican events and was my county's mens representative in the state party. During the last year I have been emailing State legislator's ZH articles. In the past few months several have blocked my emails??  These are people that I know personally and used to spend amiable time with? If you don't tow the party line and narrative you become a pariah. So be it. It is sad to come to the realization that it isn't just the unwashed masses who have been systematically dumded down but a substantial number of lower level elites, many who make policy and affect lives on the local and state level that are just as fucking narrow, dumb and un-curious as any rank and file blue collar nit wit. They drive better cars, live in better homes and have better lifestyles but...in many ways just the same.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:34 | 6969611 Otrader
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    When the Republicans folded to the democrats in the last spending bill, I scolded a lot of people at work.  I've been telling them that there is ONE party system and the only way we can return to sanity is sound money and stopping our crazy foreign policy.  some of them are starting to come around, but the majority are plugged into talk radio and the drudge report all day long.   Neither of these two sources really talk about the sources of the problems, just the symptoms. 

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:03 | 6969137 duck dodgers
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    Yea the old people in this country are brain washed beyond any kind of hope. It would be best if most of them would just walk towards the light.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:59 | 6969296 Farqued Up
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    You are wrong and a dumb shit to ever make blanket absolute comments about a mass of people. Stop and think about that, you are in bad need of a reality epiphany.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:16 | 6969323 duck dodgers
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    Oh Im sorry was that a micro aggression? I said "most"...geez.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:08 | 6969586 OldPhart
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    I consider myself old and brain washed.  Brain washed, as in past tense.

    I was simply ignorant until the 80's when congress had the opportunity to fix social security; at that time, I paid attention.  Congress decided to go full Ponzie.  I realized then, in my twenties, that I'd never be able to retire, EVER.

    I accepted that fate, I'm paying social security to fund mom, dad, and grandparents retirement; and God bless them in it.  They deserve every penny.  Me, I already knew I'd never be able to retire, I'll have to work until I die at some job.  The 80's ended any sort of link to job stability, it was obvious that there was no base under my feet.  I accepted it and went back to sleep.  I'm fucked, that's my fate around 1986 or so.

    2008 woke me the fuck back up, like ice water over my back, we can bail out every fucking bank in the world, yet I remain fucked.  I can never retire, and what savings I have are, in reality negative earnings vs real inflation.

    You younger people are fucked even worse than I.  I expect nothing from government.  I'm going to eventually die from a combination of exposure, starvation, and thirst due to lack of resources.

    You young people are going to be paying for the extreme costs of lack of housing, food, and water.  You will be barely able to house, feed and water your own family; let alone help a charity case like me.

    I accept my fate.  I will be that desiccated corpse along side the desert dirt road.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:28 | 6969214 Anunnaki
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    I dont want to make assumptions Jim, but are you black?

    The reason I ask is that I work at a University and when I pointed out to some black colleagues about record inequality for blacks under Obama and they were unmoved. They still defend and make excuses for him

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:03 | 6968740 nmewn
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    Boy, it must really suck being in the ObamaBox having to be all Gaaarrreeennn! Commander-in-Chief-like, not wanting to kill the fucking planet by destroying ISIS oil trucks and releasing all that black toxic smoke into the atmosphere.

    Someone should show der fuhrer a map, thats nowhere near Hawaii ;-)

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:08 | 6968758 MsCreant
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    #blackgoldmatters

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:05 | 6968746 Lorca's Novena
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    President Deflection

     

    FUCK YOU BARRY!

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:07 | 6968753 A Lunatic
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    It's for the bloody children.......

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:11 | 6968772 MsCreant
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    #dronedchildrenmatter (puns intended)

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:07 | 6968754 stant
    stant's picture

    Running out of full faith and credibility at.GOV

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:38 | 6969239 RevIdahoSpud3
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     We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ~Marcus Fabius Quintilian

    Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ~Ambrose Bierce

     We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown

    An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. ~Billy Sunday

    The explanation is always longer when there isn't any. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

    He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Benjamin Franklin

    Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~Aes

    The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. ~Author Unknownop


    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 01:02 | 6969301 Farqued Up
    Farqued Up's picture

    Credibility, good, credit left long ago. Oh wait so did faith and sanity.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:09 | 6968760 Anunnaki
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    Ooh. The new ISIS czar sent a Tweet

    No wonder Eliot Shimon aka the Caliph has been on the run

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:28 | 6969606 Otrader
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    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/04/french-report-isil-leader-mossad/

    Any country who speaks out becomes a FF candidate.  Now, that Spain has issued an arrest warrant for NuttyYahoo, they're probably on the list also. 

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:10 | 6968765 Jack Oliver
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    it's impossible to turn the tide and regain support for the phoney war on terror - The US and Israel are just embarrassing themselves now !

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 23:06 | 6968958 Demdere
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    Big false flag in a foreign country.  Paris didn't get much investigation, so far as I have seen, so it isn't as obviously a FF for most people.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:10 | 6968767 PoasterToaster
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    Narrative is just another word for lie.  Lots of narratives going on these days.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:34 | 6968851 Baby Bladeface
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    Ah, US world order is one of congregation around lies.

    What matters is not facts, what matters is that we get a good solid lie we can defend together against the 'enemy'.

    Will forge us into battle brothers...

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:14 | 6968783 Dark Daze
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    Do none of these fucks, on both sides of the aisle, who all know perfectly well what has been going on, not understand the word Treason? Or do they just think they can't be touched?

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:50 | 6969277 RevIdahoSpud3
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    Yes, they think they cannot be touched! Otherwise, the phony, false narrative would not be shoveled out to the masses in the volumes that it is and as blatantly unhidden. Yes, they think they cannot be touched because up until now they are correct!

    Ex: Congress will increase unemployment benefits 2.7%. Congress will extend aid to undocumented "imigrants". Kim Kardashians Ass. Patriots fall to Jets. Kobe retires.  UN to discuss. Caitlyn Jenner in menopause.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:25 | 6969602 Otrader
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    I can't understand why Americans just don't care?  I mean if you steal $10 from someone, they go ape shit.  But, steal $600,000,000,000/year from them, they just don't give a sh*t. 

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:14 | 6968786 Flying Wombat
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    Latest from The Saker:
    Zag! Week Twelve Of The Russian Intervention In Syria http://thenewsdoctors.com/zag-week-twelve-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria/
    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:15 | 6968791 Flying Wombat
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    Syria: Has Anyone Stepped Back from the Brink?

    http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=570706

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:24 | 6968816 holdbuysell
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    Watch what they do, not what they say. The (lack of) results speak for themselves.

    Sun, 12/27/2015 - 22:28 | 6968827 Bazza McKenzie
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    I see "Operation Inherent Resolve" follows the same truth in labeling approach as most Congressional output.

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 00:20 | 6969190 Anunnaki
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    Operation Incoherent Retards

    Mon, 12/28/2015 - 05:22 | 6969598 Otrader
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    Annunaki - LOL

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