Stop The Next War Before It Starts

FIRST THESE BRIEF ITEMS:  This is Saturday October 3, 2015 and the twenty year anniversary of the OJ verdict, we are told.  Days of our Lives is broadcasting what they’re going to do.  Ben is the killer of Page and Serena with Chad’s neckties.  Will Horton investigates this issue and is suspicious of Ben and they say that Will gets killed.  It was harder to find Friday’s episode and once I found it I only watched two short segments and the commercials were so horrific I gave it up.  Page was graduating from College and her father and mother were congratulating her.  Right now I have Chris Matthews on and they played a lot of the presidential responses to these mass shootings dating back to 2009.  Before this I listened to a thing on new water regulations by the Obama administration where one land owner in Wyoming could not even put in a pond on his property to attract water birds.  The long reach of the government will finger you if you do.

Now for the important item.  It’s Janet’s birthday on Tuesday and she gave me two pieces of chocolate.  An hour ago Augustine climbed the ladder to pick a bunch of really big guavas (?) that were high up.  Bill has been out of the room today.  In cosmic news the group “Journey” is an Aries M group and not Arktures.  This little “notification” came this morning.  I haven’t talked much about cosmic stuff at all and am not really in the mood to do it now.  We’ve told you in the past about level one, two, and three “control”.   Cosmic groups exist on the planet we say- - but just because “the group” has that cosmic origen doesn’t mean, for instance, the lead singer is from there.

Let’s talk about today’s episode of “Rapsody in Black”.  Today they did October of 1953, which is the oldest date I’m aware of so far.  There were only three songs I was definitely familiar with, “Drunk!”, “Hole in the Wall” and “Money, Honey” by Clyde Mc Phatter.  And the first two songs were from Dr Demento and not KRTH.  There were a few surprises.  I heard what might be the original of “Crying in the Chapel” and there was another song with a religious theme called “Life is like a ball game- - but you’ve got to play it fair”.   Jesus is at home plate as catcher.  Temptation is at first, sin is at second, and tribulation is on third.  There was a song by Shirley and Lee and another one by the Spaniels.  There was a Joe Turner song I think I’ve heard before but am not sure called “Stop all that yakkedy yack”.   There was a Muddy Waters song and one about “Me and the clock on the wall” by Johnny Ace.

Donald Trump has suggested that we not get involved in Syria but rather let ISIS and Assad duke it out so that both sides are exhausted in the fighting the way that Russia was a useful vehicle in WW II to "tire the Germans out" and make our own progress on the western front easier than it would otherwise be.  Because if beating either Assad alone was a challenge the Republican congress didn't want to rise two in 2013, it will be all the harder now with taking on and defeating both ISIS and Assad.  Only the most hopped up optimist would dare suggest such a thing.   How interesting it is that "collateral damage" gets transformed into "innocent civilians" overnight, once it's Russia who is dropping the bombs and not us.  As you know the Orion Federation under current leadership endorses the Russian move to prop up Assad.  And it was a year or so ago when we "prophecied" that "If the US ventures into Syrian territory only bad things will happen".  This is one Oracle I'd heed. 

One has to wonder whether Moscow planners intend, as one of the effects of their current anti-terrorist (using US parlance) operations in Syria, to highlight US hypocrisy.  Intentional or not, this aspect of the Russian campaign has been stunning.

As soon as Russia began doing in Syria the same thing the US claims to be doing, Syrian victims magically switched from “collateral damage” to “civilians”, and suddenly bombing, as long as it is Russia doing it, “will only fuel more extremism and radicalization”, according to the White House, which has increasedterrorism in the Mid-East approximately “by a factor of seven”, according to experts, since illegally invading Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.  (Iraq, reeling from the US invasion, saw almost four thousand people killed in September.)

At the same time as the US accuses Russia of “attacks on Syrian…civilians”, US-backed death squads in Yemen (led by US-coordinated/supplied Saudi Arabia while the US also bombs directly) carried out a massacre at a wedding, executing over 130 people and making Kill Bill look like an episode of My Fair Wedding.   (The US itself also directly attacks weddings regularly.)

The US then blocked a UN bid for an independent investigation into the massacre, and said Saudi Arabia can investigate itself.

At the same time, the US, in classic racist/supremacist fashion, refuses to apologize to a Yemeni man whose entire family the US massacred, rejecting “Faisal bin Ali Jaber’s offer to drop his federal lawsuit in exchange for [the same] condolences Obama has given to western victims of [the same] 2012 strike”.  (Even this reporter has to say “wow…” to that one.)

Also simultaneously (or, to be precise, “one day after” pointing entrail-draped fingers as Russia), the US spent hours bombing the only hospital in Afghanistan, which is well-known to all sides and for which the US/NATO had exact coordinates.

Greenwald mentions that the US has long been hostile towards the Doctors Without Borders staff at this hospital for treating both patients who collaborate with and resist the US empire, so, while DWB frantically called Washington and NATO, telling them to stop detonating bombs in the building, the US continued its detonations for about an hour, murdering 9 DWB staffers and 7 other people in the hospital.

Gallup’s finding last month that distrust in US corporate media has hit a new high of 60%, particularly among ages 18 to 45, might suggest that people are catching on to the ridiculousness of getting “news” exclusively from giant, shady organizations run by oligarchs with massive conflicts of interest related to international markets and private capital and with intimate connections and a revolving door to US government positions controlling an unprecedented global military empire.

However, Gallup found last year that almost half of respondents (47%) believe corporate media is too “liberal”, reminding us that much of the grievance with corporate “news” is motivated by a belief that it is not nationalistic/US-supremacist enough.

But for the 53% who did not say their issue with corporate “news” is that it is too “liberal”, it is hard to imagine that current US actions, as particularly exposed by Russia’s new moves in Syria and Washington’s reaction to them, are not creating a little cognitive dissonance – mental discomfort/inconsistency – in at least a couple more of these US-Americans.

And as Frederick Douglass put it, for an enslaved (or in this case, obedient) person to be fully subservient and “contented”, he or she must “be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery”, and must be convinced of “its absolute rightfulness”.  For even “one crevice through which a single drop can fall, …will certainly rust off the slave’s chain.”

While nationalism is, as Orwell would point out, certainly harder to crack than slavery, if Douglass’s statement is applicable in any way, and if more people, even a few at a time, are able to catch onto the US government/corporate ruse, the question then becomes, “When?”

But to end on a somber note, Andre Vltchek, on a recent trip to the US, found that the number of people wise to the game is “too tiny to stop the crimes that the Empire is committing”, a stark reminder for concerned parties to keep hammering away, trying new tactics, and forging new alliances.