War and & regime change drums beating for Iran: Part III, the Geopolitics (short, w/ dark blue ink)
Part I is here, Part II Café version; the caucuc99% version.
First, the Geopolitics of Mackinder’s Heartland Sort, reminding us why Obama initiated his ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy that Beijing knew meant ‘China Containment’ policy, shrewd devils that they are: ‘Iran’s Role in New Silk Road Emphasized’, May 17, 2017, financialtribune.com
“China’s Finance Minister Xiao Jie underscored Iran’s strategic role in China’s New Silk Road plan, noting that Iran can be a party for fulfilling the ‘”One Road, One Belt” vision initiated by the Chinese government.
“Iran not only could participate in carrying out the plan within their borders, but they could also be a force to execute the New Silk Road vision in other countries,” Xiao said during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Tayyebnia, at a key event promoting the New Silk Road trade project in Beijing.
Iran’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Ali Tayyebnia arrived in the Chinese capital on Saturday to represent Iran in the New Silk Road summit, formally known as the “Belt and Road Initiative” and sign the communiqué to revive the Silk Road along with [20]other countries’ representatives , IRNA reported.”
Tayyebnia had met with the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), of which Iran was a founding member.
(click map for larger)
From Pepe Escobar’s April 18 ‘Syria, Iran and ‘chaos in international relations’; Any meaningful political resolution to the turmoil in the Middle East now seems more elusive than ever, asiatimes.com:
(the aforementioned heavy oil sanctions making small nuclear power plants built by China more necessary, etc.)
“All that points, once again, to the ongoing, massive Eurasia integration project – the cross-pollination of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EEU) – featuring, not by accident, the three key nodes: China, Russia and Iran.
And to add it all up, in this case the European arm of NATO even turned off the “aggression” rhetoric; the dogs of war (“Real Men Go to Tehran”) may bark again, but even that won’t force the EU caravan to desist from doing business with Persia.”
For more recent reading on the BRI, ‘Belt, Road Initiative and China-Iran cooperation’, March 24, 2018, theiranproject.com
‘Iran in the crosshairs as the Empire enters its mad dog days’, John Wight via RT, May 22, 2018, some outtakes, although it’s all worth reading, including his references to the true nature of the US an EU being akin to European satellites before the fall of the Roman Empire:
“The Empire enters its mad dog days
Thus the dire consequences of the untrammelled power of what is an imperial hegemon in Washington have never been more manifest, with its drive to dominate and dictate on pain of war reflective of an empire desperate to arrest a decline, entering its mad dog days in the process.
Let us be clear: the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the JCPOA has nothing to do with Iran’s compliance, which has been impeccable, and everything to do with Washington’s hegemonic agenda towards the region – a hegemonic agenda which precedes Trump.
In the way of this agenda are Iran, Syria and Hezbollah – along with Russia – which, if not on a formal basis certainly on a de facto basis, comprise an axis of anti-hegemony that needs to be broken. It is for this and no other reason that Trump, Netanyahu, and bin Salman are intent on forcing the issue with Iran, regardless of the likely catastrophic results.
They have lost in Syria, where the drive to topple the Assad government has been thwarted thanks in no small part to Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah – standing with the Syrian people and Syrian Arab Army – and in response they are intent on settling accounts.” [long snip]
“Europe’s choice – unipolarity or multipolarity
Crisis is opportunity, they tell us, and this particular crisis presents the opportunity for a new alignment in Europe, forged on the understanding that the destabilizing factor in Europe is not and has never been Russia; that it is and has always been the United States. Economically, culturally, and politically, Europe’s identity has been progressively subsumed into a US identity, with its regressive and shallow paean to the cult of the individual, unfettered capitalism, and might is right.
Therefore the choice Europe faces is clear. It can either remain tethered to the mast of the sinking ship of unipolarity, or it can join Russia, China and the rest of the world in shaping a multipolar alternative, rooted not in the caprice of a president in Washington but instead in the principles set out in the UN Charter – specifically respect for national sovereignty and international law.
Returning to Iran, which now finds itself firmly in the crosshairs of regime change for no other reason that it refuses to bow to the writ of Washington, there is no longer any hiding place when it comes to taking sides. If those countries threatened by this eruption of US aggression do not hang together they will hang separately.
Hegemony demands its response in the shape of anti-hegemony. The future of generations as yet unborn depends on nothing less.”
This is Café coverage of John Pilger’s ‘The Coming War on China’ with the trailer. Pilger has been adamant about getting out this historical information, especially as the MSM cover none of it.
Bonus, of the tragic sort: ‘When 43% of Americans Can’t Pay for Food and Rent, We Can Safely Say the Economic Collapse Is HERE’, Daisy Luther, strategic-culture.org, May 5, 2018
(cross-posted from Cafe Babylon)
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a second bonus of the curiouser and curiouser kind:
RT has the Yulia video here.
And it seems that she has not wasted a word
or a thought on her family, her live-in BF or her pet; no interest in them or how they're doing, doesn't even want to know - warmly smiling on camera all the while...
Also, a picture in the news said to be of Yulia sitting in the bar shortly prior to the incident looked nothing like other pictures of Yulia produced elsewhere - is this difference simply a bad picture and weight gain lost during illness?
The expressions and character of the faces seem completely different, though; does the curve of the eyebrow seem to differ? the pub/restaurant pics which were so
convenientlyluckily taken and provided to add public interest to the war effort (weren't they supposed to have been with Sergei Skripal's handler?) seem to be the only ones easily found with her ears showing, (as Yulia seems to normally wear her hair flowing over her ears,) or with her wearing spectacles, but I haven't gone back or through any older articles having her picture, either.Don't really have the energy to do any real looking but I happened to notice that there's quite a list of people with that name on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/public/Yulia-Skripal
From the article following:
Silly, but I'd never thought about Yulia and her mother following Sergei to England; simply because she was always spoken of as a Russian citizen living with her BF in Russia, I never thought of her as having ties, apart from her father, in Britain. I miss a lot...
I looked for pictures of her online - please, have a look at source, comparing pictures - and bear in mind that she's apparently 33, not 66, btw, so, beyond that and the headline stating as definite what was a speculative 'maybe' in the actual quote, there may be other inaccuracies and the article below does interview someone speculating - and the fact that deleting photos or anything else from social media/internet is not going to affect the ability of any spy agency to track anyone down, although it might, I suppose, make a public impersonation less likely to be easily uncovered and publicized as such:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5604209/Yulia-Skripal-deleted-on...
The 'she-said' details given in the article seem rather confusing to me and seem to imply that Yulia, as well as the vanishing fiancée never mentioned by her, was also involved in covert operations of some variety - but please, look at the photos and the difference between the photos of Yulia visiting her father just before the incident and all others, while the video purportedly of Yulia looks more like the others.
I'm a little bit curious as to whether the BF vanished at the same time as Yulia left the country... and why she changed her style so much while with her father as to not really be very recognizable when going by previous photos, only to look more like her old self in a video which actually might involve technology to make someone else look and sound like her. Beginning to wonder if it's possible that she never left/arrived but is somewhere/was taken/killed with her BF and her unwitting father was convinced by some story to go along with an imposter? This whole thing has been so weird, anything might be possible... blatant lie over blatant lie even where the truth is known, to drown it out with repetition. It seems that everything must be questioned and nothing taken for granted in any of their stories.
Comments below the article are skeptical (pointing out that she was not behaving like an agent by social-media-posting family pics) and one makes a passing mention of a large banking transaction into Yulia's account just prior.
Not sure what's babble/muddying of the water anywhere in this, in any area of the whole mess - but Yulia seemingly looks healthier, younger and more like herself in the video than she did prior to being poisoned into a lengthy coma (something which causes damage in itself when extended) and I do have suspicions of this video, as with the phone call, both having been produced after many publicly voiced suspicions and both failing to satisfy suspicions because such things can be faked.
All emphasis mine.
https://futurism.com/this-new-tech-can-copy-anyones-voice-using-just-a-m...
I've seen some very good articles on this, but now can't seem to find any on search, so my apologies for the site used... it's close enough to give the idea of what publicly available tech was doing last year, that we knew about.
Emphasis mine.
https://www.glennbeck.com/2017/12/14/seeing-is-believing-not-so-much-wit...
And so we get a single - and rather peculiar - phone call to a relative to say that she wants no contact with anyone and plans to vanish forever, along with her father, followed some time later by a single, nicely produced video, rather than a live appearance, and must trust that Hollywood effects and computer technology cannot mimic - or rather, have not been used here to mimic, as they could do that - the demanded evidence of one of these victims as living, with a story-line changed from the forever-to-anonymously disappear to potentially one of several countries without ever again contacting loved ones in Russia, to a line about someday returning to - not that family and life which she had there but to - the country of Russia. But no contact with anyone now - jam tomorrow, just never today, until the public forgets?
Or otherwise, trust that she is not being held under duress with her father held captive and with her live-in BF and pet, (believe it was a small dog,) in all that I've encountered/read so far of him regarding a single media attempt at an interview, said by a reporter to have vanished, with their shared home abandoned, mail piled up and neighbours saying that he'd gone to his dacha (summerhome) and never apparently missed in word or deed by Yulia.
Has anyone heard anything more of this live-in BF from whom she apparently wants to hear nothing, with no concern for how he's doing, even to find out that he's MIA - as presumably also is her pet?
When Sergei's pets were slowly, foully and cruelly killed, locked in the house, over their vet's objections, to starve and dehydrate, with the barely-surviving cat later killed rather than rescued, when the vet finally got access too late for two out of 3 or 4 of them, (apparently there were 2 cats) while the owner was presumably lying in a coma fighting for life, to awaken to this having been so callously and sadistically done to his pets?
In other words, none of the human things which psychopaths are capable only as understanding as exploitable human vulnerabilities, and which they could never feel themselves as anything of importance, and which would not fit the official storyline, have been expressed by what's supposed to be this woman.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/13/friends-yulia-skripal-say-do...
If the Skripals were dead and admitted to be so, their bodies would be demanded by relatives and an autopsy could be done. And that would be yet another spoiler for the already-exploded narrative designed to provide an excuse for more attacks/war-crimes on other people's countries.
Even now, the Novichok fiction still continues to be presented in the media.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-14/independent-swiss-lab-says-bz-...
Independent Swiss Lab Says 'BZ Toxin' Used In Skripal Poisoning; US/UK-Produced, Not Russian
And, in the meantime, the plan toward global take-over proceeds:
https://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/44045-pentagon-plans-for-three-front-...
https://www.rt.com/news/427601-us-coalition-strike-syria/
Is Russia expected to just stand by and watch allies be taken down one by one, while the rest of the world is subjugated by either economic or military means, until her turn finally arrives? Only the Shadow Government knows what scenario such psychopathic lunatics expect, but then again, TPTB believe that they can make their own reality while ignoring the real thing - the definition of insanity, which forms the explanation of all they do.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
lol and jeezum crow,
i'd just amended the title of this diary to reflect its brevity and dark blue ink that it might encourage past detractors to click in and read. and here your comment is easily six times longer than the OP! (not that i don't appreciate the sole comment other than mine...)
yes on the wesley clark list from the pentagon, only i'd remembered it incorrectly as coming thru PNAC. i'l try to read other links as they seem pithy, and when i have time, but for now i'm reading the loooong michael klare piece and edit this later on. but for now, 70,000 special ops is a ghastly number, and i wonder how many are mercenaries trained by erik prince.
i'm not sure that klare is correct that counter-insurgencies are going nowhere fast: that's exactly the point of the GWOT: occupy holy or other lands, piss off more citizens to join radical groups, buy more weapons of war...stay in country...tra la la. of course herr trump loves the fact that the US and partners can eventually share the vast mineral wealth in afghanistan, part of the old silk road, as i remember it, and general daivid petraeus had called it in the forward he wrote for some book a decade a go. but maybe klare's mentioned all of that, but once again:
‘And the land, hitherto a common possession like the light of the sun and the breezes, the careful surveyor now marked out with long-drawn boundary lines. Not only were corn and needful foods demanded of the rich soil, but men bored into the bowels of the earth, and the wealth she had hidden and covered with Stygian darkness was dug up, an incentive to evil. And now noxious iron and gold more noxious still were produced: and these produced war – for wars are fought with both – and rattling weapons were hurled by bloodstained hands.’
(Ovid, written around 8 AD which laments humanity’s loss of its original Golden condition [Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 1, The Iron Age])
capitalism and Imperialism go hand in hand.
on edit: more on michael klare's column:
trump may be unaware of a boatload of stuff going on, but i’d have sworn he’d personally called russia and china competitors, not adversaries, signaling he knew what was in the pentagon’s defense review. so far klares quotes from the heads of the various commands is just right: project western hegemonic behaviors on imagined ‘enemies’, i mean...competitors, to get approval of more and more money for the defense dept. with the aid of democrats, of course (the extra $63 billion ? over what herr yaller hair had asked for). and yes, EUCOM, nato is exactly one of russia’s big gripes. dated, but still great...
nato memmbers, ‘friends of nato’, ‘under nato’s umbrella’, holding joint military ops with ‘not quite nato members’ yet, as...ukraine, georgia, slovenia,and others. and donald has once again been pressuring nato members to pony up!
@USAmbNATO May 17
Great discussion with #NATO SecGen, @jensstoltenberg, Secretary of Defense Mattis, @SecPompeo and @AmbJohnBolton about @NATO Allies' defense spending & capability modernization. These key issues will be top of the agenda with @POTUS today.
but oof; you've pasted in so much of the other links i reckon i may have read enough. oh, and the voice simulations thing is believable, and not unlike the CIA exploits showing how the cia can act as 'enemy' callers, e-mailers, etc. but facebook teaming up with the atlantic council (nato) is pure art. why would anyone be on farcebook?
now his ‘normalizing nukes’ link is too long 2 read, but the scent of it was unmistakably correct. this is great:
“Under such circumstances, Votel testified, it is incumbent upon CENTCOM to join PACOM and EUCOM in resisting Chinese and Russian assertiveness. "We have to be prepared to address these threats, not just in the areas in which they reside, but the areas in which they have influence." Without providing any details, he went on to say, "We have developed… very good plans and processes for how we will do that."
as is this: “However, the real question -- unasked in Washington at the moment -- is: Why pursue such a policy in the first place?” but this? “Are there not other ways to manage the rise of China and Russia's provocative behavior?” now the sole place china *may* be actively provocative is in the south china sea, but there’s likely no way that the US can claim the spratley islands, as far as i know. but it’s perhaps all under the guise of claiming that china is trying to close sea lanes.
funny he’d mentioned china building a base at djibouti, then never mentioned AFRICOM, one of my pet peeve commands. nor did klare mention israel's epic influence in amerikan aggressive foreign policy.
be back later to see what else i've missed.
why is that image about "Russia wants war"
bilingual in German and English?
What kind of source did you get that from?
Who published that image first?
https://www.euronews.com/
i have an english only one in my files, as well as parallel one
on iran. when i'd bingled for the english one, the only straightforward two i could find were too large to embed. zo...i chose the bilingual one. why do you ask, mimi? but just for you, i bingled again, looked at the left corner where this site was listed as one provenance. (never heard of it)
any comments on the information in the post? glad to have a second commenter, in any event. was it more readable to you (the last one as well?) i've tried to answer some of the past complaints (smile).
how is your hunt for ukrainian history going, by the by? things are getting dicey there again, as well as in crimea. but: almost too many things to write up lately.
but ho published it first? who can say; stuff like that goes viral on twitter in a milwaukee minute.
thanks, as Big Al thought, Europe may be faltering, at least
I (European) do with all of it. I start to see a fata morgana behind the image and came to the conclusion that I suffer under "Wahnvorstellungen" (hallucinations).
I visited the MTIC.us site before I asked this question and actually asked the question because of that site. "Beware of that site", my guts told me. I always trust my guts.
So, I gave up.
Darn Germans don't want war with Russia, as far as I am concerned. So far I had not the feeling Russia wants war with us. That's all.
Ukraine? Hope folks over there have enough to eat and a warm shelter.
I liked cool Putin in the truck storming over the bridge like a Charles Heester in the chariot way back then when he was still considered "cool".
Orange trucks and Putin in it? That's like the Orange Satan for real.
Oh, Markos, what have you done? Shhh, don't tell me, it's a ...
Ok, I am a woman and sometimes look shyly at some cool men...
and am completely distracted from all the not so cool news.
Wendy, it's beyond me. I can't read the stuff anymore. Take good care of yourself. I'll try to do the same for myself. And thanks for all your efforts.
https://www.euronews.com/
i'm confused here,
in that it seems that you might not be getting the satirical nature of the map. it's dated, of course, as there are more nato bases surrounding russia now, as well as missile emplacements in most of the former soviet union nations. and nato is soooo proud of all the joint-operation drills they do as they schmooze the would-be-nato nations and puff up their anti-putin egos. but of course germany doesn't want war with russia; they do a hella lot bidness together, yes?
https://twitter.com/NATO
fun video, but i did love the video of actual-factual putin driving a convoy across the new bridge from crimea to...roosia. incredible engineering feat,installation feat...and work project. (RT had the video)
I don't get a lot of satire, so I usually don't try even anymore
I am just tired of satire. And a bit frustrated sometimes. That's when I try to post silly comments and attempt to make jokes. Sorry.
I watched three documentaries on German TV just now and my head is full. I will try to get back to your links. (Tschernobyl etc.)
https://www.euronews.com/
Sorry, was trying to get enough threads together
than maybe somebody could make sense out of the situation - and details are kinda essential... not that we often get many, or can generally verify all that much.
Wow, love your Ovid quote!
Totally, it's the competition and freedom of action of others which TPTB, et al, can't stand and they know damn well that nobody else would attack America except in last-ditch self-defense against The Psychopaths That Be, a situation they're creating themselves, and using as the cover excuse for their attacks, invasions and provocations...
TPTB have to realize that they have no right to 'manage' the rest of the world, ideally before the rest of the world has to forcefully push back and WW3 ends us all.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
love that you go digging for more,
but just quoting the most illuminating and pithiest parts might be in order, and watch me not do it right now. gadzukes, it's almost 5:30 here, and i need to figure out dinner, lol. anyhoo, former UK ambassador craig murray has been on this case for a long time, including calling out 'storyteller' luke harding for his bullshit.
‘Duress cannot be ruled out’: ex-UK Ambassador Craig Murray unconvinced by Yulia Skripal interview’, via RT
"Murray stated his belief that, rather than translate what Skripal said in Russian for the subtitles, Reuters may have used a script handed to them by the British government. The blogger also added that Yulia’s statement would have been more convincing if her recently released from hospital father, Sergei, was by her side.
Murray, who has blogged constantly on the Skripal incident, added: “Duress cannot be ruled out when he is held by the British authorities.
“I remain extremely suspicious that, at the very first chance she got in hospital, Yulia managed to get hold of a telephone (we don’t know how, it was not her own and she has not had access to one since) and phone her cousin Viktoria, yet since then the Skripals have made no attempt to contact their family in Russia.
“That includes no contact to Sergei’s aged mum, Yulia’s grandmother, who Viktoria cares for. Sergei normally [called] his mother – who is 89 – regularly. This lack of contact is a worrying sign that the Skripals may be prevented from free communication to the outside world. Yulia’s controlled and scripted performance makes that more rather than less likely.”
He'd also noted that it's suspicious that she has no access to social media which they could have provided to her 'risk free' (he'd noted some tech thingie), much less access to a telephone.
but craig's very long version is here. as i remember the spiez swiss lab saying, the BZ was a very strong hallucinogen, but the OPCW wouldn't confirm or deny that the lab was part of the OCPW. whassup with that?
Brilliant, the both of you.
@Ellen North
You make me feel alive. So glad we witness the same reality.
My collections of evidence and examples focus on the same range of topics. I do this as if I had a mandate. Heh. Thought I'd post here one I completed this morning, as long as we're going long:
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What then are we seeing from orbit?
The present in the US is straddling time. One foot planted in the glorified past of the "good" Empire and the other foot in the probable future, where the US is a golem with its horns plucked, under house arrest and wearing an ankle bracelet.
From the distance of space, the view shows the nation to be rogue; moving against the will of the people, moving despite continuous pockets of resistance by newly elected representatives. They arrive with their goals and promises and they come home, millionaires. They learn about process, not about product. They learn how to appear otherwise engaged, while the US is pushed along a trajectory that no one wants to travel. The people worry about the costs and consequences, but they are deliberately unburdened by knowledge or understanding. They can only recall that this was not what they voted for. The President had rallied against war and military spending at first — but then they all do that when they want to neutralize the Left. The only clue that anyone was given of the nation's rogue state was when their embassy was suddenly moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — something that no one in the US had asked for.
And there it is. The pattern. The coup.
We see from up here that Trump got rolled by the Deep State just months after taking office in 2017 — the first false flag chemical weapon attack in Syria. Before it was over, he had committed his first war crime. Trump was just a sandlot bully who now had to face real, stone-cold killers. The implications of this are worrisome. The Deep State had shown its fangs against Obama in 2016, after Obama and Kerry worked a deal with the Russians to cooperate against ISIS. Ashton Carter said, “Defense might not obey that order.” This was open insubordination. Obama did nothing.
The Air Force abruptly bombed Syrian soldiers at Deir-Ezzor, killing 80 or more, and instantly scuppering the deal. Insubordination had escalated to open mutiny against a sitting President. Still, Obama did nothing. Was there even a reprimand? The only conclusion we can draw is that Obama decided to avoid tangling with the Deep State at the end of his term. The Deep State convinced Obama to keep his mouth shut. Then, they quickly conspired to put Trump, the next President, on a tight leash. A choke collar.
Who's happy now? At the Council on Foreign Relations, the elite families, the oligarchs, and the military commanders are all feeling more secure. Ordinary American workers are the only source of funding for the war machine. It is this funding — which works its way through the CFR's defense industry Member Corporations — that swells the coffers of the Very Wealthy. Propaganda is the key and the leaders of all six US media monopolies are among the most prominent Members at CFR headquarters in New York.
There is nothing really new under the sun. Marcus Tullius Cicero described the situation this way:
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
bless your heart for that,
and i have the same quote on my blogging help word doc. awesome to be reminded of. i'd hoped you might come, knowing how well you know the geopolitics involved even further than i do.
but my heart's otherwise engaged for now. a longtime (but estranged for a few months) blogging ally at fdl and the café just emailed to let me know that his not-quite-adult daughter died last night of what the sheriff said was some sort of seizure while living once again w/ her mum and step-dad.
if i were a true human being i'd phone him, but...in the crap emotional state i'm still in...dunno if if can...or should.
anyway, thanks for the exquisite view from the orbit looking at the FP and other think tank NGOs ruling class, my friend. golems: what an apt metaphor. born out of mud...sigh.
more anon, perhaps, but from a different sort of orbit, nanci griffith covers julie gold's original w/ jane ray's book graphics...from a distance. and it course it's made me weep once again. never could perform it w/o tears; johnny' 'beautiful boy' was another (smile).
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbxEE1Hvrg]
let that serve as tonight's lullaby, okay? hope you both sleep well if you can; dream well, or if not...at least instructively.
Speaking of brilliance, that description and phrasing -
all beautifully put together and outstanding, as always. I takes me 'at off to the Duke!
Hard to connect the dots to show a picture, never mind begin to flesh anything out, if you have room for only a few of the required dots, isn't it?
Lol, now it seems that draining Americans dry in funding the war machine isn't enough.
OMG, suppose they ran out of missiles and had to stop taking over the world? Wars are at risk here! Just as they planned to attack everyone at once and steal the materials their planned victims may no longer sell them to be bombed with. How sad to have global fascism stymied twice!
(All emphasis mine)
https://www.rt.com/usa/427593-pentagon-report-munitions-bombs/?froisappi...
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/427699-china-syria-business-peace/
So maybe The Psychopaths That Be's big Global Dominance plans will simply run out of enough gas to consume the Earth in flame?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
We must all work harder for the Motherland.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
TPTB will probably deal with the issue
by stealing SS and firing starving elderly-Americans in place of the missiles they've run dry of, thereby killing the last two birds on Earth with one stone.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Somebody on here had, some time back,
posted something from a wonderful blog which had been following, researching and putting together bits from/around the Skropal incident, in a series including evidence/indications of dirty work at the OPCW crossroads.
Unfortunately, I don't recall enough details to find the blog again and hope somebody here will recall it, as I thought it was an incredible blog, so this tiny smidge of what I do recall at the moment is with the caveat of my memory sucking.
In any event, there were no independent witnesses to safeguard the chain of evidence, although the Brits lied and claimed there were.
The exchange of samples from the Skripals were limited between the British and a couple of OPCW people, one a high-ranking Turk who'd overseen NATO massing on Russia's borders and was not neutral and another unnamed OPCW.
It was very evident that a fix was in.
Something ironic about what it seems they'd had administered to them:
(Emphasis mine:
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate
Craig Murray is awesome - no wonder TPTB and corporate media hate him.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
might have been 21st century wire or mintpress news, more of an
aggregator site for alternative views to the western hegemon's take. g'night, and thanks, ellen. but not craig's, i reckon? other than those, my mind's a bit bit blank jut now. bernhard at moon of alabama?
Thanks, but this was an individual -
I never would have found that blog myself...
So sorry about everything behind that crap emotional state... I'd think definitely better not to try to offer support over such a devastating loss to others at a stage when you need it yourself and can only offer a frail and perhaps shattered reed, itself in need of binding for any strength. At least not when stronger others are likely in before you to offer what comfort they can.
That degree of grief may also leave bereaved parents incapable of dealing with condolences, especially in the first days, although since you know them, you might be able to guess at their reaction, whether more likely comforted by talking things out or by howling in a corner without having to try to hold themselves together to talk to anyone.
Have a good sleep to hopefully help work the ravels together and perhaps you'll feel better tomorrow?
Wishing you healing dreams and better circumstances, and sending many hugs.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
i appreciate your kindness,
and am a bit less frayed this mornin'. i took the other avenue and emailed him, and felt far better for it as i believe i'm one of his only confidantes, not sure why. he's divorced, weird battles over custody, MH care issues, everything, really. an all of this is playing again now that their daughter has crossed over to the other side. i sent him this mary oliver poem that some say almost makes one look forward to death, and i agree.
i picture what it might be like to imagine one's teenage daughter (jayzus) on an autopsy table, then try to compartmentalize it to even get thru the day, however robotically. he may or may not find the answers he's seeking, because his ex-wife won't even communicate with him, nor will her new husband, even now. evil comes in so many packages, often within families, tragically.
got an answer back from him just now, i'll go write back. thanks again.
Glad to hear that you feel a bit less shredded
and an email is better; gives people privacy of response, as is not possible in live conversation...
I can't imagine how people cope with the loss of one of their children... losing a parent is devastating and that's something we know must one day happen in the natural order of things, but a child is supposed to outlive the parent, and if also having no supportive relationship between the two parents... you know in this case that you're a great comfort to him and it's unfortunate that this tragedy also arrives at such a time for you, albeit fortunate all round that you are such a strong as well as caring person, despite all strain imposed. And sometimes, even in such circumstances as this, the knowledge that you are needed can also help you through. *hugs*
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
thanks for the hugs,
and i'm doin' my best. maybe sometimes the blind leading the blind...can work out okay (smile). i can't imagine losing a child, either. i did at least manage to make him laugh with a wry comment about his wife i refer to as 'cruella', though. i put up an open menu thread at the café until i get my wits about me to write one of myriad possibilities up soonish.
Hey, a friendly hand can be felt in the dark.
And congrats for letting a little light in by making him laugh!
Smart, get back to the fight when you feel you can. Sometimes, too much emotional pummeling is just too much... eager readers will be waiting, when the time comes.
(Sending extra hugs, to be sure you have spares.)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.