#sectarian warfare

[txttletale]

Okay so. The biggest Marxist party in France is trotskyist and if it's not too much trouble, I would really like a rundown of why every ML I've talked to hates trots? Because there aren't many other options to be honest

basically it is because every trotskyist party is an anti-solidarity dead weight on the socialist left. they're almost inevitably hypersectarian and stuffed to the brim with grifters, opportunists, and careerists. they have absolutely no shame and see everything as a branding excercise and as an opportunity for sectarian digs and relitigating arguments from thirty, forty, fifty years ago. they often take soft-imperialist positions, both-sidesing nato imperialism and scoffing at the idea of critical support.

they also habitually turn into cults of personality that close ranks around sexual predators, but that's not endemic to trotsykist parties, that also happens with demsocs and MLs and maoists and anarchists and [checks notes] uh oh all the liberal bourgeois and right-wing political parties too.

i don't have a particular hypothesis for why trots are so uniquely fucking obnoxious, but i theorize that like--from the 70s onward, most western countries had an ML and a trotskyist org engaged in pointless sectarian warfare as the former toed the CPSU line and the latter railed against them, both to the exclusion of actually doing anything useful. after the dissolution of the USSR, the ML parties more or less collapsed or went entirely directionless for a long time. as a result, trotskyists have been spending three decades in parties that have no particular goal or point, and as such have completely ossified, bureaucratized, and become terminally infested with grifters.

i obviously don't know the french political context, so i can only describe my experience: my ML org has worked happily side by side with anarchists and democratic socialists--we have never been able to work with trots.

#ask #chrono197 #if you don't have any other options then it might well be worth it but i have had universally bad experiences with trots #showing up at other people's events to take credit hand out placards and sell their shit newspapers

[play-now-my-lord]

"no seatbelts, we die like men"

in a fascistic society, petit-bourgeois or middle-class life is defined by unendurable hypocrisies. The soul rebels at its intellectual diet of doubletalk, and the fascistic society prescribes as a solution the myth of catharsis in heroic death. In prior societies, defined by the industrialization of combat and the direct military struggle between regional powers for resources and prestige, the usual site for such martyrdom was to be pitched battle. But in the 21st century, regional and global powers fight their wars through remote proxies - rival governments a world away, trained mercenaries, remote-control airplanes, or the more abstract war-proxy of economic competition between rival multinationals. It is this final form of proxy warfare that takes place in the full light of day, and thus this and this alone - corporate warfare - is viewed as an appropriate site for the fascistic death-cult.

We have not yet reached a stage of history where these multinationals are capable by themselves of fielding standing armies and waging pitched battle over points of strategic importance; for those of us living in fascistic societies in this awkward in-between period, we encounter in our smallholder class a desire to prove themselves - and escape the contradictions of life as they must live it - by heroic endurance and eagerness to die in the realms of product choice and consumption.

In the near future, existing public unrest over product availability, price points, perceived social prestige, and brand image will escalate. Laws which already exist criminalizing boycott campaigns for select pressure groups will spread and become more general, and take on the character of inverted sumptuary laws. Fanatical brand loyalty which multinationals already encourage will explode into open sectarian violence.

Death serving the purposes of the state was never the objective of any of the previous century's fascistic death cults - the objective was to personally embody the perceived heroic virtues of the nation or ethnos at the site of death - but it was certainly more than a happy accident that such deaths served the state interest. Likewise, the first man to die for the sake of McDonalds or Disney or whatever other multinational will not perceive his martyrdom as one to the benefit of a corporate bottom line, but as an apotheosis, a blunt declaration of the supremacy of his rational economic choices and his marketing demographic -- and as a welcome reprieve from a life in which that supremacy must be seen as both inevitable and impossible

[thedreadvampy]

I find Americans talking about religion fascinating because they think the weird pentecostal/evangelical eschatology cults are Normal Christianity and not like. a really specific thing.

and that is by no means to say Christianity elsewhere is less fucked up but it's different.

like Americans will say stuff like "like most Christians, this cult believes we're in the end times and have to reclaim Zion to bring about Revelations, but what's weird about their beliefs is..." and it's like???? WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIKE MOST CHRISTIANS?????

like Scotland's still a pretty Christian country. some of the biggest sociopolitical divides are Christian sectarianism. we got Presbyterians we got Catholics we got Episcopalians we got Quakers (hi) we got Baptists and Methodists and Jehovah's Witnesses and so on. half of the population are Christian. but I don't think I have ever met more than a handful of people whose Christian belief is focused on Revelations and the end times. that's weird stuff my guys.

my outside appraisal of American Christianity is that it looks really very samey. there doesn't seem to be a lot of significant theological difference, or tbh aesthetic difference, between a good number of the major churches. worship practise, structure, and the focus on sin, evangelism and apocalypse seem to be way more common threads there than in Europe. and I feel like people grow up in that and think that means all Christianity is the same as that. which like. it isn't.

A lot of folks I know who've been to American Quaker communities, for example, have been really surprised at how much some Meetings in the US are cramming into the same episcpentamethodbaptitradcathevangelist church model - fire and brimstone preachers, our god is a great big god songs, focus on end times prophecy - and it just doesn't. line up with the degree of diversity in practise and focus for different Christian sects in most other parts of the world. where like. those types of churches also exist (the evangelical born-again rapture and damnation churches) but they're one approach among many.

and again that's not cause like. Christianity is only bad in the US and not bad anywhere else. Christianity does a lot of social good and a looooooot of social harm everywhere. but it's wild what Americans, Christian or otherwise, seem to take as the baseline beliefs of global Christianity. like I went to a Church of England school and I don't believe I was ever taught about Revelations, let alone the rapture or young earth ideology or biblical literalist creationism, except, eventually, as a thing some other people believe and it's weird. when the young earth creationists came into my secondary school to prostyletize it was a bloodbath cause every 14 year old in that room was like "what r u talking about m8 that's cult shit".

what I'm saying is: there's not a huge amount of universal Christian beliefs across all sectors except like "God is there. There's some Bible which contains some amount of spiritual value for some amount of literal interpretation. Jesus? Pretty great and important guy. Probably the son of God or actually God or some secret third thing." and everything else there's some dissent on. but of the things that are broadly though not fully universal - maybe like heaven, hell, sin, redemption through faith or deed, the resurrection, a physical/spiritual divide, prayer, some key holidays etc - I don't think that 'weirdly intense eschatology involving reclaiming Zion, global warfare, the Antichrist, decades of torturous end times, physical rapture etc' is in that mix. that's your country's weird thing that it's since exported through cultural colonialism, just like Christianity itself was largely exported through European cultural colonialism.

#red said

[sourcreammachine]

i’m no historian but the Wars of the Three Kingdoms did not end in 1653. it ended in 1691

“peace” may have occurred in 1653, as in no faction was engaging in war with another, but it absolutely was not peace. not only was the most severe genocide in early-modern europe still ongoing, but the aftermath of the 20 april coup brought brutal repressions by the military governors. conflict was still ongoing

and it’s unhelpful to label 1653 as the end of the period of actual warfare. there were the sealed knot uprisings, the naval wars with Netherland and Spain, monck’s coup (which would’ve been a violent uprising had the pro-regime forces not immediately surrendered to him), and the millenarian insurrection of january 6 (not kidding)

but my biggest gripe with the 1653 reckoning is it doesn’t encompass the revolution of 1688 and ensuing williamite-jacobite war, events which resulted in the passing and reneging of the treaty of Limerick (allowing for the anglo-protestant ascendency in Ireland), the act of settlement 1701 which de facto annexed Scotland, all of which contributed to continuing violent persecution of catholics across the isles. i’d argue that the brutality in Ireland even after the fall of Cavan fits the definition of war - the act of settlement 1652 and the ethnic cleansing and slavery of Hell-or-Connaught was a violent war on the Irish people, even though Ireland as a polity was no more

the end of the Commonwealth-Covenant-Confederation Wars (or, perhaps, war) in 1653 was a cessation of interfactional/interstate warfare but it was not a cessation of violence and belligerency and it was not the end of this period of historically impactful conflicts. the lasting realignment of the political system in the so-called three kingdoms was the revolution of 1688. this realignment brought the abolition of one of the ‘three kingdoms’, the transformation of another into a segregatory sectarian settler-colonial state (which would precipitate its total annexation 100 years later as a way of diluting the effects of the necessary climbdown on catholic persecution, which would precipitate the genocide of the great hunger, all of which ultimately led to the 1916 uprising and the partition), and the establishment in the other of the whig-tory political order which ruled the country (and over its neighbours) for 150-ish years unchallenged, and for the past 200-ish years with the pretension of electoral democracy

there was a ceasefire in 1653, yes, which was when a period of overlapping wars on the isles came to an end under the dominance of the military dictatorship. but a broader definition, a 52-year period of conflict, is needed to offer this period its necessary provenance. focusing only on the 1639-1653 wars does a disservice to the historical importance of the other conflicts, especially the revolution in England and the anti-jacobite subjugation in Ireland. acting like conflict ended in 1653 presents monck’s putsch as universally welcome, the 1688 revolution as politically inconsequential, charles stuart ii and william orange as heroes, and Irish history as irrelevant

a taxonomical term could or should exist for the 1639-1653 wars. but that which should be the wider umbrella term for this period of conflict, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (or your favourite synonym), is way bigger than that

#196

[mariacallous]

Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyzes the causes and course of this bitter conflict—from its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest to the tenuous victory of the Asad dictatorship—and traces how the fighting has reduced Syria to a crisis-ridden vassal state with little prospect of political reform, national reconciliation, or economic reconstruction.

Israel’s chief negotiator with Syria during the mid-1990s, Itamar Rabinovich brings unmatched expertise and insight to the politics of the Middle East. Drawing on more than two hundred specially conducted interviews with key players, Rabinovich and Carmit Valensi assess the roles of local, regional, and global interests in the war. Local sectarian divisions established the fault lines of the initial conflict, ultimately leading to the rise of the brutal Islamic State. However, Syria rapidly became the stage for proxy warfare between contending regional powers, including Israel, Turkey, and Iran. At the same time, while a war-weary United States attempted to reduce its military involvement in the Middle East, a resurgent Russia regained regional influence by supporting Syrian government forces. Telling the story of the war and its aftermath, Rabinovich and Valensi also examine the considerable potential for renewed conflict and the difficult policy choices facing the United States, Russia, and other powers.

A compact and incisive history of one of the defining wars of our times, Syrian Requiem is a vivid and timely account of a conflict that continues to reverberate today.

[longwindedbore]

I made a longwinded rant on another creators post about ‘what will Christians do when they have no one to persecute ?’ It should be right after this posting on my site.

But, damn, I forgot some additional historical Christian v Christian sectarian violence

Such as…

When the papacy joined with the French speaking Viking Catholics (see next blog) Rome took the opportunity to sever ties in 1054 with the eastern branch of Catholicism & the eastern Roman Emperor both based in Constantinople.

At the same time the papacy decided it was no longer under the authority the western Roman Emperor who was based in Frankfurt.

Of course Catholic Europe then had two centuries of warfare to determine the answer to the burning question whether the Roman Emperor appointed the head of the Church or whether the Pope was elected by the Cardinals.

Plus

In addition to the Protestant Separatist Churches vs Catholic loyalist Church during the Reformation, the English Crown resumed the Part 1 G vs G issue by making the Crown the head of the Church and appointed of Archbishops.

And I forgot

If one is Evangelical or Catholic in the USA one understands that Evangelicals don’t consider Catholics to be Christians.

MTG has already fired the opening shot in that coming conflict:

Despite their disdain of Satanic Catholicism, the Evangelical Protestant sects base their vernacular language Bibles on the obviously bad translation including obviously deliberate changes that is the Catholic’s Latin Vulgate translation. Instead of basing vernacular bibles directly on the older Greek language Scriptures used by the Eastetn Orthodox Christian Churches.

But that would lead to yet another war.

Here’s one obvious change you can research when you are bored. Google ‘Mathew 25 46 Greek Koine to English’. Then compare that translation into English with any English language Catholic or Protestant Bible.

‘Eternal Damnation’ or an ‘Age of Correction’

Then see if you can find ANY Old Testament prophet or New Testament apostle who ever discusses ‘Eternal Damnation’

Can’t criticize. The Supreme Being didn’t mention Eternal Damnation either when expelling Adam & Eve, when drowning the world, when presenting the 10 Commandments.

Nor did any Church Father of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Centuries. Not intill Jerome’s Latin paraphrasing version.

Christian’s have aditopnal myriad of beliefs which are without Scriptural basis. But has NEVER stopped Christian’s persecuting each other or anyone they felt weren’t touting and acting out the official dogmatic Belief doctrines

Today their 150+ Christian denominations in the US. Each with its own dogmatic Belief doctrines.

[justforbooks]

In 1973, Ken Howard was sent by the Imperial War Museum to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a war artist in all but name. (In the political rhetoric of the day, the province’s violence did not constitute warfare.) To Howard’s surprise, he found that his habit of painting en plein air made him friends on both sides of the sectarian divide. “If you used a camera, you were in trouble,” he said. “If you sat on the street and drew, and they could see what you were doing, then you weren’t in trouble.”

An IRA man in the Falls Road biddably blew up a car to make it more picturesque for his brush, Howard claimed. It was a small boy he saw swinging from a lamp post who would become the focus of his best known work, however.

Ulster Crucifixion (1978), now in the Ulster Museum, of the National Museums Northern Ireland, is made in the style of a gothic altarpiece, with a central panel, folding wings and a predella. The raw paint of its background both depicts and echoes the graffitied walls of west Belfast. Its child subject hangs from the post as though from a cross.

If Ulster Crucifixion was to be Howard’s most noted work, it was far from his most typical. Its flavour was, distantly, of Francis Bacon; a far more usual tang was of Claude Monet. To the horror of highbrow critics and a younger generation of British artists, Howard, who has died aged 89, was happy to describe himself as “the last impressionist”. He was, he said, “a painter of light”, in the squares of west London – his habit of sketching in the street led locals to dub him “High Street Ken” – in Mousehole, Cornwall, and in Venice, each of which place he kept a studio in.

Typical of this practice would be works such as Honesty and Charlotte (1990), made in his Chelsea studio. Painted contre-jour, against daylight, the canvas’s dappled colours take their cue from the titular vase of white seed pods in the centre of the composition. The glance of light off wallpaper, cloth, glass and flesh becomes the picture’s subject; its Sickertian nude seems almost incidental. So, too, with the subjects of Howard’s many depictions of Venice and Mousehole. “Mousehole is the one place in the world that’s close to Venice in terms of light,” he said.

His uplands had not always been so sunlit. Born in the north-west London suburb of Neasden, the younger of two children of Frank, a mechanic from Lancashire, and Elizabeth (nee Meikle), a Scot who worked as a cleaner, Howard recalled “painting properly from the age of seven and drawing and painting before I could write”.

An art teacher at Kilburn grammar school encouraged the young Ken to apply to the nearby Hornsey College of Art, where he studied from 1949 to 1953. This was followed by national service in the Royal Marines, then two years at the Royal College of Art (1955-57).

By then, Howard had already been through the prevailing trends of social realism – “I painted Neasden and power stations,” he recalled – and kitchen-sink painting. Both had brought him a degree of success. The first work he sold was of the shipyards at Aberdeen, where he had been taken by a lorry-driving uncle just after the war: the painting was bought by David Brown, the future owner of Aston Martin.

For all his later taste for sunlight and sea, Howard insisted that it was this early grounding in industrial grime that had shaped his art. “I was brought up surrounded by the horizontal and vertical structures of railway yards and factories,” he said. “I am not a landscape painter, but rather a vertical and horizontal painter.”

While this was clear in the composition of Ulster Crucifixion, it was less so in Howard’s many images of beaches, churches and Venetian canals. When he went to the Royal College, his fellow students were in thrall to abstract expressionism. “America had arrived just before I did,” Howard recalled. “I began to feel a bit out of kilter.”

He would remain outside the fashionable mainstream for the rest of his life. Whatever its linear underpinnings, his art was both figurative and unapologetically pleasant; to critics such as the late Brian Sewell, saccharine. His work with the British Army apart, it also seemed never to change, as Howard happily agreed. “I’m one of those people who always bangs away at the same nail,” he said. Despite showing in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition for many years, he was nearing 60 before he was made a full Academician.

Above all, he admired Turner, and not just for what he termed the master’s “visual genius”. “I like the idea that, like Turner, I come from a working-class background,” Howard said.

In the 2010s, he retraced his hero’s trips through Switzerland in five journeys of his own, producing 100 monumental canvases of Swiss mountains and lakes and a book called Ken Howard’s Switzerland: In the Footsteps of Turner. In 2004, he had also followed Turner in being appointed the Royal Academy’s professor of perspective, a position he held until 2010. In 2017, he was made a patron of the Turner’s House Trust.

All this made the dismissal of critics such as Sewell easier to bear, as did the awarding of an OBE in 2010. Financial success also softened the blow. If Howard’s work never achieved the kinds of prices enjoyed by his more avant-garde contemporaries, he made up for it by being both prolific and popular. “I’ve probably got more pictures on people’s walls than any other painter living today,” he liked to say. Short, merry and given to theatrical capes and hats, he was not prone to introspection.

He also had a good eye for property. In 1973, Howard rented his Chelsea studio – once the atelier of the Edwardian society portraitist William Orpen – for six pounds a week. Over the next 30 years, he bought not just it but the large house in which it stood, worth several million pounds by the time of his death. “My mother always used to say that if I fell down the loo, I’d come up with a bar of chocolate,” Howard laughed. “I think that just about sums it up.”

He married three times: first, in 1962, to Annie Popham, a dress designer (they were divorced in 1974); then, in 1990, to the Hamburg-born painter Christa Gaa Köhler, whom he had met in Florence in the 1950s (she died of cancer in 1992); and last, in 2000, to the Italian photographer Dora Bertolutti. She survives him, along with a stepson and two stepdaughters.

🔔 James Kenneth Howard, painter, born 26 December 1932; died 11 September 2022

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #James Kenneth Howard #in memoriam

[quasi-normalcy]

I remember that I liked "Chosen Realm" when it came out, but then I heard a bunch of takes about how it was an overly simplistic depiction of sectarian warfare; but watching it again now, I mostly think that, if anything, it's entirely too charitable in assuming that fundamentalists actually give a shit about any of the things they claim to believe in.

#chosen realm #star trek enterprise #rewatch

[miss-mania]

The Ones Who Make Corpses From Men (Pt. 1)

During those first few months after the Tarnished began to return to the Lands Between, discussion at the Academy ranged from civil, historically-informed debate as to their origin, role and exile, to unfounded speculation as to the catalyst of their resurgence and, finally, to outright altercations stemming from the fundamentally dissimilar understandings and approaches of the different conspectuses regarding the very nature of Grace itself and its similarities to—and, according to some fringe scholars, potential shared origin with—the primeval current from which the sorcerous arts arise; the very current that was once likewise believed to dictate fate.

A significant portion of these deliberations coyly but openly begged the central question of Raya Lucaria's ongoing safety and stability by often concluding "Raya Lucaria was here long before the emergence of the Tarnished, endured their exile and absence, and so will survive their return" and other such paraphrasings that betrayed within the Masters a predilection for inaction and a consciously apocryphal reverence for the Academy's mythological image as an inviolable and unshakeable institution that conveniently ignored that the Lunar Queen had been sequestered since long before many among their ranks were but lowly scholars. If the Masters had at the time any true insight into what was to come, wisdom perhaps gleaned from a lost page recovered from the Grand Library's innermost corridors or whispered through the gaps in the bookshelves by one of the Queen's sweetings, they did not discuss it openly nor show any outward signs of consternation; or at least none that could be seen beneath their disproportionate glintstone crowns.

Eventually, it was decided that the gates to the Academy would be sealed indefinitely, barring entry in or out except under special circumstances, and only when approved by the Synod itself. Murmors of discontentment rippled through the faculty and scholars, occasionally cresting into waves of physical violence that threatened to crescendo into sectarian warfare and open rebellion. Progress within the various sorcerous domains slowed to a crawl or seized entirely, and the sorcerers whose studies had sent them beyond the comfort of Raya Lucaria's gates without the proper political influence or the immense talent necessary to spiritually project were forced to relay the findings of their studies and the results of their experiments via written correspondence, receiving little in the way of support from the Academy.

All of these discussions and measures felt, to many of us, unproductive and unnecessary nearly to the point of absurdity. Neither I, nor anyone else amongst my circle within the faculty, had ever met a Tarnished. There were who saw fit to recount dubious third-hand stories from outside correspondence, which the letters I had personally received had not corroborated. These stories described a gamut of feats and deeds consistent with those described in the mythopoeic record-keeping from the before the Age of the Erdtree; there were tales of witches leveling battlefields with dangerous aberrant sorceries and blasphemous incantations granted to them by old gods, warriors unleashing terrible battle arts and decimating entire companies of soldiers in mere moments. My peers and I thought these rumors ludicrous: to think that these mere Tarnished—these husks of dead men and women returned from a deader age—possessed any such strength was laughable.

Mere weeks later, when a number of us bore witness to the utterly undeniable and furious carnage of the Grace-Returned, none among us laughed. Those of us who had survived the initial bloodshed didn't dare to make a sound. Only later did we understand that we were only still alive because the trace runes glittering in our veins were not a substantial enough prize to be worth extracting.

#this is going to introduce my first oc and the art I've made of them :) #I really hope you guys enjoy it #and where I'm taking it #any comments or criticism welcome #but please be nice this is my first time doing this :) #elden ring #elden ring fanfic

[communist-ojou-sama]

See months ago I told @canmom that I was gonna watch Heike Monogatari and do a whole big effortpost about the Genpei War in the context of the birth of the two most important japanese buddhist traditions, which underpin the two most practiced forms of Japanese buddhism today (浄土真宗 and 日蓮宗, respectively) and how it lead to an era of religious and political extremism and sectarian warfare actually beginning before the genpei war and in some sense continuing until the Meiji restoration, and here I am, not having done any of that. I promise I will though! and it will be interesting! We’ll talk about mobs of rural religious fundamentalist peasants and poor samurai who assassinated nobles and government officials! And how while that should be based it was actually kinda proto-proto-fascist!

#though the actual lead-in to the fascist period lead to the almost entire systematic destruction of organized buddhism in japan #another thing I will Get Into

[rainsmediaradio]

Use of Technology as Solution to Resolve Nigeria Myriads of Problems - Dr Kenny Odugbemi

Nigeria is divided and polarized with cleavages of ethnocentrism, sectarianism, sectionalism, parochialism and religious extremism. Polarization-Neo Biafran separatist agitation, Northern nuisances of terrorism, Boko insurgence, banditry, agitation of resources, control of Nigeria's delta destroying oil pipeline, farmer herders clashes with killings in middle belt, unknown gunmen attack and seat at home order in South East, Yoruba Nation separatist of South West Ethnocentric rhetoric - gross abuse of media mainstream, social media menace to display unjustified entitlement mentality of inexistence, mandate to govern Nigeria Collapsed national security, where degeneration is apocalyptic colored by asymmetric warfare across the region Battered economy -sloe economic growth, grossly devalued currency, volatile exchange, rising cost of living, we have critically dysfunctional economy Educational decadence - characteristics of systemic deterioration, curriculum and infrastructure decadence Endemic public corruption - financial leakage, recklessness, ways and means printing of N30trn wasted by Buhari administration Business justification for AI technologies AI in government workflow will allow agencies to achieve the following Prevent and minimize cyber attacks Monitor normal network activities at entry point Identify potential daily vulnerabilities Fortify restrictions on critical data Enhance automation of all processes to guarantee speed, access availabilities, interoperability, transparency My suggestion Current governments with bloated structures need to be forthright with sincerity and transparency, accountability which is seriously lacking now Use of utilitarian principles of democratic governance that are fully automated Mitigate against reactionary pressure by entrenched vested interests and infiltration of security threats that are ever gulping billions to resolve as security votes Adoption of AI technologies is now sacrosanct across all government structures to reduce waste, block leakage, ensure seamless operation, reduce vulnerabilities, facilitate deployment of balance score cards with KPA's and KPI's all fully automated to reduce non-performance across agencies and Ministries who shall be gulping additional yearly N2.1b as their recurrent expenditure Curb misappropriation, frivolities in expenditure and reckless lifestyle of Key officers in the government Conclusion Present administration need to translate 8points agenda into pragmatic deliverables that can be monitored and only AI technologies can do the magic, otherwise we will have a looming, woes, comatose and quagmire across all sectors. The current administration has over 50% of appointment under political settlement with no techy skills that can facilitate rapid change. We are seeing misuse of our common patrimony Read the full article

#Nigeria #Technology

[karryalane]

https://www.independent.co.uk/.../julianna-margulies...

Nothing Julianna Margulies said was not the truth. I am so disappointed that she walked this back. People need to really understand on a deep level what islamofascism, which demands jihad in order to sustain itself, is really about. This is the most fascist movement on the planet and has been for 1400 years. It petered out during the middle ages in the west but since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 the islamic govts in MENA seem to be becoming increasingly radical. There are plenty of videos on amazon that give the history that one can get for around a dollar. (The attack on that occurred on 9/11 marked the anniversary of the Siege of Vienna, and that date was chosen for a reason https://en.wikipedia.org/.../The_Day_of_the_Siege... )

also: "True Iran" https://www.amazon.com/True-Iran-Hon-Bob-Corker/dp/B078Z1RVR5

and "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia" https://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Rivals-Saudi-Arabia-Season/dp/B08DD89B2C

there is also a series called "modern warfare" that gives a rundown of the history of each conflict in that region during the last forty yrs or so and has episodes on Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and so on for a dollar. https://www.amazon.com/Modern.../dp/B00Z8ST6MW/ref=sr_1_5...

A great series about the beginnings of Hezbollah in Lebanon directly via Iranian funding and weapons, who along with the influence of Palestinian refugees assassinated the newly elected president of Lebanon and bombed both our embassy and marine barracks killings hundreds of Americans is Ghosts of Beirut https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts.../dp/B0B8NBRVV4/ref=sr_1_2...

It's such a monstrosity to lie to people about what their status under islamofascism will be, especially when we have a thousand years of evidence and laws currently in place that only give women the legal status of children, or less, and call for the execution of gay people, and call for the death penalty for leaving the faith (called "apostasy"...I will post the maps for death penalty for apostasy & homosexuality in the comments). Leftist extremists would be surprised to understand that religious people like me would be executed AFTER them since most are agnostics or atheists and that is not tolerated, nor is any kind of LGBT identity. I know this actress has a career to fund but what she said is the honest truth and it's evil that these mostly very young people are so uneducated about islamofascism. Her comments were DECRYING the racism/homophobia/transphobia/bigotry of a far right fundamentalist sectarianism that makes Christians look like a bunch of hippies. (And this is not even touching on portraying psychopathic terrorists as 'freedom fighters' or 'resistance fighters'.) I don't understand how any mature adult in good conscience can downplay the facts about the true nature of islamism/jihadists to what will be it's first victims and the first to be executed.

#God #Christ #Jesus #Salvation through Christ #islam #islamofascism #islamist #jihad #Hezbollah #Hamas #Iran #Iraq #Syria #Isis #Lebanon #beirut #gay #lbgt #transgender #trans #apostasy #blasphemy #homosexuality #death penalty for homosexuality #death penalty for apostasy #death penalty for atheism #battle of Vienna #siege of Vienna #9/11 #9/11/1683

[ecoamerica]

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[redstarnotebooks]

"We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War", Matt M. Matthews. (relinker .pdf link)

Chapter 2: Planning for the Second Lebanon War

This is where shit gets extremely interesting. I might have to split this into two sections.

Victory means achieving the strategic goal and not necessarily territory. I maintain that we also have to part with the concept of a land battle. We have to talk about the integrated battle and about the appropriate force activating it. Victory is a matter of consciousness. Air power effects the adversary’s consciousness significantly. Commander Dan Halutz, Israeli Air Force, 2001

After 2000 there was a completely ineffectual UN peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) supervising the new border. Lebanon's government (with it's batshit post-civil war sectarian divisions) was unwilling to commit military forces to the border, and the Israelis had managed to hang on to the Sheba'a Farms region near the north of the also-occupied Golan Heights.

“Experience has clearly shown that Resolution 425, diplomatic efforts and US promises did not liberate Lebanon from a twenty-two-year occupation. Lebanon was liberated through resistance and public support for such resistance. Since we are in possession of such effective means, why would we intentionally incapacitate them? What do we fear by maintaining them? And who could guarantee a deterrence of Israel should we lose them?” Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem

Hezbollah knew there would inevitably be a new war. Based on their decades of experience with Israel, they were convinced (correctly) that the Israelis couldn't stomach casualties and would rely heavily on air power and "standoff-based firepower."

To handle this, they developed the Nasser unit, armed primarily with unguided Syrian-built 122mm Katyusha rocket artillery. These were widely scattered across southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah established a simple, yet effective system for firing the Katyusha rockets. Once lookouts declared the area free of Israeli aircraft, a small group moved to the launch site, set up the launcher, and quickly departed. A second group would then transport the rocket to the launch location and promptly disperse. A third small squad would then arrive at the location and prepare the rocket for firing, often using remotely controlled or timer-based mechanisms. The entire process was to take less than 28 seconds with many of the rocket squads riding bicycles to the launch location. The vast majority of the rocket systems were hidden in underground caches and bunkers built to withstand precision air and artillery strikes.

They also built an extensive network of fortified bunkers throughout the territory. Some of these bunkers were decoys, built openly under Israeli surveillance. More than 600 fortified bunkers were secretly built south of the Litani River. No commander knew all the bunkers, and militia units only knew their primary bunker and two reserve bunkers. The entire system was cellular and distributed, making it resistant both to Israeli strikes and Israeli intelligence.

These underground facilities, including tunnels, food and medical facilities, were constructed under supervision of North Korean and Iranian Revolutionary Guard instructors, based on the experiences of the North Koreans in "defensive guerrilla warfare."

Hezbollah also developed extensive counter-signals intelligence and human intelligence resources. In doing so they were also able to feed the Israelis misinformation regarding false key emplacements.

Essentially, Hezbollah knew the Israelis would try to target their "strategic centers of gravity" using long-range fire, so they stopped having identifiable strategic centers. This mirrors what people talk about as the advantages of decentralization, while still maintaining a highly disciplined and organized political-military force.

The last part of this section is the most interesting to Marxists. Hezbollah modified their original 13-point doctrine to what Nasrallah referred to as a "new model" that fell somewhere between a guerrilla and regular army.

It could be argued that Hezbollah’s “new model,” which combined both guerrilla and conventional methods, in many ways mirrored the approach adopted by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during their long war with the United States.

This applies also to the Palestinian resistance.

Over the course of six years, Hezbollah was able to efficiently adjust its tactics and operational design. Its planning was simple and inspired. During this time, the Israelis also formulated a new doctrine. Unfortunately for Israel, this new doctrine was highly complex and would ultimately play into the hands of Hezbollah.

I'll post the next section about Israel's "preparations" for the war, but as a preview they completely fucked it.

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No killings of any MUSLIM specially for sectarian reason.(even pointing any gun or sword is Haram) No killings of innocents (not directly involved) No bombings No tortures No killings where there is no warfare No fires and burnings No suicide attacks Basic rules every Muslim group should follow. With above mentioned 7 points and focussing on common points, some organizations could come…

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HIDDEN WARFARE with Catherine Austin Fitts

I try to find the best actionable intelligence, in the world, and get it to you, and that is a full-time job ... one of my favorite preachers says 'since my elevator only goes to the first floor he says if you're going to the basement you have to get off and take the stairs.’

I’m just looking for the truth, so I'm going to look at everything that has an impact on the GDP.

The impact of the national security act, and the follow-on CIA act, so you know if there's one mistake we ever made - we should all get a time machine to go back and support James Forrestal, and get him to stop the 49 [1947 National Security] Act. He tried, right, he tried [to correct that] big mistake. Even Truman wrote and said it was a mistake. Eisenhower said it was a mistake, they all said, ‘Why did we make that big mistake?’

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[As Heaven and Earth come to witness each other - the light becoming aware of the darkness, and the darkness aware of the light, pause, and realize that this is to be expected as normal, while subtle changes occure mostly toward the better, there may be a belch or two - within the limits of this time, and this place, and all for the better.

For the adepts, following this saga, I recommend deep Meditation - as much as you can now. Advanced Kundalini track found from some wayyy previous post.

We’re coming down to the wire so I’m not fooling around anymore, and you risk more than you think

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