@snoopydawg

I guess continual loss of life, life changing injuries, population abandoning their homes to seek refuge in other countries, infrastructure destruction and increasing debt load of country does not effect negotiating strenth.

Zelensky is busy privatizing the state companies so he can sell them to blackrock and other vampiric companies that will suck all the profits out of Ukraine leaving whoever is left in deeper poverty. It started after Obama made Ukraine take an IMF loan and as usual they insisted that austerity measures be put on the populace.

The sensors will be able to detect radiation from both a dirty bomb and a nuclear weapon activated in Ukraine

Yep I think we’re gonna see a false flag event so that we can send MORE troops into Ukraine. We have a track record of doing that.

As for the dollar losing its position in the world well in order to build back better you first have to knock down the current system. This is why the banks that actually run the world are creating the digital currencies.

@enhydra lutris

Too much for me, at least. I'm in the same boat you are, with no back-ups and lots of lag. I finally decided to buy a similar (but newer) refurbished computer which comes with a clean, up-to-date system. I'm putting my over-burdened HD in an external drive-case, from which I can access what I need. I figure once the old system is deleted, there will be room for a convenient, removable, data-backup.

I admit, this is inspired by laziness, But I'm also hoping for that 'new computer' speed high, which really only lasts a day or so, until you get used to it. Still....

seized up around Thursday, which has been using up a ton of our spare time since. We now have it's replacement up and running and she is starting to load the stuff that a local tech was able to retrieve for her. This reminds me that I haven't backed this thing up in ages and that I'll have to clean my desk and maybe another 30-50% of the office in order to start doing that, at least regularly, which is generating a ton of stalling on my part. What a PITA.

Meanwhile, here's to the Kali Yuga

be well and have a good one

in South Korean historical awareness.

@soryang

And it is very meaningful for USians, too, because the population of this nation has been captured by the very same historical delusions about World War II. We are likely dying early from the cognitive dissonance caused by this false narrative.

When you look at US history through the lens of this lying narrative we have endured since the end of WWII, it becomes starkly evident how much social and financial damage was done by the Cold War, and how manipulated we still are by the predator elite, who are now trying to turn the American plantation into a Global Military Dictatorship.

I found a chart in my files that demonstrates the deliberate efforts to subvert historical beliefs about who won World War II. This false narrative eventually succeeded. The resources of the US and Europe have been constantly exploited to achieve global supremacy. This probably holds true for South Korea, as well. In the process, this brain-washing (and the provoked Cold War) has obviously damaged the minds of several generations in these countries. Since WWII, the brainwashing connection between South Korea and the United States (with North Korea acting as an open sore) has to be one of the most overlook historical phenomena.

The chart, below, shows three polls taken by the French, in 1945, 1994, and 2004, asking "Who won World War II?" Many of the respondents had actually experienced the war. You can see how their answers slowly changed into a lie as the brainwashing progressed.

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My inner Cynic says, "Sure, we can find the evidence of this narrative sabotage and prove what has been done, but the People seem to be too damaged and incurious to absorb it and rehabilitate their thinking." Plus, there are systems in place in the US and South Korea that maintain these narrative distortions. Europeans have no excuse for their absurd delusions.

I'm sure I must also have an inner-Optimist somewhere inside, but I can't find it. Perhaps that's because I am unforgiving.

Pathetic: Bernie & Progressives FALL IN LINE & Endorse Joe Biden w/ Norman Finkelstein

I heard a South Korean historian today criticize a historical perspective that prevailed in the early post WWII period up through the eighties and into the first half of nineties as being outmoded, and presenting no prospect of success as the basis for national security policy decisions. The government that follows policy based upon the old views, that no longer reflect the existing geopolitical situation, is doomed to failure or worse, catastrophic outcomes. Moreover, its people will suffer the consequences of those policy choices. As the recognition of the failure of the obsolescent perspective spreads among the public, those elites locked into a past that no longer exists suppress the opposition to those views, and resort to the politics of dictating policy. The fact is there is no public consensus behind the current cold war 2.0 policies of South Korea's Yoon administration.

Yoon's speech to Congress presented the US mythology from the cold war era about the nature of the Korean conflict, the miracle on the Han river, etc. China formally protested the contents of his speech, which misrepresented the true nature of the Chinese intervention in that war and depicted a false equivalence to the current Taiwan situation. One of the critics of the speech noted that Yoon's description of the battle of Chosin reservoir seemed to be a propaganda like response to the Chinese blockbuster movie hit on the same subject a couple of years ago. His speech also included adulation of Syngman Rhee, a US installed puppet, whose administration, ordered massacres of his own people in the late forties in South Korea during the US occupation before the Korean war began and later during the war as well. During his rule, his political rivals were assassinated, including Kim Ku, the leader of the former Provisional Government of Korea in exile during the Japanese Imperial rule.

Yoon's paean to US aid to South Korea failed to include the small detail that for the four decades after the war, South Korea was a brutal dictatorship that supported a perspective exactly like his own. Nor did he mention that US policy in Korea after 78 years has not only failed to eliminate the North Korean threat, but rather the policy of maximum pressure has led to the prospect of a nuclear strikes on Korea, and probably neighboring countries as well. Clearly, there is a better path that isn't being pursued.

I remember when Trump's overture to the North and Kim Jong-un seemed promising, but when the pressure was on from the entire US establishment to abandon the prospect of normalization of diplomacy with North Korea, he capitulated to the neocons at Hanoi. "Sometimes you gotta walk," will perhaps do down in history as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of relations with the Koreas. In any case, I think it's the MIC and the associated institutions, agencies, and groups, including their spokespersons in the media, that make far east policy, not the president.

The unresolved Korean war has been central to the US empire in East Asia structurally, but became wobbly during the administrations of Trump and Moon Jae-in. In a way, the revival of the Taiwan dispute from the old cold war is a kind of "alliance discipline" that the US has resorted to not only to contain China, but also lord it over Japan, the Philippines, and Australia. It's "plan B" in case someone like Moon Jae-in turns up in South Korea's presidential office again or one of the other allies executive offices. It is designed so that the anti-China block development goes so far, allies will be left without any options but acquiescence and support for US directed national security objectives.

This legislation was among Biden's great achievements Representative Ilhan Omar was praising:

Global economic experts warn Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act is unfeasible
Posted on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST Modified on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/1089670.html

At 4:43 Japanese defense minister Itsunori Onodera discusses Taiwan contingencyーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Qmu6vBP8o

I don't think Biden is asking Japan to do anything than what the LDP wants in terms of remilitarization.

Thanks for the open thread SOF. Appreciate your links and videos.

@soryang

When Biden pulled his string.

https://abc7ny.com/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sings-american-pi...

Pathetic: Bernie & Progressives FALL IN LINE & Endorse Joe Biden w/ Norman Finkelstein

I heard a South Korean historian today criticize a historical perspective that prevailed in the early post WWII period up through the eighties and into the first half of nineties as being outmoded, and presenting no prospect of success as the basis for national security policy decisions. The government that follows policy based upon the old views, that no longer reflect the existing geopolitical situation, is doomed to failure or worse, catastrophic outcomes. Moreover, its people will suffer the consequences of those policy choices. As the recognition of the failure of the obsolescent perspective spreads among the public, those elites locked into a past that no longer exists suppress the opposition to those views, and resort to the politics of dictating policy. The fact is there is no public consensus behind the current cold war 2.0 policies of South Korea's Yoon administration.

Yoon's speech to Congress presented the US mythology from the cold war era about the nature of the Korean conflict, the miracle on the Han river, etc. China formally protested the contents of his speech, which misrepresented the true nature of the Chinese intervention in that war and depicted a false equivalence to the current Taiwan situation. One of the critics of the speech noted that Yoon's description of the battle of Chosin reservoir seemed to be a propaganda like response to the Chinese blockbuster movie hit on the same subject a couple of years ago. His speech also included adulation of Syngman Rhee, a US installed puppet, whose administration, ordered massacres of his own people in the late forties in South Korea during the US occupation before the Korean war began and later during the war as well. During his rule, his political rivals were assassinated, including Kim Ku, the leader of the former Provisional Government of Korea in exile during the Japanese Imperial rule.

Yoon's paean to US aid to South Korea failed to include the small detail that for the four decades after the war, South Korea was a brutal dictatorship that supported a perspective exactly like his own. Nor did he mention that US policy in Korea after 78 years has not only failed to eliminate the North Korean threat, but rather the policy of maximum pressure has led to the prospect of a nuclear strikes on Korea, and probably neighboring countries as well. Clearly, there is a better path that isn't being pursued.

I remember when Trump's overture to the North and Kim Jong-un seemed promising, but when the pressure was on from the entire US establishment to abandon the prospect of normalization of diplomacy with North Korea, he capitulated to the neocons at Hanoi. "Sometimes you gotta walk," will perhaps do down in history as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of relations with the Koreas. In any case, I think it's the MIC and the associated institutions, agencies, and groups, including their spokespersons in the media, that make far east policy, not the president.

The unresolved Korean war has been central to the US empire in East Asia structurally, but became wobbly during the administrations of Trump and Moon Jae-in. In a way, the revival of the Taiwan dispute from the old cold war is a kind of "alliance discipline" that the US has resorted to not only to contain China, but also lord it over Japan, the Philippines, and Australia. It's "plan B" in case someone like Moon Jae-in turns up in South Korea's presidential office again or one of the other allies executive offices. It is designed so that the anti-China block development goes so far, allies will be left without any options but acquiescence and support for US directed national security objectives.

This legislation was among Biden's great achievements Representative Ilhan Omar was praising:

Global economic experts warn Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act is unfeasible
Posted on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST Modified on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/1089670.html

At 4:43 Japanese defense minister Itsunori Onodera discusses Taiwan contingencyーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Qmu6vBP8o

I don't think Biden is asking Japan to do anything than what the LDP wants in terms of remilitarization.

Thanks for the open thread SOF. Appreciate your links and videos.

@soryang

An aspect of the chips agenda that wasn't mentioned in the article is hazmat pollution, which is part and parcel of the chip production process. When we exported the production, we also exported that pollution, re-importation is something of a piss-poor idea on that basis alone.

be well and have a good one

Pathetic: Bernie & Progressives FALL IN LINE & Endorse Joe Biden w/ Norman Finkelstein

I heard a South Korean historian today criticize a historical perspective that prevailed in the early post WWII period up through the eighties and into the first half of nineties as being outmoded, and presenting no prospect of success as the basis for national security policy decisions. The government that follows policy based upon the old views, that no longer reflect the existing geopolitical situation, is doomed to failure or worse, catastrophic outcomes. Moreover, its people will suffer the consequences of those policy choices. As the recognition of the failure of the obsolescent perspective spreads among the public, those elites locked into a past that no longer exists suppress the opposition to those views, and resort to the politics of dictating policy. The fact is there is no public consensus behind the current cold war 2.0 policies of South Korea's Yoon administration.

Yoon's speech to Congress presented the US mythology from the cold war era about the nature of the Korean conflict, the miracle on the Han river, etc. China formally protested the contents of his speech, which misrepresented the true nature of the Chinese intervention in that war and depicted a false equivalence to the current Taiwan situation. One of the critics of the speech noted that Yoon's description of the battle of Chosin reservoir seemed to be a propaganda like response to the Chinese blockbuster movie hit on the same subject a couple of years ago. His speech also included adulation of Syngman Rhee, a US installed puppet, whose administration, ordered massacres of his own people in the late forties in South Korea during the US occupation before the Korean war began and later during the war as well. During his rule, his political rivals were assassinated, including Kim Ku, the leader of the former Provisional Government of Korea in exile during the Japanese Imperial rule.

Yoon's paean to US aid to South Korea failed to include the small detail that for the four decades after the war, South Korea was a brutal dictatorship that supported a perspective exactly like his own. Nor did he mention that US policy in Korea after 78 years has not only failed to eliminate the North Korean threat, but rather the policy of maximum pressure has led to the prospect of a nuclear strikes on Korea, and probably neighboring countries as well. Clearly, there is a better path that isn't being pursued.

I remember when Trump's overture to the North and Kim Jong-un seemed promising, but when the pressure was on from the entire US establishment to abandon the prospect of normalization of diplomacy with North Korea, he capitulated to the neocons at Hanoi. "Sometimes you gotta walk," will perhaps do down in history as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of relations with the Koreas. In any case, I think it's the MIC and the associated institutions, agencies, and groups, including their spokespersons in the media, that make far east policy, not the president.

The unresolved Korean war has been central to the US empire in East Asia structurally, but became wobbly during the administrations of Trump and Moon Jae-in. In a way, the revival of the Taiwan dispute from the old cold war is a kind of "alliance discipline" that the US has resorted to not only to contain China, but also lord it over Japan, the Philippines, and Australia. It's "plan B" in case someone like Moon Jae-in turns up in South Korea's presidential office again or one of the other allies executive offices. It is designed so that the anti-China block development goes so far, allies will be left without any options but acquiescence and support for US directed national security objectives.

This legislation was among Biden's great achievements Representative Ilhan Omar was praising:

Global economic experts warn Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act is unfeasible
Posted on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST Modified on : Apr.27,2023 16:38 KST
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/1089670.html

At 4:43 Japanese defense minister Itsunori Onodera discusses Taiwan contingencyーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Qmu6vBP8o

I don't think Biden is asking Japan to do anything than what the LDP wants in terms of remilitarization.

Thanks for the open thread SOF. Appreciate your links and videos.

@Linda Wood  
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/cavalese-cable-car-disaste...

in the discussion with Judge Napolitano posted above, commented that the Chinese ambassador to France, in questioning the sovereignty of post-Soviet republics, had raised an important issue. Alastair Crooke said that the U.S. has 100 bases in Italy and that he has seen a U.S. embassy statement that Sicilian farmers have no right to compensation when crops are damaged by our military because Italy is an administered occupied territory. What next?