The MoA Week In Review - OT 2024-004
Happy Orthodox Christmas!
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
Ukraine:
- January 2 - Ukraine SitRep: Tit For Tat, Tat, Tat - Russia Intensifies Missile Strikes
- January 4 - Ukraine SitRep: Zelenski's Propaganda Outlet Is Leading His Decline
Related:
- Ukrainian Post-Mortems Starting to Appear - Sonar 21
- The propaganda that damned Ukraine - Amb. Chas Freeman / Unherd
- Ukrainian TV channels exploring possibility of changing format of single telethon - Interfax
- CRISIS POLITICS IN UKRAINE: Regime Split, Pre-Coup, Pre-Revolutionary Conditions - Gordon Hahn
- I spent a year with Zelensky – and saw how his personality completely transformed - Simon Shuster / Telegraph
- Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag - Grayzone
- EU Commissioner wants restrictions on Ukrainian exports - RT
Palestine:
- January 3 - Palestine SitRep - Hizbullah's Response To Assassinations By Israel In Lebanon
- January 5 - Palestine SitRep: Lebanese Resistance Causes Enemy Losses - Is Ready To Fight Off Attacks
Related:
- Genocide in Gaza - John Mearsheimer
- South Africa's APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS - ICJ
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - United Nations
- US hasn’t formally assessed if Israel violating human rights - Politico
- Israeli's could be charged with war crimes (video) - Amb. Chas Freeman / SaltCubeAnalytics
- Inside Israel's plan to quash South Africa's Gaza genocide case - Axios
- In Gaza genocide, US defends Israel’s ‘aura of power’ - Aaron Maté
- Binyamin Netanyahu is botching the war. Time to sack him - Economist
- Israel’s “Unity” Government In Chaos Over Calls to Investigate Israel’s Failure on October 7 - Sonar 21
- The Epidemiological War on Gaza - Jewish Current
- Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees - 972 Mag
- Safe zones: Israel’s technologies of genocide - Aljazeerah
- For civilians or Hamas? 'Dual use' issue complicates Gaza aid efforts - Reuters / MSN
- Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say - AP
- Gaza war: Why Houthis pose a stubborn challenge to US in Red Sea - CS Monitor
- Israel’s talk of expanding war to Lebanon alarms U.S. - Washington Post
> According to U.S. intelligence reviewed by The Post, the IDF has hit the positions of the U.S.-funded and trained Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) more than 34 times since Oct. 7, officials familiar with the matter said. <
Biden:
- January 6 - When Satire Beats You By 18 Month ...
Related:
- The man supposed to stop Donald Trump is an unpopular 81-year-old- Economist
- Pentagon didn’t inform Biden, White House for days about Austin’s hospitalization - Politico
- UK preparing secret dossier on Trump 2.0 amid security fears - MSN
Boeing:
- January 6 - Boeing's 737 MAX Is Still A Mess
Related:
- FAA grounds more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s after section of Alaska Airlines plane blows out - CNBC
- 737 Mid-Cabin Emergency Exit Doors (video) - 737 Tech Channel
- F.A.A. Orders Airlines to Ground Some Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair Emergency - New York Times
> Forrest Gossett, a spokesman for Spirit AeroSystems, said on Saturday that his company installed door plugs on the Max 9s, and that Spirit had installed the plug on the Alaska Air flight. <
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Other issues:
Ecology:
- Tesla Model Y range estimate reduced by 6%, becoming more realistic - Electrek
- Chartbook 259 Germany's CO2 emissions plunge. But all is not at it seems - Adam Tooze
- Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels - Naked Capitalism
2024:
- 2024 Predictions - Turkey Recap
- Prof. Michael Hudson, World Predictions for 2024 (USA, UN, Palestine, Russia And BRICS) - Naked Capitalism
Russia:
- Legitimacy in the Era of Uncertainty - Global Affairs
- The Warsaw Pact – Propaganda And Reality - Helmholtz Smith / Sonar21
- Su-57 Production Surging to Over 20 Aircraft in 2024: Delivery Rate to Surpass All Other Russian Fighters - Military Watch Mag
- Russian Asset Seizure Scheming: EU and Euro as US War Proxies Would Take Most Risk; USD Assets Only $4.6 Billion - Naked Capitalism
Use as open (not related to Ukraine and Palestine) thread ...
Posted by b on January 7, 2024 at 14:06 UTC | Permalink
next page »Happy New Year to all of you.
Hopefully you and those who you care for will survive.
May peace be with you.
Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2024 14:39 utc | 2
Spirit Aerosystems negotiates a strategic default with its creditors and union employees.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 7 2024 14:52 utc | 3
re: > Forrest Gossett, a spokesman for Spirit AeroSystems, said on Saturday that his company installed door plugs on the Max 9s, and that Spirit had installed the plug on the Alaska Air flight.
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Spirt AeroSystems manipulated their debt obligations to bust their Union employees and force renegotiation of existing supplier contracts.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 7 2024 15:02 utc | 4
Why is the section about cars, industry and "austerity" titled "ecology"? Thought ecology was the relationship between organisms and their surroundings. Not cars, which are not alive.
Posted by: Benn | Jan 7 2024 15:44 utc | 6
Prof. Michael Hudson, World Predictions for 2024 (USA, UN, Palestine, Russia And BRICS) - Naked Capitalism
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Another gem from Hudson.
Essentially he says the US is a failed state and the only power it has left is the power to destroy.
He makes the interesting point of comparing ethnic apartheids such as we have in Ukraine and Israel to a financial apartheid (USD based international economy).
“”The big financial shock is going to be the BRICS countries and the Global South stopping payment on their dollar debts. They’re going to realize that there’s a war on, and in a war you don’t pay debts to the country that’s attacking you.
And so Saudi Arabia is going to have to work with the BRICS countries to move its dollars as rapidly as possible as it can out of the United States and Europe into a safe haven. The fate of the oil countries’ monetary reserves is going to be the key monetary crisis of 2024. Will they be able to achieve freedom from the United States’ grabitization?””
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A true civilization battle where the US wants control of Iran (oil).
Russia, China, Yemen, Hamas, Hezbollah etc are trying to keep that from happening.
Posted by: financial matters | Jan 7 2024 16:02 utc | 8
Michael Hudson is an example of human intellect that serves as a beacon of Hope for humanity in general.
Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 7 2024 16:38 utc | 9
Happy and glorious Old Christmas morning!
Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One
And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One
Angels with shepherds glorify him!
The wise men journey with the star!
Since for our sakes the Eternal God was born
As a little child. . .
Kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison, kyrie eleison!
Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 16:45 utc | 10
thanks b for all your hard work here... its appreciated...
@ Benn | Jan 7 2024 15:44 utc | 6
there are 3 articles and they aren't just about cars.. the first one is, but the others - no.. it might be the use of the term in a broader context..
@ juliania on the other thread you mentioned flying your dead body somewhere for burial.. i am surprised you don't believe in cremation.. happy orthodox christmas to you!
Eberhard Weber- The Following Morning (Full Album)
Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 17:00 utc | 11
I made my journey through Plato's The Politeia with the help of Bernard Suzanne as my main guide, but from the end of Book Nine I needed the help of Martin Buber:
THE EXTENDED LINES OF RELATIONS meet in the eternal Thou.Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particular Thou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. Through this mediation of the Thou of all beings, fulfillment, and non-fulfillment, of relations comes to them; the inborn Thou is realized in each relation and consummated in none. It is consummated only in the direct relation with the Thou that by its nature cannot become It.
Last night I realized that for Buber, 'relationship' his his word for what Plato calls 'dialectic'. So, when Plato says in Book X that the poets would be welcome in his city in speech if they didn't speak in rhyme but in plain speech - Buber takes up the challenge with I and Thou and brings forward a philosophical poem not in rhyme but in speech. I truly believe that is what he is doing in this short treatise - he is giving an epilogue to the entire dialogue.
And when Buber says the 'nonfulfillment' part, he is not giving a pejorative exclusion; he is including those spiritual paths such as Buddhism which go forward in the same way but not to the same ending. Which they would agree with. His journey has been a philosophically inclusive one to this point.
This is my own 'personally-inspired-by-Old Christmas-at-midnight theory, given on this morning of the great feast - happy Old Christmas; happy New Epiphany! Blessings to all!
Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 17:18 utc | 12
that is a pretty telling article the lady in jerusalem wrote... i recommend it.. if she would be asked, i bet she would say israel is practicing genocide..
The Epidemiological War on Gaza - Jewish Current
Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 18:07 utc | 13
Planned protests by farmers and other groups in Germany on January, 8th.
Possibly pretty massive.
Are these people the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) of Germany?
Posted by: Sarah Staengel | Jan 7 2024 18:11 utc | 14
Following on from Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 17:18 utc | 12:
. . . This is why, in Book X of "The Politeia", Plato has ended the construction of Socrates' 'city in speech' with a further digression on the subject of poets and other makers of 'second class' beautiful things such as carpenters and painters, claiming that 'they don't lay hold of the truth'.
And why he ends with his own 'truth telling' poetry in speech myth. If we look into that myth, we can see the departed souls returning on paths that are similar to the paths Buber describes in his final section of "I and Thou" (I am avoiding the sneaky italics).
Some souls of the departed choose to return as various animals; others, such as Odysseus, choose to return as a different type of human being (wisely or not as the case may be). The souls are immortal (a claim greatly wondered at by Glaucon). And they themselves each choose their path forward, a point which Bernard Suzanne also emphasizes in his essay on "The Politeia".
Plato's call for more truthful craftsmen, for me, is answered, not only by later theologians and spiritual pathtakings, but also by the creation of spiritual architecture theologically inspired, and by theological iconography as well.
Which is why his philosophy was studied by the Desert Fathers and other Church theologians, and why the largest church in Christendom is dedicated to Hagia Sophia -- "Holy Wisdom". Also, it is why such ongoing craftmanship, discussion --- and, if you like, argument (!) in this day and age, is appropriately open to all on forums such as this . . .
Thank you, b.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 18:40 utc | 15
So all the hubub about the African american department of Defense secretary, Mr Austin, being out of commission and in the hospital for 5+ days and the white house not knowing about it all...
...Guess the race of the person who was 'temporarily' acting on his behalf in full authority...
Just take a random, completely unrelated to noticing patterns GUESS as to the ethnicity of the person taking full control over his responsibilities during this very unusual and secretive event.
Posted by: ryanggg | Jan 7 2024 21:21 utc | 16
This week in Trumpland hysteria. I make no comment one way or the other, but TS will HTF soon in the USSA.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2024 21:26 utc | 17
Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 7 2024 20:03 utc | 38
dual citizen type.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 7 2024 21:26 utc | 18
Just a rabbit hole I'm currently down, but Occupy Wall Street and the reaction - while at the time seeming very "new" - played out in almost exactly the same fashion as the previous century of left-ish dissent and bankster/big business symbiosis with law enforcement.
A few interesting links:
https://antipodeonline.org/2012/03/05/occupy-wall-street-and-israelification/
For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy Johnson, an activist and the founder of Neged Neshek, who is doing indispensible research on Israel and the arms industry, and David Spataro, a student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Recently, the question of “Israelification” of the American police has emerged as a result of the brutal repression of protesters in New York, Oakland, Boston, and UC Davis. Max Blumenthal argues that, “the Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The phenomenon has been documented in bits and pieces, through occasional news reports that typically highlight Israel’s national security prowess without examining the problematic nature of working with a country accused of grave human rights abuses. But it has never been the subject of a national discussion. And collaboration between American and Israeli cops is just the tip of the iceberg”. Blumenthal documents some of the many ways that Israeli and American police forces are cooperating and training (here’s a recent example) and the favorable way that these exercises are portrayed.In the US, the Israeli model for airport security is as widely admired by policy makers as it is loathed by Palestinians, Noam Chomsky, Arab-American former cabinet secretaries, and so on. Numerous scholars have recently tried to understand the relationships between American and Israeli military practice – Naomi Klein and Eyal Weizman are two of the most widely-read – and have discussed Israeli military as a sort of a social and practical model for other militaries and a lucrative export for Israel. Stephen Graham, Sarah Roy, Neve Gordon, Shir Hever, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, and others – including Irus Braverman in Antipode – have discussed the forms of urban warfare, surveillance, and systematic de-development of parts of Palestine as military and economic practices. It is clear that similar things are happening in America, and in Europe, but it is less clear how they are tied to Israel.
Part of the argument about Israelification, I think, comes from vestigial ideas about the strength and self-reliance of the Israeli military – clearly Israel is exporting the very idea of success along with actual military technology. Some of what gets lost in this argument is that police forces in America act with brutality against populations of color regularly, and the protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization in 1999 and in New York surrounding the Republican National Convention in 2004 were brutally repressed by the police. So what is new here? First of all, these crackdowns are a node in a series of rare occasions where police crackdown on mostly white protesters, but what is obviously not new is the mixture of domestic policing and the military (after all, Bloomberg considers the NYPD to be his private army); clearly, the projection of military power is intended to give the impression of domestic security; and increasingly since 2001, as in Israel, crowd control and urban warfare are conflated with terrorism and so the repression of dissent starts to look, I guess, like occupation. But they are not the same thing, and it is not clear what is gained by equating what American police departments are doing with what the Israeli military and police forces are doing – and by implication the protesters with Palestinians.
The funding links between the US and Israeli militaries are well known and don’t have to be repeated here, but there are other ties that are closer and more obscure. Since 2001 the Department of Homeland Security has been throwing money at American police forces, and these protests are one of the first times we’ve seen the things that they’ve been buying with those funds. I have seen the NYPD Homeland Security unit at demonstrations with large Arab populations, and the anti-terror TARU unit is a fixture at Zuccotti videotaping the demonstrations (something that was, until recently, illegal). Crowd control, urban policing, and security are becoming wrapped into supposedly anti-terrorism actions, and it’s not clear that talking about these issues as Israeli exports does much to advance political organizing among a 99% that contains many different agendas tied together by the same exploitation by the capitalist 1%, nor does it advance the move from a politics of solidarity to a politics of common struggle (and again, what does it mean to make this claim when even tweets of solidarity are controversial?).
It would be useful here to shift the conversation to focus on the nature of the links between Israeli and American policing; the militarization of domestic policing doesn’t mean that Israel is coming to the States, but rather that the US is a country that acts toward parts of its population as brutally and undemocratically as does Israel. ......
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 7 2024 21:48 utc | 19
1. The Boeing 737 "door plug" blew out at 16,000 feet. So what would have happened at 30,000 or 35,000 feet"
2. Think of this "door plug" and think that Boeing is a classic Weapons Manufacturer. Think of worn-out barrels on American artillery. Think that the American Military is playing "hide the sausage" with the Abrams, for fear the Russians kill it.
3. Now think really hard if it made sense to Financialize/Monetize the entirety of the U.S. Nation, chasing share prices and Quarterly Reports.
Posted by: kupkee | Jan 7 2024 22:57 utc | 20
🇫🇷 France has the 4th largest gold reserves, while there is not a single gold mine in France.
🇲🇱 Mali, captured by France, has no gold reserves, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold per year.
⁉️Where did France get the gold?
Z and V today.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 7 2024 23:21 utc | 21
Juliania @ 12 & 15
I very much welcome your enlightened/enlightening posts. Especially in view of our terrible and dangerous times … very valuable. Thank you.
Posted by: onceandfuture | Jan 7 2024 23:33 utc | 22
Honestly, the ‘sweet nothings’ about Jesus are too much. As long as there are people believing in stupid shit we are going to end up with horrors like we now have. I know there is a lot of good will among religious people but truth is a pathless land and your pathetic wishful thinking (aka ‘belief’) is the root of much human evil.
Posted by: Rae | Jan 7 2024 23:43 utc | 23
Merry Christmas to all those in the Orthodox World!!
Today, I convey Putin's Christmas Greeting and more, "Putin's Christmas with SMO KIAs Families" https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putins-christmas-with-smo-kias-families
Posted by: james | Jan 7 2024 17:00 utc | 11
Thank you, james, and to you as well! I don't disbelieve in cremation - just would prefer to nourish the earth - but that mightn't be possible; we are not a wealthy family. Hopefully not an immediate concern ;)
Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:10 utc | 25
That Austin crook likes to portray himself as a macho type, using his height and bulk to carry the room when the going is tough. That indicates to me that a man so full of that macho BS to the point that he refuses to say what is wong with him, or, what procedure he undertook in hospital is most likely because he is concerned that disclosure will 'weaken him as a man' to other macho military types which amerikan and other western militarists thrive upon.
So what was the procedure which Austin undertook? What was it that concerned him so much that not only is he still keeping it under wraps, corporate media seem to refuse to dig too heavily into it?
For me the timing, Austin's age and his & corporate media's willing cooperation spells one thing only, a prostate biopsy. Austin will have gone into hospital (it seems not into Walter Reed the joint that is set up for cabinet members & senior military types as well as the hoi polloi section for grunts), thinking "that this will all be over in a few hours".
However it wasn't the mass wasn't benign, so Austin was booked in for complete prostate excision immediately. Now it became really important as the idiots who steer amerika's military response to any perceived challenge to empire believe that announcing "Austin cannot get it up any more" would be fatal across the myriad 'theaters' amerika sticks its nose into.
Of course the op may not mean that, he may still be able to swallow a coupla purple pills and do the business but he will be unable to procreate which for macho dingbats is just as bad. His dalliances will never be the same. So it is likely that the entire episode will be swept under the rug by a corporate media who sell fantasies well removed from reality. If that occurs amerikans will not learn of it until after he completes this term and is replaced it whatever new administration wins the beauty contest. Or, maybe some indy journo will work out what is going on from hospital workers and publish it, though I wouldn't wanna be in his/her shoes afterwards.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 8 2024 0:21 utc | 26
Posted by: onceandfuture | Jan 7 2024 23:33 utc | 22
Thank you, onceandfuture! I once attended a lecture (unfortunately don't remember the professor's name, but I think he was Serbian.) He lectured on the times of the Greek philosophers, pointing out that many of them had served in armies then, and that the wars between city/states had been as violent as any of the modern era. Philosophy may have been for many of those early citizens an occupation under similar stressful times, sharpening their minds to what was really important to hold onto far better than the drugs and entertainments of our era. Plus, they probably had better air to breathe!
Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:48 utc | 27
Good writeup by Jeffrey Sachs.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/07/us-foreign-policy-is-a-scam-built-on-corruption/
Not a lot in there most of us don't already know, but it's nice to see it put to print so succinctly.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 8 2024 1:11 utc | 28
Posted by: juliania | Jan 7 2024 17:18 utc | 12I made my journey through Plato's The Politeia with the help of Bernard Suzanne as my main guide, but from the end of Book Nine I needed the help of Martin Buber:
THE EXTENDED LINES OF RELATIONS meet in the eternal Thou.
Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particular Thou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. Through this mediation of the Thou of all beings, fulfillment, and non-fulfillment, of relations comes to them; the inborn Thou is realized in each relation and consummated in none. It is consummated only in the direct relation with the Thou that by its nature cannot become It.And when Buber says the 'nonfulfillment' part, he is not giving a pejorative exclusion; he is including those spiritual paths such as Buddhism which go forward in the same way but not to the same ending. Which they would agree with. His journey has been a philosophically inclusive one to this point.
I have a different take. Seems to me that for particular thou and cosmic Thou one could say Particular/ The Many versus the Whole/ The One. In this sense the particular thou, being a seemingly individual, independent one of many such particulars (Many) cannot fully realise 'consummation' without attuning to the larger Thou which includes all (the One / Whole).
Now maybe this is wrong, but it seems to me that ‘non-fulfillment’ is ‘relation’ of the little thou only to itself and other little thous/particulars/egos whereas fulfillment would be "consummated only in the direct relation with the Thou that by its nature cannot become It."
‘It’ being any particular or individual part (little thou) of a larger whole. Relations of the particular with any one of an infinite number of other such particulars is not the same as relationship of the particular thou with the 'Thou that by its nature cannot become It" i.e. cannot become a individual part / particular because it is that which contains all particulars.
One problem is that this larger all-inclusive (formless) Thou is not a person place or thing, at least not in ways we conceive of such, including our little thou selves.
That said, am not sure exactly what he means by fulfillment, or non-fulfillment, or relations, or consummation. No doubt you have to read much more than the short extract to know those terms. Anyway, looks like you are reading very productively. Bravo!
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 7 2024 23:47 utc | 24
Many thanks, karlof1.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 2:22 utc | 30
Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 8 2024 1:37 utc | 29
Thank you, Scorpion. Buber's "I and Thou" is much shorter than Plato's "The Republic", and I started my rereading of both because of the conversations we were having about the Jewish faith as opposed to the Jewish state. I have to do more reading of Buber but I was struck by segments I remembered, and by a friend in the past telling me that one has to read "I and Thou" as a poetic work.
Buber's explanation of what he means by his terms is divided into three fairly compact parts. He doesn't name them, but I have penciled in subject headings - Part One - 'Life'; Part Two - Relationships; and Part Three - God (Knowableness). Those are only the names I gave them, and he begins as though with definitions of his terms, building through each part.
Here is how he defines 'It' (less poetically than his own beginning.) He says at the beginning that we relate to the world in two ways, as 'I-thou' and as 'I-it', calling these the two primary words with which we so relate. That they do not signify things but relationships, and that the 'I' of each is a different 'I' in man. So, this sounds different from what you are describing, in that each of the 'verses' of his poem builds on what has come before, much as Euclid's geometry builds on his axioms and definitions. My quote came from the beginning of the third part. When he says that the eternal Thou cannot become an 'it' he is speaking of the unknowability of that Thou in the terms of his poem as crafted.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 3:01 utc | 31
"That they do not signify things but relationships, and that the 'I' of each is a different 'I' in man."
Why / how come the latter? Or: what does that last phrase mean?
@ juliania | Jan 8 2024 0:10 utc | 25
hey! lets hope you outlive us all! you're made of the right stuff!
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 4:16 utc | 33
"Flip the Table: China Sanctions US Companies" Taiwan Presidential Election in 6 Days!
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/flip-the-table-china-sanctions-us
Debsisdead @ 26:
A similar thought occurred to me, that Lloyd Austin either had prostate cancer surgery involving the removal of the entire organ, or he had surgery related to a chronic condition, possibly diabetes.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 4:51 utc | 35
Tom Q Collins @ 19:
You may be aware (???) that in 2012, Minnesota police attended a training conference given by Israeli trainers in Minneapolis (and hosted by the Israeli consulate in Chicago and the FBI), and that Derek Chauvin, though he is not known to have attended that conference, used a kneeling technique on George Floyd used by Israeli soldiers on Palestinians.
Minnesota cops 'trained by Israeli forces'
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 4:56 utc | 36
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 4:56 utc | 36
Yep. And as you may be aware, MANY US municipal and state police forces engage in training and absorb tactics from the IDF. It's a cottage industry, and not a coincidence that what is happening to the Palestinians on so many levels will be happening to all of us here in not too many years.
I mean hell, where do people think this guy got his "Forward Operating Base" (as in occupied urban counterinsurgency) philosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETf7NJOMS6Y
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 8 2024 5:02 utc | 37
"That they do not signify things but relationships, and that the 'I' of each is a different 'I' in man."
Why / how come the latter? Or: what does that last phrase mean?
Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 8 2024 3:28 utc | 32
Simply put, when I say "I (whatever)Thou" to any one or thing (it can be a tree, or a cat, or another person) I am meeting that person or object, relating to them; but when I say "I (whatever)It" I am describing or talking about a person or object or concept. These are the two ways I use words in relationship: either in address or in statement about. And when I do either one, I myself become a different "I" - in somewhat similar fashion to the "I" I am if I am explaining things in front of an audience or if I say a prayer in a church, or talk to a tree, or a friend, or even a stranger.
That is what the word 'relationship' means. I relate differently in each case. And mostly, we relate to a lot more 'its' than 'Thous'. We stand apart, as it were. As here, explaining stuff.
Best to read Buber, though, than get him secondhand from me.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 8 2024 5:51 utc | 38
Boeing was caught recently petitioning the FAA to skip safety tests.
From January 5th
Boeing 7-DEATH-7 MAX DEATH. Fly the Boeing Death Ride on any 7-DEATH-7 Boeing Airliners.
Posted by: Veri1138 | Jan 8 2024 6:22 utc | 39
@ karlof1 | Jan 8 2024 4:43 utc | 34 with the story about China sanctions on US companies
Thanks for that. Below is the call out of the Companies
5 US defense industry companies, namely BAE Systems Land and Armament, Alliant Techsystems Operation, AeroVironment, ViaSat and Data Link Solutions. The countermeasures consist of freezing the properties of those companies in China, including their movable and immovable property, and prohibiting organizations and individuals in China from transactions and cooperation with them," said the ministry.
The gears of international commerce are having wrenches thrown in them and it is only a matter of time before the system locks up....and then what? shortages....and then what?
I also read where COSCO, another major China shipper is now refusing to ship to Occupied Palestine......everything is everything....
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 8 2024 6:42 utc | 40
@ karlof1 | Jan 8 2024 4:43 utc | 34 about China sanctions on 5 US defense industry companies
@ psychohistorian | Jan 8 2024 6:42 utc | 40
"Making all entities that harm China's national interests pay the price has become an integral part of China's national deterrence. China will continue to develop its capabilities and means to inflict pain on them. " https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1304960.shtml
Is China finally taking the gloves off?
Posted by: Lavrov's Dog | Jan 8 2024 8:09 utc | 41
Reading the media reports on the German farmers protest is like hearing an apartment dweller describe his sled dog.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 9:06 utc | 42
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 9:06 utc | 42
A sled dog that might be radicalized and even instrumentalized, never the less!
Incidentally, next to the sled dog stories there was a piece explaining to me why all the videos and pictures and interviews of released hostages being friendly with Hamas do, in fact, not indicate such friendliness.
It is very forthcoming of them to tell ma what to think in simple terms.
Posted by: kspr | Jan 8 2024 10:18 utc | 43
I hope those German farmers cleaned out their bank accounts before striking…
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 8 2024 12:00 utc | 44
@ malenkov | Jan 8 2024 12:00 utc | 44
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Other than their way of life what do you suppose they have to lose?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 13:31 utc | 45
@ too scents | Jan 8 2024 13:31 utc | 45
I don’t understand your implied point. All I meant to say is that I hope the farmers did their best to shield themselves from state retaliation.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 8 2024 13:37 utc | 46
A good independent news site for exposure of who are the names who lead the Zionazis annd their tinpot thugs the natzios.
Including a superb 10 minute video by Lowkey
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2023/december/21/lowkey-exposes-piers-morgan-ben-shapiro
Should not be ignored or forgotten as we look to the ICJ to see if there is any independent western judiciary.
I’d say the mayhem in the daily more disappearing borderlands, the fading existence of the illegal apartheid entity and both these places ultra demented peoples who believe their own self created mythology of grandness. Are wholly connected with the Epstein scheme of blackmail using child sex, of the politicians and celebrities and executives.
The Euro elites who for centuries been raping pillaging and murdering hundreds of millions and convincing us all that we are ‘free’ and not at all ‘propagandised’ that we , our family, friends, neighbours and associates are the righteous!
It turns out we are the Imperial Guards and fascist , xenophobes to the core. Prepared to believe every lie daily Narrativised to us through news and entertainment. The most heinous being the origins of Covid, the Climate wolf cry, the net zero bollocks and the return to localised serfdom without free movement or property and means of no wing without authority of our sheriff!
The Turd of Turd Hole - Piss Moron - apparently has nothing to say about his friendship with Epstein/Ghislaine either. Does he condemn them or does he admit he is as much an evil, child abuse supporter as all his mighty Rich and Famous friends who are daily more exposed, by the fallout from the greatest journalism of the Miami Herald , a few brave police and a judge who was not corrupted or forced by the stories of the DoJ that she should be let off lightly just line Epstein was.
The children blown to pieces or worse left alive needing treatment. The brave reporters whose families and children have been directly targeted by the Mossad/cia/mi6 praetorians. By the murderous sons and daughters of bitches and madmen.
The list of all the perforators should be prepared and justice must be served. I don’t call for the killing of their children because we are not the same as them. But I do demand that they can not benefit from the crimes of their fathers and mothers. They can not be rich and famous and keep the blood money and wealth they are used to. And their kids can not honour and be proud of their bastard parents who should forever be known for their deeds.
Assange must be free
Khan must be free
All perpetrators must be named and punished
All wealth should be returned to the peoples it was stolen from
Transnational entities should be shattered into thousands of pieces
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 8 2024 14:09 utc | 47
[email protected] from State retribution does not exist if one uses a Bank. I believe it's called The Canadian Precedent.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:51 utc | 48
@ malenkov | Jan 8 2024 13:37 utc | 46
I don’t understand ... I hope the farmers did their best to shield themselves
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Enclosure V2.0.
Wikipedia says:
The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 14:56 utc | 49
[email protected] read that. I doubt they can do that. They are in business which requires ledger transactions. Turdo of Canada and his Dominatrix played that card, not just farmers at risk but their financial backers.....The Cucked Kunt must have been rubbing his hands in glee, counting all the money they was stealing from Canadian pensioners and children.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:59 utc | 50
@ sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:51 utc | 48
You overlooked my comment @ 12:00 utc?
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 8 2024 15:04 utc | 51
@ too scents | Jan 8 2024 14:56 utc | 49
Kind of a shame one can't post memes here. There’s this one of a bunny with a pancake on its head…
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 8 2024 15:47 utc | 52
Turdo of Canada and his Dominatrix played that card, not just farmers at risk but their financial backers.
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 8 2024 14:59 utc | 50
Westminster Memory Lane
General election begins Monday, 20 Sep 2021, because UK governor governor agreed with Trudeau to dissolve parliament in August
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling a federal election that will go hand in hand with the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic [!] and massive forest fires [news from the future] that are scorching communities in British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario.
Trudeau went to
Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 8 2024 16:09 utc | 53
"...The primary reason for enclosure was to improve the efficiency of agriculture..."
too scents@49
This is completely false, an ancient excuse for stealing land, the means of production and livelihood and the foundation of societies. Every serious study of economic history has shown that this is not true, and never was, Even Arthur Young, the ideologist/apologist for enclosure in C18th England came to regret what he had done.
There is no reason why a capitalist landlord would be more likely to promoted agricultural innovation than a community of peasants whose lives depend upon their skills and wisdom.
Enclosure was a crime, which should never be forgotten. The true nature of the crime is onstantly subject to the obfuscation and ideological persiflage of the hired apologists for criminality.
Not surprisingly they would appear to dominate the wikipedia treatment of the matter.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 8 2024 16:15 utc | 54
This is completely false ...
Posted by: bevin | Jan 8 2024 16:15 utc | 54
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Yes, of course.
I posted that to amplify the current situation with agriculture and food quality.
We are what we eat.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 16:24 utc | 55
any good books on the enclosure laws and history around this??
alex krainer substack article..
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 16:50 utc | 56
any good books on the enclosure laws and history around this??
alex krainer substack article..
C0VlD l9 hoax goes to court
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 16:50 utc | 56
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Yes, Capital by Karl Marx covers it quite well.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 8 2024 17:04 utc | 57
on the enclosure
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 16:50 utc | 56
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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land ==> https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch27.htm
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 17:08 utc | 58
As Karl Marx saw it, the enclosures in England amounted to a “systematic theft of communal property.” He argued that they served two primary purposes: first, to kickstart capitalist agriculture, and second, to “set free the agricultural population as a proletariat for the needs of industry.”
https://www.thecollector.com/what-were-the-enclosure-acts/
I came into this conversation only this morning Texas time, but I am surprised no one mentioned the role of wool (space to raise sheep) and the need for proletarian workers in the textile mills (or did they?).
Posted by: Ed | Jan 8 2024 17:12 utc | 59
John Kirby said for everybody to chill out - Austin bypassed Biden and even Blinken and reported his hospitalization directly to Bibi, so it's all cool...
John Kirby also says he has it on good authority that at least one of the ships in the Middle East is an American carrier; he's checking his sources but as of his report, he believes that to be an accurate assessment.
Posted by: Ozark Grandpa | Jan 8 2024 18:03 utc | 61
Aljazeera on the farmers movement in Germany (plus strikes in many sectors in the past few months)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/8/farmers-block-roads-across-germany-to-protest-against-subsidy-cuts
Posted by: Minaa | Jan 8 2024 18:26 utc | 62
@ Minaa | Jan 8 2024 18:26 utc | 62
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The linked article says:
In Berlin, dozens of tractors blast their horns and block the main avenue leading to the Brandenburg Gate.
Yet pictures show ==> https://t.me/jnb_news/41523
Dozens?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 18:39 utc | 63
Tooscents @ 55:
After reading the linked article posted by Ed @ 59, I am sure you will agree that enclosing land, used by peasants to grow a variety of food crops, for the purpose of grazing sheep to supply wool for the textile industry (introduced into Tudor England by French Huguenots fleeing Roman Catholic persecution) is hardly a more "efficient" use of the land. A more commercially acceptable use that favours the land-owning aristocracy but from the point of view of society and even nature, certainly not efficient at all.
Unfortunately after perhaps several hundred years of sheep grazing (and not much else), the land may not be useful for anything else. A major rehabilitation scheme may be needed to restore overgrazed land to the condition it was in before the enclosures began. Knowledge of the old ecosystems is needed and substitutes for plant species that went extinct as a result of the enclosures need to be found to help restore the land.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:54 utc | 64
Tooscents @ 63:
Are you going to believe your own lying eyes?
:-)
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:56 utc | 65
Alastair Crooke: Does the West Believe it is Morally Superior? /30 mins, Tues, 8 Jan 2023
Excerpt 1:16 The vision of the West which has been a long running one of our superiority, our inherence superiority... from Plato to Nato is no longer believed by the rest of the world. They no longer believe that we have some special qualities, that our culture is unique and suitable for everyone.... Our hegemony has been built on the idea... that somehow the West had an innate superiority about how to do things about technology and about its culture... That has come to an end or is fading and we can feel it. We're past that.... This is what the multipolar world is all about and why people say you know we don't want to necessarily do things the way the West does. So that's gone. Yes it's gone.
https://www.youtube.com/live/nW_vxfYqURI?si=pD_BNm7WeD-I7EPQ&t=35
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I am an irrepressible optimist, but I always base my optimism on solid facts. --Mahatma Gandhi
Calm is found in the light of Truth. --The World Teacher
Posted by: Toby C | Jan 8 2024 20:18 utc | 66
a more "efficient" use of the land.
@ Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:54 utc | 64
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The question of efficient land use hangs on the purpose of its utility. Country clubs are better for playing golf than they are for growing cranberries.
That said, the reporting claiming the Farmer's Strike is about subsidies is disingenuous.
The true issue at hand is that agriculture isn't rentable without subsides. Since this is obviously the case perhaps subsidizing consumption rather that production would be smarter than squeezing farmers until they scream.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 20:19 utc | 67
@ Ed | Jan 8 2024 17:04 utc | 57
i heard there are 4 books to capital by marx.. most don't get thru the 1st or 2nd one... i am not ready for that type of reading material at the moment, but thanks for your input and the additional links..
regarding enclosure laws and sheep - it was the people of scotland that had to make way for the sheep.. the highland clearances, i am quite familiar with as that is my ancestry on my dads side.. i guess it was the start of capitalism where all land is now private and you know you are not one of the owners...
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 20:24 utc | 68
i am not ready for that type of reading material at the moment
Posted by: james | Jan 8 2024 20:24 utc | 68
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David Harvey has a series of video lectures.
Reading Marx's Capital ==> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpc6eFEd8osVlCfKCrP6H2F9NJDPCcEq
Also ==> https://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/
Posted by: too scents | Jan 8 2024 20:33 utc | 69
Below is a ZH posting title about follow up to the Boeing door blowout
Alaska 737 Max Cockpit Data Erased After Mid-Flight Door Blowout
the quote
On Sunday, Homendy told reporters that after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport - the ground crew did not pull the circuit breaker on the cockpit voice recorder, or black box, to preserve the audio, which only holds two hours or data, as required by federal law."There was a lot going on, on the flight deck and on the plane. It's a very chaotic event. The circuit breaker for the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) was not pulled. The maintenance team went out to get it, but it was right at about the two-hour mark," Homendy said.
She continued: "The cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten. There was nothing on the cockpit voice recorder."
Reuters noted US cockpit recorders only need to log two hours of data versus 25 hours in Europe for aircraft made after 2021.
The NTSB head said the audio could have shed more light on the moments leading up to the aircraft's door ripping off the fuselage at 16,000 feet.
I am glad I don't have to fly any more for work.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 8 2024 20:42 utc | 70
I missed the visit of India's foreign minister in Moscow and the thaw in relations:
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-russia-ties-get-a-makeover/
Seems pretty important to me, as it strenghtens BRICS and eurasia. Bhadrakumar believes the pendulum will eventually swing back, because the pro western sentiment is still strong in Delhi, but considering how Washington is stumbling from one mess into the next and getting weaker by the day, I could imagine that Delhi will eventually drop the idea of becoming part of the West.
Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 8 2024 20:52 utc | 71
@Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 8 2024 20:52 utc | 71
The utter weakness and mendacity of the oligarchic Indian elites is on show in this article, they swing around like a weathervane. As with Turkey, Russia plays this subtly and deftly for the end game; the defeat of the West. The Russian leadership knew that the venal Indian elites would not be able to pass up the juicy middle-man profits with respect to Russian oil exports. Now that the US has been shown to be much weaker than expected, and Russia much stronger, the Indian elites come running back after the US stopped flattering them like a spurned lover.
Of course the venal elites cannot learn from China and do what is necessary to develop their economy, so India may keep growing but it will not develop and be left further in the dust by China, Vietnam and many others. What will the Indian elites do a decade from now when the average Chinese may very well be richer than the average American, when Chinese and Russian military power will outshine the US, and Europe has slipped more into obscurity? Will they then understand that they are no match for the Chinese, and they are not even a middle power?
They pissed away their right to lead the non-aligned nations many, many years ago.
I was reading the book "The Romance of American Communism" by Vivian Gornick and a passage stood out to me on page 10:
The 20th Congress Report brought with it political devastation for the organized Left-wing. Coming as it did in one of the most repressive periods in American history - a period when Communists were hunted like criminals, suffered trial and imprisonment, endured social isolation and loss of work, had their professional lives destroyed and, in the case of the Rosenbergs, were put to death - the Khrushchev Report was the final instrument of annihilation for the American Left. Thousands of men and women in the Left walked about feeling as Ignazio Silone twenty-five years before them felt: "Like someone who has had a tremendous blow on the head and keeps on his feet, walking, talking, gesticulating, but without fully realizing what has happened." And like Silone they, too, said to themselves: "For this? Have we sunk to this? Those who are dead, those who are dying in prison, have sacrificed themselves for this? The vagabond, lonely, perilous lives that we are leading, strangers in our own countries - is all for this? Overnight, the affective life of the Communist Party in this country came to an end. Within weeks of the Report's publication, 30,000 people left the Party. Within a year the Party was as it has been in its 1919 beginnings: a small sect, off the American political map.
This was of course repeated across the West. This passage really brought home what an utter traitorous piece of scum Khrushchev was and what his huge lies (proven to be so with the opening of the Soviet archives) did to the Left, not just in the Soviet Union where it destroyed the soul of the Communist Party, but also in Eastern Europe (where it delegitimized the Communist government and lead to the Hungarian revolt) and across the West. It was also Khrushchev who gave Crimea to Ukraine so that he would have the Ukraine SSR's support in his leadership fight with Malenkov, and it his he who removed incentive pay for the workers. So much damage done by such a pathetic little man. Mao's split with the Soviet Union over this becomes more and more a seminal geopolitical event. Deng was intelligent enough not to besmirch Mao, understanding the need to maintain the political legitimacy of the Party.
It is sad reading the book, as the author still believes Khrushchev's lies even as she paints a picture of the meaningfulness, community and learning that the Communist Party brought to the US working class. A beautiful quote from a Russian Jew who was fifteen years old when the Revolution occurred "When the Red Army marched into my village I felt welcome in my country for the first time in my life. I remember, the first thing they did was open a library in the village ... When I crossed the threshold of that library I felt I was stepping into a new world" (p. 28). There were many Jewish Marxists in the US, as there were many other Eastern European Marxists, plus other working people and even those from the middle class.
The US worked hard to destroy them, first under the Wilson fascist state from 1917-1920, then as the response to Roosevelt's reforms, and then in the McCarthy and Red Scare years of the 1950s. But it was Khrushchev who finished them off, removing the ideological basis and the hope that underscored their existence. Aided by other traitors, such as Trotsky who could not accept that he had lost the battle for Party leadership and still pollutes the minds of so many of the "left", the WSWS being a prime example.
There are always traitors who will gladly sell out the revolution for their own gain, the South African leadership since the start of majority rule being just one example. The Labour Party "right-wing" being another, with its current leader and Blair being other examples, as well as MacDonald with the 1930s "national" government, and Callaghan and Healey in the 1970s. And of course the anti-communist AFL and the anti-communist intellectual Western "left" with their delusional but safe identity scholarship.
@Roger | Jan 8 2024 21:08 utc | 72,
They pissed away their right to lead the non-aligned nations many, many years ago.
Apologize for my ignorance for the history of the non-aligned movement. I wonder if India ever earned the right to lead the non-aligned nations. If it is self-claimed, that would be another matter. If it did earn the right to lead, what did India do for the benefits of the non-align nations?!
One of my impressions about India is that it is basically at odds with all its neighbors. If that is the case, why would it be the leader of the non-aligned movement?! Would be leading by example a virtue?
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 8 2024 21:51 utc | 74
@Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 8 2024 21:51 utc | 74
In the 1950s India was the largest nation not to align with either the West or the East, and was a leader at the 1955 Bandung Conference. At that point it was still a mildly socialist country. That was all thrown away in the 1960s with the dictatorship of Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi (no relation to the other Gandhi) and the nepotistic rule of her and her sons. In the 1990s India went full neoliberal (end of the highly corrupt "license raj") and threw away any hope of following China's development path. It is now just another deeply corrupt oligarchy, still mostly the Brahmin and business class that so well served the British during colonialism.
Now it just cosplays non-alignment as its elite still thinks that it can be a great power, after spending so many decades pissing away the developmental prospects of the nation. China was much poorer than India in 1949, and had been devastated by over a century of colonial subjugation, Japanese invasion, civil wars, uprisings and warlordism. Mao's China very rapidly outstripped India in life expectancy, literacy and growth rates.
@ Roger
Thankyou very much for the history of ‘owned’ communism.
Yup Kruschev and Trotsky.
You know, I was so naive that it was in my forties when o first came across the US Communist party! Debs and his speeches. The one nation we were led to believe was so anti-communist until infiltrated with the Red Scare. That’s when my real self education began I suppose. Coming across the Two Santa Clauses explanation of the two party system. How they are a uniparty!
Anyway…what about Lenin? He started the Ukraine project.
Stalin as we all know turned the table on them. But still ended up adding a bit more to that after Yalta. He was supposed to be part of that gang recruited at the same time. Strange how Lenin got ejected and died ‘early’ and queer why Stalin had him stuffed and put on display
They had to form the proxy Nazi Germans as we have the Ukrainians today to take the prize it killed 20 millions of Soviets . Stalin was able to save Russia and kill the fascists.
Putin and co are the real deal. So is Xi and they have SAVED the world from such conspiracy and they aren’t the ‘owned’ commies.
Also agree on India - it is heading for its ancient sovereign states - different peoples , different languages as it always was before the artificial British Empire.
Thanks again and look forward to more pearls.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 9 2024 0:24 utc | 76
https://www.unz.com/article/hitler-the-peacemaker/
Don't let the title be too offputting. This is a fascinating review of a pioneer revisionist book The Forced War by David L Hoggan explaining the origins of WWII, especially the machinations of perfidious Albion, recounting many of the processes and characters in the lead-in to another disastrous war.
I missed that whole 'garden' speech whenever it was, but although I sometimes try to stick up for some of the positive aspects of Western civilization, of which there were many, the leadership class has been a bunch of pig-headed murderers for centuries; and even though the current crop seem very much 'lesser sons of greater sires', indeed a bunch of petty-minded morons unworthy of their ranks and titles, it seems they are continuing that unfortunate tradition.
The predicament Germany faced after Versailles up until 1939 echoes the predicament Putin has been in viz Ukraine, NATO, defending the rights of Russian speakers and working towards a better international order despite so much concerted Anglo-Zionist resistance.
james | Jan 8 2024 20:24 utc | 68
*** .. regarding enclosure laws and sheep - it was the people of scotland that had to make way for the sheep.. the highland clearances, i am quite familiar with as that is my ancestry on my dads side.. i guess it was the start of capitalism where all land is now private and you know you are not one of the owners... ***
The sheep, and there was deer as well -- hence the big hunting estates.
Posted by: Cynic | Jan 9 2024 2:04 utc | 78
@ by: Refinnejenna | Jan 8 2024 19:54 utc | 64
Switching to now.
Looking at this from today’s perspective from within the beast, the ability to extract local taxes from local productive lands does have impact on land management, influencing the tendency toward exploitation over balanced management for the long term, not only becuz of $ but because of how such exploited managed land is seen or perceived as “good.” Peer pressure.
If you drive an expensive pickup truck, cost @ around $80,000 (business tax deductible), then you are often perceived here as a “good” land manager regardless of land practices.
If one chooses to maintain forest preserve land unexploited and potential agri land as prairie, and so are not corp income intensive, understatement, then local authorities do not derive maximum benefits from local taxation. Similarly for the crustation parasitical entities, insurance, etc — they do not profit from such considered restraint / long-term thinking.
When the polity trends toward this type of imbalance one remedy is refusal to participate — to save the children and other living beings. Many neighbors and locals appreciate such efforts as it means the neighborhood and surroundings are richer with flora and fauna, a rarity where agribusiness has colonized the land, otherwise killed or driven away by modern corp agri practices. No SCJ for such driven ways, only sublime justice.
Posted by: suzan | Jan 9 2024 2:24 utc | 79
@Roger | Jan 8 2024 22:56 utc | 75,
Thank you very much for your detailed reply.
It seems to me that India cannot replicate the Chinese development model in the past decades even they'd like. There are a lot of deep differences between the two that you may be well aware.
In addition, when CPC said about the Chinese-characteristic communism (中國特色的社會主義), it seems to make sense to me. IMHO, CPC has absorbed the spirits and essences of the western communism and internalized it with Chinese own culture and thoughts. So it fits China but not necessarily for others. A similar situation occurred once before for Buddhism. After Buddhism came to China, Chinese had translated a lot of sutras to Chinese edition. The spirits and essences of those sutras are identical to the original but the presentation and interpretations are from Chinese perspectives and approaches.
Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 9 2024 3:50 utc | 80
Lots of wn are screaming
Israel is getting away with genocide !
Gleefully parroted by our pop here.
BUt u aint seen nuthin yet !
Here's perfidious albion crying
China is our teflon enemy !
First off,
China is your 'enemy' simply cuz you want it that way.
As for teflon,
iN An article about China's CPU chip at the Register,
True to form, some shithead screamed 'Those TAM monsters'
30 years after it has been debunked by good ole Gregory Clark,
Some teflon indeed
Every gawd damned lies about China stick until this very day.
TAM, TIBET, UIGHURS, HK, TW, SCS, yellow peril.
Faithfully promoted by our pop
Getting away with genocides !When will somebody look into a mirror for a change ?
Highly recommeNded reading
If for nuthin other than to truly appreciate the culture of deceit
http://tinyurl.com/4d8m4uwc
Posted by: denk | Jan 9 2024 3:52 utc | 81
@ LuRenJia | Jan 9 2024 3:50 utc | 80 with the add on to the conversation about government evolution....thanks
The concept of growth is not bad but has been inappropriately applied to making money for the inherited rich rather than advancing humanities development. This human development growth requires constant evolution of the structures and processes of government to adapt to the needs as they become apparent. The China system seems to show some elements of resilience and I am encouraged to read about their different sorts of social pilots to test social concepts.
Roger was accurate in his description of the China/India differences and I am encouraged to read that some or all of Africa has a chance to revert to pre colonial areas and social groupings. This would let the divergent groups reestablish their identity and develop new political and economic agreements across the various African groupings/new nations.....but all this is dreaming that our species could rise to such a challenge to take control of and promote a Global Commons.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 9 2024 5:08 utc | 82
@Posted by: LuRenJia | Jan 9 2024 3:50 utc | 80
If you are interested in more detail, I wrote a longer answer on my substack a while ago, a very sad history since independence Why India Will Not Repeat China’s Success
@Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 1:27 utc | 77
Thanks for the reference, I will give that book a read. One thing that doesn't ring quite true in the Unz review is the role of Britain, as the Soviet Union spent most of the 1930s attempting to build an anti-German coalition to be let down again and again by the British. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was in response to yet more British shenanigans as the clock ticked down to war. In the end, it was a brilliant move by Stalin that moved the starting point for Barbarossa many hundreds of kilometres further away from Moscow and focused the Germans on the West. The author of the Unz piece does seem to have his own ideological dogma that may colour his review.
The British were vehemently anti-communist, with the obduracy of Chamberlein captured in the diary of the Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, “In his present mood, PM [Neville Chamberlain] says he will resign rather than sign alliance with Soviet” (Kotkin 2017, p. 642). The British could have been riling up the Poles to help orient the Germans eastwards, but Stalin trumped them.
Hoggan's book may provide many missed details of the Polish obstinance and arrogance prior to 1939, but it does seem to be missing some pieces of the puzzle - which would not be surprising. No one author will provide the whole puzzle of such a complex period. It does occur to me that Versailles did Europe a huge "L" by recreating Poland, with the Polish elites just as obstinate, ignorant and arrogant as always - currently claiming reparations from the Germans (lets forget the mass ethnic cleansing of all the German lands given to Poland post-WW2!) while going full-in Russian hating and US vassalage. Even Kotkin could not hide his annoyance at the idiotic Polish elites thinking that they could play with both Germany and the Soviet Union.
Britain did not attack Germany, neither did France, that's why we have the "phoney war" period of WW2. Churchill drove the disaster that was the British Norway campaign, just one of his many utter failures as head of the military (he did not appoint an independent Defence Minister) but no real attack was made upon Germany. It was the British heavy bomber attacks upon German cities that really triggered the blitz.
Hitler was very open in his writings about claiming lebensraum by ethnically cleansing the Slavs, so he cannot be said to be just "undoing the injuries of Versailles". He may quite well have allied with the Polish against the Soviet Union. There were those in the West that would have been happy for him to squander Germany's might against the Soviet Union, weakening it to make it an easy target for the West. Two problems, Germany and the Soviet Union, dealt with at minimum cost. I can believe that Hitler kept pushing and acted tactically 1935 to 1939. Once he had the larger Germany, and the Czech munitions industry (as big as Germany's and quite a bit better in many areas), his calculus may have changed.
🇫🇷 France has the 4th largest gold reserves, while there is not a single gold mine in France.
🇲🇱 Mali, captured by France, has no gold reserves, although it has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold per year.
⁉️Where did France get the gold?
Z and V today.
Posted by: Ed | Jan 7 2024 23:21 utc | 21
In the 50's De Gaulle, the French leader, sent American dollars to the US Treasury and had them exchanged for gold.
That's one of the reasons Nixon shut the gold window in 1971
@Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 1:27 utc | 77
Interesting article, which touches some very significative points.
Among many others, this one:
Objections to National Socialism or Hitler’s Jewish policy were more pretext that motive; Hoggan notes that, although the world has since forgotten it, Poland had anti-Jewish policies in some respects harsher than Germany’s during these years.
The rise of anti-semitism in Poland helped the diffusion of Zionism, especially Revised Zionism, among Polish Jews, and the Polish government in turn sustained Zionism to get rid of its Jew populace.
Posted by: SG | Jan 9 2024 13:26 utc | 87
- Mortgage applications plummet in the US. Crash will follow in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn_hX4nAHeo
- US housing crash is coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5k5k1hFxc
Posted by: WMG | Jan 9 2024 14:16 utc | 88
Posted by: Roger | Jan 9 2024 8:25 utc | 84No one author will provide the whole puzzle of such a complex period.
No indeed, and thanks for your post. Within any polity there are no end of disagreements. For example, there are those who sincerely support communism and believe it will solve all the worlds ills whilst others regard it as a civilization destroyer. Both views have merit.
Plus within both camps there are both good and bad actors. So because of these powerful, conflicting skeins on all sides of any complex dynamic, determining definitive truth is impossible. The many subjective confusions and struggles ARE the truth which may be unchanging as a principle but ever-changing in our relative experiential realm.
My dim recollection of the lebensraum push was to allow Germany to expand as a mainly land power and let England rule the waves as a maritime power. There really was - and most likely still is - a Jewish problem. One can argue the whys and wherefores ad infinitum but to ascribe it all to white racism is deceptive.
In any case, my takeaway from WWII revisionism is that the impressions we have of the main leaders are cartoonish so have settled on a compromise view: none of them were all that much better or worse than any other. So I resist demonizing Nazis, for example, since all the other parties perpetrated mass murder too and distrust all facts and figures from any side, all of which are proven liars.
Posted by: SG | Jan 9 2024 13:26 utc | 87The rise of anti-semitism in Poland helped the diffusion of Zionism, especially Revised Zionism, among Polish Jews, and the Polish government in turn sustained Zionism to get rid of its Jew populace.
I've always felt sorry for both Poland and Germany, sandwiched (mainly land powers) between East and West; no wonder their borders keep changing. Versailles was a truly terrible settlement I believe designed to encourage future conflict, both to continue replacing the old order with a new one in the West, which has steadily been underway since the 1600s, and also to make trillions in the process. Look at the SMO dynamic today: Germany is being ruined by it, and not because they gave tanks to Ukraine, pretty much from the first week of the SMO, screwed by both sides.
A little story I found strange: around Christmas a Polish parliamentarian took a chainsaw to a Jewish menora in the chamber. There are only about one half of one percent Jews in Poland but they get their menora in there somehow; similar things go on in Washington. I cannot help but think that a large role in Ukraine is down to Jewish partisan activism in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, London and DC-NY even though am not convinced that they are the secret rulers of the Western world (more like a pervasive infection).
Maybe I'm fabulising but that little story about the manora in Poland seemed to ring a clear little bell in the midst of all the general noise, especially now with Gaza in the mix.
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Meanwhile, rumors of a Princeling revolt against XiJinPing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jckHU9q-oD0
There are disagreements within that polity, though of course this won't be reported in GlobalTimes....
"Speculative builds adding to deflationary pressure in real estate"
(Real estate bubble in the US, anyone ???)
Posted by: WMG | Jan 9 2024 15:59 utc | 91
Meanwhile, rumors of a Princeling revolt against XiJinPing.
There are disagreements within that polity, though of course this won't be reported in GlobalTimes....
Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 14:38 utc | 90
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GLobaltimes aint rumor mongers, my dear pop
putsch in China !
That'd be a gardenists wet dream innit ?
As for us row groaning under pax FUKUS tyranny, when are we gonna see a rev in the belly of the beast ?
If wn like scorpion are any indication, we'r doomed indeed .
Posted by: denk | Jan 9 2024 16:17 utc | 92
Bloomberg reports:
Austin Was Hospitalized Over Complications From Prostate SurgeryDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for complications suffered after he underwent surgery to treat prostate cancer, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said in a statement.
Doctors had detected Austin had prostate cancer during a routine screening in early December and put him under general anesthesia for a prostatectomy in late December. After he was released, he suffered an infection and fluids collected in his abdomen, obstructing his intestines, the doctors said.
The statement from two doctors at Walter Reed cleared up the mystery of why Austin had been hospitalized on New Year’s Day — a situation that had provoked consternation because he failed to notify the White House for four days.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 19:39 utc | 93
@Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 9 2024 14:24 utc | 89
Roosevelt, and the US ruling class in general (let's remember Ford and his special Nazi medal, the Bush family's dealing with the Nazis etc.), were extremely anti-semitic. After WW2 the European Jews wanted to go to the US not Israel, but they were blocked from the former. It was actually much easier to get into Canada as a Ukrainian fascist, and the US as an ex-Nazi official, than for a Jew in the immediate post-war period. Only after the McCarthyite purges and the US Jewish community being "taught" to leave socialism behind and become better servants of the powerful did that community become mainstream and Jews became "white". Poland was also extremely anti-semitic, Pilsudski had held some of the anti-semitism back but once he was gone it became significantly worse. The Poles openly discussed solving the "Jewish problem" with the Nazis, including expelling them outside Europe (so sad to see Israel now extolling the same kind of ethnic cleansing solutions!) The Soviet Union was a standout in this regard, notwithstanding the Zionist propaganda to facilitate getting more Jews settled in Israel.
The Western ruling classes were also very impressed by Mussolini (including Churchill) and Hitler, and only turned against the latter when they realized that he wasn't just going to turn East and do their dirty work for them. Yep, WW2 was very much not the clean history of a "good war" fought against "evil". Then there are the Roosevelt administrations many efforts to force Japan into war ...
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So the head of the US armed forces can now most probably not get it up, a wonderful metaphor for those armed forces. Much more bark than bite, less steel in the shaft than it would have us believe. Shakespeare would have written some wonderful words about such a predicament.
@ Roger | Jan 9 2024 20:00 utc | 95
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Botched cancer interventions have bad outcomes. Austin is a dead man walking.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 20:07 utc | 96
@Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 20:07 utc | 96
Botched cancer interventions have bad outcomes. Austin is a dead man walking.
A great metaphor for the US Empire!
FWIW a Prostatectomy is not always a death sentence, I had one 6 years at Austin's age.
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Jan 9 2024 20:43 utc | 98
@ SwissArmyMan | Jan 9 2024 20:44 utc | 99
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Did your Prostatectomy send you into intensive care after you were released home?
Posted by: too scents | Jan 9 2024 20:50 utc | 100
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