Grrrrreetings good fellows and fellowettes! Till I get it together to post up a new article, this page will be open for comments on current affairs: a continuation of the thread from the last article here, in the hope that it helps readers who access Plato’s via their phones.
My techie is recovering from a med op so till he’s back in action and able to change the settings for me (I tried this morning and failed), I invite everyone to use this page for commentary.
So, what are we all waiting for?! Let’s discuss the disgusting!
I woke this morning to a great collection of comments left on the previous thread. Many thanks to Daniel, Cloak and Dagger, Canthama, emersonreturn, Golden Rule Please, WB Duncan, and Whozhear for all your excellent links and contributions.
Y'all rock the Casbah!
More update goodies from the great Alexander Mercouris:
Well done Israel
https://peterquiggins.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/white-house1.jpg
LOL! Is that rabbi Shnitzer? (Is that his name? I know it begins with a ‘Sh’).
Our friend, Linh Dinh, on the Afghan situ:
America Lies, Destroys, Breaks Promises Then Runs
Dear readers, the moment of truth is upon the Lebanon. Nasrallah just gave his last Ashura speech and with it he announced that Iranian fuel ships have just left Iranian waters and are headed towards the Lebanon. He declared these ships as 'Lebanese Land' and warned the enemy against any interference with them.
Wow! Wow fucking wow!
What can Biden do about it?
Sheesh don't make me laugh!
Israel's mouth gets stuffed with fear and shit at this breaking news from Nasrallah.
What can Bennett do about it?
Sheesh don't make me laugh!
Dorothy Shea, the US ambassador in Beirut, demanded an immediate meeting with president Aoun yesterday afternoon and he obliged her. Word is that she was very concerned over the Iranian fuel ships that Nasrallah had recently confirmed would be coming to Lebanon. Apparently, President Aoun told her that such a transaction would require ministerial signatures and that if the signatures are available, then he personally has no problem with Iranian fuel ships delivering fuel to the needy Lebanese people. I guess Dorothy was given false comfort and woke this morning to a disaster on her cunt hands.
Lebanon has no government currently and so therefore no ministers can sign anything. This means that the fuel is arriving as an 'emergency' cargo and not in defiance of governmental statutes.
Let's see what the reaction of the enemies of Lebanon within will say or do about it.
Let's see what happens when the fleet of Iranian fuel ships arrive to Lebanon shores tomorrow/day after.
Fuel ahoy!
Nasrallah: First ship of Iranian oil to head to Lebanon in next few hours
Nasrallah, in his Ashura speech this morning said:
"The Iranian fuel ship is heading towards Lebanon in a few hours. And I warn America and israel that this ship is Lebanese land'! He yelled with maximum, impassioned gusto.
He means that if this ship is harmed in any way, the port of Haifa will get attacked by Hezbollah.
Remeber the current deterrence equation: a field for a field, and a tanker for a tanker.
Very important statement…and as the old saying says…"if a cow can go through, then the herd can as well".
This "tanker" event is the checkmate, it can be a game changer to send US/EU sanctions to Lebanon to the trash bin.
With one move, Hezbollah can show to all Lebanon who cares for the country, who faces Lebanon's enemies, and who protects it from its enemies. Bringing fuel, then food, then Investments, then commerce…Iran, China, Russia and the list goes on…and again….as the old saying says "if a cow can go through, then the herd can as well".
Up coming September will be a hell of key month for this planet.
@ Canthama,
Intriguing. This is a saying from where…?
If the western world wants Lebanese bakeries and hospitals to run out of fuel, they deserve to be spit-roasted in hell for ever after.
Daniel, from Brazil and some countries in Latin America…a parallel could be done with a hole in a dam…initially small amount of water then all hell break loose, same concept but the rural life in Brazil has its own version..LOL
I'm visualizing the evil jewish military fleeing the entirety of occupied Palestine in the same way they fled the Lebanon back in 2000, and a-la how the US fled Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021, respectively.
Fire up them jewish evacuation helicopters already!
Both israel and the US have a record of abandoning their so-called allies with zero notice given to them. Just upped and left, poof, just like that (snap fingers)! And in their hurry to get the fuck out, both the US and israel abandoned much weaponry and many-many allies were also left naked on battlefields. Well, not really bare-assed, just perilously unprotected.
‘Shared values’, indeed.
The US military has won so very many battles, but not a single war in my lifetime.
Oh, except for that victory over Granada that US Generals deem too embarrassing to mention.
Taxi, thanks for the new page. The previous one was getting quite unstable.
Most of the crowd here will know who Bhadrakumar is. He’s an Indian diplomat who took premature retirement so he could independently cover and influence foreign affairs, particularly but not limited to matters of import to India. Here’s his comment on Biden’s pullout:
“Biden succeeded. He'd been in this game for almost 50 yrs & knew 'swamp' inside out – how to get Pentagon, CIA, etc. to do what he wanted. They, in league with Ghani, tried to hoodwink him, but he's had the last laugh. As hardcore politician, he knows public wants war to end. No matter ratings today, this will pass soon as public attention turns once infra programme gets under way. It won't count in mid-term poll. Btw, Biden had opposed Obama's surge tooth and nail. Read Woodward's book Obama's Wars.”
The comments of Mercouris and his sidekick completely miss the point. Biden is a globalist, but he actually wants to serve the common man at the same time, partly for idealistic reasons but certainly as a matter of political calculation. I suspect he genuinely wants the talks with Iran to succeed. It’s important to him to stop using the dollar for sanctions, to get it back as the golden goose of the banksters and less in the service of Israel. He would like to get the dollar out from the threat of replacement by China and Russia, back as a vehicle for wealth creation with the good old helping off the top for the big Jews. Look for Biden to screw Israel just as cleverly as he screwed the Afghan gravy train. I suspect we’ll see the one man, one vote program to redefine Israel/Palestine and finally get it to pay its own way and stop being a general nuisance. (And Biden is very much a halachic Jew.) It’s a resolution Iran and Russia, both big stakeholders, would accept. (I suspect it’s something Nasrallah too would accept, with restitution. But not our dear Taxi, who like Helen Thomas of blessed memory, would want the Jews sent back wherever they came from.)
Thanks, Sarz. Actually, I think it’s Bhadrakumar who doesn’t get it. It’s not the pull-out of Afghanistan that is shocking people, it’s the shambolic and dangerous way it was done under instruction of the Senile in Chief. It’s the ‘style’ of exit that has left Empire limping and people aghast. And no, I don’t believe Biden has any interest in “talking to Iran”. Biden is carrying on with Obama’s nuke deal not for love of Iran, but for hate of Trump. Bhadrakumar doesn’t understand the American psych. They haven’t forgotten Saigon for the past 46 years yet he predicts that Americans will soon forget the Kabul optics just like that?! Really now! And if Biden so hated sanctions, why is he continuing with his arch enemy Trump’s sanctions – nay, even increasing them? C’mon, Sarz, clearly Bhadrakumar is spinning for Biden.
And btw, both Iran and the Hezbollah have said on more than one occasion that they would accept an israeli state in the Levant ONLY if the Palestinians accept such a thing. I doubt, post Sword of Jerusalem, that a single Palestinian now supports a two state solution.
The globalists are crying over yet another failed project. They gain a big fat ZERO with the US’s sudden exist from Afghanistan.
Read the room well and good, Mr. Bhadrakumar!
Taxi, you are misreading Saigon and Kabul as parallel. They are not. The American pullout from Afghanistan was already agreed to. What was making it impossible was the scheming of the gravy train. I don't know what that "America" is that is being held up as a single entity to take a rap. It's America that pulled out, and it's America that tried to stop the pullout. There is in fact no solid "America" at the moment. It's all up for grabs, and discussions like that of sleepy swish Mercouris just don't have any point. It's like asshole Trump's howling. He couldn't manage the pullout himself because his own guys were making an ass of him. Biden managed. And it simply could not have been done with better optics. Biden, in his "Remarks" has given a good enough account of his actions. Spell out the steps that you would have taken if you would have done it better.
Dude, I’m not “spelling” anything out to you, wtf?! I wouldn’t have gone to Afghanistan in the first place! Biden has supported EVERY SINGLE WAR FOR THE JEWS! Need I say more?! Just about the whole world is calling the US pullout from Afghanistan a ‘defeat’, except for Mr. Bhadrakumar. It doesn’t matter if the withdrawal was “planned” or not. Point is, again, the EXECUTION of the pullout is the point here and the optics there COMPLETELY MATCH SAIGON. Don’t be blind now.
And I’m not even going to go into the strategic crisis and terror that the US allies in Afghanistan are experiencing right now, all because of that shambolic and sudden pullout that the US dumped on its regional and NATO allies. They were supposed to BEGIN the withdrawal on the 31st of August, not on the 16th. They pulled out prematurely. None of the US allies stationed in Afghanistan were logistically ready for that insanely dangerous, sudden and humiliating pullout.
The mental optics is this: Empire is now a large blob for being led by a senile pedo.
@ SARZ,
"Most of the crowd here will know who Bhadrakumar is."
Yes, the guy that told the world the [Dr.] Assad regime was about to fall in a month, 4 years ago.
He can go f*** himself!
Sarz. Biden is a senile idiot who can’t walk a straight line and probably can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s suffering from advanced dementia. Biden probably had little to do with the pullout. Certainly he accounts for virtually no vital decision making. His controllers told him what was going to happen, or had just happened. The point is not just that the US left or is trying to leave Afghanistan; it’s that it was done in an incredibly stupid manner. How can a nation state that believes it is a superpower pull out its troops without first safeguarding and pulling our their own people who are in peril when the country falls? Mind-boggling stupidity. The Biden administration is toast. I expect a false flag in the next 60-90 days to try and turn the public’s attention from this fiasco. They’ll blame the Taliban, Iran, or some Islamic group. Whatever, I doubt Biden can ever recover from this strategic blunder. Good riddance.
Thanks, Saladin.
The thing is, Sarz does make a plausible point, but it’s buried underneath a blanket of passive-aggression (for whatever reason). What my mind keeps turning over is why did the US ‘abandon’ so much weaponry, especially hi-tech air force gear. This to me hints at some sort of theater that the US is playing, and it does indeed fit with a theory that is currently circulating. This theory says that there is a secret deal between the Taliban and the US, and simplified, it is the following: the US withdraws from Afghanistan and hand-delivers Afghanistan to the Taliban without bloodshed, leaving much weapons behind for the Taliban to use at a later stage against Russia, China and Iran, soon as the US deems it fit to blow that whistle. The Taliban is therefore the US’s Trojan horse. This theory also proposes that all this ‘withdrawal theater’ is part of the US’s main strategy of hindering/destroying the Belt & Road project, as it sees this project as a huge threat to, well, everything American.
All of this is, to my mind, plausible. But, I just wonder if our strategists are actually that smart. I mean the Russians, Chinese and Iranians aren’t exactly stupid strategists, and I’m sure they would have considered such a scenario years ago, and would therefore have a counter strategy to deal with such an equation. They know that the US has fought both with AND against the Al-quaida in the past, so what’s to stop them in the future from working with so-called ‘terrorist’ groups whom they fought against yesterday?
There’s some opaqueness in the Afghan picture, for sure. But, what’s clear is that the US certainly considers the Belt & Road project to be a profound threat to its national security on two fronts: a threat to US domestic production/economy, as well as a threat to its world domination. Really, the biggest threat to both its economy and military.
The US must therefore endeavor to utterly destroy the Belt & Road by any means possible, including means that render it perhaps temporarily humiliated.
That is all plausible theories, only time will tell for sure.
My 2 cts are:
1) Taliban, as a whole, hates the US at this point…simply because there were too many blood shed…family exterminated, humiliation after humiliation….and here worth noting that the Taliban is not united at all, too many factions within, so maybe to accommodate the US-Taliban deal, the high echelon of Taliban may try a double play etc….but the ordinary Taliban masses will continue to hold a grudge all things American.
2) Pakistan plays big with the Taliban, even the PM Imran Khan was called Imran Taliban by the US regime and media, and even ties continue that strong, then we know Pakistan and China is one thing, placing China right there in the center of all Taliban decisions.
3) Iran, an old mortal enemy to the Taliban 20-30 years ago, has shifted its policies (no doubt after the US backed stabbed it in 2002-2003), and managed to develop some links and relationship, Iran used dozens of thousands Afghans in Syria, trained a new whole level of fighters there (called Liwa Fatemiyoun Brigade), most of these people are back to Afghanistan and will leave in peace with the Taliban, that would be impossible 20 years ago, nowadays a reality.
4) Russia has emerged once more as a big player on the Central and South Asia Stans, after the collapse of USSR, Russia maintained weak ties all over, with exception of Kazakhstan, but this policy has changed entirely when Russia saw NATO invasion of Afghanistan as it was indeed, a surrounding maneuvering, and decided basta….the reflection of this decision was seen in Chechenia and Georgia, than the long effort to regain ties with most Asian ex USSR Republics, from Mongolia to the Central-South Asia Stans, some diplomatic, some a bit more present such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which was initially entirely related to the Russia-China rapprochement (protects western Chinese border), with Tajikistan enjoying a long high mountain border with Afghanistan in a very delicate area, very close to the China-Pakistan Corridor project, a vital project for both countries in order to bring goods to southern Asia in a cheaper and faster way.
There are a lot fo interest indeed from Belt & Road in Central Asia at the moment, and no doubt the US and UK are trying their most to f•ck it up, but in my view the US and UK will let another NATO criminal regime to do it, at least this may have been the plan, but it seems it went down south too quickly for them to pull it out….and that country is Erdoganistan in Anatolia, it has deep interest in the region due to the Turkic roots, and its main ally Turkmenistan, which shares a long border with Afghanistan, so Erdogan tried to expand his New Ottoman Empire toward MENA only to see its Muslin Brotherhood terrorists lose in Algeria, Tunisia (recently), Libya (just a tiny part under terrorist control), Syria and Iraq, so Erdogan looked East….neutralized Armenia thru Azerbaijan and move to Afghanistan, if his plan played out, he would quickly replace the US in encircling Iran…and keep Russia and China under check….no doubt a bold move, if it all true of course, and Erdogan would not use many turkish soldiers, he would use his favorite al Qaeda/ISIS/Muslin Brotherhood terrorists from Syria as cannon fodder.
I may be wrong and smoking bad weeds, the above could be nothing real or partial real only… but I trust zero on any regime inside NATO, all criminals for me, thus this above crazy plan could have been agreed back then to allow Erdoggy to satisfy his ambitions, keep him busy and allow the other NATO regimes to leave Afghanistan with dignity….LOL…that they did not manage to do it.
Back to my morning coffee.
Some citizens under occupation are forced into collaboration via blackmail by the occupier. But other occupied citizens willfully collaborate. To those unpatriotic fucks, I have a question. Did you really believe that occupation is a permanent status? What the fuck were you thinking? Trusting your life to your nation's enemy is downright stupid! So unbelievably fucking stupid!
@ taxi,
I know who I am. I know my greatest assets and I know all my weaknesses, but I also know, many around me are different in their ability to be honest toward themselves.
I think it has to do with courage, a sincerity that's becoming more and more rare, in a world where 'advertising' [propaganda] replaces what used to be 'common thought.'
Nevertheless, prostituting [one way or another] oneself to benefit form any occupier, can only be spat upon. Endlessly.
My midday ramble:
When in a crisis, all ideologies resort to draconian measures instead of pragmatic ones. Ideologues are incapable of thinking outside of their confined and entrenched manifestos and bibles. Narrow-mindedness is an unnatural state of mind. Dogma is mental illness. We're born under infinite skies as a reminder of the existence of infinite possibilities.
Ideologies reject alternatives to their screed. Insist that their myopia is visionary. This is against the survival instinct. It is a sure way to self-destruction. Yes, ideology is nihilism.
Ideologies think of themselves as the be all of everything. They think that what they have can never be improved upon. They believe their ideology is prefect. This is illogical. Nothing of this world is permanently perfect. Nothing in this world is static. Nothing. Everything is in constant motion. Even infinitesimal things move at imperceptible speed. So do mountains. In our universe, if you are not moving, then you are dead. And if you are alive and forcing yourself into immobility, then you will at some point get run over by a moving object.
It's the way of the universe. Moving, moving, moving on.
One can be an ideologue, yet in an objective way. Objective enough to know when to jump ship when the engine room is ablaze. These are not the people I am referring to above. I am specifically talking about extremists, be they religious fundamentalists or liberal zealots. There is a large spectrum of ideologues on the planet. When confronted with resistance, all these ideologues make the worst of choices. War. War-war-war! Fucking idiots! Haven't they already learned that there are two ways to influence people and bring them to your fold. Through violence. Or, through kindness. And one of these choices is cheaper and has longevity, while the other is costly in every sense of the word, and its lifespan is limited. For instance, it would have been life-saving and by far cheaper to have taken out the whole populations of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan to a nice dinner instead of bombing the shit out of them.
The path of kindness is not just the domain of charitable religions, it is also the garden of the pragmatist. You don't even have to like those whom you show kindness to. You do it because it's common sense that would enable your project in life (whatever it may be) to materialize in the best, cheapest and less headachey way.
How to improve the world? Simple. Just be nice.
Makes for a smoother existence.
@ taxi,
I’d say, ‘Just be honest.’
Being honest never means you’re right. But being truthful entices trust, for it cements a certitude in believing who you truly are [right & wrong], but never to dominate those who differ.
It’s these differences we have to come to terms with, and live in peace with.
There simply isn’t a single mold that encompasses all of mankind.
Summary of Nasrallah's Ashura speech today, as translated by the Alahed website:
Sayyed Nasrallah Announces 1st Ship Sailing from Iran, Warns US & “Israel”: Beware It’s A Lebanese Land
@ taxi,
Iran should declare their [fuel] ships to be 'Embassies of Peace' [EoP] and thus fall under diplomatic immunity.
A few days back a commentor, sorry I have forgotten who, questioned what was happening in Taiwan. I am informed that there are mass evacuation flights out to different points around the world.
The attached pic was sent to me showing 3 China Airlines flights flying together down to Sydney, Australia. I am told that these flights are currently taking place daily in groups of 2 or 3. What the criteria of the passengers is is unknown. The ultimate destination of the passengers is also unknown.
Might go towards explaining the state-wide "lockdown" in NSW
I see the khazarian mafia is upping the ante in its bombings of Syria……..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-scale-israeli-attack-rocks-damascus-multiple-impact-sites-burning
The only real remedy for this bullshit is to reduce sodom and gomorrah V2.0 into open air ovens as god did so long ago.
Thank, Anonymous. This strike was much expected. Israel dares not show its rage at little Lebanon and littler Gaza anymore, all because of their Resistance readiness. But grand Syria remains an open battle for the synagogue of satan – Damascus is the only punching bag they’ve got left. To perform this strike on Syria last night, the jewish terrorist air force flew low over Beirut and other major Lebanese cities last night – the first time in months they’ve dared to do this – thinking that the Hezb would be unlikely to respond to their brief invasion of Lebanese airspace while the Iranian ship is on route.
But really, how else is the jew government going to allay the fear of their Apartheid citizens after Nasrallah’s Iranian fuel ship announcement of yesterday except to show firepower force ‘somewhere’? The israelis are terrorized by the idea that Iran will be docking its ship a mere 20 kilometers from their border with Lebanon.
“Aaaaaargh the Iranians are coming, the Iranians are coming!” is the panic-cry bouncing around evil israel.
Just start the fucking war already.
So now and suddenly, the US via its Beirut embassy is scrambling to find alternatives to Iranian fuel headed to Lebanon, yet they will not lift the sanctions on the Lebanon.
Ass-backwards evil.
Hezbollah arranges Iranian fuel for Lebanon
There is much noise that the Hezb opposition in Lebanon is making over the Iranian fuel ship. All to be expected. The corrupt politicians in saudi and israeli and American pockets have offered NOTHING to the suffering people, yet they're pulling their hairs out that soon enough, hospitals and and bakeries will be filled with Iranian fuel, re-opened again to save lives and provide much needed sustenance to millions of people.
I suggest the following to these treasonous politicians serving foreign countries instead of their own people: surrender your Lebanese passports and collect israeli ones instead, why don't you?!
@ taxi,
"So now and suddenly, the US via its Beirut embassy is scrambling to find alternatives to Iranian fuel headed to Lebanon,"
The US plans to bring Egyptian gas to Lebanon via…
Wait for it…
A pipeline that runs through Syria.
Ta-dah!!!!!
You can't make this stuff up.
I just heard a Hezb insider on TV say that if israel or anyone else "harms the Iranian fuel ship heading towards our shores, the last war with israel will commence."
We're sitting here on edge in the Lebanon while this Iranian fuel ship is en route.
Sunni Hariri is freaking out that the ship is coming.
Saudi arabia's favorite Lebanese agent, the christian Gaegae, is freaking out too.
And Dorothy Shea, ambassador to Lebanon is shitting in her kosher underpants.
Lebanese Druze and Shias and Armenians are only too happy to hear of the Iranian fuel ship. Moreover, Sunni villages in the south of Lebanon (Hezb territory), and a big chunk of sunni citizenry from Tripoli and its over-populated burbs in the north of Lebanon (Hariri land), as well as the majority of christians sprinkled all over Lebanon: they, all of them are glad sommmmmme help is coming. Yet, Leb medias and NGOs funded by the US and saudi arabia would have you believe otherwise, just because their medias are larger and louder than the Resistance media.
America desiring to change its policy of 'starvation-followed-by-sectarian-war' against the Lebanon – change it past the 12th hour – is but too little too late. Rang the 12th hour yesterday morning with Nasrallah's historic speech that proclaimed Iranian fuel ships are indeed now on their way to Lebanon. America's sudden change of policy is now meaningless. The 12th hour rang yesterday and the train has already left the station. And the lesson from this for the US? Well, if you don't want your global opposition to extend their reach into your hegemonic territory, you'd better start treating the people under your hegemony with respect and dignity. Otherwise, soon as a vacuum arises, and vacuums always arise during peak crisis, the people you've been intentionally hurting will take up your enemy's offer instead of bowing down to more of your remorseless enslavement.
Again, the simple 'be nice' approach would have served to empower Empire further. You will always make enemies of those you are mean to. You starve someone and you can be sure that they will never, ever, ever-ever-ever be your friend.
What's so difficult to understand about this?!
The only thing the US and its Leb agents can now do is to immediately come up with an enduring solution to Lebanon's fuel crisis, so as to halt any further shipments of Iranian fuel headed for the Lebanon.
This means that the very hands that have been busy destroying the very fabric of Lebanese society these past two years have to now stitch it up, and stitch it up into a better state that it was in before. There is nooooo other solution to the hole that they've dug themselves into.
Too late to stop the first shipment, but not too late to stop more Iranian ships following it.
Yet, I don't believe the Axis of Evil that's hellbent on destroying the Lebanon as a method of destroying Hezbollah is that smart to do the smart thing. And the smart thing to do is: be fucking nice!
If the lunatics running the asylum have to rely on three word phrases like 'Build Back Better' to soothe the people, they need to be far more imaginative. 'Be Fucking Nice' is a little blunt but they would do well to try to emulate your wise words. Brilliant.
Taxi, granted Biden is a pedo. We have evidence aplenty. I don’t see how that pertains to Afghanistan. Senile I doubt. Yes, often the wrong word comes out. That is a mark of aging, but it’s not serious. Take Putin’s word for it. As for him pushing every war for the Jews, you missed Bhadrakumar’s reminder that he fought as hard as he could against Obama’s surge. (Maybe you don’t know that Afghanistan was a war for Jews. The Unocal pipeline which was the major point of contention with the Taliban, was for carrying Jewish-owned oil from Central Asia. Bollyn covered the topic. You might not know that Richard Holbrooke—not his Jewish father’s real name, he admitted, though he claimed not to know what it was—who headed American occupation policy, was a relative of the Rothschilds.)
I take it you really have no clue how Biden might have managed to actually pull out despite the sabotage of military-intelligence-corporate gravy train operators (for continually converting, as Assange put it in 2012, taxes for Afghanistan into stateside massive loot) without people such as yourself feeling that it was a disgraceful defeat, and that that is the main issue. Of course the spelling out of what might have been is not something you owe me. You owe it to yourself, actually. It’s called taking responsibility for one’s thoughts. What’s your website for, otherwise?And, no, “wtf” does not paper it over, but it does make mutually respectful discussion difficult. Free speech?
Thanks, Sarz.
Sorry dude but while I’m too busy looking for flour to bake and petrol for my car, the last thing that I give a fuck about is your saintly Bhadrakumar and what you presume I know and don’t know about Afghanistan.
I have zero interest in engaging with you over how you personally feel about Biden or Shmiden and his highly consequential, botched pullout of US troops from Afghanistan. But you go ahead and pour your soul out over it here at Plato’s – I ain’t stopping you from your frigging “freedom of speech.” I just don’t see the point in wasting my time on this issue any further – I’m right now, right this very second living in the middle of a security and sustenance crisis that requires my focused attention. I’ve already said what I want to say about the Afghanistan situ and if this isn’t satisfactory to you, well, then for sure that’s your problem, not mine.
Feel free to say what the fuck you want here at Plato’s, but it would be a waste of your time to pester me again into a response about Bhadrakumar and Biden cuz you won’t be getting any. I’m just waaaaaay too busy with other pressing issues to have the luxury of pointless banter with anybody at the moment.
Thanks, John. Question is, did Trump say all this with his mouth full of jew cock?
The man means business – it’s in the soul of his voice and index finger:
Even though the vid is a Memri one, I checked over their translation and did not find fault with it.
Impressive his energy and seriousness during his speech, long time I do not see Nasrallah so seriously determine in a speech, he indeed does mean business…he basically says…do not fuck this up or all hell break loose…his several mention of humiliation seems a clear message to anyone…Hezbollah has nothing to lose, and that he speaks for most of the Lebanese people. What a leader, a rare one.
It gave me goose bumps, September is coming and it will be game changing for this planet…stay safe Taxi.
From over the years, this is the first time I have watched Nasrallah on fire!
Thanks, Whozhear. Actually, most of Nasrallah’s speeches over the last 3 decades have had his signature fire and passion that you reference, either in moments, or, more or less throughout the whole speech, all depending on the topic and occasion.
Before I learned Arabic, I’d seen and heard several youtube clips of his speeches with English subtitles, and it was very uniquely exciting to experience this. Matching his vocal energy with the lofty meaningfulness of what he was saying, I decided that I would learn Arabic, just to be able to hear and understand directly this incredible man’s message. Yes, it was Nasrallah’s extraordinary gifts as an orator and communicator that motivated me to learn Arabic. I doubt that I would have pursued learning Arabic with determination had it not been for Nasrallah’s speeches. I just really wanted to understand what he was saying, straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
@ WHOZHEAR,
I appreciate his calmness, his collectiveness and his anti-cuggermugger way of dealing with Occupied Palestine.
To me, he comes across as a man dousing flames, rather than ignite fires.
LOL Daniel. I so enjoyed your use of the word ‘cuggermugger’. I used to know a screenwriter who often used this word and it always tickled me to hear him say it. Very funny-sounding word. And adding the prefix of ‘anti’ to it makes it even funnier heh.
For those who can’t find the word ‘cuggermugger’ in their dictionary, it’s slang for liar and rumor-monger.
@ taxi,
We both enjoy wordy playfulness, but in the end it's the truth you and I are after.
Hence my fondness of so many Plato Guns' contributors.
Kudos to all of ya!
I try not to give people I admire 'hero status' but it becomes increasingly difficult with regards to Hassan Nasrallah. He is an absolute genius. I know you aren't overly keen on twitter but there are some diamonds on there and one of them is @political_aya who relays all his speeches in English for those of us who are unable to understand Arabic. It appears that many of those who think so highly of Mr Nasrallah are decent human beings, certainly those living in South Lebanon have struck me as being so. Humility and strength of character can be contagious. Unfortunately, the US and UK (in particular) have no such role models to follow.
The good Professor Marandi on Iranian view of post-US Afghanistan, worth watching it, just 5 minutes.
Professor Marandi seems to have a very cogent interpretation of events in the region. I've seen him interviewed previously by much more aggressive (Western) 'journalists' and he always remains calm. I don't know any Iranians personally but I imagine he typifies Persian characteristics.
Interview of Pepe Escobar by Max and Ben from the Greyzone, long listen so grab a cold one and sit back and listen if you have the time. So much detail in this interview concerning the Grand Chessboard, planning of Afghan invasion before 911 for heroin and oil, blocking the Belt and Road, why the DC swamp is so pissed at Biden.. The repercussions are going to rattle and shake the world and we ain't seen nothing yet. The Russians and Chinese are instructing the Taliban/Afghanistani freedom fighters on the need to clear their name and in the process throw the light possibly on who is responsible for 911 with hopefully some long awaited war crimes trials. Saw another post and I apologize for no link, someone said articles about the invasion and occupation are starting to disappear from the net. Are the anglo/zionists starting to shit their pants with no heroin profits to buy new ones. Looks like serious popcorn time.
Inside US Afghanistan pullout, CIA opium ratline, pipeline conflict, new cold war – The Duran
Want to [truly] move forward…?
Hezb insiders are saying that it will take 12-14 days for the Iranian fuel ship to arrive to Lebanon. This is day 3 of its journey. So, everyone now waits on edge to see how the arrival of the Iranian fuel ship will impact the internal Lebanese political and financial landscape, as well as the region. Yes, the region too. Nasrallah's speech that announced the Iranian fuel ship's destination and purpose was a historic one that challenged Empire itself, rendering it helpless to directly face the challenge.
Soon as Nasrallah finished his speech, Dorothy Shea, US ambassador for the Lebanon, sprung into panic, phoning President Oun and requesting an immediate, emergency meeting with him, where she implored him to help her reverse Nasrallah's Iran ship decision, and proposed alternatives to Iranian fuel: alternatives that break the Caesar's Act sanctions that America itself had imposed on the Lebanon and its people – alternatives that may see results in the future and not immediately. Most notable, especially in Lebanese minds: she did not offer President Aoun the removal of sanctions on the Lebanon.
Lebanese medias circulated all this information yesterday, thus exposing to the Lebanese people the very engineer behind their financial and existential crisis: the United States itself, and by association, America's Lebanon agents too were exposed as being in cahoots with the US against their own countryfolk. Questions on the lips of the Lebanese yesterday were: "If America really wanted to help us, why doesn't it just lift the sanctions already?" And, "Why did America just wait on the sidelines for the past two, long and suffering years if it really cared about us?" And "Why is the American ambassador trying to stop Iranian fuel presently headed our way if America really cares about us and our desperation?" Etc. etc. etc.
With one single, passionate and righteous statement that hotly insisted on the honor and dignity of the Lebanese people above all else, Nasrallah literally broke the first iron link of the American siege-chain around the Lebanon's neck. With his single, loaded statement of "… this ship is Lebanese land," he cracked a giant egg on the face of ALL the members of the Axis of Evil who'd been in full support of the destruction of the Lebanon, all because its heroic Resistance remains victorious over their synagogue of satan.
Nobody dares touch this ship. Not israel, nor the US. The price of hindering its passage is just way too great and prohibitive, and neither the US or israel are presently in a position to take such a consequential and dangerous risk that could in a NY second turn a 'shipping incident' into an infernal regional war.
The Iranian fuel ship will arrive to Lebanon intact; and many after it will follow, till Lebanon needs no help in this regard.
Rich, shia Lebanese have paid for this first shipment, and they will hand its contents to the government for distribution upon its arrival. Rumors that this shipment will only go to shia neighborhoods will soon enough be disproved. The enemy of Hezbollah within is gasping and grasping at straws in its frenzied anti-Hezbollah media – dizzy from the positive implications that this ship will have on the Hezbollah – the very same Hezbollah that they've spent the last 10 years and $11 billion on demonizing.
Here we see yet another instance of the 'magic turned against the magician'. What was intended to make the Axis of Resistance weaker, ended up making them stronger. What was intended to weaken Iran's geopolitical reach and push it away from israel's borders, ended up bringing it closer.
But, dear reader, you and I know that in the minds of the Axis of Evil, no defiance is left unpunished. No doubt, they plan to punish the Lebanon in some sort of an evil way. But truly, they have run out of ideas that would punish the Lebanon, yet keep israel safe. The Hezbollah has now entered the 'economic war' imposed on Lebanon, and this has instantly disarmed the enemy's hands. The enemies of Lebanon can delay admission of failure all they like, but the fact is that now, what's to stop the Hezbollah from bringing in anything that Lebanon needs from anywhere in the world? The Caesar's Act sanctions are dismantable by Lebanese hands themselves. All it took was a firm decision and the courage to see it through.
Let this be a positive lesson to all who suffer under unjust sanctions.
Nasrallah outsmarted the terrorist, mass-murdering jew and the jewy American. Again. I raise a toast to this historic victory.
The strategic timing of Hassan Nasrallah is impeccable. The fools designing US/UK/'Israeli' policy towards Lebanon and in particular Hezbollah are time and time again made to look stupid by this man and his advisers. Taxi, will a single ship make any significant difference to Lebanon with regards alleviating the fuel shortage or will it initially be a gesture and indication of intent should the crippling sanctions remain?
A friend of Plato's just emailed and asked me to share this Covid article/video with readers:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/08/20/watch-perspectives-on-the-pandemic-18/
Of course, in locations like mine, surviving warfare is by far more of an immediate priority than Covid.
Summed up, the enemies of the Resistance hoped to achieve the following with their economic warfare against the tiny nation of Lebanon:
1- Freeze up its banking system and collapse its local currency
2- Through extreme sanctions, isolate and prohibit the Lebanon from trading with anyone in the world
3- Create an energy/fuel crisis that would create a security crisis, which in turn would lead to sectarian civil war
4- Through their medias and NGOs, falsely blame Hezbollah for ALL Lebanon's problems and thus turn Lebanese people against their Resistance group
Then, thereafter the financial and sectarian 'collapse' of Lebanon, bring in foreign troops to 'check' the Hezbollah and impose the following on the Lebanese people:
1- IMF enslavement
2- Dismantlement of the Lebanese army and replacing it with UN troops that answer to tel aviv and DC
3- Insertion of a new political theater where only enemies of the Resistance are in positions of power
4- Naturalization into Lebanese citizenship of captive sunni-Syrian refugees who are forbidden to return to Syria by the West, thus changing the voting demographic of Lebanon to favor sunni-saudi-sponsored blocks (means israeli-centric). (This plan even has the temerity to favor Syrian naturalization over Palestinian one, even though Palestinian refugees have been stuck in Lebanon since 1948).
5- Allow israel to 'own' gas field 'Block 9' that sits in the southern Lebanese waters and is the richest field in the Lebanon waters
6- Allow israel to annex the Litani River that's some 27 klm from the israeli border
7- Unleashing insidious social-engineering programs such as 'woke', drug and porn addiction, religious irreverence, and what I like to call 'gender bandito culture'
8- The looting and destruction of Lebanon's museums and ancient artifacts
9- Turning rural landscapes into militarized zones, and turning cities and towns into police states overseen by israel-friendly UN forces
10- Normalization with israel through forced trade with tel aviv
There's probably one or two other reasons but that's all I've got right now off the top of my head.
Let us here feel waves of delight and satisfaction that all the evils listed above were wiped off the map with Nasrallah's single masterstroke of: "… this ship is Lebanese land!"
Taxi…I join you and all the people of Lebanon on this joyful moment…and the enemies of The Resistance created a classic FUBAR and TARFU moments for them….the mask dropped, their weakness is like a fresh wound, to all to see……this is by far the weakest moment of the Empire of Chaos and its axis of evil allies, a prime time to major events to come. Lets sit comfy and watch them all collapse.
What will the Iraqi era mine do…?
If anyone looks at any of these Iranian ships in the wrong way, all hell should break loose.
No words.
Just death and destruction.
I just remembered another evil aim to add to the above list:
11- Empty Lebanon of its Christian population who are mainly concentrated in the Mount Lebanon area, but also scattered in villages and towns all over the Lebanon.
This is a project that analysts say has been handed to the current Lebanese Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, who has already controversially visited israel a few years ago, with the excuse of "I want to pray in Jerusalem". Never mind that it is completely against Lebanese law to visit or promote the enemy's nation. Patriarch al-Rahi is pro 'Normalization'; and he is lso a known bff of the US ambassador in Beirut. He keeps butting into political crisis with sectarian speeches – this is not the traditional role of the Patriarchal office. He hates Hezbollah and the Maronite, pro-Hezb President Aoun. He blames all ills happening to Lebanon on the Hezb and the Aounist party. His other political mission is to turn Maronite Aounist voters against Aoun's party – driving them to the Saudi-sponsored Gaegae, who is a Maronite himself too and an infamous friend of israel.
Patriarch al-Rahi promotes sectarianism: he wants civil war so that the majority of Lebanese christians will flee the Lebanon to mainly Canada and France, where they already have immigration programs that are specifically preferential and lucrtive to Lebanese christian applicants. Yes, France and Canada are partners with the US in the destruction of Lebanon. All other Western nations, and some Arab ones too, are also partners in this evil plan.
Because Lebanon is the only Christian-Arab country, and Christian Lebanese are fundamental to Lebanese history and identity, removing them from the Lebanon facilitates the jewish plan of turning Lebanon into a zombie without a national, rooted identity, in preparation thus for future judeofication, as per the Yinon Plan.
Taxi, thanks for this valuable survey of imperial means and ends. Not to give you assignments but it would make a great basis for a stand-alone article, ideally at unz. Far too little awareness of the epic struggle in the Lebanon, even among the enemies of empire. And exposure of the goals and mechnisms can only help opponents elsewhere.
Howdy Stanley! Thank you so much for a great suggestion.
Last week, I thought to write a new article about the evils of foreign NGOs that are swarming like biblical lotus in the middle east, but when I researched the topic a bit, I found it to be too boring and worthy of only a paragraph or two. Then yesterday, I thought I should write about the Iranian ship when it actually docks in the Leb – and in the meantime, I would take a couple of days rest from writing, but, as the saying goes: no rest for the wicked. I will do my best and write what you suggested in the next day or two.
Feel free to always offer your ideas here at Plato’s. Much appreciated, dear Stanley.
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Stay on the course of normalcy…
Shunned by western FSM;
In the presence of Mrs. Asma al-Assad, activities of first round of “Wounded of the Homeland” Games kick off in Lattakia – Link to S
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News that doesn't make it to western shores;
Just so you know…
It looks like things are heating up again in Gaza, israli missles launched into Gaza earlier today at “weapons depots”…
https://www.rt.com/news/532729-gaza-strikes-israel-clashes/
Thanks Hammer & Anvil. Early this morning, an israeli sniper at the Gaza border was critically injured during an incident that was filmed. It’s here below and I think it’s self-explanatory where the israeli sniper was located.
Just look at how brave Palestinians are: getting so very-very close to the terrorist jew sniper:
Thank you Taxi!
Could not have happened to a more worthless piece of human garbage.
Good fucking riddance!
Wow, the Israelis are cowardly. Brown University estimates that aside from 47,000 Afghan civilians killed, around 51,000 Taliban were killed during the war. There are only about 75,000 of them, so basically they had to replace two thirds. Can you ever imagine the IDF risking anything.
I watch Rania Khalek on Lebanon and find it puzzling that even people like her don’t understand what happened at the port. It’s the key to everything:
A. Either one accepts the explosion as an act of war against Lebanon. This changes the whole calculus as people unite against the external enemy. You described this phenomenon well with the Lebanese understanding that the US is blocking fuel supplies.
OR
B. You ignore the science and get lost in absurd discussions about who is responsible for fertilizer storage. The country fractures from within. Yes, the explosion would not have happened THAT WAY if the stuff had not been there but it might have happened in some other way, because the people who planned it surely had a plan B. The Plan A was psychopathically brilliant in its execution, based on complete cruelty.
You can blow up a port with FLOUR. Are you going to blame people who allowed flour to be stored? There have been horrid explosions at flour mills.
The only investigation needs to be a) how was it detonated b) who detonated it.
Science: AN has never blown itself up in human history (only during manufacturing; in enclosed spaces like a ship’s hold with other factors at play; or by arson).
If it had not been rigged for explosion it could have sat there peacefully for another thirty years. To blow up that amount, or even a part of it, you need to a) saturate it with oil and b) place a detonator. This is chemistry 101. If you don’t believe me, take a few grams of AN and try to set it on fire. Which by the way a lot of people were doing on social media.
The fact that the media was immediately flooded with experts saying either that a) AN can blow itself up or b) that it of course CANNOT but it did because of fireworks, Hezbollah weapons etc. tells you from the first hours that a cover up was going on.
The lies need to be fought in the first hours because if they don’t the entire debate is derailed. Now Lebanon is fighting over WHO left AN sitting there when it is entirely irrelevant. And meanwhile the country is under an economic siege.
Rumors: I traced the rumours of Hezbollah weapons being responsible to Israeli newspapers. The rumours about fireworks were fed by OTV to Reuters. OTV is situated far away from the port. It’s easy to deliberately spread rumours when you are safe and sound.
Bellingcat and others jumped into the debate immediately and someone had fiddled with the wikipedia AN page around the time of the explosion in order to make it seem that it would somehow be possible for AN to self destruct without human help.
Ship and AN Exports: Lat year I checked out the shipment of the AN story in detail as related by MSM: the weird London HQ, the Russian ship with the Russian crew that was left stranded when there was no money for repairs and the owner disappeared, the Moldovan ship flag.
The story of the stranded Russian crew on the AN ship was all over the Lebanese papers in 2014 and in the shipping papers. AN in an enclosed ship hold IS dangerous, that’s why it was transferred to the warehouse which meets AN storage guideline from the department of agriculture for any country. By itself, it was NOT a bomb waiting to explode. People who want to blow stuff up, will find ANY stuff to blow up.
Beirut is not on the route between Georgia and Mozambique even if you need ship repairs. Who transports AN in a rust bucket ship?
I checked the UN Comtrade Database for HS code 31023000 which is fertilizer grade AN for Georgian exports of AN to Mozambique and Mozambique’s imports from Georgia.
A weird pattern. Georgia is a big exporter of AN and Mozambique is a big importer of it. Yet for the most part they have different trade partners and do not trade AN with each other.
From 2010 to 2016 Georgia suddenly reported small amounts of AN exports to Mozambique. However Mozambique does not report any AN from Georgia (except for 2019: $2.3 million. The Georgian side of it smells like a paper trail created by an intelligence agency and somebody thought to create some imports of Georgian fertilizer from Mozambique in 2019.
The old fertilizer company Rustavi Azot in Georgia in 2013 and 2014 was a weird company to begin with. It’s now a legit firm under new management but it was a shady outfit back then.
I also wonder if they didn’t really send another shipment in 2019 just in case someone moved that AN out of the warehouse. If officials got rid of that AN, probably ANOTHER ship full of AN would have arrived in Beirut port….
Afghanistan was invaded based on an Osama terror plot based on “hijacked planes”. I challenge anyone to find me footage of a plane crashing into the second tower in New York. There are only two type of footage.
Live footage shows a silhouette of a plane (video composite) flying behind the tower followed by an explosion. The news reporters from the helicopters only talk about the explosion without even SEEING a plane.
After the fact footage shows ghostplanes (video composites) flying into the building without impact WINGS and everything followed by an explosion.Look at photos of the Kazakh air crash. That is what happens when a plane meets a building. Have you ever seen what happens when a bird hits a plane? The plane will need repairs.
Many of the videos I had bookmarked with reporters on the ground and in the helicopters not seeing any planes but having to be informed by the studio reporter that there were planes have now all been deleted. I hadn’t anticipated that would happen, otherwise I’d have made copies.
I didn’t even know there was a truth movement when I came to my conclusions independently but the truth is right there: for one hour before the towers collapsed, there were NO scenes of carnage OUTSIDE the towers on the ground. Reporters run around asking people: did you see what happened?
If a large commercial airliner had approached the towers at high speed at low altitude ( IMPOSSIBLE for commercial planes because they would have broken apart), every person in a one kilometre radius would have run as fast as possible away from the sound, even if their sightlines to the plane were blocked. Parts of the plane may have penetrated the building but there would have been utter CARNAGE on the ground for a kilometer radius at least, around the towers.
Also any pilot could tell you that based on the training given to the hijackers in the FAA’s own reports, they would never have been able to fly the planes. The one pilot I’ve spoken to is terrified to even discuss this with me in private emails because he is too scared of losing his license. He will only talk verbally, no record of anything.
If all four planes had crashed into the ground because the hijackers forced the pilots to do so, I’d have believed the narrative. (Even the plane that did crash seem to have been shot down, but whatever). One smoking gun is good enough, I don’t need four.
Based on the video footage we’ve been shown, NO planes crashed into the twin towers.
Planes may have taken off, they may have been hijacked but nothing crashed into the twin towers. There were explosions followed by a controlled demolition of some sort.
If you get bogged down in the politics rather than the science you end up with 20 years of a war on terrorism, followed by the deadly pandemic which can only be solved with experimental vaccine platforms.
I am really surprised Nasrallah and others believe in the covid narrative. Absolutely there has been excess mortality in some countries and a lot of respiratory illness. But most of the excess mortality has come from medical systems not functioning properly and resources being diverted away from treatment to endless testing. Covid-19 is nothing more than a new name for pneumonia and related complications. People with flu symptoms who don’t get better after three days need treatment quickly based on their clinical history. The countries which did that have very low death rates from covid. Iran is under sanctions so of course some added panicking from a respiratory virus will send the hospitals over the edge and lead to excess deaths. It even happened in Bergamo Italy (but not btw in all the hospitals in Veneto less than 100 km away which had NO excess mortality).
For the last 20 years, terrorism was the narrative used to silence dissent on anything from fracking and pipelines to banking regulations. Now it’s a medical tyranny to silence dissenters in NATOstan. I know it’s nothing compared to living in Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan etc. with the threat of bombs but people in NATOstan are being threatened with “no jab, no job”.
The scientific falsehoods are the easiest to dismantle for anyone. The 9/11 narrative continued because pilots and engineers professional license were threatened. The pandemic narrative is continued because doctors licences are being threatened.
I’ve taken the time to write all this because I really appreciate your writing; I realize the science has become irrelevant to the politics; people are not interesting in discussing it: I think that’s a mistake. Exposing the scientific lies cuts the head off the snake. I remember your post after the explosion where you said the details were irrelevant because it was a given that it was an attack. But throwing the details in the dustbin is exactly what NATO wants.
If the Lebanese understood WHY the explosion was deliberate and that an attack was planned one way or another, the debate would be different. July 24, 2019 Danon basically said the port is an Israeli target see 1:14 in this video. Nasrallah had also said in a speech some years ago that Israel was targeting the port.
“Iran was accused of using civilian ports to smuggle arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon by the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (UN) Danny Danon, when speaking to the Security Council in New York on Tuesday. “The Port of Beirut is now the Port of Hezbollah,” said the Israeli envoy, who provided Israeli’s “new evidence” in the form of a cardboard graph.”
Always waiting to see a video of a plane making impact with a NY building on September 11…
sorry for the length; I just find it astonishing how much damage ignoring the science and the facts is causing.
thank you, pq. it amazes me how manipulated our minds have become. while it's a cliche to say the days of critical thinking have passed, i am struck by how we humans will react, as you've noted, to a thunderous bolt by running, almost immediately forsaking our ability to wonder & ask wtf! it's important we continue to ask, to seek, after all, the truth & its revealing is one of the reasons we are here on this wondrous speck floating through space.
Thanks, dear pq.
RE the Beirut Port explosion. I really appreciate that you took the time to thoroughly research the AN material. Most people, including myself, can get a little lost in too many narratives proposed and are way too busy to do the research themselves. The new judge assigned to the case, Judge Tarek Bitar appears way too focused on investigating which official got the memo at what time and where is his email response etc. He is getting much criticism for his direction, including from Nasrallah himself. The main objection to his investigative direction is that he is wasting much too much time in this pursuit, and creating unwarranted negativity and anxiety for the public with his releasing to the media the names of ‘people of interest’ without prior warning to the listed people or to their lawyers. Many people in Lebanon would like him to focus first and foremost on the ship ‘Rhosus’ and everything that pertains to it. Of course, this makes sense. So far, Judge Bitar has not budged from his investigative direction so I doubt that he will be able to provide clarity and truth at the end of the day. We will see how he rolls further… But to be honest with you, I doubt that the EXACT truth behind the port explosion will come to light in our lifetime. Too many people are involved and it’s too easy for them to kick up dust at prying eyes. Same as with 9/11.
Science and common sense are not the domain of most people, but you can lead a chunk of them down the scientific path if they possess an open mind. As you already know, the human condition is highly complex and it would take several generations of appropriate education to arrive at a point where government and media brainwashing can be easily bypassed by the collective scientific mind. In the meantime, we’re stuck with opaque half-truths and outlandish theories that many people will cling to for dear life.
RE COVID: Regardless of whether it’s just a nasty strain of the flu or whatever, fact is that people continue to die from it. Nasrallah has had close friends and relatives die from it, and so have I, as it happens. I personally don’t support the cynical politicization of it that has devastated billions of people’s lives the world over, and i doubt that Nasrallah does too. I’m sure he’s been vaxxed, but I am not vaxxed. And to be honest with you, I kinda switched off the Covid thing about a year ago when conflicting so-called ‘scientific’ narratives were butting heads across world medias. One just doesn’t have the background in virology to determine which narrative is correct, and in my case, I don’t have the time to go learn up on it. Therefore I keep it simple: just be sensible and eat healthy to keep the body’s immunity high. Really, I have no more to say about the subject than this.
Re: the 9/11 shitshow. To me, Building 7 says it all. Israel, israel, israel! Enough said.
Dear PQ, I apologize that, for lack of keyboard time, my response to your fascinating and immense comment is short. But, again, I want to express my gratitude to you for sharing your important insights and giving me and Plato’s readers much valuable information on the ‘science’ of the aforementioned subjects. We are all the richer for your contributions. Thanks again.
More food for thought on the ‘science’ of Covid:
U.S. Is Getting a Crash Course in Scientific Uncertainty
I’m replying here because it doesn’t work higher up the page.
Taxi, sorry to see you’re having a bad-hair day. I’ll ignore that. The Statement by Trump that John gives above is exactly the sort of critique I was asking for from you.
Trump had in early 2020 in effect agreed to end the war at the expense of the Ghani government. So why didn’t he get out using the steps he has so kindly laid out? How come he put off the departure until a year later, leaving it to another president? I don’t know the answer, but I do know the owners of the gravy train played him for a fool. They would have had him do another surge, just to handle the exit, and there would be countless ways to get further embroiled. In effect, Trump had conceded defeat already. Now he’s saying why couldn’t you accept that defeat while looking like the tough guy I am.
I don’t have to be told what a crook Biden is and all the rest of it. That’s all there. But what he’s done is definitely something that serves ordinary Americans, at the expense of the few. You have no other narrative to offer except the fantastic plot to use sleeper Taliban to gut China’s BRI. Consider the possibility that he’s doing his patriotic duty by cutting America’s ambitions to fit its capabilities. That would mean coordinating America’s future with the needs of China, Russia and Iran, in the face of severe resistance by the military-intelligence-financial-industrial complex. One thing he’s got going for him is that he’s not straightforward. The Israelis are worried. And with good reason. He can hope to get away with what he’s doing because it’s also the only way to defend the Rothschild dollar. If it’s not used for sanctions, it won’t be resisted.
Take care,
“Dude”
Thanks Sarz.
You're still in your passive-aggressive mode. No need for it whatsoever. This is not 4chang. You already gave your (same) Biden-Trump-Afghan view, some three times already. You got responses that don't exactly match yours, so move on already, or put forth a new angle. Plato's is for sharing info, and the individual does with this information what they may. No one here forces their opinion on others. Debate is almost meaningless here at Plato's – for me, at least (I spent a good 15 years prolifically debating online and I just find it time-wasting and boring now – I no longer have any interest in 'changing minds').
What I pointed at upthread is not my own “fantastic plot to use sleeper Taliban to gut China’s BRI.” If you were not so bogged down with your passive-aggression, you would have understood from my clear writing that I was merely sharing a 'theory' that's already circulating – it's not 'my' plot. You will note that I did not agree nor disagree with it, but merely called it "plausible."
And no I am not having "a bad hair day – dude." I am asking you to please respect my limited keyboard time by not being, well, a fucking asshole about stuff. You can point faults with my thinking all you like (I may very well learn something new from it), but there's no need to 'dig' at me. This due respect I ask for allows me to maximize my focus on issues that concern me, mainly the Levant, because, well, it's an economic war zone where I live and the pressure is red-alert severe and the casualties are mounting. So instead of wasting my limited time with repetitions and uncalled for passive-aggressive digs, show a little bit of respect for my personal dilemma, and some appreciation for my labor-of-love, which is Plato's.
I'm pretty sure that after you've shared with us your Biden-Afghan view some three times, readers have already got it. So have I. Whatever it is you propose is really just fine by me. I am not against or for it. I am not an ideologue and tend to file things in my brain in a loose manner, not a boxed one, till the WHOLE truth of a situation has been revealed. For me, there are many missing parts to the Biden-Afghan story, which I'm sure will be revealed with the passing of time. Big, political truths are like that. They wear many veils and these veils tend to drop with time passing.
Really, it's the end of a long, hot and anxious day for me. Only an hour ago I managed to score a couple of water bowsers for my house – at exuberant black market prices! But I can't tell you how relieved I now am for having secured this water that I hope will last me for 7-8 days. Yet, I still have zero gas in my car – this morning I walked for approximately 3 miles in the sun just to buy cleaning agents and trash bags for my house. I'm sharing this with you to again indicate to you that Biden and Trump's shitshows are not exactly a thought-priority for me right now. My water supply is by far more important than they are, and I'll have to add here too, with all due respect: securing my basic needs is more important than even what you think of the two fuckers. My limited keyboard time is better spent on situations that directly impact my survival.
I would really prefer that you say what you have to say in your comment box, but without your uncalled for digs at me. I would prefer it if you were, well, nice. You're so great when you're chilled.
Just think what else I could have done with the time that I’ve spent on this matter with you these past couple of days. Please remember this is not a paid job for me, this is my personal blog.
ps: I'll stop cluttering up your blog after this but forgot a couple of things:
It was just by chance that I happened to see news of the Beirut explosion almost immediately after it happened. I was so shocked that I started following the social media and mainstream coverage closely for the next 14 hours or so. It was like watching a movie: there was no real news because nobody could get near the port. at first there was confusion, then it was that AN exploded, then that it exploded because of fireworks and by morning it was all Hezbollah's fault! And nobody had even been near the port.
As I was writing my long post, some helicopters flew overhead at low altitude, very unusual in the big city centre where I live. The noise is deafening. Planes crashing into NY skyscrapers and people running around underneath two minutes later asking did you see what happened is Hollycrap. Anyway so I added in the 9/11 stuff.
I probably come across as naive about politics and I am probably am. I don't understand why people can't see through the lies.
Thank you for your great and immense comments, dear pq. Some very salient points that I’d like to respond to, just not right this minute – probably tomorrow. Right now, Nasrallah is about to speak live and my dinner is getting cold – and after that I’ll be too sleepy to think clearly. But, I still wanted to say a quick, sincere thank you for bringing some great information to Plato’s readers. Your comments are never “clutter.”
@ PQ,
In my book, naivety is the mother of innocense. One of nature’s most beautiful babies. It’s people that drag it face-down through the mud and turn it into something it never was; a lack of wisdom. To me it means you are free from pretending something you are not and you operate without a hidden/second agenda.
If that’s bad, I’m the worst.
As to the Beirut explosion. Let’s see what makes an explosion and explosion;
“NFPA 921 (2008) defines an explosion as “the sudden conversion of potential energy (chemical or mechanical) into kinetic energy with the production and release of gas under pressure. These high-pressure gases then do mechanical work such as moving, changing, or shattering nearby materials.”
Windows as far away as 10km/6 miles [at the airport] were shattered. As noted above, explosions tend to have an severe impact on the near, not the far. So, whatever exploded, had the power to go way beyond the near.
I have no clue what it really was [because I don’t have any access to evidence], but logic dictates [as it did with the WTC towers falling into their footprints], that something is amiss.
Okay. You win. I’ll leave alone with your ego and your acolytes.
Sars, “win” is not the point here at Plato’s. You’re still not getting what Plato’s is about. And you cannot muster being courteous to your hostess? Throwing digs now at visitors to Plato’s too? Wow. How disappointing.
@Sarz
I urged you to consider that we all are analysing what we are "seeing". Nobody knows the real truth of what is going on except the decision-makers, and even that is hidden behind layers of obfuscation. Some of us visit different web-sites to gather as raw information as possible. Platos is such a place. Taxi gives us insights about Lebanon from first hand experience. The greatest weakness of humans is the need to always get others to agree to their viewpoints, events the point of force. I always prefer that we share our thoughts and ideas for others to consider but have enough grace to accept that there experiences and decisions are different and thus each can have different interpretations of same information. We should be tolerant of different viewpoints understanding that we care about similar outcomes or justices.
@Taxi
You are a most tolerant hostess. Keep it up. Others may call that sycophancy but to me, I call it as I see it. You provide us with your insights and also allow us to comment and disagree. And even if I disagree, unless I am convinced its critical, I see no point in airing my disagreement. But most importantly, let's disagree on ideas without digging at each other. That's the surest way to quarrel and breed unnecessary enmity.
As for myself, I am always conscious of how little I know on the scheme of things —– eternity, life, cosmos, source of life, death, even simple aging process etc. So, my opinions are simply the trappings of an ignoramus at best and that mostly keeps me silent. Wishing you all the best.
I’ve never been able to define my ego.
The only thing I’m aware of, is a never ending eagerness to learn.
It would be nice to never have to think twice, whenever I read something.
Over time, I’ve come to the realization that whatever I read, might not be true.
That’s a shame.
So, I do have to think.
Once.
Twice.
Sometimes even more.
But I always appreciate people that speak their minds.
Minds are open.
They can be right.
They can be wrong.
But that’s not the issue.
I don’t need a proper perlap to safeguard myself against those that have different views, opinions and minds, and might be the at the opposite of what I believe in, for I am neither right or wrong myself.
I’m at peace with that notion.
A good place to be.
thanks, ponder, well said, my feelings exactly. DR, i appreciate your comments & perspective on plato's, as well, on smoothie's site–which i visit a number of times a day bt never comment…hypersonics are never a focus until 2015 & putin's speech.
@ EMERSONRETURN,
Thank you for your kind words. Very much appreciated.
'You' can be like Conor McGregor and talk shit, or be like Khabib Nurmagomedov and dish it out…
Cue in Russia.
I judge anyone by his/her deeds. Never words.
I wish taxi was my sister, so I can give her the heartfelt hug, she so rightfully deserves.
Russian Military Hails Syria’s Successful Intercepts of 22 of 24 Missiles in Latest Israeli Attack
@ C&D,
Russia might opt for our ever-trusted trojan horse 'plausible deniability.'
Let Syria shoot, while Russia 'guides.'
I, for one, really want to see Occupied Palestine planes go down in flames. I'm so sick and tired of these cowardly critters and their heinous antics that I'm about to drop on my knees and ask the universe to do what's right.
Eco-friendly fires, of course…
This is speculation on my part, but if not already, then soon, the Hez has/will have the firepower to bring down an Israeli plane, since they always fire into Syria from over the Leb. It may be that they don't want to reveal their true firepower until the final conflict (I am just guessing). 'Specially if the planes are the lame F-35 craps we gave them, that will be a final slap in the face of both Israeli and US military might.
BTW, are you expatriate in Syria?
Interesting perspective and history from Mercouris:
@ C&D,
"BTW, are you expatriate in Syria?"
Nope. Am an expat in Japan. But I want to see justice be done, regardless of where I reside. The way people in the M.E are treated [supported in most cases by those despicable creatures that think of themselves as 'politicians'] by the west, and especially jews, makes me morally puke beyond my pervicacious state of being.
I [desperately] want Occupied Palestine to end, the US 'empire' to die down, so the world [at large] can [hopefully] work toward unity and balance.
SUMMARY OF NASRALLAH'S SPEECH, AUGUST 22ND, 2021
Nasrallah's speech lasted for a good forty minutes, of which the first twenty minutes was a eulogy dedicated to the martyr, Hajj Abbas Al-Yatama, an original member of the Hezbollah, who back in 1982 and at 17 years of age had traveled from Hermel to south Lebanon (the other side of the country) seeking to fight against the israeli invasion. He rose in ranks from fighter, to trainer, to leader of "the most dangerous battles in Lebanon and in Syria," according to Nasrallah, who heaped praise on Al-Yatama's good character and his soulful dedication to liberating his country from foreign invaders. Martyr Abbas Al-Yatama died of Covid complications.
The second part of the speech was dedicated to the Lebanon crisis, where Nasrallah broke down the current Lebanon fragmentation: linking it all to the US embassy and accusing America of being willfully behind Lebanon's current debilitated state. He did not excuse the extreme corruption of the Lebanese political class, but identified them as beholden to the US embassy's dictates via their lucrative investments and assets in the US that they feared would be frozen by the US authorities should they go off the US's script. These corrupt Lebanese politicians also have their children and grandchildren in American schools and universities, and so their families too are used by the embassy as a stick to keep them in line with US, and not with Lebanese-centric policies. (I'll remind readers here that Lebanese corruption has been the rule of the day for the past three decades in Lebanon, yet throughout this long period of incessant corruption, the Lebanon lifestyle was thriving and citizens never experienced shortages of anything at market till after the port explosion).
Nasrallah emphasized that the US's policy for the Lebanon has been to destroy it from within through sectarian civil war, and that this policy was first put into practice back in 2005. Important to mention here that this is the year that Hariri senior was assassinated, and this is exactly what Nasrallah was alluding to: that the US (which is israel) is behind the Hariri assassination that failed to ignite the expected civil war; although it did create ongoing and enduring societal fissures and anxieties to date. To this point, Nasrallah added that numerous investigations, as well as intelligence and Wikileaks files, all point to also Saudi Arabia being partners with the US in the creation of the 2005 project to initiate sectarian civil war in the Lebanon, and that this project has instigated thereafter many other incidents and events in Lebanon, all bearing the hallmark of sectarianism. He spoke of the 2006 war against israel as also being part and parcel of the project to kill off the Lebanon in its entirety. He said "all the different tentacles of this project have so far failed to materialize a civil war in our nation."
Nasrallah illuminated to the viewers that Hezbollah is not the sole target for this dastardly project, but that all Lebanese citizens, friend and foe of Hezbollah alike, are also targets, as evidenced by the effects of the Caesar's Act sanctions that have now pushed all Lebanese towards starvation and humiliation. Moreover, Nasrallah said that this US project aims to completely disintegrate the Lebanon, "taking away its identity and history and future to suit the israeli interests." He added: "Ultimately, it is the Lebanese government, yes the government itself and its powers that run and protect the nation, that this project aims to destroy first and foremost. Our government's total destruction is the US's top ambition, and through the hands of its Beirut embassy, through all the ambassadors that have served in Lebanon since 2005, this project of destroying the foundations of the Lebanese government has been promoted and executed as a top priority." Nasrallah elaborated on the degree of depth of America's negative interference in Lebanese political affairs, rendering the US embassy's activities in Lebanon as non-diplomatic and more akin to "a war theater that plans and funds to the tune of billions of dollars, the destruction of our nation."
"They want you humiliated, desperate, starved and picking off each other's bones!" he bellowed "they want brother against brother!" he exclaimed with indignation. "This is evident from the increasing incidents we now see occurring daily at gas stations and other such places," he remarked.
"It is the US and only the US who has forbidden all assistance to the Lebanon in its time of desperate need. Many countries have publicly offered to help the Lebanon, only to suddenly pull back on US instruction and threat. Many helpful projects were proposed by Lebanese politicians, by experts in their fields and by friendly foreign nations, but the US promptly cancelled and disallowed them, using the threat of 'individual sanctions' on the proposers.
Nasrallah basically spent 20 minutes exposing the American hand in the current ruin of the nation, always adding that their destructive activities were specifically designed to serve the interests of "the israeli enemy."
Regarding the Iranian ship, Nasrallah said that a second Iranian ship is now also heading towards Lebanon, and that more ships will continue to arrive for as long as the Lebanese people are in need. He asserted that the Hezbollah is not 'the' government, and that it has no desire to rule as such, and that until a new government is formed and functional, it behooves the nation's Resistance group to aid the citizenry in whichever way they can. He clarified Iranian ships are not the solution to the Lebanon crisis, but indeed only a reliable and helpful aid in the meantime; and that “the cargo is not destined to serve only shia citizens upon its imminent arrival, but all Lebanese citizens of all political and religious persuasions.”
Nasrallah also spoke of the Egypt-Jordan-Syria gas solution that the American ambassador had suddenly rushed to propose to President Aoun five days ago, at the heals of Nasrallah's "this ship is Lebanese land!" speech. He said that out of failure and fear, the US ambassador had proposed it as an alternative to the Iranian ships' solution. Nasrallah categorically welcomed the US ambassador's proposal, saying that the Hezb welcomes all solutions that benefit Lebanon, although he warned that "according to experts, this solution will take between 6 months to a year to bare fruit, if the Syrians agreed to it in the first place, whereas the first Iranian ship will arrive withing a few days." Moreover, Nasrallah also encouraged other political parties in the Lebanon to organize fuel shipments from foreign nations that sponsor them, especially Arab-oil nations. Addressing politicians he said: "Ask your friends in Saudi Arabia to send Lebanon some ships loaded with fuel – we would not object to this in the slightest," he beamed.
He also said: "Cyprus, israel and Turkey are already extracting gas from shared Mediterranean waters, but the US will not allow the Lebanon the same activity, even though it shares these same waters with them. The US has threatened all international companies with sanctions if they involve themselves in the extraction of gas from Lebanese waters, and they have all thus frozen their Lebanon gas projects as a result." Then, with a smile he said: "I have researched and found several Iranian oil-and-gas-extraction companies who would be perfectly capable of promptly initiating the extraction of gas from Lebanese waters, and I propose that the new government should meet and discuss this matter with them, as these Iranian companies are not afraid of either US sanctions or of israeli missiles." He repeated with satisfaction: "These Iranian companies do not fear either US sanctions or israeli missiles – they can get the job done without such hindrances or considerations. Their offer is a serious one and I again ask the new Lebanese government (when it has formed) to consider using Iranian companies for its gas projects. It will solve the fuel crisis for the Lebanon in the medium to long run to have access to its own gas and fuel, and perhaps also benefit from selling any surplus."
He closed his speech with asking the Lebanese people to be more patient with each other, and above all, to know exactly who is behind their intended suffering, so they may all work together against their true enemy in order to save their nation from engineered "extinction."
His final line was dedicated to honoring Hajj Abbas Al-Yatama, as well as all other martyrs of the good cause.
I forgot to also add that, Nasrallah, just before he went into his final homage to martyrs right at the very end of his speech, made mention of the "incredible, heroic and wondrous” Gaza resistors who had earlier challenged the israeli sniper at the Gaza border – we talked about the same incident before his speech, upthread here: https://platosguns.com/2021/08/19/discuss-the-disgusting/#comment-33050
You could tell from Nasrallah's voice that he was trilling with joy and pride to have watched the same video. Heh! He's always up-to-date on what's going down.
Nasrallah last night also directed the following at the Lebanese people: “Why didn’t the US ambassador offer a solution to the fuel crisis before now? This solution is an old suggestion that was previously proposed and one that the ambassador herself had rejected, citing the Caesar Act at the time. Now she wants to break the Caesar Act herself to help Lebanon? This does not make sense. If she was sincere in wanting to help Lebanon, then she should just cancel the Caesar Act sanctions against the Lebanon. Every Lebanese should be asking her to cancel the Caesar Act sanctions if she has sincere goodwill for Lebanon.”
What is Israël’s project in Argentina?
by Thierry Meyssan
Thanks, dear Frank Marr, and I believe you mean this article here:
What is Israël’s project in Argentina?
I'm thinking here that with a fleet of Iranian ships full of needed goods slated to head to Lebanon, what's to stop Iran thereafter from sending similar ships to Gaza?
Aaaaoooooooooow – I'm a-howling at the sky!
And regarding the US ambassador's proposal to organize for Leb to get its electricity from Jordan and gas from Egypt, with both energy commodities going through Syria to reach the Lebanon, well, Syria would first have to agree to this passage. And analysts are saying today that in order for Syria to agree to this proposition, Damascus would ask in return for the normalization of relationship with the Lebanon. Otherwise, it will not do it.
In this regard, Syria is correct and smart to take this stand. If the Americans are serious and want their Lebanon project to work thus through Syria, then there’s a price to be paid to the Syrians by the US. The Syrians would be right to say to the Americans: no such thing as a free lunch.
If we all recall, the Lebanon under the government of Hariri had cut off diplomatic and trade relations with Syria over the alleged Ghouta chem attack, on instruction by the US back in 2013. Asking for normal relations between Syria and Lebanon to resume would be Syria's way of breaking the US's choke on Syria's trade and diplomacy with its sister Lebanon, and would also allow for Leb contractors to become involved in the rebuilding of Syria. Not forgetting here also that as soon as diplomatic relations are resumed between Syria and Lebanon, the issue of Syria's 1.2 million refugees in Lebanon can then be addressed and resolved.
Remember, these Syrian refugees in Lebanon are denied their return to Syrian land by the US, because the US intends to have them naturalized as Lebanese citizens so as to change the voting demographic in Lebanon in favor of the saudi-sponsored sunni block (that hates Hezbollah).
Brick by brick, the Levantean natives can dismantle Empire's wall.
Taxi, as mentioned the other day…the old saying in Brazil…."where a cow goes through…the whole herd can also"….it is a old saying with figurative rural words which was common for the colonial and old Republic times….the 1st Iranian vessel is just the first of many…not necessarily vessels though….what is at stake here is the change and maybe permanent changes….when these changes do happen, then a new reality settles down, and this is very much why Nasrallah mentioned about the off shore drilling by Iranian companies….this is the kind of "herd" from the old saying above…this is just the beginning of the 180 degrees shift by Lebanon and by Syria toward Eurasia, the old world (EU-US) lost Lebanon and Syria for good.
We will watch closely the events in 2022 in southern and western Asia…if a NATO free Afghanistan, the BRI attention will move toward Iraq-Syria-Lebanon, changes are coming to these 3 countries….with changes…there will be lots of investments and money….not from the rotten West…but from Eurasia, and as soon as in 2022.
I find amusing to see the arrogant West to continue to talk "tough" with Iran, demanding Iran that or this, when the very West (US-EU) screwed with the JCPOA (just the other day UK-France-Germany were demanding Iran to reduce enrichment..LOL), these freaks can not understand that the whole past loses were written off by Iran, of course the confiscated money is important to Iranians, but they managed to survive, to develop a vibrant domestic economy and reduce their dependency to oil, all thru decades of hardship, now that this page was turned, Iran is about to return to export oil in large volumes, to countries giving a damn for US sanctions, new markets were developed as well, and furthermore Iran is so much confident and strong in military means that they simply shifted their gear toward expansion on trade and commerce and they have the means to retaliate any aggression.
The message is clear, Iran will not bend, thus its allies will be protected and feel empowered to dare, to experiment new ways, the world has changed, and the rotten West continue to act as usual….the West is screwed for good and with it Israel.
Reply to Taxi comment up thread on winning battles…
Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., was a soldier. He also was a scholar and a military analyst, one of the most influential military thinkers America has ever produced. On a visit to Hanoi he had his now famous exchange with his North Vietnamese counterpart. When Harry told him, "You know, you never beat us on the battlefield," Colonel Tu responded, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant."
Regarding Alexander Mercouris opinions on Israeli strikes on Syria, he opines that Russia does not want to become involved in disputes between Syria and Israel or Iran and Israel, I would argue that this is something the Russians should have [and probably did] think about before intervening in 2014.
It is rather strange/naive for Russia to “allow” air strikes on Syria provided Russian personnel and facilities are not hit. Apparently there are Russian and Israeli liaison groups set up to facilitate this, once again this is an extraordinary state of affairs, are we to believe the Israelis are to inform Russia of impending air strikes on Syria and then to remain silent whilst their allies take a pounding [unbelievable]. I have a good opinion of Mercouris since he helped me a lot on the Skripal affair along with John Helmer.
Regarding Nasrallah’s threats to Israel/US, In my opinion these are correct and justified, the trade between Lebanon and Iran is legitimate, all unilateral sanctions are illegal if conducted outside UNSC agreement therefore these unilateral sanctions are acts of war and would certainly be interpreted as such if conducted against the US. Wasn’t it Nasrallah himself who said recently ‘anyone who tries to starve the Lebanese into submission, we will kill them’. As for those traitors Samir Geagea and Hariri who want the Lebanese humiliated, even Ghandy no lover of violence said if your opponent tries to humiliate you, ‘’then hit back and hit back hard’’.
@ Harry Law,
I’m not a Russian expert, nor am I privy to Russian military endeavors. My take is this; Russia’s only port with access to the Med, is Tartus. Billed as a ‘repair and replenishment point.’ Tartus, of course, is located in Syria. I think it was more in Russia’s interest to protect said port, than to help the Syrian government. Of course, in order to protect themselves and their port, Russia had to attack the takifiri terrorists.
This, of course
Should have looked like this;
It didn’t and we both know why. Russia has been 6 years at it, by now, so I think it’s safe to say they want to end this situ and fold the book on the war in Syria.
Personally, I’d pegged this war to be over somewhere in 2018. Obviously, I was wrong. Most predictions are like that, so I’m at peace with it. Syria has come a long way, but still has a long way to go.
The Kurds now act like the Occupied Palestine squatters. Sitting on land that isn’t theirs, doing ‘deals’ with the Syrian government.
What a mess.
Hopefully it sorts itself out for the better of all.
Here is a translation of Nasrallah’s earlier 8-17 speech that he talked about the Afghanistan train wreck, one good thing about Sakers posts are the comments.
Saker reposted from here, but not the entire article, read it here then go to second link for the discussion comments:
https://resistancenews.org/2021/08/22/nasrallah-afghanistan-is-worst-debacle-in-us-history-biden-hopes-for-civil-war/
The same slightly shortened article with comments here:
https://thesaker.is/nasrallah-afghanistan-is-worst-debacle-in-us-history-biden-hopes-for-civil-war/
And also this:
Latest Version of Iranian Missile Defense System to Outdo S-400
And take a look at Pompeo – shock-horror he’s been on a diet, no doubt – preparing for neocon presidential run, no doubt – and no doubt royally pissed off at Biden’s Afghan dramarama:
@ Taxi,
That is a stand-in for pompousass. Mike's neck is much shorter, his ears are much smaller and his head is also shorter.
And Taxi, note the fold of the silicon face mask in the shirt collar area.
LOL whozhear LOL! We should ask for DNA tests of all our politicians, no?
The Pompeo in the video definitely has that unnatural, hollywood waxy-skin look. He’s definitely been worked on, be he the real Pompeo or not.
@ Canthama,
At War News 24/7 it is being reported that erdoggie has handed over executive powers……….
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/o-erntogan-metavivase-tis-ektelestikes-exousies-tin-tourkia-kyvernoun-oi-akar-kai-fintan/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem
Whozhear, I am checking with a friend in Turkey and will get back. It is no surprise the evil Erdogan has health problems, but not sure the current situation, as soon as I hear will post here at Platosgun.
There are indications in Syria regarding the end of this war of aggression against the Syrians, dialogs are on going with SDF, the US will exit Syria as soon as its troops leave Iraq and it seems Russia continues to pressure Turkey to end its support to Muslin Brotherhood/al Qaeda in Syria thus opening the way to clean Syria from this murderous freaks.
Erdogan's popularity is lowest ever, he seems a loser in the next elections, not that he can not rig the elections, but the turkish people has had enough, if he is ill, then things will walk in the right direction…without Erdogan, the New Ottoman Empire dream collapses, because it is in his head only….
Whozhear, source in side Turkey confirms there is a coup in progress by Akar and Fidan to keep AKP in power until elections since any early election would be disastrous to AKP. He mentioned the health issues by the criminal Erdogan is true but the coup is in place to secure the party in power.
Fidan is another criminal, deep ties to global terrorists.
No matter what, this is by far very bad news for NATO terrorists in Syria.
As mentioned yesterday, Erdogan's popularity thus AKP's, is the lowest ever, certain loss in any early elections, plus there are clear indications of things moving in the right direction in Syria, which means some sort of a deal between Turkey-Russia-Iran, pieces in the chessboard are being placed and things are becoming a bit more clear, next few months will be interesting.
thank you, canthama. fascinating turn, erdogan seemed healthy, appearances once again are deceiving. turkey without erdogan makes for a better world. so a little good news. 🙂
I'm not a Russian expert at all.
But having trained with Russians, I did notice [very much in general] the unwillingness to toot their own horn.
It's difficult to put your finger on what it is, exactly, when your trying to define characteristics [again, very much in general], but to me, it seemed they were always way ahead of me. In my case that was physically, but I'm also convinced it's part of a mental mindset.
Sometimes I simply don't get it. But that is based upon my own, short-fused personality. You touch me? I break something inside of you. Of course, that's not diplomacy. That's simply brute force.
They killed a pilot.
They killed doctors and nurses.
They killed 14 aboard an IL-20 plane.
They killed a general.
This is a country that can annihilate the entire planet 40 times over, if it so chooses to.
It didn't.
It won't.
There's a lesson in there somewhere…
Even if I don't understand or get it…
Taxi – what do you think of this >
“Hezbollah’s Nasrallah suggests Iran drill for oil off Lebanese coast.”
‘Lebanon’s offshore oil and gas reserves are estimated to be valued at around $250 billion, or about eight times Lebanon’s 2020 GDP. Studies have also judged the reserves to contain between 440-670 million barrels of oil and between 12-25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.’
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/nasrallah-suggests-iran-drill-oil-lebanese-coast
(Good move if happens. Israel will appreciate having Iran snuggling up so close. Especially if Russia adds a no-fly zone overhead. Mike.)
Howdy y'all! Apologies for much absence from the board yesterday, but I had decided to buy a bicycle to use for local shopping during the ongoing fuel crisis (my car's tank is still empty), and it practically took some 3 hours to organize hitching a lift to nearby Ghazieh, after which I had to bike back home on my new bicycle, mostly up sharp hills, for a good 5 miles. Even though I am in good shape, it was exhausting to do it in the heat of the day, and when I finally arrived back home, all I wanted to do was, well, nothing. Heh.
Today, I will try and make time to write a new article, as per our friend Stanley Dundee's suggestion upthread.
But before I go off to get on with my day's chores etc, I should like to thank everyone who visited and commented yesterday; and also answer a couple of questions that commenters had asked.
@Mike-Florida: yes, it's true, Nasrallah in his last speech did put forth the proposition that if international companies dare not start working the Leb maritime gas fields, then Iranian companies would be more than happy to take up these contracts as "they do not fear either American sanctions, or israeli missiles." This is a highly controversial proposition in the Lebanon that just might panic international applicants into action.
And…
@duplicitousdemocracy, no, a single Iranian fuel ship is not sufficient, but a second Iranian ship is already on its way, and many others will follow for as long as Lebanon remains needy. Nasrallah has emphasized that these ships do not constitute a solution, but are considered as emergency aid for the energy crisis that the Leb has fallen into. Here, I'll add that should the Leb's future new government sign a fuel contract with the Iranian government, then these ships would then become the solution. However, a current contract between the Leb and Iranian governments will obviously not be allowed by the US – it would be instantly blocked by the US's political arm in the Lebanon.
@ taxi,
That sounds you went through 1 of Dante's rings of hell just getting back home [on your new bicycle.
As I can't physically reach out [and comfort you], allow me to do so virtually
<3 as always.
You keep going!
You have my eternal respect.
A couple of things to share:
Lebanese lawyers sue UK-registered company over Beirut port blast
And for light relief, this:
*notice how Dorothy omits mentioning that she also worked in tel aviv. In the context of Lebanon, isn’t that a gross misrepresentation of identity? Tsk tsk, lying from the getgo.
Oh and one more thing. Dorothy Shea, when questioned by the Leb media about her announcement to suddenly allow Lebanon gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan, and why the timing of this announcement occurred right at the heals of the Iranian fuel ship moment, she brushed it off with: “Oh, that’s just coincidence. We have been studying this solution lately and we think it’s a good one for Lebanon.”
A few hours after she made this “coincident’ statement (that everyone in Lebanon laughed at), that other hideously ugly jew cunt David Schenker released a statement that said: “Ambassador Shea is correct, the timing is pure coincidence.”
“A coincidence?!” LOL! Who the fuck do these jewyjews think they’re dealing with? The American sheeple?
@ taxi,
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Did anyone ever look closely at a burn victim…?
You don’t want to be Dorothy, in this case…
Canthama has a comment/link on his twitter feed about Burns meeting up with the Taliban………..
https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1430107765712826399
I fail to see how this is surprising as the Taliban is the CIA's private army………
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2019/Costs%20of%20War%2C%20CIA%20Afghanistan_Aug%2021%2C%202019.pdf
What near everyone does not realize is the so-called disaster of a withdrawal was in fact planned that way to insure the full armament of the Taliban. All the weapons and equipment was pushed into Afghanistan once the deep state realized that they could not get active control of America's nukes via the so-called "biden" admin. The objective now is to collapse Pakistan via a coup and take control of Pakistan's nukes.
Daniel Rich, a few comments above, notes some of the damages to the Russians during the ongoing war against Syria. This is timely as one of these damages is directly related to the subject in Alex’s latest mumblings about the juden and its bombings of Syria……..
https://theduran.com/russia-gives-israel-veiled-warning-air-strikes-on-syria-must-end/
The IL-20M downing and Rear Adm. Kulit’s threats to the juden are directly related. If alex needs a template for how the Russians can/will operate he needs to look no further than the hostage taking in Beirut in Sept.1985.
The Syrian AD battery that was blamed by many for the Il-20M’s fate in fact received citations and commendations for its efforts during that engagement, including from the Russians!
With Rear Adm. Kulit’s blunt threats we can see that Moscow has decided it is payback time and the Russian Navy has been tasked with extracting payment from the juden for the loss of, the very expensive, Il-20M and its crew.
@ Canthama,
I see the final nail in the coffin for the US dollar as the Saudis have upended the petrodollar………
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/us-ally-saudi-arabia-signs-rare-military-deal-russia
I would image the rush to the exit doors in the FX markets will be noticeable in the coming weeks.
Whozhear, that came as a surprise indeed, since KSA has attempted for 2 decades to do it but never did, as they always played Russia all the time in other to get favours from the US/UK/France, the fact that this 'attempt' is moving may signal a new certainty in the Middle East and South Asia…that the rotten West can not, any longer, be reliable on its word to protect vassal regimes.
This is not only a consequence of Afghanistan, this is a consequence of the perceived weakness of the current US, UK and France, these countries, that fomented countless wars and crimes against humanity, are now "naked" to the eyes of the world, their weakness in moral, diplomacy, military, economically and thire inability to fight global powers like China and Russia, perceived as the new beacon of light for many countries in the world, will expedite their demise and create a vacuum in many places where these 3 rotten culture controlled since the end of WWII….
I do not trust KSA and the House of Sauds, these freaks are corrupted to the bone, if Russia is doing that is because it worth more for Russia politically in the region then financially, lets see if KSA continues this path and others jump in the same wagon.
One thing is for sure, Russia came to the TMENA to stay, there is a long term project that we do not know, but it clearly see Russia's fingers in many pies at the moment…Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Turkey etc…
@ Canthama,
I suspect that the initial purchases will be for weapons systems that can defend against low flying munitions such as drones and cruise missiles. The patriot system will be dumped later due to its dismal performance.
Grrrreeeeetings y'all.
With the little keyboard time I had yesterday, I did mange to write a good portion of my new article. I will endeavor the same tonight and tomorrow morning.
Moreover, tomorrow Nasrallah will speak again in the eve, under the banner of ‘Day of Victory’ (2006). I will endeavor to write a summary of this too as I have a feeling that he will also be announcing the exact time and date of the imminent arrival of the first Iranian fuel ship to Leb shores. This means that I will probably also end up writing another new article about the historic event of the arrival of this ship, as it will be considered as the first ACTUAL chink in the US's economic siege on Lebanon, which will in turn cause a domino effect on also other nations that the US is holding under an economic siege. Yes, this first Iranian ship is highly-highly significant and brings with it a major and palpable geopolitical shift that favors the Axis of Resistance.
This means that I have a fuck of a lot of writing to get on with for the next few days in a row. To be honest with you, guys and dolls, I had planned to spend the last week of August resting up and the first two weeks of September focusing on reviewing/editing my new book that I’d finished writing back in May and had put aside with the plan of editing etc with 'fresh eyes', after leaving it alone for at least couple of months (writers without editors need that approx time to return to a project with fresh eyes). Even though it's frustrating to delay the final leg of my book, the reason for the delay is indeed very-very exciting, and I look forward to sharing these coming turn of events with you all.
So, in the meantime, you'll all forgive me if I don't respond to every single comment on the board. As you can see from my above itinerary, I will have my hands full and my brain fully occupied with article-writing and also with dealing with daily survival under the US's economic siege. Inshallah by mid September, the fuel 'crisis' in Leb will be somewhat over and the normal pace of life here in the Lebanon will return to all.
The good news I hear from very reliable sources is that the Hezb and Iran have apparently organized for no less than forty ships full of much needed materials to sail to Leb shores.
You can all bet your fury forearms that the tables have turned against the Axis of Evil; and their nasty, dastardly grip on millions of people's lives in the mideast is being un-clenched finger by finger by the wily and brave members of the Axis of Resistance.
Hoooooooraaaaaaah!
And fuck you synagogue of satan!
Ooooh look at his exciting image:
The NATOstan media have spent the last two days hyperventilating about a possible attack near Kabul airport and kaboom right on cue, ISIS-K emerges from the bang bang boom.
Clown world and people are dying.
@ PQ,
Just the prelude of what is to come.
Warning….. If you are in SoftBank, or one of its partners, get out now or you will be toast…….
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-hires-former-mossad-director-vision-fund-looks-expand-investment-israeli
To die in a foreign country for naught…, what else is there to live for…?
@ Daniel Rich,
"To die in a foreign country for naught…, what else is there to live for…?"
To live to assist to exterminate those responsible in our own governments and their supporting structures.
@ WHOZHEAR,
But the French revolutions have taught the establishment not to hesitate to unleash the military on the revolting populace.
Although I’m an overtly positive guy, I don’t see anyone rising up and not be squashed.
I’m used to deal with [visible] opponents.
In the above, I find none
[I do find executioners, but not those that mandate them].
Do you?
One of the marines that was just killed at the gate of Kabul airport is the son of a dear friend of mine. It is Biden's incompetent evacuation that resulted in his death. There is no forgiveness left in my soul and I want him and all his handlers to pay in this life, and in the next, if there is one.
This is a dark day for those of us connected to the soldiers sent to their death for the benefit of nameless corporations and sinister jewish puppeteers. These kids come from poor families, and being in the armed forces is their only source of livelihood and path out of poverty. Biden never served a day in his life, nor did Trump, Obama, Bush, nor Clinton – but JFK did, and he was silenced.
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Rest in peace, young soul. You will always be loved and missed.
dear cloak & dagger, as i cannot reply to you @ reply i have to do this–please, accept my deep compassion & heartfelt sorrow for you & you the loss of your deep friend. along with you & his family i wish his passing & subsequent journey easy & blessed. blessing upon him, you, & his family.
@ C&D,
Latest numbers [as cold as they might come across];
13 dead [Marines].
15 wounded [no mention of severity].
May all the dead [including your friend’ son] R.I.P.
@EMERSONRETURN & @Daniel Rich
Thanks guys.
The below clashes with who [or what] I am, but I think I should admire it;
Afghanistan suicide bomber attacks today at the Kabul airport > Many connecting dots point to the possibility such was a false flag operation – designed by several collaborating intelligence agencies – aimed to cause cancellation of the U.S. militarily withdrawal by 31 August, to be replaced with a major re-invasion of the country.
The U.S. president today made the right call – all U.S. military out within 5 days. We will soon know if said order is implemented.
@ Daniel Rich,
History lesson……..
@ Daniel Rich,
History lesson……..
@ Daniel Rich,
Going forward…. as many normies are starting to learn, what their existence is and what the reality is are two different deals. When the level of outrage from the normies is clearly seen in the MSM, that is the time for the "pitchforks" to come out and start the clean up. At that stage the MSM will be desperate to protect their lying assess from the people and or the military.
Unless a large fraction of the military starts the clean up, its going to be a long, cold and bloody process for all.
Right now we are in the bottom frame, beginning next year we will be back to the top.
@ WHOZHEAR,
Life = Cycles
Cycles prefer to be cylindrical.
Rings have no beginning or end [a tree showed me].
I fight for me and mine,
Nobody else [unless you're getting mugged or raped].
@ Daniel Rich,
I would suggest that you are lost…………
@ WHOZHEAR,
In that case, who did find me…?
And yes we are all in the same boat, relatively speaking, its just that one group took a little longer to realize what was really happening……..
It didn't take long for Ritz Katz to pop up.
Here's the thing: Hezbollah, Taliban, Hamas all make their own statements.
But ALL information on ISIS and its variants, soon to be outnumber sars-cov-2 variants comes only SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Maryland, run by Rita Katz.
https://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/1430973937723265026
Emersonreturn & Daniel Rich: thanks for your responses.
@ PQ,
You are more than welcome.
I agree with Mike-Florida that this is a false flag with two purposes, to delay or halt the retreat. Already congress is trying to pass a bill to delay the withdrawl similar to what they did to Trump, and failing at that it is a big fuck you to Biden from the deep state for pulling the plug on their drug and money laundering gig. The long knives are out for Biden and I expect him to step down. He did what drumph did not have the guts to do.
@ DURLIN,
"The long knives are out for Biden and I expect him to step down."
But when TPTB slice up 'Lost Joe' is here any guarantee Kabala Heretic will do the right thing…?
Although I'm aware TPTB don't mind killing their own [well, goyim], I have a strong feeling [emphasize on 'feeling'] this was not a false flag op.
Being not privy to anything related to Afghanistan , I could be totally wrong.
@ DURLIN,
"The long knives are out for Biden and I expect him to step down."
But when TPTB slice up 'Lost Joe' is here any guarantee Kabala Heretic will do the right thing…?
Although I'm aware TPTB don't mind killing their own [well, goyim], I have a strong feeling [emphasize on 'feeling'] this was not a false flag op.
Being not privy to anything related to Afghanistan , I could be totally wrong.
Yes nobody knows Daniel, but ISIS is an anglo zionist creation. So what was the point? To me 2 + 2 always equals 4. And cackling Kamelhead as leader of the free world with the jim dandyist super duper military best in the galaxy the good lord only knows what will happen. My bet war somewhere, Bennet is in the swamp now meeting with dementia Joe laying the law down acting as Joe's only friend, kamelhead will be worse than Hitlery.
So true. Thanks, Durlin.
Howdy y'all!
I invite you to join me at the boards of my new article here:
Dorothy versus Hassan
“It is Biden’s incompetent evacuation that resulted in his death.”
Bullshit. The original architects of the illegal invasion and all of it’s participants have the blame. The bloke signed up for an illegal war and we’re meant to be sympathetic when he gets his payback?
“These kids come from poor families, and being in the armed forces is their only source of livelihood and path out of poverty.”
Many, if not most, of the kids from poor families do not volunteer for illegal wars of occupation and terror. Your friend’s son had options; he chose the wrong one. Just because you personally know him does not make him an innocent party.
You may think I’m hard hearted and concerning the scum that plan the wars of terror, participate in the wars of terror, well yes I am. Fuck them all.