Right Wing Myths: Who are ISIS?: Perhaps the popular vision or impression of Isis has focused too much on what Isis could become in the future, as opposed to understanding w...
This is one side of the discourse about ''Why ISIS''. I cannot remember the exact title of the article, but one of its assumptions within the ranks of the Saddam high ranking officers [mostly Sunni, some were Shia] was that when the Americans topple Saddam, the US will hire these officers to establish civil order along with their respective commands. Within this framework, it seems to subsume that these high ranking officers many have not fought hard enough to preserve the Saddam regime [this is not a praise for Saddam, he is another story altogether]. Be that as it may, the US who are rather slow in recognizing their tenuous understanding of the civil society and weaving of Iraqi politics/social order failed the hopes of the Sunni would be US allies to maintain social order.This poor US intelligence and greed for oil, made them allow the vandalism of the ancient artifact of 5,000 yrs. to be demolished for lack of protection from the looters, thieves and opportunists who ransacked the museums without mercy. This was one point when it became very plain that Americans are greedy and ignorant about Middle East Culture. [The destruction of the Bameyan Buddhas and latter the ISIS destruction of other artifacts convinced me how dark men's heart are]. This is not a gender bias, but the dismay at the disastrous and unrecoverable loss of early civilization artifacts [setting aside lives, another story of its own] perpetrated by men who lost all sensibilities.
The dream of Saddam's cohort were blown to bits when they were disbanded, disarmed en mass and left abandoned to the mercy of the Shia who came at them with a vengeance. Some of key men of Saddam escaped the net and the Middle East got ISIS. The Shia government and the pandemic corruption [chronic social illness] led the country in disarray. Unfortunately, the Shia ruling classes never ruled Iraq before, long enough to hold sway in the imagination of the whole people and have not grasped a possible escape from feudalism through concerted effort to build on republican ideas.It is needless to say that in Saddam's time [imperfect, as it were] had more educational facilities and degrees in the liberation of men and women to achieve education and training to build a modern nation. All of that is lost. Iraq as it is now and ISIS are the deadly gifts that keeps on giving grief from that headless Bush who invested Iraq on false pretenses in the UN, The US created ISIS, and never forget that the majority of the 9/11 were manned mostly by Saudi Arabs, whose royal family will allowed to leave the US one day after attack when there were no fly zones all over the US. So, who created ISIS? Who will solve ISIS? The answer is inescapable. Who committed the greater crime?The rhetorical questions do not answer what will become of ISIS. It is a rapidly mutating entity, the concerted response of the West will determine what ISIS will be but only for a time, the rest is ambiguity the West never dreamed about.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Thursday, June 23, 2016
BEST FIGHTER FOR CANADA: ROAD TRIP!
BEST FIGHTER FOR CANADA: ROAD TRIP!: I will be making an excursion into Canada's nerve center (aka: Ottawa) this week, from the 10th to the 16th of May. Friday and Satur...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
THE THIRD OBAMA-ROMNEY DEBATE
Romney strut his credentials by alleging that in Obama's watch, the US Navy complement has dwindled to a shadow of itself, Obama scolded Romney's ignorance [perhaps doesn't know] i.e. the military do not keep horses and bayonets because the projection of power is no longer a game of battleships but of capability. Naval power has evolved and includes aircraft carriers, killer-hunter nuclear submarines [and unmanned armed space vehicles or UASV, satellites i may add]. The look on Romney's face was a sight to behold, disbelief that he walked into another trap one more time. Quite desperation on a rich man's face,
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
brinkmanship
why do democrats keep a bipartisan approach when the republicans are recalcitrant and uncooperative, is unseating Obama more important than bringing default to US credibility.? Bachman and company insist that paying only the debt interest is acceptable and slash social programs in the next session. It is the most stupid position that any politician worth his/her salt can bring up, don't they know this is the same schema that wrought the sub prime rate debacle, or fascism and racism the main staple of the conservatives?
Saturday, July 2, 2011
alan greenspan and the western world financial crisis
Greenspan in his tv interview has claimed that he could not understand why the brutes of Wall Street could not regulate itself effectively to protect the interests of its stock holders.Surprise! Surprise! You mean he cannot figure out that Wall Street has its own financial interests? Who makes up Wall Street? Are they not the full beneficiaries of the global financial manipulations by the likes of Reagan and Thatcher? When an old man who had designed globalization with the full cooperation of Wall Street, the sold out political and civic leaders and lobbyists who are buddies with the World Bank and the IMF pretends confusion over his disciples' fraudulent financial ''products", it is pathetic. It is unmitigated Banality of Evil.
What is the greatest disaster that hit industrialized nations like US and Canada? Outsourcing. Our government leaders [Canadian Mulroney Conservative and US Democratic Clinton administration} signed on the Free Trade Agreement, later Mexico] knowingly or unknowingly? created conditions that destroyed our manufacturing base and replaced it with the deskilling of massive numbers of workers through service industries like finance[nail clipping, hair doing, McD's] which is controlled by stock exchanges in cooperation with the banks. Generally, captains of industry are extinct species. Industry is mainly owned by banks with few exceptions.. This is how manufacturing was easily moved to areas of cheap labour. Perhaps, we workers and middle classes have forgotten what the banks did to us in 1929, and it was not the first time either.
Those of us who thought globalization will not affect us had another think coming. Out sourcing relegated us and our children to slinging hash, fortune telling, gambling, drug addiction, unprecedented cyberspace perversions, gangsterism, drug trade, slave trade, mind boggling reality shows, religious fundamentalism, foxes'news with no relief in sight. Imagine rust belts, closed lumber mills, decaying infrastructures.When the market offers mostly low paying jobs[meaning grand corporate profits], workers are not inspired to transform themselves to greater heights because even lateral opportunities are scarce and mind numbing. Loss of social mobility after globalization has demoralized many.
Wall Street is nothing but more than inventive. Look at the junk bonds, the mother of all frauds which eventually landed us to the sub prime rate debacle. Owning a home has been every man's dream. It was the bait that hoodwinked us into swallowing hook line and sinker the notion that real estate will always rise for eternity? Because of need or greed, the impoverished clutch at this all too good a promise of private property by the hundred thousands and promptly fell on the proverbial sword.
Financial crisis is not the specter, the unseen hand of the market; it is man made, as solid as the people who own and operate Wall Street, the speculators, & the Banks who demand through their compradors that workers and middle class wealth bail them out, making profits hand over fist in the process.
If we continue to believe as gospel truth the clear irresponsibility, the feigned confusion and the implicit threat of the elfin Greenspan, i.e. he is the only game in town, then we deserve whats coming to us: another financial meteor on the horizon with out our space cowboys. guys, why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot?
What is the greatest disaster that hit industrialized nations like US and Canada? Outsourcing. Our government leaders [Canadian Mulroney Conservative and US Democratic Clinton administration} signed on the Free Trade Agreement, later Mexico] knowingly or unknowingly? created conditions that destroyed our manufacturing base and replaced it with the deskilling of massive numbers of workers through service industries like finance[nail clipping, hair doing, McD's] which is controlled by stock exchanges in cooperation with the banks. Generally, captains of industry are extinct species. Industry is mainly owned by banks with few exceptions.. This is how manufacturing was easily moved to areas of cheap labour. Perhaps, we workers and middle classes have forgotten what the banks did to us in 1929, and it was not the first time either.
Those of us who thought globalization will not affect us had another think coming. Out sourcing relegated us and our children to slinging hash, fortune telling, gambling, drug addiction, unprecedented cyberspace perversions, gangsterism, drug trade, slave trade, mind boggling reality shows, religious fundamentalism, foxes'news with no relief in sight. Imagine rust belts, closed lumber mills, decaying infrastructures.When the market offers mostly low paying jobs[meaning grand corporate profits], workers are not inspired to transform themselves to greater heights because even lateral opportunities are scarce and mind numbing. Loss of social mobility after globalization has demoralized many.
Wall Street is nothing but more than inventive. Look at the junk bonds, the mother of all frauds which eventually landed us to the sub prime rate debacle. Owning a home has been every man's dream. It was the bait that hoodwinked us into swallowing hook line and sinker the notion that real estate will always rise for eternity? Because of need or greed, the impoverished clutch at this all too good a promise of private property by the hundred thousands and promptly fell on the proverbial sword.
Financial crisis is not the specter, the unseen hand of the market; it is man made, as solid as the people who own and operate Wall Street, the speculators, & the Banks who demand through their compradors that workers and middle class wealth bail them out, making profits hand over fist in the process.
If we continue to believe as gospel truth the clear irresponsibility, the feigned confusion and the implicit threat of the elfin Greenspan, i.e. he is the only game in town, then we deserve whats coming to us: another financial meteor on the horizon with out our space cowboys. guys, why do we keep shooting ourselves in the foot?
Friday, May 27, 2011
TWO NATION STATE IN PALESTINE FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
President Obama has reiterated the UN 242 resolution for a 2 state solution to the 63 yr. old problem of the diaspora of the Palestinians from their homeland. To see this problem with some clarity is to go back to the Balfour Declaration to create a homeland for the Jews after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WWI and the re division of the world was accomplished by the European powers for colonial markets and new investments for the financiers of London and Paris and perhaps New York, to mention a few.. The middle east was divided and called mandates, Palestine was a British Mandate.
Without any input from the people who had lived in Palestine for more than 2000 yrs, the British declared that Palestine is the Jewish homeland with " respect to the non-Jewish population" . How was that respect played in real life? Please note that the plight of the Jews from Europe was not instigated by the Palestinians. The pogroms and the injustice and the holocaust were inflected on the Jews by the Europeans, white people like the European Jews themselves. The Jews that grew up in Palestine[Jews that were allowed by the Ottoman Empire to move there after they were kicked out by the Catholic Philip and Isabella of Spain after 1492] lived with the Palestinians and were treated the same way by the Ottoman Empire rulers.
WWI re division of the spoils of war changed all that. The European Jews who were treated unjustly by the Europeans wished to go back to a place they can call their own but without any consideration for the people who had lived there all their lives. It is reminiscent of how the Europeans who came to America and were helped by the natives to survive the harsh climate and when they found how backward the local natives were, they eventually disenfranchised them with their modern arms and methods of government that were blessed by the renaissance and the industrial revolution, ideas that never inter the equation when the Palestinian-Jewish question is discussed.
It is wise to remember that the Palestinians did not inflict the Holocaust on the Jews and if the Europeans wished to salved their conscience at the expense of the Palestinians, what then is the meaning of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN? Is this not hypocrisy?There were numerous UN resolutions against the intransigence of the European Jewish settlers in Palestine but the UN had been soundly ignored. Why? The Jews declared their independence in 1948, but from whom? The Palestinians were not dominating them, nor the British who held Palestine as its mandate.
In current terms of military strength, the assault rifles and rockets are no match to modern jets, warning systems, tanks, armoured vehicles, nuclear warheads held by the Jews.against the Palestinians whose lands had been dismembered and walled like concentration camps without the ovens.If this intransigence to UN resolution 242 is based on the design for the greater Israel as some people think, then there will be no peace in the middle east. The dire situation of the Palestinians may not be a Warsaw ghetto, but how far does it have to go to attain comparison?
The Islamic population is an explosive one, eventually it will overtake the Jewish enclave. They proliferate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, The Balkans, Central Asia, Indonesia, Middle East as most poor people do. Their unceasing deprivation and frustration and spiritual suffering will eventually explode and the world at large cannot do anything about it. Nuclear weapons might be used by those who have them, so we destroy ourselves because we are vindictive and we pay lip service to Christianity.. Now that popular revolt against dictators are sprouting like mushrooms after the storm, perhaps we can consider to start a peaceful if imperfect resolution to the Palestinian question. When we push desperate people to the edge of the sword, we can never predict their reaction no matter how strong we are. Palestinians have nothing to lose, be aware of that fact. but if we act wisely, there is a chance to keep the peace in the middle east. Only people of genuine courage can make the necessary compromise to strike for peace in good faith no matter how tenuous the possibility. If we venture nothing, we gain nothing and even lose everything.
Without any input from the people who had lived in Palestine for more than 2000 yrs, the British declared that Palestine is the Jewish homeland with " respect to the non-Jewish population" . How was that respect played in real life? Please note that the plight of the Jews from Europe was not instigated by the Palestinians. The pogroms and the injustice and the holocaust were inflected on the Jews by the Europeans, white people like the European Jews themselves. The Jews that grew up in Palestine[Jews that were allowed by the Ottoman Empire to move there after they were kicked out by the Catholic Philip and Isabella of Spain after 1492] lived with the Palestinians and were treated the same way by the Ottoman Empire rulers.
WWI re division of the spoils of war changed all that. The European Jews who were treated unjustly by the Europeans wished to go back to a place they can call their own but without any consideration for the people who had lived there all their lives. It is reminiscent of how the Europeans who came to America and were helped by the natives to survive the harsh climate and when they found how backward the local natives were, they eventually disenfranchised them with their modern arms and methods of government that were blessed by the renaissance and the industrial revolution, ideas that never inter the equation when the Palestinian-Jewish question is discussed.
It is wise to remember that the Palestinians did not inflict the Holocaust on the Jews and if the Europeans wished to salved their conscience at the expense of the Palestinians, what then is the meaning of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN? Is this not hypocrisy?There were numerous UN resolutions against the intransigence of the European Jewish settlers in Palestine but the UN had been soundly ignored. Why? The Jews declared their independence in 1948, but from whom? The Palestinians were not dominating them, nor the British who held Palestine as its mandate.
In current terms of military strength, the assault rifles and rockets are no match to modern jets, warning systems, tanks, armoured vehicles, nuclear warheads held by the Jews.against the Palestinians whose lands had been dismembered and walled like concentration camps without the ovens.If this intransigence to UN resolution 242 is based on the design for the greater Israel as some people think, then there will be no peace in the middle east. The dire situation of the Palestinians may not be a Warsaw ghetto, but how far does it have to go to attain comparison?
The Islamic population is an explosive one, eventually it will overtake the Jewish enclave. They proliferate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, The Balkans, Central Asia, Indonesia, Middle East as most poor people do. Their unceasing deprivation and frustration and spiritual suffering will eventually explode and the world at large cannot do anything about it. Nuclear weapons might be used by those who have them, so we destroy ourselves because we are vindictive and we pay lip service to Christianity.. Now that popular revolt against dictators are sprouting like mushrooms after the storm, perhaps we can consider to start a peaceful if imperfect resolution to the Palestinian question. When we push desperate people to the edge of the sword, we can never predict their reaction no matter how strong we are. Palestinians have nothing to lose, be aware of that fact. but if we act wisely, there is a chance to keep the peace in the middle east. Only people of genuine courage can make the necessary compromise to strike for peace in good faith no matter how tenuous the possibility. If we venture nothing, we gain nothing and even lose everything.
THE SUICIDE BRIGADE: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
The 26th District of New York election of a Democrat member of congress stunned the Newt's literati into back tracking their plan to bludgeon to death the health care reform of the Obama Administration.. The Republicans spared no ammunition , fired and reloaded at will attacking the health reform and grounded it to allow the private insurance systems [the Patrone or the Godfather contributors to the Republican campaign treasury] to remain as the third party payer instead of having a single party payer which would have save trillion of dollars from duplication of the bureaucracy--
[ this financing method is so reminiscent of the fight for the crown by king John and Empress Mathilda in the 12 th century England--nothing has changed- except that this time one claimant to the throne is black].The Supreme court decision that private contributions to political parties are held in secret did not help, but exacerbated the injustice of the inequitably distributed health care planned by Republicans.[ Members of congress get excellent health care, freely funded by tax payer's money].
The Democrats wanted a single payer arrangement but sans success. However, making the best of the situation Obama and his cohort adroitly staged the contention on the field of non partisanship which eluded the dim witted Republicans in the political chess game. They wanted everything and gave nothing. Now that their policy of insane cutbacks to save the goose of the very rich 2% of Americans at the expense of the working poor, children, the elderly and the vanishing middle class, the main stream are beginning to see the war plans of the Republicans against the vast majority of Americans. The Republicans are bending over backwards to cover their onerous designs against those who cannot afford the prohibitive cost of private health care by their one shot voucher. Imagine elderly people negotiating coverage with well endowed insurance agencies, good luck.
Now every Republican hopeful to regain their recalled governor's seat and those looking to 2012 should be on suicide watch. To fall promptly on one's sword might save you from the verdict of history, but i could never for the life of me imagine why the Republicans could not divine the response of the American people to Paul Ryan's budget.
Now that 40 Republican senators signed on to the Ryan's budget, some say they don't know what to do, others say 'do something bold" and others ''jumping off the bridge is bold". Harakiri and sepuko are military terms unknown in the Republican lexicon while they are on record for their fondness of martial words when attacking their quarry [lock and load, reload, crosshairs] it will be intriguing to look forward to the next move by the lemmings, one Pied Piper wanted.
[ this financing method is so reminiscent of the fight for the crown by king John and Empress Mathilda in the 12 th century England--nothing has changed- except that this time one claimant to the throne is black].The Supreme court decision that private contributions to political parties are held in secret did not help, but exacerbated the injustice of the inequitably distributed health care planned by Republicans.[ Members of congress get excellent health care, freely funded by tax payer's money].
The Democrats wanted a single payer arrangement but sans success. However, making the best of the situation Obama and his cohort adroitly staged the contention on the field of non partisanship which eluded the dim witted Republicans in the political chess game. They wanted everything and gave nothing. Now that their policy of insane cutbacks to save the goose of the very rich 2% of Americans at the expense of the working poor, children, the elderly and the vanishing middle class, the main stream are beginning to see the war plans of the Republicans against the vast majority of Americans. The Republicans are bending over backwards to cover their onerous designs against those who cannot afford the prohibitive cost of private health care by their one shot voucher. Imagine elderly people negotiating coverage with well endowed insurance agencies, good luck.
Now every Republican hopeful to regain their recalled governor's seat and those looking to 2012 should be on suicide watch. To fall promptly on one's sword might save you from the verdict of history, but i could never for the life of me imagine why the Republicans could not divine the response of the American people to Paul Ryan's budget.
Now that 40 Republican senators signed on to the Ryan's budget, some say they don't know what to do, others say 'do something bold" and others ''jumping off the bridge is bold". Harakiri and sepuko are military terms unknown in the Republican lexicon while they are on record for their fondness of martial words when attacking their quarry [lock and load, reload, crosshairs] it will be intriguing to look forward to the next move by the lemmings, one Pied Piper wanted.
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