The War in Lebanon Against Hezbollah is Underway

emorej · 2024-07-04T15:53:47+00:00

Netanyahu's priority for decades has been to draw the US into a major war with Iran. This strategy never had a plausible end game attached to it, but it doesn't even have a plausible mid-game now that the Western Ukrainians are frantically trying to draw the US into a major war with Russia.

emorej · 2024-05-22T18:56:31+00:00

Although suspicions of these types of investors most often turn out to be correct, the stated goals of this project are not only rational but long overdue, in light of California's underbuilding of housing, and the affordability crisis of the Bay Area. Something big probably needs to be built somewhere (while infill and density increase in existing urban areas certainly deserves to remain the highest priority). For that approach, this location looks much more logical than most, at least from the perspectives of existing transportation infrastructure and water supply.

It would be nice to see the project gain a zoning commission elected locally, regionally and statewide.

emorej · 2024-03-01T18:37:34+00:00

"spanked"

You gotta admire the delicacy of this word choice.

emorej · 2024-02-04T22:19:36+00:00

My takeaways from the interview:

Many of Smith's comments and clap-backs would probably be said by Max Blumenthal, who of course would sharpen them and would prioritize highlighting the pattern of ongoing Israeli expulsion pressure on Palestinians (Are my eyes deceiving me, or is our moment taking on ever broader "horse-shoe" coalition potential?);
Smith is impressive across the board, & both participants have good civility-preservation skills;
A substantive interview is always too short, resulting in much omitted follow-up, not least on RFK Jr.'s last-moment reference to Syria as "another vassal state" of Iran;
RFK Jr., despite being overly wedded to many historical assertions and (somewhat repetitive time-wasting) rhetorical devices (and a few evasions) of much Israeli propaganda, still comes across as much more impressive, in intellectual coherence, than Trump or Biden (even if they were each 30 years younger);

I suspect that this interview could encourage many Libertarians to see RFK Jr. as a lesser-evil candidate than Biden or Trump. That is obviously a higher priority for RFK Jr. at present than delivering similar encouragement to Max Blumenthal's viewer base. It remains unclear (probably not least in the mind of RFK Jr.) whether:

mentions of RFK Jr. seeking the Libertarian Party's ballot line serve mainly to flatter Libertarian-sympathetic voters; or
flattery of Libertarian-sympathetic voters serves mainly to enable RFK Jr. to seek the Libertarian Pary's ballot line.

emorej · 2023-09-22T16:37:23+00:00

Of all the jobs that AI will be able handle, one of the easiest for it will be as a MSM talking head.

emorej · 2023-09-20T18:42:29+00:00

...Who do you think the NatSec elites are protecting themselves against? Who are they worried about? It’s not, as you may have imagined, those mad Republican others. Many in the NatSec state ARE those “others.”

No, they worry about you.

emorej · 2023-09-20T18:42:11+00:00

...Disaster researchers call this phenomenon “elite panic.” When authorities believe their own citizens will become dangerous, they begin to focus on controlling the public, rather than on addressing the disaster itself.

emorej · 2023-09-20T18:39:43+00:00

...Who do you think the NatSec elites are protecting themselves against? Who are they worried about? It’s not, as you may have imagined, those mad Republican others. Many in the NatSec state ARE those “others.”

No, they worry about you.

emorej · 2023-09-15T17:04:19+00:00

The DNC is in a bad spot...

... and all trends point towards it getting worse by the week.

If Biden leaves too soon, it could help RFKjr

I tend to think the opposite: that liabilities such as:

too old
too Ukraine-tainted (money-making and war-losing)
too Fauci-tainted

... would not be regarded, by persuadable voters, as applying to Gavin, JD, or even Hillary (or Michelle, if she could be induced to re-enter the shitshow).

emorej · 2023-09-15T15:49:03+00:00

if there's a whiff in the MSM that Biden might drop out that means he's absolutely done; it will happen fast.

There is now much more than a whiff: Breaking Points h/t Tom Neuburger

emorej · 2023-09-12T04:13:15+00:00

...analysis might lead to a conclusion that what we have experienced to date – harmful lockdowns and injection strategies underpinned by massive propaganda – is primarily the result of corruption, conflicts of interest and vested interests, rather than what could reasonably be described as good faith errors by politicians and bureaucrats.

emorej · 2023-09-12T01:17:09+00:00

All single issues are not created equal. High-ranking ones could include:

Brandishing the threat of all-out nuclear war in order to avoid admitting the failure of financial shock and awe to win an otherwise unwinnable war that was purposefully sought for many years.
Covering up outlawed research enabling production and leaking/testing of biological weapons, and then completing the transition of public health regulation into mainly a system for deadly and torturously harvesting of Big Pharma profits.
Secretly institutionalizing the censorship (reinforced by blocking and seizing funding) of dissenting views and of inconvenient factual information on all politically sensitive issues.

emorej · 2023-09-11T21:33:25+00:00

Without diminishing my appreciation for your engagement on WOTB, my hopes have been greatly weakened (although I acknowledge that every first time Presidential candidate must climb a steep learning curve). Notable concerns [!] of mine include:

A. Peter:

Does Peter have any track record of lighting electoral fires anywhere outside Twitter?
Is Twitter the place where Cornel can building momentum in public polling?

B. Cornel: seemed to flash some fundamental weaknesses in the Jimmy Dore interview, notably:

Minimizing the establishment’s Fascist Censorship, which has been mobilized on behalf of Joe Biden indeed (per Jimmy) ensures that reserving the “Fascist” label for Trump is perceived by Trump-sympathizers as labelling them as Fascist enablers – and/or as morons – at a time when reaction against those precise labels is a major reason for their overlooking, or even reveling in, Trump’s political vandalism.
Dismissing “RICO” prosecutions as a politically neutral “tool”, in the face of Jimmy’s topical and devastating linkage of the two Georgia State “RICO” prosecutions, of (i) Lefty organizers against Atlanta’ Cop City, alongside (ii) Trump’s interventions in vote-counting, would have merited an “F” from Professor West in any class he taught on logic, rhetoric, or anything else.
Taking a “utilitarian” attitude towards Black (and other) voters (not least by acknowledging how many of them are not on-board with simply and unconditionally adding of “precious trans” to a laundry list of analogously oppressed minorities) is precisely a key part of any strategy hoping to break out from the previously tiny vote counts of Green Party Presidential nominees – especially in the face of Jimmy displaying the Green Party “Black” Caucus’s public dissent from Fauci-Biden-Hawkins Covid policies.
Taking offense at Jimmy’s mentions of “your advisors” not only ignored the fact that advisory panels are a core part of every serious Presidential campaign, but seemed to telegraph a lack of the self-confident joviality that has long been one of Cornel’s calling cards.

emorej · 2023-09-09T17:12:29+00:00

Looking forward to learning whether Cornel is willing and able to transition (in Jimmy's words):

from "Black radical activist" [although Cornel is much better described as "moral conscience/model and culture integrator"],
to "Presidential candidate" seriously trying to achieve major impact on electoral horse races and media coverage of them.

emorej · 2023-09-06T20:34:31+00:00

Indeed, Neuburger (who seems to be trying to gently nudge a readership that he perceives to be instinctively resistant to this line of analysis), says the same thing via rhetorical question as follows:

If you were the military, and decades ago you had “embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons” (NY Times), why would you not work to influence, finance, and hide your connection to the development of deadly viruses? ...

emorej · 2023-09-06T19:03:21+00:00

the scandal: A group of respected scientists lied about their beliefs about the Covid epidemic’s origin, and did so in one of the most respected scientific journals in the country.

emorej · 2023-08-31T22:24:23+00:00

https://covid19criticalcare.com/

emorej · 2023-08-30T18:14:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/165in2q/candidate_cornel_west_on_sexual_politics_civil_war/jyeorua/

emorej · 2023-08-30T18:05:59+00:00

Top comment!

...normalizes lifelong medicalization and reliance on Pharma tech, it provides cover for endocrine disrupting environmental pollutants...

emorej · 2023-08-13T15:41:53+00:00

To be fair:

in light of the Dem establishment's disgusting scorched earth opposition to Green Party ballot access,
I would hate the Dem establishment even more than I do,
if they did not also oppose ballot access of the Oligarch-friendly No Labels schemers.

But the Dem establishment can easily anticipate perspectives like mine, so this report from Arizona:

might be largely performative, and
does not fully allay my suspicions that a majority of the Dem establishment is much less hostile to the No Labels project than they are to the (USA) Greens and (e.g.) parties like Peace & Freedom and (perhaps) Working Family.

emorej · 2023-08-12T18:42:30+00:00

Contrary to the author's implication, nothing about this war is beneficial to the vast majority of Jews.

One relevant bit of background information is that Putin has generally sustained polite and presumably productive channels of communications with Netanyahu and presumably other influential Israelis.

Any analysis of "who benefits" must start from appreciation that the Biden Administration did not get the type of war they expected. They expected:

Russia's economy to be crushed by financial sanctions, and/or
Ukraine's military to fall back into guerilla resistance in Russian-occupied territory farther West and closer to NATO supply lines, rather than fighting along a long Eastern front mainly far from NATO supply lines.

emorej · 2023-07-07T00:00:15+00:00

Alternative to Youtube: https://odysee.com/@theduran:e/nato-summit-and-a-failed,-big-counter:e

emorej · 2023-07-05T16:45:36+00:00

Biden has, at many times in electoral calendars, found it convenient to position his profile as more moderate than Abrams. This is evidently not one of those times, due to some combination of ideological drift, senility, etc.

emorej · 2023-07-03T18:17:36+00:00

It's difficult to imagine any Biden action that could provide more fuel to RFK Jr's appeal (except, perhaps, full release of documents that vindicate or exceed the worst suspicions and allegations of Deep State villainy, in 1963 and thereafter).

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