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  • in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23873
    Mr P
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    Yes, great provocation. Recalling that the last two targets on the Rummy-List (PNAC and so forth) were Lebanon and Iran…

    Evidently the nazi see their situation as urgent… this suggests their Strategy is Hope… Good luck with that fellas…

    In real strategy urgency implies a lack of options, which leads to defeat, if properly developed. I imagine the Iranians have seen this before… ahem 😉

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23862
    Mr P
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    Yes, each of us as our characters reflect things, sees the tragic pornography of vice, and is appalled, and also drawn. When I see the direction, now hopelessly tied to industrial means, it’s natural and obvious to expect the new to carry the seeds of ruin once again…though many happy children may live long happy lives before this tragedy arises again…what? 1000 years, or maybe not… we’ll see, I hope! BTW Father’s early passing ended many, most, of my deep history lessons – I have mixed thoughts about it.

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    Recalling the lady-like look that sparks between young women and young men, between mothers and children…and all of that… I see that Mother is winking at her lost child… just winking… The referendums will arise as the time comes… 😉

    https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/590036-russian-alaska-orthodoxy-and-independence/

    Then they’ll spread… Not overnight… As sort of auto-revisionist manifestation of actual History…

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    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23821
    Mr P
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    Seems in a sense that the machine is so corrupt and perverse with internal contradictions that only perverts can be normal… if you follow that sloppy logic. An organism in pursuit of pathogenesis…if it recovers it’ll be way different, that’s to say it can’t recover…

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    Recalling Gunter G… I did not realize he’d done so many fine interviews…

    https://youtu.be/90EVIH4KZsc     Gesprach mit Der Alte (1965)

    at 17:00 he asks about Dulles… Given what we have now as context the old feller and the young Gunter make a study… Earlier he gives some very sage advice. Olaf might have learned a thing or two…

    In 1965 I was preoccupied with other matters…

     

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23809
    Mr P
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    It’s like Lenin said… https://youtu.be/dHyGCCZzG2o

    What’s that smell…smells like 911 and rot…

    Just Like 9/11? Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack

    and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027

     

    Abstract: learned paper by legal boffins>

    Recent scholarship shows that informed traders increasingly disguise trades in economically linked securities such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Linking that work to longstanding literature on financial markets’ reactions to military conflict, we document a significant spike in short selling in the principal Israeli-company ETF days before the October 7 Hamas attack. The short selling that day far exceeded the short selling that occurred during numerous other periods of crisis, including the recession following the financial crisis, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, we identify increases in short selling before the attack in dozens of Israeli companies traded in Tel Aviv. For one Israeli company alone, 4.43 million new shares sold short over the September 14 to October 5 period yielded profits (or approximates
    avoided losses) of millions on that additional short selling for one out of hundreds of securities traded on the TASE. Although we see no aggregate increase in shorting of Israeli companies on U.S. exchanges, we do identify a sharp and unusual increase, just before the attacks, in trading in risky short-dated options on these companies expiring just after the attacks. We identify similar patterns in the Israeli ETF at times when it was reported that Hamas was planning to execute a similar attack as in October. Our findings suggest that traders informed about the coming attacks profited from these tragic events, and consistent with prior literature we show that trading of this kind occurs in gaps in U.S. and international enforcement of legal prohibitions on informed
    trading. We contribute to the growing literature on trading related to geopolitical events and offer suggestions for policymakers concerned about profitable trading on the basis of information about coming military conflict.

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    Iran sends 2nd notice to US over Gen. Soleimani assassination https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210202/Iran-sends-2nd-notice-to-US-over-Gen-Soleimani-assassination

    Wheels and gears grind slowly, but by the time the case gets to the Court the defendant party may be is pretty poor condition… and the Court may have shrugged off some fetters…by then.

    Anyway, wait and watch, ahbetcha it gets innarrestin’

    Mr P
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    The natural alignments of the Russian People flow … of course the people will unite. The SMO works toward such an eventuality, which is really the only proper way. The alternative is not to be.

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 27 Dec 2023 #23763
    Mr P
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    The old Iranian warship … This is tripwire (?)  Everyone knows Imperial Power is determined by the nature of existential structure of nazi elites to subdue and conquer Iran. This goal is intrinsic… They, the Iranians themselves, of course especially know this. Stumpy expects the old ship to be attacked, it’s a very small ship, smaller than a WW2 destroyer, probably it will sink, though it may be able to beach and save many crew…we’ll see. What comes after that, well, only general things can be seen… big trouble in oil patch…big trouble in Die Heimat… The old ship has some sharp teeth… may bring big grief to nazi navy… an expensive grief. When enemy is sure to attack, it’s not so hard to make a welcome, er, trap.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23759
    Mr P
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    Sometimes The Post offers up wonderfully risible propaganda…

    “Even autocrats who hold sham elections implicitly concede that the people’s votes are the only universally recognized source of political legitimacy.”

    Well, if the election is a landslide for the other fellow, but you got 81 million votes…

    Includes campaign poster in Ruskie!

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/31/elections-world-presidents-legitimacy/

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 27 Dec 2023 #23753
    Mr P
    Participant

    for  ” Fidel pulling his shit up to show no vest armor, is m…” read “shirt”… Freud stuff! Honest!

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 27 Dec 2023 #23752
    Mr P
    Participant

    Ship ALBORZ is worth a read. The choice implies what options the presence of the ship creates. Recalling the hull ratio is primary determinant of hull speed, and noting the listed power, the ship is very fast, not that it matters. The C 802 (and what else, and how much improved?) flyers are their primary weapon, probably. Note age of ship. Note again.  50 +   Rust happens.

    Some say that the imperial necessity is to conquer Iran, and that this purpose is actively sought. The fellows in Yemen are making this project difficult.

    Why comes the Iranian ship?

    imho “Ah doubledogdareya” is the message…go ahead and shoot.

    Another feature is the well bashed hull plating…this condition makes ship so afflicted very bright radar targets.

    Like Fidel pulling his shit up to show no vest armor, is moral vest.

    Call me pessimistic – I think the old fast ship will pretty soon sink. After that, however, matters become very dark.   G’nite and let us pray for a better future. 😉

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 27 Dec 2023 #23702
    Mr P
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    Batting down flyers with million dollar rockets is one thing. Killing the fellows and sinking their boats is another mater.

    This event, Policy demonstration, may elicit a change in the scope of targets. Will navy ships now be treated to reciprocal attack?

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/31/us-forces-sink-houthi-boats-in-red-sea-after-attack-on-maersk-vessel

    in reply to: West Asia front Thread, 27 Dec 2023 #23690
    Mr P
    Participant

    Maybe it’s on topic to remark that the W2 “allied” terror bombings, especially those deliberately intended to intimidate the Soviet Army and leadership, these wanton slaughters of innocents such as Dresden, Heroshima, Tokyo, Nagasaki and many others, which were intended as threats, actually telegraphed an entirely different signal. With an entirely unintended result. Fer starers, the Soviet bomb…and a process that created, with the stray cosmic ray, VVP and modern Russia, the dominant power on earth, imho. Now then, let us think upon what may come of the terror bombing which we see now in unspeakable detail?

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23682
    Mr P
    Participant

    DUGIN no more mr nice guy

    No more “Mister Nice Guy”… Emotion clouds judgement. Emotion happens. Then sometimes people act rashly. That happens. Looks like it’s happening now. Even, or especially Czar must account for the People’s emotions, in degree.

    Let us hope that the necessity of emotional vector is soon satisfied with arrests and trials, and so forth...ahem. 😉  and not with more killing and destruction.

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23679
    Mr P
    Participant

    Yes, it is as you say. These people are estranged from God. One is minded of Johnathan Hoag, if you know the story.

    A remark to semantics. I see in the usage generally, and on maps, “Israel” and “Gaza” and grey areas and pocked colonial outposts of progress (Conrad’s humor)… various namings, if you will…and each with an emotional and legalistic character… I would posit, and maybe also argue, that these are lies, deceptions. In fact, I think the true name is “disputed territory”.

    Defining a problem often begins with careful definitions of what you actually know.

    Once that’s established, we might examine the matter of Justice. And recall that the means as well as the goal must be just. Noting that’s a deep question…

    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23670
    Mr P
    Participant

    More murders> https://twitter.com/runews/status/1741080305618829412?t=yrshA1qt6EQwX02fac5gkg&s=19

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    in reply to: The Hearty Salon 20/12/2023 … Open Thread #23630
    Mr P
    Participant

    Imagining learned essay The Missed Strategic Significance of the “$5,000 Cruise Missile”

    Seriously, this bit> (from 2003 and with roots well prior to)

    https://aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml

    Now we see what happens…

    Oh, the project, which ought to have been studied and even financed by the NZ military, was instead, ugh, “stopped”. Geewhiz, they looked at their future and the simply rejected the lesson. I’d say that was stupid. Now the whole world has locals who have such options. Very Jolly.

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