The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 3rd February 2017

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  1. A fine peace on hypocrisy and hysteria ( helped by the mainstream media which in the USA is owned by who?):

    ‘Banning people is wrong, but killing them is even worse’

    by Neil Clark *

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/375894-banning-people-regime-change-muslims/

    “Which is more morally reprehensible: (1) Introducing a ban on refugees and immigrants from a small number of countries for a temporary period or (2) Killing people and destroying their countries through illegal regime change wars?

    A bit of a no-brainer, eh? It has to be the second answer, surely.

    Well, you’d think so, but for some it seems, the first option is far worse than the latter.

    How else to explain that large sections of the Western liberal-left seem to be more incensed by Donald Trump’s ban on visitors from some Muslim countries (unjust though it is) than they were by the war which destroyed Libya, a country that had the highest living standards in Africa.

    In their anti-Trump crusade, some ‘progressives’ appear perfectly happy to link arms and sing ‘Kumbaya’ with the serial warmongers who unleashed the carnage which caused the refugee crisis in the first place?

    Trump’s executive order has caused a furious liberal backlash which Obama’s backing of jihadist death squads in Syria never did. …

    The truth is that for a long time it’s been pretty tough to get into the US if you’re in possession of the ‘wrong’ kind of passport, and sometimes even if you have the ‘right’ one.

    Americans seem to think it’s alright to subject everyone else to the pointless rigmarole of passing through their Homeland Security but when they travel they expect to be allowed through other countries’ immigration without fuss,” writes Peter Hill in the Daily Express…

    Even though he wasn’t responsible for the regime change wars which caused the migrant crisis, and has promised a less meddlesome foreign policy, Trump should at least acknowledge that the US has a moral obligation to take in refugees from countries that the US, under previous administrations, has set out to destabilize…

    But unfair as it undoubtedly is, the reaction to Trump’s executive order has been overblown, if we compare it to the non-reaction to far worse things US governments have done. As Bertolt Brecht might have said if he was still around: What’s refusing a visa to a Libyan, compared to bombing him? The Nuremberg judgment of 1946 rightly held that to initiate a war of aggression was the “supreme international crime,” but that seems to have been forgotten today…

    [This is the crux]

    Such is the ‘Sorosification’ of the Western liberal-left that to impose controls on immigration is now regarded as a more heinous crime than launching brutal, imperialist wars of aggression, which are a prime cause of the significant level of migration from the Middle East. At the same time, the people who create and propagandize for destructive wars for economic gain against countries of the global south, are regarded as less reprehensible than those who advocate visa restrictions, especially if they come out and condemn visa restrictions.

    [Hypocrisy at its worst]

    Liberals, for instance, fawned over the former Secretary of State Madeline Albright when she said she “stands ready” to “register as Muslim” in “solidarity” against Trump. The very same Madeline Albright once declared that the death of half a million (predominantly Muslim) children in Iraq due to sanctions was a price that was “worth it.”

    …Serial warmonger John McCain has also come out to blast Trump’s executive order. He’s the man who, when asked what he was going to do about Iran if elected president, sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,” to the Beach Boys tune Barbara Ann.

    How many Muslims would have been killed if McCain had bombed Iran? But hey, he opposes Trump’s visa ban, so he must be a pretty cool dude. Let’s invite the wannabe bomber of Teheran on the next ’Solidarity with Muslims’ protest, shall we?

    In 2015, a report called Body Count, the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Global Survival and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, revealed that at least 1.3 million people had lost their lives in the US-led ‘war on terror’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.’ As I wrote at the time: As awful as that sounds, the total of 1.3 million deaths does not take into account casualties in other war zones, such as Yemen – and the authors stress that the figure is a “conservative estimate.”

    The vast majority of these deaths will have been Muslims. What a pity their deaths, and the deaths of countless others in US-led regime change ops and “liberal interventions,” did not lead to the same level of ‘synchronized crossness’ that Trump’s executive order has.

    (*Neil Clark is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. He has written for many newspapers and magazines in the UK and other countries including The Guardian, Morning Star, Daily and Sunday Express, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Week, and The American Conservative. He is a regular pundit on RT and has also appeared on BBC TV and radio, Sky News, Press TV and the Voice of Russia. He is the co-founder of the Campaign For Public Ownership @PublicOwnership. His award winning blog can be found at http://www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. He tweets on politics and world affairs @NeilClark66)

  2. While every ‘deep thinking’ trendo neoliberal ( mainstream media outlet)is getting their tits in a tangle and squeaking over bad boy Donald Trump ( gnash , gnash , wail, wail) being the next Hitler and out to exterminate the ….Muslims/Arabs …(cough cough)…actually ,shock horror, ban some of them for a time at least from the great US of A ( who would want to go there anyway?)

    How about this alternative piece from the NOT the mainstream media?

    ‘Germany, not Donald Trump, is biggest threat to the EU’

    [Interview with Graham Moore]

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/376074-trump-germany-eu-threat-us/

    “We were told Germany would never be allowed to rearm. They now have got 300,000-400,000 men and arms, and they are now moving tanks into Lithuania. Why? To confront Russia. But Russia isn’t the threat, Graham Moore, political commentator, told RT.

    President of the European Council Donald Tusk on Wednesday called US President Donald Trump one of the major external threats to the EU…

    [Media and Elites terrified]

    GM: For example, the first day that Trump was in power, he launched an attack on Yemen to take back the port from Al-Qaeda. In that attack, a Navy Seal lost his life, but they’ve opened the port again for aid to get to the refugees. What they are not telling you is that Trump has already been on the phone to Saudi Arabia and said: “Let me tell you something, you are going to allow safe zones, or else.” So, Trump is doing a lot of things in the background you’re not seeing. My view is that the media and the elites are absolutely terrified. The more that the media turn on President Trump – you know he is doing the right things.

    RT: According to Donald Tusk there are threats all around Europe, would you agree with that?

    GM: … For example, in Ukraine – that was directly caused by the Western administration toppling that government. That was an intervention from outside, and it should’ve never happened. I am seeing Germany – for a long time we were told they will never be allowed to rearm. They now have got 300,000-400,000 men and arms. They are now moving tanks into Lithuania. Why? To confront Russia.

    Russia isn’t the threat. The threat, in my view… currently is Germany. They have imported a ready-made foreign legion into their country of 1.2 million fighting-age men. And yet our politicians say ‘there is no problem with that.’ You’ve only got to go back to Churchill and watch what Churchill said. For years he was put on the back benches; he was ridiculed. And for years he said there is a problem here, they are arming.

    Russia is not the threat; it is the European Union and the control that Germany has.

    ‘If EU is disintegrating, Donald Trump, Russia or Islamic State is not to blame’

    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/375926-tusk-trump-us-eu/

    • 100% CHOOKY. Good stuff here.

      Democratic administration is being controlled by elitist Global Corporates and big money like George Soros.

      They are so dirty.

  4. Yep – if the MSM attack someone these days, it’s a sure fire way to know that’s the person to back.

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