The Evening Blues - 2-28-24
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This evening's music features Texas blues slide guitarist Oscar "Buddy" Woods. Enjoy!
Buddy Woods - Come On Over To My House Baby
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
News and Opinion
Worth a click and a full read:
Macron & Many European Leaders Call For WWIII?
So, French leader Macron thinks Europe should send troops to Ukraine to fight Russia. (This is colloquially known as “declaring war on Russia.”) ...
So, there are two main possibilities here. First, it’s a negotiating ploy, to get a better deal for Ukraine. Second, they’re serious.
Let’s point out a couple things: Russia is outproducing the entire West in artillery shells and ammunition and Western armories are bare: they’ll run out in two weeks to a month of real war, at most. Second, China is not going to let Russia really lose a war, because they know who’s next and Europe has mostly been very willing to follow the US in anti-Chinese actions.
Iran, obviously, will support Russia as well. They know they’re on the list.
It’s actually not clear that the West would win this war: Russia is out-producing the West in terms of war materials, China is the undisputed largest industrial power in the world and it’s not clear that if other powers step in, China and maybe Iran won’t step in on Russia’s side. They really, really don’t want to: but the defeat of Russia, as already noted, is an existential threat to them.
Next, if either side starts losing, there will be a strong temptation to reach for the nukes.
Aaron Maté (TheGrayZone) : US Provokes Moscow and Middle East
Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food.
Hunger and severe malnutrition are widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from Israel destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies. Aid trucks and Palestinians waiting for humanitarian relief have come under Israeli fire.
“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza – other than to deny people access to food,” Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian.
“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide. This means the state of Israel in its entirety is culpable and should be held accountable – not just individuals or this government or that person.” ...
Intentionally starving civilians by “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies” is a war crime, according to the Rome statute of the international criminal court. Indispensable objects include food, water and shelter – which Israel is systematically denying Palestinians. Starvation is a war crime under the Geneva conventions and the Rome statute. It was also recognized as a war crime and general violation of international law by the UN security council in 2018.
Aaron Bushnell HAD SECRET INTEL That US Troops ARE FIGHTING IN GAZA, Friend Claims
Hamas and Israel pour cold water on Biden’s hopes of imminent ceasefire
Israeli and Hamas officials have downplayed hopes expressed by Joe Biden that a ceasefire in the war in Gaza is imminent, raising questions about whether a temporary truce can be implemented before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins in two weeks’ time.
Basem Naim, the head of Hamas’s political division in Gaza, said over WhatsApp on Tuesday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had not yet formally received a new proposal for a ceasefire since last week’s indirect talks in Paris mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar.
The US leader’s remarks late on Monday that a temporary truce could be implemented as soon as 4 March were “premature” and did “not match the reality on the ground”, he said. Ahmad Abdel-Hadi, a Hamas representative in Beirut, also told a Lebanese broadcaster that significant progress on a deal had not been made.
Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Biden’s comments came as a surprise and were not made in coordination with the country’s leadership. Hamas was continuing to push “excessive demands”, they said.
The remarks pour cold water on comments made by Biden in New York on Monday. “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close. We’re close. We’re not done yet,” Biden told reporters after taping an appearance on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers. “My hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.”
US, UK, Fiji, and Hungary Only Nations to Defend Israeli Occupation at ICJ
In what one policy expert said was a "stunning" display of Israel and its allies' isolation on the world stage, six days of International Court of Justice hearings on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories wrapped up on Monday with just four countries defending Israel's practices in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem over the past 57 years.
The United States—the world's biggest funder of Israel's government and military—was joined by the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Fiji in speaking in favor of Israel's illegal occupation, while 45 countries and three organizations testified against the Israeli government.
The hearings took place against the backdrop of Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza, which has killed at least 29,878 Palestinians, and an announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that the country plans to build 3,300 new homes in settlements in the West Bank.
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that the settlement expansion is "inconsistent with international law," reversing a Trump-era policy, human rights attorney Noura Erakat noted that in the ICJ hearing, the U.S. "framed compliance with international law as an impediment to [the] political process."
This took too long &remains insufficient in light of US’s defense of Israel’s settlement enterprise @ the ICJ this week where US framed compliance w international law as an impediment to political process while also using gross imbalance of power to incapacitate that process. https://t.co/lRXKfpkYsz
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) February 23, 2024
Richard Visek, the State Department's acting legal adviser, invoked the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7 as he argued before the court that it "should not find that Israel is legally obligated to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from occupied territory."
"Any movement towards Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza requires consideration of Israel's very real security needs," said Visek. "We were all reminded of those security needs on October 7, and they persist."
But the vast majority of states present for the hearings rebuked Visek's claim, with Turkey's deputy minister of foreign affairs, Ahmet Yildiz, arguing that "the real obstacle to peace is obvious—the deepening occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and failure to implement the two-state vision, Israel and Palestine living side by side."
Representing the African Union, Ohio State University law professor Mohamed Helal provided the court with an overview of the Palestinian territories' history of occupation to answer the question, "Does Israel have title over the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem?"
"The answer is unequivocally no," said Helal. "Since 1967, Israel has exercised belligerent occupation over the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. The African Union also submits that Israel's 57-year occupation of the Palestinian territories is unlawful and must be brought to an end."
Legal experts including Helal spent six days testifying on the occupation Israel has maintained over the territories since the Six-Day War in 1967, including its construction of settlements inhabited by 700,000 settlers in the West Bank, its annexation of East Jerusalem, its blockade of goods in Gaza, and its restriction of Palestinians' movement.
Speaking for the League of Arab States on the closing day of the hearings on Monday, international law expert Ralph Wilde of University College London delivered what observers called "a legal masterpiece," explaining to the ICJ the illegality of Israel's occupation.
Masterful Ralph Wilde's debunking of US and UK's arguments for continued Israeli occupation at the ICJ.. it took him a bit more than 2 minutes to flush their arguments down the gutter pic.twitter.com/oU5GJjwmkQ
— King Crane (@LaowaiHat) February 26, 2024
According to Israel and its allies, said Wilde, the desire for Israel to protect its security "somehow supersedes the rules of international law determining whether the occupation is existentially lawful. Instead, we have a new rule justifying the occupation until there is a peace agreement meeting Israeli security needs."
"This is the law as these states would like it to be, not not the law as it is," he continued, saying the occupation has no basis in U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which called on Israel to withdraw its troops from the occupied territories in 1967, or the 1993 Oslo Accords.
"Actually," he told the court, "you are being invited to do away with the very operation of some of the fundamental... laws of international law itself."
Al Jazeera political analyst Marwan Bishara said the evidence presented by opponents of the occupation "demolished British and American arguments" in the hearings.
ICJ HEARINGS: US/UK CAME TO THE COURT ON THE BASIS OF A (NONEXISTENT) DISPUTE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINE, BUT THEIR INTENTION IS TO AVOID THE RIGHT OF SELF DETERMINATION TO PALESTINIANS
Marwan Bishara Analysis@marwanbishara | @AJEnglish pic.twitter.com/GkuLglHfBw— Filipe Neves (@_FilipeNeves) February 26, 2024
"I'm going to say something I will regret, but I'll say it anyway—I feel sorry for the United States and the United Kingdom," said Bishara after watching the proceedings. In the first days of the hearing, he said, "it was clear to someone like me, a student of this issue, that the Americans and the British wanted to sound clever... That they were disingenuous and selective, and rather, to my mind, illogical."
The U.S. and U.K. led Israel's supporters at the hearing in falsely claiming that the conflict in Israel and Palestine is merely a "dispute," said Bishara, that should be left up to the two sides, despite the fact that the two countries provide Israel with aid.
"This is an aggression," he said. "As the African Union, as the Arab League, as well as the Islamic conference have argued, this has been going on for 75 years. There is a process, there is a pattern by Israel to annex, to occupy, to settle, and to take over Palestinian territory, denying the Palestinians the right of self-determination."
Qatar and Egypt ‘will help form new Palestinian technocratic government’
The formation of a new Palestinian technocratic government would be aided by both Qatar and Egypt and involves consultations with all Palestinian political factions – including Hamas, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, has said. The move appears to be part of an attempt to show that a reformed interim Palestinian government that has roots in the entire Palestinian movement is ready to take over the governance of both Gaza and the West Bank soon after any ceasefire.
Zomlot stressed Hamas would have no members in the new technocratic government, but the fact that it would be consulted showed efforts were under way to see if Palestinian unity between Hamas and Fatah was achievable. The Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, and his government resigned en masse on Monday, confirming that its recent attempts at internal reform had not been extensive enough.
The two factions have been divided since Hamas threw the Fatah movement out of Gaza in 2007. Zomlot stressed this would be a purely technocratic government without factions, saying: “It is designed to unify the Palestinians, their geography and polity.”
“The political landscape has changed. This is the time to hear our people, and not the time for political factions. We have a responsibility to provide a government that can provide for its people, unite our people, and political system. The twin tasks of the government was to provide humanitarian support and prepare for elections, as well as economic reforms.”
Talks on relations between the factions are due to start this week in Moscow.
Sanders, Blinken protested over Gaza slaughter
"Uncommitted": Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden's Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary
Michigan primary a test for Biden as key voters turn away over Gaza war
The push by Democratic voters to vote “uncommitted” in today’s primary has picked up steam since organizers launched it in early February, with dozens of local elected officials in greater Detroit publicly endorsing the push.
That effort has the support of the Dearborn mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, whose Detroit suburb has the largest percentage of Arab Americans of any city in the US. He wrote in a February op-ed in the New York Times that his constituents were “haunted by the images, videos and stories streaming out of Gaza” and felt “a visceral sense of betrayal” by Biden’s support for Israel.
The campaign also has support from the representative Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American who represents Dearborn in Congress and whose sister is leading the effort. In a video posted on social media today, Tlaib announced that she “was proud today” to vote “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary. “President Biden is not hearing us,” said Tlaib, citing a recent poll that showed about 74% of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire in Gaza. “This is the way we can use our democracy to say ‘listen – listen to Michigan.’”
The campaign earned the backing of the former congressman Andy Levin, who is Jewish and close to organized labor in the state, and the former 2020 presidential candidate and representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas.
In an interview with the Guardian, Layla Elabed, Tlaib’s sister and campaign director for Listen to Michigan, said organizers were hoping for a showing of between 10,000 and 15,000 uncommitted votes, a mirror of the margin by which Hillary Clinton lost the state to Donald Trump in 2016. “We can use uncommitted to send a clear and powerful message to Joe Biden if we get enough uncommitted votes for a margin of victory,” Elabed, who voted for Biden in 2020, said. “If we’re able to replicate those numbers we can really send a message that he’s at risk of losing Michigan in the general election come November.” The Listen to Michigan campaign on Tuesday evening said they believed they would win at least one delegate at the Democratic national convention. Delegates can be awarded to candidates who earn at least 15% of the vote in a congressional district.
Michigan Dems ABANDON Biden, 100K Vote ‘UNCOMMITTED’ As Biden SILENT About Gaza Concerns
Assange Brother REVEALS DIRE Stakes Of Extradition
Biden and Harris meet congressional leaders to try to avert government shutdown
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris met congressional leaders on Tuesday in hopes of striking a deal to try to avert a government shutdown. “We’re making good progress, and we’re hopeful we can get this done quickly,” the top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said after the meeting, adding that the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, “said unequivocally he wants to avoid a government shutdown”.
While the debacle over the government shutdown has been brewing for months, the 1 March deadline is different from the many similar instances that came before, in that it would herald only a partial government shutdown, with the legislation funding departments including agriculture, transportation and veteran affairs expiring on Friday. The rest of the shutdown is scheduled for 8 March. ...
The group pressed Johnson to support further aid to Ukraine, a discussion Schumer noted was particularly “intense”. ... “The meeting on Ukraine was one of the most intense I’ve ever encountered in my many meetings in the Oval Office,” Schumer said. “We said to the speaker, ‘Get it done.’” Johnson, meanwhile, told CNN the meeting was “frank and honest” and focused on the need for an immigration and border plan.
Mitch McConnell STEPPING DOWN From GOP Leadership In Nov
Starbucks and workers’ union agree to talks in breakthrough for both sides
Starbucks and the union organizing its US workers said Tuesday they have agreed to begin talks with the aim of reaching labor agreements. The announcement was a breakthrough for the two sides, which have been at odds since Workers United first organized baristas at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, in late 2021. “Starbucks and Workers United have a shared commitment to establishing a positive relationship in the interests of Starbucks partners,” the company and the union said in a joint statement.
Workers have voted to unionize at more than 370 company-owned Starbucks stores in the US, but none has reached a labor agreement with the company.
The process has been contentious. In multiple cases, federal courts have ordered Starbucks to reinstate workers who had been fired after leading unionization efforts at their stores. Regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board also have issued at least 120 complaints against Starbucks for unfair labor practices, including refusal to bargain and reserving pay raises and other benefits for non-union workers.
San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies
Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their descendants for the city’s role in perpetuating racism and discrimination, with several stating that this was just the beginning of reparations for Black residents and not the end. The vote was unanimous with all 11 board members signed on as sponsors of the resolution.
“This historic resolution apologizes on behalf of San Francisco to the African American community and their descendants for decades of systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence, atrocities,” said supervisor Shamann Walton, “as well as committing to the rectification and redress of past policies and misdeeds.” ...
“We have much more work to do, but this apology most certainly is an important step,” said Walton, the only Black member of the board and chief proponent of the resolution.
It is the first reparations recommendation of more than 100 proposals made by a city committee to win approval.
The African American Reparations advisory committee also proposed that every eligible Black adult receive a $5m lump-sum cash payment and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year to remedy San Francisco’s deep racial wealth gap.
Trump SKYROCKETS With Young, Hispanic, Black Voters
Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study
Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses. The scientists analysed 62 placental tissue samples and found the most common plastic detected was polyethylene, which is used to make plastic bags and bottles. A second study revealed microplastics in all 17 human arteries tested and suggested the particles may be linked to clogging of the blood vessels.
Microplastics have also recently been discovered in human blood and breast milk, indicating widespread contamination of people’s bodies. The impact on health is as yet unknown but microplastics have been shown to cause damage to human cells in the laboratory. The particles could lodge in tissue and cause inflammation, as air pollution particles do, or chemicals in the plastics could cause harm.
Huge amounts of plastic waste are dumped in the environment and microplastics have polluted the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People are known to consume the tiny particles via food and water as well as breathing them in, and they have been found in the faeces of babies and adults.
Prof Matthew Campen, at the University of New Mexico, US, who led the research, said: “If we are seeing effects on placentas, then all mammalian life on this planet could be impacted. That’s not good.” He said the growing concentration of microplastics in human tissue could explain puzzling increases in some health problems, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colon cancer in people under 50, and declining sperm counts. A 2021 study found people with IBD had 50% more microplastics in their faeces. ...
The research, published in the Toxicological Sciences journal, found microplastics in all the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from 6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue. PVC and nylon were the most common plastics detected, after polyethylene.
European parliament votes for watered-down law to restore nature
The European parliament has given the green light to a watered-down law to restore nature, after weeks of fierce protests from farmers and a last-ditch attempt from rightwing parties threatened to sink the deal. “Today is an important day for Europe as we move from protecting and conserving nature to restoring it,” said César Luena, a Spanish MEP from the centre-left Socialist and Democrats, who led negotiations on the proposal.
The new law – a key pillar of the EU’s contested green deal – sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20% of its land and sea by the end of the decade. By 2050, that should rise to cover all ecosystems in need of restoration. “This law is not about restoring nature for the sake of nature,” said the EU environment commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevičius. “It is about ensuring a habitable environment where the wellbeing of current and future generations is ensured.”
The centre-right European People’s party (EPP), the biggest group in the parliament, joined far-right lawmakers in voting against the law on Tuesday. It argued that its rules placed too big a burden on farmers but welcomed that the text, which it pushed to weaken last year, “bears little resemblance” to the original proposal. “We do not want new and more forms of bureaucracy and reporting obligations for farmers,” said Siegfried Mureșan, a Romanian MEP from the EPP, before the vote. “Let farmers farm.”
The EU and its member states have rowed back on several plans to protect the environment as farmers’ protests have spread across the continent and in some cases turned violent. In a clash with riot police on Monday, farmers set fire to tyres, sprayed police with liquid manure, and drove tractors through blockades in the European quarter of Brussels where agriculture ministers were meeting.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’
France Wants To Fight Russia In Ukraine
$400,000 Per Missile? Sanders Rips War Profiteers 'Fleecing' US Taxpayers
Leaving Irish ‘Troubles’ for the West – Pt 2
Fani Willis & Nathan Wade LIED About Relationship Timeline, New Testimony Suggests
Tucker Carlson RIPS Jon Stewart as a 'TOOL OF THE REGIME', Admits the Left WAS RIGHT On CIA
EU war economy utopia, Eurobonds and direct taxes
A Little Night Music
Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Muscat Hill Blues
Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Low Life Blues
Oscar Buddy Woods - Don't Sell It
Buddy Woods - Lone Wolf Blues
Oscar Buddy Woods - She's a Hum Dum Dinger (From Dingersville)
Oscar "Buddy" Woods w/ the Wampus Cats - Token Blues
Oscar Woods - Sometimes I Get To Thinkin'
Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Saturday Night Stroll
Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Evil Hearted Woman Blues
Oscar "Buddy" Woods - Davis's Salty Dog
Comments
Netanyahu won the Michigan primary
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And Biden cannot tell Bibi what to do because Israel is a sovereign country. Forget that other American presidents did tell Israel what to do…and Biden can quit sending weapons and money and besides it’s your fault if Trump wins if you don’t vote for Biden. Besides what’s a little genocide compared to losing democracy if Trump wins?
No, no, no! just because there are over 30,000 dead Palestinians,Israel is the victim because 500 Israelis died. And if Israel pulls out of Gaza their security will be at risk. Besides don’t let the lone black womb talk.
1-800…..
Yep!
New democratic talking point now that Trump is winning all the primaries is that a lot of people AREN!T voting for him.
Good gravy did they see what happened in Michigan yesterday?
Had my eyes dilated at 3 yesterday and my near vision was on the fritz all night. I had to watch the telly and went to bed early.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
evening snoopy...
heh, it's good to see all my favorite (not) people scrambling to cover their asses and stop losses. their panic almost restores a belief in karma.
Shitlibs again show their true colors
Sad that so many people are upset with Biden for supporting Israel and seeing 80 of their family members dead. They just need to get over this because the other guy might be worse.
Heh….
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Too bad the turtle will be in the seat
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for another 3 years, if he doesn't face plant first.
"I'm not going to run again". OK, great. Another
weak puppet cries out in the night. Leadership
ain't what it should be. No confidence is the new
strength?
evening qms...
yep, like a lot of other senators, mcconnell will be using the senate as his adult daycare provider for a while longer.
speaking of daycare
did you see a team of 20 doctors have determined
Biden is as fit as a fiddle (except he doesn't think)
which proves he can maintain his position (ice cream).
How could 20 doctors be wrong? Same as 200,000
doctors being wrong about mRNA I guess? Political
pressure overrides common sense. Again.
yep...
saw that, shook my head.
my mom when she had dementia was fit as a fiddle for many years.
Hi joe
So, does that make you wonder about genes and other related stuff?
It made me wonder if C99 is possibly a dementia-prevention site ; )
evening janis...
you bet it does. the knowledge that alzheimers might lurk in your genes is pretty awful.
well, i guess c99 is one of many things that can keep a mind active, so maybe.
Freedom Shield
South Korean and US troops will begin major exercises next week in response to North Korean threats
So the field exercises will be twice what they were last year? They're prepared to "punish" North Korean provocations? The exercises are likely to "enrage North Korea." I wonder if there will be hundreds of aircraft sorties and whether B-1 or B-52 bombers will participate. There is a kind of circuitous logic at work here. The US and South Korea want to "deter" any nuclear threat from North Korea but the size, scale and nature of the field exercises imply a forcible removal of that threat. The very effort of "removal" actually is according to the North's preemptive nuclear strike doctrine, a reason for its military commanders to conduct a nuclear attack. So which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
The possibility of something short of all out war ie. North Korean "provocations" before South Korean elections April 10, and US elections in November are anticipated by "experts." Unfortunately, this is probably true, although a bad idea politically for North Korea imo. In any case, technically, cruise missile launches and a satellite launch are pneumbral issues in terms of provocation. Technically, the satellite launch would be a UN resolution violation (ballistic missile technology used). However, South Korea has a longstanding tactical ballistic missile program, where payload and range limitations were increased recently. Seen in light of recent CIA document analysis it's arguable that this is done with a view not only to so called decapitation tactics against North Korea, but is also suggestive of a potential South Korean nuclear weapons development threat, say in the event of some rupture with the US over strategic deterrence guarantees.* An intermediate demand of insecure "new right" South Koreans in the Yoon camp could be stationing US tactical nukes in South Korea "or else." There were undercurrents of this in the background of national security discussions in the Yoon camp negotiations preceding the adoption of the so called joint Nuclear Consultative Group, and the associated appearance of US nuclear subs, and B-52s in South Korea within the last year. Siegfried Hecker made a commentary at one point, that South Korean development of nuclear weapons would be hampered in multiple ways, would take several years, and was not practical from a political or strategic point of view. Purportedly, the reelection of Trump which Kim Jong-un allegedly favors, might prompt the new right in the current Yoon administration to up its nuclear deterrence demands. If there was an all out failure of trust in the current US-ROK strategic deterrence planning, it could conceivably lead to a nuclear proliferation problem, not only in South Korea but also Japan. Coincidentally, there are apparently behind the scenes negotiations going on between Japan and North Korea for a summit. I think its mostly a political effort by Kishida to burnish his "statesman" image. His administration otherwise appears to be in some difficulty.
*See: Park Chung Hee, the CIA & the Bomb
NK cruise missile tests which seem to be in vogue lately are apparently not pro-forma UNSC resolution violations. US military related sources regard them in the category of "other provocations." Their legality is challenged when no notice to mariners or airmen are given as required by the law of the sea. Japan in particular is concerned with NK missile tests which land in their EEZ or overfly their territory albeit at high altitudes regarded as in the space commons. The presence of US strategic bombers and or nuclear submarines or aircraft carriers, nuclear capable or not, in the Korean littoral is bound to elicit further "provocations" of this sort from North Korea. Hopefully, the prospect for a summit between Kim and Kishida could at least put a lid on this at least temporarily if not through November.
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
don't these people ever get tired of provoking each other? it's like the world series of provocation run into infinite overtime. sheesh!
I have just one image to share, which displays
...the proof-of-concept that supports North Korea's nuclear capability. It is a reality that an enlightened person instantly understands. All other reactions can be categorized as unproductive noise and lower-brain outbursts. This noise is emitted by People who never developed the ability to see the world as it is. They try to solve global problems that they cannot fully grasp, using an ideology designed by bigots, that reflects their own fears and insecurities. Everything they do harms humanity. I am much more comfortable with strategically defensive nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea, than offensive nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Yes the so called failure of negotiations
...of "denuclearization" talks between the US and North Korea, in its most recent phase that basically ended in Hanoi in February 2019 was due to the so called "all or nothing" approach of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. This is also known as the "Libyan approach." Of course this is what the blob in DC and Wall Street wanted. Critics of this approach note that it is the dialogue of reducing military tensions itself and building a framework for normalization as a process that leads to stability.
Complete Verifiable and Irreversible Denuclearization of North Korea (CVID) as a concept behind the sabotage of nuclear talks by the US represents concrete thinking removed from historical context deliberately designed to fail.
(edited for typos)
Thanks Pluto's Republic for making that graphically profound point.
語必忠信 行必正直
Good evening Joe, thanks for the Evening Blues. Also,
thanx mucho for the articles on "The Troubles". Just part of the terrorism journey, the Brits terrorized their own at home and abroad, and then everybody else they could gain a modicum of control over. Beyond that, they taught that behavior to others, especially those culturally allied, like the US.
Be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
yeah, those articles are a fair warning that all of the exercises of imperial terrorism inevitably come home.
have a great evening!
"WE will lose the war
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Listen to this blowhard saying that if Ukraine doesn’t get the $61 billion and more weapons then we will lose the war and dictators like Putin, Xi and
North CarolinaNorth Korea will be emboldened.Emboldened to do what, Chuck? None of them have any plans to attack America. Why would they? And hey, chuckles who is it that is attacking through its proxy Ukraine? I’m so fcking tired of this country being the biggest bully in the playpen. We have had 20 years when we weren’t at war with someone. And fck you, Bill Clinton for not giving us the peace dividend we were promised.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Also too..
The hard left promised to codify Roe…for 50 years! Didn’t your mom tell you not to lie?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Hard left?? Only in the sense that it is hard to call
any of them leftists.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
“Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick
“Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick has a tip for customers who can’t afford to feed their families: just eat cereal for dinner.
In a CNBC interview, Mr Pilnick spoke about the impact of the severe uptick in nationwide grocery prices and what the cereal company can do about it.To combat this, Kellogg’s is now promoting cereal as a dinner option for customers struggling to put food on the table, Mr Pilnick said.
“The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers are under pressure*,” he said.
*”Under pressure” is corporate jargon for “poor as fuck and running out of options to feed themselves fast.”
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
cheerios for dinner again mama?
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sorry chile, got no milk to wash down the grains tonight
try it with water, ain't so bad, 'cept for the water
our kids ain't learnin'
I discussed this with a school bus driver this morning
who is trying to raise a grandchild, a disabled husband trying to get disability for a work related injury for 12 the past years with no luck, who admits they eat cereal for dinner when they can afford milk.
Pilnick the Pricks' fave family!
My idea for a business venture would be the manufacture of heavy duty pitchforks.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good idea
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just don't cast them with barbs
ya' gotta pull em out for the next one
I hesitate to say
... what my attitude is to pricknick here. What's the line in Dickens? Please Sir, Can I have some more?
語必忠信 行必正直