veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Chemistry Nobel to “TechMothers” of Twin Babies with Altered DNA. Their Human Embryo Tests used by C

Chemistry Nobel to “TechMothers” of Twin Babies with Altered DNA. Their Human Embryo Tests used by Chinese Geneticist Convicted for Genetic Manipulation

How far can science and technology go to reach new heights in the advancement of research ?
While bio-ethics experts are still asking this disturbing question that concerns not only the heart , the mind but above all the soul of humanity , the international community applauds two of the protagonists who made possible the birth of “ Frankenstein ’ s daughters ” .
« The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year is divided equally between the French biochemist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American chemist Jennifer A. Doudna , the two researchers who have developed the technique that cuts and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the code of life .
Genetic scissors , which make it possible to modify DNA , have opened the way to many therapies that were once impossible » writes the ANSA Italian agency without mentioning the actual treatments in which the “ genome editing ” has already been successfully applied .
The Crispr / Cas9 discovered by the two researchers is the most powerful revolutionary kit in the hands of genetic engineering today .
« In fact , it can be used with a very high-precision instrument ( perhaps more like a scalpel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genetic information ( DNA ) of animals , plants and microorganisms .
Presented for the first time in 2012 , the technique has allowed to revolutionize research in the Life Sciences , bringing it into a new era , and has so far helped to open new avenues for the treatment of many diseases , from some forms of cancer to cystic fibrosis , to the point of approaching the dream of curing hereditary diseases » .
The Italian news agency adds , unbalancing on “ futuristic ” therapies but omitting the fundamental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was experimented by the American Doudna on human embryos and this opened the doors to the chilling experiments of a researcher who in 2018 gave birth in China the first newborns with modified DNA .
That experiment ignited a bitter debate within the scientific community precisely in relation to the limits not yet drawn by the nations regarding genetic manipulation .
Lula and Nana , this is the name given to the girls , were considered the first transhuman creatures and their “ scientific father ” He Jiankui , the Chinese doctor of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Shenzhen who announced the birth of the twins with DNA modified to obtain immunization from HIV , in December 2019 he was sentenced by the court of Shenzhen to three years in prison for illegal medical practice and fined 3 million yuan , equal to about 430 thousand dollars .
Little thing compared to the acquired worldwide fame and the announcements of the Chinese authorities who had promised “ serious punishment ” for the geneticist , blaming the results of his unauthorized experiment as “ bad science ” .
As illustrated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gospa News on the affair , we dedicated a large paragraph to the two researchers who are now awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
Emmanuelle Charpentier , born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge , completed her studies at the Pasteur Institute and currently works in Berlin , Germany , where she directs the Max Planck Unit Institute for Pathogen Sciences .
Jennifer A. Doudna was born in 1964 in Washington and , after studying at Harvard University , moved to the University of California at Berkeley , where she currently works .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of so-called Transhumanism , that is the scientific culture aimed at building super-human and financed by many Silicon Valley gurus , we highlighted that Doudna himself boasted in the scientific conferences of 2015 and a year later on the BBC to have grasped the potential of Crispr Cas9 in the modification of the genome not only of various organisms such as Bread Yeast , Zebra Fish , Fruit Fly , Plants , Mice , Monkeys but also of Human Embryos .
Precisely for this reason , if the Chinese geneticist convicted of manipulating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be considered the “ scientific father ” , the biochemists today awarded one of the most coveted world awards may well be considered the “ technological stepmothers ” of the transhuman twins , although not having participated in the aberrant childbirth , son of the genetic editing they created .
The discovery of Crispr occurred almost by chance starting from Charpentier ’ s research on the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes , responsible for inflammation in humans , in particular with the discovery of a fragment of the genetic heritage used by the bacterium as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same year of the discovery , 2011 , Charpentier began to collaborate with Jennifer Doudna to reconstruct the bacterium ’ s weapon in a test tube , in order to simplify it , transforming it into an easier to use tool .
In just one year , the two researchers obtained molecular scissors capable of cutting the molecule of life , the DNA , and of doing it with precision , in a specific site in order to rewrite the code of life .
Since 2012 the Crispr / Cas9 technique has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a real explosion of applications .
Including the shocking one for the birth of Lula and Nana adopted by the Chinese geneticist He Jiankui who , as reported by the Xinhua news agency , was found guilty of “ illegally carrying out genetic manipulation of embryos for reproductive purposes ” .
He Jankui defended himself from the accusations by claiming to have altered the genes of the twin daughters of an HIV-positive father in order to make them immune to the HIV virus , but the experiment does not seem to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raise new doubts about the genetic mutation were recently some geneticists from Berkeley ( USA ) , arguing in a study published in Nature Medecine that the DNA cut-and-sew technique , in addition to not guaranteeing the desired effects , would lead to a mortality risk greater than 21 % » wrote Italian newspaper Repubblica at the time .
The Asian scientist explained that he had “ silenced ” the cellular receptor CCR5 , to which the AIDS virus binds , with the aim of obtaining genetic resistance to the HIV virus and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to smallpox and cholera .
Beyond the genetic mess and the controversy aroused in the world of medical science for the ethical implications , it was the magazine Mit Technology Review of the homonymous institute in Boston , to anticipate sensational revelations , as reported by Gospa News .
« New research shows that the same alteration introduced in the DNA of the girls , the deletion of a gene called CCR5 , not only makes the mice smarter but also improves the recovery of the human brain after stroke , and could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ school » wrote Antonio Regalado , senior editor of biomedicine in the journal MIT Technology Review , hypothesising that genetic manipulation could improve cognition and memory .
As detailed in our previous article , the science journalist highlighted a study conducted by Alcino J. Silva , a neurobiologist at the University of California , Los Angeles , who in commenting on the case of the twins was resolute : « Simple is that those mutations will likely have an impact on cognitive function in the twins » .
But since , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exact effect on cognition is impossible to predict , this is why it should not have been done » .
This is why , in the face of an unexplored world that can drag scientific research into the hell of Transhumanism , the Nobel Prize in Chemistry could have been destined for other protagonists in order to avoid incensing the “ stepmothers of Frankenstein ’ s daughters ” who , despite not having had active part in the experiment , they inspired it through research on human embryos .
Rewarding them instead means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the expense of any bio-ethical consideration .
But as explained in the previous report , the financiers of transhumanist theories are among the most powerful and richest on earth… It therefore becomes easy to compare these very dangerous chemical experiments to the bacteriological ones on the SARS virus infected with HIV conducted in Wuhan and financed by the European Commission and the American government agency USAID , instrument of the Central Intelligence Agency , and by the foundation of Bill Gates , many years before the SARS-COV-2 pandemic devastated the world with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Covid-19 , as demonstrated in our 21 WuhanGates investigations , was in fact attributed by various virology and bioengineering experts to the characteristics of a gently modified organism in the laboratory , as claimed by former British counterintelligence director MI 6 , Richard Dearlove , by human rights lawyer Robert F. Kennedy jr , and ultimately by Hong Kong researcher who fled to the US and now protected by the FBI , Li-Meng Yan .
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How far can science and technology go to reach new heights in the advancement of research? While bio-ethics experts are still asking this disturbing question that concerns not only the heart, the mind but above all the soul of humanity, the international community applauds two of the protagonists who made possible the birth of “Frankenstein’s daughters”.
«The Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year is divided equally between the French biochemist Emmanuelle Charpentier and the American chemist Jennifer A. Doudna, the two researchers who have developed the technique that cuts and glues the DNA that allows to rewrite the code of life. Genetic scissors, which make it possible to modify DNA, have opened the way to many therapies that were once impossible» writes the ANSA Italian agency without mentioning the actual treatments in which the “genome editing” has already been successfully applied.
The Crispr / Cas9 discovered by the two researchers is the most powerful revolutionary kit in the hands of genetic engineering today.
«In fact, it can be used with a very high-precision instrument (perhaps more like a scalpel than molecular scissors) to modify the genetic information (DNA) of animals, plants and microorganisms. Presented for the first time in 2012, the technique has allowed to revolutionize research in the Life Sciences, bringing it into a new era, and has so far helped to open new avenues for the treatment of many diseases, from some forms of cancer to cystic fibrosis, to the point of approaching the dream of curing hereditary diseases».
The Italian news agency adds, unbalancing on “futuristic” therapies but omitting the fundamental detail that precisely this sophisticated biochemical technique was experimented by the American Doudna on human embryos and this opened the doors to the chilling experiments of a researcher who in 2018 gave birth in China the first newborns with modified DNA. That experiment ignited a bitter debate within the scientific community precisely in relation to the limits not yet drawn by the nations regarding genetic manipulation.
Researchers Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
Lula and Nana, this is the name given to the girls, were considered the first transhuman creatures and their “scientific father” He Jiankui, the Chinese doctor of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen who announced the birth of the twins with DNA modified to obtain immunization from HIV, in December 2019 he was sentenced by the court of Shenzhen to three years in prison for illegal medical practice and fined 3 million yuan, equal to about 430 thousand dollars.
Little thing compared to the acquired worldwide fame and the announcements of the Chinese authorities who had promised “serious punishment” for the geneticist, blaming the results of his unauthorized experiment as “bad science”.
As illustrated in a substantial investigation then carried out by Gospa News on the affair, we dedicated a large paragraph to the two researchers who are now awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Emmanuelle Charpentier, born in 1968 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, completed her studies at the Pasteur Institute and currently works in Berlin, Germany, where she directs the Max Planck Unit Institute for Pathogen Sciences. Jennifer A. Doudna was born in 1964 in Washington and, after studying at Harvard University, moved to the University of California at Berkeley, where she currently works.
In that dossier which also analyzed the phenomenon of so-called Transhumanism, that is the scientific culture aimed at building super-human and financed by many Silicon Valley gurus, we highlighted that Doudna himself boasted in the scientific conferences of 2015 and a year later on the BBC to have grasped the potential of Crispr Cas9 in the modification of the genome not only of various organisms such as Bread Yeast, Zebra Fish, Fruit Fly, Plants, Mice, Monkeys but also of Human Embryos.
Precisely for this reason, if the Chinese geneticist convicted of manipulating the DNA of the two girls can be considered the “scientific father”, the biochemists today awarded one of the most coveted world awards may well be considered the “technological stepmothers” of the transhuman twins, although not having participated in the aberrant childbirth, son of the genetic editing they created.
The discovery of Crispr occurred almost by chance starting from Charpentier’s research on the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes, responsible for inflammation in humans, in particular with the discovery of a fragment of the genetic heritage used by the bacterium as a weapon to fight viruses.
In the same year of the discovery, 2011, Charpentier began to collaborate with Jennifer Doudna to reconstruct the bacterium’s weapon in a test tube, in order to simplify it, transforming it into an easier to use tool. In just one year, the two researchers obtained molecular scissors capable of cutting the molecule of life, the DNA, and of doing it with precision, in a specific site in order to rewrite the code of life.
TWINS WITH MODIFIED DNA: FEAR OF ALTERED BRAINS
Since 2012 the Crispr / Cas9 technique has been used all over the world, in a real explosion of applications. Including the shocking one for the birth of Lula and Nana adopted by the Chinese geneticist He Jiankui who, as reported by the Xinhua news agency, was found guilty of “illegally carrying out genetic manipulation of embryos for reproductive purposes”.
Chinese physician He Jankui is the main protagonist at the Hong Kong University International Summit on Human Genome Editing in 2018
He Jankui defended himself from the accusations by claiming to have altered the genes of the twin daughters of an HIV-positive father in order to make them immune to the HIV virus, but the experiment does not seem to have achieved the desired results.
«To raise new doubts about the genetic mutation were recently some geneticists from Berkeley (USA), arguing in a study published in Nature Medecine that the DNA cut-and-sew technique, in addition to not guaranteeing the desired effects, would lead to a mortality risk greater than 21%» wrote Italian newspaper Repubblica at the time.
The Asian scientist explained that he had “silenced” the cellular receptor CCR5, to which the AIDS virus binds, with the aim of obtaining genetic resistance to the HIV virus and, in the future, to switch to smallpox and cholera. Beyond the genetic mess and the controversy aroused in the world of medical science for the ethical implications, it was the magazine Mit Technology Review of the homonymous institute in Boston, to anticipate sensational revelations, as reported by Gospa News.
«New research shows that the same alteration introduced in the DNA of the girls, the deletion of a gene called CCR5, not only makes the mice smarter but also improves the recovery of the human brain after stroke, and could be linked to a greater success at school» wrote Antonio Regalado, senior editor of biomedicine in the journal MIT Technology Review, hypothesising that genetic manipulation could improve cognition and memory.
As detailed in our previous article, the science journalist highlighted a study conducted by Alcino J. Silva, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who in commenting on the case of the twins was resolute: «Simple is that those mutations will likely have an impact on cognitive function in the twins». But since, according to the same doctor interviewed, the «exact effect on cognition is impossible to predict, this is why it should not have been done».
This is why, in the face of an unexplored world that can drag scientific research into the hell of Transhumanism, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry could have been destined for other protagonists in order to avoid incensing the “stepmothers of Frankenstein’s daughters” who, despite not having had active part in the experiment, they inspired it through research on human embryos.
Rewarding them instead means wanting to clear progress at any cost at the expense of any bio-ethical consideration. But as explained in the previous report, the financiers of transhumanist theories are among the most powerful and richest on earth…
It therefore becomes easy to compare these very dangerous chemical experiments to the bacteriological ones on the SARS virus infected with HIV conducted in Wuhan and financed by the European Commission and the American government agency USAID, instrument of the Central Intelligence Agency, and by the foundation of Bill Gates, many years before the SARS-COV-2 pandemic devastated the world with its high contagiousness.
The variable lethality of Covid-19, as demonstrated in our 21 WuhanGates investigations, was in fact attributed by various virology and bioengineering experts to the characteristics of a gently modified organism in the laboratory, as claimed by former British counterintelligence director MI 6, Richard Dearlove, by human rights lawyer Robert F. Kennedy jr, and ultimately by Hong Kong researcher who fled to the US and now protected by the FBI, Li-Meng Yan.
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veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Former CIA veteran: Trump and Netanyahu alliance is bad news

Paul R. Pillar , an academic and 28-year veteran of the CIA , brought the Israeli regime down a few years ago by saying that Israel and Saudi Arabia are the main culprits behind the covert war against Iran .
We have been saying the same thing for years .
“ Much of the opposition has to do with a desire to keep Iran in the status of a perpetually isolated and castigated adversary that is blamed for all or almost all of the ills in the Middle East .
That desire characterizes certain other regimes in the Middle East @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are rivals of Iran , want outside powers to take their side , and want international scrutiny diverted from their own contributions to regional instability.
” In this covert war , said Pillars , “ misleading and false ” information is a fair game for those who want to perpetuate the incoherent idea that Iran wants to create trouble in the Middle East .
“ Many of the same old themes , notwithstanding the agreement ’ s success in the meantime in being implemented and maintaining its tight restrictions on , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ program , are being repeated.
” These “ misleading and false ” techniques have been disproved or shown to be wrong long ago , said Pillar , but then warmongers kept repeating them , obviously because they wanted America and much of the West to get into a bloody conflict with Iran , presumably for Israel and Saudi Arabia .
Trump has been a complete pawn in repeating what the warmongers wanted .
Pillar is now saying that the current marriage between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can only bring more misery and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pillar writes : “ The political careers of President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have become increasingly linked .
The linkage goes well beyond the parallel personal interests they have in such things as the hyping of recent diplomatic developments involving Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates .
It extends to a similarity of political methods that over the long term works to the detriment of both Americans and Israelis.
” Read that again .
A relationship between Trump and Netanyahu can only bring disaster to the average Israeli and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again ?
Netanyahu will more than likely support a candidate whom he can use as a complete puppet .
He seems to have remembered what Obama told him , that he was a “ chickenshit , ” that he lied too much , and that he wanted to destroy the cohesive and comprehensive agreement between Iran and the United States .
“ The spectacle this week of a White House signing ceremony replete with flags and trumpet flourishes helps both leaders claim credit with their domestic audiences for what they say is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though it isn ’ t .
An ideal Middle East would be one in which all states of the region , including Israel , have full and cordial relations with all other states of the region , but only because in an ideal Middle East such relations would reflect the successful resolution of previous conflicts .
Relations that ignore or paper over unresolved conflicts , much less exacerbate them , are not an improvement.
” In other words , away with the Trump and Netanyahu marriage .
Why ?
Because the Israeli government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and molding them into the Israeli/zionist ideology .
For example , Trump told the entire world that the United States , according to Pillar , “ ’ gave ’ Iran between $ 100 and $ 150 in assets under the agreement and separately ‘ gave ’ Iran $ 1.7 billion in cash.
” Total lie .
Pillar wrote : “ In fact , the United States has not given Iran a penny .
All of the money was Iran ’ s in the first place .
Most of the assets in question had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The separate cash payment was resolution of a very old claim dating back to the time of the shah , in which Iran paid for some airplanes that the United States did not deliver .
Pallets of cash were used because sanctions continued to shut Iran out of the international banking system.
” Pillar concluded his article by saying : “ Donald Trump ’ s serial lying , and his penchant for repeating lies long after they have been disproven , is in a class by itself regarding dishonesty by a top American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Israeli wine , which literally clouds his moral and political judgment .
This is probably why Pillar compared Trump to a zombie .
He can not think straight because the Israelis–most particularly Benjamin Netanyahu–have cast an essentially Talmudic spell on him .
This is why Benjamin Netanyahu can say things like Trump ’ s “ support for Israel is clear.
” Notes : Paul R. Pillar , “ The Persistence of Falsehoods About the Iran Nuclear Agreement , ” National Interest , August 3 , 2017 ; “ The Donald Trump and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” National Interest , September 17 , 2020 .
Trita Parsi has recently written a comprehensive study on this as well .
Trita Parsi , Losing an Enemy : Obama , Iran , and the Triumph of Diplomacy ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2017 ) .

…by Jonas E. Alexis, VT Editor
Paul R. Pillar, an academic and 28-year veteran of the CIA, brought the Israeli regime down a few years ago by saying that Israel and Saudi Arabia are the main culprits behind the covert war against Iran. We have been saying the same thing for years.
Pillar declared then:
“Much of the opposition has to do with a desire to keep Iran in the status of a perpetually isolated and castigated adversary that is blamed for all or almost all of the ills in the Middle East. That desire characterizes certain other regimes in the Middle East (especially Israel and Saudi Arabia) that are rivals of Iran, want outside powers to take their side, and want international scrutiny diverted from their own contributions to regional instability.”
In this covert war, said Pillars, “misleading and false” information is a fair game for those who want to perpetuate the incoherent idea that Iran wants to create trouble in the Middle East. “Many of the same old themes, notwithstanding the agreement’s success in the meantime in being implemented and maintaining its tight restrictions on, and scrutiny of, Iran’s nuclear program, are being repeated.”
These “misleading and false” techniques have been disproved or shown to be wrong long ago, said Pillar, but then warmongers kept repeating them, obviously because they wanted America and much of the West to get into a bloody conflict with Iran, presumably for Israel and Saudi Arabia. Trump has been a complete pawn in repeating what the warmongers wanted.
Pillar is now saying that the current marriage between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can only bring more misery and suffering for much of the world. Pillar writes:
“The political careers of President Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have become increasingly linked. The linkage goes well beyond the parallel personal interests they have in such things as the hyping of recent diplomatic developments involving Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. It extends to a similarity of political methods that over the long term works to the detriment of both Americans and Israelis.”
Read that again. A relationship between Trump and Netanyahu can only bring disaster to the average Israeli and American. What does that tell us again? Netanyahu will more than likely support a candidate whom he can use as a complete puppet.
He seems to have remembered what Obama told him, that he was a “chickenshit,” that he lied too much, and that he wanted to destroy the cohesive and comprehensive agreement between Iran and the United States.
Pillar continues:
“The spectacle this week of a White House signing ceremony replete with flags and trumpet flourishes helps both leaders claim credit with their domestic audiences for what they say is a historic “peace deal,” even though it isn’t. An ideal Middle East would be one in which all states of the region, including Israel, have full and cordial relations with all other states of the region, but only because in an ideal Middle East such relations would reflect the successful resolution of previous conflicts. Relations that ignore or paper over unresolved conflicts, much less exacerbate them, are not an improvement.”
In other words, away with the Trump and Netanyahu marriage. Why? Because the Israeli government is alway interested in manipulating American politicians and molding them into the Israeli/zionist ideology.
For example, Trump told the entire world that the United States, according to Pillar, “’gave’ Iran between $100 and $150 in assets under the agreement and separately ‘gave’ Iran $1.7 billion in cash.”
Total lie. Pillar wrote: “In fact, the United States has not given Iran a penny. All of the money was Iran’s in the first place. Most of the assets in question had been frozen in foreign financial accounts. The separate cash payment was resolution of a very old claim dating back to the time of the shah, in which Iran paid for some airplanes that the United States did not deliver. Pallets of cash were used because sanctions continued to shut Iran out of the international banking system.”
Pillar concluded his article by saying:
“Donald Trump’s serial lying, and his penchant for repeating lies long after they have been disproven, is in a class by itself regarding dishonesty by a top American leader.”
Trump has obviously been drinking the Israeli wine, which literally clouds his moral and political judgment. This is probably why Pillar compared Trump to a zombie. He cannot think straight because the Israelis–most particularly Benjamin Netanyahu–have cast an essentially Talmudic spell on him. This is why Benjamin Netanyahu can say things like Trump’s “support for Israel is clear.”
Notes:
Paul R. Pillar, “The Persistence of Falsehoods About the Iran Nuclear Agreement,” National Interest, August 3, 2017; “The Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu Alliance: Simply Bad News,” National Interest, September 17, 2020.
Trita Parsi has recently written a comprehensive study on this as well. Trita Parsi, Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--‘Brain Fog’ COVID causing significant long-term cognitive deficits in most sufferers

Guardian : For Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar , Covid-19 brought an onslaught of symptoms from chest pains to an 11-day migraine , three positive test results , and a period in hospital .
Seven months later , the rollercoaster is far from over : the 36-year-old from Byron Bay , Australia is still experiencing symptoms – including difficulties with thinking that are often described as “ brain fog ” .
“ Brain fog seems like such an inferior description of what is actually going on .
It ’ s completely crippling .
I am unable to think clearly enough to [ do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adding that the experience would be better described as cognitive impairment .
The consequences , she says , have been enormous .
“ I can ’ t work more than one to two hours a day and even just leaving the house to get some shopping can be a challenge , ” she says .
“ When I get tired it becomes much worse and sometimes all I can do is lay in bed and watch TV.
” Brain fog has made her forgetful to the point that she says she burns pots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me from being able to have a coherent conversation or write a text message or email , ” she adds .
“ I feel like a shadow of my former self .
I am not living right now , I am simply existing.
” Nicholson-McKellar is far from alone .
Dr Michael Zandi , a consultant at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology , says he has seen patients who have been living with brain fog for a few months .
While some have been admitted to hospital or intensive care with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeing cases among people who coped with Covid at home .
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Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar. Photograph: Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar
“Brain fog seems like such an inferior description of what is actually going on. It’s completely crippling. I am unable to think clearly enough to [do] anything,” says Nicholson-McKellar, adding that the experience would be better described as cognitive impairment.
The consequences, she says, have been enormous.
“I can’t work more than one to two hours a day and even just leaving the house to get some shopping can be a challenge,” she says. “When I get tired it becomes much worse and sometimes all I can do is lay in bed and watch TV.” Brain fog has made her forgetful to the point that she says she burns pots while cooking.
“It often prevents me from being able to have a coherent conversation or write a text message or email,” she adds. “I feel like a shadow of my former self. I am not living right now, I am simply existing.”
Nicholson-McKellar is far from alone.
Dr Michael Zandi, a consultant at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology , says he has seen patients who have been living with brain fog for a few months. While some have been admitted to hospital or intensive care with Covid, Zandi says he is now seeing cases among people who coped with Covid at home. read more
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/brain-fog-the-people-struggling-to-think-clearly-months-after-covid


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Guardian: Faith leaders back Biden in sign Evangelicals running away from Trump madness

Guardian : More than 1,600 faith leaders in the US have publicly backed Joe Biden , the Democratic candidate in next month ’ s presidential election , amid signs that some evangelical voters are turning away from Donald Trump .
The Biden endorsements mainly come from Catholics , evangelicals and mainline Protestants .
They include Jerushah Duford , the granddaughter of Billy Graham ; Susan Johnson Cook , a former US ambassador for religious freedom ; Michael Kinnamon , former general secretary of the National Council of Churches ; and Gene Robinson , a former bishop in the Episcopal church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shows that President Trump ’ s lack of kindness and decency is energizing faith communities and will cost him this election , ” said Doug Pagitt , executive director of the Christian campaign organisation Vote Common Good , which compiled the endorsements .
The organisation said the announcement represents the largest group of clergy to endorse a Democratic candidate for president in modern history .
In the 2016 election , more than 80 % of white evangelicals voted for Trump , with many taking the view that his pledge to make conservative and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unease about his personal behaviour .
White evangelicals make up about a quarter of the US electorate .
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Guardian: More than 1,600 faith leaders in the US have publicly backed Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate in next month’s presidential election, amid signs that some evangelical voters are turning away from Donald Trump.
The Biden endorsements mainly come from Catholics, evangelicals and mainline Protestants. They include Jerushah Duford, the granddaughter of Billy Graham; Susan Johnson Cook, a former US ambassador for religious freedom; Michael Kinnamon, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches; and Gene Robinson, a former bishop in the Episcopal church.
NEWS: more than 1600 clergy members, religious scholars and other faith-focused officials and activists are endorsing Biden– organizers believe it is the largest group of faith leaders to back a Democratic presidential candidate in modern timeshttps://t.co/dpffo3mU8m — Katie Glueck (@katieglueck) October 9, 2020
“This record-breaking group of endorsers shows that President Trump’s lack of kindness and decency is energizing faith communities and will cost him this election,” said Doug Pagitt, executive director of the Christian campaign organisation Vote Common Good, which compiled the endorsements.
The organisation said the announcement represents the largest group of clergy to endorse a Democratic candidate for president in modern history.
Richard Nixon's former pastor, who is a lifelong Republican, is launching "Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden," a bipartisan group made up of about 10 senior evangelical leaders.https://t.co/AuND8NNoFq — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 4, 2020
In the 2016 election, more than 80% of white evangelicals voted for Trump, with many taking the view that his pledge to make conservative and pro-life appointments to the supreme court outweighed unease about his personal behaviour. White evangelicals make up about a quarter of the US electorate. read more
This is going to hurt #Trump and #Pence. Faith leaders back Biden in sign that evangelical support for Trump is waning. “This election is not a political choice, but a moral choice.” #Biden and #Harris saw a 7to11 point religious swing in their direction. https://t.co/vJyyMPbHUb — André Krouwel (@AndreKrouwel) October 9, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/09/faith-leaders-back-biden-evangelicals-trump


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--NEO – Europe’s decisive moves to shun ‘Trans-Atlanticism’

by Salman Rafi Sheikh , …with New Eastern Outlook , Moscow , …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa .
[ Editor ’ s Note : Rafi Sheikh revisits a somewhat old topic , regarding Europe ’ s desire to not be dependent on NATO and for being responsible for its own defense as a show of true autonomy , not one on paper .
To date , this has been an obvious exercise in puffery for two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its major defense manufacturing countries have not met their ‘ contractual ’ NATO contributions .
Second , they expect us to believe the EU is somehow going to build a parallel structure to control their own defense .
Where would the European funding come from ?
What if not all EU countries want to contribute ?
What if Poland decides it would rather partner with NATO and not the new EU NATO .
That said , I was surprised to read below that Macron led the way with this new EU defense proposal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming NAT0 ’ s tip of the spear in terms of positioning US first strike missile systems there , which is a hugely destabilizing situation .
Already Russian defense has had to assume that eastern Europe is onboard the US first strike doctrine , and hence will have to target eliminating all US and other military bases in those countries within the first five minutes of the next war .
The Russian counter strike will be airborne before the first NATO missile strikes Russia .
At that point , the US will have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a secondary strike , with the EU having borne the brunt of the Russian counter strike .
Will it take such an event for the EU public to wake up to what a stupid scenario they created for themselves , being used as cannon fodder in the next war ?
Has the EU been suckered into a dream of having a free defense ride via the US ?
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Click to donate > > When NATO was founded after the Second World War in 1949 , it was not just a military organization ; it was an idea based upon a shared European-US understanding of the then international politics and a weaker Europe ’ s willingness to infuse itself with the US to maintain balance of power vis-à-vis the Soviet Union .
‘ Trans-Atlanticism ’ , therefore , became a system where Europe was permanently cast as a junior player , supposed to follow the US in its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its sovereignty , it did lose its strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy approach .
‘ Trans-Atlanticism ’ is , however , dying today amid Europe ’ s search for regaining strategic autonomy .
Equally true is the fact that the world is no longer divided into a bi-polar system , or under the unilateral domination of the US .
The rise of Russia and China has significantly changed how world looked like in the 1990s .
Europe ’ s search for autonomy is not only a response to this change , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of change as well .
This is evident from how the continent , unlike the US , no longer simply sees Russia and China as “ revisionist states ” , bent upon undoing the US domination .
It sees merit in developing strategic dialogue with these states and rewrite relations .
European Council ’ s latest special meeting in Brussels shows the path that the EU has put itself on .
Distancing itself from the US ’ ‘ de-coupling ’ with China , the Council decided to “ rebalance the economic relationship [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Accordingly , instead of choosing to echo Pompeo ’ s idea of building a ‘ global coalition ’ against China and roll back its economic presence and political influence , the Council encouraged China to “ assume greater responsibility in dealing with global challenges ” , leading ultimately to “ an ambitious ” EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement ; and “ to deliver on previous commitments to address market access barriers , to make progress on overcapacity and engage in negotiations on industrial subsidies at the World Trade Organization.
” The Council , unlike @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Russophobia ’ , refrained from blaming Russian government for the alleged assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny .
The unsaid and unwritten refusal to blame Russian government for the attempt is then linked with the changing European mindset about the need for dialogue and talks with Russia , particularly with regards to the question of European security .
During his recent visit to Baltic States , France ’ s Macron was reported to have said that it was about time Europe started taking its own security measures and stopped relying exclusively on NATO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Latvia , Macron sought to reassure that his goal was to build up Europe ’ s defense capabilities .
Although he did not pitch his ideas as a potential replacement of NATO , there is little denying that Europe ’ s own moves towards a European system will largely render NATO irrelevant in the long run .
The new security system would involve a dialogue with Russia , a state that the US continues to define as ‘ rival ’ and ‘ rogue.
’ Macron did not mince words when he said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rethink their relationship with Russia despite history of tensions .
His remarks , while not made for the first time , carry a special significance because they were made in states whose relations with Russia have remained icy for nearly 30 years since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union .
Estonia and Latvia both have sizable ethnic-Russian minorities , while Lithuania ’ s ethnic-Russian population is more minor .
France , as it stands , is getting actively engaged with all states with a view to generating a new form of relations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ European Strategic Autonomy ’ , using it as the guiding principal for Europe ’ s standing in world affairs in the 21st century .
While one may think the idea of ‘ autonomy ’ holds no relevance for states other than France , this is not the case .
For instance , Germany , which happens to be the strongest European economic power , has already established joint military projects with France , including Permanent Structured Cooperation ( PESCO ) in the scope of the Common Security and Defence Policy ( CSDP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are also in broad agreement about the future of transatlantic relations amid the ever-increasing scope of multilateralism .
Since the idea of Strategic autonomy , when defined as the ability to make and implement foreign policy and security and economic decisions in a multilateral set up , requires internal legitimacy i.e.
, support from the participating states and their willingness to look upon Europe and not the US or NATO , Macron ’ s active diplomacy appears to be particularly directed towards gaining that very legitimacy .
While European powers continue to present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ existing alongside and not opposed to NATO , it remains so because of the fact that an abrupt and complete divorce with NATO is neither possible for Europe at this stage , nor will it serve its immediate purpose .
Europe ’ s search for regaining autonomy begins with popularizing the idea within Europe first .
While the process has already begun and is being received well , an end to complete European dependence on NATO would become possible only when Europe has first put in place its own and complete collective defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a provision for such a system .
Europe , led by France and Germany , is making moves to translate that provision into a reality .
Salman Rafi Sheikh , research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan ’ s foreign and domestic affairs , exclusively for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” .

by Salman Rafi Sheikh, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
[ Editor’s Note: Rafi Sheikh revisits a somewhat old topic, regarding Europe’s desire to not be dependent on NATO and for being responsible for its own defense as a show of true autonomy, not one on paper.
To date, this has been an obvious exercise in puffery for two reasons. One, the EU and its major defense manufacturing countries have not met their ‘contractual’ NATO contributions. Second, they expect us to believe the EU is somehow going to build a parallel structure to control their own defense.
Where would the European funding come from? What if not all EU countries want to contribute? What if Poland decides it would rather partner with NATO and not the new EU NATO.
That said, I was surprised to read below that Macron led the way with this new EU defense proposal while visiting the Baltic countries that are becoming NAT0’s tip of the spear in terms of positioning US first strike missile systems there, which is a hugely destabilizing situation.
Already Russian defense has had to assume that eastern Europe is onboard the US first strike doctrine, and hence will have to target eliminating all US and other military bases in those countries within the first five minutes of the next war.
The Russian counter strike will be airborne before the first NATO missile strikes Russia. At that point, the US will have whittled down Russia’s defenses for a secondary strike, with the EU having borne the brunt of the Russian counter strike.
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– First published … October 07, 2020 –
When NATO was founded after the Second World War in 1949, it was not just a military organization; it was an idea based upon a shared European-US understanding of the then international politics and a weaker Europe’s willingness to infuse itself with the US to maintain balance of power vis-à-vis the Soviet Union.
‘Trans-Atlanticism’, therefore, became a system where Europe was permanently cast as a junior player, supposed to follow the US in its footsteps. Although it did not lose its sovereignty, it did lose its strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy approach. ‘Trans-Atlanticism’ is, however, dying today amid Europe’s search for regaining strategic autonomy.
Equally true is the fact that the world is no longer divided into a bi-polar system, or under the unilateral domination of the US. The rise of Russia and China has significantly changed how world looked like in the 1990s. Europe’s search for autonomy is not only a response to this change, but a deliberate reproduction of the same process of change as well.
This is evident from how the continent, unlike the US, no longer simply sees Russia and China as “revisionist states”, bent upon undoing the US domination. It sees merit in developing strategic dialogue with these states and rewrite relations.
European Council’s latest special meeting in Brussels shows the path that the EU has put itself on. Distancing itself from the US’ ‘de-coupling’ with China, the Council decided to “rebalance the economic relationship [with China] and achieve reciprocity.”
Accordingly, instead of choosing to echo Pompeo’s idea of building a ‘global coalition’ against China and roll back its economic presence and political influence, the Council encouraged China to “assume greater responsibility in dealing with global challenges”, leading ultimately to “an ambitious” EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement; and “to deliver on previous commitments to address market access barriers, to make progress on overcapacity and engage in negotiations on industrial subsidies at the World Trade Organization.”
The Council, unlike the US and refusing to subscribe to ‘Russophobia’, refrained from blaming Russian government for the alleged assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny. The unsaid and unwritten refusal to blame Russian government for the attempt is then linked with the changing European mindset about the need for dialogue and talks with Russia, particularly with regards to the question of European security.
During his recent visit to Baltic States, France’s Macron was reported to have said that it was about time Europe started taking its own security measures and stopped relying exclusively on NATO.
During a three-day visit to Lithuania and Latvia, Macron sought to reassure that his goal was to build up Europe’s defense capabilities. Although he did not pitch his ideas as a potential replacement of NATO, there is little denying that Europe’s own moves towards a European system will largely render NATO irrelevant in the long run.
The new security system would involve a dialogue with Russia, a state that the US continues to define as ‘rival’ and ‘rogue.’ Macron did not mince words when he said that the Europeans should be able to rethink their relationship with Russia despite history of tensions.
His remarks, while not made for the first time, carry a special significance because they were made in states whose relations with Russia have remained icy for nearly 30 years since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Estonia and Latvia both have sizable ethnic-Russian minorities, while Lithuania’s ethnic-Russian population is more minor.
France, as it stands, is getting actively engaged with all states with a view to generating a new form of relations, based entirely upon the idea of ‘European Strategic Autonomy’, using it as the guiding principal for Europe’s standing in world affairs in the 21st century.
While one may think the idea of ‘autonomy’ holds no relevance for states other than France, this is not the case. For instance, Germany, which happens to be the strongest European economic power, has already established joint military projects with France, including Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the scope of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Beyond this, both sides are also in broad agreement about the future of transatlantic relations amid the ever-increasing scope of multilateralism.
Since the idea of Strategic autonomy, when defined as the ability to make and implement foreign policy and security and economic decisions in a multilateral set up, requires internal legitimacy i.e., support from the participating states and their willingness to look upon Europe and not the US or NATO, Macron’s active diplomacy appears to be particularly directed towards gaining that very legitimacy.
While European powers continue to present the idea of a European security system existing alongside and not opposed to NATO, it remains so because of the fact that an abrupt and complete divorce with NATO is neither possible for Europe at this stage, nor will it serve its immediate purpose.
Europe’s search for regaining autonomy begins with popularizing the idea within Europe first. While the process has already begun and is being received well, an end to complete European dependence on NATO would become possible only when Europe has first put in place its own and complete collective defense system.
The Lisbon Treaty does have a provision for such a system. Europe, led by France and Germany, is making moves to translate that provision into a reality.
https://journal-neo.org/2020/10/07/europe-s-decisive-moves-to-shun-trans-atlanticism/
Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Michigan: GOP Complains about being ‘left out’ of plot investigation…even though they were directly

Michigan: GOP Complains about being ‘left out’ of plot investigation…even though they were directly involved

VT ’ s own investigation is finding things a bit ‘ curiouser and curiouser ’ as the plotters , now nearing 20 in 5 states , but these aren ’ t simply extremist ‘ bumpkins.
’ Marriage between GOP state officials and the Michigan Militia began in the late 1980s but only sprung to life when a huge influx of laundered cash came in during the 1990s .
Then , the ‘ anti-lockdown ’ was all about cigarettes with massive cash outlays from the tobacco companies going directly to the Michigan Militia to work with the GOP in blocking anti-smoking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world would end if smoking in hospitals and schools was prohibited .
The real history began earlier , when the auto giants started hiring both KKK and Italian mobsters to fight the trade unions during the 30s and 40s .
This is roughly described in the 1978 film , ‘ The Betsy.
’ Behind the move against Whitmer is a consortium of anti-government extremists within the GOP , led by judges , half a dozen or more county sheriffs and several hundred police and deputy sheriffs .
When , during demonstrations against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their license plates , there was a reason for this .
GOP officials are recruiting using their control of the state ’ s massive prison system , county jails and parole/probation authorities .
The blend of hate groups , melds police , prison-jail radicalized white supremacists and meth dealing criminal gangs that had formed long ago during the Millikin administration .
The GOP learned it could only hold control of the state legislature through backing by certain corrupt Detroit officials and a partnership with street gangs , starting with Young Boys Inc , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pennsylvania , with direct partnership with major cartels which are also run by the GOP .

VT’s own investigation is finding things a bit ‘curiouser and curiouser’ as the plotters, now nearing 20 in 5 states, but these aren’t simply extremist ‘bumpkins.’
Marriage between GOP state officials and the Michigan Militia began in the late 1980s but only sprung to life when a huge influx of laundered cash came in during the 1990s. Then, the ‘anti-lockdown’ was all about cigarettes with massive cash outlays from the tobacco companies going directly to the Michigan Militia to work with the GOP in blocking anti-smoking measures.
Then the Michigan GOP thought the world would end if smoking in hospitals and schools was prohibited. The real history began earlier, when the auto giants started hiring both KKK and Italian mobsters to fight the trade unions during the 30s and 40s. This is roughly described in the 1978 film, ‘The Betsy.’
Behind the move against Whitmer is a consortium of anti-government extremists within the GOP, led by judges, half a dozen or more county sheriffs and several hundred police and deputy sheriffs. When, during demonstrations against Whitmer, dozens of vehicles had removed their license plates, there was a reason for this. GOP officials are recruiting using their control of the state’s massive prison system, county jails and parole/probation authorities. The blend of hate groups, melds police, prison-jail radicalized white supremacists and meth dealing criminal gangs that had formed long ago during the Millikin administration. The GOP learned it could only hold control of the state legislature through backing by certain corrupt Detroit officials and a partnership with street gangs, starting with Young Boys Inc, which spread through Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, with direct partnership with major cartels which are also run by the GOP.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Romney-Salinas-FBI-1.mp3 https://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Romney-Salinas-FBI-2.mp3 The powerful Romney family is described here by an FBI Agent (retired) who ran investigations into the Mexican cartels during the 1990s. Key to keeping the GOP in power in Michigan has been these ties to the gangs and cartels and between prison gangs and ‘police gangs,’ who now make up what is called the ‘boogaloo boys.’ At least a dozen members of the Michigan Legislature, all GOP, depend on these organizations for campaign funding and ‘security.’


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Suppressed News: Murdoch cites Trump/Hannity’s ‘Fox’ as founder of fake news in momentous Interview

Suppressed News: Murdoch cites Trump/Hannity’s ‘Fox’ as founder of fake news in momentous Interview (working for enemies of the US)

James Murdoch says he quit his father ’ s media empire because they were ‘ legitimizing disinformation ’ and slams ‘ crazy ’ Trump for ‘ infecting the US with cruelty ’ and downplaying COVID • The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family business • James Murdoch , 47 , said he ‘ pulled the rip cord ’ from the family empire because he was ‘ increasingly uncomfortable ’ with News Corp and Fox • He accused the news organization of ‘ legitimizing disinformation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ sows doubt ’ and ‘ obscures fact ’ • He said he also clashed with the family empire ’ s denial of climate change • He blamed the president for ‘ infecting the population ’ with ‘ cruelty ’ saying ‘ it ’ s no coincidence the number of hate crimes in this country are rising ’ • Murdoch threw his support behind Joe Biden saying ‘ hell yes ’ when asked if he will be voting for the Democratic candidate in November ’ s election • Conservative outlet Fox , owned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an ally to Trump • Murdoch quit the board of News Corp in July blaming ‘ disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company ’ s news outlets James Murdoch has said he quit his father ’ s media empire because it was ‘ legitimizing disinformation ’ and slammed ‘ crazy ’ Trump for ‘ infecting the US with cruelty ’ and downplaying COVID-19 .
The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his second wife Anna told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rip cord ’ because he was ‘ increasingly uncomfortable ’ with News Corp and Fox ‘ legitimizing disinformation ’ and denying climate change .
In a major departure from his father ’ s Fox business which has long been an ally of the president , Murdoch also blasted Trump ’ s ‘ craziness ’ for denying the dangers of the pandemic and said ‘ it ’ s no coincidence the number of hate crimes in this country are rising ’ since he entered the White House .
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He accused the news organization of ‘legitimizing disinformation’ suggesting it ‘hides agendas’, ‘sows doubt’ and ‘obscures fact’
He said he also clashed with the family empire’s denial of climate change
Murdoch also blasted Trump’s ‘craziness’ for downplaying COVID-19
He blamed the president for ‘infecting the population’ with ‘cruelty’ saying ‘it’s no coincidence the number of hate crimes in this country are rising’
Murdoch threw his support behind Joe Biden saying ‘hell yes’ when asked if he will be voting for the Democratic candidate in November’s election
Conservative outlet Fox, owned by News Corp, has long been an ally to Trump
Murdoch quit the board of News Corp in July blaming ‘disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets
James Murdoch has said he quit his father’s media empire because it was ‘legitimizing disinformation’ and slammed ‘crazy’ Trump for ‘infecting the US with cruelty’ and downplaying COVID-19.
MURDOCH WORLD NEWS: James Murdoch confides in @maureendowd about why he "pulled the rip cord" and left the family business, says Murdoch news properties "legitimize disinformation", ''sow doubt" & "obscure fact" in his most candid interview to date (1/3) https://t.co/QwhmjJ6u33 — jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) October 10, 2020
The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his second wife Anna told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family business, saying he ‘pulled the rip cord’ because he was ‘increasingly uncomfortable’ with News Corp and Fox ‘legitimizing disinformation’ and denying climate change.
Rupert Murdoch’s younger son James says he left the family’s media empire because he didn’t want to “legitimize disinformation” https://t.co/01WiWJ3Cvh — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 10, 2020
In a major departure from his father’s Fox business which has long been an ally of the president, Murdoch also blasted Trump’s ‘craziness’ for denying the dangers of the pandemic and said ‘it’s no coincidence the number of hate crimes in this country are rising’ since he entered the White House. read more
James Murdoch says he quit his father's media empire because they were 'legitimizing disinformation' and slams 'crazy' Trump https://t.co/bku7FOmVBt — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 10, 2020
Don’t read this line.


veteranstoday--2020-10-10--Breaking: Learn why Trump is ducking a new debate, what top GOP consultant found

Luntz was hired to do focus groups for the GOP to aid in putting a spin on the debates , to show a GOP win .
This is normal politics and Luntz is their top guy .
We also are deeply suspicious about Trump ’ s diagnosis , based on his getting NDA ’ s from Walter Reed doctors .
He cancelled a debate based on political advice .
COVID was , we believe , advised as well , Trump and Melania were told to fake the disease .
Kurschner has this , watch the video : He is certainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not so right , and obviously paid by the GOP to make things up , about our Vice President .
People reviled at seeing him .
They hate how he looks and of course the fact that he is Trump ’ s ‘ Mini-Me.
’ Why Trump ducked the second debate , whining about the moderator…who would shut him up and how he hoped , this time , to appear less psychotic .
Truth is , Trump ’ s base is crumbling and those who aren ’ t ‘ ever-Trumpers ’ are now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump and can ’ t stand him .
The rest of us were there in the 1980s .
We knew he was a conman and bullshitter .
We didn ’ t think his kill count would get this high .
I had figured he would stop at killing maybe 175,000 Americans in an Israeli backed war against Iran…that we would lose .
This is far more efficient .
Trump , we knew , was going to kill a huge number of Americans for his handlers , we just didn ’ t imagine 600,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Luntz was hired to do focus groups for the GOP to aid in putting a spin on the debates, to show a GOP win. This is normal politics and Luntz is their top guy.
We also are deeply suspicious about Trump’s diagnosis, based on his getting NDA’s from Walter Reed doctors. He cancelled a debate based on political advice. COVID was, we believe, advised as well, Trump and Melania were told to fake the disease. Kurschner has this, watch the video:
He is certainly right about Kamala Harris being condescending but not so right, and obviously paid by the GOP to make things up, about our Vice President.
📺 NEW VIDEO Episode 2: The Quaranteenies are ready to vote early, are you?#VoteEarly pic.twitter.com/HA7GH6AibL — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) October 10, 2020
People reviled at seeing him. They hate how he looks and of course the fact that he is Trump’s ‘Mini-Me.’
Joe #BidenWillCrushCovid because he has experience fighting deadly public health threats like Ebola. Donald Trump only has experience spreading deadly diseases.pic.twitter.com/c1PvoCRiQD — Grant Stern (@grantstern) October 10, 2020
Why Trump ducked the second debate, whining about the moderator…who would shut him up and how he hoped, this time, to appear less psychotic.
Battleground poll averages Sept. 15
• Florida: Biden +2.4
• Pennsylvania: +4.9
• Michigan: +7.5
• Wisc: +6.9
• Arizona: +5.0
• NC: +1.0 Today
• Florida: Biden +4.4
• Pennsylvania: +7.1
• Michigan: +8.4
• Wisc: +7.1
• Arizona: +3.7
• NC: +2.7https://t.co/vcLV7j1VrZ — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 9, 2020
Truth is, Trump’s base is crumbling and those who aren’t ‘ever-Trumpers’ are now getting a look at the real Donald Trump and can’t stand him. The rest of us were there in the 1980s. We knew he was a conman and bullshitter.
Trump conundrum: Needs debates because they are the last 2 chances to reach a mass audience and turn tide. But because of his performance in last debate, his numbers took a nosedive 🤷🏻♂ — Ron Wechsler (@RonWechsler) October 9, 2020
We didn’t think his kill count would get this high. I had figured he would stop at killing maybe 175,000 Americans in an Israeli backed war against Iran…that we would lose.
This is far more efficient. Trump, we knew, was going to kill a huge number of Americans for his handlers, we just didn’t imagine 600,000, which is where he is heading.
“If Trump does pull out of the virtual debate, I really think Joe Biden is virtually assured of winning,” said Frank Luntz, a longtime Republican strategist. “There are too many voters separating the two candidates for Trump to close the gap without a proper debate.” — Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 8, 2020
I have known @SteveScully for more than 20 years. He is 100% honest and ethical. He is 100% unbiased. He is the right person to host this debate at this time, because he will hold both candidates accountable. https://t.co/TvTzxbzOWi — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) October 9, 2020
Frank Luntz: Undecided Voters Watching VP Debate Found Kamala Harris ‘Abrasive And Condescending’ (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/HfhJy4G48h — Roland Blasini (@RolandBlasini) October 9, 2020
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veteranstoday--2020-10-11--#UNRIG Video (4:04) 5G Is Ecocide Genocide Crime Against Humanity Directed Energy Electromagnetic De

#UNRIG Video (4:04) 5G Is Ecocide Genocide Crime Against Humanity Directed Energy Electromagnetic Death & Injury

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A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3, and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; his hobbies include off-shore sailing and racketball.


veteranstoday--2020-10-11--Trump to Iran: Don’t “fuck around with us”

Jonas E. Alexis : One doesn ’ t know whether to laugh or to simply tell Donald Trump to pick up a history book and start reading .
Or why is he afraid of looking at CIA files and other documents to see what actually happened in history ?
Or could it be that Trump already knows what happened , but that his masters would not allow him to tell the truth ?
Trump has recently told drug addict Rush Limbaugh : “ Iran knows that , and they ’ ve been put on notice : if you fuck around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad to us , we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
” [ 1 ] He ’ s got to be kidding .
When was the last time that Iran really “ fucked ” with the US ?
Hasn ’ t the US been “ fucking ” around Iran since the beginning of time ?
Doesn ’ t this man mean to tell us that he doesn ’ t remember the Anglo-American coup ?
Doesn ’ t Trump know that the Anglo-American world overthrew a democratically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mossadegh in Iran in the summer of 1953 ?
Doesn ’ t he know that this played a major role in spreading terrorism in the Middle East ?
My dear friend Mark Dankof and I have written extensively on this issue .
I will let Dankof expand on this issue here : Mark Dankof : In his riveting and informative history of the sordid methodology employed by Kermit Roosevelt and the Central Intelligence Agency in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in August of 1953 , author and New York Times correspondent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah ’ s repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.
” Kinzer ’ s impressive tome of twelve chapters , epilogue , and concluding scholarly notes and bibliography appeals to intelligent popular reader and scholar alike .
To the uninitiated in Iranian history and culture , Kinzer ’ s All the Shah ’ s Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror sketches the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sassanian dynasties ; the 7th century invasion of Persia by the Arabs armed with the new religion of Islam ; the Safavid dynasty ; the role of both the Zoroastrian faith and the Shiite version of Islam in shaping contemporary Iranian thought on authority , divine favor , martyrdom and revolution ; the core cultural , historical , and political significance of the eschatological doctrine of the Twelfth Imam ; and the corruption and incompetence of the Qajar dynasty which ruled Iran from the end of the 18th century until 1925 , setting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intervention there–first through Britain and Russia and subsequently through the expansion of the American Empire after World War II .
Of particular focus in the narrative is the history of British imperialism in Iran , inextricably linked to the D ’ Arcy concession , the creation of the Anglo-Persian [ Iranian ] Oil Company , and the infamous 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement which effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate .
In the anti-colonialist political milieu of the post-World War II scene in the developing world , the burgeoning conflict between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concrete form in what Kinzer describes on pages 52-53 in chapter 4 : “ The Iranian labor movement was not the only long-dormant institution that came back to life after Reza Shah ’ s [ Reza Shah Pahlavi ’ s ] departure .
So did the Majlis [ Iranian parliament ] .
It had never ceased to exist , but Reza Shah had not allowed it to function freely .
“ Now , angered like the rest of Iran by the rioting at Abadan [ center of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operations ] , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it passed a bold law forbidding the grant of any further concession to foreign companies and directing the government to renegotiate the one under which Anglo-Iranian was operating .
“ This law was the first blow in a long battle .
It set Iran on the course of cataclysmic confrontation with Britain .
The deputy who wrote it and pushed it through the Majlis had been an active nationalist in the early years of the century but was forced out of politics by Reza Shah and had lived in obscurity for twenty years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fervent a defender of Iranian interests as ever .
His name was Mohammed Mossadegh .
“ Two central beliefs shaped Mossadegh ’ s political consciousness .
The first was a passionate faith in the rule of law , which made him an enemy of autocracy and , in particular , Reza Shah .
The second was a conviction that Iranians must rule themselves and not submit to the will of foreigners .
“ That made him the nemesis , the tormentor , the implacable foe of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company .
In mid-twentieth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faced off in an epic confrontation .
Fate bound them together .
The story of one can not be told without the story of the other.
” The story develops and intensifies with the role of the United States in the British-inspired covert operation to eliminate Mossadegh as Prime Minister of Iran , while re-establishing the Pahlavi throne as the most effective conduit for the protection of Western interests through the suppression of a potpourri of Iranian nationalist and independence movements , ranging from the Tudeh Communist Party and the National Front to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interest is the Kinzer ’ s documentation of the proven opposition of both Clement Attlee and Harry Truman to this sinister course of action , followed by the wholehearted support of Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower Administration for it–expressed in the explicit Executive Authorization for British MI6 and the American Central Intelligence Agency to proceed with the Ajax project .
Kinzer especially notes the conversion of Eisenhower from a position of compromise with Mossadegh and the recognition of the legitimate grievances of the Iranian people , to the incredible endorsement of a coup @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s inauguration ( p. 157 ) .
In All the Shah ’ s Men , the role of the Dulles brothers proves pivotal to the process of tracing the President ’ s reasons for radical departure from the Truman policy course on Iran .
In what would come to be a prototype for clandestine American interventionist policies worldwide , the justification provided to Eisenhower by his Secretary of State and Director of Central Intelligence was cast in terms of opposition to the threat of the ascendancy of Soviet-inspired Communist movements in the oil-rich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ achievement of this objective was necessarily linked to the elimination of Mossadegh and a viable National Front movement in Iran , the green light was given to Kermit Roosevelt to launch Operation Ajax in August of 1953 , on the basis of the Wilber ( CIA ) -Darbyshire ( MI6 ) blueprint for the coup .
It is a tragically familiar blueprint in terms of later American black-op projects in Guatemala , Africa , and Southeast Asia .
Kinzer quotes Roosevelt ’ s description of the plot as based upon “ four lines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ –an orchestrated CIA-controlled press and media campaign against Mossadegh ; the covert recruitment and subsidization of organizers for staged political protests leading to mob control of the street ; the bribing and recruitment of key factions of the Armed Forces with royalist sympathies ; and the subversion and suborning of parliament .
While providing a fascinating account of the players and angles which led to the successful overthrow of the regime and the re-introduction of the Pahlavi Peacock Throne in Iran , Kinzer proves similarly successful in his analysis of the down side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the overthrow of a foreign government .
His thesis that the success of Operation Ajax in the short-term led to Iranian resentment and anger which culminated in the longer-term reversal of American fortunes in Iran in the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 seems easily sustainable .
The corollary thesis of All the Shah ’ s Men is equally sustainable in its presentation of a clear and cohesive case for convicting the United States of moral duplicity in its rhetorical support for human rights and global democracy while depriving Iran of the same by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ popularly elected government .
The derivatives of this action include the indefensible role of the American government in assisting the Pahlavi regime in the development of the SAVAK secret police force , and the utilitarian employment of Saddam Hussein as an American asset in the incitement of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War which caused 500,000 deaths on the Iranian side of the equation alone .
Disturbingly , Kinzer leaves the reader with the distinct impression that the tragic results of August of 1953 will continue to unfold in history , with the precise endgame @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s linear line of development drawn between Operation Ajax , the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 , and the World Trade Center conflagration can and should be extended to the Bush Administration ’ s preemptive war in Iraq , its War on Terrorism , and the development of a burgeoning American domestic police state culminating in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security .
In this regard , Mr. Bush and his advisors Rumsfeld , Perle , and Wolfowitz bear an eerie resemblance to Mr. Eisenhower and the worst aspects of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dulles Brothers .
Both Presidents have rightly identified movements and threats to the national security of the United States , while failing to grasp the underlying causes , themes , and legitimate grievances of these movements which are only exacerbated through calculated indifference and the employment of ruthless methodologies designed to increase the intensity of anti-American feeling globally and the mathematical addition of those who experience them .
Mr. Bush and his neo-conservative advisors routinely and categorically reject the sage advice and counsel of those from Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer to Pat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Administration ’ s preemptive war on Iraq and hints of unilateral actions in the future against the Islamic Republic of Iran ( IRI ) .
In this regard , Mr. Bush ’ s catatonic state mirrors Eisenhower and Dulles , and the refusal of the latter to heed the prophetic wisdom of Roger Goiran , the chief of the CIA station in Tehran at the time of the contemplation of Operation Ajax who warned of its perils as documented by Kinzer on page 164 : “ Goiran had built a formidable intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bedamn , that was engaged in propaganda activities aimed at blackening the image of the Soviet Union in Iran .
It also stood ready to launch a nationwide campaign of subversion and sabotage in case of a communist coup .
“ The Bedamn network consisted of more than one hundred agents and had an annual budget of $ 1 million–quite considerable , in light of the fact that the CIA ’ s total worldwide budget for covert operations was just $ 82 million .
Now Goiran was being asked to use his network @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He believed that this would be a great mistake and warned that if the coup was carried out , Iranians would forever view the United States as a supporter of what he called “ Anglo-French colonialism.
” His opposition was so resolute that Allen Dulles had to remove him from his post ( reviewer ’ s emphasis ) .
” Finally , Stephen Kinzer ’ s blockbuster of a book would be well served by a sequel highlighting the historic role of the United States and Britain in supporting an action in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the implementation of Operation Ajax in Iran–the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine in 1948 and the accompanying endorsement of the Zionist ideology which undergirds it .
An honest chronicling of the historical developments leading up to May of 1948 , the tactics of the American and Israeli national security establishments up to the present moment in sustaining the notion of Eretz Yisrael , the genocidal deprivation of the legitimate political aspirations of the Palestinians , and the subterranean activities of the Israeli lobby worldwide , would unmask the same political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Iran in August of 1953 .
It would also chart predicted disasters ahead for all involved , unless hearts and minds can be changed in a world where time is running out .
Alexis : Those are simply historical facts .
Other scholarly studies have corroborated Kinzer ’ s analysis .
[ 2 ] Yet even after the Anglo-American world created chaos in Iran in 1953 , Iran tried to reach out to the United States numerous times .
[ 3 ] In short , Israel , not Iran , is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 4 ] Moreover , the prevailing vision that Iran still want to acquire nuclear weapons , that Iran is not following the non-proliferation treaty , that Iran is spreading terrorism across the Middle East , is totally an Israeli fabrication .
[ 5 ] If Trump and his administration want to ignore all that , then they are hastening their own political and historical mortification .
They can fool some people , but they can not fool us .
• [ 1 ] “ Trump says Iran is on notice not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Middle East Eye , October 9 , 2020 .
• [ 2 ] Ervand Abrahamian , The Coup : 1953 , the CIA , and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations ( New York : New Press , 2013 ) ; Christopher de Bellaigue , Patriot of Persia : Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup ( New York : Harper Perennial , 2012 ) ; Gareth Porter and John Kiriakou , The CIA Insider ’ s Guide to the Iran Crisis : From CIA Coup to the Brink of War ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• [ 3 ] For studies on this , see Trita Parsi , A Single Roll of the Dice : Obama ’ s Diplomacy with Iran ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2011 ) ; Treacherous Alliance : The Secret Dealings of Israel , Iran , and the U.S. ( New Haven : Yale University PRess , 2007 ) ; Losing an Enemy : Obama , Iran , and the Triumph of Diplomacy ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2017 ) .
• [ 4 ] See for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bomb ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1999 ) ; The Worst-Kept Secret : Israel ’ s Bargain with the Bomb ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 ) .
• [ 5 ] See Gareth Porter , Manufactured Crisis : The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare ( Charlottesville : Just World Publishers , 2014 ) .

Jonas E. Alexis: One doesn’t know whether to laugh or to simply tell Donald Trump to pick up a history book and start reading. Or why is he afraid of looking at CIA files and other documents to see what actually happened in history?
Or could it be that Trump already knows what happened, but that his masters would not allow him to tell the truth? Trump has recently told drug addict Rush Limbaugh:
“Iran knows that, and they’ve been put on notice: if you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”[1]
He’s got to be kidding. When was the last time that Iran really “fucked” with the US? Hasn’t the US been “fucking” around Iran since the beginning of time? Doesn’t this man mean to tell us that he doesn’t remember the Anglo-American coup?
Doesn’t Trump know that the Anglo-American world overthrew a democratically elected president by the name of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in the summer of 1953? Doesn’t he know that this played a major role in spreading terrorism in the Middle East?
My dear friend Mark Dankof and I have written extensively on this issue. I will let Dankof expand on this issue here:
Mark Dankof: In his riveting and informative history of the sordid methodology employed by Kermit Roosevelt and the Central Intelligence Agency in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in August of 1953, author and New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer posits the theory that, “It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah’s repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.”
Kinzer’s impressive tome of twelve chapters, epilogue, and concluding scholarly notes and bibliography appeals to intelligent popular reader and scholar alike.
To the uninitiated in Iranian history and culture, Kinzer’s All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror sketches the foundational importance of the pre-Islamic Achaemenid and Sassanian dynasties; the 7th century invasion of Persia by the Arabs armed with the new religion of Islam; the Safavid dynasty; the role of both the Zoroastrian faith and the Shiite version of Islam in shaping contemporary Iranian thought on authority, divine favor, martyrdom and revolution; the core cultural, historical, and political significance of the eschatological doctrine of the Twelfth Imam; and the corruption and incompetence of the Qajar dynasty which ruled Iran from the end of the 18th century until 1925, setting the stage for ongoing foreign intrigue and intervention there–first through Britain and Russia and subsequently through the expansion of the American Empire after World War II.
Of particular focus in the narrative is the history of British imperialism in Iran, inextricably linked to the D’Arcy concession, the creation of the Anglo-Persian [Iranian] Oil Company, and the infamous 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement which effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate.
In the anti-colonialist political milieu of the post-World War II scene in the developing world, the burgeoning conflict between Iranian nationalism and British oil interests takes concrete form in what Kinzer describes on pages 52-53 in chapter 4:
“The Iranian labor movement was not the only long-dormant institution that came back to life after Reza Shah’s [Reza Shah Pahlavi’s] departure. So did the Majlis [Iranian parliament]. It had never ceased to exist, but Reza Shah had not allowed it to function freely.
“Now, angered like the rest of Iran by the rioting at Abadan [center of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operations], it began asserting itself. In 1947 it passed a bold law forbidding the grant of any further concession to foreign companies and directing the government to renegotiate the one under which Anglo-Iranian was operating.
“This law was the first blow in a long battle. It set Iran on the course of cataclysmic confrontation with Britain. The deputy who wrote it and pushed it through the Majlis had been an active nationalist in the early years of the century but was forced out of politics by Reza Shah and had lived in obscurity for twenty years. Now he was back, as fervent a defender of Iranian interests as ever. His name was Mohammed Mossadegh.
“Two central beliefs shaped Mossadegh’s political consciousness. The first was a passionate faith in the rule of law, which made him an enemy of autocracy and, in particular, Reza Shah. The second was a conviction that Iranians must rule themselves and not submit to the will of foreigners.
“That made him the nemesis, the tormentor, the implacable foe of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. In mid-twentieth century Iran, he and the company faced off in an epic confrontation. Fate bound them together. The story of one cannot be told without the story of the other.”
The story develops and intensifies with the role of the United States in the British-inspired covert operation to eliminate Mossadegh as Prime Minister of Iran, while re-establishing the Pahlavi throne as the most effective conduit for the protection of Western interests through the suppression of a potpourri of Iranian nationalist and independence movements, ranging from the Tudeh Communist Party and the National Front to the Islamic mullahs.
Of particular historical interest is the Kinzer’s documentation of the proven opposition of both Clement Attlee and Harry Truman to this sinister course of action, followed by the wholehearted support of Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower Administration for it–expressed in the explicit Executive Authorization for British MI6 and the American Central Intelligence Agency to proceed with the Ajax project.
Kinzer especially notes the conversion of Eisenhower from a position of compromise with Mossadegh and the recognition of the legitimate grievances of the Iranian people, to the incredible endorsement of a coup only two months after the former’s inauguration (p. 157).
In All the Shah’s Men, the role of the Dulles brothers proves pivotal to the process of tracing the President’s reasons for radical departure from the Truman policy course on Iran. In what would come to be a prototype for clandestine American interventionist policies worldwide, the justification provided to Eisenhower by his Secretary of State and Director of Central Intelligence was cast in terms of opposition to the threat of the ascendancy of Soviet-inspired Communist movements in the oil-rich Middle East.
Once convinced that the achievement of this objective was necessarily linked to the elimination of Mossadegh and a viable National Front movement in Iran, the green light was given to Kermit Roosevelt to launch Operation Ajax in August of 1953, on the basis of the Wilber (CIA)-Darbyshire (MI6) blueprint for the coup.
It is a tragically familiar blueprint in terms of later American black-op projects in Guatemala, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Kinzer quotes Roosevelt’s description of the plot as based upon “four lines of attack” (p. 10)–an orchestrated CIA-controlled press and media campaign against Mossadegh; the covert recruitment and subsidization of organizers for staged political protests leading to mob control of the street; the bribing and recruitment of key factions of the Armed Forces with royalist sympathies; and the subversion and suborning of parliament.
While providing a fascinating account of the players and angles which led to the successful overthrow of the regime and the re-introduction of the Pahlavi Peacock Throne in Iran, Kinzer proves similarly successful in his analysis of the down side of America’s first success in the overthrow of a foreign government.
His thesis that the success of Operation Ajax in the short-term led to Iranian resentment and anger which culminated in the longer-term reversal of American fortunes in Iran in the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 seems easily sustainable.
The corollary thesis of All the Shah’s Men is equally sustainable in its presentation of a clear and cohesive case for convicting the United States of moral duplicity in its rhetorical support for human rights and global democracy while depriving Iran of the same by the forcible elimination of the latter’s popularly elected government.
The derivatives of this action include the indefensible role of the American government in assisting the Pahlavi regime in the development of the SAVAK secret police force, and the utilitarian employment of Saddam Hussein as an American asset in the incitement of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War which caused 500,000 deaths on the Iranian side of the equation alone. Disturbingly, Kinzer leaves the reader with the distinct impression that the tragic results of August of 1953 will continue to unfold in history, with the precise endgame yet to be determined.
The author’s linear line of development drawn between Operation Ajax, the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, and the World Trade Center conflagration can and should be extended to the Bush Administration’s preemptive war in Iraq, its War on Terrorism, and the development of a burgeoning American domestic police state culminating in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
In this regard, Mr. Bush and his advisors Rumsfeld, Perle, and Wolfowitz bear an eerie resemblance to Mr. Eisenhower and the worst aspects of the influence wielded over the latter by the Dulles Brothers.
Both Presidents have rightly identified movements and threats to the national security of the United States, while failing to grasp the underlying causes, themes, and legitimate grievances of these movements which are only exacerbated through calculated indifference and the employment of ruthless methodologies designed to increase the intensity of anti-American feeling globally and the mathematical addition of those who experience them.
Mr. Bush and his neo-conservative advisors routinely and categorically reject the sage advice and counsel of those from Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer to Pat Buchanan and Colonel David Hackworth who eschew the Administration’s preemptive war on Iraq and hints of unilateral actions in the future against the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).
In this regard, Mr. Bush’s catatonic state mirrors Eisenhower and Dulles, and the refusal of the latter to heed the prophetic wisdom of Roger Goiran, the chief of the CIA station in Tehran at the time of the contemplation of Operation Ajax who warned of its perils as documented by Kinzer on page 164:
“Goiran had built a formidable intelligence network, known by the code name Bedamn, that was engaged in propaganda activities aimed at blackening the image of the Soviet Union in Iran. It also stood ready to launch a nationwide campaign of subversion and sabotage in case of a communist coup.
“The Bedamn network consisted of more than one hundred agents and had an annual budget of $1 million–quite considerable, in light of the fact that the CIA’s total worldwide budget for covert operations was just $82 million. Now Goiran was being asked to use his network in a coup against Mossadegh.
“He believed that this would be a great mistake and warned that if the coup was carried out, Iranians would forever view the United States as a supporter of what he called “Anglo-French colonialism.” His opposition was so resolute that Allen Dulles had to remove him from his post (reviewer’s emphasis).”
Finally, Stephen Kinzer’s blockbuster of a book would be well served by a sequel highlighting the historic role of the United States and Britain in supporting an action in the Middle East which dwarfs even the tragedy of the implementation of Operation Ajax in Iran–the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine in 1948 and the accompanying endorsement of the Zionist ideology which undergirds it.
An honest chronicling of the historical developments leading up to May of 1948, the tactics of the American and Israeli national security establishments up to the present moment in sustaining the notion of Eretz Yisrael, the genocidal deprivation of the legitimate political aspirations of the Palestinians, and the subterranean activities of the Israeli lobby worldwide, would unmask the same political and moral deficiencies inherent in what happened in Iran in August of 1953.
It would also chart predicted disasters ahead for all involved, unless hearts and minds can be changed in a world where time is running out.
Alexis: Those are simply historical facts. Other scholarly studies have corroborated Kinzer’s analysis.[2] Yet even after the Anglo-American world created chaos in Iran in 1953, Iran tried to reach out to the United States numerous times.[3] In short, Israel, not Iran, is the real threat in the Middle East.[4]
Moreover, the prevailing vision that Iran still want to acquire nuclear weapons, that Iran is not following the non-proliferation treaty, that Iran is spreading terrorism across the Middle East, is totally an Israeli fabrication.[5] If Trump and his administration want to ignore all that, then they are hastening their own political and historical mortification. They can fool some people, but they cannot fool us.