Our rulers well tell us what is good for us. Act accordingly, and that’s that. From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.org:
Netanyahu did not appreciate Iran’s moderation. He doubled-down on war, making it inevitable, sooner or later.
Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of ‘the class that runs things’ – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them”. It was the account of a middle-class kid from Minnesota trying desperately to fit into the élite world, and then to his surprise, realising that he didn’t want to fit in at all.
Now 61, Kirn has a newsletter on Substack and co-hosts a lively podcast devoted in large part to critiquing ‘establishment liberalism’. His contrarian drift has made him more vocal about his distrust of élite institutions – as he wrote in 2022:
“For years now, the answer, in every situation—‘Russiagate,’ COVID, Ukraine—has been more censorship, more silencing, more division, more scapegoating. It’s almost as if these are goals in themselves – and the cascade of emergencies mere excuses for them. Hate is always the way,”
Kirn’s politics, a friend of his suggested, was “old-school liberal,” underscoring that it was the other ‘so-called liberals’ who had changed: “I’ve been told repeatedly in the last year that free speech is a right-wing issue; I wouldn’t call [Kirn] Conservative. I would just say he’s a free-thinker, nonconformist, iconoclastic”, the friend said.
To understand Kirn’s contrarian turn – and to make sense of today’s form of American politics – it is necessary to understand one key term. It is not found in standard textbooks, but is central to the new playbook of power: the “whole of society”.
“The term was popularised roughly a decade ago by the Obama administration, which liked that its bland, technocratic appearance could be used as cover to erect a mechanism for a governance ‘whole-of-society’ approach” – one that asserts that as actors – media, NGOs,corporations and philanthropist institutions – interact with public officials to play a critical role not just in setting the public agenda, but in enforcing public decisions.
Watching RF soldier shoot down drone from the back of a truck with his rifle!
Great work by spotter who shouted it’s not one of ours and what a shooter, all kinds of F’ words and F’ this counter EW doesn’t work, better work on it. (H/T-RT)
Foreign mercs used in Kursk, the nuke plant was a shot across the bow as there is another one in the area.
No meltdown as engineers reacted quickly.
[Thank You God]
Says unarmed civilians shot at and cars blasted as they tried to escape with Nazi AZOV battalions there as well.
(H/T-JR)
Russia doesn’t treat terrorists kindly.
A big WAR in a III style fills out their wish list as (s)elections get cancelled, everyone gets cracked down on thanks to replacements, a new COV-LARP can roll out, banks wipeout, food supply reduced and restricted.
No vote on it. (sad trombone)
These Forces Of Evil play for keeps so keep your head on a swivel and be on the lookout for these creeps and their burn down the world plan.
Breaking from Hall & Oates:
I Can’t Go For That