Hi AHH, let me update the thinking a bit on 2 issues .. there is not enough time in the day.

” may be of interest to Amarynth, who was praising UNAFIL last year.. yes, there are honorable elements within them. But as with ALL UN/western NGOs, they are part of the shameless Big Club, working solely for one side in every Forever War”

Unifil – we have changes. At the time when they did their job, the Lebanese government did not have its election (and they are totally emasculated now), and Hezbollah was still in the game. Hezbollah is now primarily focused on caring for its people. They will not be fighting. Israel itself has had a boost in that nobody is questioning their attempts to own the region but they must know they have the Gulf States behind them with a knife. So Unifil needs to work with the Lebanese army. OK you can ask me which Lebanese army of course haha .. Just recently the US and Israel said that Unifil is not necessary any longer. I’ve not seen that come up in the UN Security Council. We will see.

We have to look at both sides .. Unifil as well as traitorous Lebanese army.

So, we’ve had a massive change and then even a bigger one with the force happening to normalize with Israel overall. We are now questioning the stance of China and this Unifil has many Chinese soldiers while China seems to want to normalize unless they’re doing something in the background that is not visible. There is a long story there – Unifil has soldiers from 50 countries.

Then, I said there will not be war against Iran for the next four months all things being equal (those four months have had a bite out of them already). I have since not fully changed my mind, but I am allowing space for a proverbial killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The space, opportunity and probability for such a proverbial oops has increased. The reason is easy to see in that Trump does not seem to understand that Iran has a trump card. He keeps saying ‘Iran has changed’ but seemingly he is either playing plausible deniability or he is just not informed. Given the extreme factional nature now of his administration, and the extreme desperation of finding a win somewhere, and Hegseth wanting to make a name for himself after crawling from the Red Sea, they may make an extreme error of judgement, but I don’t see any judgement. So, I rate an error much higher than what I rate a war against Iran. We will see at the negotiations on Sunday and that is if the region is not at war yet. One usually analyzes on the basis of the reasonableness of the other side. Well, that has undeniably and forever left the room and the other side is lashing out in pure malevolence having lost their own fear for their own skins – the wish for a win overshadows all calculus of reasonability. The Israeli vote today increases the possibility of ‘error’.

OK, let me go and work.

Just posted up at the War and Genocide thread. We have the vote today in Israel:

In a joint statement, the Knesset opposition parties announced that they will place a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament on today’s agenda, adding that the decision was “made unanimously and is binding on all factions.”

“In addition, in coordination between all factions, it was decided to remove opposition legislation from the agenda in order to concentrate all efforts on one goal: to overthrow the government,” read the statement, which was released following a meeting of the opposition parties in the Knesset.

Who knows the sequence of their process? Has Mahmood OD said anything yet?

Nice topic Nico.

My interest has always centered around the healing therapies although nowadays I have to stay with the basics of naturopathics. But I did a few of the Donna Eden classes. A lot of fun, and if one knows a little about energy meridians, her work falls nicely into there.

This is such a crossover of the eastern philosophies.  Those fellows knew about this stuff before we even opened our eyes.

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Trump fires three top pro-Israel officials amid reported rift with Netanyahu

Merav Ceren, Eric Trager, and Morgan Ortagus were axed reportedly due to pro-Israel stances

Two had been appointed by Mike Waltz — himself recently ousted

Morgan Ortagus is the woman who caused chaos in Lebanon, telling them what to do.

But another extraordinary thing .. Missiles into the Occupied Golan from Syria? 2 of them, more or less, at the same time as the Houthis’ missiles into Israel. A group calling itself the “Martyr Mohammed Deif Brigades” has claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the occupied Golan.

Boys will be boys … that was a big wack but (s)he hits like a girl!

Here is Kwan’s Korner with his 10 short videos for this week.  I usually check his selection during the week but Quan (Dr Quan Le) marches to his own drummer and I cannot always figure his reasoning for selecting something. We do chat from time to time and I’ll post anything material as I really vibe with him on principles (but not on his video selection always).

https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/dr-k-has-added-10-hot-off-the-press?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc26e1c7b-aa1d-456e-8555-b98292090740_320x400.jpeg&open=false

Oh dear, slow down, lol. Quan sends out 10 videos a week, and I can seldom post one. He is working according to the lovely noise in his head, and I like the noise, but I cannot sing with!

Here is Kwan’s corner: https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/kwans-korner-with-videos-on-india?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F414a700d-1ce6-49bd-b3a2-b9413200e01a_320x400.jpeg&open=false

For Mr P .. Those Estonian Pirates. Will Sal the Sailorman say anything?

This from Slavyangrad Channel.

Russia Detains Oil Tanker That Left Estonia, Report Says – Bloomberg

Russia detained the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Green Admire, which left the port of Sillamae and was sailing through Russian territorial waters, Estonian Public Broadcasting said Sunday, citing the Estonian Department of Transport.

The vessel is owned by Aegean Shipping of Greece and carrying shale oil on board. It was following a previously agreed route and its final destination was Rotterdam, according to the report.

The incident happened three days after Russia sent a plane in connection with Estonia‘s attempt to stop a Russian shadow oil tanker.

Ships leaving the port of Sillamae typically pass through Russian waters as the route is safer for large vessels than the passage between shoals in Estonian waters. Estonia’s Department of Transport said that it was the first such incident and that it will direct ships arriving in and leaving Sillamae through the territorial waters of Estonia to avoid a recurrence, according to the report.

Two can play this game