The main thread topic at today’s Moon of Alabama blog is headed by the above image which is actually typical of incidents occurring over the last 75 years in Palestine, and are familiar for those that emerged from Gitmo, Abu Gharib, and other CIA torture prisons located globally.
This is the 3rd time I've seen this image today. The last 2 times omit the bottom of the photo. The 1st time -- I forget now where I saw it -- shows a nail driven through the large toe of his right foot.
Agreed, hard to see. So I just downloaded the image to further enlarge. Definitely looks impaled -- the horizontal (shiny?) Light above toe with black smudge directly below it aligns perfectly with black smudge below the toe. Note also the small toes are all aligned above the floor, even with that toe.
Re: lack of blood, I have had multiple pet birds for 30+ years. A couple of accidental bitten toes over that time. Usually result in lots of blood, except at least once, when bite crushed bone & vessels right at the joint, when there was no outward bleeding, only a little blood dried into the wound.
It all just matters exactly where it goes through...
Thanks for providing the further response. It solved an issue of credibility about the photo and story that was playing at MoA that was present on the first page of comments to today's thread, with my reply @102.
dear karl, for your fyi: AHH has posted on the open thread within the salon of global south regarding the host & future of the site. i'm hoping you may have some ideas to contribute. AHH has posted his email. thank you.
I must confess to being 100% ignorant of the events that led to the current situation at Global South. I never became a correspondent with Amaranth despite the cordiality of our occasional discourse. Sorry to say I don't have any ideas to provide, nor can I volunteer any help. I do hope a solution can be found and Amaranth reappears.
Caitlin Johnson said that there were Snuff Films posted on Telegram of IDF torturing Gazans to death, and that Haaretz said it was done by their phycological warfare department. If true than this is just a sample of far more horrific barbarity.
"A few commentators seem to think it possible to deprogram portions of societies and cite Islamic extremists in Chechnya and Xinjiang as proof,"
I don't think it's so much a case of deprogramming as it is providing economic and social security in the case of Chechnya. Once the fanatics who are capable of actual physical resistance are eliminated, the rest of a population is more concerned about their daily livelihoods than anything else.
Humans have a spectrum of behavior the same as most mammalian species, especially primates (which humans are): alpha, beta, prober, and omega. These are consistent across species. Alphas lead, betas follow, probers are curious and omegas are "losers" (the current concept in the "manosphere" which I think is not quite correct; "lone wolf" is more descriptive.)
Due to the Bell Curve, everyone is composed of each to a greater or lesser degree. Some have more of one or more traits, some have less, most are in the middle.
A biological species controlled by emotion is subject to fear of death which in turn leads to the fight or flight dichotomy. This leads directly to irrational behavior on either or both axis. A species so afflicted which is capable of conceptual thought leads directly to "meme viruses" i.e., fanaticism. Only by correcting or ameliorating the underlying fear of death can this dynamic be modified successfully.
No biological species can do this completely but it can be moderately controlled in societies with more or less economic and physical security. The level of control is directly measurable by the amount of internal and external social and state threat and coercion on one axis and the level of economic security and economic equality on another axis. The US used to have relatively high levels on both axis; as that has deteriorated since WWII, the country has deteriorated.
This is how Russia gained control of Chechnya - they reduced internal conflict by eliminating the externally supplied fanatical Islam, then provided a degree of autonomy as well as participation in a growing economy. As Scott Ritter has said, they can do the same in western Ukraine once the real fanatics have been kicked out, as I've been saying since April, 2022.
The same applies to Israel - kick out the Zionists and moderate Jews - however many are left - can be safely accommodated by a Palestinian state as long as economic opportunities are provided to the new state by the rest of the world - which is quite likely given the oil and gas opportunities near Palestine's shores, and even tourism. Palestine could even become an end point for China's Belt and Road Initiative.
This is the 3rd time I've seen this image today. The last 2 times omit the bottom of the photo. The 1st time -- I forget now where I saw it -- shows a nail driven through the large toe of his right foot.
Horrific.
Thanks for completing the picture. The Goon differs little from every Nazi Goon that ever existed and merits the same fate.
I've been asked for a link to the full pic you describe. Can you supply it please?
Here's the link: https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1754291866588090601/photo/1
Thanks for your response. Humanity MUST eliminate the Imperialist Hegemony that sponsors and covers for such bestial behavior.
Just found it:
https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1754613794117198019
Thanks for your response. Very hard to see the nailed-down toe and there's no attendant blood as one would expect.
Agreed, hard to see. So I just downloaded the image to further enlarge. Definitely looks impaled -- the horizontal (shiny?) Light above toe with black smudge directly below it aligns perfectly with black smudge below the toe. Note also the small toes are all aligned above the floor, even with that toe.
Re: lack of blood, I have had multiple pet birds for 30+ years. A couple of accidental bitten toes over that time. Usually result in lots of blood, except at least once, when bite crushed bone & vessels right at the joint, when there was no outward bleeding, only a little blood dried into the wound.
It all just matters exactly where it goes through...
Thanks for providing the further response. It solved an issue of credibility about the photo and story that was playing at MoA that was present on the first page of comments to today's thread, with my reply @102.
dear karl, for your fyi: AHH has posted on the open thread within the salon of global south regarding the host & future of the site. i'm hoping you may have some ideas to contribute. AHH has posted his email. thank you.
I must confess to being 100% ignorant of the events that led to the current situation at Global South. I never became a correspondent with Amaranth despite the cordiality of our occasional discourse. Sorry to say I don't have any ideas to provide, nor can I volunteer any help. I do hope a solution can be found and Amaranth reappears.
thank you, karl. 🙏🏿
I am a firm believer in the School of Hard Knocks, open 24/7.
Caitlin Johnson said that there were Snuff Films posted on Telegram of IDF torturing Gazans to death, and that Haaretz said it was done by their phycological warfare department. If true than this is just a sample of far more horrific barbarity.
It is like never ending horror!
Response to Karl Sanchez' "An Image for the ICJ"
"A few commentators seem to think it possible to deprogram portions of societies and cite Islamic extremists in Chechnya and Xinjiang as proof,"
I don't think it's so much a case of deprogramming as it is providing economic and social security in the case of Chechnya. Once the fanatics who are capable of actual physical resistance are eliminated, the rest of a population is more concerned about their daily livelihoods than anything else.
Humans have a spectrum of behavior the same as most mammalian species, especially primates (which humans are): alpha, beta, prober, and omega. These are consistent across species. Alphas lead, betas follow, probers are curious and omegas are "losers" (the current concept in the "manosphere" which I think is not quite correct; "lone wolf" is more descriptive.)
Due to the Bell Curve, everyone is composed of each to a greater or lesser degree. Some have more of one or more traits, some have less, most are in the middle.
A biological species controlled by emotion is subject to fear of death which in turn leads to the fight or flight dichotomy. This leads directly to irrational behavior on either or both axis. A species so afflicted which is capable of conceptual thought leads directly to "meme viruses" i.e., fanaticism. Only by correcting or ameliorating the underlying fear of death can this dynamic be modified successfully.
No biological species can do this completely but it can be moderately controlled in societies with more or less economic and physical security. The level of control is directly measurable by the amount of internal and external social and state threat and coercion on one axis and the level of economic security and economic equality on another axis. The US used to have relatively high levels on both axis; as that has deteriorated since WWII, the country has deteriorated.
This is how Russia gained control of Chechnya - they reduced internal conflict by eliminating the externally supplied fanatical Islam, then provided a degree of autonomy as well as participation in a growing economy. As Scott Ritter has said, they can do the same in western Ukraine once the real fanatics have been kicked out, as I've been saying since April, 2022.
The same applies to Israel - kick out the Zionists and moderate Jews - however many are left - can be safely accommodated by a Palestinian state as long as economic opportunities are provided to the new state by the rest of the world - which is quite likely given the oil and gas opportunities near Palestine's shores, and even tourism. Palestine could even become an end point for China's Belt and Road Initiative.