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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2019-47
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
Related: Inside Kashmir, Cut Off From the World: ‘A Living Hell’ of Anger and Fear – NYT
Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI – 9:58 AM · Aug 11, 2019
The curfew, crackdown & impending genocide of Kashmiris in IOK is unfolding exactly acc to RSS ideology inspired by Nazi ideology. Attempt is to change demography of Kashmir through ethnic cleansing. Question is: Will the world watch & appease as they did Hitler at Munich?
I am afraid this RSS ideology of Hindu Supremacy, like the Nazi Aryan Supremacy, will not stop in IOK; instead it will lead to suppression of Muslims in India & eventually lead to targeting of Pakistan. The Hindu Supremacists version of Hitler's Lebensraum.
Related:
Kim Jong Un fired off another new missiles type: North Korea tests 'short-range ballistic missiles' – BBC
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Daily Mail: >Jeffrey Epstein told prison guards and fellow inmates that he believed someone had tried to kill him in the weeks before his death, a source has revealed to DailyMail.com
The insider, who had seen the disgraced financier on several occasions during his incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, also claims that the normally reserved Epstein seemed to be in good spirits.<
Whitney Webb wrote a well researched series on Epstein for MintPress News:
NY Post: >Kasman said he heard US Attorney General William Barr personally made a hush-hush trip to the [Metropolitan Correctional Center] two weeks ago, about the time Epstein was found in his cell with bruises around his neck.
“When does that happen?” he asked. “The attorney general never visits jails. Something’s not right there.”<
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Other issues:
Yemen:
The Saudi plan to occupy and steal their southern neighbors oil is not going well. The UAE pulled most of its troops out from Yemen after training ten thousands of southern separatists. The mercenaries from Sudan also left. Recently the separatists attacked the Saudi supported 'government' troops in Aden and kicked them out of the presidential palace. The Saudis then bombed the separatist. Meanwhile the Houthi are laughing their assess off as their enemies fight each other. They continue to attack Saudi airports by drones.
Use as open thread …
juliania @210–
Congrats on your grandparenthood. I became one by partnering with one already there. With luck, I’ll make it to GGP. I don’t know if people really know what it means to actually be isolated, although it comes in different forms. Jail/prison is one type, while solitary confinement within either is another. Hospital or psychiatric isolation is another. Adrift alone on the ocean’s another as is alone in the wilderness. But in all these examples, are individuals really alone? IMO, only in the latter two does an individual find her/himself utterly isolated from human contact/social interaction. An argument could be made that even alone in the wilderness or adrift on the ocean a person still isn’t isolated as there’s still a sensory context for company. Trappers would trudge through the wilderness for months at a time and not feel isolated. Those fortunate to survive adrift on the ocean adjusted to their plight. The only case, IMO, where a person would be 100% isolated is if they where cast adrift in space as their context would then be limited to a finite amount and eventually exhaust itself thereby assuring the person’s demise. Such a situation’s been depicted on film and in books, sometimes with the ability to communicate until the power supply dies. I rehearse these situations to thus ask if a nation can possibly be isolated within today’s context. Perhaps all depends on definition of isolation. The closest known historical case of deliberate isolation was that of Edo Japan; but were Japanese then actually isolated? Can a nation isolate its people? Given what I examined above, the answer is no. The question is thus begged: What motive would a nation need to attempt the impossibility of isolating itself? It can’t be done, so why try?
As usual, the problem lies with the choice of term; in this case, isolation or Isolationism. What does the term actually confer? It means a nation isolates itself from the opinions, judgements and actions of other nations and acts on its own. This conduct is actually Unilateralism versus what’s known as Internationalism. George Washington’s often cited by the Unilateral School of Thought via his Farewell Address to “avoid entangling alliances”–why? Because the US Constitution contains what’s known as the Supremacy Clause that automatically amends the document by adding the just ratified Treaty to its corpus of Fundamental Law; and Law is supposed to constrain behavior, to sanction the ability to act in some manner. The best review of the two primary schools of thought–Unilateralist & Internationalist–is that surrounding ratification of the Versailles Treaty and thus ascension into the League of Nations as well as acceptance of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points which Europeans were ecstatic about, but which drew an opposite reaction from many US elite.
What we’re witnessing now is a deliberate effort primarily by Bolton to completely withdraw from all international treaties that constrain the Outlaw US Empire’s behavior, which includes the longstanding de facto withdrawal from the UN Charter, the Charter being the #1 de jure constraint on the Empire’s behavior. Note that the de jure withdrawal from the UN Charter would finally awaken the US body politic to what’s been going on for decades, and it would mean the loss of the UNSC Veto since the USA would no longer be a member of that body, meaning it would finally be subject to international sanctions with possible Article 7 implications. The Arms Treaties were all easy to drop, but getting out from under what was an initial creation of the USA is another matter altogether. As far as I know, Bolton’s never mentioned leaving the UN, although such sentiment’s been expressed ever since it was born, and always from the Libertarian Right, which is where Bolton lies. Even NATO constrains Outlaw US Empire behavior–I’m sure Pompeo & Bolton would like to attack Turkey as did Obama before them. Recently, Hudson’s been using the term Isolate to describe the outcome or aims of Trump’s policies; but, is that the proper term to use? Regarding Trump’s policy affects on the domestic Outlaw US Empire, IMO the proper term is autarky–self reliance as in being forced to use domestic instead of foreign resources, which also happens the be the primary goal of his Maximum Pressure tactics–make other nations self-reliant.
In 1948, the stated goal of US Imperial Policy was to keep the then disparity of using 60% of the world’s resources viable to ensure continued US Imperial Dominance and thus to figure out a method to do so Unilaterally since the USA was now bound by the UN Charter not to act in that fashion any longer. Hudson’s Super Imperialism documents the changeover from the former method of control to the new method of Financial control and thus enable it to continue its dominance. Although attaining such dominance was always the goal, it wasn’t articulated as such until after the USSR’s fall during the Clinton administration’s orchestration of Russia’s Rape and publication of Joint Vision 2010, which was upgraded in a 2nd edition, Joint Vision 2020, the primary means of control now being the use of the dollar denominated global financial system as Hudson has spelled out so well in his many papers and recent talks. Whether premeditated or not, Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton’s belligerent actions against a great many nations in true Unilateral fashion with no legal basis whatsoever has finally generated systematic Pushback by those nations being assaulted, which is something myself and others have long advocated to occur. That’s the overall context underlying events in our world today. The Outlaw US Empire isn’t seeking Isolation; rather, it continues to attain its stated #1 goal. The Pushback/Counterattack is to make that goal impossible to attain by establishing a truly Multipolar World based on the Rule of Law–a situation that makes unilateral actions a relic of the past.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 14 2019 0:28 utc | 214
Q: Why do poets get taken out first?
A: Spoilers!
On the Re-Presentation of Geopolitics as Di-Versions in Science Fiction or,
WTAF, BBC?!
[Office]
(We are watching a recording in progress. The Osgoods are sitting behind a desk with a [sic] eighteen inch square box on it, making a video. The one on the right has a 4th Doctor scarf looped around her neck. We’ll call her Osgood 1. The one on the left is wearing the 7th Doctors query motif pullover. Designate her Osgood 2. One of the papers pinned to a notice board on the wall is a headline – White House Appoints Alien Ambassador.)
OSGOOD 2: Hello.
OSGOOD 1: Hello. Do you want to?
OSGOOD 2: No, you can, if you
BOTH: Shall we do it together? Operation Double. The Zygon peace treaty.
OSGOOD 2: I’m Osgood.
OSGOOD 1: I’m also Osgood.
OSGOOD 2: Remember that. It’ll be important later.
OSGOOD 1: Operation Double is a covert operation, outside of normal UNIT strictures, to resettle and rehouse an alien race in secrecy on planet Earth. [That old trope? Covert ops and, way moreover, their not-so-covert operatives, are themselves utter self-parodies these days, and the banes of our pointlessly hindered lives, or hadn’t you noticed, dear Dr. Who script writers?]
OSGOOD 2: With UNIT’s help, twenty million Cinderellafellas have been allowed to take human form, been dispersed around the world, and are now living amongst us.
OSGOOD 1: We’re making this in case something goes wrong. In case UNIT is infiltrated. In case something occurs to unmask [strike: “rile” à la Zbigniev Brzezinski, to be specific à la Miriam Makeba] the Cinderellafellas.
OSGOOD 2: Or in case one or both of us dies.
(We are shown a cemetery, with a Osgood standing in front a black marble headstone simply engraved My Sib, holding white flowers [strike: a decrepit, putrid cornucopia.)
OSGOOD 1: The Cinderellafellas are a peaceful race.
OSGOOD 2: Their shape-changing ability should not be considered a weapon.
OSGOOD 1: It’s a survival mechanism [strike: adaptation strategy.]
OSGOOD 2: They embed themselves in other cultures, and live out their lives in their new bodies in peace and harmony. Mainly.
OSGOOD 1: Any race is capable of the best and the worst.
OSGOOD 2: Every race is peaceful and warlike.
OSGOOD 1: Good and evil. [
Ok, stop. Just stop. How in the Whathavuverse could a BeingBecoming exist, across all spacetime, at and on any and every possible vector, all at once, and not at all, too, and still not notice the Way We/They/It are alltogether arising simultaneously from the same ineffable Source? I mean, rlly, amirite?
Strike: “Good and evil.” Insert: “Potential for hamartia.”
Just when I’m perfectly sure whoever’s writing this stuff knows what the eff they’re doing, up they chuck some trite greeting card bollocks. Or worse, straight up PSYOP-begetting MYTHOPs.
Q: What’s a MYTHOP?
A: The titanic progenitor of Cyclopean PSYOPs, naturally.
Q: What’s more powerful, a myth or a nuclear weapon?
A: The whole world got jacked to war by myths about nuclear weapons, not any actually existing hardware. And that’s just for starters, off the top of my headless head.
Like, David Tennant using his Lord’s stolen machine to go visit… Marie effing g.d Antoinette?! In omg.d. Versailles?!
Now if this poet had a TARDIS, and I do, I’d use it to bring Mary’s of entirely other Colors right here, right now, just to say their name, (and they are such magnificent names! “Wolfstonecraft, Mary WolfStoneCraft,” and “Amand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet,” for starters) or to hold notorious hamarty animals, up to and including the g.d Galactic Council itself, to account. And I did. And even I didn’t know it at the time! No, rlly.
“Hi, I’m Dave.”
“Hi, I’m Dave.”
BOTH: “He’s the nice one.”
What do you call a thing that looks like an entirely other plane of existence, wholly orthogonal to the first yet original, consonant, integral, and clear as a voluminous, moonlighted sky, in its own right, when you look at it in just the right Light, so much so sometimes you’re struck speechless and stuck there, suspended in the bliss of aesthetic arrest?
(Those who really want to know will look it up, that’s why cryptic. They rest of you lot? You’ll have to go “just do” yourselves. A Wayward Fool, in the boudoir of A Certain Wolfstonecraft, out like a trout.)
#IBIAYVD
However, the poetics of Joyce, his understanding of a work’s artistic purpose owes,
quite suprisingly, a lot to Aristotle and Aquinas.
Towards the end of A Portrait, Stephen defines art as “the human disposition of
sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end” (207). By “esthetic end” he means “beauty”,
and to clarify what he means by beauty and the aim of art, he refers to Aquinas and Aristotle.
The theoretical formulation of Joyce’s aesthetic rigidly followed Thomistic principles
neglecting the metaphysical (i.e. Catholic and teleological) aspects of them. His understanding
of poetic composition, on the other hand, followed Aristotelian poetics neglecting the didactic
and moralistic views of them. Joyce, we might say, was the agnostic Aquinas and amoral and
sceptic Aristotle of the 20 th century who fictionalized himself as the reincarnation of Dedalus,
the inventor artist of Greek mythology. When we open A Portrait, the first thing we see is a
sentence in Latin: “et ignotas animum dimittit in artes: and he turns his mind into unknown
arts”. This line is from Ovid’s Metamorphoses where it refers to Daedalus, the great master
craftsman who fashioned the labyrinth in Crete. King Minos, the ruler of Crete, tries to keep
Daedalus as a kind of serf, but he determines to fly from Crete with his son Icarus. So Daedalus
turns his mind into unknown arts, makes two sets of waxen wings, and they do fly. The opening
motto, then, refers to Joyce’s decision to make wings of art. Icarus flew too high, the wax on his
wings melted and he fell into the ocean. But Daedalus did not fall. Joseph Campbell states that
“Daedalus escaped from Crete to the mainland, Joyce escaped from the provincial culture of
Ireland to its great mainland source. He also flew from the symbolism of the Roman Catholic
Church to the universals that Jung calls the ‘archetypes’ of which Christian imagery is an
162 James Joyce on Art, Poetics and Pornography
inflection. He escaped from his own spiritual provincialism into the total humanity which is our
deep shared heritage.” (2004: 8-9)
In A Portrait, after defining art as “the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter
for an esthetic end”, Stephen subdivides it into three forms progressing from one to the next:
Antakyalioglu, Z. (2015). JAMES JOYCE ON ART, POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHY. INIJOSS-Inonu University International Journal of Social Sciences, 4:2(8), 160–168.
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