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You can buy and read the book of Jean-Daniel Ruch, "Crimes, Hate and Tremors - From one Cold War to the other, in pursuit of Peace and Justice" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6Z4QB16

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When all words fail, you can always “Shout!”: Joan Baez and her beautiful voice along with the finest musicians, ca 1986, channeling Tears for Fears. An idea for Trump’s inauguration-music of the people!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYh4hrVDE0

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The GAE is going all-in and indeed has only a small window of time in which to acquire full dominance. And Trump is too much of a wild card, so anything can happen in the coming weeks. Two principal factors are driving this imperative. The first is the coming financial disasters associated with runaway spending and debt. The second is related to disclosures that are about to become public from the Epstein/Diddy sex and blackmail scandals. When the public becomes aware of the horrific crimes hiding behind the curtain, that will be the final straw. Civil disobedience won't remain civil for very long. We are sitting on a powder keg and no one knows it.

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With regard to Kirillov, and Russia's response with an attack on an SBU facility in Kiev, Doctorow suggested yesterday that the Russians expect Kirillov was chosen in part as payback from the Anglos for work he did to prove the chemical attacks in Syria were false flag events, back when the Anglos were trying to bring down Assad back when Obama was in office and said he had a red line. And of course, there has been the tit-for-tat over whether Russia has used chemical weapons in Ukraine, or whether the US built out biolabs there before the war, or whether Ukraine might stage a false-flag event using chemical weapons, and so on.

The most recent WSJ article,

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The attack on Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was part of an escalating campaign by Ukraine’s security and intelligence services to kill high-profile figures in Russia’s war effort. Its aim is to bring the fight to Russia, raising the immediate costs of the war for Moscow’s leaders.

Increasingly, the focus has been on important military targets including a senior naval officer and a missile scientist. Coupled with long-range strikes on installations such as strategic bomber bases, it is part of a drive to use asymmetric measures to disrupt and demoralize the Russian war machine.

Ukrainian security officials say the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, is modeling itself on Israel’s Mossad, renowned for its relentless pursuit of enemies abroad.

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Mossad is renowned. And a guy like Randy Fine is fine with what they are renowned for, because he knows there are good and moral nations, and bad and immoral nations, and he is so lucky by an accident of birth to be a member (in absentia) of a good and moral nation, and the ends justifies the means. It's in the Bible.

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This may have been done because they actually fear Trump 2.0.

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According to Thomas Aquinas anger is a passion of the sensitive appetite that moves us to action. Anger at injustice moves us to right that injustice--which is called revenge. When that anger is regulated by reason it is just and good. A failure to experience anger at injustice is a failure of moral formation.

https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3158.htm

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