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  • in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 โ€ฆ Open Thread #23911
    Grieved
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    Oh. Now there’s a thought…

    Thank you!

    (To your second part)

    Grieved
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    Thanks for posting this. I think it’s an interesting foretaste of more to come, as the locals turn quisling on Ukraine and seek to ingratiate themselves with Russia. If Arestovich has any dirt to spill, I’m sure the Russians will take all of it they can get, as they change the regime – but I don’t know that they would want to pay any kind of price for it.

    Russia will set all the surrender terms. People like Arestovich may or may not survive, depending on if there are any federal cases pending against him for war crimes and the like. I would guess there will be plenty of squealers trying to make deals as the pincers close.

    Interestingly, Yulia Tymeshenko has reappeared in the midst of the presidential fray. She’s a credible force, and I find it conceivable that Russia could deal with her as President of Ukraine – Mercouris thinks so too:

    Medvedev hints regime change. Tymoshenko makes move

    She too spoke bitter rhetoric against Russia in earlier days of this operation, but she’s a lying politician at all times so perhaps Russia wouldn’t care much about that. The only question for Russia is, who can deliver Ukraine best to suit Russia’s requirements? I suspect she could do it much better than Arestovich. At any rate, she’s presented her credentials to the big table.

    There will be many such squeals and twisting in the wind I think, yet to come. The solution here, as in Palestine, will come from the battlefield. The age of talk, it appears, is over.

    Grieved
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    My hopeful prediction for the next 2-3 years is that we will pass the Deagel timeline in the US, and the forecast’s number will be proved to be wrong. There will be a percentage of depopulation, from death and stillbirth-infertility, but I think it won’t be the forecast number.

    That wouldn’t mean the threat is over, of course, merely that the timeline has stretched.

    I agree with the thought of a beta test, but we have to note that in the US at least, the population too went through its own beta test. We were very badly blindsided in 2020, but it won’t be so easy next time to fool at least one-third of the people, even with a much more deadly rodeo. A lot of people acquired large immunity to a lot of propaganda.

    The numbers on the Deagel scorecard, and on the resistance of the people, are unknown as yet. As with all forecasts, I prefer to divide estimates by 4: so the sky is falling but not as fast as we may fear, nor as fast as they may plan.

    So with luck, there is room to maneuver, here on the ground, as the sky descends. Time, we trust, to duck and weave to navigate the perils.

    I suppose that 2023 was the final year of their taking stock after the initial experiment, and in 2024 the next horror will begin to slouch its way forward. They will shuck and jive, we will duck and weave.

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    One draws strength from Gaza…it may be like that eventually. And Gaza wins.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 16 Dec 2023 #23082
    Grieved
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    @AHH – love all your comments regarding Yemen, but especially here – many thanks!

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 16 Dec 2023 #23081
    Grieved
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    Thank you for the Crooke article, MistyAnn – it’s an important new thought that I hadn’t considered, and haven’t seen surface until now. Since it’s Crooke we’ll see it expand across Strategic Culture and Judge Nap too over the days, but this is the first draft of his thought. I look forward to more of this.

    So, it is said that the US will have to confront Israel…and this Administration is simply the latest US Administration to have to confront this reality.

    These are some potent dynamics. And yet, Crooke’s observation from back in the day that the settlers weren’t leaving that soil has now been updated by the actions of Hamas. We now know that the settlers are as chickenshit as all the others in that artificial entity…the resistance will make them leave, US or no.

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    And that link is weird, it was correct from both you and cronetoo, but clicking on it (at least from here) gets a 404. One must copy the URL and enter it directly, and it works. Or go directly here and choose the latest post:

    https://english.almayadeen.net/authors/1492581/alastair-crooke

     

     

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 16 Dec 2023 #22899
    Grieved
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    The open letter to America, the appeal to the American people, published in 1947 by King Abdullah – posted by Mr P at #22867 above – is wonderfully good, and if anyone skipped over it I highly recommend reading it.

    The letter is astonishingly clear, filled with irrefutable logic, and describing the same context to the Palestinian plight that we would see today – except that he wrote it back then, foretelling exactly the scale of the injustice that would ensue.

    The letter is remarkable for its prescience and clarity, showing a great understanding of geopolitics, history and world culture, and all this presented in simple and compelling terms.

    For convenience, here’s the link again (it exists in many archives, and I see from a simple search that many others have commented on the flawless lucidity of the letter):

    As the Arabs see the Jews, by His Majesty King Abdullah

    Published in The American Magazine, November, 1947

    ps…Amarynth if you see this, you might consider the letter for the font page – I found it that good.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 16 Dec 2023 #22897
    Grieved
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    Thank you, that’s a very useful backgrounder from Ibn Riad, great context for the current situation.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 29/11/2023 โ€ฆ Open Thread #22856
    Grieved
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    Further insight into the mind and character of Yahya Sinwar, as, from Haaretz 12/15, a former Shin Bet interrogator talks about Sinwar 30 years ago:

    LINK: https://nitter.net/jonelmer/status/1736124865105506329#m

    So, regardless of any evolutionary turns that Hamas may, or may not, have taken over the years, the position of Yahya Sinwar has remained, over three decades…steadfast.

    in reply to: BIG SUMMARY of current resistance operations #22851
    Grieved
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    “I don’t believe that story about shooting down 14 drones.”

    – “You don’t?”

    “No sir, I don’t. I don’t believe no five pistoleros could do in Josey Wales”…

    ๐Ÿ™‚

    Grieved
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    The husband of a friend came home the other day and said, “Was there something in that vaccine that made everyone stupid?” He was frustrated by the incompetence of many of the people he had under him, which he was noticing as a new thing.

    I told her that one of the effects commonly reported was “brain fog”.

    I had noted prior to the pandemic how things in America don’t work very well anymore, but this was from infrastructure and institution flaws. It may now also be from individual workers.

    Ed Dowd estimated 3.5 million of our best “essential workers” fell out of the US workforce after the jabs, from death or disability. And we hear on all sides how employers can’t find good people to hire.

    So, maybe. This damage is going to continue rolling out and increasing. The jabs do seem to be creating an exponential wave of damage that is gathering in size, still growing.

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    Should I create a Deagel thread here? I’ve been pondering that lately. Those depopulation numbers were scary but hard to believe, back in the day, but we now have the mechanism loose onstage that could cause them to become real.

    Grieved
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    Attorney Jeff Childers is on this story and actually believes this may be used to force FDA to pull the vax from the market…we’ll see about that, but he’s been deep in the science and law of this experimental massacre since it began 3 years ago, and his instinct in this field is pretty good (we ignore his geopolitical views, which are pretty brainwashed).

    You have to scroll down past the first two stories (about McCarthy resigning and Biden corruption) toย  get to his analysis of this, but it’s a good read and makes everything very understandable:

    https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/nonsense-thursday-december-7-2023

    Deep in his story he gives a link to one of his earlier stories (“JACKPOT”) – that is very worth reading also, I bookmarked it back in August in my “biowar” folder.

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    Thanks, Mr P for your contributions here (and everywhere else) – greatly appreciated and keep ’em coming!

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 24 Nov 2023 #21690
    Grieved
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    I love that image of the carrier turning tail – it could fit in a cartoon. Made my day, thank you (and thanks, Yemenis!).

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 8/11/2023 โ€ฆ Open Thread #21537
    Grieved
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    @Mr P – yes, I thought it was an excellent observation by Fernandes / Bertrand / b – I could spend some time digesting that concept and reworking my understanding of things.

    For example, we talk – even in today’s discussion here – about the end of empire, but we should look to the end of the corporations before we celebrate the end of the superficial “statecraft” that provides cover for them.

    So, it’s an important concept that we should be conscious of, I think. We should discuss this more, perhaps even in the front end of the site somewhere.

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    Also, your own observation here is very important, about chimps caught in the snapshot of time, while all along being simply part of the ebb and flow of external forces and internal momenta.

    You place it within a chemical plasticity, and a Buddhist view would agree (without subordinating it to chemistry especially, probably rather subordinating chemistry to it – but not a crucial difference). The point is that humans wisdom can easily accommodate this thought, and I would love to pursue it over time.

    Perhaps discussion itself forms part of that plasticity. Hard times produce strong people, etc – and perhaps important discussion cuts through a lot of that and saves many steps?

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 18 Nov 2023 #21469
    Grieved
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    @AHH – you asked what anyone thinks of Shahid Bolsen and Garland Nixon…I haven’t listened to them lately, they don’t seem relevant at this precise moment.

    What I do take note of is what Hamas says, in your report above:

    โ€” The resistance has not used the full extent of its capabilities yet, and is conducting this confrontation in accordance to a prepared military plan and a strategic vision.

    I believe every word of that.There is a plan and there is a capability to follow that plan through to success. I think it must be true that the other forces such as Hezbollah recognize that capability and see no need to enter any deeper into Gaza, because the native resistance there is not faltering.

    The battlefield will decide this thing.

    The price is terrible. But what it buys will be beyond price.

    And meanwhile the Flood remains pure in its effect: the world is recalibrating around many new revealed realities, as we see. History will only show ever more clearly how Hamas created a tipping point and supplied the fulcrum for the whole world to shift.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 11 Nov 2023 #20931
    Grieved
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    AHH, every so often you could probably use a big “THANK YOU !” for all the work you’ve done every day and continue to do daily.

    I hope your strength is not flagging…if you need to take a break we can check the TG feeds ourselves for a while, although your excellent commentary would be missed.

    What you are doing is priceless, beyond measure. Stay healthy, get as good sleep as you can.

    And again, many thanks.

     

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