The Evening Blues - 8-8-24
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Chicago blues guitarist Eddie C. Campbell. Enjoy!
Eddie C. Campbell - King of the Jungle
"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."
-- John Steinbeck
News and Opinion
“Welcome to Hell”: Torture, abuse and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli jails is deliberate policy
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, has published a shocking report revealing that the government has, since October 7, set up a systemic policy of abusing and torturing thousands of Palestinians in its custody. The report, “Welcome to Hell”: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps, cites the testimonies of 55 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons and detention centres over the last few months, almost all without charges: 30 from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 21 from the Gaza Strip and four citizens of Israel.
There are currently 9,881 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, up from 5,200 before October 7, of whom 3,432 are administrative detainees held without indictment or trial. In addition, 1,584 are held as Unlawful Combatants under a change in the law following the outbreak of the Gaza genocide. This authorised the conversion of more than a dozen prisons, both military and civilian, for the holding of Hamas members, including those who took part in the October 7 attack. ...
The world’s corporate media has largely ignored B’Tselem’s report. This is because Israel enjoys the support of all the imperialist powers that are now themselves slashing democratic rights and freedom of speech to suppress opposition to their domestic and foreign policies.
B’Tselem says the horrific details that have emerged about the abuse of detainees in the Sde Teiman military detention camp are just the tip of the iceberg. ... B’Tselem said, “Thousands of Palestinians are being held in inhuman conditions and subjected to relentless abuse. Some do not know why they were arrested; many will be released without trial. This is the definition of a torture camp: a place that once you enter no matter who you are or why you were arrested—you will be subjected to severe, deliberate, relentless pain and suffering.”
Their testimonies show that all Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons are being subjected to harsh arbitrary violence that includes sexual assault, humiliation and degradation, deliberate starvation, forced lack of hygiene, sleep deprivation, restriction and punishment of religious worship, confiscation of all group and personal belongings, and denial of adequate medical care. The testimonies describe their treatment “in horrifying detail and with chilling similarities.” They indicate a systematic and institutional policy of abuse and torture of under the direction of the fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security and Jewish Power leader. They are carried out, under orders, in deliberate defiance of international law and constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Israel Accused of Running "Torture Camps" as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
Oh looky, the State Department is calling on the Genocide state to investigate itself again.
Israel minister condemned for saying starvation of millions in Gaza might be ‘justified and moral’
The EU, France and UK have condemned a senior Israeli minister for suggesting it might be “justified and moral” to starve people in Gaza. The comments from Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he said “no one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages”, sparked international outrage. ...
The EU said the deliberate starvation of civilians was a “war crime” and that it expected the Israeli government to “unequivocally distance itself” from the words of the far-right minister. France also criticised Smotrich, saying providing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza is an “obligation under international humanitarian law” for Israel as it controls all access to the territory. The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, called on “the wider Israeli government to retract and condemn” the remarks.
Separately on Wednesday, the US state department said Israel must fully investigate allegations of sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees by its soldiers. Asked about a video aired by Israel’s Channel 12 that appeared to show soldiers taking a detainee out of sight of surveillance cameras to carry out abuses, spokesperson Matthew Miller said US officials had reviewed the video.
“We have seen the video, and reports of sexual abuse of detainees are horrific,” Miller said. “There ought to be zero tolerance for sexual abuse, rape of any detainee, period … If there are detainees who have been sexually assaulted or raped, the government of Israel, the IDF need to fully investigate those actions.” The White House also called the reports of rape, torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners “deeply concerning”.
Max Blumenthal : Netanyahu At His Worst
Israeli Leaders Demand Probe of IDF Rape Video—To Find Out Who Leaked It
While human rights groups called for an investigation of a leaked recording apparently showing Israel Defense Forces reservists gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military base and detention center, Israeli leaders including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday also furiously demanded a probe of the video—not to seek justice for the victim, but rather to find and punish whoever leaked it.
Smotrich took to social media Wednesday to call for "an immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the trending video that was intended to harm the reservists and that caused tremendous damage to Israel in the world, and to exhaust the full severity of the law against them."
Israeli media on Tuesday aired footage in which Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservists are seen attacking a Palestinian man at Sde Teiman while trying to hide their actions with shields.
According to Israeli media reports, the victim was hospitalized with a severe anal injury, ruptured bowel, broken ribs, and lung damage.
Footage is released of Israeli soldiers covering themselves with shields, as they rape a Palestinian hostage at the Sde Teiman torture camp.
The unnamed hostage was hospitalized with a torn rectum, broken ribs, ruptured bowels & damaged lungs. https://t.co/jctKdaZgf0 pic.twitter.com/b9k46crFLY
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) August 6, 2024
Nine alleged assailants—who include members of Force 100, the military unit tasked with guarding Sde Teiman prisoners—were arrested last week in connection with the attack. A mob of far-right Israelis including senior government officials subsequently stormed two military bases in an attempt to free the suspects.
While many Israelis condemned the alleged rape, others rallied around the accused reservists. Smotrich described them as "heroic warriors." National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called them "our best heroes."
Far-right Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot—who took part in last week's riot—joined Smotrich in demanding an investigation of the video leak.
"Leaking and disclosure of investigative materials is a criminal offense that harms the proper legal process, the rule of law, public trust, and the principle of justice," he said Wednesday.
Israeli media reported Wednesday that two of the accused reservists lied on polygraph tests when asked if they had sodomized the prisoner.
Numerous Israelis continued to express support for the accused rapists. Israel Today political reporter Yehuda Schlesinger said Wednesday on a popular morning show that "I don't give a rat's ass what they do to Hamas man."
"First of all, they deserve it," Schlesinger said of the abuse at Sde Teiman and other Israeli military prisons. "It's great revenge that we need to give them."
"It's just a shame that we don't do it in an institutionalized way, as part of regulations for torture of prisoners," he added, "because then the next guys who think about doing another October 7 will say, 'Do you see what they're doing to [us] in Israel?'"
Etan Nechin, the New York correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, accused the media of being the "main culprit" that "has normalized the most extreme voices, letting genocidal brutes, racists, and messianic zealots into Israeli's TV sets."
Some American media critics drew attention to the scant coverage of abuse at Sde Teiman in the U.S. corporate media.
"U.S. taxpayers continue to support this military and its torture camps," Palestinian American author and political analyst Yousef Munayyer wrote on social media. "How is this not front-page news?"
In the United States—which supports Israel's war on Gaza with billions of dollars in military aid and diplomatic cover—State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a Wednesday press conference that "there ought to be zero tolerance for sexual abuse, rape of any detainee. Period."
"It is appropriate that the IDF in this case, has announced an investigation, has arrested a number of people who are alleged to have been involved, and I won't speak to the outcome of that investigation, but it ought to proceed swiftly," Miller added.
Critics noted the IDF's chronic failures to credibly investigate its alleged crimes. The Israeli rights group Yesh Din said in late 2022 that less than 1% of Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza were indicted over the previous five years.
The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday took up a petition by rights groups seeking to close Sde Teiman, where widespread—and sometimes deadly—torture has been reported. Last month, Israel's High Court issued a conditional order seeking to shut down the prison in response to the flood of reports of torture there.
Former prisoners including children and Israeli whistleblowers at Sde Teiman—often called "Israel's Guantánamo Bay"—have described rampant torture and abuse at the facility, which is used to imprison Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip. According to their testimonies, prisoners have been raped, electrocuted, mauled by dogs, burned with cigarettes, severely beaten, starved, and subjected to 24-hour shackling sometimes leading to amputations.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said this week that at least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October.
Smotrich suggested earlier this week that it is "moral and justified" to starve 2 million Palestinians to death. So far, at least dozens, mostly children, have died from malnutrition, dehydration, and lack of medical care in Gaza amid Israel's crippling assault and siege.
Prof. John Mearsheimer on Israel and Iran's Next Moves As Conflict Escalates in the Middle East
Iran's Impending Retaliation - Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
Pro-government fighters attack areas of US-backed fighters in east Syria; 2 killed
Fighters backed by Iran and the Syrian government have attacked areas controlled by U.S.-backed fighters in eastern Syria, killing at least two people and wounding others, the main U.S.-backed force in the war-torn country and an opposition war monitor said Wednesday.
The clashes in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, which borders Iraq, came amid high tension in the region following last week’s killings of a top military commander of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group in Beirut and the leader of the Palestinian Hamas group Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Israel was blamed for both attacks, and Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to retaliate.
The clashes in eastern Syria are the most intense in nearly a year in areas where hundreds of U.S. troops have been deployed since 2015 to help in the fight against the Islamic State group.
Syrians Retaking Oil Fields From U.S. Forces IN SYRIA!
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow : A Small Ukrainian Victory?
Utah outlaws books in first statewide ban
Books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur and Sarah J Maas are among 13 titles that the state of Utah has ordered to be removed from all public school classrooms and libraries. This marks the first time a state has outlawed a list of books statewide, according to PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman, who oversees the organisation’s free expression programs.
The books on the list were prohibited under a new law requiring all of Utah’s public school districts to remove books if they are banned in either three districts, or two school districts and five charter schools. Utah has 41 public school districts in total.
The 13 books could be banned under House bill 29, which became effective from 1 July, because they were considered to contain “pornographic or indecent” material. The list “will likely be updated as more books begin to meet the law’s criteria”, according to PEN America.
Illinois governor calls for resignation of sheriff whose deputy killed Sonya Massey
JB Pritzker, Illinois governor, has called for the resignation of the sheriff whose deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home last month after the Black woman had called 911 for help.
Pritzker, a Democrat, said on Wednesday that the sheriff, Jack Campbell, should step down. “He has failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff who has been fired from other departments,” Pritzker said. “He failed to put forward reforms that clearly need to be made – training and other reforms – and still has failed to meet with the Massey family.”
The former sheriff’s deputy, Sean Grayson, who has since been fired, faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in the 6 July shooting death of Massey. Records have shown that prior to becoming a law enforcement officer, Grayson was kicked out of the army for the first of two drunken driving arrests within a year. Campbell had been aware of Grayson’s drunk driving convictions, though he has said that a record of DUI does not disqualify a candidate.
During Grayson’s law enforcement career, he received some reviews that indicated he needed more training and had one disciplinary problem. ... Campbell, who hired Grayson for the Sangamon county sheriff’s department in May 2023, reiterated his intent on Wednesday to stay in the job.
Cori Bush warns pro-Israel lobby ‘to be afraid’ after primary loss
Representative Cori Bush has warned the pro-Israel lobby “to be afraid” after it poured millions of dollars into defeating the prominent member of the “Squad” of progressive Democrats in Tuesday’s primary election in St Louis.
Bush said her loss to St Louis county prosecutor Wesley Bell after the hardline American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) targeted her for opposition to Israel’s attack on Gaza had freed her to openly challenge the powerful pressure group, which has vowed to spend $100m to influence US elections this year in favour of Israel.
“They’re about to see this other Cori, this other side,” she told supporters. “Aipac, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down.”
Bush, who will continue to serve in Congress until January, added: “All they did was radicalise me, so now they need to be afraid.”
Bush did not say how she now intends to take on Aipac but critics of the lobby group, which has previously boasted of its ability to round up congressional support, have said that it should be obliged to register as an agent of a foreign government because it pushes Israel’s interests over those of the US.
Hottest ocean temperatures in 400 years an ‘existential threat’ to the Great Barrier Reef
Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef are now the hottest in at least 400 years and are an “existential threat” to the planet’s unique natural wonder, according to new scientific research. Scientists analysed long-lived corals in and around the reef that keep a record of temperature hidden in their skeleton and matched them to modern observations.
The research, published in the prestigious journal Nature, used climate models to find the extreme temperatures of recent decades could not have happened without the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused mostly by burning fossil fuels. The “existential threat” to the reef from the climate crisis was “now realised”, the scientists wrote, and without ambitious and rapid cuts to greenhouse gas emissions “we will likely be witness to the demise of one of the Earth’s natural wonders.”
The research comes two weeks after the world heritage committee decided not to place the reef, which covers an area larger than Italy, on its list of sites “in danger”, saying it would consider the question again in 2026. Global heating drove a fifth mass coral bleaching event in eight years across the reef this summer that scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science called the most extensive and extreme on record this week.
For the new study, scientists built a record of temperatures for the peak three-month January to March period for heat for all years from 1618 onwards. The study found 2024 was the hottest in at least 407 years and 1.73C hotter than the average for years before 1900.
New York City subway riders are breathing in hazardous air
New York City subway riders are breathing in hazardous air, with Black and Hispanic commuters exposed to higher levels of pollution, a new study shows.
New York University researchers found that the average subway platform had four times the particulate pollution (PM2.5) exposure standard deemed safe over a 24-hour period by the Environmental Protection Agency, and nine times the exposure guideline set by the World Health Organization.
The researchers note that although commuting time is only a portion of the entire day, riding the subway accounts for a significant portion of a person’s daily exposure to PM2.5.
“At that size, these particles penetrate the lung, and it’s been shown that small particles cause issues with cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases,” said Masoud Ghandehari, the lead researcher and a professor of urban systems engineering at New York University. “We have 5 million riders per day. Imagine the human impact one may be having in a single day in the New York City subway system.”
The burden of air pollution disproportionately falls on low-income people and communities of color, both above ground and below. By looking at census block data for ethnicity and income, researchers found that low-income New Yorkers and people living in majority Black and Hispanic communities have longer, more frequent commutes. That, in turn, leads to higher exposure to dangerous air pollutants. The study found that Black and Hispanic workers endure PM2.5 levels that are 35% and 23% higher, respectively, than Asian and white commuters.
Are wildfires linked to depression? How smoke can affect mental health
Wildfire smoke, a major source of air pollution, is linked to severe health issues including heart attacks, strokes and lung diseases like asthma. Fire season brings other health hazards, too. When the skies darken with smoke and communities face potential evacuation and destruction, it can profoundly affect one’s mental state. ...
Air pollution affects our brain health and cognitive function. Researchers have found the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution released by wildfires is even more toxic than air pollution from other sources. One possible reason is the high level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) mixed with various levels of other known neurotoxic particles that can be found in smoke, including heavy metals. These particles can reach the brain via the olfactory nerve and pass through the blood–brain barrier, or modulate the nervous system, leading to brain inflammation and oxidative stress.
Neuroinflammation caused by wildfire smoke increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Recent research from the Universities of Washington and Pennsylvania found that the odds of a new dementia diagnosis increased about 21% for every 1 microgram increase in the concentration of wildfire particles a person inhales, compared with a 3% increased risk for every 3 microgram jump in non-wildfire particles.
Additional research from the University of New Mexico suggests that sudden increases in air pollution, as occur during wildfires, create surges of inflammation in the hippocampus region of the brain, responsible for memory and learning. These can linger for over a month after exposure.
That may explain why, in addition to several studies finding a correlation between smoke exposure and poorer concentration and decision making skills while playing digital games and sports, smoky days also appear linked to poorer academic performance.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Pundits Push for Regional Escalation in the Wake of Israeli Assassinations
AIPAC Hijacks Rep. Cori Bush's Race–and Our Elections
Ukraine SitRep: Incursion Towards Kursk
Carles Puigdemont vows to return to Spain in headache for ruling coalition
US judge tosses much of Mexico’s lawsuit against American gunmakers
Death toll for birds hitting buildings may be over 1 billion a year in US
Tens of Thousands Rally Against Racism and Islamophobia in U.K. Following Days of Far-Right Rioting
FBI RAIDS Scott Ritter’s Home!
THIS Is What’s Wrong With Capitalism! w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
A Little Night Music
Eddie C. Campbell - Makin' Popcorn
Eddie C. Campbell - Sister Taught Me Guitar
Eddie C. Campbell - Little Red Rooster
Eddie C. Campbell - Weary Blues
Eddie C. Campbell - Voodoo
Eddie C. Campbell - Hey, The Blues Is All Right
Eddie C. Campbell - All Your Love
Eddie C. Campbell - Do What You Wanna Do
Eddie C. Campbell - Shake For Me
Comments
Good evening
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good stuff joe
this from Ritter
USDC, Northern District, NY --
Search and Seizure Notice
..(may have) established provable cause to search and seize
the person or property..
pretty shaky grounds
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
evening qms...
it looks like harassment to me, with a side order of russia, russia, russia. i guess we'll see.
Well we know that K-Hive are genocidial creeps
rom Aaron Bushnell To "I'm Speaking" In Five Months
Well now I know why her staff can’t stand her. Peoples said that it won’t matter to Palestinians if she Or Trump becomes president because they will die horrible deaths.
Hopefully she just lost Michigan.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
evening snoopy...
i guess we'll see if the media-generated hooplah around kopmala settles down and people figure out that she's no different than biden. same masters, same policy, different cackle.
Different cackle...
that made me giggle!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
It’s not just Ritter the government is targeting
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Tulsi Gabbard got on someone’s SL tpp.
American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms "Quiet Skies" Nightmare
At least 3 agents follow her through airports and fly with her and other agents and dawgs hassle her when she gets off. She goes through extensive screening every time she flies. Of course she isn’t the only one being hassled. I doubt anyone has gotten a warrant to spy on an American citizen and I’d the cases never go to court who can fight back?
I think she is still active military, but lots of veterans are caught up in this shitshow. Your tax dollars at work.
Boy it’s a good thing Biden-Harris are fighting for democracy ain’t it?
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
heh...
i wonder how much biden's juvenile retaliatory government surveillance programs are costing us.
Turnabout is fair play.
evening humphrey...
sounds like it's only a matter of time before turnabout comes to a neighborhood near the u.s.
Netanyahu speaks….
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Congress jumps.
Link
The dumbshits would be going after their own voters, but Pelosi already did when she accused them of working for Putin. How many of them have their already lost by being supportive of the cops brutality breaking up the college protests and their being silent or given permission?
Lol…wait until the judge finds out about this, yesterday he raised his voice when he talked about Congress reaction to Bibi knocking free speech. This should really get his goat.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I liked the popup when I followed the link. LOL
It’s not me
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Or maybe it is…I do subscribe, but I can’t comment because I don’t pay. And I do use Sam on substack…funny tho.
Those assholes should keep their effing mouths shut because every effing one of them are being paid by.
Israel. That really takes balls calling the kettle black!
You would only get the message if you subscribe to a substack. Do you?
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I generally do not subscribe to websites so I cannot answer.
I noticed a similar popup with Sam from a different site but when I went back to copy it it did not show up. I guess that it only appears only once.
heh...
i dunno, sounds like bullshit to me, lets see what the spooks have got.
Japan wants to take the gloves off
A South Korean analyst Kim Jong-tae pointed out that Japan needed a "joint command" to create armed forces with a true offensive capability. Also that Japan, the US and South Korea would all need to be on the same network so they could observe threat information simultaneously and coordinate their military forces as a joint command (like NATO). He speculated that USFK might become the NATO like structure in East Asia, and the new "trilateral relationship" would create "new enemies" for Seoul meaning China and Russia which wasn't in its national interest.
In order to facilitate the unwanted involvement with anti China and anti Russia operations, as a part of the US Japan alliance system Yoon needs to bury the history of Korea's grievances with Japan from the colonial period and the Pacific War era. This is a very sensitive issue currently with Liberation Day coming up in a week. The heritage of the independence fighters opposing Imperial Japan is being discarded by Yoon and the "new right" which used to be called "chin il pa," the pro-Japan faction, which always had derogatory connotations.
The Yoon administration is permeated with these people-
I wrote a little the other day about Whirlwind, the Netflix Kdrama on dirty politics in South Korea. I think it's very good. I confess that I have to use the 10 second rewind a lot, to make sure I understood the twists and turns of the political tactics in this suspense tale of power and maneuver.
So along these lines the degradation of the current Yoon administration fits right in. When I woke this am, I saw in the news that the acting Chief director of the Anti-corruption commission was found dead in his apartment this morning. The commission was used by the administration to secure Kim Gon-hee, the first lady, a faux administrative exoneration for accepting a Dior designer bag from a Korean American preacher who claimed to be seeking a political favor from her. This little maneuver followed one of Yoon's vetoes of a legislative bill authorizing a Special Prosecutor be appointed to investigate his wife. I think he's up to 16 vetoes or more at this point, reportedly more than all the vetoes of all ROK presidents during the "democratic period" following the last dictatorship of Chun Du-won. There were more evasive gymnastics by Yoon's prosecutors after another vote for special investigation of Kim Gon-hee came up in the legislature again. I won't waste time with the details. It's a convoluted plot like Whirlwind.
Acting Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Korea Fair Trade Commission Found Dead at Home
This is a google translation, so there are some minor errors. The deceased isn't named but from other reports I'm pretty sure it's a male, who worked at the agency for about 20 years. The computer always mistakes the gender. Some colleagues reported he was stressed from "pressures at work." Yes, to say the least, attempting to investigate the first lady is bound to result in pressure, no doubt. I heard it was an 8 to 7 vote to let her off the hook. Just another step in the evasive plan. The rumor from an anonymous source who knew him, is that he wanted to refer the case for investigation by law enforcement because it wasn't clear that she was innocent of the accusation of violating anti-graft laws. Also the presidential office was asked to produce the handbag and they refused, and refused to answer any questions from the agency. Assuming it was a suicide, not uncommon in South Korea, which has a high suicide rate, I'm willing to speculate that he or a member of his family was being threatened by prosecution for some undisclosed or trumped up charges which seems to be the Yoon MO. Of course that's just speculation, I've already been told by one knowledgeable observer "nothing to see here" or words to that effect.
Thanks for keeping me up to speed with the EBs Joe!
(edited for multi typos and corrections)
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
wow, south korean politics certainly has lots of intricate plot twists and turns like any good soap opera.
thanks for keeping us up to date on the latest, have a great evening!
It seems strange that the aircraft carrier Roosevelt seems to be
avoiding the Red Sea due to the Houthis yet it appears to be a sitting duck if war breaks out with Iran.
heh...
the u.s. has frequently parked its fifth fleet in sitting duck territory near iran. i don't know if they are overconfident or actively hoping for a pretext.
Maybe they're looking to shot down another commercial
airliner.
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 --
Heh….
I just read an article from so,e navy bigwig admitting that America is helpless of defeating the Houthis and said they the only thing that will defeat them is international pressure to make them stand down.
International pressure to make Israel's enemies to stand Down, but no pressure on Israel to knock off attacking countries.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Speaking of Israel and AIPAC's power over America
Good article of how much people have been found spying for them.
Wilkerson said that Mossad was embedded in Douglas Feith's office at the pentagon during Bush 1. Not much has changed.
Ritter is accused of not registering for FARA whilst aipac certainly should, but doesn’t. We need to be renamed as the United state of Israel. Why should we pay taxes to a foreign country?
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I fully agree with Medea Benjamin.
The rest of the tweet:
Evening joe and bluesters
Thanks for the great Steinbeck quote and Eddie C's yakety yak music.
On another note ...
It will be interesting to see what potential alliances develop in the pacific, Guam as an example. Will it favour China or the US?
I heard an interview today on RNZ with the governor of Guam, concerning alliances and nuclear powers. She sounds to me like a puppet of america, which I find a bit concerning, as Guam has one of the largest stores of US nuclear weapons in the Pacific.
From adversaries of the governor, the Chamorro advocates ...
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