*** USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Group Heading to Middle East; Israel Prepares for War ***

Incredible that a tiny country the size of New Jersey with its own nuclear weapons and universal healthcare for all its residents has the ability to summon two nuclear-powered aircraft groups (ACGs) of a country as large and as powerful as the United States of America.

The millions of Americans in the antiwar bloc, a movement as old as the American Revolution itself, are watching which US politicians support attacking Iran and which aren't.

If the US attacks Iran in a few weeks as the Israeli High Command planned for, Democratic Party candidates that receive AIPAC money or support attacking Iran won't be getting the antiwar vote on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

Don't believe Coriolanus?

Don't care.

You will note there are Gold Star Family and Veteran's groups in this "Far Left" bloc.

I don't go out much these days but a few time I went to an after hours bar in D.C. and it was considered a Safe Space because that's where cops would go to drink after their shift. Nobody is going to start ---- in an after-hours bar populated by Cops.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 06:19 PM |

During all the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan years ago, you could see all the fat-cat military and intelligence civilian contractors laughing and drinking it up in the bistros of Pentagon City.

You couldn't tell from their happy and bloated expressions that our country was at war and that our young boys and girls were getting mulched overseas.

I went there once or twice to meet friends while I assigned to the Pentagon because it was close, but I was disgusted and never went back. I went to the nearby Officer Clubs or met friends elsewhere.

"The international order based on rights and rules ... no longer exists in the way it once did," he said.
This is what Republicans want.
I'm not sure why, but they do.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-14 04:39 AM | Reply | Flag: Like chickens voting for Colonel Saunders or this:

According to newly released files from the US Department of Justice, messages sent between Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon in 2019, reveal Bannon courted the late wealthy sex maniac in his attempts to undermine the former pontiff after leaving the first Trumpf junta.

Bannon had been highly critical of Francis whom he saw as an opponent to his "sovereigntist" vision, a brand of nationalist populism which swept through Europe in 2018 and 2019. The released documents from the DOJ appear to show that Epstein had been helping Bannon to build his movement.

"Will take down (Pope) Francis," Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. "The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU " come on brother."
Pope Francis was a significant obstacle to Bannon's brand of nationalist populism. In 2018, the former Trumpf sycophant described Francis to The Spectator as "beneath contempt," accusing him of siding with "globalist elites" and, according to "SourceMaterial," urged Matteo Salvini, now Italy's deputy PM, to "attack" the pontiff. For his part, Salvini has used Christian iconography and language when pursuing his anti-immigrant agenda.

Rome and the Vatican have been important for Bannon. He set up a Rome bureau when he ran Breitbart News and has been involved in trying to establish a political training "gladiator school" to defend Judeo-Christian values not far from the Eternal City.

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven," Epstein tells Bannon.

Elsewhere in the files, Jeffrey Epstein jokes with his brother, Mark, about inviting Pope Francis to his residence for a "massage" during the US papal visit in 2015.

An FBI report included in the DOJ's release includes a source who claims that an Italian cybersecurity figure described as "Epstein's Hacker" may have held a Vatican City passport.

Jeffrey Epstein had his filthy tentacle everywhere it seems and ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu denies that a man who penetrated so many corridors of global power was not a Mossad spy. If that was true, all previous Mossad directors and Israeli PMs should be court-martialed for not recruiting such a valuable asset.

Below, two of the worst blasphemers, miscreants, and reprobates to ever blight our planet are taking a "selfie" in a mirroe. Thank goodness at least one monster is gone forever.

*** German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Blasts Lost US Leadership: "Global Order No Longer Exists" ***

"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that US leadership can no longer be taken for granted and Europe must prepare to stand more firmly on its own, in a stark warning to world leaders in Munich.

"The leadership claim of the US is being challenged, perhaps already lost," Merz said during the opening of the Munich Security Conference, laying out the starkest assessment yet from Berlin of a world increasingly defined by great-power rivalry. "In the era of great powers, our freedom is no longer simply guaranteed. It is under threat."

He argued the global system itself may already have collapsed. "The international order based on rights and rules ... no longer exists in the way it once did," he said.

Merz also drew a lesson from Germany's own history. "We Germans know a world in which might makes right would be a dark place," he said. "Our country has gone down this path in the 20th century until the bitter and dreadful end."

Most strikingly, the chancellor confirmed discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about a European nuclear deterrent."

"US President Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025 gave European nationalists and hardline conservatives a champion at the head of the world's largest economic and military power; now groups on both sides of the Atlantic want to seize the moment. Their ambition is to repurpose the soft-power tools America once deployed to spread the gospel of liberalism, to expand their reach and power and ultimately rebuild the West in their image " a project both sides call a "civilizational alliance" (AKA white supremacy).

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This Empty Suit was vetted for his position by mega-oligarch Larry Ellison strictly on his fealty to Israel. The catalog of USSECSTATE Marco Rubio's vile blasphemies are too lengthy for a weblog entry, but we'll do our best here. The vastly underqualified Rubio callously dismantled USAID and removed the State Dept web portal to report war crimes. Rubio fired seasoned diplomats and ambassadors and dimed out El Salvadoran nationals to right-wing President Nayib Bukele in order to deport migrants to his hellish CECOT prison.

This good-for-nothing worked with CIA to undermine Venezuela's government and illegally abduct President Nicolas Maduro. Marco Rubio expedited the transfer of billions of dollars of American taxpayer money to Israel to continue its ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. Rubio nominated Jeremy Carl, a known antisemite, for a senior position at the State Dept.

Marco Rubio withdrew visas of people who ridiculed hate monger Charlie Kirk. As a US Senator, Marco Rubio undermined the Affordable Care Act by attaching damaging riders to the bill. Marco Rubio is now working on overthrowing the regime in Cuba and making life more miserable for the people there with even more sanctions.

Many years ago I was lucky enough to meet one of the last Jews from Baghdad.

His English was excellent, but his Yiddish was minimal or non-existent from what I recall.

"R.I." said that while life under Saddam Hussein was bad, the Jews weren't targeted, liquor was freely available, women went to school in modern dress and in higher education, and he made himself a decent income. He didn't go into what his business was, but it was fairly lucrative.

"R.I." related to me that after Saddam Hussein was toppled in the aftermath of OIF, all of a sudden in Iraq "the Jews became Jews."

I told him those were basically the exact words of a musician in Vienna in the 1930s named Georg Kreisler:

"Before 1938 we were all Austrians. Hitler made us Jews." [sic]