I still need to read the articles but had already watched the chat and the part I found most enlightening (which may not be news to others) was his discussion about Ron Derma's recent talks about the need to de-radicalize Gaza and the West Bank through a "transformative process" like Germany and esp. Japan experienced at the end of WWII.
"This is exactly what I was told back in 2003, that after Iraq was bombed into dust like Dresden the Palestinians would become docile and agree to peace on Israel's terms because Saddam Hussein was an icon for the Palestinians so his annihilation would be transformative for the Palestinian leadership, they would be thoroughly demoralized."
He also made some very good points about the Qassam Brigades, that they "have a different ethos than the political leadership sitting in Doha, their ethos is victory or martyrdom. We don't understand when they talk about this or about sacrifice, how they could conceive that sometimes a people must lose a large proportion of itself in order for the people as a whole to survive."
The notion that Palestinians can be bombed into docility is ludicrous, it will just radicalize more of them and understandably so. If your fate is to be killed anyway you may as well do as much damage to your enemy as you can before you go down.
Yes, those were all good--revealing--points. Of course, it never occurs to Zionists that they are the ones in need of a "transformative process." Crooke wrote a book published in 2009 based on the knowledge and experiences he had as a diplomat and negotiator, "Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution," which is one reason why he's so informed on the philosophy of Islamic Resistance. Derma is an excellent example of how Exceptionalism makes a person inhuman/Anti-Human; he probably thinks he's normal.
Maybe Derma got a double-dose of exceptionalism being a zionist who grew up in New Jersey and is completely Americanized per Napolitano. That sort of fits the profile of the colonialist settlers from Brooklyn, etc. you see in videos, looking forward to the lovely beachfront property they'll own in Gaza when the Palestinians have been eradicated. If they ever manage to achieve this, I wish them Poltergeist karma for every day and night for the rest of their lives.
While you have those thoughts, think about the USA's Westward expansion--all of it from pre-1776 to 1900 and the theft of Panama from Colombia. Native's were North America's Palestinians.
Aaron Good talks about westward expansion serving as a pressure valve for the problems of capitalism in the already settled parts of the US. With the closing of the west, instead of building up their domestic market, restructuring the economy and having certain aspects of the economy more centrally planned along democratic lines they decided to expand outwardly to create a global empire.
"Some of the earliest American capitalists, some of the earliest American industrial centers like the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts, they were paid for in opium money. The US used to sell Turkish opium to China, that's how the people who built Yale got all their money, the first railroad in the US was paid for with opium money. This was international trade, essentially drug dealing. That's how the Delano family got its money, the Forbes family, Henry Cabot Lodge."
Nice update of Turner's Frontier Thesis. US Extraterritoral Imperialist aspirations date from the nation's outset but genuine overseas quests began in the 1820s with Cuba then in the 1840s in Nicaragua. All the "Vice Trades" paid very well and still do. Interesting that SCO and other orgs are networking to fight international crime and terrorism in a real manner.
This was a part of US history I never knew anything about but I'm not as widely read as some people are. That said, I know a *whole* lot more about the world in general, particularly geopolitics, than I did before the SMO began and I started tuning in analysts and reading analyses and commentaries. It's been an education.
And America's Palestinians, already well awake have been invigorated by the simple and direct critique of settler colonialism exemplified in the pro-gaza sentiment.
To revert to Karl's article itself: it is good to remind ourselves that there are lots of things worse than 'woke'. Like funbdamentalist bigotry for example. Just as there are worse ways of dealing with Transexuals than hormone treatments.
Stoning them to death as sinners, for example. Or incarcerating them in mental hospitals for life.
I wonder how many young Europeans are baling out of their home countries since their prospects are so grim. IE, people who can "smell the coffee". It seems the social benefits will diminish as the 'leaders' there find a predictably moronic way to beat plowshares into guns. Apparently, Barbara Tuchman in her depressing history of 14th C. Europe, A Distant Mirror, not only wrote about the past but predicted the future. The more things change... The US MIC is licking their greasy/bloody mandibles in anticipation of the big grift. And...FJB
Good luck if they think of Australia as viable; there's a shortage of accommodation/rentals, and the long housing (mortgage) boom is under some stress. NZ probably not a lot better. (Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics is a useful analyst/commentator on these matters). Digital nomads seem to like SE Asia, and there are retirees across the region. But mostly I would think its a matter of having to just suck it up where ever you are.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! And I am not really good at it either….but sometimes, it is important! The secret is — the world is not going to end this weekend 😎
I still need to read the articles but had already watched the chat and the part I found most enlightening (which may not be news to others) was his discussion about Ron Derma's recent talks about the need to de-radicalize Gaza and the West Bank through a "transformative process" like Germany and esp. Japan experienced at the end of WWII.
"This is exactly what I was told back in 2003, that after Iraq was bombed into dust like Dresden the Palestinians would become docile and agree to peace on Israel's terms because Saddam Hussein was an icon for the Palestinians so his annihilation would be transformative for the Palestinian leadership, they would be thoroughly demoralized."
He also made some very good points about the Qassam Brigades, that they "have a different ethos than the political leadership sitting in Doha, their ethos is victory or martyrdom. We don't understand when they talk about this or about sacrifice, how they could conceive that sometimes a people must lose a large proportion of itself in order for the people as a whole to survive."
The notion that Palestinians can be bombed into docility is ludicrous, it will just radicalize more of them and understandably so. If your fate is to be killed anyway you may as well do as much damage to your enemy as you can before you go down.
Yes, those were all good--revealing--points. Of course, it never occurs to Zionists that they are the ones in need of a "transformative process." Crooke wrote a book published in 2009 based on the knowledge and experiences he had as a diplomat and negotiator, "Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution," which is one reason why he's so informed on the philosophy of Islamic Resistance. Derma is an excellent example of how Exceptionalism makes a person inhuman/Anti-Human; he probably thinks he's normal.
Maybe Derma got a double-dose of exceptionalism being a zionist who grew up in New Jersey and is completely Americanized per Napolitano. That sort of fits the profile of the colonialist settlers from Brooklyn, etc. you see in videos, looking forward to the lovely beachfront property they'll own in Gaza when the Palestinians have been eradicated. If they ever manage to achieve this, I wish them Poltergeist karma for every day and night for the rest of their lives.
While you have those thoughts, think about the USA's Westward expansion--all of it from pre-1776 to 1900 and the theft of Panama from Colombia. Native's were North America's Palestinians.
Aaron Good talks about westward expansion serving as a pressure valve for the problems of capitalism in the already settled parts of the US. With the closing of the west, instead of building up their domestic market, restructuring the economy and having certain aspects of the economy more centrally planned along democratic lines they decided to expand outwardly to create a global empire.
"Some of the earliest American capitalists, some of the earliest American industrial centers like the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts, they were paid for in opium money. The US used to sell Turkish opium to China, that's how the people who built Yale got all their money, the first railroad in the US was paid for with opium money. This was international trade, essentially drug dealing. That's how the Delano family got its money, the Forbes family, Henry Cabot Lodge."
Nice update of Turner's Frontier Thesis. US Extraterritoral Imperialist aspirations date from the nation's outset but genuine overseas quests began in the 1820s with Cuba then in the 1840s in Nicaragua. All the "Vice Trades" paid very well and still do. Interesting that SCO and other orgs are networking to fight international crime and terrorism in a real manner.
This was a part of US history I never knew anything about but I'm not as widely read as some people are. That said, I know a *whole* lot more about the world in general, particularly geopolitics, than I did before the SMO began and I started tuning in analysts and reading analyses and commentaries. It's been an education.
And America's Palestinians, already well awake have been invigorated by the simple and direct critique of settler colonialism exemplified in the pro-gaza sentiment.
To revert to Karl's article itself: it is good to remind ourselves that there are lots of things worse than 'woke'. Like funbdamentalist bigotry for example. Just as there are worse ways of dealing with Transexuals than hormone treatments.
Stoning them to death as sinners, for example. Or incarcerating them in mental hospitals for life.
Thanks for your additions, bevin. There are many sicknesses that plague Humanity, some of the worst being mental/behavioral.
I wonder how many young Europeans are baling out of their home countries since their prospects are so grim. IE, people who can "smell the coffee". It seems the social benefits will diminish as the 'leaders' there find a predictably moronic way to beat plowshares into guns. Apparently, Barbara Tuchman in her depressing history of 14th C. Europe, A Distant Mirror, not only wrote about the past but predicted the future. The more things change... The US MIC is licking their greasy/bloody mandibles in anticipation of the big grift. And...FJB
As I've written for awhile, if they're smart and share Russian values, they'll head East.
Good luck if they think of Australia as viable; there's a shortage of accommodation/rentals, and the long housing (mortgage) boom is under some stress. NZ probably not a lot better. (Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics is a useful analyst/commentator on these matters). Digital nomads seem to like SE Asia, and there are retirees across the region. But mostly I would think its a matter of having to just suck it up where ever you are.
Good read. Macron, the Lilliput.
I was under the impression that French troops were already in motion.
Well, they've always been there, just like all other NATO troops. So, one could say they've always been "in motion."
He is simply great! And here is the latest one: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-crocus-concert-hall-atrocity--no-going-back
Thanks! Will check it out.
You should rest and enjoy holiday 😎
Thanks! I'll try to do that, but the urge to write is caused by the events I hear and read about.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! And I am not really good at it either….but sometimes, it is important! The secret is — the world is not going to end this weekend 😎