As mentioned in my last post, there was considerable risk of a nuclear “exchange” between India and Pakistan recently. BTW, the winner in that conflict was (again) China. Regardless, the World moves on to the next disaster, with another nuclear “exchange” on the horizon.
For this post, I suggest again playing Bach’s Chaconne, from Partita N. 2, BWV 1004:
First, some preliminary details. Get used to the idea that we are in World War III. What is a common lead-up to war? A failing economy. How do governments best rally popular support and refocus the economy? What has that got to do with today? Possibly the biggest economic shock ever is about to happen. The Japanese carry trade is collapsing in the bond market crisis. How that trading would normally work, traders borrow Japanese yen to buy US T-bills (Treasury Bonds) to capture a small percentage of the interest between variations in the market. Big problem - nobody’s buying those bonds, they are all selling, causing the interest rate on the bonds to rise, as a bribe to get people to buy them. This turns banks “upside down” since they lose opportunity to increase liquidity in times of need by selling some “good-as-cash” US T-bills. Except they can’t sell them if nobody’s buying! The same liquidity problem exists in the hedge funds market, the original lender requires more valuable collateral because the other intermediaries are having difficulty paying them back, liquidity is drying up everywhere. The Fed may yet bail out hedge funds. Why do those people deserve to be rescued? So watch for bank failures, and this is spreading to the US now. Robert Moriarty was just talking about this on Natural Resource Stocks on YouTube. He’s calling it the biggest economic shock in 50 years, if not ever. Could war be the answer?
In a parallel world, a massive genocide is still underway, getting near to reaching its gruesome conclusion. There is a good address by Gabor Maté on Gaza: 'The Moral Issue of Our Time' at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Also, Chris Hedges speech at the same forum: The End of Western Mythology. This genocide is an indelible stain on humanity without remedy. Such events should never have a beginning, they should never have been contemplated. But the Zionist entity, which no longer deserves to be named, upholds itself as God’s Chosen People, therefore the world’s most exceptional nation, which by definition can do no wrong. Their American backing comes from the legions of Christian Nationalists who believe that Jesus will only return after the Zionist entity occupies all of Greater I(you know what). And what is covered by the area in that map? From the Nile and part of Egypt, up to part of Turkey including Syria and Lebanon, over to the Euphrates including Iraq and down into part of Saudi Arabia. We have just had a meaningless rebuke of the genocide in Gaza by Britain, France and Canada. And the War Criminal Bibi (WC-Bibi), claims that those three leaders are on the wrong side of humanity and the wrong side of history. Excuse me, it is WC-Bibi who has exited humanity and gone over to the Dark Side. But what is going on under screen of that bullshit? Britain is moving naval support over to Cyrus to back up the Zionist entity when they attack Iran. Not if, when. Remember why war becomes a necessity - WC-Bibi is in trouble at home. The US already has their support in the area. The next move for this disgusting leader of the Zionist entity will be to attack Iran. How does a population of 9 million attack a population of 90 million so far away? With the nuclear weapons which they will not admit to have, to avoid international regulations on nuclear proliferation. Nuclear winter anyone?
And if all that is not enough, along with all this, add in the war by Western proxies against Russia in Ukraine, you may download the book by Ivan Katchanovski: “The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine” from Springer Nature in PDF here. Ivan Katchanovski is at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program, University of Ottawa. Remember these events, if you can, because history will quickly be re-written to shift the blame for these stupid errors, as has always been done.
But back to the genocide. For the best review of the history of Palestine regarding the Zionist entity, please read Sam Husseini’s review of Livia Rokach’s book “Isr---’s Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett’s Personal Diary and Other Documents.” It’s a long read but well worth the effort. Forward by Noam Chomsky.
I shouldn’t need to write on this topic, as other have covered it well already, but I think it all needs to be tied into the bigger picture of WW-III. The crushing erasure of an entire population, an entire culture, in Gaza, proves that any humans are capable of atrocities beyond imagination. Nothing has been learned from history or from previous human behaviour. Until we all become able to rationally reject evil behaviour, civilization will always remain tenuous. But that remedy requires education, which is becoming more and more despised by right-wingnuts. War becomes a default tool in the human toolkit. Britain is arming up and vilifying Russia and considering conscription. Look, one Russian multi-warhead supersonic missile can eliminate ALL of Britain by one push of a button. Europe is hoping for a cease fire in Ukraine so they can roll in European troops. NATO is absolutely crazy, but has no concept of settling differences by diplomacy or peaceful coexistence. Every major place on the planet is preparing for the final conflagration. Try to recall the day that you allowed democracy to become a spectator sport.
I have banned the name for the Zionist entity, it certainly does not deserve a name, and I abolish the term "holocaust" since it has been burnt to ashes in this genocide/ethnic cleansing, Nakba 2.0 and Shoah in Gaza. I don't ever want to hear another Jewish person ever again in the remaining existence of this species, lecture anyone about "the holocaust," ever again. That term has been extinguished as mentioned above. Any further use of it is deemed weaponization to further the goals of a supposed elite segment of the population. This idea of weaponization has been described by Chris Hedges. That entire scheme has been now exposed as a lie, these very people have demonstrated that the evils of the Nazis can exist in all peoples unless actively rejected by every person.
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Recommendations: Caitlin Johnstone, Council Estate Media, DropSite News, Sam Husseini, Johnathan Cook, and Chris Hedges.
I should add one more item here: Play this one loud and cry - this is "Imagine" at the 2012 Olympics - and Imagine what this world COULD have looked like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPRI6-8Efw
It is reassuring to have a prime minister who has experience in international money markets.