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The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-208
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
Someone should tell the Chinophobe lunatics at the NY Times that the New York Metropolitan Transport Authority and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security since 2001 have a copyrighted campaign called "If You See Something, Say Something®".
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Other issues:
Empire:
Ukrainian corruption:
Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski – 7:27 PM · Sep 2, 2023
Zelensky-controlled SBU & GPU charge his ex-patron on his order to placate his current patron, Biden administration, which de facto controls NABU anticorruption agency in Ukraine, before Zelensky's US visit: "Ukraine's main security agency accused tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering on Saturday, naming one of the country's most prominent businessmen a suspect in a criminal investigation."
Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky detained in fraud case
Ukrainian Nazism:
Middle East:
Wimps:
Use as open (not Ukraine related) thread …
Y’all have noticed that after a year pumping Lula’s “single currency” fantasy, because®, he’s dumped that truth for “Global globe”
Yet another reason I stopped paying attention to his travelogs.
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In March 2018, 44 heads of state came up with the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) – the largest in the world in terms of population (1.3 billion people) and geography. In January 2022, they established the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) – focused on payments for companies in Africa in local currencies.
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AU/OAU(2002/1963 FTA): AO, BF, BI, BJ, BW, CD, CF, CG, CI, CM, CV, DJ, DZ, EG, EH, ER, ET, EQ, GA, GH, GM, GN, GQ, GW, KE, KM, LY, LR, LS, MA, MG, ML, MR, MU, MW, MZ, NA, NE, NG, RW, SC, SD, SO, SS, SL, SN, ST, SZ, TG, TD, TN, TZ, UG, ZA, ZM, ZW; PAPSS (2022)
I’ll be dead and goddamed before he discovers a way to fold ADFI fintech into RUSSIA! CENTRAL ASIA! al-Quaeda-in-the-* MODI! MODI! hegemony.
Posted by: sln2002 | Sep 3 2023 14:22 utc | 3
Y’all have noticed that after a year pumping Lula’s “single currency” fantasy, because®, he’s dumped that truth for “Global globe”
Yet another reason I stopped paying attention to his travelogs.
[…]
In March 2018, 44 heads of state came up with the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) – the largest in the world in terms of population (1.3 billion people) and geography. In January 2022, they established the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) – focused on payments for companies in Africa in local currencies.
[…]
AU/OAU(2002/1963 FTA): AO, BF, BI, BJ, BW, CD, CF, CG, CI, CM, CV, DJ, DZ, EG, EH, ER, ET, EQ, GA, GH, GM, GN, GQ, GW, KE, KM, LY, LR, LS, MA, MG, ML, MR, MU, MW, MZ, NA, NE, NG, RW, SC, SD, SO, SS, SL, SN, ST, SZ, TG, TD, TN, TZ, UG, ZA, ZM, ZW; PAPSS (2022)
I’ll be dead and goddamed before he discovers a way to fold ADFI fintech into RUSSIA! CENTRAL ASIA! al-Quaeda-in-the-* MODI! MODI! hegemony.
Posted by: sln2002 | Sep 3 2023 14:22 utc | 4
@ Wilbur | Sep 3 2023 14:31 utc | 4
Excellent observations. Yes, the Hahn article turns gross in falling for the elite-generated propaganda that the problem is left or right. Those terms means nothing anymore; rather, it is an existential struggle against the malign Goliath that rules all: the neoliberal, neocon regime, with all its exploitation, militarist machine of mass murder, and nefarious schemes to reduce the population of the earth to slaves or worse. Of course, the ruling elite are not going to do anything but run their propaganda machinery to promote their view of things, i.e., submit to us. They will never tell the people how to resist them, of course. So the people fall back on their own resources from their own limited schooling, usually forms of nationalism, often very poorly informed. What else do they have? So no wonder they fall for propaganda, as Hahn has done. He can’t even see the real enemy.
Yet, it is not bad for b to air this, because if we don’t know what those nationalist resisters to globalism are saying, how can we understand them, and if we do not understand them, how can we reach out to them? After all, they are not bad per se, and it will never do simply assault them with irrelevant slogans, like calling them fascists. We are in an existential struggle, people! We have to work on everybody. It is mainly the elite who are unreachable, and even some of them for their own opportunistic reasons are going to come over, even if partly, and some of them yet may have a role in bringing the whole system down, just as Trump has been doing, even without intending it.
@ Ahenobarbus | Sep 3 2023 16:40 utc | 14
Very eloquently put. Yes, all that politically correct crap coming from the Democrats is just a smokescreen for the real rulers to divert attention with and to help them to divide and rule. You are also right about the agent provocateurs being used by the rulers to discredit the resistance always. Indeed, if not for the factors that are out of their control, the normal continuing development of history, making the ground move under their feet constantly, there would be no hope of escaping from the elite’s rule. But God/fate/the normal course of development has written a different outcome; hence the incipient collapse of the whole thing.
@ Bemildred | Sep 3 2023 16:53 utc | 16
You are right too. We have not to fall into the error of labeling other resisters “fascists,” or any other such names, even if we cannot entirely agree with them, and even if they are not very in tune with how things really are. There is only one set of real fascists, namely, the rulers themselves. Aren’t they the absolutist authoritarians who want “full spectrum dominance” and who also conceal frequently genocidal intentions, not to mention all the actually genocidal acts of their imperialism? It is a blunder either to give up on the MAGA crowd as hopeless, or to brand all of the left as fascists, or whatever. The question one should always ask first is, does this person support imperialism or not? It isn’t so hard to identify the real defenders of the system and its elite.
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 3 2023 18:21 utc | 24
Yes, I was very offended by the article too in going back to that old Cold War propaganda, and in using it, Hahn is inadvertantly supporting the elite. I would not recirculate this article to anyone else, because its flaws do overwhelm it. But it also will go nowhere simply to clash with such people. Rather, one needs to try to educate. Maybe they won’t be receptive, but sometimes they will be, especially as things unravel in the denoument that is probably going to be both spectacular and sooner rather than later. A lot of things and people will be in play, as stuff may conceivably change fast.
Posted by: Cabe | Sep 4 2023 3:40 utc | 85
@ Wilbur | Sep 3 2023 14:31 utc | 4
Excellent observations. Yes, the Hahn article turns gross in falling for the elite-generated propaganda that the problem is left or right. Those terms means nothing anymore; rather, it is an existential struggle against the malign Goliath that rules all: the neoliberal, neocon regime, with all its exploitation, militarist machine of mass murder, and nefarious schemes to reduce the population of the earth to slaves or worse. Of course, the ruling elite are not going to do anything but run their propaganda machinery to promote their view of things, i.e., submit to us. They will never tell the people how to resist them, of course. So the people fall back on their own resources from their own limited schooling, usually forms of nationalism, often very poorly informed. What else do they have? So no wonder they fall for propaganda, as Hahn has done. He can’t even see the real enemy.
Yet, it is not bad for b to air this, because if we don’t know what those nationalist resisters to globalism are saying, how can we understand them, and if we do not understand them, how can we reach out to them? After all, they are not bad per se, and it will never do simply assault them with irrelevant slogans, like calling them fascists. We are in an existential struggle, people! We have to work on everybody. It is mainly the elite who are unreachable, and even some of them for their own opportunistic reasons are going to come over, even if partly, and some of them yet may have a role in bringing the whole system down, just as Trump has been doing, even without intending it.
@ Ahenobarbus | Sep 3 2023 16:40 utc | 14
Very eloquently put. Yes, all that politically correct crap coming from the Democrats is just a smokescreen for the real rulers to divert attention with and to help them to divide and rule. You are also right about the agent provocateurs being used by the rulers to discredit the resistance always. Indeed, if not for the factors that are out of their control, the normal continuing development of history, making the ground move under their feet constantly, there would be no hope of escaping from the elite’s rule. But God/fate/the normal course of development has written a different outcome; hence the incipient collapse of the whole thing.
@ Bemildred | Sep 3 2023 16:53 utc | 16
You are right too. We have not to fall into the error of labeling other resisters “fascists,” or any other such names, even if we cannot entirely agree with them, and even if they are not very in tune with how things really are. There is only one set of real fascists, namely, the rulers themselves. Aren’t they the absolutist authoritarians who want “full spectrum dominance” and who also conceal frequently genocidal intentions, not to mention all the actually genocidal acts of their imperialism? It is a blunder either to give up on the MAGA crowd as hopeless, or to brand all of the left as fascists, or whatever. The question one should always ask first is, does this person support imperialism or not? It isn’t so hard to identify the real defenders of the system and its elite.
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 3 2023 18:21 utc | 24
Yes, I was very offended by the article too in going back to that old Cold War propaganda, and in using it, Hahn is inadvertantly supporting the elite. I would not recirculate this article to anyone else, because its flaws do overwhelm it. But it also will go nowhere simply to clash with such people. Rather, one needs to try to educate. Maybe they won’t be receptive, but sometimes they will be, especially as things unravel in the denoument that is probably going to be both spectacular and sooner rather than later. A lot of things and people will be in play, as stuff may conceivably change fast.
Posted by: Cabe | Sep 4 2023 3:40 utc | 86
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