Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former United States National "Security" Adviser and Secretary of State for Dick Nixon and Gerry Ford, who earned a reputation as a sagacious tactician and diplomat [think The Art of War or better yet The Prince] but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key role in expanding the American presence in Vietnam and the illegal secret U.S. bombings of Buddhist Cambodia and Laos, died today. More
Killing of hundreds of thousands of innocents, he was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for finally relenting in Vietnam
I modeled myself after Henry.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger [Hillary Clinton's mentor] died at his home in Connecticut today (Wednesday, 11/29/23) at age 100, according to his website. [Fmr. Pres. Jimmy Carter is somehow still hanging on at 99.]
The big picture: Kissinger was the top U.S. diplomat for two presidents and was a central figure in U.S. foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th century [possibly responsible for more war crimes than George Bush but fewer than fellow AshkenaziBen Netanyahu].
Well, even if China doesn't, we can use it as a pretext to attack and not repay our debt to them.
Bomb them to hell, just like Henry said!
Zoom in: Kissinger shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Asian communist and head of North Vietnam Le Duc Tho[who had the decency to decline it], for the negotiations that ended the U.S. War on Vietnam [which is more farcical than handing Obama the same prize before he did anything and then he went on to start and fund more wars, more government killings, more profiteering than most U.S. presidents, and certainly more than Bush-Cheney were able to get away with].
You think we lived wrongly? - Shut up, Hillary.
Kissinger was the only American to serve simultaneously as secretary of state and national security adviser, per the Washington Post.
Spanish minister wants Israeli PM Netanyahu to be tried in International Criminal Court
(English DawnNews English) Nov. 15, 2023: Spanish Minister Ione Belarra passionately addresses the urgent need for intervention [against Israel] in the ongoing crisis in Palestine, emphasizing a call for an immediate ceasefire. With a sense of shared responsibility, Belarra warns that the tragic events unfolding against Palestine could affect any nation, reinforcing that collective action is imperative.
Expressing a commitment to ending what she termed as a "genocide," Belarra announces a bold initiative involving over 80 political leaders from both Europe and Latin America. The collaborative effort aims to bring Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to justice by taking the matter to the International Criminal Court. Belarra appeals to the public for support, urging individuals to endorse the initiative with their signatures, underlining the gravity of the situation and the necessity for a united global response.
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Spain: Israel's illegal "war" on Gaza | 'It's a question of being humane'
(Hindustan Times) Nov. 27, 2023: Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has defended comments he made about Israel's offensive attacks on Gaza, condemning Israel & Hamas was a question of being humane. This comes after Spanish PM visited Rafah border along with his Belgian counterpart. Both leaders said that the “indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians in the Palestinian territory was completely unacceptable". Both leaders also called for a permanent ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. Watch this to know more. #israel #palestine #gazaunderattack
(CJ, 11/26/23) Turkey's position on Israel's war on Palestine revealed
U.S. Col. Macgregor: "Israel has lost all its hostages. Palestine keeps checkmating Netanyahu"
(Inner Vision) Nov. 29, 2023: Col. Douglas Macgregor: "Israel has lost all its hostages. Palestine keeps checkmating Netanyahu." Col. Macgregor sheds light on the ongoing conflict between apartheid Israel and occupied Palestine. His sharp analysis boldly claims that "Israel has lost all its hostages," suggesting that the Israeli government's grip on power may be slipping. Col. Macgregor further asserts that Palestine consistently outmaneuvers corrupt Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu, leaving him in a state of panic, even though he brought them (Hamas) to power as a political power, funded them, and has protected them from Israeli forces like the Mossad and Shin Bet that wanted to illegally assassinate Hamas leaders and planned to were it not for Netanyahu's interference. This thought-provoking statement highlights the complex dynamics at play in the region and raises questions about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Thanks to @judgingfreedom.#palestine #israel #gaza
Doug Macgregor (b. 1947) is a retired U.S. Army colonel and U.S. government official, and an author, consultant, and TV commentator. He led an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx argued for radical reforms inside the U.S. Army. His thinking contributed to the U.S. strategy in its 2003 invasion of Iraq. After leaving the military in 2004, he became more politically active. In 2020, Pres. Trump proposed Macgregor as ambassador to Germany, but the Senate blocked his nomination. On Nov. 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as senior advisor to the acting secretary of war defense...
U.S. War Adviser Doug Macgregor
Was the Hamas attack (by the Al Qassam Brigades fighters) a trap to lure in Israel's militants, the IDF? While it may seem a devastating mistake to anger the dragon, Israel, it has actually exposed Israel's hypocrisy, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and violations of international law.
Now the whole world sees what it has been doing behind U.S. protection. If there is a worldwide rise in anti-Jewish fervor, who can be surprised? It is the behavior of Jewish Zionists bringing on such contempt and anger.
These crimes by Israel did not begin on Oct. 7. Far from it. Israel has been on a settler colonial campaign for 50 to 75 years, with the help of the West, most notably England and "England Jr," the USA.
Israel releases Palestinian child prisoners it illegally stole and was keeping without charge
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Nov. 27, 2023: As part of the recent captive swap with Hamas, Israeli authorities released dozens of political prisoners, many of them abducted by Israel as children at the time of their arrest.
Unbeknownst to most Westerners, Israel routinely takes captives, political prisoners, arrests Palestinian children and teens, women and people whose main "crime" is being Arab, then subjects them to solitary confinement, homosexual abuse, physical torture, and other deprivations — according to Save the Children.
Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger, along with Due Dissidence’s Keaton Weiss, discuss Israeli propaganda about its treatment of Palestinians and how long American politicians can continue to spread these lies.
Hamas "monsters" kindly release captives in exchange for peace
Who provokes antisemitism? It can't be Israel.
One can tell so much by the little things, and they look so kind and caring. These were not "hostages" held for ransom. They were captives taken to deal with a lying, genocidal force (Israel) that cannot be reasoned with. Zionism does not compromise. It settles and colonizes and metastasizes, eating up Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan by a Jewish manifest destiny to create an empire and call it a homeland. Zionism is not Judaism. Judaism is used as an excuse to commit war crimes and say the Bible and God told you to do it (i.e., Amalek). Ethnic cleansing has no excuse. Go back to the West because as a group constantly calling itself the "victim," this project has made a new mostly-European population most unwelcome.
(Gacha Gaming) Nov. 29, 2023: U.S. Marine and U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in conversation with Black liberal intellect Garland Nixon: Israel's terrorist military (IDF) is retreating from Gaza, Palestine. They are afraid even though they are the overwhelming force against guerilla freedom fighters. "Urban warfare" with Hamas's military arm, the Al Qassam Brigades, is suicidal. Join: t.me/+EUvu0163Ugk2YTk1
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Israel attacks during ‘truce’: Will West Bank explode? w/ Abby Martin
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As the clock ticks down on the truce (temporary pause) in Gaza, Israel has attacked and killed at least two children in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, Palestine.
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Real Reporter, Oct. 5, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Rural Russia attracts Westerners. But why THIS place?
(Real Reporter) Western nations have been urging their citizens to leave Russia ever since the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine began, and Moscow has been hit with unprecedented sanctions.
Nadya left Mother Russia for the feminist West.
[Even Pussy Riot (the feminist collective and punk rock project led by Nadya Tolokonnikova now no longer married to Russian-Canadian Pyotr Verzilov) left and came to Los Angeles.]
Yet, there are Americans, French, and Germans who not only visit Russia but also make it their home. What's even more intriguing is that there is a town tucked away in rural Russia that's been drawing in Westerners like a magnet. Curious? Let's find out why.
It takes place on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm and is called BASIC NATURAL NAVIGATION AND ORIENTATION.
This field workshop is led by author, expert, and Nature Guide Christopher Nyerges.
It's easier to read than my iPhone!
What are some of the tried-and-proven methods for navigation that people have used for centuries? We'll begin with observations of the terrain -- shadows, looking at trees, moisture, feeling rocks, insect signs, and so on, making use of Native American wisdom handed down over generations.
We’ll learn how to use the stars, sun, and moon for navigation, including how to read the natural terrain.
These are survival skills that our grandparents took for granted, but as we rely more and more on GPS technologies, we have forgotten these very basic skills to orient ourselves and know where we are.
We’ll ALSO learn the basics:
How to read a map
How to use a compass
How to align map and compass
Ways to navigate the terrain with these tools.
We’ll discover how to use the "star dial" to tell time the no-tech way (as shown here by James Ruther).
We’ll also exercise our newfound skills to test our ability. Bring a notebook. Believe it or not, also included in this class are a few fire-making skills!
Location sent with registration: Students and seniors, $45, regular $65. This class may be applied towards the School of Self-Reliance Bushcraft Certificate.
In a groundbreaking development, Latin American Catholic Pope Francis has indicated his willingness to bless same-sex unions [thereby sanctioning, promoting, and possibly even advocating for homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transsexuality, and transgenderism, which were previously regarded as "abominations" to the God of the Jews in the Old Testament].
Oooh, me? (young Ryan Seacrest)
This move marks a significant shift in the Catholic Church’s approach towards LGBTQ+ individuals. It represents a departure from the Church’s traditional teachings, suggesting a more inclusive and accepting stance under Pope Francis’s leadership.
Responding to the dubia ["doubts"] letter: In response to a letter from a panel of conservative cardinals, Pope Francis has clarified the Church’s position on same-sex unions.
The letter, known as a dubia, called for a definitive [response and] stance from the Vatican.
This is part of the ongoing debate within the Church about homosexuality [of particular interest to its many homosexuality priests, predators, and child molesters].
Pope Francis has been a vocal advocate for the sacredness of all forms of love [incest, bestiality, self (masturbation), pederasty, child molestation, nonbinary, trans, bigamy, interspecies, polyamory extraterrestrial alien, too?] including same-sex relationships.
His claim that these relationships are worthy of God’s blessing breaks traditional Catholic views. It suggests a more inclusive future for the Church. This statement from the Pope invites a broader discussion on the nature of love and acceptance. [Anything goes?] More: "Blasphemy and heresy at the highest level"
Pope considers same gender marriage. Vatican firmly restates: Freemasonry [a competing cult] membership strictly forbidden for Catholics [and it's] an illegitimate inquiry [so don't ask].
Inside a Military Dictatorship (Myanmar documentary) | Real Stories
(Real Stories) Nov. 19, 2023: Burma/Myanmar’s path to democracy leads along the bumpy road of a 50-year military dictatorship. Long stretches were traversed with the incomparable endurance of the hopes of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Finally in power after more than 20 years of house arrest, the grave human rights violations by the country against the Muslim minority of the Rohingya [who long ago sided with the British and were defeated, leading to hatred by many in the country who regarded them as foreigners from neighboring Bangladesh and traitors who fought against the Burmese] nevertheless continue across the country.
[When finally in power and asked about the Rohingya, Aung San Suu Kyi spoke like a politician or a person in denial about the military's atrocities with regard to the Rohingya ethnic minority. She fell from grace in the eyes of the West and presumably the rest of the world, while still loved by the Burmese people who are barred from having her rise to lead the country because the military dictators behind the scenes and now in front again have made laws the forbid it.]
Myanmar provides the setting for a seemingly absurd political power game. Filmmaker Karen Stokkendal Poulsen pointed her camera at the former peace icon and the retired generals to provide a captivating investigative exploration of the opposing coexistence of a woman and the military.
The story of a political miracle which, unfortunately, ceased to be one.
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Theravada Buddhists and visitors enjoy the great Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma.
Burma: Inside the Protestant Chin ethnic group's armed resistance against ruling junta
Hateful nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu (AP)
(FRANCE 24 English)
France 24 is a French public broadcast service. Since the February 2021 coup in Burma (renamed "Myanmar" by the new military dictators), the Protestant Christian Chin ethnic minority -- one of 135 officially recognized in Burma -- has taken up arms to defend its land, identity and ideals against the all-powerful ruling junta in the Theravada Buddhist-majority country. The team reports.
Read more about this story in this article: f24.my/9p4i.y
Myanmar: How the Chin are fighting the Junta
(DW Documentary) DW is a German public broadcast service. Aug. 8, 2023: After another military coup in Burma (Myanmar) in 2021, the Christian Chin ethnic minority took up arms. The Chin people are fighting to defend their territory, their identity, and their democratic principles against the junta (military dictatorship). In the mountains in the remote west of Burma, a bitter war is raging. The Chin, a primarily Christian minority, still control most of the area after putting up a fierce resistance against the Myanmar military. The resistance fighters train in the mountains along the peaceful Indian border. Hundreds of young people gave up their jobs or studies to join the battle. Although they’re equipped with little more than light weapons, they’re determined to stand their ground. But the civilian population is paying a high price for the war. Thousands of villagers have been bombed by the junta, their homes destroyed. Many have been forced to flee. Nevertheless, the Chin remain committed to the fight to overthrow the military regime. #Myanmar
COMMENTARY
As monks we oppose this bad gov't.
It is not quite correct to call the generals that form the military junta after the coup "Buddhists," they do tend to be Buddhists in name only, as they kill and oppress Buddhist monks and nuns (sayalays), as during the Saffron Revolution when Buddhist monastics stood up against the military dictatorship and were brutally suppressed.
Gen. Than Shwe: Come back, Hillary
That suppression came with the aid and blessing of U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who was in the country making deals with Aung San Suu Kyi to fight a proxy war against China and exploit Burma's resources for the U.S. and Western markets.
As Clinton lost in a humiliating defeat to dumb Donald Trump, the whole plan of setting up a fake nominal democracy in the style of America's farcical one-party system (the Money Party with two wings, moderate and extreme-right) fell through.
Aung San Suu Kyi (Time cover)
After the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority and their return, the Myanmar military committed more atrocities against perceived enemies of the junta (military dictatorship).
The Rohingya, Karens, and Chin are just three of the ethnic minorities so suffer at the hands of oppressive military rule in this police state (which has suffered troubles since the British invasion and arising of George Orwell, who was born here and served in the Royal Forces as a soldier who did not want to side with Great Britain. Much of what he wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four was witnessed and learned in Burma under British rule and applied to England and the West.
Miraculously, Theravada Buddhism survives and is practiced, benefiting from its isolation from Western tourists and outsiders.
While the Burmese people are open to visitors, particularly Westerners, the country's rulers are not interested in anything but the foreign currency tourists bring. So visiting at this time may not be the best idea out of humanitarian concerns.
However, a closed Buddhist country, as for example Bhutan once remained closed, preserves culture. Burma has already been exposed to Western influences: British imperial oppression, the first Western Buddhist monk to be fully ordained being an Irishman more than a century ago who also opposed the British and Christian proselytizers and got in a lot of trouble as a rebel and excellent public speaker. (See the Western Dharma bum Ven. U Dhammaloka).
Then Burma was wooed by its Chinese neighbors, who advanced the corruption of new military leaders out to enrich themselves and their families. Then Burma was made promises by Secretary of State Clinton, promises that fell through, leaving Aung San Suu Kyi in the lurch and disgraced -- and the ASEAN country in turmoil.
Suu Kyi, after years of house arrest, entered government but was such a nationalist and patriot, she could not see the crimes of the real rulers behind the scenes (the junta left in place by Clinton as the country move toward the appearance of parliamentary democracy), the junta attempting to expel or annihilate the Rohingya.
So the world turned against this once great female peace activist who was the greatest hope of the majority of Burmese, as Suu Kyi's father was once a great national hero. She was destined for greatness, restoring the Buddhist country to greatness, but it was not to be. See Burma VJ for a look into the Saffron Revolution and the silly American movie Beyond Rangoon for a hint of what happened that led down this road.
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