or something like that
Thanks to a commenter who pointed me to an “Alternative News & Commentary” web site called State of the Nation. Their March 7 article, “’Universe-Shattering Evidence’ Re: Obama Criminal Investigation To Be Announced By Cold Case Posse,” suggests a tie in with recent political instability in the Ukraine:
Why would Team Obama execute the violent overthrow of yet another democratically elected nation on Russia’s border, unless it was a necessary diversion to soon-to-be-presented “Universe-Shattering Evidence“?
They did? The article goes on to say, of course, there are other very good reasons why Obama would literally start World War III, outlining other problems the Obama administration is having, but I would hardly agree with their assessment of the situation: DESPERATE.
Why do they think that the Obama Administration engineered the crisis in the Ukraine? Well, because everything points to it and because, well, because they did, AND, AND, AND [wait for it …….. ]Benghazi!
The site is pretty flakey, linking to the Dystel publicists brochure from 1991 falsely labeled as a biography from the 1991 Harvard Law Review Year Book. (This fake made the rounds in 2012 and again this past January on some Internet sites.)
State of the Nation is an eclectic collection of conspiracy theories from Chemtrails to Sandy Hook. In fairness to them, they have several articles which I didn’t read on their theories that the US engineered the Ukrainian crisis.
Okay, I just can’t tell:
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=4356
Is it or isn’t it?
My opinion is that it’s not satire.
I had to wonder. I thought maybe they just weren’t very good at it; after all, not everybody was blessed with the rapier-like wit so often and so conspicuously displayed here on the OCT. Or even half of it.
Maybe that “Alternative” is short for “ALTERNATe unIVErse.”
Poe’s Law
It is pretty far out, and it might be satire. There is a show on Israeli TV called “The State of the Nation” that is satire.
http://reshet.tv/Shows/matzav_hauma/
I agree that the word DESPERATE applies, just not to whom they think it does.
I haven’t followed this blog or birtherism in a while (I think it’s been since around the late stages of the 2012 election when I went on a diet of not consuming anything political).
But anyway…. that Cold Case Posse is still a thing? Didn’t they have their big huge earth shattering will-definitely-bring-down-the-president conference TWO YEARS AGO?
Not only is the Cold Case Posse “a thing,” it’s pretty much the only game in town.
They are now up to “universe shattering” and it’s gonna happen any day now.
Dr. zahnwalt Orly Taitz Esq. has some quantum theories about this. Pres. Obama is either starting WWIII because of his hurt ego or he is so weak that he is no match for Mrs. Taitz’s hero, Pres. Putin. The problem is – when you look closer at one of these theories they inverse ….
Wow, “State of the Nation” really does see Obama as the All-Powerful Other.
Desperate indeed.
Meanwhile, the rest of Wingnuttia wants to castigate the man for being a pantywaist, hiding behind Mommy’s Skirt of Sanctions.
I love when they bewail Obama for not being more like Putin. Hmmm … so you want our President to be more like the cause of the problem so he can do something about teh problem? Like begging firemen to use flamethrowers at a housefire. Damn, no matter how much we spray, the flames keep spreading!
I hear Mercer upset Duke solely to cover for Obama by providing yet another distraction from the imminent Shattering of the Universe.
Most roundballers are Obots. You know it’s true. Just look at them. You know what I mean.
No, that one was “Shocking”. “Earth-shattering” was something they promised for last year, but never released.
As Doc said, now they’re up to “universe-shattering”. Possibly because they realize this is their last shot at making Big Birther Bux, possibly because Preacher Gallups (a new major player: be sure you get a fresh scorecard) thought “solar-system-shattering” or “galaxy-shattering” were too suggestive of Darwinism.
The site looks to be serious – in other words, seriously unhinged. Like far too many “alternative news” sites, they also seem to be more or less buying the Kremlin’s propaganda about Ukraine, that this was not a real popular revolution. They’re also buying the Kremlin’s propaganda that Putin is a champion of Christian values, in part because it provides a good image, the US government as the “godless Commies” and the Russians as the Christian champions. To which I say that propaganda is still propaganda, and that Christianity confused with nationalism is always dangerous.
My own sources inside Ukraine, who I trust far more than I trust the news media, tell me it was a popular uprising, and that they regard Putin as a godless imperialist who uses the Russian Orthodox faith as a tool to serve his own ends. They have the inestimable advantage of actually having been in Kiev when the events were unfolding.
Putin is a thug, pure and simple, he’s ex-KGB. And Russia likes thugs. In fact Russia is something like the skinhead of European politics.
I was in Kiev in September and what I heard was that the Ukrainian people wanted to move closer to the European Union in order to reduce corruption and introduce transparency.