Herman Cain Another Clarence Thomas.

10/31/11

What is it with black male reactionaries? Why do they have to sexually harass women with crude and vulgar sexual comments and propositions? Don’t they have enough sex with their wives?

Herman Cain has been exposed as a sexual harasser. And hush money was paid to the women he victimized, on condition they take a vow of silence. Politico reporter Alexander Burns on NPR discussed the matter today. Asked Cain directly four times to his face if he’d ever been accused of sexual harassment, Cain refused to answer, then finally demanded of the reporter “Have YOU ever been accused of sexual harassment?!” What an asshole. Typical reactionary- they always attack, never defend. That’s one of the reasons for their success- they never go on the defensive. (Well, virtually never. We just saw the evil Murdoch Empire knocked back on its heels by the phone hacking and police bribery scandals in the U.K.)

Then AP falsely reported that Cain denied he’d been accused. And his campaign calls it ‘old news.” Old SECRET news, apparently.

So AP provides another example of how U.S. corp. media bends over backwards to protect and promote rightwing extremists.

Rene Montane interviewed Cokie Roberts, NPR’s resident political analyst, about it. [Morning Edition.] She made an excuse for Cain- “It’s very hard for [a non-politician] to survive scrutiny.” Hey Roberts, not everyone is a sexual harasser. Then Roberts changed the subject and they mostly talked about Perry and Romney.

Fascist harridan Ann Coulter threw in her lying two cents, screeching that Cain was precluded by the settlement from speaking about the case- an obvious lie. The accusers are the ones these settlements silence, for obvious reasons, not the culprit. The culprit needs no legal inducement to keep his mouth shut about his own sleazy behavior! 

And that’s another example of the extreme rightwing bias of the U.S. media- the constant presence of Ann Coulter! Like vicious crackpot commentary is respectable and edifying. This is a woman who slimed 9/11 widows- with impunity- and called for terrorists to bomb the NY Times, with no effect on her “respectability.” In fact, the NY Times keeps running puff pieces on this bitch who hates them!

Oh yeah, the U.S. media is sooo liberal, eh, rightwing jackasses?

We need more verbal abuse of these idiots to delegitimize them.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html 

New York State Has Highest Income "Inequality" In U.S.: Governor Determined To Make It Worse

New statistics reveal that of all 50 U.S. States, New York has the greatest income "inequality." (That's a euphemism for the fact that a tiny class hogs most of the wealth in America while tens of millions struggle to eke out an existence.)

New York has a tiny surcharge on income tax for people in upper brackets. This tax is due to expire. DINO (Democrat In Name Only) Governor Andrew Cuomo, thuggish spawn of former Governor Mario "Maximum Unction" Cuomo, is determined to make sure this tax dies. Cuomo ran on a Republican platform of cutting taxes and slashing expenditures by attacking the economic interests of state employees.

The argument made against retaining this tax is that rich people will "flee" the state. Well, presumably those so inclined already have. We know of one millionaire who moved his domicile to Florida- Rush Limbaugh. To which any sane person can only say- Good Riddance to Bad (Reactionary) Rubbish!

Oakland Police Maim Iraq War Vet In Assault On Protest Camp

 The brutal Oakland, California, Police Department maimed an Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, shooting him in the head with a tear gas canister. He’s in critical condition with brain damage.

Using, with unintended irony, the excuse of “health and safety concerns,” the police launched a vicious, unprovoked assault to clear protesters, in the manner of the Bahrain "king," the dictator Saleh of Yemen, and the former dictator of Egypt, Mubarak. [I assume the irony is unintentional because the police are generally too crude and stupid to be ironic, which requires subtlety.]

The police left him lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head, several feet in front of them. When fellow protesters came to his aid, they were attacked and driven off by police thugs firing "flash-bang" grenades at them. It took several attempts, through clouds of tear gas and a fusillade of police "non-lethal" projectiles, to get him out of immediate harm's way.

The victim survived Iraq, where allegedly he was “defending our freedoms,” but he didn’t survive trying to exercise those alleged “freedoms” inside the U.S.A.

Rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas were used by Oakland PD in the blitzkrieg-style assault. As always in these cases, the police claim that the protesters started it, of course. Lying state thugs claim no rubber bullets or stun grenades were used, that protesters “firecrackers” caused the explosions. BULLSHIT.

Video shows cops attacking those trying to aid the vet they maimed, viciously firing a stun grenade at them.

The chief cop says tear gas was only used to “protect officers and property.” Oh. Right. That’s always the story.

As the Israelis have demonstrated, "non-lethal" weapons are a great way to maim and kill protesters, as they have done with a number of Palestinians and international supporters in the West Bank. You just aim for the head or chest with a "rubber" (coated) bullet, a tear gas canister, etc., and voila, one less "troublemaker."

(Jews protesting with Palestinians can't expect an exemption, as a young woman artist from NYC discovered when the Israeli military put out her eye with a "rubber" bullet earlier this year. Cf. Village Voice.)

The protesters in Oakland didn’t attack the police. The police attacked the protesters, on the orders of their political masters.

The Oakland PD has a history of political repression as it is. They have long targeted activists for false arrests. Political repression is routine in Oakland.

People who risk life and limb fighting for the U.S. ruling class are always surprised by the ingratitude of that same ruling class. This happens after most every war. After the first Gulf War, poisoned veterans with Gulf War syndrome were slimed by the VA, government and media as malingerers, or as mental cases hallucinating their symptoms. After the Vietnam war, those damaged by Agent Orange were thrown in the trash heap.

World War I vets who tried to claim their promised bonuses during the Depression were forcibly dispersed by the U.S. Army troops under the command of Douglas MacArthur (second in command: Dwight D. Eisenhower). They never mention these things. The G.I. bill is all you ever hear about. That's a tad one-sided, bourgeoisie.

Then we've got the atomic veterans, servicemen deliberately exposed to bomb blast radiation to "test" if they'd obey insane orders to march into mushroom clouds. And the guinea pigs used by the military and CIA in drug experiments and other mind destruction operations. Guess how they fared?

To rephrase Santayana, Chumps who are ignorant of history are doomed to do the same dumb things again.

CIA Death Squads To Continue Operating In Iraq

Of course they don't call them that. They call them "counterterrorism commando teams."
See the article at

http://news.yahoo.com/cias-covert-iraq-mission-044800908.html

Can Obama Assassinate His Way To Re-Election?

For sure, that's what he and his advisers are thinking, among other elements of their "strategizing" (plotting) for Con Job II, coming up in 2012.

Giddy after the short-lived boost in his public "approval"/popularity after bumping off Osama bin Laden, Obama went before the press to beat his chest victoriously over the assassination of two U.S. citizens in Yemen: Anwar  al-Awlaki, and Samir Khan. Both function as propagandists for the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen. So it would be like Al-Qaeda assassinating the Pentagon's spokesperson, or Obama's flack Jay Carney, for example. Of course, al-Awlaki is "linked" the Fort Hood shooting done by Major Nidal Hassan, because Hassan read al-Awlaki's website and is thus presumed to have been "inspired" by him. Ditto with the inept Times Square tried-to-be-a-bomber Paki. (So much for the alleged bomb-making instructions supposedly provided by Al-Qaeda.) Oh yes, and the "underwear bomber," that Nigerian idiot who set his crotch on fire on a plane. We're told that that was somehow al-Awlaki's handiwork too. (Careful reading of the media innuendo makes clear that his is a mere hunch or suspicion by some U.S. secret policemen, idle speculation elevated to fact through the magic of  media distortion.)

Obama has a fetish for murder by drone- it has been repeatedly reported in the establishment press that Obama has greatly expanded drone attacks, both in numbers and geographical spread, adding more countries to the areas they roam over.

Trouble is, the kind of bloodthirsty yahoos, nationalists, and right-wingers who like this sort of thing aren't voting for the black "socialist" Obama anyway. Apparently the brilliant Obama and his genius advisers don't realize this. And his liberal-leaning "base" tends anti-war and anti-violence.

Guess he's going for those "independent" voters we hear so much about in media blather!

Obama Increases Air Pollution By Coal-Burning Power Plants

In his latest double-cross of the fools who voted for him, Obama had his EPA loosen pollution standards for coal-burning power plants. Truly, he is worse than Bush.

Stocks of major coal mining companies in the U.S. rallied as much as 14% today (Oct. 5th) on the news. As well they should. As for people who have to breathe air, the news is wholly negative. And good luck, asthmatics.

This of course follows closely on the heels of Obama's betrayal just last month on the ozone standard. Sucker environmentalists were chumped into dropping their lawsuit, only to get blindsided by the shifty Obama. Had Bush been President, there would have already been a stronger standard in place. Obama never even implemented the lower standard Bush's EPA had put forth, promising to do "better."  

But the Democrats know that their "progressive" supporters are like abused wives, they can never leave, no matter how badly the Dems beat them. Instead of rallying around Ralph Nader, or building up a party like the Greens to challenge a rotten establishment, they delude themselves into thinking they are "working within the system" for "change."

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice (make that 5,000 times) shame on me.