Sincere apologies to readers for the slow activities on Plato’s this past couple of days. Apart from the fact that there really is not much that’s worthy of sharing with you this Thanksgiving weekend – so much regurgitation of same stories out there – I am actually very distracted nursing one of my dogs.
Today, Abu Dhabi confirmed that as per its invitation, Israel will imminently be setting up commercial offices in the heart of Abu Dhabi. It’s nice to see Muslim Zionists and Jewish Zionists getting it on in public now. If this trend in veracity continues, Wikileaks will soon become obsolete.
The Emirates, as a combined military force, was also today exposed for purchasing 450 Colombian mercenaries and shipping them off to Yemen to kill the poorest of Arabs there. They did that because when they sent their own (Pakistani dual-citizen) army to Yemen before, their soldiers got sent back in bodybags. They won’t be doing that again any time soon. But they’re filthy rich enough that a single ruling Emiratee family can go shopping for soldiers from any war mall in the world.
I’m not thankful for much, but what I’m thankful for I feel a deep, deep gratitude for.
Hey why not post your favorite ThanksGiving song in the comment section? Or share a Thanksgiving story or joke.
Twenty four hours after two Turkish F-16’s downed a Russian SU-24 on Syrian territory, the smoke of the wreckage has cleared and revealed a banana skin with NATO’s logo stamped on it.
Obviously, Putin is too smart and sure-footed to slip and fall for such a primordial ruse. But it is worth examining why NATO, which is primarily an American instrument, is resorting to such puerile and reckless tactics in its attempt to create justification to enter the Syrian battlefields, with intent to oust Bashar by force and divide up Syria to the benefits of the Caliphate and the Zionist states. Do NATO commanders actually think that Putin’s intelligence is that degree of inept and short-sighted? Or is this an act of desperation on NATO’s part, with Turkey as front and fall guy?
The Mainstream Media is doing all it can to avoid addressing the obvious: naming, dissecting and damning ISIS’s major backers and supporters. There are no such informative and sanguine reports being penned or published by the elite media; they are instead too busy gatecrashing the funerals of the fallen, wiping errant tears and taking selfies.
As usual, wilted pathos and not sound reason is what’s being fed to the public after yet another horrific series of terrorist attacks.
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Talmudism, that old desert ideology with its celebration of fire and brimstone and genocide needs to be urgently and openly addressed by concerned citizens and by the global intelligentsia alike.
Evidently, Talmudism is not confined to Judaic orthodoxies, indeed it has infiltrated the three Abrahamic faiths to the core. It is an arcane ideology that is at war with modern Universalist principles, the very principles that if practiced would naturally lead to peaceful unification instead of the violent segregation of humanity.
I’ve woken up this morning with little enthusiasm for the news. This tends to happen every now and then. Therefore action will be slow here on Plato’s for the next several days. I will get busy instead with planting my winter veggie garden and taking nice autumn hikes with my dogs before the serious rains hit the Levant.
There wouldn’t be this gap in action on the site if I had some help. Or if the model of the site was not so demanding on a daily basis, ie the site being a newsstand and a newsstand’s nature is in providing fresh daily news.
We’re being hustled by the evil twins again. The government. And the mainstream media.
They’re playing a Three-card Monte on the public to counter the unexpected developments in Syria. A double-act conspiring to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens. A very dangerous and albeit illegal propaganda practice – especially considering that grave matters of war and peace are at stake.
The government and the media are currently working overtime to mix black propaganda, grey propaganda and white propaganda in a poison bowl of misinformation: and they’re handing it out to the public with a glossy smile.
Now that Russian military operations against ISIS in Syria are well underway, with much success already scored and final victory is but certain, Russia launches forth into an impeccably timed diplomatic offensive that seeks to establish a foundation for a new world order for the 21st century.
As current events fast unfold, we are observing Putin’s masterful use of both hard power and soft power to achieve this highly complex and dangerous restructuring.
What a load of rubbish news headlines today. Regurgitation of inconsequential headlines or endless tired propaganda – both sides of the aisle. Of course there’s much going on behind the scenes – much to do with Russia in the middle east etc, but no original analysis by any respected or controversial journalist has been penned or published in the past 24 hours. Some days it’s overwhelming how much good reads are out there – but not today, no sirree not today.
It is a beautiful autumn morning in the Holy Land. So magically beautiful in fact that a Palestinian teenage girl walking to school and daydreaming of romance would be forgiven for forgetting, just for a few seconds, the ugly occupation breathing death down on her at every street corner she takes.
She has used this same route for years now – she can walk it blindfolded. She has learned the rich history of her ancestors and the deadly substance of the occupier on this very same route. Often when she’s walked it, she’s experienced sickening palpitations and involuntary fist-clenching to encounter the occupier enemy at close range, be they armed and in uniform, or in civilian clothing with weapons possibly concealed. She has many times seen hate and murder in their eyes as she nervously stepped past them. This is her daily trail of fear and loathing and she affectionately calls it ‘my little redemption road’.
The grand plan was going swimmingly. The concept of endless wars for Greater Israel was working and producing impressive results. Opportunistically, through aggravation of war after war, chunk by chunk of Arab land was usurped and the map of Greater Israel was slowly materializing. No matter the unstable chaos surrounding the State of Israel for the past seven decades, and no matter the undying Palestinian resistance and the violent Intifadas that erupted internally, the Zionist dream of Greater Israel remained consistently intact and was progressing unabated and unchallenged by anyone.
But dreams, by their diaphanous nature are easily interruptible – can easily turn into sudden nightmares. Indeed, dreams do, in the blink of an eye, simply end.
There is so much silly propaganda out there right now on Palestine and Syria that I honestly can’t be bothered to post up any of it. It’s all the same tired spin too.
‘Palestinians are terrorists terrorizing the poor Israeli Jews who just want to live in peace and harmony with their neighbors’ – is basically a propaganda theme taken up by the MSM. Multiple stories of Israeli ‘personal’ experiences of “Palestinian terrorism” are getting published all over the place too (oh man, the tedium!).
Judgment Day. Is this it?
We in the west have wrought this current state of mayhem by aiding and abetting the criminals in Israel and continuing to do so despite our complete awareness of what we are helping them inflict on innocents struggling to survive in the world’s largest prison, bereft of food, clothing, and shelter – something we would not deny a stray dog.
We have tolerated the Israel-firsters in our country and allowed them to roam free on our streets while watching them take down our republic, brick by bloody brick. We have tolerated the Jewish 5th column in our government, media, finance, academia, and pretty much all seats of power and influence (yeah, call that a canard, I dare ya!) to the detriment of this once-great nation.
An Israeli Jew, seeing a brown-skinned man walking down his street and assuming him to be Palestinian: lunged forth and stabbed him in a revenge attack – only to discover that the man he critically injured was actually Jewish. Such is the level of ethnic paranoia permeating the Israeli psyche today.
Reciprocal stabbings between Palestinians and Zionist Israelis have been erupting on the streets of towns and cities and increasing in frequency and violence as the days pass. The Zionist Israeli media is carrying forth Netanyahu’s propaganda message to his people: ‘Arabs are attacking us with knives on the streets and we have the right to defend ourselves’. Other loon Israeli media outlets are warning that the Palestinian stabbers are Daesh announcing their arrival into Israel. The politics of fear is king in the holy land today.
Against their leaders and against their occupier. Against the Grim Reaper and a grimmer, dimmer future. Against deception, oppression, injustice and submission. Against everyone and everything that humiliates them, Palestinian youth en mass have taken to the streets of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza for five days in a row today – a passion for freedom and an anger at the poverty of their life exploding in their bony chests. Masked youth, stone in hand, stones stuffed in denim pockets, they duck behind walls and corners and cars, taking turn to leap balletic: throwing rocks with all their might at what can only be described as platoons of armed Israeli robots.
It’s that time of the year when rural Levant populations rush to their olive groves to pick the year’s harvest: generally used for pressing olive oil, pickling olives, and for making olive-based soap and beautification salves.
The timing of olive picking is crucial: it must take place after the second autumn rains – then waiting for two days thereafter for the soil to dry a little. Picking olives any later than that will embitter the flavor and ruin the benefits of the harvest. As you can imagine, this causes an insane rush to pick literally millions of trees in the region, with everyone working to a deadline. This tradition has been going on for thousands of years – even way before the enigmatic Abraham was born. Here in the south of the Lebanon, the pickers are mostly local villagers joined by Syrian refugees who have taken refuge in sleepy villages.
Did the headline get your attention? Well good cuz I’d like to WELCOME EVERYBODY to Plato’s first Pow Wow!
Every so often, I will open a ‘Pow Wow’ thread for life’s general profundities, ridiculous normalities and of course, its splendid grotesques. A so-called ‘open thread’ where, well, where anyone (except for you, Chas) can talk about anything they want. Use the comment section like a community room to share Palestine or non-Palestine topics or personal stories. Anything goes. But it’s best that you come here chilled in the brain, warm in the fingertips and armed with either a Pow or a Wow factor.
Russia is in Syria to stay until the job of ISIS-cleansing from Syria and Iraq is finished with.
The ‘West’ in practice has surrendered to this reality, but they’re such bastard sore losers that they won’t switch off their propaganda machines and paid minions for even a second. Of late, the media has had a stream of continuous misinformation articles against the Russia-Iraq-Iran-Syria security plan that they (the West) have actually already publicly agreed is the correct direction for Russia to take in resolving the ISIS crisis in the Levant. Talk about talking from both sides of mouth!
They don’t call it Russian roulette for nothing. Get a six-shooter, load it with a single bullet called Destiny, spin the chamber, point the barrel an inch above your ear, any ear – now wait or don’t wait – now squint or don’t squint – think or don’t think – now flashback or don’t – now weep or unweep now breathe or don’t breathe now laugh or don’t laugh so dammit – what the heck you waiting for?! Pull the goddamn trigger!
‘Clink’.
Potluck, you’re still alive.
You lost five pounds of sweat in just under a minute. But you’re alive.
Now it’s Putin’s turn. Shootin’ hootin’ tootin Putin – it’s his turn.
You hand him the gun. He takes it. He looks down at you, even though he’s shorter than you. How the hell does he do that, you wonder? Continue reading
Woohoo! A little Irish gig is in order here!
As you can see, I have kept the minimalism design and added a drop-down menu, found top left hand of homepage (a stack of three lines as symbol).
For the good reader/visitor, I have archived everything methodically now, please refer to the menu when searching for articles by me or by my NewsStand. The archives are now divided into two categories: ‘Taxi’s Articles’ and ‘NewsStand Articles“.
Bibi: Goddam this moonshine’s good – give me s’more, you give me s’more now!
General Zee: Think you’ve had enough – should go home now and–
Bibi: Awww put a sock in it – just hand the bottle over – I’m in the middle of having a great fish-fish… fision, fizion, vison, vijon, I mean vision of this great big bad–
General Zee: Mr. Prime Minister, I urge you please stop drinking or you’ll–
Bibi snatches the bottle of moonshine from the General’s hand and takes a long spilling swig.
The Palestinian today is a human slingshot and the stone in hand is the wrath of the land upon the cruel invader.
To have endured close to seven remorseless decades of daily brutality and death and to not have surrendered deserves earnest applause and fecund tears from the high sky. The patient ones are rewarded by the gods, they say. If this be true, then the enduring practice of Sumud has by now become an added survival organ in the Palestine body. Sumud as dear and silent clinging to life. A fixated insistence on justice. Sumud as higher love. The virtue that needs to be taught to child and suffering hostage alike.
My how the Russian boot suddenly landed heavy and sure on Syria’s soil.
How Israel gasped with surprise and dread to see the giant footprint and realize that its lauded Air Force no longer has the monopoly on Syrian skies.
Soberly it knew only too well that the Merkava is no match for even Hezbollah and Russian subs are a boat ride up the coast – checking Israeli frigates and pirates.
Suddenly Israel has no total freedom of the skies, checked on land and out at sea too.
I was going to leave this as a comment on MW but decided against it because I suddenly realized that I much prefer to write it up for my own blog – simple as that. But I will be linking it there and people who come to Plato’s to read it will then be able to comment, if they feel so inclined, without gatekeepers reading over their shoulders.
Why James North’s promotion of Max Blumenthal’s book fails as a review is what interests me here, not Blumentha’s book itself. So here’s what I’d like to say to James North after reading his promotional and uncritical review of Max Blumentha’s latest book – James’ article is headlined: ‘Why the mainstream media is still ignoring Max Blumenthal’s excellent book on Gaza’.
The great Judy Collins sings ‘Bread and Roses’
More of my favorite Labor Day classics:
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a HUGE and unaddressed problem with anti-goyism within the Jewish branches of the Palestine movement. And it is disheartening and disappointing that honorable leaders of the movement and other non-aligned individuals, both Jewish and non-Jewish are not addressing it in public for the benefit of the movement’s solidrity. What are we waiting for? Permission? Permission from whom exactly? Really now! It’s high time the anti-goy card is put face up on the table and examined.
We already know that Adleson and Saban held a secret anti BDS summit not too long ago and assigned some Forty Million Dollars to the cause of “fighting BDS”. Well, now we know where some of that money is going to: skanky bloggers who are out there smearing activists in the most disgusting way – literally referring to them as “pedophiles” for defending the children of Gaza. My advice here is two-pronged. First, relentlessly beat the shit out of the offending deranged zionists on the bloggosphere. Second: all smeared activists really need to gather themselves as one and class-action sue the living daylights out of the writers of such filth and fuckeries.
