Debt Rattle April 30 2022
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 • Why Europe Cannot Understand Russia (Escobar) • Empire of Lies Eager to Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 30 2022]The part of the world which has America as its role model will vanish, and only a savage world will remain; the world will lose a huge chunk of its charm but it will retrieve some sanity. It could be worse.
(the secret of happiness)
‘I just want them to be as numb as possible.
They will learn to feed themselves; that’s all.’(Curiosity and its bastard sibling, hope, are the archenemies of tranquility.)
I have no animosity towards you, no feelings for you: you are what you have to be; it’s neither your fault, nor merit.
Did you build all the things you have used to become the splendid creature you think you are?
No? Then it’s not your merit. (You’re just a sophisticated scavenger/necrophagous.)
Did you foresaw all the bad consequences from your deeds?
No? Then it’s not your fault. (You’re as clueless as the rest of us.)(I’m on “this side” because the “other side” is dumb, drab and humourless; being on “this side” doesn’t force me to be a fanatic nor to stop pondering on human nature.
I’m part of the relevant assets on “this side”: someone who appreciates the ‘pros’ without dismissing/overlooking the ‘cons’.
If you still want to kick me out from “this side”, it’s all good: being a part of the “undistinguished side”, avoiding the pitfalls of both sides (while coming up with some of our own) is also a valuable experience.)(humans are clueless, sophisticated scavengers/necrophagous)
Whenever praising, or condemning, human “achievements”, please remember today’s “old” was yesterday’s “new”, and that today’s “new” will be tomorrow’s “old”: it will help give you some perspective (it will help you accept The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.)
(transient victories/defeats, forever ties)
The plight of the scientist/rationalist: without enough pills and nuts & bolts, mankind, and the Universe, will never be fixed.
The Universe: is it recycling (perfect Universe), or is it refining (imperfect Universe)?
If the Universe is a full-fledged, self-contained recycling unit, then humans (and everything else, for that matter) are a random, disposable feature.
If the Universe is a self-improving entity then humans are a transient, disposable tool.Either way, coping with our transient nature seems to be our greatest conceptual ordeal.
Anecdotal corollary: There are not enough resources in the Universe to support two eternal entities – God and Man; one will destroy the other, otherwise both will perish. Place your bets, Ladies & Gents.
What to do?
Do nothing, nothing at all (in the strictest sense, or just keep doing whatever you do.)
You either are part of a perfect whole, therefore you’re perfect yourself, or you are an imperfect part of an imperfect whole and if the whole doesn’t know what perfection is, how will you ever?
(It’s neither your fault, nor merit.)@BBC, why did they let this young man speak rather than vetting and cutting him off as usual? Since they only have 100% lies, what new lie is this? The lie that they care?
“Why Europe Cannot Understand Russia (Escobar)”
Because atm Europe is insane and Russia isn’t. As for the article and distant past: I guess? But people don’t fight for 1280ad, they fight for bacon.
“the Russian Armed forces have used only 12% of its soldiers,10% of its fighter jets, 7% of its tanks, 5% of its missiles, and 4% of its artillery.”
I guess they underestimated Ukraine and lost then. Bogged down. RussiaRussiaRussia. Btw, that phrase whenever used is indicative of that OTHER Geopolitical MacKinder: that the U.S. and RUSSIA would unite together against the REAL oppressors of both. The Derp State. It’s equally vital that Russia be perceived as an intractable enemy so the people don’t realize how much we have in common, which is everything. But of course that plan is working great since the Americans will swallow anything.
“Americans are used to walking on scorched earth. Since World War II, entire cities have been razed to the ground by bombing, including nuclear bombing.”
Yes, but I think he means Cleveland and Detroit. Even the hottest spot in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, looks like the arson south Bronx of 1979. Cages and graffiti, unsafe after 9. That’s the TOP of America now, what used to be far past the worst neighborhood by Skid Row, but they’re not done yet.
In the article about Mariupol, Russia had the largest army at their rear in Donbass and Mariupol. So what if they clear them, will we see them just saunter across the Dnieper and take Odessa like it’s a lollypop then? See what I mean? The territory is not the army on the territory. And I am amazed at the $33B from Sniffin’ Joe. The weapons sent, like 70 tanks? I’m lost on how in 2022 they wouldn’t level all 70 with a single missile. Do they think it’s WWI and we’re spotting with biplanes and silk balloons? Russia can see the tanks and their GPS on TV in Moscow. They just push button – dink – and tanks go boom. Maybe a better military expert can explain to me what they: Germany, the U.S., Poland, think they are doing here. Will they divide up tanks one-by-one and surround them with a parcel of schoolchildren-on-a-rope? Literally, what? I need to come up with an insult beyond sniffing glue.
“Pentagon Spokesman Chokes Up while Talking about Ukraine (Hill)”
Nothing says “strength” like generals crying. He should have worn his high heels.
“It’s hard to square [Putin’s] … BS that this is about Nazism in Ukraine,”…that the NY Times reported on. What Nazis? The ones the BBC and CBC interviewed on camera with grandma? With handshakes, holidays, slogans, and full-size portraits of Nazis?
“reports of civilians being “shot in the back of the head, hands tied behind their backs. Women, pregnant women being killed, hospitals being bombed. I mean, it’s just unconscionable.”
Yes, but to be fair, he was talking about Chicago.
They took not only Zelinsky from the body of actors, but his CABINET from a body of actors. Since it was all funded by said oligarch, what does that tell you? That the NY Times has an IQ of 50 to fall for it?
“nostalgia for the Soviet Union” This seems impossible but Ukraine is so corrupt that the Soviet era looks rosy in comparison. There was SOME food, not none, SOME law, not none.
“For years the Kremlin has accused Ukraine of discriminating against Russian speakers” Phrased in the usual false way. Kiev LITERALLY outlawed LITERAL language, against UN law I believe, as well as killing them by the thousands. That’s not an “accusation” Mr. Yahoo, it’s a literal legal fact and you know it.
“Ukraine’s army has put up fierce resistance,” Kind of, but the West seems incapable of “thinking” or “asking anybody”. Russia could missile the whole Ukrainian Army location and kill 90% of them in 15 minutes. They may have put up admirable resistance, but that’s only because Russia has cut them off, let them starve, and needs to snipe them so they waste ammunition and surrender without HAVING to pocket-nuke them in 5 minutes. …And now you see why Russians at home do NOT like this plan and are mad at Putin for being too soft. How many Russians have to die so Ukrainian soldiers can live? Certainly the weirdest war I can think of: killing your own civilians by millions first, defending antique tanks with children, and trying to SAVE the enemy, not kill them, but here we are in Aquarius.
“UK Wants ‘Global NATO’ Capable of Defending Pacific (LI)”
Yes, there’s nothing you can say to this. Besides that UK carriers are useless, can’t float and don’t have planes, so I guess they really mean the United States will be defending the whole Pacific. Alone. Again. Good thing they elected our President for us, or I don’t see how we’d agree to it.
“I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities.”
Uh, yeah: unclear on the concept. It would mean marginalized communities would have absolute free speech? Unlike now, apparently?
“Jankowicz testified before British House of Parliament last year about “gender misinformation”
Now that is simply ridiculous: Jankowicz is not a biologist, how would she know what a woman is? Stay in your lane. You can’t have violence against women because there is no such thing as “women”. Duh. What a bigot. Everybody knows this.
“The implication of this study would be that the more you vaccinate, the more it erases your natural immunity, so not only do you still get the virus, but you will continue getting it because you can never achieve full immunity,”
“People forget Moderna was losing money in 2020”
They also forget: wasn’t Moderna Vaccine banned in 7 countries? Safe and effective!
“Why the Yen Fell while the Dollar Rallied (Mises)”
I was going to bring this up but it’s incredibly complicated. Essentially, if the USD is the world reserve currency for contracts, then the USD is a planet-wide dollar-short position. That has extremely strange effects it would take too long to explain. But IF the Fed ever tightens at all – check – then USD will be in a shortage – check – Eurodollars will crash Europe and break the system – check – and the U.S. will harvest Europe instead of the other way around, which was why Europe attempted to create a free Euro in the first place. So the Fed can Inflate incredibly, by trillions – check – but the USD will STRENGTHEN, not weaken. Or not at first. Things have steps, and steps take time. Why? When the shortage and financial pinch occurs, Europe and Japan will simply print FASTER than the US. So relative DXY – which is almost exclusively Euro and a useless measure at this point – the dollar will still be terrible but better than them.
You might more accurately measure the USD against real things and not equally-dead and dreadful currencies, so compare USD to Oil and Nickel – check – against which the USD has been cut in half.
Can we test this dollar-short theory? Yes. Because like a tidal force it’s always out there, but we can look at locations where it’s relevant. Turkey has official inflation of 60% !! Which, like all government numbers is an appalling, transparent bare-faced lie: it’s actually 150%. So their bonds give you 30%, gold in Lira gives you 60%, and US stocks and Treasuries? Yeah, you see the problem now. Yes, they are falling, but less than in the home currency, and what’s your choice? Turkey is known to be pretty far down, so has this synthetic dollar short finally reached Japan? It might seem so. Then the next weakest, then the next? Until it sinks Europe and the whole western banking system? And yes, then the U.S. collapses LAST. The center collapses LAST. That means the periphery collapses FIRST, and you can only wait for it to get through its steps using time.
As an American, I can’t say that’s good for me: REAL money, like oil, food, etc are still going up faster, but it’s remarkably less-bad than in Europe and Japan, as their money-people donate their lives and sacred honor to make our gasoline cost slightly less, and our stock market slightly stronger. They could stop, but they won’t because that’s how the machine is constructed right now. But yes, if you kick off the reversal of the Yen-carry trade you’ll see the crater it makes in the financial system from the moon. Here we are! It’s begun.
They’re picking on the singing of the new Disinformation Minister. That’s too bad, I kind of liked it, it was clever and well done. If completely wrong. However we can’t get around how they managed to find someone who believed literally every wrong thing the media has put out over the last five years. And has no awareness. It’s like “All the cool girls at the cafeteria table just KNOW that Judy is a slut.” The End. What more needs to be said or investigated? We know. It never occurs to her, or apparently anyone that such certainty of truth literally does not exist. When reporters on the front lines report what they see, they are not sure. When investigators spend half a year down in records piecing it together, they are not sure. But we 10,000 miles away, reading about it in 500 words ARE sure? Very, exclusively sure? Such that when a second war reporter on the front lines says something else, we censor him just because he’s second?
And now that the spotlight is on her, a long interview appears of her saying how the executive should never do such a thing, it’s deeply disturbing and she would never be a part of it. Seems pretty Janky to me.
$33 Billion for Ukraine while we have more Bidenvilles than ever, bridges are collapsing, and no clean water. What can you say to that? “”the $20 billion military assistance package is more than the total defense budgets of all but 13 countries in the world.”
P.S. we’re not in the war. We are but an innocent bystander, a delicate flower, not doing enough.
From yesterday, no one will enforce the law: In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed and the Biden Administration finalized the transparency rule whereby hospitals were forced to open their books and post their prices for healthcare services online and in real time. Blatantly, though, hospitals are refusing to comply. As of January 1, 86-percent of hospitals were not complying with the transparency rule”
We keep passing them, no one is following them. That includes re-passing laws about speech, guns, warrants that are already among the first 10 Federal laws ever passed. After we re-pass them, nobody follows them then either. Too busy enforcing laws we DIDN’T pass.
Part of the problem for hospitals is that they don’t know either. They no longer know what the prices are or should be, they just make it up. Since the accounting hasn’t been real at least since the Feds got involved in 1990, they have lost all mooring with reality. Band aids cost $1000. Heart Surgery costs zero. This is the “unit of account” function of money. We number-ize things so WE can tell if a grapefruit or a pumpkin costs more, i.e. is harder, takes more effort and energy to get. That way we can accurately measure should we use more bandaids or more tape? Should we stent or open surgery? When the costs are inaccurate and fabricated not only to the patients, but to the institution itself, then IT becomes inefficient, unable to deploy resources, and becomes only a source of endless waste and loss.
So an important part of making them post prices is to have the HOSPITALS account for THEMSELVES. That is, if you make them post prices where an aspirin costs $500 but the surgery room also costs $500, they can notice there is a clear problem and fix it. Also if your surgery costs $50,000 but the hospital in the same city is posting $5,000, somebody also knows there’s a problem. Short of going to a cash system, this is supposed to cause this distress to them so they can straighten it out, re-connect prices to reality and action. Their response to leaving fantasy and re-connecting to reality? We refuse. That’s it: we refuse. I like fantasy, the voices know me here.
Note this is a teeeeeeeny-tiny reform, barely irritating the larger system, not interrupting profits at all, and they both fight it as a mortal threat, and refuse to do it despite actual force of law.
But! It’s the law to wear masks! You should be arrested! No. It’s not. No laws were ever passed. On the other hand, the President and Congress DID pass a law to make you merely post prices. That’s it. I want to know what I owe and why. Can’t obey. Don’t care.
Non-laws exist and are arrested, ACTUAL laws are ignored, and not arrested. Got it? The only law is POWER, and you don’t have any, so shut up and do what you’re told.
“Elon Musk says part of the reason for free speech being in peril is that the Democratic Party “has been hijacked by extremists.”
Yes but leftists like Jimmy Dore argue that they have been hijacked by the RIGHT, authoritarians, and not the “Left” as we all knew them, pot-smoking, sharing-caring hippies. I disagree as the Left worships government, but I understand his point and value it. The Democratic Party is clearly hijacked by insider, corporate war-mongering neo-Libs, masquerading as the “Left”, a bargain made after Mondale lost (because nobody liked their ideas). The only group censored that aren’t conservatives are the REAL left, the Anti-war left like him. Also in Musk’s illustration is very very generous to the Left (as usual). The Right now believes in gay marriage for instance. Trump is the first President to do so, Barack being against it. So the Right has not only NOT moved further Right, they moved noticeably LEFT by almost every measure. And STILL the Left has gone so far to the horizon that the pro-Gay-marriage party are considered cattle-car Nazis. Pretty far out. Over the horizon into madness far out.
The essential problem we need to solve for is that “Right” and “Left” mean nothing anymore. There is no definition and no cohesion, they simply mean “I don’t like you.” Basically because 95% of the population and 100% of the reporters and schoolteachers are liars. 100% of the time. So where WOULD you get a historical definition of Left-Right from, if Merriam-Webster and School, College and the NY Times all lie like a rug about it with every word, thought, and deed? Your friends and family then don’t know either? We’re not having a real debate, and that’s by design. If there’s no reason, no definition, no logic, then the only law is POWER. The purpose of power is more power. Do what you’re told: the world exists for me.
Democracy and Demonstration and Freedom
My way or the Hyway
Certainty of truth literally does not exist.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/americas/ottawa-rolling-thunder-bike-rally-arrests/index.html
Ottawa police make 7 arrests and tow 24 vehicles during Rolling Thunder bike rally weekend
By Michelle Watson and Andi Babineau, CNNUpdated 5:46 AM ET, Sat April 30, 2022
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https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/we-cannot-let-this-go-unchallenged-unwelcome-party-planned-to-send-message-to-rolling-thunder-ottawa-event-1.5880846
‘We cannot let this go unchallenged’: ‘Unwelcome Party’ plans to send message to Rolling Thunder Ottawa eventLeah Larocque
CTV News Ottawa Multi-Skilled JournalistPublished April 28, 2022 3:22 p.m. PDT
Ottawa residents are planning an “unwelcome party” Friday to send a message to the “Rolling Thunder Ottawa” motorcycle convoy.“We cannot let this go unchallenged,” says Brian Latour, one of the organizers of the rally.
The “unwelcome party” is planned for 5 p.m. at Strathcona Park in Sandy Hill. It will include a rally and march.—————-
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-police-outline-exact-route-for-rolling-thunder-biker-ride-1.5879488
Ottawa police outline exact route for ‘Rolling Thunder’ biker ride
The entire route has been designated as a no-stopping zone. Officers will be along the route directing traffic and ensuring the bikers “safely and expeditiously leave the area with as little impact as possible on residents,” Bell said.Bell said police also have a plan in place in the event that people don’t follow their directions to move along.
He did not specify the location on Coventry Road where bikers plan to gather.
“We aren’t engaging in any sort of coordination of the event. The information that we have is that organizers are planning to muster in and around that area,” he said.
But messages on social media say the bikers are planning to muster at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre.
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Ukraine conflict – controlled demolition by your leaders
https://thesaker.is/empire-of-lies-eager-to-receive-mr-sarmats-business-card/
“The collapse of the American-centric world is a reality”“The American and European military-industrial complex is jubilant, because thanks to the crisis in Ukraine, it has no respite from order. It is not surprising that, unlike Russia, which is interested in the speedy completion of a special military operation and minimizing losses on all sides, the West is determined to delay it at least to the last Ukrainian.”
———–• Vaccinated Had Fewer N Antibodies Even After Covid Infection (Blaze)
This is huge. This “oopsie” resulting from experimental tinkering with the human immune system was known by “The Science” in early 2021.
Igor Chudov has a good article about it:
“Moderna Knew Vaccinated People Will Never Acquire Proper Immunity After Breakthrough Infections”This inability to obtain broader natural immunity is the reason for endless covids: a covid infection in [most of] the vaccinated does not result in lasting immunity and acts similarly to an almost-worthless booster shot. A “breakthrough infection” adds a large number of temporary S-antibodies to the obsolete Wuhan virus. Whereas, the unvaccinated obtain numerous antibodies to all sorts of facets (epitopes) of the virus that infected them…
The implications of the failure of vaccinated people to acquire full immunity are enormous. As a result of haphazardly tested vaccines, the vaccinated cannot become naturally immune after first, second, or any further infection.
Thus, any kind of herd immunity, successfully reached by low-vaccination countries, is impossible in the highly-vaccinated countries.
Endless Covid infections are NOT harmless, because Sars-Cov-2 infects immune cells and acts as a battering ram against our immune systems. Repeated blows of this “battering ram” are extremely deleterious to the immune systems of the vaccinated…
The timing of events suggests that Moderna had access to the N antibody data a very long time ago. In my opinion, a well-intentioned person who had this data, would quickly conclude that the general public deserves to be informed about OAS concerns. However, this was not done.
The data was available in or around March, 2021…
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/moderna-knew-vaccinated-people-will?s=r
Wow, Naomi just nails it! I honestly never thought of “misinformation” in that way. It’s so TRUE.
This is why I have come here daily for more than a decade now (I think, when did TAE start?). I don’t suppose her point should have been an ah-ha moment for me (kind of embarrassing) but it really was.
Could Tucker really be controlled opposition and allow discussion like this?
I had to look up Nina Jankowicz, never heard of her before.
Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. (…) She is a frequent television and radio commentator on disinformation and Russian and Eastern European affairs. Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/nina-jankowicz
Google search entries describe her as a “Disinformation Expert.” I.e. a lower-level Establishment Flunky, filled with hubris and crazed hyper-opportunism…
She made a lucrative career choice… by accident, or being roped in, or a meeting of the two.
Because the ppl recruited are in themselves of no interest or importance, they are just figures put forward on media etc., join the club, go on TikTok, the pay is good, many ppl admire you, etc.
Ukraine was the ‘big territory next to Russia’ for the Biden ‘big guy’, recall Obama could not / did not wish to control this part of the world, and tossed it as a favor to a section of the Dem Mafia (> criminal rapacious inner cricle.) The Biden shenanigans in Ukraine (Hunter, and his buddies, Devon Archer, the Burisma co., the pay offs to the big guy, etc.) were quite successful.
Nina J was chosen, anointed, because of the Ukr. connection.
Ukraine is an obsession of the Bidens. Which is (in part) the reason for the present War. The BidAdmin (imho) provoked, boosted, organised, the –somewhat real / semi fake— the expected blitz attack by Ukr. forces on the Donbass, thus pushing the Russkies to make the first move, and INVADE.
Could Tucker really be controlled opposition and allow discussion like this?
If he weren’t controlled opposition, I really couldn’t imagine him having a show on a major cable news channel.
Today’s selection, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 is masterfully implemented.
The hands are some of the most beautiful ever painted. Delicate and graceful. The scale, the proportions. The skin tone is perfection. Add a lovely face and eyes, and an interesting neck. Portraiture is a very high art.
The hair detail is amazing, creating a flowing and fluffy wild mane – tamed by perfectly placed, silver-pearled spiral adornments.
I won’t stop reminding you how difficult is it to paint fabrics with emphasis on prints, here it is done with great perfection.
Her accessories are stunning. How about the detail in that hawk-tail and breast down feather fan!? The green rosettes and the green stone ring are well-placed accents. The choker necklace is a mystical piece while the weighty, red coral beaded strands coil and fall effortlessly around her; they are soothing to hold and to roll around in your fingers. Abundant feminine implements and energy move in a circular motion swirling around her – consuming this viewer.
The Roses. I love their casual, painterly look. With so much going on here….why were they added to the scene?
Art is an experience. LOVE for the Heart and Soul. Thank you Ilargi.
“Ambassador Michael McFaul: ‘Putin has lost his war in Ukraine’” –MSNBC
That’s it then. All we need to do is fly the Junior Explorers in on American Airlines and occupy them. Actually the video is pretty startling: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/amb-michael-mcfaul-putin-has-lost-his-war-in-ukraine-138893381809?cid=referral_taboolafeed They say jawdropping things all the time, but this is stellar.
Thanks, Susmarie 108, for such a well curated description of the work ….. I’ve had to jump back and forth from the art and to your words, from desktop to cellphone … and everything else going along through the times in between…🤔….😊❤️
Elon Musk should be feared because he might bring back some of the taboo from when we were growing up.
1. long kiss in the movies
2. black man kissing white woman in movies
3. Woman nipples in magazines
4. Two people sleeping together in the movies
You can search your own memories and come up with all kinds of harms that was done to your young mind.
The Rolling Thunder bike rally is being shown continuously with commenters telling me how bad it is.
Should Elon Musk ban those programs from Twitter?The MSNBC clip pf McFaul is unspeakable. Yet I think I detected a note of “dreams come true” when he mentions
histhe money.OK, as a public service I’m coming out of “retirement”, to speak on this deluded point-of-view concerning the “grand illusion” of cancelling century’s old definitions:
All politicians and candidates for office should watch how Wolf responds to the first question from Tucker Carlson, and then makes the better argument. Wolf doesn’t waste time debating “misinformation”, “disinformation”, or “malinformation”, instead she accurately just says those things do not exist. Information stands undefined. From that position there are truth and lies.
OK, so if there is only “truth and lies”, what is the lay person going to believe when the “authorities” + their legalized “media” proclaim psyops & propaganda (lies) as “official” real reality?
It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is…
Is it not “misinformation” when the gatekeepers publish dishonest info (fake news) to sway the public, who has not the wherewithal to discredit, creating “The Narrative”?
mis·in·for·ma·tion
/ˌmisinfərˈmāSH(ə)n/noun
false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceiveThere are innumerable examples of where officialdom has effectively fibbed & hoodwinked the masses, for example:
A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.
Two months after Iraqi troops marched into Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl appeared before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Capitol Hill, a body established by Reps. Tom Lantos and John Porter in 1983 to raise awareness of human rights abuses worldwide.
Problem was, Nayirah’s story was made up.
The caucus — which wasn’t an official congressional committee, despite its name — introduced the girl as 15-year-old Nayirah, her last name withheld to protect her family in Kuwait. Nayirah recalled the trauma of watching Iraqi troops storm into Al Adan Hospital in Kuwait City, where she volunteered as a nurse. Live on air, she said the Iraqis had removed 312 babies from incubators and left them to die on the cold floor.
“If my nephew was born prematurely, he would have died that day as well,” Nayirah told a room of reporters, her voice quavering.
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Because fake news (mis/dis/malinformation) has consequences.
A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.
Problem was, Nayirah’s story was made up.
Two months after Iraqi troops marched into Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl appeared before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Capitol Hill, a body established by Reps. Tom Lantos and John Porter in 1983 to raise awareness of human rights abuses worldwide.
The caucus — which wasn’t an official congressional committee, despite its name — introduced the girl as 15-year-old Nayirah, her last name withheld to protect her family in Kuwait. Nayirah recalled the trauma of watching Iraqi troops storm into Al Adan Hospital in Kuwait City, where she volunteered as a nurse. Live on air, she said the Iraqis had removed 312 babies from incubators and left them to die on the cold floor.
“If my nephew was born prematurely, he would have died that day as well,” Nayirah told a room of reporters, her voice quavering.
Nayirah’s testimony struck deep. Major publications such as The New York Times and rights groups like Amnesty International echoed her disturbing eye-witness account. But the American public remained divided about whether to deploy troops to liberate Kuwait. Gallup polls in 1990 found that in August, only 17 percent of the American public had supported immediate military intervention. In December, that jumped to 41 percent.
The Democrat-dominated Congress was also divided, yet Nayirah’s story may have tipped the balance prior to a vote on Jan. 12, 1991. That day, the Senate voted 52 to 47 to authorize U.S military force in Iraq, with seven senators citing Nayirah’s testimony to justify their stance. The vote gave President George H. W. Bush the political backing he needed to save Kuwait … and valuable oil fields.
Just a decade earlier, the U.S., Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had financed Iraq as it battled the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years. After the war, Kuwait demanded that Saddam Hussein — known as a ruthless tyrant who had gassed his own people — pay back his war debt. Hussein refused and invaded the country instead.
The Iraqi leader was now a villain to his former allies — and to many Americans, despite their ambivalence over sending in U.S. troops. Americans might have been less conflicted had they known that the baby incubator story was a hoax.
Despite the multimillion-dollar efforts, many Americans were still apprehensive about sending their boys to a faraway land. After all, the Soviet Union had just collapsed, and Americans were told that the free world was finally secure.
Enter Nayirah — who was actually the daughter of Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.
Nayirah, for her part, never spoke publicly again. She also wasn’t punished for lying, since the Congressional Human Rights Caucus — now called the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission — amounts to little more than a political PR arena.(Think Tank)
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-great-lie-of-the-first-gulf-war/271486/
Now enter Carlson + Wolf; By declaring there only exists truth & lies, that mis/dis/malinformation is a non sequitur, that “opinion” effectively muddies the waters for the avg. Joe Schmo, who then feelz they possess the ability to discern the difference, when the psyop/propaganda process is often difficult to counter, done piecemeal over decades, in a relentless push to accomplish “The Narrative”…
There are more genders than just Male/Female!
Instead of the citizenry looking for honest, sane & dependable leadership (needle-in-the-haystack already), they turn to TPTB/TBTF agent provocateurs that emote lies & MISINFORMATION that appeals to their sector of mass psychosis brainwashing…
Controlled dissent FTW! 😕
Jankowicz testified before British House of Parliament last year about “gender misinformation” being a “national security concern” and a threat to democracy requiring government censorship.
Now, They’re taking it to the ultimate goal; Officialdom will now CONTROL “information”, so that the only Their “misinformation” will be accepted into “The Narrative” for a majority of the low information public…
Looks like Their total successes with duping the public regarding the 2020 election, Jan. 6, COVID+vexes, Ukraine et al. have emboldened the NPD sociopaths to no end.
Grifters always gain the confidence of the mark before the ultimate deception.
I’d think twice before allowing someone to redefine & nullify a word, or prefix, from your vocabulary 😕
Especially an American feminist author, journalist & party of chaos (d) consultant on a “news” entertainment show 😆
My opinion stands: Tucker Carlson is controlled opposition…
Susmarie108 said
Today’s selection, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 is masterfully implemented.
I am no expert but this painting looks freaky to me: is she a woman or a snake, that small head perched on the top of that very long neck, too long a neck.
@Veracious Poet said
OK, so if there is only “truth and lies”, what is the lay person going to believe when the “authorities” + their legalized “media” proclaim psyops & propaganda (lies) as “official” real reality?
You have inadvertently highlighted the problem: there is asolutely no need for a binary decision.
It is much more helpful to attach a level of confidence to the information you have heard? Instead of accepting information as true or false. One of the biggest problems when talking to progressives is that they just believe most of what they are told by TV and are they determined to defend that position as if they knew something about the subject matter. It is a sign of mental retardation that you accept information either as 100% fact or 100% lie, the truth has to occupy the middle ground, even the question of whether you exist at all cannot be 100%.
Part of this problem is the insecurity associated with being undecided: people see it as a weakness to be undecided. This insecurity then feeds their defence of their own adopted opinion. This they feeds into their belief that everybody should behave the way they behave, that everybody should do what they do. It is a mental disease and it would be very interesting to know why and how it comes about.
For example: On the evidence I have seen, the probability is that the Covid virus does not exist. I am happy to see actual evidence that it does exist, but that has not been forthcoming. It is not a reflection on me as to whether Covid exists or not, it is a reflection of the evidence I have seen. Now, I could just put all my faith in Fauci and decide that it 100% exists because Fauci says it exists, but that is the sort of response I would expect from a dog: you pretend to throw the stick, the dog runs after it then becomes puzzled, wondering where the stick is, only to be happy again when you reveal that it was hidden behind your back all the time.
@WES: Thanks. I took the test after a week of solid and sustained study, and 6 months without seeing patients, then I spent 4 hours in spiritual study.
Where are we and whither go we?
@Aspnaz: I had COVID for Christmas/New Years, Delta, and I had “believed” in it from mid December 2019, when it didn’t-exist-at-all officially, but that Chinese Ophthalmologist got heavily bullied for his wrong speech, before dying of it in January.All of our models of reality are simplifications. It’s the best we can do. useful simplified-abstract-models can be really useful, or destructive, or useful to me and destructive to you…
I like to sell people those models…
I absolutely agree about holding “facts” in abeyance until they are given time and opportunity to “fit” or “clash” with the world model that I keep as a work in progress, always revising and updating…
I don’t have a better approach to truth than that, holding a jigsaw-puzzle piece to the side if I’m not sure that it actually goes to this particular puzzle that I’m trying to piece together into a coherent whole..
I saw something peak in global finance/economy in the third quarter of 2018. I was not the only one.
Gail Tverberg thinks it was associated with the peak in global crude oil production. She makes a good case for that, and for that being what’s behind the need for lockdowns and an expandable-world-war.The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead
John Day said
I had COVID for Christmas/New Years, Delta, and I had “believed” in it from mid December 2019, when it didn’t-exist-at-all officially, but that Chinese Ophthalmologist got heavily bullied for his wrong speech, before dying of it in January.
I have a few friends who also claim to have had Covid. It amazes me how nobody claims to have flu these days. I have one friend who believes his uncle died of Covid. Without reliable tests, I take all these stories with a pinch of salt. Until I see evidence of why flu has been eliminated, I am inclined to take the boring approach and assume all the people claiming to have Covid probably just had flu. I am fairly certain that scientists could have put together an accurate test over the past 24 months, but that does not seem to have happened. Instead we have a set of rubbish tests which franky cannot be relied upon.
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