Let’s start with a story from an Israeli magazine. This simply confirms that the massacre of non-Jewish civilians is Israeli policy—a feature, not a bug. Pay attention to the role of AI in this: ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
“Everyone in Europe is talking about this”—the peace talks—an American businessman who spent years dealing with high-level Ukrainian diplomatic and military issues in the government told me earlier this week. “But there are lots of questions between a ceasefire and a settlement.” The veteran journalist Anataol Lieven wrote this week that the battlefield situation in Ukraine and thus “a ceasefire and negotiations for a peace settlement are becoming more and more necessary for Ukraine.” He said that it was “exceptionally difficult” for the Ukrainian government headed by Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to talks, given its repeated refusal to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The driving force of those talks has not been Washington or Moscow, or Biden or Putin, but instead the two high-ranking generals who run the war, Valery Gerasimov of Russia and Valery Zaluzhny of Ukraine.
Thanks Mike. I don't do paid subscriptions so I'll have to wait for it to show up elsewhere--Zerohedge? Feel free to summarize/quote in the comments here. I will say this re "General to general". I don't believe there will be a ceasefire without the framework of a settlement already in place, with only non-essential details to be hammered out and with serious guarantees that there will be no backing out. Hersh says, from what I saw, that the battlefield situation is driving these supposed talks, because Ukraine is getting hammered. Recent news has also indicated that Russia is now gearing up for massive breakthroughs. General to general contacts can only IMO be in the nature of feelers. If war is politics by other means, then the politicians will call the shots. That will be true in Russia, but maybe not in Ukraine--where there's always the possibility of a coup sanctioned by the Neocons.
Having pondered this article, I am thinking of several alternative scenarios:
1) this is a trial balloon being flown by a three letter agency and a five sided building in DC. Seymour Hersch has long standing relationships with said groups. I'm especially suspicious of the NATO accepting Ukraine (for only defensive deployments) storyline. As Burns said in 2008, this is the reddest of red lines for Russia. It's wishful thinking by the West that Russia would agree to this in any way while sitting at the poker table with a surefire winning hand.
2) the same folks may be taking sides in the Zelensky-Zaluzhny battle and will use this to claim that Zaluzhny is a traitor for participating in this unauthorized discussion.
3) Russia could have planted the story to buy time to complete their full mobilization prior to an offensive. I believe that Russia will demand control include Kharkiv and Odesa for their trouble and to teach a painful lesson. If I were a betting man, this is where my money would ride.
All such stories should be viewed as part of 5th generation warfare intelligence operations.
The role played by AI in prioritising attacks, as per the 972mag piece, was atrocious. The article says that there was very little or no human double-checking, the excuse being there wasn't time. I would not expect much sympathy if I flattened some poor toddler in my car because I didn't have time to bother looking where I was going . . .
The IOF can go right ahead, before ticking the next box on their to-do lists. After all, they were told several weeks ago that no member of their armed forces will be disciplined for _any_ actions against Hamas (interpreted extremely widely to mean anyone who is or might be Palestinian).
The video of the Ayn al-Asad missle attack was quite something. Allowed To Happen?
Looking forward to the MIH Henry Kissinger memorial piece . . . ;-)
As for "impartiality," I refer you to the meaning of the word "is". This is a Leftist, dyed in the wool. Raised and educated to view tradition bound concepts of the past, such as "impartiality", as simply weapons to be used against one's opponents--not to be personally adhered to.
Your first question is not unfair as long as you recognize that we're dealing with statistical analysis. There are unquestionably Jewish legal professionals and political analysts who would utterly reject Howell's theory and praxis, and the nihilism that it implies--the end justifying the means. On the other hand, the percentage of those who would embrace and evangelize Howell's views and praxis is distressingly high among the Jewish population.
I placed the part about Howell within the overall context of warfare because that's how she appears to view her own activity--war by other means, total war, in which the end justifies the means. Not a struggle for justice within a overall theory of morality based on transcendent principles of human nature. A tribal struggle for vengeance. The same type of war the IOF has waged from its inception.
I would have thought that there is a process for addressing a judge's violation of her duty of impartiality. Maybe somewhere in the judicial code of conduct applicable to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia?
One of the (many) problems with the 'rules based order' is that application of, and enforcement of, the 'rules' is pretty arbitrary. One might even say: authoritarian.
One might even say that in the absence of impartiality, there can be no real system of justice.
I agree, of course. Courts are pretty clubby affairs, with a high bar when it comes to judges calling each other out. I would say the current state of affairs derives from the lack of any generally accepted philosophy of law in America. I don't think it's too much to say that the judiciary is in a state of civil war in that respect, with judges like Howell pushing the traditional standards of conduct to the limit.
The Deep State is going to do everything it can - everything - to stop Trump in 2024. How the 50% of Americans who are still sane react to this is going to define the country for a long time to come. What is sure is that America will be a very different place in a few years time. And with the rise of people like Wilders and the Irish protests, it looks like Europe is heading for big changes as well. As for the Israelis, they are digging themselves into an ever deeper hole with every Palestinian they murder. They may win a short term victory but they are jeopardising their long-term future.
Is the peril that special prosecutors and radical judges present our ability to have normal politics underestimated by both themselves and those who cheer them on? Do the cheerleaders even understand what collecting the names of (millions?) of people who like the political opposition represents? What happens when they are the political opposition? If the response to their totalitarian psychology is totalitarian the republic is lost.
I don't think freedom is quite ready to leave the stage just yet, Frances. These are signs of desperation by the globalists. They are too out of touch with reality to be able to stop what is coming.
Big story from Seymour Hersch about settlement talks....military to military.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/general-to-general
...
“Everyone in Europe is talking about this”—the peace talks—an American businessman who spent years dealing with high-level Ukrainian diplomatic and military issues in the government told me earlier this week. “But there are lots of questions between a ceasefire and a settlement.” The veteran journalist Anataol Lieven wrote this week that the battlefield situation in Ukraine and thus “a ceasefire and negotiations for a peace settlement are becoming more and more necessary for Ukraine.” He said that it was “exceptionally difficult” for the Ukrainian government headed by Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to talks, given its repeated refusal to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The driving force of those talks has not been Washington or Moscow, or Biden or Putin, but instead the two high-ranking generals who run the war, Valery Gerasimov of Russia and Valery Zaluzhny of Ukraine.
...
Thanks Mike. I don't do paid subscriptions so I'll have to wait for it to show up elsewhere--Zerohedge? Feel free to summarize/quote in the comments here. I will say this re "General to general". I don't believe there will be a ceasefire without the framework of a settlement already in place, with only non-essential details to be hammered out and with serious guarantees that there will be no backing out. Hersh says, from what I saw, that the battlefield situation is driving these supposed talks, because Ukraine is getting hammered. Recent news has also indicated that Russia is now gearing up for massive breakthroughs. General to general contacts can only IMO be in the nature of feelers. If war is politics by other means, then the politicians will call the shots. That will be true in Russia, but maybe not in Ukraine--where there's always the possibility of a coup sanctioned by the Neocons.
Having pondered this article, I am thinking of several alternative scenarios:
1) this is a trial balloon being flown by a three letter agency and a five sided building in DC. Seymour Hersch has long standing relationships with said groups. I'm especially suspicious of the NATO accepting Ukraine (for only defensive deployments) storyline. As Burns said in 2008, this is the reddest of red lines for Russia. It's wishful thinking by the West that Russia would agree to this in any way while sitting at the poker table with a surefire winning hand.
2) the same folks may be taking sides in the Zelensky-Zaluzhny battle and will use this to claim that Zaluzhny is a traitor for participating in this unauthorized discussion.
3) Russia could have planted the story to buy time to complete their full mobilization prior to an offensive. I believe that Russia will demand control include Kharkiv and Odesa for their trouble and to teach a painful lesson. If I were a betting man, this is where my money would ride.
All such stories should be viewed as part of 5th generation warfare intelligence operations.
I'll go with #1
They've skilled and experienced in this regard. https://twitter.com/_BlakeHabyan/status/1730777706701209864?t=EfebxJv9d1HDfAvkU40DFg&s=19
Yes.
The role played by AI in prioritising attacks, as per the 972mag piece, was atrocious. The article says that there was very little or no human double-checking, the excuse being there wasn't time. I would not expect much sympathy if I flattened some poor toddler in my car because I didn't have time to bother looking where I was going . . .
The IOF can go right ahead, before ticking the next box on their to-do lists. After all, they were told several weeks ago that no member of their armed forces will be disciplined for _any_ actions against Hamas (interpreted extremely widely to mean anyone who is or might be Palestinian).
The video of the Ayn al-Asad missle attack was quite something. Allowed To Happen?
Looking forward to the MIH Henry Kissinger memorial piece . . . ;-)
“She is a left-wing activist.” Some would go as far as refer to her actions as authoritarian. Just sayin.
And, while we're on the topic, does it matter that this judge is Jewish? Probably unfair. Just askin.
And whatever happened to this judge's duty of impartiality?
See: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_code_of_judicial_conduct/#:~:text=A%20judge%20shall%20uphold%20and,and%20the%20appearance%20of%20impropriety.&text=A%20judge%20shall%20perform%20the,impartially%2C%20competently%2C%20and%20diligently.
As for "impartiality," I refer you to the meaning of the word "is". This is a Leftist, dyed in the wool. Raised and educated to view tradition bound concepts of the past, such as "impartiality", as simply weapons to be used against one's opponents--not to be personally adhered to.
Your first question is not unfair as long as you recognize that we're dealing with statistical analysis. There are unquestionably Jewish legal professionals and political analysts who would utterly reject Howell's theory and praxis, and the nihilism that it implies--the end justifying the means. On the other hand, the percentage of those who would embrace and evangelize Howell's views and praxis is distressingly high among the Jewish population.
I placed the part about Howell within the overall context of warfare because that's how she appears to view her own activity--war by other means, total war, in which the end justifies the means. Not a struggle for justice within a overall theory of morality based on transcendent principles of human nature. A tribal struggle for vengeance. The same type of war the IOF has waged from its inception.
I would have thought that there is a process for addressing a judge's violation of her duty of impartiality. Maybe somewhere in the judicial code of conduct applicable to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia?
One of the (many) problems with the 'rules based order' is that application of, and enforcement of, the 'rules' is pretty arbitrary. One might even say: authoritarian.
One might even say that in the absence of impartiality, there can be no real system of justice.
I agree, of course. Courts are pretty clubby affairs, with a high bar when it comes to judges calling each other out. I would say the current state of affairs derives from the lack of any generally accepted philosophy of law in America. I don't think it's too much to say that the judiciary is in a state of civil war in that respect, with judges like Howell pushing the traditional standards of conduct to the limit.
The Deep State is going to do everything it can - everything - to stop Trump in 2024. How the 50% of Americans who are still sane react to this is going to define the country for a long time to come. What is sure is that America will be a very different place in a few years time. And with the rise of people like Wilders and the Irish protests, it looks like Europe is heading for big changes as well. As for the Israelis, they are digging themselves into an ever deeper hole with every Palestinian they murder. They may win a short term victory but they are jeopardising their long-term future.
Expect to see the unexpected in 24. Buckle up.
Agreed
Is the peril that special prosecutors and radical judges present our ability to have normal politics underestimated by both themselves and those who cheer them on? Do the cheerleaders even understand what collecting the names of (millions?) of people who like the political opposition represents? What happens when they are the political opposition? If the response to their totalitarian psychology is totalitarian the republic is lost.
Don’t want none
Don’t start some.
This is an idiot free zone--how did you wind up here?
I don't think freedom is quite ready to leave the stage just yet, Frances. These are signs of desperation by the globalists. They are too out of touch with reality to be able to stop what is coming.