Nuke Provocation Is The Thing This Year.
The rogue Kim Jong Il regime of North Korea is a proliferator for hire -- Have Evil, Will Travel -- and it only moves when there is money in it. The apparent sudden announcement by the Kim regime that it is turning out the IAEA inspectors, walking away from the deathless Six-Party Talks and just generally acting like a miscreant rogue and provocateur is most likely behavior that can be linked to the recent Tehran regime provocations. Examine the timeline. Tehran tests a missile for a satellite launch. Kim tests a missile (above) for a satellite launch. Both missiles can carry a warhead as well as a spacecraft, and both can reach many countries. It does seem significant that the Tehran regime attended the Kim missile launch and reportedly paid for the whole show. Soonafter, Tehran announces it has seven thousand P2 centrifuges and is opening the Isfahan facility to mass produce nuclear fuel. Next, the Kim regime kicks out the watchdogs and says it may restart its nuke plant. Does this not appear a game of bad cop, really bad cop? Meanwhile, the Pakistan regime at Islamabad (that sold the P2 centrifuge technology to Tehran) announces that it has sent a carte blanche to the jihadist-linked Sharia law caliphate of the Swat Valley. This is the Taliban unchained along the AfPak border, and the narco-lords of Kabul, America's neighborhood ally, are the first target. In sum, the Axis of Evil is rolling along, substituting the rogue and failed Pakistan for the rogue and failed Iraq. None of this is an Obama administration failure. Yet. The Obama team has inherited what remains of the Bush administration's policies for the Kim regime, the Tehran Twelvers, and the Pakistan medieval anarchists. After John Bolton's successes in the first Bush administration to build a containment policy, the Six-Party talkers tried drift, cash, credulousness and a blind eye toward the Tehran regime's involvement in Kim's whorish conduct. The result so far is back to the future of 1999. The Bush policy team could have, if it had been historical and not haphazard, off-loaded blame for the axis of evil on the British empire's (and Churchill's) feudal colonial policy in the Ummah and on the recklessness of the United Nations to leave the Kim pere regime in place in 1953. Shrug. No one much does footnotes of history on cable these days. So far, POTUS Obama is drifting along with a long line of indifferent appeasers and start-over equivocators. Dogfight coming. When?
Churchill Figured Mussolini Did It.
The failure to confront inconstant B. Mussolini for his stupid and cruel 1935-36 adventure in Abyssinia was seen by Churchill, writing after the war in 1948, as the turning point that encouraged the ambitious but, at that point in the saga, not well-armed A. Hitler to risk provocation and land grabbing against France and so forth. Once Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (right), to avenge a humiliating forty-year old defeat by rifle wielding locals against Italians at the Battle of Adowa, to show off that Italy was as bold and modern as the next carnivore, the frail League of Nations collapsed into self-accusation and ranting. Perhaps the Kim regime is Mussolini Lite. Tehran is an ambitious successor to the Nazi Berlin. I am still watching the Tehran and Kim dance to see if the analogy holds up. Below find the headline from November 1934 that hinted how Hitler was entertaining Mussolini as a junior partner in evil-doing. You ask what this all has to do with the collapse of the markets and the gleeful plundering of the Federal Treasury by the bankers on Wall Street? The Devils go to work only after the democracies are beggared by indecision, bad policy and Wall Street's random moral turpitude. See 1929-1933 for the swashbuckling. See 1934-1939 for the Devils in for the kill. Uncle Sam stayed willfully dopey until Pearl Harbor.
Nothing like a Double-standard when it comes to Nuclear weapons and power.
1. Israel has 200-300 nuclear missles and no one says a thing about it.
2. Iran is protecting itself from US-Israeli colonialism.
3. Israel will fear it will lose it's strangelhold on the Middle East.
4. North Korea has nukes mainly to piss the Western Powers.
5. Pakistan has nukes and Israel doesn't like that.
6. India has nuke technology but that's ok.
7. Belarussia is selling nuclear grade warheads for 25k. It is out there on the web. A French journalist bought a nuclear warhead on the cheap which then a bunch of documentary film makers went out and found the guy who sold the nuke.
8. Iran allows IEA inspectors in while Israel will not allow it.
9. CIA.FBI, and all said Iran is still far from having nuclear missles.
10. Finally, Iran is only protecting itself from beligerent Israel-US foriegn policies. Iran has oil which the US wants. Israel wants to dominate the region and cant stand losing it's grip on control.
11. The other Middle East countries are proppsed by US puppet dictators, they are scared of losing their power as well.
All this talk of the Nineteen Thirties brings to mind Philip K. Dick's "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," about these NASA-style time travelers whose televised "time shot" goes spectacularly and horribly awry, like a space shuttle explosion. They, as well as the rest of humanity, end up caught in some kind of infinite loop, stripped of any semblance of free will and repeating the launch and subsequent fatal accident over and over. all their previous iterations remembered . And each time the doomed men wearily make ready to clamber into their capsule, the President pins medals – posthumous ones, of course – on their chests while an Army band plays funereal music, and they are even forced to watch their own government-held memorial service.
For my money Dick's unsettling tale is the best time travel story this side of HG Wells, which is what I'd expect from the brilliant, tortured soul who also wrote "A Scanner Darkly" and "The Man in the High Castle." It has stayed with me for many years.
And now I think once more of "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts" as I come across yet another comparison of this era to the Nineteen Thirties. But 2009 is not 1934, and Ahmadinejad and Kim are not Hitler and Mussolini--devils, yes, but tiny, shrill-voiced ones, fit only to caper about comically, brandishing miniature pitchforks in some Looney Tunes cartoon short of the era Mr. Batchelor references.
Or to put it another way, Iran's Gross Domestic Product amounts to 294 billion dollars, the bulk of which comes from the rapidly-dwindling petroleum exports that comprise 85% of their total government revenue. Economically, Iran ranks somewhere between Maryland and Washington.
And North Korea's GDP? It's less than a tenth of that, and just barely beats out the GDP of Vermont, which has the smallest economy of any of the fifty States.
Relatively speaking, the Axis powers were giants.
Are we doomed to learn nothing? Worse, to forget nothing?
After reading Sam, I realize the true magnitude of 50 years of dumbing down
of America.
In the 1950's, we had "fellow travelers", the late 60's and early 70's brought
"the flower children" and "radical hippies."
Looks like the first decade of the new millennium has brought us the stupids, or
SAM(s) for short
We can reflect on history and the past and bring it forward. Those events, consequential or not, were the days equivalent to paying it forward. So, they are free to look at and can be beneficial if, in sober contemplation, any lessons can be learned and utilized for relevancy in current affairs.
The incomparable, improbable Incheon daring and success in spite of the damning critics was a masterstroke of genius. Political meddling and hamstringing brought the Yalu River debacle and failings. One executed by free hands and mind; the other with frustration and virulence, compliments of someone in some office somewhere not wanting to offend. They paid it forward then and we are paying for it still today. It’s not over.
The Persian Gulf War (remember the Elite Republican Guard that was going to eviscerate the coalition forces?) and the subsequent decision not to finish the job in Baghdad. They paid it forward and we are paying for it still today ten fold, twenty fold, how many fold? It’s not over.
Neither are over. They should have been historical studies for new generations. They go on..We are paying it forward now.
Myself, I have no doubt that “our” elites are wanting to utilize their knowledge and skill. They would love to ply their trade in a fight for what is right and for justice.
I would take liberty here and say that they would love to hear someone say “I’m going to go pick a fight.”
Listen Spencer, this is really getting tiresome. Can you refute my facts or not? I seem to be insulted everytime I bring in a totally different perspective to this discussion. I am open to other opinions, but never insulted anyone in this forum.
Mr. Bachelor said his peace a while back on this issue. I have no problem with it myself; however, it seems that my reality has a liberal basis.
Peter Koelliker replied to comment from Tom O' | April 15, 2009 1:01 AM
I'm not going to allow myself to fall into the trap of calling Sam's arguments 'stupid(s)'. For all I know, Sam, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Bush, Castro, etc. are all brilliant. They represent a mindset that may run contrary to my own. All of it is based on certain assumptions; and, from there, the logic is spun to support it. Allegiance is not determined by logic. Logic merely supports it. It is carefully tailored to fit and completely fluid. Arguing logic has no end. It goes around in interminable circles until all sides are exhausted. A sure indication of when the last gasp has been reached is always when both sides resort to calling each other 'stupid'.
Allegiance is determined by tradition or, in modern parlance, protracted brainwashing. It may also be subject to a certain malaise born of aimlessness and indifference. Sam is far from indifferent. He is utterly consistent. As I mentioned in an earlier post (which may have run or not), he is quite prepared to fight for what he believes - as are the jihadis and commies around the world. It is this that counts today (as it always has): a willingness to fight. Once one has lost that, no amount of logic and name calling can keep one safe on the shifting sands of time.
Whach U talkin 'bout?
I don't speak to you anymore. You're confused.
I try to stay within the context of Mr Batchelor's thought provoking and unique offerings which I happen to mostly agree with.
My hope is that I add to the discussion and that I don't show my ignorance too much.
de profundis
It appears that our illustrious Department of Homeland security has taken the first steps in criminalizaling dissent. Read the report for yourself. It states quite clearly, that there is no actual threat of violence, but people who disagree with the administrations policies on enforcing immigration laws, economic bailouts, gun bans, trade agreements that send jobs overseas, concerns about China or Russian and national security are domestic terrorists. They clearly play the blame the victim card here and don't ask the obvious - are government actions or inactions actually driving people to lose faith in their government?
If you read the document, it is weak and unconvincing. And these folks have the audacity to sow the seeds of poison against the very returning veterans who swore to defend and protect the Constitution, many leaving parts of themselves (both literally and figuratively) in the sand box of Iraq and the lunar wasteland of Afghanistan. It is appalling to read this.
It lumps someone like Texas Governor Rick Perry into the same group as the white supremecists. Recall that Governor Perry said in a press release earlier this week:
"'I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion inton the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state. That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm states' rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 'I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union."
Anyone else concerned that the Department of Homeland Security seems more fearful of American soldiers and citizens who have READ the US Constitution, than they are of man caused disasters (what you and I used to call Jihadi terrorism). Is it crazy to think it can happen here? I have started reading Leonard Piekoff's The Ominous Parallels. Indeed they are. Those of us who have read and favorably digested The US Constitution, The Federalist Papers, Atlas Shrugged, 1984 and Animal Farm - we are being painted as America's enemy within. So I ask, what has America become? Is it what our Founders intended? Is it approaching the time when we walk away from an experiment gone awry and invest in new lab equipment elsewhere? If so, where?
Novanglus - I'm sure you're not surprised. Outraged, maybe; but not surprised. You of all people know how these people operate. They cannot stand the light of day; they have no shame; they hate us more than they hate those who are sworn to kill us. And that would be just peachy for them: no opposition; no scrutiny; no fair evaluation. Nothing. Just to exist unchallenged; unquestioned, as a great-lipped Alfred E. Neuman grin staring back from the mirror, whispering softly, "I am POtUS." ...and let nobody forget it!
novanglus and Peter Koelliker: It is refreshing to see you gentleman waking up to the encrouching tryanny that is befalling our country.
Since 9/11, Bush and Co, set up a Continunity of Government a day after this tragic day and it has not stopped. Obama has continued it on without skipping a beat. Bush declared American "terrorist' way back in his second term in office. The President had to right to pick up 'anyone' in the US and sent them without any due process right into one of those CIA blacksites in Egypt or Eastern Europe.
Continuity of Government was established under Rumsfeld and Cheney in case of nuclear war, so the government would continue to govern even though the American heartland could be a wasteland. Bush and Co were waiting for an excuse to finally use these presidential powers, thus Cheney and Bush pushed the evenlope as far as they could like torture, secret wire taping, internet surviellance, trashing a CIA operative's career and an illegal war.
MIAC (Missouri Information Analysis) stated that anyone who had a Ron Paul bumper sticker.
Here is the full list of reports from the Missouri Highway Patrol:
• Fentanyl Alert: June 2006
• New Black Panther Party: June 2006
• National Socialist Movement: March 10, 2007
• Constitution Rangers: June 7, 2007
• Volksfront-White Supremacist Group: June 28, 2007
• Asatru-Odinism: July 19, 2007
• Black Separatism: Sept. 5, 2007
• Illicit Use of Digital Music Players: Jan. 18, 2008
• Leaderless Resistance: Aug. 6, 2008
• Sovereign Citizens Movement: Sept. 11, 2008
• American Radicalized Islamic Converts (ARICS): Nov. 4, 2008
• Anarchist Tactics: Nov. 8, 2008
• National Socialist Movement: Nov. 8, 2008
• Anarchist Movement: Dec. 2, 2008
• Modern Committees of Safety: Jan. 9, 2009
• The Modern Militia Movement: Feb. 20, 2009
Moreover, supporters of Third-party candidates.
It only makes sense the White House/Congress would attack the other side of the spectrum. However, if anything it will unite the population against the corrupt government inhabiting the US capitol.
HoHummm [DO NOT DISTURB]
What does one do with people such as this:
A Sharia Court decided the fate of a young Afghan couple (21 & 19) who were trying to elope and were caught by militants then brought before the mullahs in the Nimroz province. The decision was that they should be executed, so, they shot them both right then and there.
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Spencer | November 4, 2008 11:06 AM
Just to contrast our duress over all the predicaments in which we think we find ourselves:
Good morning! Just read the report from Somalia of the exercise in the Islamic Sharia that passed judgment on a purported 13 year old rape victim and then took her before a crowd of 1,000 assembled in a football stadium and buried her up to her neck WHILE SHE PLEADED FOR MERCY. Mercy, mind you, from what? She was raped by 3 men!! Where are the rapists?
Telling her it was by Allah, 50 men began stoning her head. At one point, it was believed that she was dead and they removed her from the hole. Then, it was determined that she was still alive, so what do they do? Yes, they put the poor girl back in the hole and resumed the execution until it was finished.
These are our enemy. These kind raise their sons and daughters up in hatred and tell them it is for their God. These are the ones that worship in a cult of death and despair while the most high of them demand that there are no compromises or alternatives. They are not holy... they are spittle in the eye of humanity and unworthy of any consideration. Unworthy of any mercy like when the mad dogs growl and bark... No mercy.
Mercy? Think not of that, think that not. Just ask your God for it.
America! the Beautiful! Let no one declare otherwise!!!
Tom O- Just FYI, I think it's been pretty well established that the preson you referred to is actually from Outsidelookinginistan and not US