The Evening Blues - 6-11-25
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This evening's music features 2 r&b singers who recorded as Joe Hinton and Little Joe Hinton. Enjoy!
Joe Hinton - Better To Give Than To Receive
“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library. To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, food. Banks. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones.
To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.”
-- Omar El Akkad
News and Opinion
Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza
This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide.
It will be over soon. Weeks. At most.
Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets.
They lack clean water, medicine and food. They have reached a point of collapse. Sick. Injured. Terrified. Humiliated. Abandoned. Destitute. Starving. Hopeless.
In the last pages of this horror story, Israel is sadistically baiting starving Palestinians with promises of food, luring them to the narrow and congested nine-mile ribbon of land that borders Egypt. Israel and its cynically named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), allegedly funded by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the Mossad, is weaponizing starvation.
It is enticing Palestinians to southern Gaza the way the Nazis enticed starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to board trains to the death camps. The goal is not to feed the Palestinians. No one seriously argues there is enough food or aid hubs. The goal is to cram Palestinians into heavily guarded compounds and deport them. ...
We — full participants in this genocide — will have achieved our demented goal of emptying Gaza and expanding Greater Israel. We will bring down the curtain on the live-streamed genocide. We will have mocked the ubiquitous university programs of Holocaust studies, designed, it turns out, not to equip us to end genocides, but deify Israel as an eternal victim licensed to carry out mass slaughter.
The mantra of never again is a joke. The understanding that when we have the capacity to halt genocide and we do not, we are culpable, does not apply to us. Genocide is public policy. Endorsed and sustained by our two ruling parties.
There is nothing left to say. Maybe that is the point. To render us speechless. Who does not feel paralyzed? And maybe, that too, is the point. To paralyze us. Who is not traumatized? And maybe that too was planned. Nothing we do, it seems, can halt the killing. We feel defenseless. We feel helpless. Genocide as spectacle. ...
Once it is over, all those who supported it, all those who ignored it, all those who did nothing, will rewrite history, including their personal history. It was hard to find anyone who admitted to being a Nazi in post-war Germany, or a member of the Klu Klux Klan once segregation in the southern United States ended.
A nation of innocents. Victims even. It will be the same. We like to think we would have saved Anne Frank. The truth is different. The truth is, crippled by fear, nearly all of us will only save ourselves, even at the expense of others. But that is a truth that is hard to face. That is the real lesson of the Holocaust.
US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy. Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”
The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory. “Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee was quoted as saying. Those probably won’t happen “in our lifetime”, he told the news agency.
In a separate interview with the BBC, Huckabee said: “Muslim countries have 644 times the amount of land that are controlled by Israel. So maybe, if there is such a desire for the Palestinian state, there would be someone who would say, we’d like to host it.”
When pressed on Palestinian aspirations in the West Bank, where 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, Huckabee employed Israeli government terminology, asking: “Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria?”
Trump, in his first term, was relatively tepid in his approach to a two-state solution, a longtime pillar of US Middle East policy, and he has given little sign of where he stands on the issue in his second term. The state department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Middle East analysts said the comments made explicit a shift that has been broadly expected.
COL. Douglas Macgregor : How Close is War With Iran?
Israeli troops kill 17, say Gaza officials, as UN experts decry ‘obliteration’ of education
Israeli troops killed at least 17 Palestinians trying to reach food distribution sites on Tuesday, health authorities in Gaza said, as UN experts accused Israel’s military of committing war crimes including the “obliteration” of Gaza’s education system.
More than 130 people have been shot dead over the past two weeks in a series of brutally repetitive attacks on desperate crowds trying to access food handouts. Hundreds of others have been injured. After 11 weeks of total siege and a continuing blockade, many in Gaza are so hungry they are still risking their lives to walk to centres run by the secretive US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the hope of getting some supplies. The most vulnerable, including the sick, elderly people and those weakest from hunger, cannot even attempt the dangerous journey.
“This system does not intend to address hunger,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said in a post on social media. “Aid deliveries & distribution must be at scale & safe. In Gaza, this can be done only through the United Nations including Unrwa. We have the expertise, the knowledge and community trust.”
Israel has attempted to shift most food distribution away from humanitarian organisations including UN agencies to GHF, a logistics startup that has never worked in a conflict zone at scale. GHF hands out food at sites secured by armed guards and under the protection of the Israeli military. Shootings have targeted people travelling to the centres, not inside them or in their immediate vicinity.
The killings on Tuesday came hours before GHF began operations, and outside its site, the foundation said in a statement. It has asked the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to “do more” to keep people safe and suggested Palestinians hoping to get food without being shot dead should check social media for safety tips.
The foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom on Tuesday announced sanctions and "other measures" targeting two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, for "inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank."
In a joint statement, the countries accused Ben-Gvir and Smotrich of being complicit in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians.
"Settler violence is incited by extremist rhetoric which calls for Palestinians to be driven from their homes, encourages violence and human rights abuses and fundamentally rejects the two-state solution. Settler violence has led to the deaths of Palestinian civilians and the displacement of whole communities," according to the statement. "Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights."
Within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government, Ben-Gvir is the national security minister and Smotrich is finance minister.
The two are now subject to an asset freeze and travel ban, the U.K. government said.
Last year, the outlet Al Jazeera put the number of settlers, Israeli citizens who live on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, at over 700,000.
Also last year, the United Nation's International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion stating that Israeli settlements "and the regime associated with them" were established and continue to be maintained in violation of international law.
A U.N. report from last month found that Israeli settler violence is on the rise and has reached its highest rate in at least 20 years.
The statement from the foreign ministers indicates the sanctions are applied to Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in a personal capacity and that the announced measures "do not deviate from our unwavering support for Israel's security."
"Today's measures focus on the West Bank, but of course this cannot be seen in isolation from the catastrophe in Gaza. We continue to be appalled by the immense suffering of civilians, including the denial of essential aid," according to the statement. "We will continue to work with the Israeli government and a range of partners. We will strive to ensure an immediate cease-fire, the release now of the remaining hostages and for the unhindered flow of humanitarian aid including food."
The move comes after some escalation of pressure on Israel by the U.K. and some other western countries.
"The U.K. has finally sanctioned Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. Good. Now sanction the entire Israeli government and military officials. Genocide, war crimes, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, and land theft aren’t just the agenda of two extremists—they're official state policy," wrote Zarah Sultana, a lawmaker in Britain's Labour Party, on Bluesky on Tuesday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called the move by the western nations "unacceptable," according to multiple outlets.
Ben-Gvir posted a statement on X on Tuesday that said: "While the European colonial countries fantasize that we Jews are still their subjects, the streets of their famous cities are being taken over by radical Islam. But their campaign of appeasement for the Hamas terrorists will not save them. When they finally wake up, it will be too late!"
Smotrich also responded defiantly to news of the sanctions on Tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grkQvQAtaxs
Israel Deports Greta Thunberg, Eight Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists Remain Detained
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday after she was captured by Israeli forces while onboard the Madleen, a boat trying to break the starvation blockade on Gaza.
“Greta Thunberg just departed Israel on a flight to Sweden (via France),” the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on X in a post that included pictures of Thunberg on a plane.
Three other activists were also deported, while eight remain in an Israeli prison. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the eight activists refuse to sign deportation papers and will be brought before a judge.
Leaked Data From Meta Reveals Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers
There has been a staggering decline in the effectiveness of the billions of dollars spent on advertising by Israeli companies across Meta’s platforms, according to confidential internal data from the social media giant obtained by Drop Site News. As a result, amid growing international backlash against the Israeli government’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, Israeli firms are being forced to spend more and more to drive potential customers to their websites online, while seeing decreased engagement from users.
The growing marketing costs for Israeli brands, provided to Drop Site by internal whistleblowers at Meta, put specific numbers on the increasing toxicity of Israel’s international reputation. The data are broken down into a number of categories, showing the total amount spent by Israeli companies on advertising year-over-year since 2023, the amounts spent by other countries each year over that time, the average cost of driving individual user engagement, the top consumer countries for Israeli advertisements, and the top 40 firms from Israel advertising on Meta platforms by amount of total ad-spend.
The metric known as “cost-per-click,” or CPC, is critical for online advertisers. The CPC represents the dollar amount firms have to pay to get a potential customer to click on its ads—a figure that is then used to assess how much of its advertising expense is being successfully translated into revenue. Meta did not respond to a request for comment.
Between 2023 and 2025, the CPC for Israeli companies increased by a staggering 155.3 percent, rising from $0.094 to $0.24 required to drive an individual potential customer to the website of an Israeli firm.
This increase is far from matching any general upward trend; Israel was the country with the highest increase in CPC expense year-over-year between 2023 and 2024, the data shows, with the next two highest countries being Iraq and Pakistan. On average Israeli companies spent a total of between $1.8 and $1.9 billion on advertising across Meta platforms between those years, with the effectiveness of this advertising spending rapidly decreasing.
Ray McGovern & John Helmer: Russia's Offensive SHATTERS Ukraine's Army– Frontlines COLLAPSE!
Alastair Crooke: Putin FURIOUS as Trump's Negotiations Fail, Iran Prepares for War
Smithsonian rejects Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director
The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed Donald Trump’s attempt to fire the director of its National Portrait Gallery, with the museum’s governing board asserting its independence in a direct challenge to the president.
In a statement issued after an emergency meeting Monday, the Smithsonian’s board of regents declared that “all personnel decisions are made by and subject to the direction of the secretary, with oversight by the board” – turning away Trump’s claim of authority over the institution’s staffing.
The standoff centers on Kim Sajet, whom Trump announced he had fired on 30 May, calling her “highly partisan and a strong supporter of DEI” – or diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives – on social media. Sajet has continued reporting to work, creating a direct confrontation between the White House and the US’s flagship cultural institution that has a 178-year-old governance structure built against political interference.
The board backed secretary Lonnie Bunch, saying he “has the support of the board of regents in his authority and management of the Smithsonian”. The statement also directed Bunch to ensure museum content remains “unbiased” while maintaining that the Smithsonian “must be a welcoming place of knowledge and discovery for all Americans”.
Federal Court DISMISSES & Mocks UPenn Student Lawsuit
Trump’s mobilization of troops in LA to cost Americans at least $134m, Hegseth says
Donald Trump’s decision to mobilize the US marines and national guard troops to Los Angeles is expected to cost taxpayers at least $134m and continue for a minimum of 60 days, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, told lawmakers during a House hearing on Tuesday. A total of 2,700 military personnel – 700 marines and 2,000 national guard troops – were dispatched to the city on Monday, intensifying a federal presence that both Gavin Newsom, the California governor, and Karen Bass, the Los Angeles mayor, have publicly opposed.
“The current cost estimate for the deployment is $134m, which is largely just the cost of travel, housing and food,” said Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, special assistant to the secretary of defense, during a House subcommittee meeting. ...
Democrats used the opportunity to press Hegseth, a former Fox News host who was one of the most controversial of Trump’s cabinet nominees, on the legality and cost of mobilizing military forces against civilians who last week began protesting arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants by Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (Ice).
“What’s the justification for using the military for civilian law enforcement purposes in LA, and why are you sending war fighters to cities to interact with civilians?” asked the California Democratic congressman Pete Aguilar. “Every American citizen deserves to be live in a community that’s safe, and Ice agents need to be able to do their job. They’re being attacked for doing their job, which is deporting illegal criminals,” Hegseth replied.
The Los Angeles police department chief of police, Jim McDonnell, said on Monday that the arrival of military forces complicated efforts to de-escalate tensions on the ground. “The possible arrival of federal military forces in Los Angeles – absent clear coordination – presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city,” McDonnell said in a statement.
"No Kings": 1,800+ Rallies Planned as Trump Threatens "Very Heavy Force" on Army Parade Protesters
Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA
As Los Angeles braced for the arrival of new federal troops, Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated a slew of falsehoods and misleading statements about the tensions in the US’s second-largest city. In an address to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, Trump spread conspiracy theories, maligned California’s Democratic leaders and misleadingly portrayed protesters as part of a “foreign invasion”. ...
In his deeply partisan speech at Fort Bragg, Trump made the baseless claim that the protests against immigration raids in LA are being led by paid “rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion”. The comments echoed accusations by top Trump adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller, who on Sunday wrote on social media that “foreign nationals, waving foreign flags” were “rioting”, and an unfounded allegation by Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, who earlier this week accused Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum of “encouraging violent protests”.
Trump also referenced a viral conspiracy theory that pallets of bricks were left out for protesters to hurl at police officers in LA. “They came in with bricks,” Trump said. ...
Trump also claimed California’s Democratic elected officials paid protesters to attack federal officers, something for which there is no evidence at all.
A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?
In October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification. Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate.
Ebb is not alone. In September 2024, Canada’s Planetary Technologies raised just over $11m (£8m) from companies including Evok Innovations and BDC Capital to enhance ocean alkalinity, while in 2025, another firm, Equatic, sold 60,000 carbon removal credits to Boeing, to enable it to do the same. The sector’s growth – part of the larger carbon removal market – has been astronomic, and has started to ring alarm bells for many ocean scientists across the world.
“The jury’s still out on the damage that OAE could do,” says Dr James Kerry, an expert on coral reefs and senior research fellow at James Cook University. He says if too much alkalinity is added to the water, an event called precipitation can occur: carbonates could create minerals in the water that act as pollutants. “It might block light levels; it might be mistaken as food by marine creatures.”
Around the world, ocean acidification is rising. As the ocean absorbs 30% of excess atmospheric carbon, it sets up a chain of chemical reactions that results in the ocean’s pH becoming dangerously acidic, which in turn affects humans and marine life. Global seawater pH has decreased 40% since preindustrial times, with nearly half of that decrease occurring since the 1980s. On the west coast of the Americas, upwellings of deep-sea waters contributed to a mass acidification event in 2012 which contributed to kelp forests dying along more than 220 miles (350km) of coastline. These shifts in the ocean’s acidity affect the smallest creatures most, in particular crustaceans such as shellfish or crabs, which are unable to build their skeletons in such conditions.
While few doubt that ocean acidification is a real and growing problem, the concern is that the science behind geoengineering solutions, which manipulate the Earth’s natural processes to try to solve a problem, is in its infancy. Yet hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into enacting these solutions. Big companies buy credits in carbon dioxide (CO2) removal projects as a way to offset their own emissions, allowing them to meet their sustainability targets or comply with regulations.
Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’
A group of 20 internationally renowned scientists have issued a strong warning against attempts to narrow the definition of “forever chemicals” in what they describe as a politically or economically motivated effort to weaken regulation of the potentially harmful chemicals. ... In the last few years there has been growing awareness of the problems associated with Pfas, and a push for more stringent regulation, resulting in the banning of certain forms.
A group of scientists are now raising the alarm about efforts, including by some individuals and groups in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUpac), to narrow the current international definition of Pfas in ways that could exclude certain chemical subgroups. Last year IUpac launched a project aimed at providing “a rigorous definition … and a harmonised communication on Pfas”.
A paper authored by the chair of the project gives credibility to narrower classification proposals and says it is necessary to find “a balance among scientific rigour, economic considerations, and social perspectives for effective Pfas regulation”.
But in a paper published this week in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, the group of scientists defends the current definition, calling it “scientifically grounded, unambiguous, and well-suited to identify these chemicals”. The effort to change the definition is “politically and/or economically, rather than scientifically, motivated”, the authors write.
“They are mixing up the chemical definition of Pfas with a regulatory definition of Pfas,” said Prof Ian Cousins from the University of Stockholm. “The OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] definition was not intended to be a regulatory definition … the confusion it causes will also be damaging and I suspect that causing confusion is one of their objectives.” The authors warn: “An IUpac-endorsed and potentially narrower Pfas definition could confer undue legitimacy … and influence regulatory bodies and others to adopt less protective policies.”
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Patrick Lawrence: For Whom the Drones Buzz
The Trump-Musk feud exposes America’s wealth-hoarding crisis
Dead elephants and feral sea lions: how poisonous algal blooms harm the planet
Astronomers left puzzled by high-altitude clouds forming on young planet
Trump Preps INSURRECTION ACT As Protests Go NATIONWIDE
Pepe Escobar : LIVE FROM MOSCOW: Expect Victory!
A Little Night Music
Joe Hinton - You Know It Ain't Right
Joe Hinton - You Gotta Have Love
Joe Hinton - You've Been Good To Me
Joe Hinton - I'm Waiting
Little Joe Hinton - The Whip Twist
Little Joe Hinton - Let's Start a Romance
Little Joe Hinton - I Won't Be Your Fool
Little Joe Hinton - Tired Of Walking
Joe Hinton - Funny (How Time Slips Away)
Comments
Who was president 11 years ago?
Wars abroad ALWAYS come home. Just like we have to give up our freedoms to keep us safe from enemies and then our government decides that we are the enemy.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
evening snoopy...
thank goodness the army finished up with its use of vital armaments in iraq so that they could be used against the american people who, not being able to find jobs, are taking positions as paid protesters stirring it up in the streets. /s
I don’t think the military can arrest the CIA
I once wondered if the military would actually fire on unarmed American people, but that’s been put to rest decades ago. Hasn’t it?
Weird time for the false flags to start. Are they being done to distract us from the completion of the genocide or from the Palantir plans?
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
heh...
not only will they fire on citizens, they will fire on veterans. bonus march. eta - blair mountain.
non essential embassy workers and families being pulled from
Iraq, Kuwait, other places I've forgotten, maybe Egypt, or elsewhere. Often either a prelude to real war or just a threat.
Wife's ID stolen by O%%ar %%%%chez somewhere in CA, just her SS# and last 4 of phone number, changed her email which made things hard. Probably used to pass an E verify. She filed a police report, had an address and apt #. It's a felony, just more crap from having millions of illegal immigrants.
evening ban nock...
given the destabilization that the u.s. has created in the middle east and the possibility of trump or israel striking iran, it would probably be smart to pull every american sitting duck out of the area.
sorry to hear about your wife's troubles. it's a damned shame that we don't have any americans working in the identity theft sector. it'll be a great day when all of those darned immigrants get tossed out and americans can get busy exploiting and stealing from each other.
@joe shikspack @ban nock
What the hell good are the last 4 of a phone #? There are over 530 possible combinatiions preceding them.
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 --
@enhydra lutris We couldn't figure out
We couldn't figure out why the last 4 of the phone number either, and it was to our land line that we don't have anymore. Hard to contact credit agencies etc when you use your correct phone and it's not accepted by the AI. Email was almost the same but not, also.
My wife like many legal immigrants is not real big on non English speaking illegal immigrants with foreign flags etc.
So no proof is needed?
Just blame the immigrant?
It seems a tad racist if you ask me. Reminds me of that time people took their masks off in public, caught Covid and blamed some anti vaxxer instead of asking why the 1-7 vaccine boosters didn’t protect them. No proof needed then either.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
The war drums are beating louder with regards to Israel
attacking Iran.
with likely help from the USThat’s just insane
If Israel attacks Iran then its country is gonna pay the price. As will every country that is hosting American bases. The price of gas will balloon so high it will crash the economy.
And Israel might just disappear. Iran said that if Israel attacks its nuclear sites then Iran will hit Israel’s. Who wins then?
Humans aren’t the smartest animal on the planet.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
Ohhh, he sure looks sharp, don't he
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 --
Good evening JOe, thanks for the EBs. So the orange
dotard gave a speech full of lies. Heh. Somebody call me when he gives one which isn't full of lies. You know, man bites dog.
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...
heh, a day without a passel of trump lies would be like a day without sunshine.
The dialogue works video with Helmer and Ray
...is quite illuminating. Starting at about 16:40 Helmer responds to the European leaders being "crazy." Helmer takes offense, and labels Trump as the primary problem. He elaborates the Putin reference to "terrorism" and it's true nature, and it's significance in Russia's terms for a Ukraine settlement and future developments in terms of a "strategic response." This is something I noted in an earlier discussion on Sunday, Helmer takes it much further and I appreciate his explanation.
Still listening to Ray's response.
It seems as if the news lineup in the EBs gets more fantastical every day. Thanks Joe!
語必忠信 行必正直
evening soryang...
i've gotten about halfway through that video, i found helmer's comments very interesting. he and mcgovern get deep into the weeds, parsing the wordings of russian statements and coming up with plausible meanings that would never have occurred to me.
have a great evening!
You might enjoy this article by Helmer
https://johnhelmer.net/waiting-for-trumpo/
I did.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
Yes, I read it Snoopy
Yes, very good. I'll read the Russian memo tomorrow. Thanks!
語必忠信 行必正直
Russia phobia is thriving in the Baltics.
I like the last sentence of the tweet,
The rest of the tweet including the last sentence"
evening humphrey...
heh, we can probably start referring to them as the "paranoid republics."
I was a visitor in Estonia for a few days.
Russia equals USSR to them. They suffered under Stalin. They will never forget it, even though subsequent USSR leaders did not treat them as harshly.
Estonia and Russia will not shake hands, walkaway in our lifetime.
Russia is Stalin in their eyes, and persists to this day.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It's astonishing
...how long this type of bitter mental illness persists. Living in darkness, forever haunted by dead people. Lashing out at new generations who are living through new experiences in a completely new era.
Neocons. Self-destructive, brain-damaged Neocon dead-enders. Will we never be rid of them? Without being dragged backwards into their dirty black hole of madness.
“Governance begins by enriching the people;
....and it ends by impoverishing them.”
— Chinese aphorism
I just don't know,
PR. I have made it a point to travel to many countries that were once USSR. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were all very different in their USSR experiences, all pretty bad to horrible, each had a different view of their history. But Estonia stood out in their fiery eyes and attitude.
It will take generations to forgive and forget Stalin.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Let them fight their dead ghosts
....for generations if they wish, in isolation.
They are mentally sick dead-enders and have only death, destruction, and revenge to contribute to the future.
The Real World does not have any more time to indulge their paranoid insanity.
They are not creating a better world.
They are stewing in their own ugly juices,
and stinking up humanity's quest for global peace.
The Neocons in the US and throughout the West are doing the same thing.
Eugenics is their God
and Gaza is their altar.
There are only two sides to choose from.
“Governance begins by enriching the people;
....and it ends by impoverishing them.”
— Chinese aphorism
I am just too tired tonight
to give my impression of their mind set.
I will say, I absolutely understand their hatred of the USSR.
And agree. And understand lingering hate.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I knew a Serbian American
...for some time years ago. He was a regular at the pub. I've told the story before, this was during the NATO wars in the former Yugoslavia. He had lived in or near NYC as I recall, in the greater metropolitan area. I think he said his brother owned a bar there. In any case, there was a murder there during an argument over old ethnic grievances dating back to WWII. He took this very seriously, and told me never to tolerate an argument in the bar over these issues, between people from the region. To me the Baltic states are in the same category. I don't think some Poles or Ukrainians are much different. The really dangerous thing is that the western states particularly UK and US don't hesitate to exploit these generations old grievances for their own advantages. It's a foolish practice, particularly the eastern expansion of NATO and won't come to a good end, as we can already observe.
This was an excellent article on the dynamic-
The Next World War Might Start in Brčko
Hannah Arendt was critical of the deadly association of nation statehood with ethnic identity. The idea that civic identity and existence is tied to ethnicity is fundamentally flawed. This is the reason she was an early critic of Zionism. People in the intelligence services who routinely exploit these ethnic differences to bring about war and regime change naturally bring about the end of human rights, death and destruction. Politicians who do it for their own gain are the same morally and ethically speaking. The principle at stake is that you learn to live with your neighbors or no one will live at all. There is a reason for the golden rule. I'm sure the nihilist neo-cons and some of those who call themselves "realists," would laugh at this.
edited x3 clarity, grammar, style.
語必忠信 行必正直
Interesting story.
I spent some time in Serbia. Very foreign to me at the time.
These days I find myself routinely looking back at Hannah Arendt.
Are you aware how close Serbia and China have grown? This recent news may interest you:
Why Serbia is China's trusted friend in Europe?
Professor Zhang Weiwei discusses at length with Wang Zhen, Associate Professor of International Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, the historical and realistic foundation of China-Serbia friendship.
“Governance begins by enriching the people;
....and it ends by impoverishing them.”
— Chinese aphorism
Interesting article
Thanks for the link PR!
I had another acquaintance more recently who had spent considerable time in the former Yugoslavia after the wars. He was a US veteran I believe. Never really explained what he was doing there after the wars in the 90s, but had regular discussions about US foreign policy. He disappeared after the last flood. I have no idea what became of him.
I finished reading the free excerpts over at Google books on Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping By Klaus Mühlhahn. Interesting discussion of Chinese adaptability and growth and it's institutional nature from the Qing dynasty through the modern period. He tries to see the positive side of European imperialism and the century of humiliation, the unequal treaties on China. It's still informative. Reminds me of another book I read recently, extolling Japan's "positive influence" on China during the modern era. Such efforts while informative bring to mind, a Korean analyst's view of these positive views of brutal imperial influences and their fundamentally immoral bases, "The thief left behind a ladder."
語必忠信 行必正直
I believe that one day Korea will claw its way out
...from under US Imperial domination. That's a pretty safe bet, actually. Korea cannot continue to be a US bobblehead off the coast of China and Russia. It's just too disgraceful to exist as such in the coming world.
“Governance begins by enriching the people;
....and it ends by impoverishing them.”
— Chinese aphorism
It appears as if Sisi is a sissy when it comes to Israel.
First
Then
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1234/547776/Egypt/Foreign-Aff...
This is a follow-up to my previous comment.