Senator John McCain Dies at 81

[ClassyDancer]

Senator McCain spent his entire professional career in service to his country one way or another. When he was a POW, according to reports by other POWs, he chose to get beaten by the Vietnamese over getting released and feeding their propaganda machine (the "rule" among POWs was FIFO).

McCain often tried to work across the isle, was very well respected among his peers, and I believe he always voted what he felt was right for the country (some disagree with his conclusions).

I agree. He's such an inspiring individual and we need more people like him to help direct the world to a safer and just future. If only there was someway to effectively let his legacy live on. How I wish there was some form of technology that could help preserve one's beliefs and ideologies in order to inspire and motivate the world. What do you think?

[tvbcof]

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You may not agree with his politics. But, I don't think it's fair to attack a man who was without a doubt an American War Hero and a patriot. For a man who is amongst those who put their lives on the line for this country, I think he deserves some respect in death.

It is quite despicable to speak ill of the dead especially as he had a grieving family left behind. Imagine a member of that family stumbling on this piece at a time like this.

McCain spent his whole slimy elitist life ripping 'we the people' off, stabbing us in the back, and selling us out.  Now we are supposed to worship the fucker just because he stopped breathing.  Because it is 'proper etiquette'.  Fuck that.  If you cannot critique a person after they died there is nearly no reason for pieces of shit like McCain to do anything but be a piece of shit when he is 'leading.'  I had harsh words for McCain when he was living and didn't hold back in saying them.  Nothing about him finally dying changed my perception of the guy.

McCain's only useful purpose in life was to be the 'un-electable' who let Obama into the Oval Office.  They had to add Sarah Palin to the mix to make sure he did that job.

[Quickseller]

Senator McCain spent his entire professional career in service to his country one way or another. When he was a POW, according to reports by other POWs, he chose to get beaten by the Vietnamese over getting released and feeding their propaganda machine (the "rule" among POWs was FIFO).

McCain often tried to work across the isle, was very well respected among his peers, and I believe he always voted what he felt was right for the country (some disagree with his conclusions).

I agree. He's such an inspiring individual and we need more people like him to help direct the world to a safer and just future. If only there was someway to effectively let his legacy live on. How I wish there was some form of technology that could help preserve one's beliefs and ideologies in order to inspire and motivate the world. What do you think?

That is unlikely. His opinions were highly valued throughout Capital Hill, however even when he was active in the Senate, every issue was hyper-politicalized. 

[tvbcof]

Lol!  They all took off their yamakas for the photo-shoot.  We know why the so-called ISIS never attacked Israel and why that is where they go for medical treatment.

[B1tUnl0ck3r]

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You may not agree with his politics. But, I don't think it's fair to attack a man who was without a doubt an American War Hero and a patriot. For a man who is amongst those who put their lives on the line for this country, I think he deserves some respect in death.

It is quite despicable to speak ill of the dead especially as he had a grieving family left behind. Imagine a member of that family stumbling on this piece at a time like this.

McCain spent his whole slimy elitist life ripping 'we the people' off, stabbing us in the back, and selling us out.  Now we are supposed to worship the fucker just because he stopped breathing.  Because it is 'proper etiquette'.  Fuck that.  If you cannot critique a person after they died there is nearly no reason for pieces of shit like McCain to do anything but be a piece of shit when he is 'leading.'  I had harsh words for McCain when he was living and didn't hold back in saying them.  Nothing about him finally dying changed my perception of the guy.

McCain's only useful purpose in life was to be the 'un-electable' who let Obama into the Oval Office.  They had to add Sarah Palin to the mix to make sure he did that job.

I can't agree more and even if I didn't agree, I would fully respect, support and defend your God given right to express your views with pixels on a screen. Thank you for expressing your opinions so clearly and understandably.

However I don't agree on Big Gulp girl...



I don't believe she is a terrorist nor do I believe she supports the end of the republic, nor to take free speech nor guns... maybe I could be wrong, but there is sign that she does...

the enemy medias hates her, why? but I agree less than trump.

[green547]

It's funny how when someone dies suddenly all the bad things they have done get forgotten.  At least the people in this forum realize how evil this guy truly was and how he was tied in with the terrorists.  

Quite frankly, the whole story of him being a prisoner of war could of been fabricated to gain votes for his presidential election.

[boyptc]

Will settle anything related to politics.

I just want to say rest in peace Senator John Mccain.

[Jarvis Edge]

McCain although somewhat controversial was one of the strongest influencers on the American political scene, like it or not, things will surely change with him passing away.

[larsbalzak]

Imagine a member of that family stumbling on this piece at a time like this.

Imagine all the damage he has done.  

Imagine his special place in hell.  

Imagine Soros and Rothschild being next.

[Sifon]

Will settle anything related to politics.

I just want to say rest in peace Senator John Mccain.

Death lays all to rest eventually.

[FactAlways]

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, we hope we have someone like him again

[tvbcof]

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, we hope we have someone like him again

I bet (((we))) do!

[BADecker]

John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg's explosive story.

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain's role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain's military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that "men were left behind." This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.

Mass of Evidence

The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What's more, the Pentagon's POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of "debunking" POW intelligence even when the information was obviously credible.

The pressure from the families and Vietnam veterans finally forced the creation, in late 1991, of a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. The chairman was John Kerry. McCain, as a former POW, was its most pivotal member. In the end, the committee became part of the debunking machine.

One of the sharpest critics of the Pentagon's performance was an insider, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe, who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1970s. He openly challenged the Pentagon's position that no live prisoners existed, saying that the evidence proved otherwise. McCain was a bitter opponent of Tighe, who was eventually pushed into retirement.

Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general's briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993. The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords. The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war's end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington.

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/no_author/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/.

[BADecker]

McCain's Legacy is Death

"Buzzard's gotta eat, same as worms [spit]"
— Outlaw Josey Wales

John McCain is dead.  Good.

There are few figures in American politics more odious than John McCain.

McCain was chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee.  The main vector of our aggressive and ruinous foreign policy.

He served on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee overseeing everything we see today as needing reform.

And he blocked all of it.

He was, in short, no maverick.

John McCain was the ultimate member of the Status Quo.

He worked hard to block any reform to our foreign policy of subjugation and control.  He oversaw and championed the worst legislation of the past generation.  Through him the expansion of the surveillance state flourished.

The Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act name only a couple. Through McCain the annual National Defense Authorization Act was a vector for the worst expansion of Deep State and MIC power through last minute riders and in recent years, cynical moves to block or stymie Donald Trump.

And being the vindictive little troll that he was, a pampered Admiral's son who was the puppet of every major power-broker in D.C., he went after political opponents with the ferocity of a wolverine.

But, make no mistake, this man was a weasel and a snitch.

His death, however, is emblematic of the sea-change occurring in global politics.  Lying, racist psychopaths with dreams of global domination like McCain are yesterday's news.

The generational shift away from Cold Warriors who have over-stayed their welcome to assist their feckless Baby Boomer children to destroy everything that the U.S. was supposed to stand for cannot be stopped at this point.

But, believe me, they will continue to try.

It's no secret that John McCain hated Russians.  He also hated Iranians. It was a hatred so deep it meant embracing as a 'freedom fighter' anyone who stood against them.

Ukrainian Nazis? Check.

Head-chopping Salafist Animals in Syria? Check

Mujahadeen?  Check.

Hillary Clinton?  Check.

Likely this was because McCain betrayed his country in Vietnam as a captured high-value target to the Russians.

And that shame drove the next 40 years of his political career, along with his being spared the details of his treason going public if he served the goals of the globalist elites intent on destroying America.

So, his vile treatment of Donald Trump came as no surprise.  Trump calling him out publicly as weak for being captured and implying the truth about McCain drove McCain to apoplexy.

It's why he passed on the ridiculous Steele dossier to the FBI.  It's why he voted against Obamacare reform and tax cuts.  It's why he gleefully put forth the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act last year.

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/thomas-luongo/mccains-legacy-is-death/.

[BADecker]

What the McCain Eulogies Tell Us About the Media and the Regime

People tell me I should not criticize him right now.

I do think some people are behaving in bad taste. But I do not think I am prohibited from making sober remarks at a moment when so many Americans, and the opinion molders who tell them what to think, are getting ludicrously carried away.

The phenomenon we are witnessing is so Orwellian that I can't resist exploring it. I am less concerned with criticizing McCain — there will be ample time for that — than I am with trying to understand the regime under which we live, and the media lackeys that glorify it.

The tributes to McCain from the major newspapers are so over the top that there's something more going on here than the perfunctory respect the media shows for most deceased politicians.

They will not be speaking this way about Pat Buchanan — a real maverick, who was the first conservative I ever saw who broke with both parties (that's what a maverick does) to point out that the sanctions on Iraq were creating a humanitarian catastrophe that no moral person could support (that's what an actual conservative says).

As if to show that she has every Establishment ritual already down to a science, even democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to say this:

John McCain's legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.

As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.

He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.

"But she had to say something!" some say.

She had to say "an unparalleled example of human decency and American service"?

McCain's bellicosity in foreign policy knew no bounds. A discussion of all the interventions he favored — every one of which would have intensified the problems it was allegedly to solve — would take all week.

To a conservative movement that knows nothing of its history, this makes McCain a great conservative statesman.

And to the American Establishment, bellicosity is not and has never been a deal breaker.

McCain's preferred foreign policy has yielded death, displacement, and regional chaos on a massive scale, not to mention a huge shot in the arm to the very Islamic radicalism he assured us he was fighting against.

(McCain's insistence on being involved in every Middle East conflict under the sun made him some hideous bedfellows, I might add, as when he met with members of the Northern Storm Brigade, which had handed American journalist Steven Sotloff over to ISIS for $25,000.)

We are to believe that McCain was a "maverick."

This is because from time to time he joined forces with the Democrats, the left-wing side of the Establishment, in order to support a measure that just happened to win him media applause.

Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/thomas-woods/what-the-mccain-eulogies-tell-us-about-the-media-and-the-regime/.

[tvbcof]

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McCain's only useful purpose in life was to be the 'un-electable' who let Obama into the Oval Office.  They had to add Sarah Palin to the mix to make sure he did that job.

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However I don't agree on Big Gulp girl...



I don't believe she is a terrorist nor do I believe she supports the end of the republic, nor to take free speech nor guns... maybe I could be wrong, but there is sign that she does...

the enemy medias hates her, why? but I agree less than trump.

I didn't say I had anything against Palin (though in fact I don't care for her very much and think she is a vain phony who would be very likely to sell us down the river for a few dimes...but that's just my suspicion.)

What I said was that TPTB, and McCain himself, needed to ensure that he didn't win POTUS.  It was a Dems turn to push on their end of the log and CIA asset Obama was the man for the job.  Palin was plunked in just to make sure McCain didn't accidentally win.

That's my read.

[kibuloy1987]

The political world mourn the demise Republican Senator, War hero, and conservative maverick, John McCain. May his gentle soul RIP

In our diligent and smart senators we are heartily extending our sympathy for each bitcoin family, how happy you are today wherever you are and as many people as you want to serve the town to continue your beginning and many thank you for sharing in town so you're a real hero and maybe a lot more like you.

[B1tUnl0ck3r]

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McCain's only useful purpose in life was to be the 'un-electable' who let Obama into the Oval Office.  They had to add Sarah Palin to the mix to make sure he did that job.

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However I don't agree on Big Gulp girl...



I don't believe she is a terrorist nor do I believe she supports the end of the republic, nor to take free speech nor guns... maybe I could be wrong, but there is sign that she does...

the enemy medias hates her, why? but I agree less than trump.

I didn't say I had anything against Palin (though in fact I don't care for her very much and think she is a vain phony who would be very likely to sell us down the river for a few dimes...but that's just my suspicion.)

What I said was that TPTB, and McCain himself, needed to ensure that he didn't win POTUS.  It was a Dems turn to push on their end of the log and CIA asset Obama was the man for the job.  Palin was plunked in just to make sure McCain didn't accidentally win.

That's my read.

And I thank you for sharing it. I don't like this idea that the cia as a whole betrayed the us during what ever the potus... on the other hand the more brennan speaks, the more simple it gets... brennan /= patriot.

you know I am still too traumatized to even think abou obama... it's too painful for me, and I can't be rational... I stop at the clinton / silverstein / epstein connection, for now , and certainly for a long time. And I would never be able to bash obama as eloquently and violenty as candace owen...

for me obama believes that the un charter is better than the us constitution because the us constitution was made by white men owning slaves... that's it. he hated it. He couldn't even make his oath correctly... and the fly... and the fly... what was the swarm telling us?

obama did nothing on weinstein, nothing on epstein, nothing on silverstein, nothing on 911 and wasn't able to simple finish simple obejctives and let soldiers fall when support was ALREADY in the air, a coward, a weak man, a frankly stupid man, but is only talent was rethoric, a born liar... and I still wait for his hawaian school pictures... and I believe that his birth certificate was a fake... hoooo...

I found interesting the comments of Dunford and Mattis and agree with them, if they say so, who I am to say the contrary specially on the part about supporting the defense department...

I think it's not an issue as certainly, one of the biggest support of the dod, is now the Potus, and who better than the Potus... no more letting men dies like in benghazi (proven), no more shit, letting the professionals do and fail, I mean this is great...

but it lead to the question about the hill... specially those who believe that epstein island is a fantasy or that the UN charter would be so much better than the constitution... or those who seek simply to destroy the us if it means to enrich themselves, etc...

but again and always, smart decisions earlier lead to easier decision later .

if it was just possible to finish the epstein / 911 cases... the facts, the skeletons, all out, the guilty, clean the book, wiped and done.

I would be very proud to be able to say, this is what happened, here are the solution deployed to prevent it to happen again, stay vigilant and ready, who knows what the next weakness that will be found and exploited...

against all foreign and domestic...

[BADecker]

Child of the State,
Man of War

And now, John Sidney McCain, III is a corpse in a morgue awaiting his state burial.  It is as it should be, perhaps for the first time in his entire life.

McCain – the holy terror of teenager and Naval Academy cadet, mad pilot and poster child for the horrors of the towering enemy we faced for our very survival as a Republic in Vietnam, and political animal for much of his life – clearly was not at home in this world.

In a world filled with people who are all pretty much accountable on a daily basis for their decisions, choices, actions, and for the pain they have and are causing, John McCain was missing from his post.

Instead, as a son of a successful Naval commander, he path was not entirely his own, and yet he did, repeatedly, choose that path.  His biggest tragedy may have been that he was the namesake of a distinguished military family.   Certainly the life of his younger brother Joe Pinckney McCain is a testament to how being born into service of the state doesn't have to result in the deaths of so many for so long.

Where failures and character flaws occur in all families, when they occur in the important chapter of the national narrative called "Military Heroism And Sacrifice In The Name Of National Greatness And Security," something must be done.

And what was done?  Props, propaganda and prose all came forth, and we aren't done being propagandized and prosed to death just yet.  The funeral is coming.

While much has been written about John McCain, it's the stories we haven't been told that bother most people.  How he made it through the Academy one our dime with massive numbers of demerits and low academic performance, how he avoided courts martials and discharge from the Navy after the first two plane crashes and flying through the telephone lines in Spain, all before the interesting roles he played on the deck of the USS Forrestal before, during and after it burned.

The story of being shot down, likely by friendly fire, and his subsequent capture and torture by the "North" Vietnamese (a state construct in its own right) is rarely told in detail, but rather bundled in the official narrative under "courage."  His divorce of his first wife and disconnect from his first family – understandable because of what war, separation and the stress of a military society do to human beings – is not discussed.  Nor are the personal, political and financial machinations that led to his first Congressional seat, and shortly thereafter, a secure Senate seat for Arizona, a seat he has held since this weekend.

From being a savior of the A-10 Warthog program, refusing to allow it a natural death — ironically the aircraft known for causing the most friendly fire and civilian deaths — to saving Obamacare from the breach, to reliably supporting projects to change governments overseas, all while waging low-level but steady combat against liberty and the Constitution at home, McCain was a busy man, and a well-connected, well-funded politician.

The actions of McCain as Senator are legion, and while no doubt people of various political stripes may find at least one or two things to laud in his progressive neoconservative warmongering and state-strengthening agenda in over three decades, in reality he earned no loyalty.  This glowing yet strangely surreal obit by Jeff Goldberg of the leftward progressive and warmongering Atlantic says it all – and has it all wrong.

Read more AND CLICK THE MANY LINKS at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/karen-kwiatkowski/child-of-the-state-man-of-war/.

[BADecker]

Qanon August 27 - We Don't Say His Name

A Qanon thread on Senator John McCain.

Qanon August 27 - We Don't Say His Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7wGRVAYazM