@Outsourcing Is Treason

please indicate the source of these 'rumors'. they make no sense to me save for the purpose of disinformation and agitprop against iran. as in 'wipe israel of the map' which even Ahmadinejad apparently had never said. (i deleted my speculations as to which 'news organizations'.)

#4
Those tweets correspond with rumors that I’ve been hearing — that for the past month a massive Iranian Army force has been building in Syria near the Syria - Israel border, preparing to invade Israel.

According to these rumors, the Iranians are acting in concert with their Hamas clients in Gaza, whose so-called “March of Return” was a smokescreen to allow terrorist operatives to enter Israel on missions to disrupt the Jewish state to set the stage for the Iranian invasion.

I hope those rumors are false.

@Alphalop

bit of a luddite here, i'm afraid (smile).

#5 off topic, but to get past those pay walls if you've exceeded your monthly free views is to open them in "incognito" or private mode. (This prevents them using the cookie that tracks your visits)

@SoylentGreenisPeople

and yes, the israeli gummint has created itself as a rogue, pariah state, and when criticized, ramps up the rhetoric, as in: 'iran reminds me of nazi germany, killing jews' bibi to putin yesterday at the v-day celebrations in moscow.

interesting credo: 'what you resist persists'. i know 'be careful of focusing on your enemies, lest you become them', 'string into the abyss for too long', but yours, i'm not sure i'm getting. it may be that i'm pinging some wretched family troubles mr. wd and are finding hard to imagine will ever be/can ever be resolved, but...i have at least tried to learn to not harden my heart for very long, lest i become....the hardening. or something. thank you, darlin', for food for thought.

on edit: oy; maybe i shouldn't drag it up, commenters at b at MOA had brought up gilad atzmon in this thread. opinions differed as to whether he should have put up two posts about it. oops. there was a thread within a thread, so i may be incorrect. me, i watched it real time, so i heard him loud and clear. (b links to his earlier exposé)

'Blumenthal, Norton, Khalek - The Turncoats Deliver A Poor Excuse - by Daniel'

We will find out soon whether Israel invented an Iron Dom or whether it is an ironic domino.. https://t.co/77B9i2ywMx

— Gilad Atzmon (@GiladAtzmon) May 9, 2018

We will find out soon whether Israel invented an Iron Dom or whether it is an ironic domino.. https://t.co/77B9i2ywMx

— Gilad Atzmon (@GiladAtzmon) May 9, 2018

#5

It is always "We have to take out the other side's ability to make war on us, EVEN BEFORE it becomes an actuality."

Thus, the neocons used it with their Project for a New American Century.

And, as we've seen, this rationalization has been used again and again by the Zionists in Israel whenever they want to take out any supposed supposed threat. Most certainly this was the case with the six-day war in 1967 when the Zionists used a variation on this rationale to justify their expansionistic landgrabs.

A spiritual principle I've learned is this: What you resist, persists.

In fact, people end up often creating or bringing about the very thing they are trying to "pre-empt" by way of their stupid and short sited actions.

Seen in this light, the Zionists have created world-wide hatred for the State of Israel, and have even fueled the rise of irrational and unfair general anti-Semitism against non-Zionist Jews. Yet they are so blinded in their fanatacism-born-of-victimhood and their potential victimhood (paranoia), that they are never able to acknowledge that possibility that any of their OWN immoral or unjust actions are leading to the very thing they fear the most--hatred and persecution against them as a group.

Thus, Israeli ex-pat Gilad Atzmon, speaks of "pre-traumatic stress syndrome" as characterizing the Zionist/Israeli mindset.

@wendy davis

i read b at MoA's 'Trump Ends The Nuclear Deal With Iran - What's Next?', and the comments were fascinating, as ever. but this was by way of a brief discussion of a and alistair crooke oped at strategic culture (oh, dang the hyperlinks won't come in, will they?

'@123 karlof1
Nicely said on all points.
Your Alastair Crooke article - yes I did see it at the end of the last thread and just read it. By the way, b links to it in his article here, not very explicitly, but he uses it to make the point that China and Russia are making huge deals with Iran and are now effectively its protectors.

I really like the two maps that Crooke uses to show the tremendously important geopolitical position that Iran occupies in the world geographically. These are a map that shows the 6 economic corridors of the Silk Road, and a map that redraws McKinder's world into 3 vertical areas, with a core of energy resource producers flanked by Europe and Asia to the west and east, respectively, as energy consumers.

The links to the maps, and the meaning of them as they pertain to Iran, are all in this quote:

Whether one looks at the bold, red, East-West swath of China’s massive ‘Road and Corridor’ sprawling across Eurasia (see here); or, look at Russia’s vertical, ‘McKinderesque’, heartland of energy producers (see here), stretching from the Arctic, through Russia to the Middle East, supplying the consumers to the East on one side and to the west, on the other, one thing stands out clearly: Iran, and the northern tier of the Middle East, lie smack in the middle of both maps. But just to be clear: these may be articulated as mainly trade and energy projects – but they are primordially political-cultural projects too.

These two visions – the Chinese map and the Russian – are complementary. One highlights resource influence, and the other, its flows and the concomitant economic fecundity likely to arise from the flow of energy and the ebb of manufactured goods along this corridor. In this northern sphere of the Middle East, it is Russia that has diplomatic and security ‘heft’ – and not America. In this northern tier, it is China that has economic and influence ‘heft’ – and not America.

- Is Israel Readying for War?
It doesn't matter much if the US leaves the Iran agreement, as others have commented. It is a further isolation of the US and that's a good thing. I think as Crooke explains, Israel knows it can't really fight Iran, but would scheme to draw the US into a war. I have serious doubts that the US would enter one, personally. As Crooke points out, Trump needs to win the mid-terms or the Democrats will impeach him - but whether this means staying out or plunging in, I can't say.

I am continually amazed at the US's ability to diminish itself, and Trump seems like a god-send for this. But it's not the US - Israel is similarly shrinking, and Europe. It's a function of the tides of history and hubris mixing in a King Canute kind of result, but I don't have the words at the moment to describe it further.
Posted by: Grieved | May 8, 2018 11:23:56 PM

and meanwhile, breaking news: "Strikes have been reported across the border between the Israeli-occupied and the Syrian portions of the Golan Heights. Syrian media says Israeli shells hit its territory, while Israel reports it was targeted by Iranian missiles." (got a bridge to sell ya)

"The shells were fired from the Israeli-controlled area towards the city of Baath in northern Quneitra, Syria’s state SANA news agency reported. There have been no reports of injuries as a result of the attack, it said.

Within minutes of the reported shelling, the Israeli military said that sirens were heard in the occupied Golan Heights, without providing any details as to what triggered the alert.

“The details are being looked into and will be given shortly,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote on Twitter. It is unclear so far which of the incidents came first.',via RT

lol, variously:
The Sun · 26m
ISRAEL has claimed that Iranian-backed forces have launched missiles at their military base in the annexed Golan Heights region following reports of an Israeli bombing campaign near Damascus. …

Syria and Israel exchange artillery fire over Golan Heights
Couriermail · 17m
Israeli tanks have also been observed firing from their Golan Heights revetments into positions believed occupied by Iranian forces assisting Syria’s President Assad …

#7

yeah, i'd seen it, but not that version, so i went a-huntin', and found tony's report on it at activist post which included the massive brookings funding sources, including related think tanks.

"Within the opening pages of the report, acknowledgments are given to the Smith Richardson Foundation, upon which Zbigniew Brzezinski sits as an acting governor.

The Smith Richardson Foundation funds a bizarre myriad of globalist pet projects including studies on geoengineering, nation building, meddling in the Caucasus region, and even studies, as of 2009, to develop methods to support “indigenous democratic political movements and transitions” in Poland, Egypt, Cuba, Nepal, Haiti, Vietnam, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, and Burma. Also acknowledged by the report is the Crown Family Foundation out of Chicago.

The Brookings Institute itself is a creation of the notorious globalist funding arms including the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation, all who recently had been involved in the fake “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy. Today, Brookings boasts a full complement of support and funding from America’s biggest corporations. Upon the Brookings Institution’s board of trustees one will find a collection of corporate leaders from Goldman Sachs, the Carlyle Group, the insurance industry, Pepsi (CFR), Alcoa (CFR), and various CFR affiliated consulting firms like McKinsey & Company."

he reminded readers of iran's vast resources and population, (mackinder heartland) geolocation, as in: what a prize. pepe escobar reminded us again this week that china, russia, and iran are doin' lot's of bidness, china investing billions and billions in iran, and that iran is of course crucial in the obor, belt road initiative (bri) various names.

an the folks who fund brookings, rand, AEI, etc. hate that it's now an officially multi-polar world, ep., i'd think, that the petro-dollar seems to be dying. i'd had to look it up, but it was wesley clark who'd seen the memo from pnac, remember?

"Project for the New American Century:
Six weeks later, I saw the same officer, and asked: "Why haven't we attacked Iraq? Are we still going to attack Iraq?"
He said: "Sir, it's worse than that. He said - he pulled up a piece of paper off his desk - he said: "I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defense's office. It says we're going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years - we're going to start with Iraq, and then we're going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran."

r2p somalia (after clinton ruined it) is on, 'south' sudan (with all the oil), an amerikan project is being touted by clooney & don cheadle and their 'sentry' project and the CFR for r2p, an tra la la. i mean, it'd be funny if it weren't so serious.

but oy; i'd had to bingle 'new world order project. oh, my, a global totalitarian project?

did some reading on opinions on the possibilities of an israeli/iranian war early this a.m., but i need to go make some toast, smile.