Pressure of Reality Causes pre-Earthquake Tremors in Narrative-land
The Seismographs of two podcasts recorded the movements
Published: 2024-01-21
Update 2024-01-21: A correction was made to the name of the sea northeast of Britain where fishing rights may be revoked. The correct name is Barents Sea.
Update 2024-01-22: Added three more references to McGovern issuing his warning.
The Roundtable
We begin with the most recent INTEL Roundtable from Judging Freedom (see sources).
Following the mantra of read what they say and watch what they do, here is a transcript of Blinky answering NYT stooge Fried Chicken. I put in the work to include all of the aaahs and ums and select the best punctuation so that afterwards, we can interpret what has been said.
Thomas Friedman:
One of the things you hear so often from people, given the high civilian casualties in Gaza is, does the United States, do Jewish lives matter more than Palestinian and Muslim lives, Muslim, Palestinian, Christian lives, ah, given the incredible asymmetry ah in casualties. And, I've been asked that. I want to give you a chance to respond to that.
[that is one word salad of a question, but lets listen to Blinkenlights]
Guitar playing, Zionist supporting, mendacious, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken:
No. Period. Um. For me, I think for so many of us, um, what we're seeing every single day in Gaza, aaah, ah, is gut wrenching. Ummm, and, the suffering we're seeing among innocent men, women and children breaks my heart. The question is "what is to be done"?
We've made judgements about how we thought we could be most effective in trying to shape this in ways to get more humanitarian assistance to people, to get better protections and, and and minimize civilian casualties. Aaaam, and at every step along the way, not only have we impressed upon Israel those responsibilities, to do that. Um, we've seen some progress i-i-in areas where absent our engagement, I don't believe it would have happened.
Firstly, Napolitano characterizes this as "Blinken at his hand-wringing worst", which is a pretty good summary. Larry Johnson makes a good observation by stating that Blinken "acts like he's a third party observer" when, obviously Blinken is directly involved. He's speaking with Israeli leadership. He is the US Secretary of State. He could, for example, just resign in protest because either the US has not done enough or because Israel wont listen to him. But, no, he's still there.
Notice the shift from first to third person in the first few words. "I think for so many of us, um, what we're seeing ...". He continues in the passive third person until the end with "I don't believe ...". Yes, Larry, very good point.
We can learn even more.
First, we need context. The topic is not whether the British can haul for cod in the Barents Sea, it is a genocide which is happening as they are speaking. Obviously, Blinkenlights either has no principles or is a coward or both. The use of the passive 'we' is a shirking of his responsibility as Secretary or State. He is guilt sharing. It is dispicable.
But, look at the actual words. "We've made judgements about how we thought ... most effective" means 'we strategized'. So, firstly, some strategy was involved rather than just picking up the phone and straight up saying "Stop it or we'll cancel all funding and withdraw all miltiary and diplomatic support and leave you to your own neighbourhood and wash our hands of your blood." I think that one sentence would have sent a pretty clear message, no? But, Blinky and his cabal needed to strategize.
Why? Well, he tells us. ".. to get more humanitarian assistance to people, to get better protections and, and and minimize civilian casualties."
Now, despite the fact that, as Johnson affirms during the podcast, Blinky lies all the time, let us be generous and take him at face value here. These things he mentions are obligations under various international treaties to which Israel is signatory. Nobody needs to tell Israel this, they can read the treaties to which their state has committed itself. What Blinkenlights is telling us is that Israel needs to be told to do these things. The US, a very powerful international actor, needed to tell their ally, Israel, to abide by international law.
Blinky informs us that his actions show that Israel is a rogue state. It has no care whatsoever for international law or human rights. This is not news to this readership or the local Arab population, but all the same, thanks Blinky.
The conclusion gives away even more. "we've seen some progress i-i-in areas where absent our engagement, I don't believe it would have happened" means that even with the explicit, public and whatever private diplomatic language delivered to Israel by the US, has resulted in only 'some progress' which would not have happened at all 'absent' the strategized diplomatic messaging.
This informs us that, putting it all together, Israel ignores international treaties, ignores human rights and only pays partial attention to the US even when the language is obvious and public.
Again, this is not news around here, but we can thank Blinky for making it publicly known. So, feel free to describe Israel as a rogue state which ignores international law, human rights and its strongest ally. Israel's political leadership is arrogant, lawless, racist, xeonphobic, extremist and genocidal. We know coz Blinky told us. Lock 'em up. They're dangerous.
The Intel round table is full of interesting and at times humourous analyses and observations. I highly recommend it. We shall return to one other section from it as a conclusion. But for now, what's that about cod and the Barents Sea?
Seguing into Newsweek
Alex Christoforou addresses a range of topics in which reality asserts itself in his most recent podcast. Yes, Russian Federation President Putin has requested that the Duma draw up legislation to revoke the 1956 Soviet-era agreement with the UK which granted the Brits' fishing vessels the right to haul cod in the Barents Sea. Naturally the Daily Mail is all in a tizz about fish and chips.
It is, however, a Newsweek article Christoforou presents which is the seisographic reading of reality breaking into Narrative-land. I shall take Alex's lead and just provide a few screenshots.
1. Russia defeated the West's sanctions regime.
2. Easily. And this was emminently predictable.
3. If you confiscate those Russian Central Bank reserves which you've frozen you will put the US dollar as a reserve currency into a tail spin. Dont.
The good bit about all of this is that, us normies in Alt-land have been saying this for years and are feeling happy that the normies in Narrative-land are catching up.
McGovern's Fear
Sadly, I feel compelled to return to the INTEL round-up to update on the previous Warning article. Ray McGovern creates an opportunity at the end of the program to deliver a message he believes is important. This relates directly to the Warning article.
Removing a few unimportant phrases, McGovern says:
I just want to comment on what my major fear is. Iran is the name of the game. The Israelis and the neo-Cons in our government see this [the current conflict in/around Gaza/Middle East] as a golden chance to go after Iran. Now, Iran is really smart and they're not going to rise to that bait. So, what's gonna happen? [points finger] The Israeli's are going to do it for them. False flag attack. US Forces or "US interests" attack blamed on Iran and [almost accidently names Obama -- ha ha] Biden and Blinken will have no other recourse but to tell Austin, who will salute smartly, "go after these guys" they can't be allowed to threaten our "ally" in quotes.
Unlike the recent Warning article he does not point to a Naval "mishap", just categorizing the target of the false flag as "US forces" or "US interests". He names the perpetrator of his feared false flag as Israel.
I dearly hope McGovern's fear remains an un-reality.
See also this article at McGovern’s website by Richard Falk, with comment by Ray. The video reference is:
Breaking News
An Israeli airstrike in Syria's capital Damascus has killed 6 people. A statement from Iran's IRGC says that 4 of them were IRCG, and that one was a senior member of their intelligence wing.
This is obviously an Israeli reprisal for the IRGCs destruction of the Mossad HQ in Erbil a few days ago. That, of course, was a reprisal for the killing of around 100 and wounding of around 200 Iranian worshipers at a ceremony to commemorate the US assassination, 4 years ago, of Qassem Soleimani a revered IRGC Quds Force General.
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Sources
How Russia Won the Sanctions War With the West | Opinion, Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 2024-01-17
Strikes on Syria's Damascus sees at least six killed, including four Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Reuters/AFP, ABC News, 2024-01-20
Warning: Lottaz + McGovern for US/Iran War Mechanism, YesXorNo, 2024-01-19
Law Professor Richard Falk on Gaza, Ray McGovern, his website, 2024-01-18
Ukraine and Geoeconomics: Problem, Reaction, Solution, YesXorNo, 2022-06-06
INTEL Roundtable：Johnson & McGovern： CIA and Neocon Intransigence., Napolitano interviews McGovern and Johnson, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-19
Ukraine-Border deal confidence grows. Newsweek, how did Russia win？ Putin fishing war. EU dream team, Alex Christoforou, Alex Christoforou, 2024-01-19
Culture
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (Official Video), Meghan Trainor, uploaded 2014-06-11
FWIW: despite the obvious effort put into the video, I think the song is far better without it.
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