Another opinion on John McCain from Lew Rockwell
The week-long deification of the late John McCain was quite the deep-state performance: Three “state funerals”(in Phoenix, D.C., and Annapolis) accompanied by the constant clucking of the “mainstream” media about how the epitome of a deep-state insider — son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals, mass murderer of Vietnamese peasants, “Keating Five” criminal conspirator, friend of “the right kind” of Middle East terrorists, lifelong government employee whose senate office was ground zero for defense industry lobbyists for the past several decades — is somehow an anti-establishment “maverick.” The televised sobbing of the very appropriately named Senator Jeff Flake was rich, as were proposals to name a government building after McCain and the seemingly endless feigned sorrow in the voices of television talking heads.
Deep state propagandists and their media apologists apparently believe that a dead politician can be worth his weight in gold if a big enough spectacle of lies and superstitions can be concocted after the “great man’s” demise and used in support of the current regime. As Murray Rothbard argued in an essay entitled “The Nature of the State,” “it is precisely the function of the State’s ideological minions and allies to explain to the public that the Emperor does indeed have a fine set of clothes . . . The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind.”
As with so many other statist stunts and superstitions, it all started with Lincoln. As Larry Tagg wrote in his book, , during his lifetime Lincoln was by far the most hated and despised of all U.S. presidents but became a “sudden saint” in death. On page 461 of his book Tagg quotes a May 1865 editorial in the New York Times about how “No living man was ever charged with political crimes of such multiplicity and such enormity as Abraham Lincoln.” The Times was referring to the words of Northern opinion makers. “He has been denounced,” wrote the Times, as “a perjurer, a usurper, a tyrant, a subverter of the Constitution, a destroyer of the liberties of his country, a reckless desperado, a heartless trifler over the last agonies of an expiring nation.”
Immediately after he was assassinated, writes Tagg, the Republican Party, aided by the bloodthirsty, neo-Puritanical New England clergy, went to work tuning Lincoln into something quite the opposite of what he really was. Radical Republican Senator James W. Grimes, who had previously denounced Lincoln as “a disgrace,” predicted that “Mr. Lincoln is to be hereafter regarded as a saint. Even the “Radical Republicans,” who were Lincoln’s fiercest political enemies, “saw that his death was a propaganda windfall” for the Republican Party, writes Tagg.
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton got the ball rolling by shoving aside Mrs. Lincoln and having the War Department take charge of the funeral, making “the martyr’s corpse a traveling exhibit of Southern wickedness.” He did so by arranging for the corpse to travel by slow train some 1,600 miles to be on display for all the cities and towns of the North to see. Strict orders were given to undertakers to not touch up the corpse. As the New York Herald explained: “The eye and upper part of the cheeks are still discolored by the effects of the cruel shot which caused his death. It was proposed to remove the discoloration from his face by chemical processes, but the Secretary of War insisted that it . . . . should be allowed to remain” as is.
The New York preacher Henry Ward Beecher had attacked and ridiculed Lincoln for four long years, but was quickly on board with the Republican Party’s deification stunt, announcing that Lincoln was in reality “a simple, truthful, noble soul, our faithful and sainted Lincoln.” Republican Party thugs did everything they could to respond to any dissent with brutality. When a man in Chicago was overheard saying “Lincoln had it coming” he was gunned down in the lobby of a hotel in front of dozens of witnesses, none of whom objected and there was no arrest. Hundreds were imprisoned for being overheard approving of Lincoln’s death. The editor of a Maryland newspaper was murdered by a mob after publishing an editorial criticism of Lincoln a few days after his assassination.
In the South, ministers were ordered to give mandatory sermons and newspapers forced to express sympathy for the man who had just micromanaged the death of hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens and bombed many of their cities and towns into smoldering ruins. Many Southern journals had new editors installed by the Republican Party to assure that Southerners would hear only about the new, reinvented Lincoln.
Republican Party newspapers compared Lincoln to Moses, saying he led his people to a promised land. Some even compared the atheistic Lincoln to Christ himself, reminding readers that he died on Good Friday. Harpers Weekly even ran an image of an angel ascending to the sky from an open tomb. The angel had Lincoln’s ugly, pock-marked head attached to its winged body.
Despite all the over-the-top worshipping of odious John McCain, it is unlikely that any modern-day publication is zany enough to compare McCain to Christ. Mother Teresa, maybe, or perhaps one of the apostles, but not God Himself.
I have posted this elsewhere, but repost it here for those skeptical of the Justice mill grinding away unseen.
In an average year the Federal DOJ produces about a 1,000 indictments.
Currently indictments and Federal search warrants are running at about 60 times the normal rate.
Most indictments for the corrupt treasonous leadership is still sealed.
Courtesy of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the current indictment statistics as of August 31, 2018 are:
Justice is grinding slowly but surely…..
Interesting…………could start a story line here…….on this page………Sessions and the Indictments ……..real or just bs……….lets see some real convictions of Hilly and the Gang.
I think we went over the “Lincoln was a wonderful guy” and the war between the states was about freeing black people and nutin else here awhile back.
People simply believe as they are told to believe, with perspective slowly some people figure things out.
Looks kinda human natureish to me.
If you want real news and information about what is happening in the world, most of MSM is useless.
Many reporters know, but they cannot publish real news any more.
You have to access the individual reporters notes and blogs.
e.g.
http://johnhelmer.net/oleg-deripaska-tries-super-spy-mission-to-rescue-iran-hostage-pays-bribes-for-fbi-trades-for-cia-but-if-you-believe-it-wins-no-quantum-of-solace/
John Helmer
Journalist
John Helmer is an Australian-born journalist and foreign correspondent, based in Moscow, Russia since 1989. He has served as an adviser to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia, and has also worked as professor of political science, sociology, and journalism.
ditto on…………..most of MSM is useless
I gave up on MSN years ago……………nothing but trash, and liars……………
Or you HAVE to go outside US MSM……e.g.
Or get news right from the horse’s mouth……e.g.
How to get businesses to leave your state (bankrupt):
a prayer for Labor Day:
“From crazy socialist politicians. O Lord, preserve us.”
FBI & DOJ CORRUPTION
FEDERAL BUREAU OF “INVESTIGATION”
James Comey, Director – FIRED
Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director – FIRED
Jim Rybicki, Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor – FIRED
James Baker, General Counsel – FIRED
Bill Priestap, Director of Counterintelligence (Strzok’s boss) – Cooperating witness [power removed]
Peter Strzok, Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence – FIRED
Lisa Page, Office of General Counsel – FIRED/FORCED
Mike Kortan, Assistant Director for Public Affairs – FIRED
Josh Campbell, Special Assistant to Comey – FIRED
Michael Steinbach –
John Glacalone –
Randy Coleman –
Trisha Anderson –
Kevin Clinesmith –
Tashina Gauhar –
Sally Moyer –
DEPARTMENT OF “JUSTICE”
David Laufman, Chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section [NAT SEC – HRC email invest] – FIRED/FORCE
John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division – FIRED/FORCED
Sally Yates, Deputy Attorney General & Acting Attorney General – FIRED
Mary McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division – FIRED/FORCED
Bruce Ohr, Associate Deputy Attorney General – Demoted 2x – cooperating witness [power removed] – TERMINATION IMMINENT
Rachel Brand, Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein – FIRED/FORCED
Rosenstein……..needs to be fired
CNN showing its true colors, as if we didn’t know them anyway!
The unknown danger of Face Recognition.
LONDON (AP) — Don’t judge by appearances. It’s an age-old piece of advice that is being roundly ignored by corporations, governments and law-enforcement agencies around the globe.
British police use facial-recognition technology to scan crowds for suspects. Owners of the latest iPhones can unlock their phones with face ID. Whole Foods and other retailers are testing facial recognition as a way of eliminating check-out tills in stores.
Modern technology means your face is both your identity and a commodity — but as an exhibition going on display in London shows, that technology is far from perfect.
“Face Values,” the U.S. entry at the multinational London Design Biennale, explores how computers’ ability to read faces is changing the world, with implications for privacy and individuality that we still don’t fully understand.
“We are on camera 50 times a day and there are all these software companies that are deriving information from us,” said R. Luke DuBois, one of the exhibition’s designers.
Curated by New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum , “Face Values” includes two interactive pieces that explore the scope and limits of what technology can learn about you from your face.
Artist and computer programmer Zachary Lieberman invites visitors to sit in front of a screen as a computer maps their expressions, compares them to others’ and produces an analysis of the sitter’s emotion.
“It’s a kind of fingerprint of your facial expression,” said Lieberman, who has helped design an eye-tracking system for people with paralysis.
“This project involved a lot of trying to understand, how do you quantify expression?” he said at a preview of the exhibition on Monday. “How do you turn expression into numbers,” in order to compare one expression to another.
The limits of such technology become clearer in the accompanying piece by DuBois, director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at New York University’s engineering school.
Visitors sit in front of a screen and are asked to display a specific emotion. Using technology similar to that deployed by some police forces, the system calculates the individual’s age, gender, race and emotional state. The results are both intrusive and sometimes inaccurate. One visitor, attempting to project calmness, registered as afraid. Another, asked to look disgusted, was told she appeared happy.
DuBois said the technology is only as good as the data that goes into it — and the sets of images that companies and organizations use to compare emotions are often inadequate.
The rules governing the use of such technology vary widely around the world. In China, facial recognition is being used with few restrictions for everything from advertising to law-enforcement. In the European Union, data-protection rules mean personal information can’t be collected without the subject’s consent. The U.S. has no such limits, although California recently passed a similar law.
DuBois says he wants to increase awareness about this powerful and fast-developing technology.
“In an older era — like 10 years ago — we should have been paying a lot more attention to what kind of data Facebook was taking from us,” he said. “And now it’s a little too late.”
Cooper Hewitt hopes to take its exhibit to the United States after its run in London.
The Design Biennale, which runs Tuesday to Sept. 23 at London’s Somerset House, includes exhibits from 40 countries, cities and territories under the loose theme “Emotional States.” They include Latvia’s birch- and pine-scented room, where visitors can write on a green wall of condensation; Australia’s rainbow-colored installation celebrating same-sex marriage; and Hong Kong’s room plastered with scratch-and-sniff wallpaper scented like roast duck, egg tarts, incense and opium.
Phone Ban At School: French Children Forced To Hang Up
Associated Press – Mon Sep 3, 2:20AM CDT
PARIS (AP) — French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones.
The government passed a law banning phone use in all primary and middle schools for the entire day, including during breaks —with exceptions in cases of emergency and for disabled children.
Pupils are requested to shut down their mobiles or put them in a locker.
High schools can also voluntarily implement the measure. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said it aims to help children focus on lessons, better socialize and reduce social media use. The ban is also designed to fight online bullying, and prevent thefts and violence in school.
The law allows teachers to confiscate phones until the end of the day in cases of non-compliance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09CJ0yu0qM
Judge Jeanine does not get it.
Mueller knew everything all along, but he just wants to get Trump regardless.
https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/state-oig-email.pdf
The Inspector General knows…..what went to Russia from Hillary’s email system.
Hagmann Report:
Silver ……..$14.12……..looks like $13.99 is possible ……..
Commenting to myself……………
silver $14.01…………
Platinum is now. $203 CHEAPER than palladium ………..
Platinum is now 1:55 ratio to Gold….. what a buy…………………..
Platinum is getting short in supply.
silver bounced off………..$14.007……..dang low……..
Kavanaugh hearings live
DANG JOKE……..DEMS are really stalling………check the amount of documents that they have already received…….MORE THAN all the last 5 nominees together, I think….
I have never seen the country so polarized. It s getting scary.
One fact re. Supreme Court hearings.
There are approx a half million related documents related to Kavanaugh available 24/7 to Senate members just up the street. NOR ONE SINGLE DEMOCRAT has bothered to go look at them.
Knowing Mueller’s hatred for Trump/Republicans, it would not surprise me if his report claimed unsubstantiated Obstruction of Justice claims against Trump, released just before mid-term elections, designed to cause problems.
Mueller is going to try everything , legal or not, with the help of the Demwhits in congress to try and over throw Donald
I agree with you………..Never seen the country so polarized, …It is getting scary.
Ira’s morning report
THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT…..
A MUST LISTEN:
Thanks, CFS. Awesome! Is Sessions pretending to be Mr. Magoo so the Democrats will never know what is about to hit them? Hope so!
Former UK Ambassador to Syria.
Interview with Ambassador Ford Part 1: Idlib and False Flag chemical Attacks
https://youtu.be/A5bBWRB0FJs
“Trump wants out, but he is being resisted by what I call “the permanent government of america”.”
“Everything america has done in the middle east for the last 40 years is because of Israel”
I guess alot of people here already knew that.
I might have put this in the wrong thread.
Give Kapernick some Participation sneakers
Ugly !
Nice editorial…bringing things full circle around the dark hearts of “leaders” past (Lincoln)and present (McCain).